Chapter Summaries

Tang San tried to join the Clear Sky Sect, but Tang Chao bound him with the sect’s Caged Bird curse and made him Wang Dong’s servant. Wang Dong renamed him Tang Que, and the chapter left Tang San humiliated and forced to follow her.

• Tang San claimed his father was Tang Hao, and Tang Chao awakened his twin Martial Souls, confirming he belonged to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Chao made Tang San Wang Dong’s household slave and trapped his Sea of Consciousness with the Caged Bird curse.
• Wang Dong learned how to control Tang San and asked why he was lame and named Tang San.
• Wang Dong ordered Tang San to change his name to Tang Que, and Tang Chao warned that the sect punished anyone who used the forebear’s name.
• Wang Dong and Tang Chao left with Tang San still kneeling.

Xu Cheng encountered Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao in the Star Dou Great Forest, where he controlled Tang Chao and asked Wang Dong about her inability to use soul tools. The chapter ended with Tang San silently furious that Wang Dong remained interested in soul tools and planned to visit the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ma Xiaotao waited for Xu Cheng in the forest, complained about the brand he had placed in her Sea of Consciousness, and reflected on how thoroughly he had defeated her.
• Xu Cheng and Tang Ya spotted Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Tang Chao from Crow's giant black crow, then went down to meet them.
• Xu Cheng restrained Tang Ya and greeted Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, while Wang Dong feared he might attack them in the isolated forest.
• Xu Cheng explained that he had frozen Tang Chao to keep him from interfering and asked Wang Dong whether she wanted him to examine her aversion to soul tools.
• Tang San glared at Wang Dong and privately resented her interest in soul tools and her plans to visit the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Cheng examined Wang Dong and claimed that a divine seal and altered memories tied to Tang San explained her inability to touch Soul Tools. Wang Dong believed him and agreed to accompany him into the Star Dou Great Forest while he sought a way to remove the seal.

• Wang Dong told Xu Cheng that touching Soul Tools made her feel sick, and she agreed to let him examine her.
• Xu Cheng was struck by a divine force while investigating Wang Dong and said he had found a seal on her.
• Xu Cheng attributed the seal and Wang Dong’s altered memories to Tang San, leaving Tang San shocked by his deductions.
• Wang Dong accepted Xu Cheng’s explanation and apologized for his injury.
• Xu Cheng offered to find a way to remove the seal, and Wang Dong agreed to go with him to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xu Cheng absorbed a seventy-thousand-year soul ring while Tang San secretly approached Tang Ya and claimed to be the Tang Sect’s founder. Tang Ya acknowledged his secrets but asserted that she was now the sect master.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao discussed Xu Cheng’s uncertain character as Xu Cheng questioned Wang Dong about Tang San.
• Xu Cheng killed a seventy-thousand-year Flame Velvet and absorbed its soul ring while Tang Chao watched in awe.
• Tang San used hidden weapons to attract Tang Ya’s attention, then followed her away from the others.
• Tang San introduced himself to Tang Ya as the Tang Sect’s founder and proved his identity by revealing Tang Sect secrets.
• Tang Ya bowed to Tang San for bringing the sect’s secret arts, then told him she was now the Tang Sect’s sect master.

Tang Ya confronted Tang San over his theft of the Tang Sect’s secret arts, with Tang Wen appearing to expose his past and strip him of his claim to be the sect’s ancestor. After the confrontation, Xu Cheng finished absorbing a seventy-thousand-year soul beast and revealed that he possessed three martial souls.

• Tang Ya accused Tang San of stealing another world’s cultivation techniques and weakening the Tang Sect’s arts, shocking Xu Cheng and alarming Tang San.
• Tang Wen emerged from Tang Ya’s body and reminded Tang San that he had sworn not to spread the Tang Sect’s secret arts beyond the sect.
• Tang Ya rejected Tang San’s claim to be the Tang Sect’s ancestor, declared herself the true Tang Sect Leader, and promised not to reveal what happened if he left the sect alone.
• Xu Cheng finished absorbing the soul beast with no apparent difficulty, and Wang Dong asked whether he had advanced to Soul Emperor.
• Xu Cheng told Tang Chao that he had three martial souls: Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, sun, and blood eyes.
• Wang Dong told Tang Chao that Xu Cheng was from the Sun Moon Empire and was also an Evil Soul Master.

Xu Cheng gathered his new Soul Rings and skills, then met the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the Star Dou Great Forest. He used his Liar Soul Skill to persuade the Auspicious Beast to exchange memories with him.

