Chapter Summaries

Shengyangyue learned that the Soul Master Tournament would be declared a tie and that he, Ye Xishui, and other students would go to Shrek Academy as exchange students. He ended his arrangement with Ye Xishui, leaving her devastated as he crossed her name off his list of remaining destinies.

• Kong Deming told Shengyangyue that the tournament result would be announced as a tie and that he and Ye Xishui would attend Shrek Academy as exchange students.
• Shengyangyue said he did not care about the official result and rejected Kong Deming's warning that Shrek might try to keep him.
• Shengyangyue told Ye Xishui that their deal would end once they arrived at Shrek and that they would go their separate ways.
• Ye Xishui left in tears, while Shengyangyue crossed her name off his notebook and said two people's destinies remained.
• Ye Xishui returned to her dorm, cried, then resumed forging the close-combat Soul Tool for Shengyangyue.

Shengyangyue emerged from seclusion having reached Spirit Sage and cultivated a hundred-thousand-year seventh spirit ring. He joined the exchange students departing for Shrek Academy and left Kong Deming stunned after revealing the ring’s age.

• Shengyangyue reached level seventy-two and discovered that combining his Dragon Soul with Elder Yi's spirit method could nurture spirit rings on its own.
• Xiao Hongchen and Xu Tianxin speculated about the strained relationship between Shengyangyue and Ye Xishui, while Kong Deming waited for Shengyangyue to arrive.
• Shengyangyue's newly released Spirit Sage aura shocked the gathering, and Ye Xishui watched him with envy and admiration.
• Kong Deming examined Shengyangyue's Soul Power and learned that he had absorbed a hundred-thousand-year seventh spirit ring, but refused to believe it.
• Shengyangyue offered to prove the ring's age and decided to openly display his strength before reaching Shrek Academy.

Shengyangyue revealed his powerful spirit rings to Kong Deming before the Sun Moon Academy exchange students departed for Shrek Academy. He rejected Xu Tianxin’s invitation to meet his family, clarified his relationship with Ye Xishui, and left with the group as the exchange program began.

• Shengyangyue showed Kong Deming his spirit rings, revealing a hundred-thousand-year seventh ring and a third ring that had turned black.
• Xiao Hongchen and Xu Tianxin praised Shengyangyue’s strength, and he told Xiao Hongchen that his transactional relationship with Ye Xishui had ended.
• Xu Tianxin invited Shengyangyue to meet his family, but Shengyangyue declined to get involved in royal affairs.
• Elder Chen warned the students that Shrek Academy made empty promises and told them to prepare for departure under Kong Deming’s leadership.
• Kong Deming led the prepared students away, officially beginning the exchange program.

Wang Xinshi told the Sea God Pavilion elders that Shrek Academy had lost the tournament to Shengyangyue, though the result had been announced as a draw, and revealed that Shengyangyue and Long Xiaoyao would join an exchange program at Shrek. Kong Deming’s group waited outside Shrek City until Zhao Xin appeared, then continued toward the city.

• Wang Xinshi told the elders that Shrek Academy had lost to the Sun Moon team but announced a draw to prevent renewed conflict.
• Wang Xinshi explained that Shengyangyue, the Sun Moon team’s new captain, had defeated Mu En and the others with an Extreme Space dragon-type Martial Soul.
• The elders agreed to use the exchange program to persuade Shengyangyue to join Shrek Academy.
• Wang Xinshi revealed that Long Xiaoyao would also participate in the exchange program, while the elders focused on Shengyangyue.
• Kong Deming waited with the Sun Moon Academy students outside Shrek City until Zhao Xin appeared, then led them onward.

Shengyangyue and the Sun Moon Academy students arrived at Shrek Academy, where his taunts enraged the Inner Court students and Zhao Xin hurried to suppress the conflict. The group reached the academy, and Kong Deming prepared to judge Shrek’s promised accommodations.

• Zhao Xin met Kong Deming and led him and the Sun Moon students toward the hostile Shrek Inner Court students.
• Shengyangyue called the Shrek students defeated losers, provoking one student to challenge him to a duel.
• Zhao Xin slapped the challenger twice, threatened to expel him, and apologized to Shengyangyue to keep the exchange visit on track.
• Zhao Xin led the group into Shrek Academy and promised Kong Deming that the Sun Moon students would have comfortable two-person dormitories.
• Kong Deming accepted Zhao Xin’s offer to inspect Shrek’s hospitality.

