Chapter Summaries

The Sun Moon Federation welcomed the returning Sun Moon Team, and Federation Speaker Xu Tiandi personally presented Lu Jun and six other students with valuable rewards. Though Xu Tiandi appeared warm and generous, Lu Jun sensed a dangerous secret around him and planned to ask Gu Yue Na about it after returning to the dormitory.

• The crowd welcomed Lu Jun and the Sun Moon Team home as Xu Tiandi and other Federation officials waited at the station.
• Guan Yue, Wu Zhangkong, and Long Bing greeted Xu Tiandi respectfully, while Lu Jun avoided using his Divine Eye to investigate him because his instincts warned him against it.
• Xu Tiandi gave Lu Jun a Storage Soul Tool ring and presented matching rings to Gu Yue Na, Xu Xiaoyan, Yuanen Yehui, Xie Xie, Long Chen, and Yue Zhengyu.
• Yue Zhengyu praised Xu Tiandi as his idol, and Xu Tiandi responded warmly before joking that Yun Ming had once defeated him.
• Xu Tiandi and the officials departed, leaving Lu Jun to wonder about the Speaker's hidden danger and resolve to ask Gu Yue Na about it after returning to the dormitory.

After returning to Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, Lu Jun received a soul bone from the Dean and discovered that Xu Tiandi had given him a Hundred Thousand Year Titan Snow Demon Left Leg Bone. Ice Empress and Snow Empress worried about their missing companions in the Extreme North, and Lu Jun promised to investigate.

• Wu Zhangkong requested leave from the Dean to enter seclusion after gaining insight from Lu Jun's swordsmanship.
• The Dean gave Lu Jun an exceptionally high-quality soul bone and two months off to rest and cultivate.
• Lu Jun examined Xu Tiandi's gift and found a Hundred Thousand Year Titan Snow Demon Left Leg Bone.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress recognized the soul bone as belonging to an ordinary Titan Snow Demon and wondered how humans had hunted one in the Extreme North.
• Snow Empress recalled that she and Ice Empress had vanished for over ten thousand years and worried about A Tai, Xiao Bai, and their other companions.
• Lu Jun promised to visit the Extreme North and suggested Xiao Bai might have survived as a Spirit Soul or assistant to a Child of Destiny; Ice Empress began to realize something about that possibility.

Lu Jun prepared to absorb two soul bones with Snow Empress and Ice Empress, while Zhen Hua faced forced retirement as God Craftsman after secretly forging Four-Word Battle Armor for Shrek. Yun Ming invited Zhen Hua to Shrek City, and Zhen Hua warned him about the Federation's plan to build a body for an Artificial Intelligence.

• Snow Empress said Xiao Bai might have become one of Huo Yuhao's Spirit Souls and thanked Lu Jun for seeking news of their homeland.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress offered to improve Lu Jun's existing right arm soul bone and help him absorb both soul bones, and Lu Jun began preparing.
• Zhen Hua packed his belongings as Mu Ye rebuked him for secretly forging Four-Word Battle Armor for Shrek and bringing the Federation's punishment upon himself.
• Yun Ming called Zhen Hua, condemned the Federation for forcing him into retirement, and invited him to continue forging at Shrek Academy.
• Zhen Hua warned Yun Ming about the Federation's Experiment No. 1 to create a body for an Artificial Intelligence, and Yun Ming urged him to leave for Shrek City at once.

Zhen Hua accepted Yun Ming’s offer of protection and set out for Shrek City, defying the Federation. Xu Tiandi personally intercepted him on the road and destroyed his car, leaving Zhen Hua injured and struggling to escape.

• Zhen Hua thanked Yun Ming and agreed to go to Shrek City, then told Mu Ye not to follow him before leaving Heaven Dou City.
• After learning Zhen Hua was heading toward Shrek City, Xu Tiandi decided to eliminate him personally and vanished from his office.
• Zhen Hua drove toward Shrek City in a disguised Soul Tool Car, attempting to evade Federation surveillance.
• Xu Tiandi appeared in the road, and Zhen Hua accelerated toward him in a desperate attempt to break through.
• Xu Tiandi stopped the car with Soul Power and destroyed it, throwing Zhen Hua onto the road.
• Xu Tiandi accused the injured Zhen Hua of betraying the Federation as Zhen Hua tried to crawl away, and Xu Tiandi thrust his cane forward.

