Chapter Summaries

Wang Xiaofeng recruited Old Hody as the Izumo’s navigator and set out with Old Xing, Nidya, and two sailors to search for the place Old Xing claimed was the site of the Turtle-Crab War. The ship left for uncharted waters, while Old Hody kept quiet about the truth behind his son’s old story.

• You Li told Wang Xiaofeng that Old Hody was an experienced navigator and offered him a contract to guide the Izumo.
• Old Hody discovered Old Xing visiting his home and refused You Li’s offer, but You Li urged him to accept for his sick wife’s sake.
• Old Xing decided to resign from You Li’s employ and return to his family, and Old Hody soon came after him.
• Old Hody joined Old Xing, Wang Xiaofeng, Nidya, and two sailors aboard the Izumo after it was resupplied.
• Wang Xiaofeng announced that the crew would search for traces of the Turtle-Crab War, and Old Hody chose not to reveal his doubts before the Izumo set sail.

Wang Xiaofeng traveled aboard the Izumo and learned about the dangers of sea Soul Beasts before the ship entered the Ironclad Magma Emperor’s territory. He found the beast during the night and planned to return the others to shore before facing it for his Sixth Soul Ring.

• Wang Xiaofeng questioned Old Hody about sea Soul Beasts and learned about the charts and potion sailors used to avoid them.
• Wang Xiaofeng asked Old Hody about navigation and marine conditions, gaining knowledge while they sailed and shared a seafood lunch.
• Two sailors warned that the Izumo had entered the Ironclad Magma Emperor’s territory, so Old Hody turned the ship away from the black waters.
• Wang Xiaofeng ordered the Izumo to anchor for the night, then explored the black sea with Nidya standing guard.
• Wang Xiaofeng found the Fire Crab about seven nautical miles northeast of the ship and marked it with spiritual power.
• Wang Xiaofeng told Nidya they would return the others to shore in the morning and then come back to claim the Ironclad Magma Emperor as his Sixth Soul Ring.

Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya sailed back into the Black Sea Area to search for a suitable Soul Beast, but found that the Ironclad Magma Emperor had vanished. After weeks of searching, Wang Xiaofeng detected its Mental Mark amid a violent storm and steered the Izumo toward a waterspout.

• Wang Xiaofeng paid the sailors and secretly sailed the Izumo out of port with Nidya.
• Wang Xiaofeng searched the Black Sea Area for the Ironclad Magma Emperor, but discovered it had left the place where it had stayed for over ten years.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya searched a five-hundred-kilometer radius for more than half a month without finding the Bell Toll Turtle.
• A violent storm struck the Izumo, and Wang Xiaofeng used his spiritual power to calm the sea around the ship.
• Wang Xiaofeng sensed the Ironclad Magma Emperor's damaged Mental Mark near a waterspout and steered the Izumo toward it.

Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya sailed the Izumo into the Black Sea Area’s core, where two powerful Soul Beasts were locked in battle beneath the waves. As an undersea volcanic eruption began, Wang Xiaofeng coated the ship in Black Membrane and tried to flee the blast and tsunamis.

• Wang Xiaofeng used three Black Membrane-coated sea swallows to draw lightning away from the Izumo as it crossed the storm.
• Wang Xiaofeng brought the Izumo to a stop above the Magma Emperor’s location, but the clashing auras below prevented him from detecting what was happening underwater.
• After waiting three hours, Wang Xiaofeng realized the battle below might leave both Soul Beasts badly injured, but the corrosive seawater was damaging the ship.
• Wang Xiaofeng spotted bubbles rising from the seabed and saw a towering column of water erupt as an undersea volcano began to erupt.
• Wang Xiaofeng drove the Izumo away and covered it with a thick Black Membrane as ash, toxic gas, extreme heat, lightning, and massive tsunamis engulfed the sea.

After surviving the volcanic disaster, Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya found the Magma Emperor fighting the Bell Toll Turtle and discovered it was devouring the turtle’s shell to heal and evolve. They launched a prepared attack as the Magma Emperor neared victory, leaving the battle about to turn.

• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya inspected Izumo’s severe damage and decided to return to the battle site after the Mental Mark disappeared.
• The Magma Emperor emerged alive on the volcanic island, healed by eating charred remains, and sensed the Old Turtle using bloodline it had extracted from its food.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya crossed the island after hearing a bell and saw the Magma Emperor breaking the Bell Toll Turtle’s shell while the Old Turtle protected its hatchlings.
• The Magma Emperor grew stronger by devouring the Bell Toll Turtle’s shell and appeared close to breaking through the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya attacked from the air with the Thunder Water Dragon and Nidya’s Ice Crystal Arrow Rain.

Wang Xiaofeng fought off the Evil God's Eye after it corrupted the Magma Emperor and transformed the island around him. He sealed the Evil God's Eye in his Gourd, then reunited with Nidya and the Bell Toll Turtle as another powerful presence approached.

• Wang Xiaofeng struck the Magma Emperor with the Gourd, but the Evil God's Eye appeared in the sky and transformed the nearby terrain into flesh.
• Wang Xiaofeng sent Nidya away, resisted the Evil God's corrupting power, and watched the Evil God empower the Magma Emperor until it became a crazed beast above the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• Wang Xiaofeng used Angel Power to break through the Evil God's spatial barrier and sucked the Evil God's Eye into the Gourd.
• Wang Xiaofeng mocked the Evil God's threat and noted that its power could supply the missing energy for his artificial Soul Ring experiment.
• Nidya caught up with the fleeing Bell Toll Turtle, which warned her that a madman blocked their escape as intense heat approached.

Nidya and Wang Xiaofeng negotiated with the dying Bell Toll Turtle, who planned to sacrifice himself to destroy the Magma Emperor and give Nidya his Soul Ring and Soul Bone. The Bell Toll Turtle saved its clan and fulfilled its final promise before vanishing, leaving Wang Xiaofeng to realize there had never been a binding contract.

• The Bell Toll Turtle and Nidya fled the Magma Emperor’s flames, but the Magma Emperor shattered the turtle’s shell and nearly killed him.
• The Bell Toll Turtle slowed time and offered Nidya his Soul Ring and Soul Bone in exchange for protecting his clan and fulfilling two requests, while Wang Xiaofeng’s will projection intervened to keep the clan safe.
• The Bell Toll Turtle revealed that he planned to draw down Thunder Tribulation to kill the Magma Emperor, then sacrifice himself to become Nidya’s Soul Ring.
• Nidya and Wang Xiaofeng agreed to the Bell Toll Turtle’s terms as his time domain collapsed and the Magma Emperor struck him again.
• The Bell Toll Turtle used his final power to escape the lightning and redirect the Thunder Tribulation onto the Magma Emperor, then vanished as Nidya received his Soul Ring.
• Wang Xiaofeng told Nidya that no binding contract had ever existed and called the Bell Toll Turtle an idiot for trusting a human promise.

Wang Xiaofeng protected Nidya as she underwent a transformation fueled by Old Turtle’s sacrifice, then fought the Magma Emperor while she remained inside a cocoon. After he defeated the beast, an Evil Eye ritual began to corrupt him at his most vulnerable moment, leaving him facing a sudden threat to his mind and soul.

• A colossal sea beast awakened far beneath the sea, while the energy from Old Turtle’s sacrifice reached Nidya and Wang Xiaofeng redirected it into her.
• Wang Xiaofeng used the Gourd and his Soul Power to repair Nidya’s meridians and reshape her body inside a cyan cocoon.
• The Thunder Tribulation battered the Magma Emperor but failed to kill it, and the weakened beast attacked Wang Xiaofeng near Nidya’s cocoon.
• Wang Xiaofeng fought the Magma Emperor, weakened it by exhausting its fire energy, and destroyed its internal energy cores despite interference from Evil Eye’s Shadow.
• As the Magma Emperor died, a crimson sacrificial ritual locked down the area, and Evil Eye’s Shadow merged with the radiance to unleash a wave of madness against Wang Xiaofeng.

