Chapter Summaries

Xuan Zi sent Huo Yu Hao and the others to the Star Luo Empire’s front lines, with Xue Xiao Ran appointed to command them. As the group reached the locked-down western frontier and continued on foot, Tang Wu Tong silently watched Xue Xiao Ran, uncertain of his identity and changed demeanor.

• Huo Yu Hao and Bei Bei told Xuan Zi that several companions had reached level seventy and would join the journey to obtain Soul Spirits, and Xuan Zi assigned Tang Wu Tong and Xue Xiao Ran to accompany them.
• After the group left, Xuan Zi and Elder Song confirmed that Tang Wu Tong was Wang Dong'er and worried that Xue Xiao Ran’s altered memories and detached nature could leave Shrek with a heartless Titled Douluo.
• The group obtained Soul Spirits and flew toward the Star Luo Empire, where Xue Xiao Ran arrived ahead of them and accepted command before returning to cultivation.
• Tang Wu Tong watched Xue Xiao Ran during the journey, while Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao tried to draw her into conversation.
• At the western frontier, a Star Luo Empire Soul Engineer barred the group from flying, so Huo Yu Hao chose to travel on foot toward Duke White Tiger’s main camp.
• The group stopped beside a stream in a mountain hollow to rest and eat before continuing toward the front lines.

Xue Xiao Ran defeated Ji Juechen in a brief sword spar, prompting Ji Juechen to reaffirm that his sword protected Jing Ziyan. Tang Wu Tong recognized Xue Xiao Ran’s familiar sword technique and shared a meal with him, while he remained unaware of their past and returned to his Void Domain.

• Xue Xiao Ran used a wooden sword to pierce Ji Juechen’s domain with a single thrust and won their spar.
• Ji Juechen questioned whether his chosen path was right, then remembered that his sword protected Jing Ziyan and regained his confidence.
• Xue Xiao Ran considered recruiting Ji Juechen into the Carefree Sword Sect as the Tang Sect members gathered to eat Huo Yu Hao’s grilled fish.
• Jiang Nannan encouraged Tang Wu Tong to bring food to Xue Xiao Ran, and Tang Wu Tong offered him grilled fish and soup.
• Tang Wu Tong recognized Xue Xiao Ran’s sword-drawing stance from the God Realm and rejoiced that he was still her Brother Xiao Ran, though he did not remember her.
• Xue Xiao Ran wondered why Tang Wu Tong and Qiu’er seemed to love him, then cleared his mind and entered his Void Domain again.

Huo Yu Hao and the others reached the Star Luo Empire's Northwest Group Army camp to offer Shrek Academy's support, while Xue Xiao Ran privately questioned his involvement in the mission. Princess Xu Jiujiu welcomed the group, and two Titled Douluo were struck by the young Shrek members' strength and the mystery surrounding Xue Xiao Ran.

• Xue Xiao Ran sensed a strange familiarity with Tang Wu Tong's martial soul or aura and entered deep cultivation.
• Huo Yu Hao led the group toward the front lines, then identified them to a Soul King patrol as Shrek Academy members sent to support the Northwest Group Army.
• Huo Yu Hao presented Elder Xuan's letter and said Dai Yueheng could verify their identities, while Xue Xiao Ran reflected on his sect's rule against interfering in worldly affairs.
• Xu Jiujiu greeted the group at the camp and was surprised by Xue Xiao Ran's resemblance to someone she secretly liked.
• Two Titled Douluo sensed the young Shrek members' remarkable cultivation and found Xue Xiao Ran impossible to see through.

Xue Xiao Ran and Huo Yu Hao met Duke White Tiger at the front lines, where the marshal explained that the Sun Moon Empire had crippled Star Luo's reconnaissance and left its army at a disadvantage. Huo Yu Hao said he could scout above five thousand meters, while Xue Xiao Ran remained silent.