Mu Ye returned to rescue Zhen Hua, but Xu Tiandi effortlessly defeated him and left him gravely injured. Xu Tiandi spared Mu Ye’s life and turned back to Zhen Hua.

• Xu Tiandi pinned Zhen Hua’s hand with his cane and prepared to attack him.
• Mu Ye arrived and attacked Xu Tiandi in his giant armored form, but Xu Tiandi stopped his punch with an invisible barrier and sent him flying.
• Mu Ye summoned his Red-level Mecha and formed a massive blood-red blade for an all-out strike.
• Xu Tiandi summoned a dragon claw that shattered Mu Ye’s blade and struck him into a crater, leaving him unconscious and badly injured.
• Xu Tiandi told Zhen Hua that Mu Ye was still alive and that he would not kill anyone from the Body Sect.

Xu Tiandi captured Zhen Hua, revealed that Federation satellites had tracked him, and cruelly planted five Grade Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells inside him before sending him toward Shrek City. Unaware of the danger, Yun Ming waited in the Sea God Pavilion, believing Zhen Hua was nearing the city safely.

• Xu Tiandi explained that Federation satellites had tracked Zhen Hua and boasted about the Federation's advanced technology and Level Ten Soul Engineers.
• Xu Tiandi subdued Zhen Hua and implanted five Grade Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells in his abdomen.
• Xu Tiandi ordered his forces to take the injured Mu Ye to a hospital and have Shadow Guards monitor him, then sent Zhen Hua toward Shrek City as a trap for Yun Ming.
• In Shrek City, Yun Ming awaited Zhen Hua after receiving his message that the journey was proceeding smoothly, and believed Xu Tiandi had been deterred by his warning.

Yun Ming and Ya Li awaited Zhen Hua at Shrek City, but his arrival revealed a deadly trap. Five Grade Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells detonated inside his body, unleashing a blast toward the couple and the city.

• Yun Ming recalled how he had once challenged the Federation and wounded Xu Tiandi to rescue Ya Li.
• Ya Li worried that Xu Tiandi would seek revenge, but Yun Ming reassured her and sensed Zhen Hua approaching.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li went to Shrek City's gatehouse as Zhen Hua's Soul Tool Car stopped without its doors opening.
• Yun Ming discovered Zhen Hua dead in the driver's seat, with his body swelling from the energy of concealed explosives.
• Yun Ming warned Ya Li and tried to shield her as five Grade Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells exploded, sending a destructive shockwave toward them and Shrek City.

Yun Ming protected Ya Li from five specially designed Grade Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, but the blast left her gravely injured and him furious at Xu Tiandi. While Shrek City's Soul Masters rushed to the explosion, Xu Tiandi used the chaos to infiltrate Sea God Pavilion and reach the Golden Ancient Tree.

• Yun Ming endured the cannon-shell blast behind his Skyraising Divine Spear and complete divine position, shielding Ya Li from its worst force.
• Yun Ming found Ya Li gravely wounded by the penetrating energy and realized Xu Tiandi had anticipated their arrival and targeted her.
• Yun Ming roared in grief and rage at Xu Tiandi, drawing the attention of powerful Soul Masters across Shrek City.
• Xu Tiandi appeared on Sea God Island, revealed his ambition to conquer Douluo Star, and dismissed his past feelings for Ya Li.
• Xu Tiandi bypassed Sea God Pavilion's defenses and entered the Golden Ancient Tree's core Holy Land.

Xu Tiandi exploited the chaos at Shrek Academy to reach the Golden Ancient Tree and plunder its Life Origin. When another god-tier aura appeared through a spatial rift, he withdrew with a large amount of energy and a tiny seven-colored crystal, leaving the tree wounded.

