Chapter Summaries

Six-year-old Jiang Xia awakened the Broken Dream martial soul with rank ten full soul power and joined the Spirit Pagoda, hoping to reclaim his stolen family assets and develop his dreamscape into a real realm. A powerful senior met him at the Heaven Dou City Spirit Pagoda and demonstrated that illusions did not rely on sight alone.

• Jiang Xia awakened the Broken Dream martial soul and was found to have rank ten full soul power.
• Jiang Xia agreed to join the Spirit Pagoda so he could leave the orphanage and pursue his goals.
• Jiang Xia planned to build a genuine realm within his dreamscape by learning from the era's virtual worlds.
• A spirit master took Jiang Xia to meet a visiting senior at the Spirit Pagoda's highest floor.
• The old man praised Jiang Xia's perception and spiritual power, then demonstrated an illusion that nearly drew in his soul.

Jiang Xia became Han Tianyi’s disciple after revealing his Broken Dream martial soul and innate full soul power. Before leaving Heaven Dou City for Shrek City, he asked Pagoda Master Hongchen to investigate his family’s stolen belongings and his parents’ deaths.

• Han Tianyi introduced himself as a renowned mental master and Four-Word Battle Armor Master, and Jiang Xia asked to become his disciple.
• Han Tianyi accepted Jiang Xia and questioned him about Broken Dream’s abilities, becoming increasingly pleased with the martial soul’s potential.
• When Han Tianyi proposed taking Jiang Xia to Shrek City, Jiang Xia explained that he still needed to resolve family matters.
• Pagoda Master Hongchen learned that Jiang Xia’s household registration had been tampered with and promised to investigate the thefts and his parents’ deaths.
• Jiang Xia left Heaven Dou City with Han Tianyi and arrived at Shrek City, where he reflected on the city’s supposedly safe but vulnerable major hubs.

At the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, Han Tianyi showed Jiang Xia his private floor and discussed training him in three secondary professions alongside his cultivation. After testing Broken Dream, Han Tianyi praised Jiang Xia as a natural illusionist, but Jiang Xia revealed he did not intend to pursue illusions.

• Han Tianyi showed Jiang Xia the facilities on his private floor and explained that he practiced mecha design, mecha manufacturing, and forging.
• Jiang Xia asked about learning all three secondary professions, and Han Tianyi said Broken Dream could help him while he personally guided his training.
• Han Tianyi explained how he had obtained heavenly-refined metals from Zhen Hua for his four-word battle armor and described his plans to develop Jiang Xia into a Limit Douluo and battle armor master.
• Han Tianyi connected to Jiang Xia's mental world and explored the blank dreamscape created by Broken Dream.
• Han Tianyi called Jiang Xia a born master of illusions, and Jiang Xia admitted that he did not plan to follow the path of illusions.

Jiang Xia explained to Han Tianyi how he could use the Spirit Ascension Platform to make his dreams interfere with reality, and Han Tianyi approved of the path. Jiang Xia chose an Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit, but Han Tianyi proposed delaying the fusion for three to five months or up to a year to gain greater benefits.

• Jiang Xia asked Han Tianyi about virtual-world technology and learned how the Spirit Ascension Platform connected its simulations to reality.
• Jiang Xia proposed using Broken Dream to connect to the Spirit Ascension Platform and transmit simulated fluctuations into the real world.
• Han Tianyi contemplated Jiang Xia's proposal, gained insight into turning illusion into reality, and approved of his disciple's path.
• Jiang Xia chose an Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit for its Imitation and Spirit Detection skills, and Han Tianyi agreed to find one with high aptitude.
• Han Tianyi suggested Jiang Xia delay fusing with a Soul Spirit while studying mecha design, mecha manufacturing, and dream construction, and Jiang Xia asked whether the benefits would be substantial.

Han Tianyi arranged for the Spirit Pagoda to breed a top-tier Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit for Jiang Xia while teaching him dream construction. After learning that his parents’ deaths were linked to evil soul masters and that a family had helped cover them up, Jiang Xia prepared to confront those responsible in Heaven Dou City.

