Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai absorbed a four-thousand-one-hundred-year-old Crystal Glazed Python as his second soul ring, with the Two Coffins refining its power and helping create a third coffin. He revealed that his new skill, Glazed Heart Mirror, could reflect changes around him and sharpen his insight, leaving Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan impressed by its potential.

• Xu Jiujiu ended the dispute with Zhang Lexuan and invited Jiang Hai to join the Star Luo Empire after graduating from Shrek Academy.
• Xu Jiujiu rebuked Xu Ting'er for her behavior and left with her companions.
• Jiang Hai absorbed the Crystal Glazed Python's soul ring through the Bronze Coffin, while its refined essence merged with the White Tiger Soul Bone to form a crystal coffin.
• Jiang Hai emerged with a stable purple second soul ring and demonstrated Glazed Heart Mirror by effortlessly evading Ma Xiaotao's attacks.
• Jiang Hai explained that Glazed Heart Mirror reflected changes within a hundred meters, could sometimes reveal people's hearts, and increased his mental capacity and control.

Jiang Hai examined how his new Glazed Heart Mirror skill and crystal coffin had strengthened his abilities, while Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan agreed to conceal the true age of his second soul ring. Before the group continued deeper into the forest to seek Ma Xiaotao’s Seventh Soul Ring, Ma Xiaotao brought out a crystal ball to test Jiang Hai’s soul power.

• Jiang Hai recognized that his crystal coffin strengthened his blood and qi, improving his constitution and supporting his growing strength and cultivation.
• Jiang Hai reassured Ma Xiaotao that the Glazed Heart Mirror was powerful and that its potential depended on how he developed it.
• Ma Xiaotao teased Jiang Hai about absorbing a four-thousand-one-hundred-year Crystal Glazed Python soul ring, and Zhang Lexuan warned them not to reveal its true age.
• Zhang Lexuan asked whether Jiang Hai would continue deeper with them as they set out to find a suitable Seventh Soul Ring for Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao produced a crystal ball to test how much Jiang Hai’s soul power had increased after gaining his second soul ring.

After reaching level 26, Jiang Hai traveled with Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan through the Star Dou Great Forest as they searched for a powerful fire-attribute soul beast for Ma Xiaotao’s seventh ring. Using the Glazed Heart Mirror to analyze their surroundings, he led them to a secluded, sweltering valley that seemed promising, though the soul beast they sought had not yet appeared.

• Jiang Hai revealed that his soul power had reached level 26 after absorbing the Crystal Glazed Python’s soul ring, surprising Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan.
• The three traveled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest and sheltered overnight inside Jiang Hai’s bronze coffin.
• After several fruitless days searching for a fire-attribute soul beast over fifty thousand years old, Jiang Hai asked to lead the way.
• Jiang Hai repeatedly used the Glazed Heart Mirror to analyze information around them and guide the group while avoiding unnecessary encounters.
• Jiang Hai led Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan to a secluded, intensely hot valley, where Ma Xiaotao embraced and kissed him in excitement.
• Jiang Hai explained how he used the mirror to sift through environmental information, and Zhang Lexuan praised his ability.

Zhang Lexuan discovered a colony of Divine Fire Demon Apes guarding a Divine Fire Spirit Fruit, giving Ma Xiaotao a chance to gain Ultimate Fire and obtain a powerful Soul Ring. To draw the other apes away while Ma Xiaotao faces the king, Jiang Hai volunteered despite Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan’s concerns, and Zhang Lexuan finally agreed.

• Zhang Lexuan scouted the valley and found at least a hundred Divine Fire Demon Apes, including a fifty-thousand-year-old king and a Divine Fire Spirit Fruit.
• Zhang Lexuan warned Ma Xiaotao that the king was exceptionally dangerous and might have already consumed a Divine Fire Spirit Fruit.
• Ma Xiaotao decided they should seize the fruit, while Zhang Lexuan cautioned that the ape colony’s numbers made the plan perilous.
• Jiang Hai suggested luring most of the apes away, then volunteered to do it using his Borrow Strength ability so Ma Xiaotao could face the king.
• Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan objected that Jiang Hai was too vulnerable, but Zhang Lexuan eventually accepted his decision and told him to be careful.

