Chapter Summaries

Li Chen absorbed a ten-year soul ring, used his Command Block to enter Creative Mode, and summoned a villager who called him the Creator. After learning that villagers could receive martial souls through professions and gifted items, Li Chen prepared to choose an additional MOD.

• Li Chen killed a Soft Bone Rabbit, absorbed its soul ring, and reached level eleven.
• Li Chen entered the command /gamemode1@s into his Command Block and briefly switched to Creative Mode before his soul power ran out.
• Li Chen summoned a villager with a spawn egg, and the villager worshiped him as the Creator.
• Li Chen named the villager Brown Robe and learned that a job site block could grant him a profession and martial soul, while the first gifted item would become his second martial soul.
• Li Chen checked his system status and began randomly selecting the additional MOD available at level ten.

Li Chen hired Zhao Kuo’s Soul Hunting Team to help him obtain a second Soul Ring, then used the Command Block to test commands and discovered its data-reading ability. After leaving the Soul Hunting Forest, he prepared to return, still unable to craft a Teleportation Stele because he lacked a Teleportation Stone.

• Li Chen paid Zhao Kuo’s Soul Hunting Team to enter the Soul Hunting Forest and find him a Ten-Year Soul Beast.
• Zhao Kuo crippled a Ten-Year Mottled Cat, and Li Chen killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring as his second ring.
• Li Chen tested commands in the Command Block, which rejected attempts to grant experience, create another Command Block, and kill the nearest player.
• Li Chen configured the Command Block to read data and used it to inspect Zhao Kuo’s detailed information.
• Li Chen declined to join the team’s hunt and left the forest, then prepared to return by carriage without the materials needed to craft a Teleportation Stele.

Li Chen killed a group of bandits, used Iron Golem Spawn Eggs to create two level 72 bodyguards, and returned to Suotuo City to plan his next steps. He decided to build an academy for the Soul Master Tournament while seeking money and considering how his new powers had changed his daily life.

• Li Chen used creative mode to defeat and kill the bandits who attacked his carriage, then chose Iron Golem Spawn Eggs as his next items.
• Li Chen upgraded the Iron Golem with spawn eggs, producing two level 72 Iron Golems that could follow simple commands.
• Li Chen heard from A Si and A Wu that the next Soul Master Tournament would take place in two years and that Dai Mubai had not yet arrived in Suotuo City.
• Li Chen decided to build an academy and had A Da take iron blocks and an Iron Golem to sell for Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Chen settled into his village house and felt aimless because he could not cultivate and creative mode had made leveling feel less rewarding.

Li Chen tested crafting with a Creative Mode Crafting Table, learned that the Book of Knowledge recorded recipes and granted experience, and reached level 30. He traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest with his Iron Golem to seek another Soul Ring, considering time stop as his next command, and arrived at an inn where the Iron Golem stunned the guests.

• Li Chen used Creative Mode to take a stack of Teleportation Steles and a Crafting Table, then placed them in his village.
• Li Chen tested recipes with villagers, crafted several wooden items, and gained levels as the Book of Knowledge recorded each recipe.
• After a day of experiments, Li Chen learned how the Crafting Table and Furnace worked, discovered new recipes, and reached level 30.
• Li Chen learned that the villagers had sold all the iron blocks for five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and considered possible commands, including time stop.
• Li Chen traveled to the town outside the Star Dou Great Forest with his Iron Golem, booked a room at an inn, and had the golem guard his door.

In the Star Dou Great Forest, Li Chen absorbed a Terrorclaw Bear’s soul ring, reached level 33, and gained the Time Stop skill before choosing the Touhou Maid mod. He summoned Wine Fox and returned with her to the village, then realized his Iron Golem had been left behind and went back to leave it guarding the cave.

• Li Chen had the Iron Golem kill soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, but he could not absorb their soul rings because the golem had killed them.
• Li Chen stopped the Iron Golem from killing a Terrorclaw Bear, finished it himself, absorbed its soul ring, and reached level 33.
• Li Chen added the Time Stop skill, tested it in the cave, and discovered that it could be used only once a day.
• Li Chen chose the Touhou Maid mod and summoned a young maid he named Wine Fox.
• Li Chen and Wine Fox teleported to the village, and Li Chen returned to the forest to order the Iron Golem to guard the cave.

Li Chen tested Breeze and Shulker Martial Souls on Villagers, confirmed they retained their creatures’ abilities, and organized the transformed Villagers under Feng Yi and Bei Yi. He then offered Wine Fox both Martial Souls, and she chose to cultivate Breeze first.

