Chapter Summaries

Xu Zihuang returned to the estate on Yueshu Island after Ju Zi departed, and revealed his powerful new Soul Rings and copied Sacred Sword abilities to Ye Guyi and the Original Dragon Soul Instructor Corps. He left for the castle with Ye Guyi, still intending to confess his relationships with Ju Zi and Ning Tian.

• Xu Zihuang watched Ju Zi's warship disappear, then returned to the estate after using Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's shell to remove her scent.
• Meng Lang, Meng Cang, and the Original Dragon Soul Instructor Corps found Xu Zihuang on a mountain near the estate.
• Ye Guyi tested Xu Zihuang with her Angel Sacred Sword, and he countered with copied Thunder Sacred Sword and Destruction Sacred Sword abilities before they embraced.
• Xu Zihuang revealed his five black Soul Rings and red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, exciting Meng Cang and the other members of the corps.
• Xu Zihuang sent Meng Lang and four others to stand guard, then stayed with Ye Guyi and considered confessing about Ju Zi and Ning Tian.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi walked together through the forest toward the castle.

Xu Zihuang reunited with Ye Guyi and answered her questions about his feelings for Ning Tian and Ju Zi, then arrived at the castle and heard about the group’s progress. The chapter left him preparing to discuss their developments, including Wang Xiao’s advancement as a Level 9 Soul Engineer.

• Ye Guyi learned through Xu Zihuang’s memories about his recent encounters and pressed him about his intimacy with Ning Tian and Ju Zi.
• Xu Zihuang admitted that Ning Tian and Ju Zi had entered his heart, and Ye Guyi said she would stay by his side and share everything with him.
• Xu Zihuang agreed to visit Dragon City with Ye Guyi, planning to retrieve the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrows and visit Heavenly Dragon Gate.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi arrived at the castle, where Lin Long led the Original Dragon Soul Instructor Corps and Na Na in welcoming them.
• Lin Long reported that the group had cultivated steadily and that Wang Xiao had advanced to Level 9 Soul Engineer and crafted several Level 9 Soul Tools.

Xu Zihuang gave Na Na a place among his allies and Ye Guyi absorbed a Golden Flame Bird Soul Bone before strengthening her body with Whale Rubber. As he and Ye Guyi trained on Yueshu Island, Xu Zihuang prepared for the coming tournament and his seventeenth birthday.

• Xu Zihuang gave Lin Long the eyes of a fifty-thousand-year Giant Demon Whale to use in making high-level Defense Soul Tools.
• Xu Zihuang accepted Na Na into his group after she vowed to help him fight the Holy Spirit Cult and the corrupt Sun Moon Empire.
• Ye Guyi absorbed the Golden Flame Bird Right Arm Soul Bone, entered Deep Meditation, and began using Whale Rubber to strengthen her physique.
• Xu Zihuang gave Wang Xiao blueprints for a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannon and other high-level Soul Tools, along with instructions for making Lightning Rockets.
• Xu Zihuang cultivated for over a month while Ye Guyi consumed Whale Rubber and sparred with him each day.
• Xu Zihuang defeated Ye Guyi's Angel Sacred Sword with his Destruction Sacred Sword during their battle over the Inner Sea.

Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi left Yueshu Island for Douluo Continent after a farewell banquet, while Xu Zihuang prepared to secure rare-metal resources and support Yaoyang’s campaign against the pirates. During the voyage, he began crafting a Rank 7 close-combat Soul Tool for Ye Guyi, and the chapter left them working and cultivating aboard the ship as they continued toward the continent.

• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi attended a farewell banquet with Wang Xiao, Yaoyang, and the Imperial Dragon Soul Mentor Corps before departing Yueshu Island by warship.
• Xu Zihuang told Yaoyang to wipe out the pirates and seize control of the Yuenan Islands’ underwater Rare Metal veins, while Wang Xiao agreed to manufacture a Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannon once materials were available.
• Xu Zihuang began engraving Rank 7 core formations for Ye Guyi’s close-combat Soul Tool using the Purple Sun Brilliant Dragon carving knife.
• Xu Zihuang successfully completed the first of the eight core formations while Ye Guyi meditated nearby.
• Over the next half month, Xu Zihuang continued crafting the Soul Tool and Ye Guyi cultivated and dealt with Sea Soul Beasts that attacked the ship.

