Chapter Summaries

Su Yu killed the sixty-thousand-year Ice Feathered Beast and endured a dangerous, over-limit absorption to gain its Soul Ring. He emerged at level 45 with greatly improved spiritual power, then teased the Snow Empress while the Ice Empress wondered how he understood her.

• Su Yu killed the Ice Feathered Beast and began absorbing its sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring as his fourth.
• Su Yu suppressed the beast's remnant soul and endured more than ten hours of extreme pressure, refusing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's offer to seal away the excess power.
• Su Yu successfully absorbed the Soul Ring, giving his Ice Emperor Martial Soul four rings—black, black, gold, and black.
• Su Yu woke with increased spiritual power and level 45 Soul Ancestor cultivation, then accidentally lost his clothes before changing into a fresh set.
• Su Yu took the Snow Empress into his arms and understood her babbling, leaving the Ice Empress baffled; the Ice Empress then said they needed to discuss something important.

After gaining a powerful fourth Soul Skill and checking Hai Bodong’s data, Su Yu learned that Ice Empress had agreed to become his Soul Ring when he obtained his fifth or sixth. Snow Empress then offered to teach him the Snow Emperor’s Three Absolutes, and Su Yu headed with her and the others toward the Extreme North’s Core Zone.

• Su Yu described his new Ice Emperor’s Feather Soul Skill and released Sky Dream Ice Silkworm so Ice Empress could question him.
• Su Yu checked his Information Panel, reached the Spirit Abyss Realm, and received 200 Gold Soul Coins from his daily check-in.
• Su Yu viewed Hai Bodong’s data, discovered his Earth Tier cultivation art and combat skill, and learned that a descendant had given him the cultivation art.
• After hearing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s account, Ice Empress agreed to become Su Yu’s Soul Ring when he obtained his fifth or sixth Soul Ring.
• Snow Empress decided to teach Su Yu the Snow Emperor’s Three Absolutes as repayment, and Su Yu set off with her and the others for the Extreme North’s Core Zone.

As the school year ended, Wang Dong left the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and returned to Clear Sky Sect while worrying about the missing Su Yu. She asked the sect to search for him, and Niu Tian learned that Su Yu was the friend who had helped her and left her waiting for months.

• Jing Hongchen ordered a discreet search for Su Yu and revoked his monthly subsidy for violating Academy rules, while Xiao Hongchen gloated over the punishment.
• Wang Dong packed her belongings and Su Yu’s carefully maintained bed before leaving the Academy early for vacation.
• Tai Tan met Wang Dong outside the Academy and carried her back to Clear Sky Sect, while Jing Hongchen watched them leave.
• At Clear Sky Castle, Wang Dong told Niu Tian about Su Yu’s abilities and asked him to have the sect search for her missing friend.
• Niu Tian questioned Tai Tan and learned that Su Yu was both the talented friend Wang Dong admired and the person who had left her worried for months.

Niu Tian questioned Tai Tan about Su Yu and suspected the youth might be a chosen figure, while Su Yu tested his strength against the Ice Bear King in the Extreme North. Su Yu’s fused Soul Rings let him pierce the bear’s hide, though Ice Empress judged the attack still fell short of overcoming its full defense.

• Niu Tian asked Tai Tan about Su Yu’s character and treatment of Wang Dong, then told Tai Tan to help find Su Yu so Wang Dong could rest easy.
• Niu Tian privately wondered whether Su Yu was someone chosen like the person who had sent Wang Dong to Sun Moon.
• Su Yu learned that the Ice Bear King would not fight back and began testing his abilities against it.
• Su Yu used his Soul Skills and Snow Emperor’s domain, but the Ice Bear King shrugged off the attacks until Su Yu fused three Soul Rings.
• Su Yu’s Peerless Ice sword pierced the Ice Bear King’s hide, and Ice Empress noted that it had only barely cut the bear because it had not protected itself with Soul Power.
• Su Yu apologized to the Ice Bear King after realizing his attack had wounded it more than he expected.

