Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan and his companions entered the Far North’s Core Ring to hunt powerful Soul Beasts, and Mu Yuan chose a nearly twenty-thousand-year-old Titan Snow Demon for his Fourth Soul Ring. When the Titan Snow Demon provoked Ice Empress, Mu Yuan suspected it was trying to learn when she would face her Heavenly Tribulation; Ice Empress appeared and began to attack.

• Mu Yuan, Yu Gu, Long Aotian, and the others endured the Far North’s supernatural cold as they traveled into its Core Ring.
• The group spotted a nearly sixty-meter-tall Titan Snow Demon, and Mu Yuan decided to hunt it for his Fourth Soul Ring despite its cultivation nearing twenty thousand years.
• The Titan Snow Demon roared and unleashed a storm, prompting Yu Gu to suspect they had been discovered.
• Ice Empress’s voice ordered the Titan Snow Demon to leave, and Yu Gu recognized that she was nearby.
• Mu Yuan suspected the Titan Snow Demon King had deliberately provoked Ice Empress to investigate her coming Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ice Empress appeared as a jade-green phantom and froze the surrounding space with her pressure.

Mu Yuan absorbed the Titan Snow Demon's Ten-thousand Year Soul Ring after Yu Gu forced Ice Empress to concede and killed the beast. He survived the dangerous absorption and asked Yu Gu to provoke Ice Empress so he could speak with her.

• Ice Empress threatened Mu Yuan and Yu Gu, but Mu Yuan reminded Yu Gu that Ice Empress could not risk her upcoming tribulation.
• Yu Gu challenged Ice Empress, who withdrew her domain and silently allowed him to kill the Titan Snow Demon.
• Yu Gu transformed into a Golden Giant and split the Titan Snow Demon in two with a strengthened sword strike.
• Mu Yuan used the Blade of Life to drain the dying Titan Snow Demon, then began absorbing its Ten-thousand Year Soul Ring.
• The Titan Snow Demon's Remnant Soul was suppressed in Mu Yuan's Second Sea of Consciousness, and Mu Yuan completed the absorption after five hours.
• Mu Yuan recovered and asked Yu Gu to provoke Ice Empress because he had things to discuss with her.

Mu Yuan negotiated with Ice Empress by offering information about Myriad Year Profound Ice Marrow in exchange for her help protecting Snow Empress. The revelation that Snow Empress was undergoing a transformation alarmed Ice Empress, who began to worry about her friend.

• At Mu Yuan's insistence, Yu Gu summoned Ice Empress by mentioning Myriad Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Mu Yuan described a vast cave filled with the marrow, prompting Ice Empress to appear and ask what his relationship was with Tian Meng.
• Mu Yuan proposed a transaction and asked Ice Empress to protect Snow Empress through her upcoming transformation.
• Ice Empress questioned Mu Yuan's motives and learned that Snow Empress was transforming, which made her anxious.

Mu Yuan convinced Ice Empress that Snow Empress faced danger during her plan to undergo Human Transformation, and Ice Empress hurried to find her. Snow Empress explained her plan and Ice Empress offered to Sacrifice herself for her, then Snow Empress asked about Mu Yuan’s connection to the Body Sect.

• Ice Empress left after Mu Yuan told her Snow Empress would need protection during a dangerous transformation.
• Mu Yuan rejoined Yu Gu, Wei Na, and the others, then led them away to search for Soul Rings.
• Ice Empress searched Snow Empress’s territory and feared she had already met with disaster before Snow Empress returned.
• Snow Empress revealed that she planned to use a nearly Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus to undergo Human Transformation.
• Ice Empress accepted that she had no way to survive her own tribulation and offered to Sacrifice herself to Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress asked Ice Empress whether Mu Yuan had said she was connected to the Body Sect.

After three months of soul hunting in the Far North, Mu Yuan and his companions returned to the Body Sect with powerful new Soul Rings, and Mu Yuan advanced to level forty-five. In the Second Sea of Consciousness, Electrolux awakened and told Mu Yuan that the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid might transform into a Soul Beast within a year.

