Recaps

Lu Ran confronted Ice Empress in the Far North and offered her four pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow in exchange for a promise to help him fight future enemies. Ice Empress summoned Snow Empress, who arrived as Lu Ran prepared to meet the rulers of the Far North.

• Lu Ran endured Ice Empress's pressure and proved he could make himself and the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow vanish and reappear separately.
• Lu Ran asked Ice Empress to promise to help him fight unknown enemies in exchange for the marrow.
• Lu Ran revealed four pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and explained that they could help Ice Empress survive her 400,000-Year Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ice Empress appeared before Lu Ran and questioned how he knew about her coming tribulation.
• Ice Empress signaled across the Far North, and Snow Empress descended before Lu Ran.

Lu Ran offered Snow Empress and Ice Empress an alliance, then revealed he had more Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow after the sisters grieved over Snow Empress's depleted origin power. The three traveled to Earth Dragon Gate in Dragon City, where Lu Ran concealed them with a Soul Tool and noticed they gave off no cold.

• Lu Ran told Snow Empress he wanted cooperation and an alliance rather than to plunder her and Ice Empress.
• Snow Empress refused the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow because she believed her origin power could not recover, and Ice Empress broke down in tears.
• Lu Ran said the four pieces were not all he had, and he later accompanied Snow Empress and Ice Empress toward Earth Dragon Gate to prepare compensation.
• Lu Ran described the rival claims of Heavenly Dragon Gate and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as the group approached Dragon City.
• Lu Ran used a concealment Soul Tool in the Snow Pine Forest and noticed Snow Empress and Ice Empress were not radiating cold.

Lu Ran helped Snow Empress and Ice Empress reach the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave, then returned to Shrek Academy and began studying Soul Tools. Huo Yuhao continued driving himself relentlessly in the Soul Guidance Department, while He Caitou proposed that he earn money by making custom Soul Tools.

• Lu Ran revealed the hidden entrance to the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave and explained that he had remotely taken four pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress planned to enter seclusion for a year or two, and Ice Empress promised to protect Lu Ran.
• Lu Ran returned to Shrek Academy and began taking Soul Guidance Department classes, while Huo Yuhao trained obsessively under Fan Yu and learned the Tang Sect Secret Arts from Tang Ya.
• Fan Yu grew concerned about Huo Yuhao's exhaustion and withdrawal, but Huo Yuhao refused to open up about his reasons for working so hard.
• He Caitou told Huo Yuhao that he could earn money by making custom Soul Tools for people who wanted personalized designs.

Huo Yuhao began taking Soul Tool commissions to earn money, then joined Tian Meng in the Far North to lure the Ice Empress. The chapter ended with them waiting in a snow hut after Tian Meng called out to her, while Huo Yuhao wondered if she had heard.

• He Caitou explained two ways to take Soul Tool commissions and offered Huo Yuhao a simple badge order.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the work but insisted on taking weapon commissions, despite He Caitou warning that he was only a Level 1 Soul Engineer.
• During the month before vacation, Huo Yuhao made simple Soul Tools and spent his earnings on better food.
• After the vacation began, Huo Yuhao traveled with Tian Meng to the Far North and built a snow hut to hide in.
• Tian Meng used his Origin Power to call out to the Ice Empress, and Huo Yuhao waited in the hut, wondering whether they should call again.

Sky Dream repeatedly called for the Ice Empress in the Far North, but she did not answer, leaving Sky Dream to fear something had happened to her. The Ice Empress was waiting in the Ice Crystal Palace with Snow Maiden, who had urged caution about Sky Dream's sudden return.

• Sky Dream repeatedly provoked and called for the Ice Empress, but the Far North gave no response.
• Huo Yuhao grew cold and hungry inside the ice hut and wondered whether Sky Dream had mistaken the location.
• Sky Dream insisted they were in the Far North's Core Area, then worried that the Ice Empress might have perished or been hunted.
• Sky Dream unleashed one final burst of spiritual power, and Huo Yuhao's body weakened until he nearly choked on his food.
• In the Ice Crystal Palace, the Ice Empress asked Snow Maiden why they could not go out and meet Sky Dream.
• Snow Maiden said Sky Dream's sudden return was suspicious, and she and the Ice Empress remained in seclusion.

Ice Empress ignored Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s attempt to reach her, leaving Huo Yuhao stranded in the Far North until he finally agreed to return. Meanwhile, Lu Ran scouted two locations for new milk tea shop branches and began carving a Soul Tool core formation at Sea God Pavilion.