• Duke White Tiger entered the command tent with Dai Yueheng and Dai Luoli, and Xu Jiujiu introduced Huo Yu Hao and Xue Xiao Ran.
• Huo Yu Hao credited Xue Xiao Ran and his brother with helping create Soul Spirits, and Duke White Tiger welcomed both young men to the Northwest Group Army.
• Duke White Tiger described how the Sun Moon Empire's detection Soul Tools had blocked reconnaissance and communications, while a powerful weapon in the Ming Dou Mountain Range prevented a frontal assault.
• Duke White Tiger asked about their reconnaissance capabilities, and Huo Yu Hao said he could scout above five thousand meters.

Xue Xiao Ran told Duke White Tiger Dai Hao that the Star Luo Empire could not win its battle against the Sun Moon Empire, then refused to help with Huo Yu Hao's dangerous reconnaissance plan. The chapter ended as Huo Yu Hao presented his plan to scout the enemy's Death God's Light Soul Tool from high altitude.

• Xue Xiao Ran rejected Huo Yu Hao's ability to carry out thorough aerial reconnaissance and later told Dai Hao that the battle could not be won.
• Dai Hao defended his decision to fight for the Star Luo Empire, while Xue Xiao Ran said dynasties rose and fell and that he no longer cared about worldly matters.
• Dai Hao begged Xue Xiao Ran to help save Star Luo Empire civilians, but Xue Xiao Ran replied that Sun Moon Empire citizens were people too and left.
• Dai Hao gathered Princess Jiujiu, Huo Yu Hao, and the other Shrek Academy members in the Marshal's Tent to hear Huo Yu Hao's secret reconnaissance plan.
• Huo Yu Hao proposed scouting from high altitude and pointed to the location of the Death God's Light Soul Tool on the sand table.

Xue Xiao Ran rejected the God of Light’s offer of a god-level inheritance, but learned that Evil Soul Masters had infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire and planned to use its army to seize power. After Duke White Tiger revealed he had asked Xue Xiao Ran to scout, the others rushed to support him as he flew over the Ming Dou Mountain Range to survey the enemy.

• The God of Light offered Xue Xiao Ran an inheritance, but Xue Xiao Ran refused and said he would not act against his principles.
• The God of Light warned Xue Xiao Ran that Evil Soul Masters had entered the Sun Moon Empire and intended to unify the Soul Master sect world.
• In the God Realm, Tang San told Light to involve Xue Xiao Ran in the war, while Xue Lei Han expressed pride in his son.
• Tang Wu Tong discovered that Xue Xiao Ran was missing, and Duke White Tiger admitted he had asked him to scout the area.
• The Tang Sect members and Duke White Tiger’s forces set out to support Xue Xiao Ran as he flew high above the Ming Dou Mountain Range and opened his Heavenly Eye.

Xue Xiao Ran infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire’s mountain defenses and attacked the Death God Soul Tool after sensing the wronged souls trapped within it. He fought through the Soul Engineer Guards, while Tang Wu Tong followed to help despite his rejection.

• Xue Xiao Ran detected a barrier and the Death God Soul Tool atop Ming Dou Mountain, then flew toward it while Wang Yi Heng searched the sky for the intruder.
• Xue Xiao Ran deceived Wang Yi Heng, slipped past him, and broke through the grand formation, triggering alarms across the main peak.
• Xue Xiao Ran sensed the blood-forged Death God Soul Tool and the wronged souls inside it, then used Ultimate Purification to dissolve the Soul Rays fired at him.
• Xue Xiao Ran killed an Evil Soul Master and continued toward the mountaintop as the Soul Engineer Guards tried to surround him.
• Tang Wu Tong arrived to help Xue Xiao Ran, but he told her not to hold him back, and she followed with her hope that he might remember her fading away.

Xue Xiao Ran unleashed Paradise Lost and pierced the Death God Soul Tool’s blood-red beam, but the weapon’s bloodlight revealed a powerful enemy waiting within. The woman emerged with six ten-thousand-year soul rings and three Hundred-Thousand-Year soul rings as Xue Xiao Ran vowed to kill her.

