Chapter Summaries

Beibei negotiated with Xu Sanshi for Mysterious Water Pills to help Huo Yuhao improve his blocked meridians, while explaining why An Ping and Gu Yuena had come to Shrek Academy. Xu Sanshi agreed to sell Huo Yuhao two pills at cost, leaving Beibei confident he would win their upcoming match.

• Beibei proposed betting Mysterious Water Pills against Xu Sanshi, who suspected he was trying to help An Ping, Gu Yuena, and Huo Yuhao.
• Beibei explained that Huo Yuhao had joined the Tang Sect and that Teacher Fan Yu wanted An Ping and Gu Yuena to stay at Shrek Academy.
• Xu Sanshi questioned how the outsiders could lack resources if their Soul Tool had sold for several hundred thousand, and Beibei attributed their slow cultivation to spending time on Soul Tools.
• Beibei explained Huo Yuhao's level-one Innate Soul Power and Martial Soul, and Xu Sanshi agreed to sell him two Mysterious Water Pills at cost, even if Beibei lost.

Beibei challenged Xu Sanshi, with Huo Yuhao secretly using Mental Link to help Beibei gain an advantage in their fight. The match began with Beibei’s first strike knocking Xu Sanshi back.

• Jiang Nannan finished her match and hurried away with her opponent to avoid Xu Sanshi.
• Tang Ya told Huo Yuhao that Beibei was likely competing to win Xu Sanshi’s Mysterious Water Pill for him.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi entered the arena and released their Martial Souls as the crowd cheered.
• At Tang Ya’s urging, Huo Yuhao used Mental Link, and Beibei accepted the connection.
• Xu Sanshi advanced behind a barrier of light, but Beibei’s dragon-claw strike hit his shield and knocked him backward.

Beibei defeated Xu Sanshi in the Soul Fighting Area by exploiting openings with Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection, winning two Mysterious Water Pills from their bet. Afterward, Beibei showed one to Huo Yuhao, who saw and smelled the pill for the first time.

• Beibei broke through Xu Sanshi’s Mysterious Nether Tremor and used Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection to spot how the Thunder Web’s effects slowed Xu Sanshi.
• Beibei kept attacking until he dislocated Xu Sanshi’s shoulder, and the referee declared Beibei the winner.
• Beibei helped Xu Sanshi up and collected the two Mysterious Water Pills they had wagered.
• Beibei told Xu Sanshi to go pursue Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi left the Soul Fighting Area.
• Tang Ya asked Beibei to show Huo Yuhao a Mysterious Water Pill, and Huo Yuhao examined the blue, white-veined pill.

Beibei and Tang Ya gave Huo Yuhao a Mysterious Water Pill and explained how it could improve his cultivation, then took him and the others to Shrek Academy’s restaurant for lunch. The group reached the eighth food window, where Beibei explained that cheaper meals were available at the first window.

• Tang Ya explained that the Mysterious Water Pill could cleanse Huo Yuhao’s body, increase his cultivation speed, and raise his Soul Power Level.
• Huo Yuhao tried to refuse the pill, but Beibei persuaded him to accept it as an investment in both his growth and the Tang Sect.
• Beibei said Xu Sanshi had given him two pills and promised to give Huo Yuhao the second after he absorbed the first.
• Tang Ya led the group to Shrek Academy’s restaurant, where Beibei explained its unusual lack of tables and chairs.
• Huo Yuhao worried that the food was too expensive, and Beibei told him that the first window offered meals for only a few Copper Soul Coins.

Huo Yuhao learned about the dining hall’s prices and the benefits of becoming a Core Disciple, then toured Shrek Academy’s Soul Engineer Department and heard why it had few students. Tang Ya suggested that Huo Yuhao’s first soul skill made him especially suited to the department.

