Chapter Summaries

Shrek won the Soul Master Competition, while Dai Huabin left Star Luo Plaza with the Abhorrence Douluo and Zhu Lu to join the Holy Spirit Cult. After celebrating, Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan spoke privately at the hotel, and the group prepared to return to the academy.

• Beibei and Jiang Nannan lost their matches, but Ma Xiaotao defeated the Sun Moon Team's final two competitors and secured Shrek's championship.
• Dai Huabin watched Shrek celebrate and, consumed by hatred for Huo Yuhao and Dai Yueheng, agreed to go with the Abhorrence Douluo to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zhou Huan reflected that his earlier actions had helped send Dai Huabin toward becoming a terrifying Evil Soul Master, though Dai Huabin did not know Zhou Huan had played a part in his expulsion from Shrek.
• Zhou Huan brought Zhang Lexuan pastries and told her he did not regret staying out of the Reserve Team or avoiding fame.
• Zhang Lexuan asked whether Zhou Huan had anything left to do in Star Luo City, and he said he was ready to return to the academy the next day.

The Shrek delegation returned to the academy after winning the Soul Master Competition, and the leaders welcomed them before taking the Reserve Team to Sea God Pavilion. Zhou Huan opted to return to the cafeteria with Wen Xiaoshuai and Wang Qingya, where he explained his choice and reflected on his expenses and relief at being back in Shrek.

• Xuan Zi and Zhang Lexuan brought the returning team to Shrek, where Yan Shaozhe, Cai Meier, Xian Lin'er, and Qian Duoduo welcomed them.
• Xuan Zi led the Reserve Team toward Sea God Pavilion, but Zhou Huan left with Wen Xiaoshuai and Wang Qingya rather than join them.
• Wang Yan argued that Zhou Huan had helped the team by using his Self-Created Soul Skill against Righteous Heaven Academy, but Yan Shaozhe said that was not enough to merit entry.
• Zhang Lexuan accepted Zhou Huan's choice and said he could enter Sea God Pavilion another time if he proved capable.
• Zhou Huan and his companions went to the cafeteria, where he explained that his tournament contribution did not justify claiming rewards and joked with Wang Qingya about throwing baozi at opponents.
• Zhou Huan thought about the money he had spent building Snow Empress a home in the Floating Pagoda and felt relieved to be back in Shrek's safe haven.

Zhou Huan cultivated with the Snow Empress’s Origin, then slowed down to let his body adapt and spent his time reading at Shrek. When Du Busi attacked to demand Huo Yuhao, Mu En forced him to retreat, while Zhou Huan looked ahead to a future trip that would aid their path to godhood.

• Zhou Huan absorbed the Snow Empress’s Origin for more than half a month, gained three Soul Power levels, and stopped to stabilize his cultivation.
• Du Busi arrived at Shrek and demanded that Xuanzi hand over Huo Yuhao, then fought Xuanzi in the sky.
• Mu En appeared as a golden-white dragon, immobilized Du Busi and his followers, and made Du Busi retreat after revealing that he had accepted Huo Yuhao as his disciple.
• Zhou Huan returned to reading and discussed Mu En’s condition and the Ice Empress with the Snow Empress.
• Zhou Huan told the Snow Empress they would go somewhere important after his third year, and she threatened him for calling her “Empress.”

After reaching level sixty and gaining powerful abilities from the Snow Empress, Zhou Huan traveled to Sunset Forest to obtain his sixth soul ring and visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. When the Fragrant Silk Beauty tried to stop him from taking immortal herbs, the Snow Empress appeared and overwhelmed her with her power.

• During the year and eight months after absorbing the Snow Empress Origin, Zhou Huan advanced from level forty-three to level sixty while remaining at Shrek Academy.
• With the Snow Empress's help, Zhou Huan absorbed her fifth soul ring and right arm bone, gaining powerful skills and strengthening his other soul bones.
• After saying farewell to Wen Xiaoshuai, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Qingya, Zhou Huan traveled to Sunset Forest and reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Fragrant Silk Beauty challenged Zhou Huan when he announced that he had come to pick immortal herbs, claiming he had not passed a trial.
• When the Fragrant Silk Beauty attacked, the Snow Empress appeared and shattered her hundred-thousand-year soul beast aura with her overwhelming cold.

