Chapter Summaries

Gu Yue persuaded Na'er to help her use the Dragon God's Power to turn the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' remains into an External Soul Bone for Huo Yuhao. Their powers merged, and Gu Yue dissolved the dragon skeletons, leaving a single scale in her palm.

• Na'er warned Gu Yue that combining their incomplete Golden and Silver Dragon King powers could severely injure them, but Gu Yue insisted she needed the power to retrieve the Dragon Kings' remains for an External Soul Bone.
• Na'er challenged Gu Yue over her mission and her feelings for Huo Yuhao, but Gu Yue said he could become an ally in the Soul Beast race's revival.
• Na'er agreed to help, joking that Gu Yue should hope her beauty trap worked, and the two began combining their powers.
• Their Golden and Silver Dragon King energies fused into nine-colored Dragon God's Power, which Gu Yue used to raise the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' skeletons.
• Gu Yue dispersed the skeletons into starlight, and a single scale fell into her outstretched palm.

After the group returned from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Huo Yuhao went to a secluded courtyard to attempt his Soul Saint breakthrough and condense a Second Soul Core. As he entered the quiet room, Leng Yaozhu urged Gu Yue to cherish her relationship with him, hinting at a painful memory of her own.

• Tang Wulin gained the recognition of a hundred-thousand-year Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, while Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan each chose a compatible Immortal Herb.
• The lake at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well shook violently, but Gu Yue and Na'er soon emerged unharmed and declined to choose Immortal Herbs.
• The group returned to Shrek City, where Huo Yuhao took Gu Yue to the secluded courtyard where he planned to attempt his Soul Saint breakthrough and condense his Second Soul Core.
• Leng Yaozhu welcomed Huo Yuhao and agreed to guard him as he began, while Gu Yue said she believed in him and promised him a gift after his breakthrough.
• While Huo Yuhao entered the quiet room, Leng Yaozhu asked Gu Yue about their relationship and told her to cherish him, briefly revealing sadness over a buried memory.

Huo Yuhao absorbed Aromatic Silk Beauty’s medicinal power and successfully fused with the purple-clad man’s Spirit Soul. Inside Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Sea, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Xiao Yin greeted the newcomer with an argument over Sky Dream’s claim to be a Million-year Soul Beast.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the medicinal essence of Aromatic Silk Beauty to strengthen his foundation and improve his future cultivation.
• The purple-clad man agreed to the Spirit Soul fusion, and Huo Yuhao’s power drew him into Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Sea.
• The purple-clad man discovered the Spirit Sea’s immense vitality and realized the fusion had succeeded.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm introduced himself as Huo Yuhao’s senior Spirit Soul and claimed to be a Million-year Soul Beast.
• Xiao Yin appeared and mocked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for boasting about a realm he had not proven through a Heavenly Tribulation.

The Ice Empress revealed that she was the same Ice Empress from ten thousand years ago and explained Huo Yuhao’s identity to the bewildered purple-clad man. As Huo Yuhao prepared to condense his Second Soul Core, Electrolux appeared to support him, leaving the new Spirit Soul overwhelmed by the company he had joined.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm defended his million-year origin power and bragged about his luck after Xiao Yin exposed his past.
• The Ice Empress appeared, and the purple-clad man sensed her immense power before she identified herself.
• The Ice Empress told the purple-clad man that Huo Yuhao was the Huo Yuhao from ten thousand years ago, leaving him confused by the explanation of time and parallel worlds.
• Huo Yuhao announced that he would condense his Second Soul Core at his chest through Yin-Yang Complement, with Ultimate Ice Soul Power as its foundation.
• Electrolux appeared and assured Huo Yuhao that his teacher was there, while Wangsheng Butterfly identified him to the purple-clad man as a god-level powerhouse from another world.
• The purple-clad man compared his cultivation with the other Spirit Souls and realized he was only small fry in Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Sea.

After five days of cultivation, Huo Yuhao successfully formed a Yin-Yang Complement Second Soul Core and broke through to Soul Saint, reaching rank seventy-four. Gu Yue presented him with a scale as her promised gift and revealed that it was an External Soul Bone.

• Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue waited outside the Cultivation Room as Heaven and Earth Vitality gathered around it.
• Huo Yuhao emerged after five days and confirmed that he had succeeded in forming his Second Soul Core.
• Huo Yuhao examined the golden and ice-blue Soul Cores circulating in opposite directions within his body.
• Huo Yuhao told Leng Yaozhu that he had reached rank seventy-four after absorbing the Aromatic Silk Beauty's medicinal power.
• Gu Yue gave Huo Yuhao a red-and-blue scale and revealed that it was an External Soul Bone.