Mu En recovered some confidence after Wang Xinshi encouraged him to learn from past setbacks, then was sent to pick up Long Xiaoyao and take him to the Outer Court. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Academy exchange students moved into a newly built dormitory, while Long Xiaoyao expected to share Shrek’s shabby freshman accommodations.

• Wang Xinshi reminded Mu En that failure should not keep him from pursuing his goal of becoming Sea God Pavilion’s successor, and Mu En resolved to move forward.
• Wang Xinshi told Mu En to collect Long Xiaoyao and bring him to the Outer Court dormitories for the exchange students’ first year.
• Zhao Xin showed Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Academy students the new dormitory Shrek had specially built for them.
• Mu En met Long Xiaoyao at the gates of Shrek City and explained that exchange students would spend a year in the Outer Court before entering the Inner Court.
• Long Xiaoyao believed the Sun Moon students would receive the same harsh dormitory conditions as Shrek’s Outer Court students.

Shrek Academy showed the Sun Moon Academy exchange students their lavish, academy-style dormitory and arranged rooms for them. Meanwhile, Mu En brought Long Xiaoyao to a dusty, cramped room, and Shengyangyue discovered that Ye Xishui had been assigned as his roommate.

• Zhao Xin led Kong Deming, Shengyangyue, Ye Xishui, and the other Sun Moon Academy students through new dormitories modeled after their own academy.
• The Sun Moon Academy students admired the clean, luxurious rooms, which had private toilets and bathrooms, unlike the crowded facilities Shrek's freshmen were rumored to share.
• Mu En took Long Xiaoyao to an old, dusty dormitory room and promised to help him clean it before treating him to a meal.
• Zhao Xin proposed pairing Shengyangyue with Ye Xishui, and Kong Deming agreed to the room assignment.
• Shengyangyue sat across from Ye Xishui and realized they had been assigned to share a room despite having fallen out.

Shengyangyue avoided Ye Xishui’s questions as Kong Deming warned him that Shrek Academy was openly trying to recruit him. At the cafeteria, Zhao Xin arranged special meal delivery for the Sun Moon exchange students, while Mu En turned Long Xiaoyao away before he could meet them.

• Ye Xishui confronted Shengyangyue in their dormitory, but he refused to speak with her.
• Kong Deming warned Shengyangyue that Shrek Academy was targeting him, and Shengyangyue kept quiet about his private deal with Ye Xishui.
• After cleaning a dormitory, Mu En and Long Xiaoyao went to the Outer Court cafeteria and found no seats.
• Zhao Xin brought Kong Deming and the Sun Moon exchange students into the cafeteria and promised meals would be delivered to their dormitory starting the next day.
• Mu En explained the special treatment to Long Xiaoyao and led him away before he could greet the exchange students.
• Shengyangyue spotted Mu En and Long Xiaoyao but missed the chance to see their reactions to the special treatment.

Ye Xishui reminisced about Shengyangyue while Jin Tianming and the three younger companions defended him from her teasing. Later, she asked Jin Tianming about the Holy Lord and whether he had considered replacing him, saying that a memory he had mentioned would help her understand the truth.

• Ye Xishui complained about Shengyangyue by the campfire, and Meng Hongchen, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Hongchen joined in while Jin Tianming tried to stay out of it.
• Ye Xishui threatened to hit Jin Tianming instead, but the three younger companions stood up for him, prompting her to call him as despicable as Shengyangyue.
• Ye Xishui explained that Shengyangyue had taught her spatial abilities and had once helped her before leaving.
• Jin Tianming studied Soul Tool principles as Ye Xishui kept the campsite sheltered from the blizzard with her spatial abilities.
• Ye Xishui asked Jin Tianming about the Holy Lord and whether he had considered replacing him, then said she hoped to obtain the memory he had mentioned so she could understand everything.

Jin Tianming, Ye Xishui, and Electrolux headed into the Extreme North to locate a scorpion, while Huo Yuhao and the others followed behind with Electrolux. As Ye Xishui and the scorpion's aura clashed, a hostile young girl's voice challenged the humans.

• Ye Xishui returned and told Jin Tianming she had found the scorpion, and Jin Tianming summoned Electrolux as backup.
• Ye Xishui questioned why Jin Tianming had brought Electrolux, and he explained that the other overlords made the mission dangerous.
• Jin Tianming left with Ye Xishui and Moxie, while Electrolux agreed to take Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and the third child along.
• Ye Xishui and Jin Tianming reached the Extreme North's central region, where she warned him to prepare for battle.
• Ye Xishui unleashed her power, and a young girl's voice rose from the snow, accusing the humans of having nerve.

