Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue attacked Snow Empress, but Qian Xunji stopped her and revealed Snow Empress was a captured six-hundred-thousand-year ice-type ferocious beast. Snow Empress fainted from rage and humiliation, while Tang San reunited with the Shrek group at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where they asked whether he had brought the Immortal Herbs.

• Qian Renxue attacked Snow Empress because she believed Snow Empress threatened her parents’ relationship, and Qian Xunji stopped her before she could kill her.
• Qian Xunji told Qian Renxue that Snow Empress was a six-hundred-thousand-year ice-type ferocious beast captured by him and his grandfather, then ordered her to keep Snow Empress’s identity secret.
• Snow Empress learned that Ah Yin had borne children with a human, then realized Qian Xunji had seen her exposed body and fainted from rage and humiliation.
• Ah Yin covered Snow Empress with Blue Silver Grass Vines and glared at Qian Xunji.
• Tang San reunited with Xiao Wu and the Shrek group at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun asked whether he had brought the Immortal Herbs.

Tang San and the Shrek Five Monsters learned that Qian Renchuan had taken the Immortal Herbs, leaving Dai Mubai and the others despairing over their futures. Gu Chen then challenged Tang San’s right to Xiao Wu and demonstrated his strength by easily defeating Dai Mubai.

• Tang San told the Shrek Five Monsters that Qian Renchuan had taken the Immortal Herbs for Spirit Hall, while Tang Hao considered how to use Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing for his son’s tournament preparations.
• Gu Chen approached Tang San, and Xiao Wu rejected him, prompting Gu Chen’s lackeys to insult her.
• Gu Chen declared that Tang San would have to prove himself stronger to deserve Xiao Wu, and Dai Mubai challenged him in defense of Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Gu Chen revealed his five soul rings and Bone Dragon Martial Soul, then shattered Dai Mubai’s defense with Bone Spear and sent him flying.

Tang San challenged Gu Chen over his claim that Tang San was unworthy of Xiao Wu, but Gu Chen overwhelmed him with the Bone Dragon’s defense and strength. The fight escalated when Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer, while Gu Chen disclosed that he also possessed a second martial soul.

• Tang San confronted Gu Chen and introduced himself as a level thirty-five Blue Silver Grass Soul Elder, while Gu Chen identified himself as a level fifty-one Bone Dragon Soul King.
• Tang San trapped Gu Chen with Spider Web Restraint and attacked with his Tang Sect techniques, but Gu Chen broke free and proved immune to the grass’s poison.
• Gu Chen counterattacked and caught Tang San by the ankle, but Tang San escaped using Parasitism and Blue Silver Entanglement before firing Hidden Sand Shoots Shadow.
• Gu Chen used his second soul skill to form spiked bone armor, deflecting all thirty-six needles from Tang San’s hidden weapon.
• Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer, shocking the gathered academy students, while Yu Xiaogang judged that defeating Gu Chen would be difficult.
• Gu Chen revealed that he possessed the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor as a second martial soul and explained his plan to use it alongside the Bone Dragon.

Gu Chen defeated Tang San and agreed to settle their rivalry over Xiao Wu in a duel five years later. Tang Hao then urged Tang San to use the agreement to grow stronger and planned to have Ning Rongrong approach the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect about the Immortal Herbs.

• Tang San attacked Gu Chen with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Gu Chen used Bone Prison and Bone Spear to disrupt his hammer technique and injure him.
• Tang Hao arrived and proposed that Gu Chen and Tang San fight again in five years, and Gu Chen agreed on the condition that Tang San not touch Xiao Wu in the meantime.
• Tang San told Tang Hao he wanted to kill Gu Chen, but Tang Hao warned that doing so could provoke the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and benefit Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao reassured Tang San that he could surpass Gu Chen after training and obtaining Divine Slaughter's Domain in the City of Slaughter.
• Tang Hao asked Tang San whether Ning Rongrong could be trusted and told him to have her discuss the Immortal Herbs with Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Tang Hao intensified the Shrek Seven Devils' training while protecting Oscar and Ning Rongrong for their future value. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Bone Douluo learned Gu Chen loved Xiao Wu despite her being a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and took him back to seek help.

• Tang Hao increased the training intensity for Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun and arranged medicinal resources to help them recover, while sparing Ning Rongrong and Oscar.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed obtaining the Aromatic Silk Beauty from Qian Xunji, and Ning Fengzhi told Bone Douluo that Gu Chen had competed with Tang San over Xiao Wu.
• Bone Douluo learned that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had taken human form and hurried to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to confront Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen admitted that he loved Xiao Wu and intended to marry her, despite her nature and her relationship with Tang San.
• Bone Douluo stopped himself from striking Gu Chen and took him through a spatial passage to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to seek Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo's help.

