Chapter Summaries

Wu Xuan supported Qian Gu Ming and Nanmen Yun'er in their New Student Assessment match, and their boosted speed overwhelmed Zi Hao's team in seconds. After the win, Wu Xuan left with his teammates rather than watch the other matches, while Wang Yan watched Huo Yuhao's team prepare to compete.

• Wu Xuan, Qian Gu Ming, and Nanmen Yun'er faced Zi Hao, Ling Ling, and Ma Qingshuang on the Battle Soul Platform.
• Wu Xuan used Light Spirit Wind to boost his teammates, and Qian Gu Ming and Nanmen Yun'er defeated Zi Hao and Ma Qingshuang before Ling Ling could react.
• Teacher Cheng declared Wu Xuan's team the winner, and Wang Yan wondered what made Wu Xuan's Thousand-Year soul skill so powerful.
• Wang Yan began officiating Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao's match against Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, and Zhao Haochen.
• Wu Xuan declined to watch the other matches and left with Qian Gu Ming and Nanmen Yun'er to rest before the next day's assessments.

Wu Xuan's team advanced through the New Student Assessment, defeating Xie Huanyue's Class Two team to reach the final eight. Wu Xuan's control of the battle left Xie Huanyue exhausted as the assessment continued.

• Wu Xuan's team won their early matches easily, while Class Nine's results surpassed Zhou Yi's Class One and angered her.
• Wu Xuan's trio defeated Class One's third-ranked team and then faced Xie Huanyue and the Luo brothers in the sixteen-to-eight match.
• Qian Gu Ming and Nanmen Yun'er overwhelmed the Luo brothers, prompting the proctor to remove them from the arena.
• Xie Huanyue used his third Soul Skill to attack Qian Gu Ming and Nanmen Yun'er, but Wu Xuan stopped him with Jadeite Wind and encased him in crystal.
• The referee declared Wu Xuan's team the winner, and Wu Xuan shattered the crystal as Xie Huanyue knelt and caught his breath.

Wang Yan brought Elder Xuan to watch the New Student Assessment, where Wu Xuan’s team faced Huo Yuhao’s team in the round of sixteen. Wu Xuan’s team won and advanced to the top eight, leaving Zhou Yi bound by her bet with Mu Jin to surrender a Soul Bone and resign.

• Wang Yan told Elder Xuan about the promising freshmen, and Elder Xuan decided to attend the ranking matches.
• After Wu Xuan’s team drew Huo Yuhao’s team, Zhou Yi and Mu Jin wagered a Soul Bone and their positions in the Martial Soul Department on the match’s outcome.
• Wu Xuan’s team and Huo Yuhao’s team announced their levels, revealing Wu Xuan was a level-thirty-five Soul Elder while Huo Yuhao was a level-seventeen Soul Master.
• Wu Xuan empowered his teammates with his wind skills, then sent Xiao Xiao off the platform with a strike from his condensed jade-green staff.
• Wang Dong unleashed Butterfly God’s Light, but Wu Xuan’s Extreme Wind weakened her attack and his Finger Wind Dragon forced the proctor to shield her before Elder Xuan destroyed the dragon.
• Qian Gu Ming swept Huo Yuhao off the platform, securing Wu Xuan’s team a place in the top eight, and Mu Jin reminded Zhou Yi to prepare the Soul Bone and resignation letter.

Wu Xuan's team faced Cao Jinxuan's team in the semifinals, where Wu Xuan's versatile skills overcame their unusual Martial Souls. Wu Xuan's team advanced, leaving Dai Huabin questioning whether he could withstand Wu Xuan's attacks.

• Yan Shaozhe attended the semifinals and said he would watch the matches after praising the freshmen's talent.
• Du Weilun drew the matchups, placing Wu Xuan's team against Cao Jinxuan's team on Battle Soul Platform Number One.
• Cao Jinxuan used his Time Passes Clock to end the opponents' enhancements while Zhou Sichen summoned a bear and tiger with his Codex Martial Soul.
• Wu Xuan trapped Zhou Sichen's summons in Jadeite Crystals, and Qian Gu Ming's attack forced the referee to eliminate Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan.
• Nanmen Yun'er pressured Long Xiangyue until the referee intervened, and the proctor declared Wu Xuan's team the winner.
• Dai Huabin watched Wu Xuan's performance and wondered whether his tiger claws could withstand Wu Xuan's short spears.

Wu Xuan and Dai Huabin’s teams faced off in the New Student Assessment finals, where Wu Xuan’s wind spear shattered Dai Huabin’s attacks and defense. Dai Huabin was sent flying, and Wu Xuan challenged him to use the rest of his strength.