• Tang Wu Tong flew toward the Death God Soul Tool, and Xue Xiao Ran struck her back to send her farther ahead as he gathered his power.
• Xue Xiao Ran faced the Death God Soul Tool’s blood-red beam, invoked Paradise Lost, and pierced through it to reach the weapon.
• Shattering Star Douluo and Great Hammer Douluo joined the others on the platform, but the Death God Soul Tool’s bloodlight repelled Great Hammer Douluo and suppressed Shattering Star Douluo’s power.
• A woman emerged from the bloodlight and announced she would take the group’s souls to guard the Death God Tower.
• The woman revealed six ten-thousand-year soul rings and three Hundred-Thousand-Year soul rings, and Xue Xiao Ran declared that she would die that day.

The Death God Douluo revealed herself as a Limit Douluo and faced the Star Luo Empire’s gathered Titled Douluo. Huo Yu Hao recognized her as Senior Ye, provoking her into attacking him as Xue Xiao Ran charged to intervene.

• The Death God Douluo appeared, and the Shattering Star Douluo challenged her for aiding the Sun Moon Empire’s invasion.
• The Death God Douluo rejected the idea of a homeland and summoned a Blood Red Peony as the Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluo gathered around her.
• Huo Yu Hao asked the Shattering Star Douluo to hold back and addressed the woman as Senior Ye.
• The Death God Douluo demanded to know how Huo Yu Hao knew her surname and formed a blood claw toward him.
• Xue Xiao Ran charged at the Death God Douluo in an apparent suicidal attack.

Xue Xiao Ran used divine sacred power to withstand the Death God Douluo Ye Xi Shui's attacks and force her to retreat. After the battle, he collapsed from his injuries, and Tang Wu Tong cried as she held him before he quietly stood and left her embrace.

• Xue Xiao Ran's ultimate purification nullified Ye Xi Shui's bloody and spiritual attacks, while his divine swords made her wary of a direct clash.
• Xue Xiao Ran told Ye Xi Shui that he had killed the Holy Spirit Cult's 12,144 members, provoking her to launch a lethal attack.
• Ye Xi Shui retreated after sensing five other Limit Douluos nearby, while Xue Xiao Ran's sword strikes shattered the Death God Soul Tool and drove her away.
• Ye Guyi explained that sacred power weakened Evil Soul Masters, and the surviving Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers withdrew with the Soul Tools they could carry.
• Xue Xiao Ran descended severely injured, and Tang Wu Tong caught him and wept before he stood up and left her embrace.

Xue Xiao Ran recovered from his injuries as the Tang Sect and Shrek group traveled back to Shrek City, while Tang Wu Tong wondered why he did not recognize her and sensed the loneliness surrounding him. They returned late at night, and Xue Xiao Ran went with Huo Yu Hao to the Sea God Pavilion so Huo Yu Hao could report to Xuan Zi.

• Xue Xiao Ran secluded himself to heal after his clash with the Death God Douluo, while Tang Wu Tong and the others worried about him.
• Tang Wu Tong visited Xue Xiao Ran, but he calmly dismissed her and returned to regulating his breath.
• During the return flight, Tang Wu Tong entered Xue Xiao Ran's Void Domain and sensed its profound loneliness.
• The group stopped beside a river, where Huo Yu Hao caught and grilled fish for everyone, and Xue Xiao Ran's Void Domain briefly faded as he ate.
• The group reached Shrek City late at night, and Xue Xiao Ran followed Huo Yu Hao into Shrek Academy to accompany him to the Sea God Pavilion.

Xue Xiao Ran returned to Shrek Academy with Huo Yu Hao and, while gazing at the Golden Tree, seemed to realize that life and light were connected. Inside Sea God Pavilion, Huo Yu Hao told Xuan Zi about the worsening war and Xue Xiao Ran’s extraordinary power.

• Xue Xiao Ran crossed the closed academy wall, walked across Sea God Lake on an Ice Crystal Road, and went with Huo Yu Hao to Sea God Pavilion while Tang Wu Tong returned home.
• Huo Yu Hao kowtowed before the Golden Tree, and Xue Xiao Ran stared at it as golden tears fell from his eyes.
• Xuan Zi told Huo Yu Hao that the Sun Moon Empire had conquered more than two-thirds of the Heaven Dou Empire and that Shrek Academy was weighing its response to the request for aid.
• Huo Yu Hao reported that Xue Xiao Ran had lost his memories, gained a desolate Void Domain, and driven Death God Douluo Ye Xi Shui to flee after exchanging a move with her.
• Xuan Zi praised Huo Yu Hao’s leadership, asked what Xue Xiao Ran would do about Qiu'er’s return, and sent Huo Yu Hao to rest.

