Chapter Summaries

Chen Junting gave Dugu Xin a Man Faced Demon Spider external Soul Bone that could devour the poison threatening his life. Dugu Xin accepted it and agreed to join the Four Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, while revealing an ancestral map that led to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Dugu Xin stopped Chen Junting after the banquet and explained that he had come to Shrek hoping to find a way to suppress his clan’s poison.
• Dugu Xin showed Chen Junting an ancestral scroll said to lead to a treasure land containing Heaven and Earth Treasures, and Chen Junting recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well seal.
• Chen Junting offered Dugu Xin an external Soul Bone from a Man Faced Demon Spider, which could devour poison but also troubled Chen Junting because of its vicious nature and powers.
• Dugu Xin accepted the Soul Bone, believing it could consume the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison and help him survive and grow stronger.
• Chen Junting asked whether Dugu Xin would still withdraw from the academy, and Dugu Xin said he would consider joining the Four Treasures Glazed Tile Sect as a Poison Soul Master.

On the last day of the school year, Mu Jin warned Class Four that students had to pass an advancement assessment to return as second-years, while Chen Junting and the class prepared for the holiday. Chen Junting joined students from seven classes for a restaurant gathering in Cao Jinxuan City, and everyone later went their separate ways for the break.

• Chen Junting arrived early for the final class while Dugu Xin stayed in the dormitory to absorb the Eight Spider Lances and purge the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison from his body.
• Mu Jin told Class Four that the academy had arranged no lessons for the day, then explained the rank requirement and assessment types for advancing to the second year.
• Mu Jin warned the students to work hard over the holiday, and the class cheered when she announced the holiday had begun.
• Tang Nan invited students from seven classes to a restaurant in Cao Jinxuan City, where they gathered for a lively meal and teased Wang Yan about Chen Junting.
• After the gathering ended, the students dispersed and returned to their homes.

Ning Bo Wen worried that the Sun Moon Empire’s rising tariffs foreshadowed another war, while hoping the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect could prepare for the threat of Soul Tools. Ning Tian, Chen Junting, and Wu Feng returned from Shrek Academy with classmates, and the sect welcomed them with a feast.

• Ning Bo Wen discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s new tariffs with Ye Xuanji and Zhiyong, fearing they were preparing for war and that advanced Soul Tools could endanger the sect.
• A disciple reported that Ning Tian, Chen Junting, and Wu Feng had returned from Shrek Academy with classmates, and Ning Bo Wen ordered a welcoming luncheon.
• Ning Bo Wen greeted the returning students and welcomed Ning Tian’s classmates, praising Huo Yuhao’s progress as a Class 2 soul engineer and encouraging him to call him Uncle Ning.
• Chen Junting told Ye Xuanji that purifying the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife had helped him reach rank forty, and Ye Xuanji promised to take him to the Sect Treasury for a secret technique.
• Ning Bo Wen hosted a welcoming feast for the group.

Ning Bo Wen prepared the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to investigate the Immortal Herb in Sunset Forest, while Huo Yuhao asked for help awakening his second Martial Soul. Chen Junting then revealed his newly created Array Formation to Ning Bo Wen.

• At the Sect Master Mansion, Ning Bo Wen, Ye Xuanji, and Zhiyong studied Dugu Xin’s map and identified its treasure site as Sunset Forest, where Aromatic Silk Beauty might grow.
• Ning Bo Wen ordered the Grand Elders to gather and requested a large supply of Ice Attribute Soul Tools for the expedition.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Bo Wen that he had an unawakened second Martial Soul and wanted to hunt an Ice Jade Scorpion in the Far North Land to gain Ultimate Ice.
• Ning Bo Wen agreed to send a Grand Elder with Huo Yuhao to the Far North Land after the sect handled its immediate affairs.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Chen Junting summoned his Seven Kills Sword and demonstrated an illusory array disk he had created, naming it Array Formation.

