Recaps

Cao Yu gave Ma Xiaotao a bracelet that protected her from the Sun Moon Empire’s Sword of Judgment, helping Shrek win the tournament. After celebrating with his companions, he stole the Sun Moon team’s Storage Soul Tools and discovered a trove of Soul Tools and Gold Soul Coins; Ma Xiaotao then came to his door.

• Cao Yu gave Ma Xiaotao a protective bracelet, and she wore it after he kissed her and left for the matches.
• Ma Xiaotao defeated Ma Rulong despite his using the Sword of Judgment, and the Shrek Representative Team went on to beat the Sun Moon Team and claim the championship.
• At a celebration dinner, Xuan Zi and Cao Yu’s grandfather said Cao Yu would marry Ma Xiaotao and the other women after graduating from the Inner Court, and they agreed.
• Cao Yu checked on the incubating Snow Empress Embryo, then used Seventy-Two Transformations and the Treasure-Felling Coin to steal the Sun Moon team’s Storage Soul Tools.
• Cao Yu found about 250 million Gold Soul Coins, three Level 8 Soul Tools, and many other Soul Tools among the stolen items, including the Sword of Judgment.
• Ma Xiaotao knocked on Cao Yu’s door and called out to him.

Cao Yu returned to Shrek Academy with the others after the team won the Soul Fighting Tournament, and the academy welcomed them home. Back in class, Cao Yu confirmed Shrek’s championship and prepared to tell his classmates about the tournament’s exciting matches.

• Cao Yu said goodbye to his family and Xu Jiujiu, brought the Snow Empress Embryo, and traveled back to Shrek Academy with the Shrek group.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Qian Duoduo welcomed the returning students, who arrived safely with Xuan Zi and Wang Yan.
• Cao Yu returned to class, where Luo Yan tried to coax him into revealing whether Shrek had won the championship.
• Cao Yu confirmed Shrek had won, and the news sparked cheers throughout the teaching building.
• Wu Feng asked Cao Yu to describe the exciting matches, and he agreed to tell the class about them.

Cao Yu recounted the Sun Moon team’s defeat while Jing Hongchen punished their teacher and suspected the tournament theft was linked to an earlier academy robbery. Back at Shrek, Cao Yu cared for the Snow Empress Embryo and visited Huo Yuhao’s research institute, where Huo Yuhao showed off a circuit board and hand-cranked telephone.

• Cao Yu told his classmates that Dai Yueheng had knocked Xiao Hongchen unconscious during the tournament.
• Jing Hongchen crippled the team teacher’s Martial Soul, then scolded Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong for losing the Soul Beast embryo and the team’s money.
• Ma Rulong linked the theft to an earlier robbery, and Jing Hongchen suspected the same person or organization was responsible for both.
• Wang Yan returned to teach the class about Soul Master team battles.
• Cao Yu fed the Snow Empress Embryo blood and later ate with Ma Xiaotao and his friends.
• Huo Yuhao showed Cao Yu a circuit board and a hand-cranked telephone he had developed with the Soul Engineers.

Cao Yu and Huo Yuhao developed hand-cranked telephones and prepared them for mass production in Star Luo City. Cao Yu auctioned two prototypes, which the Sun Moon Empire bought for 900 million Gold Soul Coins, only for Star Luo to begin selling the devices in large quantities weeks later.

• Ma Xiaotao and the others tested Cao Yu’s hand-cranked telephones, while Ma Xiaotao suggested that similar devices could help coordinate Soul Masters in battle.
• Huo Yuhao told Cao Yu that a machine could replicate Soul Tool formations, and Cao Yu proposed improving the process with circuit boards and a numerical control console.
• Cao Yu took two telephone prototypes to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and persuaded Elder Lin to handle their auction, revealing that Huo Yuhao led the research project.
• The Sun Moon Empire won the auction for the two telephones at 900 million Gold Soul Coins after Cao Yu helped drive up the bids.
• Star Luo City began selling hand-cranked telephones in large quantities within weeks, marking the Sun Moon Empire’s first technological setback.

