Chapter Summaries

Qin Fang demonstrated how he sensed and forged the life within Ji Juechen's sword, astonishing Jing Hongchen, the Soul Engineers, and his students. The lesson ended with the sword more closely bonded to Ji Juechen, while Jing Hongchen paused the materials course so Qin Fang would not risk his life force.

• Jing Hongchen arrived with more than thirty Soul Engineers and asked to observe Qin Fang's lesson, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were shocked that he called Qin Fang his little brother.
• Qin Fang explained that Ji Juechen's daily connection with his sword had helped it develop life, and Ji Juechen confirmed that he could feel it breathing.
• Ji Juechen's sword eagerly agreed to Qin Fang's demonstration, and Qin Fang used his eye ability and hammer to temper it, letting everyone sense its life and comfort.
• Jing Hongchen paused the Soul Engineering Material Science course after noticing that Qin Fang's forging consumed his life force, and Xuan Ziwen proposed discussing god-level metals with him.
• Ji Juechen found that his sword's thoughts had become more agile and that he could enter Harmony of Sword and Man more easily, while Qin Fang returned to class as a student.

Qin Fang helped Meng Hongchen contain the Cold Poison that had erupted in Genius Class One, then continued treating her while growing closer to her. After Meng Hongchen kissed him and declared she wanted to marry him when he turned fifteen, Qin Fang asked Electrolux how to eliminate her Cold Poison permanently.

• Qin Fang met Ju Zi, offered her sugar-coated haws, and invited her to join Genius Class One, but she declined because she was working on Xuan Ziwen's project for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Meng Hongchen's Cold Poison erupted in class, incapacitating the students, and Qin Fang asked Electrolux for help after using his Life Light Aura to protect himself.
• Electrolux taught Qin Fang to suppress the Cold Poison and seal it inside Meng Hongchen's Jade Sunny Ice Toad Martial Soul with a Core Protection Circle.
• Qin Fang sealed Meng Hongchen's Martial Soul and told Jing Hongchen that he would need to clear her Cold Poison every two days; the other students recovered with help from Healing Soul Masters.
• After seven days of treatment, Meng Hongchen kissed Qin Fang and said she wanted to marry him when he turned fifteen, and Qin Fang asked Electrolux about a permanent cure.

Qin Fang learned that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could help Meng Hongchen control her Cold Poison, and the academy invited him to join the tournament reserve team. After accepting despite the danger, he joined the team for introductions and was assigned to fight Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.

• Electrolux told Qin Fang that tempering Meng Hongchen at a place of extreme cold and heat could let her control her Martial Soul’s Cold Poison, and Qin Fang thought of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Hongchen brought Qin Fang to a meeting where Jing Hongchen named the official tournament team and selected Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen as reserves.
• Jing Hongchen offered Qin Fang a reserve position for experience, and Qin Fang accepted after reading about the tournament’s past casualties and receiving Long Xiaoyao’s approval.
• At the academy arena, the participants introduced their ranks and abilities, and Qin Fang revealed that his Martial Soul was the Skeleton Emperor.
• Old Ma prohibited Invincible Shields and arranged a free-for-all for Ma Rulong and the other seven official members while Qin Fang faced Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.

Qin Fang demonstrated the power of his Time Stop Soul Skill by defeating Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen in an instant. He collapsed from the strain, but Old Ma and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team recognized him as a formidable trump card.

• After Ma Rulong and the others finished their melee, Old Ma harshly criticized them and demanded they fight at full strength for the academy’s glory.
• Old Ma challenged Qin Fang’s ability, while Meng Hongchen offered to fight without Soul Tools; Qin Fang and Xiao Hongchen both insisted they would not hold back.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen activated their Martial Souls and Soul Tools, while Qin Fang summoned the Skeleton Emperor Armor and unleashed his aura.
• Qin Fang used Time Stop to interrupt Xiao Hongchen’s and Meng Hongchen’s Soul Skills, inflict Soul Power backlash, and knock them out of the arena.
• After Time Stop ended, the Skeleton Emperor Armor cracked and Qin Fang collapsed; Old Ma caught him, praised him, and the team accepted him as a powerful trump card.