• Tang Ya explained that the dining hall’s later windows served expensive Soul Beast dishes that could aid cultivation, while the first window offered cheap meals.
• Huo Yuhao tried the Soul Beast dishes and felt their energy benefit his cultivation; Beibei told him Core Disciples could eat in the dining hall for free and encouraged him to work toward the status.
• An Ping and Gu Yuena realized that Beibei was trying to persuade them to join Shrek Academy, but they could not join while Huo Yuhao was there and needed to pursue their plan to connect and merge the two worlds.
• Beibei led the group toward the Soul Engineer Department, and Tang Ya explained that prejudice against Soul Tools, the department’s enrollment process, and time spent in laboratories accounted for its sparse population.
• Tang Ya told Huo Yuhao that his first soul skill seemed particularly suited to the Soul Engineer Department, and Huo Yuhao asked if that was true.

Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya visited the Soul Engineer Department Experimental Area to meet Fan Yu, while An Ping and the others arrived for a demonstration. An Ping criticized He Caitou’s Fixed Soul Cannon and explained why he focused on Functional Soul Tools, leaving Fan Yu and He Caitou to reconsider his approach to combat.

• Tang Ya told Huo Yuhao that his precision-enhancing First Soul Skill could make him well suited to the Soul Engineer Department, and they went to meet Fan Yu.
• Fan Yu welcomed An Ping, Beibei, and the others to watch a test of a newly made Soul Cannon, then asked He Caitou to bring over his Fixed Soul Cannon.
• An Ping examined the cannon and said its limited range, poor practicality, and physical demands made it useful mainly in small-scale encounters.
• He Caitou challenged An Ping to demonstrate a practical Attack-type Soul Tool, but An Ping said he specialized in Functional Soul Tools instead.
• Fan Yu asked why An Ping did not carry Attack-type Soul Tools, and Beibei suggested that An Ping’s Astrological Attribute restricted his actions while he continuously controlled an enemy.
• An Ping said that was only part of the reason, adding that his girlfriend Nana was a Power Attack System Soul Master, so he did not need to focus on attack power himself.

An Ping and Gu Yuena discussed Soul Tools with Fan Yu and He Caitou at Shrek Academy, while Huo Yuhao learned about their types and uses. He Caitou then asked An Ping how he had layered and interwoven Soul Tool Arrays in the Book of Communication.

• Fan Yu questioned Beibei about the Star Wheel Ice Staff’s Astrological Attribute, and Beibei explained its immobilizing effect.
• Fan Yu left to prepare Rare Metals, intending for He Caitou to impress An Ping and Gu Yuena with his knowledge and skill.
• He Caitou explained Soul Tools to Huo Yuhao and described the range and function of his Fixed Soul Cannon.
• He Caitou argued that Fixed Soul Tools could be decisive in war, while Gu Yuena maintained that powerful Titled Douluo mattered more.
• He Caitou asked An Ping how he had layered and interwoven Soul Tool Arrays in the Book of Communication.

An Ping explained how layered Soul Tool Arrays worked and why his Books of Communication required exceptional Spiritual Power and Soul Tool knowledge to produce. He rejected Fan Yu’s renewed offer to study at Shrek Academy, insisting that personal strength mattered more to him than Soul Tools.

• An Ping explained that Soul Tool Arrays could be engraved across folded metal or separated layers, and He Caitou realized how difficult it was to break down and combine advanced arrays.
• Fan Yu examined the Books of Communication and said their complex arrays were beyond what he could confidently replicate.
• An Ping said his teacher had made the Books of Communication and inferred that their production required Titled Douluo-level Spiritual Power, Soul Emperor-level Soul Power, or exceptional memory and technical skill.
• Fan Yu learned that An Ping’s teacher was a Sixth-rank Soul Engineer and was surprised that she had created Traveler’s Home.
• Fan Yu offered to guide An Ping toward becoming a Level 9 Soul Engineer, but An Ping refused to study at Shrek Academy and said he valued his own strength more than Soul Tools.

Fan Yu assessed Huo Yuhao’s potential as a Soul Engineer and became interested after learning about the unusual abilities of his First Soul Skill. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao demonstrating Spiritual Detection for Fan Yu.

