Chapter Summaries

Xu Yanli explained how helping commoners could turn them away from the empires and toward Xiaoyao Pavilion, while Gu Yuena grew more curious about his contradictions. As the convoy neared the Extreme North, Du Busi prepared to use evidence against Shrek Academy, and Xu Yanli readied Xiaoyao Pavilion to recruit commoner students when Shrek’s scandals broke.

• Xu Yanli told Huo Yuhao and Tang Ling that aid to the poor could win their loyalty for Xiaoyao Pavilion, and Gu Yuena listened as her curiosity about him deepened.
• Huo Yuhao realized that Xu Yanli was winning people over, while Xu Yanli decided he should stay in research instead of causing trouble outside.
• As the convoy neared the Extreme North, Du Busi reviewed a recording of Zhou Yi mistreating students and planned to use it against Shrek Academy.
• Du Busi considered sending the recording to the Clear Sky Sect and exposing Shrek Academy’s glorification of Zhou Yi to damage its reputation.
• Xu Yanli ordered Xiaoyao Pavilion branches to recruit locally after Shrek’s scandals emerged, prioritizing primary academies and free Martial Soul awakenings for commoners.
• Xu Yanli wondered why there were so few Angel Martial Soul holders and sent Ye Guyi away because Shrek Academy remained dangerous.

Xu Yanli led Huo Yuhao, Tang Ling, and Gu Yuena into the Extreme North, where he helped Huo Yuhao prepare to hunt an Ice Silkworm for his second Soul Ring. Huo Yuhao attacked the three-thousand-year-old Ice Silkworm with a Soul Guidance Ray Gun, landing five shots as it thrashed.

• Xu Yanli and the others entered the Extreme North, and Kong Deming gave the shivering Huo Yuhao, Tang Ling, and Gu Yuena Thermal Bracers to keep them warm.
• After an hour of travel, Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to locate a three-thousand-year-old Ice Silkworm, and Xu Yanli chose it as Huo Yuhao’s second Soul Ring target.
• Xu Yanli gave Huo Yuhao a Level 3 Soul Guidance Ray Gun and told him to stay calm, keep Spiritual Detection active, and stop the Ice Silkworm from escaping.
• Huo Yuhao approached the Ice Silkworm in its ice cave and fired five shots into vital spots, leaving it thrashing.

Huo Yuhao absorbed a three-thousand-year Soul Ring from an Ice Silkworm and reached level twenty-three as Xu Yanli led the group deeper into the Extreme North. After a detector found a dying Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Scorpion, Xu Yanli asked Electrolux to help Huo Yuhao form a willing contract with it.

• Huo Yuhao killed the Ice Silkworm and absorbed its purple Soul Ring, raising his Soul Power to level twenty-three.
• Xu Yanli led Huo Yuhao and the others into the Extreme North, where Long Xiaoyao warned them about a gigantic Titan Snow Demon.
• Tian Meng appeared and proposed a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast for Huo Yuhao, but Xu Yanli insisted that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would do.
• Xu Yanli shared boxed meals with the group before they continued their journey.
• A detector revealed a severely injured Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Scorpion, and Xu Yanli asked Electrolux to help it and Huo Yuhao form a contract.

Xu Yanli and his companions helped Huo Yuhao form a Soul Spirit contract with the dying Ice Jade Scorpion, then Xu Yanli sensed the Snow Empress nearby and asked Long Xiaoyao to take him to her. They found the Snow Empress frozen in a cave and captured a Level 9 Soul Engineer from the Sun Moon Empire who had followed them.

• Electrolux performed the Soul Spirit contract ritual for Huo Yuhao and the Ice Jade Scorpion while helping Huo Yuhao fuse with its Soul Bone.
• Electrolux sensed a powerful but nearly dissipated presence about three hundred li northwest, and Xu Yanli recognized it as the Snow Empress attempting to transform into human form.
• Xu Yanli asked Long Xiaoyao to take him northwest and told Kong Deming to bring Huo Yuhao and the others to safety if they had not returned by daybreak.
• Long Xiaoyao took Xu Yanli to an ice-sealed mountain valley, where they found the Snow Empress curled inside a crystal of ice.
• Long Xiaoyao caught an intruder near the cave entrance, and Xu Yanli identified him as a Level 9 Soul Engineer from the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Yanli offered to save the dying Snow Empress by making her his Soul Spirit, promising she would retain her consciousness and dignity as his partner. After seeing the Radiant Unicorn had kept its consciousness, Snow Empress accepted, and Xu Yanli's Sun Moon Prayer Angel switched to its moon form.

