Chapter Summaries

After Spirit Hall’s fall, the two empires’ purge of its remnants became a centuries-long hunt for Qian Renxue, while Wang Rui suspected a hidden plot behind the sudden spread of the Bone Condensing Secret Technique. He returned to class with Huo Yuqing, where their closeness drew attention from their classmates.

• The two empires’ persecution of Spirit Hall’s remnants expanded into a thousand-year campaign, while Qian Renxue and Hu Liena disappeared from their prison.
• Wang Rui suspected that the Bone Condensing Secret Technique had been deliberately spread, but the Eye of Destiny could not reveal who was behind it.
• Huo Yuqing asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm whether Wang Rui was safe carrying the soul bone, and he reassured her.
• Huo Yuqing brought Wang Rui into Class One, where classmates watched and whispered about them.
• Wang Rui winked at the girls, then sat beside Huo Yuqing and An Wen while Wang Dong watched them hold hands beneath the desk.

Wang Yan revealed that Shrek Academy’s Inner Academy offered selected students the chance to undergo a genuine God’s Assessment. Wang Rui considered the assessments a means for Tang San to exert control over the Douluo World, then argued that Shrek’s trials could not truly lead to godhood while Sea God’s descendants remained on the continent.

• Wang Yan told the students that entering the Inner Academy could bring them the opportunity to face a God’s Assessment.
• Wang Yan confirmed that Tang San had left an inheritance and a place of trials at Shrek Academy, prompting a commotion among the students.
• Wang Rui recalled how Tang San had pursued his Golden Dragon King bloodline through a mission given to Mu En, and how Di Feng’s involvement had helped conceal his identity.
• Wang Rui listened as Huo Yuqing, Wang Dong, and An Wen debated the assessments, then said Shrek’s God’s Assessment could not truly grant godhood while Sea God’s descendants lived on the Douluo Continent.

Wang Rui discussed Sea God Tang San with Wang Dong, then arranged to visit Sea God Island and agreed to build Electrolux a powerful Bone Dragon soul cannon. Electrolux also taught him a spell that could free trapped souls and help them return home.

• Wang Dong insisted that Tang San had left no descendants, and Wang Rui laughed at the irony of Wang Dong denying his own father had children.
• Wang Rui revealed that he expected to visit Sea God Island legitimately the following year, giving Electrolux a chance to assess Tang San's power.
• Electrolux asked Wang Rui to build a soul cannon for a Bone Dragon, and Wang Rui agreed to study the Bone Dragon and begin work after returning to Star Dou.
• Electrolux gave Wang Rui a light-element undead spell that could grant rest to wandering souls and free ghosts trapped in foreign lands.

An Wen suspected Wang Dong was connected to the Clear Sky Sect, while Huo Yuqing worried about whether she could inherit a divine position. As Wang Yan began the class monitor election, Wang Rui declined his nomination and An Wen objected to being left off the candidate list.

• An Wen questioned whether Wang Dong was secretly from the Tang family, but Wang Dong denied it and defended her argument about Tang San’s descendants.
• Huo Yuqing asked how Tang San and Xiao Wu could not have had a child after entering the Divine Realm, then worried that divine inheritance might prevent her from fulfilling her agreement with the Imperial Auspicious Beast.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reassured Huo Yuqing that divine positions usually were not inherited by bloodline and urged her to focus on cultivation.
• Wang Yan announced that Class One would elect separate assault and control department monitors by secret ballot, and Huo Yuqing faced no objections as a candidate.
• Wang Rui asked Wang Yan to remove his name from the candidates, while Huo Yuqing worried that Dai Huabin might become the assault department monitor.
• An Wen objected to Wang Yan and asked why she had not been nominated.

An Wen won the assault department class monitor election, and Wang Rui revealed and destroyed the Secret Method Soul Bone, releasing a flock of luminous birds that flew home. A purple-haired girl watched them pass outside the dormitory, while the reason for her falling tear remained unclear.

