Chapter Summaries

Jiang Dongjun used his roaming yin spirit and modified soul tools to track down the Evil Soul Master Li Qing in the Dusky Glow Mountains. He defeated Li Qing by trapping him in an illusion and burning away his escape with a hidden attack.

• Jiang Dongjun searched the Dusky Glow Mountains for Li Qing, who had slaughtered Liyang Village to cultivate blood energy.
• Jiang Dongjun found Li Qing by a pool and armed his yin spirit with soul tools stored in his Sapphire Ring.
• Li Qing sensed Jiang Dongjun’s approach and summoned his blood-colored power, but a spiritual assault made him see a soul engineer’s devastating cannon attack.
• Li Qing used his blood-energy soul bone to split into streaks of bloody light and flee the apparent Blazing Sun Storm.
• Jiang Dongjun revealed himself inside a tin puppet and fired a shotgun, igniting iron shot to engulf Li Qing’s fleeing blood-light.
• Jiang Dongjun’s Fantastical Fox had created the cannon and solar-storm illusion, while his real attack burned Li Qing’s escape.

Jiang Dongjun killed Li Qing after learning of his massacres, then buried Li Qing’s ashes with his sister’s urn and vowed to take revenge on the Iron Dragon Lineage and build a more equal world. He returned to the carriage, where his father Jiang Ming inspected his Soul Tools and asked why the puppet had used so little Soul Power.

• Jiang Dongjun used his Soul Tools to overcome Li Qing’s Soul Skills and kill him with a golden sword.
• Before dying, Li Qing remembered his sister Xiao Meng, admitted that his victims had been innocent, and asked to be cremated and buried with her.
• Jiang Dongjun absorbed Li Qing’s merit, recovered the Thousand-Year Soul Bone and stolen Soul Tools, and buried Li Qing’s ashes with his sister’s urn.
• Jiang Dongjun vowed to settle accounts with the Iron Dragon Lineage once he had seven rings and to work toward a more equal world.
• Jiang Dongjun returned to the carriage and reunited with his father, Jiang Ming, who replenished the Soul Tools’ Milk Bottles and questioned their energy use.

Jiang Dongjun returned to Shrek City with Jiang Ming after defeating Li Qing and obtaining a thousand-year left arm Soul Bone. At home, he prepared for his Martial Soul awakening and secretly collected soul liquid brewed from the Light of Time and Space.

• Jiang Dongjun complained about the Soul Puppet’s restrictions and control delays, while Jiang Ming explained why he had trusted it to protect him against Li Qing.
• Jiang Ming found Li Qing’s thousand-year left arm Soul Bone and planned to trade it depending on Jiang Dongjun’s Martial Soul and aptitude.
• Jiang Ming and Jiang Dongjun reached the family home, where Diwu Ying welcomed them and promised to awaken Jiang Dongjun’s Martial Soul after he ate.
• Diwu Ying warned Jiang Ming that Jiang Dongjun might not inherit either parent’s Martial Soul, and Jiang Ming teased her about his unusual spiritual gift.
• Jiang Dongjun returned to his room, released his Yin Spirit, and collected the soul liquid produced by the Light of Time and Space from his recent gains.

Jiang Dongjun awakened a basic fireball martial soul and a mysterious yin spirit martial soul, both of which his parents agreed to keep secret while he began cultivating. As his family planned his first Soul Ring, the Light of Time and Space sensed a strange aura inside a safe in their workshop.

• Jiang Dongjun counted his stored soul liquid and reflected on how the Fantastical Fox had been transformed by ten drops.
• Jiang Dongjun's parents used the Awakening Stones, and he awakened a fireball martial soul with innate full soul power.
• Jiang Dongjun revealed his yin spirit martial soul, and his parents attributed his extraordinary gifts to it.
• Jiang Dongjun chose to keep his twin martial souls secret and postpone contacting the Body Sect until he was stronger.
• Jiang Ming and Diwu Ying planned for Jiang Dongjun to cultivate his fireball martial soul and hunt his first Soul Ring the next day.
• Jiang Dongjun sensed a peculiar aura in the workshop safe, prompting Jiang Ming to explain that it held rare metals.