Zhou Huan gathered Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, with Snow Empress subduing Aromatic Silk Beauty and Infernal Delicate Apricot. After collecting six herbs for himself and his friends, he persuaded Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to leave with him, then turned his attention to Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

• Infernal Delicate Apricot blocked Snow Empress's palm strike to save Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Zhou Huan received permission to take Immortal Herbs.
• Zhou Huan selected Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid for Wang Qingya, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum for Wen Xiaoshuai, Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng for Xiao Xiao, and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and Aromatic Silk Beauty for himself.
• Zhou Huan chose Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone for Zhang Lexuan, but the spiritually intelligent herb asked him not to take her.
• Zhou Huan persuaded Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone that she could develop safely with his help, and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass offered to go with him after recognizing Snow Empress.
• Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone agreed to leave with Zhou Huan, who stored her and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass in the Floating Pagoda and collected another, unintelligent Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone.
• After taking six Immortal Herbs, Zhou Huan looked toward the inner area where Lovesick Heartbreak Red grew.

Zhou Huan failed to gain Lovesick Heartbreak Red’s recognition because he was unsure whether he would die for Zhang Lexuan, so he stored the flower in Snow Empress’s Floating Pagoda instead. After leaving the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Blazing Gum, he headed north toward Peach Spring Village while keeping the lake’s secrets for a future opportunity.

• Zhou Huan offered Lovesick Heartbreak Red his heart’s blood while thinking of Zhang Lexuan, but the flower did not recognize him because he was uncertain whether he would die for her.
• Zhou Huan uprooted Lovesick Heartbreak Red with its stone and packed it into Snow Empress’s Floating Pagoda, saying he might be able to pick it later.
• Zhou Huan demanded Blazing Gum from Infernal Delicate Apricot as compensation for her earlier attack, and she handed it over after seeing Snow Empress.
• The valley’s immortal herbs discussed Snow Empress and Zhou Huan’s possible return, while Aromatic Silk Beauty resented the one who had left them behind.
• God King Tang remained focused on his struggle with the God of Destruction, unaware that Zhou Huan had taken the flower and Blazing Gum.
• Zhou Huan told Snow Empress that the things at the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well mattered to them but that the time was not right to take them, then traveled toward Peach Spring Village.

During vacation, Wang Qingya worried that her cultivation lagged behind her classmates, while her parents debated whether to help her with rare resources. Xiao Xiao also trained obsessively, and the chapter ended with Zhu Lu revealing a secret inheritance to Dai Huabin: “Tiger Swallows Cat!”

• Wang Qingya told Ling Suzhen that she feared her slow cultivation would keep her from entering Shrek's Inner Court, and Ling Suzhen tried to reassure her.
• Wang Tizhou rejected Ling Suzhen's suggestions to give Wang Qingya a Soul Bone or retrieve an Eight-Petaled Immortal Orchid, saying she should grow through her own struggles.
• Wang Qingya returned to cultivating, determined to catch up to Xiao Xiao, who was eight levels ahead of her.
• Xiao Xiao's mother urged her to take breaks, but Xiao Xiao explained that powerful classmates and friends made her work harder.
• Wen Xiaoshuai continued attacking an Elder in Shrek City, but the Elder effortlessly neutralized every blow without moving or summoning his Martial Soul.
• Zhu Lu stopped the injured Dai Huabin from continuing to fight and told him she had discovered a secret in the Zhu Family's inheritance: “Tiger Swallows Cat!”

Zhou Huan absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and several treasures from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, reaching level sixty-six and strengthening the Floating Pagoda. Before returning to Peach Spring Village, he encountered two Holy Spirit Cult servants and killed them, learning they were hiding in the remote region.

