Chapter Summaries

Liu Erlong and Xiao Yun watched Yu Xiaogang absorb power from a blood pool while Shrek Academy's instructors fought Xue Pofeng's guards. Prince Xue Xing arrived with Dugu Bo, Xue Beng died after briefly awakening, and Dugu Bo pinned everyone in the chamber beneath his Titled Douluo pressure.

• Liu Erlong recognized dead former Blue Tyrant Academy students in the blood pool and hid with Xiao Yun, who concealed their auras.
• Zhao Wuji joined Flender and Lu Qibin's battle against Xue Pofeng's guards, helping the Shrek instructors gain ground.
• Xiao Yun stopped Liu Erlong from attacking Yu Xiaogang after sensing Prince Xue Xing's party approaching.
• Prince Xue Xing entered the chamber with Dugu Bo and imperial guards, and Dugu Bo's aura slowed everyone present.
• Prince Xue Xing gave Xue Beng a pill, but Xue Beng briefly awoke to demand that they kill everyone before dying again.
• Prince Xue Xing ordered Dugu Bo to seize everyone from Shrek Academy, and Dugu Bo's power pinned them down while Liu Erlong remained hidden.

Yu Xiaogang transformed with Flender and Lu Qibin into a Blood Dragon powered by the blood pool, then battled Dugu Bo in the cavern. After Dugu Bo poisoned the pool and struck the others down, Yu Xiaogang escaped through the ceiling and vanished into the night.

• Yu Xiaogang drew on the blood pool, forming a blood-colored cocoon around himself, Flender, and Lu Qibin that emerged as a Blood Dragon.
• Dugu Bo and the Blood Dragon fought while Prince Xue Xing, Xue Beng, and Xue Pofeng retreated from the cavern.
• Xiao Yun told Dugu Bo that the blood pool powered the Blood Dragon, so Dugu Bo redirected his attacks to poison the pool.
• Yu Xiaogang used dark red flames to purge some of the poison, but the Blood Dragon weakened as Dugu Bo continued contaminating the pool.
• Yu Xiaogang opened a hole through the cavern ceiling and escaped as Dugu Bo’s ninth soul skill blasted Flender and Lu Qibin unconscious.
• Liu Erlong remained hidden beside Xiao Yun as Yu Xiaogang disappeared into the night.

After Yu Xiaogang fled, Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong left the injured Flender and Lu Qibin behind and went to Liu Erlong’s mother’s grave. They exhumed the coffin and gravestone so Liu Erlong could take her mother home, then departed Shrek Academy together.

• Xiao Yun secretly attached his Divine Sense to Yu Xiaogang as Dugu Bo and Xue Pofeng chased after him.
• Liu Erlong decided not to save the badly injured Flender and Lu Qibin and left the cavern with Xiao Yun.
• Liu Erlong brought Xiao Yun to her mother Liu Ruyan’s grave and introduced him while paying her respects.
• Xiao Yun used Earth Release techniques to raise the coffin, and Liu Erlong placed it and the gravestone in her Storage Soul Tool.
• Xiao Yun filled the grave pit, and he and Liu Erlong left the hillside on his flying sword.

Liu Erlong and Xiao Yun arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s mountain gate so she could meet Second Elder Yu Luomian. After the guards insulted her and blocked her, Liu Erlong fought them, and outer elder Yu Yuanting confronted her with a squad of Soul Emperors.

• Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong flew to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s valley, where Liu Erlong faced the gate with her mother’s coffin and sought an audience with Yu Luomian.
• The gate guards mocked Liu Erlong and made a lewd demand, so she struck the tall guard and revealed her Soul Douluo aura.
• Several guards attacked Liu Erlong, and she defeated five of them without using soul skills.
• Yu Yuanting arrived with a squad of Soul Emperors, accused Liu Erlong of forcing her way through the gate, and demanded that she get past him to enter.

Liu Erlong confronted Yu Yuanting at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s entrance, but Xiao Yun repelled the clan leader Yu Yuanzhen’s pressure. After Xiao Yun identified himself and Liu Erlong as guests, Yu Yuanzhen invited them into the valley to discuss their visit.

• Liu Erlong released her Fire Dragon Martial Soul and pressured Yu Yuanting for blocking her way into the clan.
• Yu Yuanzhen and more than a dozen Soul Douluo revealed their auras, and Yu Yuanzhen’s Titled Douluo pressure forced Liu Erlong’s aura to contract.
• Xiao Yun stepped forward and stopped Yu Yuanzhen’s pressure, sending it back and leaving Yu Yuanting staggered.
• Xiao Yun introduced himself as a visitor from Years Manor and said he had come with his wife, Liu Erlong, to discuss a matter.
• Yu Yuanzhen invited Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong into the valley, where a gray-robed elder escorted them to the hall.
• Liu Erlong and Xiao Yun entered the hall to meet Yu Yuanzhen.

Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong entered the Dragon King Hall, where Xiao Yun clashed with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s elders and demonstrated his overwhelming power. Yu Yuanzhen stopped the conflict and sent the elders away, leaving Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong in the hall with him.

• Xiao Yun eased the pressure on Liu Erlong as they entered and challenged Yu Yuanzhen for making them stand without offering seats.
• Several elders attacked Xiao Yun with lightning pressure, but his Fire Dragon King aura injured them and left one elder collapsed.
• Yu Yuanzhen restrained the elders, acknowledged Xiao Yun as a guest, and invited him to sit.
• Xiao Yun slapped an elder who criticized Yu Yuanzhen, sending him into a pillar and knocking him unconscious.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the elders to leave, and Yu Luomian departed after pausing briefly beside Liu Erlong.

Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong asked Yu Yuanzhen to let Liu Erlong’s mother be buried in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s ancestral graveyard, but Yu Yuanzhen refused under clan rules and offered another area on Nine Dragons Mountain. As they left to find a burial place, Xiao Yun noticed the clan’s unequal treatment of its members and sensed that some Soul Masters were secretly preparing trouble.

• Yu Luomian objected to burying Liu Erlong’s mother in the ancestral graveyard, citing the clan’s rules, and Xiao Yun warned him to stay silent.
• Yu Yuanzhen allowed Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong to choose most places on Nine Dragons Mountain, excluding the clan’s ancestral resting grounds and secret areas.
• Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong left Dragon King Hall with the map and walked through the clan’s main street toward the valley entrance.
• Xiao Yun observed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s non-lineage members faced inferior treatment, and Liu Erlong said she was glad she had not grown up there.
• Xiao Yun sensed that some Soul Masters without Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Souls were secretly preparing trouble, but he chose not to warn Yu Yuanzhen.

Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong crossed the river and chose a mountainside overlooking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to rebury Liu Erlong’s mother. After Liu Erlong paid her respects, they flew toward Heaven Dou City.

• Xiao Yun led Liu Erlong across the river and evaded scouts sent by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yun chose a mountainside overlooking the clan and explained that he had decided against burying Liu Erlong’s mother in the Yu Family ancestral graves.
• Liu Erlong placed her mother’s coffin in the grave while Xiao Yun cleared the ground, dug the pit, and sealed it with earth techniques.
• Xiao Yun raised a thorn wall around the grave, and Liu Erlong lit incense, burned spirit money, and quietly paid her respects.
• Liu Erlong asked to go home, and Xiao Yun flew with her toward Heaven Dou City on his Flying Sword.

Yu Yuanzhen realized Xiao Yun was powerful enough to threaten the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and sent for Yu Tianheng. In Heaven Dou City, Shrek Academy remained under guard as Xue Qinghe, Dugu Bo, and a Spirit Hall Cardinal investigated the blood pool and argued over the evidence.

• Yu Yuanzhen warned Yu Luomian not to pursue Xiao Yun after a scout reported that Xiao Yun had carried Liu Erlong across the river and vanished into its fog.
• Yu Yuanzhen concluded Xiao Yun was at least a Super Douluo and summoned Yu Tianheng, who left for Heaven Dou City that night.
• Royal guards surrounded Shrek Academy, its instructors remained imprisoned, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were held in separate rooms.
• Xue Qinghe questioned Dugu Bo about the person who controlled the blood dragon, and Dugu Bo said the figure had used an evil technique and seemed possessed by something other than Soul Power or a Martial Soul.
• A Spirit Hall Cardinal claimed the authority to seal the cavern and take the evidence, while Xue Qinghe required the Heaven Dou Royal Family to receive copies of the investigation report.

Jiang Zhu visited Liu Erlong to ask her to reopen Blue Tyrant Academy after Shrek Academy was sealed and its students and staff were arrested. Liu Erlong promised to find a way, while Xue Qinghe moved to secure the official account that Yu Xiaogang had killed Xue Beng.

• Uncle Fu told Liu Erlong that the Crown Prince's Mansion had asked about Shrek Academy, which had been sealed.
• Jiang Zhu brought Liu Erlong a petition signed by former students and staff asking her to return and reopen Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Liu Erlong explained that reopening the academy required approval from the Heaven Dou Royal Family and Spirit Hall, then promised to find a way.
• Xue Qinghe received reports about Shrek Academy's seizure, the arrests, and Xue Beng's death, while her subordinates reported Prince Xue Xing's withdrawal and Spirit Hall's investigation.
• Xue Qinghe ordered her subordinates to spread the account that Yu Xiaogang had killed Xue Beng and that the Crown Prince's Mansion was uninvolved.

