Recaps

Ye Chen healed Mu En, returned to academy duties, and led the reserve team into Star Dou Forest to seek soul rings. The group began fighting a Purple Moon Lion pack, and a second powerful lion threatened Xu Sanshi as Jiang Nannan rushed to his side.

• Ye Chen used the Fusang Fruit to heal Mu En’s hidden injuries, enduring severe pain as the Bitter Bamboo’s Spiritual Power helped him finish the treatment.
• Mu En stood unaided and agreed to recover slowly in Ye Chen’s Small World, while Ye Chen brought Deep Sea Emperor Crystals to Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er and helped place Yin Ming under Xian Lin'er's supervision.
• Ye Chen completed his Inner Court transfer, met Zhou Yi, and learned that the academy had made his tournament matches required study for Outer Court students.
• The academy sent Ye Chen and the reserve-team students to obtain soul rings, and Ye Chen led them toward Star Dou Forest while declining Huo Yuhao’s invitation to join the Tang Sect.
• Ye Chen subdued a rare Xiezhi with Taiyin Youying’s bloodline power and stored it in his Small World for Xiao Xiao to use when she reached level 40.
• During the night watch, Ye Chen detected a pack of Purple Moon Lions and identified its twenty-thousand-year-old Lion King as a possible target for Bei Bei.
• Xu Sanshi separated the Lion King from the pack while Bei Bei and the others attacked it, but a second twenty-thousand-year Purple Moon Lion appeared behind Xu Sanshi during his soul skill cooldown.
• Jiang Nannan used Instantaneous Transfer to cross more than a hundred meters and appear beside Xu Sanshi as Han Yue rushed to help him.

Ye Chen investigated the gathering of powerful soul beasts in Star Dou Forest while securing soul rings for his companions and rescuing Mu Yiyi’s group. After finding a Mental Attribute beast for Huo Yuhao, he faced Scarlet King to reclaim it.

• Han Yue killed the second Purple Moon Lion, and the remaining lions fled after both leaders fell.
• Ye Chen learned from Yan Shaozhe that Xuan Zi had sensed an existence beyond Di Tian in Star Dou Forest, which Ye Chen identified as the early-awakened Silver Dragon King.
• After finding few adult soul beasts and many young ones, Ye Chen suspected Star Dou was preparing for a beast tide and sent Yan Shaozhe back to warn Shrek Academy.
• Ye Chen split the group, sending He Caitou, Han Yue, and the girls toward the academy while he stayed with Bei Bei, Huo Yuhao, and Xu Sanshi to obtain soul rings.
• Ye Chen hid the three boys in his Small World, captured a Star Diamond Tiger King for Xu Sanshi, and continued searching alone for a Mental Attribute beast for Huo Yuhao.
• Ye Chen rescued Mu Yiyi and her companions from Frost Dragons, gave her a Shrek Academy token, and continued his search while the Silver-haired Maiden went west alone.
• Ye Chen found and struck a Dream Devourer with the Spirit's Watch Blade, but Scarlet King appeared and blasted him away.
• Ye Chen rejected Ice Empress's plea to retreat, then used an afterimage and the Eternal Aurora Array to confront Scarlet King and reach for the Dream Devourer.

Ye Chen escaped the Star Dou Forest with the Dream Devourer and brought it back for Huo Yuhao to absorb, then returned to Shrek and admitted Mu Yiyi after testing her resolve. As he prepared for the Sun Moon Empire and Moon Hall, he learned that the Blood Contract he might use for the Ice Empress and Snow Empress would bind their lives to his.

• Ye Chen seized the Dream Devourer with help from Wang Dong'er and Han Yue, and the Silver-haired Maiden ordered Scarlet King to hold Di Tian back while she searched for two items.
• Ye Chen returned to Shrek City, told Mu En about the million-year soul beast threat, and brought the Dream Devourer to Huo Yuhao in his Small World.
• Ye Chen probed the Dream Devourer's memories, glimpsed Di Tian rallying high-level soul beasts, and told Huo Yuhao to absorb its soul ring after Huo Yuhao killed it.
• Ye Chen refused Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi's request to keep cultivating in the Star Dou Forest and decided to catch up on Soul Tool studies before his Sun Moon Empire exchange.
• Ye Chen recognized the academy token he had given Mu Yiyi and tested the twelve-year-old by challenging her to touch him or something in the room within fifteen minutes.
• Mu Yiyi kept pursuing Ye Chen until the test ended, and Ye Chen admitted her to Shrek for her perseverance and determination.
• Ye Chen told Wang Dong'er he needed more trustworthy companions for a major undertaking, then visited the Soul Tool Department and checked on Huo Yuhao's soul-ring fusion.
• Ye Chen found a head soul bone on the Dream Devourer's corpse and asked Electrolux about contracts, but rejected the Blood Contract's cruel terms for the Ice Empress and Snow Empress.

Ye Chen bonded with the Snow Empress, advanced his Soul Tool skills, and joined Shrek Academy’s exchange trip to the Sun Moon Empire. In Mingdu, he began secretly studying Soul Tools and found himself at Yin Fan’s laboratory, where he recognized a silver-haired girl from the Star Dou Forest.

• Ye Chen used a Blood Contract to save the hatching Snow Empress, who became an additional soul ring and settled in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao completed his fusion with the Dream Devourer’s Soul Ring and declined its skull bone, while Ye Chen returned to Shrek Academy and resumed Soul Tool studies.
• Ye Chen rapidly advanced to Rank 4 Soul Master, set an academy record, and paused his crafting after failing to make a Rank 5 Soul Tool.
• Ye Chen left Shrek with Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, Fan Yu, and the other exchange students after bidding farewell to Wang Dong'er.
• At the exchange ceremony, Ye Chen taunted Xiao Hongchen, met Meng Hongchen and Jing Hongchen, and traveled with the Shrek group to Mingdu.
• Ye Chen concealed his eye color during the academy’s physical tests, earning results that prompted Jing Hongchen to publicize his abilities while forbidding Lin Jiayi from targeting him.
• Ye Chen searched his dormitory for surveillance devices and drew a blueprint of Jing Hongchen’s Rank 9 flying Soul Tool before classes began.
• Ye Chen found the Rank Nine Laboratory, learned Yin Fan was its instructor, and recognized the silver-haired girl who entered as someone he had seen with Mu Yiyi in Star Dou Forest.