Wang Xiaofeng escaped into a ruined otherworldly projection and discovered that defeating the Armored Man was part of the evil god’s trial. He attacked the church with a homemade bomb and Phoenix Flame, then entered through the steam to face the still-standing foe.

• Wang Xiaofeng used the soul-rooted Gourd to tear through the darkness and entered a ruined city in an unknown projection.
• Wang Xiaofeng avoided a seven-meter-tall patrol monster, explored the empty buildings, and learned that monsters patrolled the streets roughly every ten minutes.
• Wang Xiaofeng reached the intact church and saw the Armored Man, a Cross Sword, and a sapphire containing a familiar crab.
• Wang Xiaofeng inferred the evil god’s trial required him to defeat the Armored Man and obtain the Magma Emperor’s soul, then prepared a weapon from another world.
• Wang Xiaofeng bombed the church, but the blast failed to destroy it; Phoenix Flame poured from the building as he charged back toward it.
• Wang Xiaofeng doused the burning church with the Water Element and entered after the flames subsided, finding the Armored Man still standing with its Cross Sword.

Wang Xiaofeng fought the Armored Man through a succession of brutal exchanges, using his calabash, explosives, and abilities to wear him down. He finally killed the Armored Man with a blood spear, but a Black Sword had pierced his lower abdomen and pinned him to the floor.

• Wang Xiaofeng shattered much of the Armored Man’s armor with a surprise assault, but the Armored Man stunned him with mental power and repeatedly threw him into walls.
• Wang Xiaofeng used his calabash, saber, vines, and gunfire to counter the Armored Man, while the Armored Man restored his armor and drew a spiral spear.
• Wang Xiaofeng broke the spiral spear’s suction attack with explosives and damaged the Armored Man’s armor again, but the Armored Man recovered his Black Sword and unleashed a sweeping sword strike.
• Wang Xiaofeng cut open his arm and shaped his blood into a spear while a Calabash Vine briefly restrained King of Black.
• Wang Xiaofeng sent a blood beast and spear through a gap in the Armored Man’s armor, killing him, but a Black Sword pierced Wang Xiaofeng’s lower abdomen and pinned him to the stone floor.

Wang Xiaofeng survived the collapse of the church, defeated the Magma Emperor’s remnant soul, and absorbed the evil god’s power before escaping the Different Dimension. The hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone rebuilt his body and transformed his senses, leaving him with greatly enhanced strength and the ability to perceive and refine the qualities of substances.

• Wang Xiaofeng recovered from his sword wound with help from a vine’s Life Essence and Moon Dew, then escaped as the church collapsed.
• Wang Xiaofeng released the Magma Emperor’s remnant soul, burned it with his heartfire, and endured an invasion by the evil god’s energy, which his violet energy devoured.
• Wang Xiaofeng left the collapsing Different Dimension and began absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring’s power, which shattered and rebuilt his body with the Magma Emperor’s Soul Bone as nourishment.
• Wang Xiaofeng tested his renewed strength, controlled his heightened perception, and discovered that he could sense and refine the spiritual qualities of herbs.

Wang Xiaofeng guarded the cocoon until a powerful Black Dragon arrived and attacked him, seeking Old Turtle’s descendants and soul. Wang Xiaofeng unleashed his six-colored fire formation and detonated it, badly injuring the Black Dragon, which fled while Wang Xiaofeng’s fate remained unknown.

• Wang Xiaofeng absorbed Sunlight Essence and continued guarding the light cocoon while practicing his fire and lightning abilities.
• A Black Dragon emerged from the sea, questioned Wang Xiaofeng about Old Turtle, and discovered the sphere containing Old Turtle’s descendants.
• The Black Dragon accused Wang Xiaofeng of seeking Old Turtle’s Soul Ring and attacked him; Wang Xiaofeng used lightning-enhanced Flash Step to evade its strikes.
• Wang Xiaofeng tried to escape with the cocoon, but the Black Dragon summoned clouds and a waterspout to slow him down.
• Wang Xiaofeng trapped himself and the Black Dragon in a fire formation, then unleashed six-colored flames that culminated in a devastating explosion.
• The explosion badly wounded the Black Dragon, which threatened Wang Xiaofeng and fled; Sea God Island’s dignified woman sensed the distant blast.

