Chapter Summaries

Yan Shaozhe convened a Sea God Pavilion meeting to discuss Xue Nianbing’s requests and potential value to Shrek Academy. The Elders praised his talent, but Xian Lin’er rejected his demand for the Soul Tool Department’s Level One through Level Eight Soul Tool information.

• Xue Nianbing and Wang Dong teased each other before Wang Dong asked why Dean Yan had summoned him, and Xue Nianbing refused to tell her.
• Yan Shaozhe reported Xue Nianbing’s requests to Mu En, who convened a Sea God Pavilion meeting.
• Yan Shaozhe described Xue Nianbing’s talent, clean background, and ability to help resolve Xiaotao’s Evil Fire problem, earning the Elders’ approval.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that Xue Nianbing wanted the Soul Tool Department’s information on Level One through Level Eight Soul Tools.
• Xian Lin’er slammed the table and refused to hand over the Soul Tool Department’s secrets.

Shrek Academy’s elders debated Xue Nianbing’s demand for all of the Soul Tool Department’s records after Yan Shaozhe revealed that he would leave for Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy if refused. Mu En urged the elders to keep him at Shrek, but the chapter ended with Xian Lin'er still questioning whether they should give him the records.

• Elder Song and the other elders agreed that the academy could not casually hand over its confidential Soul Tool records.
• Yan Shaozhe told the Sea God Pavilion that Xue Nianbing had threatened to leave for Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy if his demand was denied.
• Xuan Zi proposed granting Xue Nianbing access to records gradually as his Soul Engineer rank advanced, but Yan Shaozhe warned that he would leave if the academy did not meet his demand.
• Xuan Zi and Xian Lin'er argued over the value of Soul Tools and the Soul Tool Department before Mu En stopped their dispute.
• Mu En urged the elders to keep Xue Nianbing at Shrek Academy so he could eventually understand Shrek Glory, and Xian Lin'er questioned whether giving him the records was worth it.

Shrek Academy's elders agreed to give Xue Nianbing the Soul Tool Department's materials and let him stay in the teachers' dormitory, while Yan Shaozhe revealed the steep condition Xue set for suppressing Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire. The chapter ended with the elders stunned that even a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone would buy only one year of suppression.

• Mu En agreed that Xian Lin'er should hand over the Soul Tool Department's materials to Xue Nianbing.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Xue Nianbing was staying in Room 602, next to Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier, and asked Cai Meier to watch him.
• Xian Lin'er considered using their proximity to introduce Xue Nianbing to the Soul Tool Department and win his favor.
• Yan Shaozhe told the elders that Xue Nianbing demanded Soul Bones to suppress Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire for limited periods.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone would suppress the Evil Fire for only one year, leaving the elders speechless and outraged.

Mu En approved a limited Soul Bone deal to buy Ma Xiaotao one year, while Yan Shaozhe planned to use that time to bring her closer to Xue Nianbing. Later, Xian Lin'er visited Xue Nianbing and Wang Dong to discuss his interest in Soul Tools and teased them about Wang Dong's identity.

• Mu En rejected Xue Nianbing's full demand but authorized four Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to buy Ma Xiaotao one year of treatment.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed keeping Xue Nianbing close to Ma Xiaotao in hopes they would become a couple, and Mu En approved the plan.
• Yan Shaozhe arranged for Ma Xiaotao to move in with Cai Meier, who agreed to help bring her and Xue Nianbing together.
• The Sea God Pavilion meeting continued through the evening as the Elders discussed academy affairs and other geniuses.
• Late at night, Xian Lin'er visited Xue Nianbing and Wang Dong in Dorm 602 to talk about his interest in Soul Tools.
• Xian Lin'er hinted that Wang Dong was a girl, and Xue Nianbing confirmed he knew; Wang Dong blushed when Xian Lin'er asked whether she let him take advantage of her.

Xian Lin'er offered Xue Nianbing a place in the Soul Tool Department, and he secured core disciple status there without transferring departments. After studying the department’s confidential Soul Tool materials, Xue Nianbing learned from Electrolux that advanced Soul Tools could reach divine power and considered seeking higher-level research in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xian Lin'er gave Xue Nianbing confidential Soul Tool Department materials and asked him to join the department.
• Xue Nianbing declined to transfer but negotiated nominal affiliation and core disciple benefits, which Xian Lin'er accepted.
• Xian Lin'er gave Xue Nianbing a core disciple badge and left, and Wang Dong questioned him about their agreement.
• Xue Nianbing struggled to understand the Soul Tool materials and handed them to Electrolux to study.
• Electrolux judged that Soul Tools could eventually reach the level of gods, and Xue Nianbing noted that the Sun Moon Empire had Level 9 Soul Tools and was developing Level Ten Soul Tools.

