Chapter Summaries

Tang Ya and Zi Yao traveled to the Clear Sky Sect to seek answers about its refusal to help the Tang Sect, but the Breaking Clan’s Yang Wuque challenged Zi Yao to a duel. Zi Yao accepted and quickly gained the upper hand, leaving Yang Wuque’s spear cracked.

• Tang Ya told Zi Yao how a Clear Sky Sect disciple had refused her request for help after the Tang Sect’s destruction, and Zi Yao promised to ask the Sect Master about it.
• Zi Yao crossed the Gravity Seal’s iron chain with Tang Ya and led her toward the Clear Sky Sect’s Main Sect.
• Yang Wei rebuked Tang Ya for returning to ask for help, but recognized Zi Yao’s Clear Sky Young Master Token and agreed to escort them inside.
• Yang Wuque challenged Zi Yao to a spar, and Zi Yao accepted, promising to leave if he could not win within ten moves.
• Zi Yao thrust his Blue Silver Overlord Spear against Yang Wuque’s Soul Breaking Spear, overpowering it and leaving its shaft covered in cracks.

Zi Yao reached the Clear Sky Sect and found Wang Dong'er unconscious after she had damaged her Soul Sea and Origin Power by prematurely activating a divine inheritance. He destroyed Tang San's instructions for saving her, leaving the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Qiankun Asking Love Valley as the proposed next steps.

• Zi Yao defeated Yang Wuque and, with Tang Ya, traveled to the Clear Sky Sect using Flying Soul Tools.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan welcomed Zi Yao and led him to Wang Dong'er, who lay unconscious on a Cold Jade Bed.
• Niu Tian explained that Wang Dong'er had activated her inheritance too early in an effort to catch up with Zi Yao, injuring her Soul Sea and Origin Power.
• Niu Tian gave Zi Yao a pouch containing a note from Wang Dong'er's father, but Zi Yao broke its restriction and read it.
• Zi Yao burned Tang San's note, which urged him to seek the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and go to Qiankun Asking Love Valley.

Zi Yao exposed Tang San’s schemes to Niu Tian and Tai Tan, then took Wang Dong'er to the Undead Demi-Plane to shield her from Tang San’s Divine Sense. Tang San questioned the two brothers after Zi Yao left, while the Snow Empress discovered she felt jealous of Wang Dong'er.

• Zi Yao trapped Niu Tian and Tai Tan in the Undead Demi-Plane and confronted them about their dealings with Tang San.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan admitted Tang San had ordered them to guard the Tang Sect without answering its plea for help, shattering Tang Ya’s remaining hope in him.
• Zi Yao told Niu Tian and Tai Tan to keep up their act, then took Wang Dong'er and Tang Ya away and left Wang Dong'er in the Undead Demi-Plane.
• Tang San appeared in the Clear Sky Sect and questioned Niu Tian and Tai Tan about Zi Yao taking them to another plane.
• The Snow Empress watched over the sleeping Wang Dong'er and realized she felt jealous of her.

Zi Yao gave the Holy Cult Tang Sect techniques and research materials, then used the Holy Soul Grass to awaken Wang Dong'er’s soul. He planned to seize the Golden Ancient Tree to strengthen his Life Origin and turned his attention to Xuan Zi at Shrek.

• Zi Yao accepted Tang Ya’s Tang Sect techniques and gave Xuan Ziwén the Hundred Forms of Hidden Weapons and Poison Manual, recruiting Xuan Ziwén and Ke Ke into the Holy Cult’s research team.
• Zi Yao placed Wang Dong'er in the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well, took the Lovesick Heartbreak Red without picking it, and fed her the Holy Soul Grass.
• Zi Yao resolved to obtain the Golden Ancient Tree and considered how to gather enough energy and deal with Mu En to master Life Origin and Destruction Origin.
• Xuan Zi writhed in pain at Shrek and realized that Zi Yao, the so-called Holy Son, had returned.

Tang Ya absorbed a two-hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone with Zi Yao and A Lan’s help, strengthening her bloodline and raising her cultivation to level fifty. Zi Yao tasked her with returning to Shrek, then prepared to restore the Holy Spirit’s name through Soul Spirit technology and negotiations with the Heavenly King of the Extreme North.

• Tang Ya reluctantly accepted the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone after Zi Yao explained that it could strengthen her bloodline and help her control her dark power.
• Tang Ya and A Lan performed the Grafting Ritual, allowing Tang Ya to absorb the Soul Bone while A Lan extracted part of her Dark Blue Silver Grass bloodline.
• Tang Ya awoke days later with an enhanced Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and level fifty cultivation.
• Zi Yao instructed Tang Ya to return to Shrek, and she agreed despite her hatred of the Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Ziwén showed Zi Yao a Core Array that could perform Soul Spirit Rituals, and Zi Yao appointed ten qualified Soul Masters as Holy Cult Protectors.
• Zi Yao announced that he would negotiate Soul Spirit contracts with the Heavenly King of the Extreme North.