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Gu Chen confronted Tang San for violating their agreement not to touch Xiao Wu and asserted control over her in the classroom. Tang San restrained his anger after Gu Chen threatened him, leaving the rivalry unresolved.

• The Shrek Seven Devils and the Royal Fight Team arrived at class, drawing attention from the academy’s noble students.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San to massage her legs, but Gu Chen stopped him and accused him of breaking their agreement.
• Gu Chen threw Tang San across the classroom, then warned him not to touch Xiao Wu again.
• Gu Chen held Xiao Wu down and made her sit beside him, threatening to hurt Tang San if she resisted.
• Tang San clenched his bloody fists and simmered with killing intent while his friends urged him to stay calm.
• Ning Rongrong reconsidered discussing the sale of Tang San’s hidden weapons, while Tang San privately wished for more Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members to die in the Soul Hunting Operation.

Qian Xunji considered Ning Fengzhi’s request to buy the Aromatic Silk Beauty and saw a chance to profit from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s eventual collapse. He decided Tang San would have to suffer during the Pan-continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament so Ning Rongrong might lose faith in him.

• Qian Xunji received Ning Fengzhi’s letter requesting immortal herbs, including the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and suspected Tang Hao had prompted the purchase for Tang San.
• Qian Xunji weighed the trade’s risks and concluded Spirit Hall could gain the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s wealth and possibly Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong’s loyalty after the sect fell.
• Qian Xunji considered ways to prevent Ning Fengzhi from using the Aromatic Silk Beauty himself and to stop Ning Rongrong from seeking refuge with Tang San.
• Qian Xunji planned to visit Xue Ye in Heaven Dou City to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and undermine Tang San during the tournament.

Qian Xunji threatened Snow Empress and took the Cold Jade Marrow formed from her severed hair, but she secretly planned her escape. Two days later, Snow Empress slipped past Spirit City’s guards and fled north toward the Northernmost Land.

• Qian Xunji investigated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s industries and confronted Snow Empress in her room.
• Qian Xunji cut off Snow Empress’s hair, collected the Cold Jade Marrow it became, and threatened to strip away her body’s ice-attribute energy if she resisted him.
• Snow Empress resolved to escape to the Northernmost Land and used her Spiritual Power to study Spirit City’s guards and search for an opportunity.
• Two days later, Snow Empress found Qian Xunji absent, crossed Pope Mountain through a dark forest, and waited near Spirit City’s gates.
• Snow Empress slipped past a distracted guard and a sleeping guard, left Spirit City, and raced north.

Qian Xunji waited for Snow Empress to be trapped on her journey north while negotiating with Ning Fengzhi over the Aromatic Silk Beauty. Ning Fengzhi agreed to the costly deal, leaving with instructions for using the herb and a promise of a discounted second purchase if it failed to produce the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Qian Xunji told Ah Yin that Snow Empress would eventually have to rest and would likely encounter danger, with Slaughter Town standing in her way north.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo arrived at Spirit City to discuss buying the Aromatic Silk Beauty from Qian Xunji.
• Qian Xunji warned Ning Fengzhi that the herb had lost some of its medicinal efficacy and could not be guaranteed to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Qian Xunji priced the herb at four Dong, which meant two billion and fifty million Gold Soul Coins and twelve luxurious commercial streets.
• Qian Xunji promised to sell a second Aromatic Silk Beauty for one Dong if the first only produced an Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and explained how Ning Fengzhi should absorb it.

Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and consumed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, evolving her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Meanwhile, Snow Empress continued her journey north after repeated encounters with cruel humans, leaving her determined to avoid them.

• Ning Rongrong returned to the sect and noticed its diminished resources and population as Ning Fengzhi's members searched for funds and treasures.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which he had purchased from Qian Xunji at great cost, and Sword Douluo urged her to use it for the sect's future.
• Ning Rongrong inhaled the herb's essence and evolved her Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, reaching level 38.
• Ning Fengzhi worried that Ning Rongrong might put her classmates and Gu Chen ahead of the sect, but let her absorb the herb to secure the sect's future.
• Snow Empress traveled north toward the Northernmost Land, killed people who tried to exploit her, and began avoiding human settlements.