• Han Tianyi explained that the Spirit Pagoda could breed Ice Silkworm Soul Spirits, select those with the best aptitude, and recover cultivation from those that fell short.
• Han Tianyi began teaching Jiang Xia secondary professions and dream construction, and researchers started screening Ice Silkworms with Imitation and Spirit Detection.
• Han Tianyi told Jiang Xia that investigators in Heaven Dou City had uncovered the truth behind the misappropriation of his parents’ estate, and Jiang Xia agreed to return.
• Han Tianyi brought Jiang Xia to the Spirit Pagoda in Heaven Dou City, where Yao Hongchen said evil soul masters had targeted Jiang Xia’s parents and a family had helped cover up their crimes.
• Jiang Xia calmly noted that he had been lucky the evil soul masters had not killed him as well.

Jiang Xia learned that Long Bing might have been involved in his parents’ disappearance and watched the family who stole their estate be executed. Han Tianyi then introduced him to Mu Ye and Zhen Hua, leaving Jiang Xia newly connected to the Body Sect and the Divine Blacksmith.

• Yao Hongchen told Jiang Xia that evil soul masters had likely kept him alive to cultivate his talent, and that Long Bing might have been involved in his parents’ disappearance.
• Jiang Xia asked Yao Hongchen to investigate the evil soul masters associated with the family and memorized the code names on Yao Hongchen’s list.
• Jiang Xia watched the four members of the family who stole his parents’ estate be executed.
• Han Tianyi brought Jiang Xia to meet Mu Ye at the Blacksmith’s Association and introduced him as his new disciple and Mu Ye’s junior martial brother.
• Jiang Xia greeted Mu Ye as Senior Martial Brother and Zhen Hua as Uncle Zhen Hua, while Han Tianyi asked Mu Ye to demonstrate his abilities.

Han Tianyi brought Jiang Xia to meet Mu Ye and revealed that Jiang Xia’s Broken Dream Martial Soul could connect to spiritual wills, potentially helping him fuse with a thousand-year Soul Spirit as his first Soul Ring. He then asked Zhen Hua to test whether Broken Dream could connect to the spirituality of spirit-bearing metals, and the test began in Zhen Hua’s private forging room.

• Han Tianyi asked Mu Ye to prepare a thousand-year Soul Spirit for Jiang Xia, and Mu Ye warned that doing so could make Jiang Xia’s future cultivation costly and difficult.
• Han Tianyi explained that Broken Dream could connect to other people’s spiritual wills and help Jiang Xia overcome Soul Spirit fusion restrictions, while Jiang Xia considered anchoring it to the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Han Tianyi asked Zhen Hua to test whether Jiang Xia could connect Broken Dream to the spirituality of spirit-bearing metals, and Zhen Hua agreed.
• Zhen Hua refined heavy silver with three hammer strikes, producing first-grade thousand refinement, then asked Jiang Xia to try disturbing its spirituality as he and Han Tianyi observed.

Han Tianyi brought Jiang Xia to Zhen Hua to test his forging talent, and Jiang Xia impressed the Divine Craftsman by influencing the spirituality in heavy silver with his Broken Dream Martial Soul. After Mu Ye served nourishing food to help Jiang Xia strengthen his body, he began guiding Jiang Xia in circulating his vital blood.

• Jiang Xia used his Broken Dream Martial Soul to influence the spirituality in the heavy silver Zhen Hua was forging, astonishing Zhen Hua with his talent.
• Zhen Hua asked Han Tianyi if Jiang Xia could study forging under him, and Han Tianyi agreed to bring Jiang Xia for occasional guidance while he pursued three secondary professions.
• Jiang Xia, Han Tianyi, and Zhen Hua went to the dining room, where Mu Ye served Blood Jade Shrimp and Golden Spirit Fish to nourish Jiang Xia and strengthen his body.
• Jiang Xia ate the dishes and felt the Golden Spirit Fish circulate the vital blood released by the shrimp through his flesh.
• Mu Ye placed a hand on Jiang Xia's shoulder, sent force into his body, and told him to follow his guidance and feel his vital blood circulate.

Jiang Xia trained under Mu Ye and Zhen Hua, using nourishing meals and forging practice to strengthen his body and learn hammer techniques. After a month, Han Tianyi confirmed that Jiang Xia’s body could withstand a thousand-year Soul Ring, and Jiang Xia asked whether he should continue training there.