• Li Chen inspected Wine Fox’s panel and chose Breeze and Shulker Spawn Eggs as her two Martial Souls.
• Li Chen granted a Villager the Breeze Martial Soul and tested its projectile immunity, fall protection, and wind charges before naming him Feng Yi.
• Li Chen granted another Villager the Shulker Martial Soul and tested its defense, homing bullets, and teleportation before naming him Bei Yi.
• Li Chen gave the remaining Villagers Breeze or Shulker Martial Souls and left Brown Robe in charge of managing them.
• Wine Fox asked whether she could cultivate both Martial Souls at once, and Li Chen explained his approach to twin martial souls.
• Wine Fox chose to cultivate the Breeze Martial Soul first.

Li Chen raised a Breeze and a Shulker with spawn eggs, then took Wine Fox into Suotuo City to buy ten-thousand-year whale rubber and watch Soul Fighting. After Wine Fox noticed they were being followed, Li Chen let a suspicious man lead them toward an ambush so he could confront the pursuers together.

• Li Chen inspected a Breeze, learned it was a Variant that would not drop a Soul Ring, and raised its age to 3,200 years; he also raised a Shulker to the same age and had villagers care for it.
• Li Chen promised Wine Fox the best Soul Rings and took her to explore Suotuo City before buying ten-thousand-year whale rubber at the auction house for 30,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Chen and Wine Fox watched one Soul Fighting match, found it dull, and left the Great Soul Arena.
• Wine Fox warned Li Chen that someone was following them, so Li Chen quietly put a Stone Sword in her inventory and prepared to use time stop if needed.
• A sleazy middle-aged man tried to take Li Chen and Wine Fox home, and Li Chen had Wine Fox give him a false address to draw out the other pursuers.

Li Chen and Wine Fox killed three notorious criminals who tried to assault them in Suotuo City, then returned to the village after leaving a Teleportation Stele behind. Li Chen reached level forty and considered pursuing an academy, while planning to help Wine Fox obtain a soul ring the next day.

• Li Chen used his time-stopping martial soul to kill two attackers while Wine Fox teleported behind the third and dismembered him.
• Li Chen killed the last attacker, and the two left Suotuo City as a crowd discovered the corpses and recognized the dead men as the Three Perverts.
• Li Chen and Wine Fox left a Teleportation Stele near Suotuo City and returned to the village.
• Li Chen realized the three kills had raised him to level forty and decided to avoid Slaughter City and the Asura God's attention.
• Li Chen planned to help Wine Fox obtain a soul ring the next day and considered moving his academy plans forward.

Li Chen arranged the expansion of his organization, then took Wine Fox to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for her Soul Ring. After absorbing a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider’s ring, he unlocked Zeroing, a Soul Skill that could reduce everyone else’s level to zero.

• Li Chen assigned Feng Yi, Bei Yi, and Brown Robe tasks involving Teleportation Steles, intelligence gathering, and preparations for an academy.
• Wine Fox finished absorbing the ten-thousand-year whale glue, and Li Chen took her to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a Soul Ring.
• Li Chen and Wine Fox encountered a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider, and Li Chen used an apparent short-range teleport to evade it while the Iron Golem attacked.
• Li Chen killed the Man Faced Demon Spider and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Li Chen tested commands with his command block, then created the Zeroing Soul Skill to set every entity’s level to zero except his own and Wine Fox’s.

Li Chen and Jiu Hu survived a night-long assault by blood-eyed wolf packs and entered a great rift, where they found a suitable Soul Ring for Jiu Hu. The chapter ended with Jiu Hu beginning to absorb a 2,039-year Soul Ring from an Azure-Beaked Wind Falcon.

• Li Chen used Enchanted Golden Apples to raise Jiu Hu's Innate Soul Power to level twenty and his own to full innate Soul Power, bringing his level to fifty.
• Blood-eyed wolf packs attacked across the Star Dou Great Forest, and Li Chen used his fifth Soul Skill to reduce nearby creatures' levels to zero so Jiu Hu and the Iron Golem could defeat the wolves surrounding them.
• Li Chen and Jiu Hu endured the attack until dawn, then rested near a great rift while Li Chen repaired the badly cracked Iron Golem.
• After entering the rift, Li Chen stopped time to wound a diving Azure-Beaked Wind Falcon, and Jiu Hu killed it to obtain a 2,039-year Soul Ring.
• Jiu Hu ate an Enchanted Golden Apple and began absorbing the falcon's purple Soul Ring.

Li Chen helped Wine Fox absorb a five-thousand-year Soul Ring and then a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring as she advanced to level 30. Wine Fox survived the Soul Shock and gained Wind-Howl Strangulation, though she seemed dissatisfied with the skill.