Ning Bo Wen’s group traveled to Sunset Forest in search of the Immortal Herb and found the forest’s Soul Beasts threatened by poisonous miasma. After passing through a deserted Sunset Town where the Shrek Monitoring Group investigated disappearances blamed on Evil Soul Masters, the group flew above the forest and saw dense, multicolored fog obscuring its central region.

• Ning Bo Wen brought Chen Junting and Ning Tian with the sect’s eight Titled Douluo to Sunset Forest.
• In Sunset Town, Chen Junting learned from Zhang Ming that people had been disappearing, and he judged the incidents resembled Evil Soul Master methods.
• Ning Bo Wen chose to leave the investigation to the Shrek Monitoring Group and led his group into Sunset Forest.
• The Shrek Monitoring Group’s Eldest Senior Sister concluded that Evil Soul Masters were likely hiding in Sunset Forest.
• Yang Zihan identified the forest’s miasma as poison from Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolutes Flowers and Jade Phosphorus Nine Absolutes Flowers, while Qing Lan reported that the miasma clusters lay ahead.
• Ning Bo Wen and the others flew above the forest and saw multicolored fog growing denser toward its central region.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect party entered the miasma clouds of Sunset Forest, using Wuyan’s dragon flame to clear a path toward the Immortal Herbs. They found a recently dead human whose body resisted the surrounding poison, and Yang Zihan discovered an unfamiliar substance on it.

• Qing Lan tried to clear the miasma with her eighth soul skill, but the cloud layer showed no sign of thinning.
• Wuyan used his Red Dragon flames to open a temporary path through the miasma while Baisheng protected Ning Bo Wen, Ning Tian, and Chen Junting inside the Heavenly Star Furnace.
• Yang Zihan and the elders descended into the forest and advanced toward the valley, where poisonous plants and seven-colored bones showed how deadly the miasma was.
• Chen Junting spotted a human corpse that remained intact despite the poison corroding nearby Soul Beast bones, and Zhiyong pulled it into the party’s barrier.
• Yang Zihan examined the corpse, found it had been dead for about ten days, and said it carried an unfamiliar substance that might not be a poison.

Chen Junting and the elders uncovered an Evil Soul Master hiding in Sunset Forest and learned that six accomplices remained nearby. As Zhang Ming went to eliminate them, Electrolux discovered something that might interest Chen Junting.

• Chen Junting recognized that the corpse was turning into a zombie and warned Ning Bo Wen that an Evil Soul Master might be nearby.
• The corpse attacked Ning Bo Wen, but Ye Xuanji pulled him clear and Yang Zihan destroyed the creature with his spear.
• The Titled Douluo searched the area, and Zhiyong captured the Evil Soul Master, Qin Shou, who revealed that six Soul King accomplices were hiding on the forest's outskirts.
• Ning Bo Wen sent Zhang Ming to deal with the remaining Evil Soul Masters while Ye Xuanji warned Chen Junting about their unusual methods.
• Electrolux told Chen Junting that he had discovered something that might interest him.

Electrolux discovered the Evil Soul Masters’ underground patterns and secretly altered a blood-patterned site in the Sunset Forest. Meanwhile, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect failed to cross the Jade Phosphorus Flower Sea and decided to use Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice to get through.

• Electrolux copied the incomplete golden pattern into Chen Junting’s Sea of Spirit and later suppressed the blood-colored patterns beneath the Evil Soul Masters’ corpses with a gold-and-gray rune.
• Zhang Ming reported to Ning Bo Wen that the Evil Soul Masters had been eliminated, while the Shrek Monitoring Group arrived at the corpses and began investigating them.
• Yang Zihan and Ning Bo Wen saw the vast Jade Phosphorus Flower Sea and recognized that its poisonous mist could make the Sunset Forest dangerously toxic.
• The Jade Phosphorus Flowers attacked the group, and the eight Titled Douluo used Ice Attribute Soul Guidance Cannon Shells to force a path before retreating when the flowers resisted ordinary cold.
• After Chen Junting explained Huo Yuhao’s second martial soul, Yang Zihan ordered Ye Xuanji and Zhi to help Huo Yuhao obtain it and capture a powerful Ice Jade Scorpion.