After surviving the Black Dragon’s attack, Wang Xiaofeng recovered underground and restored Nidya’s human form, though she emerged unusually muscular and powerful. They escaped and returned to Calabash Village, where Wang Xiaofeng introduced Nidya to his parents and asked them to agree to their marriage.

• Wang Xiaofeng hid inside the volcano, treated his injuries, and used a concoction of medicinal ingredients to nourish Nidya’s cocoon.
• Wang Xiaofeng awoke to find Nidya transformed into a mountain of flesh and reshaped her body until she returned to human form, though excess energy left her muscular and bulky.
• Wang Xiaofeng explained that he and Nidya needed to leave the volcano to regulate her body, and Nidya lamented losing her jade hairpin and Soul Tool.
• At Calabash Village, Wang Danu and He Li worried about the storm’s damage and about their son’s long silence before Bei Bei sensed Wang Xiaofeng’s return.
• Wang Xiaofeng reunited with his family, introduced Nidya, and asked his parents to agree to their marriage.

Wang Xiaofeng asked his parents to accept his relationship with Nidya, and He Li agreed to consider her while teaching her to cook. Their engagement became village gossip, and Wang Xiaofeng helped Nidya avoid the visiting relatives before signing Wang Ye’s character cards.

• Wang Xiaofeng told He Li and Wang Danu that he wanted to marry Nidya, and Wang Danu supported the match.
• He Li said Nidya fell short of her standards but agreed to teach her Wang Xiaofeng’s cooking preferences, effectively accepting the marriage.
• Wang Danu spread the news that Wang Xiaofeng had brought his future wife home, and relatives soon filled the house to meet her.
• Nidya hid in Wang Xiaofeng’s room, so he used a water illusion of her former appearance to handle the relatives.
• Wang Ye asked Wang Xiaofeng to sign his character cards, and Wang Xiaofeng magically signed them all.

Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya returned to Chasing Wind Territory, where they discovered that arson and attacks had crippled its guards and businesses after Chasing Wind Commerce challenged Heaven Dou City's merchant interests. Wang Xiaofeng captured two Black Market operatives, healed Gliev, and prepared to investigate the plot and treat the fire's victims.

• Nidya rapidly mastered He Li's cooking lessons, and Wang Xiaofeng took her from home the next morning while his parents watched them fly away on a white cloud.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya reached his territory near Heaven Dou City, where Lin Yi explained that a warehouse fire had injured the guards and Gliev and left the territory short-staffed.
• Wang Xiaofeng deduced that the fire had been deliberate, then captured two men plotting to kidnap children and interrogated them through Nidya's mind-reading ability.
• Gliev told Wang Xiaofeng that Chasing Wind Commerce had angered established merchants by selling cheaper poultry and herbs, prompting Black Market missions against the territory.
• Wang Xiaofeng healed Gliev, named Nidya his direct superior, and ordered Gliev to gather the burn victims so he could treat them.

Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya infiltrated the Heaven Dou City Black Market, subdued its guards, and searched a safe for its account book. They escaped with the book and safe while Bai Fu survived their attack, and the wounded guards were left with strange objects attached to their hearts.

• Bai Fu left the Black Market hall to inspect the area before the transport convoy arrived, leaving Lei Du and Lei Sha in charge.
• As fog covered the market, Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya confronted the guards; Wang Xiaofeng's vines weakened and wounded them, and he revealed himself to Bai Fu as the Shrek Academy champion Wang Xiaofeng.
• Nidya found the location of the Black Market's target in Bai Fu's memories, and Wang Xiaofeng sent Phantom Forms to fight Bai Fu while they went upstairs.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya opened a safe, copied the account book, took the safe, and escaped through the roof as reinforcements arrived.
• Bai Fu learned that the Black Market's goods were safe and that the wounded guards could be healed, but a physician said their heart-attached foreign objects could only possibly be treated by a Nine Heart Begonia soul master.