Su Yu left the Extreme North with the Snow Empress, visited familiar homes, and learned from Zhang Lexuan’s letter about her breakthrough and Shrek Academy’s troubles. While traveling, he ran into Xu Sanshi, who challenged him over a humiliation from three years earlier, and the chapter ended as Su Yu dodged Xu Sanshi’s attack near the Snow Empress.

• Su Yu used Ring Fusion and Peerless Ice to cut the Ice Bear King’s fur, then recovered and received praise from the Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
• Su Yu decided to leave the Extreme North, and the Snow Empress insisted on going with him rather than staying at the Ice God Palace.
• Su Yu found Zhang Lexuan’s letter at his home, learned she had become a Soul Douluo and that Xuan Zi had abandoned her during an attack, then wrote back to support her choices.
• Su Yu visited familiar neighbors, including Jiang Nannan’s mother, before traveling with the Snow Empress to see the outside world.
• Su Yu encountered Xu Sanshi, who remembered being beaten by him three years earlier and attacked him, but Su Yu dodged while carrying the Snow Empress.

Su Yu repeatedly beat Xu Sanshi after Snow Empress asked him to teach the young man a lesson, overwhelming his soul skills and humiliating him. Su Yu spared Xu Sanshi but warned him to keep his head down whenever they met, then sent him flying toward a pile of firewood.

• Snow Empress asked Su Yu to teach Xu Sanshi a lesson, and Su Yu accepted before evading Xu Sanshi's attacks and knocking him back with a punch.
• Xu Sanshi revealed his four Soul Rings and used Xuanming Shock, but Su Yu dodged the skill and blasted him backward with a palm strike.
• Su Yu broke through Xu Sanshi's Xuanming Shield Formation with Frost-Cold River, then chased him down after Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Swap to escape.
• Su Yu took Xu Sanshi's Soul Tool bracelet, stomped and kicked him while rejecting his pleas and threats about the Xuanming Sect.
• Su Yu spared Xu Sanshi's life, warned him to keep his head down whenever he saw Su Yu, and kicked him toward a pile of firewood.

Su Yu defeated Xu Sanshi, gave Snow Empress a Mysterious Water Pill, and received the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch as his monthly check-in reward. At Clear Sky Sect, Wang Dong learned Su Yu was headed toward the Sun Moon Empire and decided to leave early for the academy.

• Su Yu injured Xu Sanshi and left him behind, planning to fight him again during the tournament.
• Su Yu searched Xu Sanshi's Soul Tool, found Mysterious Water Pills, and gave one to Snow Empress, who fell asleep in his arms.
• Su Yu checked in with the system and received the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch, which could store living creatures.
• Wang Dong showed Niu Tian that she had reached level thirty-one and asked for news about Su Yu.
• Niu Tian told Wang Dong that Su Yu had traveled through the Heaven Dou Empire and was likely heading to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Wang Dong decided to go early to the academy, and Niu Tian agreed to have Tai Tan take her.

Su Yu returned to Mingdu after spending months in the Extreme North and faced Jing Hongchen’s anger for disappearing without contact. After Su Yu claimed he had cultivated in a powerful Ice Attribute cold pool, his rank-forty-six Soul Power convinced Jing Hongchen that the excuse was true and left him feeling guilty for scolding Su Yu.

• Niu Tian told Tai Tan to escort Wang Dong to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, watch Su Yu, and avoid unnecessary violence or conflict with Ice God Palace.
• Su Yu returned to Mingdu with Snow Empress, toured the city, and stayed overnight before heading to the academy the next morning.
• Su Yu checked in with the system and received Zhang Lexuan’s intimate undergarment, which had mysteriously vanished from Shrek Academy.
• Jing Hongchen angrily reprimanded Su Yu for being away nearly four months without sending a message and threatened to make him clean the grade’s toilets.
• Su Yu said he had spent the months cultivating in an Ice Attribute cold pool in the Extreme North and demonstrated that his Soul Power had reached rank forty-six.
• Jing Hongchen believed Su Yu after sensing his Soul Power, realized he had misjudged him, and felt guilty for scolding him and canceling his subsidy.

