Chapter Summaries

Qian Chaoguang surveyed the Undead Legion’s new organization before joining Electrolux as he recorded Huo Yutong absorbing a God-given Soul Ring. Huo Yutong advanced to Soul Emperor with a sixth Soul Ring more than seventy thousand years old, while Qian Chaoguang promised that he and Electrolux would work on a method to raise Soul Ring ages.

• Qian Chaoguang learned that Nana had organized the Demi-plane’s storage and assigned work, while a newly created Copper Skin Zombie explained the changes.
• Dragon One brought Qian Chaoguang to Huo Yutong, who was absorbing a God-given Soul Ring as Electrolux recorded the process and drew on Qian Chaoguang’s Mental Power.
• Huo Yutong endured the Soul Ring’s pain as its age increased to more than seventy thousand years, aided by the power of her four soul bones.
• Huo Yutong opened her eyes and advanced to Soul Emperor, unleashing a powerful surge of Mental Power that prompted the Undead Creatures to celebrate.
• Huo Yutong wished her sixth Soul Ring had reached eighty thousand years, and Qian Chaoguang teased her before promising that he and Electrolux would develop a Soul Ring age enhancement method.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong completed their breakthroughs after leaving Clear Sky Sect, with Qian Chaoguang gaining two new Soul Skills and raising his fourth Soul Ring to a pseudo Hundred Thousand Year level. They returned to Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, while Jing Hongchen remained consumed by the Sun Moon Empire’s succession struggle and his alliance with Xu Tianran.

• Huo Yutong told Qian Chaoguang she wanted to stand beside him rather than hold him back, and the siblings celebrated her advancement to Soul Emperor.
• Qian Chaoguang absorbed a God-given Soul Ring, compressed its remaining golden mist into his fourth Soul Ring, and raised his cultivation to rank fifty-three.
• Qian Chaoguang gained Light Speed Movement and Elementalization, then explained their effects and heavy Soul Power costs to Huo Yutong.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong returned to Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy and planned to conceal Huo Yutong’s new rank from others.
• Lin Jiayi reported their return to Jing Hongchen, who focused on securing Xu Tianran’s succession amid court opposition, unresolved thefts, and the strain of the Holy Spirit Cult alliance.

After returning to the academy, Qian Chaoguang recruited Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen into his work and spent eleven months researching Soul Tool Armor and artificial soul rings. The artificial soul ring project produced a prototype that gathered Heaven and Earth Origin Power, which a neighboring Soul Engineer recognized as a possible Energy Extraction Device.

• Qian Chaoguang appeased Liu Tiezhu after forgetting their research plans, then brought Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan into the Undead Subplane under Soul Contracts.
• Ji Juechen fought hundreds of Death Knights through the night, while Jing Ziyan became a popular teacher among the Liches and agreed to help train Soul Tool Masters.
• Qian Chaoguang began developing two contrasting kinds of Soul Tool Armor, and Liu Tiezhu recorded his methods despite struggling to understand the designs.
• Electrolux formed research groups for Artificial Soul Rings and Black Knight Reincarnation, and the teams accelerated their work by sharing ideas and handling tasks.
• The Artificial Soul Ring team made a Totem Pillar-like prototype that gathered Heaven and Earth Origin Power, and a Soul Engineer recognized it as a potential Energy Extraction Device.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong brought Xuan Ziwen to their department to reveal one of the two soul tool creations meant to fulfill Huo Yutong’s bet. After seeing the massive device and realizing the empty bottles were Eighth-Rank Baby Bottles, Xuan Ziwen demanded to know where they had come from.