• Gu Yuena argued that a Level 9 Soul Engineer would not change the war and suggested Shrek Academy would matter more, while Fan Yu and Beibei defended the Academy’s preparations.
• Tang Ya asked Fan Yu whether Huo Yuhao could become a Soul Engineer because of his Spiritual Eyes Martial Soul.
• Fan Yu initially doubted Huo Yuhao because of his low Soul Power and frail body, but Tang Ya explained his progress from Level 1 Innate Soul Power and his improved prospects with Mysterious Water Pills.
• Huo Yuhao described his First Soul Skill, including its detection range and how it grew with his Spiritual Power.
• Fan Yu asked Huo Yuhao to use Spiritual Detection on him, and Huo Yuhao released his Soul Ring to demonstrate it.

Huo Yuhao helped He Caitou use a Fixed Soul Tool with his Spiritual Detection, impressing Fan Yu. Fan Yu took Huo Yuhao as his disciple, and Huo Yuhao affirmed that he would remain loyal to the Tang Sect.

• Fan Yu tested Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection and offered him early admission as a Soul Engineer Department Core Disciple if he passed another test.
• Huo Yuhao linked his detection to He Caitou, who used a Soul Cannon to hit a moving target and destroy it.
• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou repeated the test several times, with their improved results satisfying Fan Yu.
• Fan Yu asked Huo Yuhao to become his disciple and learn about Soul Tools, while Tang Ya encouraged him to accept without leaving the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao vowed to remain a Tang Sect disciple, accepted Fan Yu as his master, and performed the ceremony of becoming his disciple.

Huo Yuhao became Fan Yu’s second disciple and arranged to study in Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul Department while training in Soul Tools. An Ping and Gu Yuena left the academy with the Rare Metals Fan Yu had provided, while Huo Yuhao prepared to register the next day.

• Fan Yu accepted Huo Yuhao as his second disciple and gave An Ping the Rare Metals he had prepared.
• Huo Yuhao asked to study alongside the freshmen in the Martial Soul Department before formally joining the Soul Engineer Department.
• Fan Yu agreed to Huo Yuhao’s request and promised to cover his tuition, Soul Tool resources, and meals as a Core Disciple.
• Fan Yu gave Huo Yuhao a Core Disciple badge and told him to find him after the Freshman Assessment to study Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao left the Soul Engineer Department Testing Ground with An Ping and Gu Yuena, then registered at the academy’s gate and returned to Shrek City.

Huo Yuhao cultivated with the Mysterious Water Pill while An Ping and Gu Yuena took Tian Meng to the Extreme North to find Ice Empress. They captured Snow Empress and Ice Empress, leaving Tian Meng to explain why he had come.

• Beibei and Tang Ya stayed at the hotel to guard Huo Yuhao as he absorbed the Mysterious Water Pill, and his Soul Power began rising toward Rank Fifteen.
• An Ping and Gu Yuena took Tian Meng from Shrek City to the edge of the Extreme North using the Power of Space.
• Tian Meng asked why An Ping and Gu Yuena had gone to Shrek City, and An Ping claimed they had needed money before urging him to lead them to Ice Empress.
• Gu Yuena transported the three directly to an ice-and-snow palace, where they encountered Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• Gu Yuena restrained Snow Empress and Ice Empress with Space Chains, then sat with An Ping to watch as Tian Meng began explaining himself.
• Tian Meng identified himself as a Soul Beast from the Extreme North and assured Snow Empress and Ice Empress that he had not come to harm them; Snow Empress began to calm.

Tian Meng told Snow Empress and Ice Empress that An Ping and Gu Yuena could provide a Soul Beast cultivation method, help them avoid Heavenly Tribulations, and offer a path to Godhood. Snow Empress agreed to consider working for them after reviewing a contract, and began examining the silver paper with her Spiritual Power.

