Recaps

Xiao Yi found Zhu Lu being harassed by freshmen and learned that she had fallen into hardship after losing her value to the Zhu Clan. He intervened as dean of the Alchemy Department, expelled the freshmen, and left them trembling under his pressure as Yan Shaozhe arrived.

• Xiao Yi saw Zhu Lu, exhausted and struggling to support herself, surrounded by freshmen who pressured her to follow their leader.
• Zhu Lu spotted Xiao Yi and reacted with deep fear, while the freshmen challenged him to stay out of their business.
• Xiao Yi identified himself as Zhu Lu's class monitor and the dean of the Alchemy Department, then declared the freshmen expelled.
• Xiao Yi released the pressure of a three-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast, causing the freshmen to weaken and wet themselves.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe arrived, and the leading freshman realized he had provoked someone far beyond his strength.

After Xiao Yi punished arrogant new students and proposed choosing the Shrek Seven Monsters for their character, he comforted Zhu Lu and sent her to Zhang Lexuan. He then began preparing pills to evolve Tang Wutong and Nanmen Yun'er’s martial souls, seeking Na’er’s dragon origin to complete the ingredients.

• Xiao Yi criticized the new students’ cowardice, and Yan Shaozhe had the troublemakers taken away for punishment.
• Xiao Yi urged Yan Shaozhe to prioritize character over talent when selecting the Shrek Seven Monsters, and Yan Shaozhe accepted the idea.
• Xiao Yi reassured Zhu Lu and sent her with Zhang Lexuan to eat and recover after she broke down crying.
• Xiao Yi gathered blood essences and dragon- and phoenix-related herbs to prepare martial-soul evolution pills for Tang Wutong and Nanmen Yun'er.
• Xiao Yi summoned the sleeping Na’er to obtain the missing dragon origin, then sent her back to the Jade Snake Three-Flower Pupils space and began refining the medicine.

Xiao Yi publicly demonstrated his alchemy skills to the Alchemy Department, refining pills and teaching the students his techniques. After returning to the Tang Sect residence, he found Tang Wutong cultivating beside Huo Yutong, an unexpected sight given Tang Wutong's usual laziness.

• Xiao Yi used Na'er's scales and essence blood to refine a pill intended to transform Tang Wutong's martial soul.
• Students and Elder Yao gathered to watch Xiao Yi refine a pill, and faint thunderclouds briefly gathered over the cauldron.
• Xiao Yi invited the students inside and offered to teach them his alchemy techniques.
• Xiao Yi refined a special pill for Nanmen Yun'er using Bi Ji's essence blood, a phoenix soul bone, and rare medicinal ingredients, explaining the Spirit Ascension Method as he worked.
• Xiao Yi finished teaching and returned to the Tang Sect residence, where he found Tang Wutong and Huo Yutong cultivating together.

Xiao Yi helped Tang Wutong and Huo Yutong refine a medicinal pill, then discovered Xiao Xiao hiding beneath their bed and helped her cultivate as well. Three days later, he explained Snow Empress’ dazed state to Ice Jade Empress Scorpion and agreed to help her break through to four hundred thousand years.

• Xiao Yi gave Tang Wutong a pill and helped her refine its medicinal power while Huo Yutong watched nervously.
• Xiao Yi noticed Tang Wutong and Huo Yutong acting strangely, discovered Xiao Xiao beneath the bed, and helped her become stronger.
• Three days later, Ice Jade Empress Scorpion and Snow Empress blocked Xiao Yi’s doorway, and Ice Jade Empress Scorpion asked why Snow Empress had not awakened.
• Xiao Yi explained that Snow Empress was in a muddled state because complications during her transformation had left her like a prematurely born child.
• Ice Jade Empress Scorpion asked Xiao Yi to help her break through to four hundred thousand years, and he agreed to use a more efficient method.

Snow Empress woke to find Xiao Yi helping Ice absorb life force and attacked him in a jealous fury. After absorbing life force herself and calming down, she heard Ice explain what had happened.