• Mu Yuan, Long Aotian, and Wei Na each obtained suitable Soul Rings, while Xiao Ye absorbed a forty-five-thousand-year-old Red Flame Ice Lizard Soul Ring and gained confidence in fighting Soul Saints.
• The group returned to the Body Sect and learned that Du Busi was still in seclusion; Yu Gu told them to cultivate diligently before the sect's intensive training began.
• Mu Yuan found his Soul Power had reached level forty-five and expected to break through to level forty-six within three days.
• Mu Yuan considered using the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to boost his cultivation and wondered when it would develop enough sentience to become a Soul Beast.
• Electrolux appeared in a Spirit Body, told Mu Yuan the orchid might transform within a year, and offered to help if it did not.

Mu Yuan discussed Soul Ring prospects and new cultivation methods with Elder Electrolux, drawing on the Spirit Aperture Method to develop his Bloodline Power. He proposed condensing Blood Qi into Soul Rings outside his body, leaving the idea ready for further exploration.

• Electrolux told Mu Yuan that his Second Sea of Consciousness would speed his recovery and that the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid could transform within a year.
• Mu Yuan calculated that he would need the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to sacrifice its Soul Origin for his Fifth Soul Ring, and Electrolux agreed to study a suitable Contract Array.
• Mu Yuan planned to cultivate Mental Power through visualizing the Eight-Armed Demonic God and Bloodline Power through a method inspired by Spirit Apertures.
• Electrolux explained the Shengmo Continent's Spirit Aperture cultivation system and cautioned Mu Yuan against copying it because their bodies differed.
• Mu Yuan proposed using Spirit Aperture techniques to refine Blood Qi and condense Soul Ring-like forms outside his body.

Mu Yuan spent half a year developing a visualization method that manifested a Four-Armed God Demon and strengthened his Mental Power. As the Body Sect prepared for special training, Yu Gu named the seven young disciples who would form its main lineup.

• Mu Yuan proposed studying how transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts condensed Soul Rings to develop a way to cultivate Bloodline Power, and Electrolux agreed to research Soul Rings and Martial Souls.
• Mu Yuan spent half a year visualizing Vajra Power, Heavenly Thunder Power, and Demonic Qi in his Spirit Sea, then formed a Four-Armed God Demon that circulated Full Moon Wearing Autumn through his Mental Power.
• Mu Yuan left his room for the sect's Martial Arts Arena, wondering about the special training scheduled to begin in three months.
• Yu Gu named Xiao Ye, Ao Tian, Mu Yuan, Wei Na, Zhui Feng, Zhuang Yuan, and Tian Ming as the Body Sect's main lineup.

Yu Gu assembled the Body Team for tournament training, naming Xiao Ye its leader and assigning Long Aotian and the other members their goals. After Tian Ming tested Xiao Ye’s defensive technique, Mu Yuan stepped forward to demonstrate his own power.

• Yu Gu named Xiao Ye the team’s absolute leader and told Long Aotian to complete his Secondary Awakening before the tournament.
• Yu Gu assigned Mu Yuan, Zhui Feng, Zhuang Yuan, and Tian Ming heavy responsibilities, then named seven younger disciples as Reserve Members, including Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu.
• Yu Gu asked the disciples to demonstrate their Combat Techniques, and Xiao Ye showed a defensive technique based on the Bloodline Furnace Method.
• Tian Ming fused all four of his Soul Skills into a crimson-gold palm strike against Xiao Ye’s shield, but Xiao Ye’s Bloodline Furnace stabilized and held.
• Yu Gu critiqued Tian Ming’s technique, then asked Mu Yuan to demonstrate; Mu Yuan warned Xiao Ye and unleashed his power.

Mu Yuan demonstrated two Combat Techniques that combined Soul Skills with Soul Tool Core Arrays, overwhelming Xiao Ye’s defenses and revealing the potential of his methods. He ended the display exhausted, while the onlookers recognized the techniques’ power and Mu Yuan noted that his Fourth Soul Skill was not yet incorporated.

