Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun visited influential figures in Heaven Dou City to invite them to a housewarming banquet at his manor. The guests agreed to attend in seven days, and Xiao Yun completed his invitations.

• Xiao Yun invited Xue Qinghe to his housewarming, and she accepted while alluding to the manor’s unusual features.
• Xiao Yun invited Dugu Bo, who accepted and entrusted Yan Yan’s care to him.
• Xiao Yun invited Ning Fengzhi, discussed Ning Rongrong’s new courtyard and the manor’s formation, and received his agreement to attend.
• Xiao Yun invited Marshal Ge Long, who accepted and said he wanted to see the manor.
• Xiao Yun invited Minister Vincent and Minister Suimen, and both agreed to attend.

Xiao Yun and the others prepared the estate for its housewarming banquet, arranging food, wine, seating, and invitations. On the banquet day, Dugu Bo was the first guest to arrive, and the estate’s welcome began.

• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing inventoried the banquet ingredients, and Ning Rongrong ordered more wine after Zhu Zhuqing warned there might not be enough.
• Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong arranged the guests’ seating, placing distinguished guests in the Central Main Courtyard and ordinary guests in Ju Xian Hall.
• Dugu Yan, Xivia, and Shenghua divided up invitations to the Imperial Fighting Team members for the banquet in seven days.
• Xiao Yun inspected the estate and its Soul Power barrier, then prepared with Liu Erlong as the banquet day arrived.
• Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, Xivia, and Shenghua confirmed the preparations were ready while Tang Yuehua checked Ju Xian Hall.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the estate by carriage, and Xiao Yun went forward to greet him.

Xiao Yun received Dugu Bo’s rare Jade Scale snake as a housewarming gift and welcomed a succession of prominent guests to his estate. After the Heaven Dou Royal Academy education committee members arrived, Xiao Yun waited at the entrance for the next guests.

• Dugu Bo gave Xiao Yun a rare Jade Scale snake and asked Dugu Yan to show him around the estate.
• Minister Vincent Fan Hosen and Minister Suimen arrived with their sons, and Xivia and Shenghua guided them inside.
• Marshal Ge Long arrived with his daughter Golan, who asked Xiao Yun whether he would return to Heaven Dou Academy, and Zhu Zhuqing escorted them around.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin arrived, praised the estate, and entered with Liu Erlong.
• Xiao Yun noted that the sun was high and waited at the entrance, watching the Imperial Road.

Xiao Yun welcomed Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Crown Prince Xue Qinghe to his housewarming celebration and showed Xue Qinghe around his estate. Xue Qinghe privately acknowledged that Xiao Yun had caused the earlier phenomenon and offered to help him, before the guests gathered for the feast.

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Xue Qinghe arrived at Xiao Yun's estate and congratulated him on his housewarming.
• Xiao Yun asked Ning Rongrong to show Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin around while he guided Xue Qinghe through the courtyards.
• Xue Qinghe praised the estate's layout and viewed it with Xiao Yun from View Mountain Pavilion.
• Xue Qinghe told Xiao Yun he knew Dugu Bo's breakthrough had not caused the earlier phenomenon and promised not to reveal the truth, offering his help.
• Xiao Yun and his guests gathered for the housewarming feast, and everyone raised a toast to him.

Xiao Yun hosted a lavish housewarming banquet, thanked his guests with gifts, and saw them off. Afterward, he gathered Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, and the other girls at Streamer Years Hall to discuss rules for managing their new estate.

• Xiao Yun served his guests a carefully prepared banquet, and Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Bo, Marshal Ge Long, Xue Qinghe, and others toasted him and praised his care for their daughters and students.
• Xiao Yun ended the banquet and gave each distinguished guest a bottle of ten Soul Emperor-level Soul Replenishing Pills as a return gift.
• Xiao Yun personally saw the guests off, including Xue Qinghe, then shared a warm moment with the girls at the entrance to their new home.
• Xiao Yun decided that the household needed rules and used the Four Seasons Rotation Defense Array to summon the girls to Streamer Years Hall.
• Xiao Yun and the seven women gathered around the Meeting Room's round table to discuss estate management.

Xiao Yun gathered the seven women at Years Manor to thank them and propose rules for living there. He explained that each courtyard’s Cultivation Room could reach eight times the outside concentration of Soul Power and Spiritual Power, then wrote ten preliminary rules on a whiteboard and asked the others to review them.

