Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun cleared new Supreme Sword Domain chapters and advanced through Endless Trials, unlocking and challenging the Light-Dark Faction Trial. After earning rewards in the Netherworld Ghost Domain, he found the Beast Domain Expedition had reset for the new month and began its challenges again.

• Xiao Yun's team cleared Supreme Sword Domain Chapters 9 and 10, then used their sweep attempts for additional rewards.
• Xiao Yun led the team from Stage 73 to Stage 110 in Endless Trials, unlocking the special attribute-based trials.
• Xiao Yun chose Yingzhao, Nuwa, Xuan Yinghua, Feng Hou, and Xi Zhaoyue for the Light-Dark Trial; the team cleared its first floor and reached Wave 27 on the second floor.
• Xiao Yun's team cleared the third floor of the Netherworld Ghost Domain on Hard Mode, earning doubled rewards and learning that future battles there could be completed through Quick Battle.
• Xiao Yun discovered that the Beast Domain Expedition had reset for August and cleared the first stages of Teng Snake and Calamity.

Xiao Yun strengthened and expanded his magic treasures after completing the ferocious beast challenges, then led his War Spirits deeper into the Great Wilderness. He cleared the Secret Realm Maze’s mechanisms and defeated its Beast Lord, obtaining valuable equipment and resources.

• Xiao Yun challenged Qiongqi and Calamity, defeating their first stages and Calamity’s second stage to earn Spiritual Power, Expedition Coins, and Magic Treasure Spiritual Power.
• Xiao Yun spent Expedition Coins on Magic Treasure Jades and Epic Magic Treasure Fragments, activating the Cloud Dragon Wall and improving its attributes alongside the Divine Phoenix Pearl and Shennong Ding.
• After meeting the requirements, Xiao Yun unlocked a second magic treasure formation slot and deployed the level 40 Divine Phoenix Pearl.
• Xiao Yun led his War Spirits into the Secret Realm Maze and activated Five Elements mechanisms to open paths, defeat minor monsters, and collect treasure chest rewards.
• Xiao Yun reached the core area, defeated the level 160 Wood Attribute Beast Lord, and opened its advanced chests to obtain a one-star red Xuanhuang Sword, a Xuanhuang Helmet, Advanced Summoning Contracts, and an Awakening Stone.

Xiao Yun collected tribute and trained in Nuwa Palace before waking to find that Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan had completed their Martial Soul evolutions. Their Soul Master levels had fallen after their Soul Power transformed, and Dugu Bo began explaining what that transformation meant.

• Xiao Yun gathered the conquered regions’ tributes, raising his Lord Level to 49, then continued studying alchemy and artifact forging with Saint Zixuan.
• Xiao Yun returned from the Vast Wilderness World and went to sleep after checking on Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo.
• Zhu Zhuqing revealed her evolved Night Dragon Cat Emperor Martial Soul, while Dugu Yan showed that her Jade Phosphor Serpent had become the Jade Phosphor Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Yun discovered that Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan’s levels had fallen to 30 and 40 because their Soul Power had undergone a compressed metamorphosis.
• Dugu Bo examined Dugu Yan’s transformed Soul Power and asked the two women about the hardest part of becoming a Titled Douluo.

Dugu Bo and Xiao Yun discussed ways Soul Masters could achieve Soul Power Metamorphosis, including cultivation, life-and-death trials, medicinal herbs, and beneficial Martial Soul evolution. Xiao Yun identified a potential remedy for Dugu Yan involving specially prepared Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers, then the discussion continued with Dugu Bo naming another method.

• Dugu Bo explained that Soul Power Metamorphosis could help Soul Douluo overcome level 89 and improve cultivation after becoming a Titled Douluo.
• At breakfast, Dugu Bo and Xiao Yun agreed to take turns listing methods of Soul Power Metamorphosis.
• Dugu Bo named steady cultivation and life-and-death trials, while Xiao Yun proposed that Innate Full Soul Power might indicate an earlier metamorphosis and that some Immortal Herbs could induce one.
• Xiao Yun warned Dugu Bo that herbs in his Medicine Garden were unsuitable for Dugu Yan, but specially processed Bilin Seven Absolute Flowers over one hundred thousand years old might help her.
• Dugu Bo named beneficial Martial Soul evolution as another method of Soul Power Metamorphosis.

