Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuena joined the Tang Sect to obtain information about Jiang Yi, declaring that she liked him. Jiang Yi returned from the Soul Hunting Forest, visited the Tang Sect, and learned that Gu Yuena had been asking about him.

• Gu Yuena accepted Xixi's offer to join the Tang Sect and paid 9.9 for information about Jiang Yi.
• When Xixi asked whether she and Jiang Yi had a grudge, Gu Yuena said she liked him and left.
• Jiang Yi drank with Xuan Zi, left him three jars of wine, and departed the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Jiang Yi visited the Tang Sect headquarters and waited in Tang Ya's office while she was away.
• Xixi reported that a junior girl had been seeking information about Jiang Yi and showed him Gu Yuena's profile.

Jiang Yi reunited with Tang Ya after nearly a year apart, then decided to pursue Gu Yuena, who had joined Shrek Academy and was asking about him. He began planning how to approach her without provoking Di Tian.

• Jiang Yi learned that Xixi had recruited Gu Yuena into the Tang Sect and praised her successful newspaper-based intelligence network.
• Tang Ya arrived while Jiang Yi was speaking with Xixi, and Xixi hurriedly left them alone.
• Jiang Yi and Tang Ya reunited affectionately in her office after nearly a year apart.
• After Tang Ya fell asleep, Jiang Yi weighed pursuing Zi Ji or Gu Yuena and chose to target Gu Yuena despite the risk of Di Tian’s reaction.
• Jiang Yi decided to plan his approach carefully and wondered why Gu Yuena was asking about him.

Jiang Yi agreed to accompany Zhang Lexuan on an Outer Academy wilderness-training expedition, hoping to get Gu Yuena away from Shrek Academy. At the gathering, Huo Yutong remained wary of Gu Yuena, and Jiang Yi was greeted by an enthusiastic student.

• Xian Lin'er asked Jiang Yi to help supervise the Outer Academy core disciples’ wilderness training, and he agreed after spotting Gu Yuena’s name on the list.
• Xian Lin'er kissed Jiang Yi on the cheek, while Qian Duoduo arrived too late to take the assignment and was sent to urge the Nine Treasures Commerce Association about rare metals.
• Tang Wutong complained that Jiang Yi had returned without visiting her, while Huo Yutong wondered why her Eye of True Sight could not see through Gu Yuena.
• Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Yi arrived at Shrek Square and gathered the students for the expedition.
• A student shouted that she wanted to have dragon babies with Jiang Yi, leaving him surprised.

Jiang Yi and Zhang Lexuan led students from Shrek Academy on an outdoor training trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Gu Yuena secretly prepared to engineer an opportunity to approach Jiang Yi. The group began exploring the forest together, unaware that Gu Yuena had quietly made her move.

• Gu Yuena spotted Jiang Yi leading the training trip and planned to use a staged crisis to earn his trust and reach the imprisoned Zi JI without revealing her identity.
• Zhang Lexuan took attendance and introduced herself as an Assault-type Soul Douluo with a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, while Jiang Yi displayed five white Soul Rings and drew the students' jeers.
• Zhang Lexuan divided the students into two teams, and Jiang Yi chose Huo Yutong, Tang Wutong, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dafu, Gu Yuena, and another student to accompany him.
• Jiang Yi and Zhang Lexuan led their teams on a three-hour run to the Star Dou Great Forest, then guided the students through lessons near its outskirts.
• While the group explored and joked about the forest's legends, Gu Yuena lagged behind and discreetly flicked out several streaks of light.

Jiang Yi led the students to camp, entertained them with stories, and later confronted Zhang Lexuan during her night watch. The chapter ended with Zhang Lexuan reluctantly giving in to Jiang Yi’s demands to keep him away from her junior sisters.

• Jiang Yi’s team caught up with Zhang Lexuan’s group, and the students made camp together.
• Jiang Yi told the students about his tournament experiences and childhood hardships, while Zhang Lexuan grew flustered under his attention.
• Zhang Lexuan left the camp to take the night watch, and Jiang Yi brought her a bowl of fish soup.
• Jiang Yi pinned Zhang Lexuan against a tree and said he might pursue the junior sisters if she refused him.
• Zhang Lexuan begged Jiang Yi to stay with her, and he began fondling her as she silently endured the encounter.

Huo Yutong and Tang Wutong stumbled upon Jiang Yi and Zhang Lexuan during their private encounter, while Gu Yuena arranged a plan with Di Tian, Bear Lord, and Myriad Demon King to rescue Zi Ji. Jiang Yi then confronted Zhang Lexuan about her dissolved engagement and unresolved grief, accusing her of using Bei Bei to give her life purpose.

