Chapter Summaries

After Han Yuchen exhausted himself using the Star Domain, he and Leng Yuebai resonated their Soul Power, restoring his strength and raising her cultivation to level ninety-four. When the underground palace began collapsing, they fled through the ruins and plunged into an underground river as the ancient temple was destroyed.

• Han Yuchen nearly collapsed from the strain of using the Star Domain, and the system recommended that he recover by resonating with Leng Yuebai's Power of Taiyin.
• Leng Yuebai agreed to share Soul Power with Han Yuchen, and their powers formed a cycle as visions of stars and the moon appeared behind them.
• The resonance restored Han Yuchen's strength and raised Leng Yuebai from level ninety-three to level ninety-four.
• The underground palace began collapsing after Han Yuchen took the core's Soul Fragment, and the system warned that the relic would self-destruct in three minutes.
• Han Yuchen carried Leng Yuebai through the collapsing passages, smashed through a stone wall, and jumped with her into the underground river as the temple collapsed behind them.

Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai escaped the collapsing ruins through an underground river, where he saved her from drowning and used lightning to kill attacking piranhas. They emerged at a waterfall in the Royal Hunting Ground, only to sense someone approaching through the silent forest.

• Han Yuchen found an escape route beneath the blocked corridor and kicked open the floor, sending himself and Leng Yuebai into an underground river.
• Han Yuchen held Leng Yuebai underwater and gave her air as the current swept them through the darkness.
• Han Yuchen used Lightning Element Control to electrocute a school of mutated bloodthirsty piranhas surrounding them.
• Han Yuchen carried Leng Yuebai out of the underground river, and they surfaced in a pool beneath a waterfall.
• Han Yuchen sensed someone nearby as footsteps sounded from the forest, and Leng Yuebai prepared to fight.

Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai were cornered by a Soul Douluo and his assassins, who had been sent by the Crown Prince. Han Yuchen lured nearby soul beasts with a powdered mineral, and the Ghost Tiger King attacked the masked leader as the battle began.

• A Soul Douluo and more than a dozen black-clad assassins surrounded Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai, revealing that the Crown Prince had sent them.
• Han Yuchen pretended to be gravely injured and offered the attackers a storage pouch, which exploded into fragrant powder.
• Han Yuchen revealed that the powder was a lure for powerful soul beasts, and their roars shook the Royal Hunting Ground.
• A fifty-thousand-year Ghost Tiger King and a Crimson Snake Empress charged toward the powder-covered assassins.
• The masked leader tried to retreat, but the Ghost Tiger King pounced on him, and he used his Seventh Soul Skill to meet its attack.

Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai hid in a crevice behind a waterfall while Soul Beasts overwhelmed the black-clad attackers, and Han Yuchen helped turn their fight against them. After the survivors retreated, the pair left with stolen Storage Soul Tools and planned to act as if they had barely escaped death.

• Han Yuchen led Leng Yuebai toward a crevice behind the waterfall as Soul Beasts attacked the black-clad men.
• Han Yuchen used Space Folding to redirect a Soul King's Blazing Fire Rod into the masked man's back, letting the Ghost Tiger King strike him down.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai hid in the crevice under Void Concealment while the masked man ordered the surviving attackers to retreat.
• After the battle quieted, Han Yuchen showed Leng Yuebai three Storage Soul Tool rings he had stolen during the chaos.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai left the waterfall, with Han Yuchen saying they would present themselves as survivors who had barely escaped death.

After escaping the beast tide, Han Yuchen assessed the expedition’s spoils, used Taiyin Cold Iron to forge Leng Yuebai’s sword, and prepared a cover story for their return. They reached the Royal Hunting Ground’s exit looking battered, where Flender hurried them back to the academy.

• Han Yuchen checked the Soul Fragment, the stolen pouches, and the elder token, then discovered the illustrated manual had unlocked Star Forging.
• Han Yuchen melted the Taiyin Cold Iron into Leng Yuebai’s short sword, giving it a Demon Breaking attribute, and she thanked him.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai dirtied and damaged their clothes while agreeing to claim they had hidden from the beast tide and found only medicinal herbs.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai staggered out of the Royal Hunting Ground, convincing onlookers that they had barely survived.
• Flender rushed to the pair, carried Han Yuchen, and took them back to the academy.

Han Yuchen followed a new Star Map clue toward Spirit City while a dark force began erasing people in Heaven Dou City. When Huo Wu reported that Godwind Academy had vanished, Han Yuchen and the others found a sinister formation and bloody traces at its empty residence.