The Sun Moon Emperor ordered Jing Hongchen to reproduce the Star Luo Empire’s long-distance communication device, while Cao Yu purified and fused the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife with Elder Yi’s help. Cao Yu gained a third eye and access to Elder Yi’s legacy, then vanished into a demiplane, leaving Wang Dong searching for him.

• The Sun Moon Emperor ordered Jing Hongchen to build and mass-produce the communication device, but Jing Hongchen argued that the Sun Moon Empire still had other advantages.
• Cao Yu used his spiritual power to let Elder Yi purify the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, driving out the vicious presence inside it.
• Cao Yu pressed the purified knife to his forehead, and it fused with him as a third eye that housed Elder Yi’s divine consciousness.
• Elder Yi explained that Cao Yu could recover from injuries as long as his brain remained intact, cultivate spiritually three times faster than an ordinary person, and inherit his abilities now that he had reached five-ring cultivation.
• Cao Yu used Elder Yi’s teachings to enter a complete demiplane, and Wang Dong woke to find him missing and accused him of sneaking off to eat without her.

Cao Yu entered Elder Yi’s Undead Demiplane and learned to control its white skeletons. After putting on the Nebula Set, he found he could command nearly all the skeletons gathered below the hillside.

• Cao Yu crossed into the demiplane, where a sinister wind assaulted his soul beneath a black sun and purple light.
• Elder Yi explained that the dim, barren demiplane was his unfinished work and that he had left thirteen kinds of undead creatures there.
• Elder Yi led Cao Yu to a hillside overlooking a mass of white skeletons, the weakest undead in the demiplane.
• Cao Yu recited Elder Yi’s incantation and controlled more than half of the skeletons, setting them against those still uncontrolled.
• Elder Yi taught Cao Yu how to restore shattered skeletons, and Cao Yu reassembled and controlled the fallen undead.
• Cao Yu put on the Nebula Set and used an incantation to control most of the skeletons, leaving only twenty or thirty still fighting.

Cao Yu put Elder Yi’s summoned white skeletons to work manufacturing Soul Guidance Arrays, then left his dorm with Tang Ya and a Shadow Clone to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest. As they headed deeper into the forest to find Tang Ya a fifth Soul Ring, they discussed her father’s food business and teased each other about their relationship.

• Cao Yu used the white skeletons as an assembly line to produce and pack Soul Guidance Arrays, upsetting Elder Yi but delighting in the tireless workers.
• Cao Yu left the secret base through the key gate and returned to his dorm, where Wang Dong questioned how he had disappeared and later wondered what other secrets he kept.
• Cao Yu, Tang Ya, and a Shadow Clone left Shrek Academy and flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest so Tang Ya could hunt for a Soul Ring.
• As they entered the forest, Tang Ya complained that Cao Yu had stopped calling her big sister, and he teased her about becoming his wife.
• Tang Ya told Cao Yu that her father was busy running a food business and had praised Cao Yu’s business advice; Cao Yu joked about their future child, and Tang Ya dismissed him with a smile.

Cao Yu and Tang Ya hunted a ten-thousand-year Thundering Hell Vine in the Star Dou Great Forest, allowing Tang Ya to absorb its Soul Ring and become a Soul King. Back at Shrek Academy, Mu En offered Cao Yu’s group special training and proposed a stake in the Soul Tool Department’s research institute, while Cao Yu returned to feeding the Snow Empress Embryo and cultivating with Wang Dong.

• Cao Yu and Tang Ya killed the Thundering Hell Vine while it was feeding on a White-Eyed Cat, and Tang Ya absorbed its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• After nearly two hours, Tang Ya completed the absorption, became a Soul King, and revealed her fifth Soul Skill, Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
• Cao Yu and Tang Ya left the Star Dou Great Forest together, then said goodbye at Shrek Academy’s dormitory building.
• Mu En spoke with Cao Yu, offered special training for his group in five years, and said the Soul Tool Department might give Cao Yu half its share in the research institute.
• Mu En asked Cao Yu to provide telephones for academy officials, and Cao Yu agreed to arrange them.
• Cao Yu returned to the dormitory to feed the Snow Empress Embryo, and Wang Dong invited him to cultivate with her.

