Chapter Summaries

Ten-year-old Gu Yuan awakened an Ice Snake martial soul and bound the Treasure Exchange System. He exchanged the martial soul for the Ice Dragon King's remnant soul, which transformed his martial soul and raised his Soul Power to level 10, leaving the forest frozen in its wake.

• Gu Yuan paid for a martial soul awakening at a black-market wooden house in Las City.
• The hook-nosed Soul Master awakened Gu Yuan's Ice Snake martial soul and offered to recruit him, but Gu Yuan declined.
• Gu Yuan left Las City, opened his system panel, and used his exchange opportunity on the Ice Snake martial soul.
• The system gave Gu Yuan the Ice Dragon King's remnant soul, raised his Soul Power to level 10, and granted him nine more exchange opportunities.
• The Ice Dragon King's remnant soul transformed Gu Yuan's martial soul into an ice dragon, whose dragon's might froze the surrounding forest.

After his Ice Dragon King Martial Soul awakened, Gu Yuan recovered his strength and met the Ice Dragon King's remnant soul in his Spirit Sea. He explained his Treasure Exchange ability and proved it worked, leaving the Ice Dragon King convinced that he could exchange objects for treasures.

• Gu Yuan escaped the frozen forest, admired his transformed appearance, and meditated beside a river to recover his Soul Power.
• Gu Yuan encountered the Ice Dragon King in his Spirit Sea and told her that she was his Martial Soul and companion.
• The Ice Dragon King demanded proof of Gu Yuan's Treasure Exchange ability and sent him back to the riverbank with an ice cup of water.
• Gu Yuan exchanged the water for Masticated Wine from the world of 'Your Name', surprising the Ice Dragon King.

The Ice Dragon King revealed her identity and promised to help Gu Yuan become a god, granting him a sealed million-year natal soul ring, an innate domain, and a cultivation method. She left him with instructions to travel north for his remaining soul rings and warned him not to absorb any on his own.

• The Ice Dragon King explained that Gu Yuan’s Martial Soul exchange had given her hope of survival and declared him her child.
• Gu Yuan called the Ice Dragon King Mother, and she promised to create a million-year natal soul ring, a second Martial Soul’s prototype, and nine million-year soul rings from her spiritual origin.
• The Ice Dragon King transformed into an ice egg and bestowed her natal soul ring and innate domain, raising Gu Yuan’s Soul Power to rank thirteen and giving him three treasure-exchange opportunities.
• The Ice Dragon King explained that she had sealed most of the soul ring’s and spiritual origin’s power until Gu Yuan could endure them.
• The Ice Dragon King gave Gu Yuan her dragon race’s cultivation method and told him to travel north for his remaining eight soul rings, warning him not to absorb any himself.

Gu Yuan tested the Ice Dragon King's innate domain and soul-ring abilities, learning to fly, disguise the ring, and wield powerful ice skills. After recovering his Soul Power from using Snow Fills the Universe, he began testing the final skill, Descent of the Ice God.

• Gu Yuan learned that Element Control could change the color of his blue-gold soul ring, and he used it to disguise the ring as a yellow hundred-year one.
• Gu Yuan activated Ice Crystal Wings, struggled to control his flight, and used Element Control to cushion his crash with a wall of river water and carry himself to shore.
• Gu Yuan tested Mysterious Ice Dragon Spear and shattered a towering tree with the attack.
• Gu Yuan used Snow Fills the Universe to freeze the river, then replenished the Soul Power the skill had drained by drawing on natural energy.
• Gu Yuan began testing the Ice Dragon King's fourth soul skill, Descent of the Ice God.

Gu Yuan examined the Ice Dragon King’s soul skills and used the Treasure Exchange System to seek a cultivation method. He obtained Hai Bodong’s Ice Emperor Canon and exchanged most of his Masticated Wine for fine wine treasured by God King Tang.

• Gu Yuan assessed the Ice Dragon King’s four soul skills and decided to save their costly or powerful abilities for emergencies.
• Gu Yuan used an ice tablet inscribed with the Ice Dragon King’s meditation method to exchange for the incomplete Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Gu Yuan’s attempt to exchange the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and eight other martial-world cultivation methods failed because the system allowed only one exchange per item category.
• Gu Yuan exchanged the tablet again and obtained the Ice Emperor Canon from Hai Bodong’s storage ring, which contained the Mysterious Ice Art and numerous ice-based techniques.
• Gu Yuan exchanged most of his Masticated Wine and received fine wine treasured by God King Tang.

Gu Yuan let the Ice Dragon King absorb the Immortal Spirit Qi from God King Tang’s fine wine, then cultivated the Mysterious Ice Art and Purple Demon Eye before refining the wine himself. He woke the next day with his Soul Power raised to level eighteen and his cultivation speed greatly increased.

