Chapter Summaries

The Snow Empress completed her rebirth with Lin Ran’s help and received the Ice God Nine Trials, while Lin Ran’s cultivation also improved. After returning to Heaven Dou City with the Ice Empress, Lin Ran realized he had forgotten Nan Qiu Qiu, who was still waiting in Dragon City.

• With the Life Goddess guiding them, the Snow Empress’s rebirth power and Lin Ran’s Innate Reversal synchronized, and she emerged as a six-year-old girl.
• The Ice God’s Godhead Fragments entered the Snow Empress and gave her the Ice God Nine Trials, beginning with collecting the scattered fragments.
• Lin Ran awoke to find the Snow Empress had taken human form, and he discovered his cultivation methods and affinity for Heaven and Earth had improved.
• The Ice Empress reacted jealously to the closeness between Lin Ran and the Snow Empress, but the Snow Empress told her not to be rude to him.
• After arranging the Extreme North’s affairs, Lin Ran, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress returned to Heaven Dou City, where Lin Ran remembered Nan Qiu Qiu was still in Dragon City.

After Snow Empress received the Ice God’s inheritance, she and Lin Ran returned to Heaven Dou City, where he discovered he had reached level fifty. The system then revealed that his fifth Soul Ring was a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and sent him to the Golden Ancient Tree on Sea God Island.

• Snow Empress completed her transformation, gained the Ice God’s inheritance, and thanked Lin Ran for helping her.
• Ice Empress angrily confronted Lin Ran over his bond with Snow Empress, but Snow Empress defended him and said he had earned the friendship of the Extreme North.
• Lin Ran, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress returned to Heaven Dou City, and Lin Ran realized he had forgotten Nan Qiu Qiu.
• More than a year later, Du Busi noticed that Lin Ran had reached level fifty and offered to protect him while he obtained his fifth Soul Ring.
• Lin Ran asked the system to foresee a suitable fifth Soul Ring, and it revealed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and a mission to enter the Golden Ancient Tree on Sea God Island.

Wang Dong'er left Body College for Shrek Academy despite Wang Qiu'er's pleas, while Lin Ran went to Shrek City with Du Busi. Huo Yuhao arrived at Shrek and reunited with Tai Tan and Wang Dong'er, who was introduced to him as a Clear Sky Sect successor.

• Wang Dong'er told Lin Ran she would leave for Shrek Academy, and he encouraged her to go rather than asking her to stay.
• Wang Qiu'er pleaded with Tai Tan to let Wang Dong'er remain at Body College, but he refused, and Wang Dong'er left with him.
• Lin Ran left Body College with Du Busi and traveled to Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at Shrek City after studying Soul Spirit contracts, forming his second martial soul, and obtaining the Ice Silkworm as a Soul Spirit.
• Tai Tan brought Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er into Shrek Academy and introduced Huo Yuhao as an outer disciple who should serve Wang Dong'er.
• Yan Shaozhe welcomed Tai Tan and the two students in the dean's office, assuring him that Shrek would educate the sect's disciple.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er enrolled at Shrek Academy, where Yan Shaozhe secretly suspected the Clear Sky Sect of killing an academy Titled Douluo. Lin Ran reunited with Wang Dong'er, saw through her disguise as Wang Qiu, and took her to the freshmen dormitories using the Illusory Sea Pearl to avoid notice.

• Tai Tan introduced Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao to Yan Shaozhe, who concealed his suspicions about Huo Yuhao and the Clear Sky Sect while arranging their enrollment.
• Wang Dong'er refused to share a dormitory with Huo Yuhao, then warned him to stop following her after Tai Tan left.
• Lin Ran appeared and criticized Huo Yuhao for lacking spirit, while Wang Dong'er denied being herself and claimed to be Wang Qiu.
• Lin Ran told Wang Dong'er he had come to take her back to their academy in a few days, and she agreed to handle the cleaning at home as an apology.
• Lin Ran and Wang Dong'er walked to the freshmen dormitories, where he used the Illusory Sea Pearl to make passersby subconsciously overlook them.