Xu Zihuang completed the Rank 7 close-combat Soul Tool Seven Star Light Flame Sword, though it still needed a Light Attribute Soul Beast crystal. When a thirty-thousand-year Lion Mane Jellyfish attacked the warship, Ye Guyi used the sword with her Soul Bone and Soul Skills to destroy it, and the ship continued toward the continent.

• Xu Zihuang tested the Seven Star Light Flame Sword, which he had modeled on the Angel Sacred Sword and built with seven Golden Yellow Gemstones, but it still lacked Light and Fire Attribute crystals.
• A Lion Mane Jellyfish clung to the warship and attacked, so Lin Long used his Evil Spirit Orca Soul Bone skill to cut apart its tentacles.
• Wang Xiao identified the jellyfish and warned Lin Long that its tentacles carried deadly poison.
• Xu Zihuang gave the sword to Ye Guyi, who combined it with her Holy Light Illumination and Golden Flame Bird Right Arm Soul Bone skill to melt the Lion Mane Jellyfish.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi watched the sunrise as the warship continued toward the continent, nearing the boundary between the Deep Sea region and coastal waters.

Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi traveled north toward Dragon City, discussing a future Soul Ring for Ye Guyi and growing closer on the journey. Meanwhile, Dai Luoli met the White Tiger Duke and revealed his partially mutated Martial Soul, earning permission to remain and cultivate under Dai Hao’s observation.

• Xu Zihuang told Ye Guyi that a Six-Winged Demon Tiger could suit her Holy Angel Martial Soul, then gave Wang Xiao a nine-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark Head Bone to award to the best fighter against the pirates.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi crossed the sea, landed on the continent, and flew north through the Ming Dou Great Forest toward Dragon City while surveying the border terrain.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi camped near the junction of the Sun Moon, Star Luo, and Heaven Dou Empires, where Ye Guyi reminisced about their childhood and resolved to make Xu Zihuang accept their relationship.
• Dai Luoli visited Dai Hao at the Star Luo Empire’s northwestern military camp and demonstrated his crimson-tinged White Tiger Martial Soul, which Dai Hao recognized as an incomplete mutation.
• Dai Hao told Dai Luoli to stay and cultivate under his observation, and Dai Luoli eagerly accepted.

On his seventeenth birthday, Xu Zihuang arrived in Dragon City with Ye Guyi and visited Heavenly Dragon Gate, where his maternal family lived. After clashing with Yu Tianlong, Xu Zihuang left with Ye Guyi when Heavenly Dragon Gate made clear it would not receive them.

• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi explored Dragon City, bought a purple ice lantern, and reflected on Xu Zihuang's mother, Aunt Qing.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi arrived at Heavenly Dragon Gate, where Yu Tianlong recognized the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon emblem on Ye Guyi's ring.
• Yu Tianlong challenged Xu Zihuang, but Xu Zihuang stopped his strike and endured his lightning without harm.
• Xu Zihuang destroyed Yu Tianlong's lightning sphere with his black-purple lightning, startling Yu Tianlong and the Heavenly Dragon Gate disciples.
• Yu Tianlong and the others withdrew into the residence after someone inside intervened, and Xu Zihuang left with Ye Guyi without seeking an audience.

Nan Qiuqiu and the Earth Dragon Gate prepared for the upcoming tournament after losing to the Heavenly Dragon Gate, while Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi grew closer during their stay in Dragon City. After ten days at the hotel, Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi finally went to the Earth Dragon Gate to retrieve the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.

• Nan Qiuqiu returned to the Earth Dragon Gate after her team lost all seven sparring matches against the Heavenly Dragon Gate, and Nan Shuishui ordered the disciples to cultivate for the tournament.
• Nan Shuishui warned Nan Qiuqiu that she would face a year at Dragon Suppressing Cliff if the team failed to achieve a respectable tournament result.
• On Xu Zihuang's seventeenth birthday, Ye Guyi joined him in Dragon City, while Ning Tian waited for Yu Tianhuang in Shrek City.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi stayed at their hotel for ten days, then left to retrieve the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi reached the Earth Dragon Gate, where Xu Zihuang tossed the Blazing Sun Warm Jade to a guard.

Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi visited the Earth Dragon Gate, where Nan Shuishui agreed to give Xu Zihuang access to a hidden vein of ice-attribute Rare Metal. While Xu Zihuang accompanied Nan Shuishui deeper into the courtyard, Ye Guyi teased Nan Qiuqiu by claiming she was pregnant with Xu Zihuang’s child.

• Xu Zihuang presented the Earth Dragon Gate’s identity pendant, and Nan Shuishui hurried to welcome him and Ye Guyi.
• Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu recognized Xu Zihuang as Yu Tianhuang and connected him to Nan Shuishui’s old friend Yu Qing’er.
• Xu Zihuang told Nan Shuishui he had sensed an ice-attribute Rare Metal vein beneath the sect, and she agreed to show it to him despite having reserved it as Nan Qiuqiu’s dowry.
• Nan Qiuqiu tried to befriend Ye Guyi while they waited in the courtyard.
• Ye Guyi claimed she could not eat cold food because she was pregnant, startling Nan Qiuqiu and the gathered disciples before Nan Shuishui silenced the commotion.

Xu Zihuang explored the cold spring beneath Earth Dragon Gate and found a cave filled with Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, confirming that Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow lay deeper below. He returned to the surface and prepared to enter again with Ye Guyi, while Nan Qiuqiu mistakenly thought Ye Guyi was pregnant.

• Nan Shuishui explained how to open the well’s hidden cave, and Xu Zihuang entered the cold spring with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shielding him from the extreme cold.
• Xu Zihuang opened the concealed doorway and found a cave covered in Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, then used his Spiritual Power to assess the depths where the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow lay.
• Xu Zihuang returned to the surface and told Nan Shuishui he had found Rare Metal, saying he would go back in with Ye Guyi to try mining it.
• As Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi prepared to enter the well together, Nan Qiuqiu warned them that Ye Guyi was pregnant.
• Ye Guyi admitted she had only been teasing Nan Qiuqiu, then entered the cold spring with Xu Zihuang while Nan Qiuqiu stood stunned.

Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi retrieved all forty-five Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrows from the cold spring and stored them in the Undead Demi-plane, though the effort left Xu Zihuang weakened. They left the Earth Dragon Gate with an Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and Nan Shuishui’s promise that Xu Zihuang would share in the remaining crystals.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used its cast-off shell to shield Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi as they entered the cold spring and reached the cavern.
• Xu Zihuang explained that he intended to take the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrows, and Ye Guyi agreed to store them in the Undead Demi-plane.
• Xu Zihuang used the Gold-grade Second Awakening of the Body Martial Soul to locate the forty-five marrows, and Ye Guyi transferred them all into the Undead Demi-plane.
• Xu Zihuang removed one Ice Extreme Divine Crystal for himself and told Nan Shuishui that the Earth Dragon Gate could mine the remaining crystals.
• Nan Shuishui offered Xu Zihuang a share of the mined crystals and asked him to call her Aunt Nan; Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi then departed with Nan Qiuqiu escorting them.

Xu Zihuang recovered from his Second Awakening and crafted the Ice Extreme Divine Armor for Nan Qiuqiu while Ye Guyi grew close to her. At the Earth Dragon Gate, Nan Shuishui gave Xu Zihuang half of the sect’s excavated Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, and Nan Qiuqiu received the armor despite being embarrassed by how he obtained her measurements.

• Xu Zihuang recovered in three days, then used Ice Extreme Divine Crystal to craft a defensive Soul Tool for Nan Qiuqiu while Ye Guyi visited and befriended her.
• Nan Qiuqiu came to the Snowfall Hotel to deliver Nan Shuishui’s invitation, overheard Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi, and fled in embarrassment when they opened the door.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi attended Nan Shuishui’s banquet at the Earth Dragon Gate, where Nan Shuishui gave Xu Zihuang half of the sect’s excavated Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.
• Xu Zihuang presented Nan Qiuqiu with the Ice Extreme Divine Armor, a Level 6 defensive Soul Tool made from 108 pieces of Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.
• Nan Qiuqiu happily accepted the armor, then grew horrified when Ye Guyi revealed she had given Xu Zihuang Nan Qiuqiu’s measurements.

Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi visited Nan Shuishui, learned about Yu Qing'er’s connection to the Heavenly Dragon Gate, and traveled to Sunset Forest. They arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as its Hundred-Thousand-Year Plant-type Soul Beasts discussed how to handle Xu Zihuang.

• Nan Shuishui told Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi that Yu Qing'er was Old Heavenly Dragon’s younger sister and recounted her close friendship with Qing'er.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi shared a meal with Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu before leaving the Earth Dragon Gate.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi flew to Sunset Forest, where Ye Guyi recovered her Soul Power before they continued toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Hundred-Thousand-Year Plant-type Soul Beasts discussed their unease about Xu Zihuang’s return and their limited ability to defend themselves.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi descended into the valley, and Xu Zihuang revealed six Soul Rings, including a red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi reached the Lovesick Heartbroken Red, but the plant Soul Beasts challenged their right to take it. As negotiations faltered, a Thunderclap Nether Vine nearing one hundred thousand years revealed her intelligence and chose to follow Xu Zihuang as his Soul Ring.

• Xu Zihuang led Ye Guyi to the Lovesick Heartbroken Red and explained that she could absorb the divine-grade herb if she met its demanding picking conditions.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty questioned how Xu Zihuang knew how to take the herb, and he threatened the plant Soul Beasts with his Martial Souls and the Dragon Kings' power.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty offered ten medicinal herbs as compensation, but Ye Guyi warned Xu Zihuang that she still harbored malice.
• A Thunderclap Nether Vine with ninety-nine thousand years of Cultivation emerged, revealed that the others had suppressed her intelligence, and explained her desire to leave.
• After Xu Zihuang showed her the equal contract he had formed with the Silver Scale White Whale, the Thunderclap Nether Vine agreed to become his Soul Ring.

Xu Zihuang fused with the Thunderclap Nether Vine as his Soul Spirit, and she survived a lightning tribulation to break through into the Hundred-Thousand-Year realm. After gaining a powerful Soul Ring, an upgraded right leg Soul Bone, and the Thunder God's Whip, Xu Zihuang returned with Ye Guyi to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they planned to kill the Infernal Delicate Apricot.

• Xu Zihuang recalled the Silver Scale White Whale and used the equal contract to fuse the Thunderclap Nether Vine with his Purple Sun Thunder Prison Dragon Martial Soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm raised the Thunderclap Nether Vine's Soul Ring to the hundred-thousand-year level, triggering a lightning tribulation over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi entered the poisonous miasma, and the Thunderclap Nether Vine absorbed the lightning while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm helped stabilize her spiritual consciousness.
• The Thunderclap Nether Vine broke through into the Hundred-Thousand-Year realm, became a pure energy body, and gained the Thunder God's Whip as a new Innate Soul Skill.
• Xu Zihuang reached Soul Power level sixty-nine, recalled Yan Yu into his body, and told Ye Guyi they could still make the Infernal Delicate Apricot her Soul Spirit.
• Ye Guyi refused and said they would kill the Infernal Delicate Apricot to take her Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and Xu Zihuang agreed before they returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Xu Zihuang helped Ye Guyi absorb the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, then demanded treasures from the Plant-type Soul Beasts at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. When they resisted his plans for Infernal Delicate Apricot, he attacked her and revealed his new Annihilation Divine Spear Soul Skill, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Plant-type Soul Beasts sensed Thunderclap Nether Vine's breakthrough and feared Xu Zihuang's power.
• Ye Guyi offered her heart's blood to the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, consumed its petals, and meditated while Xu Zihuang waited and reflected on his new abilities.
• The Plant-type Soul Beasts debated how to appease Xu Zihuang, and Aromatic Silk Beauty surrendered the Heart of Beautiful Silk when he demanded it.
• Xu Zihuang attacked Infernal Delicate Apricot with Forest of Lightning after she and the others faced his demand, and Aromatic Silk Beauty begged him to spare her.
• Xu Zihuang revealed the Purple Sun Thunder Prison Dragon's First Soul Skill, Annihilation Divine Spear, split it into two spears, and struck Infernal Delicate Apricot again as he warned Aromatic Silk Beauty not to interfere.

Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi defeated Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Ye Guyi began absorbing her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. After learning the truth about Dugu Bo’s corpse and obtaining a powerful Medusa Head Bone, Xu Zihuang settled the remaining conflict with the Plant-type Soul Beasts and prepared to make a necklace from the Heart of Beautiful Silk.

• Xu Zihuang overwhelmed Infernal Delicate Apricot with his Soul Skills, severed her roots, and had Ye Guyi kill her with the Seven Star Light Flame Sword.
• Xu Zihuang collected Infernal Delicate Apricot’s Blazing Resin and Soul Bone while Ye Guyi began absorbing her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Xu Zihuang questioned Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass revealed that the Azure Phosphor flowers had been cultivated using Dugu Bo’s poisoned corpse.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty offered Xu Zihuang Dugu Bo’s Medusa Head Bone, and Xu Zihuang accepted it while promising not to attack the Plant-type Soul Beasts unless they opposed him.
• Xu Zihuang sat beside Ye Guyi and began turning the Heart of Beautiful Silk into a necklace.

While Ye Guyi fused with the Infernal Delicate Apricot’s Left Arm Soul Bone, Xu Zihuang collected a Primordial Immortal Herb and obtained Essence Flower Pollen from Aromatic Silk Beauty. He stored both treasures and honored his promise to spare the plant Soul Beasts.

• Ye Guyi finished absorbing the Infernal Delicate Apricot’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and began fusing with its Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Xu Zihuang fashioned the Heart of Beautiful Silk into a necklace-shaped Soul Tool and examined the Plant-type Soul Beasts in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xu Zihuang selected the sixty-thousand-year Primordial Immortal Herb, overcame its resistance with his Destruction Flame, and stored it while leaving its roots and Origin Power intact.
• Xu Zihuang told Aromatic Silk Beauty that he needed something to help a friend from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect evolve her Martial Soul.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty gave Xu Zihuang Essence Flower Pollen cultivated over ten thousand years, and Xu Zihuang stored it in a jade box.

Xu Zihuang left most of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s herbs untouched while Ye Guyi completed her cultivation and reached Rank 75 after fusing with the Infernal Delicate Apricot’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. The pair prepared to leave, with Xu Zihuang asking the Plant-type Soul Beasts to protect the Lovesick Heartbreak Red until it matured.

• Xu Zihuang stored the Primordial Immortal Herb and Aromatic Silk Beauty’s refined pollen, but left the other herbs and the still-maturing Lovesick Heartbreak Red untouched.
• Ye Guyi emerged from meditation after fusing with the Infernal Delicate Apricot’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, her Soul Power reaching Rank 75.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi shared information about her new abilities, and he told her about the herbs he had taken and his plans for the future.
• Xu Zihuang gave Ye Guyi the Heart of Beautiful Silk necklace and advised her to save the Medusa Head Bone until they could find a more suitable hundred-thousand-year Head Bone.
• Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi flew out of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Xu Zihuang asked the three Plant-type Soul Beasts to look after the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

Xu Zihuang and Ye Guyi discussed his growing attachment to Shrek Academy and decided she would pose as his biological elder sister when they arrived. After spending the night together in Sunset Forest, they set off for Shrek Academy, practicing their new roles on the way.

• Xu Zihuang admitted to Ye Guyi that his time at Shrek Academy had stirred genuine feelings of belonging, even though he remained uncertain whether those feelings would affect his resolve.
• Ye Guyi decided to enter Shrek Academy as Xu Zihuang’s biological elder sister, using their supposed family history to explain their closeness and his strained ties to Heavenly Dragon Gate.
• Xu Zihuang accepted the plan, and he and Ye Guyi spent the night camping in southern Sunset Forest.
• The next morning, Xu Zihuang called Ye Guyi “Sister” as they prepared to leave, and the two flew toward Shrek Academy while practicing their new identities.