• Zhou Huan drank the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, greatly increasing his Spiritual Power, then absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass's Hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and right leg Soul Bone.
• Zhou Huan absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, rose to level sixty-six, and saw the Floating Pagoda expand to nine levels, though its top two levels remained frail.
• Zhou Huan spotted two black-clothed Holy Spirit Cult servants through the gray mouse keeping watch and overheard them discuss hiding in the Heaven Dou Empire and hunting villagers.
• Zhou Huan trapped the pair in his Ice Qilin Cold Domain and killed the man with Emperor's Palm · Great Cold Without Snow.
• The woman told Zhou Huan that no one else was coming, then offered herself to him, and Zhou Huan killed her and concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult was establishing a presence in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Zhou Huan met Zhang Lexuan in Shrek City and gave her two rare treasures: the Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone and the Blazing Gum of the Infernal Delicate Apricot. Zhang Lexuan agreed to protect him from scrutiny over the Immortal Herbs and accepted his warning to seek him out before taking her next Soul Ring.

• Zhou Huan met Zhang Lexuan at Keman Tower and served her a lavish meal.
• Zhou Huan gave Zhang Lexuan the Narcissus Jade Marrow Bone, and she accepted it as a favor owed.
• Zhou Huan gave Zhang Lexuan the Blazing Gum of the Infernal Delicate Apricot, which could transform Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Evil Fire into Extreme Fire.
• Zhang Lexuan promised to protect Zhou Huan from anyone investigating his opportunities and agreed to help smooth things over with Shrek’s upper ranks.
• Zhou Huan told Zhang Lexuan to find him when she reached rank ninety before obtaining a Soul Ring, and she agreed.

Zhou Huan gave Wang Qingya, Xiao Xiao, and Wen Xiaoshuai Immortal Herbs, and they strengthened their cultivation before the fourth school year began. As Zhou Huan settled into Shrek’s combat-heavy training routine, a dazzling golden light and a huge white dragon suddenly appeared over Sea God Island.

• Zhou Huan gave Wang Qingya, Xiao Xiao, and Wen Xiaoshuai one Immortal Herb each, and they absorbed them in the dormitory.
• Xiao Xiao and Wen Xiaoshuai reached Soul Power Level forty-six, while Wang Qingya rose to level thirty-nine; Zhou Huan promised to help her obtain a Soul Ring when she reached level forty.
• Zhou Huan began his fourth year at Shrek, where students spent most of their time in practical combat training.
• Zhou Huan’s speed in battle earned him the unwanted nickname “Fast Man,” while Xiao Xiao regretted that she had no distinctive title of her own.
• Zhou Huan went to the shore of Sea God Lake, where golden light erupted from Sea God Island and a massive white dragon spiraled through the sky.

After Mu En’s death weakened Shrek’s defenses, Zhou Huan planned to pursue his first Soul Core after becoming a Soul Sage and accompanied Wang Qingya to find her fourth Soul Ring. The three entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s outskirts, prepared for danger, and began searching for a suitable Soul Beast.

• Zhou Huan learned that Mu En had fused his soul and Spiritual Power with the Golden Tree, and he discussed the consequences with Snow Empress.
• Zhou Huan told Snow Empress he planned to condense his first Soul Core after reaching Soul Sage and would need to visit the Extreme North.
• Wang Qingya reminded Zhou Huan that he had promised to help her obtain a Soul Ring, so he and Wen Xiaoshuai accompanied her toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wang Qingya told Zhou Huan and Wen Xiaoshuai that Xiao Xiao had passed the Inner Court assessment, and the three discussed when they might enter the Inner Court.
• At the forest’s outskirts, Zhou Huan and Wen Xiaoshuai suggested Oscar as a reference for Wang Qingya’s fourth Soul Ring, and she prepared buns that restored Soul Power and boosted strength or defense.
• Zhou Huan, Wang Qingya, and Wen Xiaoshuai began searching the outskirts for a suitable Soul Beast.

Zhou Huan, Wang Qingya, and Wen Xiaoshuai searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable Soul Beast, and Wang Qingya gained a flight skill after absorbing a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent’s Soul Ring. As they left the forest, they heard a battle nearby.

