Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun and his companions crossed Yunmeng Lake toward the central island where the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu was hidden, only to discover that the calm waters concealed an ambush. Trapped behind a barrier of towering waves, they faced an army led by the corrupted East Sea Dragon King's Divine Sense Fragment.

• Before crossing Yunmeng Lake, Xiao Yun had Empress Nuwa protect the team and Chang'e conceal their auras and movements.
• The team flew across the lake without meeting resistance, and Wukong and Ksitigarbha warned that the eerie calm was suspicious.
• After they crossed an invisible boundary, an Illusion Array activated, surrounding them with demonic auras and raising a massive wall of water.
• Xiao Yun ordered the team to defend, and Empress Nuwa formed a Five Elements Barrier that withstood the crashing waves.
• A demonized army of Shrimp Soldiers, Crab Generals, and Fish Demons appeared with the corrupted East Sea Dragon King's Divine Sense Fragment at its head, fixing its gaze on Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun and his five companions fought an endless horde of demonic aquatic creatures while searching for a way out of the Water Prison. The four teams at Yunmeng Lake’s distant nodes then succeeded, and their pillars of light formed a Purification Array that began to collapse the lake’s Illusion Array and demonic structure.

• Xi He, Wukong, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Empress Nuwa, Fairy Chang'e, and Xiao Yun held off the attacking monsters with divine light, Buddhist palms, healing, protection, and flying swords.
• Xiao Yun realized the endless assault would exhaust them and said they needed to find its source or break through the Water Prison.
• The Wood Attribute team in the east broke its node and raised an azure pillar of light.
• The Fire Attribute team in the south and the divine beast team in the west raised crimson and white pillars after winning at their nodes.
• The Water Attribute team in the north delivered the final blow, completing four pillars that formed a Purification Array and began collapsing the lake’s Illusion Array and demonic structure.

Xiao Yun’s team defeated the Demonic East Sea Dragon King’s Divine Sense Fragment and cleared the final checkpoint. They continued toward Lake Heart Island, where they found a beautiful, thriving paradise instead of the corrupted landscape they expected.

• The destruction of the Myriad Waters Formation’s power source weakened the demonic aquatic army and allowed Xiao Yun’s team to turn the battle around.
• Xi He countered the Dragon King’s Dark Ice attack while Wukong blocked his charge and fought him in close combat.
• Wukong broke through the Dragon King’s defenses and destroyed his Divine Sense Fragment, which left behind the [Legendary Fate Token of the East Sea Dragon King].
• Xiao Yun’s team rested briefly and continued toward the heart of Yunmeng Lake as the scattered demons lost their resolve.
• After flying for about half an hour, Xiao Yun’s team reached Lake Heart Island and found it lush and peaceful, filled with pure spiritual energy.

Xiao Yun and his companions entered the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu’s beautiful but unnatural island, where they followed insect puppets to a woman fused with the surroundings. When the woman tried to peel Xiao Yun away from their layer of space, Empress Nuwa grabbed him and resisted.

• Xiao Yun warned his companions that the island was a deadly illusion and led them inside to find the Demon Gu’s core.
• After landing on the island, Xiao Yun sensed that its plants and other life shared one identical rhythm, making the whole island seem like a single living entity.
• Twelve beautiful women controlled by Gu insects appeared and led Xiao Yun and the five War Spirits through an elaborate estate.
• The group met a white-clad woman whose body seemed fused with the island, the courtyard, and the surrounding air.
• The woman raised her hand and attempted to separate Xiao Yun from their layer of space, so Empress Nuwa seized his shoulders and used her Creation Divine Power to resist.

Xiao Yun’s Primordial Spirit Purple Lotus was overwhelmed by the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu until the Treasure Pagoda intervened and pulled the entire Soul Battlefield into its space. The Pagoda refined the demon into pure Soul Origin, greatly strengthening Xiao Yun’s soul.

