Chapter Summaries

Snow Empress transferred her seven-hundred-thousand-year origin into Xue Lingyun, tempering his skull bone and joining her Spiritual Power to his Sea of Consciousness. Xue Lingyun survived the dangerous fusion, gained Snow Empress's Soul Ring, and reached the peak of level 49 as she became part of him.

• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Youyou prepared the barriers and energy channel for the transfer while Xue Lingyun guarded his consciousness.
• Snow Empress used the Secret Law Soul Bone and Ice Empress's origin to form a bridge between Xue Lingyun's Martial Souls, then began fusing her origin with his skull bone.
• Snow Empress's Spiritual Power briefly surged into Xue Lingyun's Sea of Consciousness, but Youyou and Ice Empress helped him recover his awareness.
• Xue Lingyun endured Snow Empress's memories and emotions as she connected her Spiritual Power to his and transferred her Soul Origin.
• Snow Empress's seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring formed beneath Xue Lingyun, and his Soul Power rose to the peak of level 49.
• Xue Lingyun thanked Snow Empress and promised to continue the road she could not finish, while she told him to cultivate properly.

After the Snow Empress completed her fusion with Xue Lingyun, he discovered major changes to his perception, body, soul power, and martial souls. He promised Xiao Bai that his turn would come in a few months, then left the Far North for the Star Dou Great Forest to test his new abilities and follow a vague intuition.

• Xue Lingyun examined his expanded Sea of Consciousness and found the Ice Empress, Youyou, and the Snow Empress's spiritual bodies arranged within it.
• Xue Lingyun discovered that his mental power, skull bone, physical abilities, and martial souls had grown stronger after the Snow Empress's fusion.
• Xiao Bai asked when he would be next to receive a fusion, and Xue Lingyun promised him it would happen in a few months.
• Xue Lingyun chose to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest, guided by an intuition that he would find something there.
• Xue Lingyun left Xiao Bai guarding the Ice Palace and headed south through the Far North's wind and snow.

Xue Lingyun entered the Star Dou Great Forest to train his Emperor's Palm and Emperor's Sword against powerful soul beasts. After freezing a ten-thousand-year Ice Armor Rhino and wounding a Blazing Tiger, he sensed a massive presence emerging from the forest.

• Xue Lingyun followed Huangji Jingshi's guidance southwest into the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Snow Empress warned him about its territorial soul beasts.
• Xue Lingyun found a ten-thousand-year Ice Armor Rhino and froze it from the inside out with Emperor's Palm: Great Cold Without Snow.
• Xue Lingyun fought a Blazing Tiger with Emperor's Sword: Ice Extreme Unparalleled, freezing its wound and stopping its attack.
• Xue Lingyun continued deeper into the forest to practice, then stopped when he felt a powerful pressure ahead.
• A massive black shadow stepped out from behind a tree in front of Xue Lingyun.

Xue Lingyun killed a two-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and took its External Soul Bone instead of its soul ring. He fused the bone in a secluded cave, where it joined seamlessly with his right hand and formed an energy pathway with his Ice Empress soul bone.

• Xue Lingyun used his domain, spiritual control, and a simultaneous attack from himself and his clone to kill the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• Xue Lingyun ignored the bear's purple soul ring and extracted its Dark Gold Dreadclaw right palm bone.
• Xue Lingyun found a secluded rock cave and began fusing the External Soul Bone.
• The bear's remnant will attacked Xue Lingyun during the fusion, but he froze and dispersed it with his spiritual power.
• Xue Lingyun's Ice Empress soul bone soothed the palm bone's origin, and the External Soul Bone fused with the bones of his right hand.

Xue Lingyun tested the Dark Gold Dreadclaw External Soul Bone and its combinations with his soul skills and clone, confirming its formidable cutting power and the clone’s limits under sustained strain. Satisfied with the results, he left the Star Dou Great Forest and headed back toward Shrek.