• Wang Yan held the class monitor vote, and An Wen won the assault department position by a wide margin over Wang Dong and Dai Huabin.
• An Wen and Wang Dong followed Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing to Room 313, where An Wen asked about Mù Jǐn's reward.
• Wang Rui showed the Secret Method Soul Bone, and An Wen erupted in anger at what had happened to him.
• Wang Rui chanted over the soul bone, turning it white and shattering it into glowing birds that flew away as if returning home.
• A purple-haired girl watched the flock pass outside the dormitory, and a drop of water fell from her hollow purple eyes.

Wang Rui freed the Grey-bellied Spirit Sparrows trapped in a Secret Method Soul Bone and learned more about the mysterious Jiang Lan. As he spoke with Bai Chenxiang by Sea God Lake, a blood-red light emerged from the mist covering Sea God Island.

• Wang Rui watched the freed bird souls fly toward Star Dou and left his room, with Bai Chenxiang joining him as a swallow.
• Wang Rui and Bai Chenxiang passed Jiang Lan, who entered the freshman dormitory, and discussed her sparse intelligence profile and possible connection to a missing Shrek student.
• Wang Rui told Bai Chenxiang to stop investigating Jiang Lan and learned that Bear Lord wanted him to find a missing bear cub.
• Wang Rui frowned as dense white mist covered Sea God Island and a blood-red point of light approached the shore.

Wang Rui stopped Ma Xiaotao’s rampaging Phoenix Evil Fire by elevating it to Ultimate Fire, leaving her safe but her underlying martial soul problem unresolved. At Bai Chenxiang’s request, he agreed to test Ma Xiaotao’s character before deciding how much to help her.

• Wang Rui explained that Xu Sanshi’s absence had caused Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire to rebound, with the Profound Nether Sect and Yan Shaozhe allowing events to push her toward Xu Sanshi.
• Ma Xiaotao charged toward Wang Rui and Bai Chenxiang in a berserk state, but Wang Rui suppressed her fire and transformed it into pure crimson-gold Phoenix fire.
• Wang Rui examined the unconscious Ma Xiaotao while Bai Chenxiang explained why she cared about Ma Hongjun’s descendant and admitted she feared he might no longer love her if they met again.
• Bai Chenxiang asked Wang Rui to help Ma Xiaotao, and he agreed to test her character before deciding how much assistance to give.

Wang Rui used a destiny-based illusion on Ma Xiaotao to explore her reactions, while Bai Chenxiang reflected on her painful past and her reasons for asking him to help. Ma Xiaotao awoke inside the illusion to the sight of a human skeleton burned by phoenix flames.

• Wang Rui explained his illusion technique, which used the Power of Destiny to create the most probable outcome of a hypothetical situation.
• Wang Rui sent a golden sphere of tangled threads into Ma Xiaotao's brow, placing her inside the illusion.
• Bai Chenxiang remembered how the Tang Clan, Shrek, and her family had blamed and mistreated her after Ma Hongjun ascended without her, and why Ma Xiaotao's plight concerned her.
• Ma Xiaotao felt the evil flames in her veins quiet as she slept, then recognized the smell of burned trees, earth, and flesh.
• Ma Xiaotao opened her eyes and saw the hollow sockets of a human skeleton burned by phoenix flames.

After Ma Xiaotao regained consciousness at the scorched Outer Academy, she realized she had killed two innocent students and was overwhelmed by guilt. Yan Shaozhe told her Sea God Pavilion had confined her for a year, leaving her alone to question whether she could ever safely continue cultivating.

