Chapter Summaries

Qian Chaoguang killed a Wind Baboon and encountered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, which tried to become his Spirit Ring. When Electrolux’s remnant soul entered his body, Qian Chaoguang revealed he had no Sea of Spirit and began guiding the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm through opening his Sea of Consciousness.

• Qian Chaoguang killed the Wind Baboon with his long blade and saw its faint ten-year Spirit Ring form.
• Qian Chaoguang sensed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm nearby, then drew his blade when it emerged from the ground.
• Qian Chaoguang flattered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as it explained its plan and began merging with him as an Intelligent Soul Ring.
• Qian Chaoguang pushed his Extreme Ice Light Martial Soul to its limit, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm discovered he had no Sea of Spirit.
• Electrolux’s gray remnant soul entered Qian Chaoguang and resisted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s mental assault.
• Qian Chaoguang told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help open his Sea of Consciousness and circulated the Golden Body Art, Qi Refining Art, and Spirit Connection Art.

Qian Chaoguang opened his Sea of Consciousness by detonating his compressed Mental Power, transforming it into Divine Sense, then endured the destruction and reshaping of his meridians as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fused its origin with him. The Qi Refining Art’s Qi Sea formed as a Golden Base, and Qian Chaoguang’s cultivation rose to level thirteen.

• Qian Chaoguang ordered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to intensify their Spiritual Origin fusion and helped his Pseudo Divine Sense break into his Niwan Palace.
• Qian Chaoguang detonated his compressed Mental Power, opening his Sea of Consciousness and transforming his Pseudo Divine Sense into true Divine Sense.
• Qian Chaoguang used his Soul Power to shatter his meridians, then began reshaping them with a vortex in his dantian while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm supplied its remaining origin.
• Qian Chaoguang drew Heaven and Earth Origin Power into the vortex and formed a Golden Base, opening his Qi Sea and reaching level thirteen.

Qian Chaoguang survived fusing with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, gaining a powerful Spirit Ring and a reshaped body, but he was left exhausted in the Star Dou Great Forest. Tang Ya and Bei Bei found him, and he woke after they guessed at what had happened.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm completed its fusion with Qian Chaoguang and vanished from the forest, while a black halo merged into him.
• Qian Chaoguang joked with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his Sea of Consciousness and realized his personality might have become more cheerful.
• Too weak to stand, Qian Chaoguang gripped Huo Yutong's White Tiger Dagger and pretended to be unconscious when Xiao Ya and Bei Bei approached.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei examined Qian Chaoguang and the Wind Baboon's corpse, then invented an explanation for his injuries and saber skills.
• Qian Chaoguang woke and weakly greeted Tang Ya and Bei Bei.

Qian Chaoguang revealed his unusual Extreme Ice Light Martial Soul and learned that Tang Ya and Bei Bei belonged to the Tang Sect. He pretended that an ancestral feud with the sect barred him from joining, leaving Tang Ya's recruitment attempt stalled.

• Qian Chaoguang showed Tang Ya and Bei Bei his luminous white Spirit Ring and the icy changes to his Extreme Ice Light Martial Soul.
• Qian Chaoguang said he hoped to study at Shrek Academy but claimed his level was too low for admission.
• Bei Bei asked about Qian Chaoguang's family, and Qian Chaoguang said his younger sister had gone to Shrek City and would likely be accepted.
• Tang Ya invited Qian Chaoguang to join the Tang Sect and offered its Shrek admission quota.
• Qian Chaoguang recognized the Tang Sect and claimed his ancestor had forbidden the family from joining after a forging dispute with Titan.

Qian Chaoguang used a fabricated family history to convince Tang Ya and Bei Bei to recruit Huo Yutong into the Tang Sect and help him get an exam qualification for Shrek Academy. The three set off deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest to find a soul beast for Tang Ya.