• Mu Ye regulated Jiang Xia’s blood and Qi as he ate nourishing food, then Zhen Hua suggested he use his strength to practice forging.
• Jiang Xia forged under Zhen Hua’s guidance, gradually assimilating the surging power in his body, and meditated after an exhausting day.
• The next morning, Mu Ye gave Jiang Xia special steamed buns, and Jiang Xia continued his cycle of physical training and forging practice.
• After a month, Zhen Hua said Jiang Xia had not yet completed Hundred Refinements, though his understanding of forging had improved rapidly.
• Han Tianyi examined Jiang Xia’s meridians and confirmed they could withstand the impact of a thousand-year Soul Ring, after which Jiang Xia asked if he should keep cultivating there.

Jiang Xia studied mecha design and manufacturing under Han Tianyi and Mu Ye while waiting for his Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit to be proxy-farmed. When the institute proposed cross-species breeding with Evil Eyes to strengthen the Soul Spirit, Han Tianyi recommended the project and Jiang Xia agreed.

• Han Tianyi assigned Jiang Xia to study mecha design and manufacturing, and Mu Ye revealed he was a rank-nine mecha designer and manufacturer.
• Jiang Xia spent three months learning to identify errors in core formations and balancing his studies with meditation and forging.
• Han Tianyi told Jiang Xia that the Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit's proxy-farming was going smoothly, but the institute had raised a question about using cross-species breeding.
• Han Tianyi explained that the Ice Silkworm's pure spiritual attribute could fuse with the Evil Eye race and recommended that Jiang Xia proceed with the project.
• Jiang Xia agreed to let the institute attempt to breed the Ice Silkworm and Evil Eye races together.

Jiang Xia learned that breeding Ice Silkworms with Evil Eyes had produced powerful hybrid Soul Spirits, then finally received his own after eight months of waiting. He examined the unusual Ice Silkworm in its Soul Spirit orb and struggled to choose a name for it.

• Han Tianyi reported that Ice Silkworm and Evil Eye offspring had reached a 99.9% compatibility rate, and those combining Ice Silkworms with spiritual-and-fire Evil Eyes showed the best aptitude.
• Han Tianyi explained that Ice Silkworm-dominant offspring could inherit Imitation and Spirit Detection, while the institute proposed researching a Soul Spirit Fusion Skill using two different hybrids.
• Eight months after Jiang Xia awakened his Martial Soul, Han Tianyi told him that his Soul Spirit had finally been rolled and that it needed two more days of spirit ascension.
• Han Tianyi brought Jiang Xia a top-quality Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit that could withstand a fifteen-hundred-year soul ring.
• Jiang Xia inspected the snow-white, fiery red, three-eyed Soul Spirit and considered names including Three-Eyed Evil Silkworm and Ice Fire Silkworm.

Jiang Xia fused with the Ice Fire Silkworm Soul Spirit, gained Illusory Dream Imitation, and used it to imitate the presence of hundred-thousand-year soul rings. Three months later, he reached level twenty-one and combined his second Soul Skill, Spirit Detection, with Broken Dream.

• Jiang Xia fused with the Ice Fire Silkworm Soul Spirit and gained the first Soul Skill, Illusory Dream Imitation.
• Jiang Xia used Illusory Dream Imitation to create the appearance and presence of hundred-thousand-year soul rings, though he could not replicate their Soul Skills.
• Jiang Xia revealed that his Soul Power had reached level nineteen, and Mu Ye agreed to keep supporting his training.
• Three months later, Jiang Xia reached level twenty-one and fused with the Ice Fire Silkworm's second soul ring, gaining Spirit Detection.
• Jiang Xia spread Spirit Detection around himself and used it as a foundation to release Broken Dream.

Jiang Xia discovered that combining Broken Dream and Spirit Detection greatly reduced the Soul Power needed to extend and maintain their range. After he reproduced primordial Qi within his illusion, Han Tianyi confirmed that Jiang Xia could eventually use Spirit Ascension Platform technology to imitate countless abilities, though mastering the technology would take time.