Jiang Dongjun examined a mysterious Golden Disc in the Soul Tool Workshop and used the Light of Time and Space to appraise his martial souls. The chapter left him exploring the unexpected increase in his spiritual power after awakening the Yin Spirit Martial Soul, ahead of a soul-ring hunt the next day.

• Jiang Dongjun identified a Golden Disc in his parents’ cabinet, and Jiang Ming explained that it was an exceptionally high-order material with affinities for fire and light.
• Jiang Ming and Diwu Ying warned Jiang Dongjun about the disc’s danger and the attention its secrets might attract, then left him in the workshop with its defensive arrays active.
• Jiang Dongjun used the Light of Time and Space to appraise his Fireball Martial Soul and learned that its fire control was advanced, while the Yin Spirit Martial Soul returned only a basic classification.
• Jiang Dongjun concluded that the Yin Spirit Martial Soul housed and protected his thoughts, then activated it and counted thirty-four thoughts, far more than the twenty-two he had formed before awakening his martial souls.
• Jiang Dongjun sensed that his spiritual power might have crossed into the Spirit Sea Realm as he prepared for his parents to take him soul-ring hunting the next day.

Jiang Dongjun discovered that the golden disc was a fragment of the elves’ supreme divine artifact, the Golden War Bow, and found three sealed miniature stars within it. He chose to delay experimenting until he could avoid Mu En’s attention, then asked Jiang Ming to help him hunt a sun-type soul beast for his first soul ring.

• Jiang Dongjun used the Light of Time and Space to witness the Golden War Bow’s history and learned that its fragment contained three miniature stars requiring increasing amounts of soul liquid to unlock.
• Jiang Dongjun considered opening the first miniature star but decided not to risk attracting Mu En’s attention while in Shrek City.
• Jiang Dongjun concealed his findings from Jiang Ming, who planned to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day to hunt for a soul ring.
• Jiang Ming warned Jiang Dongjun against pursuing a thousand-year first soul ring and offered to help him aim for stronger later soul rings instead.
• Jiang Dongjun asked Jiang Ming to help him hunt a sun-type soul beast, leaving his father speechless.

Jiang Dongjun scouted the Heavenstar Mountain Range and found a strong evil aura in Old Dragon Ravine, where an Evil Soul Master might be hiding. He and Jiang Ming headed into the mountains to test the Golden Disc, while planning to hunt for Jiang Dongjun’s first soul ring and later confront the threat at the ravine.

• Jiang Ming told Jiang Dongjun that an Evil Soul Ancestor was believed to be hiding in the Heavenstar Mountain Range, and Jiang Dongjun doubted his father could safely defeat him.
• Jiang Ming sent Old Li to Golden Stone City while he guarded Jiang Dongjun as his Yin Spirit scouted the mountain range.
• Jiang Dongjun located a dense evil aura and corpse stench in Old Dragon Ravine, and Jiang Ming explained the ravine’s history and treacherous terrain.
• Jiang Ming and Jiang Dongjun agreed to test the Golden Disc in a nearby stream valley before traveling to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a soul ring and returning to Old Dragon Ravine.
• Jiang Ming fortified the stream valley with Soul Tools, and Jiang Dongjun used the Golden Disc and poured ten drops of soul liquid onto one of three miniature stars.

Jiang Dongjun used soul liquid with the golden disk and gained a powerful Golden Soul Ring as the ravine was engulfed in a sun-like blaze. After the phenomenon ended, Jiang Ming rescued him, leaving Jiang Dongjun eager to investigate the ring’s other potential abilities.

• The soul liquid caused the golden disk to expand into a blazing star, and Jiang Ming retreated while Jiang Dongjun told him he was safe.
• Jiang Dongjun absorbed the golden energy flowing from the setting sun, which formed a brilliant-gold Soul Ring and transformed his body and fireball Martial Soul.
• Jiang Dongjun speculated that the Light of Time and Space had used the divine artifact fragment to restore a trace of the Elven Divine Clan’s ancient power.
• The golden star vanished, revealing a devastated ravine and Jiang Dongjun’s Golden Soul Ring.
• Jiang Dongjun used his first Soul Skill, Dusk's Blessing, to shield himself from heat and harmful gases, and Jiang Ming flew in to carry him away.