• Mu Yuan used Star-Plucking Hand against Xiao Ye’s Bloodline Furnace Shield, combining his Third Soul Skill, Bloodline Power, and a fourth-rank Soul Tool Core Array.
• Xiao Ye’s shield withstood the blast, and Yu Gu praised Mu Yuan’s ingenious use of Soul Tool knowledge to strengthen a martial soul ability.
• Wei Na considered how Mu Yuan’s methods might help persuade traditionalists to stop obstructing the Heaven Dou Empire’s Soul Tool Department.
• Mu Yuan used Heavenly Thunder Guidance to compress Heavenly Thunder into a spear, which pierced Xiao Ye’s Bloodline Furnace Shield and injured him.
• Yu Gu recognized that Mu Yuan’s second technique also used a Soul Tool Core Array, while Mu Yuan grew pale from the effort and lamented that he had not yet integrated his Fourth Soul Skill.

Mu Yuan equipped the Body Team with Soul Tools to strengthen their combat techniques, while Du Busi broke through to become a Limit Douluo. At Shrek Academy, Mu En learned the Body Sect would enter the tournament and ordered Sect Master Niu to go to Star Luo City in three months.

• Mu Yuan gave the Body Team Soul Tool thrusters, Heart Protection Mirrors, and Milk Bottles, and Long Aotian and the others began testing them.
• Du Busi broke through to the Limit Douluo realm, delighting Golden Body Douluo and Ice Soul Douluo, while Yu Gu also revealed that he had advanced.
• Mu En and Xuan Zi discussed the Body Sect's entry into the tournament, and Mu En said Shrek could settle its old and new scores with the sect.
• Mu En ordered that Sect Master Niu be told to go to Star Luo City three months later.

Mu En ordered Shrek Academy to prepare a strike against the Body Sect while Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng ventured into the Far North to seek the Ice Empress. Their attempt to summon her failed, leaving Tian Meng to focus on saving Huo Yuhao and hope to recruit the Ice Empress later.

• Mu En chose Niu Tian to lead an operation against the Body Sect after the tournament, assigned Xuan Zi to lead the team, and sent Yan Shaozhe to Star Luo City to cover the students' withdrawal.
• Huo Yuhao endured the Far North's freezing wilderness as Tian Meng revealed that they were seeking the Ice Empress, the second-ranked of the Far North's Three Great Kings.
• Tian Meng entered the Core Zone and called for the Ice Empress, but she did not respond, so he took control of Huo Yuhao and fled when danger approached.
• The Titan Snow Demon King searched the area after sensing powerful Mental Power but failed to find Huo Yuhao and wondered whether the Ice Empress and Snow Empress had found a way to overcome the tribulation.
• Tian Meng realized Huo Yuhao's body was failing from the cold and decided to save a place for the Ice Empress as a future Soul Ring, urging Huo Yuhao to reach the ninth ring within fifty years.

Huo Yuhao agreed to Tian Meng’s revised plan to use an Ice Silkworm as his Second Martial Soul after the Titan Snow Demon King made pursuing the Ice Jade Scorpion too dangerous. At the Body Sect, Mu Yuan tried to explain how he prefabricated a Core Array, but Long Aotian’s attempt to follow the idea ended in injury.

• Huo Yuhao thanked Tian Meng for planning his future and accepted that he would have to give up on the Ice Empress and the Ice Jade Scorpion.
• Tian Meng explained that the Titan Snow Demon King’s presence made the sacrifice unsafe, so he proposed using his origin power to raise an Ice Silkworm to Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation and help it evolve through Wang Dong’s Light Goddess Butterfly.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to follow Tian Meng’s Ice Silkworm plan as the best option for his Second Martial Soul.
• Tang San watched from the God Realm and dismissed Tian Meng’s plan as impractical, insisting that keeping one’s feet on the ground was the right path.
• Mu Yuan explained to Wei Na how he prefabricated a fourth-level Core Array for the Star-Plucking Hand, but she remained confused.
• Long Aotian thought he understood Mu Yuan’s explanation, tried to inscribe a Core Array, and injured his golden-jade skin when the patterns shattered.

