Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hai spent the school year advancing his Soul Tool research and, after a period of grief on Lunar New Year's Eve, developed a Soul Guidance Power Column and Soul Tool Battery. He began work on a practical invention, a Soul Guidance Bicycle.

• Jiang Hai returned to his routine of classes, cultivation, and Soul Tool research, using materials from the Eight Treasures Tower to develop his knowledge of materials and arrays.
• On Lunar New Year's Eve, Jiang Hai reflected on his loneliness and the family he had lost, then resolved to keep moving forward the next day.
• Jiang Hai completed a blueprint converting soul power into electrical energy and engraved the array onto a silver prism, creating a working Soul Guidance Power Column.
• Jiang Hai fitted the prism into a Soul Tool Battery, establishing a way to store and use electricity generated from soul power.
• Jiang Hai decided to build a practical Soul Tool for daily life and chose to develop a Soul Guidance Bicycle.

Jiang Hai completed and test-rode the continent’s first Soul Guidance Bicycle, whose speed surpassed 150 kilometers per hour. After deciding not to partner with Shrek Academy under his own name, he returned to campus and went to speak with Ning Tian.

• Jiang Hai finished building the red, flame-patterned Soul Guidance Bicycle and charged it with his soul power.
• Jiang Hai rode the bicycle through Shrek Academy and sped past the guards at the city gate, startling them with its speed.
• Jiang Hai tested the bicycle on the road outside the city, calmed himself, and judged its first trial a success.
• Jiang Hai weighed partnering with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect or Shrek Academy and decided not to work with the academy under his own name.
• Jiang Hai returned to Shrek Academy, found Class Three training, and asked Ning Tian to speak with him outside.

Jiang Hai showed Ning Tian his soul-powered vehicle and revealed that ordinary people could use it without supplying soul power themselves. Ning Tian recognized its immense commercial potential and said the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s sect master would negotiate for it, while Jiang Hai renamed it the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle.

• Jiang Hai took Ning Tian away from Class Three to discuss an important business deal at the Eight Treasures Tower.
• Jiang Hai rode the Soul Guidance Bicycle with Ning Tian across more than half of Shrek City, giving her her first experience of the vehicle.
• Ning Tian inspected the bicycle and excitedly offered five million gold coins for its blueprints and simplified blueprints.
• Jiang Hai explained that the vehicle could be simplified to a Level 2 soul tool and that ordinary people could operate it, though a soul master had to charge it with soul power.
• Ning Tian said she would report the invention to her father, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s sect master, and have him negotiate with Jiang Hai.
• Ning Tian suggested calling it a flying vehicle, and Jiang Hai named it the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle.

Ning Tian saw Jiang Hai as a major investment opportunity for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Ning Qingdeng offered him a prized Soul Bone to secure that investment. Jiang Hai accepted after confirming that Ning Qingdeng trusted his own potential, then presented a blueprint in return.

• Ning Tian discussed the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle with Jiang Hai, who said he wanted to work with both the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and Shrek Academy while keeping his identity from Shrek secret.
• Jiang Hai declined Ning Tian’s offer to help obtain his third Soul Ring and said he expected to reach level twenty-nine within a month through cultivation.
• Ning Qingdeng met Jiang Hai at breakfast and offered him the River-Clearing Breeze Left Leg Soul Bone, a prized bone from a ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Jiang Hai asked whether Ning Qingdeng would still invest in him knowing he was not Tang San or one of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Ning Qingdeng affirmed his trust in Jiang Hai, who accepted the Soul Bone and showed him a blueprint.

Jiang Hai showed Ning Qingdeng the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle blueprints and explained how electricity could power devices without soul power. Ning Qingdeng recognized the revolutionary potential of Jiang Hai’s soul guidance science and agreed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would protect his identity as the founder of the Bronze Coffin Research Institute.