Electrolux studied Soul Tool knowledge while Xue Nianbing sent the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to study it as well. The next day, Cai Meier and Ma Xiaotao brought four Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to fulfill the academy’s deal, and Xue Nianbing prepared to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire.

• Xue Nianbing learned that Electrolux’s strength had recovered to around Yan Shaozhe’s level and agreed to visit the Sun Moon Empire once Electrolux regained Limit Douluo strength.
• Electrolux returned to studying Soul Tools, and Xue Nianbing woke the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and gave him Soul Tool materials to study.
• Cai Meier and Ma Xiaotao visited Xue Nianbing to arrange a year of Evil Fire suppression, and Ma Xiaotao asked him to help.
• Xue Nianbing clarified that suppressing the Evil Fire did not mean sleeping with Ma Xiaotao, then went with her and Cai Meier to Cai Meier’s dormitory.
• Cai Meier gave Xue Nianbing four Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and he accepted them before telling Ma Xiaotao to sit on the sofa and cultivate as usual.

Xue Nianbing suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, and Cai Meier advised her on how to gradually befriend him. Three months later, Xue Nianbing’s first three Soul Rings and Soul Bone had reached fifteen thousand years, while Wang Dong announced she had reached Soul Power Level 25.

• Xue Nianbing reinforced the ice suppressing Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, extending the suppression to two months and explaining that repeated treatments could make it last a year.
• Ma Xiaotao thanked Xue Nianbing, who left with Wang Dong after recognizing that Cai Meier had coached Ma Xiaotao to act gently.
• Cai Meier told Ma Xiaotao to befriend Xue Nianbing before pursuing him, then reflected on her strained marriage to Yan Shaozhe.
• Over the next three months, Xue Nianbing’s first three Soul Rings and Extreme Cold Ice Wings Soul Bone rose to the fifteen-thousand-year level, though he still disguised the rings as Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Wang Dong told Xue Nianbing that her Soul Power had reached Level 25 and joked that she would make him clean for her once she surpassed him.

Xue Nianbing encouraged Ma Xiaotao to control her temper, and Cai Meier helped her recognize how much she had changed for him. In Class Nine, Mu Jin explained the Freshman Assessment and announced that Xue Nianbing had been directly admitted, then assigned the students to teams.

• Xue Nianbing advised Ma Xiaotao that staying calm in every situation could extend the suppression of her Evil Fire, and she silently watched him leave.
• Cai Meier pointed out that Ma Xiaotao had already begun changing and suggested that her efforts showed she liked Xue Nianbing.
• Mu Jin explained the Freshman Assessment rules, including teams of three and the limit of one Power Attack System Soul Master per team.
• Mu Jin announced that the academy had exempted Xue Nianbing from the Freshman Assessment, surprising Wang Dong.
• Mu Jin assigned the students to teams, placed Wang Dong with He Yu and Wang Jingjing, and reviewed their cultivation directions.

Xue Nianbing accompanied Wang Dong to the Freshman Assessment, where he met Xiao Xiao after catching her as she nearly fell. He later watched Xiao Xiao’s team compete and explained to Wang Dong that he recognized her as an old acquaintance.

• Xue Nianbing told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he would take him to meet his new master and let him handle minor matters himself.
• Xue Nianbing and Wang Dong headed to the Freshman Assessment, where he caught Xiao Xiao as she stumbled around a corner.
• Xiao Xiao blushed at Xue Nianbing, then hurried to the assessment after hearing the broadcast.
• Xue Nianbing watched Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Zi Hao compete in District Thirty-Three and noted that Huo Yuhao was Level 17.
• Wang Dong finished her match and confronted Xue Nianbing for watching Xiao Xiao instead of her.
• Xue Nianbing told Wang Dong that Xiao Xiao was an old acquaintance he planned to greet later.

Xue Nianbing visited Huo Yuhao and his teammates during the Freshman Assessment, then told Wang Dong he would explore Shrek Academy’s Inner Court. He flew across Sea God Lake to Sea God Island and began exploring its secluded grounds.

• Xue Nianbing greeted Xiao Xiao and praised Huo Yuhao’s hard work and Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, secretly making an imperceptible move while patting his shoulder.
• Xue Nianbing told Wang Dong he planned to visit the Inner Court, and he teased her about being reluctant to part with him.
• Xue Nianbing warned Wang Dong not to invest feelings in him because he was not devoted, leaving her angry and conflicted.
• Xue Nianbing unfurled his Extreme Cold Ice Wings and flew across Sea God Lake to Sea God Island.
• Xue Nianbing landed on Sea God Island and followed a stone path among its quiet pavilions and towering trees.

