Chapter Summaries

Ye Qing trained Xiao Wu to make her stronger and taught her about human society, while Ah Rou helped her adapt to life in a human body. Xiao Wu adjusted to months of demanding exercise, but she still dreaded Ye Qing’s academic lessons and faced a test that threatened her carrots.

• Ye Qing and Ah Rou agreed that he would train Xiao Wu, and Ah Rou spent three days helping her adapt to a human body.
• Ah Rou explained that Xiao Wu needed to grow strong enough to protect herself and her mother, and Xiao Wu agreed to train.
• Ye Qing put Xiao Wu through daily physical and Soul Power training, replenishing her strength and feeding her afterward.
• Ye Qing made Xiao Wu study physics, mathematics, and language arts because teaching her about human society advanced another task.
• Ye Qing gave Xiao Wu a test and threatened to withhold carrots for three days if she failed.

Ye Qing realized Xiao Wu needed to learn about money and human society, so he arranged a field trip to a human market with Xiao Qing. He introduced Xiao Wu to a virtual-reality game and made continued play conditional on payment, leaving her eager to experience it again.

• Ye Qing finished teaching Xiao Wu basic mathematics and physics and decided she needed practical lessons about human society.
• After seeing Xiao Qing eat Gold Coin Chocolate, Ye Qing remembered the importance of money and planned a market visit for Xiao Wu.
• Ye Qing asked Xiao Qing to take Xiao Wu to the market, and Xiao Qing agreed after asking to sleep in his room for one night.
• Ye Qing reassured Ah Rou that he would protect Xiao Wu during the outing and prepared a virtual-reality helmet to make her attend the practical lesson.
• Ye Qing showed Xiao Wu virtual landscapes and an aquarium, then told her she could keep playing if she paid.

Xiao Wu tried to complete Ye Qing’s social-practice task by selling tanghulu near the Star Dou Great Forest, but the high price made it difficult to find buyers. After an old fruit seller advised her to look for Spirit Masters, she met a small academy team and agreed to sell them three skewers for ten Copper Soul Coins.

• Ye Qing sent Xiao Wu to sell tanghulu as a practical lesson in trade and human society, with Xiao Qing supervising her.
• Xiao Wu sold only three skewers during most of the day, then listened to an old fruit seller’s advice to seek customers closer to the forest.
• Xiao Wu thanked the old man by giving him two skewers and went to try selling near the Spirit Masters.
• A few female Spirit Masters bought tanghulu, while most of the middle-aged men showed little interest.
• A small academy team asked Xiao Wu to lower her price, and she agreed to sell them three skewers for ten Copper Soul Coins.

Xiao Wu sold her tanghulu while Xiao Qing secretly dealt with human traffickers, then the pair encountered a captured Spirit Beast and a doctor who offered to buy it in exchange for Xiao Qing’s help. The doctor revealed he recognized Xiao Qing as the Spirit Master with the Nine-Section Jade and asked her to provide venom or help him deal with someone.

• Xiao Wu sold all fifty-one tanghulu to a generous student, who paid two Silver Soul Coins, and his friend teased him for overpaying.
• A teacher explained that Xiao Wu had high Soul Power and was likely the child of a great family, then distributed the tanghulu to the academy group before they entered the forest.
• Xiao Wu returned to Xiao Qing with the money, while several dead human traffickers lay hidden nearby.
• Xiao Wu asked Xiao Qing to save a badly injured, caged Strength Ape, but Xiao Qing hesitated because she did not want to violate Ye Qing’s instructions.
• A doctor approached and offered to buy the monkey for Xiao Qing in exchange for her help, then revealed that he recognized her as the Spirit Master with the Nine-Section Jade.
• Xiao Qing refused to help him deal with someone but considered his alternative request for venom from the Nine-Section Jade.

Xiao Wu completed part of a task after rescuing a juvenile Titan Giant Ape and naming him Da Ming, while Ye Qing exchanged his points for the Shape Transformation method. Meanwhile, the doctor used Xiao Qing’s deadly venom to take revenge on a Spirit Hall member, leaving his target poisoned as Ye Qing began transforming.

• The doctor bought Xiao Qing’s venom and warned the recipient that even a tiny wound could prove fatal.
• Ye Qing discovered that Xiao Wu’s task had multiple parts, exchanged his points for the Shape Transformation method, and postponed integrating its memories.
• Xiao Wu told Ye Qing that she had rescued a monkey and named him Da Ming and his friend Er Ming; Xiao Qing identified them as a juvenile Titan Giant Ape and a Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Ye Qing realized Xiao Wu had earned the task progress by rescuing Da Ming, who called her Sister Xiao Wu out of gratitude.
• The doctor gave away his possessions, burned a cherished portrait, and attacked a Spirit Hall member, poisoning him with venom hidden in his mouth.
• A healing-type Soul Saint temporarily preserved the victim’s life while Spirit Hall sought the poison’s source, and Ye Qing’s transformation began.

