Recaps

Ye Xishui prepared to confront Shrek over the Holy Spirit Cult’s losses, with Long Xiaoyao agreeing to accompany her. In the Far North, Xu Lanqing met the Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King Xiaobai, who unexpectedly called him “Dad.”

• Ye Xishui ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to prepare for a trip to Shrek and postponed dealing with Xu Tianran while rebuilding their forces.
• Long Xiaoyao appeared and promised to stay by Ye Xishui’s side, despite his reluctance to face his former brother Mu En.
• Ice Empress returned to the Ice Crystal Palace with a Millennium Snow Lotus for Xu Lanqing and warned him not to keep flattering her.
• The Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King Xiaobai entered the palace, and Xu Lanqing introduced himself to them.
• After Xu Lanqing said Snow Empress had told him Xiaobai’s nickname, Xiaobai called him “Dad.”

Xu Lanqing sent Ice Empress, Xiao Bai, and the Titan Snow Demon King to his teacher’s undead demiplane, warning them about its dangerous inhabitants and boundaries. After they arrived, Ice Empress found the barren, dim world hostile to her powers and decided to proceed cautiously.

• Ice Empress announced that she and Xiao Bai would accompany Xu Lanqing, while the Titan Snow Demon King would remain to guard the Far North.
• Xu Lanqing warned Ice Empress, Xiao Bai, and the Titan Snow Demon King that the demiplane contained unknown numbers of undead creatures and that its darkness and void could devour living beings.
• Xu Lanqing opened a portal with a gray hexagram and sent the three of them into the demiplane, then collapsed from the strain and meditated to recover.
• The Titan Snow Demon King searched Ice Valley with his spiritual power but could not find Ice Empress and the others, realizing they had entered a separate plane.
• Ice Empress examined the demiplane’s scarce elements and barren terrain, then chose caution over exploring to protect Snow Empress.

Ma Xiaotao arrived at Shrek Academy for its entrance examination and demonstrated Soul Power of thirty-one. Meanwhile, Mu En briefed Shrek's leaders on the Sun Moon Empire, Soul Tools, and Evil Soul Masters, then set the academy's response before asking Xuanzi to stay behind.

• Ma Xiaotao gave her recommendation letter and tested at thirty-one Soul Power, stunning the students and applicants at the eastern gate.
• A black-cloaked figure watched Ma Xiaotao until she entered Shrek City.
• Mu En described his experiences in the Sun Moon Empire and asked Shrek's leaders how to address its wars and the Evil Soul Masters.
• The leaders argued over whether Shrek should intervene in the wars or focus on suppressing Evil Soul Masters.
• Mu En ordered the Shrek Inspectorate to increase its search for Evil Soul Masters and directed the academy to give more resources to the Soul Guidance Department.
• After ending the meeting, Mu En told Xuanzi to stay behind.

Mu En gave Xuanzi the Dragon Pill to help him reach rank ninety-nine and protect Shrek, but Ye Xishui arrived demanding revenge for her son’s death. Ye Xishui trapped Xuanzi in a sea of blood and sent her wraiths to attack Shrek City, threatening to slaughter everyone unless Mu En came out.

• Mu En offered Xuanzi the Dragon Pill, explaining it could help him reach rank ninety-nine and possibly evolve his Martial Soul.
• Ye Xishui appeared over Shrek City and demanded that Mu En face her, accusing him of killing her son.
• Xuanzi transformed into the Godly Taotie Bull and attacked Ye Xishui, but her Blood Soul Great Method stopped his assault and wounded him with wraiths.
• Ye Xishui fused with the Blood Soul Demon Puppet and trapped Xuanzi inside her Boundless Sea of Blood.
• Ye Xishui sent her twelve wraiths to attack Shrek City while Holy Spirit Cult experts blocked Shrek’s defenders, then threatened to slaughter the city unless Mu En appeared.

