Chapter Summaries

After settling into the Inner Court, Zi Yao, Tang Ya, and Xiao Xiao shared a meal while Zhang Lexuan discussed the upcoming Sea God Fate Assembly with them. Tang Ya and Xiao Xiao agreed to participate, while Zi Yao’s decision remained unknown.

• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo argued about finding younger partners at the Sea God Fate Assembly, and Zhang Lexuan teased them about joining.
• Zhang Lexuan decided she could host the assembly alone because its male host had not yet been chosen.
• Zi Yao treated Tang Ya and Xiao Xiao to a lavish cafeteria meal, and they finished the dishes together.
• Zhang Lexuan joined them and asked whether they wanted to participate in Sea God Fate.
• Tang Ya and Xiao Xiao blushed and nodded that they wanted to take part, and Zhang Lexuan asked Zi Yao if he would join.

As the annual Sea God Fate matchmaking assembly began, Zi Yao arrived amid renewed attention and an unresolved dispute with Dai Yueheng. The first round started with the male students racing to claim lotus leaves, and Zi Yao secured one with ease.

• Ning Tian discussed the Holy Cult’s long-term Soul Tool trade with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as students returned to Shrek for the new term.
• At Sea God Lake, Chu Tianqing greeted Zi Yao and warned him that some participants in Sea God Fate might set traps.
• Dai Yueheng apologized for the White Tiger Guard incident, but Zi Yao insisted that those responsible had to answer for their actions.
• Zhang Lexuan opened the assembly and explained that the male students had to claim lotus leaves and remove the Sea God Fairies’ bamboo hats without falling into the lake.
• Zi Yao glided over the water on a sheet of ice, caused a follower to fall into the lake, and claimed a lotus leaf before the first round officially began.

Zi Yao used his movement and Spiritual Power techniques to remove nearly every bamboo hat at the Sea God Fate Assembly, revealing Xiao Xiao and Tang Ya among the Fairies. The event turned into a challenge match against Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming, with a Sea God Pavilion treasure at stake if Zi Yao could take their hats.

• Zi Yao crossed Sea God Lake on blooming ice lotuses and removed Xiao Xiao’s bamboo hat, then teased Tang Ya before taking hers off as well.
• Zi Yao used Spiritual Power to lift nearly every bamboo hat in the venue, leaving only Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming’s hats in place.
• Dai Yueheng and the other Male Students realized that Zi Yao’s feat could prevent them from qualifying for the next round, and they complained.
• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo offered to challenge Zi Yao, while Zhang Lexuan and the Pavilion Elders approved a temporary change to the event.
• Mu En announced that Zi Yao would receive a first-floor Sea God Pavilion treasure if he took both remaining hats, but would advance with only the first two hats if he failed.

Zi Yao fought Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo on the lake, revealing a seemingly Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and powerful ice and purple-black flames. After he removed Wu Ming’s bamboo hat and won, he faced Han Ruoruo, who trapped a clone while the Water Lily beneath her began to shake.

• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo attacked Zi Yao, who broke their assaults with his Dark Golden Claws and ice powers.
• Zi Yao revealed a blood-red Soul Ring that Mu En confirmed was real, astonishing the Pavilion Elders.
• Zi Yao pierced Han Ruoruo’s Golden Rope with an ice spike, then extinguished Wu Ming’s Golden Crow protection and removed her bamboo hat; Wu Ming conceded and returned to her Water Lily.
• Han Ruoruo broke free from the Mystic Ice Cage and fought Zi Yao’s many clones with the Shaking Gold Rope.
• Han Ruoruo caught and destroyed a clone, then realized the Water Lily beneath her was swaying violently.

Zi Yao won the first challenge by lifting every contestant’s bamboo hat, then passed Love at First Sight with every Sea God Lantern still lit for him. As Love at Second Sight began, he revealed that he was fifteen and had rank fifty-four Soul Power, astonishing the Sea God Fairies.

• Zi Yao used his Spiritual Power to destabilize Han Ruoruo’s bamboo hat, caught her as she fell, and conceded the challenge after lifting her hat.
• Zhang Lexuan announced that the first fifteen contestants would advance and awarded Zi Yao a treasure from the first floor of the Sea God Pavilion.
• The Sea God Fairies kept their lanterns lit for Zi Yao, while Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo failed to extinguish theirs and both remained interested in him.
• Dai Yueheng advanced, but his lanterns dimmed when Ma Xiaotao extinguished hers; three male students were eliminated, leaving twelve for the next round.
• Zhang Lexuan began Love at Second Sight, and Zi Yao introduced himself as fifteen years old with rank fifty-four Soul Power, keeping his Martial Soul secret.