Snow Empress recoiled from witnessing a black bear devour a hunter alive, while Bibi Dong completed the Sea God Third Trial and learned that Bo Saixi knew about her revenge plans. The chapter left Bibi Dong furious at Qian Xunji and determined to kill him.

• Snow Empress attacked a hunter with her Spiritual Power, and a black bear later woke him and ate him alive.
• Snow Empress fled in disgust, wondering whether the Arctic Ice Bear she raised had treated prey the same way.
• Bibi Dong completed the Sea God Third Trial, gained ten percent more Sea God Affinity, and reached rank 87.
• Bo Saixi told Bibi Dong that the Sea God Fourth Trial required helping the Demon Soul Great White Shark Group kill the Evil Orca King.
• Bibi Dong learned that Qian Xunji had told Bo Saixi about her plans to take revenge on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, then swore to kill him.

Snow Empress was overwhelmed by desperadoes outside Slaughter Town and called on Qian Xunji to save her. Qian Xunji refused until she offered to reveal how to condense a Soul Core.

• Snow Empress sensed a dangerous, unprobeable presence in the town and tried to bypass it, but several soul masters attacked her.
• Snow Empress destroyed the attackers’ spiritual seas, but more men from Slaughter Town surrounded her and kept coming despite her attacks.
• A battle-hardened man urged everyone to exhaust Snow Empress’s Spiritual Power, and the desperadoes gradually wore her down.
• Snow Empress spotted Qian Xunji atop the town gate and begged him to save her, but he said he would take a soul bone after she died.
• Snow Empress agreed to teach Qian Xunji how to condense a Soul Core if he rescued her.

Qian Xunji took the captured Snow Empress back to Spirit Hall after her borrowed clothes tore, then restored her cultivation in exchange for the Soul Core method. Snow Empress explained the risks of forming a second Soul Core, and Qian Xunji offered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a place to recover if her attempt failed.

• Qian Xunji slaughtered dozens of Slaughter Town's people and carried Snow Empress away after refusing to restore her cultivation without first securing her promise.
• Snow Empress's coarse clothes tore in midair, so Qian Xunji caught her and agreed to restore her cultivation in exchange for the Soul Core method.
• Qian Xunji absorbed the Angel God Power implanted in Snow Empress, and she recovered her cultivation and created a new dress.
• Snow Empress taught Qian Xunji how to form a first Soul Core and warned him that forming a second one was far more difficult and dangerous.
• Qian Xunji offered Snow Empress the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a place to heal if her second Soul Core attempt failed, but she suspected a trap.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Snow Empress agreed to guard the spring in exchange for Qian Xunji’s help understanding Soul Core cultivation. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renchuan and Shui Binger visited the auction house, where Ning Fengzhi explained that its attendants were treated as saleable objects.

• Snow Empress examined the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, sensed its opposing energies, and asked Qian Xunji to lend her the place while she condensed her second Soul Core.
• Qian Xunji agreed to Snow Empress’s bargain and left for Moonlight Pavilion to condense his first Soul Core.
• Qian Xunji noticed Qian Renchuan and Shui Binger entering the Heaven Dou Auction House with Salas, and judged that Qian Renchuan’s romantic life had slowed his cultivation.
• Qian Renchuan and Shui Binger explored the auction house, where Shui Binger teased him for looking at the revealingly dressed attendants.
• Qian Renchuan recognized Ning Fengzhi and questioned him about the auction house’s attendants, and Ning Fengzhi explained that they were bought, trained, and sold as objects.

Ning Fengzhi outbid Salas and Prince Xue Xing to save a Catwoman at auction, drawing the attention of Pope Qian Xunji. After Qian Xunji praised Ning Fengzhi’s kindness and left, Ning Fengzhi decided to set the Catwoman free.

• The auction host unveiled a Catwoman, and Salas and Prince Xue Xing competed to buy her.
• Ning Fengzhi joined the bidding and raised the price to two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, causing Prince Xue Xing to withdraw.
• Ning Fengzhi rebuked Salas and said he wanted to save the girl from a terrible fate.
• Qian Xunji appeared, praised Ning Fengzhi’s kindness, and declined his offer to give him the Catwoman.
• After Qian Xunji left with Qian Renchuan, Shui Binger, and Salas, Ning Fengzhi decided to free the Catwoman.

Qian Xunji taught Qian Renchuan how desire, profit, and public perception shaped the auction trade and the reputations of powerful figures. Qian Renchuan absorbed his father's cynical lessons, ending with blood-red flashing in his eyes.

