Chapter Summaries

Wang Rui used the Eye of Destiny to observe Huo Yuqing and hurried to meet her as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered her a million-year Wisdom Soul Ring. He gave Huo Yuqing Gold of Life and formed a voluntary exchange of destiny with her, changing the balance of fortune and bringing them both to an unknown place.

• Tang Ya wanted to recruit Huo Yuqing into the Tang Clan, and Beibei agreed they should ask her first.
• Wang Rui saw that Huo Yuqing's karmic thread had strengthened and used it to witness Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's arrival.
• Wang Rui arrived and promised Huo Yuqing the soul beasts' support and resources if she became a god and stood with them.
• Huo Yuqing accepted Wang Rui's wager, and he infused her with Gold of Life, strengthening her body and awakening a third eye.
• Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui touched their third eyes together, exchanging their fortunes and granting Wang Rui a glimpse of the next stage of the Power of Destiny.
• A powerful attraction drew Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui toward each other, and the scene changed around them.

Wang Rui witnessed Huo Yuqing's memory of killing a man who attacked her, then escaped the memory exchange before Huo Yuqing could see his secrets. Huo Yuqing next found herself watching the Three-Eyed Golden Lion at a gathering of grieving soul beasts, where it pleaded for someone to delay the Great Tribulation by two hundred years.

• Wang Rui followed Huo Yuqing's memory as she collected laundry and returned to her home near the White Tiger Duke Estate.
• A young man grabbed Huo Yuqing's wrist, and she killed him with the White Tiger Dagger before disposing of his body in a well.
• Wang Rui ended the memory exchange and left Huo Yuqing wondering what memories she had entered.
• Huo Yuqing found herself beside the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in a ruined valley with several grieving soul beasts and people.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked someone to delay the Great Tribulation for two hundred years, saying it could then help them survive.

Wang Rui showed Huo Yuqing a memory of his adoptive mother, Tiger Empress Dark Cloud, attempting to complete Heavenly Forging during her seventh great tribulation. Dark Cloud sacrificed herself to forge a living metal spear, and the memory ended before Huo Yuqing learned whether the attempt succeeded.

• Dark Cloud rejected the pleas of her daughter, Wang Rui, and her companions, choosing to face her great tribulation and attempt Heavenly Forging.
• Wang Rui explained that Dark Cloud had spent thousands of years developing soul-beast forging and that she intended to fuse her life and the Law of Destruction into a living metal staff.
• Dark Cloud met the tribulation lightning and hammered the metal with her fists, then gave a soul ring and soul bone to Wang Rui and her daughter before shattering into the creation.
• The metal began to take the form of a spear as a devastating black lightning bolt descended, forcing Wang Rui and the others to flee with Huo Yuqing.
• Huo Yuqing returned to Wang Rui's Spiritual World and asked whether Dark Cloud's forging had succeeded.

Wang Rui explained the Spiritual World and Huo Yuqing’s potential before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began fusing with her as a soul ring. The fusion drew the attention of Electrolux’s spiritual imprint, which halted its descent toward Huo Yuqing and entered Wang Rui instead.

• Wang Rui told Huo Yuqing that Tiger Empress’s Heavenly Forging had failed, though her metal had gained a soul and a trace of Destruction aura.
• Wang Rui explained Spiritual Power cultivation and showed Huo Yuqing how a developed Spiritual World could be shaped at will; he also told her Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would lead her back when she needed a soul ring.
• Wang Rui and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm teased each other, then Tian Meng began fusing with Huo Yuqing as a soul ring.
• A massive Spiritual Power shock spread through the forest as Wang Rui sensed a dangerous change in Star Dou’s fortune and urged Tian Meng to continue the fusion.
• Electrolux’s gray spiritual imprint descended toward Huo Yuqing, but it recognized Wang Rui’s unusual divine blessings and Power of Destiny before entering his brow.

Wang Rui spoke with Electrolux inside his Spiritual World, admitted he had glimpsed the future, and explained the soul beasts’ plight on Douluo Continent. Electrolux condemned the world’s advancement laws as destructive, leaving the two to consider the danger facing both practitioners and soul beasts.