Xiao Yun explained several ways to achieve Soul Power Metamorphosis, including powerful soul rings and spirit bones, cultivation methods, Divine Tests, and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's sacrifice. After breakfast, he began cultivating the Azure Lotus Sword Song, joined by Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Xiao Yun explained that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and high-quality spirit bones could trigger Soul Power Metamorphosis, and Dugu Bo shared how his Head Spirit Bone had helped him reach Titled Douluo.
• Xiao Yun proposed that special cultivation methods could cause metamorphosis, telling Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing that their methods could eventually bring the same effect.
• Xiao Yun described Divine Tests and the sacrifice of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as other paths, and Dugu Bo accepted his example of Tang Hao's strength after the Blue Silver Emperor's sacrifice.
• Xiao Yun joked that enduring the icy and fiery springs in Dugu Bo's Medicine Garden could cause metamorphosis, angering Dugu Bo, who ended the discussion.
• After breakfast, Xiao Yun cultivated the Azure Lotus Sword Song outside the cave dwelling, and Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing sat beside him to cultivate too.

After being released from house arrest at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Flender led the Shrek group away amid the fallout from the debate and Dai Mubai’s arrest. Qin Ming resigned to join them, and the group headed toward the only place Flender believed they could go.

• Qin Ming met Flender and apologized, then revealed that Ning Rongrong had withdrawn from Shrek Academy and Yu Xiaogang had left Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Wu asked about the girl taken away with Dai Mubai, and Qin Ming guessed that she had escaped and returned to the Star Luo Empire.
• Flender rejected the education committee’s offer to keep his students at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and led the group out.
• Qin Ming resigned from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and caught up with the Shrek group despite the committee members’ warnings.
• As the group reached the outskirts of the city, Flender realized he could not take them home and settled on their only remaining destination.

After Shrek Academy’s troubles at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Flender decided to seek shelter and a partnership with Liu Erlong’s Blue Tyrant Advanced Spirit Master Academy. He led the group to its gates, where the guards went to report their arrival.

• Flender apologized for bringing Shrek Academy into its current predicament, while Zhao Wuji and Qin Ming tried to reassure him.
• Flender reminded the teachers of the Golden Iron Triangle and proposed joining forces with Liu Erlong’s Blue Tyrant Advanced Spirit Master Academy.
• Qin Ming, Zhao Wuji, and the other teachers agreed to approach the academy, and Flender decided they would go after lunch.
• Flender led the group through Heaven Dou City’s commoner district to the expansive Blue Tyrant Academy.
• The academy’s guards sensed the approaching Soul Masters’ strength and sent someone inside to report their arrival.

Flender’s group settled into Blue Tyrant Academy while Liu Erlong remained in seclusion, and Dai Mubai was extradited from Heaven Dou to Star Luo. After reaching the Star Luo stronghold, Dai Mubai faced Dai Weisi’s fury over his capture.

• Ren Yinshu welcomed Flender and the Shrek group to Blue Tyrant Academy, where they were given a courtyard to stay in until Liu Erlong emerged from seclusion.
• Zhao Wuji noticed a powerful Soul Power Fluctuation around Liu Erlong’s mountain retreat, while Flender remarked on her softhearted nature.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun met Xue Qinghe to receive Dai Mubai, exchanging a hundred-cubic-meter military storage chest for his release and belongings.
• Xue Qinghe said Zhu Zhuqing had escaped capture and suggested someone might have warned her, prompting Dai Mubai to challenge his implication.
• At the Star Luo stronghold, Dai Weisi ordered Dai Mubai to kneel and then kicked him into a wall after Dai Mubai admitted he had been captured.

