Chapter Summaries

After a month apart, Tang Wutong found Xiao Yi and learned he had been busy with Alchemy rather than avoiding her. When Xiao Yi failed to return her feelings, Tang Wutong kissed him and claimed she would make him hers, and he turned the tables on her.

• Tang Wutong realized she had fallen for Xiao Yi and spent more than twenty days longing for him while failing to find him.
• Tang Wutong went to Xiao Yi's residence and asked why he had not come back to see her.
• Xiao Yi explained that he had been occupied with Alchemy and gave Tang Wutong Soul Ascension Pills that could help her reach Soul Elder.
• Tang Wutong embraced Xiao Yi and asked whether he liked her, but his silence made her fear that he did not return her feelings.
• Tang Wutong knocked Xiao Yi onto the bed, kissed him, and declared that he had to be hers before Xiao Yi turned the tables.

Xiao Yi revealed his upgraded Soul Ascension Pills to Mu En, Yan Shaozhe, and Elder Yao, astonishing them with their ability to raise cultivation without side effects. After they offered him academy resources, Xiao Yi prepared to ask for access to the Library Pavilion’s top floor and support for his research.

• Tang Wutong woke in Xiao Yi’s arms, confessed that she liked him, and Xiao Yi returned her feelings by calling her Xiao Qi.
• Tang Wutong arrived late to Class One, where Huo Yutong noticed she seemed different and heard her claim she had overslept.
• Elder Yao tested Xiao Yi’s emerald pill and praised its purity and medicinal power.
• Xiao Yi explained that his high-, mid-, and low-grade Soul Ascension Pills could each raise Soul Power by one level at their respective cultivation stages, and Mu En warned him to keep their source secret.
• Yan Shaozhe offered to credit the pills to an academy elder, while Mu En promised Xiao Yi access to academy resources and Soul Bones.
• Xiao Yi welcomed Mu En’s offer, hoping to gain support for his Alchemy research and access to the Library Pavilion’s top floor.

Xiao Yi received permission to use the Academy’s medicinal ingredients and began exploring alchemy as a way to make rare herbs useful. He planned to refine an unusual Blue Silver Grass plant to help Tang Ya, while agreeing to train students once the Academy developed a suitable alchemy Soul Tool.

• Mu En approved Xiao Yi’s request for medicinal ingredients and access to the Library Pavilion’s highest floor, and Elder Yao accepted that he could use the herbs.
• Xiao Yi explored the medicinal storehouse and identified rare herbs whose potent properties made them dangerous or impossible for people to consume directly.
• Xiao Yi found an unusual Blue Silver Grass plant, and Elder Yao explained that it had gained cultivation without developing intelligence.
• Xiao Yi told Elder Yao he hoped to refine the plant into a pill to help Tang Ya transform her Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Elder Yao let Xiao Yi use the herbs and asked him to train students once an alchemy Soul Tool was developed; Xiao Yi agreed, and Elder Yao went to study Xiao Yi’s pill-condensing method.

Xiao Yi planned a pill to evolve Tang Ya's Blue Silver Grass into a Blue Silver Emperor, then gave Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao Soul Ascension Pills. He left the girls to train and went to refine pills.

• Xiao Yi studied the special Blue Silver Grass and drafted a formula combining it with ingredients that nourished life, strengthened wood attributes, and purified bloodlines.
• Xiao Yi gathered the rare ingredients and left the medicine storeroom to refine pills at his own place.
• Xiao Yi visited Freshman Class One and reunited with Tang Wutong, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Yi gave Huo Yutong and Xiao Xiao Soul Ascension Pills and warned them to wait until the right Soul Power level before taking them.
• Xiao Yi left to refine pills, while Tang Wutong, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao stayed to train for the freshman assessment.

Xiao Yi refined a pill that strengthened his spiritual power and created the Blue Emperor Soul-Extracting Pill for Tang Ya. After Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan visited him for dinner, he revealed the pill’s purpose and asked to spend the night with Tang Ya, leaving her frightened that he had discovered her secret.

• Xiao Yi refined and swallowed a pill that raised his spiritual power, then found that his Soul Beast’s evolution had not changed.
• Xiao Yi reasoned that the Heavenly Flames could gradually strengthen his body and refined the Blue Emperor Soul-Extracting Pill for Tang Ya.
• Tang Wutong watched from the shadows as Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan arrived at Xiao Yi’s courtyard with dinner.
• Xiao Yi gave Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan Mid-Grade Soul Ascension Pills and explained how they could help their cultivation.
• Xiao Yi gave Tang Ya the Blue Emperor Soul-Extracting Pill and said it could awaken power within her Blue Silver Grass, making her fear that he knew her secret.
• Xiao Yi asked Jiang Nannan to leave Tang Ya with him for the night, and Jiang Nannan left the courtyard.