• Xue Lingyun used the Dark Gold Dreadclaw to slice through boulders, then combined it with Ice Emperor's Wrath to freeze and shatter another boulder.
• Xue Lingyun combined the Dreadclaw with Evil Tiger Crushing Pulse Fist, tearing apart an ancient tree with a powerful single-target strike.
• Xue Lingyun tested the Dreadclaw through his clone and found that its simulated blades weakened under prolonged, high-load use because the clone lacked physical bones.
• Xue Lingyun synchronized his clone with Earth Vein Burst Heart, Ice Emperor's Wrath, and the Dreadclaw to blast a large pit into a mountain wall, then assessed the energy cost and attack’s power.
• Xue Lingyun explained to Youyou that his two-thousand-year right palm bone was an exceptionally valuable External Soul Bone that could grow with his cultivation.
• Xue Lingyun finished testing the bone, washed at a stream, and left the forest to return to Shrek.

Xue Lingyun returned to Shrek Academy after a breakthrough-filled break and told Zhou Yi he had reached level forty-nine. Back in his dormitory, Huo Yuhao described the awakening of his Ice Bear Second Martial Soul and asked when he could take revenge; Xue Lingyun told him to wait until he was strong enough.

• Xue Lingyun entered Shrek Academy as entrance exams began and explained to Youyou that only around a thousand candidates would pass.
• Xue Lingyun signed his leave-ending form and told Zhou Yi that an Immortal Herb and two Spirit Bones had helped him reach level forty-nine.
• Mu En noticed that Xue Lingyun's spiritual power had surged and sensed an unusual icy chill in his bones.
• Huo Yuhao told Xue Lingyun that the Soul-Nurturing Wood had helped his spiritual origin and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recover, and that the Ice Bear's injuries were healing after their initial origin fusion.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xue Lingyun his newly awakened Ice Bear Second Martial Soul and described its strength, ice abilities, senses, and defense.
• Huo Yuhao asked when he could take revenge, and Xue Lingyun told him to wait until he was strong enough.

After returning from the Far North stronger and changed in appearance, Xue Lingyun resumed life at Shrek Academy and easily defeated Xu Sanshi’s challenge. His progress drew the attention of Yan Shaozhe and stirred Ma Xiaotao, while the chapter ended with Xue Lingyun cultivating alone at night.

• Xue Lingyun massaged Mu En and discussed his newly created move, Imperial Zen Shock, while the Snow Empress sensed the power and burden Mu En was suppressing.
• Wang Dong and Jiang Nannan returned to the academy, noticed Xue Lingyun’s changed appearance, and greeted him.
• Xu Sanshi challenged Xue Lingyun, but Xue Lingyun evaded his punch and knocked him down with a precise strike.
• Du Weilun told Yan Shaozhe that Xue Lingyun had reached rank 49, and Yan Shaozhe said his foundation was secure and he could handle an upcoming matter.
• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao about Xue Lingyun’s progress, prompting her to quietly consider visiting him.
• Xue Lingyun sat alone in Room 106, regulating his breathing as night fell.

Xue Lingyun reflected on the formidable secrets and powerful figures hidden at Shrek before Ma Xiaotao visited him at night for help suppressing her worsening Evil Fire. After he calmed it, she asked whether he would stay at Shrek, and he left her future visits open while keeping his own plans private.

• Youyou, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress discussed Mu En’s near-demigod strength and the hidden power and Soul Power currents within Shrek.
• The Snow Empress revealed that Wang Dong was disguised as a man and carried an incomplete ancient Beast God bloodline.
• Ma Xiaotao climbed into Xue Lingyun’s dorm and asked him to suppress her increasingly frequent Evil Fire.
• Xue Lingyun used his purer Extreme Ice to calm Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire quickly, then told her he had reached Soul Power level forty-nine.
• Ma Xiaotao asked whether Xue Lingyun would remain at Shrek and urged him not to disappear again, while he kept his plans and vacation destination to himself.