After Huo Yuhao completed his breakthrough, Gu Yue gave him the External Soul Bone called the Ice and Fire Dragon King Armor, and Leng Yaozhu urged him to accept it. As they returned to the Spirit Pagoda, Leng Yaozhu advised Huo Yuhao to conceal his cultivation, while he remained focused on the enemy in the God Realm.

• Gu Yue revealed that the Ice and Fire Dragon King Armor could protect its wearer from attacks below the Title Douluo level.
• Huo Yuhao refused the soul bone, arguing that it was too precious and better suited to Gu Yue’s Dragon Clan Martial Soul.
• Gu Yue explained that she had prepared the soul bone for Huo Yuhao and had already gained greater benefits; Leng Yaozhu told him to accept it.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the soul bone and resolved to find Gu Yue a Beast-level Immortal Herb in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well from ten thousand years ago.
• Leng Yaozhu led Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue back toward the Spirit Pagoda and warned Huo Yuhao to hide his cultivation as a fourteen-year-old Soul Saint.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to conceal his strength and remembered that his true enemy was in the God Realm.

Huo Yuhao tested the Ice and Fire Dragon King Armor, then brought Leng Yaozhu to see the Half-Plane created by Electrolux. When undead swarmed them, Leng Yaozhu burned them away and judged most of them weak.

• Huo Yuhao activated the External Soul Bone and tested the Ice and Fire Dragon King Armor, discovering its formidable defenses and immunity to ice and fire.
• Huo Yuhao told Leng Yaozhu that Electrolux had created a Half-Plane and offered to take her there.
• Huo Yuhao used a Hexagram Array to transport himself and Leng Yaozhu from the Spirit Pagoda to the desolate Half-Plane.
• Leng Yaozhu surveyed the Half-Plane and sensed its complete structure and laws.
• Undead Creatures surrounded Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu, but Leng Yaozhu burned them to ash with her Phoenix Flame and said most were only Soul Elder level.

Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu left the Undead Plane and discovered they had traveled ten thousand years into the past, arriving at Huo Yuhao’s old home. Huo Yuhao realized the plane might let him bring others through time, but Leng Yaozhu explained that the past was rejecting her and weakening her powers.

• Leng Yaozhu urged Huo Yuhao to study the Undead Plane’s laws, then Huo Yuhao opened a gate and they returned from the plane.
• Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu found themselves in a wooden room and recognized it as Huo Yuhao’s home from ten thousand years ago.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that Leng Yaozhu traveled through time because the Undead Plane was part of his body, and he considered bringing other people along by having them enter it first.
• Leng Yaozhu sensed that the past world was rejecting her, leaving her cultivation speed and Soul Power recovery at half their later strength.
• Huo Yuhao regretted that Leng Yaozhu could not help him establish the Spirit Pagoda in the past, but she encouraged him to trust in his own abilities.

Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu discussed the uncertain timing of his crossings before he invited her to meet his mother. Huo Yun'er mistook Leng Yaozhu for Yuhao's girlfriend, then learned she was the teacher who had secretly helped them escape the White Tiger Duke Mansion.

• Leng Yaozhu considered the risks of traveling between worlds, and Huo Yuhao explained that she could safely spend about five days outside the Undead Plane.
• Huo Yuhao invited Leng Yaozhu to meet Huo Yun'er, and she agreed.
• Huo Yun'er saw Leng Yaozhu descending the stairs with Huo Yuhao and wondered if the striking, older woman was his girlfriend.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Leng Yaozhu as his teacher and credited her with secretly helping them escape the White Tiger Duke Mansion.
• Huo Yun'er recalled how Leng Yaozhu's guidance explained Yuhao's talents, then welcomed her with gratitude.

Huo Yuhao introduced Leng Yaozhu to his mother, Huo Yun'er, and the three grew close over dinner before he showed Leng Yaozhu around Shrek City. On Shrek Academy’s first day of term, Huo Yuhao prepared to leave the academy, and Leng Yaozhu agreed to accompany him to Star Luo to support his plans.

• Huo Yun'er welcomed Leng Yaozhu into her home, and they chatted warmly about Huo Yuhao over dinner.
• Leng Yaozhu praised Huo Yun'er's cooking, and the three shared a meal together.
• Huo Yuhao showed Leng Yaozhu around Shrek City the next day.
• Huo Yuhao told Leng Yaozhu he intended to leave Shrek Academy because his path lay elsewhere.
• Leng Yaozhu offered to accompany Huo Yuhao to Star Luo so the imperial family would take his plans seriously.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy with Leng Yaozhu, spoke with Jin Li about his plans, and considered Leng Yaozhu’s advice about involving Soul Beasts in establishing the Spirit Pagoda. Meanwhile, Wang Dong'er revealed herself as a girl at the academy, determined to make her feelings for Huo Yuhao clear before Jin Li could get closer to him.

