Chapter Summaries

After Lu Ran and Wang Dong won the Freshman Assessment, Yan Shaozhe offered Lu Ran a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone as a reward. Lu Ran declined it and asked to exchange it for two storefront rentals, leaving Yan Shaozhe stunned.

• The assessment eliminated the bottom two hundred teams, while Huo Yuhao barely advanced to the semifinals in ninetieth place.
• Lu Ran dominated the semifinals, and he and Wang Dong took first place; Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie placed second, while Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er placed third.
• Du Weilun announced that the top three teams would receive academy assistance in obtaining suitable Soul Rings, while Huo Yuhao watched Dai Huabin onstage and felt bitter resentment.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Lu Ran a ten-thousand-year Canglang Waterfall Dragon Right Leg Bone, but Lu Ran said it did not suit him and asked to exchange it for another reward.
• Lu Ran asked to rent two small storefronts in busy locations, one inside Shrek Academy and one in Shrek City, leaving Yan Shaozhe bewildered.

Lu Ran traded the prospect of a Soul Bone for two valuable shop locations as he planned a business, while Huo Yuhao entered the Soul Guidance Department. Zhou Yi lost her position as head homeroom teacher and left after Du Weilun warned that further complaints would cost her a year of teaching.

• Lu Ran asked Yan Shaozhe to find him a large, busy shop location in Shrek Academy or Shrek City and said he could wait if none were available.
• Lu Ran chose not to take the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, reasoning that it would be more valuable to trade for shops.
• Huo Yuhao joined the Soul Guidance Department without Yan Shaozhe opposing the decision.
• Du Weilun told Zhou Yi that Wang Yan would be head homeroom teacher and she would remain his assistant under supervision because of student complaints and her conduct.
• Zhou Yi left after smashing the office door, and Du Weilun warned that another student complaint would result in her taking a year off.

Lu Ran returned to class after the Freshman Assessment and was joined by Ning Tian and Wu Feng, while Wang Dong watched from across the room. Wang Yan announced he would be the homeroom teacher, but Zhou Yi was assigned to teach the class, leaving the students frightened as Lu Ran calmly watched her enter.

• Lu Ran entered the new classroom alone and sat by the window as the other students watched him.
• Ning Tian sat beside Lu Ran with Wu Feng, told him to look after Wu Feng, and left before class began.
• Wang Yan introduced himself as the homeroom teacher, prompting the students to celebrate because they thought Zhou Yi was gone.
• Wang Yan introduced Zhou Yi as the teacher responsible for lessons, and the students fell silent and trembled.
• Zhou Yi called the students ingrates as she approached the podium, while Lu Ran remained calm and Wu Feng secretly urged him not to act impulsively.

Wang Yan introduced Teacher Zhou as a co-homeroom teacher, but she intimidated the students and left in anger. The students were left dreading the next six years, while Wu Feng spiraled into a fantasy about her Young Lord.

• Lu Ran ignored Teacher Zhou’s furious stare as she pressured the class with her Soul Emperor aura.
• Wang Yan countered Teacher Zhou’s pressure and introduced her as the class’s other homeroom teacher for the next six years.
• Wang Yan praised Teacher Zhou’s teaching despite the students’ fears and Teacher Zhou’s anger over her demotion and loss of authority.
• Teacher Zhou left the classroom, and the students sighed with relief as they worried about the years ahead.
• Wu Feng renewed her resolve to protect the Young Lord, then imagined a conversation with her and muttered to herself.
• Lu Ran watched Wu Feng hug herself and wondered if she had gone delusional.

Wang Yan congratulated the new first-year students and urged them to study Soul Tools, explaining their advantages and the threat of the Sun Moon Empire’s growing technology. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao attended a Soul Tool lesson and became excited about his mental attribute, imagining himself destroying the Duke’s Mansion with Soul Tool cannonballs.

• Wang Yan congratulated the students on entering Shrek Academy’s Outer Academy and reminded them that they needed to reach level twenty to advance to second year.
• Wang Yan presented a Soul Tool Sprayer and explained how Soul Tools differed from traditional weapons and could serve many purposes.
• Lu Ran reflected on Soul Tools’ potential, teased Wu Feng when she questioned his odd expressions, and listened as Wang Yan urged students to take Soul Tool electives.
• At the Soul Guidance Department, Huo Yuhao learned about Soul Tool classifications and imagined using Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonballs to destroy the Duke’s Mansion.