Ye Xuanji and Zhiyong escorted Huo Yuhao into the Far North Land, where a spiritual force teleported him away and left the two elders to face the Titan Snow Demon King. Elsewhere, Huo Yuhao persuaded the Ice Empress to begin her fusion with him.

• Zhiyong gave Huo Yuhao a sect Identity Token that could track his location and life signs.
• A powerful spiritual fluctuation teleported Huo Yuhao hundreds of miles away as he approached the Far North Land's core region.
• Ye Xuanji stayed behind to fight the Titan Snow Demon King while Zhiyong flew off to find Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao followed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's plan, lured out the Ice Empress, and persuaded her to cooperate.
• The Ice Empress pierced Huo Yuhao's tailbone with her tail hook and began their fusion.

Huo Yuhao claimed that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Scorpion had sacrificed itself to him, concealing the Ice Empress’s half-sacrifice and his promise to protect her clan. The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect accepted his explanation and brought him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where their expedition had been headed.

• Huo Yuhao showed Zhiyong his Ice Jade Scorpion markings and red soul ring, and explained that the Scorpion had sacrificed itself after making him swear to avenge it and protect its clan.
• Huo Yuhao privately reflected on how he and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had concealed the truth from the Ice Empress, who had raised his cultivation before falling asleep.
• Zhiyong confirmed that Huo Yuhao was human, and Ye Xuanji brought him back to Ning Bo Wen, who told him to disguise his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as a thousand-year ring and ordered him to join the journey to Sunset Forest.
• Huo Yuhao used his Ultimate Ice to help the sect’s group break through the Jade Phosphorus Flower Sea, freezing the flowers and clearing a path into the valley.
• Ning Bo Wen and the others entered a hidden valley and found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well at its center.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Youyou revealed its connection to Yang Wudi and Tang San. Chen Junting had Electrolux secretly suppress the Fire and Water Dragon King remnant souls, while Ning Bo Wen pressed Youyou for permission to take Immortal Herbs; Youyou insisted they follow the rules.

• Huo Yuhao, Chen Junting, Ning Tian, and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect elders entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Youyou, the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Yang Zihan learned from Youyou that it had once been cared for by Yang Wudi and returned to the valley by someone Youyou called that person; Ning Bo Wen realized that person was Tang San.
• Chen Junting asked Electrolux to suppress the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King remnant souls, and Electrolux used a Hexagram Magic Array to put them back to sleep.
• Ning Bo Wen asked Youyou to let the sect take some Immortal Herbs, but Youyou invoked Tang San's orders and said they had to follow the rules.
• Ning Bo Wen challenged Youyou by asking what would happen if he insisted on taking the herbs, and Youyou replied that they should do it according to the rules.

Chen Junting accepted Aromatic Silk Beauty’s dangerous herb trial, and the plant chose a Golden Bone Immortal Spirit for him after sensing his Martial Soul. As he consumed it, its power surged into his right hand and manifested the Seven Kills Sword.

• Aromatic Silk Beauty set the trial: one person had to eat an herb, which might be deadly poisonous.
• Chen Junting volunteered, but Ye Xuanji pushed him back before Chen Junting insisted on taking the test.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty sensed Chen Junting’s Martial Soul and selected a Golden Bone Immortal Spirit, which Yang Zihan identified as beneficial to weapon-type Tool Martial Souls.
• Chen Junting followed Aromatic Silk Beauty’s instructions to chew the root and stem and hold the sharp leaves in his mouth.
• After enduring intense pain as the herb’s energy flowed into his right hand, Chen Junting spat out the leaves and summoned the Seven Kills Sword.