• Ice Empress listened to Snow Maiden’s warning and stayed buried in the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow instead of responding to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• After repeated failed attempts to contact Ice Empress, Huo Yuhao clung to his desire for revenge against the Duke’s Mansion while struggling to survive in the frozen wasteland.
• Lu Ran surveyed Shrek City and chose northwest and southwest locations for two new Milk Tea Shop branches.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gave up searching for Ice Empress and agreed to take the exhausted Huo Yuhao back, though it planned to return.
• Lu Ran carved a core formation into Cyan Jade Metal for a Soul Tool, then invited Senior Sister Lexuan into the room.

Lu Ran received news that Shrek was close to locating a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Zhang Lexuan brought him the Milk Tea Shop’s earnings before visiting. Ma Xiaotao arrived to dispel her Evil Fire, leaving Lu Ran caught between her and Zhang Lexuan as their strained conversation continued over tea.

• Zhang Lexuan told Lu Ran that Shrek had found traces of a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and gave him a black card containing eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins from the Milk Tea Shop.
• Zhang Lexuan and Lu Ran chatted about his work and their past before Ma Xiaotao arrived to dispel her Evil Fire.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao exchanged smiling remarks about Ma Xiaotao’s visits and Lu Ran’s role in suppressing her Evil Fire.
• Lu Ran brewed tea for Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao, then tried to make conversation about things he had seen in the Far North.

Lu Ran checked on his new shops and showed Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao the Cloud Cluster Ground Rats in his Small World. The Rock Crystal Dragon slept on a vast hoard of ore, while Lu Ran’s peaceful day continued.

• Lu Ran asked Zhang Lexuan about the two shops, and she said they could open as soon as tomorrow or the day after.
• Lu Ran decided the Rock Crystal Dragon and Jade Green Luan would attend the shops’ ribbon-cutting ceremonies.
• Lu Ran saw the Cloud Cluster Ground Rats leaving the sleeping Rock Crystal Dragon and living comfortably in their woodland home.
• Lu Ran brought two Cloud Cluster Ground Rats to Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao, who cuddled the animals as he drank tea.
• The Rock Crystal Dragon slept in an underground cavern atop a huge pile of multicolored ore.

Rock Crystal Dragon’s profitable sparring work let it stock up on stones and share them with its animal friends. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream continued into the Far North’s Core Area, preparing to search for the Ice Empress and gain an Ice Attribute Martial Soul.

• Rock Crystal Dragon earned increasing sums as senior students bid for sparring sessions, then spent nearly all its money on stones.
• Rock Crystal Dragon shared stones with the Cloud Cluster Ground Rats, while the rats and Jade Azure Bird brought it food and traded for stones.
• Huo Yuhao worried that the Soul Master whose clothes and Soul Tools he had taken might recognize him, but Sky Dream assured him the man had not seen his face and would survive.
• Sky Dream reminded Huo Yuhao of his desire for revenge and his goal of gaining an Ice Attribute Martial Soul, and Huo Yuhao resolved to bring down the Duke’s Mansion.
• Sky Dream warned that their search for the Ice Empress would be dangerous and took control of Huo Yuhao’s body as they continued through the Core Area.
• Huo Yuhao used the robbed Soul Tools’ grenades to blast snow caves, giving him a more convenient shelter than digging one himself.

Tian Meng lured the Ice Empress into a trap, intending to take her away before her 400,000-Year Heavenly Tribulation. His plan was disrupted when the Titan Snow Demon King and the Snow Empress appeared, leaving Huo Yuhao hiding in a snow cave as all Three Kings of the Far North gathered.

• Tian Meng revealed his million-year Soul Beast aura and summoned the Ice Empress, who blanketed the ice field in emerald light and attacked him with surging snow.
• Tian Meng detonated an Explosive Grenade so Huo Yuhao could regain control and hide in a snow cave, then used spiritual power and a Heavenly Net to trap the Ice Empress.
• Tian Meng told the trapped Ice Empress that he could help her survive her 400,000-Year Heavenly Tribulation and become a god, then began enclosing her in his white husk.
• The Titan Snow Demon King rose from beneath the snow, and the Snow Empress descended, using snowfall to halt Tian Meng's golden threads.
• Huo Yuhao cowered in the cave as Tian Meng realized that all Three Kings of the Far North had appeared.