• Xu Tiandi used the attack and injuries elsewhere to infiltrate Shrek Academy’s Holy Land and confront the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Long Yeyue and the Sea God Pavilion Elders rushed in, but Xu Tiandi revealed his Purple Blaze Annihilation Dragon and defeated them with one attack.
• Xu Tiandi pierced the Golden Ancient Tree with his cane and began draining its Life Origin, seizing control of part of its power.
• A spatial rift opened beside the tree, and Xu Tiandi sensed an unfamiliar god-tier aura approaching.
• Xu Tiandi pulled out his cane, taking the stolen energy and a tiny seven-colored crystal, then struck the ground with it.

Xu Tiandi escaped after stealing a portion of the Golden Ancient Tree’s Origin Energy and Core Tree Heart, leaving Tang Hao to warn Tang San about the threat. Yun Ming returned to Sea God Pavilion with the gravely injured Ya Li and discovered that Xu Tiandi had attacked the tree and defeated the Elders.

• Xu Tiandi teleported away just before Tang Hao arrived, and Ah Yin told Tang Hao that the cane had stripped away the Golden Ancient Tree’s Origin Energy and threatened her consciousness.
• Tang Hao learned that nearly thirty percent of the Golden Ancient Tree’s Origin Energy and part of its Core Tree Heart had been stolen, then left to warn Tang San in the God Realm.
• Xu Tiandi examined the energy and tree-heart crystal he had taken, mocked Zhen Hua, and vanished after reflecting on how his scheme had diverted Shrek’s strongest fighters.
• Yun Ming brought the fading Ya Li to the Golden Ancient Tree, but found its weakened life energy could not heal her.
• An injured Elder told Yun Ming that Xu Tiandi had attacked the Golden Ancient Tree, and Long Yeyue revealed that Xu Tiandi had defeated the defenders with a single strike.
• Yun Ming saw that Zhuo Shi was critically wounded, with destructive energy consuming his deep claw wounds.

Yun Ming treated Ya Li and the injured Elders while suspecting Xu Tiandi had gained the Dragon Clan’s power in Dragon Valley. Lu Jun reached Level 50 after absorbing three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, then planned how to make the Ice Empress his Spirit Soul without exposing her true strength.

• Yun Ming recognized the destructive aura in the Sea God Pavilion and guessed that Xu Tiandi had gained power from Dragon Valley.
• Yun Ming used his Soul Power and the Golden Ancient Tree’s remaining Life Energy to treat Ya Li and help the injured Elders.
• Lu Jun reached the Level 50 bottleneck after absorbing the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, Ice Dragon Right Arm Bone, and Titan Snow Demon Left Leg Bone.
• The Ice Empress urged Lu Jun to make her his Spirit Soul, but he explained that doing so immediately would draw suspicion from the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek, and the Federation.
• Lu Jun proposed traveling to the Extreme North under the pretext of a martial-soul awakening and disguising the Ice Empress as an ordinary Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Soul.
• Lu Jun said he would designate Leng Yulai as his escort, and the Ice Empress teased him about the women around him.

Leng Yaozhu considered Lu Jun’s request to travel to the Extreme North and noticed he had asked for Leng Yulai to accompany him. Meanwhile, Gu Yue Na agonized over her feelings for Lu Jun until he suddenly appeared at her window and took a Soul Power-charged pillow to the face.

• Leng Yaozhu read Lu Jun’s application to travel to the Extreme North for a deep martial soul awakening and decided he would need a protector.
• Leng Yaozhu noticed Lu Jun had specifically requested Leng Yulai as his companion and found their apparent closeness intriguing.
• Gu Yue Na replayed her intimate moments with Lu Jun, blushed over her boldness, and worried that another woman might claim his attention first.
• Lu Jun suddenly spoke beside Gu Yue Na’s bed, startling her into throwing a pillow at him with Soul Power.
• Gu Yue Na recognized Lu Jun outside her window and hurried to ask if he was all right.