• Xu Yanli used his healing Soul Skill to stabilize Snow Empress, whose injuries were fatal.
• Xu Yanli offered to save Snow Empress and help her pursue godhood if she became his Soul Spirit and partner.
• Xu Yanli showed Snow Empress the conscious Radiant Unicorn Soul Spirit as proof that she would not lose herself.
• Snow Empress considered her bond with Ice Empress and the danger of refusing, then accepted Xu Yanli's offer as his partner.
• Xu Yanli took Snow Empress's hand, and his Sun Moon Prayer Angel switched to its moon form.

Snow Empress became a Soul Spirit bound to Xu Yanli, who then gathered Cold Ice Jade Marrow and three Immortal Herbs with her permission. The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion arrived in a rage, and Xu Yanli stopped her attack while warning that Snow Empress was bound to him.

• Electrolux completed the contract, and Snow Empress appeared in Xu Yanli’s spiritual sea as a Soul Spirit.
• Snow Empress offered Xu Yanli and Long Xiaoyao Cold Ice Jade Marrow and three Immortal Herbs, which they collected with her permission.
• Xu Yanli sensed the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion approaching and decided to meet her rather than leave.
• The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion attacked Xu Yanli, but he blocked her pincer with his sixth Soul Skill.
• Xu Yanli told the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion that Snow Empress was fine and warned that she was bound to him.

Xu Yanli brought Ice Empress out of the Extreme North and headed for Xiaoyao Pavilion, still determined to uncover the truth about his birth mother. At the pavilion, he discovered that its aid to the poor was earning him Faith Force and began considering how to combine his powers into the Creator God's Godhood.

• Ice Empress agreed to accompany Xu Yanli, and Long Xiaoyao promised to keep their arrangement secret.
• Xu Yanli told Long Xiaoyao that he wanted to visit Xiao Xiao's home and learn the truth about his birth mother, but Long Xiaoyao warned that the time was not right.
• Xu Yanli, Long Xiaoyao, and Ice Empress left the Extreme North and traveled to Xiaoyao Pavilion.
• Xu Yanli saw a pavilion member serving porridge to hungry old people and children, then asked where the people who had arrived earlier were staying.
• Xu Yanli realized that the pavilion's charitable work had been generating Faith Force for him and considered pursuing the Creator God's Godhood by combining his powers.

Xu Yanli planned to take Huo Yuhao to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy as turmoil loomed across Douluo Continent. After resting, he traveled to Star Luo City to visit the Duchess of White Tiger and knocked on the gate of a familiar-sounding woman’s courtyard.

• Xu Yanli told Huo Yuhao to avoid the Body Sect and said he would take him to study Soul Tools at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.
• Xu Yanli, Huo Yuhao, and Tang Ling played in a hot spring while Kong Deming and Long Xiaoyao discussed Kong Deming’s breakthrough.
• After resting for a day, Xu Yanli set out for Star Luo City and sent his companions to wait at Xiaoyao Pavilion.
• Xu Yanli went with Long Xiaoyao secretly following him to a small courtyard, knocked on its vermilion gate, and heard a familiar female voice answer.

Xu Yanli visited Xiao Dingtian to learn about his mother, and discovered she had been the revered Eldest Princess Wangshu. Xiao Dingtian began recounting her life but stopped as he reached the late emperor’s plan to name her Crown Princess.

• Xiao Yue opened the gate and was overcome by Xu Yanli’s resemblance to his mother.
• Xiao Dingtian recognized Xu Yanli as Her Highness and revealed that he had served as Wangshu’s personal guard commander.
• Xu Yanli asked Xiao Dingtian to tell him who his mother was, what she experienced, and how she died.
• Xiao Dingtian described Wangshu’s exceptional Martial Souls, rapid cultivation, and service to soldiers and commoners.
• Xiao Dingtian said the late emperor had begun considering naming Wangshu Crown Princess.

Xiao Dingtian told Xu Yanli how Xu Jiawei betrayed the Eldest Princess after her Martial Soul was destroyed, forcing her to flee and eventually die. Xu Yanli suspected Tang San had caused her downfall, then read a letter that revealed her warmth toward her soldiers.

• Xiao Dingtian recounted how Xu Jiawei feigned support for the Eldest Princess before a mysterious streak of light shattered her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Xu Jiawei staged a coup after the Eldest Princess was crippled, and Xiao Dingtian helped her escape to the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Eldest Princess asked Xiao Dingtian to return to Star Luo and help a child who resembled her; Xu Yanli suspected Tang San had caused the attack.
• Xu Yanli thanked Xiao Dingtian, reassured him about Xiao Xiao, and discussed inviting her to join his side.
• Xiao Dingtian gave Xu Yanli a letter from the Eldest Princess, who had written fondly of drinking with her soldiers.

After learning that Xu Qingwan had helped persecute his mother and hunted her former followers, Xu Yanli went to the Duke of White Tiger Mansion with Long Xiaoyao. On the way, he resolved to avenge his mother, broke through a bottleneck in his spiritual power, and entered a secluded compound in the mansion.