• Nana reported that the teams had adapted an ancient Totem Pillar design into an Energy Extraction Device, and Qian Chaoguang assigned researchers to improve its cost and efficiency.
• Qian Chaoguang spent his vacation studying Close-Combat Soul Tools with Liu Tiezhu while continuing to help the Pixiu Merchant Guild with transport, and the search for materials for a cross-plane Space Teleportation Array remained unsuccessful.
• Huo Yutong reminded Xuan Ziwen of their bet: she had to show him two more soul tool works before he would leave with her, and Qian Chaoguang offered to show them using his memories or a contract that erased two hours of memory.
• Xuan Ziwen signed the contract and followed Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong through a Space Passage to their department, where twelve armored Soul Tool Masters welcomed him.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong presented a towering pillar device, then Qian Chaoguang handed Xuan Ziwen empty bottles; Xuan Ziwen recognized them as Eighth-Rank Baby Bottles and asked whether Liu Tiezhu had given them to Qian Chaoguang.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong demonstrated the Original Charging Tower to Xuan Ziwen, revealing that it could charge Baby Bottles using energy absorbed from nature rather than Spirit Masters. Astonished by its military potential, Xuan Ziwen began considering joining them, and Qian Chaoguang ended by explaining that the tower was an alchemical product from another civilization.

• Qian Chaoguang activated the Original Charging Tower, which unfolded its energy-gathering structure and began absorbing natural energy to charge more than a hundred Baby Bottles.
• Xuan Ziwen watched a First-Rank Baby Bottle finish charging and confirmed that the tower could fill Baby Bottles without Spirit Masters supplying power.
• Xuan Ziwen paced and considered how charged and Sealed Baby Bottles could transform the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineer legions.
• Qian Chaoguang told Xuan Ziwen that the tower was a collective achievement of the Undead Legion and urged him to decide whether to join before their memory-erasure contract took effect.
• Huo Yutong explained that the tower needed one fully charged Eighth-Rank Baby Bottle to start and could then sustain itself by absorbing natural energy.
• Qian Chaoguang told Xuan Ziwen that the tower was an alchemical product drawing on technology from another civilization, not a Soul Tool.

Xuan Ziwen joined Qian Chaoguang’s Undead Legion after learning about its research and resources, but agreed to return to Illustrious Virtue Hall before leaving. As Qian Chaoguang prepared to depart Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, Liu Tiezhu asked him not to use the technology he had taught him to invade the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xuan Ziwen signed Qian Chaoguang’s Soul Contract, joined the Undead Legion, and received its basic information and technical materials.
• Xuan Ziwen agreed to guide the Legion’s Liches and planned to leave Illustrious Virtue Hall after the exchange activity, returning to the Undead Subplane with Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan.
• Qian Chaoguang returned to Laboratory Number One and reflected on his friendship with Liu Tiezhu before leaving the academy.
• Liu Tiezhu asked Qian Chaoguang to promise not to use the techniques he had taught him to invade the Sun Moon Empire.
• Liu Tiezhu said he believed Qian Chaoguang would eventually establish his own regime, and promised to keep the secrets of Spirit Forging and Thousand Refinement to himself.

Qian Chaoguang said goodbye to Liu Tiezhu after promising not to use the technologies Liu had taught him to invade the Sun Moon Empire. As the exchange program ended, Huo Yutong traded the Sealed Baby Bottle blueprints to Jing Hongchen for rare resources, and the students from both academies reunited at the agreed exchange point.

• Qian Chaoguang swore to Liu Tiezhu that he would not use the close-combat soul tool and Soul Tool Armor technologies Liu had taught him to invade the Sun Moon Empire, then left the laboratory.
• Huo Yutong told Qian Chaoguang that Jing Hongchen had shown interest in their proposed exchange but had not yet agreed, and Qian Chaoguang expected him to consult Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran attended the farewell ceremony for Shrek Academy's exchange students, then privately handed Jing Hongchen something before leaving.
• Jing Hongchen offered Huo Yutong rare materials, including thirty silver dragon silver plates and thirty kilograms of Cosmos Star Silver, in exchange for the Sealed Baby Bottle blueprints, and she accepted.
• Jing Hongchen escorted the Shrek students to the exchange point, where Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er met them alongside the returning students from Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong returned to Shrek after their exchange study, bringing back valuable Soul Tool research and treasures from Illustrious Virtue Hall. The reunion left Shrek’s leaders stunned by Huo Yutong’s rank, and Xuan Zi and Song Lao presented her with the corpse and soul crystal of a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye.