Jiang Hai lured most of the Divine Fire Demon Apes away from their valley so Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao could reach the Divine Fire Spirit Fruit. After the two Shrek Academy prodigies defeated the remaining apes, Zhang Lexuan approached the heart of the burning valley.

• Jiang Hai entered the valley alone and killed a thousand-year Divine Fire Demon Ape with the Bronze Coffin.
• More than twenty apes attacked Jiang Hai, who used his Glazed Heart Mirror and coffin to fight them until a ten-thousand-year ape struck him.
• Jiang Hai threw a wounded ape toward the ten-thousand-year leader and fled, drawing more than seventy Divine Fire Demon Apes after him.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao entered the valley, and Ma Xiaotao killed an ape blocking their path.
• The Divine Fire Demon Ape King sent three ten-thousand-year apes to confront Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao while it guarded the Divine Fire Spirit Fruit Tree.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao defeated the remaining apes, and Zhang Lexuan walked toward the heart of the valley.

Jiang Hai escaped the Divine Fire Demon Apes by hiding inside his layered coffins, while Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao defeated the Divine Fire Demon Ape King. Ma Xiaotao prepared to absorb its Soul Ring, and the king’s remains produced a Divine Fire Soul Bone.

• Jiang Hai evaded the pursuing Divine Fire Demon Apes and hid inside his Bronze Coffin when his strength ran low.
• The apes forced open the Bronze Coffin but could not open the Golden Coffin, then fled after hearing a roar from the valley.
• Jiang Hai emerged once the apes had left and chose to head away from the valley rather than risk burdening Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhang Lexuan crippled the Divine Fire Demon Ape King, and Ma Xiaotao chose to absorb its Soul Ring before searching for Jiang Hai.
• Ma Xiaotao beheaded the dying Divine Fire Demon Ape King with her Class 6 Soul Tool, and its remains yielded a black Soul Ring and a Divine Fire Soul Bone.

Ma Xiaotao fused with the Divine Fire Demon Ape King's Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone, evolving her Martial Soul into a divine fire phoenix. After she and Zhang Lexuan searched for Jiang Hai and found him safe, Ma Xiaotao thanked him and offered him a gift.

• Ma Xiaotao fused with the Divine Fire Demon Ape King's Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone, while Zhang Lexuan waited anxiously for Jiang Hai.
• Ma Xiaotao's Martial Soul evolved from an evil fire phoenix into a divine fire phoenix with the ultimate fire attribute, freeing her from the torment of evil fire.
• Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan agreed to search for Jiang Hai and flew in different directions.
• Ma Xiaotao found Jiang Hai emerging from a pool of water, checked that he was unharmed, and apologized for putting him in danger.
• Ma Xiaotao told Jiang Hai about her Martial Soul's evolution and produced a vivid red fruit as a gift for him.

Ma Xiaotao gave Jiang Hai the Divine Fire Spirit Fruit, and after he ate it, divine flames refined his nested Copper Coffin Martial Soul for three days. Jiang Hai emerged with a wisdom-enhancing divine fire, a clearer and more efficient martial soul, and a more solid soul-power foundation, though he remained at level twenty-six.

• Ma Xiaotao revealed that absorbing the Divine Fire Demon Ape King's soul ring and soul bone had given her ultimate fire, then offered Jiang Hai the Divine Fire Spirit Fruit.
• Jiang Hai refused the fruit because he was not a fire-attribute soul master, but Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan insisted he accept it.
• Jiang Hai swallowed the fruit and was engulfed in painful flames, so Zhang Lexuan used her moonlight to suppress the fire as his nested coffins formed around him.
• The divine fire burned over Jiang Hai's Copper Coffin, gold coffin, and crystal coffin for three days and nights, adding an image of fire to the copper coffin's engravings.
• Jiang Hai awoke with a divine fire that enhanced his intelligence, and he found that the flames had purified his martial soul and strengthened his soul-power foundation without raising him above level twenty-six.