• Qian Xunji asked Qian Renchuan to assess Ning Fengzhi, and Qian Renchuan called him a shrewd but decent opponent.
• Qian Xunji explained that desire, immense profits, and the public's ignorance allowed slave auctions to continue despite the Heaven Dou Empire's ban.
• Qian Xunji argued that Ning Fengzhi's philanthropy benefited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's reputation while the sect continued profiting from business with nobles tied to the auctions.
• Qian Xunji explained that Yu Yuanzhen compromised with powerful families and removed Yu Xiaogang from the clan genealogy to protect the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Qian Xunji told Qian Renchuan he would still destroy even a good person who became an enemy of Spirit Hall, and Qian Renchuan's eyes flashed blood-red.

Snow Empress transformed herself with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, grew stronger, and condensed her second Soul Core. She honored her agreement with Qian Xunji by teaching him the Yin-Yang Complementary Twin Soul Core Method.

• After three months of meditation, Snow Empress absorbed the spring’s opposing energies and began transforming into a being of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The transformation released mist that nourished the surrounding Immortal Herbs, accelerating their growth and shortening their maturation period by nearly ten years.
• Snow Empress emerged with a colder outer aura, scorching heat within, and strength beyond what she had possessed by borrowing the Northernmost Land’s power.
• Snow Empress controlled the milky-white spring water to engulf Qian Xunji, but his tempered body remained unharmed.
• Qian Xunji warned Snow Empress that his daughter could become a god, and Snow Empress admitted she would not kill him despite her complicated feelings toward him.
• Snow Empress fulfilled their agreement by teaching Qian Xunji the detailed Yin-Yang Complementary Twin Soul Core Method.

After learning the Yin-Yang Complementary Twin Soul Core Method from Snow Empress, Qian Xunji condensed two Soul Cores and challenged Qian Daoliu. Their fight left Qian Daoliu exhausted after three days, while Qian Xunji prepared to counterattack.

• Snow Empress explained the Yin-Yang Complementary Twin Soul Core Method to Qian Xunji, then departed the Northernmost Land and warned him they would remain enemies.
• One month later, Qian Xunji challenged Qian Daoliu at Spirit Hall after condensing two Soul Cores.
• Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji fought in a mountain range, where Qian Daoliu shattered Qian Xunji's Sacred Sword and split his Sky Blue Extinction Lightning with the Measuring Heaven Sword.
• Qian Xunji fled while Qian Daoliu pursued him, and they fought through three days of exhaustion.
• Qian Xunji's Soul Cores continuously restored his Soul Power, leaving him steadier than Qian Daoliu and ready to counterattack.

Qian Xunji defeated Qian Daoliu after using a Soul Core to replenish his Soul Power, then explained that Snow Empress had taught him the technique. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the Shrek Seven Devils prepared for the upcoming tournament, while Tang San remained stuck at Rank 39 and refused to switch to cultivating his Clear Sky Hammer.

• Qian Xunji overwhelmed Qian Daoliu with a golden holy sword and defeated him after explaining that Snow Empress had taught him to use a Soul Core.
• Qian Daoliu learned that Snow Empress had returned to the Northernmost Land, then was beaten again and carried back to Spirit Hall.
• Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the Shrek Seven Devils reviewed the team's cultivation levels and worried about the injuries and setbacks caused by Tang Hao's training.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao that his Mysterious Heaven Skill had stopped advancing at Rank 39, but he refused Yu Xiaogang's suggestion to cultivate his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Flender encouraged the Shrek Seven Devils over their tournament qualification, planning to rebuild Shrek Academy after the tournament.

Gu Chen transferred to Heaven Dou Second Team, disrupting Yu Xiaogang’s plan to make Tang San the team’s star and intensifying Tang San’s resentment. When Tai Long attacked Gu Chen for getting close to Xiao Wu, Gu Chen knocked him back with one punch and Tang San ordered him to stop.

• The Shrek Seven Devils planned to compete without their weak substitutes, with Tai Long joining as their seventh member and Ning Rongrong sitting out.
• Gu Chen announced that he had transferred from Heaven Dou First Team to Heaven Dou Second Team, upsetting Yu Xiaogang and enraging Tang San.
• Gu Chen sat beside Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing gave up her seat without protest.
• Tai Long challenged Gu Chen for touching Xiao Wu, but Gu Chen knocked him back with a punch while shielding Xiao Wu.
• Tang San stopped Tai Long from using a soul skill and resolved to find a way to overcome his cultivation bottleneck so he could protect Xiao Wu.