Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai reached Mingdu with Xue Linglong and sought help from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to enter the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Elder Fang proposed a way forward after learning Jiang Hai could make Level 7 Soul Tools.

• Jiang Hai traveled with Xue Linglong to Mingdu’s Eight Treasures Tower and presented his Guest Elder Token to Hong Lin.
• Hong Lin escorted Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong to the eighth floor, where they reunited with Sword Douluo Li Qingfeng and met Fang Baichi.
• Jiang Hai told Li Qingfeng that he and Xue Linglong had crossed the Far North to reach the Sun Moon Empire and explained his plan to attend the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Fang Baichi said Xue Linglong could likely enter through the Freshman Assessment, but Jiang Hai was too old for the normal admission process.
• Jiang Hai revealed that he could make Level 7 Soul Tools, prompting Fang Baichi to say he had a nearly certain plan.

Fang Baichi arranged for Jiang Hai to enter the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy as a teacher exchange, and Jiang Hai took the name Jiang Chuan. While staying in Mingdu, Jiang Hai’s insights into civilization strengthened his divine fire, leaving Xue Linglong’s level 40 bottleneck gone and stirring a new change in Li Qingfeng’s sword qi.

• Fang Baichi proposed that Jiang Hai qualify as a teacher at Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy and use its exchange program to access the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Jiang Hai altered his appearance and declared that he would use the name Jiang Chuan; Fang Baichi left to make arrangements with the academy.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong settled at the Eight Treasures Tower and spent their waiting days cultivating and exploring Mingdu.
• Jiang Hai reflected on the Sun Moon Empire’s progress and social contradictions, deepening his understanding of civilization and making his divine fire burn more brightly.
• Xue Linglong sensed Jiang Hai’s transformation, and her level 39 bottleneck dissolved, allowing her to form a fourth soul ring whenever she wished.
• Li Qingfeng secretly observed Jiang Hai and felt his Clear Wind Sword’s breeze gain a hint of vitality.

Jiang Hai’s ultimate divine fire evolved into civilization divine fire, while Xue Linglong and Li Qingfeng gained insight into civilization. Fang Baichi returned with documents and arranged their entry to the Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy, where Jiang Hai would prepare for an exchange visit to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Jiang Hai realized his civilization divine fire could grow stronger by influencing civilization, and Xue Linglong and Li Qingfeng also gained insight from his breakthrough.
• Fang Baichi returned to the Eight Treasures Tower with identity documents and explained the Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy’s admission requirements.
• Xue Linglong revealed her Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul and four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, then used Jiang Hai’s Soul Tool to conceal them.
• Jiang Hai told Li Qingfeng that his soul power had reached level 47, and Li Qingfeng warned him to build a solid foundation.
• Fang Baichi explained that Xue Linglong could qualify for the academy’s selection tournament and that Jiang Hai’s Level 5 Soul Tool interview had already been arranged.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong arrived at Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy to apply for teaching positions and learned about the academy’s benefits and assessment process. Director Li welcomed them and began arranging their examinations.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong reached the academy, where Wu Kan met them and led them to the Academic Affairs Office.
• Wu Kan explained the academy’s instructor benefits, professional titles, and the assessment that included independently making a soul tool.
• Jiang Hai told Wu Kan he had never been officially assessed but believed he qualified as a Level 6 Soul Engineer.
• Wu Kan brought Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong to the seventh floor, where Director Li welcomed them and confirmed they needed to undergo an assessment.
• Director Li asked Wu Kan to take them inside for tea while he went to invite instructors to serve as examiners.

Jiang Hai underwent the theory portion of Mingdu Second Academy's teacher assessment before Wang Changwen and six other examiners. His bold ideas and solid fundamentals impressed the examiners, and the assessment ended as an exchange of knowledge between peers.

• Director Li returned with six senior Soul Engineers, including Level 8 Soul Engineer Wang Changwen, and Wu Kan left the room.
• Li Tongcai introduced the examiners and began Jiang Hai's teacher assessment by asking him to define Soul Tools and describe their future development.
• Jiang Hai argued that ordinary people should be able to use and research Soul Tools, proposing universal access to soul power or Soul Tools that could generate it themselves.
• Jiang Hai accurately recited the basic arrays and combinations he knew, and Wang Changwen supplied newer figures and explained the arrays he had missed.
• The examiners asked increasingly advanced questions, and Wang Changwen guided Jiang Hai through answers while becoming impressed by his ability.
• The assessment shifted into a discussion among peers, with Jiang Hai and the senior Soul Engineers each gaining from the exchange.

Jiang Hai began the practical stage of his teaching assessment by crafting the Vermilion Bird Wings, a difficult quasi-Level 7 flying soul tool. He formed the wings and coated tens of thousands of firebird down feathers, then began engraving arrays as the work continued.

