Recaps

Wang Rui helped Ma Xiaotao confront the hidden damage behind her Phoenix Evil Fire while Huo Yuqing advanced as a Soul Engineer and prepared to travel north. The group reached Dragon City, and Huo Yuqing and Tian Meng faced Ice Empress, who attacked after recognizing their connection.

• Wang Rui freed the bird souls trapped in the Secret Method Soul Bone, then used an illusion to make Ma Xiaotao confront the students she had killed and the Academy’s cover-up.
• Wang Rui discovered that Ma Xiaotao’s forgotten childhood and brain injury were affecting her Martial Soul, and he offered to help her clear the negative energy in her flames.
• Huo Yuqing passed her Level Two Soul Engineer assessment, and Wang Rui celebrated the start of vacation with his classmates before they left Shrek Academy.
• Niu Tian and Titan came to collect Wang Dong, and Niu Tian left to confront Shrek Academy about Zhou Yi’s treatment of her.
• Huo Yuqing reunited with Lu Mingyou and Aunt Rat, learned that the one beneath the lake had awakened, and joined the Moon Shadow Caravan for her trip to the Far North.
• The caravan reached Dragon City, where Gongyang Mo described its dragon clans and legends before Wang Rui’s group prepared to travel farther north.
• Tian Meng revealed his love for Ice Empress and challenged her to become his mate, but Ice Empress threatened to eat him and attacked Huo Yuqing.
• Tian Meng blocked Ice Empress’s silver-white beam and surrounded her with his Spiritual Power.

Huo Yuqing gained the Ice Empress as a soul ring after enduring a dangerous fusion, while Wang Rui confronted the Snow Empress and learned of the Ancient Ice God’s buried godhood. The story left Huo Yuqing awakening to a changed spiritual space as the Holy Spirit Cult drew Tang Ya into its ranks and the God of Destruction pursued his own plans.

• Tian Meng persuaded the Ice Empress to join Wang Rui’s God-Creation Plan, and she agreed after seeing Huo Yuqing’s Power of Destiny.
• Wang Rui summoned Bi Ji to help Huo Yuqing fuse with the Ice Empress and the Pink Crystal Queen’s External Soul Bone, while Huo Yuqing vowed to avenge the queen’s people.
• Wang Rui and Di Tian confronted the Snow Empress, who attacked them after sensing the Ice Empress’s life force disappear, until the Golden Dragon King emerged and spared her.
• The Golden Dragon King told Wang Rui about the Ancient Ice God’s death and the godhood left in the Far North, and Wang Rui recognized it as a possible path to godhood.
• Huo Yuqing endured the fusion and received a vision from a reflection sharing her third eye, while the Snow Empress pursued a dangerous reincarnation method guarded by the Ice Bear King.
• Tang Ya chose to accept the Holy Spirit Cult’s aid and the dangerous power of her Dark Blue Silver Grass, while Lan Lingtong warned her of its murderous urges.
• Wang Rui gave Bai Chenxiang a Lovesick Heartbreak Red and instructed her to befriend Ma Xiaotao and sacrifice herself near death so Ma Hongjun might sense the danger.
• The God of Destruction connected Bai Chenxiang to the Phoenix God and considered how to gain his support, while Huo Yuqing discovered a towering sapphire-blue eye in her spiritual space and heard Tian Meng urge her to wake.

Huo Yuqing began Rong Nianbing’s succession trials, explored the Beast Sect’s plans and conflicts, and confronted Dai Huabin in Shrek’s assessment. The arc ended with her defeating the Hell White Tiger and earning recognition, while Shrek’s leaders debated their tournament team and future.

• Huo Yuqing drew the Horse-Severing Blade from the blood-red sphere in her Spiritual World, met Rong Nianbing, and accepted the trials to inherit the God of Emotion.
• Wen Qiang led Huo Yuqing into the Ant Nest, where she joined An Wen, He Caitou, and Dugu Shukke in fighting Shadow Hundred-Eyed Monsters for her second soul ring.
• Wang Rui presented the Artificial Martial Soul and New Contract projects to the Fierce Beasts, then retrieved the reincarnated Snow Empress as the Snow Lotus Lian Xue.
• Huo Yuqing reunited with Wang Rui and met Lian Xue, whose contact with her revealed their affinity and drew the Ice Empress and Snow Empress into conversation.
• Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion elders examined the Glow of Gold soul bone, while Hai Ling privately sought a way to prevent Shrek from winning the tournament.
• Wang Rui negotiated Jing Hongchen’s exchange arrangements and aid for Xi Hongchen, while Lan Fuzi faced a challenge to her position as Holy Maiden in the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jiang Lan exchanged the Glow of Gold Left Arm Bone for an Emerald Swan External Soul Bone after Wang Dong’s painful compulsion to keep the bone became clear.
• During Shrek’s assessment, Huo Yuqing defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger, then collapsed into Wang Rui’s arms as Xuan Zi praised the surviving students.