• Zhou Huan rejected a three-thousand-year Iron Rhinoceros Beast because its defensive skill would overlap with Wang Qingya’s existing ability.
• A Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent attacked, and Zhou Huan froze it while leaving its neck exposed for Wang Qingya.
• Wang Qingya killed the roughly five-thousand-year-old serpent and absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining a flight skill that lasted five minutes.
• Zhou Huan searched the serpent for a Soul Bone but found none, and the three companions started back toward the forest’s edge.
• After traveling less than ten li, Zhou Huan, Wang Qingya, and Wen Xiaoshuai heard the sounds of battle.

Zhou Huan and his companions found Ning Tian, Nanmen Yun'er, and Wu Feng fighting over a badly wounded Nine-headed Blazing Lion with Blood Wolf, Tang Xiaolei, and their junior. Zhou Huan defeated Blood Wolf in one move, settling the dispute and leaving Wu Feng free to claim the Soul Beast’s Soul Ring.

• Zhou Huan arrived to find Wu Feng battling a tall, thin youth while Ning Tian and Nanmen Yun'er argued with Blood Wolf and Tang Xiaolei over who had injured the Nine-headed Blazing Lion.
• Ning Tian explained that her group had fought the Nine-headed Blazing Lion for half an hour before Blood Wolf’s group claimed it as their own.
• Zhou Huan proposed that the fighters stop and let him and Blood Wolf decide who would get the Soul Beast.
• Blood Wolf challenged Zhou Huan, but Zhou Huan vanished and froze half of Blood Wolf’s body with a single Snow Palm.
• Tang Xiaolei took Blood Wolf and their junior away, and Zhou Huan urged Wu Feng to absorb the Nine-headed Blazing Lion’s Soul Ring.

Zhou Huan declined Ning Tian’s invitation to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect while Wu Feng absorbed a Soul Ring. When a vast swarm of Heavenly Fire Ants erupted, Zhou Huan warned the group and Wang Qingya’s Flying Buns carried them safely out of the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Ning Tian thanked Zhou Huan for helping Wu Feng and invited him to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, but Zhou Huan politely declined.
• Wu Feng successfully absorbed a six-thousand-year Soul Ring and advanced to Soul Ancestor.
• Zhou Huan spotted the approaching Heavenly Fire Ant swarm with help from his rabbit spies and urgently asked Wang Qingya for six Flying Buns.
• Wang Qingya gave the group Flying Buns, and the six of them flew northwest to escape the ant uprising.
• After the buns’ effects wore off, the group confirmed they had left the forest and continued toward the academy.

Huo Gua left Shrek to study in the Sun Moon Empire, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen arrived as exchange students. Zhou Huan tried to avoid Xiao Hongchen and focus on his research, but Xuanzi sent Xiao Xiao to recruit him for a fight at the Soul Fighting Arena.

• Huo Gua joined Shrek’s study-abroad group and left to investigate Mingde Hall’s Soul Tool technology.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen joined Grade Four Class One, and Xiao Hongchen repeatedly questioned Zhou Huan about how Shrek learned the secret of his Martial Souls.
• Xiao Hongchen continued investigating the missing Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo and the vanished Old Ma and Level 7 Soul Masters.
• Zhou Huan worked on his fifth thesis in the Outer Courtyard Library while cultivating carefully at level 67.
• Xiao Xiao told Zhou Huan that Xiao Hongchen was challenging Shrek’s Outer Court, and said Xuanzi wanted Zhou Huan to fight him.
• Zhou Huan reluctantly packed up his paper and went to the Soul Fighting Arena.

At Shrek Academy’s Soul Fighting Arena, Xiao Hongchen defeated Wen Xiaoshuai and challenged Zhou Huan to a bet, hoping to learn how Zhou Huan knew about his and Meng Hongchen’s Martial Souls. Zhou Huan accepted the offer of a Level 5 Soul Tool but dismissed the wager, leaving their confrontation poised to begin.