After Jing Hongchen accepted Su Yu’s explanation for his months-long absence, Su Yu returned to his dorm and reunited with Wang Dong and Meng Hongchen, both of whom had been worried about him. He repeated his account of his absence to the two girls, who believed him, while Jing Hongchen privately planned to draw him closer to the Hongchen family.

• Jing Hongchen apologized for suspending Su Yu’s allowance, restored it, and urged him to visit Meng Hongchen, while privately hoping to make him a grandson-in-law.
• Su Yu returned to Room 212 and found Wang Dong waiting; she embraced him and cried with relief before playfully demanding to know where he had been.
• Meng Hongchen arrived and found Su Yu and Wang Dong fooling around, then quietly expressed how relieved she was that he had returned safely.
• Wang Dong interrupted Su Yu and Meng Hongchen’s emotional exchange and pressed him to explain his absence.
• Su Yu repeated his story about encountering an opportunity in the Extreme North Ice Plains, and Wang Dong accepted it without suspicion.

Su Yu returned after months away and told Wang Dong and Meng Hongchen that he had reached Rank 46 Soul Ancestor and the Spirit Abyss Realm. He gave them rare Soul Bones suited to their Martial Souls, and both girls accepted them after he warned that he might give the gifts to someone else.

• Wang Dong and Meng Hongchen trusted Su Yu's explanation for his long absence and were astonished by his cultivation gains.
• Su Yu shut the dormitory door and teased Wang Dong after she suspected he had improper intentions.
• Su Yu gave Wang Dong a fifty-thousand-year Golden Earth Dragon King right arm bone and Meng Hongchen a sixty-thousand-year Ice Feather left arm bone.
• Wang Dong and Meng Hongchen initially refused the valuable gifts, but they quickly stored the Soul Bones when Su Yu said he might give them to someone else.
• Wang Dong declared the Soul Bone confiscated and said Su Yu could not give away something he had already given her.

Su Yu gave Meng Hongchen and Wang Dong valuable Soul Bones, then joined them and Xiao Hongchen for a barbecue dinner. He bet Xiao Hongchen a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone against a level-five Invincible Shield over whether his stipend had been restored, and brought the mysterious Snow Empress out to meet them.

• Su Yu told Meng Hongchen and Wang Dong to keep the Soul Bones and invited them to dinner, with Meng Hongchen calling her brother Xiao Hongchen along.
• At Wu's Barbecue Shop, Xiao Hongchen taunted Su Yu about his canceled stipend, so Su Yu challenged him to a bet and agreed to wager a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone against Xiao Hongchen's level-five Invincible Shield.
• Xiao Hongchen accepted the bet after Su Yu provoked him, while Meng Hongchen objected to the unfair stakes and Wang Dong expected Xiao Hongchen to lose.
• When the roast lamb arrived, Su Yu took Snow Empress out of his storage tool, and Wang Dong and Meng Hongchen were amazed by the adorable child.
• Su Yu explained that Snow Empress was his little sister, refused to let the girls hold her, and fed her honey water mixed with ice marrow as Wang Dong questioned the expensive drink.

Su Yu and his companions discussed the upcoming Soul Fighting Tournament and the academy’s Reserve Team Selection Tournament, where Xiao Hongchen challenged Su Yu to prove who was stronger. After they left the restaurant, Hai Bodong confronted the Elder in Black, who revealed himself as Long Xiaoyao, the Dragon Emperor Douluo.

• Su Yu told Wang Dong, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen that Shrek Academy had two Soul Emperors, including a dangerous rank-sixty-seven Evil Fire Phoenix.
• Meng Hongchen explained the Reserve Team Selection Tournament and said Su Yu, Xiao Hongchen, and she had been privately preselected for the team.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Su Yu to a match at the selection tournament, and Su Yu accepted, warning that he would not hold back.
• Su Yu and his companions finished eating and left the restaurant together with the Snow Empress.
• Hai Bodong confronted the Elder in Black, who identified himself as Long Xiaoyao, the Dragon Emperor Douluo.