• Xu Cheng gained two Soul Rings, becoming a Soul Emperor in Blood Eyes and Sun, and learned the effects of his new Soul Skills.
• Wang Dong told Xu Cheng that she and Xiao Xiao had come to hide from Xuan Zi, and Xu Cheng promised to help remove Wang Dong's seal.
• Xu Cheng summoned Ma Xiaotao, who reassured Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that she had not been brainwashed by the Holy Spirit Cult.
• A Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared, and Xu Cheng recognized her as the Auspicious Beast despite Tang Chao's alarm.
• Xu Cheng claimed that he and the Auspicious Beast could exchange memories through their third eyes, and she eagerly agreed as his Liar Soul Skill activated.

Xu Cheng exchanged memories with the Auspicious Beast, evolving his Eye of Life into the Eye of Destiny and uncovering a hidden soul fragment linked to Tang San. After Xu Cheng warned Di Tian that a god had planted the fragment, Di Tian went to investigate, leaving Tang San afraid his plan to fuse souls would fail.

• Xu Cheng exchanged memories with the Auspicious Beast, and his Eye of Life evolved into the Eye of Destiny.
• Electrolux explained that the Auspicious Beast had reached a destiny bottleneck tied to emotional bonds, which could be overcome in different ways.
• Xu Cheng found a hidden soul fragment in the Auspicious Beast that he identified as the last piece needed to assemble Tang Wutong.
• Di Tian broke through Wu Yun's barrier and called the Auspicious Beast back after seeing that Xu Cheng had not harmed her.
• Xu Cheng told Di Tian that the soul fragment carried the auras of the Sea God and the Asura God, and Di Tian left to investigate.
• Tang San realized that Di Tian might uncover his scheme and feared that his daughter would no longer be able to fuse.

Xu Cheng revealed that Wang Dong could be erased if the soul fragment hidden in the Auspicious Beast reunited with her, and he arranged for the fragment to be destroyed. Tang San could only watch, then planned to seek help from Da Ming and Er Ming; in the Star Dou Great Forest, Lake Bottom confirmed that a God King had placed a soul fragment inside the Auspicious Beast.

• Xu Cheng explained that the Auspicious Beast held a fragment stripped from Wang Dong's soul and that its reunion with her would create a new personality and erase her.
• Xu Cheng said the soul beasts could find and destroy the fragment, ensuring Wang Dong would remain herself, and Wang Dong cried in his arms.
• Tang San objected to destroying the fragment, but Xiao Xiao challenged him, and he resolved to seek Da Ming and Er Ming's help.
• Di Tian failed to detect anything unusual in the Auspicious Beast, so Lake Bottom examined it with golden light.
• Lake Bottom confirmed that a God King had targeted the Soul Beast Clan, shocking the beast kings.

The Silver Dragon King destroyed the soul fragment intended to take the Auspicious Beast’s fortune and sent Di Tian to thank Xu Cheng. Xu Cheng proposed cooperating to develop Mechanical Soul Rings, and Di Tian gave him a protective scale and agreed to help.

• The Silver Dragon King recognized that a God King had tried to transfer the Auspicious Beast’s fortune to a girl, destroyed the soul fragment, and told Di Tian to fulfill his promise to Xu Cheng.
• Xu Cheng received a Memory-Erasing Card for saving Wang Dong’er and headed toward Sunset Forest, where Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya encountered Di Tian.
• Xu Cheng warned Di Tian that human hunting could wipe out soul beasts within ten thousand years and proposed Mechanical Soul Rings as a way to ease the conflict.
• Xu Cheng revealed the Ice Empress and Tian Meng, and the Ice Empress vouched for the potential of the Mechanical Soul Ring Project.
• Di Tian gave Xu Cheng a scale that could block one fatal attack and offered his help, and Xu Cheng agreed to their partnership.

Xu Cheng and the others reached the poisoned heart of the Sunset Forest, where he revealed his powerful abilities and found a deadly miasma. Tang Ya absorbed the poison from him and asked him to restore the Tang Sect before she died.

• Xu Cheng took Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to the Sunset Forest and suspected that a formation around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was draining the forest's vitality.
• As they traveled deeper, Xu Cheng cleared the pink miasma with a Level 7 Soul Tool and used his spiritual power to survey the area.
• Xu Cheng and the women entered a thriving inner region filled with seven-colored miasma poison and the remains of its victims.
• Tang Wen warned Tang Ya that the ancient poison was difficult to cure, and Tang Ya used the Mysterious Heaven Skill to draw it out of Xu Cheng and into herself.
• Tang Ya told Xu Cheng that his plans could benefit the continent and begged him to restore the Tang Sect before she died.

Xu Cheng rescued Tang Ya from the toxic miasma, then destroyed the poisonous flowers guarding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He reached the pool with Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao and confronted the immortal herbs, freezing the aromatic silk beauty as a threat.