Huo Yuhao was assigned to share a dormitory with Dai Huabin, whose insults reignited Huo Yuhao’s hatred. After Huo Yuhao attacked him, he waited for Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu to recover so he could defeat them publicly.

• Wang Dong rejected Huo Yuhao’s offer to help clean, and Lin Ran watched her reluctantly clean their cramped dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao noticed a fleeting, familiar presence beside Wang Dong, but Tian Meng said no one else had been there.
• Dai Huabin entered Huo Yuhao’s dormitory, claimed his bed, and ordered Huo Yuhao to serve him and obey him.
• Dai Huabin called Huo Yuhao a cripple, prompting Huo Yuhao to strike him with a mental shock and punch him out through the balcony.
• Zhu Lu rushed to Dai Huabin’s side while Huo Yuhao waited for them to recover, intending to defeat them before the new students.

Huo Yuhao fought Dai Huabin after Dai Huabin tried to claim his bed and order him around, then faced Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Huo Yuhao’s suggestive Winter Thought Fist left Wang Dong’er stunned as the battle continued.

• Dai Huabin threw Huo Yuhao’s bedding onto the floor and demanded that Huo Yuhao obey him, so Huo Yuhao attacked him with a mental strike and punched him off the balcony.
• Zhu Lu rushed to Dai Huabin’s side, while Lin Ran used his Dark Gold Dreadclaws to cut Wang Dong’er’s pants and touched her leg as he said he was nurturing her with Life power.
• After Dai Huabin recovered, Huo Yuhao taunted him and fought back against his White Tiger attacks, then Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu fused their Martial Souls into the Hell White Tiger.
• Huo Yuhao was distracted by Wang Dong’er on the balcony and was slashed across the chest by the Hell White Tiger.
• Huo Yuhao used Winter Thought Fist, Thoughts Flowing Like a Spring, while gazing lovingly at Wang Dong’er, leaving her dumbfounded.

Lin Ran kissed and teased Wang Dong while claiming he had practiced beforehand, then told her he had another reason for coming to Shrek Academy. As Wang Dong struggled to understand his questions about her and Qiu'er's backgrounds, Lin Ran pressed her for answers and left her unable to respond.

• Lin Ran kissed Wang Dong, but she pushed him away and called him a lecher after he damaged her clothes with his Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• Lin Ran explained that he had practiced because their relationship was important, and Wang Dong reluctantly let him kiss her again.
• Lin Ran said he had come to Shrek Academy for another matter and promised to return for Wang Dong after finishing it.
• Lin Ran asked why Wang Dong's First Dad and Second Dad had sent her to Shrek Academy and why she and Qiu'er had disguised themselves as boys to attend a designated academy.
• Wang Dong said she had never looked into their backgrounds, and Lin Ran pressed her down, leaving her unable to think through the sudden pain.

Lin Ran claimed Wang Dong as his own and left her at Shrek Academy before visiting the Golden Ancient Tree with the Life Goddess. After she detected something impure within the Life Core, she entered it, and the tree erupted with light and sent waves of life force across Sea God Island.

• Lin Ran told Wang Dong to stay at Shrek Academy, questioned her origins, and declared that she belonged to him; Wang Dong accepted him but warned she would bite him if he betrayed her.
• The next morning, Lin Ran left Wang Dong lunch and departed for Sea God Island, trusting his teacher to distract Mu En and Xuan Zi while his Illusory Sea Pearl hid his identity.
• At the Golden Ancient Tree, the Life Goddess sensed that the Life Core was impure and learned from Lin Ran that Shrek's Elders had been feeding it Soul Power and life force.
• The Life Goddess connected her Divine Sense to the Golden Ancient Tree, then vanished and told Lin Ran to be careful.
• The Golden Ancient Tree blazed with dazzling light, and waves of life force made Sea God Island tremble.

Lin Ran claimed Wang Dong as his own before leaving her at Shrek Academy and going to investigate the Golden Ancient Tree. When the Life Goddess connected with the tree, she discovered something inside it and left abruptly as it erupted with light.