Ye Xishui and the Holy Spirit Cult attacked Shrek, but Mu En protected the city by joining with the Golden Tree and forced them to retreat. The battle left Mu En with only days to live, while Ye Xishui escaped with a promising girl she intended to train.

• Ye Xishui resumed her attack on Mu En, and the Holy Spirit Cult’s fighters clashed with Shrek’s defenders as Long Xiaoyao faced Xuanzi.
• Mu En broke away from Ye Xishui and linked his aura to the Golden Tree, shielding Shrek City from the battle’s shockwaves.
• Ye Xishui sensed a threat from Mu En and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to retreat.
• Mu En returned to human form, told Xuanzi to treat the wounded, and called for a Sea God Pavilion meeting.
• Ye Xishui met Feng Ling beyond Shrek, praised the girl in red as a future Limit Douluo with Ultimate Fire, and planned to train her.

Xu Lanqing reunited with Jing Hongchen and Zheng Zhan after surviving the Far North, then claimed his Martial Soul had transformed into the Snow Maiden and could no longer absorb Soul Rings. As they headed back, Jing Hongchen realized Xu Lanqing had Twin Martial Souls, and black smoke appeared beyond the snow.

• The Titan Snow Demon King left Xu Lanqing after assuring him no Soul Beasts were nearby.
• Jing Hongchen and Zheng Zhan found Xu Lanqing, and Zheng Zhan revealed that his battle with Tai Tan had raised his Soul Power to level ninety-two.
• Jing Hongchen noticed that no Soul Beasts were nearby, and the group decided to leave the Far North.
• Xu Lanqing claimed his Martial Soul had changed into the Snow Maiden and that he could no longer absorb Soul Rings; Jing Hongchen examined him but found nothing wrong.
• Jing Hongchen discovered Xu Lanqing had Twin Martial Souls, then spotted thick black smoke rising in the distance.

Xu Lanqing, Jing Hongchen, and Zheng Zhan rushed toward a burning town after sensing trouble, while Lin Rou fought three Soul Kings to protect her daughter Ju Zi. Ju Zi emerged from hiding to stand with her mother, and an unidentified young man arrived as the attackers threatened them.

• Jing Hongchen sensed trouble in the nearby town, and Xu Lanqing ordered the group to hurry to Ju Zi Barbecue.
• Xu Lanqing, Jing Hongchen, and Zheng Zhan reached the ruined town and headed for Ju Zi Barbecue as smoke filled the sky.
• Lin Rou fought three uniformed Soul Kings while Ju Zi hid in the cellar beneath the kitchen.
• After hearing Lin Rou cry out in pain, Ju Zi rushed from hiding and stood in front of her mother.
• A young man crashed through the roof and mocked the attackers as Ju Zi looked up at him.

Xu Lanqing rescued Ju Zi and Lin Rou from Heaven Dou Empire soldiers and invited them to travel with him to Mingdu. As they prepared to leave, Jing Hongchen and Zheng Zhan sensed an approaching army.

• Xu Lanqing killed the three men threatening Ju Zi and Lin Rou, then sent Jing Hongchen to deal with the soldiers outside.
• Xu Lanqing gave Ju Zi medicine and a handkerchief, and gave Lin Rou more pills and a blanket.
• Lin Rou said she planned to take Ju Zi to Mingdu, and Xu Lanqing invited them to travel with him; Ju Zi agreed.
• Jing Hongchen returned and reported that the soldiers had fled a battle, entered Sun Moon Empire territory, and planned to loot supplies before returning home.
• Jing Hongchen and Zheng Zhan sensed an army approaching.

Xu Lanqing met his second imperial brother, Xu Tianyuan, when the Imperial Dragon Soul Master Legion arrived at the ruined town. After Xu Tianyuan hurried back toward the border on urgent military business, Xu Lanqing set off with Lin Rou and Ju Zi under Jing Hongchen’s protection.