• Jiang Hai accepted Ning Qingdeng’s investment because he needed a soul bone to advance toward level 30 and his third soul ring.
• Ning Qingdeng examined the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle blueprints and inferred how its arrays stored and controlled lightning power.
• Jiang Hai explained his view of soul guidance as the study of natural laws and demonstrated electricity generation with magnets and a rotating wire.
• Jiang Hai powered a bright electric bulb with the vehicle’s battery, showing Ning Qingdeng, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng that ordinary people could use electricity.
• Ning Qingdeng praised Jiang Hai for opening a new path for soul engineers and warned that the technology could bring danger if his identity became known.
• Jiang Hai said the world knew only the Bronze Coffin Research Institute, and Ning Qingdeng promised that the sect and the others would keep his secret.

Ning Qingdeng agreed with Jiang Hai to partner with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and Shrek Academy on soul guidance technology, with Jiang Hai receiving forty percent of the proceeds. He brought the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle’s blueprints and model to Shrek’s Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Elder Lin was shocked to learn Jiang Hai could make Soul Tools usable by ordinary people.

• Ning Qingdeng offered Jiang Hai half the proceeds from Soul Guidance Flying Vehicles and electric lights, but Jiang Hai reduced his share to forty percent and extended the arrangement to future cooperation.
• Ning Qingdeng gave Jiang Hai a Nine Treasures Token that let him mobilize most of the sect’s forces and request one favor, then took the blueprints and finished model to discuss a partnership with Shrek Academy.
• Wu Feng asked Jiang Hai to make her a Soul Tool like the Silver Dragon Sword, but Jiang Hai said he did not want to make weapons.
• Ning Qingdeng visited the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and asked Elder Lin to contact the dean of Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department about a partnership.
• Ning Qingdeng warned Elder Lin not to investigate Jiang Hai’s identity and revealed that Jiang Hai could create Soul Tools ordinary people could use.
• Elder Lin reacted in shock, and Ning Qingdeng showed him the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle.

Ning Qingdeng brought Shrek Academy a blueprint for a Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle that ordinary people could use and proposed a partnership to develop and distribute it. The Sea God Pavilion agreed to cooperate and hear the terms, then examined the remaining battery and generator blueprints.

• Ning Qingdeng showed Elder Lin the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle and proposed that Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department help introduce it across the Douluo Continent.
• Elder Lin summoned a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, and Ning Qingdeng presented the vehicle blueprint to Shrek Academy's leaders and elders.
• Qian Duoduo recognized the blueprint's extraordinary design and learned from Ning Qingdeng that ordinary people could use the vehicle.
• Elder Lin noticed that the displayed blueprint was missing crucial sections, but Ning Qingdeng refused to reveal them without his friend's permission.
• Ning Qingdeng proposed cooperation and requested forty percent of future net profits; Xian Lin'er agreed to the terms.
• Ning Qingdeng brought out the remaining blueprints for the battery and generator.

Ning Qingdeng showed Shrek Academy the blueprints for a soul tool ordinary people could use and negotiated cooperation while protecting its creator’s identity. The academy agreed not to investigate the creator, and Yan Shaozhe kept the demonstration vehicle as Ning Qingdeng left.

• Qian Duoduo studied the blueprints, confirmed the soul tool could be used by ordinary people, and recommended that Shrek Academy cooperate with its anonymous creator.
• Ning Qingdeng identified the creator as the scholar behind the Bronze Coffin Research Institute and demonstrated the Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle.
• Yan Shaozhe rode the vehicle, then refused to return it; Ning Qingdeng gave it to him on his friend’s behalf in exchange for Yan Shaozhe’s promise to look after the creator.
• After Ning Qingdeng left, Xuan Zi proposed investigating the creator, but Elder Lin, Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin'er argued against provoking him.

Shrek Academy approved cooperation with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to develop a major soul tool, while Jiang Hai and Huo Yuhao advanced their cultivation and soul-engineering skills. As the holiday approached, Jiang Hai told Ma Xiaotao he planned to return home to see his father.