• Ma Xiaotao found the charred remains of two Outer Academy students and recognized that she had killed them during her loss of control.
• Ma Xiaotao broke down beside the remains and fainted as Yan Shaozhe approached.
• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that Sea God Pavilion had confined her on Sea God Island for one year, suspended her cultivation, and would treat another loss of control as proof she was an Evil Soul Master.
• Yan Shaozhe left, revealing that he had pushed for the confinement to protect Ma Xiaotao from elders who had proposed executing her and from the scandal surrounding the deaths.
• Ma Xiaotao sat alone in her room, torn between her ambition to advance beyond the Soul Emperor realm and fear that her flawed martial soul would make her kill again.

After her confinement, Ma Xiaotao discovered the academy had covered up the deaths caused by her loss of control and set out to apologize to the victims’ families. Yan Shaozhe stopped her and confined her again when she refused to abandon the plan.

• Yan Shaozhe released Ma Xiaotao after testing her and found the evil aura in her martial soul had settled; he invited her to join the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament.
• Ma Xiaotao searched the Outer Academy archives and found records that falsely listed the two students’ deaths as an accident while hunting soul beasts.
• Ma Xiaotao packed to visit the students’ families and apologize, but Yan Shaozhe ordered her not to go.
• Ma Xiaotao insisted she had to take responsibility and said she would withdraw from the academy; Yan Shaozhe slapped her and confined her until she understood her mistake.

Wang Rui confronted Ma Xiaotao about the dangerous nature of her Phoenix Evil Fire and offered her three ways forward. She chose the option that left her responsible for finding a solution herself, and Wang Rui began to suspect her Martial Soul’s corruption came from lost memories rather than her bloodline.

• Ma Xiaotao awoke beside Sea God Lake and mistook Wang Rui for the boy she had killed, but Wang Rui explained that she had experienced a realistic dream.
• Wang Rui made Ma Xiaotao swear to keep their meeting secret and offered her three options for addressing her Phoenix Evil Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao chose the third option, refusing to bind herself to Wang Rui because she still needed to repay her adoptive father and Yan Shaozhe.
• Wang Rui explained that Ma Xiaotao’s destructive urges differed from the sexual desires associated with Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire and suggested intense negative emotions had corrupted her Martial Soul.
• Wang Rui asked whether Ma Xiaotao had lost any memories, while Yan Shaozhe remained absent because the Auspicious Beast’s good fortune had sent him in the wrong direction.

Wang Rui told Ma Xiaotao that a past trauma and blocked memories were corrupting her Martial Soul, and that she would need to recover those memories and confront her heart demon. He offered to help suppress the negative energy in her flames, then sent her away when Yan Shaozhe came looking, leaving Bai Chenxiang to watch him stage a dramatic scene for Huo Yuqing.

• Ma Xiaotao denied having missing memories, but Wang Rui challenged her to recall her childhood, biological parents, and Martial Soul awakening, revealing that she remembered none of them.
• Wang Rui explained that an old brain injury had blocked memories of a painful past that was negatively affecting Ma Xiaotao's Martial Soul, and warned her not to force the blockage open.
• Wang Rui said Ma Xiaotao needed to recover her memories, prepare herself for what they contained, and face her past, while cautioning that clearing the blockage could leave her an idiot.
• Ma Xiaotao rejected Wang Rui's suggestion that she try dying for a chance at nirvana and offered him three favors in exchange for the information.
• Wang Rui offered to clear negative energy from Ma Xiaotao's flames and urged her to enter the Sea God Pavilion, while she said another student with the Sea God Martial Soul had been chosen as its future Master.
• Wang Rui sent Ma Xiaotao away, then smeared ash on his uniform and acted injured when Huo Yuqing rushed over; Bai Chenxiang watched in stunned silence.

Rong Nianbing learned that an eleven-year-old in Douluo World had caused a persistent spiritual injury and tried to use the case to find a promising disciple and secure his retirement. The Goddess of Life postponed the discussion for tea with Xiao Wu, leaving Rong Nianbing pleading with her as the God of Destruction dragged him away to fight.