Jiang Hai returned from the Star Dou Great Forest with an independent divine fire that enhanced wisdom, while Ma Xiaotao gained an Ultimate Fire martial soul and reached level seventy-two. After parting with Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan at Shrek Academy, Jiang Hai went straight back to class.

• Jiang Hai revealed that his divine fire enhanced wisdom but was fixed in power and existed independently of his martial soul.
• Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan learned how Jiang Hai's divine fire differed from Ma Xiaotao's Ultimate Fire.
• Jiang Hai, Ma Xiaotao, and Zhang Lexuan left the Star Dou Great Forest and returned to Shrek City using Jiang Hai's Glazed Heart Mirror to avoid danger.
• Zhang Lexuan urged Jiang Hai to rest and keep studying, while Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan hugged him and left for the Inner Court.
• Jiang Hai ignored Zhang Lexuan's advice to rest and returned to Mu Jin's lesson in freshman Class Three.

After returning from the Star Dou Great Forest, Jiang Hai met with Mu Jin, who gave him notes and learned that he had reached level twenty-six with a thousand-year second soul ring. Mu Jin advised him to keep his strength quiet for now, leaving Jiang Hai to rejoin his friends and continue cultivating.

• Mu Jin asked Jiang Hai why he had been away, then scolded him for joining a dangerous trip into the Star Dou Great Forest as a Soul Grandmaster.
• Mu Jin gave Jiang Hai notes from the classes he had missed and asked about his new soul ring and soul power.
• Jiang Hai revealed that he was level twenty-six and that his Glazed Heart Mirror soul skill came from a thousand-year Crystal Glazed Python.
• Mu Jin learned that the Inner Court disciples already knew Jiang Hai's strength and advised him to hide it until he reached three rings.
• Mu Jin urged Jiang Hai to guard against pride, and Jiang Hai left to meet Chen Yong and Sun Yunhai.

Jiang Hai visited the Soul Tool Area to study soul tools and considered how technology might give ordinary people power against soul masters. After Xiang Donglai blamed him for a failed engraving and attacked him, Jiang Hai defended himself, and Li Wen questioned him as the surrounding students took Xiang Donglai’s side.

• Jiang Hai explored the Soul Tool Area and used the Glazed Heart Mirror to analyze the soul tools and techniques he saw.
• Xiang Donglai failed to engrave a Level 3 soul tool array and ruined an expensive gem material.
• Xiang Donglai accused Jiang Hai of disrupting his work and demanded compensation, but Jiang Hai denied disturbing him and broke free of his grip.
• Xiang Donglai stabbed at Jiang Hai with an engraving knife, and Jiang Hai struck his wrist, knocking the knife away.
• Xiang Donglai called for help and claimed Jiang Hai had trespassed and attacked him, prompting Li Wen and other students to confront Jiang Hai.
• Li Wen asked Jiang Hai whether Xiang Donglai’s account was true and what year he was in.

Jiang Hai used Fan Yu’s Dean’s Token to resolve a dispute with Xiang Donglai in the Soul Tool Department and learned that the incident had exposed his importance to the department. He decided to focus on Soul Tool theory and borrowed four books from the library before heading to Sea God Lake.

• Jiang Hai showed Li Wen Fan Yu’s Dean’s Token and explained that he had permission to enter the Soul Tool Department.
• Li Wen sent Jiang Hai and Xiang Donglai to his office, dismissed Jiang Hai, and reprimanded Xiang Donglai for his conduct.
• Li Wen explained to Xiang Donglai that Jiang Hai was a gifted freshman whose presence could benefit the Soul Tool Department, and urged him to broaden his perspective.
• Jiang Hai reflected on his ability to see Soul Tool arrays with Glazed Heart Mirror and concluded that he needed theoretical knowledge to understand how Soul Tools worked.
• Jiang Hai borrowed four books about Soul Tool history, arrays, materials, and Level 1 Soul Tools, then headed toward Sea God Lake.