• The Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu swarmed Xiao Yun’s Primordial Spirit Purple Lotus with countless soul spiders, draining his Soul Power and leaving him near defeat.
• An Octagonal Gap opened above the Soul Battlefield and sucked Xiao Yun, the spider swarm, and the demon’s main body into the Treasure Pagoda’s space.
• The Treasure Pagoda’s Mysterious Yellow Refining Fire dissolved the lesser spiders into pure Soul Origin, which nourished Xiao Yun’s Primordial Spirit Purple Lotus.
• The refining fire overcame the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu’s attempts to escape and completely refined it into Soul Origin.
• Xiao Yun absorbed the demon’s Soul Origin, elevating his soul realm as the Gu insect’s physical body cried out outside.

The Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu failed to breach Xiao Yun’s Mysterious Yellow Pagoda Shadow and unleashed a soul attack that knocked him unconscious. Xiao Yun awakened inside a strange starry realm, protected by the purple lotus manifestation of his Primordial Spirit, as Empress Nuwa guarded his body outside.

• The Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu attacked the pagoda barrier with a giant warhammer and microscopic offspring Gu, but the barrier repelled every assault.
• The demon revealed its grotesque true form after Xiao Yun mocked its disguise.
• The Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu opened countless evil eyes and struck at Xiao Yun’s soul, overcoming his defenses and rendering him unconscious.
• Empress Nuwa examined Xiao Yun, found his body unharmed but his Divine Soul in danger, and guarded him while maintaining the pagoda barrier.
• Xiao Yun regained consciousness in a vast, lifeless starry realm, sheltered within the purple radiance of his Primordial Spirit Purple Lotus.

After refining the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu, Xiao Yun advanced to the Heavenly Immortal realm and triggered his tribulation. He endured the first round of lightning, while the clouds shifted to herald the next round.

• Xiao Yun's Primordial Spirit Purple Lotus advanced to the fourth grade, granting him the Puppet Thread soul ability, and his Blood Sea Red Lotus and Sea of Qi Green Lotus also reached the fourth grade.
• The remaining soul energy perfected Xiao Yun's five organs, formed Five Elements Lotus phantoms within them, and helped him break through from the Earth Immortal Peak to the initial stage of the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Wukong, Xi He, Ksitigarbha, and Chang'e sensed the Heavenly Tribulation and retreated beyond its range, while Empress Nuwa shielded Xiao Yun with Five-Colored Stone light before joining them.
• Xiao Yun met the first nine bolts of the Pure Yang Heavenly Lightning Tribulation with his fists, palms, Five Elements Lotus power, and body, and passed the first round.
• The Tribulation Cloud turned platinum white as it gathered strength for the next round.

Xiao Yun overcame the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and attained the Heavenly Immortal realm, while the lightning also purged the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu’s lair of hidden demonic threats. Nuwa, Wukong, Xi He, Ksitigarbha, and Chang'e congratulated him as he celebrated his new power and freedom.

• Xiao Yun endured the Geng Gold, Yi Wood, Bing Fire, Gui Water, and Wu Earth Divine Lightning Tribulations by using his lotus powers and Immortal Power to withstand and refine the lightning.
• The heavenly lightning destroyed the demonic qi, Gu insect egg nests, and resurrection contingencies hidden throughout the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu’s island lair.
• Creation Divine Light repaired Xiao Yun and transformed him into a Heavenly Immortal, granting him an indestructible body, a powerful Divine Soul, and unlimited lifespan.
• Xiao Yun rose into the air through his connection with heaven and earth, feeling the immense power and freedom of his new realm.
• Nuwa, Wukong, Xi He, Ksitigarbha, and Chang'e arrived and congratulated Xiao Yun on his breakthrough and the cleansing of the demon lair.

After Xiao Yun advanced to the Heavenly Immortal realm and left Cloud Dream Marsh, he returned to reality and arranged to follow a Soul Hunting Team to Sunset Forest. He set out at night, intending to interfere with Tang San and Xiao Wu’s relationship.