• Xiao Hongchen used his Soul Tools to outlast Wen Xiaoshuai, who collapsed after his final Battle Bear Sky Cannon, and Wang Qingya restored Wen Xiaoshuai’s Soul Power.
• Xiao Hongchen provoked Zhou Huan, and Xiao Xiao threw Zhou Huan onto the stage as a challenger.
• Xiao Hongchen offered Zhou Huan a Level 5 Soul Tool if Zhou Huan won, in exchange for the truth about how he learned their Martial Soul secret.
• Xiao Hongchen explained that he wanted to test Shrek’s students, find a way to investigate Zhou Huan, and humiliate him in battle.
• Zhou Huan said he would gladly accept the Soul Tool but refused to gamble, leaving Xiao Hongchen, the referee, and the crowd speechless.

Zhou Huan faced Xiao Hongchen in a Soul Tool battle, evading his increasingly powerful artillery while repeatedly testing his Wall of Tenacity. The prolonged stalemate ended when Xiao Hongchen exhausted his Soul Power, leaving Zhou Huan the winner.

• Xiao Hongchen fired volleys of Soul Tool Light Cannons at Zhou Huan, who used his speed and Ice Step to evade them.
• Xiao Hongchen expanded his barrage to 128 cannons, but Zhou Huan escaped the attack unharmed while the blasts wrecked the stage.
• Zhou Huan repeatedly struck Xiao Hongchen's Wall of Tenacity with Ice Palm, while Xiao Hongchen tried and failed to hit him with Soul Tool Light Cannons.
• After the fight continued for three hours, Xiao Hongchen's Soul Power ran out and his Wall of Tenacity vanished, giving Zhou Huan the win.
• Xiao Hongchen collapsed and asked Zhou Huan how he still had Soul Power.

After Zhou Huan defeated Xiao Hongchen, Xuanzi urged Shrek’s leaders to strengthen cooperation between the Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments. Zhou Huan dismissed Meng Hongchen’s challenge, celebrated with his friends, and ended the night resolved to become strong enough to secure his freedom.

• Xuanzi told Cai Meier and Xian Lin'er that Zhang Lexuan would handle Zhou Huan’s affairs and urged closer cooperation between Shrek’s two departments.
• Meng Hongchen carried off her unconscious brother, Xiao Hongchen, and challenged Zhou Huan, who refused to fight her.
• Wang Qingya gave Zhou Huan a Cabbage Bun, and Zhou Huan made Xiao Xiao treat their group to dinner at Keman Tower.
• At Sea God Lake, the Snow Empress told Zhou Huan that powerful observers had watched his match, while Brother Octagon and Miss Narcissus commented on human complexity.
• Zhou Huan declared that he would keep growing stronger until he became the strongest and gained true freedom.

After reaching level 70, Zhou Huan left Shrek Academy early and returned to the Extreme North to obtain his seventh Soul Ring and condense a Soul Core. The Snow Empress revealed that his Soul Ring would come from an ancient Extreme Cold Snow Dragon whose remnant soul she had used to endure Heavenly Tribulations.

• Zhou Huan requested a month of leave from Wang Yan, who approved it while Han Ruoruo watched.
• Zhou Huan traveled to the Extreme North, where its icy environment felt like home to him.
• The Snow Empress guided Zhou Huan toward the Extreme North Core Zone and explained that an ancient Extreme Cold Snow Dragon had died there.
• The Snow Empress revealed that the dragon had left behind a powerful pill and a remnant soul that could become Zhou Huan's seventh Soul Ring.
• The Snow Empress said she had used the pill to shield herself from Heavenly Tribulations, leaving the remnant soul nearly dead but still alive.

Zhou Huan reached the Extreme Cold Snow Dragon’s remains and retrieved its Dragon Core. After separating and trapping the dragon’s weakened remnant soul, he severed its connection to the Core and watched a pure golden Soul Ring emerge.

• Zhou Huan crossed the Extreme North’s snow valley and entered the ice cave containing the Extreme Cold Snow Dragon’s remains.
• Zhou Huan took the Dragon Core from the dragon skull’s right eye, while the Floating Pagoda showed an intense desire for the dragon bones.
• Zhou Huan used the Floating Pagoda to draw the dragon’s weakened remnant soul out of the Core and trapped it in a cage.
• Zhou Huan severed the remnant soul’s connection to the Core, causing a pure golden Soul Ring to appear.