• Rong Nianbing examined the Golden Tree projection and asked the Goddess of Life who had caused Du Weilun’s lasting spiritual injury.
• The Goddess of Life told Rong Nianbing that an eleven-year-old had accidentally caused the injury while testing a technique, and asked how it could be treated in the lower realm.
• Rong Nianbing proposed teaching the child so he could learn to undo the injury, while also hoping to recruit him as a disciple.
• The God of Destruction announced that Xiao Wu had arrived, and the Goddess of Life ended the discussion to hold an afternoon tea party.
• Rong Nianbing begged the Goddess of Life not to delay, but the God of Destruction seized him and challenged him to a spar.

Xiao Wu visited the Goddess of Life, who learned that Tang Xiaoqi had gone to the Douluo World and challenged the decision to send her away. Xiao Wu concealed her doubts about Tang San’s choice and revealed that she had quietly lost a pregnancy.

• Xiao Wu joined the Goddess of Life after the God of Destruction dragged the God of Emotion away, and asked why Rong Nianbing had visited.
• The Goddess of Life said the God of Emotion wanted to find an inheritor and had asked her to observe the lower realms.
• Xiao Wu told the Goddess of Life that Tang Xiaoqi had secretly gone to the Douluo World, and that Tang San had decided to let her train there.
• The Goddess of Life rebuked Xiao Wu for allowing Xiaoqi to grow up in the lower realm without her parents, while Xiao Wu defended Tang San’s reasoning and tried to reassure herself.
• The Goddess of Life noticed Xiao Wu’s troubled condition, and Xiao Wu admitted that she had lost a pregnancy and asked her to keep it from Tang San.

Wang Rui finished a draft of the New Type Contract while Huo Yuqing passed her Level Two Soul Engineer assessment with an impressive flying Soul Tool. After playfully reuniting in the corridor, the two headed back to the dormitory together, with Huo Yuqing saying she had made the tool so she could fly with Wang Rui.

• Wang Rui completed a draft of the New Type Contract, and Electrolux criticized its length while beginning to revise it.
• Huo Yuqing carved a complex Level Two Core Array and assembled a flying Soul Tool during her assessment.
• Xian Lin'er certified Huo Yuqing as having passed the Level Two Soul Engineer assessment, and Qian Duoduo encouraged her to pursue Level Three Soul Tools and join the tournament reserve team.
• Huo Yuqing found Wang Rui waiting outside the laboratory, and the two teased and playfully tussled before walking toward the dormitory hand in hand.
• Huo Yuqing showed Wang Rui her flying Soul Tool and explained that she had made it so she could fly with him.

Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing returned to the dorms before the students spent a sleepless night celebrating the start of vacation. The next morning, An Wen provoked Wang Dong’s visiting guardians, Niu Tian and Titan, while they picked her up and questioned her about school.

• Wang Rui checked Dorm 108, where An Wen and Wang Dong argued over a sock, then returned to celebrate the final night before vacation with his classmates.
• The students stayed awake playing games and chatting, and the next morning they began leaving Shrek Academy for the break.
• Outside the academy, Titan’s pressure fell on An Wen, but Wang Rui signaled her to avoid a confrontation; An Wen instead teased Wang Dong about being targeted by a teacher.
• Wang Dong greeted Niu Tian and Titan, who had come to collect her after receiving her letter about possible memory loss.
• Wang Dong said she was disappointed in the Tang Clan and its leader, and Niu Tian asked her to explain An Wen’s remark about someone making things difficult for her.

Wang Dong told Niu Tian and Titan about Zhou Yi’s treatment of her, prompting Niu Tian to head to Shrek Academy to demand an explanation. As Wang Dong waited for him and hoped to see Jiang Lan, Titan worried about her feelings for the senior; elsewhere, Huo Yuqing learned she would travel to the Far North during the break to awaken her second martial soul.