• Electrolux appeared in Wang Rui’s Spiritual World and explained that he was a remnant of a powerful soul from another world.
• Electrolux suspected Wang Rui could perceive the past and future, and Wang Rui admitted he had glimpsed a sliver of the future.
• Wang Rui told Electrolux that he was a magical beast with dragon blood and described the oppression and decline of soul beasts on Douluo Continent.
• Electrolux judged that the world’s laws made killing magical beasts necessary for advancement and warned that practitioners and magical beasts might both disappear.

Wang Rui showed Electrolux the danger facing the soul beasts and led him to a damaged fragment of Tang Xiaoqi’s soul hidden in his Sea of Consciousness. Electrolux warned that touching it could contaminate Wang Rui, and Wang Rui suspected Tang San had targeted the girl for a reason.

• Wang Rui showed Electrolux a vision of the forest’s dwindling fate, and Electrolux asked him to provide a comfortable place to stay in exchange for possible help.
• Wang Rui led Electrolux beneath the Black Lake in his Sea of Consciousness and explained that its scenery reflected memories he wanted to preserve.
• They found Tang Xiaoqi’s cracked, fragmented soul curled inside an isolated void, repeating pleas for her mother and relatives.
• Electrolux warned that Tang Xiaoqi’s soul had been ground into fragments and that Wang Rui could be contaminated if he touched them with his Spiritual Power.
• Wang Rui pointed out that Tang Xiaoqi called for her mother and uncles but never her father, questioning why Tang San had targeted her.

Tang San secretly took Tang Xiaoqi and split off part of her soul to steal the Imperial Auspicious Beast's fortune, then concealed what he had done from Xiao Wu. Xiaoqi was left frightened and in pain, while Tang San planned to erase her memory and send her to Douluo Continent; the family appeared peaceful to Xiao Wu, who knew nothing of the manipulation.

• Xiao Wu searched for Tang Xiaoqi and returned to the Sea God's Mansion, where Tang San suggested checking the girl's room.
• Tang San's thoughts revealed that he had taken Xiaoqi and split off part of her soul to claim the Imperial Auspicious Beast's fortune for his family.
• Xiao Wu found Xiaoqi pale and cold, and the girl cried that her head hurt but stopped herself from explaining her nightmare when Tang San warned her with a look.
• After Xiao Wu left, Tang San soothed Xiaoqi's pain with Sea God power and told her the soul fragment was for her own good.
• Tang San decided to erase Xiaoqi's memory and later send her to Douluo Continent, then acted affectionate as Xiao Wu returned with porridge.
• Xiaoqi hid her fear and drank the porridge under Tang San's watchful gaze, while Xiao Wu believed her daughter had recovered.

Tang San ordered Niu Tian and Titan to secretly place his divine power on the Auspicious Beast, while Titan resented their confinement and Tang San’s distrust. A month later, a human coalition attacked Star Dou Great Forest, and Wang Rui explained how he planned to handle the Soul Fragment in his consciousness.

• Tang San summoned Niu Tian and Titan and ordered them to secretly place his divine power on the Auspicious Beast without alerting the Fierce Beasts.
• Titan complained that Tang San treated them like prisoners and resented the soul beasts who had failed to help Xiao Wu and Aunt Rou, while Niu Tian warned him to hide his dissatisfaction.
• A month later, Shrek Academy, the Body Sect, the three nations, and other sects launched a Joint Soul Hunt against Star Dou Great Forest, and Niu Tian and Titan placed Tang San’s divine power on Wang Rui.
• The allied forces suffered losses, including the death of the Body Sect’s young sect master, while the Beast Sect mediated a peace settlement and gained prestige and support.
• Wang Rui told Electrolux that he knew the Soul Fragment’s main body and planned to draw its consciousness into his Sea of Consciousness to contain the fragment and influence Wang Dong’er.

Wang Rui visited the Golden Dragon King in his sealed Sea of Consciousness and discussed his plans to pursue the God of Destiny, the Golden Dragon King's weakening sanity, and the Golden Dragon Spear. The Golden Dragon King warned that he might not survive until Wang Rui could free him, leaving Wang Rui under pressure to act before his father succumbed to madness.