• Li Tongcai and the other examiners unanimously passed Jiang Chuan's first assessment and invited him to make a soul tool in Li Tongcai's laboratory.
• Jiang Hai selected materials for a fire-attribute flying soul tool and supplied heavenly fire meteoric iron from the Bronze Coffin.
• Jiang Hai used the flame of civilization to melt and shape the materials into the framework of the Vermilion Bird Wings.
• Jiang Hai coated tens of thousands of firebird down feathers with molten heavenly fire meteoric iron, while more than a hundred feathers burned up.
• Jiang Hai began engraving basic core arrays onto the coated feathers with the Azure Silver Dragon Carving Knife.

Jiang Hai crafted the Vermilion Bird Wings by engraving tens of thousands of arrays onto firebird down and completing their three-dimensional core components. The finished quasi-Level 7 soul tool proved that he could independently craft Level 7 soul tools and could now truly be called a Level 7 soul engineer.

• Jiang Hai spent a day and a night engraving combination arrays onto more than fifty thousand firebird-down feathers, exhausting his soul power five times before weaving them into the wings.
• Jiang Hai recovered for two hours, then engraved the Level 6 arrays on the wings’ framework while Xue Linglong and the advanced soul engineers watched.
• Jiang Hai engraved three-dimensional arrays onto the first of the two heavenly fire meteoric iron core components, finishing after roughly six hours of nearly continuous work.
• Jiang Hai completed the second core component, fitted both cores into the wings, and finished crafting the Vermilion Bird Wings.
• The Vermilion Bird Wings hovered in the air, confirming Jiang Hai’s achievement as a Level 7 soul engineer.

Jiang Hai completed the Vermilion Bird Wings and passed the Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy’s assessment, securing a teaching position with provisional senior-instructor benefits. Li Tongcai welcomed him to the academy and showed him his villa, while Xue Linglong’s entrance assessment was set for the next day.

• Jiang Hai finished the Vermilion Bird Wings by making a silver-red spatial chain that stored the wings and let him use them independently.
• Li Tongcai and the other assessors approved Jiang Hai’s appointment, and Wang Changwen offered to secure his Level 7 Soul Engineer certification through the Soul Engineer Association.
• Li Tongcai appointed Jiang Hai an intermediate instructor with senior-instructor benefits during a one-year assessment period, after which he could be promoted if he caused no major problems.
• Wang Changwen and the other soul engineers departed, promising to arrange Jiang Hai’s certification and deliver his badge and certificate within a few days.
• Li Tongcai escorted Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong to the faculty villas, handed Jiang Hai access cards, and told them that his medical examination and registration and Xue Linglong’s entrance assessment were scheduled for the next day.

Jiang Hai settled into his new residence at the Mingdu Second Academy, learned how the academy trained soul engineers, and recovered from crafting the Vermilion Bird Wings. He officially qualified as a Level 7 Soul Engineer, though he recognized that he still needed to develop a soul tool of his own to become a true one.

• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong toured their villa, and Jiang Hai read the handbook describing the academy, its courses, and its instructor system.
• Jiang Hai collected the meal he had ordered, ate, and fell into a deep sleep after exhausting himself crafting the Vermilion Bird Wings.
• After resting overnight, Jiang Hai reviewed his crafting process and felt that his soul power had improved.
• Jiang Hai recognized that completing the Vermilion Bird Wings made him a Level 7 Soul Engineer, but not yet a true one because he had not independently invented a Level 7 Soul Tool.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong underwent physical examinations at Mingdu's Second Academy, where their strength and talent drew attention. Director Li welcomed them as a genius teacher and student, then gave Jiang Hai his teaching materials and a defensive Soul Engineer Ring.

• Jiang Hai's examination overwhelmed the level 6 scanner, and he confirmed that he was a Level 7 Soul Engineer.
• Jiang Hai secretly altered Xue Linglong's readings, but her displayed three-ring cultivation still astonished Huang Shi.
• Huang Shi offered to introduce Xue Linglong to his Level 8 Soul Engineer mentor, but she refused to take a mentor.
• Huang Shi brought the examination results to Director Li, who recognized Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong as an extraordinary pair.
• Director Li gave Jiang Hai his salary card, teacher card, class schedule, and a Soul Engineer Ring with storage and defensive functions.

Jiang Hai received his Level 7 Soul Engineer credentials and was assigned to teach Class 9 at the Second Academy, with Xue Linglong joining as a transfer student. The students learned their new teacher was a certified Level 7 Soul Engineer, though they still had to adjust to the change before their assessment.