Xue Lingyun returned to Shrek Academy and spent the day responding to classmates’ questions while the spirits in his Sea of Consciousness discussed Ma Xiaotao and Mu En. Yan Shaozhe secretly assessed Xue Lingyun’s stable condition and decided to speak with him privately after school began, which was set to start the next day.

• The Ice Empress teased Xue Lingyun about Ma Xiaotao and other girls, while the Snow Empress warned him about Ma Xiaotao’s impure flame and Youyou asked about Mu En.
• Xue Lingyun explained Mu En’s injuries, his reliance on sunlight to suppress the vicious energy in his body, and how Xue Lingyun’s massages eased his pain.
• At breakfast, Xiao Xiao reunited with Xue Lingyun and asked about his silver-white hair and school break, but she held back what she wanted to say as they left the Canteen.
• Ning Tian greeted Xue Lingyun near the Training Ground and wished him luck with the opening assessment, while Wang Dong later asked where he had gone over the break and urged him not to fail the assessment.
• Yan Shaozhe secretly sensed Xue Lingyun’s aura, found it unusually stable despite his rapid advancement, and decided to arrange a private conversation after school started.
• As Xue Lingyun reviewed the start-of-term matters in bed, Youyou asked whether school would bring him into contact with many people again.

Xue Lingyun returned to Shrek Academy for Grade 2, where his classmates reacted to his new appearance and his Fourth Soul Ring. Zhou Yi explained the Advancement Assessment in the Beast Arena, and the class gathered there that afternoon, while Huo Yuhao hinted that he had prepared for the challenge.

• Xue Lingyun arrived at the Yellow Teaching Building with Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao, then reunited with Xiao Xiao, Zhou Sichen, and Cao Jinxuan.
• Xue Lingyun confirmed to Zhou Sichen that he had gone to hunt his Fourth Soul Ring, and classmates discussed his age and strength.
• Zhou Yi told Grade 2 Class 1 that students would face a Soul Beast alone in the Beast Arena, with scores based on their performance and different standards for Assault and Control students.
• Huo Yuhao told Xue Lingyun that his preparations were ready, but neither he nor Xue Lingyun explained them to Wang Dong.
• Grade 2 Class 1 gathered at the Beast Arena that afternoon for the Advancement Assessment.

At Shrek Academy’s Great Beast Arena, second-year students began their Advancement Assessment, and Huo Yuhao accepted Dai Huabin’s wager that the lower scorer would kneel and kowtow. Xue Lingyun and Xie Huanyue were chosen to go first, and Xue Lingyun faced a thousand-year Frost Sub-Dragon before releasing his Second Martial Soul.

• Du Weilun explained that students would choose a Soul Beast’s age range before facing a randomly selected opponent, while teachers and Yan Shaozhe supervised the assessment.
• Dai Huabin taunted Huo Yuhao, who retorted about Dai’s Freshman Assessment loss and accepted a bet that the lower-scoring student would kneel and kowtow three times.
• Mujin proposed that the class monitors go first, and Du Weilun selected Xue Lingyun and Xie Huanyue to begin the assessment.
• Xue Lingyun and Xie Huanyue each chose a thousand-year Soul Beast, and Xue Lingyun entered the arena first.
• A thousand-year Frost Sub-Dragon emerged to face Xue Lingyun, who released his Second Martial Soul, an Ice Blue Dragon Phantom, and spread its Dragon’s Might across the arena.

Xue Lingyun earned a record score after his Dragon-type Martial Soul frightened away a Frost Sub-Dragon, while Huo Yuhao’s simulated hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring halted the Advancement Assessment. After the assessment was postponed and Dai Huabin paid the wager, Huo Yuhao thanked Xue Lingyun for his help and was told he could repay him later.