Tian Meng detonated four hundred thousand years of origin power to escape the Snow Empress and the other rulers of the Far North. The blast devastated the Core Area, and the injured Snow Empress survived as the Titan Snow Demon King pursued Tian Meng.

• Tian Meng released four golden rings of origin power and detonated them as the Snow Empress attacked with her domain and sword.
• Tian Meng controlled Huo Yuhao and fled behind a defensive barrier, revealing that its rage had partly been an act to make the Snow Empress retreat.
• The explosion devastated the Core Area, while an enormous Ice Bear charged toward the blast.
• The Ice Empress found the Snow Empress alive but gravely injured, while the Titan Snow Demon King pursued Tian Meng.

After the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s desperate attack injured the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Titan Snow Demon King, Huo Yuhao and the silkworm hid in a crevice and began recovering. The story then moved ahead to the start of the new school term, where Electrolux told Lu Ran that Mu En was close to death.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress discovered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s vitality-rich slough and agreed to divide it, while the Snow Empress pondered a possible connection to Lu Ran.
• Huo Yuhao hid with the weakened Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, took a pill from his Storage Soul Tool, and slowly recovered from the strain of escaping the Far North core region.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao to recover and leave the Far North, then vowed that they would return to choose an Ice Attribute Soul Beast and take revenge.
• A month passed, the new students enrolled, and Mu En became frailer as he left Sea God Pavilion affairs to the Elders and academy heads.
• Electrolux told Lu Ran that Mu En’s body was like a candle flickering in the wind.

Lu Ran hoped to find a way to use immense life force to extend Mu En’s life, then attended his promotion exam as Shrek’s new semester began. The first-year exam started in the Beast Fighting Arena, where a student faced a five-hundred-year White Long-Armed Ape.

• Lu Ran recalled Electrolux saying that immense life force might be able to extend Mu En’s life, and resolved to try if he found a source.
• Wang Yan explained the promotion exam rules and warned Class One that students had to earn an overall score above sixty to pass.
• Wang Yan led Class One through the gray walls into the enormous Beast Fighting Arena, which Lu Ran already knew from his earlier visits.
• The students gathered with the judges and teachers, and Class One and Class Two began taking turns in the exam.
• The first male student from Class One chose a five-hundred-year Soul Beast, and a White Long-Armed Ape entered the arena as the referee began the exam.

Students from Class One watched two Class Two students face Soul Beasts in the Beast Fighting Arena. Ding Ning defeated a six-hundred-year-old Giant Horned Ox through repeated clashes with her giant hammer, then returned to cheers from both classes.

• A male student used Great Strength Ape—Possession and defeated a five-hundred-year-old Wind Ape, suffering a bloody facial wound.
• Wang Dong questioned Lu Ran about his Soul Beast choice, while Dai Huabin criticized the male student for choosing a five-hundred-year-old Soul Beast.
• Class Two’s Ding Ning entered the arena to face a six-hundred-year-old Giant Horned Ox as her classmates cheered her on.
• Ding Ning summoned a giant black iron hammer and repeatedly struck the Giant Horned Ox’s horns until it fled.
• Ding Ning thanked the students from both classes for their praise and returned to Class Two while teachers repaired the arena floor.

Wang Dong chose to fight a thousand-year Soul Beast and defeated a Bloodthirsty Demon Bear with her powerful Soul Skills. The assessment ended with a teacher intervening to stop her final attack, and Wang Dong returned to Lu Ran exhausted but proud.

• Wang Dong chose a thousand-year Soul Beast and revealed that she had three Soul Rings, including two purple ones.
• Wang Dong blinded the Bloodthirsty Demon Bear with explosive light clusters and injured its foreleg with her Butterfly Goddess wings.
• Wang Dong unleashed her Butterfly God Slash as the bear used its Earthquake Wave, and a burly teacher intervened to restrain the bear and block her attack.
• Du Weilun ended the assessment and approved of Wang Dong's talent and strength.
• Wang Dong boasted to Lu Ran about her performance, then nearly collapsed from exhaustion.

Dai Huabin sought to prove himself by choosing a thousand-year Soul Beast, driven by his resentment toward Lu Ran. He fought the Wind Tiger with reckless force and, imagining it was Lu Ran, launched a deadly strike as the battle continued.