• Jing Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe exchanged greetings, then Jing Hongchen led the Sun Moon students away while Yan Shaozhe welcomed Shrek’s students home.
• At a private meal, Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo inspected Huo Yutong’s Starlight Sapphire ring and were astonished by its thirty Silver Dragon Scales and other treasures.
• Song Lao arrived to protect Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong, and Xuan Zi gave Huo Yutong a Storage Soul Tool containing a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye corpse and its soul crystal.
• Huo Yutong revealed that she had awakened the Heavenly Snow Woman and reached rank sixty-seven, shocking Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Song Lao.

Huo Yutong and Qian Chaoguang traveled toward Shrek Academy with its senior experts, confident they could handle the Holy Spirit Cult’s ambush. Zhang Peng intercepted them, and Long Xiaoyao soon appeared as the confrontation began.

• Huo Yutong revealed her solid Level 61 cultivation, and Qian Chaoguang said he had reached Level 58.
• Xian Lin'er asked Qian Duoduo to protect Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong while Shrek’s group traveled toward the academy.
• Qian Chaoguang expected Long Xiaoyao to come with Zhang Peng and believed he could make Long Xiaoyao withdraw by revealing Yan Shaozhe’s descent from him.
• Song Lao and Xuan Zi sensed a huge mass of dark clouds approaching as the group flew through the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xuan Zi confronted Zhang Peng, who emerged from the dark clouds and defended his actions as an Evil Soul Master.
• Long Xiaoyao stepped through a crack in the air and greeted Song Lao and Xuan Zi.

Long Xiaoyao confronted the Shrek Academy group and demanded the ring, but Qian Chaoguang interrupted the standoff with a claim that Long Xiaoyao and Yan Shaozhe were close blood relatives. The chapter ended with Long Xiaoyao resisting a kinship test as the others urged him to give it a try.

• Long Xiaoyao appeared before Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, Song Lao, and Xuan Zi, and demanded that they surrender the ring.
• Long Xiaoyao said he had wronged Mu En but would still take the ring because he had been entrusted with the task.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed that he and Huo Yutong were Mu En's close disciples, then prepared Mo Yin Liquid and asked Yan Shaozhe to add a drop of blood.
• Yan Shaozhe's blood remained separate in the mixture, and Qian Chaoguang asked Long Xiaoyao to provide a drop of his blood for comparison.
• Long Xiaoyao angrily refused and pressured Qian Chaoguang, but the three Super Douluo shielded him.
• Xuan Zi and Song Lao urged Long Xiaoyao to try the test, while Long Xiaoyao protested that he had never had a son.

Qian Chaoguang proved that Yan Shaozhe was Long Xiaoyao’s blood relative, leaving Yan Shaozhe to learn that his family was tied to the leaders of the Holy Spirit Cult. The revelation stunned the Shrek elders as they faced the implications of Yan Shaozhe’s ancestry.

• Long Xiaoyao challenged Qian Chaoguang’s claim, but the blood drops in Mo Yin Liquid merged and confirmed that Yan Shaozhe was his descendant.
• Long Xiaoyao struggled to understand how Yan Shaozhe could have a powerful Light Phoenix Martial Soul, then left after telling Qian Chaoguang he owed him a favor.
• Zhang Peng fled alongside Long Xiaoyao, and Xuan Zi comforted Yan Shaozhe as the Shrek elders gathered around him.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Qian Chaoguang what else he knew, and Qian Chaoguang told him that Ye Xishui was another blood relative and that Zhongli Wu was her son and a Holy Spirit Cult leader.
• Yan Shaozhe and the Shrek elders were shaken to learn that his newly discovered family was connected to the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans against Douluo Continent.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong returned to Shrek Academy and learned how dire Mu En’s condition had become. After hearing about their past two and a half years, Mu En warned that his death would leave Shrek facing the coming war between the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire.

• Qian Chaoguang revealed that Ye Xishui had a second Martial Soul, the Light Phoenix, and the Super Douluo considered the threat she posed after Mu En’s death.
• The group arrived near Shrek City, where Xuan Zi told Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong to stay in Sea God Pavilion and visit Mu En.
• Song Lao and the others noticed that Qian Chaoguang could fly despite having only five rings, and recalled that he had flown with only two rings years earlier.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong found Mu En frail and near death, then recounted what had happened to them over the past two and a half years.
• Mu En said he had little time left and warned that the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire would launch their long-planned campaign after his death.