• Xue Lingyun’s Dragon’s Might made the Frost Sub-Dragon retreat, and Du Weilun awarded him an unprecedented 150 points.
• Ma Xiaotao met Xue Lingyun in the corridor and said she would need his help suppressing her Evil Fire again.
• Huo Yuhao’s simulated hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring terrified the Soul Beasts, so Du Weilun suspended the Advancement Assessment for at least two or three days.
• Xue Lingyun agreed with the Ice Empress that Soul Beasts’ intelligence was limited by their inability to pass knowledge down through generations.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Xue Lingyun for suggesting the aura simulation, and Xue Lingyun told him not to overthink it because he had won.
• Wang Dong told Xue Lingyun that Dai Huabin had knelt and kowtowed three times, and Huo Yuhao later thanked Xue Lingyun again for his past help.

Xue Lingyun spent a quiet day at Shrek Academy, sharing the morning with Mu En and eating alongside Xie Huanyue before attempting a Level Five Core in the Soul Guidance Department. His improved Spiritual Power let him engrave the core successfully, leaving it glowing with steady golden-white light.

• Xue Lingyun told Mu En he had already earned full marks on his second-year assessment, and Mu En advised him to stay away from Dai and praised his steady friend.
• Xie Huanyue sat across from Xue Lingyun in the Canteen and tried to out-eat him, but ended up stuffed and exhausted while Xue Lingyun finished his meal.
• Xue Lingyun went to the Soul Guidance Department Testing Area and began engraving a Level Five Core, confident after his Spiritual Power increased from absorbing the Snow Empress's skull bone.
• Xue Lingyun completed the core's intricate circuits without a mistake and infused it with Soul Power, making it shine with a steady golden-white radiance.

Xue Lingyun engraved a Level Five Soul Tool core, prompting Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo to consider him the centerpiece of the Extreme Solo Soldier Plan. After Huo Yuhao shared news about the Gray Little Ball, Xue Lingyun spoke with Wang Dong about their unknown biological parents and the people who raised them.

• Xue Lingyun gave Fan Yu the Level Five core he had engraved, and Fan Yu showed it to Qian Duoduo, who agreed that Xue Lingyun should lead the Extreme Solo Soldier Plan with He Caitou and Huo Yuhao as support.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao told Xue Lingyun about their assessments, and Huo Yuhao privately explained that the Gray Little Ball had helped fuse the Ice Bear's origin and would provide a better method after recovering with the Soul-Nurturing Wood.
• Huo Yuhao went to the Soul Guidance Department for an advancement examination after Fan Yu suggested he take it, while Wang Dong told Xue Lingyun that Huo Yuhao had beaten Dai Huabin in another bet and made him kneel again.
• Wang Dong and Xue Lingyun shared that they had never met their biological parents, and Xue Lingyun urged her to value the uncles who raised her and focus on the people around her.

Wang Dong worried that her biological parents might disappoint or deceive her, and Xue Lingyun offered to help judge them and deal with any threat. The two received invitations to Shrek Academy’s Treasure Appreciation Meeting, and Wang Dong planned to attend with Xue Lingyun that night.

• Xue Lingyun advised Wang Dong to temper her expectations of her biological parents and promised to help assess them and handle any danger.
• A Shrek Academy staff member delivered Treasure Appreciation Meeting invitations for Xue Lingyun, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Dong read her invitation, left Huo Yuhao’s envelope for him, and said she would attend the meeting with Xue Lingyun.
• Xue Lingyun explained the meeting’s tiers and selection of treasures to the Ice Empress, who urged him to buy anything suitable.

After Huo Yuhao passed the Soul Guidance Department assessment, he joined Wang Dong and Xue Lingyun on their way to the Treasure Appreciation Meeting in Shrek City. The invitation recognized him as a Core Disciple and included a map, and the three set off toward the North Gate.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Xue Lingyun that he had passed the Soul Guidance Department assessment.
• Wang Dong gave Huo Yuhao an invitation to the Treasure Appreciation Meeting, and Xue Lingyun explained that his Advancement Assessment performance had earned him the invitation.
• Wang Dong explained that Core Disciples could buy items at the meeting on credit, and Huo Yuhao realized he could shop despite having little money.
• Huo Yuhao checked the invitation for directions, and Xue Lingyun determined that the North Gate was the closest route to Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
• Wang Dong led Huo Yuhao and Xue Lingyun toward the North Gate.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xue Lingyun visited Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where they received VIP cards with different shopping quotas. Huo Yuhao ran into Beibei and Xu Sanshi, then saw Xue Lingyun with Jiang Nannan, leaving Xu Sanshi visibly upset.

