Chapter Summaries

Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan returned to Peach Spring Village, attended Li Xiaomei and Niu Daqiang’s wedding feast, and spent the night watching the moon together. Zhou Huan told Zhang Lexuan that the Floating Pagoda had changed after absorbing Ice Heart, but kept some of its strange effects to himself.

• Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan watched Li Xiaomei leave Peach Spring Village for her wedding, then accepted Uncle Li and Aunt Zhao’s invitation to the feast.
• Zhou Huan cleaned their old home with Soul Power, and he and Zhang Lexuan agreed to attend the wedding feast before visiting the graves in Back Mountain the next day.
• Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan attended Li Xiaomei and Niu Daqiang’s wedding feast in Niu Family Village, then returned home after a short visit.
• Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan lay on the roof that night and talked about the Floating Pagoda absorbing Ice Heart, which had raised Zhou Huan’s Soul Power to level seventy-six and produced a mysterious Five-Colored Ball.
• Zhou Huan told Zhang Lexuan the changes seemed good, and they watched the moon together as the night ended.

After visiting their parents’ graves, Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan discussed his ambition to become a god and the soul-core methods he had researched. Zhou Huan remained uncertain how he could safely pursue godhood, but he promised to study whether Zhang Lexuan could form Yin-Yang Complementary soul cores.

• Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan cleaned their parents’ graves and offered them food before sharing their thoughts in private.
• Zhou Huan told Zhang Lexuan that becoming a god might let him make up for regrets, and she encouraged him to pursue that ambition.
• Zhou Huan privately weighed the dangers of accepting a divine inheritance and concluded that creating his own divine position might be his only path to godhood.
• Zhang Lexuan teased Zhou Huan about his strength, pinched his cheek, and asked about his plans for advancing his soul cores.
• Zhou Huan explained the Yin-Yang Complementary Method and said Zhang Lexuan might be able to form dual soul cores with it, then agreed to study whether she could form three.
• Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan packed their offerings and left the back mountain.

After returning to Shrek, Zhou Huan settled back into his studies and training until Xiao Xiao invited him to watch the first-year Freshman Competition finals. He agreed to see Le Wuxue fight alone against three opponents.

• Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan returned to Shrek, where Zhang Lexuan went to Sea God Island and Zhou Huan signed off on his leave with Wang Yan.
• Zhou Huan returned to his dormitory and slept until the next day after the trip.
• Over the next month and a half, Zhou Huan resumed his quiet routine of studying and growing stronger at Shrek.
• Xiao Xiao told Zhou Huan that Le Wuxue would fight one against three in the Freshman Competition finals because her teammates had been badly injured.
• Zhou Huan agreed to accompany Xiao Xiao to watch Le Wuxue compete.

Zhou Huan watched Le Wuxue win the Freshman Competition finals and noticed that his Five-Colored Ball reacted to her Light Judgment. The competition ended with Le Wuxue victorious, while Zhou Huan wondered whether she had a hidden connection to him and hoped she would stay away.

• Zhou Huan and Xiao Xiao joined Wang Qingya and Wen Xiaoshuai in the audience to watch the finals between Le Wuxue and Class Seven's Zhao Ziyang, Mo Ling, and Mo Si.
• Le Wuxue's holy light suppressed the Swift Shadow Leopard twins, leaving Zhao Ziyang to face her alone with his Seven Kill Sword.
• Zhao Ziyang used Sword Qi Returning to One, but Le Wuxue's Light Judgment overwhelmed his attack and forced the referee to rescue him.
• Mo Ling and Mo Si admitted they could not challenge Le Wuxue, while Zhou Huan noticed his Five-Colored Ball react to her Light Judgment and suppressed it.
• The referee declared Le Wuxue and Class One the winners, and Zhou Huan left with his companions while worrying that Le Wuxue might be connected to him and the Angel Clan.

After reaching Level 80, Zhou Huan absorbed the Ice Bear King's Soul Ring and Soul Bone, advancing to Level 82 and gaining new abilities. He stayed in the Outer Court for now, while Zhang Lexuan checked that he was content with his plans.

• Zhou Huan reached Level 80 and entered the Floating Pagoda to absorb the Ice Bear King's eighth Soul Ring and Left Leg Bone.
• The Ice Bear King's Soul Ring gave Zhou Huan the soul skills Ice Bear Roar and Ice Meteor, and his Soul Power rose to Level 82.
• The Floating Pagoda strengthened after absorbing the Ice Bear King's corpse, and the Five-Colored Ball shone more brightly.
• Zhou Huan returned to Zhang Lexuan's home, where she had prepared lunch, and told her his advancement had gone smoothly.
• Zhou Huan told Zhang Lexuan he planned to remain in the Outer Court for now, and she accepted his decision.