• Lin Ran warned Wang Dong about questions surrounding her and Wang Qiu'er's backgrounds, then declared she belonged to him; Wang Dong accepted him but threatened to bite him if he betrayed her.
• The next morning, Lin Ran left food for Wang Dong, kissed her goodbye, and headed across Sea God Lake toward Sea God Island.
• The Life Goddess sensed that the Golden Ancient Tree was impure, and Lin Ran explained that Shrek Academy's Elders supplied it with their Soul Power and Life Power.
• At Sea God Pavilion, Lin Ran touched the Golden Ancient Tree, allowing the Life Goddess to connect her Divine Sense to it.
• The Life Goddess told Lin Ran to protect himself and vanished; the Golden Ancient Tree then blazed with light, sending waves of life across Sea God Island and making it tremble.

Huo Yuhao secretly probed Wang Dong's room and lost part of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Origin to Lin Ran's Illusory Sea Pearl. Believing Tang San had intervened to protect Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao accepted the loss as a gift for her while Lin Ran continued teaching her the Longevity Skill.

• Huo Yuhao woke from his injuries, recalled seeing Wang Dong in a man's arms, and went to her dormitory, where she refused to let him in.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to spy on Wang Dong's room while Lin Ran taught her the Longevity Skill and guided Soul Power through the Yongquan acupoint.
• Lin Ran let Huo Yuhao's Mental Power enter the Illusory Sea Pearl, which drained two of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's nine origin seals before Huo Yuhao severed the connection.
• Huo Yuhao blamed Lord Sea God for taking thirty percent of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Origin and decided it was a gift for Dong'er.
• Lin Ran inspected the Spiritual Origin he had taken, then told Wang Dong that Huo Yuhao had tried to spy on them and resumed her lesson.

Lin Ran infiltrated Sea God Island again and was drawn into the Golden Ancient Tree, where the Plane Will of Douluo Star revealed that he had helped awaken her six years earlier. She thanked him by offering him the Sea God Trident, leaving him stunned by the gift.

• The Life Goddess's Divine Sense returned to the Illusory Sea Pearl, warned Lin Ran to be cautious of the Sea God, and fell asleep to recover.
• Lin Ran infiltrated Sea God Island again, where the Golden Ancient Tree blessed him and Mu En invited him to join Shrek Academy.
• Lin Ran refused Mu En's offer and threatened to fight his way out when Xuan Zi proposed detaining him.
• The Golden Ancient Tree's light transported Lin Ran to its core, where the Plane Will identified herself and thanked him for giving her spirituality six years earlier.
• The Plane Will offered Lin Ran the Sea God Trident, the Sea God's Super Divine Artifact.

The Plane Will thanked Lin Ran for giving her spirituality and presented him with the Sea God Trident before helping him form a life-attribute Soul Ring. At Shrek Academy, Wang Dong struggled through Zhou Yi’s classes while Huo Yuhao found that several people he remembered from his previous life were missing.

• The Plane Will told Lin Ran that he had given her spirituality six years earlier and offered him a suitable Soul Ring in gratitude.
• The Plane Will gave Lin Ran the Sea God Trident, and he accepted it before beginning meditation to form his fifth Soul Ring.
• Wang Dong deliberately slacked off during Zhou Yi’s hundred-lap test, fought Huo Yuhao in a soul duel, and was allowed to stay at Shrek Academy.
• Wang Dong concluded that Shrek’s teaching matched or exceeded the harsh descriptions in her books, while Huo Yuhao enjoyed the familiar training but worried that Xiao Xiao was absent.
• Huo Yuhao displayed his Soul Tool talent but received little support from the department’s deans, then went looking for Tang Ya and discovered she was not at Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao investigated further and found that Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan were all missing from Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao survived Xian Lin'er’s attack by summoning a Bone Dragon, but Shrek’s leaders accused him of being an Evil Soul Master and killing one of their teachers for a Soul Bone. Unable to explain everything and unwilling to leave Shrek Academy, he asked to see Mu En and was brought to the Sea God Pavilion.