Ye Qing endured a brutal memory inheritance that awakened his ability to take human form. After celebrating with the others, he returned to his room, where Xiao Qing jumped onto his back and asked what excuse he had tonight.

• Ye Qing's memory inheritance caused a painful roar that shattered windows, knocked Xiao Wu and Ah Rou unconscious, and disturbed Spirit Beasts throughout the forest.
• Di Tian, Bi Ji, and Xiong Jun arrived, and Bi Ji healed Xiao Qing's ears while Ye Qing explained that he was evolving.
• Ye Qing transformed into a human man, admired his appearance in a mirror, and celebrated by offering to cook for everyone.
• Bi Ji brought over Xiao Wu and Ah Rou, and Ye Qing apologized to Xiao Wu before offering to comb her hair.
• Di Tian and Xiong Jun ate half of Ye Qing's storehouse during the feast, and Xiao Qing leaped onto Ye Qing's back when he went to his room.

Ye Qing traveled to the Extreme North under a system quest to earn the northern Spirit Beasts’ acknowledgment, leaving Xiao Qing and the others in Di Tian’s care. After reaching Haoxue City with a merchant caravan, he ventured into the ice fields and encountered a bandit wild boar named Gang Zong.

• Ye Qing set out for the Extreme North after the system threatened to reclaim his Shape Transformation memory if he failed the quest.
• Di Tian gave Ye Qing directions and promised to protect everyone back home while Ye Qing was away.
• Ye Qing said goodbye to Xiao Qing and the others, then traveled north with a merchant caravan.
• Ye Qing reached Haoxue City, paid his fare, and continued alone into the icy wilderness to seek the strongest Spirit Beast or earn prestige by helping others.
• Ye Qing met Gang Zong, a roughly thirty-thousand-year-old wild boar who demanded his food, and Gang Zong wondered why Ye Qing could understand him.

Ye Qing subdued Gang Zong, a Polar Woolly Pig bandit, and made him a mount while seeking information about the Extreme North’s strongest beings. As a White Hair Wind storm approached, they took shelter in a mountainside cave, and Gang Zong began hoping to attach himself to Ye Qing.

• Gang Zong explained how he had robbed travelers during blizzard season before Ye Qing revealed his terrifying aura.
• Gang Zong chose to serve as Ye Qing’s mount rather than be roasted, and Ye Qing rode him across the snow.
• Gang Zong used Extreme Frozen Prison when Ye Qing named the Spirit Skill and described the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Titan Snow Demon King.
• Gang Zong warned Ye Qing that a White Hair Wind storm was approaching and that traveling toward the central region would be dangerous.
• Ye Qing blasted a shelter into the mountainside, and Gang Zong decided he might benefit from staying close to him.

Ye Qing entered the Extreme North with Gang Zong and got caught in the Snow Empress’s six-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, whose power increased after locking onto him. He protected the injured Snow Empress and began replenishing her energy, just as Xue'er arrived and mistook the transformed Snow Empress for his child.

• Gang Zong guided Ye Qing toward the Core Area and explained that he planned to challenge the Woolly Pig King after gathering enough food.
• The Snow Empress faced the Heavenly Tribulation marking her six-hundred-thousand-year limit while Ye Qing and Gang Zong approached.
• The Tribulation Cloud drifted toward Ye Qing, and he leaped up to face its lightning while warning Gang Zong to stay put.
• The intensified tribulation badly injured the Snow Empress and damaged her origin, so Ye Qing took the remaining lightning for her.
• The Snow Empress shrank into a little girl as her origin injury forced her to conserve energy, and Ye Qing began helping her recover before Xue'er arrived and demanded to know who he was.

Ye Qing fought the Ice Empress after she mistook him for the cause of the Snow Empress’s apparent death. The Snow Empress woke and cleared up the misunderstanding, while Gang Zong fled from Xiao Bai.

• The Ice Empress arrived looking for the Snow Empress and mistook the shrunken Snow Empress for her child, then attacked Ye Qing.
• Ye Qing restrained the Ice Empress and punished her after she tried to stab him with her tail.
• The Snow Empress woke and told the Ice Empress that Ye Qing had saved her during the Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Snow Empress explained that her small form was a self-protection mechanism caused by damage to her origin, and Ye Qing released the Ice Empress.
• Gang Zong ran into Xiao Bai and fled from the bear, while Ye Qing said Gang Zong would survive and should learn a lesson.