Dai Mubai forced Dai Weisi to let him remain in Heaven Dou as an exchange student and was assigned to Blue Tyrant Academy, where he reunited with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others. That evening, Tang Hao attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan while searching for Ah Yin and was driven off after a battle that badly wounded both him and Yu Yuanzhen.

• Dai Weisi confronted Dai Mubai over the release of Heaven Dou prisoners and ordered him to return to Star Luo for punishment.
• Dai Mubai threatened to kill himself unless Dai Weisi let him stay in Heaven Dou, and Dai Weisi agreed to keep him there as an exchange student.
• Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi approved Dai Mubai's placement at Blue Tyrant Academy, where he encountered Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun.
• Tang Hao attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and demanded that they hand over Ah Yin.
• Yu Yuanzhen fought Tang Hao, eventually forcing him to retreat, but both were badly wounded.

Xiao Yun refined a Soul Augmentation Pill and then used the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to create six Body-Fortifying Pills. Zhu Zhuqing’s cultivation rose from level thirty-three to level thirty-six after taking one, and Dugu Bo arrived to test a pill.

• Xiao Yun refined eight Soul Augmentation Pills, and Zhu Zhuqing found that one increased her Soul Power absorption speed by thirty percent for about three days.
• Xiao Yun used the Shennong Ding to simulate the refining process before beginning the Body-Fortifying Pill.
• After four hours of refining, Xiao Yun produced six golden Body-Fortifying Pills and gave one to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing’s Soul Power surged from level thirty-three to level thirty-six, but Xiao Yun warned that she could not take another pill until her body processed the remaining medicinal strength.
• Xiao Yun gave Dugu Yan three bottles of pills for her grandfather, and Dugu Bo arrived and swallowed one to test its effects.

After refining a powerful pill for Dugu Bo, Xiao Yun cultivated beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and absorbed its opposing Origin Powers, then joined Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing to harvest mature immortal herbs. The group began collecting the rare plants around the spring, with Xiao Yun teaching them how to preserve their medicinal properties.

• Dugu Bo praised the Body-Fortifying Pill for healing his hidden injuries and improving his stagnant Soul Power, and promised Xiao Yun access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in exchange for two portions of each pill.
• Xiao Yun cultivated beneath the moon and unconsciously absorbed Origin Powers from the Ice Fire Dragon King corpses, replenishing his Spiritual Power and easing the world's rejection of it.
• Xiao Yun asked Zhu Zhuqing about the effects of cultivating near the spring, and she said the dense Soul Power helped her but the icy and fiery energies strained her meridians.
• Dugu Yan recognized that Xiao Yun missed home and told him her mother had taught her to look at the moon when she felt homesick.
• Dugu Bo took Xiao Yun, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing to harvest mature immortal herbs, and Xiao Yun demonstrated how to cut and store them with jade tools.
• Zhu Zhuqing quickly mastered harvesting the herbs, Dugu Yan proceeded cautiously, and Dugu Bo used his poison to subdue difficult sentient plants.

Xiao Yun discovered Seven-Colored Glazed Light Grass in the medicinal garden and explained that it could be used to make a pill for people without cultivation aptitude. After several days of refining the harvested herbs, he produced a variety of pills with different effects and risks.

• Xiao Yun found and harvested Seven-Colored Glazed Light Grass, explaining its brief appearance at noon and its use in changing a person's constitution.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan questioned whether the miraculous pill was real, and Xiao Yun said he had read about it in an ancient text.
• Xiao Yun and the others stored the mature immortal herbs before sunset.
• Xiao Yun spent several days refining the herbs into pills, including pills for body tempering, poison resistance, Martial Soul enhancement, and changed cultivation aptitude.
• Xiao Yun also refined Blood Swan Pills, a deadly poison that could devastate a poisoned water source, and several pills made from other rare herbs.

Xiao Yun descended through the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found the intertwined corpses of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King. After taking their dragon pearls, he subdued both surviving dragon souls and made them accept contracts with him.