Cao Yu partnered with Xian Lin'er to connect his research institute with the academy's Soul Tool Department, then waited for the Snow Empress Embryo to hatch. The Snow Empress emerged in human form, recognized Cao Yu as her master through a blood contract, and agreed to call him Little Yu.

• Cao Yu and Wang Dong made a bet that she would surpass him after special training, with dorm cleaning or a secret at stake.
• Xian Lin'er toured Cao Yu's research institute, signed a cooperation agreement with him, and arranged for the Soul Tool Department to receive funding and safer research projects.
• After seventy-nine days, Cao Yu watched the Snow Empress Embryo hatch into a woman in his secured office.
• The Snow Empress called Cao Yu Master and explained that consuming his blood had formed a contract requiring her not to harm him.
• The Snow Empress revealed that she remembered her past and resented the human who had taken advantage of her while she was an embryo.
• Cao Yu offered the Snow Empress clothes and asked her to call him Little Yu, which she accepted.

Cao Yu settled Snow Empress into the research institute, showed her around the city, and took her to eat grilled fish. Back at Shrek Academy, he spoke with Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, Ning Tian, Xiaotao, and Xiao Xiao by telephone, while Wang Dong reacted jealously beside him.

• Cao Yu helped Snow Empress put on new clothes, showed her the research institute, and asked her to avoid attracting Shrek's attention while guarding the staff.
• Cao Yu took Snow Empress shopping for clothes and necessities, then brought her to his grilled fish shop, where she praised the meal.
• At his dormitory, Cao Yu received a crowded telephone call from Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, and Ning Tian, and Ning Tian suggested they go out alone together.
• Xiaotao called Cao Yu after the group call, and they exchanged sweet words before ending their conversation.
• Xiao Xiao called to ask Cao Yu to dinner and what color clothes he preferred; after complimenting her legs, Cao Yu noticed Wang Dong looking annoyed and left to shower.

Cao Yu learned that he had been chosen for a three-year exchange at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy. After saying goodbye to his wives and friends, he set out with the student group.

• Cao Yu and Xu Sanshi joked about admiring beautiful women at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
• At the Sea God Pavilion, Mu En settled plans to fund the Soul Tool Department and discussed inviting Zhang Lexuan into the pavilion and accepting an exchange invitation from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
• Mu En told Cao Yu that he would spend around three years at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and return three months before the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Cao Yu spent his remaining days with his wives, then said goodbye to them and his friends at Shrek Academy's gates.
• Fan Yu warned the exchange students not to provoke Cao Yu, revealing that he was a Soul Emperor and that Fan Yu worked for him, before the group departed.

Meng Hongchen decided to stay at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy rather than join the exchange, and Jing Hongchen encouraged her to win over Cao Yu for the Sun Moon Empire. After the students exchanged places at the border, Jing Hongchen brought the Shrek group to Mingdu, where they would live for the next two years and more.

• Xiao Hongchen learned Cao Yu was among the Shrek exchange students, while Meng Hongchen chose to stay at the academy because she hoped to see Cao Yu.
• Jing Hongchen privately asked Meng Hongchen whether she liked Cao Yu and urged her to win him over, offering money, status, and a mansion to persuade him to serve the Sun Moon Empire.
• Two days later, Yan Shaozhe and Fan Yu met Jing Hongchen at a border town, and the two academies exchanged students.
• Jing Hongchen used a fast, dragonfly-wing-like Flying Soul Tool to carry the Shrek students toward Mingdu, impressing Fan Yu and revealing the device's limitations.
• Jing Hongchen brought the group into Mingdu and told them they would live there for the next two years and more.