• The War Spirits congratulated Xiao Yun on his advancement, while the Wutu Xuandao Turtle and Azure Water Black Snake pledged Cloud Dream Marsh’s loyalty to him.
• Xiao Yun appointed Luo Shen (Zhen Mi) and Siming Divine Monarch (Chu Yinge) to help restore Cloud Dream Marsh, then returned to White Jade Capital and exited the Vast Wilderness World.
• Back in reality, Xiao Yun considered how to disrupt Tang San and Xiao Wu’s relationship during their trip to Sunset Forest.
• Meng Shenji arranged for Xiao Yun to secretly follow Sylvia and Shenghua Sect’s Soul Hunting Team, gave him 1,000 Gold Soul Coins, and told him to return within a week.
• Xiao Yun packed supplies, left a note at the Teacher's Apartment, and slipped out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy to catch up with the team.

Xiao Yun followed Sylvia and the Shenghua Sect’s Soul Hunting Team through Sunset Forest while gathering rare herbs, then went to Sunset Town after sensing Xiao Wu arrive. He arranged a secret midnight meeting with Xiao Wu and struck Tang San with a needle-like attack on his Sea of Consciousness when Tang San followed her.

• Xiao Yun trailed the academy group into Sunset Forest and collected rare medicinal herbs while tracking Xiao Wu’s aura.
• After sensing Xiao Wu arrive in Sunset Town, Xiao Yun left hidden Spatial Coordinates on Sylvia and another woman before returning to the Sunset Grand Tavern.
• Xiao Yun sent Xiao Wu a mental message inviting her to meet alone at midnight, and she slipped out after Jiang Zhu fell asleep.
• Tang San heard Xiao Wu leave and secretly followed her to the vacant room, where he saw her meet a young man.
• Xiao Yun detected Tang San outside the room and pierced his Sea of Consciousness with a condensed strike of Spiritual Power.

Disguised as Immortal Taibai, Xiao Yun spoke privately with Xiao Wu about Tang San’s growing distance and Liu Erlong’s sadness, then revealed that Yu Xiaogang was the person Liu Erlong awaited. He left Xiao Wu curious about the Golden Triangle and asked why the group had come to Sunset Forest.

• Tang San tried to probe the room with his Purple Demon Eye, was overwhelmed by Xiao Yun’s Spiritual Power, and collapsed outside the door.
• Xiao Yun, disguised as Immortal Taibai, invited Xiao Wu to talk and asked about the group’s progress since leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Xiao Wu told Xiao Yun that Tang San had become more withdrawn and driven since Yu Xiaogang left, and that she had become Liu Erlong’s goddaughter.
• Xiao Wu described Liu Erlong staring toward the academy entrance, and Xiao Yun told her that Liu Erlong was waiting for Yu Xiaogang.
• Xiao Yun suggested Xiao Wu investigate the Golden Triangle to learn Liu Erlong and Flender’s story, then asked why the students had come to Sunset Forest.

Xiao Yun questioned Xiao Wu about why Shrek Academy repeatedly sent all its students together to obtain soul rings, then suggested Yu Xiaogang was deliberately using danger to deepen the students’ bonds. He linked the method to Yu Xiaogang’s past with Liu Erlong and Flender, leaving Xiao Wu shaken and questioning the trust she had placed in her Master.

• Xiao Wu told Xiao Yun that the group had come to help Tang San, Dai Laoda, and Tailong obtain their third soul rings.
• Xiao Yun challenged the idea that group hunting was necessary for team bonding and asked who had first proposed the trips.
• Xiao Wu recalled that Yu Xiaogang had suggested the students travel together when Oscar needed a soul ring.
• Xiao Yun speculated that Yu Xiaogang was repeating the approach he had used to win Liu Erlong’s affection during their travels with Flender.
• Xiao Yun argued that Yu Xiaogang was creating shared dangers to strengthen the Shrek students’ bonds, especially those between Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu remembered how past dangers had brought the group closer and began to doubt whether Yu Xiaogang had been steering their relationships.