Zi Yao persuaded Snow Empress and Ice Empress to establish a Soul Spirit System in the Far North, and Ice Empress agreed to organize the clans. At the Extreme North Ice Cave, Ice Empress began to apologize to Zi Yao for what happened at Sun Moon Academy, but he revealed that he had not been fully asleep.

• Snow Empress dragged Ice Empress from the Ancient Well and beat her for an hour before Zi Yao persuaded her to stop.
• Zi Yao explained that Soul Spirits could provide multiple Soul Rings while reducing Soul Beast hunting, and Snow Empress asked Ice Empress to arrange a meeting of the Far North clans.
• Ice Empress agreed to have the Ice Scorpions notify the clan leaders and help establish the Soul Spirit System near Dragon City.
• Ice Empress demanded that Zi Yao sleep with her before he left, and Snow Empress calmly agreed.
• At the Extreme North Ice Cave, Ice Empress apologized to Zi Yao for what happened at Sun Moon Academy, and Zi Yao told her he had not been fully asleep.

Zi Yao and the Ice Empress agreed to become partners, but he persuaded her to delay having offspring so the Snow Empress could still find happiness with him. The Snow Empress returned to the Ice Cave unaware of what had passed between them, while the Ice Empress concealed her embarrassment.

• The Ice Empress accepted Zi Yao as her partner and eagerly proposed that they have offspring.
• Zi Yao stopped their intimacy and explained that he wanted the Snow Empress to have a chance to fall for him too.
• The Ice Empress agreed to share Zi Yao with the Snow Empress, and Zi Yao promised to make it up to her in other ways.
• The Snow Empress waited alone on Ice Mountain, believing Zi Yao and the Ice Empress had become a couple.
• The Snow Empress returned to the Ice Cave, where Zi Yao and the Ice Empress acted closer, and the Ice Empress claimed she had not slept well.

Zi Yao oversaw the first Soul Spirit Ritual in Dragon City, then joined the exchange students traveling from Sun Moon Royal Academy to Shrek Academy. He warned Jing Hóngchén about the Holy Spirit Cult’s coming infiltration and entered Shrek Academy with Wang Yan.

• Wu Yun and Wu Yu assisted Zi Yao as Soul Masters received Soul Spirits, and the first ritual proceeded successfully.
• Zi Yao gave Nan Qiu Qiu a Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Giant Dragon Soul Spirit, which evolved her Martial Soul and True Dragon Bloodline.
• Zi Yao arranged for Nan Shui Shui to help protect the Soul Spirit System in Dragon City, while Snow Empress began another period of seclusion.
• Zi Yao warned Jing Hóngchén that the Holy Spirit Cult would soon infiltrate the Sun Moon Empire and urged him to decide whether to leave.
• Zi Yao reassured Meng Hongchen about Dong'er and entered Shrek Academy with the exchange students led by Wang Yan.

Zi Yao and the exchange students arrived at Shrek Academy, where Wang Yan introduced the city, its history, and the Inner Court. They discovered the Outer Court dormitory’s cramped mixed-gender conditions, leaving Xiao Hongchen to buy a suite in Shrek City while Zi Yao received specially arranged lodging.

• Wang Yan led the exchange students to Shrek City and explained its independent status and importance to trade between the Three Great Empires.
• Xiao Hongchen asked about their studies, and Wang Yan said they would attend fifth-year Outer Court classes before taking the Inner Court Assessment in three months.
• Wang Yan showed them the Golden Iron Triangle statues and Sea God Lake, explaining that the Inner Court stood on Lake Heart Island beneath the Ancient Life Tree.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen objected to the crowded dormitory, where male and female students lived in the same building, and Zi Yao said he had received special accommodations as a Heavenly Soul Count.
• Xiao Hongchen rejected the dormitory and bought a suite in Shrek City, spending over a million Gold Soul Coins.

Zi Yao reunited with Tang Ya at Shrek and revealed that their mission was to target the Ancient Life Tree. Their outing ended with Beibei confronting them, as Tang Ya rejected him and chose to stay by Zi Yao’s side.

• Zi Yao settled into the villa Shrek provided and secretly contacted Tang Ya through the Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang Ya visited Zi Yao, revealed that she had become a Soul King, and agreed to help with his mission.
• Zi Yao told Tang Ya that the Ancient Life Tree was their target and assured her that experts would keep Shrek’s defenders occupied.
• As Zi Yao and Tang Ya walked through Shrek City, locals recognized them and celebrated Zi Yao’s arrival as an exchange student.
• Beibei confronted Zi Yao, but Tang Ya told Beibei their relationship was over and said she would stay with Zi Yao.