• Snow Empress awoke while Xiao Yi was helping Ice absorb life force and mistook their activity for intimacy.
• Snow Empress unleashed Ice Extremity Unparalleled and attacked Xiao Yi, who blocked her strikes without retaliating.
• After Snow Empress exhausted herself, Xiao Yi offered her life force, and she clung to his arm to absorb it despite her anger.
• Shrek experts arrived, saw Xiao Yi and Snow Empress together, and quietly left.
• Once Snow Empress had recovered, Ice revealed herself and explained that Xiao Yi had only been helping her absorb life force and break through.

Ice Empress explained how Xiao Yi had saved her and Snow Empress, clearing up Snow Empress’s misunderstanding, and Snow Empress apologized and sought his forgiveness. In the Star Dou Great Forest, the Auspicious Beast took human form after eating an immortal herb, and Di Tian arranged for Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Myriad Demon King to go to Shrek City while she waited to learn to control her aura.

• Ice Empress told Snow Empress about Xiao Yi saving them and forming Beast Soul Contracts with both of them.
• Snow Empress apologized to Xiao Yi and transformed into a little girl, then sat on his lap and placed his hand on her head.
• The golden-haired Auspicious Beast threw a tantrum in the Star Dou Great Forest after the soul beasts refused to let her go to the human world.
• Myriad Demon King explained that the Auspicious Beast had eaten an immortal herb and taken human form while he was distracted.
• Di Tian ordered Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Myriad Demon King to go to Shrek City, while telling the Auspicious Beast to wait until she could control her aura.

At Shrek’s second-year examination, Tang Wutong demonstrated her transformed Martial Soul by defeating a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Xiao Yi healed it after she struck too hard. Xiao Yi was then called to take his own examination as the crowd eagerly awaited a glimpse of his fighting ability.

• Xiao Yi asked Yan Shaozhe whether he still needed to take the second-year examination, and Yan Shaozhe teased him for pretending not to want attention.
• Tang Wutong knocked a Golden-maned Lion unconscious with a powerful attack, then looked to Xiao Yi for help after realizing she had used too much force.
• Xiao Yi healed the Soul Beast, which fled back into its cage, and Wang Yan awarded Tang Wutong full marks.
• Wang Yan called Xiao Yi for his examination after getting Yan Shaozhe’s approval, prompting the assembled students and teachers to watch eagerly.
• Xiao Yi floated toward the examination area as the Alchemy Department’s students admired him for sharing his knowledge and pills generously.

Xiao Yi stunned the arena by revealing six hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, then left to meet Gu Yuena after she told him visitors had arrived near the Star Dou Great Forest. Bi Ji and Zi Ji waited in a courtyard, where Zi Ji tried to imitate Bi Ji’s manner.

• Xiao Yi chose the strongest available Soul Beast for the assessment and frightened the charging Netherfire Lizard into fleeing by revealing his Soul Rings and dragon bloodline pressure.
• Gu Yuena contacted Xiao Yi and told him someone had arrived at the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Yi met Gu Yuena in the corridor, kissed her, and took her to the Tang Sect’s secret chamber before leaving to see the visitors.
• Bi Ji and Zi Ji drank tea in a courtyard while Zi Ji awkwardly imitated Bi Ji’s gentle manner, and Myriad Demon King waited nearby as the golden-haired auspicious beast watched ants.

Xiao Yi returned to the courtyard and investigated the auspicious beast, who had transformed after eating an unidentified herb. He confirmed she had no apparent Soul Beast aura, but she woke and eagerly clung to him, leaving him pinned on the bed.

• Xiao Yi arrived with Gu Yuena, and Myriad Demon King, Bi Ji, and Zi Ji welcomed them.
• Xiao Yi asked Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Myriad Demon King which herb the auspicious beast had eaten, but none could identify it.
• Myriad Demon King revealed that the Life Flame had caused many unfamiliar plants to grow in the courtyard’s medicinal field.
• Xiao Yi examined the transformed golden-haired girl and found no trace of a Soul Beast aura.
• Xiao Yi tested her reaction to his Life Flame, and the half-asleep girl instinctively sucked his finger.
• The auspicious beast woke, pounced on Xiao Yi, and licked him while pressing close to him.