• Huo Yuhao entered Shrek Academy with Leng Yaozhu and was warmly greeted by the students.
• Jin Li asked Huo Yuhao about entering the Inner Court, and he told her he might go to Star Luo City instead.
• Leng Yaozhu advised Huo Yuhao that Jin Li could help him gain Beast God Di Tian’s support for the Spirit Pagoda, and Huo Yuhao said he would consider it.
• Wang Dong'er appeared openly as a girl beneath the dormitory building, drawing the students’ attention.
• Wang Dong'er decided to reveal her true appearance because she feared Jin Li would win Huo Yuhao’s affection.

Wang Dong'er reunited with Huo Yuhao and learned he had known her true identity all along. After she asked if he liked her, Huo Yuhao confessed that he had always loved her, and she embraced him.

• Wang Dong'er spotted Huo Yuhao in the crowd and ran to meet him as Leng Yaozhu recognized her from the Spirit Pagoda murals.
• Wang Dong'er asked whether Huo Yuhao had known she was a girl, and he admitted he had known since they first met.
• Huo Yuhao called her Dong'er and asked whether she was the older sister she had mentioned before.
• Wang Dong'er asked Huo Yuhao directly whether he liked her, and he answered that he did.
• Wang Dong'er tearfully admitted she had feared he liked Jin Li, and Huo Yuhao told her he had always liked her.
• Wang Dong'er threw herself into Huo Yuhao's arms, and he gently embraced her as the onlookers watched in silence.

Wang Dong'er reunited with Huo Yuhao in her female identity, met his teacher Leng Yaozhu, and discussed the mystery of her surname. Huo Yuhao planned to leave Shrek Academy, while Wang Dong'er agreed to stay and graduate early the following year before joining him.

• Wang Dong'er embraced Huo Yuhao before the gathered students, who recognized her and offered them friendly applause.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Wang Dong'er to Leng Yaozhu, and the three went to a secluded pavilion to talk.
• Leng Yaozhu asked why Wang Dong'er, a Clear Sky Sect descendant, did not have the surname Tang, and Wang Dong'er repeated that her elders said a name was only a designation.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er he would leave Shrek Academy after speaking with the dean and asked her to stay until she could graduate early the next year.
• Wang Dong'er agreed to wait at the academy and resolved to cultivate until she could help Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao went to see Yan Shaozhe with Leng Yaozhu’s support and applied to graduate from Shrek Academy. Yan Shaozhe concealed his anger and urged him to stay at the academy after graduation.

• Huo Yuhao told Leng Yaozhu he had brought her along in case Yan Shaozhe refused to let him leave, and said he would have appealed to Mu En if she had not been there.
• Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu crossed Sea God Lake and went to Cai Mei'er’s courtyard on Sea God Island.
• Cai Mei'er greeted Huo Yuhao, and Yan Shaozhe came out to ask what had brought him there.
• Huo Yuhao told Yan Shaozhe that he had come to apply for graduation.
• Yan Shaozhe suppressed his anger and asked Huo Yuhao to remain at Shrek Academy after graduating, offering him a place in Sea God Pavilion.

Huo Yuhao refused Yan Shaozhe's appeals to stay at Shrek Academy and revealed that he planned to establish his own faction. Yan Shaozhe's persuasion turned into anger and accusations, and Leng Yaozhu prepared to intervene as Huo Yuhao endured his hostility.

• Huo Yuhao told Yan Shaozhe he had no intention of staying at Shrek Academy and planned to establish his own faction.
• Yan Shaozhe dismissed Huo Yuhao's plan as unrealistic and urged him to remain at the academy.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to try while he was young and reminded Yan Shaozhe that Shrek was only an academy and students could leave after graduation.
• Yan Shaozhe unleashed his Super Douluo pressure, while Huo Yuhao stayed calm and offered to help Shrek and cooperate with it in the future.
• Cai Mei'er called on Yan Shaozhe to calm down, but Yan Shaozhe accused Huo Yuhao of wanting to exploit Shrek's influence.
• Leng Yaozhu grew cold at Yan Shaozhe's mockery and resolved that she had to step forward for Huo Yuhao.

Leng Yaozhu defended Huo Yuhao when Yan Shaozhe challenged his decision to leave Shrek Academy, and Yan Shaozhe unleashed his power to test her. The chapter ended with Leng Yaozhu revealing her own level-ninety-five strength and summoning a colossal Fire Phoenix that blazed over Sea God Island.