Xiao Yi reassured Tang Ya about the hidden power in her Martial Soul and helped her absorb a pill to evolve it. After a week, Tang Ya awakened with the Dark Blue Silver Emperor, while Tang Wutong recognized her as a rival for Xiao Yi’s affection.

• Tang Ya feared Xiao Yi had discovered the evil power in her Martial Soul, but he reassured her and listened as she revealed her secret.
• Xiao Yi explained that the pill would evolve Tang Ya’s Martial Soul, and she swallowed it and formed a cocoon as her Blue Silver Grass transformed.
• Xiao Yi found Tang Wutong waiting angrily outside, then spent the following days with her and Jiang Nannan while Tang Ya’s transformation continued.
• A week later, Tang Ya emerged from the cocoon with the Dark Blue Silver Emperor and embraced Xiao Yi.
• Tang Wutong saw Tang Ya naked in Xiao Yi’s arms and regarded her as a formidable rival.

Tang Ya emerged from her Martial Soul evolution with the Dark Blue Silver Emperor and renewed control over its devouring power, while Xiao Yi and Tang Wutong competed for his attention. Tang Ya claimed Xiao Yi for herself and threw Tang Wutong out, leaving her furious outside the closed door.

• Tang Ya put on Xiao Yi's robe and teased Tang Wutong while she and Tang Wutong linked arms with Xiao Yi.
• Tang Ya told Xiao Yi that her Martial Soul had evolved into the Dark Blue Silver Emperor and that she could control its devouring power.
• Tang Ya revealed she had broken through rank forty with Xiao Yi's pills and Fallen Fire Seal, and Xiao Yi said he would arrange Soul Hunting for her and Nannan.
• Tang Wutong reminded Xiao Yi that he had promised to spend the night with her, but Tang Ya declared that he was hers for now.
• Tang Ya used Blue Silver Grass to toss Tang Wutong outside and shut the door, leaving Tang Wutong embarrassed and furious.

Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Emperor evolved, and after spending the night with Xiao Yi, Tang Wutong asked him for the Fire Seal she had been promised. Meanwhile, Tang San and Xiao Wu remained unable to contact Douluo Continent, unaware that Tang Wutong had no intention of reaching out to them.

• Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Emperor vines spread to hold Haji-Tong at bay, and she and Xiao Yi became intimate as he helped her channel her life force.
• Tang Wutong waited outside before joining Xiao Yi, and later asked why Tang Ya had a Fire Seal while she did not.
• Xiao Yi agreed to give Tang Wutong a Fire Seal, and she asked him to place it on her lower abdomen rather than her forehead.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that the Divine Realm had lost its coordinates to Douluo Continent and that he could only reconnect if Tang Wutong activated her Sea God’s Trident.
• Tang Wutong fell asleep with Xiao Yi, forgetting about the trident and content to remain beyond Tang San’s reach.

Xiao Yi entered the freshman assessment after reaching level 45 and strengthening his Soul Beasts through Heavenly Flame body tempering. He faced Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er, and the match began when Wu Feng charged at him.

• Xiao Yi advanced to level 45, increased his Soul Rings’ years through Heavenly Flame tempering, and helped Zi Ling evolve into a Purple Lightning Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Yi entered the freshman assessment, hoping to earn Core Disciple qualification without drawing too much attention.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er met Xiao Yi onstage, and he agreed to talk with Ning Tian after their match.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er revealed their Martial Souls and Soul Rings as they prepared to fight Xiao Yi.
• Ning Tian boosted Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er with her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, and Wu Feng charged at Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi effortlessly defeated Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er during the exam, then carried the unconscious Wu Feng from the arena after Ning Tian conceded. He left with Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng, while Nanmen Yun'er followed behind.

• Xiao Yi redirected Wu Feng's attack and blocked Nanmen Yun'er's Soul Skills, then carried Nanmen Yun'er out of Wu Feng's indiscriminate counterattack and tossed her off the arena.
• Mu Jin scolded Nanmen Yun'er for forgetting that she was taking part in a battle and dragged her to the spectator area.
• Tang Ya told Jiang Nannan she was fine with Xiao Yi flirting, while Jiang Nannan wondered why Tang Ya was not upset.
• Xiao Yi knocked Wu Feng unconscious with one strike, and Ning Tian conceded the match for their team.
• Xiao Yi carried Wu Feng off the arena, where she woke up, blushed, and darted behind Ning Tian.
• Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan each took one of Xiao Yi's arms, and the group left the testing arena with Nanmen Yun'er following behind.

Xiao Yi watched Huo Yutong, Tang Wutong, and Xiao Xiao face Dai Huabin’s team in the freshman examination. Huo Yutong and Tang Wutong won with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Xiao Yi decided Dai Huabin had outlived his usefulness.