Cao Yu and the Shrek students arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where they were given maps and tested. Cao Yu’s extraordinary physical readings destroyed the testing device, and he told Lin Jiayi that he had come on vacation and to look at the female students.

• Jing Hongchen introduced Lin Jiayi as the dean of studies and had him settle the Shrek students into the academy.
• Lin Jiayi gave the students school rules, maps, and dormitory keys, then led them to the physical testing room.
• He Caitou’s test revealed exceptional physical strength and resilience, along with a torso Soul Bone.
• Cao Yu’s test recorded rank-eighty-eight physical strength, rank-eighty-four flexibility, rank-sixty-two Soul Power, and three Soul Bones before the device broke down.
• Ye Xiaosheng, Chen Beifeng, He Caitou, and others praised Cao Yu, who said the Martial Soul Department was not as strong as they thought.
• Lin Jiayi asked Cao Yu where his Soul Engineer badge was, and Cao Yu said he was a Martial Soul Master visiting on vacation and to look at the female students.

Cao Yu and the Shrek students completed strength and reaction tests at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where Cao Yu and He Caitou stood out. Lin Jiayi later reported their results to Jing Hongchen, who ordered the exchange students to be taught normally while revealing that Plan One was encountering trouble with its Core Array.

• He Caitou scored strength rank seventy, and Cao Yu scored rank eighty-two after holding back part of his power.
• Cao Yu earned the only excellent rating in the reaction test, and Lin Jiayi assigned the students single rooms in the sixth-year dormitory building.
• Cao Yu ate with several Shrek students, who praised him and toasted their future studies in Soul Tools.
• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that Cao Yu was a sixteen-year-old Soul Emperor with Soul Douluo-level toughness and strength, while He Caitou had also achieved impressive test results.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to teach the exchange students normally and said they would not gain access to the academy's core secrets.
• Lin Jiayi reported that Plan One was facing trouble with its Core Array, and Jing Hongchen paced alone in Mingde Hall.

Cao Yu began studying at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy under Xuan Ziwen, though he spent his first lesson cultivating instead of learning about Soul Tools. Ju Zi recognized Cao Yu when she entered the classroom, and the chapter ended with her distractedly watching him as Xuan Ziwen urged her to focus on her experiment.

• Cao Yu and the other Shrek students received uniforms, gathered at the sixth-year teaching building, and were assigned teachers by lot.
• Xuan Ziwen introduced himself as Cao Yu’s teacher and offered to teach him about Soul Tools, but Cao Yu sat aside to cultivate.
• Ju Zi arrived at Xuan Ziwen’s classroom to sleep, then recognized Cao Yu and was startled by his return.
• Xuan Ziwen told Ju Zi not to disturb Cao Yu while he cultivated, and later reminded her to concentrate on her experiment.

Ju Zi watched Cao Yu cultivate, then teased him about his height and threatened to expose his past actions until he called her Big Sister. She took him to the cafeteria for lunch, where the serving staff mistook them for siblings and teased Ju Zi about taking him in.

• After Xuan Ziwen left the workshop, Ju Zi studied Cao Yu while he cultivated until he opened his eyes and caught her watching him.
• Ju Zi compared their heights and asked Cao Yu how he had grown so tall, and he complimented her figure.
• Ju Zi threatened to reveal Cao Yu's past actions unless he called her Big Sister, and he gave in when she prepared to shout.
• Ju Zi took Cao Yu to the cafeteria and offered to pay for his meal.
• The cafeteria staff assumed Cao Yu was Ju Zi's younger brother and teased her about taking him in, making her blush.

Ju Zi and Cao Yu ate together and joked about their relationship, while other students mistook them for a couple. Meng Hongchen arrived looking for Cao Yu, found him with Ju Zi, and sat beside him after greeting him.