• At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Elder Lin's vote favored investigating Ning Qingdeng's background, and Mu En approved cautious cooperation with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Jiang Hai cultivated in the Bronze Coffin and broke through to level twenty-nine after months of training.
• Huo Yuhao completed a Soul Tool Core engraving that qualified him as a Level 2 Soul Engineer, and Fan Yu urged him and He Caitou to return early for the academy's coming soul tool research project.
• Fan Yu explained that Shrek Academy planned to establish a research and manufacturing workshop with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, while Tian Meng promised Huo Yuhao an even greater opportunity during the holiday.
• Ma Xiaotao offered to help Jiang Hai train toward level thirty, but Jiang Hai said he needed to go home and see his father.

After seven months apart, Ma Xiaotao reunited with Jiang Hai and learned that his divine fire had grown through his soul-tool studies. They met Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong by Sea God Lake, where Jiang Hai gave Huo Yuhao a soul tool to help with his upcoming soul-ring hunt.

• Ma Xiaotao explained that Zhang Lexuan had reached the bottleneck before Titled Douluo and promised to train Jiang Hai after he returned from home.
• Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Hai followed the smell of grilled fish to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, whose minds cleared in the presence of their divine fires and whose soul power rose to rank twenty-nine.
• Huo Yuhao told Jiang Hai that a Soul Tool Department teacher would accompany him to obtain his second soul ring during the holidays.
• Jiang Hai gave Huo Yuhao the Furnace Heart pendant, which contained a wisp of ultimate fire and would help him during his soul-ring hunt.
• Jiang Hai asked Huo Yuhao to grill more fish for them, suggesting they use fresh fish from Sea God Lake.

As Shrek Academy began its holiday, Jiang Hai prepared to travel south to the Star Luo Empire while another young figure left Shrek City heading north. Meanwhile, influential figures gathered in the Soul Tool Area to establish a restricted research site that would change the Douluo Continent.

• Zhu Tianming and Mu Jin warned Class Three about the soul-power requirements and trials for advancement, and ordered Jiang Hai and Chen Yong to compete in the other classes’ assessments.
• Chen Yong left for home, and Jiang Hai gave Sun Yunhai the White Dragon Sword before Sun Yunhai set out to seek Hua Cangsheng in the Star Luo Empire.
• Jiang Hai told Ning Qingdeng he was going home, then used a secret treasure to disguise himself and left Shrek City through the South Gate with a Dark Red Coffin on his back.
• The next day, an unnamed young figure left Shrek City through the North Gate as Shrek Academy’s holiday began.
• Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, Ning Qingdeng, and Fan Yu gathered in a restricted area of the Soul Tool Area to begin work on a site destined to change the Douluo Continent.

Jiang Hai visited the grave of the old man who raised him, then continued his journey of vengeance to South Dou City, where he targeted its corrupt lord, Nangong Ao. He lured Nangong Ao’s men with a genuine soul bone and waited outside the city for them to make their move.

• Jiang Hai told the old man at his grave about his year at Shrek Academy and said he was going after his final target, Nangong Ao.
• Jiang Hai recalled how Nangong Ao had stolen a soul bone from an old cripple and killed his companions, making Nangong Ao the last name on his list.
• Jiang Hai posed as a boy selling a family soul bone at the Ruyi Shop, and Zhao Si confirmed it was genuine before promising to obtain a Soul Ascension Pill.
• Jiang Hai defeated a Soul Grandmaster at the South Dou Great Soul Arena while Zhao Si watched, then left the city and settled in a ruined Spirit Hall building.
• Zhao Si reported the soul bone to Nangong Ao, who ordered him to wait for the chance to seize it and promised him a reward.

Jiang Hai lured Nangong Ao, the Black-Sash Bandit, into a fight over the Soul Bone and used his coffins, flames, and Soul Tools to battle the Six-Ring Soul Emperor. Nangong Ao unleashed his sixth Soul Skill, trapping Jiang Hai inside a tornado as the ruined temple collapsed around them.