• Xu Cheng agreed to revive the Tang Sect, then absorbed Tang Ya’s toxic miasma and calmed it with his flame.
• Xu Cheng identified the jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers as the source of Sunset Forest’s toxic miasma and attacked them with high-explosive shells, ultimate ice, and Ice Explosion.
• Xu Cheng destroyed the poisonous flowers, earning a system reward that awakened his martial soul into double pupils.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the immortal herbs wondered whether Xu Cheng had come to test them, but he froze the aromatic silk beauty and warned that he could make the surrounding plants explode.

Xu Cheng confronted the immortal herbs about the Sunset Forest’s drained spiritual energy and learned that Tang San had built the hidden garden for his descendants. After exposing Tang San to Ma Xiaotao, Xu Cheng arranged a cockscomb phoenix sunflower sacrifice for her and sought help finding the formation’s core.

• Ma Xiaotao condemned the valley’s hidden garden for drawing spiritual energy from the Sunset Forest and leaving heaps of dead bodies outside.
• Xu Cheng learned from Youyou and Jiaojiao that Tang San had created the formation, and Tang Ya told Ma Xiaotao that Tang San was not the noble hero Shrek Academy revered.
• Xu Cheng explained that Ma Xiaotao could use a cockscomb phoenix sunflower to resolve her evil fire, and one flower volunteered to sacrifice itself for her.
• Xu Cheng told Tang Ya to choose an immortal herb for her fifth Soul Ring, then called Electrolux to help locate the formation’s core.

Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to search Shrek City for potential recruits, while Ye Xishui reflected on Mu En’s return. At Shrek, Tang San became Xuan Zi’s disciple in hopes of rescuing someone from Di Tian, but Xuan Zi refused and left him to begin training in the Outer Court.

• Zhongli Wu told Nangong Wan to gather information on Shrek students with devouring, slaughtering, or evil abilities, and Ye Xishui contemplated Mu En’s impending death.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao returned to Shrek Academy to complete exchange-student arrangements, where Xuan Zi asked Xiao Xiao to become his disciple.
• Tang San volunteered to become Xuan Zi’s disciple, and Wang Dong confirmed his twin martial souls and innate full soul power.
• Tang San asked Xuan Zi to rescue someone held by Di Tian, but Xuan Zi refused because the mission was too dangerous and could provoke the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xuan Zi left Tang San instructions to join the Outer Court and begin cultivation, disrupting Tang San’s plans to contact Ah Yin.

Ning Tian prepared to join Shrek’s exchange delegation to the Sun Moon Empire while weighing her sect’s future and its bitter history with Tang San. In the Sunset Forest, Xu Cheng and Ma Xiaotao discovered that a hidden formation was draining the empire’s dragon vein, and Electrolux destroyed it.

• Ning Tian read the exchange-student list, learned she would travel with Zhang Lexuan and other Shrek students, and accepted the journey for her family’s sake.
• Ning Tian reflected on the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s decline and its resentment toward Ning Rongrong and Tang San for failing to repay the sect’s sacrifices.
• Xu Cheng awakened with strengthened double Blood Eyes, while Ma Xiaotao emerged from the barrier with her evil fire fully integrated into her power.
• Elder Yi identified the valley as a formation that absorbed spiritual energy and severed a golden dragon near the center of a country.
• Electrolux revealed and shattered the formation, allowing the Sunset Forest to come alive.

Xu Cheng approved the production of a hundred first-generation mecha and ordered work on a stronger second generation, while Huo Lei secured most of the new machines for the Fire Phoenix Corps. At the Sun Moon Imperial Academy, Ma Xiaotao reunited with the supposedly dead Chen Zifeng and heard why he had rejected Shrek and chosen to remain under Xu Cheng’s influence.

• Xu Cheng inspected Mingde Hall’s first-generation mecha, and Xiao Bai dismissed its basic artificial intelligence as inferior to her own capabilities.
• Xu Cheng ordered Mingde Hall to produce a hundred first-generation mecha, allocating seventy to the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps and thirty to Evil Lord, and to develop a second-generation model.
• Huo Lei thanked Xu Cheng for the allocation, expecting the seventy mecha to greatly strengthen her four-battalion corps.
• Xu Cheng recalled how Ma Xiaotao had resolved her evil fire and how Youyou planned to conceal the revitalized Sunset Forest while allowing worthy visitors to undergo trials.
• Ma Xiaotao encountered Chen Zifeng at the Sun Moon Imperial Academy and learned he had survived, received a mechanical arm from Xu Cheng, and advanced to Soul Emperor.
• Chen Zifeng told Ma Xiaotao he would not return to Shrek, citing the academy’s treatment of his family and former students, and said he trusted Xu Cheng’s efforts against evil soul masters more.

Xu Cheng learned that soul rings formed when a soul beast’s spiritual energy became gray qi and combined with soul power, while Elder Cheng explained that artificial spiritual energy and age control remained unsolved challenges. At Shrek, Wang Dong openly defied Zhou Yi, condemned her teaching, and walked out of class.