• The Ice Dragon King emerged from Gu Yuan’s Spirit Sea, absorbed the wine’s Immortal Spirit Qi, and warned him that drinking it directly could kill him.
• Gu Yuan sealed the wine in ice and began cultivating the Mysterious Ice Art, which fused with his Martial Soul and strengthened his Soul Power.
• Before dawn, Gu Yuan practiced the Purple Demon Eye by absorbing the first purple qi from the rising sun, then drank and refined God King Tang’s wine.
• After refining the wine until the next morning, Gu Yuan received five exchange opportunities as his Soul Power rose to level eighteen.
• Gu Yuan discovered that his Soul Power circulated four or five times faster and that his meridians had become more unobstructed.

After the wine transformed Gu Yuan and accelerated his cultivation, he set out for the Far North. In the God Realm, Tang San concealed his plans for Tang Wutong’s divided soul while Xiao Wu told him the Shrek Seven Devils’ gathering was due.

• Ice Dragon King told Gu Yuan that the wine had unsealed his first soul ring to the thousand-year level and could help him reach Rank 70.
• Gu Yuan reached Rank 18, advanced the Purple Demon Eye to subtlety, and decided to travel to the Far North without using his lottery draws.
• Tang San watched over Douluo Continent and planned to bind Huo Yuhao, the Child of Destiny, to the Tang Family through his scheme involving Tang Wutong, Wang Dong'er, and the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San that Xiao Qi had descended to the lower realm, and Tang San assured her Da Ming and Er Ming were looking after the girl.
• Xiao Wu reminded Tang San that the Shrek Seven Devils were due to gather again and that they needed to prepare.

God King Tang and Xiao Wu reunited with the other Shrek Seven Devils after five years in the God Realm, which amounted to five years on the Douluo Continent. As the group gathered for drinks, Tang San noticed Dai Mubai and Oscar seemed troubled and asked what had happened.

• Tang San told Xiao Wu that the Shrek Seven Devils would gather again, while Xiao Wu wondered whether Ma Hongjun should have stayed on the Douluo Continent with Xiangxiang.
• Tang San defended his past decisions and insisted Ma Hongjun had chosen godhood for himself.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar and Ning Rongrong, arrived at the Sea God Temple to reunite with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu took Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing aside, while Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Oscar sat together to drink.
• Tang San noticed Dai Mubai and Oscar were troubled and asked what had happened.

At the Shrek Seven Devils’ gathering, Tang San and his friends drank Hundred Flower Brew that had been secretly altered, and its effects sent Tang San back to the mortal world in Tang Ya’s body. He woke beside Beibei, discovered he had lost his godhood and cultivation, and collapsed in despair.

• Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and the others gathered with Tang San and drank the cloudy Hundred Flower Brew after Tang San checked that it seemed safe.
• Tang San privately told Dai Mubai that he wanted Huo Yuhao as his son-in-law and asked Ning Rongrong to help test him through the Valley of Universe Inquiry.
• After the Devils returned home to refine the wine’s Immortal Spirit Qi, the Masticated Wine took effect and Tang San awoke in a youth’s body beside Beibei.
• Tang San learned that Beibei believed him to be Tang Ya, the Tang Sect’s sect master and Beibei’s girlfriend, and realized he had only a weak Blue Silver Grass martial soul and Level twenty-eight Soul Power.
• Tang San fainted from rage, and Beibei revived him; Tang San later awoke beside Sea God Lake, weeping in despair.

After losing his godhood and taking Tang Ya’s body, Tang San planned to leave school and pursue Huo Yuhao’s opportunities. Xiao Wu awoke in Jiang Nannan’s body beside Xu Sanshi, attacked him, and was discovered by the Mysterious Underworld Sect’s guards.

• Tang San accepted that he had become Tang Ya, realized Huo Yuhao was still a child, and planned to seize his opportunities using Tang Ya’s devouring Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San blamed the God of Destruction for the Hundred Flower Brew plot and told Beibei he wanted to leave school; Beibei agreed to go with him.
• Xiao Wu awoke in Jiang Nannan’s body beside Xu Sanshi and realized the events from her dream had happened in reality.
• Xiao Wu found she could not use divine power, remembered what had happened, and feared Tang San would discover it.
• Xiao Wu kicked Xu Sanshi in the crotch, and his scream brought the Mysterious Underworld Sect’s steward and guards into the palace.

Xiao Wu awoke in the body of Jiang Nannan, a girl living ten thousand years in the future, and learned that Xu Sanshi had sent her home and arranged treatment for her mother. She decided to use her connection to her daughter, Tang Wutong, to find Tang San, unaware that she was already a Shrek student.