After the Black Market abandoned retaliation, Wang Xiaofeng returned to Chasing Wind Territory and celebrated with its people before attending Earl Edio’s gathering in disguise. There, Wang Xiaofeng uncovered Edio’s scheme against Shrek Academy and suspected a larger Spirit Hall plot, then moved to confront their host.

• The Black Market’s Heaven Dou branch decided not to retaliate against Wang Xiaofeng after assessing its small losses and his strength.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya joined Chasing Wind Territory’s bonfire party, and he explained his delegated system of governance and concern about residents worshipping him.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya entered Eden Manor by using spiritual guidance and an enhanced hallucinogenic potion, and he showed her the restored light brain.
• Wang Xiaofeng overheard Earl Edio, Prince Xue Xing, and Xue Beng discuss infiltrating Shrek Academy by imposing a temporary cafeteria oversight group.
• Nidya’s attempt to read Edio’s thoughts triggered his warning ring, and he fled to a hidden safe room while she learned he might be connected to Spirit Hall.
• Wang Xiaofeng concluded that Spirit Hall could destabilize the Heaven Dou Empire within five years and led Nidya toward Edio through the castle fog.

Wang Xiaofeng infiltrated Earl Edio’s gathering, drugged the nobles, and pursued Edio’s trail into a spatial trap. He survived the ambush and unleashed supersonic projectiles on the attackers, leaving the Triplets terrified.

• Prince Xue Xing sensed danger in the sudden fog and brought Xue Beng back into the hall, where they found Zhi Lin.
• Wang Xiaofeng reunited with Zhi Lin, then used a sedative mist to put the nobles, Prince Xue Xing, and Xue Beng to sleep.
• Wang Xiaofeng and Nidya led controlled nobles upstairs to track Edio, but a spatial trap transported Wang Xiaofeng into a spike-lined, kerosene-coated pit.
• Wang Xiaofeng blasted through the trap and endured a barrage of soul skills from Edio’s men.
• Wang Xiaofeng fired supersonic iron fragments through the attackers, killing many and leaving the Triplets shaken.

Wang Xiaofeng confronted the Lake Brothers, who tried to kill him by casting him into the void with their spatial Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He survived, studied the spatial turbulence, returned, and killed all three as they fled.

• Wang Xiaofeng identified the Lake Brothers’ crimes and rejected the eldest brother’s attempt to bargain with information about the Count’s safe houses.
• The eldest brother blinded Wang Xiaofeng with a flash, allowing the three brothers to combine their Soul Power and send him into a spatial rift.
• Wang Xiaofeng survived the void’s spatial turbulence, repaired his severed arm, and tested how Soul Power interacted with spatial energy.
• The Lake Brothers’ spatial gate reopened, and Wang Xiaofeng returned unharmed after their Martial Soul Fusion Skill ended.
• The youngest brother used a spatial skill to transfer Wang Xiaofeng away, and the brothers fled toward the exit.
• Wang Xiaofeng used spatial power to cut off all three brothers’ heads before they could escape.

Nidya defeated the mercenaries trapped with her in the castle’s underground level, then escaped after her soul skill froze them inside a regenerating maze of ice. She left with her soul power boosted to level 62 and worried that Wang Xiaofeng would make her train to master the skill.

• Nidya used her ice and spiritual powers to destroy the traps and provoke chaos among the mercenaries, while Hu Lai’s violence turned him against his own team.
• A shadowy attacker ambushed Nidya with a combination soul skill, but she dodged his attacks, killed him with her Mystic Ice Palm, and then unleashed her Sixth Soul Skill, Mystic Tortoise Moon Devour.
• Nidya sealed seven Soul Kings, two Soul Emperors, and one Soul Saint inside a freezing enclosure, where the group repeatedly broke through walls that regenerated and drained their strength.
• Hu Lai and the others died from the cold, and the hundred-thousand-year soul skill released its stored power into Nidya, raising her to the peak of level 62.
• Nidya complained that Wang Xiaofeng would make her train to master the soul skill, then kicked through the refined iron door and left the underground space.