• Xiao Yun thanked the seven women for their work and said he had called them together to discuss manor rules.
• Xiao Yun explained that Years Manor had twenty-five residences and that each small courtyard could house only one person.
• Xiao Yun revealed that the Cultivation Rooms could reach eight times the outside concentration of Soul Power and Spiritual Power, astonishing the group.
• Ning Rongrong asked whether she could invite her father or Grandpa Jian to live at the manor, and Xiao Yun said resident approval was among the rules to discuss.
• Xiao Yun wrote ten preliminary rules covering residency, privacy, the backyard, garden management, maintenance, and manor affairs, then asked the group for revisions or additions.

Xiao Yun and the residents discussed and finalized rules for living at Years Estate. The chapter ended with everyone approving the eleven rules, which assigned responsibilities and procedures for estate life.

• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xivia asked Xiao Yun to clarify rules about marriage, male visitors, and garden masters.
• The residents agreed that garden masters would be elected, estate duties would be divided, and Ning Rongrong would temporarily manage the kitchen.
• Everyone chose Tang Yuehua to handle external affairs and Liu Erlong to handle internal affairs.
• The group agreed on rules for public facilities, estate secrets, and resolving disputes.
• Xiao Yun wrote eleven finalized rules on the whiteboard, and everyone approved them.

The residents chose masters for the four gardens, and Xiao Yun placed hidden restrictions on the women before strengthening the manor’s arrays. Later, Zhu Zhuqing confronted Ning Rongrong about why she had raised marriage at the meeting and asked whether she still had feelings for someone at Shrek.

• Dugu Yan became the Summer Garden’s master, Xue Qianren was assigned to the Spring Garden, and Tang Yuehua took the Winter Garden position.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Xivia, and Shenghua agreed to rotate the Autumn Garden master position every three months, with Xivia serving first.
• Xiao Yun placed a mental restriction woven from Puppet Threads in each of the seven women, and Ning Rongrong could not detect it.
• Xiao Yun adjusted the Four Seasons Rotation Defense Array, raising the manor’s Soul Power and Spiritual Power and prompting the women to cultivate.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Ning Rongrong why she had stopped her from speaking at the meeting and whether she still had feelings for someone at Shrek; Ning Rongrong denied it, but Zhu Zhuqing noticed her panic.

Zhu Zhuqing explained to Ning Rongrong why she had raised marriage at the meeting and urged her to reconsider whether her status and feelings for Xiao Yun made a future with him impossible. Ning Rongrong listened as Zhu Zhuqing compared Xiao Yun’s gifts and the Shrek men, leaving her to weigh her choices.

• Ning Rongrong told Zhu Zhuqing that her duties as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s only heir meant she could not choose her future marriage freely.
• Zhu Zhuqing acknowledged that Ning Rongrong might only be able to become Xiao Yun’s lover, since women close to him already seemed to be his partners.
• Zhu Zhuqing cited the sect status of Yuehua and Erlong, Yan’s bond with Dugu Bo, and Xiao Yun’s valuable cultivation gifts as reasons they followed him.
• Zhu Zhuqing reminded Ning Rongrong that Xiao Yun’s master had helped evolve both Ning Fengzhi’s and Ning Rongrong’s Martial Souls.
• Zhu Zhuqing dismissed Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun as unsuitable choices for Ning Rongrong, then questioned whether Oscar’s humble background met her sect’s requirements.

Zhu Zhuqing urged Ning Rongrong to consider what Xiao Yun’s kindness and her home in Bai Lu Courtyard meant, leaving Ning Rongrong uncertain about her feelings and choices. The next morning, Xiao Yun asked Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua to recruit servants for his estate and gave them funds and hiring requirements.

• Zhu Zhuqing reminded Ning Rongrong that Xiao Yun had treated them as his own rather than according to their identities, then left her to think it over.
• Ning Rongrong reflected on the courtyard she had made her home and wondered what she should do.
• At breakfast, Xiao Yun asked Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua to meet him in his Study Room after the meal.
• Xiao Yun gave Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua two crystal cards holding twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins to cover the estate’s initial staffing expenses.
• Xiao Yun told them to seek girls aged ten to fourteen and said candidates did not need to be Soul Masters because he had a cultivation method they could use.