• Yan Shaozhe arrived with Du Weilun to watch the finals, drawn by the freshmen’s strength and Wu Xuan’s two Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• The referee announced the finals’ rules, and the two teams introduced themselves before taking positions at opposite ends of the arena.
• When the match began, Wu Xuan used Light Spirit Wind to speed up his team as both sides charged toward their opponents.
• Dai Huabin used White Tiger possession and attacked Wu Xuan with White Tiger Blazing Light Wave, but Wu Xuan formed a Jadeite Wind spear and tore through the blast.
• Wu Xuan knocked aside Dai Huabin’s claws, shattered his White Tiger Body Protection Barrier with a spear thrust, and sent him flying before urging him to reveal his remaining abilities.

Wu Xuan led his team to victory over Dai Huabin’s team, revealing his Soul Breaking Spear and stopping Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu from using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Shrek’s leaders recognized Wu Xuan’s extraordinary potential, and Qian Duoduo realized he was unlikely to recruit him for the Soul Tool Department.

• Wu Xuan overwhelmed Dai Huabin while Nanmen Yun'er and Qian Gu Ming kept Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie on the defensive.
• Wu Xuan trapped Dai Huabin in Jadeite Crystal, but Dai Huabin broke free and charged at him again.
• Wu Xuan revealed his Soul Breaking Spear, shattered Dai Huabin’s attack, and drew excitement from Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo.
• Cui Yajie was eliminated after using Charm to slow Nanmen Yun'er, while Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu prepared their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Wu Xuan used his ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Pressure to interrupt the fusion, knocking Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu unconscious and securing his team’s win.
• Yan Shaozhe praised Wu Xuan’s potential and told Qian Duoduo that Wu Xuan’s teacher had drawn his attention, leaving Qian Duoduo doubtful he could recruit him.

After winning the assessment, Wu Xuan celebrated with friends at Huo Yuhao's grilled fish stall, where they met the imposing Ma Xiaotao. The group closed the stall early and headed to Qingyun Hotel to celebrate together.

• Wu Xuan, Qian Gu Ming, and Nanmen Yun'er visited Huo Yuhao's stall, where Wu Xuan congratulated him on the team's championship and met Xiao Xiao.
• Xu Sanshi, Tang Ya, and Beibei joined the gathering, and Wu Xuan got to know Xu Sanshi.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived, frightened the waiting customers away, paid Wang Dong for all the grilled fish, and praised Huo Yuhao's cooking.
• Ma Xiaotao left with Xu Sanshi, and Wu Xuan invited Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, and Beibei to celebrate at Qingyun Hotel.
• Huo Yuhao packed up his stall early, and the group set off for the hotel.

Wu Xuan's team won the freshman assessment and received the Academy's special rewards, while the freshmen learned their core disciple statuses and class assignments. Wu Xuan's team left with two soul bones, including the Academy's secret champion prize, and Mu Jin gave them another soul bone she had won from Zhou Yi.

• Du Weilun announced Huang Chutian's team in third place and Dai Huabin's team in second, then named Wu Xuan, Qian Gu Ming, and Nanmen Yun'er champions.
• Du Weilun awarded the top three teams Academy support for their next soul rings and gave Wu Xuan's team two additional secret rewards.
• Du Weilun announced the official and provisional core disciples; Huo Yuhao was left off the official list but received provisional status.
• The freshmen received class assignments, with Wu Xuan, Qian Gu Ming, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao placed in Class One under Wang Yan, with Mu Jin as assistant head teacher.
• Du Weilun gave Qian Gu Ming and Nanmen Yun'er Soul Ascension Pills and presented Wu Xuan's team with a forty-thousand-year Wind Tiger right leg soul bone.
• Mu Jin gave Wu Xuan's team a seven-thousand-year Flame Ape left arm soul bone she had won from Zhou Yi.

Wu Xuan gave the Flame Ape soul bone to Qian Gu Ming and Nanmen Yun'er, then became Class One’s Power Attack System monitor. Huo Yuhao challenged Wu Feng to defend his chance to run for Control System vice monitor, defeated her with a mysterious gray-eyed power, and left the class stunned.

• Wu Xuan handed the Flame Ape soul bone to Qian Gu Ming and Nanmen Yun'er, who declined it because its attributes did not suit Nanmen Yun'er.
• Wang Yan nominated Wu Xuan as a Power Attack System monitor candidate, and nearly the entire class voted for him.
• Wu Feng objected to Huo Yuhao running for Control System vice monitor because he was only a one-ring soul master, and most of the class voted to remove him from the election.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Wu Feng, and Wang Yan set the wager that the loser would be disqualified from running for class monitor.
• Wu Feng initially gained the upper hand, but Huo Yuhao's gray-eyed power made her collapse unconscious, winning the match.
• Wang Yan carried Wu Feng to the infirmary while Wang Dong supported Huo Yuhao, and Wu Xuan suspected Huo Yuhao had called on someone else to fight for him.