• Jiang Xia tested overlapping Broken Dream and Spirit Detection, finding that stacking their ranges saved Soul Power and extended his perception beyond its usual limits.
• After Jiang Xia exhausted his Soul Power, Han Tianyi had him recover before practicing primordial Qi transformations inside an illusion.
• Jiang Xia used Illusory Dream Imitation to reproduce the primordial Qi changes, and Han Tianyi confirmed the result was accurate.
• Han Tianyi revealed that he had tested Spirit Ascension Platform technology and explained that Jiang Xia could imitate its basic abilities within his Broken Dream.
• Jiang Xia asked whether he could master the technology immediately, and Han Tianyi told him to learn it gradually.

Jiang Xia asked Han Tianyi about Soul Spirit Fusion Skills and learned that modern artificial Soul Spirits were souls formed from Soul Rings, not simply the souls of soul beasts. Han Tianyi explained the potential benefits of fusion and suggested the institute could revive its long-running research project, leaving Jiang Xia with a possible new combat path.

• Jiang Xia set aside mastering the Spirit Ascension Platform’s illusion-to-reality technology for now and asked Han Tianyi about the institute’s Soul Spirit Fusion Skills project.
• Han Tianyi explained that modern artificial Soul Spirits were created from Soul Rings, with some existing as data in an illusory realm until they contracted with a Soul Master.
• Han Tianyi distinguished Soul Spirit Fusion Skills from Ring Fusion, saying fusion could transform the Soul Rings and might let a fused Soul Spirit fight without consuming its master’s Soul Power.
• Jiang Xia realized that a Soul Spirit Fusion Skill could provide him with an additional fighting force.
• Han Tianyi said the Spirit Pagoda had funded the project for centuries, and he and the institute could seek approval to revive it.

Jiang Xia spent two years cultivating and mastering the transformations of water, fire, earth, and wind while waiting for the research institute to prepare his second Soul Spirit. After reaching rank 30, he learned that a researcher had proposed a new way to achieve Soul Spirit fusion by removing the Evil Eye’s ice and fire attributes.

• Jiang Xia agreed with Han Tianyi to pursue an Evil Eye Soul Spirit with spatial and fire attributes, hoping it could fuse with the Ice Fire Silkworm.
• Jiang Xia trained in the Spirit Ascension Platform, cultivated Soul Power, practiced Broken Dream Imitation, and developed his understanding of elemental transformations.
• Over two years, Jiang Xia reached rank 30, but the research institute had rejected an exceptional mutated Evil Eye because it seemed incompatible with the Ice Fire Silkworm.
• A researcher asked Jiang Xia to let him test a new Soul Spirit fusion proposal, claiming the Evil Eye’s spatial attribute could enable fusion without inheriting ice and fire.
• Jiang Xia recalled the researcher’s proposal that the mutated Evil Eye should have both its ice and fire attributes removed.

Jiang Xia agreed to help the Spirit Pagoda Research Institute use a targeted induction process to find an Evil Eye compatible with his Ice Fire Silkworm Soul Spirit. After three months without results, he joined researcher Ling Yue at the institute to assist with a new plan that would strengthen the Soul Spirit’s ice and fire attributes while repairing the Evil Eye’s damaged mental attribute.

• Jiang Xia accepted the researcher’s proposal to simulate mutated Evil Eyes in the Spirit Ascension Platform and search for one compatible with his Ice Fire Silkworm Soul Spirit.
• Jiang Xia left the Spirit Ascension Platform and, after consulting Han Tianyi, agreed to give the plan up to six months.
• Jiang Xia gave his Soul Spirit data to the research institute, but three months passed without a successful match.
• The institute proposed inducing an Evil Eye with deficient ice and fire attributes and a damaged mental attribute, then asked Jiang Xia to help.
• Ling Yue explained that Jiang Xia’s Ice Fire Silkworm would draw ice and fire talent from a simulated mutated Evil Eye while restoring its mental losses.

Jiang Xia successfully fused the Mutated Evil Eye with his Ice Fire Silkworm by using his Broken Dream Martial Soul to draw in the Evil Eye’s spatial attribute, but the experiment also caused his Martial Soul to swallow the virtual space. He left the chapter with a young Mutated Evil Eye in his spiritual sea, which Ling Yue helped extract as a Soul Spirit orb so it could be raised to match the Ice Fire Silkworm.