Xue Nianbing visited Sea God Pavilion, where he discussed the Golden Ancient Tree with Electrolux and met Pavilion Master Mu En. He rejected Mu En’s offer to become his disciple but agreed to join Sea God Pavilion and eventually succeed him as Pavilion Master.

• Xue Nianbing felt the Golden Ancient Tree’s golden light restore him and improve his cultivation, while Electrolux identified it as the continent’s foundation and sensed that it was drawn to something Xue Nianbing carried.
• Xue Nianbing entered Sea God Pavilion and recognized Mu En as the Dragon God Douluo.
• Xue Nianbing revealed that he knew of Mu En, Dragon Emperor, and Death God’s past connection, prompting Mu En to question how much he knew.
• Mu En offered to take Xue Nianbing as his disciple, but Xue Nianbing refused because he aimed higher than becoming a Limit Douluo.
• Mu En asked Xue Nianbing to join Sea God Pavilion and succeed him as Pavilion Master upon reaching Rank Seventy, and Xue Nianbing agreed.
• Mu En warned Xue Nianbing that the Pavilion Master’s position carried serious responsibilities and influence over the continent.

Xue Nianbing revealed his Proud Snow Cold Bow to Mu En and gained permission to cultivate inside the Golden Ancient Tree. There, he met the tree’s consciousness, who told him that sealing the Divine Realm had freed her and exposed a God King’s plan to seize the Douluo Plane.

• Xue Nianbing showed Mu En his Proud Snow Cold Bow, and Mu En recognized that he possessed twin Ultimate Ice Martial Souls.
• Mu En let Xue Nianbing cultivate in a passage within the Golden Ancient Tree and privately considered him a successor who could protect Shrek Academy.
• Xue Nianbing sensed the Golden Ancient Tree’s summons and entered a golden world where he met the tree’s female consciousness.
• The Golden Ancient Tree told Xue Nianbing that a God King had transplanted her to Sea God Island ten thousand years earlier and buried a Blue Silver Emperor Seed beneath her roots.
• The Golden Ancient Tree explained that the seed was meant to absorb her power and transfer the Douluo Plane’s power to the God King, whose Divine Sense remained inside it.

Xue Nianbing received a growing plane and a reborn Blue Silver Emperor from the Golden Ancient Tree in exchange for helping unite the Douluo Plane. After the tree sent him to Zhang Lexuan, he waited outside her pavilion while she cultivated.

• The Golden Ancient Tree explained that Xue Nianbing's power had sealed the Divine Realm and let her escape God King Tang's control.
• She said she had destroyed the space inside the Blue Silver Emperor Seed, killed the man within, and preserved the woman as a reborn Blue Silver Emperor linked to a new plane.
• The Golden Ancient Tree asked Xue Nianbing to unite the Douluo Plane in exchange for becoming the Son of the Plane, and he agreed while jokingly questioning whether she was truly a woman.
• She promised never to harm Xue Nianbing and sent him to Zhang Lexuan, then disappeared into golden dust.
• Mu En realized the Golden Ancient Tree had responded to Xue Nianbing and decided the connection proved his deep ties to Shrek Academy.
• Xue Nianbing arrived at Zhang Lexuan's pavilion and waited quietly outside while she cultivated.

Xue Nianbing explored the Blue Silver Plane, where the reborn Blue Silver Emperor became Little Blue and merged with the Ice Blue Light Cluster. After returning to Sea God Island, he sensed Zhang Lexuan reach level eighty in seclusion.

• Xue Nianbing entered the Blue Silver Plane and named its reborn Blue Silver Emperor Little Blue.
• Little Blue absorbed the Ice Blue Light Cluster, deepening her bond with Xue Nianbing and adding Ice and Snow to the plane.
• Electrolux explained that Little Blue was the plane's master and that the Blue Silver Plane could grow by absorbing light, Life, and Ice and Snow.
• Xue Nianbing shaped part of the plane into a golden-lit version of the Far North, while the Snow Empress sensed his growth through the Ice Snow Crown.
• Xue Nianbing returned to Sea God Island, quietly refined the greenery outside Zhang Lexuan's wooden house, and sensed her reach level eighty.

Xue Nianbing reunited with Zhang Lexuan at Shrek Academy, and their years of longing gave way to an intimate, affectionate exchange. Zhang Lexuan listened as he recounted joining the academy and teased him about his romantic interests, while their relationship remained unspoken but clearly close.