• Xue Lingyun led Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong through the crowded Shrek City to Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
• The attendant assigned Xue Lingyun a Black Card with a half-price discount and one free item, while Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao each received a Purple Card with a twenty percent discount.
• Huo Yuhao browsed the second-floor displays and overheard Xu Sanshi asking Beibei to help him get Jiang Nannan to join the Tang Sect.
• Beibei explained that Xu Sanshi liked Jiang Nannan, who had no feelings for him, and Xu Sanshi insisted that her benefactor was not a romantic interest.
• Huo Yuhao greeted Xue Lingyun, who introduced Jiang Nannan as a Fifth Year Outer Court Senior Sister, while Xu Sanshi watched with a livid expression.

Huo Yuhao, Xue Lingyun, Jiang Nannan, and Wang Dong browsed the Treasure Gathering Pavilion before heading back toward Shrek City. Six attackers ambushed them on the road, forcing Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao to flee while Xue Lingyun stayed behind to face the pursuers.

• Xu Sanshi watched Jiang Nannan walk with Xue Lingyun, and Beibei led him away while worrying about Tang Ya's distance from him.
• Xue Lingyun showed Huo Yuhao and Jiang Nannan the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Huo Yuhao bought basic medicinal herb booklets and Wang Dong decided not to buy a Soul Guidance Cannon core.
• Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xue Lingyun left the Pavilion together, and Huo Yuhao warned Xue Lingyun that Sky Dream had sensed killing intent in the roadside woods.
• Xue Lingyun ordered Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao to run, and they took flight toward the academy as six ambushers emerged and split up to pursue them.
• Xue Lingyun removed his jacket and weighted vest, identified Dai Huabin as the likely instigator, and revealed his Ten-Thousand-Year fourth Soul Ring before three attackers charged him.

Xue Lingyun killed the assassins who ambushed him and pursued Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, then rescued the two students and learned that Dai Huabin had arranged the attack. The three returned toward Shrek Academy in silence.

• Xue Lingyun used his ice powers and Dark Gold Dreadclaws to kill the two Spirit Kings and Spirit Emperor who attacked him.
• Xue Lingyun created a cloaked black clone and headed toward Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong as they fled three pursuing Spirit Kings.
• Xue Lingyun rescued Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, killing their pursuers; the last Spirit King revealed that Dai Huabin had paid them to ambush Xue Lingyun and target Huo Yuhao.
• Xue Lingyun rejoined Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, told them to return to Shrek Academy, and led them down the road.

Dai Huabin waited outside Shrek City to learn whether Xue Lingyun had attended the Treasure Appreciation Meeting, then suffered a brutal attack from Xue Lingyun’s self-destructing Clone. Xue Lingyun returned safely to Shrek Academy with Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao, identified Dai Huabin as the likely mastermind, and went to bed after deciding to report the attack the next day.

• Dai Huabin confirmed that Xue Lingyun had attended the Treasure Appreciation Meeting and waited outside the city for news from the six attackers he had hired.
• A cloaked Clone ambushed Dai Huabin, endured his blows, then self-destructed and left him screaming in severe pain.
• Xue Lingyun, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao entered Shrek Academy safely, and Xue Lingyun said they would report the attack the next day.
• Xue Lingyun told Wang Dong that the attackers were one Spirit Emperor and five Spirit Kings, and identified the person behind the attack as the one who had made the bet.
• Xue Lingyun admitted to the Ice Empress that Sister Xue had chosen where the Clone would explode, then bathed and went to bed.