• Qian Chaoguang told Tang Ya and Bei Bei a largely invented story about his family’s old rivalry with the Tang Sect’s Strength Hall.
• Qian Chaoguang explained that Huo Yutong was not his biological sister and proposed that she join the Tang Sect; Tang Ya eagerly agreed.
• Bei Bei promised to persuade Shrek Academy to give Qian Chaoguang an exam qualification, and Qian Chaoguang gratefully accepted.
• After discussing Shrek’s admissions and possible exam challenges, Qian Chaoguang, Tang Ya, and Bei Bei headed deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a soul beast for Tang Ya.

Qian Chaoguang used his Light Impact skill to help Bei Bei defeat a Thousand-Year Mandala Snake, allowing Tang Ya to absorb its Spirit Ring. He then misled Bei Bei about his Light Mimicry skill, leaving Bei Bei baffled by Qian Chaoguang’s unusual abilities.

• Tang Ya killed an attacking Wind Baboon, and Bei Bei fought a Thousand-Year Mandala Snake while Tang Ya stayed near Qian Chaoguang.
• Qian Chaoguang struck the snake’s vital point with Light Impact, then hit it three more times and weakened it with Extreme Ice Light.
• Bei Bei seized the opening to knock the snake unconscious, and Tang Ya killed it and began absorbing its Spirit Ring.
• Qian Chaoguang discussed Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul with Bei Bei while privately criticizing Tang San for concealing the Blue Silver Emperor’s true nature.
• Qian Chaoguang demonstrated Light Mimicry and claimed it could shape his Martial Soul’s light into attacks, leaving Bei Bei astonished and uncertain.

Tang Ya absorbed her Thousand Year Soul Ring, and Qian Chaoguang continued cultivating while traveling with her and Bei Bei through the Star Dou Great Forest. The chapter left Qian Chaoguang realizing that his deep Soul Power reserves, Mental Power, and physical constitution would make his next breakthrough difficult.

• Qian Chaoguang and Bei Bei studied Light Mimicry and concluded that Qian Chaoguang could use it for effects like Light Impact, though it was less practical than attaching Extreme Ice Light to his blade.
• Tang Ya successfully absorbed her Soul Ring, embraced Bei Bei, and thanked him for helping her pursue her dream.
• Bei Bei led Tang Ya and Qian Chaoguang away from the forest, and they spent the night at their original meeting place while Tang Ya slept, Bei Bei kept watch, and Qian Chaoguang cultivated.
• Qian Chaoguang cultivated the Qi Refining Art and Golden Body Art, building Soul Power and Bloodline Power while his Visualization Diagram steadily strengthened his Mental Power.
• Qian Chaoguang used Divine Sense to draw in Purple Qi during the Purple Demon Eye practice and wondered whether a Flying Soul Tool could let him cultivate it continuously while traveling with Xiao Tong.
• After Bei Bei rested and woke, Qian Chaoguang resumed cultivating and recognized that his abundant Soul Power, Mental Power, and physical constitution would all limit his next breakthrough.

Qian Chaoguang traveled toward Shrek Academy with Bei Bei and Tang Ya, while they concluded that his extraordinary physique and obscure Tang Sect connections came from a powerful family background. Along the way, he impressed them with his stamina and questioned Tang Ya’s hostility toward Soul Tools, suspecting the Tang Sect had contributed to technological stagnation.

• Bei Bei and Tang Ya discussed Qian Chaoguang’s strength and family history, deciding he was human and likely connected to a powerful Secluded Family.
• Qian Chaoguang was relieved that Bei Bei had accepted the explanation and traveled west with Bei Bei and Tang Ya toward Shrek Academy.
• Qian Chaoguang kept pace with the others by running on physical strength alone, remaining fresh even after Tang Ya exhausted her soul power.
• Bei Bei explained Shrek Academy’s situation during the journey, and Qian Chaoguang said he wanted to become a Soul Engineer.
• Tang Ya criticized Soul Tools and praised the Tang Sect’s Hidden Weapons, while Qian Chaoguang privately judged her views outdated and suspected the Tang Sect had obstructed technological progress.