• Jing Hongchen used a high-altitude detector and identified the approaching force as the Imperial Dragon Soul Master Legion, led by the Second Prince, Xu Tianyuan.
• Xu Lanqing sent Lin Rou and Ju Zi to pack while the legion approached the ruined town.
• Xu Tianyuan ordered his troops to aid the wounded, clear the scene, and search for stragglers before greeting Jing Hongchen, Zheng Zhan, and Xu Lanqing.
• Xu Tianyuan recognized Xu Lanqing as his younger brother and mourned the townspeople harmed by the attack; Xu Lanqing urged him to make the enemy pay.
• After receiving an urgent note, Xu Tianyuan left more than fifty soldiers to handle the aftermath and returned toward the border.
• Lin Rou and Ju Zi rejoined Xu Lanqing, and Jing Hongchen carried them into the sky in a Flying Soul Tool.

Xu Lanqing returned to the imperial palace with Ju Zi and Lin Rou, then agreed to undergo a dangerous attempt to address the problem with his Golden Dragon Martial Soul. A guard took him through a hidden elevator beneath the palace and opened the way to a heavily fortified underground facility.

• Xu Lanqing gave Lin Rou a token before parting from her and Ju Zi at Mingdu’s checkpoint.
• Xu Lanqing told the emperor what had happened but kept the Snow Empress secret.
• The emperor explained that the Xu family’s Ancestral Land might offer a dangerous solution to Xu Lanqing’s Golden Dragon Martial Soul problem, and Xu Lanqing agreed to go.
• The emperor ordered a guard to take Xu Lanqing to Elder Kong and the Ancestral Land.
• The guard led Xu Lanqing into a concealed elevator beneath an unremarkable palace and brought him to a secure underground corridor.

Xu Lanqing entered the royal family's Ancestral Land to strengthen his mutated Golden Dragon Martial Soul with the Destruction power in its purple mist. He found that meditating there increased the Destruction power in his body until it could balance the Ruin power.

• Xu Lanqing returned to the underground research base, and Kong Deming examined him and warned that the Ancestral Land might be dangerous.
• Kong Deming explained that only people whose Martial Soul Awakening had given them the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon could enter the Ancestral Land, and said Xu Tianran had benefited from it.
• Xu Lanqing entered the pocket dimension alone after Kong Deming advised him to stay at its outer edge and absorb the purple mist's Destruction power cautiously.
• Xu Lanqing meditated outside the mist, drawing pale purple Soul Power into his body as the Destruction power gradually grew strong enough to balance his Ruin power.

Xu Lanqing merged the Golden Dragon King's destructive power with annihilation, but the Golden Dragon King provoked the surrounding purple mist and left him close to death. A mysterious woman arrived, healed him, transformed his power, and sent the vast Soul Power into Snow Empress's crystal.

• Xu Lanqing fused his purple Soul Power into the Golden Dragon King's golden power, but the Golden Dragon King roared and drew the destructive purple mist into an attack.
• The purple mist and the Golden Dragon King fought inside Xu Lanqing, while the Golden Dragon King's God Core broke through its seal and joined the struggle.
• Xu Lanqing reached the brink of death as his body and Sea of Consciousness were damaged, but a mysterious woman appeared and healed him with multicolored power.
• The woman's power merged with the Golden Dragon King's power, transformed Xu Lanqing, and refined the purple mist into pure Soul Power.
• The woman pulled Snow Empress's ice-blue crystal through a void and infused it with the immense Soul Power.

Xu Lanqing regained consciousness in his expanded Sea of Consciousness and learned from Electrolux’s afterimage that the Golden Dragon King’s remnant soul lay within its God Core. He used the Purification Fire to restore the remnant soul’s consciousness, while the unknown figure who had saved his body finished guiding her Soul Power into an ice-blue crystal.