Mu Yuan continued training in the Body Sect while Huo Yuhao awakened a second Martial Soul: an Ice Butterfly with Ultimate Ice. News of Huo Yuhao’s new ability sparked a recruitment struggle between Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul and Soul Tool departments, which ended with him becoming a Core Disciple of both.

• Mu Yuan and Wei Na arranged for royal Soul Engineers to help the Body Sect disciples learn his Core Array engraving technique.
• Mu Yuan trained through ten daily battles, with Yu Gu and the wider Body Sect correcting his combat techniques.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong he could sense her Twin Martial Souls and asked her Light Goddess Butterfly to guide the cocoon of his second Martial Soul.
• Five days later, an Ice Butterfly emerged from Huo Yuhao’s cocoon, awakening his second Martial Soul and granting him Ultimate Ice.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao compensation and competed with the Soul Tool Department to recruit him, and Mu En mediated so Huo Yuhao became a Core Disciple of both departments.

Mu En prepared Shrek Academy for a clash with the Body Sect, but Xuan Zi’s protection failed when Corpse Slave explosions devastated the tournament participants. In Star Luo City, Mu Yuan worried about the Shrek Team’s losses and began preparing a trump card for the battles ahead.

• Mu En reassured himself that Shrek Academy had promising successors and told Xuan Zi to guard its students against the Body Sect.
• Xuan Zi promised to protect Shrek’s disciples while Niu Tian prepared to lead a trap against Du Busi and the Body Sect.
• At the Death Mountain Range, Corpse Slave explosions badly injured or killed the Shrek participants, and Xuan Zi found Huo Yuhao alive beside the wounded Death God Envoy.
• Xuan Zi took the survivors to Star Luo City for treatment, then hurried back to Shrek Academy to report the disaster.
• Mu Yuan considered how the Shrek Team might fare against the Sun Moon Imperial Team and decided to prepare a trump card.

Mu Yuan confirmed that Shrek's team was badly weakened, while Du Busi confronted them over a promised Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. Wang Yan realized Huo Yuhao might be targeted by the Body Sect and worried about letting him compete as the tournament's Opening Ceremony began.

• Mu Yuan observed Shrek's injured, dispirited team and concluded its strength had greatly diminished.
• Du Busi confronted Wang Yan and demanded the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then left after noticing the team's serious injuries.
• Wang Yan told Huo Yuhao that Du Busi led a hostile sect and warned the team to leave the academy's problems to Shrek.
• Wang Yan learned that Dean Yan had attacked Mu Yuan and that Du Busi had intervened, then worried the Body Sect might seize Huo Yuhao during the tournament.
• On the third day after Shrek's arrival, the Soul Master Tournament's Opening Ceremony began.

At the Star Luo Tournament’s opening ceremony, Shrek’s reserves defeated Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy after a hard-fought exhibition match. Back at Shrek Academy, Mu En sent Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe to Star Luo City and secretly dispatched Lin Huiqun to the auction house, then resolved to proceed with the assassination plan.

• Xu Jiawei opened the tournament, and Shrek Academy was matched against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy for the exhibition match.
• Wang Yan sent Ling Luochen and six reserve members into the arena while keeping Huo Yuhao off the field.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi fought at full strength and led Shrek to victory, prompting the Body Team and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy to dismiss the match as unimpressive.
• Xuan Zi knelt before Mu En, apologized for failing to protect the students, and tried to take his own life, but Mu En stopped him and ordered him back to Star Luo City to confront Du Busi.
• Mu En sent Yan Shaozhe after Xuan Zi and secretly tasked Lin Huiqun with visiting the Star Light Auction House under the Treasure Pavilion’s name.
• After the others left, Mu En decided he no longer had any qualms about the assassination plan and murmured the names Niu Tian and Tai Tan.

Du Busi struggled to decide how to pressure Shrek into handing over a Soul Bone while the Body Team advanced through the tournament. At the Star Light Auction House, Mu Yuan took an interest in a Paralysis Ray, and Shrek began bidding against Wei Na for it.