• After more than a hundred failed attempts, Jiang Xia and Ling Yue began the final experiment to fuse the Mutated Evil Eye with the Ice Fire Silkworm.
• Jiang Xia used his Broken Dream Martial Soul’s need for space to attract the Mutated Evil Eye’s spatial attribute, and the Evil Eye fused with the Ice Fire Silkworm as Broken Dream merged with the virtual space.
• Jiang Xia lost consciousness, and Ling Yue kept the virtual space apparatus connected while the researcher monitored him.
• When Jiang Xia awoke, he found a young Mutated Evil Eye in his spiritual sea and realized his Broken Dream Martial Soul had swallowed the virtual space.
• Ling Yue helped Jiang Xia use his Broken Dream Martial Soul with an artificial Soul Spirit apparatus to separate the Mutated Evil Eye from the Ice Fire Silkworm and create a Soul Spirit orb.
• Ling Yue found that the Mutated Evil Eye had 500 years of cultivation and said he would raise it to 1,500 years to match the Ice Fire Silkworm.

Jiang Xia learned that the Spirit Pagoda would compensate him for studying his Soul Spirits, then traveled with Han Tianyi to Eastsea City to see Leng Yaozhu take Gu Yue as her disciple. The chapter ended with Leng Yaozhu recognizing Jiang Xia’s exceptional spiritual power and rank 30 Soul Power, surprising Gu Yue.

• Ling Yue told Jiang Xia that the Mutated Evil Eye’s spirit ascension would take up to five days and offered him an annual quota of spiritual power as compensation for the research.
• Jiang Xia left the research institute and learned from Han Tianyi that his Broken Dream Martial Soul had likely enabled the Soul Spirit fusion.
• Han Tianyi invited Jiang Xia to Eastsea City to witness Leng Yaozhu take a promising disciple.
• Gu Yue bowed to Leng Yaozhu and became her disciple as Chen Xin watched the powerful visitors arrive.
• Han Tianyi praised Gu Yue’s elemental and spiritual talents, and Leng Yaozhu said Jiang Xia’s spiritual power rivaled Gu Yue’s and that his Soul Power had reached rank 30.

Gu Yue and Jiang Xia met at the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda, where Han Tianyi and Leng Yaozhu arranged for both students to attend Eastsea Academy. Later, Jiang Xia fused with the Mutated Evil Eye Soul Spirit using the illusory space absorbed by his Broken Dream Martial Soul.

• Leng Yaozhu introduced Han Tianyi to Gu Yue as a respected Spirit Pagoda elder and an expert on Spirit Ascension Platform technology.
• Jiang Xia and Gu Yue toured the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda while Han Tianyi and Leng Yaozhu discussed Wu Zhangkong and the Spirit Pagoda’s internal turmoil.
• Han Tianyi decided to send Jiang Xia to Eastsea Academy, and Jiang Xia accepted so he could study Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• After returning to Shrek City and obtaining the Mutated Evil Eye Soul Spirit, Jiang Xia explained that his Broken Dream Martial Soul had absorbed its illusory space.
• Jiang Xia used the space to link with the Mutated Evil Eye, which entered his sea of consciousness and began their fusion.

Jiang Xia fused with the Mutated Evil Eye, reached Soul Power level 34, and prepared to leave for Eastsea City to study. Zhen Hua arranged for him to meet Mu Chen and take his blacksmith assessment there, while Mu Ye agreed to keep feeding him when he visited Heaven Dou City.

• Jiang Xia fused smoothly with the Mutated Evil Eye and gained a Soul Spirit Fusion Skill, bringing his Soul Power to level 34.
• Zhen Hua and Mu Ye accepted Han Tianyi's decision to send Jiang Xia to Eastsea City, where studying alongside Gu Yue could aid his future in the Spirit Pagoda.
• Zhen Hua told Jiang Xia to contact Mu Chen for forging guidance and revealed that he had delayed Jiang Xia's blacksmith assessment so he could take it in Eastsea City.
• Jiang Xia accepted Zhen Hua's letter and asked Mu Ye about visiting for food and advice on mecha design and manufacturing.
• Mu Ye agreed to cook for Jiang Xia when he returned to Heaven Dou City, while Han Tianyi urged him to prepare a meal with lasting medicinal effects.