As the first school year at Shrek Academy ended, Wang Yan warned the class that they would face strict promotion exams after vacation. Wu Xuan agreed to travel north with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to meet the Ice Empress in the Extreme North and seek a powerful Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Wu Xuan spent the semester growing close to Xiao Xiao and fighting Dai Huabin, while Huo Yuhao worried about falling behind his classmates.
• Wang Yan told Grade One Class One that students needed Level Twenty Soul Power and two Soul Rings to advance, and described the possible individual and class assessments.
• Qian Gu Ming said goodbye to Wu Xuan as the students prepared to leave for vacation.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that it planned to take Wu Xuan to the Extreme North's Core Zone to meet the Ice Empress, a Three Hundred Ninety Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Wu Xuan agreed to go, hoping to grow stronger and eventually help Sky Dream Ice Silkworm become a god.

Wu Xuan and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lured Ice Empress into the Extreme North, hoping to recruit her by offering a share of Tian Meng's origin power. Ice Empress attacked Tian Meng's spiritual projection, and Tian Meng responded by engulfing her in his Spiritual Power.

• Wu Xuan traveled to the Extreme North with Tian Meng guiding him through the dangerous wilderness.
• After Tian Meng admitted he had lost his way, he proposed using his Spiritual Origin to draw Ice Empress out and persuade her to join them.
• Wu Xuan learned Ice Empress was unlikely to survive her next heavenly tribulation and suggested using a small amount of Tian Meng's origin power as leverage.
• Tian Meng formed a golden spiritual body and called for Ice Empress across the ice plains.
• Ice Empress appeared, rejected Tian Meng's explanation, and pierced his projection with her tail hook.
• Tian Meng released his immense Spiritual Power and engulfed Ice Empress.

Wu Xuan and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm captured Ice Empress and brought her to a quiet part of the Frozen Forest to propose that she become Wu Xuan’s soul ring. Ice Empress rejected the idea, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began recounting his hardships to persuade her.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used his Spiritual Power to bind Ice Empress while Wu Xuan endured the extreme cold nearby.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm drew Ice Empress into Wu Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness, and Wu Xuan fled toward the outskirts of the Extreme North.
• After Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found a quiet place, Wu Xuan released Ice Empress and introduced himself as Tian Meng’s partner.
• Wu Xuan asked Ice Empress to join them as his soul ring, but she angrily refused and challenged him to take it by force.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that he had already become Wu Xuan’s soul ring and recounted his miserable past to Ice Empress.

Wu Xuan and Tian Meng persuaded Ice Empress to join their plan to create a god, promising her a chance at eternal life. Ice Empress agreed to become Wu Xuan’s soul ring and released her Spiritual Origin, which Tian Meng brought into Wu Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness.

• Wu Xuan explained that Ice Empress’s approaching four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation could kill her and offered to preserve her consciousness as his soul ring.
• Tian Meng presented his plan to help Wu Xuan become a god and argued that Ice Empress’s support would raise their chances of success to eighty percent.
• Ice Empress examined Wu Xuan’s abilities, then accepted the risk and agreed to join them.
• Wu Xuan welcomed Ice Empress to their side and asked her to release her Spiritual Origin.
• Ice Empress separated her Spiritual Origin from her true form, and Tian Meng carried it into Wu Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness, where she appeared as a young girl.

Wu Xuan fused with Ice Empress, receiving a left arm soul bone and a Four Hundred Thousand Year soul ring for his Soul Breaking Spear. The fusion succeeded, leaving him stronger and with the soul ring's power raised through Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's help.

• Ice Empress took human form in Wu Xuan's Sea of Consciousness and beat up Sky Dream Ice Silkworm before discussing the fusion with Wu Xuan.
• Wu Xuan told Ice Empress about a Dragon King and persuaded her to grant him a left arm bone instead of a torso bone.
• Wu Xuan chose to let his soul skills form randomly and agreed to fuse the soul bone before absorbing the soul ring.
• Ice Empress warned Wu Xuan that the painful fusion required him to stay conscious, and he began fusing with her power.
• Wu Xuan completed the fusion, gained a dark green Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion mark on his left arm, and revealed his new soul ring.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used his origin power to help Ice Empress break through, raising Wu Xuan's second Soul Breaking Spear ring to Four Hundred Thousand Year.

After absorbing Ice Empress’s soul ring, Wu Xuan gained a major boost and escorted her to meet Snow Empress in the Extreme North. Meanwhile, Tang San noticed that events on Douluo Star had diverged from his plans and sent his divine consciousness to investigate Wu Xuan.