• Li Tongcai gave Jiang Hai a Level 7 Soul Engineer Ring, badge, and robes, and explained the Soul Engineer Association's benefits and influence in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Li Tongcai assigned Jiang Hai to temporarily teach Class 9 and asked him to pay special attention to students at risk of failing their assessments.
• Jiang Hai promised Li Tongcai that he would not give up on any student, and Li Tongcai led him to the first-year teaching building.
• Jiang Hai and Li Tongcai entered Class 9, where the students worried about replacing their former teacher so close to the end-of-term assessment.
• Li Tongcai introduced Xue Linglong as a rank thirty-two ice-attribute Soul Elder and Jiang Hai as the class's new senior instructor and a Level 7 Soul Engineer.

Jiang Hai began teaching First Year Class 9 the fundamentals of soul engineering, while Xue Linglong tried to inscribe soul tool arrays onto her Ice Mirror. With Jiang Hai’s guidance, she succeeded, opening an unprecedented path that left him eager to test what she had created.

• Jiang Hai introduced himself as the students’ Level 7 Soul Engineer homeroom teacher and began explaining the Level 1 Solidification Array.
• As Jiang Hai taught, the flame of civilization helped the students understand the lesson, while Xue Linglong began inscribing arrays onto her Ice Mirror.
• Jiang Hai realized Xue Linglong was attempting to turn a soul skill into a soul tool and guided her through adjustments to the array.
• The Ice Mirror flashed with emerald light, and Xue Linglong confirmed that her creation had worked.
• Jiang Hai took Xue Linglong outside to test the Ice Mirror and considered whether soul skills, martial souls, or even bodies could be refined into soul tools.

Jiang Hai tested Xue Linglong’s Ice Mirror and discovered that her soul skill could reproduce a soul tool core array when condensed again. The breakthrough suggested a new way to combine soul skills and soul tools, and Xue Linglong named her creation Ice Soul Divine Light while leaving Jiang Hai to name the broader category.

• Jiang Hai brought Xue Linglong and the students to the soul tool Experimental Area to test her Ice Mirror.
• Xue Linglong fired the Ice Mirror’s freezing beam at Jiang Hai, who endured it before escaping its ice coffin with his Nine-Lives Cicada Molt soul skill.
• Jiang Hai judged the Ice Mirror’s attack more than thirty percent stronger than comparable soul tools and powerful enough to hinder Soul Kings.
• Xue Linglong dismissed and recreated the Ice Mirror, reproducing a core array as she formed the soul skill again, then demonstrated its attack against the wall.
• Jiang Hai declared that Xue Linglong had opened a new path for Soul Engineers, and she named the soul tool Ice Soul Divine Light while asking him to name the broader technology.

Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong developed the idea of Lifebound Soul Tools and dedicated themselves to studying how Soul Tools could integrate with Soul Skills, Martial Souls, and Soul Masters. Three months later, their skills had advanced significantly, but Jiang Hai still could not determine how to turn a Martial Soul or the human body into a Soul Tool.

• Jiang Hai proposed the name Lifebound Soul Tool for Soul Tools integrated with their Soul Masters, and Xue Linglong considered the idea feasible.
• Jiang Hai urged Xue Linglong to study refining her Ice Mirror and Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless Soul Skills into Soul Tools, while he focused on learning Soul Tool theory and human anatomy.
• Jiang Hai settled into a routine of studying at Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy's library and teaching First Year Class 9.
• After three months, all hundred-odd students in First Year Class 9 had reached Soul Engineer standard, and Xue Linglong had become a Level 3 Soul Engineer.
• Xue Linglong's Ice Extreme Divine Light advanced to Level 3, while Jiang Hai's Soul Tool knowledge approached that of an ordinary Level 8 Soul Engineer, though he still could not refine a Martial Soul or human body into a Soul Tool.

Jiang Hai demonstrated the benefits of the soul tool arrays he had carved into his left arm before preparing to lead the Mingdu Second Academy’s exchange delegation to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. With the roster assembled and the exchange terms confirmed, he set out with five students for three years of study.

• Jiang Hai showed that the arrays in his left arm increased its soul power circulation speed by about thirty percent and improved his meditation efficiency.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong met Director Li Tongcai, who confirmed the exchange arrangements and explained Jiang Hai’s duties and benefits.
• Li Tongcai introduced the five student delegates: Xue Linglong, Zhou Yu, Xia Luoluo, Huang Shujun, and Tuo Lan.
• The four other students arrived, and Li Tongcai introduced Jiang Hai as their accompanying teacher.
• Jiang Hai urged the students to study diligently and promised to support them if they faced unfair treatment before leading the delegation out.

Jiang Hai brought five exchange students from the Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where Lin Jiayi welcomed them and showed them the campus. The chapter ended with Jiang Hai learning that the Modification Department had grown rapidly and that he would need Illustrious Virtue Hall access to work with its researchers.