Xuan Zi made Xue Xiao Ran a teacher and recruited him for Shrek’s coming operations, but Xue Xiao Ran agreed to fight only the Holy Spirit Cult. He moved into a shared faculty dormitory and unexpectedly encountered Tang Wu Tong there.

• Xue Xiao Ran felt the Golden Ancient Tree’s life aura and wondered whether the old soul within it had affected his Ice and Snow Mindset.
• Xuan Zi told Xue Xiao Ran that the Death God Soul Tool had been destroyed and the northwest of the Star Luo Empire temporarily stabilized, then offered him a teaching position and Inner Court benefits.
• Xuan Zi explained that Shrek intended to fight the Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult, but Xue Xiao Ran said he would act only against the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xue Xiao Ran accepted his new teacher identity and went to the faculty dormitory, where he found Tang Wu Tong sharing his room.
• Tang Wu Tong screamed after emerging from the bathroom, but Xue Xiao Ran calmly explained that it was his room and treated her as nothing more than a body of flesh.

Tang Wu Tong taught an Inner Court class while Xue Xiao Ran observed, and he made a breakthrough that advanced his Heavenly Eye into the Divine Eye. The chapter left him suspecting that Tang Wu Tong’s sacred aura had triggered the change.

• Tang Wu Tong wondered about her familiar connection to Qiu'er and returned to her room after Xue Xiao Ran left without comforting her.
• Tang Wu Tong hurried to class the next morning and found Xue Xiao Ran’s Void Domain had left the students subdued.
• Tang Wu Tong introduced Xue Xiao Ran as her assistant instructor and taught the class about domains while he watched her.
• Xue Xiao Ran silently broke through, realizing that his Heavenly Eye had become the Divine Eye.
• Xue Xiao Ran wondered whether Tang Wu Tong’s sacred aura had caused his breakthrough.

Xue Xiao Ran tested the expanded range and spiritual attacks of his Divine Eyes before joining a Tang Sect mission to evacuate the Earth Dragon Gate’s supplies. He, Huo Yu Hao, and Nan Qiu Qiu flew toward Dragon City, where Sun Moon Empire forces and an Evil Soul Master soul tool legion were stationed.

• Xue Xiao Ran defeated each student in his practical combat class with a single strike aimed at a vital point, then tested his Divine Eyes in his dormitory.
• Xuan Zi summoned Xue Xiao Ran to the Tang Sect, where Bei Bei explained the war’s current situation and said the Death God Douluo’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Bei Bei assigned Xue Xiao Ran, Huo Yu Hao, and Nan Qiu Qiu to evacuate the Earth Dragon Gate’s supplies from occupied Dragon City.
• Huo Yu Hao said farewell to Ju Zi, and he, Xue Xiao Ran, and Nan Qiu Qiu set off toward the Earth Dragon Gate.
• Nan Qiu Qiu complained that Xue Xiao Ran and Huo Yu Hao were too quiet as they flew north.

Huo Yu Hao and Nan Qiu Qiu entered Dragon City to investigate the Sun Moon Empire’s occupation, while Xue Xiao Ran kept his distance. After Huo Yu Hao explained how Soul Tool Technology was winning over the occupied population, Xue Xiao Ran argued that this was progress, leaving Huo Yu Hao troubled by the war and the widening technological gap.

• Huo Yu Hao, Nan Qiu Qiu, and Xue Xiao Ran entered Dragon City, where the streets and households appeared largely undisturbed.
• Xue Xiao Ran left Huo Yu Hao and Nan Qiu Qiu to gather information and rented a room at a tavern.
• Huo Yu Hao told Xue Xiao Ran that the Sun Moon Empire was using Soul Tool Technology to draw the Heaven Dou Empire’s aristocrats and occupied population toward its rule.
• When Huo Yu Hao asked how to stop the plan, Xue Xiao Ran questioned why they should oppose technological progress that could improve ordinary people’s lives.
• Huo Yu Hao spent the night considering the Sun Moon Empire’s open strategy but found no answer, recognizing that Shrek was already deeply involved in the conflict.