• Wang Rui entered the Golden Dragon King's Sea of Consciousness through the dragon painting in his Spiritual World.
• Wang Rui told the Golden Dragon King that he planned to pursue godhood himself rather than revive the Dragon God with the Silver Dragon King.
• The Golden Dragon King revealed that Tang San had briefly loosened his seal and warned Wang Rui to hide the Golden Dragon Spear from the Divine Realm.
• Wang Rui explained that he had used a puppet avatar to wield the spear and mislead Tang San about the Golden Dragon King's bloodline.
• The Golden Dragon King warned that the God of Destiny's power might need to be shared with Wang Rui's avatar, then cautioned that he could lose his sanity before Wang Rui freed him.
• After Wang Rui left, the Golden Dragon King's room dissolved into a sea of blood, and he struggled against the madness consuming him.

Wang Rui watched Huo Yuqing complete her fusion with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, while the silkworm gave her new abilities and explained the Beast Sect. Huo Yuqing woke with her Soul Power at level thirteen, and Wang Rui, Tang Ya, and Beibei gathered around her.

• Wang Rui summoned the Hundred-Thousand-Year Swift-tailed Swallow clan leader, Little White, and had her fetch a Leaf-Patterned Tree Opossum for Huo Yuqing.
• Wang Rui frightened the opossum into playing dead, and it produced a phantom soul ring that he ordered it to take back.
• Huo Yuqing explored her Spiritual World as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's fusion expanded it and created a miniature Sea of Consciousness around the Gold of Life.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm learned that Huo Yuqing was a girl disguised as a boy, decided to give her the Simulation skill, and explained the Imperial Auspicious Beast and the Beast Sect.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuqing that she would receive four Soul Skills, an ice-attribute martial soul, and more Soul Power, then sent her back as Wang Rui, Tang Ya, and Beibei waited nearby.
• Huo Yuqing woke, greeted Wang Rui and the others, felt reluctant to release Wang Rui's hand, and discovered her Soul Power had reached level thirteen.

After Huo Yuqing gained her first Soul Ring, Tang Ya’s insensitive remark about her dead family turned the group’s meeting hostile, and Wang Rui defended her. Huo Yuqing rejected Tang Ya’s invitation to join the Tang Clan and told Wang Rui she wanted to visit Shrek Academy to see someone she disliked.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that Huo Yuqing’s Soul Power had risen, and she released her Spirit Eyes Martial Soul with a white Soul Ring.
• Wang Rui explained the Leaf-Patterned Tree Opossum’s abilities, helping Huo Yuqing maintain the story that it had provided her Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya invited Huo Yuqing to join the Tang Clan, then called it wonderful that Huo Yuqing had no family; Huo Yuqing’s resentment toward her grew.
• Wang Rui mocked Tang Ya’s remark, and Tang Ya attacked him with Bone-Penetrating Needles before Huo Yuqing used Spiritual Detection to help him dodge.
• Beibei apologized and led Tang Ya away, while Huo Yuqing thanked Wang Rui and said she wanted to visit Shrek Academy because someone she disliked would enroll there.

Huo Yuqing told Wang Rui that Dai Huabin had killed her mother and resolved to defeat him at Shrek Academy. Wang Rui took her deeper into Star Dou Forest to meet a caravan bound for Jade City, where she encountered Zhang Lexuan and learned more about Beast Sect’s cities and people.

• Huo Yuqing said she wanted to enter Shrek Academy and defeat Dai Huabin, though she worried she would not meet its admission requirements.
• Huo Yuqing told Wang Rui she hoped to find a place to live and work near Beast Sect but wanted to delay joining until after her revenge.
• Wang Rui led Huo Yuqing to a caravan rest stop in Star Dou Forest and explained that Beast Sect’s five cities lay within the forest.
• Wang Rui described the cities and Beast Sect’s half-Soul Beasts as Huo Yuqing listened and asked questions.
• A giant-wolf caravan arrived, and Wang Rui introduced Huo Yuqing to Zhang Lexuan, Moon Shadow City’s lord and a Titled Douluo.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Lang Xingying to accompany Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing to Jade City with his mother’s caravan.

Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing traveled with Lang Xingying and the Moon Shadow City wolf pack, where Huo Yuqing learned how wolf contracts worked and won the wolves over with her cooking. As the pack continued toward Moon Shadow City, Wang Rui hoped the journey would help Huo Yuqing build a sincere bond with soul beasts, and she fell asleep feeling safe against someone’s embrace.

• Lang Xingying introduced himself to Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing, then drew an awkward apology from his mother, the white wolf, after his chatter exposed that he had recognized the Auspicious Beast’s scent.
• The white wolf explained that soul contracts could form through shared attributes or symbiotic connections, and Wang Rui emphasized that trust and care were essential.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reminded Huo Yuqing that her Attribute Infusion with Wang Rui had already laid the groundwork for their eventual contract.
• The wolf pack set off for Moon Shadow City with Wang Rui, Huo Yuqing, and Lang Xingying riding on the white wolf’s back.
• Huo Yuqing cooked grilled fish during a rest stop, winning the wolves over, while Wang Rui hoped her time among them would strengthen her affection for soul beasts.
• Late that night, Huo Yuqing grew sleepy on the moving wolf and drifted off in the warmth of someone’s embrace.

Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing arrived at Jade City, a refuge built around the Golden Ancient Tree where humans and soul beasts received care. Wang Rui revealed that he had helped establish the city to protect the tree and promote peace, and that the Goddess of Life had once stopped Tang San from moving it.

• Wang Rui woke Huo Yuqing and Lang Xingying as the wolf pack approached Jade City, then asked to be dropped off outside it.
• Huo Yuqing saw the Golden Ancient Tree, and Wang Rui explained its healing power and Jade City's history as a sanctuary for humans and soul beasts.
• Huo Yuqing wondered whether Jade City's free treatment could have saved her mother, and Wang Rui comforted her as she grieved.
• Wang Rui used his Eye of Destiny to inspect the connection between the Golden Tree and the Divine Realm, recalling how he had sought the tree and won the Goddess of Life's favor.
• Wang Rui recalled that Tang San had tried to move the Golden Tree, but withdrew after the Goddess of Life's true form appeared, leaving the tree at the center of Jade City.

Wang Rui showed Huo Yuqing around Jade City, where humans and intelligent soul beasts lived and traded together. He brought her to the marketplace and pointed out a shop where she could work, while she explored its unusual stalls and wares.

• Wang Rui explained that soul beasts living alongside humans developed greater intelligence, and Wind-Listening Parrots warned the visitors to obey Jade City's rules.
• A talking tree gave Huo Yuqing sour fruit, and Wang Rui led her toward the commercial district to introduce her to a potential employer.
• Huo Yuqing watched a Troll Pine squirrel perform to explain its goods, accepted a pine nut, and learned how soul beasts traded and used money.
• Wang Rui showed Huo Yuqing stalls selling goods and services, along with a shop where cheap apprentice-made Storage Soul Tools were available.
• Huo Yuqing stopped at a stall without an awning, where a red-eyed crow advertised pills from Gu City in exchange for drops of blood.

Huo Yuqing learned about Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng’s blood-for-pills trade and received advice not to let revenge consume her. Wang Rui then used Zhang Peng’s history of persecution to deepen Huo Yuqing’s distrust of Shrek’s so-called righteous forces, before leading her to Emerald Elixir Hall.

• Huo Yuqing asked about Zhang Peng’s pills and wondered whether one could help her defeat a powerful enemy, but Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned her about their side effects.
• Zhang Peng and his Omen Resentment Crow teased Huo Yuqing with dangerous medicines, then Zhang Peng advised her to cultivate patiently and introduced himself as Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng.
• Zhang Peng and the crow discussed Huo Yuqing’s resentment after she left, then fled when a giant eagle arrived to drive away contraband sellers.
• Wang Rui explained that Zhang Peng’s Scorpion Tiger Martial Soul absorbed blood and souls, and said Zhang Peng had been hunted by the Shrek Monitoring Group.
• Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui reached Emerald Elixir Hall as Wang Rui continued reflecting on Shrek’s authority and Huo Yuqing’s fixation on revenge.