Qian Chaoguang tried to ease Mu En’s suffering with Holy Healing, but learned that neither he nor Electrolux could save Mu En’s shattered soul from the Dragon Pill’s vicious energy. He left determined to keep treating his teacher and delay his death, though Mu En had only a month at most to live.

• Qian Chaoguang asked Mu En to let him examine and treat his body, and Huo Yutong urged Mu En to agree.
• Qian Chaoguang enveloped Mu En in Holy Light and stacked more than a hundred Holy Healings, briefly easing his pain while only extending his life.
• Qian Chaoguang asked Electrolux whether Mu En’s soul could be saved, and Electrolux explained that Mu En’s condition was beyond their abilities and that he had a month at most to live.
• Electrolux admired Mu En’s extraordinary willpower, then returned to slumber after admitting he could not repair Mu En’s soul.
• Mu En told Qian Chaoguang to stop wasting effort, but Qian Chaoguang refused and promised to return the next day before leaving with Huo Yutong.

Huo Yutong and Qian Chaoguang encountered the transformed Three-Eyed Golden Lion in Shrek, then went their separate ways as Huo Yutong visited the Tang Sect. She found the sect’s grand but mostly empty grounds and heard people talking in its Council Hall.

• Qian Chaoguang recognized the transformed Three-Eyed Golden Lion but pretended not to know her, and she claimed she had only been curious before running off.
• Qian Chaoguang told Huo Yutong to keep the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s identity secret, and they agreed to meet later at the Pixiu Merchant Guild.
• Huo Yutong parted from Qian Chaoguang and used Bei Bei’s map to find the Tang Sect after searching Shrek City for nearly an hour.
• A nominal disciple welcomed Huo Yutong and told her that Bei Bei, the sect master, and several others were inside.
• Huo Yutong noticed the Tang Sect’s empty side rooms and questioned its prospects as she approached the Council Hall and heard voices inside.

Huo Yutong reunited with Bei Bei, He Caitou, and Xu Sanshi after two and a half years and learned how the Tang Sect had developed with support from Qian Chaoguang’s Pixiu Merchant Guild. The Tang Sect’s finances and cannon sales had improved, but it struggled to recruit talent and produce Soul Tools itself; Bei Bei asked whether they could sell Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons to outside buyers.

• Huo Yutong returned to the Tang Sect’s Council Hall and happily reunited with Bei Bei, He Caitou, and Xu Sanshi.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi explained that Shrek and the Pixiu Merchant Guild had helped the Tang Sect establish itself, while the merchant guild had become a major employer for Shrek graduates.
• Bei Bei said the Tang Sect still lacked enough disciples and could not recruit or train Soul Engineers effectively, partly because Qian Chaoguang’s prices for cannons and shells were far below the cost of making them independently.
• Huo Yutong and He Caitou realized that the Tang Sect’s survival depended heavily on Qian Chaoguang’s support.
• Bei Bei explained that the Tang Sect had already delivered many Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons to Shrek Academy and Shrek City, then asked Huo Yutong whether the cannons could be sold externally and whether Qian Chaoguang’s production could keep up.

Huo Yutong discussed selling the improved Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon with the Tang Sect, while Qian Chaoguang later joined Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou for the Inner Courtyard’s Single's Carnival Night. The chapter left Qian Chaoguang at the banquet, where he tried wine for the first time on the Douluo Continent.

• Huo Yutong told Bei Bei that Qian Chaoguang had enough Soul Tool Masters and blacksmiths to supply Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons, and Bei Bei discussed selling the weapons and shells to other empires.
• Huo Yutong and He Caitou said they had improved the cannon and developed specialized shells with Qian Chaoguang’s involvement, while Bei Bei agreed the Tang Sect should share profits with him.
• Huo Yutong and He Caitou described their strength ahead of the upcoming tournament, and Tang Ya arrived to invite Huo Yutong to a Shrek event the next night.
• Qian Chaoguang went to the Tang Sect looking for Huo Yutong, and Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou led him toward the Inner Courtyard for its evening gathering.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed that he had always known Wang Dong was a girl and joked about their close bond, leaving Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou stunned.
• At the Inner Courtyard banquet, Qian Chaoguang reluctantly drank a token cup and found the wine better than he expected.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Qian Chaoguang spent the night alone beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and unexpectedly resonated with the Law of Light, entering a profound enlightenment. He woke with a heightened ability to perceive and gather light, while Mu En believed the experience had brought him closer to advancing his Martial Soul to Ultimate Light.