• Nangong Ao disguised himself as the Black-Sash Bandit and demanded Jiang Hai's Soul Bone, but Jiang Hai revealed he knew his identity and had lured him there.
• Jiang Hai surprised Nangong Ao with the Red Dragon Sword, then blocked his Bone-Piercing Needles with the dark-red coffin.
• Jiang Hai used the Blazing Golden Coffin to injure and suppress Nangong Ao, forcing him to counterattack with a Soul Bone Skill, poison mist, and Flying Fan Nine Shadows.
• Nangong Ao activated Wind God Possession and fought at high speed, while Jiang Hai used the Golden Coffin, cyan sword, and Glazed Heart Mirror to hold him off.
• Nangong Ao unleashed Storm Annihilation, collapsing the ruined temple and sweeping Jiang Hai into a tornado, so Jiang Hai crawled inside the Bronze Coffin for shelter.

Jiang Hai lured Nangong Ao into the Star Dou Great Forest and used a young Azure Wind Spirit Bird to provoke its ten-thousand-year parent into attacking him. Nangong Ao gained the upper hand in their battle, while Jiang Hai remained hidden in the Bronze Coffin and watched his poison begin to take effect.

• Nangong Ao pursued Jiang Hai into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Jiang Hai repeatedly avoided soul beasts and led him deeper into the forest.
• Jiang Hai caught a two-thousand-year Azure Wind Spirit Bird and threw it at Nangong Ao, who killed it with his fan blade.
• Jiang Hai hid inside the buried Bronze Coffin as the dead bird's ten-thousand-year parent arrived and attacked Nangong Ao.
• Nangong Ao fought the enraged Azure Wind Spirit Bird with Wind God Possession and his fan, wounding it with poisoned strikes.
• Jiang Hai watched from concealment as the Azure Wind Spirit Bird weakened under Nangong Ao's poison.

Jiang Hai killed Nangong Ao after stealing the Azure Wind Spirit Bird’s soul ring, then hid in the bird’s nest and began fusing with the ten-thousand-year ring. He broke through to level 31, though the fusion was still underway.

• Jiang Hai poisoned the Azure Wind Spirit Bird, then pierced its heart with the Purple Dragon Sword as Nangong Ao weakened it with World-Destroying Storm.
• Jiang Hai stored the bird’s corpse and soul ring in the Bronze Coffin, blocked Nangong Ao’s Dragon Bone Needles with a defensive soul tool, and battered him to death with the coffin.
• Jiang Hai stored Nangong Ao’s corpse, retrieved the Purple Dragon Sword, and used Glazed Heart Mirror to find the Azure Wind Spirit Bird’s nest as a place to recover.
• Jiang Hai treated his injured arms in the nest, moved the other corpses out of the Crystal Coffin, and placed River-Clearing Breeze’s soul bone on the Azure Wind Spirit Bird’s body.
• Jiang Hai began fusing with the bird’s ten-thousand-year soul ring through the three coffins, and his soul power rose from level 30 to level 31.

Jiang Hai successfully fused with the Azure Wind Spirit Bird’s ten-thousand-year soul ring, gained the Azure Jade Coffin and the Azure Light Flight skill, and raised his soul power to level 33. The chapter then showed Huo Yuhao succeeding in obtaining the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s four-hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone, and ended with him asking about his new skills and the Ice Empress’s consciousness.

• Jiang Hai absorbed the Azure Wind Spirit Bird’s lingering consciousness with his Bronze Coffin and completed the fusion with its ten-thousand-year soul ring.
• The Azure Wind Spirit Bird’s corpse and soul bone formed the Azure Jade Coffin, strengthening Jiang Hai’s martial soul and raising his soul power to level 33.
• Jiang Hai tested Azure Light Flight, discovering that it let him fly, move swiftly, and become intangible for three seconds.
• Huo Yuhao obtained the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s four-hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s help.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that the Ice Empress’s ring and soul bone would give Huo Yuhao four skills, and Huo Yuhao asked what they did and whether the Ice Empress had preserved her consciousness.

Jiang Hai returned to Shrek Academy and told Zhou Yi, Fan Yu, and the others that Huo Yuhao might have gone alone to the Far North to obtain a soul ring for his hidden second martial soul. He then reunited with Mu Jin and Ma Xiaotao, who discovered that Jiang Hai had already absorbed a third soul ring—and that it was black.