• Xu Yanli asked Xiao Dingtian whether the Duke of White Tiger Mansion had harmed his mother, and Xiao Dingtian named Xu Qingwan as one of the perpetrators.
• Xu Yanli left Xiao Dingtian’s home, then told Long Xiaoyao he wanted to go to the Duke of White Tiger Mansion immediately.
• Xu Yanli and Long Xiaoyao entered the mansion at night, with Long Xiaoyao following from the shadows as Xu Yanli avoided the guards.
• Xu Yanli embraced his desire to live freely and decided to avenge his mother, triggering a breakthrough in his spiritual power.
• Xu Yanli searched the mansion with his spiritual power, found a secluded compound in the rear courtyard, and slipped inside through its half-open gate.

Xu Yanli confronted the Duchess of White Tiger, who revealed her lifelong devotion to Xu Wangshu and confessed that she had killed Huo Yun'er because she resembled Xu Wangshu. The Duchess asked Xu Yanli to kill her, leaving him facing the woman he had come intending to execute.

• Xu Yanli found a ruined statue of Xu Wangshu in the Duchess of White Tiger's house and discovered the Duchess kneeling before it.
• The Duchess told Xu Yanli she had worshipped Xu Wangshu for twelve years and described watching her fall from the sky and shatter.
• The Duchess admitted she had sent people to test Xu Yanli, not to kill him, and said she wanted to see what kind of life Xu Wangshu's child would lead.
• The Duchess confessed she hated Xu Wangshu for showing her another way to live and revealed she had killed Huo Yun'er because Huo Yun'er resembled Xu Wangshu but lacked her character.
• The Duchess told Xu Yanli she could not return to her old life and asked him to kill her.

Xu Yanli confronted the Duchess of White Tiger over her hatred of his mother and the murder of Huo Yun'er, forcing her to face the resentment and despair behind her actions. After the Duchess broke down and explained how his mother's death had destroyed her hopes, Xu Yanli told her she was finished and asked her a question.

• Xu Yanli entered the room and accused the Duchess of White Tiger of destroying the idol she had worshipped for twelve years.
• Xu Yanli told the Duchess that she had hated his mother for showing her another way to live and hated herself for lacking the courage to follow it.
• Xu Yanli said the Duchess had killed Huo Yun'er because she lived with dignity, not because she resembled his mother.
• The Duchess collapsed and confessed that she had once believed his mother could show her a way out, but her death had shattered that hope.
• The Duchess cried that she could not turn back from the person she had become, and Xu Yanli told her she was finished before asking her something.

Xu Yanli killed the Duchess of White Tiger after confronting her with the emptiness of her life, then returned to Xiaoyao Pavilion with Long Xiaoyao. As they prepared to return to the Sun Moon Empire, Xiao Dingtian arrived with more than a hundred family members who pledged to follow Xu Yanli.

• Xu Yanli told the Duchess of White Tiger that she had been a coward rather than a true believer, then killed her with the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon's power after she asked him to tell her she could finally see her again.
• Xu Yanli gathered the Duchess's ashes with Lunar Power and scattered them into the night before leaving with Long Xiaoyao.
• Long Xiaoyao warned Xu Yanli to keep a low profile in the Sun Moon Empire and beware of Xu Tianran, and Xu Yanli spent the night cultivating in silence with Electrolux.
• The next morning, Xu Yanli prepared to return to the Sun Moon Empire, but Xiao Dingtian arrived with more than a hundred relatives and declared that his family would follow him.
• Xu Yanli asked why Xiao Dingtian's family would go to such lengths, and Xiao Dingtian recalled the Lord's words about meeting a kindred spirit.

Xu Yanli’s convoy left Star Luo City during a lockdown prompted by the Duchess of White Tiger’s death, but the Duke declared it Heaven’s Retribution and halted the investigation. The convoy reached the Sun Moon Empire, where Xu Yanli and his companions saw its advanced Soul Tool infrastructure as they traveled toward Ming Capital.

• Xu Yanli’s convoy left Star Luo City, but soldiers and Soul Masters locked down the city after the Duchess of White Tiger was found dead.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Duchess’s death had triggered the lockdown, and Xu Yanli reminded him that the Duchess’s children and Huo Yuhao’s father were still alive.
• Kong Deming received a message that the Duke of White Tiger had blamed his wife’s death on Heaven’s Retribution and ordered the investigation stopped, lifting the lockdown.
• Xu Yanli studied Huo Yuhao’s face and concluded that they did not look alike, while Huo Yuhao wondered what his teacher meant.
• Xu Yanli’s convoy crossed the Mingdou Mountain Range and entered the Sun Moon Empire, where Tang Ling and Huo Yuhao marveled at the advanced roads and Soul Tools.
• The convoy traveled toward Ming Capital, passing increasingly prosperous cities and low-flying detectors.