Liu Erlong decided to reopen Blue Tyrant Academy, and Xiao Yun secured Xue Qinghe’s help to lift its seals by offering an Adamantine Indestructible Pill. Xue Qinghe then presented a case against Shrek Academy to Xue Ye, arguing that the academy should be shut down and its leaders wanted.

• Liu Erlong told Xiao Yun she would take charge of Blue Tyrant Academy again, and he agreed to seek the Crown Prince’s help and have uninvolved instructors released.
• Liu Erlong brought Jiang Zhu to the sealed academy and sent her to Spirit Hall to check on the detained instructors.
• Xiao Yun asked Xue Qinghe to remove the seals, then offered her an Adamantine Indestructible Pill in exchange for a public explanation that cleared Blue Tyrant Academy’s uninvolved students and instructors.
• Xue Qinghe accepted the deal, took the pill, and went to the palace with the academy investigation report.
• Xue Qinghe told Xue Ye that Shrek Academy had operated illegally, endangered students, and undermined the Empire, and urged him to shut it down and place its leaders on the wanted list.

Xue Qinghe secured the reopening of Blue Tyrant Academy while pursuing Yu Xiaogang, and Xiao Yun designed a spirit boat and a hydroelectric station to support his plans. He left the station’s approval paperwork to Xivia, who asked to see it once it was built.

• Xue Qinghe told Xue Ye that Shrek’s remaining instructors had been arrested and persuaded him to reopen Blue Tyrant Academy while pursuing Yu Xiaogang.
• Xue Qinghe issued arrest warrants for Shrek’s members and ordered Blue Tyrant Academy reopened.
• Xiao Yun drew plans for a spirit boat powered by soul power or spiritual power, with flight, protection, propulsion, and shrinking functions.
• Xiao Yun planned to build a small hydroelectric station to generate electricity and help produce mithril, then drew up its plans.
• Xiao Yun gave the station plans to Xivia, who agreed to handle the paperwork and asked to see the completed power station first.

Xiao Yun entered seclusion and designed a thousand-meter spirit boat capable of traveling through the sea of stars, naming it Return to the Void. He finished the plans but postponed construction until he could gather the necessary materials, while the new year approached.

• Xiao Yun told Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, Spirit Flame Maiden, and Dugu Yan to manage the manor's affairs while he secluded himself.
• Xiao Yun planned and drew a thousand-meter spirit boat with propulsion, maintenance, storage, cultivation, living, command, and processing sections.
• Xiao Yun designed the vessel's shields, scanners, weapons, defensive treasure, and concealment formations.
• Xiao Yun named the spirit boat Return to the Void and set the plans aside rather than beginning construction.
• Xiao Yun noted that gathering materials would take time and saw that December 23 had arrived.

After emerging from a month of seclusion, Xiao Yun reunited with the people at Years Manor and learned the final fates of Shrek Academy’s members. As the manor prepared for the New Year, Liu Erlong paused at its warmly decorated, snow-covered courtyard.

• Xiao Yun left the Cultivation Room and reunited with Spirit Flame Maiden, Xivia, Shenghua, and Liu Erlong, who told him Blue Tyrant Academy had mostly returned to normal.
• Liu Erlong gave Xiao Yun the official dispositions of the Shrek group: Yu Xiaogang was captured and returned to his clan, Flender and Lu Qibin joined death squads, Zhao Wuji was taken by Spirit Hall, and the others met various fates.
• Xiao Yun and the people at Years Manor shared dinner, and Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, Dugu Yan, Shui Ruoyan, and Yao Yuerou visited him on successive nights.
• As New Year approached, Xivia, Shenghua, Sheng Minglan, Shui Bing'er, Yao Zi, Shui Yue'er, Yao Yuerou, and Shui Ruoyan decorated Years Manor with lanterns, ornaments, and couplets.
• Liu Erlong returned from Blue Tyrant Academy and stood outside the gate, admiring the lantern-lit courtyard and its decorations beneath the snow.

Xiao Yun and the manor’s residents gathered at Streamer Years Hall for their first New Year’s Eve reunion feast together. After Xiao Yun toasted and thanked everyone, the maids began serving the meal.

• Xiao Yun joined the manor residents as they prepared for New Year’s Eve, and everyone gathered at the round table in Streamer Years Hall.
• Xiao Yun welcomed the group and thanked Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, Xue Qianren, and the others for their work and contributions.
• Xiao Yun offered New Year’s wishes, and the nineteen people raised their cups and drank together.
• Xiao Yun told the waiting maids to serve the dishes and then return to the Front Courtyard to eat.