• Wang Dong, Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Xiao Xiao questioned Jiang Hai about Huo Yuhao's disappearance, but he said he did not know where Huo Yuhao had gone.
• Jiang Hai told Zhou Yi and Fan Yu that Huo Yuhao had a second martial soul and might have traveled alone to the Far North after receiving a cold-resistant treasure from him.
• Jiang Hai left Zhou Yi's office and returned to Mu Jin, who gave him clothes and reminded him to prepare for the next day's assessment.
• Jiang Hai bathed in Sea God Lake, where Ma Xiaotao confronted him about absorbing his third soul ring.
• Jiang Hai revealed a pitch-black soul ring to Ma Xiaotao, leaving her speechless.

After Jiang Hai returned with a ten-thousand-year third soul ring, he explained his soul bone and new ability to Ma Xiaotao, who took him to the Inner Court to test his strength. The chapter left them preparing to spar in a protected fighting zone.

• Ma Xiaotao questioned how Jiang Hai had reached level 30 and obtained a ten-thousand-year soul ring, and Jiang Hai claimed the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect gave him a soul bone and that he killed an injured Azure Wind Spirit Bird with a soul tool.
• Ma Xiaotao worried Jiang Hai had promised to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, but he assured her there was no agreement and revealed that his third skill, Azure Light Flight, could make him intangible and immune to physical attacks.
• Ma Xiaotao invited Jiang Hai to test his new strength in the Inner Court, and he followed her across Sea God Lake by using his Glazed Heart Mirror and the waves.
• Ma Xiaotao brought Jiang Hai to an Inner Court training facility, where they met instructor Zhu Tianfang, Zhu Tianming's twin brother.
• Zhu Tianfang learned Jiang Hai was a first-year student and questioned Ma Xiaotao for bringing him to spar, but Ma Xiaotao requested the protective barrier and stepped onto the fighting platform.

Jiang Hai faced Ma Xiaotao in a spar, first relying on his perception to evade her attacks before revealing his Copper Coffin Martial Soul and unusual Ten-Thousand-Year soul ring. After their flames clashed, he used Azure Light Flight to launch a high-speed coffin strike as Ma Xiaotao raised her firepower.

• Zhu Tianfang activated the Soul Fighting Platform's protective barrier as Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Hai began their match.
• Jiang Hai used his sharp perception to dodge Ma Xiaotao's stronger close-range attacks, though he remained at a disadvantage.
• Jiang Hai summoned his Bronze Coffin and revealed three soul rings, including a Ten-Thousand-Year ring, shocking Zhu Tianfang.
• Jiang Hai used Diamond Body and divine fire to charge Ma Xiaotao with the six-thousand-jin coffin, but she caught it and her ultimate fire pushed him back.
• Jiang Hai escaped Ma Xiaotao's flames with Azure Light Flight, then charged her at full speed with the coffin as she unleashed more phoenix fire.

After seeing Jiang Hai’s strength, Ma Xiaotao asked Yan Shaozhe to grant him Inner Court privileges, but Yan Shaozhe learned that Jiang Hai had a ten-thousand-year soul ring and rushed to claim him as a disciple. The chapter ended with Yan Shaozhe asking Jiang Hai to take him as his master.

• Ma Xiaotao tested Jiang Hai’s defenses with Blazing Phoenix, then praised his strength and offered to arrange sparring with Inner Court disciples.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Yan Shaozhe to give Jiang Hai an Access Decree, but Yan Shaozhe objected to bending academy rules for him.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that Jiang Hai had absorbed a ten-thousand-year soul ring, prompting Yan Shaozhe to question how he had survived it.
• Ma Xiaotao explained Jiang Hai’s unusual method of absorbing soul rings, and Yan Shaozhe hurried with her to meet him before another elder could claim him.
• Yan Shaozhe inspected Jiang Hai’s three soul rings and asked him to take Yan Shaozhe as his master.