• Elder Cheng told Xu Cheng that accumulated spiritual energy transformed into gray qi at a soul beast’s death and combined with soul power to form a soul ring.
• Xu Cheng inferred that soul power acted as a catalyst, and Elder Cheng confirmed that artificial spiritual energy and control over its age were still needed to make artificial soul rings.
• Zhou Yi questioned Class One about Shrek Academy’s longevity, and Wang Dong answered insolently while classmates discussed her upcoming exchange to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhou Yi punished Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan with weighted laps, then insulted Wang Dong and grabbed at her.
• Wang Dong rebuked Zhou Yi for her lack of talent and teaching ability, slapped away her hand, and left the classroom.

Wang Dong humiliated Tang San and left Zhou Yi’s classroom, while Xu Cheng’s forces uncovered an illicit weapons deal outside Mingdu. The chapter ended with the patrol captain and his men surrounded and ordered taken away for interrogation.

• Tang San ordered Wang Dong to apologize to Zhou Yi, but Wang Dong demanded to know who he was.
• Wang Dong pinned Tang San beneath her foot, recalled saving him when he was crippled, and kicked him beside Zhou Yi.
• Wang Dong dismissed Zhou Yi’s Soul Emperor pressure, predicted she would be no match for her in five years, and left to cheers from students in the corridor.
• Outside Mingdu, a black-clad woman inspected a shipment of Mecha and Soul Tools from a City Defense Army captain, who said the Missile was unavailable.
• The woman revealed the Fire Phoenix Corps insignia, prompting Xu Cheng’s female soldiers to surround the smugglers.
• Xu Cheng ordered the captain and his men taken away and commanded his forces to uncover everyone behind the deal.

Xu Cheng exposed a black-market trafficking network reaching into Mingde Hall and Military Headquarters, then used the crackdown to reshape the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps and weaken Xu Jiran and Xu Tianran. The chapter ended with Shi Xing declaring the Military Intelligence Bureau’s authority to his subordinates.

• Xu Cheng told Xu Zhen that officials and students from Mingde Hall had trafficked Soul Tools and that evidence implicated senior figures in Military Headquarters.
• Xu Cheng said he would spare some suspects, suppress others, and execute those who had leaked advanced weapons technology to the original Three Kingdoms.
• The deputy commander of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps was executed, while some arrested officers were released and others were convicted and killed.
• Military Headquarters appointed an Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps battalion commander as acting deputy commander of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps, shifting the court’s balance of power.
• Xu Jiran learned that the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps had abandoned him, spat blood, and collapsed; Xu Tianran learned that two of his planted commanders had been arrested, with one killed resisting.
• Shi Xing announced to his subordinates that the Military Intelligence Bureau had special imperial authorization to act first and report later.

Mu En met with Shrek’s exchange students before their departure and urged Zhang Lexuan to secretly copy the Sun Moon Empire’s advanced soul tool blueprints. He also pressed Bei Bei to devote himself to Shrek and encouraged him to grow closer to Zhang Lexuan, but she agreed to end their arranged match and left burdened by the theft plan and thoughts of Ma Xiaotao.

• Mu En sent the students into separate rooms, then accepted Qian Duoduo’s plan to have Zhang Lexuan copy Sun Moon Empire missile and mecha blueprints with a concealed Soul Tool Replicator.
• Mu En told Bei Bei to shoulder responsibility for Shrek, oppose Tang Ya’s allegiance to the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult, and build a relationship with Zhang Lexuan.
• Mu En spoke privately with Zhang Lexuan, who agreed to cancel her arranged match with Bei Bei.
• Mu En gave Zhang Lexuan two soul tool rings and asked her to copy advanced Sun Moon Empire technology, leaving her troubled by the request.
• Zhang Lexuan thought about Ma Xiaotao and wondered whether she would recognize her when they met again.

Long Xiaoyao read Mu En’s request to protect Bei Bei, while Xu Cheng arranged Shrek and Sun Moon Academy’s exchange and advanced military research in the Sun Moon Empire. He sent Ju Zi to command a mecha battalion in the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps, leaving Keke and Zi Mu to watch her depart.

• Long Xiaoyao read Mu En’s letter asking him to care for Bei Bei and resolved to keep Bei Bei alive in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen met in Maple Leaf City with the Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Imperial Academy exchange students, while the two sides addressed the prospect of inspection missions.
• Xu Cheng asked Xuan Ziwen to develop the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool into a faster, heavier mobile gun platform and promised it funding and resources.
• Ju Zi told Keke and Zi Mu that Xu Cheng had arranged for her to command a mecha battalion in the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps.
• Ju Zi prepared to leave as Keke lamented that she could not join the corps and Zi Mu struggled with his feelings for her.
• Xu Cheng and Xuan Ziwen emerged from the Laboratory while Ju Zi was saying goodbye to Keke and Zi Mu.