Chapter Summaries

Xu Lanqing tried to persuade the Snow Empress to trust him by explaining the unfair fate of Soul Beasts and revealing that he and Electrolux had devised a way for Soul Masters to gain Soul Rings without hunting them. The Snow Empress began to waver for the sake of the Far North and Bing'er, and Xu Lanqing swore by his Martial Soul that he would help her be reborn.

• Xu Lanqing reasoned that the Snow Empress wanted to survive and become stronger, but her distrust of humans stood in the way.
• Xu Lanqing argued that the world unfairly limited Soul Beasts and said he and his teacher had created a method to obtain Soul Rings without killing them.
• Electrolux appeared through Xu Lanqing and confirmed that he had created the cultivation method, prompting the Snow Empress to reconsider his claims.
• Xu Lanqing reminded the Snow Empress that Bing'er might not survive her fourth heavenly tribulation and said he could help her.
• The Snow Empress asked why she should believe Xu Lanqing, and he swore by his Martial Soul that he would help her be reborn.

Xu Lanqing explained the Soul Spirit Method to the Snow Empress, but Electrolux revealed that Xu Lanqing's Ice Phoenix Martial Soul could instead use Nirvana to complete her interrupted transformation. Electrolux performed the ritual, leaving the Snow Empress sealed inside an ice-blue crystal and himself dormant in Xu Lanqing's Sea of Consciousness.

• Xu Lanqing explained that the Soul Spirit Method could let willing Soul Beasts become Soul Spirits and help humans break through cultivation bottlenecks.
• The Snow Empress said the method could not save her because her shattered seal left her struggling to suppress her power.
• Electrolux appeared and explained that Xu Lanqing's Ice Phoenix Martial Soul possessed the power of Nirvana, which could complete the Snow Empress's transformation.
• The Snow Empress agreed to Electrolux's contract ritual, and he joined the Ice Phoenix with her body.
• The Snow Empress became enclosed in an ice-blue crystal, while Electrolux returned to Xu Lanqing's Sea of Consciousness and fell silent.
• An unseen figure noticed Electrolux's divine sense and murmured in surprise.

After replacing his Ice Phoenix Martial Soul with the Snow Empress, Xu Lanqing found himself trapped in the Ice Crystal Palace with her reborn form sealed in a crystal. As sunlight reached him and the crystal began to flash, he saw a possible change in his situation.

• Xu Lanqing recovered from the ritual and discovered that his Martial Soul had become the Snow Empress, giving him control over ice and a connection to her crystal.
• Xu Lanqing failed to store the crystal in his Storage Ring and realized the white gales had sealed off the way out of the Ice Crystal Palace.
• While waiting for the Snow Empress to awaken, Xu Lanqing reflected on his weak position against Xu Tianran and spoke of needing allies and the Soul Spirit Method.
• A trace of golden sunlight entered the palace and fell on Xu Lanqing, and the ice-blue crystal flashed several times.

Xu Lanqing met Ice Empress in the Ice Crystal Palace and showed her a recording explaining Snow Empress's fate. Ice Empress accepted that Snow Empress was sealed in the crystal and settled beside it, waiting for her to wake.

• Ice Empress appeared in the palace and froze Xu Lanqing, but their icy powers merged and strengthened him.
• Ice Empress questioned Xu Lanqing about Snow Empress and demanded to know how he had arrived.
• Xu Lanqing projected a recording of his conversation with Snow Empress and explained what the recording had left out.
• Ice Empress watched the recording in shock, then listened as Xu Lanqing explained Snow Empress's condition and the circumstances that led to it.
• Ice Empress leaned against Snow Empress's crystal and closed her eyes, content to stay beside it.

Xu Lanqing persuaded Ice Empress to consider traveling with him and Snow Empress through his teacher’s Undead Plane, then endured her rough “survival training.” In Mingdu, Xu Tianran learned that Shrek had killed the Holy Spirit Cult’s leader and several Titled Douluo, while his younger brother’s fate remained uncertain.

• Xu Lanqing argued that he needed to leave because his teacher’s ritual, the Soul Spirit Method, and their shared destination could not wait, and he proposed sheltering Ice Empress and Snow Empress in the Undead Plane.
• Xu Lanqing swore by his Martial Soul that he would not deceive or betray Ice Empress, easing some of her suspicion.
• Ice Empress beat Xu Lanqing, claiming she was training his survival skills, then left to take care of something.
• In Mingdu, Xu Tianran read a report that said his younger brother’s life or death was unknown and that the Holy Spirit Cult would wait for its Supreme Cult Master to emerge from seclusion.
• A subordinate reported that survivors blamed Shrek, including a Limit Douluo, for killing the Holy Spirit Cult’s leader and several Titled Douluo.

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.