After Shrek Academy's team suffered a devastating ambush by Evil Soul Masters, Qin Fang and the Sun Moon team set out for the competition. Qin Fang persuaded Meng Hongchen to detour to Sunset Forest under the pretense of curing her Cold Poison, and they arranged to leave the team so she could obtain her Fifth Soul Ring.

• Huo Yuhao's team was ambushed by Evil Soul Masters, leaving three official members dead and Huo Yuhao unable to use Soul Power or Spiritual Power for at least half a month.
• Xuan Zi escorted the injured Shrek team toward the Star Luo Empire, then planned to return to Shrek Academy and accept responsibility.
• Qin Fang led the Sun Moon team into the air, then told Meng Hongchen that Sunset Forest might contain a cure for her Cold Poison.
• Meng Hongchen agreed to travel to Sunset Forest with Qin Fang after he claimed ancient records described a place where Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire had appeared.
• Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen asked Old Ma for leave, explaining that Meng Hongchen had reached level fifty and needed her Fifth Soul Ring; Old Ma insisted on accompanying them.

Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen traveled to Sunset Forest, where Qin Fang used his Life Perception to find a route to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After his Green Lotus Martial Soul subdued the Seven-Colored Grass, they passed through the deadly miasma and continued toward the well.

• Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen left the competition team and traveled for five days to Sunset Forest while Long Xiaoyao secretly followed them.
• Qin Fang awakened an old tree and learned that poison miasma had driven away or killed most of the forest's Soul Beasts.
• The old tree warned Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen away from the forbidden area but gave them a map to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen endured the poison miasma, then encountered a barrier of Seven-Colored Miasma and poisonous Seven-Colored Grass.
• Qin Fang summoned his Green Lotus Martial Soul, causing the Seven-Colored Grass to submit and open a path toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen encountered a vast field of Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolutes Flowers guarding the canyon. Qin Fang’s Green Lotus annihilated more than a thousand Jade Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flowers, and he offered the resulting eighty-thousand-year left arm Soul Bone to Meng Hongchen as a betrothal gift.

• Meng Hongchen identified the rare Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolutes Flowers and explained their deadly poison and potential value as Soul Rings.
• The Jade Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flowers warned Qin Fang to leave and attacked him with a poisonous cloud when he insisted on entering.
• A phantom woman emerged from Qin Fang’s Green Lotus and used “Life, Deprive” to kill more than a thousand ten-thousand-year Jade Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flowers.
• The surviving Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolutes Flowers submitted and surrendered half their Life Origin, while an eighty-thousand-year left arm Soul Bone fell among the ashes.
• Qin Fang’s Green Lotus rejected the Soul Bone, and Qin Fang offered it to Meng Hongchen, who initially refused because she believed it suited him better.

Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Green Lotus subdued the valley’s plant Soul Beasts. The hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herbs recognized the Green Lotus as their Emperor but challenged Qin Fang’s claim that she was his Martial Soul.

• Meng Hongchen accepted the Soul Bone as a betrothal gift, and Qin Fang told her to refine it inside the valley.
• Long Xiaoyao searched Sunset Forest for Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen but could not find them, while the Green Lotus subdued the attacking Deep Blue Vine.
• Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Green Lotus absorbed the valley’s life force and silenced the lesser Plant-type Soul Beasts.
• More than twenty hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herbs arrived, bowed to the Green Lotus as their Emperor, and offered Qin Fang seven immortal-grade plants.
• Qin Fang told the Immortal Herbs that the Green Lotus was his Martial Soul, and Infernal Delicate Apricot angrily doubted that a human could possess such a powerful Martial Soul.

Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper their bodies and transform their abilities, while Electrolux discovered the divine Dragon Corpses that formed its root. Qin Fang agreed to help Electrolux take the treasure land with them.