Ye Qing learned that rumors about him and the Snow Empress had made him famous across the Extreme North, completing his mission and prompting him to return to the Star Dou Great Forest. As he prepared to leave, Gang Zong and the Snow Empress decided to travel with him, while the Ice Empress came along to keep watch.

• The Ice Empress confronted Ye Qing over rumors that he was the Snow Empress's consort, and Ye Qing realized his good deeds had been credited to the Snow Empress instead of advancing his progress bar.
• Months later, rumors that the Ice Empress and Snow Empress were competing over Ye Qing made him famous, and his mission was completed.
• Ye Qing told the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that he was returning home, and he explained to the Snow Empress what home meant.
• The next day, Gang Zong announced that he would follow Ye Qing as his mount, and the Snow Empress said she wanted to go with him to understand the feeling of home.
• The Ice Empress insisted on accompanying them to keep Ye Qing away from the Snow Empress, who said the Extreme North would be fine in her absence.

Ye Qing, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest in a carriage pulled by Gang Zong, who struggled with the southern heat. During a night journey, a bloodied man entrusted a young girl to Ye Qing and fled.

• Ye Qing revealed that his true form was a small Hou, and he traded playful insults with Ice Empress.
• Gang Zong offered to carry the group, so Ye Qing made a carriage compartment and they continued toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gang Zong suffered from the summer heat, prompting the group to travel at night.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress caught fireflies during the journey, and Ye Qing learned that Snow Empress had never left the Northland.
• A blood-covered burly man ran from a wheat field with a young girl, placed her in the carriage, begged Ye Qing to protect her, and fled after handing him a bag of coins.

Ye Qing stopped Spirit Hall members from searching a carriage and exposed his Titled Douluo-level strength to protect a captured man and his daughter. He refused to hand them over and forced the Spirit Hall leader to begin explaining the real reason for the arrest.

• Ice Empress blocked a man who had called someone Ye Qing's daughter, but Ye Qing stopped her from confronting him.
• Spirit Hall members emerged from the cornfields, captured the fleeing man, and surrounded Ye Qing and the others.
• When the Spirit Hall members approached the carriage, Ye Qing revealed his nine Spirit Rings and warned them to stop.
• The Spirit Hall leader said he had orders to arrest unregistered Spirit Masters with snake-type Martial Souls, especially poisonous ones.
• Ye Qing refused to let them take the two captives and demanded the whole truth, so the leader agreed to explain.

Ye Qing learned that Spirit Hall was hunting snake Martial Soul users over the death of a Branch Hall Master's son, and he drove the hunters away after realizing they were seeking someone connected to him. The Branch Hall Master identified the poison and chose to pursue revenge despite Spirit Hall's warning about confronting a Titled Douluo, while Ye Qing escorted the father and daughter back toward the marketplace.

• Ye Qing heard the captured man's account of how the Branch Hall Master's son died after a doctor poisoned him, prompting a hunt for snake Martial Soul users.
• Ye Qing recognized that Spirit Hall was looking for Xiao Qing and ordered its Spirit Masters to leave the father and daughter alone.
• The Spirit Hall squad withdrew after Ye Qing warned them that he knew the person they sought and that their indiscriminate arrests would not be permitted.
• A subordinate advised the Branch Hall Master to abandon the search, but the Hall Master crushed his teacup and ordered someone to identify the poison before deciding whether to stop the search.
• Ye Qing escorted the father and daughter toward the marketplace and advised them to leave the area, while the father warned him that Spirit Hall might be connected to the gods.

Ye Qing returned to the Star Dou Great Forest with Gang Zong, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress, who bickered and explored as they traveled toward his castle. At the castle, Xiao Qing sensed Ye Qing's return and detected another female's aura with him.

• Gang Zong drew attention as Ye Qing entered a settlement, where locals discussed the candied-haw business that had grown from the old man's gift of Tanghulu.
• Ye Qing returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, put away the carriage, and told Snow Empress and Ice Empress that only the sleeping Silver Dragon King might rival him there.
• Ice Empress teased Ye Qing about his small territory and sampled a Devil Bee while Snow Empress watched the forest's unfamiliar insects.
• Ye Qing stopped Ice Empress from searching for bee larvae because Xiong Jun relied on the bees for honey, and the group continued toward his castle.
• Xiao Qing sensed Ye Qing approaching, detected a female aura alongside his, and explained to Xiao Wu that she could distinguish males and females through hormones and intuition.