Xiao Yun gave Xiao Wu a Storage Soul Tool and warned her about the way her teachers encouraged her to share sleeping arrangements with Tang San, urging her to claim private space. After Xiao Wu left, Xiao Yun examined Tang San’s cultivation and considered whether to cripple his future rival.

• Xiao Yun gave Xiao Wu a Storage Soul Tool filled with travel supplies and explained how to bind it to her with a drop of blood.
• Xiao Yun warned Xiao Wu that men and women should keep their distance and said Yu Xiaogang and Flender had deliberately encouraged her closeness with Tang San.
• Xiao Yun asked Xiao Wu to invite Jiang Zhu to share the tent and establish her need for independent space, and Xiao Wu left with the pouch.
• Xiao Yun concealed unconscious Tang San from Xiao Wu, then examined his body and detected the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s energy pathways.
• Xiao Yun found that a force protected the core cultivation method and considered crippling Tang San or planting hidden injuries in his meridians.

Xiao Yun and Empress Nuwa were separated from their allies and trapped inside the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu’s spatial barrier. After rejecting the demon’s offer to join the Abyss, they faced a deadly attack and Xiao Yun used his Divine Pagoda to protect them.

• Wukong, Xi He, Ksitigarbha, and Chang'e discovered that Lake Heart Island was an illusion and could not reach Xiao Yun and Empress Nuwa.
• Xiao Yun and Empress Nuwa found themselves trapped in an enclosed hall with the white-robed goddess and the twelve insect-puppet goddesses.
• Xiao Yun identified the white-robed goddess as the Thousand-Tentacled Illusion Demon Gu and rejected its offer of power and eternal life.
• The twelve goddesses attacked, while countless Gu insects poured from the hall and began gnawing at Empress Nuwa's Five-Colored Light barrier.
• Xiao Yun summoned the Divine Pagoda to shield himself and Empress Nuwa, stopping the Gu insects and surprising the demon.

Xiao Yun abandoned his attempt to harm Tang San after sensing an overwhelming force protecting him, then secretly followed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team into Sunset Forest to guard Sylvia and Shenghua. He left the Shrek group to continue its hunt while remaining hidden nearby as Sylvia and Shenghua led their team safely onward.

• Xiao Yun sensed that harming Tang San would trigger an irresistible attack, returned the unconscious Tang San to his room, and erased signs of his visit.
• The next morning, Xiao Yun sensed the Shrek group entering Sunset Forest and observed Xiao Wu's worry and Tang San's confusion about his fainting.
• Xiao Yun used the Spatial Coordinates he had placed on Sylvia and Shenghua to find and secretly follow the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team.
• Sylvia and Shenghua worked together to expose a lurking Ghost Shadow Leopard, allowing the team to interrupt its ambush and defeat it.
• Xiao Yun covertly enhanced Sylvia's danger sense and Shenghua's sensory disruption, then continued guarding them while checking that the Shrek group faced no major danger.

Sylvia entered the Ancient Battlefield Ruins to find a suitable sword-type Soul Beast for her fourth Soul Ring. After defeating a five-thousand-year cyan sword soul, she began absorbing its Purple Soul Ring.

• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy team stopped at the Ancient Battlefield Ruins, where Sylvia's Sword of Vows resonated with the buried weapon souls.
• The instructors strengthened Sylvia with support abilities, and she entered the core region alone while Shenghua urged her to be careful.
• Sylvia searched the Artifact Spirit Beasts and chose a five-thousand-year cyan longsword Soul Beast for her challenge.
• Sylvia studied the sword soul's speed, thrusts, and phantom attacks while evading and blocking its strikes, as Xiao Yun watched from hiding.
• Sylvia used her Third Spirit Skill, Oath Radiant Slash, to strike the cyan sword soul and shatter it.
• Sylvia sat down to absorb the resulting Purple Soul Ring while Xiao Yun watched with satisfaction.