Zhou Huan met Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong on Sea God Island, where Wang Dong asked him to test whether she could keep up with his speed before traveling to the Sun Moon Empire. Xuanzi arranged a race around the island, which Zhou Huan won, leaving Wang Dong at Shrek for now.

• Zhou Huan ran into Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong after leaving Zhang Lexuan's home, and Wang Dong challenged him to spar.
• Xiao Xiao explained that Wang Dong needed to prove she could catch Zhou Huan to gain approval to visit the Sun Moon Empire and find the class monitor.
• Xuanzi arrived and proposed a contest, so Zhou Huan suggested that he and Wang Dong race around Sea God Island instead.
• Xiao Xiao started the race, and Zhou Huan used Ice Step while Wang Dong flew with her Light Goddess Butterfly.
• Zhou Huan finished the lap first after three minutes, and Xuanzi told Wang Dong she had to remain at Shrek and offered Zhou Huan help obtaining a Soul Ring.

After revealing that he knew Wang Dong was a girl, Zhou Huan returned to the Outer Court and planned for the dangers ahead at the Mingdu Soul Master Competition. Two months later, at level eighty-three, he set out from Shrek for Earth Dragon Gate.

• Zhou Huan explained that the Light Goddess Butterfly could only belong to a woman, revealing that he had known Wang Dong's secret from the start.
• Zhou Huan reassured Wang Dong that Huo Gua likely had not figured out her identity, then left Sea God Island for the Outer Court.
• Zhou Huan decided to attend the upcoming Mingdu Soul Master Competition and aimed to reach Titled Douluo before the trip to protect Zhang Lexuan, Xiao Xiao, Qingya, and himself.
• Zhou Huan spent two months cultivating, ending the fifth year at the peak of level eighty-three.
• Zhou Huan stood at Shrek's gates and set out north toward Earth Dragon Gate in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Disguised as Zhou Le, Zhou Huan came to Earth Dragon Gate to negotiate access to the Cold Spring and its Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. Nan Shuishui accepted his terms, and Zhou Huan jumped into the well while she and Nan Qiuqiu waited above.

• Zhou Huan disguised himself as a scarred independent Soul Master and asked to meet Earth Dragon Gate's sect master, Nan Shuishui.
• Zhou Huan offered to retrieve the Cold Spring's contents in exchange for compensation, and Nan Shuishui asked him to become a Guest Elder.
• Nan Qiuqiu interrupted to demand that Zhou Huan leave, but Nan Shuishui rebuked her and negotiated a promise that he would help Earth Dragon Gate three times if needed.
• Nan Shuishui agreed to the deal and led Zhou Huan to the well, where he leaped into the Cold Spring.
• Nan Qiuqiu questioned her mother's decision, and Nan Shuishui explained that Earth Dragon Gate had little to lose by letting Zhou Huan investigate the spring.

Zhou Huan discovered and collected the Extreme Ice Divine Crystals and Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow beneath Earth Dragon Gate’s Cold Spring Well. Snow Empress and Zhou Huan’s companions absorbed some of the marrow, while Zhou Huan stored the rest for later.

• Zhou Huan opened a hidden mechanism beneath the Cold Spring Well and found a cavern filled with Extreme Ice Divine Crystals.
• Snow Empress identified the crystals as evidence of a nearby Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave, and Zhou Huan collected all the crystals before continuing downward.
• Zhou Huan found forty-five stalks of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow in a small ice cave.
• Snow Empress absorbed ten stalks, while the Blue Dragon Ice Qilin Horse and Ice Bear King absorbed three each, Brother Octagon absorbed two, and Miss Narcissus absorbed one.
• Zhou Huan stored the remaining twenty-six stalks of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.

After retrieving treasures from the Cold Spring Well, Zhou Huan gave the Earth Dragon Gate most of its Extreme Ice Divine Crystals and advised Nan Shuishui to trade with the Tang Sect in Shrek City. He left before the mother and daughter could learn where to find him reliably, and they considered his warning and suggestion.

• Zhou Huan emerged from the Cold Spring Well and gave Nan Qiuqiu an Extreme Ice Divine Crystal, then handed Nan Shuishui a Storage Soul Tool containing seventy percent of the crystals he had found.
• Zhou Huan advised Nan Shuishui to contact the Tang Sect in Shrek City, explaining that it had been rebuilt and had Shrek Academy's backing.
• Nan Shuishui asked whether Zhou Huan belonged to the Tang Sect, and he denied it before saying she could leave a message for him at Keman Tower.
• Zhou Huan departed, and Nan Qiuqiu and Nan Shuishui were astonished that neither of them could sense his movement.
• Nan Shuishui explained to Nan Qiuqiu that the crystals would be useful only if they could be mined and that they should trade cautiously in Shrek City.

After reaching level ninety and forming his second Soul Core, Zhou Huan discovered that the Floating Pagoda’s pentagonal prism was an unfinished Godhead. The Pagoda Soul appeared to explain its potential, but Zhou Huan remained unsure whether he could trust her.

