Chapter Summaries

Arthas used his offer to treat Xu Tianran’s legs to secure access to Mingde Hall and protection at the academy, while Xu Tianran ordered Xu Mochen killed and sought to recruit Arthas. The chapter ended with Arthas explaining that he could help Xu Tianran walk but could not yet fully restore him.

• Arthas told Xu Tianran that treating his legs would require matching-bloodline replacement legs and blood, plus two leg Soul Bones, and Xu Tianran recognized Xu Mochen as a potential donor.
• Xu Tianran had Snow Dust Douluo kill Xu Mochen, covered up his death as suicide, and ordered Commander Tai to bring Wang Shaojie back for investigation.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran about Arthas’s history and lack of interest in women, and Xu Tianran asked her to stay at the academy and maintain contact with him.
• After Fan Yu confronted Jing Hongchen over Arthas’s injuries, Jing Hongchen ordered Wang Shaojie expelled and granted Arthas direct entry to Mingde Hall, unlimited study materials, and his protection.
• Arthas promised to reveal a solution to Meng Hongchen’s martial-soul flaw and told Keke and Ju Zi that Xu Tianran could walk normally but could not yet be fully cured.

Arthas’s blood-testing device helped Xu Tianran expose adultery in the imperial palace, weaken the emperor, and take charge of state affairs. As Arthas prepared to treat Xu Tianran, Jing Hongchen brought him to the Crown Prince’s Mansion and revealed his plans to bind Arthas to the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Tianran used Arthas’s blood-testing device to expose affairs in the palace, leading the emperor to imprison the Third Prince and fall ill.
• Xu Tianran took over state affairs and asked Ju Zi to convey his recruitment offer and promises to Arthas, who postponed his answer until the exchange ended.
• Arthas prepared for the risks of treating Xu Tianran, while Ju Zi informed him that the treatment arrangements were complete.
• Jing Hongchen personally escorted Arthas toward the palace, explaining that he also intended Arthas to treat the emperor and that he would hold Arthas responsible if the treatment failed.
• Arthas challenged Jing Hongchen’s attempt to pressure him through the politics of the three empires, then arrived with him at the Crown Prince’s Mansion.

Arthas performed a risky limb-replacement operation on Xu Tianran, using the Third Prince’s thighs and Soul Bones to restore the Crown Prince’s legs. Xu Tianran offered Arthas a princely title if he stayed with the Sun Moon Empire, but Arthas pointed out that he was still a student of Shrek Academy.

• Xu Tianran introduced Arthas to the Imperial Physicians, including Ye Xishui, and Arthas examined him and the Third Prince while secretly planting Necromancy spell formations in Xu Tianran’s body.
• Arthas anesthetized Xu Tianran and the Third Prince, then woke the Third Prince and told him he was about to amputate his limbs before removing both thighs.
• Arthas attached the Third Prince’s thighs to Xu Tianran, connected their bones, meridians, and blood vessels, and guided Xu Tianran through absorbing two compatible Soul Bones.
• Xu Tianran regained sensation in his new legs and hoped Arthas might eventually restore his other damaged functions; he resolved to keep Arthas in the Sun Moon Empire.
• After the Soul Bones were absorbed, Xu Tianran offered to treat Arthas as a brother and grant him the title of Prince, while Arthas reminded him that he was a student of Shrek Academy and continued removing the stitches.

Arthas restored Xu Tianran’s ability to walk, won the Sun Moon Empire’s favor, and treated the Emperor before receiving powerful privileges and resources. He secretly coordinated with Huo Yuhao to make the exchange students believe he was defecting, while Minghui delivered Arthas’s Soul Tool blueprints to the family, the Body Sect, and Shrek Academy.

• Arthas removed Xu Tianran’s stitches, helped him regain the use of his legs, and urged him to avoid injuring the healing connections.
• Xu Tianran and Ye Xishui discussed recruiting Arthas, while Arthas told Jing Hongchen that his mysterious teacher had trained him using battlefield corpses and that he wanted to challenge prejudice against Evil Soul Masters.
• Jing Hongchen brought Arthas to the Emperor, whom Arthas treated with the Light of Life; the Emperor ordered that Arthas be courted and retained in the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Sun Moon Empire granted Arthas royal provisions, research resources, a private residence, and access to the Imperial Palace, while Jing Hongchen separated his facilities from those of the Shrek exchange students.
• Arthas secretly told Huo Yuhao to involve Fan Yu and He Caitou in a plan to make the exchange students think he was defecting, while he pretended to focus only on Soul Tool research.
• Minghui retrieved Arthas’s Soul Tool blueprints and sent copies to the family and Body Sect, then arranged for Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department to obtain another copy.