• Xiao Yun entered the boiling hot spring and descended through connected passages into an underground chamber.
• Xiao Yun found the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King still locked together in death and drew both of their dragon pearls from their bodies.
• Two miniature dragon souls emerged and fought, so Xiao Yun trapped them inside his Green Lotus Sword Domain.
• Xiao Yun defeated the dragon souls, threatened to make them disperse, and forced them to accept contracts with his Essence Blood.

Xiao Yun merged the Ice and Fire Powers into Chaos Spiritual Power, unlocked two spaces in the Treasure Pagoda, and gained immunity to ice- and fire-type attacks. After he collected the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ corpses and the underground realm began collapsing, he activated the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Spirit Gathering Array to stabilize it before departing.

• Xiao Yun named the dragon souls Chi Xiao and Xuanming, then endured their conflicting Ice and Fire Powers until his Azure Sword Lotus balanced them into Chaos Spiritual Power.
• Xiao Yun absorbed the Ice and Fire Dual Dragon Pearls into the Treasure Pagoda, unlocking its Fire Origin and Ice Origin spaces and gaining immunity to ice and fire.
• Xiao Yun drew the Fire Dragon King's and Ice Dragon King's corpses into the Treasure Pagoda, causing the underground space to collapse.
• Xiao Yun activated Saint Zixuan's Ice and Fire Yin Yang Spirit Gathering Array, which restored the space's balance and connected it to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Yun left the stabilized realm in a streak of sword light.

After obtaining the Ice Fire Dragon Kings’ remains and powers, Xiao Yun left the underground chamber and concealed a surveillance mark for the Douluo God Realm. He prepared to depart with Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing, who began discussing suitable soul rings for their evolved Martial Souls.

• Xiao Yun discovered a hidden surveillance mark beneath the Ice Fire Dragon Kings’ corpses and covered it with an Illusion Array instead of destroying it.
• Xiao Yun returned from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well at dawn and concealed the ice-and-fire cultivation phenomenon in his breath before Dugu Bo emerged.
• Dugu Yan and Zhu Zhuqing joined Xiao Yun in morning cultivation, while Dugu Bo practiced nearby.
• Xiao Yun extinguished the fire-controlling array, stored the Shennong Ding and medicinal cabinets, and prepared his tools for departure.
• Dugu Bo revised Dugu Yan’s soul-ring plan to seek a dragon-type Soul Beast, and Xiao Yun suggested that Zhu Zhuqing choose between strengthening her Dark Attribute or developing her Dragon Attribute.

Xiao Yun led Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing to Dragon Bone Canyon to find suitable Soul Beasts, while sensing the remains of a true dragon beneath the canyon. After Dugu Bo began fighting a Vicious Poison Dragon Lizard for Dugu Yan, Xiao Yun returned from gathering Dragon Blood Grass and prepared to help.

• Xiao Yun explained that Zhu Zhuqing's Night Dragon Cat Emperor had gained dragon traits, and Dugu Bo decided to take her and Dugu Yan to Dragon Bone Canyon.
• The group crossed the poisonous flower sea and reached Dragon Bone Canyon, where Xiao Yun sensed a Dragon Pearl resonance and the bones of a true dragon related to the Ice Fire Dragon King.
• Xiao Yun used Spiritual Sense to locate a twelve-thousand-year-old Vicious Poison Dragon Lizard and guided the group past other Dragon Blood Soul Beasts without being challenged.
• At the lizard's swamp, Xiao Yun left Dugu Bo to fight while he gathered Dragon Blood Grass in jade boxes.
• Dugu Bo's poison barely affected the lizard, and its tough scales kept him locked in a difficult battle.
• Xiao Yun returned and released a thread of the Ice Fire Dragon King's aura to assist Dugu Bo.

Dugu Yan absorbed the Vicious Poison Dragon Lizard’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, gained a powerful poison-based Soul Skill, and reached Level 52. Xiao Yun then entered a Shadow Dragon Lizard nest to secure a suitable Soul Beast for Zhu Zhuqing, where he subdued the pack and confronted the five-thousand-year target.