At the Sea God Fate Assembly, the fairies began choosing partners, and several women publicly chose Zi Yao. Ning Tian offered the support of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to the partner she selected, leaving the male contestants stunned.

• Zhang Lexuan kicked Zi Yao back into line after he said the slip was too small to list all the fairies he fancied.
• Wu Ming introduced herself and approached Zi Yao, who neither accepted nor rejected her.
• Ma Xiaotao chose Zi Yao, explaining that his Extreme Ice could help her cultivate her Evil Fire and promising to fulfill a girlfriend's or wife's duties.
• Han Ruoruo, Xiao Xiao, and Tang Ya each introduced themselves and chose Zi Yao, while Dai Yueheng and He Caitou reacted with disappointment.
• Ning Tian introduced herself and offered to support her chosen partner with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's resources.

Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Ling Luochen chose Zi Yao at the Sea God Fate Assembly, leaving eight Fairies gathered around him. During the final stage, Ma Xiaotao defeated Dai Yueheng, but her Evil Fire flared up until a mysterious woman appeared and suppressed it.

• Ning Tian chose Zi Yao, and Wu Feng followed her; Ling Luochen also joined Zi Yao, bringing the number of Fairies before him to eight.
• Zhang Lexuan began the final stage and asked Dai Yueheng to choose a girl; he chose Ma Xiaotao, who accepted his challenge.
• Dai Yueheng fought Ma Xiaotao as a Soul Saint but lost to her Extreme Fire and fell into the lake.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire flared after the fight, so she flew into Zi Yao’s arms and asked him to suppress it.
• A mysterious woman pressed Ma Xiaotao’s brow and used Sea God’s Light to suppress the Evil Fire.

Wang Dong'er appeared at the Sea God Fate Assembly and insisted on joining Zi Yao, challenging the women who objected to her late arrival. She immobilized Wu Ming, Han Ruoruo, and Ling Luochen with Unfixed Wind Waves, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Wang Dong'er arrived, extinguished Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire with a touch, and introduced herself while Ling Luochen and Xiao Xiao mistook her for Wang Qiu'er.
• Wang Dong'er embraced Zi Yao and challenged the other women to let her join the Sea God Fate Assembly if she defeated them all.
• Mu En approved the challenge, while Tang Ya, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng withdrew and Ning Tian enhanced Ling Luochen to help her fight alongside Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo.
• Wang Dong'er formed a trident from Sea God Lake water as the Golden Tree lent it divine power.
• Wang Dong'er used Unfixed Wind Waves to freeze Wu Ming, Han Ruoruo, and Ling Luochen in place and halt their Soul Power.

Wang Dong'er used the Sea God Inheritance to stop her opponents and drew Mu En's offer to join Shrek, but declined for now. After choosing Zi Yao at the Sea God Fate Assembly, she told him that her power was awakening and warned she might not wake up again.

• Mu En and the Pavilion Elders realized Wang Dong'er had wielded the Sea God Inheritance, and Mu En offered her the position of future Pavilion Master if she joined Shrek.
• Wang Dong'er declined to join a faction and asked Zhang Lexuan to continue the Sea God Fate Assembly.
• Zi Yao chose Wang Dong'er as his partner, and they left together on a Water Lily as the assembly celebrated.
• Wang Dong'er told Zi Yao that she had been conscious after he fed her the Holy Soul Grass and that she did not know where her trident power came from.
• Wang Dong'er said she might not wake up next time and asked Zi Yao to kiss her.

After the Sea God Fate Assembly, Zi Yao left Wang Dong'er in a suspended, unconscious state and rejected Mu En's plea to rely on her to save Shrek. A year later, Mu En died and left Zi Yao a Dragon Pill in hopes of preserving Shrek's legacy, while Zi Yao promised only to continue the Sea God Pavilion's inheritance.

• Zi Yao placed Wang Dong'er on the Mystic Ice bed and told Zhang Lexuan and Mu En that she had left by her own choice.
• Zi Yao chose a rare twenty-thousand-year spiritual Skull Bone from the Sea God Pavilion's collection.
• Mu En warned Zi Yao about the Holy Spirit Cult and urged him to let Wang Dong'er help save Shrek, but Zi Yao rejected his argument and told him to prepare for his death.
• Zi Yao cultivated for a year, raising his Soul Power to level fifty-nine with help from several powerful resources.
• A White Dragon's appearance at the Golden Tree signaled Mu En's death, and Zhang Lexuan gave Zi Yao the Dragon Pill Mu En had left for him.
• Zi Yao refused to protect Shrek as it stood, but promised to preserve the Sea God Pavilion's legacy.

After leaving seclusion, Zi Yao learned of the war between the Sun Moon Empire and the other empires and reunited with Wang Qiu'er at Shrek. The chapter ended with the two drawing close in her office.