Qian Chaoguang arrived at Shrek Academy with Bei Bei and Tang Ya, reunited with Huo Yutong, and received permission to take the entrance assessment. When a teacher barred his forged blade, Vice Dean Qian arrived and challenged the weapon restriction.

• Bei Bei and Tang Ya brought Qian Chaoguang into Shrek Academy and explained its actual-combat entrance assessments.
• Huo Yutong greeted Qian Chaoguang at the Assessment Zone, where he introduced her to Bei Bei and Tang Ya.
• Bei Bei exchanged the Tang Sect's exemption admission slot for Qian Chaoguang's chance to take the test and submitted his City Lord Recommendation Letter.
• At the Beast Fighting Zone, an assessment teacher told Qian Chaoguang that weapons were forbidden, even though his blade was not a Soul Tool.
• Vice Dean Qian arrived, criticized the weapon restriction, and prompted the assessment teacher to ask why he had come.

Qian Chaoguang impressed Dean Qian Duoduo with his unusual Cold Iron blade and secured permission to use it in the New Student Assessment. As Qian Chaoguang prepared to fight a ten-year Soul Beast, Qian Duoduo also sought to recruit Huo Yutong for the Soul Tool Department.

• Qian Duoduo discovered that Qian Chaoguang's blade resisted his touch and learned that Qian Chaoguang had forged it from Cold Iron using his family's inherited method.
• Qian Chaoguang claimed that he and his sworn younger sister, Huo Yutong, had survived by forging, and revealed that she had Level 27 cultivation and Innate Level 9 Soul Power.
• Qian Duoduo approved Qian Chaoguang's request to bring the blade into the assessment and asked him to bring Huo Yutong to the Soul Tool Department if he passed.
• Qian Chaoguang entered the Beast Fighting Zone, took his stance, and faced an azure-lit ten-year Soul Beast as it charged from the tunnel.
• Qian Chaoguang summoned his white Spirit Ring and channeled his Extreme Ice Light Martial Soul into the blade, turning its edge ice-blue.

Qian Chaoguang passed Shrek Academy’s combat assessment with overwhelming strength and secured a place in the Soul Tool Department for himself and his younger sister. After celebrating with Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Huo Yutong, he reached his dormitory and discovered an awkwardly timed warning from Mu En.

• Qian Chaoguang killed a ten-year Wind Jackal with one slash, then broke a King Kong Gorilla’s arm with a punch, convincing Qian Duoduo and Bei Bei of his strength.
• Qian Duoduo declared Qian Chaoguang’s assessment passed, gave him badges, and told him to bring his younger sister to the Soul Tool Department before the Freshman Test.
• Qian Duoduo ordered Bei Bei and Teacher Liu to keep Qian Chaoguang’s test results secret from Shao Zhe and Du Weilun.
• Bei Bei and Qian Chaoguang met Tang Ya and Huo Yutong, who had become Tang Ya’s disciple and received Tang Sect techniques and an imitation of Twenty-Four Bridges on a Moonlit Night.
• The four celebrated Qian Chaoguang’s enrollment with Huo Yutong’s barbecue before Tang Ya and Bei Bei left to prepare for the Upgrade Test.
• At the dormitory, Mu En told Qian Chaoguang that his room was the third on the first floor and warned the youngsters not to do anything irrational.

Qian Chaoguang settled into Shrek Academy with Huo Yutong and learned that Zhou Yi would be their homeroom teacher, prompting him to challenge the academy’s approach to her expulsions. Mu En recognized Qian Chaoguang’s intentions and hinted that an opportunity to reform Shrek would come soon.