• Tian Meng warned Ice Empress that her four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation was approaching and offered her a chance to survive it by helping An Ping and Gu Yuena.
• Tian Meng explained how the cultivation method had saved him and claimed An Ping and Gu Yuena could help Soul Beasts avoid tribulations and attain Godhood.
• Gu Yuena confirmed the offer, explained how Soul Beasts could evade Heavenly Tribulations, and said the method could restore Snow Empress's damaged Origin Power.
• Snow Empress questioned whether she could trust Gu Yuena, then accepted a time-limited arrangement if the cultivation method healed her injuries.
• Gu Yuena released Snow Empress and presented a contract, which Snow Empress read before touching the silver paper with her Spiritual Power to examine it.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress tested Gu Yuena’s cultivation method and necklaces, confirming that the method healed injuries and increased cultivation while the necklaces concealed their auras and prevented Heavenly Tribulations. They agreed to leave with An Ping and Gu Yuena, but wondered why receiving the method’s later sections might not be good for them.

• Snow Empress received the Soul Beast Basic Cultivation Method through the Contract and confirmed that it could increase her cultivation and heal her injuries.
• Gu Yuena gave Snow Empress and Ice Empress necklaces that concealed their auras and made the Heaven and Earth Rules overlook their cultivation.
• Ice Empress released her suppressed cultivation while wearing the necklace, passed the three-hundred-thousand-year and four-hundred-thousand-year limits without a Heavenly Tribulation, and agreed to help Gu Yuena and An Ping.
• Snow Empress agreed to leave the Extreme North with them as long as doing so would not harm it, and Tian Meng said the necklaces could hide their Soul Beast auras from humans.
• Ice Empress asked whether the cultivation method could eventually lead Soul Beasts to Godhood, and Gu Yuena said the method was real but that its later sections might not be good for them yet.

Gu Yuena explained that the God Realm imposed tribulations and other restrictions on nonhuman beings after the Beast Gods lost a war, while An Ping clarified that surviving the Million Year Heavenly Tribulation required power beyond ordinary Godhood. Snow Empress and Ice Empress prepared to leave the Extreme North, arranging for Soul Beasts to guard it in their absence.

• Gu Yuena told Tian Meng, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress that the God Realm had altered planetary laws to impose tribulations on nonhumans and make their remains useful to humans.
• An Ping explained that the Million Year Heavenly Tribulation reached roughly the strength of levels one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty, making God Tier power necessary to survive.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress asked An Ping to teach a cultivation method to one Soul Beast each so the Extreme North would remain protected after they left, and he agreed.
• An Ping gave Snow Empress and Ice Empress contracts and aura-simulation items, which they activated with their blood to create convincing duplicates.
• Ice Empress left to arrange matters with her clan, while Snow Empress said she would entrust the Extreme North to Xiao Bai, an Ice Bear she had raised.
• An Ping asked Tian Meng whether he wanted to visit his clan, but Tian Meng declined.

Huo Yuhao reached Level 15 after taking the Mysterious Water Pill and went with Beibei and Tang Ya to register at Shrek Academy. Dean Yan Shaozhe questioned his rapid cultivation after seeing his Martial Soul certification, leaving Huo Yuhao to explain how he had advanced.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress finished cultivating the methods An Ping and Gu Yuena provided, then went to arrange matters with Xiao Bai and their clans.
• Huo Yuhao woke feeling improved, discovered he had reached Level 15, and bathed after Tang Ya told him the Mysterious Water Pill had expelled impurities.
• Beibei and Tang Ya took Huo Yuhao to Shrek Academy for registration, and he asked about An Ping and the others, who had not joined them.
• At the Martial Soul Department registration office, Beibei introduced Huo Yuhao to dean Yan Shaozhe and Teacher Wang Yan.
• Yan Shaozhe saw that Huo Yuhao's certification listed Innate Soul Power at Level 1 and asked how he had reached Level 15 in five years.
• Huo Yuhao explained his hard work, his Four-hundred-year Soul Ring, and the Mysterious Water Pill, but Yan Shaozhe remained unconvinced that his cultivation was ordinary.