• The Sun Moon Empire declared war, and its Soul Engineer legions pushed Star Luo back while Heavenly Soul resisted with advanced Soul Tools and Body Sect reinforcements.
• Shrek's elders debated whether to join the war, and Qian Duoduo proposed obtaining Heavenly Soul's Soul Tool technology.
• Zi Yao returned to Sea God Island and heard from Han Ruoruo that Wang Qiu'er had submitted her resignation.
• Zi Yao visited Wang Qiu'er, who insisted they had severed ties before admitting her jealousy over his kiss with Wang Dong'er.
• Zi Yao embraced Wang Qiu'er, and she reached out to him in return.

Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er agreed to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest so she could find a Soul Spirit, then registered to attend the Three Kingdoms Conference after their return. On the journey, Zi Yao proposed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Tortoise as her Soul Spirit and challenged Wang Qiu'er to a wager.

• Zi Yao hid Wang Qiu'er beneath his desk while Han Ruoruo visited and told him about the planned Three Kingdoms Conference.
• Wang Qiu'er demanded that Zi Yao spend the next month with her, and the two registered with Zhang Lexuan to attend the conference after visiting the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er traveled together, and their growing intimacy left Wang Qiu'er exhausted.
• Zi Yao proposed that Wang Qiu'er obtain a Soul Ring from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Tortoise, though she believed none existed.
• Wang Qiu'er wagered that Zi Yao could not find one, while Zi Yao bet that she would wear the clothes and jewelry he chose.

Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er visited the Golden Tortoise Clan, where Zi Yao revealed that the Golden Tortoise King’s stolen Golden of Life was consuming its life force. The Golden Tortoise King accepted Zi Yao’s Soul Spirit Method, and Zi Yao began the ritual, leaving Wang Qiu'er’s lost bet unresolved.

• Wang Qiu'er agreed to take Zi Yao to the Golden Tortoise Clan after he produced the collar they had wagered over.
• Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er reached the clan’s lake, where the Golden Tortoise King questioned their visit.
• Zi Yao told the Golden Tortoise King that the Golden of Life inside it was devouring its life force, and the king admitted it had stolen the substance from the Lake of Life.
• Zi Yao explained the Soul Spirit Method, and the Golden Tortoise King agreed to become a Soul Spirit.
• The Golden Tortoise King spat out the Golden of Life, Zi Yao stored it in his Space Soul Tool, and he began the Soul Spirit Ritual.

Wang Qiu'er gained a Golden Tortoise Soul Spirit that strengthened her Golden Dragon powers and awakened her Eye of Auspiciousness. After reconciling with Zi Yao, she joined him at the Lake of Life, where Bi Ji agreed to the Soul Spirit System and welcomed them for the night.

• Wang Qiu'er absorbed the Golden Tortoise as a Soul Spirit, gained a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and felt her Golden Dragon Bloodline grow purer.
• Wang Qiu'er used her Golden Dragon True Body and challenged Zi Yao to a future rematch, while the Golden Tortoise complained from her sealed Spiritual Sea.
• Zi Yao promised to bring Wang Qiu'er to the God Realm and offered her a collar, but she teased him before agreeing to be with him later.
• Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er met Bi Ji at the Lake of Life, where Bi Ji said seventy percent of the Star Dou Great Forest's clans had agreed to join the Soul Spirit System.
• Wang Qiu'er told Bi Ji about the Golden Tortoise Soul Spirit but kept the Gold of Life secret, then went to spend the night with Zi Yao.

Bi Ji discovered Wang Qiu'er and Zi Yao in an intimate scene, then joined them in choosing a site for the Spirit Pagoda in the Star Dou Great Forest. After they found Soul Beasts whose souls had been stolen by three powerful Evil Soul Masters, Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er set out to pursue them.

• Bi Ji brought Golden Jade Fruit and lake water to Wang Qiu'er and Zi Yao, then stumbled upon their intimate roleplay and fled in shock.
• Wang Qiu'er asked Zi Yao what he planned to do with the Gold of Life, and she accepted that he would keep it and compensate the Soul Beasts later.
• The next morning, Zi Yao and Bi Ji chose a plain in the outer region of the Star Dou Great Forest as the site for the Spirit Pagoda.
• Bi Ji healed a dying Crimson Deer and the group discovered other Soul Beasts whose bodies remained after their souls had been taken.
• Zi Yao used Myriad Spirits to learn that three Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters had left the area half an hour earlier, and he and Wang Qiu'er went to pursue them.