• Huo Yutong used her soul skill to see through a hidden illusion and found Jiang Yi and Zhang Lexuan together, then warned Tang Wutong not to interrupt them.
• Tang Wutong ignored Huo Yutong's warning and played a flute nearby, while Jiang Yi's spiritual power kept the scene concealed.
• Gu Yuena met with Di Tian, Bear Lord, and Myriad Demon King and laid out a plan to earn someone's trust, rescue Zi Ji, and infiltrate Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan used her Silver Moon Avatar during her encounter with Jiang Yi, then tried to leave and resume keeping watch.
• Jiang Yi challenged Zhang Lexuan's attachment to Bei Bei, telling her that she did not love him and had made repaying kindness the purpose of her life.

Zhang Lexuan broke down over the burdens of revenge and obligation, but Jiang Yi comforted her and helped her feel lighter. After she left to bathe, Jiang Yi caught Tang Wutong and then stopped Huo Yutong from escaping.

• Zhang Lexuan insisted she had done nothing wrong and explained that she had promised Mu En to marry Bei Bei and stay at Shrek Academy in exchange for help avenging her family.
• Jiang Yi told Zhang Lexuan about losing his parents and urged her to set aside her burdens and travel, which eased her mood.
• Zhang Lexuan realized she had to put her wet clothes back on to avoid exposing the illusion, then told Jiang Yi to take the first watch and went to bathe.
• Tang Wutong confronted Jiang Yi after he praised her flute playing, but he caught her and smacked her bottom.
• Huo Yutong tried to slip away while Jiang Yi restrained Tang Wutong, but Jiang Yi caught her too.

Jiang Yi learned that Di Tian was nearby and considered using Tian Meng’s desire for revenge to draw him away from Gu Yuena. During the Shrek group’s wilderness training, Myriad Demon King unleashed the five-hundred-thousand-year Demon Eye Tree King against them while Di Tian went to investigate a challenge at the Lake of Life.

• Tian Meng told Jiang Yi that she sensed Di Tian nearby, and Jiang Yi asked whether she wanted revenge.
• Gu Yuena defeated a thousand-year Earth Armored Dragon in thirty-two seconds, then healed it and received praise from Zhang Lexuan.
• Gu Yuena acted affectionately toward Jiang Yi and offered to help tame dragon beasts, prompting Tang Wutong and Huo Yutong to react jealously.
• Zhang Lexuan sensed danger in the silent forest, and Jiang Yi led the students back while Gu Yuena hid behind him.
• Di Tian heard someone at the Lake of Life demand that he come out, so he left Bear Lord and Myriad Demon King to protect Gu Yuena.
• Myriad Demon King transformed into the five-hundred-thousand-year Demon Eye Tree King and sent its branches surging through the forest.

Great Tian Meng sealed Scarlet King and Bi Ji, stole Gold of Life from the Lake of Life, and escaped before Di Tian could catch her. Meanwhile, Jiang Yi and Zhang Lexuan led their students through a plant soul beast lair, while Gu Yuena watched Jiang Yi and tested his worth.

• Great Tian Meng bound Scarlet King and Bi Ji with seven-colored chains, trapping them in dreamlike states.
• Great Tian Meng dug Gold of Life from the Lake of Life and escaped with Bi Ji as Di Tian approached.
• Di Tian returned after pursuing an illusion and freed Scarlet King, who mistook him for a resurrected enemy before Di Tian struck him down.
• Jiang Yi and Zhang Lexuan protected their students from attacking plant soul beasts and raised an ice bridge toward the forest exit.
• Gu Yuena watched Jiang Yi and decided to test whether he was worthy of becoming her husband.

Gu Yuena arranged for the Myriad Demon King to test Jiang Yi and keep him in the forest, where a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast attacked the group. Jiang Yi returned to rescue Zhang Lexuan as she was about to fall to her death, and asked her to travel with him if they survived.

• Gu Yuena revealed that she wanted Jiang Yi to attract the God Realm’s attention so she could enter it safely, and silently ordered the Myriad Demon King to keep him in the forest.
• Zhang Lexuan sensed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Jiang Yi urged the students to flee as a giant vine attacked them.
• Jiang Yi kicked the students off the ice bridge, then sent Xiao Xiao, Tang Wutong, and Huo Yutong toward the academy while he went back for Gu Yuena.
• Zhang Lexuan summoned her Silver Moon Avatar to fight the towering treant, but exhausted her Soul Power and began falling toward the vines.
• Jiang Yi caught Zhang Lexuan, cut through the vines, and asked whether she would see the world with him if they survived.

Jiang Yi returned to rescue Zhang Lexuan and faced the Myriad Demon King’s vast domain and forest of attacking vines. He broke through the attack and realized the encounter was a test, then unleashed his ice-and-fire armor as his power surged to Soul Douluo level.