Xu Yanli returned to Ming Capital, where Crown Prince Xu Tianran and the Sun Moon Emperor welcomed him and his companions. The Emperor appointed Xiao Dingtian to command the Imperial Guard’s Left Battalion, while Xu Tianran grew wary of Xu Yanli’s rapid advancement and new influence.

• Xu Tianran greeted Xu Yanli at the city gates and led him into Ming Capital with a formal welcome from officials and crowds.
• At the palace, Xu Yanli introduced Xiao Dingtian as a former Star Luo general and his mother’s guard commander.
• The Sun Moon Emperor appointed Xiao Dingtian a great general in charge of the Imperial Guard’s Left Battalion.
• Xu Tianran noticed that Xu Yanli had advanced far beyond the Soul King level and privately worried about his growing strength and influence.
• Xu Tianran escorted Xu Yanli to Prince Xiaoyao Mansion, where the brothers exchanged guarded words before parting.
• Xu Yanli arranged lodging for his companions and expected the Xiao Family to establish its own residence the next day.

Xu Yanli was ordered to attend court despite his reluctance, and Xu Tianran accompanied him to the imperial palace. At the session, officials questioned Xiao Dingtian’s appointment to command the Left Battalion of the Imperial Guard, and the emperor called Xiao forward.

• Xu Yanli ordered Luo Xu to arrange enrollment at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and asked to be enrolled himself, but Luo Xu told him to prepare for court at seven the next morning.
• Xu Yanli reluctantly dressed in heavy court robes and left the Prince’s Mansion, where Xu Tianran was waiting to accompany him.
• Xu Yanli and Xu Tianran traveled to the palace, and Xu Yanli noticed the court officials, including Xiao Dingtian and the princes.
• After the emperor arrived and the court session began, a civil official questioned Xiao Dingtian’s background and appointment to command the Left Battalion of the Imperial Guard.
• The emperor silenced the official and summoned Xiao Dingtian to step forward.

Xu Yanli received regent authority from the emperor, who also appointed Xiao Dingtian to command the Left Battalion, stirring suspicion and resentment among the princes. Xu Tianran escorted Xu Yanli away and reassured him before Xu Yanli headed to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, focused on the upcoming tournament and the bomb he had planted in Shrek Academy.

• The emperor appointed Xiao Dingtian General of the Left Battalion and granted Xu Yanli authority to act as regent, alarming the court and upsetting Xu Yanli's brothers.
• Ministers crowded around Xu Yanli with lavish praise and probing remarks until Xu Tianran arrived and escorted him away.
• Xu Tianran asked Xu Yanli what he thought of the regent authority, and Xu Yanli said he had no interest in the position.
• Xu Tianran told Xu Yanli to rest before reporting to the Soul Engineer Academy the next day, and Xu Yanli headed there.
• Xu Yanli set aside court politics to focus on the Youth Soul Master Elite Tournament and wondered how the bomb he had planted in Shrek Academy was doing.

Xu Yanli watched as Da Ming and Er Ming attacked Shrek Academy to demand Zhou Yi over Xiao Qi’s mistreatment. Yan Shaozhe tried to protect the students while Mu En prepared to face the attackers, and Er Ming’s next strike threatened students still trapped in the ruins.

• Xu Yanli learned the Body Sect had begun acting, then entered the Golden Ancient Tree to observe Da Ming and Er Ming arrive at Shrek Academy.
• Da Ming demanded that Zhou Yi step forward, while Er Ming struck Xuan Zi’s wine gourd and sent him reeling.
• Mu En identified the attackers as Clear Sky Sect leaders and sent Yan Shaozhe to protect the students.
• Er Ming attacked the teaching building, and Yan Shaozhe intercepted the blow with his Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Da Ming accused Shrek of letting Xiao Qi be insulted and nearly killed, while Er Ming demanded that the academy hand over Zhou Yi.
• Yan Shaozhe urged students to flee as Er Ming brought another palm down toward those still in the ruins.

Xu Yanli watched Mu En defend Shrek Academy from Da Ming and Er Ming, then chose not to intervene as the academy was devastated. After returning to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, he asked Jing Hongchen about joining its team.

• Mu En blocked Er Ming's attacks and fought to protect Shrek's students while Yan Shaozhe led them toward safety.
• Xu Yanli watched from inside the Golden Ancient Tree as Mu En weakened, deciding that Shrek Academy still had to fall.
• Mu En collapsed, and Da Ming ended the attack, declared that Wang Dong was withdrawing from Shrek Academy, and left with Er Ming.
• Xu Yanli returned to his room and traveled alone to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Jing Hongchen welcomed Xu Yanli alongside Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, and Xu Yanli asked to join the academy's team.