After Chen Junting recovered and reached rank 45, the Immortal Herbs turned against the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, prompting the eight Titled Douluo to attack. As the battle overwhelmed the herbs, Electrolux intervened and mysteriously sealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Chen Junting’s injuries healed, his cultivation rose to rank 45, and his Seven Kills Sword transformed.
• The seven Immortal Herbs confronted the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and the Infernal Delicate Apricot attacked after the Aromatic Silk Beauty denied making a promise to Ning Bo Wen.
• Ye Xuanji led the eight Titled Douluo in launching their Ninth Soul Skills, while Ning Bo Wen amplified them and protected Chen Junting, Ning Tian, and Huo Yuhao.
• Chen Junting called on Electrolux, whose power caused the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to stir and then become shielded by a mysterious force.
• The Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass joined the other herbs in resisting the amplified Titled Douluo, but the Immortal Herbs could not withstand their assault.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect defeated the Immortal Herb Fierce Beasts at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and collected their essences and several herbs. Ning Bo Wen secured the essence needed to advance his pagoda, and the group departed, leaving the surviving herbs furious with Youyou.

• The Grand Elders defeated the Immortal Herb Fierce Beasts, and Yang Zihan gave Chen Junting the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum while he searched it for essence.
• Ning Bo Wen learned how Immortal Herb essence worked, kept the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower’s essence, and Wuyan saved the Infernal Delicate Apricot and its Blazing Gel for Wu Feng.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid, and Aromatic Silk Beauty surrendered their essences, and Ning Bo Wen invoked the original rule allowing the group to take seven herbs.
• Yang Zihan selected five herbs for the Grand Elders, while Chen Junting arranged for Tai Yu to receive the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’s essence and took Snow Swan Kiss for Xin.
• Ning Bo Wen demanded more essence from the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which forcibly gave up part of its essence to survive; the group then took a Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and left.
• The remaining Immortal Herb Fierce Beasts blamed and berated Youyou after the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect departed.

After leaving Sunset Forest with the Immortal Herbs, Ning Bo Wen arranged how the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would use them and conceal their origins. The sect returned home and began secluding themselves as news of the Young Sect Master's Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda spread across the continent.

• Ning Bo Wen led the sect away from the Immortal Herb Fierce Beasts and urged the Grand Elders to save their Immortal Herbs for cultivation breakthroughs.
• Wuyan said he would wait until Little Feng could absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring before taking his own Immortal Herb.
• Chen Junting warned Ning Bo Wen that Xiao Tian's martial soul evolving into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda could draw Shrek Academy's attention, but Ning Bo Wen said the sect would handle the trouble.
• Ning Bo Wen planned to announce that an unknown person had given the sect the Aromatic Silk Beauty, have Wu Feng take Blazing Gel gradually, and use the Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid to evolve his own pagoda.
• The group returned to the sect, where Ning Bo Wen gave Huo Yuhao the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and Wuyan gave Wu Feng the Blazing Gel before they entered seclusion.
• News that the Young Sect Master's martial soul had become the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda spread, stirring up the major powers.

Yan Shaozhe persuaded Mu En to send him and Xuan Zi to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect to seek an Immortal Herb for Ma Xiaotao and discuss the Sun Moon Empire. Meanwhile, Chen Junting’s sword advanced toward Ultimate Gold, the sect’s Grand Elders gained new powers, and Ning Tian awakened the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Yan Shaozhe told Mu En that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda had appeared and urged him to help find an Immortal Herb for Ma Xiaotao.
• Mu En sent Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi to meet Ning Bo Wen, bringing two Blazing Fire Dragon Soul Bones and instructions to discuss the Sun Moon Empire.
• Chen Junting tested the transformed Seven Kills Sword and demonstrated its powerful silver-white Sword Qi.
• Ye Xuanji told Chen Junting that the Star Luo Spirit Pearl had evolved his Martial Soul into the Stargod Sword, while the other Grand Elders had also advanced or gained breakthrough opportunities.
• Ning Tian absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, rose six ranks, and awakened the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda before embracing Chen Junting.