• Qian Chaoguang reunited with Zhang Bowen at the banquet, who told him that several of their former classmates had entered the Inner Courtyard and warned that Ma Xiaotao would seek him out at Sea God's Fate.
• After the banquet, Qian Chaoguang walked alone to the Golden Ancient Tree and reflected on his bond with Huo Yutong and the people in his life.
• Golden light flowed from the tree as Qian Chaoguang sensed the Sea God Pavilion and began resonating with the Law of Light, causing his Mental Power to surge.
• Electrolux explained that Qian Chaoguang's enlightenment was a rare opportunity that would deepen his affinity for light, while Mu En watched over him and hoped he would reach Ultimate Light.
• Qian Chaoguang woke the next morning and discovered he could see tiny golden points of light and gather them into Holy Light with far greater ease than before.

After awakening in the Golden Ancient Tree, Qian Chaoguang discovered an extraordinary affinity with the Light Element, and Mu En confirmed that his First Martial Soul had advanced to quasi-ultimate light despite Qian Chaoguang feeling no change. Qian Chaoguang treated Mu En, then learned the Sea God's Fate Assembly rules from Bei Bei and prepared He Caitou to use new equipment there.

• Qian Chaoguang found that Light Elements and the Law of Light responded to him with unprecedented eagerness, but Electrolux could not explain the changes to his constitution.
• Qian Chaoguang visited Mu En, whose light power merged with Qian Chaoguang's; Mu En concluded that his First Martial Soul had become quasi-ultimate, though neither he nor Electrolux could identify what Qian Chaoguang had gained.
• Qian Chaoguang performed his daily healing treatment for Mu En and then went to Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi's dormitory to ask about the Sea God's Fate Assembly.
• Bei Bei explained the assembly's rules, then left to review the arrangements with Eldest Senior Sister and urged He Caitou and Xu Sanshi to do their best.
• Qian Chaoguang told He Caitou to wear their newly developed hovering equipment at the assembly and reminded him to bring a Milk Bottle, while Xu Sanshi asked about getting equipment of his own.

Qian Chaoguang and He Caitou attended Shrek’s Sea God’s Fate Blind Date Convention, where their spectacular arrivals drew attention before the first round began. As the male students tried to impress the veiled women, Ye Liu’s attempt to splash them provoked a furious Phoenix Flame attack.

• Qian Chaoguang and He Caitou arrived at the convention, and Qian Chaoguang wore clothes Huo Yutong had sewn for him.
• Qian Chaoguang sped across the lake and claimed a lotus leaf, while He Caitou followed in powerful Soul Tool Armor.
• Xu Sanshi found Jiang Nannan, endured her beating, and removed her veil.
• Ye Liu summoned a wave to drench the female students, but one of them unleashed Phoenix Flame and evaporated it.

Qian Chaoguang stunned the Sea God’s Fate participants by removing seventeen bamboo hats at once, then revealed Huo Yutong as his beloved before the next round began. In the Love at First Sight round, nearly every female student left a lamp on for him, while Xu Sanshi was left with only two.

• Ma Xiaotao drove Ye Liu into the lake with a fiery attack after he tried to flirt with her.
• Qian Chaoguang used his shared soul skill to lift seventeen bamboo hats, then flew to Huo Yutong and uncovered her face.
• Qian Chaoguang returned to his place beside Huo Yutong, and Bei Bei stopped him from setting up a chair for her.
• Bei Bei explained the Love at First Sight round, in which female students chose whether to leave their lamps lit for each male student.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion turned off her lamp for Qian Chaoguang, while the other eighteen lamps stayed lit.
• Xu Sanshi began his turn, and nearly all the lamps went out, leaving only two lit for him.