Jiang Dongjun revealed the three abilities of his unprecedented golden Soul Ring, while Jiang Ming helped him disguise it and discussed its sun-related powers. As they traveled toward Old Dragon Ravine, Jiang Dongjun sensed an evil presence nearby, and Jiang Ming prepared for a confrontation.

• Jiang Dongjun disguised his golden Soul Ring as a bright yellow ring, then explained that Dusk's Blessing protected him and inflicted decay on whatever it touched.
• Jiang Dongjun told Jiang Ming that his ring also granted Great Sun Golden Body, which enhanced all his attributes, and Golden Eyes of Truth, which pierced falsehood and exerted mental pressure.
• Jiang Ming proposed testing Golden Eyes of Truth on an Evil Soul Ancestor, and Jiang Dongjun said the sun-related abilities were especially effective against Evil Soul Masters.
• Jiang Ming and Jiang Dongjun discussed whether the Soul Ring had evolved Jiang Dongjun's Martial Soul, then set off toward Old Dragon Ravine.
• Jiang Dongjun sensed an evil presence ahead and felt an urge to burn everything there, so Jiang Ming suspected the Evil Soul Ancestor had approached and readied their flying gear and heavy machine gun.

Jiang Ming and Jiang Dongjun located an Evil Soul Master hiding in the forest and launched a coordinated Soul Cannon attack. They destroyed his corpse puppets and set the forest ablaze, but the Soul King remained hidden in the flames.

• Jiang Dongjun used Golden Eyes of Truth to spot the Evil Soul Master and his corpse puppets near a giant cedar.
• Jiang Dongjun assembled a class-three Fixed Soul Cannon and destroyed a powerful corpse puppet, angering Huang Fen.
• Jiang Ming fired a class-five incendiary shell at the cedar while Jiang Dongjun bombarded the corpse puppets around it.
• Huang Fen used his Corpse-Wrapping Cloth and Soul Ring to defend himself as the shell split the cedar and engulfed the area in flames.
• Jiang Ming asked whether Jiang Dongjun could locate Huang Fen again, and Jiang Dongjun confidently said he could.

Jiang Dongjun used his Yin Spirit Martial Soul and Golden Eyes to locate and attack the Evil Soul King Huang Fen. After Jiang Ming and Jiang Dongjun wounded Huang Fen with coordinated cannon fire, Jiang Dongjun destroyed his spirit and shot him dead, allowing the Light of Time and Space to reap his fortune and merit.

• Jiang Dongjun transferred his thoughts into his Yin Spirit Martial Soul, activated its Golden Eyes, and discovered Huang Fen through the sinister energy visible to him.
• Jiang Dongjun fired a Concussion Shell toward Huang Fen and directed Jiang Ming to follow it with a level-five shell.
• The two shells detonated near Huang Fen, severely injuring him, and Jiang Dongjun pursued him while Jiang Ming followed to provide support.
• Jiang Dongjun confronted Huang Fen and used the Golden Eyes of Truth to ignite his mental world and burn his soul.
• Jiang Dongjun shot Huang Fen in the eye, killing him, and the Light of Time and Space absorbed the fortune and merit around him.

After defeating Huang Fen, Jiang Dongjun and Jiang Ming cleaned up his corpse and the poisoned remains in Old Dragon Ravine. Jiang Dongjun discovered that the ravine steadily gathered fortune, suggesting it concealed an opportunity or possessed unusual terrain.

• Jiang Dongjun reviewed how his Golden Eyes of Truth and Spirit Sea Realm mental strength had helped him defeat Huang Fen, and resolved to continue cultivating his spiritual power.
• Jiang Ming burned Huang Fen's corpse to destroy its corpse poison, then helped Jiang Dongjun put out the forest fire before they headed to Old Dragon Ravine.
• Jiang Dongjun and Jiang Ming entered the ravine, where they burned the poisonous remains and cleaned the path and stone house.
• Jiang Dongjun found that the Light of Time and Space continuously absorbed fortune at the ravine, and wondered whether a cold pool below was its source.

Jiang Dongjun and Jiang Ming waited for Old Dragon Ravine’s sunrise spectacle, and Jiang Dongjun used his Golden Eyes of Truth to discover yin and yang qi colliding at the Cold Pool. He identified the ravine as a Land of Yin-Yang Harmony and learned that its rare eruptions could yield substantial fortune.

