Chapter Summaries

Cao Yu bought several powerful Soul Tools, Soul Bones, and rare metal at Xu Jiujiu’s auction while earning a large rebate. When the auction revealed an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm confirmed it was not Bingbing and argued with Cao Yu about love.

• Xu Jiujiu opened the auction by presenting a Level 8 Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, which Cao Yu won for two million Gold Soul Coins.
• Cao Yu won a bundle of twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shells for one million Gold Soul Coins after other bidders stayed away.
• Cao Yu won five more lots in succession, including three Soul Bones, rare metal, and the Level 8 Heaven-Opening Earth-Cleaving Cannon, while considering how the research institute might remove the cannon’s usage restriction.
• Cao Yu accumulated around four hundred million in rebates, bringing his total funds, including his principal, to roughly 3.4 billion.
• Xu Jiujiu presented an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed it and determined it belonged to one of Bingbing’s clansmen, not Bingbing herself.
• Cao Yu teased the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm about being a devoted lover, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm retorted that Bingbing liked the Snow Empress before giving Cao Yu the middle finger.

Cao Yu won the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone for fifty million Gold Soul Coins, then competed with Xiao Hongchen for the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo. The bidding reached three hundred million as Xiao Hongchen ran out of funds and vowed revenge.

• Elder Yi told Cao Yu to keep the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and offered to help him fuse with it in a few days.
• Cao Yu bid fifty million for the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and won it, bringing his funds to around 3.8 billion Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced the final auction item, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo that Cao Yu recognized as having been formed from the Snow Empress.
• Xiao Hongchen kept bidding against Cao Yu, raising the price to 180 million before Cao Yu pushed it to 200 million.
• Cao Yu raised the bid to 300 million, and Elder Ma stopped Xiao Hongchen because he had run out of funds.

Cao Yu bought the Snow Empress Embryo and started its transformation with a Transformation Talisman while Shrek defeated Dou Ling in the round of sixteen. The chapter ended with Cao Yu finding Xiao Hongchen and his companions eating at Cao's KFC and mocking them.

• Cao Yu won the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo at auction for three hundred million Gold Soul Coins, bringing his total fortune to 6.5 billion.
• Shrek defeated Dou Ling Imperial Advanced Soul Master Academy in the round of sixteen after Gudu Jian was overwhelmed by Dai Yueheng and Gongyang Mo.
• Cao Yu watched the match with Xu Jiawei, then returned home when Shrek's victory made the rest of the day's matches uninteresting.
• Cao Yu bought a Transformation Talisman for the Snow Empress Embryo, attached it, and fed it his blood to begin the seventy-nine-day transformation.
• Cao Yu entered a Cao's KFC branch and found Xiao Hongchen and his companions from Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy eating there.
• Cao Yu mocked Xiao Hongchen as a country bumpkin uncle.

Cao Yu provoked Xiao Hongchen and caught Meng Hongchen’s attention, while the Shrek Representative Team advanced to the tournament final. The chapter ended as the final match was about to begin at Star Luo Plaza.

• Xiao Hongchen got angry when Cao Yu called him a country bumpkin, but Elder Ma stopped him from fighting and warned that he could be disqualified.
• Meng Hongchen introduced herself to Cao Yu, praised his looks, and forgot to ask his name before Cao Yu left.
• Xiao Hongchen asked whether he was more handsome than Cao Yu, and Meng Hongchen, Elder Ma, and Ma Rulong all said he was not.
• The Shrek Representative Team advanced through the tournament to the final, where Cao Yu and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy team met at Star Luo Plaza.
• Cao Yu went onto the city wall with Dai Hao, and Dai Hao announced that Xu Jiawei would speak as the soldiers shouted for bloodshed.

Shrek defeated the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy in the finals’ team battle, with Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng overwhelming their attacks and Xiao Hongchen knocked unconscious. After Ma Rulong conceded, Cao Yu gave Ma Xiaotao a bracelet that suppressed her Evil Fire and could protect her from the Sword of Judgment.

• Xu Jiawei announced the final’s rewards, and the teams entered the arena under Huang Jinxu’s refereeing.
• Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao intercepted the Sun Moon team’s first two waves of Soul Tool attacks with their Soul Skills.
• Xiao Hongchen transformed into his Three-Legged Golden Toad form, but Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao’s attacks overwhelmed him and left him unconscious.
• Shrek eliminated the Sun Moon team members one by one until Ma Rulong conceded the team battle.
• Cao Yu gave Ma Xiaotao a bracelet that could suppress her Evil Fire and resist the Sword of Judgment.

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.