Tang Ya publicly rejected Beibei and grew closer to Zi Yao, while Jiang Nannan reunited with Zi Yao after his return to Shrek. The chapter left Zi Yao hosting both women at his villa as Jiang Nannan considered leaving school to care for her mother.

• Tang Ya told Beibei she had known Zi Yao for two months and that her night with him had made her happier than all her years with Beibei.
• Zi Yao pulled Tang Ya into his arms and told her to ignore Beibei, while Xu Sanshi reminded Beibei of his childhood engagement to Zhang Lexuan.
• Tang Ya asked Zi Yao what their relationship was, and he teased her about what had happened the night they spent together.
• Jiang Nannan arrived in her café uniform, greeted Zi Yao as her benefactor, and told him she planned to leave school after fifth year to care for her mother.
• Zi Yao invited Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya into his villa, where Tang Ya complained about the academy's unequal accommodations.

Zi Yao welcomed Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan into his villa, where the three settled into a close, playful living arrangement. After Tang Ya’s disastrous attempt at cooking, they headed to the cafeteria together, attracting rumors about Zi Yao and the two beauties.

• Zi Yao invited Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan into his villa, and Tang Ya explained how he had saved her from the Iron Blood Sect.
• Tang Ya encouraged Jiang Nannan to pursue Zi Yao, then tried and failed to snatch his bathrobe; Jiang Nannan lay down beside her in embarrassment.
• Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan asked to move into Zi Yao’s villa, and he agreed on the condition that they handle the housework.
• Tang Ya confidently prepared black bean and sesame porridge, but its taste sent all three to the cafeteria for breakfast.
• Students saw Zi Yao leaving the villa with Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan and began speculating about their relationship.

Zi Yao treated Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya to breakfast, then joined Class One at Shrek Academy and confronted students who insulted him and Jiang Nannan. The class was left with a new homeroom teacher after their regular teacher fell ill.

• Zi Yao paid for Jiang Nannan's breakfast despite her asking for only two vegetable buns.
• Xu Sanshi heard that Jiang Nannan had spent the night with Zi Yao, then returned to the dormitory and drank beside the heartbroken Beibei.
• Zi Yao separated from Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya to attend Class One, where he claimed a seat and knocked out a student's tooth for insulting Jiang Nannan.
• Jiang Nannan sat beside Zi Yao and said she had grown used to gossip, while he warned the class against speaking carelessly.
• An old woman entered and announced that she would become the class's new homeroom teacher because the regular teacher was sick.

Zhou Yi took over Zi Yao's class and imposed harsh training and expulsion rules, but Zi Yao refused to submit and challenged her to fight him. Zhou Yi let him leave with Jiang Nannan and decided she might defeat him after breaking through to Soul Saint.

• Zhou Yi announced that she would expel one-third of the class, then expelled a student who protested.
• Zi Yao mocked Zhou Yi's teaching methods, and Zhou Yi defended Shrek's training against the Sun Moon Empire's methods.
• Zhou Yi ordered the students to run one thousand laps in half an hour or be eliminated, while Zi Yao refused to participate.
• Zi Yao challenged Zhou Yi to defeat him in the Soul Fighting Arena and left with Jiang Nannan, prompting other students to leave as well.
• Zhou Yi considered challenging Zi Yao after she broke through to Soul Saint.

Zhou Yi obtained department funds to force a breakthrough so she could win her match, while Zi Yao met Xiao Xiao and introduced her to Soul Spirits. The chapter ended with Zi Yao returning to the villa and finding an unfamiliar woman waiting for him.

• Zhou Yi persuaded Fan Yu to fund Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for her breakthrough, insisting that winning mattered more than the damage to her foundation.
• Zi Yao ran into Xiao Xiao on Shrek Street after Jiang Nannan left, and Xiao Xiao explained that she planned to hunt for a Soul Ring before the Inner Court Assessment.
• Zi Yao told Xiao Xiao about Soul Spirits and asked her to keep the information secret and postpone absorbing a Soul Ring; Xiao Xiao eagerly agreed.
• Zi Yao returned to the villa, where a beautiful, cold-looking woman waiting at the courtyard gate asked if he was Zi Yao.

Zi Yao challenged Zhang Lexuan over her dormitory inspection and exposed her feelings about Beibei's marriage contract. After agreeing to meet Elder Mu at Sea God Pavilion, Zhang Lexuan found Beibei drinking with Xu Sanshi and told him Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan had never truly gotten together with Zi Yao.