After Sylvia returned safely from absorbing a five-thousand-year Spirit Ring, the group traveled to the Phantom Plains to find Shenghua a Spirit Ring. Instructor Ge Shan used his Yazi Martial Soul to deter the local Soul Beasts as they reached the plains' inner region, where Shenghua's search for a Phoenix Eye Phantom Butterfly awaited.

• Sylvia returned from the Ancient Battlefield after absorbing a five-thousand-year sword Spirit Ring, and Shenghua embraced her with relief.
• After Sylvia recovered, the group set off for the Phantom Plains to find a Spirit Ring for Shenghua.
• Two level-thirty students absorbed Spirit Rings from a twelve-hundred-year Wind Wolf and a thirteen-hundred-year Fire Panther, reaching level thirty-one.
• The instructors warned the group about the Phantom Plains' hallucinogenic and poisonous creatures and explained that Phoenix Eye Phantom Butterflies lived near Phantom Heart Flowers.
• Ge Shan summoned his Yazi Martial Soul, whose dragon might deterred nearby Soul Beasts as the group advanced into the inner plains.

Xiao Yun secretly lured a five-thousand-year Phoenix Eye Phantom Butterfly out of its swarm, allowing Sylvia and Shenghua to defeat it together. Shenghua began absorbing its Soul Ring while Xiao Yun kept the butterfly’s severed wings for himself.

• Xiao Yun concealed his aura and used Immortal Spirit Energy to draw a powerful Phoenix Eye Phantom Butterfly away from the valley swarm.
• A Control Type Soul Emperor trapped the butterfly, and Ge Shan suppressed it with his Ya Zi Martial Soul’s dragon's might.
• Sylvia attacked while Shenghua countered the butterfly’s illusions and repeatedly helped Sylvia regain her focus.
• Shenghua disrupted the butterfly’s large-scale illusion, letting Sylvia land an Oath Radiant Slash that severed its wings.
• Shenghua killed the wounded butterfly and began absorbing its purple Soul Ring, while Xiao Yun secretly collected its severed wings.

Shenghua successfully absorbed a five-thousand-year soul ring and advanced to Soul Ancestor, after which Ge Shan led the team out of the Phantom Plains. Xiao Yun then went to Shrek’s campsite and watched as Flender’s tent arrangements sparked an awkward dispute.

• Shenghua absorbed the Phoenix Eye Phantom Butterfly soul ring, gained a new soul skill, and reached the Soul Ancestor realm.
• Ge Shan ordered the team to withdraw, and Xiao Yun secretly escorted them safely out of the Phantom Plains.
• Xiao Yun left for the Shrek Seven Devils’ location, intending to cause trouble and check whether Tang Hao was still guarding Tang San or searching for the hidden Blue Silver Emperor.
• At Shrek’s campsite, Flender assigned Liu Erlong to share a tent with himself and Zhao Wuji, but Liu Erlong firmly objected.
• Xiao Wu watched Tang San expectantly, but Tang San stayed silent instead of offering his spare tent; Ma Hongjun stopped Dai Mubai from intervening, while Jiang Zhu reacted with disbelief.

Xiao Wu prevented Jiang Zhu from having to share a tent with the boys by producing a tent from her storage pouch. Meanwhile, Xiao Yun watched over the camp and identified several dangerous Soul Beasts he intended to use to trouble Shrek’s group.

• Xiao Wu offered to share her tent with Liu Erlong and Jiang Zhu, using a tent retrieved from her storage bag.
• Flender abandoned his plan to put the girls in a tent with the boys, while Zhao Wuji set traps and Tang San spread insect-repelling powder around the camp.
• Xiao Yun surveyed Sunset Forest with his Spiritual Sense and found an Azure Horned Dragon, a Human-Faced Spider, a Fire Sickle Centipede, and the King of Earth.
• Xiao Yun decided to keep the King of Earth from attacking first so it could trouble Shrek’s group rather than be killed immediately by Liu Erlong.