• Ju Zi worried that the academy's aunties would gossip about her being Cao Yu's sworn older sister, and Cao Yu teased her about it.
• Cao Yu told Ju Zi he was sixteen, a Soul Emperor, and a Martial Soul Master from Shrek who was visiting on vacation.
• The students in the cafeteria watched Ju Zi and Cao Yu chat and assumed they were a couple.
• Meng Hongchen entered the cafeteria searching for Cao Yu and passed by male students who had mistaken her gaze for interest in them.
• Meng Hongchen greeted Cao Yu, and he invited her to sit beside him while Ju Zi remained at the table.
• Little Roué and the other students complained that Meng Hongchen had chosen the newly arrived exchange student.

Cao Yu escaped Ju Zi and Meng Hongchen's rivalry over him, while Xuan Ziwen waited for his returning students. The chapter ended as Ke Ke and the other two arrived back from their task and entered the room.

• Ju Zi and Meng Hongchen competed to put meat in Cao Yu's bowl until he fled the cafeteria with his food.
• Cao Yu finished his meal in his dormitory, returned his dishes, and brushed off cafeteria patrons who asked him to teach them his supposed romantic skills.
• Over the next four days, Cao Yu cultivated alone, leaving Xuan Ziwen frustrated that he would not ask to learn about Soul Tools.
• Ju Zi predicted that Ke Ke had spent most of her assigned task playing around, and Xuan Ziwen worried about her performance.
• Ke Ke and two male students returned, and Xuan Ziwen welcomed them inside.

Ke Ke returned with the requested materials and met Cao Yu, while she and Ju Zi teased each other over whether Ju Zi liked him. That night, the Shrek students compared their unhelpful lessons at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, and Cao Yu ended the evening by joking about eating Immoral Dog.

• Ke Ke returned with the ore Xuan Ziwen had requested, and he confirmed that the materials were complete.
• Ke Ke noticed Cao Yu cultivating, learned he was a powerful Shrek exchange student, and Ju Zi teased her for staring at him.
• Ke Ke accused Ju Zi of blushing because she liked Cao Yu, and Ju Zi tickled her until Xuan Ziwen told them to get back to work.
• Cao Yu declined Ke Ke and Ju Zi's lunch invitation because he had struggled to finish the food they served him before.
• Chen Beifeng, He Caitou, and the others described how their instructors withheld useful lessons, and Cao Yu encouraged them to study materials from his research institute.
• Cao Yu released Immoral Dog from Elder Yi's demiplane and joked that he was wondering whether dog meat hot pot tasted good.

Cao Yu joined Ju Zi, Ke Ke, Zi Mu, and Wang Shaojie on a trip to the Jingyang Mountain Range to test their Soul Tools. After Ju Zi prepared a meal for the group, Cao Yu jokingly offered to hire her as a cook after graduation.

• Cao Yu had Immoral Dog turn off the light before they went to sleep.
• Xuan Ziwen assigned the students to test their Soul Tools in the Jingyang Mountain Range and asked Cao Yu to protect the group.
• Ju Zi, Ke Ke, Zi Mu, Wang Shaojie, and Cao Yu flew toward the mountain range using their Flying Soul Tools.
• Ju Zi stopped the group at noon and prepared roasted chicken for everyone.
• Ke Ke praised Ju Zi’s cooking while eating, and Cao Yu offered Ju Zi a cooking job at his home after graduation.

Cao Yu, Ju Zi, Ke Ke, Zi Mu, and Wang Shaojie tested an experimental All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool in the Jingyang Mountain Range and camped there overnight. Their dinner attracted five Earth-Splitting Bears, and Cao Yu and the others began fighting them.