Xiao Yun planned the manor’s staffing and finances, assigning Liu Erlong to manage pill exchanges while proposing medicinal fields in his fief as a stable source of income. He decided to travel to Dragon Ascending Town within three days, leaving Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua to oversee the manor during his month- or two-month absence.

• Xiao Yun, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua agreed to recruit about twenty maids for the manor, with Liu Erlong handling commoner girls and Tang Yuehua handling noble-born girls.
• Xiao Yun divided his Soul Replenishing Pills among the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, the Education Committee members, court officials, and the manor’s residents.
• Xiao Yun agreed with Tang Yuehua that pill exchanges were not a reliable long-term income source and proposed growing spirit herbs in Dragon Ascending Town.
• Xiao Yun announced that he would leave for his fief within three days to establish medicinal fields before the spring planting season.
• Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua agreed to manage the manor while Xiao Yun was away for one to two months.

Before Xiao Yun left for Dragon Ascending Town, Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, and Xue Qianren each spent the night with him. Xue Qianren warned him about the Shui Family and explained the town’s local power structure, leaving Xiao Yun prepared to secure the area by taking them down.

• Liu Erlong asked Xiao Yun to promise he would return safely, and he reassured her before she fell asleep in his arms.
• Tang Yuehua warned Xiao Yun that the Shui Family, which controlled Skywater Academy, would secretly obstruct him in Dragon Ascending Town.
• Xue Qianren visited Xiao Yun on the night before his departure and stayed with him.
• Xiao Yun noticed that Xue Qianren had reached level eighty-two, two levels above her previous cultivation.
• Xue Qianren described Dragon Ascending Town as a poorly governed, sparsely populated region where the Shui Family was the only major local force.
• Xiao Yun asked whether defeating the Shui Family would secure Dragon Ascending Town, and Xue Qianren agreed.

Xiao Yun learned that winning over the Shui Family could secure his influence in Dragon Ascending Town, then received the imperial decree granting him the town as his fief. He set out that day to take charge, leaving his companions behind to cultivate and manage the manor.

• Xue Qianren told Xiao Yun about Shui Wuya and his daughters, and he decided to win the Shui Family's willing support.
• Xiao Yun received the imperial decree naming him Earl and granting him Dragon Ascending Town, along with the fief's deed, seal, and documents.
• Xiao Yun told his companions he would leave that day and asked them to remain behind and focus on cultivation.
• Xiao Yun entrusted Liu Erlong with pills for allied factions and gave cultivation pills to Dugu Yan and the others.
• Xiao Yun mounted his horse and departed for Dragon Ascending Town as his companions watched him leave.

After learning that Spirit Hall had killed Tang Hao, Tang San swore revenge, broke through to level fifty, and acquired a Ten-Thousand-Year Fifth Soul Ring. He continued north and arrived at a town, where he noticed a Soul Master in a restaurant.

• Xiao Yun left the manor and rode toward his fief in the Dragon Ascending Mountain Range.
• Tang San learned that Spirit Hall had killed Tang Hao, mourned his father, and swore to make Spirit Hall pay for his parents’ deaths.
• Tang San’s Soul Power broke through to level fifty as he vowed to grow strong enough to destroy Spirit Hall.
• Tang San killed a Ten-Thousand-Year Bloodthirsty Spear Bamboo and absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining the Blue Silver Bloodthirsty Spear skill.
• Tang San arrived at a small town and noticed a middle-aged Soul Master sitting at the next table in a restaurant.

Tang San entered a small town and discovered a Spirit Hall stronghold, where he killed its Soul Masters and set the building ablaze. He then stopped on the road outside town and called for someone hiding in the forest to come out.

• A middle-aged man treated Tang San to a meal and praised his talent, but Tang San later learned the man oversaw the local Spirit Hall stronghold.
• Tang San entered the stronghold at night, used Mind-numbing Smoke to put its occupants to sleep, and killed more than a dozen Soul Masters.
• Tang San recognized the stronghold’s overseer as the man who had treated him to dinner, but he killed him with a Zhuge Crossbow bolt.
• Tang San set the Spirit Hall stronghold on fire and left town.
• Fifty li outside town, Tang San stopped on the Imperial Road and ordered someone in the forest to come out.

Tang San accepted Yang Wudi’s offer to train with him and work toward revenge against Spirit Hall. In Spirit City, Hu Liena, Yan, and Jin each asked Bibi Dong to support a different path to growth.