• Xu Lanqing woke in his enlarged Sea of Consciousness but found himself trapped behind a seven-colored mental barrier.
• Electrolux’s afterimage explained that the Golden Dragon King’s remnant soul was sealed inside the God Core and gave Xu Lanqing a Purification Fire to approach it.
• Xu Lanqing used the Purification Fire on the breach in the seal, causing the Golden Dragon King’s divine power to withdraw into the God Core.
• The unknown figure sensed the divine power withdrawing from the boy’s body and finished guiding her Soul Power into an ice-blue crystal.

Xu Lanqing entered the Golden Dragon King's God Core and accessed the Dragon God's memories, learning that the Dragon God had considered ways for divine beasts and humans to coexist. The Golden Dragon King questioned whether a human could carry the Soul Beasts' mission, while Xu Lanqing realized the Silver Dragon King was nearby and unable to absorb the Golden Dragon King's power.

• The silver-haired woman probed the edge of Xu Lanqing's Sea of Consciousness but withdrew without entering because she feared harming him.
• Xu Lanqing reached the Golden Dragon King inside its God Core and touched its scales, linking them through Purification Fire.
• Xu Lanqing received key memories from the Dragon God, including his thoughts about the conflict between divine beasts and gods and coexistence between beasts and humans.
• The Golden Dragon King briefly regained his senses and exchanged memories with Xu Lanqing, who had limited what the dragon could see.
• The Golden Dragon King sensed the Silver Dragon King outside, and Xu Lanqing deduced that her injuries prevented her from absorbing its power.
• The Golden Dragon King challenged Xu Lanqing's right, as a human, to shoulder the Soul Beasts' mission.

Xu Lanqing accepted the Golden Dragon King's Godhead and fell unconscious as the Remnant Soul vanished. Gu Yuena discovered the fusion and watched a purple pearl enter Xu Lanqing, prompting her to prepare to stop what she believed was a possession attempt.

• Xu Lanqing told the Golden Dragon King that killing would not solve the Soul Beasts' problems and urged him to choose another path.
• The Golden Dragon King revealed his Godhead's power and warned that it would mark Xu Lanqing as an enemy of the Divine Realm.
• The Golden Dragon King sent his Godhead into Xu Lanqing, who collapsed unconscious as the Remnant Soul disappeared.
• Gu Yuena found the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon's skeleton, drew the Dragon Slaying Blade, and obtained a purple pearl and a Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Gu Yuena sensed the Golden Dragon King's Godhead fusing with Xu Lanqing, then saw the purple pearl slip into his body and watched him writhe in pain.

Gu Yuena fought the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon’s Remnant Soul inside Xu Lanqing and destroyed it by linking their souls. She sealed the Dragon Pearl’s power into the dragon’s Left Arm Soul Bone, giving Xu Lanqing a purple-gold Soul Ring, then rested while watching over him.

• Gu Yuena suppressed the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon’s power in Xu Lanqing and entered his Sea of Consciousness to confront its Remnant Soul.
• Gu Yuena battled the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon as it attacked her and prepared to unleash a suicidal explosion.
• Gu Yuena embraced the unconscious Xu Lanqing and linked their souls, summoning a nine-colored light that assimilated and destroyed the dragon’s mental form.
• Gu Yuena sealed the Dragon Pearl’s power into Xu Lanqing’s fused Left Arm Soul Bone, turning his left arm deep purple.
• A purple-gold Soul Ring emerged from Xu Lanqing, and Gu Yuena meditated to recover before complaining about him and watching him sleep.

Gu Yuena reflected on her past and her uncertain feelings about Xu Lanqing before leaving him gifts. Xu Lanqing woke in the Ancestral Land with a million-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, a divine blade bonded to him, and a crack sounding from Snow Empress’s crystal.

• Gu Yuena remembered the Dragon God's fall, her long recovery, and her plan to revive him using the Golden Dragon King's power, while questioning why he had chosen Xu Lanqing.
• Gu Yuena decided to return to the Star Dou Forest to heal, but first placed a silver-white dragon scale on Xu Lanqing and left the Dragon Slaying Blade beside him.
• Xu Lanqing woke in the Ancestral Land, found a million-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone within himself, and guessed Gu Yuena had given them to him.
• Xu Lanqing recognized the Dragon Slaying Blade as a divine weapon, cut his palm on it, and found that it seemed to accept him as its master.
• Xu Lanqing examined the ice-blue crystal containing Snow Empress, then heard it crack and froze.