• Jiang Yi carried Zhang Lexuan through the forest while the treant pursued them, and Zhang Lexuan worried that he had risked his life to save her.
• The Myriad Demon King trapped them inside its Demon Eye Domain, and Jiang Yi placed Zhang Lexuan behind a space barrier before confronting the demon tree.
• Jiang Yi used his Domination Domain and Spirit Detection to withstand the vines, then froze a long stretch of forest with the Heaven Ice Sword’s Ultimate Ice.
• Jiang Yi recognized that the demon tree’s attacks were a test and summoned ice-and-fire armor, causing his Soul Power to surge from Soul King rank sixty to Soul Douluo.

Jiang Yi froze and destroyed the demonic tree with an Ice Explosion, then returned to Zhang Lexuan unharmed. Myriad Demon King struck him with a time-space technique, and Gu Yuena took the hit alongside him as they plunged off a cliff, leaving Zhang Lexuan unconscious.

• Jiang Yi used Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors to freeze the demonic tree, then detonated the frost with the Ice Explosion Technique and reduced the forest around it to ruins.
• Yan Shaozhe heard the distant explosion while guarding Ma Xiaotao as she absorbed a Soul Ring, but chose to stay with her.
• Zhang Lexuan emerged from the ruins, feared Jiang Yi had died, and broke down until he flew back unharmed.
• Myriad Demon King attacked Jiang Yi from behind with Thousand Years in an Instant, slowing him with its time-and-space power.
• Gu Yuena embraced Jiang Yi and took the attack with him, sending them both plunging off a cliff as Zhang Lexuan fainted.

Jiang Yi captured Gu Yuena with a Master Ball after she pretended to be unconscious, then gathered with Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Tian Meng, and Bi Ji in a cave. He entered the Master Ball to deal with Gu Yuena, leaving the others in an awkward silence over Snow Empress and Ice Empress’s strained relationship.

• Jiang Yi and Gu Yuena waited by the stream, each pretending to be unconscious until Snow Empress confirmed there was no one nearby.
• Jiang Yi approached Gu Yuena as though to help her, then struck her with a Master Ball and captured her.
• Bear Lord and Myriad Demon King arrived and searched for their missing Lord, while Bear Lord admitted he had stopped to raid a honeycomb.
• Jiang Yi roasted a bear paw and offered it to Bi Ji, whom Tian Meng had brought to him as a gift.
• Jiang Yi asked Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Bi Ji, and Tian Meng to protect him, then entered the Master Ball.
• Ice Empress tentatively addressed Snow Empress, who rebuked her for calling her Xue'er and resented her betrayal; Bi Ji grew curious until Tian Meng's glare silenced her.

Jiang Yi trapped Gu Yuena in the Master Ball and confronted her about her suspicious identity, then proposed cooperating after revealing the Sea God's Trident. Gu Yuena mistakenly thought he had only guessed she was a Ferocious Beast and accidentally revealed that she was the Silver Dragon King.

• Gu Yuena found her power sealed inside the Master Ball, then pretended to be worried when Jiang Yi appeared.
• Jiang Yi exposed clues about Gu Yuena's sudden arrival and the Demon Eye Tree King's attack, but she denied that they proved anything.
• Jiang Yi revealed the Sea God's Trident and asked Gu Yuena to cooperate with him.
• Gu Yuena concluded Jiang Yi was an ordinary person resisting Tang San and admired his insight.
• Gu Yuena accidentally asked how Jiang Yi knew she was the Silver Dragon King, and he revealed that he had mistaken her for the Beast God Di Tian.

Jiang Yi persuaded Gu Yuena to form a contract with him, and she proposed a bet that he must become a First-Level God within ten years or their contract would end. After Jiang Yi’s breakthrough, Gu Yuena appeared before Bi Ji and the others, who recognized her as their Lord.

• Jiang Yi offered to cooperate with Gu Yuena and explained that his Martial Soul space could make them companions without restricting her growth or freedom.
• Gu Yuena agreed to the contract on the condition that Jiang Yi become a First-Level God within ten years, or they would dissolve it; she promised to marry him if he lost.
• Jiang Yi and Gu Yuena accepted the bet, each believing they had secured the advantage.
• In the cave, Jiang Yi’s breakthrough released elemental motes and a phantom silver dragon, whose aura made Tian Meng and the others tremble.
• Jiang Yi’s breakthrough ended, and Gu Yuena emerged from him as a young girl; Bi Ji recognized her as their Lord.

Jiang Yi reached level sixty-two and reunited with Gu Yuena, who brought Bi Ji into his orbit and assigned her to watch and learn from the scene in the cave. Inside, Jiang Yi helped the Snow Empress test her feelings for the Ice Empress by sealing away her memories of her; she awoke believing herself to be Jiang Yi’s master and confronted him.