Xiao Yi discovered that the Auspicious Beast had eaten a spirit herb called Transformation Grass and began refining a Transformation Pill for Soul Beasts. As the pill took shape, he sensed an unknown will repeatedly interfering with his work.

• The Auspicious Beast asked Xiao Yi to take her to the human world, and he told her to identify the herb she had eaten and choose a human name.
• Xiao Yi brought the Auspicious Beast and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian led them to the medicinal garden.
• Xiao Yi traced the Auspicious Beast's paw prints to the herb field and confirmed that she had eaten Transformation Grass.
• Xiao Yi gathered ingredients and warned the others to keep their distance before attempting to refine a Transformation Pill.
• Xiao Yi adjusted the recipe for Soul Beasts and continued refining despite mysterious interference disrupting his work.

Xiao Yi refined a Transformation Pill for the Emperor Auspicious Beast and destroyed the tribulation lightning it summoned with a three-colored fire lotus. He explained the pill’s benefits and drawbacks, then sensed that the old Dragon God might be watching from the void.

• Xiao Yi used the Spirit Ascension Method to finish refining the pill as tribulation clouds gathered overhead.
• Xiao Yi stopped Di Tian from intervening, raised his strength with the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, and blasted the descending lightning with a three-colored fire lotus.
• The ferocious beasts recoiled from Xiao Yi, and he gave the Transformation Pill to the Emperor Auspicious Beast to complete her transformation.
• Xiao Yi explained that the pill let Soul Beasts transform without losing their cultivation, but made breakthroughs harder and limited their ability to return to their true forms.
• Di Tian asked about the pill’s flaws, and Xiao Yi sensed an obscure gaze that he suspected belonged to the old Dragon God.

Xiao Yi introduced the Transformation Pill as a new path for Soul Beasts to escape their limits and challenge godhood, while the Auspicious Beast delayed taking it until she had a name. After the others left, Xiao Yi reconsidered his plans for the Soul Beasts and his own ascent, then suddenly remembered that Gu Yuena might be jealous.

• Xiong Jun asked whether using a human Soul Master contract to evade tribulations was better than taking the Transformation Pill, and Xiao Yi explained that the pill could let Soul Beasts challenge the godly realm.
• The ferocious beasts recognized that the pill offered Soul Beasts a choice between surviving safely and pursuing a higher realm, but none asked Xiao Yi for one.
• The Auspicious Beast asked to postpone taking the pill until she had a name, and Xiao Yi agreed before the other ferocious beasts departed.
• Xiao Yi, Bi Ji, and Zi Ji went into the small house together, where Xiao Yi reflected on the Dragon God's remnant, the Soul Beasts' future, and his own route to godhood.
• Xiao Yi considered visiting Dragon Valley after reaching Soul Douluo to investigate the Dragon God's remnant, then realized he had forgotten Gu Yuena and suspected her jealousy had erupted.

Xiao Yi healed Gu Yuena and received her approval to use the Transformation Pill, then tested the transformed Auspicious Beast's strength. He decided to take her with him, and she accepted the name Xiao Qiuyao.

• Gu Yuena agreed to Xiao Yi's request concerning the Transformation Pill as he continued healing her injuries.
• Bi Ji brought the Auspicious Beast to Xiao Yi's courtyard the next morning, where the ferocious beasts gathered to see the pill's effects.
• The Auspicious Beast attacked Xiao Yi, but he blocked her blows and proved stronger in their test of physical strength.
• Xiao Yi told Di Tian that he would take the Auspicious Beast with him, and Di Tian reluctantly agreed.
• Xiao Yi named the Auspicious Beast Xiao Qiuyao, and she happily accepted the name.