Xu Lanqing watched Snow Empress emerge from the icy-blue crystal, fully restored and wielding nine blood-red Soul Rings, before explaining where they were and what had happened while she slept. The chapter ended with him asking how strong she was now.

• Xu Lanqing touched the cracked crystal, which shattered and released Snow Empress into the frozen space.
• Snow Empress awoke naked, and Xu Lanqing looked at her before she noticed and conjured a white dress.
• Snow Empress questioned Xu Lanqing about their location and her absence, and he explained that they were in the Sun Moon Empire's Ancestral Land and that she had slept for a few days.
• Xu Lanqing told Snow Empress that Ice Empress and the others knew what had happened, and he said he had passed out when a mysterious energy poured into her.
• Xu Lanqing asked Snow Empress how strong she was after she wondered what the energy had done.

Snow Empress revealed that she had advanced to Limit Douluo by condensing Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, and she and Xu Lanqing explored a space containing a powerful dragon skeleton. As the space began rejecting them, Xu Lanqing invited Snow Empress to experience the human world with him instead of returning to the Undead Plane.

• Snow Empress told Xu Lanqing that she had condensed Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores and advanced to Limit Douluo.
• Xu Lanqing asked whether Snow Empress could defeat Di Tian, and she said she would not lose to him.
• Snow Empress sensed a powerful dragon skeleton in the space and took Xu Lanqing to it.
• Xu Lanqing recognized the skeleton as likely connected to his Soul Bone and Soul Ring, but chose to leave it untouched.
• Snow Empress asked whether she should return to the Undead Plane, and Xu Lanqing invited her to stay in the imperial palace and explore Mingdu with him.

Xu Lanqing emerged from the Ancestral Land with his Martial Soul problem solved and a million-year Soul Ring, then chose to tell Kong Deming the truth about what he had hidden. Kong Deming accepted his explanation and promised to protect him and his companions from open attacks within the empire.

• Xu Lanqing and Snow Empress found the underground base empty, and Xu Lanqing examined notes about a High-Energy Compression Array Soul Guidance Device.
• Snow Empress sensed someone approaching, and Kong Deming entered the base after detecting his Soul Tool reacting.
• Xu Lanqing told Kong Deming that his Martial Soul problem had been solved and that he had gained a Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then revealed his Golden Dragon King Martial Soul and million-year Soul Ring.
• Kong Deming warned Xu Lanqing to keep the million-year Soul Ring secret to avoid attracting danger.
• Snow Empress introduced herself as Xu Xue, and Xu Lanqing confessed to Kong Deming that he had hidden things from him.
• Kong Deming forgave Xu Lanqing and promised that no one in the empire would dare attack his companions openly while he remained there.

Xu Lanqing helped Kong Deming develop a new approach to a portable Humanoid Soul Guidance Device and obtained nine Soul Tools for Snow Empress and the others. Kong Deming also revealed that his unfinished High-Energy Compression Array Soul Guidance Device could theoretically store unlimited Soul Power and slay a god.

• Kong Deming warned Xu Lanqing to be careful around the Third Prince and agreed not to interfere with his Soul Spirit Method or teacher.
• Xu Lanqing suggested shrinking the Humanoid Soul Guidance Device into armor for a single user, and Kong Deming seized on the idea of imbuing the metal with a spirit.
• Xu Lanqing and Snow Empress settled on calling her Snow Maiden, while Kong Deming excitedly sketched out his new ideas.
• Kong Deming gave Xu Lanqing nine Soul Tools after Xu Lanqing asked for them on Snow Maiden's behalf.
• Xu Lanqing asked about the High-Energy Compression Array Soul Guidance Device, and Kong Deming said it could theoretically store unlimited Soul Power and become powerful enough to slay a god.