• Jiang Dongjun sensed that the Cold Pool’s aura stirred his Yin Spirit and suspected the ravine might be a special Yin land.
• Jiang Ming warned Jiang Dongjun to conceal most of his Soul Skills, and Jiang Dongjun chose Dusk's Blessing as the one to reveal.
• At sunrise, sunlight struck the Cold Pool, yin and yang qi collided, and frost-white mist surged through the ravine.
• Jiang Dongjun’s Light of Time and Space harvested fortune from the spectacle, and he asked Jiang Ming how often it occurred.
• Jiang Dongjun told Jiang Ming that he had witnessed yin and yang qi mingle and erupt, identifying Old Dragon Ravine as a Land of Yin-Yang Harmony.

Jiang Ming and Jiang Dongjun discovered an Immortal Spirit Fungus growing on a cliff in Old Dragon Ravine, and Jiang Dongjun persuaded his father to let it mature before harvesting it. After deducing its likely effects and life cycle, Jiang Ming asked his son to search for dried mushrooms nearby.

• Jiang Ming and Jiang Dongjun realized that Old Dragon Ravine’s Land of Yin-Yang Harmony had nurtured a treasure, and Jiang Dongjun used his Golden Eyes of Truth to locate it through the mist.
• Jiang Ming carried Jiang Dongjun down the cliff, where they found a luminous mushroom that Jiang Dongjun recognized as an Immortal Spirit Fungus.
• Jiang Dongjun stopped Jiang Ming from picking the still-growing fungus and estimated that it would mature in about nine years if its growth continued.
• Jiang Ming reasoned that the fungus could balance yin and yang, prevent cultivation deviation, and help break cultivation bottlenecks.
• Jiang Ming told Jiang Dongjun to use his Golden Eyes of Truth to search the nearby soil and rocks for dried mushrooms.

Jiang Dongjun and Jiang Ming found five Immortal Spirit Fungus clumps in Old Dragon Ravine, then decided to sell the location to Shrek Academy rather than risk guarding it. On their way home, Jiang Ming spotted two young women heading toward the ravine and revealed that the blonde one was his romantic rival’s daughter.

• Jiang Dongjun used his Golden Eyes to locate five Immortal Spirit Fungus clumps, and he and Jiang Ming collected them.
• Jiang Dongjun considered searching the Cold Pool with his yin spirit, but Jiang Ming warned him that the cold could damage his mind and forbid him from taking the risk.
• Jiang Ming disguised the remaining fungi and agreed with Jiang Dongjun to sell the location to Shrek Academy for a reward.
• Jiang Ming carried Jiang Dongjun home by flying around the southern edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, using Dusk Protection against the cold wind.
• Jiang Ming spotted two young women below who seemed to be heading toward Old Dragon Ravine, then told Jiang Dongjun that the blonde woman was his romantic rival’s daughter.

Jiang Ming explained his history with Wu Ming’s family and urged Jiang Dongjun to consider Wu Ming as a future guardian and wife, provoking an argument between father and son. After landing near Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo, Jiang Ming learned they were on an Inspection Corps mission to kill the Evil Soul King from Old Dragon Ravine, while Wu Ming took a teasing interest in Jiang Dongjun.

• Jiang Ming told Jiang Dongjun that Wu Ming’s father had once sought to marry her off, and admitted he hoped Jiang Dongjun might pursue her when she was older.
• Jiang Ming argued that Wu Ming could protect Jiang Dongjun as he grew stronger, while Jiang Dongjun accused his father of using him to take revenge on Wu Ming’s father.
• Jiang Ming landed his Flying Soul Tool in front of Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo, then offered to help with their mission against Evil Soul Masters.
• Han Ruoruo explained that the academy had sent them to hunt the Evil Soul King believed to be entrenched in Old Dragon Ravine, and Jiang Dongjun realized they had been pursuing the Bandage Monster.
• Wu Ming playfully asked Jiang Dongjun whether he had innate full soul power.

Jiang Dongjun revealed that he and Wu Ming had briefly triggered a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then returned home with Jiang Ming and discussed what rewards to request from Shrek Academy for the Land of Yin-Yang Harmony. The family planned to turn the treasure land over to the academy while seeking rare resources, including a light-attribute arm bone and whale rubber.