• Leng Yaozhu stepped in front of Huo Yuhao and told Yan Shaozhe that, as Huo Yuhao's teacher, she would handle her student's affairs.
• Yan Shaozhe warned Huo Yuhao about facing danger without Shrek Academy's protection, then unleashed his level-ninety-five Super Douluo pressure.
• Huo Yuhao remained unmoved by Yan Shaozhe's pressure, while Leng Yaozhu showed no fear.
• Yan Shaozhe summoned his Bright Phoenix and revealed his nine Soul Rings, alarming the teachers and students across Sea God Island.
• Leng Yaozhu revealed two purple, five black, and two red Soul Rings, then raised her aura to level ninety-five.
• Leng Yaozhu summoned a massive crimson Fire Phoenix whose flames and pillar of light spread across the sky above Sea God Island.

Leng Yaozhu revealed herself as a Level 99 Limit Douluo and subdued Yan Shaozhe with the pressure of her Fire Phoenix martial soul. Mu En and Xuan Zi arrived, and Leng Yaozhu ended the confrontation by identifying herself as Huo Yuhao’s teacher.

• Leng Yaozhu's Fire Phoenix overwhelmed Yan Shaozhe's Bright Phoenix, and he realized she was a Limit Douluo.
• Cai Mei'er apologized to Leng Yaozhu on Yan Shaozhe's behalf.
• Mu En appeared, apologized for his disciple, and recalled sensing Leng Yaozhu's aura from the Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi arrived and recognized the danger posed by Leng Yaozhu's strength and Soul Rings.
• Leng Yaozhu withdrew her martial soul and announced that she was a Level 99 Limit Douluo titled Heavenly Phoenix and Huo Yuhao's teacher.

Leng Yaozhu made Yan Shaozhe apologize for his actions, and Mu En approved Huo Yuhao’s graduation. Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy with Leng Yaozhu, promising Mu En that he would not hold the academy responsible for one person’s wrongdoing.

• Leng Yaozhu demanded that Yan Shaozhe apologize to Huo Yuhao, and he reluctantly apologized before the gathered teachers and students.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Mu En to approve Huo Yuhao’s request to graduate and leave, and Mu En agreed.
• Mu En apologized for Yan Shaozhe’s behavior, and Huo Yuhao assured him that he still valued Shrek Academy and would not resent it for this incident.
• Mu En formally congratulated Huo Yuhao on graduating and urged him to make his mark and visit the academy again.
• Huo Yuhao bowed to Mu En, then left the courtyard with Leng Yaozhu as the onlookers made way.

After the clash on Sea God Island, Mu En warned Shrek’s teachers and students against their pride and removed Yan Shaozhe as dean for trying to keep Huo Yuhao through coercion. He appointed Cai Mei'er as dean and left Xuan Zi with the burden of protecting Shrek after his death.

• Mu En told the gathered teachers and students that Shrek was not invincible and urged them to abandon their arrogance.
• Mu En condemned Yan Shaozhe for trying to bind Huo Yuhao to the academy and declared him unfit to remain dean.
• Mu En appointed Cai Mei'er as the new dean and ordered Yan Shaozhe to stay on Sea God Island and reflect.
• Mu En warned Xuan Zi that Shrek would need a Limit Douluo after his death and that its survival would rest on Xuan Zi's shoulders.
• Xuan Zi recognized how difficult it would be to reach Level 99 and resolved to do his best.

On her fourth day in the past, Leng Yaozhu accompanied Huo Yuhao to Star Luo City, where they visited the construction site of the first Spirit Pagoda. Huo Yuhao arranged to meet Princess Jiujiu that night and considered helping Gongyang Mo overcome his martial soul’s cultivation limit.

• Leng Yaozhu carried Huo Yuhao by air to Star Luo City, where they discussed the Star Luo imperial family’s descent from the White Tiger Duke.
• Huo Yuhao took Leng Yaozhu to the site where the first Spirit Pagoda was being built and found Gongyang Mo overseeing the workers.
• Gongyang Mo explained that he watched the construction to ensure the Spirit Pagoda was built properly in gratitude for Huo Yuhao’s help.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to seek an Immortal Herb that could help Gongyang Mo break past his martial soul’s rank-seventy-nine limit.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Leng Yaozhu as his teacher and told Gongyang Mo she would be the Spirit Pagoda’s honorary Tower Master.
• Huo Yuhao asked Gongyang Mo to arrange a meeting with Princess Jiujiu that night, and Gongyang Mo agreed.