Minghui reached Rank 61, gained a new ice-and-snow Soul Skill, and negotiated access to the Sea God Pavilion’s Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice bed. Months later, Shrek Academy entered an exchange assessment at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where Huo Yuhao won four matches and Arthas was called to the arena as Shrek’s final contestant.

• Minghui condensed his sixth Soul Ring from the Ice Empress and Snow Empress’s unsealed energy, gaining Pride of the Two Ice and Snow Emperors and reaching Rank 61.
• Minghui secured permission to cultivate with Ling Luochen on the Sea God Pavilion’s third floor, where the Mysterious Ice bed improved their cultivation speed.
• Jing Hongchen proposed an exchange competition, and Fan Yu agreed after arranging rare-metal rewards for each Shrek victory.
• At the assessment, Shrek students displayed provocative banners, and Huo Yuhao defeated four opponents before Fan Yu stopped him from continuing.
• He Caitou won two matches before losing, while the other Shrek students managed no more than one victory each.
• Xuan Ziwen announced Arthas as Shrek Academy’s final contestant, drawing the arena’s attention as spectators discussed his healing abilities.

Arthas unveiled his self-made full-body Soul Tool armor and dominated the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s assessment matches. After winning twenty consecutive bouts, he left Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen determined to recruit him for the Sun Moon Empire.

• Arthas revealed black armor with eight spider-lance appendages and defeated his first opponents with rapid, multi-attribute laser beams.
• Jing Hongchen identified Arthas’s reversed Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device and confirmed that its core had Level 7 power, while students accused Arthas of cheating and Jing rebuked them.
• Arthas fought Nana, absorbed and restrained part of her soul to counter her control skill, blocked her Blinking Sword, and defeated her.
• Arthas defeated successive Level 5 and Level 6 Soul Engineers using lasers, his armor, and his physical strength, earning twenty consecutive victories by the end of the morning.
• Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen resolved to keep Arthas in the Sun Moon Empire and recruit him for their own purposes.

Arthas extended his winning streak at the Soul Tool assessment while resisting Nana’s attempt to learn how he had taken control of her soul. The next morning, he continued competing and defeated two Level 6 Soul Engineers, leaving the arena ready for another match.

• Arthas won fifteen afternoon matches, bringing his undefeated streak to thirty-five and impressing Crown Prince Xu Tianran and the spectators.
• Keke wondered if Arthas was gay, while Ju Zi and Zimu reacted to her speculation.
• Nana visited Arthas and demanded to know how he controlled her body; Arthas promised to return her soul after the competition and told her to leave him alone until then.
• Arthas chose to continue competing the next morning and defeated Shen Musu with his battle armor, Eight Spider Lances, and physical strength.
• Arthas broke through Jing Ziyan’s Invincible Shield with a punch, forcing her to surrender, then declined Xuan Ziwen’s offer to rest.

Arthas swept the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s semester assessment, earning first place and drawing the emperor’s order that he be kept at the Academy. After restoring Nana’s soul, he agreed to help her rescue her parents’ souls from the Holy Spirit Cult and left the Academy with her to begin their plan.

• Arthas defeated Ji Juechen and then won every remaining assessment match, completing an undefeated sweep.
• Arthas received a top-grade Level 8 Soul Tool and the winning-streak rewards, while Jing Hongchen was ordered to keep him at the Academy.
• Arthas restored Nana’s soul, and she told him that the Holy Spirit Cult held her parents’ souls and used them to threaten her.
• Arthas agreed to help Nana, heard what she knew about the Holy Spirit Cult, and planned to act three days later.
• Arthas disguised himself as another Mingde Hall student, and he and Nana left the Academy together.