Chen Junting entered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s secret chamber, where Electrolux identified the walls as faith power used to preserve soul-skill traces. When Chen Junting touched Chen Xin’s Ninth Soul Skill, he was drawn into a vision of Chen Xin and Gu Rong facing Bibi Dong, just as Chen Xin unleashed his final sword technique.

• Ye Xuanji brought Chen Junting to the sect treasury’s secret chamber, said to have been built by Oscar and Ning Rongrong, and opened its doors with the Food God Token and Nine-Colored Token.
• Ye Xuanji explained that the chamber’s walls preserved soul-skill traces, and Electrolux recognized the white walls as formed from the Power of Faith.
• Chen Junting approached the traces of Gu Rong’s Bone Transformation Divine Dragon and Chen Xin’s Ninth Soul Skill, then touched Chen Xin’s verse.
• Chen Junting’s consciousness was pulled into a vision of Chen Xin and Gu Rong confronting Bibi Dong after Tang San’s rescue.
• Chen Xin attacked Bibi Dong with his rank-97 Soul Power and began using Way of the Sword: Chen Xin.

Chen Junting modified the Gathering Yuan Formation with an Evil Soul Master’s circular pattern and tested whether it could empower him to fight above his level. As he left for the academy with Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao, Qin Lan and the other Shrek students chose to remain with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

• Chen Junting combined the circular pattern with the Gathering Yuan Formation, making it draw in and condense Primordial Qi of heaven and earth.
• Chen Junting reversed the pattern in six formation positions and absorbed the converging qi pillars, briefly gaining power comparable to a Soul Sage before dismantling the formation.
• Chen Junting realized the formation could not safely guide enough Primordial Qi through his body to let him use Weapon Soul True Body across levels, though he saw potential in refining it.
• Qin Lan told Chen Junting that the Shrek students who had joined the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would not return to the academy because sect cultivation better suited them.
• Chen Junting, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao departed Nine Treasures City by Soul Tool Carriage for the academy.

Wang Dong reunited with Huo Yuhao at Shrek Academy and discovered that he had also become a Soul Elder. Chen Junting feared Wang Dong might reveal the Immortal Herb and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to Tang San, so he asked Electrolux whether he could conceal altered memories from a god.

• Wang Dong met Xu Sanshi at Shrek City's East City Gate and asked whether Huo Yuhao had returned from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xu Sanshi told Wang Dong that Ning Tian's martial soul had evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, then spotted the sect's carriages arriving.
• Wang Dong flew to greet Huo Yuhao and proudly announced that he had broken through to Soul Elder.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had also become a Soul Elder, and Wang Dong excitedly asked whether he had taken an Immortal Herb.
• Chen Junting worried that Wang Dong's memories could let Tang San learn about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and asked Electrolux whether he could hide altered memories from a god.

Electrolux covered Wang Dong’s memories of the Immortal Herb and discovered that her memories from before age six had vanished, prompting him to condemn Tang San’s treatment of her. He secretly prepared a safeguard to preserve Wang Dong’s consciousness, while she and the others returned to the academy unaware that the second-year advancement assessment had changed.

• Electrolux advised Chen Junting to cover Wang Dong’s Immortal Herb memories with false ones, then used his soul power to do so without alerting Tang San.
• Wang Dong staggered after the intervention, and Huo Yuhao caught her; she blushed and beat him when she realized where his hand had landed.
• Ning Tian teased Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao about their closeness and tried to match Huo Yuhao with Wu Feng, who said she saw him as her little brother.
• Electrolux noticed Wang Dong’s memories before age six were missing and, after Chen Junting explained what he knew about Tang San, condemned Tang San for tampering with her memories.
• Electrolux promised to preserve Wang Dong’s consciousness if Tang San tried to take action, and he secretly put that safeguard in place.
• Ning Tian and the others registered at the academy, returned to their dorms, and later ate with their friends at Little Huo Barbecue, unaware that the advancement assessment had changed.