• Green Lotus Emperor punished Infernal Delicate Apricot, then gave Qin Fang Blazing Gel, while Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass supplied Source Horn Ice for Meng Hongchen.
• Electrolux advised Qin Fang to have Meng Hongchen consume the treasures and enter the well, so they jumped in together and endured its extreme ice and fire.
• Meng Hongchen's Jade Sunny Ice Toad began transforming as she absorbed the treasures and fused with the Azure Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flower Soul Bone, but she fell unconscious.
• Electrolux sensed dense Undead Aura beneath the well and discovered two divine Dragon Corpses that had been first-rank deities.
• Meng Hongchen completed her transformation after a day and night, and Qin Fang finished his own after three days, reaching rank thirty-six.
• Electrolux proposed digging up the Dragon Corpses and taking the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well elsewhere, and Qin Fang agreed to help.

Qin Fang, with Electrolux’s help, entered the hidden plane beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and turned the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King into undead dragons. The chapter ended with both Dragon Kings enslaved by Qin Fang, though they had initially tried to resist.

• Electrolux used Qin Fang’s Skeleton Emperor armor to absorb the Undead Aura and guide him, Green Lotus, and himself into the plane beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• They discovered two enormous Dragon Corpses surrounded by Undead Aura and condensed Gold of Life, and Electrolux began merging the plane’s power with Qin Fang and the Skeleton Emperor.
• Electrolux used the Undead Aura to raise the Dragon Corpses as undead, awakening the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King within them.
• The revived Dragon Kings threatened Qin Fang, but Green Lotus and the Skeleton Emperor helped Electrolux activate the Undead Slavery Contract.
• The Icefire Dragon Kings failed to break the contract, collapsed in pain, and knelt unwillingly before Qin Fang.

Electrolux began fusing the Undead Plane with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Qin Fang escaped the depths of the well and moved its Plant-type Soul Beasts and immortal herbs into the realm. After gathering Gold of Life and rescuing Meng Hongchen, Qin Fang reappeared within Long Xiaoyao’s senses in Sunset Forest.

• Electrolux entered the Undead Plane to oversee its fusion and left Qin Fang its entrance authority, while Qin Fang’s Martial Souls followed him inside.
• Qin Fang escaped the collapsing Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and persuaded You You to lead the Plant-type Soul Beasts into the Undead Plane, where Green Lotus recreated their habitat.
• You You left behind a Tang Sect Manual, but Qin Fang kicked it away rather than read it.
• Green Lotus placed a Lotus Seed to maintain the new Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while the Undead Plane’s rulers and creatures endured the realms’ fusion.
• Qin Fang collected about a hundred pieces of Gold of Life, took the unconscious Meng Hongchen, and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• After searching for Qin Fang for seven days, Long Xiaoyao sensed Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen appear nearby.

After returning from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen reached Star Luo City and rejoined the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team. As Shrek Academy began its round-robin match, Qin Fang publicly accused Huo Yuhao of cheating with Spiritual Sharing.

• Qin Fang showed Long Xiaoyao a piece of Gold of Life and described the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before Long Xiaoyao flew him and the unconscious Meng Hongchen to Star Luo City.
• At the Star Emperor Grand Hotel, Qin Fang and Huo Yuhao recognized each other as powerful rivals, and both identified the other as the opposing academy’s ace.
• Qin Fang and Meng Hongchen returned to the team, where Old Ma approved their participation in the next day’s match and Meng Hongchen hinted that her new Fifth Soul Ring had made her stronger.
• Wang Yan obtained Qin Fang’s sparse profile and suspected that Qin Fang was an Evil Soul Master because his listed Martial Soul was a skeleton.
• During Shrek Academy’s match against Thousand Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy, Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to help He Caitou win the first battle, and Qin Fang stood up to denounce Shrek for cheating.

Qin Fang accused Shrek Academy of cheating, and Old Ma backed him by challenging Shrek’s knowledge of Qin Fang’s Martial Soul. When Elder Xuan threatened Qin Fang and overpowered Old Ma, Long Xiaoyao intervened and revealed himself as a Limit Douluo.