• Xian Lin'er attacked Huo Yuhao, who summoned a Bone Dragon to block her strike.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo accused Huo Yuhao of being an Evil Soul Master who had killed a Shrek teacher and stolen his Soul Bone.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had caused the teacher’s death and struggled to decide whether he could trust Shrek’s Elders.
• Huo Yuhao chose to remain at Shrek Academy and demanded to see Mu En.
• Huo Yuhao recalled the Bone Dragon, used Dominating the World to impress Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo, and went with them to meet Mu En.

Huo Yuhao told Mu En that he had been reborn and described how this life had diverged from his memories. Mu En linked the changes to the Body Sect and Lin Ran, and Huo Yuhao realized Lin Ran’s past was connected to Tang Ya.

• Huo Yuhao recalled his Bone Dragon and used Dominating the World to persuade Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo to take him to Mu En.
• Huo Yuhao privately told Mu En about his previous life and demonstrated his abilities, and Mu En believed his account and reassured him that Shrek was his home.
• Huo Yuhao described the changes at Shrek, and Mu En suspected they were connected to the Body Sect or someone within it.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Lin Ran as the adopted child who had grown up with him and whom he had saved from dying at age six.
• Mu En explained that the Body Sect kept Lin Ran protected and recalled bringing him to Shrek as an eight-year-old alongside a Tang Sect girl.
• Huo Yuhao connected the girl to Tang Ya and asked Mu En to tell him more about her and Lin Ran.

Mu En explained why he had wanted Bei Bei and Tang Ya to join forces and told Huo Yuhao about Lin Ran’s strength and the Body Sect’s new Body College. Huo Yuhao suspected Lin Ran was the Life Goddess’s inheritor, and Mu En revealed that Lin Ran was currently at Shrek Academy, where the Golden Ancient Tree willingly cooperated with him.

• Mu En decided Bei Bei and Tang Ya should not be forced together, while Huo Yuhao secretly still hoped they would reunite so he could join the Tang Sect.
• Mu En described how eight-year-old Lin Ran had defeated Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi with two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, and explained that Lin Ran’s blood Martial Soul had the Ultimate Life attribute.
• Mu En warned that Body College could let the Body Sect grow into a rival like Spirit Hall, while Huo Yuhao recalled that the Body Sect had met a tragic end in his previous life.
• Mu En urged Huo Yuhao to talk with Lin Ran and resolve their hostility, and Huo Yuhao agreed if Lin Ran was connected to the Life Goddess.
• Mu En told Huo Yuhao that Lin Ran was at Shrek Academy and had been freely entering the Golden Ancient Tree, which cooperated with him.

Huo Yuhao reconciled with Shrek Academy, became Mu En’s disciple, and had his injuries healed as he tried to bring his former companions to Shrek. Inside the Golden Ancient Tree, Lin Ran’s Soul Rings and Soul Bones evolved, and he returned with his pre-paid uses replenished.

• Huo Yuhao told Mu En about the Body Sect’s fate in his previous life, and Mu En urged him to resolve his conflict with Lin Ran.
• Mu En explained that Lin Ran was at Shrek Academy, and Huo Yuhao connected Lin Ran’s actions with the Life Goddess and the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Huo Yuhao asked Shrek to persuade Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, and his other former companions to leave Body College, while Mu En agreed to try without involving the academy in a conflict.
• Mu En accepted Huo Yuhao as his disciple and used the Golden Ancient Tree to heal his injuries and lame leg; Huo Yuhao also recommended Wang Dong.
• Lin Ran’s four black Soul Rings became hundred-thousand-year red rings, his Soul Bones evolved, and his Blood Phoenix Wings gained the Evil Spirit Blade soul skill.
• Lin Ran reclaimed the Sea God Trident to complete the Pre-paid Mission, refreshed his available pre-paid uses to two, and the Plane Will sent him out of the Golden Ancient Tree.

Lin Ran used Myriad Spirits Return to Origin with All Things Grow and awakened a trace of spiritual fluctuation in Shrek’s Golden Ancient Tree, prompting Mu En to threaten him. Du Busi arrived to defend Lin Ran, and Mu En shifted from confrontation to a wary offer of coexistence.