• Jiang Hai led the five students to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and presented his credentials to the guards.
• Lin Jiayi welcomed Jiang Hai and the students, issued their academy arrangements, and explained that they could access the Illustrious Virtue Hall after passing its assessment.
• Lin Jiayi toured the group around the campus and showed them the heavily guarded Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Jiang Hai told Lin Jiayi that his research focused on combining Soul Tools with the human body, and Lin Jiayi identified him as a Modification Department Soul Engineer.
• Lin Jiayi explained that the Modification Department had gained major support, employed many Level 7 Soul Engineers, and required Illustrious Virtue Hall authorization for convenient research.

Jiang Hai agreed to take the Illustrious Virtue Hall’s Level 7 Soul Engineer assessment, which required him to create an original soul tool. As the assessment began, he chose an enormous quantity of basic materials, surprising Xuan Ziwen and the other judges.

• Lin Jiayi explained that Jiang Hai needed to create a new Level 7 Soul Tool to earn full research privileges in the Illustrious Virtue Hall, and Jiang Hai asked him to arrange the assessment.
• Lin Jiayi left to confirm the assessment, while Jiang Hai and the exchange students returned to their dormitories; Jiang Hai spent the next three days considering what technology to create.
• Lin Jiayi brought Jiang Hai to an assessment laboratory, where Xuan Ziwen and six Level 7 Soul Engineers were waiting to judge him.
• Jiang Hai recognized Xuan Ziwen, then selected more than a thousand kilograms of mostly basic materials from the laboratory’s supplies.
• Xuan Ziwen warned Jiang Hai that his materials were too basic to produce a Level 7 Soul Tool and that he had chosen enough to make hundreds of tools.

Jiang Hai demonstrated his strength and mastery of fire, ice, and soul tool crafting while building a Soul Guidance Automobile for the Illustrious Virtue Hall assessment. After completing the car, he was engulfed by transparent flames, and an automobile engraving appeared on the Bronze Coffin.

• Jiang Hai lifted over a thousand kilograms of materials with one hand, then used his Heart Mirror and blazing fire to melt refined iron and combine it with titanium gold.
• Jiang Hai froze water into an ice mold and used his opposing ice and fire abilities to forge the automobile’s many components.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized the bearings and realized Jiang Hai was making a Soul Guidance Automobile based on technology from his previous life.
• Jiang Hai engraved soul tool arrays onto the core components, convincing the observers that he was a top Level 7 Soul Engineer and prompting Lin Jiayi to resolve to keep him at the academy.
• Jiang Hai assembled the three-meter-long silver-white automobile, then transparent flames burst from the Bronze Coffin and engulfed him.
• An automobile engraving appeared on the Bronze Coffin.

Jiang Hai completed a soul guidance automobile and received feedback from the Flame of Civilization, reaching rank fifty and entering a rare sage state. After the Illustrious Virtue Hall examiners approved his work and Xuan Ziwen offered him a research post, Jiang Hai demonstrated the automobile and met Ju Zi.

• The Flame of Civilization's feedback raised Jiang Hai's soul power from rank forty-nine to rank fifty and refined its circulation as he entered the sage state.
• Jiang Hai passed his soul tool assessment after confirming that ordinary people could use his soul guidance automobile once a soul master charged it.
• Xuan Ziwen said he would recommend Jiang Hai for research authorization and a special consultant position, then asked to see the automobile in action.
• Jiang Hai stored and brought out the automobile outside the Illustrious Virtue Hall, attracting the attention of people nearby.
• Ju Zi arrived, met Jiang Hai, and asked Xuan Ziwen if she could join the demonstration.

Jiang Hai demonstrated the Soul Guidance Automobile to Illustrious Virtue Hall researchers, impressing them with its potential and prompting Xuan Ziwen to identify electricity as its energy source. After Jiang Hai agreed to share its blueprints in exchange for research royalties and access to advanced designs, Lin Jiayi escorted him to meet the hall master and showed him the underground facility.

• Jiang Hai took Ju Zi and the teachers for a ride in the Soul Guidance Automobile, while Ju Zi considered its military uses and Xuan Ziwen studied how it operated.
• Xuan Ziwen realized Jiang Hai had converted soul power into electricity, and the teachers assessed the automobile's performance, limitations, and potential for civilian and military use.
• Lin Jiayi offered Jiang Hai a Special Consultant position and a share of future research proceeds in exchange for the automobile's blueprints, and Jiang Hai accepted.
• Xuan Ziwen and Ju Zi discussed Jiang Hai's age, skill, and the automobile's potential as they departed.
• Lin Jiayi escorted Jiang Hai through inspections and down to the Illustrious Virtue Hall's vast underground research and production facility.