Recaps

Gao Shang discovered the System Shop could add newly created items, considered how to use it to develop powerful Soul Tools and empower ordinary people, and tested the strength of his Fire Release Ninjutsu after recovering. The chapter ended with him rewarding Wang Tianyuan with an extra dish after a successful training session.

• The system explained that it checked the plane monthly for newly created items, and Gao Shang considered using the shop to enhance prototypes such as pills and mobile phones.
• The system added Flesh Puppet to the shop, and Gao Shang examined its levels and considered its potential as a vessel for souls or as a basis for powerful robots.
• After five days of recovery, Gao Shang concluded that empowering ordinary people could help rebalance the continent and support his own plans to earn and spend more money.
• Gao Shang went to the training ground with Wang Tianyuan and tested his Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique, blasting Wang Tianyuan backward with its power.
• Gao Shang helped Wang Tianyuan up and promised him an extra dish for the meal.

Gao Shang comforted Han Xing after the deaths of her parents by giving her hope that she could bring them back, and she began eating again. He then told Hong Hua to invite the Fortune and Prosperity Pavilion’s head chef to test his cooking for a restaurant Gao Shang planned to open.

• Gao Shang urged Han Xing to eat, but she remained withdrawn after losing her parents.
• Gao Shang told Han Xing that people could be resurrected by gods and that passing a God Examination could let her inherit a godhood, giving her a goal to pursue.
• Han Xing sat back down and began eating, while Hong Hua and Sun Meng drew her into the conversation.
• Gao Shang asked Hong Hua to invite the Fortune and Prosperity Pavilion’s head chef to cook dinner so he could assess him for his planned restaurant.
• Gao Shang explained that the restaurant would serve dishes made with rare ingredients such as bear paws and moose noses, and Hong Hua left to fetch the chef.

Gao Shang tested an eager head chef, who revealed her Soul Bone disguise and unusual Martial Soul, Wok Hei, which let her cultivate while cooking. After learning why she wanted to work for him, Gao Shang asked her age.

• The head chef arrived at the Gao residence and agreed to Gao Shang’s ingredient-preparation test for a chance to work for him.
• Before the test, the head chef asked Gao Shang what he thought of the Star Luo Imperial Family, and he criticized its bloody succession method.
• The head chef used a Transformation Soul Bone to reveal that she was a woman, then disclosed that she had a Soul Ancestor cultivation rank.
• She explained that her Wok Hei Martial Soul identified ingredients, improved dishes, and absorbed cooking byproducts to increase her Soul Power.
• Gao Shang realized that ingredients served as the head chef’s cultivation resources and asked how old she was.

Gao Shang tested Shangguan Yun’s knowledge of ingredients, accepted her as a chef, and began planning a restaurant and an expansion of his estate. He left the estate purchases for later after Hong Hua explained that their noble and Soul Master neighbors might refuse to sell.

• Shangguan Yun told Gao Shang that she had fled the Star Luo Imperial Palace after a consort threatened to kill her over an impossible dish.
• Shangguan Yun identified all thirty-six ingredients in Gao Shang’s assessment and passed, earning the ingredients.
• Gao Shang gave Shangguan Yun a food-storage Soul Tool ring and assigned her a room.
• Gao Shang gave Hong Hua two storage rings, one for her and one for Wang Tianyuan.
• Gao Shang asked Hong Hua to find a large restaurant site and inquire about buying neighboring houses, but agreed to postpone the house purchases after she explained the obstacles.

After a lavish meal, Gao Shang searched the system shop for ways to improve his spiritual power and discovered the exorbitant prices of rare herbs and gold of life. He found a cheaper growing Nine-Leaf Spider Lily, but its leaves contained negative soul power that he would need to remove before using them.

• Gao Shang reviewed his funds and decided he needed a way to improve his spiritual power beyond his existing combat abilities.
• Gao Shang found that million-year Leafless Spider Lily, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and gold of life cost billions of Gold Soul Coins.
• The system explained that one gram of gold of life held roughly four times the life origin of the continent’s last million-year soul beast, leading Gao Shang to think of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Gao Shang learned that Leafless Spider Lily grew beside the Yellow Springs and could trigger Martial Soul Evolution in certain Soul Masters, then wondered whether the world had an Underworld.
• Gao Shang found that a hundred-year spider lily cost one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and that an eleven-year Nine-Leaf Spider Lily offered similar soul energy for just over ten thousand.
• Gao Shang realized the Nine-Leaf Spider Lily’s leaves contained negative soul power and could not be used until he found a way to remove it.