• Zi Yao objected to Zhang Lexuan entering his courtyard, and she introduced herself as a head of Shrek's Inspection Team.
• Zhang Lexuan teased Zi Yao about his reputation with women, and he questioned her calm reaction to the possibility of Tang Ya choosing him over Beibei.
• Zhang Lexuan said Elder Mu wanted to meet Zi Yao, and Zi Yao agreed to visit Sea God Pavilion at noon the next day.
• Zhang Lexuan found Beibei and Xu Sanshi drunk in a dormitory, then scolded Beibei for giving up after a setback.
• Zhang Lexuan told Beibei that Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan had never truly gotten together with Zi Yao and that Tang Ya had only tried to make him angry.

Zhang Lexuan questioned whether she should pursue love after Beibei left to help Tang Ya, while Zi Yao prepared to visit Sea God Pavilion. Zhang Lexuan took Zi Yao across the sea to the pavilion, where Yan Shaozhe met them and faced Zi Yao’s scorn.

• Beibei hurried away, and Zhang Lexuan went to the teaching building to absorb moonlight and reflect on her calm feelings toward him.
• Tang Ya praised Zi Yao for confronting Zhou Yi, then persuaded Jiang Nannan to skip work and go sightseeing with her.
• Zi Yao told Tang Ya he had to visit Sea God Pavilion alone to investigate the Golden Ancient Tree and Mu En.
• Zhang Lexuan appeared at Zi Yao’s courtyard and flew with him across the sea to Sea God Island.
• Yan Shaozhe stopped Zhang Lexuan and Zi Yao, apologized for their earlier misunderstanding, and Zi Yao mocked him and demanded that he lead the way.

Mu En invited Zi Yao to join Shrek and become the next Sea God Pavilion Master’s successor, explaining that the Golden Tree might be the continent’s last remaining place of Deity Inheritance. Zi Yao laughed at Mu En’s offer, leaving his response unresolved.

• Yan Shaozhe left after Zhang Lexuan said she would escort Zi Yao into Sea God Pavilion.
• Zi Yao absorbed the Golden Tree’s life force into the Gold of Life in his Spiritual Sea and entered the Pavilion alone.
• Mu En asked Xuan Zi to leave, then spoke privately with Zi Yao about his injuries and Zi Yao’s extraordinary talent.
• Mu En explained that Shrek had suffered a crushing defeat in the tournament and praised Zi Yao’s mastery of two opposing Extreme Attributes.
• Mu En offered Zi Yao Shrek membership, succession to the Pavilion Master position, and a chance to inherit Sea God’s power.
• Zi Yao laughed at Mu En’s proposal without giving an answer.

Mu En appointed Zhang Lexuan as the next Sea God Pavilion Master, though he regretted binding her more tightly to Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Xiao Hongchen lost a rigged Soul Fighting Arena match after trying to protect Meng Hongchen, and Zi Yao arrived just as the match ended.

• Mu En told Zhang Lexuan he would entrust her with the Sea God Pavilion and asked her to seek happiness beyond her duties to Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan accepted Mu En's final wish and left the pavilion, embarrassed when he teased her about Beibei.
• Meng Hongchen found Zi Yao and explained that Shrek's Inspection Team had targeted her after a dispute with an Inner Court senior, prompting Xiao Hongchen to wager a match to protect her.
• Song Qingying defeated Xiao Hongchen and publicly framed the incident as a lesson for the Sun Moon exchange students.
• Xiao Hongchen conceded, got to his feet, and encountered Meng Hongchen and Zi Yao as he prepared to leave.

After Song Qingying humiliated Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, Zi Yao challenged him in the Soul Fighting Arena to defend the exchange students’ honor. Song Qingying accepted after Zi Yao promised to use only half his Soul Power, and their battle began with Song Qingying unleashing his wind-based abilities.

• Xiao Hongchen explained that Song Qingying had defeated him after imposing unfair conditions, while Meng Hongchen wanted to seek help against him.
• Zi Yao decided to confront Song Qingying, dismissing Xiao Hongchen’s warning that Song was the descendant of a Sea God Pavilion Senior Elder.
• Zi Yao accused Song Qingying of bullying weaker opponents and challenged him before the gathered Shrek spectators.
• Song Qingying initially tried to avoid fighting, but accepted after Zi Yao offered to limit himself to fifty percent of his Soul Power.
• Song Qingying summoned his Azure Shadow Divine Eagle and attacked with Wind Eagle's Howl, but Zi Yao shattered the wind with his spear and charged forward.
• Song Qingying used Hurricane Shift to boost his speed and create afterimages as Zi Yao closed in.