Yan Shaozhe investigated Huo Yuhao’s rapid cultivation and accepted Wang Yan’s explanation that Yuhao’s complete Martial Soul mutation had consumed his Innate Soul Power. After Yuhao enrolled, Yan Shaozhe set out to meet An Ping and offered him a place in the Inner Court if his Martial Soul truly possessed Absolute Validity.

• Yan Shaozhe examined Huo Yuhao and confirmed that he had cultivated normally, while Wang Yan attributed his speed to a high-quality mutated Martial Soul.
• Yan Shaozhe told Wang Yan to nurture Huo Yuhao, then asked Beibei where he could find An Ping, the owner of the Star Wheel Ice Staff Martial Soul.
• Du Weilun completed Huo Yuhao’s registration, and Beibei explained that An Ping and his companions had already refused Fan Yu’s Core Disciple offer.
• Yan Shaozhe said he might admit An Ping to the Inner Court if his Martial Soul had a Soul Skill with Absolute Validity.
• Wang Yan explained that such an ability could help Shrek defeat the Sun Moon Empire’s competitors, and told Huo Yuhao that killing or crippling opponents was permitted under the competition’s current rules.

Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe went with Beibei to meet An Ping, while Tang Ya warned Huo Yuhao about his strict new teacher, Zhou Yi. They discovered An Ping and Gu Yuena had already left Shrek City, leaving only a note that said they might meet again if fate allowed.

• Wang Yan told the students to focus on cultivating, and he and Yan Shaozhe asked Beibei to take them to meet An Ping.
• Tang Ya learned Huo Yuhao was assigned to Freshman Class One and warned him that Zhou Yi was strict and might expel students who failed her tasks.
• Beibei brought Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe to An Ping and Gu Yuena's hotel, where they found an unfamiliar boy staying in their room.
• Beibei checked the hotel's register and learned An Ping and Gu Yuena had checked out the previous evening.
• The hotel staff gave Beibei a note from An Ping and Gu Yuena saying, "The road ahead is long; if fate allows, we will meet again."
• Yan Shaozhe burned the note and left angrily, while Beibei went to find Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao.

Gu Yuena explained to Snow Empress why she and An Ping had come to the Extreme North and revealed that her bloodline came from the Silver Dragon King. She warned that a God Realm Divine Spirit had taken an interest in the Star Dou Great Forest’s Auspicious Beast, leaving Snow Empress wondering what the Divine Spirit intended to do with the Soul Beast Clan’s fortune.

• Gu Yuena said Beibei had gone to the hotel looking for them and identified Yan Shaozhe as the Soul Master who burned her tampered note.
• Snow Empress returned after instructing Xiao Bai, said she would leave with An Ping and Gu Yuena once Ice Empress returned, and asked what they planned to do.
• An Ping assured Snow Empress that their later request would not harm the Soul Beast Clan, and Gu Yuena said her bloodline came from the Silver Dragon King.
• Gu Yuena explained that she had avoided seeking out Di Tian because the Star Dou Great Forest needed his protection and a God Realm Divine Spirit had noticed its Auspicious Beast.
• Gu Yuena said the Divine Spirit wanted the Auspicious Beast’s fortune for another purpose, and Snow Empress could not figure out what it intended.

Gu Yuena and An Ping discussed the Auspicious Beast and the Soul Beast Clan’s declining prospects with Snow Empress and Ice Empress before preparing to leave the Extreme North. Snow Empress and Ice Empress adopted the names Bai Xue and Bai Bing, and Gu Yuena teleported the group away.

• Snow Empress asked whether An Ping and Gu Yuena planned to interfere with the Divine Spirits’ scheme involving the Auspicious Beast, and Gu Yuena said they would try if possible.
• Gu Yuena explained that the Auspicious Beast’s survival would not reverse the Soul Beast Clan’s decline, which stemmed mainly from Human Society’s development.
• Ice Empress returned, and Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed to use the names Bai Xue and Bai Bing in the Human World.
• Gu Yuena explained that Ice Empress’s necklace would make people with little connection to her overlook her.
• Gu Yuena completed a Teleportation Technique, and the group vanished from the Extreme North.