• Shrek planned to blame the Clear Sky Sect if Niu Tian attempted to assassinate Du Busi.
• Du Busi considered how to obtain a Soul Bone from Shrek without provoking a deadly conflict, while lamenting the weakened Shrek team.
• The Body Team won its elimination match and continued through the Round Robin Tournament, with Mu Yuan and his teammates exhausting themselves against a Soul Tool-equipped Sun Moon Empire team.
• Wei Na told the team about an auction, and Mu Yuan decided to attend in hopes of finding something useful.
• Mu Yuan wanted the Paralysis Ray at auction, and Wei Na bid against Wang Yan as Huo Yuhao and He Caitou urged Shrek to acquire it for research.

Mu Yuan acquired two Soul Tools at auction, learned to crack their Core Arrays, and began adapting the Paralysis Ray’s effect to his Heavenly Thunder Power. Shrek advanced to the tournament’s top sixteen, and Huo Yuhao was finally set to compete as the newly transformed Snow Empress approached Star Luo City seeking the Body Sect.

• The Body Sect won several Soul Tools with special effects at auction, including a Paralysis Ray and a Critical Strike Gauntlet for Mu Yuan.
• Electrolux helped Mu Yuan reveal both Soul Tools’ Core Arrays and taught him how to break their anti-theft measures.
• Mu Yuan studied the Paralysis Ray’s arrays and planned to integrate its paralysis effect into his Heavenly Thunder Power.
• Shrek fought through the seven-day round robin and advanced in second place while Wang Yan kept Huo Yuhao out of every match, with Xuan Zi approving the decision.
• Wang Yan told Huo Yuhao he would compete next, confident that Xuan Zi’s presence would prevent the Body Sect from taking him.
• The transformed Snow Empress reached the outskirts of Star Luo City while still searching for the Body Sect.

Snow Empress arrived at the Soul Master Tournament after learning that Mu Yuan had saved her from capture during her Human Transformation. Huo Yuhao’s staged display of five Soul Rings helped Shrek win its match, but it drew Du Busi’s attention, and he openly invited Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect.

• Snow Empress recalled how Ice Empress had killed the Soul Tool Master who tried to capture her and decided to visit the Body Sect after reaching Star Luo City.
• Huo Yuhao and the Shrek reserve team faced the top-ranked team in their group because the injured official members could not compete.
• Huo Yuhao revealed five Soul Rings, including a convincing Hundred-thousand Year Soul Ring, and Snow Empress recognized the display as Simulation.
• Mu Yuan confirmed to Wei Na and Du Busi that Huo Yuhao was the person they had encountered near the Star Dou Forest, prompting Du Busi to suspect Shrek of underhanded dealings.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong combined their abilities to strip the opponents of their Martial Souls and freeze them, securing an easy victory for Shrek.
• Du Busi confronted Xuan Zi and invited Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect, claiming it was the home of Body Martial Soul Masters.

Du Busi tried to recruit Huo Yuhao into the Body Sect, but Huo Yuhao refused, reaffirming his loyalty to the Tang Sect. The Body Team then faced the Douling Team, whose concentrated assault on Xiao Ye and Long Aotian was interrupted when Mu Yuan and Tian Ming broke through the enemy’s protective barriers.

• Huo Yuhao refused Du Busi’s offer to join the Body Sect, and Xuan Zi stood between them before Du Busi left.
• Mu Yuan considered whether the Body Sect should stay restrained, while the Sun Moon Imperial Team won its match by overwhelming its opponents.
• The Body Team arranged itself defensively against the Douling Team, and both sides sent their front-line fighters into battle.
• Xiao Feng altered the battlefield and the Douling Team directed nearly all its attacks at Xiao Ye and Long Aotian.
• Tian Ming and Mu Yuan shattered the barriers protecting Xiao Feng and the Douling Team’s Support-type Soul Master, prompting Qian Yuan to order one teammate to fall back and defend.