• Qin Fang told Old Ma that he was sure of his accusation, and the spectators grew suspicious of Huo Yuhao when they saw his panicked reaction.
• Wang Yan demanded evidence and attacked Qin Fang’s credibility by calling him an Evil Soul Master, while Shrek supporters defended the academy.
• Old Ma argued that Shrek could only have learned Qin Fang’s Martial Soul through improper access to tournament information, and Qin Fang used his Light Attribute to rebut Wang Yan.
• Qin Fang and Old Ma mocked Shrek Academy, provoking Ma Xiaotao and leaving Wang Yan unable to respond.
• Elder Xuan appeared and pressured Old Ma to make Qin Fang apologize, but Long Xiaoyao arrived, dissolved the pressure, and challenged Xuan’s claim that strength ruled the soul master world.
• Taotie Douluo recognized Long Xiaoyao and asked what relationship he had with Qin Fang.

Long Xiaoyao defended Huo Yuhao as evidence of Shrek Academy’s cheating and stolen information stirred outrage, but the Star Luo Emperor allowed the academy to remain in the tournament under penalties. After the teams prepared to face Shrek’s reserve members, Qin Fang confronted Huo Yuhao and demanded the method for condensing a Wisdom Soul Ring in exchange for keeping Huo Yuhao’s secrets.

• Long Xiaoyao challenged Taotie Douluo’s accusation and exposed Shrek Academy’s cheating and Wang Yan’s receipt of Sun Moon Empire information, prompting academy leaders to demand a rematch.
• The Star Luo Emperor suspended the competition for a day and summoned the team leaders and Shrek’s students to the imperial palace.
• Xu Feng reported that Shrek Academy could still compete, Wang Yan had lost his team-leader position, Huo Yuhao would be restricted from using Spiritual Power while spectating, and Shrek would face championship conditions and compensation penalties.
• Qin Fang urged his team to fight Shrek’s reserve members, while Huo Yuhao visited him and considered whether the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could kill him.
• Qin Fang asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for the method to condense a Wisdom Soul Ring in exchange for keeping Huo Yuhao’s and his mother’s secrets, then warned the Ice Empress against attacking him.

Qin Fang coerced Huo Yuhao into handing over the Wisdom Soul Ring method, Shrek Academy research materials, and his mother’s White Tiger Dagger. The tournament resumed amid public outrage over Shrek’s exemption from punishment, and Qin Fang took the stage for the next match’s draw.

• Qin Fang threatened Huo Yuhao and forced him to agree to copy Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul and Soul Tool research, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gave him the Wisdom Soul Ring method.
• Qin Fang demanded Huo Yuhao’s White Tiger Dagger, and Huo Yuhao surrendered it before angrily leaving.
• Wang Dong overheard Qin Fang’s treatment of Huo Yuhao and grew determined to confront him in the tournament.
• Old Ma visited Qin Fang, and the next day the organizing committee exempted Shrek Academy from punishment for suspected cheating, drawing boos from the crowd.
• Shrek Academy defeated Thousand Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in three matches, then Qin Fang took Ma Rulong’s place to draw lots against Tianzheng Academy.

Qin Fang took command of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team and sent Meng Hongchen to face Tianzheng Academy alone. Meng revealed that her Martial Soul had evolved into a powerful Splendid Two-Headed Dragon, leaving the match poised for a one-against-seven challenge.

• Old Ma handed Qin Fang the captaincy and asked him to arrange the team’s tactics.
• Qin Fang named Meng Hongchen as the team’s only fighter and said the academy would surrender if she lost.
• Meng Hongchen introduced herself as a Rank 55 Soul King, surprising Xiao Hongchen and the other academy leaders.
• Meng Hongchen activated her evolved Splendid Two-Headed Dragon Martial Soul, which combined Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire.
• The chapter revealed that Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul had evolved through immortal herbs and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and that an eighty-thousand-year Icefire Poison Dragon Grass had become her Fifth Soul Ring.

After gaining six Soul Power ranks from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Meng Hongchen fought Tianzheng Academy’s first two contestants and defeated them with her potent poison and Ultimate Fire. Qin Fang kept her as the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s sole fighter, and Tianzheng Academy’s remaining members prepared to wear her down.