• Zhang Lexuan sensed Xue Nianbing approaching and finished her cultivation before welcoming him.
• Xue Nianbing called Zhang Lexuan “Sister Lexuan,” and they embraced after years apart.
• Zhang Lexuan told Xue Nianbing she had not been well because he had taken so long to visit, and he apologized.
• Xue Nianbing carried Zhang Lexuan to sit with him and told her how he had joined Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan teased Xue Nianbing about Xiaotao and his other romantic interests, then blushed when he asked why she had not included herself.

Xue Nianbing reassured Zhang Lexuan about his relationship with the Snow Empress, then brought her to a recreated Zhang Family Estate and gave her a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. The chapter ended with Zhang Lexuan kissing his cheek to reward him.

• Zhang Lexuan questioned Xue Nianbing about his intimacy with the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, and Nannan, and he said he had only been intimate with Xue'er so far.
• Xue Nianbing transported Zhang Lexuan to a quiet world he described as a vast storage space and said it would become home for them and the others.
• Xue Nianbing recreated the Zhang Family Estate, and Zhang Lexuan thanked him and reflected that he had become the family she still had.
• Xue Nianbing gave Zhang Lexuan a Hundred Thousand Year Left Arm Bone from the Howling Moon Ice Wolf Emperor and promised to help her obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring later.
• Zhang Lexuan kissed Xue Nianbing on the cheek and called it his reward.

Xue Nianbing and Zhang Lexuan reunited as lovers and spent three days together before leaving her cabin. As Zhang Lexuan asked how he planned to deal with Shrek Academy, Xue Nianbing's next move remained unresolved.

• Xue Nianbing kissed Zhang Lexuan and the two consummated their love while Snow Empress sensed what had happened from afar and grew furious.
• Three days later, Mu En discovered that Xue Nianbing and Zhang Lexuan had vanished and left to search Shrek City.
• Xue Nianbing and Zhang Lexuan appeared at her cabin, where they teased each other and discussed her potential growth from fusing soul bones and a compatible 100,000 Year Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Xue Nianbing how he planned to deal with Shrek Academy.

Xue Nianbing shared his ambition with Zhang Lexuan to build the Ice Snow Divine Temple and reshape the academy and Sea God Pavilion, and the two declared their commitment to pursuing it together. After their friends caught them kissing, he introduced himself as Zhang Lexuan’s boyfriend and explained that he had pursued her and could enter the Inner Court freely.

• Xue Nianbing told Zhang Lexuan he planned to take control of the academy and Sea God Pavilion and establish the Ice Snow Divine Temple.
• Zhang Lexuan pledged to help Xue Nianbing achieve his goal, and the two kissed.
• Han Ruoruo, Hua Yao, and Wu Ming arrived and caught Zhang Lexuan kissing Xue Nianbing.
• Zhang Lexuan introduced Xue Nianbing as her boyfriend, and Wu Ming arranged to spar with him over his Extreme Ice.
• Xue Nianbing told the three women that he had known Zhang Lexuan since childhood, had pursued her, and had permission to enter the Inner Court.

Xue Nianbing treated Zhang Lexuan and her three senior sisters to a day of food and entertainment, then slept in Zhang Lexuan’s cabin without anything happening. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy’s leaders reviewed the freshman candidates and dismissed Wang Yan’s recommendation of Huo Yuhao.

• Xue Nianbing took Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Hua Yao to Shrek City for a meal, earning the three senior sisters’ affection and making Zhang Lexuan wonder if she would gain three more sisters.
• Xue Nianbing paid for the group’s food and entertainment throughout the day, and Mu En saw them enjoying themselves in Shrek City.
• Xue Nianbing returned to the academy and slept in Zhang Lexuan’s wooden cabin while Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Hua Yao watched with envious looks; nothing else happened.
• Du Wilun reported that Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu showed considerable potential, and Yan Shaozhe praised the freshman class’s talent.
• Wang Yan recommended Huo Yuhao for his rare Spirit Eyes Body Martial Soul, but Du Wilun, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe judged his abilities ordinary and dismissed the recommendation.

Ning Tian's team faced Dai Huabin's team in the freshman assessment final while Huo Yuhao watched with renewed hatred for Dai Huabin. As the match continued, Xue Nianbing arrived holding hands with Zhang Lexuan, leaving Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and Du Wilun stunned.

• Huo Yuhao watched Dai Huabin with hatred and vowed to destroy the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to persuade him that Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect were not right for him.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er entered the arena to face Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie.
• Ning Tian enhanced Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er with her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda as the teams released their Martial Souls and began fighting.
• Wu Feng clashed with Dai Huabin while Ning Tian and Nanmen Yun'er struggled against Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie; Xuan Zi predicted that Ning Tian's team would lose.
• Xue Nianbing arrived at the final holding hands with Zhang Lexuan, shocking Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and Du Wilun.