• Zhou Huan condensed the Extreme Ice Soul Core, formed Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, and reached level ninety as a Quasi-Titled Douluo.
• Zhou Huan noticed that the Five-Colored Ball had transformed into a pentagonal prism, and Snow Empress urged him to try absorbing it.
• When Zhou Huan threatened to discard the prism, the Floating Pagoda shook and produced a tiny Sprite who warned him not to throw away the Godhead.
• The Sprite explained that the unfinished Godhead could grant Zhou Huan a suitable ninth Soul Ring and might help him reach god-level, while distinguishing it from a God Position.
• The Sprite identified herself as the Pagoda Soul, then vanished after Zhou Huan called her a little Sprite.
• Miss Narcissus pointed out that the Sprite could hear their conversation, and a message appeared confirming that My Lady could hear them.

Zhou Huan endured a brutal refinement of the Five-Colored Godhead, gaining a new path toward godhood and reaching Soul King Level 92. Two days later, he joined Wen Xiaoshuai and Wang Qingya for their Inner Court assessment, where they encountered Wang Qiuer and learned their test would be bloody.

• Zhou Huan refined the Five-Colored Godhead through six days of repeated bodily destruction and healing, then absorbed it into his Sea of Consciousness and reached Soul Power Level 92.
• Zhou Huan gained the golden-red ninth Soul Ring and the Soul Skill Ice God Descent, but decided not to use it because it might attract the Douluo God Realm's attention.
• Zhang Lexuan told Zhou Huan that the Inner Court assessment was two days away, and he later arrived on Sea God Island with Wen Xiaoshuai and Wang Qingya to take it.
• Wang Qiuer appeared, and Zhou Huan recognized her as the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while Wang Qingya mistook her for Wang Dong.
• Zhang Lexuan introduced Wang Qiuer as their fellow examinee, announced that she would examine all four of them, and warned that their assessment would be bloody.

Zhou Huan and his companions investigated the massacred You Family Village, where he sensed Evil Soul Masters hiding underground. After Wang Qiuer and Zhang Lexuan scouted the village, Zhou Huan led the group inside to search for them.

• Zhou Huan sensed that You Family Village was deserted aboveground but that people remained hidden beneath it.
• Zhou Huan told Wang Qiuer, Wen Xiaoshuai, and Wang Qingya to wait while he scouted, but Wang Qiuer insisted on going instead.
• Zhou Huan agreed to let Wang Qiuer enter the village, and Zhang Lexuan followed to protect her.
• Wang Qiuer returned and reported finding bloodstains and body parts but no Evil Soul Masters, while Zhang Lexuan confirmed Zhou Huan's suspicion that they were underground.
• Zhou Huan proposed that the group enter the village together and search for clues.

Zhou Huan and his companions uncovered the cellar beneath You Family Village, where ten Evil Soul Masters had hidden among the villagers’ corpses. After Zhou Huan and the Snow Empress neutralized the Corpse Explosion threat, the group began fighting the Evil Soul Masters.

• The group searched the bloodied village and Zhou Huan concluded that the villagers and Evil Soul Masters were likely hidden underground.
• Zhou Huan broke through the ancestral hall floor, and the five companions descended into a cellar containing corpses, a Blood Pool, and ten Evil Soul Masters.
• The gray-haired youth refused to admit responsibility and threatened to use Corpse Explosion, but the Snow Empress froze and shattered the swelling corpses.
• The ten Evil Soul Masters attacked, and Wang Qiuer, Wen Xiaoshuai, and Wang Qingya each engaged groups of opponents.
• Zhou Huan struck the gray-haired youth with a palm that froze and shattered him, then turned toward the other battles.

Zhou Huan, Wang Qiuer, Wen Xiaoshuai, and Wang Qingya defeated the Evil Soul Masters in the cellar, and Wang Qingya overcame her hesitation about killing. The group left the Blood Pool for the academy to handle and departed the village.

• Zhou Huan killed a gray-haired Evil Soul Master Soul Emperor with one strike while Wang Qiuer fought three other Evil Soul Masters.
• Wang Qiuer killed two Evil Soul Master Soul Ancestors with her Golden Dragon and pierced the remaining Soul King's heart with her Golden Dragon Spear.
• Wen Xiaoshuai crushed an Evil Soul Master Soul King with his Fifth Soul Skill, while his Explosive Bear Claw had already killed another Soul Ancestor.
• Wang Qingya overcame her hesitation and killed all four Evil Soul Master Soul Elders with her Great Sword.
• Wang Qiuer asked Zhou Huan about his Extreme Ice, and Zhou Huan acknowledged it while noting her Ultimate Power.
• Zhang Lexuan decided they would cover the cellar entrance and report the Blood Pool to the academy, and the group left the village.