Arthas destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult branch, freed and purified the captives’ relatives’ souls, and sent Nana and eight Saint Disciples to join the Spirit Transmission Hall in Shrek City. The survivors reached Shrek City while Minghui prepared an office for them, and the authorities began searching for the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Arthas used Nana’s Soul Imprint to scout the branch, then entered with a Titled Undead that killed the guards and Saint Spirits.
• Arthas killed the Branch Elder, took the Soul Banner, and released and purified the souls imprisoned inside it.
• Nana and eight Saint Disciples found their relatives among the purified souls, then asked Arthas for help after the branch’s destruction.
• Arthas directed the nine survivors to join the Spirit Transmission Hall in Shrek City and helped them leave the Sun Moon Empire.
• Arthas burned the branch, sent Minghui a report and rare metals, and continued researching Soul Tools while Minghui passed Holy Spirit Cult information to Shrek Academy.
• Nana and the other survivors arrived in Shrek City, where Minghui arranged an office for the Spirit Transmission Hall.

Arthas ended the Shrek exchange by choosing to stay at Mingde Hall, claiming he needed its Soul Tool research to pursue his revenge. Shrek’s group departed, while Jing Hongchen celebrated securing Arthas and planned to bring him back to the academy.

• Arthas told Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan to limit their challenges to once a month and recommended that Ji Juechen seek out Minghui at Shrek Academy.
• After Huo Yuhao returned from reaching level 40 and gaining a Soul Ring, Arthas spent the remaining exchange period acting as though Mingde Hall’s efforts to recruit him were drawing him away from Shrek.
• At the exchange’s end, Arthas gave Fan Yu a storage ring containing rare metals and research, then announced that he would stay at Mingde Hall to pursue Level 9 Soul Engineer skills and avenge his enemy.
• Fan Yu accepted Arthas’s decision, and Jing Hongchen escorted the Shrek delegation toward the border as Arthas returned to Mingde Hall.
• Xu Tianran and the Sun Moon Empire Emperor welcomed the news and planned a New Year palace banquet for Arthas and Jing Hongchen’s family.
• Near the border, Yan Shaozhe accused Jing Hongchen of poaching Arthas, while Jing Hongchen denied coercion and celebrated the outcome; Xiao Hongchen then learned Arthas had defeated every sixth-year student at Mingde Hall in three days.

Jing Hongchen discussed Arthas’s value and the Sun Moon Empire’s plans to keep or assassinate him, while Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy and reunited with Wang Dong. At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Minghui negotiated payment for the students’ Soul Tools and secured new academy rules rewarding innovation.

• Jing Hongchen told the Exchange Students about Arthas’s strength, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discussed Shrek Academy’s shortcomings and the threat its younger generation might pose.
• Jing Hongchen considered the Empire’s plans to keep Arthas or assassinate him and Huo Yuhao if they left, while he worried about serving as a hostage during the Soul Master Tournament.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy, reunited with Wang Dong, and learned that she had arranged nearby rooms for their friends; Minghui proposed real combat to improve their Martial Soul Fusion Skill coordination.
• Minghui helped Huo Yuhao and the other Exchange Students sell their Soul Tools at a Sea God Pavilion meeting, then persuaded Mu En and Qian Duoduo to establish rewards for students who created or improved Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao repaid Minghui and offered to treat him to a meal, while Xuan Zi pointed out that Minghui had used Yan Shaozhe as a foil, leaving Yan Shaozhe furious.

Jing Hongchen brought Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to Arthas’s laboratory, where Arthas gave them a method for treating Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul defect and displayed some of his research. Xiao Hongchen challenged Arthas, but after Arthas overwhelmed his Soul Tools and countered his newly developed metal attacks, Jing Hongchen stopped the spar.

• Jing Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen about Arthas’s diligence, talent, and ability to treat Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul defect.
• Arthas gave Jing Hongchen a metal cube containing the treatment method and his recent research, then accepted Xiao Hongchen’s challenge.
• At Mingde Hall’s underground testing grounds, Xiao Hongchen deployed more than a hundred turrets, but Arthas’s tentacles damaged his Invincible Shield and forced him to teleport away.
• Xiao Hongchen created metal spikes with his Martial Soul, but Arthas deflected them with a shield and rushed toward him.
• Jing Hongchen ordered the spar to stop as Arthas closed in on Xiao Hongchen.