• Wu Xuan assessed his improved spiritual power and physical abilities with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, then agreed to help Ice Empress visit Snow Empress.
• Wu Xuan used his Gathering of Sharpness innate soul skill to let Ice Empress leave his Sea of Consciousness for three days.
• While waiting for Ice Empress, Wu Xuan learned that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s feelings for her were complicated and reaffirmed his resolve to become a god.
• Ice Empress returned sorrowful after seeing Snow Empress, who had been forced to rebuild herself as a human, and Wu Xuan began leading her out of the Extreme North.
• Tang San realized that a different rising star had displaced the candidate tied to his plans and projected his divine consciousness down to Douluo Star to investigate.

Buddha Ancestor Tang discovered Wu Xuan and planned to control him, but the God King of Destruction destroyed his divine consciousness and confiscated the God Realm Central Hub. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and agreed to undergo its Sea God inheritance trial.

• Buddha Ancestor Tang recognized Wu Xuan as a talented descendant of the Tang Sect and decided he could use him to oppose Destruction.
• The God King of Destruction destroyed Buddha Ancestor Tang's wisp of divine consciousness, took the God Realm Central Hub, and warned Tang San to stop interfering with the lower realm.
• At Haotian Fort, the blue-haired middle-aged man agreed to go see Wu Xuan after receiving orders to look after him, while the burly Second Brother voiced his objections.
• Huo Yuhao reached level twenty and entered Sunset Forest to find a soul ring, but an Ironclad Giant Rhino chased him toward poisonous miasma.
• Huo Yuhao crossed the miasma and met a talking pink flower at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, which identified him as a Tang Sect disciple and offered him the Sea God inheritance trial.
• Huo Yuhao eagerly agreed to accept the inheritance trial.

Wu Xuan learned that an Evil Soul Master had massacred villages and the Qi Family in Mist Mountain City, then tracked the killer to the city's northern inner district. After hearing the figure was injured and likely still nearby, Wu Xuan decided to pursue him.

• Wu Xuan heard reports of an Evil Soul Master while leaving Extreme North City and explained to Ice Empress how the killers gained strength by devouring lives.
• Wu Xuan found a ruined village full of corpses and concluded the massacre had happened within the past half month.
• Wu Xuan discovered more than ten massacred villages on his way to Mist Mountain City and wondered why the Evil Soul Master had remained nearby despite the risk of attracting powerful soul masters.
• A pastry vendor told Wu Xuan that the Qi Family had been slaughtered and that a bloodied, black-robed figure had limped toward the northern inner city.
• Wu Xuan reasoned that the injured Evil Soul Master was likely no stronger than a Soul King and chose to pursue him.

Wu Xuan discovered the slaughtered city lord’s household and tracked the suspected Evil Soul Master to an abandoned house, where he swiftly defeated him. Before Wu Xuan could kill the wounded man, Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged him to hear the man’s story.

• Wu Xuan found the city lord’s household brutally murdered and headed north to hunt down the killer.
• Tian Meng located a Soul King-level aura in an abandoned residence, and Wu Xuan went there.
• Wu Xuan interrupted the gaunt man as he dissolved a tortured corpse, then pierced him with the Soul Breaking Spear and sent him crashing into a wall.
• The gaunt man said he had massacred villages and the city lord’s family to rise from a weak Soul Master to a Soul Ancestor, and claimed he did not regret it.
• Wu Xuan prepared to use Soul Blast to kill the man, but Ice Empress and Tian Meng asked him to hear the man out.

Wu Xuan listened as a gaunt Evil Soul Master recounted how oppression and the loss of his wife had driven him to kill, but executed him for slaughtering innocents. He left committed to punishing anyone who deliberately harmed the innocent, regardless of their reasons.

• The gaunt man told Wu Xuan that a city lord's illegitimate son assaulted his wife, his family and neighbors shamed her, and she later took her own life.
• The man said his grief and hatred mutated his martial soul, leading him to kill villagers, his parents, and eventually the city lord's family in revenge.
• Wu Xuan acknowledged the man's suffering but declared that his crimes made him an Evil Soul Master and thrust the Soul Breaking Spear through his throat.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress mourned the man's story, while Wu Xuan dismissed their sympathy and left.
• Wu Xuan resolved to destroy anyone he found deliberately endangering innocents, provided he had the strength to do so.

Wu Xuan returned to Shrek Academy and applied for help obtaining his fourth Soul Ring after breaking through to Level 40 Soul Power. Yan Shaozhe recognized his record-breaking achievement and arranged for him to join three Inner Court students traveling to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Wu Xuan registered for the new term with Wang Yan and asked to speak with Du Weilun.
• Wu Xuan told Du Weilun that he had reached Level 40 Soul Power and applied for academy assistance obtaining his fourth Soul Ring.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived, confirmed Wu Xuan had become the youngest student in Shrek Academy's history to reach Level 40, and said his name would enter the Sea God Pavilion Records.
• Yan Shaozhe took Wu Xuan to Sea God Island and introduced him to three Inner Court students preparing to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Lexuan to look after Wu Xuan and reminded him to choose the Soul Ring best suited to him.