Nan Qiu Qiu brought Huo Yu Hao and Xue Xiao Ran to meet her mother, Nan Shui Shui, at the Earth Dragon Gate’s hidden refuge in Dragon City. After learning that Xue Xiao Ran belonged to the Carefree Sword Sect, they discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s occupation and its use of captured sect members to expand its forces.

• Nan Qiu Qiu led Huo Yu Hao and Xue Xiao Ran through Dragon City to a cloth shop concealing an Earth Dragon Gate refuge.
• The shopkeeper brought them to Nan Shui Shui, who greeted the three in the rear courtyard.
• Nan Qiu Qiu explained Xue Xiao Ran’s amnesia, and Xue Xiao Ran told Nan Shui Shui that he trained with the Carefree Sword Sect.
• Nan Shui Shui said the Sun Moon Empire had seized the other major sects in Dragon City, while the Earth Dragon Gate had survived by relocating to Shrek City.
• Nan Shui Shui told Huo Yu Hao that the Sun Moon Empire was using captured soul masters to strengthen its Soul Engineer Legions.

Nan Shui Shui led Huo Yu Hao and Xue Xiao Ran to a hidden ice cave beneath the ruined Earth Dragon Gate, where a rare ice-metal ore vein might aid the Tang Sect. Huo Yu Hao could not withstand the cold, so Xue Xiao Ran descended alone, his life-burning power and purified body weighing on his thoughts.

• Nan Shui Shui brought Nan Qiu Qiu, Huo Yu Hao, and Xue Xiao Ran through the ruined Earth Dragon Gate to a cold spring in its back garden.
• Nan Shui Shui explained that a hidden cave beneath the spring contained an extremely cold vein of ice-attributed metal and offered its ores to the Tang Sect.
• Xue Xiao Ran refused to explore the cave, while Huo Yu Hao leaped into the spring to investigate it.
• Huo Yu Hao returned, unable to endure the cave’s cold with his martial soul, and urged Xue Xiao Ran to go down instead.
• Xue Xiao Ran leaped into the freezing spring and plunged toward the cave without activating his Extreme Ice Snow Martial Soul.

Xue Xiao Ran discovered a hidden Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave beneath the spring, collected its Ice-grade Divine Crystals, and found Mysterious Ice Marrow in the spring source. He returned safely and gave Huo Yu Hao the storage ring full of crystals.

• Xue Xiao Ran activated the hidden mechanism and opened a concealed doorway in the cold spring wall.
• Xue Xiao Ran entered the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave and stored its Ice-grade Divine Crystals in his ring.
• Xue Xiao Ran sensed Mysterious Ice Marrow in the spring source, protected himself with golden flames, and reached into it.
• Nan Qiu Qiu grew anxious about Xue Xiao Ran’s long absence, while Nan Shui Shui teased her about her feelings for him.
• Xue Xiao Ran emerged from the well and tossed his ring to Huo Yu Hao, who found it full of Ice-grade Divine Crystals.

Xue Xiao Ran and Huo Yu Hao discovered that the Sun Moon Empire planned to mine ore in the Extreme North, while Tian Meng proposed breaking through a barrier sealing Xue Xiao Ran’s memories. The chapter ended with Xue Xiao Ran hearing Tian Meng’s offer and deciding whether to let him try.

• Xue Xiao Ran learned that a Sun Moon Empire army had gathered outside Dragon City, and Huo Yu Hao went to investigate.
• Huo Yu Hao discovered the army included the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Regiment but could not uncover its purpose.
• Xue Xiao Ran used his Spiritual Power to reveal that the Sun Moon Empire planned to enter the Extreme North and mine ore for Soul Tools.
• Tian Meng told Huo Yu Hao that Xue Xiao Ran’s memories had been forcibly sealed and offered to merge Spiritual Power with him to remove the barrier.
• Xue Xiao Ran rejected Tian Meng’s claim as impossible, and Tian Meng urged him to allow the attempt.