Lu Jun unexpectedly climbed through Gu Yue Na’s window, and their collision led to an intimate encounter that neither immediately stopped. As Gu Yue Na responded to his advances, Lu Jun’s wandering hand made her react with sudden shock.

• Gu Yue Na leaned out the window, and Lu Jun climbed up, causing them to collide and fall onto the carpet.
• Lu Jun landed on Gu Yue Na, and she was overwhelmed by conflicting feelings as she held onto his clothes.
• Lu Jun pulled away briefly, but Gu Yue Na’s disheveled nightgown and flustered reaction distracted him from asking about Xu Tiandi.
• Lu Jun drew Gu Yue Na back into his arms and kissed her, and she wrapped her arms around his neck and responded.
• Lu Jun stroked upward along Gu Yue Na’s back, making her eyes fly open in shock as her body trembled.

Lu Jun and Gu Yue Na nearly gave in to their passion, but Gu Yue Na stopped him, warning that it would be dangerous. After they calmed down, Lu Jun asked her what she knew about Federation Speaker Xu Tiandi, leaving Gu Yue Na incredulous that he had come to her room to discuss another man.

• Lu Jun and Gu Yue Na shared an intimate moment before Gu Yue Na caught his hand and warned that going further would be dangerous.
• Lu Jun regained his composure and helped Gu Yue Na fix her nightgown, and they sat apart by the bed.
• Gu Yue Na argued that her mental age was eighteen after Lu Jun joked about their bodies and age.
• Lu Jun explained that he had come to discuss something important and asked Gu Yue Na about Federation Speaker Xu Tiandi.
• Gu Yue Na wondered aloud whether Lu Jun's brain had been frozen by his ice for sneaking into her room to ask about another man.

Gu Yue Na told Lu Jun what the Spirit Beasts knew about Xu Tiandi, revealing that the Federation Speaker was a far greater threat than Lu Jun had expected. Lu Jun ended the conversation worried that Xu Tiandi’s power and the Xu Family’s survival might have been consequences of his arrival, though Gu Yue Na noted Xu Tiandi might become their ally.

• Lu Jun pressed Gu Yue Na for every detail the Spirit Beasts had gathered about Xu Tiandi.
• Gu Yue Na said Xu Tiandi was a Level 99 Quasi-God Limit Douluo who surpassed Chen Xinjie on land, and that he carried at least ten Level 10 Soul Guidance Devices.
• Gu Yue Na revealed that Xu Tiandi possessed Twin Martial Souls: Purple Blaze Annihilation Dragon and the Sun, which was close to Ultimate Fire.
• Gu Yue Na explained that Xu Tiandi’s dragon Martial Soul seemed to have undergone an atavistic reversion linked to the Progenitor of Sub-Dragons.
• Gu Yue Na relayed Di Tian’s theory that Xu Tiandi had found the Progenitor’s remains or inherited its origin power in Dragon Valley.
• Lu Jun lamented how formidable Xu Tiandi and the Xu Family were, while Gu Yue Na suggested Xu Tiandi might be their ally.

Gu Yue Na told Lu Jun how Xu Tiandi’s hatred of Shrek began when Yun Ming took Ya Li from their wedding, and explained the Xu Family’s inherited ability to influence the Plane. The chapter left Xu Tiandi’s entry into Dragon Valley unexplained, with Gu Yue Na beginning to reveal how the Federation Speaker’s authority could overcome its restrictions.

• Lu Jun considered whether Xu Tiandi’s campaign against Shrek made him a potential ally and concluded that the Plane may have chosen him as a Child of Destiny.
• Gu Yue Na recounted rumors that Xu Tiandi had been engaged to Ya Li, but Yun Ming had stormed their wedding and taken her away.
• Xu Tiandi had tried to stop Yun Ming with Federation Council forces, but Yun Ming escaped after suffering near-fatal injuries from Xu Tiandi’s attack.
• Gu Yue Na said Xu Tiandi had entered Dragon Valley soon after the wedding, prompting Lu Jun to question how a Titled Douluo could pass its restrictions.
• Gu Yue Na explained that Federation Speakers from the Xu Family could influence and borrow some of the Plane’s rules through an inherited ability.