Gao Shang bought a Red Spider Lily to improve his spiritual power, but Sun Meng arrived after her Martial Soul sensed the flower. He gave it to her to try to evolve her Martial Soul, and she began eating it under his watch.

• Gao Shang learned that mature Red Spider Lilies could improve spiritual power and bought one for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• As Gao Shang prepared to eat the flower, Sun Meng came to his courtyard because her Martial Soul had grown restless and drawn her there.
• Gao Shang showed Sun Meng the Red Spider Lily, and her sickle Martial Soul appeared and trembled as she reached toward it.
• Gao Shang suspected the flower had a mind-bewitching effect and gave Sun Meng a Red Spider Lily, buying another to persuade her to accept it.
• Sun Meng accepted the flower and began eating it while Gao Shang stood guard.

After Sun Meng absorbed the red spider lily, she awakened with Innate Full Soul Power, powerful spiritual energy, and an Innate Domain. She revealed that her evolved Soul-Gathering Scythe could suppress foes and collect the souls of those who died nearby, prompting Gao Shang to compare it to a Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

• Sun Meng collapsed after swallowing the red spider lily, and Gao Shang carried her to bed and watched over her as she slept for three days.
• While Sun Meng remained asleep, Gao Shang gave Hong Hua five thousand Gold Soul Coins to buy and clear a restaurant site on Nuoding City's main street.
• On the morning of the fourth day, Sun Meng's red cocoon released an Innate Domain that weakened Gao Shang before its light withdrew into her.
• Sun Meng woke, hugged Gao Shang, and told him she had become a Soul Master; after they regrouped, she summoned her evolved Soul-Gathering Scythe.
• Sun Meng explained that her scythe could deal soul damage, suppress people within an area, and absorb the souls of those who died there, and Gao Shang called it a Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

After helping Sun Meng accept her new Soul-Gathering Scythe, Gao Shang arranged to buy rare whale rubber and consumed a Red Spider Lily himself. The herb evolved his Sharingan into a Two-Tomoe Sharingan with Insight, leaving him able to see Soul Power and its circulation.

• Gao Shang reassured Sun Meng that her Soul-Gathering Scythe did not make her a Fallen Soul Master as long as she used it responsibly, and warned her to keep her domain secret.
• Gao Shang gave Wang Tianyuan twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins and instructed him to secretly buy whale rubber over a thousand years old in nearby cities.
• Gao Shang entered seclusion and swallowed a Red Spider Lily, whose medicinal power flowed into both his Niwan Palace and his eyes.
• Gao Shang's Sharingan evolved into a Two-Tomoe Sharingan and awakened the Insight ability as his spiritual power reached the Soul Elder level.
• Gao Shang used Insight to see Soul Power in the air and inside a Polar Ice Phosphorus Shrimp, then laughed at the advantage it would give him in battle.

Gao Shang trained Sun Meng, planned the White Jade Capital organization, and welcomed Wang Tianyuan back with a lucrative batch of whale rubber. The chapter ended with Gao Shang discovering the rubber was worth 1,200,000 Gold Soul Coins.

• Gao Shang helped Sun Meng improve her cultivation and saber skills, then asked her to support Han Xing and encourage her to rest.
• Gao Shang told Sun Meng he planned to establish an organization called White Jade Capital.
• Wang Tianyuan returned with forty pieces of thousand-year whale rubber and agreed to join Gao Shang's organization with Hong Hua.
• Gao Shang gave Wang Tianyuan a booklet of Taijutsu and saber techniques and instructed him to call him Tower Master.
• The system valued the whale rubber at 1,200,000 Gold Soul Coins, astonishing Gao Shang.

Gao Shang saved several pieces of whale rubber for Sun Meng and Han Xing, then used most of his proceeds to buy and absorb the Eye of Destiny. He discovered its fortune-related abilities, including Destiny Backlash and Destiny Domination, and tried to remind himself not to become reckless.

• Gao Shang set aside four high-quality pieces of whale rubber for Sun Meng and Han Xing and recycled the rest for 1,072,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Gao Shang spent 1,000,000 Gold Soul Coins on the Eye of Destiny, a hundred-year External Soul Bone linked to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion clan.
• Gao Shang absorbed the Eye of Destiny and discovered that it gave him a third eye that let him watch in two directions at once.
• Gao Shang learned that Destiny Detection showed others' fortune and Destiny Backlash made anyone who attacked him suffer misfortune.
• Gao Shang discovered Destiny Domination could steal or bestow fortune, subject to a three-month cooldown and a limit of half a target's fortune per use.
• Gao Shang realized Destiny Backlash could devastate his killer and their allies, then repeatedly warned himself not to act recklessly.