• Han Yuchen gave Flender the herbs he had found and used the codex’s new Star Map vein to identify Spirit City as the location of another fragment.
• Bibi Dong sensed a strange fluctuation that frightened the Asura God Power within her and ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to investigate.
• Han Yuchen noticed a rusty stench in the wind as Huo Wu arrived and begged for help, saying everyone at Godwind Academy’s residence had disappeared.
• Han Yuchen, Tang San, Leng Yuebai, and Huo Wu went to the residence and found an empty training ground marked with dark-red runes.
• The Starlight Codex detected Solonsen’s incomplete origin aura and a Shadow Domain locking space, while Leng Yuebai found bloody handprints on a wall.

Tang San, Huo Wu, Han Yuchen, and Leng Yuebai discovered that Feng Xiaotian and the Godwind Academy students had been sacrificed by Xue Beng to empower Solonsen. As a blood-red barrier sealed Heaven Dou City, Han Yuchen led the group toward the imperial palace to confront the prince.

• Tang San found a terrified servant who claimed that a prince had eaten everyone, and Han Yuchen identified the attackers emerging from the shadows as Followers of the Shadow Contract.
• Leng Yuebai cut down and froze the black-robed monsters after Han Yuchen warned that their bodies absorbed energy-based attacks.
• Han Yuchen used Star Tempering · Analysis on the rune and saw Xue Beng sacrifice Feng Xiaotian and the Godwind Academy students to a One-eyed Phantom.
• Han Yuchen told Tang San and Huo Wu that the students had been sacrificed for an even more evil power.
• A blood-red barrier rose around Heaven Dou City, and Leng Yuebai sensed a repulsive power awakening near the imperial palace.
• Han Yuchen led the group toward the imperial palace to confront Xue Beng.

Xue Beng took control of the Heaven Dou Empire after being chosen by a god and ordered an assault on Thunder Academy, where Yu Tianxin was crushed by a giant hand of black mist. Meanwhile, black-robed attackers surrounded Shrek Academy and demanded Tang San and Han Yuchen, leaving Liu Erlong's fire absorbed by their leader's monstrous maw.

• Xue Beng mocked Feng Xiaotian and crushed his skull, savoring the power granted by the god who had chosen him.
• Xue Beng questioned Prince Xue Xing about the attack on Thunder Academy and dismissed Yu Tianxin's resistance as insignificant.
• Yu Tianxin fought the black-robed attackers while a Thunder Academy elder sacrificed himself to help him escape.
• Xue Beng's enormous black-mist hand shattered Yu Tianxin's dragon phantom and razed Thunder Academy, leaving Yu Tianxin bloodied in the ruins.
• Black-robed attackers surrounded Shrek Academy and demanded that Tang San and Han Yuchen be handed over.
• Liu Erlong charged the attackers in her Fire Dragon True Body, but their leader absorbed her flames through a giant mouth in his chest.

Xue Beng arrived at Shrek Academy with overwhelming power and began a massacre, while Han Yuchen secretly prepared an array to bring him down. The battle raged as Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai prepared to strike at Xue Beng’s shell.

• Han Yuchen identified two black-robed attackers as parasitized former Heaven Dou Royal Family retainers and quietly told Tang San to aim hidden weapons at their brows.
• Dugu Bo arrived and used Time Freeze, but a mysterious attack blasted him and the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor through a teaching building.
• Xue Beng descended in a Dark Gold Robe, revealed his hatred for Tang San, and declared that he would capture Han Yuchen alive to savor his soul.
• Xue Beng ordered his forces to attack Shrek Academy, and Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others charged into battle.
• Han Yuchen secretly planted Starlight specks in the ground to form an array, then told Leng Yuebai to wait for his command and cut open Xue Beng’s shell.

Shrek Academy’s fighters battled Xue Beng’s seemingly indestructible black-robed puppets, but Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell White Tiger and Oscar’s copied version were trapped by Xue Beng’s Shadow Swamp. The mirror-image tiger began to break apart, leaving the defenders facing Xue Beng’s overwhelming power.

• Ning Rongrong boosted the fighters as Tang San conserved his strength and warned Xiao Wu that something was wrong.
• Dai Mubai’s attacks shattered the black-robed puppets, but their remains reassembled, and Zhu Zhuqing saved him from a sneak attack.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing formed the Hell White Tiger, whose soul-shattering attacks destroyed the puppets permanently.
• Oscar copied Dai Mubai’s power with his Mirror Skull and created a second, smaller Hell White Tiger.
• The two Hell White Tigers charged through the black-robed army and destroyed Xue Beng’s two Soul Douluo guards.
• Xue Beng used Shadow Swamp to trap and corrode both tigers, and the mirror-image tiger lost a leg as Oscar bled from the strain.

Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong unleashed the Golden Iron Triangle’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Xue Beng, but his God-tier power overwhelmed their Golden Sacred Dragon. Hidden among the ruins, Han Yuchen prepared a device and coordinated with Leng Yuebai for a strike at Xue Beng’s defensive weakness.

• Yu Xiaogang joined Flender and Liu Erlong, and their combined Soul Power transformed Three-Eyed Blaster into a physical Golden Sacred Dragon.
• Yu Xiaogang sent the Golden Sacred Dragon to attack Xue Beng, whose dark power was burned by its Dragon Breath.
• Xue Beng retaliated with black lightning and shadowy tentacles, leaving Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong near their limit.
• Han Yuchen secretly charged an ancient metal disk with the Power of Stars while the others fought.
• Han Yuchen told Leng Yuebai about a weakness beneath Xue Beng’s left ribs and signaled that he would open a path for her.

Xue Beng destroyed the Golden Iron Triangle’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill and left Shrek Academy’s defenders helpless, but Leng Yuebai stepped forward and fought back with her Star Radiance Heavenly Silk and star-powered sword. As Leng Yuebai began overwhelming Xue Beng, Han Yuchen sensed that something was wrong.

• Xue Beng broke the Golden Sacred Dragon, and the backlash knocked Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong into the ruins.
• Han Yuchen told Leng Yuebai to attack, and she severed Xue Beng’s black tentacles with a silver-white slash.
• Leng Yuebai pierced Xue Beng’s Shadow Shield and wounded his cheek with her Star Radiance Heavenly Silk.
• Xue Beng unleashed Solonsen’s power and sent black skulls after Leng Yuebai, but she destroyed them with her Starfall attack.
• Tang San, Oscar, and Dai Mubai watched Leng Yuebai’s strength in astonishment while Han Yuchen suspected something was wrong.

As Leng Yuebai’s Soul Fragment eroded her humanity, Han Yuchen stopped her from sacrificing Shrek’s students to kill Xue Beng. Xue Beng wounded Leng Yuebai to obtain her blood and revealed that he had been stalling while a formation charged beneath Heaven Dou City.

• Xue Beng unleashed corrosive black rain over Leng Yuebai and the Shrek students, but Leng Yuebai ignored the danger below and charged him with Galaxy Inversion.
• Han Yuchen appeared above Ning Rongrong and erased the black rain, then stopped Leng Yuebai and brought her back to her senses.
• Xue Beng seized Leng Yuebai’s moment of hesitation and pierced her left shoulder with a black claw, drawing her blood.
• Xue Beng revealed that Leng Yuebai’s blood would complete his formation, and four blood-red pillars rose around Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Beng mutated as a powerful dark aura erupted from beneath the city, declaring that the feast had begun.

Xue Beng used a blood sacrifice to summon power from Solonsen and transformed into a demon far stronger than an ordinary Titled Douluo. As he began slaughtering his opponents, Bishop Salas led Spirit Hall's Soul Masters in an attack that Xue Beng shattered with a roar.

• Xue Beng activated four blood-red pillars that drained captured civilians, Soul Masters, and Godwind Academy students to fuel a blood orb.
• A projection of Solonsen sent a beam into Xue Beng, transforming him into a powerful half-human, half-demon monster.
• Xue Beng struck down Dugu Bo with a single claw, leaving his fate unknown.
• Bishop Salas ordered Spirit Hall's Soul Masters to form a combined attack against Xue Beng.
• Xue Beng shattered their golden pillar of light with a roar and sent black sound waves crashing into the formation.

Han Yuchen stopped Xue Beng’s killing blow and revealed his immense power as he summoned the Starlight Ruse King. The chapter ended with a vast, star-formed phantom rising behind him, dwarfing Demonized Xue Beng.

• Xue Beng defeated the Soul Masters and royal forces, then moved to kill the wounded Shrek Seven Devils.
• Han Yuchen appeared and held up Xue Beng’s enormous Demon Claw with one hand.
• Tang San tried to pull Han Yuchen away with Blue Silver Grass, but the vines passed through him because of Space Folding.
• Han Yuchen told Tang San to take the others back, then dismissed Xue Beng’s strength as brute force.
• Han Yuchen summoned the Starlight Ruse King, and a colossal phantom formed from starlight rose behind him.

Han Yuchen revealed overwhelming starlight power, repelled Xue Beng’s attack, and shattered Solonsen’s projection. With Xue Beng defeated and the sky cleared, Han Yuchen returned to his harmless appearance and pretended to collapse.