• Lu Ran helped Wang Dong after her exercise, and she teased him about competing in the assessment.
• Teachers healed the Bloodthirsty Demon Bear and restored the arena for the remaining students’ assessments.
• Dai Huabin chose to fight a thousand-year Soul Beast, hoping to overcome the humiliation of being outclassed by Lu Ran.
• Dai Huabin waited for the Wind Tiger to attack, then activated three Soul Skills and met its charge head-on.
• Dai Huabin ignored his wounds and lunged at the Wind Tiger, imagining it was Lu Ran and trying to sever its neck.

Dai Huabin was reprimanded for deliberately injuring the Wind Tiger, while Lu Ran drew the crowd’s attention as he entered the arena to face a Thousand-Year Violent Bear. The chapter ended with Lu Ran standing calmly as the beast advanced.

• A teacher stopped Dai Huabin from attacking the Wind Tiger further, and Du Weilun ordered him to leave the arena for violating the assessment rules.
• A teacher healed Dai Huabin and warned him against treating competition as slaughter, but Dai Huabin remained silent and vowed to make those who had turned against him pay.
• Wang Dong celebrated Dai Huabin’s reprimand and reflected on his privileged background and reputation among Shrek’s lower-year students.
• After the assessment resumed, Lu Ran chose a Thousand-Year Soul Beast and entered the arena to face a Violent Bear.
• Lu Ran remained relaxed as the Violent Bear approached, leaving the watching students waiting to see how he would fight.

Lu Ran passed his Beast Fighting Arena test by using his Soul Beast Affinity to calm a thousand-year Violent Bear and petting it instead of fighting it. That night, Fan Yu visited Huo Yuhao’s dormitory and learned that Huo Yuhao had not returned since the school year began.

• Lu Ran approached the Violent Bear without revealing a Soul Ring, and it lowered itself so he could stroke its head.
• The Violent Bear relaxed under Lu Ran’s touch, and the judges struggled to decide how to score the encounter.
• Du Weilun followed Yan Shaozhe’s instruction to give Lu Ran a passing grade, and Lu Ran told the teachers he had defeated the bear.
• Lu Ran explained that his Golden Hat’s passive Soul Skill, Soul Beast Affinity, had made the Violent Bear friendly toward him.
• That night, Fan Yu questioned Huo Yuhao’s dormmate, who said Huo Yuhao had not returned since the school year began and had left during the break to go for a walk.

Huo Yuhao endured the transfer of a ten-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion’s power in the Far North to gain an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul. At Shrek Academy, Dai Huabin brooded over his low assessment score and the attention Lu Ran had received.

• Fan Yu searched Huo Yuhao’s friends and academy staff but could not find him and grew increasingly worried.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to absorb the Ice Jade Scorpion’s origin power and Soul Ring after Tian Meng promised they could give him an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul.
• Tian Meng poured the scorpion’s power into Huo Yuhao, who convulsed in agony as the snow buried him.
• All students in Class One passed the assessment, and Wang Yan gave them an extra day off.
• Dai Huabin saw that he had scored fifty points and became furious as students discussed Lu Ran’s achievement and treated Dai Huabin as unable to surpass him.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek and apologized to Fan Yu and Zhou Yi, claiming his Martial Soul had caused him trouble before he awakened a second one. Days later, Wang Yan led the Core Disciples to the Soul Fighting Zone for the Selection Tournament, while Ning Tian and Wu Feng wondered who would team up with her.

• Huo Yuhao knelt before Fan Yu and Zhou Yi and apologized for disappearing, then said his Martial Soul had been acting strangely.
• Huo Yuhao concealed the truth after Tian Meng warned him, and gave Fan Yu and Zhou Yi a rehearsed explanation about his Spirit Eye, a spiritual Soul Ring, and awakening Twin Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao released his Ultimate Ice and revealed the Ice Jade Scorpion tattoo, leaving Fan Yu and Zhou Yi shocked and eager to hear more.
• Several days later, Wang Yan told the Core Disciples to follow him to the Soul Fighting Zone for the Selection Tournament.
• Ning Tian asked Lu Ran about the tournament rules, while Wu Feng decided she wanted to protect Ning Tian and grew wary of Lu Ran.
• The Core Disciples entered the cleared Soul Fighting Zone, where no other students had been allowed to watch.

Lu Ran watched the Soul Guidance Department arrive at the Soul Fighting Arena and learned that Huo Yuhao had become one of its Core Disciples. Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Huabin with silent hatred, while He Caitou stayed alert to his junior’s grudge.