• Qian Chaoguang cleaned his dormitory, registered as a soul master, and collected a one Gold Soul Coin subsidy alongside Huo Yutong.
• Qian Chaoguang hoped to avoid Tang Wutong and Zhou Yi, but the class assignments placed him in Class One under Zhou Yi.
• Qian Chaoguang told Huo Yutong that Zhou Yi had expelled most of her previous students and criticized Shrek for judging her by inner-courtyard advancement rates.
• Mu En agreed that Qian Chaoguang’s criticism made sense, then hinted that the academy was waiting for an opportunity to address its problems.
• Qian Chaoguang and Mu En exchanged cryptic remarks about cleaning out accumulated trash, and Qian Chaoguang left confident he could challenge Zhou Yi.

Qian Chaoguang trained and discussed his future plans with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm while worrying that his Martial Soul might be changing his personality. The next morning, he encountered Wang Dong'er in the dormitory and ignored her, leaving her angry and stunned.

• Qian Chaoguang asked Huo Yutong to punch him so he could make his encounter with Mu En look like a fight, then continued their daily exercise routine.
• Qian Chaoguang cultivated alone, strengthening his Soul Power, Mental Power, and body until Sky Dream Ice Silkworm woke and remarked on his unusual cultivation method.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered Qian Chaoguang Source Power and proposed a trip to the Far North, which Qian Chaoguang planned for eleven months later while postponing the fusion.
• Qian Chaoguang wondered whether fusing with Soul Rings could affect his personality and worried about how to use his Second Martial Soul.
• A distracted man remembered that he had forgotten to ask Qian Chaoguang about his Martial Soul and decided to search the Inner Court Library.
• Qian Chaoguang returned from exercise to find Wang Dong'er in the dormitory, ignored her, and began changing, prompting her to angrily demand his attention.

Wang Dong challenged Qian Chaoguang, and their fight ended in a humiliating public scene that embarrassed them both. Back in their dorm room, Wang Dong tried to talk to Qian Chaoguang, who demanded that she get to the point.

• Wang Dong grabbed Qian Chaoguang and challenged him to a duel, but he threw her into the corridor wall without using his Martial Soul.
• Wang Dong charged Qian Chaoguang with her Clear Sky Hammer, sending them both out of the dormitory window, where he caught her hands and restrained her.
• Mu En spotted them sprawled together in their underwear before a crowd of onlookers, and Wang Dong fled inside in embarrassment.
• After bathing, Qian Chaoguang returned to find Wang Dong upset; she stopped him from leaving and asked to talk.
• Qian Chaoguang told Wang Dong to get straight to the point, and she insisted she had something important to say.

Qian Chaoguang and Wang Dong clashed over dorm rules, and he forced her to clean after she broke a broom and paid the fine. Their hostility continued as Qian Chaoguang cultivated and Wang Dong wondered about his strength and her humiliating defeat.

• Qian Chaoguang refused Wang Dong's request not to change clothes in front of her and told her to sweep the dorm in turns.
• Wang Dong broke a broom in anger, and Qian Chaoguang threw her out the window when she tried to punch him.
• Wang Dong returned with a Clear Sky Hammer but stopped short of striking Qian Chaoguang, then replaced the broom, paid the fine, and cleaned the floor.
• Qian Chaoguang changed clothes and took an icy-mist shower in the room, while Wang Dong hid under her blanket and fumed.
• After a day or so of avoiding each other, Wang Dong watched Qian Chaoguang cultivate and wondered whether he was already a Soul Elder.

On Shrek Academy’s first day of school, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong met their homeroom teacher, Zhou Yi, who punished the class for fighting before asking the siblings and Wang Dong about their quarrel. The three remained in the classroom while their classmates ran laps, and Zhou Yi lectured them about fighting.

• Qian Chaoguang brought Huo Yutong to their classroom, where they saw Wang Dong acting aloof.
• Zhou Yi introduced herself as the homeroom teacher and ordered everyone who had not fought since registration to run one hundred laps.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong stood up, and Wang Dong joined them when she saw Qian Chaoguang rise.
• Zhou Yi sent Huo Yutong to run with the class after Qian Chaoguang explained that they sparred as siblings.
• Qian Chaoguang told Zhou Yi that he and Wang Dong had fought because Wang Dong stopped him from taking a shower.
• Qian Chaoguang cultivated while Zhou Yi lectured him and Wang Dong about fighting.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong completed Zhou Yi’s hundred-lap punishment with ease, while Qian Chaoguang urged several struggling classmates to finish their laps. Zhou Yi expelled Tai Long for failing to complete the run, leaving the class shocked.