Xiao Yi and the elders welcomed the Snow Empress and Xiao Qiuyao as Shrek students, while the academy considered how to choose its reserve team from an unusually powerful group of young Soul Kings. The chapter ended with Yan Shaozhe and the elders struggling to decide which girls close to Xiao Yi should make the team.

• The Snow Empress and Xiao Qiuyao joined Shrek Academy, where Mu En found no flaws in their human forms.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Xiao Yi the Alchemy Department’s Core Disciple list and discussed the reserve team selection with him.
• Xiao Yi reviewed the many talented students, including Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao, and left the selection decision to Yan Shaozhe.
• Yan Shaozhe and the Sea God Pavilion elders wrestled with choosing a reserve team from Shrek’s many powerful young women.

Shrek held the preparatory team selection competition while Xiao Yi’s companions gathered around him, turning the square into a family gathering. Nan Qiuqiu encouraged Zhu Lu to compete and hinted that Xiao Yi had kept her in the Alchemy Department for personal reasons, leaving Xiao Yi to overhear and bristle.

• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe agreed that the selection competition should proceed while Xiao Yi handled the personal entanglements himself.
• Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei discussed their evolved Martial Souls and reflected on how Xiao Yi had changed their lives.
• Xiao Yi broke up Tang Wutong and Xiao Qiuyao’s bickering with playful smacks as their companions watched.
• Nan Qiuqiu reassured anxious Zhu Lu that she should join the selection and suggested Xiao Yi had kept her in the Alchemy Department because he liked her.
• Xiao Yi overheard Nan Qiuqiu calling him a scumbag and protested that he had only taken pity on Zhu Lu.

Xuan Zi began the Outer Court selection, unleashing a shifting maze where the girls effortlessly defeated the participants. Xiao Yi waited with Tang Wutong and was joined by Gu Yuena, while Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan subdued Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi.

• Xuan Zi started the selection, and the plaza transformed into a maze of shifting stone walls and passages.
• Tang Wutong tried to fly through the Soul Power barrier to reach Huo Yutong, hit the barrier, and fell back into Xiao Yi's arms.
• Tang Ya used her Blue Silver Emperor vines to trap an approaching Core Disciple while students across the maze were quickly defeated by the girls.
• Gu Yuena located Xiao Yi through their mental connection, shifted Tang Wutong aside, and settled into Xiao Yi's embrace.
• Jiang Nannan sent Xu Sanshi flying with Space Stitching and kicked him higher, while Tang Ya bound Bei Bei to a wall and sealed his Soul Power.

Xiao Yi watched as the surviving girls were divided into two teams to fight for the title of this generation’s Shrek Seven Monsters. The match began with Tang Ya’s side gaining the advantage, while Tang Wutong and Xiao Qiuyao remained locked in a stalemate.

• Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan left the assessment plaza, while Qiu’er rushed to cling to Xiao Yi and Nan Qiuqiu surrendered with Zhu Lu before Yan Shaozhe sent them to the spectator area.
• The remaining girls formed two five-person teams, and Xiao Yi took Gu Yuena, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress to watch the match.
• Tang Wutong and Xiao Qiuyao challenged each other from the air and ground but could not land effective attacks.
• Huo Yutong used Mental Disturbance to break Ning Tian’s group enhancement, allowing Xiao Xiao to trap Nanmen Yun’er beneath a cauldron.
• Tang Ya used her Immortal Rakshasa Godbinding Vine to bind Nan Qiuqiu and Wu Feng, whose flames could not burn through Tang Ya’s fire-immune Blue Silver Emperor.

After the battle, Yan Shaozhe finalized the Seven Monsters selections. Xiao Yi comforted the self-doubting Zhu Lu and drew her close, while Nan Qiuqiu called him out for pursuing her looks, leaving Zhu Lu's insecurities unresolved.