Ye Xishui used borrowed spatial power to suppress the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and Jin Tianming tried to make a deal with it. When the Ice Empress agreed only after he threatened to kill it, the Snow Empress arrived to save her, and Electrolux flew up to confront her.

• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion threatened Ye Xishui and Jin Tianming, while Electrolux warned the three little ones that the beast could challenge several Rank 9 Soul Engineers.
• Ye Xishui used the Power of Space to suppress the Ice Empress, and Electrolux noted that she could not unleash its full power because it was not hers.
• Jin Tianming offered the Ice Empress a deal, but she refused until he threatened to have Moxie kill her and asked Ye Xishui to preserve her soul ring.
• The Ice Empress changed her mind, but the Snow Empress appeared and demanded that Jin Tianming release her.
• Electrolux flew to meet the Snow Empress and advised her to recognize the situation.

Ye Xishui turned the Titan Snow Demon King’s blizzard against him and captured him, while Electrolux defeated Snow Empress. Jin Tianming and the others had all three Extreme North sovereigns in their power.

• Ye Xishui confronted the Titan Snow Demon King and used spatial power to redirect his blizzard around him.
• Electrolux overwhelmed Snow Empress with waves of undead while Jin Tianming taunted Ice Empress and asked how long Snow Empress could last.
• Ice Empress pleaded for Snow Empress’s safety, offering her own soul ring, but Jin Tianming dismissed her appeal.
• Electrolux bound Snow Empress and threw her down before Jin Tianming, where Ice Empress called out to her.
• Ye Xishui returned carrying a spatially compressed Titan Snow Demon King and tossed him toward the others, shocking Ice Empress and Snow Empress.

Ye Xishui subdued the Titan Snow Demon King, and Jin Tianming forced the Three Kings of the Extreme North to choose between cooperating and becoming his soul rings. All three agreed, and Ye Xishui returned with two injured soul beasts and several battered people.

• Ye Xishui used her spatial ability to shrink the Titan Snow Demon King and left to catch more soul beasts.
• Jin Tianming rebuked Ice Empress for talking as though he were absent, then told the Three Kings of the Extreme North to cooperate or die.
• Snow Empress offered to become a soul ring in Ice Empress’s place, but Jin Tianming insisted that Ice Empress had to do so and said he had other plans for Snow Empress.
• Ice Empress agreed first, and Snow Empress and the Titan Snow Demon King followed, agreeing to cooperate.
• Ye Xishui returned with two barely alive soul beasts and several severely injured people wrapped in the Power of Space.

Jin Tianming interrogated Lin Tou, a Rank 9 Soul Engineer from the Star Luo Empire, while Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen absorbed their soul rings. After revealing he already knew Lin Tou’s secret plan to capture a hundred-thousand-year soul beast during its tribulation, Jin Tianming had Ye Xishui turn him into a puppet.

• Jin Tianming revived Lin Tou with Essence of Life Liquid and questioned him about his faction and mission.
• Lin Tou claimed he had come to the Extreme North to test a Soul Tool, then tried to bargain for his life with his Rank 9 Soul Engineer skills.
• Ye Xishui dismissed Lin Tou’s offer and explained that she was also a Rank 9 Soul Engineer.
• After Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen finished absorbing their soul rings, Jin Tianming told Ye Xishui to turn Lin Tou into a puppet.
• Jin Tianming exposed Lin Tou’s plan to use a Soul Tool to capture a hundred-thousand-year soul beast undergoing tribulation, and Ye Xishui began transforming him.

Jin Tianming helped Ye Xishui break Lin Tou’s will before she refined him into a puppet, while the Snow Empress and her allies grew wary of Jin Tianming and the turmoil in the Extreme North. At Shrek Academy, Mo Yan and Dugu Luo plotted to use a new toxin against Tang San, and Ning Tian revealed that Dai Huabin was now rooming with Tang San.

• Ye Xishui refined the despairing Lin Tou into a puppet, and she told Jin Tianming that his methods made him seem like an Evil Spirit Master.
• The Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Titan Snow Demon King watched the events in the Extreme North, while Mu En and Long Xiaoyao sensed the disturbance and worried that the continent faced a coming calamity.
• Mo Yan dismissed the disturbance as Jin Tianming’s doing, then Dugu Luo told her about an apparently incurable toxin that caused its victims to go into heat.
• Ning Tian teased Wu Feng about pretending to regret the canceled freshman tournament, then revealed that Dai Huabin had survived his injuries and was rooming with Tang San.