• Dai Huabin, abandoned by his family and consumed by revenge, planned to kill Huo Yutong, while Xiao Yi noticed his hatred.
• Xiao Yi reassured Huo Yutong before she, Tang Wutong, and Xiao Xiao took the stage to face Dai Huabin’s team.
• Xiao Xiao harried the opposing team, and Huo Yutong knocked Cui Yajie unconscious with Mental Shock.
• Zhu Lu tried to fuse Martial Souls with Dai Huabin, but he knocked her away and left her injured.
• Tang Wutong and Huo Yutong fused their Martial Souls and struck Dai Huabin, leaving him unconscious as a golden statue and winning the match.
• Huo Yutong celebrated with Xiao Yi, who turned cold as he looked at Dai Huabin and resolved to kill him.

Xiao Yi killed Dai Huabin with the Fallen Heart Flame and later accompanied Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan as they hunted Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. After revealing how Zi Ling gained the Three Thousand Burning Flame and began evolving toward an Ancient Void Dragon, Xiao Yi planned to search one last place before returning to Shrek.

• Dai Huabin woke after the freshman assessment, left the venue, and was reduced to ashes by the Fallen Heart Flame Xiao Yi had ignited inside him.
• Tang Ya absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring while Xiao Yi and Jiang Nannan stood guard, with Xian Lin'er watching nearby.
• Xiao Yi recalled that Zi Ling had swallowed a purple-scaled egg, producing the Three Thousand Burning Flame and giving Zi Ling an Ancient Void Dragon bloodline aura.
• Xiao Yi explained that Zi Ling had traded much of her lightning attribute for space and strength as she evolved into a hybrid creature.
• Xiao Yi told Jiang Nannan to leave with Tang Ya and Xian Lin'er after the absorption while he searched one last place in the forest.
• Xiao Yi and Jiang Nannan agreed to bring her mother to Shrek City, and Xiao Yi planned to return to his clan and bring his people to the Academy.

Tang Ya completed her breakthrough and Xiao Yi set out to search the Star Dou Great Forest for a Heavenly Flame. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena took control of a human body, captured Xian Lin'er, and planned to approach Xiao Yi at Shrek Academy.

• Tang Ya awoke with her four Soul Rings stabilized, embraced Xiao Yi, and was taken back to Shrek Academy with Jiang Nannan by Xian Lin'er.
• Xiao Yi used his spatial abilities to travel through the Star Dou Great Forest while searching for a Heavenly Flame.
• Di Tian brought the unconscious Xian Lin'er to Gu Yuena, who implanted a false memory of meeting her and decided to leave the forest for Shrek Academy.
• Gu Yuena rejected Di Tian's offer to guard her, and the three departed through a spatial ripple.
• Xiao Yi sensed a distant surge of spatial energy but continued his search, hoping to find something useful near the Radiant Flood Dragon.

Xiao Yi found and defeated a rare black-and-white dragon whose Yin Yang Dual Flame suited his needs, then absorbed its Soul Ring. A mysterious figure appeared in his mind and left a flame-shaped mark on his brow, prompting Xiao Yi to recognize something unexpected.

• After finding no useful Soul Beasts in the Hell Demon Dragon gathering ground, Xiao Yi spotted a peculiar black-and-white dragon and inferred that it possessed both Yang Fire and Yin Water.
• Xiao Yi fought the twenty-thousand-year-old dragon, overpowered it, and defeated it with the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• A black-and-white Soul Ring emerged, and Xiao Yi absorbed it with his Heavenly Flame Martial Soul.
• A mysterious green-robed figure appeared in Xiao Yi's mind and sent a streak of light from the Soul Ring into his brow, leaving a two-colored flame mark.
• Xiao Yi examined the mark and stared in disbelief as he formed a bold guess about the figure.

Xiao Yi considered the strange inheritance connected to his Heavenly Flames, then returned to Shrek Academy. There, Gu Yuena joined Tang Wutong's class and chose the seat beside her.

• Xiao Yi recalled the figure who had left a mark on his forehead and suspected it had been Xiao Xuan, then used his Heavenly Flames before heading back to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wutong, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao talked in class about Tang Wutong's sleepless nights and Huo Yutong's appearance.
• Wang Yan introduced Gu Yuena as a level 41 Power Attack System Soul Ancestor and explained that she was the same age as the class.
• Gu Yuena sensed Tang Wutong's strong Dragon Race aura and sat beside her.

Gu Yuena joined Class One to get close to Xiao Yi, whose Martial Soul could help revive the Dragon Race. At the Sea God Pavilion, Xiao Yi used his twin flames and dragon companions to suppress the Dragon Core’s baleful energy and restore Mu En, leaving him standing upright and recovering.