Xiao Yun hosted a lavish New Year's reunion dinner at Years Manor and distributed red envelopes to the household staff and the women. After the feast, the manor residents received their gifts and were left to celebrate the snowy night together.

• Xiao Yun treated the maidservants to a lavish meal and gave each serving maid ten Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Yun shared the reunion dinner with the women, and the gathering grew warm as they ate, drank, and watched the snow.
• Xiao Yun assembled the Years Manor staff and gave each maidservant ten Gold Soul Coins and the stewards crystal cards worth one hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Yun handed the women red envelopes containing crystal cards worth five hundred Gold Soul Coins each.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Mao Xiangling, Dai Xiaozhao, Spirit Flame Maiden, and Tian Meng excitedly checked their gifts and stored them in their Storage Soul Tools.

Xiao Yun revealed Flying Swords and demonstrated how they could carry people through the sky. After giving the girls and several others turns flying around Heaven Dou City and the manor, he returned with them to the main hall, where the sword cases remained on the table.

• Xiao Yun revealed the Flying Swords and explained that cultivation and Spiritual Sense would let the others learn to control and fly on them.
• Xiao Yun demonstrated sword flight, then took Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Mao Xiangling, and Dai Xiaozhao flying in turn.
• Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, Yao Yuerou, Xivia, Yao Zi, Shui Yue'er, Sheng Minglan, and Spirit Flame Maiden each tried flying on Xiao Yun's sword.
• Xue Qianren, Shui Ruoyan, Shenghua, Shui Bing'er, and Tian Meng also took turns flying, and Tian Meng found sword flight faster than his own flight.
• Xiao Yun stopped flying as snow fell, put away the sword, and followed everyone into the main hall, where they gathered around the sword cases.

Xiao Yun distributed Twenty-Four Solar Terms Flying Swords and planned his New Year visits before taking several women to visit his parents’ graves on Cloud Mist Mountain. The group reached the snowy mountain and followed him up the path.

• Xiao Yun handed out eighteen named solar-term swords among the women and stored the remaining six Sword Boxes.
• Xiao Yun made a list of New Year visits, gifts, and matters to discuss with Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Bo, the education committee, and Xivia and Shenghua’s families.
• Xiao Yun cooked breakfast on the first morning of the new year and arranged for some women to return home while others stayed to guard the estate.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to accompany Xiao Yun to his parents’ graves, and he agreed.
• Xiao Yun flew with Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, Shui Bing'er, Yao Zi, Shui Yue'er, and Zhu Zhuqing to Cloud Mist Mountain.
• Xiao Yun opened the Pagoda Space exit at the mountain’s foot, and the women followed him up the snowy path.

Xiao Yun brought his wives to pay respects to his parents’ grave, where they cleaned the clearing, offered incense and gifts, and set off firecrackers. The group then climbed Cloud Mist Mountain, admired the view, and gathered for a meal beside a stream.

• Xiao Yun and the women cleared the area around his parents’ grave and expanded it with a wooden platform.
• Xiao Yun and his wives offered incense and bowed to his parents, with Xiao Yun introducing them as his wives.
• Xiao Yun burned offerings and set off firecrackers, and Liu Erlong tried launching a skyrocket firecracker.
• Xiao Yun led the women farther up Cloud Mist Mountain, where they admired the distant mountains and villages from a cliff.
• Shui Bing'er and Yao Zi caught fish, Shui Yue'er gathered wild scallions and a mountain chicken, and the others collected mushrooms and prepared a fire-side meal.

Xiao Yun met Qian Renxue in the Crown Prince's Study Room to plan how to secure her succession to the Heaven Dou Empire's throne. They arranged to auction a Longevity Pill and discussed managing nobles, preparing for a possible coup, and planning a safe retreat for her forces.

• Xiao Yun visited Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and presented three bottles of Soul Replenishing Pills before entering the Study Room.
• Xiao Yun concealed the room with arrays, and Qian Renxue revealed her true appearance after confirming the guards could not see or hear them.
• Qian Renxue explained that Xue Ye was not yet desperate for the Longevity Pill, so Xiao Yun proposed auctioning a safe pill and letting Xue Ye bid for it.
• Xiao Yun advised Qian Renxue to investigate nobles in their territories, sort them by loyalty, and prepare to win over, transfer, control, or remove them.
• Xiao Yun urged Qian Renxue to identify key locations and personnel for a possible palace coup and plan an escape route for herself and her forces.