Arthas defeated Xiao Hongchen and offered him advice on developing his abilities, while the others discussed how Arthas and Minghui might compare. Jing Hongchen then found Arthas’s proposed solution to Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul defect and realized it relied on the Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device, which Arthas had developed.

• Arthas used a Teleportation Ring and an Interference Bomb to disable Xiao Hongchen’s metal transformation, then tore apart his Soul Armor and subdued him.
• Arthas urged Xiao Hongchen to accept defeat, use his metal-controlling Martial Soul to strengthen his body, and explore new forms for his metal abilities; Xiao thanked him and vowed to improve.
• Jing Ziyan, Ji Juechen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen discussed Arthas’s and Minghui’s strengths, while Xiao speculated that Arthas’s equipment had been designed to counter Minghui.
• Jing Hongchen searched the materials Arthas had given him and found guidance for the Vermillion Ice Toad, including ways to address Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul defect.
• Jing Hongchen read that the Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device could balance Ice and Fire Soul Power, then realized Arthas had created the reverse attribute-conversion method Mingde Hall lacked.

Jing Hongchen studied Arthas’s Soul Tool blueprints, then persuaded Mingde Hall and the emperor to support Arthas while keeping him under surveillance. Xu Tianran rewarded Arthas with a title, wealth, and a rare close-combat Soul Tool blueprint, which Arthas accepted as he continued his work at Mingde Hall.

• Jing Hongchen discovered that Arthas’s Two-Way Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device required Arthas’s secret technique to process a Silver Wolf spine, and that Xiao Meng would need to develop her own Soul Power circulation to find a lasting cure.
• Jing Hongchen examined the Soul Tool Tentacles and Battle Armor blueprints, then called a meeting where Mingde Hall’s Level 9 Soul Engineers agreed to give Arthas full access and involve him in their research.
• Jing Hongchen reported to the emperor, who approved spreading information about Arthas’s break with Shrek Academy while insisting that Arthas remain under surveillance.
• The emperor encouraged Jing Hongchen to ask whether Xiao Meng would let Arthas examine her, and ordered Xu Tianran to announce an imperial reward for Arthas.
• Xu Tianran granted Arthas the title of Count and other rewards, then gave him a rare close-combat Soul Tool blueprint as a personal gift.

Arthas accepted Xu Tianran’s invitation to a palace banquet and gained access to Mingde Hall’s Project Zero. He examined Meng Hongchen, diagnosed her poisoning, and proposed a treatment that she chose to undergo after the banquet.

• Xu Tianran invited Jing Hongchen, his grandchildren, and Arthas to a New Year family banquet, and Jing Hongchen announced that Arthas would join Project Zero after the holiday.
• Jing Hongchen brought Meng Hongchen and three Ten-Thousand-Year Silvermoon Wolf King Spine Bones to Arthas, who accepted the bones and advised Meng on studying her Martial Soul Mimicry and combining it with Soul Tools.
• Arthas examined Meng’s First Soul Skill and explained how its alternating ice-and-fire attributes produced poison and caused her poisoning symptoms.
• Arthas proposed either transferring Meng’s toxins into a Soul Bone or tempering her body with alternating ice-and-fire Soul Beast blood, and Meng chose the second method.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to gather the required Soul Beast blood after the palace banquet, since the family would attend it in a few days.

Arthas kept his soul-tempering method secret, studied a suspicious Soul Tool blueprint, and arrived late to the emperor’s banquet with Jing Hongchen. When a Clan Elder berated Jing Hongchen, Arthas claimed responsibility for the delay and was ordered seized.

• Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen promised to keep Arthas’s soul-tempering method secret, and he began processing the Silver Wolf spine bone after they left.
• Arthas examined Xu Tianran’s Level 9 Soul Tool blueprint and suspected the Holy Spirit Cult had provided it to test his research into souls.
• Jing Hongchen reminded Arthas about the Imperial Palace banquet, and Arthas gave him the cores of the Reverse Nine Revolutions Soul Transformation Device before they departed.
• At the banquet, Clan Elder Kaitai criticized Jing Hongchen for arriving late, while the emperor and Xu Tianran defended him.
• Arthas stepped forward and said he was responsible for the delay, prompting the Grand Elder of the Clan to order guards to seize him.