• Dugu Bo used Time Freeze to restrain the Vicious Poison Dragon Lizard, and Dugu Yan killed it with the Dragon Breaking Dagger.
• Xiao Yun helped Dugu Yan stabilize her Soul Ring absorption, and she reached Level 52 with the Mixed Poison Dragon Breath Soul Skill.
• Xiao Yun led the group to a Shadow Dragon Lizard nest and entered alone to find a five-thousand-year Soul Beast for Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Yun released the Ice Fire Dragon Pearl’s Dragon King pressure to knock out the Shadow Dragon Lizards ambushing him in the passageway.
• Xiao Yun evaded the five-thousand-year Shadow Dragon Lizard’s attack and seized the back of its neck with the Dragon Restraining Hand.

Xiao Yun captured a Shadow Dragon Lizard for Zhu Zhuqing, who absorbed its Soul Ring and awakened the dragon bloodline in her Martial Soul. She gained a powerful clone ability, and the Soul Beast also dropped a head Spirit Bone that Xiao Yun identified as a perfect match for her.

• Xiao Yun captured a Shadow Dragon Lizard and escaped the cave after its thirty-thousand-year Lord awakened.
• Zhu Zhuqing killed the unconscious Soul Beast and absorbed its Thousand-Year Spirit Ring while Xiao Yun and Dugu Bo protected her.
• Zhu Zhuqing's Night Dragon Cat Emperor Martial Soul awakened its dragon bloodline, and she gained the Fourth Soul Skill, Shadow Dragon Clone.
• Zhu Zhuqing discovered that her clones could inherit eighty percent of her strength, increase in number as she grew stronger, and last around ten minutes.
• A head Spirit Bone emerged from the Shadow Dragon Lizard, and Xiao Yun identified its Shadow Domination Soul Skill as a perfect complement to Zhu Zhuqing's shadow abilities.

Xiao Yun gave Zhu Zhuqing a skull soul bone that raised her strength and enhanced her Shadow Dragon Clone, then led the group out of Sunset Forest as a beast tide pursued them. After they reached Sunset Town and rested at an inn, Xiao Yun withdrew into his Sea of Consciousness to return to the Vast Wilderness World.

• Xiao Yun gave Zhu Zhuqing the skull soul bone in exchange for ten more years of work, and she absorbed it, gaining the passive Shadow Control skill and reaching level 43.
• A furious Shadow Dragon Lizard Lord roared from the cave, so Xiao Yun and the others left Dragon Bone Canyon before it could attack.
• Dugu Bo led the group through Sunset Forest as hostile Soul Beasts pursued them and formed a small beast tide; Xiao Yun gave Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Yan Return Body Pills to help them keep going.
• The four escaped the forest after moonrise and stopped in Sunset Town, where they ate at the Sunset Tavern and took rooms for the night.
• Xiao Yun shut himself in his room and prepared to return to the Vast Wilderness World while Chi Xiao and Xuanming guarded the entrance to his Sea of Consciousness.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Yun enters the Destiny Chessboard dungeon in the Trial Temple.
• He faces five-by-five chessboard with four low-level War Spirit puppets and a central armor piece.
• Defeating puppets reveals mysterious shops with discounted items, and defeating all four summons a boss-level puppet.
• Each floor introduces new rewards like treasure chests, lucky roulette, rock-paper-scissors, and buffs.
• The difficulty increases with each floor, culminating in a challenging boss on the sixteenth floor.

Character Developments

• Xiao Yun strategizes and adapts his approach to the dungeon, realizing the importance of individual combat power over support abilities.
• His War Spirits are tested and their capabilities assessed, with Rain Master Divine Monarch and Feng Hou Divine Monarch proving most useful.

Significant Themes

• Strategic adaptation and learning from experiences.
• The importance of individual strength versus support abilities.
• The value of discounted and unique items in shops.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Yun interacts with his War Spirits, selecting and switching them based on the challenges presented by each puppet and boss.
• He communicates with Youyou, his AI assistant, who provides notifications about new rewards and automation options.