• Gu Yuena sat in the seat Tang Wutong had saved for Xiao Yi and planned to win him over to help the Dragon Race.
• Xiao Yi returned to the Sea God Pavilion and offered to treat Mu En’s injuries with a newly acquired pair of yin-and-yang flames.
• Mu En saw the pure life force of the yang flame and watched as Zi Ling emerged as a giant purple-gold dragon.
• Cang Ling, Zhao Lan, and Zi Ling suppressed the Dragon Core’s baleful energy while Xiao Yi sent the yang flame into Mu En.
• Xiao Yi used the yang flame and the Three Thousand Burning Flame to restore Mu En’s source and repair his body, then left a small portion of the yang flame inside him.
• Mu En stood straight again and thanked Xiao Yi for helping him recover.

Xiao Yi received Mu En’s purified Dragon Core and went to the Outer Academy, where Ma Xiaotao brought him to her room to help purge her Evil Fire. The chapter ended with Ma Xiaotao trying a different, intimate method, while Ling Luochen and Yan Shaozhe watched them leave.

• Mu En gave Xiao Yi the cleansed Dragon Core and urged him to reach the Soul King realm so he could enter the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yi encountered Ma Xiaotao on Sea God Island, and she led him toward her residence to discuss her Evil Fire.
• Ling Luochen secretly watched Xiao Yi and Ma Xiaotao, while Yan Shaozhe appeared behind her and left with a knowing smile.
• Ma Xiaotao admitted that Lao Yan had told her Xiao Yi had returned and brought him to her room.
• Ma Xiaotao told Xiao Yi the usual method would not work and pressed herself against him as they began treating her Evil Fire.

Xiao Yi learned that Yan Shaozhe had secretly arranged for Ma Xiaotao to approach him, then reassured her that he loved her and accepted her past motives. Ma Xiaotao vowed never to leave him, while Xiao Yi briefly revealed the loneliness he carried from his past.

• Xiao Yi left Ma Xiaotao's room and met Yan Shaozhe by the beach, where Yan admitted he had pushed Ma Xiaotao toward him to help her overcome her Evil Fire and pride.
• Xiao Yi told Yan Shaozhe to be more direct in the future and promised to work out how to treat Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire; he also asked Yan to find someone to test a Soul Skill on.
• Yan Shaozhe's Soul Power bottleneck shattered, raising him to level 96, after Xiao Yi's words made him reflect on himself.
• Xiao Yi returned to Ma Xiaotao and asked whether she loved him, and she firmly said yes.
• Xiao Yi told Ma Xiaotao he accepted why she had approached him, and she vowed never to leave him after sensing his hidden loneliness.

Xiao Yi tested Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes against Yan Shaozhe, displaying power that surged to the Titled Douluo level and briefly immobilizing his sparring partner. He ended the test after discovering that the higher transformations drained his Soul Power too quickly, leaving the Shrek Seven Monsters stunned.

• Mu En explained that Xiao Yi had asked Yan Shaozhe to spar so he could test his new soul skill, while the elders and students watched from the stands.
• Xiao Yi activated the first and second changes of Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, raising his Soul Power from Soul Emperor strength to nearly Soul Douluo strength.
• Xiao Yi used the third change and reached Titled Douluo-level strength, shocking the spectators and prompting Yan Shaozhe to summon his martial soul and nine Soul Rings.
• Xiao Yi imprisoned Yan Shaozhe with spatial power, then let the third change fade and explained that sustaining the transformations exhausted his Soul Power too quickly.
• Xiao Yi released Yan Shaozhe and ended the test, while the Shrek Seven Monsters watched in stunned silence.

Xiao Yi explained his soul skill test to Ma Xiaotao and began treating her Evil Fire with Yin Yang Dual Flame, which turned it into pure Phoenix Fire. He planned to visit the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to finish treating her and to refine Mu En’s Dragon Core for Zhao Lan.

• Xiao Yi left Yan Shaozhe and went to meet Ma Xiaotao, while the current Shrek Seven Monsters reacted warily to his strength.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Xiao Yi why he had sparred with her teacher, and he explained that Mu En had arranged the match while he tested a soul skill.
• Xiao Yi told Ma Xiaotao he could gradually purge her Evil Fire, then used Yin Yang Dual Flame to temper it as their Soul Power grew.
• Xiao Yi and Ma Xiaotao discovered that Yin Yang Dual Flame transformed her Evil Fire into pure, powerful Phoenix Fire, though the Evil Fire’s source still remained in her martial soul.
• Xiao Yi planned to visit the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and purify its medicinal ingredients, then refine the Dragon Core for Zhao Lan and help Chi Lin evolve.