• Yan Shaozhe named the Seven Monsters of this generation and told everyone to gather at the inner courtyard the next day.
• As Zhu Lu tried to slip away, Xiao Yi stopped her and reassured her that he valued more than her talent.
• Zhu Lu blushed and leaned into Xiao Yi, finding comfort in his warmth despite doubting her worth.
• Nan Qiuqiu jumped onto Xiao Yi's back and accused him of being interested in Zhu Lu's looks.
• Zhu Lu feared she had little to offer beyond her appearance, and her mood sank again as Xiao Yi recognized that her insecurity would take time to change.

Xiao Yi led the Outer Court team to Sea God Lake on Soul Beasts, stealing the Inner Court team’s planned entrance and drawing the whole academy’s attention. The teams prepared to spar, but the Inner Court members were intimidated by the Outer Court’s strength and Xiao Yi’s presence.

• Xiao Yi returned to the Tang Sect after taking Nan Qiuqiu and Zhu Lu back to their dormitory, and he gave Zhu Lu Immortal Herb pills.
• Xiao Yi and the others arrived early at Sea God Lake, where Xiao Xiao and the group summoned their Soul Beasts for an impressive display.
• The spectacle startled the Inner Court team and attracted Mu En, teachers, students, and Sea God Pavilion elders.
• Xuan Zi led both teams to the Inner Court training grounds and reminded them to keep the spar controlled.
• Both sides released their martial souls, and the Inner Court team felt pressured by the Outer Court’s powerful Soul Rings and Xiao Yi’s reputation.

Xiao Yi fought Ling Luochеn and Ma Xiaotao inside an ice enclosure, countering their coordinated attacks while testing their combat instincts. He caught Ma Xiaotao as she ran out of Soul Power and ended the battle.

• Gu Yuena charged Dai Yueheng with the Silver Dragon Spear as Xiao Yi raised ice walls to separate his fight from the others.
• Ling Luochеn attacked Xiao Yi with Ultimate Ice, but he seized control of her ice ring and sent it toward Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao countered Xiao Yi’s ice attack with Phoenix Howling Sky Strike, then used Phoenix Meteor Shower while Ling Luochеn trapped him in an Ice Prison.
• Xiao Yi broke free with Mystic Ice Dragon Soar, forcing Ma Xiaotao to use Martial Soul Avatar while Ling Luochеn froze in place.
• Xiao Yi dissolved the ice dragon threatening Ling Luochеn, gave her an ice rose, and warned her to stay alert.
• Xiao Yi caught Ma Xiaotao as she ran out of Soul Power, ending their battle.

Gu Yuena and the other girls swiftly defeated Shrek’s team, with Gu Yuena knocking Dai Yueheng unconscious after he finally activated his enhancements. Later, Xiao Yi helped Zhu Lu refine an immortal-grade pill, raising her Soul Power to the level-forty bottleneck and giving her a hundred-thousand-year Phantom Leopard Soul Ring.

• Gu Yuena used her spear to stop Dai Yueheng from fighting or surrendering while the other girls eliminated Chen Zifeng, Yao Haoxuan, and Xixi.
• Dai Yueheng broke free and activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation and White Tiger Demon God Transformation, but Gu Yuena struck him unconscious with three spear blows.
• Gongyang Mo surrendered, ending the battle, and Dai Yueheng was taken to the inner court’s healing soul masters.
• The teams later switched to cross-training, with Xiao Yi and Gu Yuena kept out so the main team could practice against the other girls.
• Xiao Yi helped Zhu Lu refine an immortal-grade pill, raising her Soul Power from level thirty-two to the level-forty bottleneck and supplying her with a hundred-thousand-year Phantom Leopard Soul Ring.
• Intelligent Soul Beasts spread word of Xiao Yi’s Beast Soul Contracts and bloodline-evolution abilities, prompting many high-quality candidates to seek recruitment.

Xuan Zi gathered the Shrek group before their journey and assigned the Inner Court a covert mission against the Reaper's Messengers, while the reserve team stayed out of the operation. The group set off using Soul Tools, and Xiao Yi carried Xiao Qiuyao as the others prepared to fly.