Wang Rui brought Huo Yuqing to Emerald Elixir Hall, where Lu Mingyou examined the girl and offered to help treat her injuries. Wang Rui arranged for Huo Yuqing to receive a Heavenly Water Pill and discussed recruiting her and taking her to Shrek Academy, where he suspected the academy might break its agreement.

• Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing entered Emerald Elixir Hall and met Lu Mingyou, who greeted Wang Rui and examined Huo Yuqing.
• Wang Rui arranged for Huo Yuqing to stay at the hall and asked Lu Mingyou to find her work; Lu Mingyou offered to teach her alchemy.
• Wang Rui privately asked Lu Mingyou to give Huo Yuqing a Heavenly Water Pill and nurse her back to health in the sect's name.
• Lu Mingyou asked whether Huo Yuqing had joined the sect, and Wang Rui told her she could recruit the girl but must not force her.
• Wang Rui asked Lu Mingyou to obtain a recommendation letter from Shrek Academy and said he would go there with Huo Yuqing because the academy might break its agreement.

Huo Yuqing met Jiang Nannan at Emerald Elixir Hall, where she learned about herbal medicine and Jiang Nannan’s plans to leave Shrek Academy and become an apothecary. As Wang Rui appeared at her new room in Jade City, Huo Yuqing felt grateful for the chance to begin a new life and resolved to grow strong enough to repay his kindness.

• Jiang Nannan showed Huo Yuqing the herb-processing rooms at Emerald Elixir Hall and explained how spiritual power could help with pill refinement.
• Jiang Nannan showed Huo Yuqing a room with a view of the Golden Tree, and the two girls cleaned and furnished it.
• Jiang Nannan told Huo Yuqing she planned to leave Shrek Academy because of its harsh competition and poor teaching, and she wanted to become an apothecary like Lu Mingyou.
• Jiang Nannan explained that Lu Mingyou had treated her mother’s serious heart condition and waived the medicine fees, inspiring her to help others through alchemy.
• Huo Yuqing reflected on the kindness Wang Rui had shown her and rejected Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s suggestion that she repay him by offering herself, deciding instead to become stronger.
• Wang Rui appeared behind Huo Yuqing, and she smiled and thanked him for helping her find a place she liked.

Huo Yuqing excelled at identifying and processing medicinal herbs at Emerald Elixir Hall, passing Lu Mingyou’s first stage of training and receiving a Heavenly Water Pill. The chapter ended when Jiang Nannan’s mother arrived and asked her to come home because Rouge was unwell.

• Over two weeks, Huo Yuqing advanced to Soul Power Rank Fourteen and learned basic herbal knowledge under Lu Mingyou.
• A White Sand Hamster offered its poorly stored collection of herbs for a Singing Sand Pill, and Lu Mingyou sent it to haul bricks for two years to earn the pill.
• Huo Yuqing processed 107 herbs in two hours and ten minutes, impressing Lu Mingyou and passing the first stage of her training.
• Lu Mingyou gave Huo Yuqing a storage pendant containing a Heavenly Water Pill as her reward.
• Jiang Nannan’s mother arrived and asked her to go home because Rouge was not doing well.

Jiang Nannan’s Rouge Soft Tendon Python began shedding its skin and suffered in the process, prompting Wang Rui and Lu Mingyou to come help. Wang Rui found that their fortunes were already intertwining, but he could not ease the molt with his contract; an aged voice then suggested trying contract magic from their world.

• Jiang Nannan’s mother told her that Rouge had stopped moving, turned white-eyed, and appeared to be in pain.
• Wang Rui identified Rouge’s condition as shedding and went with Jiang Nannan, Lu Mingyou, and Huo Yuqing to her home.
• Rouge struggled in the yard and warned Jiang Nannan away until it recognized her scent and wrapped its tail around her wrist.
• Lu Mingyou said that interfering with the molt could make it harder and advised giving Rouge water.
• Wang Rui saw that Jiang Nannan and Rouge’s fortunes were merging, but said he could not use his contract to help them.
• An aged voice suggested that Wang Rui try the contract magic from their world.