Gu Yue Na explained how Xu Tiandi used the Federation’s once-per-decade allowance to enter Dragon Valley and gain the encounter that transformed his strength and spirit. Lu Jun reassured her that he would never let her marry someone else, then spoiled their tender moment by asking about Huo Yuhao, provoking her anger.

• Gu Yue Na explained the agreement governing Dragon Valley and how Xu Tiandi used a rare Federation-supported entry to gain a powerful fortuitous encounter.
• Lu Jun connected Xu Tiandi’s history to the blood-deep feud between Xu Tiandi, Yun Ming, and Shrek.
• Gu Yue Na asked whether Lu Jun would steal her away if she were going to marry someone else.
• Lu Jun said he would kill her and her chosen partner if she married willingly, or everyone else at the venue if she were forced, and insisted that the possibility could never happen.
• Gu Yue Na rested her head on Lu Jun’s shoulder after his sincere reassurance.
• Lu Jun asked about Huo Yuhao, and Gu Yue Na angrily accused him of being more interested in men than women.

Gu Yue Na stopped Lu Jun from leaving and spent the night with him, and he slipped out of her dormitory the next morning. At breakfast, his friends teased him as the academy’s Saint of Love Brother and discussed their new positions in the Genius Youth Ranking.

• Gu Yue Na pulled Lu Jun back onto the bed, refused to let him leave, and insisted on taking the initiative despite the danger of having sex.
• Lu Jun slipped out of Gu Yue Na’s dormitory at dawn, exhausted after spending the night with her.
• Lu Jun joined Xie Xie, Yue Zhengyu, Yuanen Yehui, Xu Xiaoyan, and Long Chen at breakfast, where Xie Xie and Yue Zhengyu teased him about winning over Gu Yue Na.
• Xie Xie showed Lu Jun a popularity poll that ranked Gu Yue Na as Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s top campus beauty.
• Yuanen Yehui listed the group’s improved Genius Youth Ranking positions, with Lu Jun first and Qiangu Zhangting seventh.

After the exchange tournament, Lu Jun and his friends discussed their plans for the academy’s two-month break, while Gu Yue Na sent Xie Xie flying for teasing Lu Jun about dating her. Gu Yue Na wanted to accompany Lu Jun to the Extreme North, but Leng Yaozhu forbade her from going, leaving Lu Jun to prepare for the trip alone.

• Yue Zhengyu told the group that the academy had granted them a two-month break, and Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Yuanen Yehui, Long Chen, and Yue Zhengyu each talked about going home.
• Xie Xie teased Lu Jun about spending the break on dates with Gu Yue Na, but Gu Yue Na appeared and launched him through a cafeteria window.
• Lu Jun shared a custard bun with Gu Yue Na and told her he planned to travel to the Extreme North after reaching Rank 50.
• Gu Yue Na asked to join Lu Jun on the trip, and Lu Jun told her she would need to get approval from her teacher.
• Leng Yaozhu refused Gu Yue Na’s request and ordered her to stay at the academy and cultivate, so Gu Yue Na ended the call and accepted that she could not go.

Gu Yue Na gave Lu Jun the Heart of the Ice God to aid his upcoming trip to the Extreme North, and Lu Jun repaid her with a pendant containing a trace of the Ice Abyss Sword’s fundamental power. The two parted with a precious gift each as Lu Jun prepared to travel with Leng Yulai.

• Gu Yue Na learned that Leng Yulai would accompany Lu Jun to the Extreme North and warned him to be careful on the journey.
• Gu Yue Na gave Lu Jun the Heart of the Ice God, an extremely cold treasure with immense energy that could replenish the Ice Abyss Sword.
• Lu Jun used the Ice Abyss Sword to remove a tiny piece of Ice Crystal and shaped it into a snowflake pendant for Gu Yue Na.
• Lu Jun placed the pendant around Gu Yue Na’s neck, and she sensed that the Sword Intent within it could enhance her Ultimate Attributes.