Ye Qing returned to the Castle, where Xiao Qing greeted him and teased Ice Empress about her feelings for him. He discovered that the Castle’s residents had grown in number, including Xiao Wu’s newly recognized brothers and an unfamiliar woman.

• Xiao Qing welcomed Ye Qing back and asked whether Ice Empress and Snow Empress were his new partners.
• Ice Empress denied any feelings for Ye Qing, but Xiao Qing pointed out that she was blushing, and Ye Qing teased her.
• Xiao Qing argued with Ice Empress about who looked older, then showed Ye Qing a book on contrarian behavior that she had read in his study.
• Ye Qing returned to the Castle and found that many new residents had arrived.
• Xiao Wu introduced Da Ming and Er Ming as her little brothers, and Ye Qing asked who the unfamiliar woman was.

Zi Ji came to Ye Qing seeking help tempering her body, and he prepared to use the Castle’s energy on her and Gang Zong. At dinner, Ye Qing was shocked that the others enjoyed his bizarre insect dishes, then took Gang Zong and Zi Ji to address Gang Zong’s difficulty adapting to the tropical climate.

• Zi Ji told Ye Qing that Di Tian was in seclusion and had sent her to ask for body tempering.
• Ye Qing learned that Ah Rou had befriended the Blue Silver Emperor after Xiao Wu accidentally bit her, then told Xiao Wu not to eat unfamiliar things.
• Ye Qing served a feast of unusual insects, but the Ice Empress, Gang Zong, and Xiao Wu all enjoyed the food.
• The Ice Empress offered Ye Qing a still-wriggling grub, but he refused to eat it.
• Ye Qing asked Gang Zong and Zi Ji to accompany him so he could help Gang Zong adapt to the tropical climate.

Ye Qing helped Zi Ji absorb the stored energy, but stopped her when the Dragon God's power overwhelmed her instincts. After Gang Zong showed off his transformed body, Ye Qing discovered Ice Empress absorbing the energy and had to shut it off, leaving her injured.

• Ye Qing monitored Zi Ji as she absorbed the energy, then used his racial talent to wake her when she continued past saturation.
• Zi Ji stopped absorbing, saw that her bloodline had evolved and dragon wings had emerged, and thanked Ye Qing before flying to Di Tian's territory.
• Gang Zong revealed his muscular new appearance, and Ye Qing took him back to the others.
• Ye Qing learned Ice Empress had gone looking for him and found her immersed in the stored energy, already absorbing more than five percent.
• Ye Qing forcibly shut off the energy output, and Ice Empress trembled as blood ran from the corner of her mouth.

Ye Qing treated Ice Empress by using his Devour talent to remove the excess energy she had absorbed, but she woke to find him kissing her and attacked him. After he explained that he had saved her life, she remembered what had happened and calmed down, though Ye Qing was still holding her down.

• Ye Qing bought the Marketplace guide to his Devour talent after Self-Discipline No. 3 explained how to remove Ice Empress's excess energy.
• Ye Qing discovered that the Ice Jade Scorpion's energy-storage trait had kept Ice Empress alive and began extracting the excess energy through her mouth.
• Ice Empress recalled following Ye Qing, then secretly absorbed energy from the storage device until she lost consciousness.
• Ice Empress woke in Ye Qing's arms, saw him kissing her, and struck him while protesting that he had taken her first kiss.
• Ye Qing restrained Ice Empress and explained that he had removed the excess energy to save her; she remembered absorbing it and calmed down.

Ye Qing explained that the Ice Empress’s energy absorption had pushed her past four hundred thousand years, leaving her facing successive Heavenly Tribulations. As the Tribulation Cloud gathered, he took her away from Castle to a cliff and calculated how much help she would need.

• The Ice Empress pinned Ye Qing down and accused him of risking a pregnancy while saving her, so he laughed at her belief that a kiss could cause a baby.
• Ye Qing questioned the Ice Empress’s lack of knowledge about courtship and reproduction, then asked whether she could withstand a Double Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Ice Empress discovered that she had crossed the four-hundred-thousand-year threshold and worried that she could not survive the coming tribulations.
• Ye Qing sensed a Tribulation Cloud forming and moved the Ice Empress away from Castle, while the Snow Empress trusted him to keep her safe and Bi Ji watched nearby Spirit Beasts flee.
• Ye Qing brought the Ice Empress to an open cliff and calculated that she could manage the first tribulation wave but would need his help with the second.