• Wine Fox gained Afterimage of the Fading Wind from her first Soul Ring, and Li Chen chose a five-thousand-year ring for her second.
• Li Chen suppressed a Gale-Tailed Reed's age, and Wine Fox killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring after eating an Enchanted Golden Apple.
• Li Chen dug up two Thousand-Year Soul Bones and a Storage Soul Tool from the reed patch while Wine Fox absorbed the ring and reached level 27.
• Li Chen gave Wine Fox Bottles o' Enchanting to raise her to level 30, then continued deeper into the canyon with her.
• Li Chen reduced a Roaring Rockwind Lizard's age to zero, and Wine Fox killed it and faced its Soul Shock during the ten-thousand-year ring's absorption.
• Wine Fox overcame the Roaring Rockwind Lizard in her Sea of Consciousness and gained Wind-Howl Strangulation.

After Li Chen absorbed a Soul Ring and reached level 50, he chose Redstone Technology Expansion and returned to the village to prepare resources and test his blocks. He discovered that Monster Spawners needed Redstone to operate and opened a Nether Portal, which transformed its obsidian frame into crying obsidian before activating.

• Wine Fox spotted an ambushing thousand-year snake, captured it with her Soul Skills, and Li Chen absorbed its Soul Ring, surpassing level 50.
• Li Chen entered a command to copy items from his main hand to his off hand, then chose the Redstone Technology Expansion MOD from the three options.
• Li Chen used a Teleportation Stele to return to the village, copied a Shulker Box full of supplies, and set aside items for his plans.
• Li Chen inspected a Monster Spawner, learned it consumed Blocks of Redstone, and stacked his spawners into two level 4 units loaded with Villagers and Iron Golems.
• Li Chen built a Nether Portal frame and ignited it; cracks spread through the obsidian until it became crying obsidian and a portal vortex appeared.

Li Chen sent A San Yi to explore the End while discovering that Nether and End portals needed energy to stay open. After the portals went dark and A San Yi remained missing, Li Chen used redstone to activate Monster Spawners, which produced four Green-Robed Villagers with emerald Martial Souls.

• Li Chen sent A San Yi into the Nether, where A San Yi retreated from the extreme heat, then sent him to the End with portal frames and supplies to try to build a way back.
• Brown Robe told Li Chen that both portals had gone dark overnight, and Li Chen inspected them and learned what energy sources could sustain them.
• Li Chen learned that A San Yi had not returned and said the End exploration would be considered a failure if A San Yi was still missing by noon.
• Li Chen used Blocks of Redstone to power two Monster Spawners, which spawned four Green-Robed Villagers and an Iron Golem.
• Li Chen confirmed the Green-Robed Villagers understood him and had emerald Martial Souls but could not have a second Martial Soul, then named them Green Robe, Lü Da, Lü Er, and Lü San.

Li Chen studied the Redstone Miniaturization Table and assigned villagers new professions that granted them different Second Martial Souls. After Feng Yi reported that a high-tier soul master academy in Sword City was close to bankruptcy, Li Chen ordered him to negotiate its acquisition while retaining as many teachers and students as possible.

• Li Chen examined the Redstone Miniaturization Table, stored redstone components in a red shulker box, and encouraged Wine Fox to study them after she learned basic logic theory.
• Li Chen used villagers' materials to transition villagers into professions, granting them Second Martial Souls such as the Armorer's Chainmail Armor, the Cartographer's Map, and the Librarian's Enchanted Book.
• Li Chen learned that unemployed villagers could be transitioned whenever their corresponding job-site blocks were present, and that fletching tables could manufacture arrows, including special arrows made with different materials.
• Feng Yi arrived through the teleportation stele and told Li Chen that a high-tier soul master academy in Sword City was nearly bankrupt.
• Li Chen instructed Feng Yi to negotiate with the academy for up to two million gold soul coins and resource-related conditions, preferably keeping as many teachers and students as possible.

Feng Yi negotiated to buy Sword City Advanced Soul Master Academy from Zhong Yiheng, proposing a wager tied to winning the next Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament. Zhong Yiheng agreed to the terms and began preparing the academy for the takeover.

• Zhong Yiheng met Feng Yi, who offered to purchase the academy and said its staff and students could choose whether to stay.
• Feng Yi explained that his group planned to enter the next tournament, win the championship, and use the victory to attract talented students.
• Feng Yi wagered that his group would win, and Zhong Yiheng required the academy to remain open and meet recruitment targets if they lost.
• Feng Yi and Zhong Yiheng agreed that the purchase price would be six hundred thousand if Feng Yi's group won, or double that amount with ten years to pay if they lost.
• After Feng Yi left, Zhong Yiheng told the teacher to gather the academy's teachers in the meeting room after classes.

Li Chen traveled to Sword City to take control of its struggling academy and laid out generous terms to retain its remaining teachers. He renamed it Cloudtop Academy and began planning a twelve-year school that would admit children regardless of their martial souls or innate soul power.