Lu Ran inspected a storefront provided by Shrek Academy and revealed that he planned to open a milk tea shop. He recruited Cloud Cluster Ground Rats to help prepare the shop, which ended with its new sign going up.

• Yan Shaozhe showed Lu Ran an empty three-story storefront near Shrek Academy, and Lu Ran approved its busy location.
• Lu Ran told Yan Shaozhe that he planned to sell drinks and open a milk tea shop using crops from his Small World.
• Lu Ran summoned a group of Cloud Cluster Ground Rats and introduced their leader, Rat Boss, to Yan Shaozhe.
• Lu Ran and the rats arranged the shop, with Rat Boss directing the others as they carried and organized the supplies.
• Lu Ran and Yan Shaozhe hung a sign reading "Milk Tea Shop" outside the finished storefront.

Lu Ran opened his Milk Tea Shop, where Cloud Cluster Ground Rats prepared drinks and Yan Shaozhe discovered that Lu Ran’s milk tea and Soul Power-infused ingredients could set the shop apart. The shop drew a crowd with Soul Beast greeters, but its menu prices and unfamiliar drinks left customers surprised.

• Lu Ran rejected imitation names and chose to call his business the Milk Tea Shop.
• Lu Ran hired three Cloud Cluster Ground Rats with food and other benefits, and Yan Shaozhe sampled their juice and Lu Ran’s special milk tea.
• Yan Shaozhe noticed that one drink contained Soul Power and realized the Small World could be used to make distinctive products.
• The Milk Tea Shop opened, and two large Soul Beasts held signs outside to attract passersby.
• Customers entered the shop, saw the drink menu, and questioned its high prices and unfamiliar offerings, including Ten-Year Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice.

Lu Ran’s Milk Tea Shop drew a huge crowd in Shrek City as customers flocked to buy drinks made from Soul Beast fruits and served by Cloud Cluster Ground Rats. After a lucrative opening day, Lu Ran counted the earnings and considered how the shop’s premium drinks appealed to status-conscious customers.

• A young man bought Jade Dew Golden Orange juice, praised its flavor, and ordered more, prompting other customers to crowd the counter.
• Lu Ran limited customers to five cups each and directed the growing crowd while Cloud Cluster Ground Rats worked across the shop’s floors.
• The shop stayed busy into the night, and the exhausted Cloud Cluster Ground Rats rested as Lu Ran thanked them and gave them prepared fruit milk tea.
• Lu Ran tallied the day’s sales and found that the shop had earned 7,115 Gold Soul Coins.
• Lu Ran reasoned that Soul Beast fruit milk tea occupied a profitable niche between ordinary drinks and expensive fruit, then decided to buy nuts, grains, and fruit for the Cloud Cluster Ground Rats.

Zhou Yi’s punishing classes left her students exhausted, while Lu Ran shared fruit tea with Ning Tian and Wu Feng and managed his profitable milk tea shop. Zhou Yi later complained to Fan Yu that none of her methods could wear Lu Ran down, and Fan Yu warned her against targeting him.

• Zhou Yi dismissed her class after forcing the students through grueling exercises, and the students complained that they had no way to challenge her training.
• Ning Tian brought Lu Ran fruit tea from his shop, and Wu Feng grew jealous before Ning Tian gave her a cup too.
• Lu Ran explained that Shrek Academy now operated his milk tea shop, with the Cloud Cluster Ground Rats working there, while he only needed to restock it.
• Zhou Yi told Fan Yu that her attempts to exhaust Lu Ran had failed, and Fan Yu urged her to teach properly and warned that Lu Ran had influential supporters.

Lu Ran continued his journey across the Far North, using the Small World to evade Soul Beasts and recover from the cold. He placed a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow on an ice plain, and a borrowed Soul Tool began flashing a dire warning.

• Zhou Yi angrily denied targeting Yu Hao and complained that Shrek's leaders were interfering in her affairs, while Fan Yu tried to calm her and praised Yu Hao's progress.
• Over three months, Lu Ran's Milk Tea Shop became popular, and copycat drink shops opened across Shrek City but struggled to match its flavors and low costs.
• Lu Ran flew deeper into the Far North on Jade Green Luan, using the Small World to escape a Snow Eagle and recover his Soul Power.
• After another day of travel, Lu Ran reached a level ice plain, sent Jade Green Luan into the Small World, and brought out the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Lu Ran drew out another item, and the indicator on Xuan Zi's feather-shaped Soul Tool flashed red, warning him to leave at once.

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.