Xu Lanqing learned that the Sun Moon Empire had suffered a devastating defeat and suspected Shrek’s people were behind the mysterious Soul Masters who turned the battle. After hearing that the emperor was gravely ill, Xu Lanqing resolved to protect the people he cared about, his father, and the empire’s people.

• Snow Empress doubted Kong Deming’s claims about the High-Energy Compression Array Soul Guidance Device, and Xu Lanqing took a Starlight Sapphire from the laboratory.
• Kong Deming told Xu Lanqing that the empire had lost after powerful Soul Masters assassinated its officers, and the Second Soul Engineer Legion sacrificed itself to cover the retreat.
• Xu Lanqing asked whether anything unusual had happened at Shrek, and Kong Deming described the Evil Soul Masters’ attack and the Golden Giant Dragon phenomenon.
• Kong Deming said the empire would have to negotiate peace and warned Xu Lanqing that the emperor’s old injuries had worsened after the defeat.
• Xu Lanqing told Snow Empress that he wanted to keep his loved ones, his father, and the empire’s people alive.

Xu Lanqing learned that his father's illness could only be managed unless rare treasures were found, then returned home with Snow Empress and reunited her with Ice Empress and Xiao Bai. Their meal was interrupted by a poisoned soup and an attempted bombing, but Snow Empress froze the weapon and the chef died from the poison; Xu Lanqing ordered a guard to inform his Third Brother.

• Sun Yuhuan told Xu Lanqing that the emperor could recover for another decade with care, but curing him would require rare treasures that the palace no longer had.
• Xu Lanqing brought Snow Empress back to his palace and used his ability to release Ice Empress and Xiao Bai, who reunited with Snow Empress.
• Ice Empress detected poison in the chicken soup, and Xu Lanqing stopped the chef from leaving and made him drink a bowl.
• The chef revealed himself as Pangolin, a double agent for the Great Star Luo Empire, and threatened everyone with a Level 8 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.
• Snow Empress froze the shell before it could fire, and Pangolin collapsed and died from the poison.
• Xu Lanqing told a guard to inform his Third Brother about Pangolin.

Xu Lanqing recovered a Level 8 Explosive Shell and gave Snow Empress and Ice Empress nine Soul Tools from Kong Deming. After testing one shield, the group was interrupted by a guard returning with what Xu Lanqing had requested.

• Xu Lanqing had Snow Empress remove the ice from the Level 8 Explosive Shell and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Ice Empress urged Xu Lanqing to kill his Third Brother, but he said he would deal with him when the time came.
• Xu Lanqing gave Snow Empress six Soul Guidance Shields and three offensive Soul Tools, teasing her as she accepted them.
• Ice Empress tested a shield by having Xiao Bai activate it, then broke it with a blow using sixty percent of her strength.
• Xu Lanqing said they would test the offensive Soul Tools another time, and a guard returned to report that he had prepared what Xu Lanqing asked for.

Xu Lanqing gave Snow Empress a beautiful Storage Ring, provoking Ice Empress into beating him while Snow Empress watched. Xu Tianran arrived to discuss the attack, but his elder’s pressure triggered Snow Empress to intervene.

• Xu Lanqing presented Snow Empress with a Starlight Sapphire Storage Ring and slipped it onto her finger.
• Ice Empress demanded her own ring, grew furious at the shabby black one Xu Lanqing offered, and beat him while he begged Snow Empress to save him.
• A guard announced that Xu Tianran had arrived, and Xu Lanqing composed himself before receiving him.
• Xu Tianran expressed concern about Xu Lanqing’s injuries, and Xu Lanqing mocked him for being unable to stand or be a man.
• Xu Tianran’s black-robed elder released his pressure at Xu Lanqing, and Snow Empress blocked it with her own power.