• Nan Qiuqiu envied Zhu Lu's red Soul Ring, while Xiao Yi indulged Xiao Qiuyao and kept her and Tang Wutong from bickering.
• Xuan Zi explained the Shrek Inspection Corps and revealed that the Inner Court would target the bandits known as the Reaper's Messengers near the Sun Moon Empire and Star Luo Empire border.
• Xuan Zi told the Outer Court reserve team to stay out of the covert operation because their numbers would make the group conspicuous.
• Xixi asked Ling Luochen how she had grown stronger, and Ling Luochen answered, "Mugwort."
• The group prepared Soul Tools made by Gu Yuena and Huo Yutong, and Xiao Qiuyao gave hers to Xixi.
• Xiao Yi handed Soul Tools to the remaining Inner Court members, picked up Xiao Qiuyao, and set off with the group.

Shrek’s group arrived at the Star Luo Border Fortress, where Dai Hao greeted them and tried to win Xiao Yi’s favor. Huo Yutong faced her estranged father with deep hatred and ended the chapter alone with painful memories of her mother’s suffering.

• Xuan Zi encouraged the envious inner court students by saying they might still be chosen for Beast Soul Contracts.
• The group reached the Star Luo Border Fortress, and Huo Yutong recognized Dai Hao as the father who had abandoned her and her mother.
• Dai Hao concealed his anger toward Xiao Yi and warmly welcomed Shrek’s delegation, hoping to secure ties with Xiao Yi and improve his relationship with Huo Yutong.
• Xiao Yi sent the outer court students to camp nearby while the inner court students entered the fortress for intelligence on the Reaper’s Messengers.
• Dai Yueheng led the inner court students toward the bandit group, while only Xixi took an Invincible Barrier.
• Huo Yutong held the White Tiger Dagger in her room and relived her mother’s neglect and suffering, struggling to contain her hatred for Dai Hao.

Huo Yutong broke down in Xiao Yi’s arms over her painful past, and Xiao Yi stood between her and Dai Hao when the White Tiger Duke came to seek a reunion. Xiao Yi drove Dai Hao away with overwhelming force and warned him never to trouble Yu Tong again.

• Huo Yutong sobbed in Xiao Yi’s arms as he resolved to support her revenge rather than offer empty comfort.
• Dai Hao went to Shrek’s camp intending to manipulate Huo Yutong into accepting him as her father.
• Xiao Yi blocked Dai Hao at the entrance, and Huo Yutong came out to tell her father to leave.
• When Dai Hao tried to approach Huo Yutong, Xiao Yi attacked him and overwhelmed him with an Ice Dragon.
• Xiao Yi threatened to remove Dai Hao as White Tiger Duke if he returned to trouble Yu Tong, while displaying a two-colored Fire Lotus.

Xiao Yi learned that Xuan Zi’s intervention had worsened the damage from the cave explosion, while an evil soul master captured Dai Yueheng. Days later, Shrek’s team arrived in Star Luo City, where the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy received intelligence suggesting Shrek had only three likely main-team members.

• Shrek’s Inner Court members charged into the cave after finding the remains of victims, but an explosion broke out and Xuan Zi rushed inside.
• Xiao Yi healed three injured disciples with Life Flame, then learned that Xuan Zi’s Soul Power had shattered the Ice Jade Scorpion’s protective ice and exposed the wounded to corpse poison and extreme cold.
• Ma Xiaotao explained that Dai Yueheng had advanced too far and was taken by an evil soul master, and Xiao Yi rebuked Xuan Zi for injuring the disciples while failing to catch the Soul King.
• Several days later, Shrek’s team moved into Xinghuang Grand Hotel in Star Luo City, where spies reported the team’s apparent lineup to their factions.
• Xiao Hongchen excitedly asked Elder Ma whether reports that Shrek had only three likely main-team members were true.