• The steward knocked Xiao Wu unconscious when she attacked Xu Sanshi, then Xu Sanshi ordered that she be treated and sent home with medicine and supplies for her mother.
• After the steward explained why Jiang Nannan had come to Xu Sanshi, Xu Sanshi sympathized with her and ordered his men to care for her and her mother.
• Xiao Wu woke in Jiang Nannan's home, realized she had been reborn in the future, and used a medicinal pill and Soul Power to revive Jiang Nannan's mother.
• Xiao Wu learned that she was twelve, had a Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul and level thirty-two Soul Power, and decided to attend Shrek to get close to Tang Wutong and find Tang San.
• Jiang Nannan's mother told Xiao Wu that Jiang Nannan was already a Shrek student.

Ning Rongrong, reborn as Ning Tian, failed to retrieve the Aromatic Silk Beauty needed to evolve her martial soul and decided to attend Shrek Academy to find Tang San’s prophesied Child of Destiny. Dai Mubai had also been reborn as Dai Yueheng and was already pursuing his own plan to use the Child of Destiny to return to the God Realm.

• Ning Rongrong ordered the statues of herself and Oscar demolished, but Ning Tian’s father rebuked her and extended her confinement.
• Wu Feng told Ning Rongrong that the sect’s searchers could not enter Sunset Forest’s poisonous mist, so they could not reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ning Rongrong realized she could not obtain the Aromatic Silk Beauty or evolve her martial soul, and decided to seek the Child of Destiny at Shrek Academy.
• Ning Rongrong asked Wu Feng to tell the Sect Master she would attend Shrek, and agreed to let Wu Feng accompany her.
• Dai Mubai, reborn as Dai Yueheng, was already acting on a different plan to use the Child of Destiny to return to the God Realm.

Dai Mubai rescued Huo Yun'er and Dai Yuhao from the Duke Mansion’s servants, then became attracted to Huo Yun'er and considered marrying her to secure a connection to Dai Yuhao. Zhu Zhuqing, reborn as Zhu Lu, watched Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng and resolved to live according to her own choices.

• Dai Mubai killed the servant who challenged him, and Huo Yun'er fainted after witnessing the bloody scene.
• Dai Mubai caught Huo Yun'er, became attracted to her, and carried her toward his residence with Dai Yuhao while ordering the servants to summon healers.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu saw Dai Mubai leave with Huo Yun'er and Dai Yuhao, and Dai Huabin criticized Dai Yueheng while pretending to be upset.
• Zhu Zhuqing, reborn as Zhu Lu, recalled her past life and decided to make her own choices rather than enter a marriage alliance.
• Zhu Zhuqing felt disappointed in Dai Huabin’s scheming and recognized that Dai Yueheng had acted from lust rather than concern for Huo Yun'er.

Oscar and Ma Hongjun were reborn into lives that brought them humiliation, while Gu Yuan reached the Far North and intervened when mercenaries mistreated a group of captives. The chapter ended with Gu Yuan facing the mercenaries and noticing a striking young girl among the captives.

• Zhu Zhuqing left after rejecting the marriage alliance, spurring Dai Huabin to resolve to win Zhu Lu over.
• Reborn as He Caitou, Oscar indulged himself in Shrek City's brothels and earned the nickname Brothel Caitou.
• Ma Hongjun became Feng Ling, vice leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, and Zhongli Wu abused him after discovering him in his wife's body.
• Gu Yuan traveled north for more than two months, reached the Far North, and used an ice-sensing technique to detect nearby people.
• Gu Yuan stopped a mercenary from whipping a hungry girl and told the mercenaries he would take their captives.

Gu Yuan rescued captured natives from a group of mercenaries in the Far North and learned that the young woman he had helped was Su Tong, a five-ringed Spirit King with the Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul. After Gu Yuan flew away with his Ice Crystal Wings, Su Tong decided to seek him out at Shrek Academy.

• Gu Yuan froze the mercenaries' second-in-command and defeated the attackers, then killed their leader and freed the captured natives.
• Gu Yuan gave Su Tong a bag of rations and learned from the Ice Dragon King that her aura resembled the Heavenly Snow Woman.
• Su Tong returned in a white dress, introduced herself as a five-ringed Spirit King, and explained that she had let herself be captured to find the mercenaries' hideout.
• Gu Yuan refused Su Tong's offer to help him hunt a Soul Ring and flew away using his Ice Crystal Wings.
• Su Tong suspected Gu Yuan possessed Ultimate Ice and decided to go to Shrek Academy to find him.

Gu Yuan followed the Ice Dragon King into the Far North’s core region, where she helped the Snow Empress complete her Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core. The Ice Dragon King then revealed her plan to create a path to godhood for Gu Yuan and the Far North’s soul beasts, and the Snow Empress agreed to sacrifice herself to him.