• Wang Dong recounted Zhou Yi’s punishments and insults to Niu Tian and Titan, and Niu Tian left for Shrek Academy to confront the academy over her treatment.
• Titan stayed with Wang Dong and realized she seemed to have feelings for Jiang Lan, then worried about the complications those feelings could bring.
• Wang Rui watched the Titan Giant Ape and considered whether Niu Tian and Titan’s affection for Wang Dong could be exploited.
• An Wen told Huo Yuqing she planned to eat her fill at home, while Huo Yuqing thought about returning to the wooden room above Emerald Elixir Hall.
• Tian Meng reminded Huo Yuqing that she needed to travel to the Far North during the break to awaken her second martial soul and obtain a second soul ring.
• An Wen spotted Little Dragon arriving to pick them up and ran toward them.

Huo Yuqing reunited with Lu Mingyou and Aunt Rat while Wang Rui learned that the Silver Dragon King had awakened and warned him through Long Xiaoyao. The group’s teasing reunion ended with Lu Mingyou revealing that she knew Huo Yuqing was a girl, leaving Wang Rui to take the blame.

• An Wen joyfully reunited with Long Xiaoyao, who greeted Huo Yuqing as an elder of the Beast Sect.
• Lu Mingyou arrived with Aunt Rat, and Huo Yuqing tearfully embraced her teacher after a year apart.
• Long Xiaoyao secretly told Wang Rui that the one beneath the lake had awakened before An Wen took human form, confirming Wang Rui’s suspicions about the Silver Dragon King’s warning.
• Wang Rui teased Long Xiaoyao and An Wen with a rumor that they and Di Feng were having an affair, prompting their indignant denials and Lu Mingyou’s amusement.
• Jiang Nannan greeted the group, and Lu Mingyou corrected her by revealing that Huo Yuqing was her little junior sister.
• Huo Yuqing apologized for hiding her identity, while Lu Mingyou blamed Wang Rui for keeping it secret and Jiang Nannan silently judged him.

Wang Rui, Huo Yuqing, Jiang Nannan, and Lu Mingyou left Shrek Academy and made their way to a Moon Shadow caravan bound for the north. Huo Yuqing found that her hatred of Dai Huabin had become a scar rather than an open wound, while her disappointment that Wang Rui never asked about her trip remained unresolved as the caravan greeted them.

• Wang Rui reflected on the Soul Beasts’ future while he and Huo Yuqing walked past the wealthy carriages outside Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuqing saw Dai Huabin’s carriage pass and realized that her hatred no longer caused her pain; she resolved to reclaim everything for her mother.
• Lu Mingyou told Huo Yuqing that the sect knew she was going to the Far North and arranged for the Moon Shadow Caravan to take her there; she also instructed Jiang Nannan to learn the caravan’s business.
• Huo Yuqing felt hurt that Wang Rui had never asked about her journey, and Wang Rui awkwardly promised to accompany her to the Far North.
• At Shrek City’s western gate, the group reached the Moon Shadow Caravan, where a familiar voice enthusiastically called out to Rui Rui and Hao Hao.

Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing met Lang Xingying and Xu Jiakang while traveling north, and Huo Yuqing recognized that Xu Jiakang belonged to the Star Crown Xu Clan. The encounter left her confronting her connection to the Xu family, including the Duchess who had married Dai Hao.

• Lang Xingying greeted Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing, then blushed and asked Jiang Nannan if she was his destined love.
• Jiang Nannan threw Lang Xingying to the ground, and Xu Jiakang emerged from the carriage with Lu Mingyou and scolded his son.
• Xu Jiakang introduced himself as the Moon Shadow Merchant Guild manager and chased Lang Xingying while kicking him for his behavior.
• Huo Yuqing connected Xu Jiakang's name and star-related martial soul to the Star Crown Xu Clan and wondered how to face someone related to the Duchess.
• The chapter explained that Xu Jiakang was the Star Luo Emperor's younger brother, the Duchess's younger brother, and a gifted support-type soul master whose congenital illness limited him.