• Yang Wudi told Tang San that Tang Hao and Tang San’s mother were dead, then offered to train him and unite the Four Single-Attribute Clans against Spirit Hall.
• Tang San recalled his family, friends, and the strength of Spirit Hall, then accepted Yang Wudi’s offer and followed him into the night.
• More than a month after the tournament defeat, Hu Liena told Bibi Dong she wanted to develop ways to fight without relying on Charm.
• Yan asked Bibi Dong for permission to cultivate among the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes and deepen his understanding of fire.
• Jin asked Bibi Dong to let him join the Saintess Guard Team.

Bibi Dong assigned Yan, Jin, and Hu Liena new paths to strengthen themselves after their tournament defeat, while preparing Hu Liena to learn meridian cultivation. Elsewhere, Flender faced the Shrek students’ separation as Dai Mubai prepared to leave, burdened by Zhu Zhuqing’s departure with Xiao Yun.

• Bibi Dong praised Yan, Jin, and Hu Liena for seeking to improve after losing the tournament and arranged training posts for Yan and Jin.
• Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena with Chrysanthemum Douluo to verify the meridian cultivation system and learn it if it was safe.
• Yan, Jin, and Hu Liena exchanged farewells outside the Pope’s Palace and departed with their escorts.
• Bibi Dong read a report about Xiao Yun and Qian Renxue, then softly sighed over her daughter.
• At Shrek Academy, Flender and the teachers faced the students’ parting as Dai Mubai announced that he was leaving, unable to return to the Star Luo Empire after Zhu Zhuqing left with Xiao Yun.

After Shrek Academy’s students went their separate ways, Dai Mubai chose to train under Zhao Wuji, while Oscar set out alone to gain experience. Flender returned to the academy with only Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun remaining by his side, as the Shrek Seven Devils had scattered.

• Dai Mubai asked Zhao Wuji to take him as a disciple, and Zhao Wuji agreed to guide his cultivation.
• Ma Hongjun chose to stay with Flender, who promised to help him resolve his evil fire problem.
• Oscar decided to travel alone and seek opportunities to grow stronger, then left without looking back.
• Tailong returned to the Great Strength God Clan, and Yang Zongbao went back to his clan to cultivate.
• Flender reflected on how the Shrek Seven Devils had scattered, then led the remaining teachers and students back into Shrek Academy.

Xiao Yun arrived at Skywater Academy to find the Four Great Academies facing a challenge orchestrated by Spirit Hall and more than a dozen rival academies. Bishop Salatos began pressuring Headmaster Shui Yuntian as the confrontation threatened the Four Great Academies’ place in Snow Spirit City.

• Xiao Yun traveled from Heaven Dou City to Snow Spirit Province using the Cloud Soaring Art and headed for Skywater Academy to find Shui Ruoyan.
• Xiao Yun found a crowd gathered outside the academy, where Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, and representatives of the Four Great Academies faced a coalition of rival academies backed by Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Yun recognized Cardinal Heratos, the leader of the Hall of Souls Branch in Snow Spirit Province, among the black-robed Soul Masters.
• Xiao Yun learned that the rival academies had demanded a ten-on-ten contest, with the losing side required to leave Snow Spirit City and stop recruiting there.
• Shui Yuntian accused Bishop Salatos of arranging the confrontation, but Salatos denied responsibility and challenged the Four Great Academies to accept the match.
• Shui Yuntian asked what Salatos would do if the Four Great Academies refused, and Salatos began warning her about their influence in Snow Spirit Province.

Salatos pressured the Four Great Academies into accepting a ten-on-ten challenge, with the losers required to leave Snow Spirit City. Xiao Yun watched the confrontation, then secretly entered Skywater Academy at night and reunited with Shui Ruoyan.

• Salatos argued that the other academies resented the Four Great Academies and demanded they accept a challenge backed by Spirit Hall.
• Shui Yuntian agreed to the challenge, which Salatos scheduled for three days later, with each side fielding ten participants and the losing side leaving Snow Spirit City.
• Xiao Yun watched the gathering and suspected a conspiracy behind the challenge before slipping away into the crowd.
• After nightfall, Xiao Yun crossed Skywater Academy's walls and entered Shui Ruoyan's apartment while she was bathing.
• Shui Ruoyan recognized Xiao Yun, rushed into his arms, and tearfully told him she had feared he had abandoned them.