• Lin Ran activated Myriad Spirits Return to Origin and briefly manipulated the Golden Ancient Tree’s life essence, giving it a trace of spiritual fluctuation before his Soul Power ran out.
• Lin Ran considered how his soul skills might reveal the origins of bloodlines and allow the Golden Ancient Tree to develop intelligence.
• Mu En warned Lin Ran not to do anything to the Golden Ancient Tree without Shrek’s approval and threatened conflict with the Body Sect.
• Du Busi arrived at Shrek and challenged Mu En for threatening Lin Ran.
• Mu En found that the Golden Ancient Tree did not respond to his power, then said Shrek could coexist peacefully with the Body Sect as long as Du Busi did not act.

Lin Ran confronted Huo Yuhao at Shrek and accused him of replacing the original Huo Yuhao after his soul merged with or devoured the boy’s. Huo Yuhao left the confrontation consumed by shame and hatred, convinced Lin Ran had taken everything from him.

• Mu En asked Lin Ran to meet an old friend, and Huo Yuhao was brought to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Lin Ran recognized him and why he had tried to kill him, but Lin Ran dismissed his questions and challenged his concern for Aunt Huo.
• Lin Ran accused Huo Yuhao of abandoning Aunt Huo and argued that she and Lin Ran might have suffered if she had remained at the Duke's Mansion.
• Lin Ran revealed that Aunt Huo had witnessed a soul enter the original Huo Yuhao and accused the present Huo Yuhao of being an impostor who had devoured the boy’s soul.
• Huo Yuhao demanded to see his mother, but Lin Ran said she would not meet him and planned to stay with Lin Ran wherever he went.
• Huo Yuhao blamed Lin Ran for taking his mother and other important people from him, and his hatred intensified.

Lin Ran challenged Huo Yuhao to a fight to the death, but Mu En intervened before Huo Yuhao accepted. Huo Yuhao then proposed a battle at the Soul Master Competition six years later, while Lin Ran rejected sparing his life in a fight now.

• Huo Yuhao accused Lin Ran of seeking revenge for the former Huo Yuhao, while Lin Ran said he wanted to eliminate Huo Yuhao because he stood in his way and because Aunt Huo believed he had killed her child.
• Lin Ran challenged Huo Yuhao to fight to the death in front of Mu En and Du Busi, but Huo Yuhao hesitated under Lin Ran's pressure.
• Lin Ran taunted Huo Yuhao for backing down, and Mu En stepped between them to discourage a life-and-death battle.
• After Lin Ran prepared to leave with Du Busi, Huo Yuhao accepted a fight and proposed that they decide victory and death at the Soul Master Competition six years later.
• Lin Ran challenged Huo Yuhao to face him now instead and declared that he would not spare Huo Yuhao's life if he could kill him in battle.

Lin Ran and Huo Yuhao wagered a duel over Shrek Academy's recruitment from Body College, with Lin Ran asking for Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit contract knowledge if he won. Their battle began outside the Sea God Pavilion, where Lin Ran's defenses overwhelmed Huo Yuhao's mental attacks.

• Huo Yuhao proposed that winning would let him take his mother away and allow Body College students to join Shrek Academy, but Lin Ran rejected forcing anyone to join.
• Huo Yuhao revised his terms so Shrek could recruit Body College students without obstruction, and Lin Ran asked for the Contracted Spirits method and related Soul Spirit knowledge as his stake.
• Mu En and Du Busi witnessed the wager and agreed to let the duel proceed.
• Lin Ran and Huo Yuhao took their positions outside the Sea God Pavilion, and Mu En and Du Busi announced the start.
• Huo Yuhao used a rose-gold soul skill to weaken Lin Ran, but Lin Ran's Mental Manifestation dispelled it with dragon roars.
• Huo Yuhao's Mental Shock also failed to affect Lin Ran, whose Soul Dragon Wander, Astrology, and Illusory Sea Pearl countered his mental techniques.