• Lu Ran saw Huo Yuhao and He Caitou arrive, and He Caitou’s heavily armed appearance reminded him of the Detective.
• Dai Huabin spotted Huo Yuhao and delighted in seeing the hatred in his eyes, then openly flirted with Zhu Lu.
• Huo Yuhao stayed calm despite his anger, and He Caitou checked on him before silently memorizing Dai Huabin’s name.
• Fan Yu had protected Huo Yuhao from expulsion by claiming he was on a secret mission and making him a Core Disciple of the Soul Guidance Department.
• Yan Shaozhe and the Martial Soul Department accepted Huo Yuhao’s transfer, wary of worsening tensions with Xian Lin'er and the Soul Guidance Department.

At the Soul Fighting Arena, Xuan Zi began the core disciple assessment as a no-rules free-for-all, with the last seven students standing declared winners. The students immediately targeted Lu Ran, who turned the fight around with his Rock Crystal Dragon and Jade Azure Bird, while Xu Sanshi faced him next.

• Jiang Nannan arrived and approached Lu Ran, but Xuan Zi descended and announced the assessment rules: the last seven people standing would win.
• The students formed teams, then most of them joined forces to attack Lu Ran and the three people beside him.
• Ning Tian used her Seven-Colored Treasure Pagoda to strengthen Lu Ran, Wang Dong, and Wu Feng as they prepared to fight back.
• Lu Ran summoned the Rock Crystal Dragon and Jade Azure Bird, which sent more than a dozen opponents flying and disrupted the other teams.
• Xu Sanshi activated his Black Tortoise abilities, but Lu Ran's enormous yellow figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

Lu Ran overwhelmed the students who attacked him, astonishing the teachers and revealing the gap between his strength and their expectations. As the defeated students struggled on the arena floor, Dai Huabin suffered a mysterious loss of control and screamed in pain.

• Xu Sanshi used Profound Darkness Displacement to escape the Rock Crystal Dragon's attack, while the third-year student swapped into his place was struck and carried away for treatment.
• Lu Ran's counterattack left more than half the students down or struggling to stand, though he had not moved from his spot.
• The teachers watched in disbelief as Lu Ran's strength exceeded what they thought possible for a three-ring Soul Master.
• Wu Feng realized Lu Ran had held back during their earlier sparring match and felt distressed about her Young Lord.
• Dai Huabin charged at Lu Ran, but the Rock Crystal Dragon shattered his White Tiger Protection Barrier with a casual tail strike.
• As Dai Huabin fell, a strange chaos took over his mind and body until a sudden burst of pain brought him back to consciousness, making him scream.

Huo Yuhao brutally attacked Dai Huabin during the Soul Fighting Arena assessment, driven by years of hatred toward the Duke's Mansion. A teacher stopped Zhu Lu from striking back, declared Huo Yuhao the loser, and carried off the injured Dai Huabin.

• Huo Yuhao used his Soul Skills to disable Dai Huabin, then pinned him down and repeatedly punched his face while recalling the humiliations he and his mother had endured.
• Zhu Lu charged at Huo Yuhao, who raised ice walls and used Dai Huabin as a human shield, but she broke through and sent him flying.
• A middle-aged male teacher shielded Dai Huabin, stopped Zhu Lu, and caught the force of her attack with a Defensive Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao laughed despite his injuries, startling the students and teachers, while Bei Bei wondered why he had changed and He Caitou concluded that he and Dai Huabin shared a blood feud.
• The teacher declared Huo Yuhao the loser, and Huo Yuhao accepted the verdict as the teacher lifted the badly injured Dai Huabin away.

Zhu Lu tried to stop the teacher from removing the unconscious Dai Huabin, then protested Huo Yuhao’s victory as he left the arena injured. Huo Yuhao celebrated taking the first step toward revenge for his mother, but Teacher Fan Yu appeared before him and his excitement faded.

• Zhu Lu begged for someone to heal Dai Huabin and tried to block the male teacher, but he carried Dai Huabin to the teachers’ stand for treatment.
• Zhu Lu accused Huo Yuhao of deliberately injuring and poisoning Dai Huabin and demanded that he be expelled.
• Xuan Zi dismissed Zhu Lu’s complaints, while a female teacher used her turquoise scepter to treat Dai Huabin’s injuries.
• Huo Yuhao left the arena in pain, believing he had avenged his mother and resolving to destroy the Duke’s Mansion and kill Dai Huabin.
• Teacher Fan Yu appeared before Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao lowered his head as his excitement faded.