• Jiang Dongjun dodged Wu Ming's teasing, caught her hand, and sent Soul Power into her, leaving her momentarily stunned.
• Han Ruoruo confirmed that Jiang Ming had killed the Evil Soul Master Huang Fen, and the group returned to Shrek City.
• Jiang Dongjun told Jiang Ming that he and Wu Ming had produced a failed Martial Soul Fusion Skill and explained that he needed to draw closer to the sun for it to succeed.
• Jiang Ming joked that Wu Ming might cling to Jiang Dongjun or avoid him once she understood the fusion, then returned home with his son.
• Jiang Ming said he would report the Land of Yin-Yang Harmony and trade a Soul Bone, while Jiang Dongjun requested a ten-thousand-year light-attribute arm bone, whale rubber, and rare metals.

Han Ruoruo learned that Wu Ming suspected she shared a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Jiang Dongjun, while Jiang Dongjun counted his gains and examined his Immortal Spirit Fungi and transformed martial soul. The chapter left him weighing the cost of restoring the fungi as he reviewed his fireball martial soul’s new abilities.

• Wu Ming told Han Ruoruo that she and Jiang Dongjun might have a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and explained their families’ connection through the Golden Crow and Golden Feather Crow.
• Han Ruoruo suggested Wu Ming avoid Jiang Dongjun and let their soul power compatibility fade as his martial soul developed.
• Jiang Dongjun considered hiding five Immortal Spirit Fungi from Yan Shaozhe and calculated that his trip had yielded 271 drops of soul liquid.
• Jiang Dongjun learned that restoring all five fungi would cost 186 drops, so he decided to spend 44 drops to restore fungi for his family.
• Jiang Dongjun used Light of Time and Space on his fireball martial soul and found it had advanced fire control and intermediate light control.

Jiang Dongjun used Soul Liquid to enhance his Martial Soul and repeatedly observed a blazing sun in a mysterious space, developing the Great Sun Visualization Method. He left the chapter meditating with a rough version that drew in Heaven and Earth Essence and circulated his Soul Power, but could not yet open his Eight Extraordinary Vessels.

• Jiang Dongjun spent eleven drops of Soul Liquid to increase his golden-orange fireball’s density, and the experience let him glimpse a blazing sun in a mysterious space.
• Jiang Dongjun used the sun’s lingering impression to create the Great Sun Visualization Method, which drew Heaven and Earth Essence into his body and guided his Soul Power through a self-contained cycle while attempting to open his Governing Vessel.
• Jiang Dongjun found that increasing the fireball’s density made it more solid and powerful, then spent more Soul Liquid raising his light element control to advanced.
• Jiang Dongjun observed the blazing sun repeatedly until he could reproduce enough of its essence to form a rough version of the Great Sun Visualization Method.
• Jiang Dongjun tested the method and found it could draw in Heaven and Earth Essence and circulate his Soul Power, but could not also batter the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, so he sank into meditation.

Jiang Ming negotiated with Qian Duoduo to give the academy the Land of Yin-Yang Harmony and its Immortal Spirit Fungus in exchange for Soul Bones, spiritual treasures, and a larger rare-metal quota. After they confirmed the fungus was real and still needed nine years to mature, Qian Duoduo left Lu Xiaoxiao to guard it while he returned to convene a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.

• Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at the dean's office, identified Jiang Ming's luminous mushroom as an Immortal Spirit Fungus, and explained its rare effects and culinary value.
• Jiang Ming refused Qian Duoduo's attempts to improve the terms, asking for a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, physique-strengthening treasures, a higher rare-metal quota, and an exchange for his Thousand-Year Soul Bone.
• Qian Duoduo offered Jiang Ming a seven-thousand-year Red-Feathered Crane right arm bone for his damaged Soul Bone and agreed to arrange the other rewards later.
• Jiang Ming revealed that the Land of Yin-Yang Harmony was Old Dragon Ravine and told Qian Duoduo where he had concealed the Immortal Spirit Fungus.
• Qian Duoduo, Lu Xiaoxiao, and Jiang Ming traveled to Old Dragon Ravine, where Lu Xiaoxiao confirmed the fungus would mature in nine years and agreed to guard it.
• Lu Xiaoxiao offered to cook Jiang Ming a dish with a thousand-year spiritual treasure, and Jiang Ming asked to read her ancient texts about heavenly treasures.