• Ju Zi showed Cao Yu and Ke Ke the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool and demonstrated how it moved through the mountain forest.
• Cao Yu tested the machine, criticized its crude controls and uncomfortable ride, and then he, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke handed it over to Zi Mu and Wang Shaojie.
• Ju Zi and Ke Ke prepared dinner at the campsite, where the group was approached by four ten-thousand-year Earth-Splitting Bears and one thousand-year Earth-Splitting Bear.
• Cao Yu, Zi Mu, and Wang Shaojie shielded Ju Zi and Ke Ke as the bears charged, and Cao Yu used his Second Martial Soul's enhancement to confront them.
• Cao Yu was forced back by the bears' combined strength, while Zi Mu and Wang Shaojie came to support him and Ju Zi and Ke Ke fired their long-range Soul Tools.

Cao Yu used spiritual attacks to draw five Earth-Splitting Bears away from his companions and into a pack of Golden Wolves. After the two groups began fighting, Cao Yu reunited with Ju Zi and the others and watched as Ke Ke wondered which side would win.

• Ju Zi and Ke Ke disrupted the Earth-Splitting Bears with Soul Cannons while Cao Yu's spiritual attacks made the bears focus on him.
• Cao Yu lured the five Earth-Splitting Bears away, and Zi Mu, Wang Shaojie, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke followed.
• Cao Yu dodged the bears' attacks and led them toward a pack of eighty or ninety Golden Wolves.
• The Earth-Splitting Bears charged into the Golden Wolves, and the Golden Wolf King gathered its pack to face them.
• Cao Yu escaped and rejoined the others, who watched the battle as Ke Ke asked which side would win.

After Cao Yu and the others returned safely from their field test, they reported the danger they faced to Xuan Ziwen and celebrated at a restaurant. Xuan Ziwen hinted that Cao Yu should be bolder about his feelings for Ju Zi.

• Ke Ke asked Cao Yu to carry her down from the tree, and Wang Shaojie and Ju Zi grew troubled when they saw her cling to him.
• The group returned to camp, took turns keeping watch, and flew back to the academy the next morning.
• Ju Zi gave Xuan Ziwen the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool test data, and he told the exhausted students to rest before treating them to dinner.
• At the restaurant, Cao Yu said Ju Zi could cook for him for the rest of his life, and Xuan Ziwen urged him to be bolder.

Jing Hongchen arranged an exception allowing Cao Yu to pass his Soul Engineer assessment through battles and enter Mingde Hall if he won. Cao Yu began the assessment against Zi Mu and Wang Shaojie, with further matches against Ju Zi and Ke Ke scheduled.

• Jing Hongchen told Xuan Ziwen to make Cao Yu's assessment a series of battles and quietly instructed him to ensure Cao Yu was not treated too harshly.
• Xuan Ziwen announced that Cao Yu would fight other Soul Engineers, and Ju Zi, Ke Ke, Zi Mu, and Wang Shaojie volunteered to challenge him.
• Xuan Ziwen arranged three matches: Cao Yu against Zi Mu and Wang Shaojie, then against Ju Zi and Ke Ke, followed by a match against all four if he won the first two.
• Xuan Ziwen brought the group to the assessment area the next morning and started Cao Yu's first battle against Zi Mu and Wang Shaojie.
• Zi Mu slashed at Cao Yu with his sword, Cao Yu dodged, and Wang Shaojie followed with a hammer strike.

Cao Yu passed three combat assessments by defeating the other students, while Xuan Ziwen observed the weaknesses of soul engineers in individual combat. Xuan Ziwen then brought Cao Yu to Mingde Hall, where Jing Hongchen assigned Meng Hongchen as his assistant and offered him generous research conditions.

• Cao Yu used his speed to defeat Wang Shaojie and Zi Mu, passing the first assessment.
• Cao Yu dismantled Ju Zi and Ke Ke's soul tools before they could activate them, passing the second assessment.
• Cao Yu fought Zi Mu, Wang Shaojie, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke together, but defeated them after a little over ten minutes.
• Xuan Ziwen took Cao Yu to Mingde Hall's underground manufacturing base, where Cao Yu reunited with He Caitou and the others.
• Jing Hongchen introduced Meng Hongchen as Cao Yu's assistant and offered to provide unlimited experiment materials and let him keep anything he made.