Hai Bodong confronted Long Xiaoyao over secretly observing Su Yu, and the two clarified their intentions before parting without a fight. Back at the academy, Su Yu learned Long Xiaoyao had considered taking him as a successor, assessed the power of the continent’s Limit Douluo, and ruled out cooperating with Ye Xishui; Hai Bodong suggested they might recruit Long Xiaoyao later.

• Hai Bodong identified himself to Long Xiaoyao as the Ice Emperor and warned him not to secretly observe Su Yu again.
• Long Xiaoyao explained that he had only considered making Su Yu his successor, and Hai Bodong accepted that he meant no harm before disappearing.
• Su Yu returned to the academy with Wang Dong, studied Soul Tool books, and met Hai Bodong on the balcony after he emerged from the bathroom.
• Hai Bodong told Su Yu about Long Xiaoyao’s offer, then said their cultivation was comparable but he was confident he could kill Long Xiaoyao.
• Su Yu described Long Xiaoyao’s history with Ye Xishui and Mu En, and Hai Bodong agreed that Long Xiaoyao seemed adrift while expressing contempt for Mu En.
• Hai Bodong suggested recruiting Long Xiaoyao, but Su Yu said the time was not right and refused any cooperation with Ye Xishui or other Evil Soul Masters.

Su Yu and Wang Dong discussed the Reserve Team selection, and Wang Dong began absorbing the Golden Earth Dragon King Soul Bone. At Shrek Academy, Zhou Yi expelled Huo Yuhao for failing to reach level twenty, and Beibei and Tang Ya arranged a place for him to stay as resentment toward Shrek began to grow in his heart.

• Su Yu told Wang Dong he planned to compete in the Reserve Team selection, and Wang Dong said she would try to join him.
• Wang Dong began absorbing the fifty-thousand-year Golden Earth Dragon King Soul Bone while Su Yu stood guard.
• Zhou Yi expelled Huo Yuhao because his Soul Power had only reached level fifteen and he lacked the required two rings.
• Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy feeling bitter and resentful toward the people who had looked down on him.
• Beibei offered Huo Yuhao an empty house in Shrek City and suggested he earn money selling grilled fish while Tang Ya taught him about the Tang Sect.

Ma Xiaotao challenged Yan Shaozhe’s decision to exclude her from the tournament, but he explained that her dangerous Evil Fire made competing and cultivating unsafe. After Mu En offered a Dragon Pill to secure help, Yan Shaozhe agreed to take Ma Xiaotao to Ice God Palace for treatment.

• Ma Xiaotao demanded that Yan Shaozhe let her compete, but he refused because her Evil Fire could endanger her and others.
• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao to stop cultivating and explained that only rare treasures or an Ultimate Ice Soul Master might resolve her Evil Fire.
• Yan Shaozhe said he would seek help from Ice God Palace despite its reputation for turning away powerful visitors, and Ma Xiaotao worried he would be humiliated.
• Yan Shaozhe reported his plan to Mu En, who offered a Dragon Pill to trade for Ma Xiaotao’s treatment.
• Yan Shaozhe accepted Mu En’s support and decided to take Ma Xiaotao to Ice God Palace the next day.

Mu En urged Yan Shaozhe to prepare for Shrek Academy’s looming crisis and suggested hunting evil sea ferocious beasts for Zhang Lexuan’s future Soul Ring. At Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Su Yu and Wang Dong moved into the third-grade dormitories, where Wang Dong bragged about her progress before Su Yu reminded her how far ahead he was.