• Master and the nearby Spirit Hall soul masters and Royal Knights were forced to kneel before Han Yuchen’s aura.
• Xue Beng attacked Han Yuchen with a destructive beam, but Han Yuchen stopped it with his finger and sent it back at twice the speed.
• Han Yuchen’s reflected beam shattered Xue Beng’s demonic body, while Solonsen recognized the Starlight Ruse King and feared him.
• Han Yuchen crushed the rift containing Solonsen’s projection, which cursed him before disappearing.
• Xue Beng returned to human form, gravely injured, and Han Yuchen told him that only magic could defeat magic.
• Han Yuchen’s starlight faded, and he clutched his head before collapsing in a deliberate act.

Han Yuchen defeated Xue Beng with the Starlight Ruse King's power, then pretended to be near death while the others credited Leng Yuebai for the attack. Xue Beng's death ended the battle in Heaven Dou City, but the survivors recognized that the incident's consequences would spread across the continent.

• Tang San and the others rushed to Han Yuchen and assumed Leng Yuebai had sealed her power inside him.
• Bishop Salas tried to kill the helpless Xue Beng, but Feng Xiaotian's skull bone struck Xue Beng's throat and killed him.
• The survivors surveyed the devastation in Heaven Dou City as the clouds cleared and sunlight returned.
• Han Yuchen secretly instructed the system to make him appear to be in a deep coma while Oscar tried to give him a Recovery Great Sausage.
• Tang San found Han Yuchen's Soul Power depleted but noticed starlight protecting his organs, while Leng Yuebai lay unconscious on ground covered in Star Ice.
• Oscar claimed that Leng Yuebai had used Han Yuchen's body to release the Starlight Giant, and the others accepted his explanation.

After the battle in Heaven Dou City, Han Yuchen approached the unconscious Leng Yuebai safely through her defensive Starlight and carried her back toward Shrek. As Salas reported the emergence of a powerful unknown, Han Yuchen discovered his first two Spirit Rings had reached fifty thousand years and looked ahead to the coming conflict.

• The royal healers failed to treat Leng Yuebai because her Starlight froze anyone she did not recognize.
• Han Yuchen awakened, approached Leng Yuebai, and calmed her defensive Starlight through their martial soul resonance.
• Han Yuchen carried Leng Yuebai and declared he would take her back to Shrek, while the Shrek group followed through the ruins.
• Salas escaped the rubble and used a communication crystal to report Leng Yuebai and the danger he sensed in Heaven Dou City.
• Han Yuchen saw that his first and second Spirit Rings had each reached fifty thousand years and considered his coming confrontation with Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Solonsen.

Qian Renxue consolidated her control of the Heaven Dou Empire after Xue Beng’s defeat, while Han Yuchen woke after three days and discovered the gains from his battle. He concealed the true reason for his strengthened body from Master Yu Xiaogang, leaving the mystery of his power unresolved.

• Qian Renxue ordered the execution of the seventy-eight people involved in Xue Beng’s Blood Sacrifice Array and exiled the other captured faction members.
• Qian Renxue wondered about the holy Starlight and decided to visit Leng Yuebai.
• At Shrek Academy’s temporary grounds, Flender celebrated the academy’s new reputation while Zhao Wuji reported that Han Yuchen was still asleep.
• Han Yuchen examined his Star Map and found that his Third Spirit Ring had become fifty thousand years old, his Soul Power had strengthened, and he had unlocked Star River Reversal.
• Han Yuchen woke after three days, received water from Ning Rongrong, and told Master Yu Xiaogang that a strange fire inside him had turned to ice when Leng Yuebai’s power entered his body.

After recovering, Han Yuchen reunited with Leng Yuebai, while Bibi Dong and Solonsen separately ordered their forces to hunt them. Shrek set out for Spirit City under royal escort, and Han Yuchen spotted a large enemy ambush ahead, intent on turning the trap against its attackers.

• Master wondered whether Han Yuchen's ice-and-fire abilities followed the principle of mutual generation and restraint, then let the matter drop.
• Han Yuchen visited Leng Yuebai, who clung to his sleeve and absorbed the Power of Stars he sent her.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to investigate Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai and destroy them if they could not be controlled.
• Solonsen awakened his followers and sent them to the blue planet to find and kill Han Yuchen.
• Shrek Academy won the Promotion Tournament and departed for Spirit City with a five-hundred-strong Royal Knights escort led by Xue Qinghe.
• Han Yuchen detected a large cluster of enemy signals in a gorge ahead and planned to turn the ambush against its attackers while searching for his Fifth Soul Ring.