Qian Duoduo plotted to draw Jiang Hai into the Soul Tool Department by withholding its resources, while Jiang Hai visited friends and began studying the books he had borrowed. The chapter ended with him engrossed in a detailed guide to level-one soul tool formations inside his Bronze Coffin beneath Sea God Lake.

• Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu discussed Jiang Hai's interest in soul tools, and Qian Duoduo planned to let him struggle without department resources until he came asking for help.
• Fan Yu praised Huo Yuhao's potential, predicting that his talent would astonish Qian Duoduo within a year.
• Jiang Hai met Chen Yong and Sun Yunhai by Sea God Lake, grilled fish for them, and heard academy gossip about student transfers and Wu Feng joining Class Three.
• Jiang Hai entered the nested coffins beneath Sea God Lake and read about soul tool history before finding Analysis of Level One Soul Tool Formations especially valuable.

Jiang Hai studied Xuan Ziwen’s foundational soul-array book through the night, gaining a deeper understanding of Level 1 Soul Tool Arrays. In practical combat class, his newly revealed thousand-year second soul ring and Glazed Heart Mirror helped him overwhelm Class Three, though the battle continued after he outmaneuvered Wu Feng and Chen Yong.

• Jiang Hai recognized Xuan Ziwen as the author of An Analysis of Level 1 Soul Tool Arrays and spent the night comparing its nine examples with another collection of basic arrays.
• Jiang Hai arrived at breakfast exhausted, then used the theoretical morning lessons to rest before Zhu Tianming took the class to the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Jiang Hai revealed his yellow and purple soul rings, defeated Niu Qi with one punch, and surprised Zhu Tianming with his thousand-year second soul ring.
• Jiang Hai used the Glazed Heart Mirror to read the battlefield and defeated students while dodging their coordinated attacks.
• Wu Feng and Chen Yong combined their attacks and support skills against Jiang Hai, but Jiang Hai evaded Chen Yong’s blow, slammed him into the Bronze Coffin, and countered Wu Feng’s attack.

After losing to Class Three in combat practice, Jiang Hai spent a month studying Soul Guidance Core Arrays and decided to test his knowledge by making a Soul Tool. He went to the Eight Treasures Tower in Shrek City to find materials and a carving knife, and left considering the Azure Silver Dragon Carving Knife.

• Jiang Hai lost to Class Three, while Zhu Tianming analyzed the students’ mistakes and praised Jiang Hai’s performance.
• Jiang Hai spent a month training by day and studying Core Arrays beneath Sea God Lake at night, then deduced that a complicated array could make a quasi-Level 5 Soul Tool.
• Jiang Hai decided to try engraving an array himself and left Shrek Academy to search Shrek City for suitable materials and a carving knife.
• Jiang Hai entered the Eight Treasures Tower, where Liu Yun showed him the metals and carving knives on display.
• Jiang Hai chose the Azure Silver Dragon Carving Knife, and Liu Yun told him it could engrave Level 7 Soul Tools and cost fifteen hundred Gold Soul Coins.

Jiang Hai forged and completed the Silver Dragon Sword by refining metals and engraving a complex soul tool array. After testing it inside the Golden Coffin, he accidentally triggered a powerful strike against his martial soul and suffered a soul power backlash.

• Jiang Hai bought a Colorful Cloud-Pattern Engraving Knife and metal from Liu Yun, spending all his money.
• At Sea God Lake, Jiang Hai used divine fire to refine white iron essence and silver ironstone into the sword's hilt and blade.
• Jiang Hai engraved a Level 4 Core Array into the silver dragon hilt and collapsed after completing the final stroke.
• Jiang Hai recovered, confirmed that the array worked, assembled the sword, and named it Silver Dragon, adding a tiny Bronze Coffin Research Institute inscription.
• Jiang Hai poured soul power into Silver Dragon, causing it to shoot into the Golden Coffin and strike his martial soul, leaving him badly injured by the backlash.