• Mu En praised Zhang Lexuan’s progress and told Yan Shaozhe to help her obtain a ferocious beast Soul Ring when she reached Rank 90.
• Yan Shaozhe agreed that Shrek could hunt evil Sea Soul Beasts, while Mu En warned him that Shrek faced a coming storm and told him to bring Xuan Zi over.
• Yan Shaozhe notified Xuan Zi, arranged inner academy affairs, and left for the Heaven Dou Empire with Ma Xiaotao the next day.
• Su Yu and Wang Dong moved into Dormitory 308 in the third-grade dormitory area, with Wang Dong insisting they share a room.
• Wang Dong showed off her Rank 34 strength after absorbing a Golden Earth Dragon King Soul Bone and said she expected to advance to Fourth Grade soon.
• Su Yu challenged Wang Dong to catch up to his record of advancing from first grade to fifth grade in eight months, leaving her speechless.

Su Yu joined fifth grade Class Four, where he met Ju Zi and Ke Ke and attended Lin Shengan’s strict lesson. After class, a dark-skinned student attacked Su Yu over his response to Ju Zi, and Su Yu sent him crashing into the wall.

• Su Yu and Wang Dong walked to the teaching district together before splitting up for their classes.
• Su Yu entered fifth grade Class Four and recognized his classmates Ju Zi and Ke Ke as they whispered about him.
• Lin Shengan introduced his strict classroom rules, taught a lesson, and assigned Ju Zi to collect the students’ questions afterward.
• Ju Zi asked Su Yu whether he had any questions, and he told her he understood the lesson.
• A dark-skinned student struck the desk and challenged Su Yu, then swung at him despite Ju Zi’s attempt to intervene.
• Su Yu’s attacker flew across the classroom and slammed into the wall.

Su Yu knocked out a royal family member who had attacked him, then faced Jing Hongchen’s questioning at the academy. Jing Hongchen protected him from the royal family’s attempt to arrest him, and Su Yu left confident he would win the upcoming Reserve Team selection tournament.

• Su Yu struck a royal family member in self-defense and forced the two young men who tried to stop him to let him leave.
• Ju Zi and Ke Ke learned Su Yu’s identity and worried that the royal family would cause him trouble.
• Jing Hongchen summoned Su Yu, heard his account, and decided not to punish him for the fight.
• Jing Hongchen told Su Yu that the royal family wanted him imprisoned, but said he had blocked their attempt to arrest him at the academy.
• Jing Hongchen warned Su Yu to avoid further fights and asked about the Reserve Team selection tournament; Su Yu said he was aiming for the championship, as was Xiao Hongchen.

Su Yu escaped trouble after Jing Hongchen agreed to use the incident to discipline the academy’s royal family members, then shared Jing Hongchen’s precious tea with Wang Dong and Meng Hongchen. Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao reached the Ice God Palace seeking help with Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, but Lu Yuan confronted them and had not yet agreed to assist.

• Jing Hongchen gave Su Yu a tin of treasured tea and summoned Lin Jiayi to bring in the people involved in the royal family incident.
• Su Yu returned to the dormitory, reassured Wang Dong and Meng Hongchen, and shared the tea with them.
• Yan Shaozhe used his Bright Phoenix’s Power of Light to reveal the Ice God Palace’s barrier in the northern blizzard.
• Lu Yuan struck Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao with a powerful shockwave, then challenged them for disturbing the palace entrance.
• Yan Shaozhe introduced himself and asked the Ice God Palace to cure Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, while Lu Yuan questioned why he should help.

Yan Shaozhe sought the Ice God Palace’s help to cure Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and offered a Dragon Pill in exchange. Lu Yuan agreed to seek approval and told them to return in two days, then gathered the Nine Guardians to discuss the request.

• Lu Yuan rejected Yan Shaozhe’s request to treat Ma Xiaotao until Yan offered the Ice God Palace a Dragon Pill.
• Lu Yuan said he needed instructions and ordered Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao to return in two days, refusing to let them wait inside the palace.
• Yan Shaozhe suppressed his anger, and he and Ma Xiaotao flew off to find shelter in the snowy wilderness.
• Lu Yuan gathered the Nine Guardians, whose members included the Half-Step Limit Mu Wu and several Rank 96 and 97 experts.
• After Lu Yuan explained Shrek Academy’s request, Feng Xue and another Guardian dismissed it as unimportant.