• Li Chen duplicated Bottles o' Enchanting, reached level 60, and had Wine Fox use bottles to raise her level to 40.
• Li Chen and Wine Fox teleported to Sword City, where Feng Yi led them to the academy and introduced Li Chen to Headmaster Zhong Yiheng.
• Li Chen offered the five remaining teachers high salaries in exchange for ten years of service and unconditional compliance with his plans, and all five agreed to stay.
• Li Chen announced that the academy would be renamed Cloudtop Academy and reorganized into a twelve-year system, with expansion planned over the next year.
• Li Chen set admissions for anyone aged six or older regardless of martial soul or innate soul power, set annual tuition at ten Gold Soul Coins, and limited work-study to the first three years.

Li Chen outlined a new academy structure that welcomed ordinary students and divided schooling into Outer and Inner Courts. He then traveled with Wine Fox to Hurricane Canyon, absorbed a new Soul Ring, and used his sixth command to grant himself Resistance that scaled with his Soul Power Level.

• Li Chen defended admitting students with zero Innate Soul Power and proposed lessons in mathematics, physics, biology, physical education, and art alongside specialist Inner Court subjects.
• Li Chen explained the academy's twelve-year structure, with nine Outer Court grades and three competitive Inner Court grades, and said the new system would begin next year.
• Li Chen teleported away with Wine Fox, leaving Zhong Yiheng impressed by the Teleportation Stele and its ability to travel between steles.
• Li Chen and Wine Fox reached Hurricane Canyon, where they found the Iron Golem cracked but victorious over the Soul Beasts that had attacked it.
• Li Chen used Time Stop to kill a Thousand-Year Soul Beast, absorbed its Soul Ring without suffering a Soul Shock, and activated his Command Block.
• Li Chen entered a command intended to give himself permanent level 32 Resistance, but the Command Block revised it to scale with his Soul Power Level.

Li Chen secured two eagle-type Soul Rings for Wine Fox, giving her the abilities to remove negative effects and summon wind shadows. Back in the village, he spawned several Illagers, named the Witch Wu Yi, and decided to place the others on patrol at the academy.

• Li Chen tested his sixth Soul Skill against a ten-thousand-year eagle-type Soul Beast, and Wine Fox killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Wine Fox reached level 50 and gained Obstacle-Clearing Song, which removed her negative effects or an enemy's buffs.
• After three days of searching, Li Chen found another eagle-type Soul Beast, and Wine Fox absorbed its Soul Ring to gain Wind Shadow.
• Li Chen upgraded his Monster Spawners, spawned a Witch, enhanced her talents with eggs, named her Wu Yi, and assigned her to brew and research potions.
• Li Chen spawned a Pillager, a Vindicator, and an Evoker, then decided to take the Illagers to the academy and assign them to a patrol team.

Li Chen summoned several new mobs, recruited Shang Lu to establish the Emerald Merchant Guild, and fortified the academy with Iron Golems. As he began teaching new subjects, he also considered how to strengthen his Villagers and obtain enough Soul Rings.

• Li Chen summoned a Wandering Trader, named him Shang Lu, and tasked him with founding the Emerald Merchant Guild using funds, bodyguards, and Villager subordinates.
• Li Chen spawned and evaluated Zombies, Skeletons, a Creeper, an Enderman, and a Spider; he raised the Creeper to sixty-two thousand years and had Wine Fox kill the uncontrollable undead and Enderman.
• Li Chen returned to the academy, summoned fifty-six illagers, and built four level-64 Iron Golems to guard its sides.
• Zhong Yiheng noticed the academy's new defenders, while Li Chen weighed how to strengthen his Villagers and research ways to obtain Soul Rings without Soul Beasts.
• Li Chen began teaching physical education, mathematics, biology, physics, and art, and Zhong Yiheng observed the lessons with growing astonishment.

Li Chen opened the expanded Cloudtop Academy’s new term and explained its curriculum, scholarships, and rules. Still stuck at level 69 despite trying various ways to break through, he took Wine Fox to Heaven Dou to begin searching for immortal herbs.

• Li Chen welcomed students to Cloudtop Academy, announced its nine-year program and path to the inner academy, and explained scholarships and disciplinary rules.
• Li Chen noted that Wine Fox had reached level 93, while villagers and several other beings had level caps that limited their usefulness.
• Li Chen brought Wine Fox through a Teleportation Stele to the Emerald Merchant Guild’s courtyard in Heaven Dou and ordered a carriage and a cartographer.
• Fang Wu gave Li Chen a map of Sunset Forest’s outskirts, and Li Chen rewarded him with Bottles o' Enchanting and an emerald block, then told him to arrange to obtain a Soul Ring.