Lei Ze met with Black and Bai Yu to discuss Mo Yan's plan for Tang San and the clones' growing conflict. He rejected taking part in the plan and proposed waiting for death rather than joining an alliance against Mo Yan.

• Lei Ze received Mo Yan's message about Tang San and refused to take pictures of the planned spectacle.
• Black suggested having Bei Bei replace them, while Bai Yu proposed recording Tang San's performance for Tang Ya and the people in the heavens to see.
• Bai Yu asked Lei Ze to ally with her and Black against Mo Yan, whose strength could overwhelm them if they fought separately.
• Lei Ze said his better method was to wait for death, explaining that returning to the original body's embrace did not frighten him.
• Black warned Lei Ze that he would be eliminated first and revived last, but Lei Ze accepted the prospect.

Tang San failed another Soul Tool assessment, then was struck by a tracking knife carrying Dugu Luo’s toxin. After he returned to his dormitory and activated the Mysterious Heaven Skill, the toxin erupted inside him, with Dai Huabin nearby.

• Lei Ze returned to Ning Tian and Wu Feng after speaking with Bai Yu, and dismissed their questions about their conversation as family ethics.
• Fan Yu questioned Tang San after his eighth failed Soul Tool assessment, but Tang San left eager to return to his own cultivation and hidden weapon studies.
• Dugu Luo’s clone intercepted Tang San outside the Soul Tool Academy and hit his shoulder with a tracking knife that carried her toxin.
• Dugu Luo told Mo Yan that the toxin would activate when Tang San used the Mysterious Heaven Skill, while Mo Yan expected Bai Yu to exploit the incident.
• Tang San returned to his dormitory, treated his wound, and began circulating the Mysterious Heaven Skill as Dai Huabin lay helpless in the room.
• The toxin inside Tang San awakened as soon as he activated the technique.

Bei Bei persuaded Xu Sanshi to leave the Inner Court and expose Tang San, while Zhang Lexuan began a breakthrough that gave them cover. They caught Tang San in a compromising scene with Dai Huabin, and Mu En and Long Xiaoyao rushed toward the Outer Court after realizing the two had escaped.

• Bei Bei woke Xu Sanshi and persuaded him to seek revenge on Tang San by warning that Tang San might take Jiang Nannan from him.
• Zhang Lexuan watched Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi leave, then began breaking through to Soul Fighting Douluo to conceal their escape from Mu En.
• Tang San struggled with his violent Mysterious Heaven Skill and mistook the immobile Dai Huabin for Xiao Wu.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi entered Tang San’s dormitory, saw the scene with Dai Huabin, and began recording it with Soul Tools.
• Black lowered the Moon-Gazing Mirror, and Bai Yu arranged for Tang Ya to enter the dormitory as another actor.
• Mu En discovered Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi were gone, realized Zhang Lexuan was breaking through, and set off with Long Xiaoyao for the Outer Court.

Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Xu Sanshi found Tang San behaving like a frenzied beast while attacking the nearly dying Dai Huabin. Mu En and Long Xiaoyao restrained Tang San and saved Dai Huabin, leaving everyone confused about what had happened.

• Tang Ya entered the room, saw Tang San’s strange behavior, and collapsed in shock before trying to stop him with Bei Bei’s help.
• Bai Yu and Black sensed powerful presences approaching, while Mu En and Long Xiaoyao tracked Bei Bei to the room.
• Mu En and Long Xiaoyao arrived, recognized that Tang San was not acting normally, and used their Soul Power to separate him from Dai Huabin.
• Mu En questioned Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Xu Sanshi, who could not explain the scene, while Dai Huabin suddenly sat up and realized everyone was staring at him.

Elder Zhuang confirmed that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass had healed Dai Huabin by filling his body with life energy, while finding no poison in Tang San. After Dai Huabin described what Tang San had done, Mu En struck Tang Ya for defending him and was angered further by Bei Bei’s reaction, then left Tang San’s fate undecided.

• Elder Zhuang examined Dai Huabin and found life energy nourishing his body, leading Mu En to suspect Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass carried a strong Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
• Elder Zhuang and Mu En examined Tang San and found no poison, concluding that his strange behavior came from going too long without release.
• Mu En asked Dai Huabin to recount what happened, and Dai Huabin described Tang San’s actions while Tang Ya accused him of lying.
• Mu En struck Tang Ya and sent her flying, and Bei Bei glared at Mu En before rushing to help her.
• Elder Zhuang ruled out Dugu Luo’s poison, and Mu En said he needed more time to decide what to do with Tang San.