• Meng Hongchen’s new Soul Bones and Soul Ring raised her from rank forty-nine by six levels, while the Icefire Poison Dragon Grass sealed extra Soul Power in her meridians and dantian.
• Meng Hongchen defeated Yang Yifan by corroding his arm and poisoning him, then detoxified him when Qin Fang ordered her to save his life.
• Yu Mengdi used her angel Martial Soul and Soul Skills against Meng Hongchen’s Ultimate Ice mirrors, but Meng Hongchen burned her with Ultimate Fire and forced Tianzheng Academy to concede.
• Qin Fang refused to switch fighters and declared that Meng Hongchen would face Tianzheng Academy’s entire team alone.
• Ye Wuqing wanted to fight next, but Blood Wolf and the other teammates volunteered to weaken Meng Hongchen and help their captain find her weakness.

Meng Hongchen used her poison and powerful dragon Soul Skill to defeat all seven members of Tianzheng Academy, including Ye Wuqing, before collapsing from exhaustion. Shrek Academy worried over the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s strength, while Qin Fang carried Meng Hongchen away and her team celebrated.

• Meng Hongchen filled the arena with poisonous mist, forcing Tianzheng Academy’s fourth, fifth, and sixth contestants to concede after Blood Wolf had already lost.
• Ye Wuqing entered as Tianzheng Academy’s seventh contestant and attacked Meng Hongchen with a Golden Leaf Array, cutting her cheek.
• Meng Hongchen unleashed her eighty-thousand-year Fifth Soul Skill, Ice Fire Dragon Dance, shattered Ye Wuqing’s array, and knocked him unconscious.
• The referee declared that Meng Hongchen had defeated all seven opponents, and she fainted after forcing herself to remain standing.
• Qin Fang carried Meng Hongchen away as the arena match was suspended for repairs, and Shrek Academy’s members later met with Taotie Douluo to discuss their concerns.
• Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy held a celebration banquet in honor of Meng Hongchen’s historic victory.

At the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament, Qin Fang kept his abilities hidden until the individual elimination match, where he shocked the audience by defeating a Soul Ancestor with a compact silver pistol. The chapter left the academies and the Star Luo Emperor alarmed by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s soul-tool advances.

• At the banquet, Meng Hongchen told the others how she had evolved her Martial Soul, and Qin Fang promised to show his strength in the tournament.
• Meng Hongchen gave Xiao Hongchen a Golden Soul Flower after he agreed to accept Qin Fang as his brother-in-law; Xiao Hongchen began refining its power.
• The next morning, Qin Fang ordered Xiao Hongchen to stay behind and cultivate, then Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy won its early tournament matches before drawing the individual elimination format on the fifth day.
• Qin Fang faced Li Yifan of Jia Men Academy and announced that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy would concede if anyone defeated him.
• Qin Fang shot Li Yifan with his upgraded Silver Pistol, then stabilized him with Light Life Soul Power, leaving the gathered academies and the Star Luo Emperor stunned by the weapon’s power.

Qin Fang demonstrated his powerful Silver Pistol, defeating seven Jia Men Academy opponents and alarming the other academies about the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool potential. As the tournament approached its decisive matches, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy planned for Shrek Academy and accepted an invitation to the Starlight Auction House.

• Qin Fang used his Silver Pistol to defeat seven Jia Men Academy Soul Masters, including its Soul King, while secretly freezing each target with his Time Stop skill.
• Qin Fang told Old Ma that the Silver Pistol could be replicated, though its expensive materials made his version exceptionally powerful.
• Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen led Shrek Academy to a crushing victory, prompting Old Ma to warn that Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng had nearly recovered.
• Qin Fang assigned Ma Rulong, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen to face Shrek Academy’s strongest fighters, while Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen volunteered for individual matchups.
• Qing Ya invited the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to the Starlight Auction, and Qin Fang decided they should attend to pursue an Ice Explosion Soul Bone.
• Qin Fang’s group encountered Shrek Academy’s team as both sides left, but they departed without speaking.