• Qian Chaoguang sprinted ahead during the run, and Wang Dong activated her Martial Soul to keep up before Huo Yutong explained that the siblings had trained every morning since they were three.
• Wang Dong finished the hundred laps first, followed by Huo Yutong and Qian Chaoguang, who calmly walked to cool down.
• Qian Chaoguang warned nine classmates that Zhou Yi would expel anyone who failed to finish, prompting eight of them to resume running.
• All the students except Tai Long completed the hundred laps before time ran out.
• Zhou Yi expelled Tai Long, who left in defiance while his classmates reacted with shock.

Zhou Yi imposed harsh rules on New Student Class One, but Qian Chaoguang's intervention turned the students' fear of her into hidden resentment. After the students returned to class, Zhou Yi revealed that Qian Chaoguang had only level thirteen Soul Power and used his performance to spur the class onward, beginning his studies at Shrek.

• Zhou Yi credited Qian Chaoguang with saving Cheng Cheng, Qiu Jianrao, Tang Dao, Shangguan Chentian, Lin Zeyu, Zhuge Yun, Tang Ling, and Yun Xiaopiao from expulsion, while Qian Chaoguang's words stirred dissatisfaction with her rules.
• Zhou Yi ordered the students to change and return within fifteen minutes or face expulsion, and Qian Chaoguang dragged Wang Dong away from the dormitory entrance as they argued.
• Wang Dong shouted for a duel outside the dorm, drawing classmates to watch before she drove them inside to get dressed and avoid being late.
• Zhou Yi began class with all ninety-nine freshmen present and asked Qian Chaoguang to state his Soul Power Level; he said it was level thirteen, astonishing the students who had seen him dominate the running test.
• Zhou Yi praised Qian Chaoguang as a specially invited student and used his performance to challenge the class before writing “Attack” and “Defense” on the blackboard.

Zhou Yi taught her class about Spirit Master combat roles, but Qian Chaoguang argued that modern soul tools had blurred the line between attack and defense and that Spirit Masters should use tools suited to them. Zhou Yi accepted his reasoning and assigned the class three months of physical training, with expulsion for anyone who failed her assessment.

• Zhou Yi rebuked the class for resenting her punishments and began a lesson on Spirit Master attack and defense.
• When Zhou Yi asked which Spirit Master systems were best suited to attack or defense, Qian Chaoguang argued that a Spirit Master's abilities depended on personal inclination and soul tools, not simply their Martial Soul.
• Qian Chaoguang explained that Spirit Masters should develop their own power while using suitable soul tools to assist them, and Zhou Yi acknowledged that his reasoning matched her own views.
• Zhou Yi told the class to focus on physical fitness for three months and threatened to expel anyone who failed her assessment.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong revealed their Martial Souls and Soul Skills to Zhou Yi, who tried to bring them to the Soul Tool Department. Qian Chaoguang showed her their Soul Tool Department badges, and Zhou Yi let them return to class.

• Qian Chaoguang advised the class not to resist using Soul Tools before leaving with Huo Yutong and Zhou Yi.
• Huo Yutong told Zhou Yi that her Martial Soul was Spirit Eye, while Qian Chaoguang showed his Extreme Ice Light and demonstrated his Light Mimicry Soul Skill.
• Huo Yutong described her Madness and Lock On Soul Skills, exciting Zhou Yi with their potential for Soul Tool combat.
• Zhou Yi offered to take Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong to the Soul Tool Department, but Qian Chaoguang showed her the badges Qian Duoduo had given them.
• Zhou Yi accepted that the siblings had already been noticed by a Soul Tool Department teacher and dismissed them to return to class.