After producing the Silver Dragon Sword, Jiang Hai examined soul tool materials and realized that Jing Hongchen had deliberately planted flaws in a blueprint at Shrek Academy. He resolved to make soul tools accessible to ordinary people and overturn the unjust soul master order, then hurried back to class and arrived just as it ended.

• Jiang Hai assessed the Silver Dragon Sword’s exceptional power and value, while deciding that he still needed to master soul tool theory and research materials.
• Jiang Hai read the Soul Tool Materials Illustrated Guide and found it too vague to explain the metals’ properties.
• Jiang Hai discovered that Jing Hongchen had tampered with the Silver Dragon Sword blueprint to mislead anyone who followed it.
• Jiang Hai reflected on the rival empires’ histories and the exploitation surrounding martial soul awakenings, then vowed to make soul tools ordinary people could use.
• Jiang Hai rushed into First Year Class Three, where Mu Jin dismissed the class and warned him not to arrive late again.

Jiang Hai began compiling a comprehensive Materials Science book and went to sell his Silver Dragon Sword to fund his research. At the Eight Treasures Tower, chief soul engineer Zhao Dezhu examined the sword and became intrigued by its sound.

• Jiang Hai borrowed materials books for several days before deciding to write his own Materials Science book in the Bronze Coffin Research Institute's name.
• Jiang Hai organized over a thousand metallic, nonmetallic, and composite materials into his notebook, leaving space to document their properties and uses.
• Jiang Hai went to the Eight Treasures Tower to sell the Silver Dragon Sword because he had run out of money for his research.
• Liu Yun escorted Jiang Hai to chief soul engineer Zhao Dezhu for an appraisal of the Level 4 Soul Tool.
• Jiang Hai revealed the Silver Dragon Sword, and Zhao Dezhu rushed over to ask to examine it after hearing its clear ring.

Jiang Hai brought the Silver Dragon Sword to the Eight Treasures Tower, where Zhao Dezhu appraised its unusual power and Liu Yun sought approval to buy it. Ning Tian recognized Jiang Hai, offered eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins, and agreed to help him gather soul tool materials.

• Zhao Dezhu tested the Silver Dragon Sword, discovered its array let it perform like a Level 5 Soul Tool while remaining usable by a four-ring soul master, and valued it nearly as highly as a Level 6 Soul Tool.
• Liu Yun left to consult the Tower Master about purchasing the valuable sword, then returned with Ning Tian, who recognized Jiang Hai as her old classmate.
• Ning Tian offered Jiang Hai eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Silver Dragon Sword, and Jiang Hai agreed on the condition that the Eight Treasures Tower collect soul tool materials for him.
• Ning Tian accepted Jiang Hai's request and examined his extensive materials list, reacting with surprise at its length.

Jiang Hai bought soul tool materials from Ning Tian’s Eight Treasures Tower and accepted her gifts before walking back toward Shrek Academy with her. Ning Tian deduced that he was the maker of the Silver Dragon Sword and a gifted soul engineer, while Wu Feng interrupted their conversation and Ning Tian privately resolved to keep his abilities secret.

• Ning Tian gave Jiang Hai the Azure Silver Dragon Carving Knife, eight gold cards, and an Eight Treasures Black Card, and Liu Yun sold him the Tower’s stocked materials for sixteen thousand gold coins.
• Ning Tian accompanied Jiang Hai toward Shrek Academy and questioned him about his interest in soul tools and the Silver Dragon Sword.
• Ning Tian noticed the sword’s maker’s mark and inferred that Jiang Hai was a Level 4 Soul Engineer, then offered to recruit him into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and match him with Wu Feng; Jiang Hai declined to join a sect.
• Wu Feng caught up with Ning Tian, accused Jiang Hai of trying to seduce her, and watched him hurry ahead toward the academy.
• Ning Tian kept her belief that Jiang Hai could make Level 5 Soul Tools to herself, then teased Wu Feng about Chen Yong before Wu Feng wondered if Ning Tian liked Jiang Hai.