At the Emperor’s family banquet, Arthas turned the Ancestral Hall elders’ attempt to seize him into an accusation of rebellion and disloyalty. He withstood their Soul Power pressure and left them facing the charge that their violence had dishonored the Emperor and imperial family.

• Arthas accused the elders of exceeding their authority by ordering guards to arrest someone before the Emperor had spoken, and the guards knelt to deny any intent to rebel.
• Xu Kaitai and the Grand Elder accused Arthas of slander and suspected him of being a spy, while Arthas pointed out that he had healed the Crown Prince and helped restore Xu Tianran’s health.
• Arthas questioned Xu Kaitai about his age and former position, then called him useless after Jing Hongchen explained his limited contributions to the Empire.
• Xu Kaitai unleashed his Soul Douluo pressure on Arthas, but Arthas stood unmoved and taunted him and the other elders.
• The elders joined forces and prepared their Martial Souls, and Arthas accused them of using force at the Emperor’s family banquet and bringing shame upon the imperial family.

Arthas silenced and humiliated the imperial Ancestral Hall elders, then explained his lateness to the Emperor and presented medicinal gifts for him and Xu Tianran. The Emperor accepted the gifts and assigned Arthas a light punishment, leaving Arthas poised to profit from his new place in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Arthas denounced the Ancestral Hall elders for their lack of merit and abuse of power, then insulted the Grand Elder until he lost consciousness.
• An elder demanded justice, but the Emperor ordered the Grand Elder taken away and sentenced Arthas to lose one year's salary and spend a month confined to the Academy.
• The Emperor asked why Arthas had arrived late, and Arthas explained that he had been preparing a Soul Tool component and New Year gifts; Jing Hongchen accepted blame for not telling him the banquet time.
• Arthas presented two red pills for the Emperor and Xu Tianran, explaining that they nourished the blood and could improve circulation and bodily functions.
• The Emperor accepted the gifts and invited Arthas to choose liquor with him after the banquet so the pills could be steeped for use.

At the Emperor’s banquet, Arthas assessed the Sun Moon Empire’s weaknesses and used his medical expertise to secure the Emperor’s favor while concealing his motives. After the meal, Xu Tianran took over the gathering and approached Arthas with Xu Tianzhen and Ju Zi.

• The Emperor questioned Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen about Shrek Academy, and Xu Tianran decided Minghui was a threat that needed to be eliminated.
• Arthas told the Emperor that Shrek Academy’s deep foundation and focus gave it advantages, while the Sun Moon Empire’s reliance on cultivation aids weakened its Soul Masters.
• The Emperor praised Arthas’s medicine, asked about his teacher Electrolux and his ingredients, and promised compensation after Arthas said he had used the Crown Prince’s Blood Ginseng.
• Arthas declined to take disciples until his revenge was complete, and the Emperor toasted him before the banquet began.
• After the Emperor left, Arthas withdrew to a window with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, then Xu Tianran approached with Xu Tianzhen and Ju Zi.
• Xu Tianzhen challenged Arthas to a future match, and Ju Zi greeted him; Arthas replied calmly.

Xu Tianran brought Arthas to the royal Treasure Pavilion, where Arthas prepared medicinal wine and examined Kong Deming. Arthas linked Kong Deming’s stalled cultivation to damage from medicine taken in his youth and suggested an Immortal Herb might help, leaving the emperor and Kong Deming considering whether the reclusive Clear Sky Sect knew where such herbs could be found.

• Xu Tianran thanked Arthas for saving Ju Zi and promised him access to the royal treasury’s rare medicinal ingredients.
• After Xu Tianran left to receive guests, Xu Tianzhen questioned Arthas about his achievements, and Xiao Hongchen joined in asking him for advice.
• Xu Tianran led Arthas to meet Kong Deming, the guardian of the Treasure Pavilion, and took him inside to choose wine for medicinal use.
• Arthas prepared medicinal wine for the emperor and Xu Tianran, then examined Kong Deming and found signs of damage from medicine he had taken in his youth.
• Arthas said an Immortal Herb might restore Kong Deming’s potential and explained that Tang San had brought such herbs back, possibly leaving knowledge of them with the Clear Sky Sect.