• Jiang Yi checked his pet panel and saw Gu Yuena’s talents and soul skills, while Gu Yuena realized he had three powerful Ferocious Beast companions.
• Gu Yuena summoned Bi Ji outside the cave and gave her a mission to stay with Jiang Yi and observe what happened inside.
• Jiang Yi explained that Gu Yuena had agreed to work with him, then turned his attention to the strained relationship between the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress.
• Jiang Yi told the Snow Empress that her feelings for the Ice Empress were sisterly affection, then proposed sealing away her memories of Bing'er for a year so she could test them.
• Tian Meng erased the Snow Empress’s memories of the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress awoke recognizing Jiang Yi as her rebellious disciple.

Zhang Lexuan feared Jiang Yi had died after a Ferocious Beast attacked their group, but he returned safely and reunited with her and Ma Xiaotao. The chapter ended with the students and Yan Shaozhe stunned by the three embracing, while the narrator questioned how events had diverged from Douluo Dalu.

• Zhang Lexuan woke beside Ma Xiaotao and urgently asked where Jiang Yi and the others were.
• Zhang Lexuan explained the ambush to Ma Xiaotao, and Yan Shaozhe returned with most of the separated students, but Jiang Yi and several others were missing.
• Zhang Lexuan mourned Jiang Yi beneath the moon while clutching the Soul Tool ring he had left her.
• Jiang Yi returned and comforted Zhang Lexuan, who kissed him passionately.
• Ma Xiaotao joined Jiang Yi and Zhang Lexuan in an embrace, shocking the onlooking students and Yan Shaozhe.

Jiang Yi recounted his prepared story about surviving the cliff fall while Gu Yuena returned to the Lake of Life to plan for the Soul Beasts. Elsewhere, Xiao Xiao’s accidental dip in the Fountain of Youth and Tang Wutong’s misguided herb-feeding left her stuck as a child until she could reach Titled Douluo, while Gu Yuena arranged for Zi JI to join Jiang Yi’s contract.

• Jiang Yi told Yan Shaozhe and the others that Gu Yuena had helped him escape a Soul Beast before they fell from a cliff, and Yan Shaozhe agreed to search for her at dawn.
• Tang Wutong, Huo Yutong, and Xiao Xiao fell into the Fountain of Youth at Myriad Demon Valley, where Xiao Xiao regressed to a little girl.
• Tang Wutong fed Xiao Xiao many medicinal herbs, and Huo Yutong discovered that their combined power would keep Xiao Xiao young until she reached Titled Douluo.
• Myriad Demon King attacked the girls for raiding his garden, but Tang Wutong used a dagger and golden light to teleport all three away.
• Gu Yuena explained Jiang Yi’s ability to conceal Heavenly Tribulations to Di Tian and decided to send Zi JI to fill his remaining soul rings.

After the Star Dou Great Forest incident, Jiang Yi settled back into life at Shrek and grew closer to Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao. The Sea God Pavilion elders gathered for a meeting, but the chapter ended before Mu En revealed its subject.

• Jiang Yi and Zhang Lexuan brought the surviving students back to Shrek while Yan Shaozhe stayed behind to search, and Tang Wutong and two others were later found at the Clear Sky Sect.
• Jiang Yi spent the following month eating, cultivating, and pinching beans as life at Shrek returned to normal.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao joined Jiang Yi in an intimate morning encounter before they prepared to attend the Sea God Pavilion meeting.
• Jiang Yi sat beside Xian Lin'er at the meeting and asked about her Heaven and Earth Cannon research while Qian Duoduo watched without jealousy.
• Elder Song worried about Xian Lin'er's marriage and her prospects for having a child, then Mu En opened the meeting.

Mu En appointed Jiang Yi to oversee the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, despite Yan Shaozhe’s objections, and guided him into communion with Shrek’s Golden Tree. The chapter ended with Jiang Yi successfully merging with the Golden Tree while Mu En felt he had arranged Shrek’s affairs before his death.

• Mu En proposed admitting Jiang Yi and Ma Xiaotao as official Sea God Pavilion members, and Ma Xiaotao revealed her hundred-thousand-year soul ring to prove her qualification.
• The Sea God Pavilion unanimously approved both appointments, giving Ma Xiaotao a seat beside Xian Lin'er.
• After Lin Huiqun reported on the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Mu En named Jiang Yi to assist her and placed him in charge of the academy’s economic lifeline, overruling Yan Shaozhe’s objections.
• Mu En adjourned the meeting and brought Jiang Yi to the Golden Tree’s underground chamber.
• Mu En taught Jiang Yi how to communicate with the Golden Tree, and Jiang Yi succeeded on his first attempt.