• The Ice Dragon King told Gu Yuan to conceal himself in the snow and guided him toward the Far North’s core region to obtain a second soul ring and begin a path to godhood.
• As the Snow Empress’s Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core nearly collapsed, the Ice Dragon King sent pure source power into her and stabilized her Ice and Space Soul Cores.
• The Snow Empress recognized the Ice Dragon King as the Ice God and learned that Gu Yuan was her son; she then greeted him as the young master.
• The Ice Dragon King announced plans to gather the Far North’s soul beasts’ faith and help Gu Yuan inherit the Ice God’s position while finding a way to protect the soul beasts from heavenly tribulations.
• The Snow Empress agreed to contribute to the Ice God’s God Creation Project and sacrifice herself to Gu Yuan.

Snow Empress completed her Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core and drew the Far North’s soul beasts to witness her success. When Ice Empress challenged Gu Yuan, he revealed his Ice God power and subdued her, leaving the gathered beasts convinced of his divinity.

• Snow Empress performed a dance that spread blue across the Far North and gathered thousands of ice-element soul beasts.
• Ice Empress arrived and celebrated Snow Empress’s success, then questioned her claim that Gu Yuan was the Ice God.
• Gu Yuan stepped forward when Ice Empress attacked, summoned the Ice God’s power, and revealed a thousand-meter frost dragon phantom.
• The phantom’s pressure forced Ice Empress and the other soul beasts to prostrate themselves, while Gu Yuan held Snow Empress upright.
• Gu Yuan quietly told the Ice Dragon King to leave everything to her.

Gu Yuan and the Ice Dragon King used Descent of the Ice God to empower the Far North’s soul beasts, and the Ice Dragon King weakened the Snow Empress’s heavenly tribulation so she could survive it. The Ice Dragon King left a God Statue at the Ice Snow Palace and advised Gu Yuan to return each year to gather faith; afterward, she recognized the Titan Snow Ape King as a descendant of Mount Tai.

• Gu Yuan’s power solidified the Ice Dragon King’s phantom, whose domain rapidly increased the cultivation of the Far North’s soul beasts and earned their devotion.
• The Snow Empress began her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, and the Ice Dragon King weakened it with Absolute Zero so the Snow Empress could endure it while protecting the soul beasts.
• After Descent of the Ice God ended, the Ice Dragon King became a thousand-meter ice sculpture at the Ice Snow Palace and told Gu Yuan that it held a sealed spiritual origin for his future benefit.
• The Snow Empress ordered the Far North’s soul beasts to worship the God Statue each year, while Gu Yuan concealed the month-long physical and spiritual weakness caused by his power.
• The Ice Dragon King appeared as a miniature dragon before the remaining ferocious beasts and recognized the Titan Snow Ape King as a descendant of Mount Tai.

The Ice Dragon King arranged for the Far North’s powerful soul beasts to sacrifice themselves to help Gu Yuan ascend to godhood, and the Ice Empress became the first to do so. Gu Yuan gained her Torso Bone, Soul Ring, and preserved spiritual origin, reaching Rank 26 as the next sacrifices remained ahead.

• The Ice Dragon King secured the Titan Snow Ape King’s, Ice Bear King’s, and Ice Empress’s agreement to sacrifice themselves for Gu Yuan, promising that they and their clans would benefit.
• The Ice Empress agreed to become Gu Yuan’s first sacrifice, and the Ice Dragon King and Snow Empress warned her not to test or harm him.
• The Ice Empress burned her Soul Power origin and vanished over a day and night as Gu Yuan absorbed her Torso Bone and Soul Ring.
• The Ice Dragon King preserved the Ice Empress’s spiritual origin in Gu Yuan’s Spirit Sea, and Gu Yuan gained new dragon-claw and dragon-armor skills.
• The system reported that Gu Yuan had reached Rank 26 and gained six exchange opportunities, while the Ice Empress explained how her sacrifice strengthened him.

After disciplining the Ice Empress in his Spirit Sea, Gu Yuan learned that his exchange ability had reset and asked the Snow Empress, Titan Snow Ape King, and Ice Bear King for treasures. His exchanges yielded a Golden Dragon-Nurturing Fruit and all the Gold Soul Coins in Dean Yan Shaozhe’s treasury.

• Gu Yuan spanked the Ice Empress until she apologized for disrespecting him, while the Ice Dragon King watched.
• The Ice Dragon King told Gu Yuan his exchange ability had reset, and the Snow Empress welcomed him after he recovered from his weakness.
• The Snow Empress offered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, the Titan Snow Ape King offered a right arm bone, and the Ice Bear King offered a Swift Ice Bird egg.
• Gu Yuan exchanged the Snow Lotus for a Golden Dragon-Nurturing Fruit, which the Ice Dragon King said could grant ultimate power and help him in the future.
• Gu Yuan exchanged the Titan Snow Ape Right Arm Bone and received all the Gold Soul Coins in Shrek Dean Yan Shaozhe’s treasury.