Wang Qiu'er and Zi Yao ambushed the Zhongli Three Brothers at the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's former cave, leaving Zhong Lidi near death. Zi Yao then purified the souls trapped in Zhong Liantian's Hundred Beasts Banner and guided them into his Gate of the Undead, while Zhong Liantian faced him in shock.

• Zhong Liantian led Zhong Lidi and Zhong Liren to the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's former cave, hoping to capture its cub and strengthen their Hundred Beasts Banner.
• Wang Qiu'er collapsed the mountainside over the cave while Ice Blue Profound Ice blocked the entrance, and Zi Yao followed with three Level Seven Fixed Soul Cannon Shell Missiles.
• The blasts left Zhong Lidi unconscious and gravely injured, so Zhong Liantian ordered Zhong Liren to fight Wang Qiu'er while he confronted Zi Yao.
• Zhong Liantian summoned the beast souls in his banner and recognized Zi Yao as the previous Soul Master Tournament champion.
• Zi Yao revealed his gray Soul Ring and used Purifying Fire to free the beast souls from the banner's black threads.
• Zi Yao opened a Gate of the Undead for the freed souls, including the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, and dismissed Zhong Liantian's demand to know who he was.

Zhong Liantian devoured his injured brothers to gain power and trapped Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er inside a formidable Netherworld Domain. As the battle escalated, Zi Yao told Wang Qiu'er to try merging with him.

• Zhong Liantian and his brothers fought Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er, but Zi Yao defeated their beast souls and forced the injured brothers to retreat.
• Zhong Liren returned carrying Zhong Lidi, and Zhong Liantian swallowed Zhong Lidi to strengthen himself; Zhong Liren then offered himself as well.
• Zhong Liantian transformed after absorbing his brothers, and Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er confronted him as his power neared the Titled Douluo level.
• Zhong Liantian unleashed a vast Netherworld Domain and revived three beast souls within it, while Wang Qiu'er used the Golden Tortoise to block their attacks.
• Zi Yao held Wang Qiu'er close and seriously asked her to try merging with him.

Zi Yao and Wang Qiu'er awakened a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill that formed a Golden Dragon and defeated Zhong Liantian. Afterward, Bi Ji questioned Zi Yao about the true nature of his Martial Soul.

• Zi Yao told Wang Qiu'er to merge with the Life Force in his hand and use her Golden Dragon True Body again.
• Zhong Liantian attacked while the Golden Tortoise defended Wang Qiu'er and Zi Yao until its Spiritual Power body broke apart.
• Wang Qiu'er and Zi Yao fused into a Golden Dragon that crushed the Netherworld Flood Dragon and blasted Zhong Liantian to dust.
• Bi Ji praised their power, and Zi Yao explained that the Golden Tortoise Soul Spirit had strengthened Wang Qiu'er's bloodline while the Golden Dragon Spear completed the dragon's might.
• Bi Ji asked Zi Yao what his Martial Soul really was.

Zi Yao revealed that he was a Divine Son from the God Realm whose Martial Souls embodied life and destruction, and he promised to help Soul Beasts enter the God Realm. After Bi Ji agreed to become his Soul Spirit if Soul Beasts gained a secure future, Zi Yao interrogated Zhong Liantian’s soul and learned disturbing secrets about the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Zi Yao told Wang Qiu'er and Bi Ji that his Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul was a disguise for his life-type Martial Soul and revealed that he also possessed a Destruction Martial Soul.
• Zi Yao explained that his parents were Deities in the God Realm, correcting Wang Qiu'er and Bi Ji when they mistook his parents for dead.
• Zi Yao promised to change the rules so Soul Beasts could become gods, and Bi Ji agreed to become his Soul Spirit once Soul Beasts had a secure future.
• Zi Yao summoned Zhong Liantian’s wandering soul and threatened him until he revealed major secrets about the Holy Spirit Cult.

Vina’s party crossed the war zone on their way to the Three Empires Summit, but Zhong Liwu and the Holy Spirit Cult ambushed them. Du Busi held off the attackers so Vina and the others could escape, while Zhong Liwu unleashed his Bone Dragon to confront him.

• Vina chose to take the group through the war zone, and Ye Guyi agreed that the Heavenly Soul Empire needed to reach the summit on time.
• An Anti-Air Missile exposed the group’s position, forcing Du Busi to shield them as they descended and fled at low altitude.
• Zhong Liwu and hundreds of Evil Soul Masters revealed their ambush and demanded that Heavenly Soul submit to Sun Moon.
• Du Busi feigned a direct clash with Zhong Liwu, then struck at the Evil Soul Master Corps to create an opening for Vina’s escape.
• Zhong Liwu ordered Zhang Peng and Wu Yun to pursue Vina, but Du Busi blocked them and forced Zhong Liwu to unleash his Bone Dragon.