After moving to Sea God Island, Zhou Huan visited Zhang Lexuan and volunteered to co-host the upcoming Sea God's Fate event with her. He left ready to host, while Zhang Lexuan warned him not to disrupt the proceedings.

• Zhou Huan became an Inner Court disciple and moved into a two-story house with Wen Xiaoshuai on Sea God Island.
• Zhou Huan visited Zhang Lexuan, and she told him the annual Sea God's Fate event would take place in a few days.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that Beibei could not host because he and Tang Ya were discussing business with Earth Dragon Gate.
• Zhou Huan offered to be the male host, and Zhang Lexuan accepted after warning him that organizing the event would be exhausting.
• Zhou Huan suggested hiding the boys' faces during the event, but Zhang Lexuan took back the notebook and told him to behave.

Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan hosted the Sea God's Fate matchmaking event, where Huo Yuhao revealed two orange-gold Soul Rings and a Soul Spirit identified as the Titan Snow Demon King. After the first round ended with three fairies still unmatched, Zhou Huan announced the second stage and named Huo Yuhao its first male guest.

• Zhou Huan and Zhang Lexuan began the Sea God's Fate event and explained that the men would try to remove the fairies' bamboo hats.
• Xu Sanshi used his position and persistence to find Jiang Nannan and remove her hat, while Ye Liu's attempt to splash the fairies ended with Wu Ming burning his attack and Han Ruoruo throwing him out.
• Huo Yuhao revealed five Soul Rings, including two orange-gold rings, and brought out a small monkey that Snow Empress recognized as the Titan Snow Demon King.
• With the monkey's help, Huo Yuhao removed four more hats, including those of Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Qingya.
• The remaining male disciples finished the first stage, but three fairies still had their hats on, and He Caitou had not participated.
• Zhou Huan announced the second stage, Love at First Sight, and introduced Huo Yuhao as its first male guest.

At Shrek’s Sea God’s Fate, the contestants completed the Love at First Sight and Love at Second Sight rounds, with Huo Yuhao drawing widespread attention and Xu Sanshi winning Jiang Nannan’s temporary acceptance. The Three Lives, One Fate round began with the girls preparing to choose their partners.

• All eighteen girls lit their lights for Huo Yuhao, while the Love at First Sight round eliminated male contestants who received no lights.
• Xie Huanyue received no lights and left dejectedly, while Xiao Xiao gave Xu Sanshi a friendship light.
• The remaining male contestants introduced themselves, and Huo Yuhao impressed the girls by listing his abilities, soul spirits, and Level 6 Soul Master status.
• Xu Sanshi tearfully confessed to Jiang Nannan, who temporarily accepted him, bringing Love at Second Sight to a close.
• Zhou Huan announced the start of Three Lives, One Fate, and Zhang Lexuan stepped on his foot when he urged the girls to charge boldly.

During the Sea God's Fate blind date, six fairies gathered around Huo Gua, who chose the veiled girl number two. When Ning Tian and Ling Luochen challenged his choice, Wang Dong revealed that she was the girl beneath the hat, and volunteered to fight alongside Yu Hao against all five rivals.

• Hua Yao chose Gu Fan, and they became the only pair to match through the Sea God Fate process.
• Wang Dong, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Ling Luochen, Xiao Xiao, and Qingya gathered beside Huo Gua, while Han Ruoruo left with Wang Yan.
• Huo Gua chose girl number two, prompting Ning Tian and Ling Luochen to challenge her.
• Xiao Xiao teased the veiled girl until Wang Dong removed her hat and revealed herself to Huo Gua.
• Wang Dong agreed to fight with Yu Hao against the five challengers.

Huo Gua and Wang Dong defeated Ling Luochen, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Qingya in a two-against-five battle on Sea God Lake. The Sea God Pavilion elders discussed Zhou Huan and Huo Yuhao’s potential, while Huo Gua asked Ice Empress how Zhou Huan had broken through his domain.

• Zhang Lexuan confirmed that everyone agreed to a two-against-five battle, and she and Zhou Huan cleared the battlefield.
• Ling Luochen froze the lake, Ning Tian boosted her teammates, and the five opponents launched their attacks at Huo Gua and Wang Dong.
• Huo Gua unleashed Eternal Frost Domain to suppress the five, and Wang Dong attacked them with Butterfly Goddess Dance.
• Zhang Lexuan and Zhou Huan rescued four of the opponents from the attacks, leaving Ling Luochen injured and Huo Gua and Wang Dong victorious.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xuanzi, Cai Meier, and Qian Duoduo discussed Zhou Huan’s strength and Huo Yuhao’s prospects for a Sea God Pavilion position.
• Huo Gua asked Ice Empress how Zhou Huan had broken through Eternal Frost Domain, and Ice Empress sensed a familiar power in Zhou Huan.