Chapter Summaries

Lu Ran explored the Star Dou Great Forest and encountered the curious Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who had sneaked away from its guardians. After discovering Lu Ran with his contracted Soul Beasts, the Auspicious Beast asked about their bond, and Lu Ran began to explain it in confidence.

• Lu Ran entered the forest’s middle layer and continued collecting rare Soul Beasts in his Small World.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sneaked away from its home, intending to visit the outer region, but stopped after hearing a noise.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion hid in a tree and watched Lu Ran share Spirit Fruits with the Rock Crystal Dragon, Golden Hawksbill, Dark Demon Tiger, and Jade Azure Bird.
• Lu Ran noticed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and it leapt down to confront him and ask why the Soul Beasts were gathered around him.
• Lu Ran said the Soul Beasts were contracted to him, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion promised to keep the explanation secret.

Lu Ran explained that he sought contracts with Soul Beasts rather than Soul Rings gained by killing them, and befriended the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. The Scarlet King arrived to protect her and ordered Lu Ran to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Lu Ran told the Three-Eyed Golden Lion that he wanted to make contracts with Soul Beasts and said he would not choose her as the Auspicious Beast.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion realized Lu Ran knew her identity, accepted a Spirit Fruit to keep for later, and learned the names of Lu Ran and his four companions.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion declared that she and Lu Ran were friends and promised to protect him in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Scarlet King rushed in after losing track of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but she told him Lu Ran was her friend.
• The Scarlet King eased his pressure toward Lu Ran, then ordered him to leave the forest and dismissed the Spirit Fruit as a bribe.

Lu Ran befriended the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and gave it Sweet Honey before it returned to the core area with Scarlet King. He then traveled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest and found a Heavenly Dragon Horse to pursue as his fifth Soul Beast.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Lu Ran where it lived and accepted his honey and Spirit Fruits before leaving with Scarlet King.
• Scarlet King tried to discard the honey, but the Three-Eyed Golden Lion insisted that Lu Ran was its only friend and defended their friendship.
• Lu Ran's Soul Beasts reacted to Scarlet King's strength by vowing to train harder, and Lu Ran encouraged them to surpass him.
• Lu Ran continued south through the Mixed Zone, where the Soul Beasts grew stronger as he traveled deeper into the forest.
• Lu Ran used his Darkness Power to locate a Heavenly Dragon Horse over thirty thousand years old resting in a forest clearing.

Lu Ran fought a forty-five-thousand-year-old Heavenly Dragon Horse and endured its strongest attack without injury. The exhausted beast refused to surrender, while Lu Ran offered to make it stronger if it would fight alongside him.

• Lu Ran approached the Heavenly Dragon Horse and told it he needed its strength but would not kill it; the beast attacked, believing he wanted its Soul Ring.
• Lu Ran matched the Heavenly Dragon Horse's strength, resisted its dragon breath with the Gilded Barrier, and fought it at close range.
• Lu Ran used Demon Tiger Soul-Suppressing Roar to stun the Heavenly Dragon Horse, then struck it with Ice Jade Slash.
• The Heavenly Dragon Horse trapped Lu Ran with chains of light and unleashed a massive Soul Skill that destroyed the surrounding forest, but Lu Ran emerged unharmed.
• The weakened Heavenly Dragon Horse prepared to attack again, and Lu Ran offered to make it stronger if it fought alongside him.

Lu Ran defeated the Heavenly Dragon Horse and absorbed it into his Small World, raising his Soul Power to level fifty-four and creating a Light attribute and true sun. The chapter ended with all five of his Soul Beasts strengthened, while the healed Heavenly Dragon Horse slept as his newest contract.

• Lu Ran trapped the Heavenly Dragon Horse with Earth Vein Rock Spikes, then overwhelmed it with an Ice Blade Storm.
• Lu Ran approached the defeated Heavenly Dragon Horse and gently touched its forehead instead of killing it.
• The Heavenly Dragon Horse accepted Lu Ran’s warmth, turned into Light power, and flowed into the Small World.
• Lu Ran’s Soul Power rose to level fifty-four, and the Small World gained its fifth attribute, Light, and a true sun.
• The Rock Crystal Dragon, Jade Azure Bird, Golden Hawksbill, and Dark Demon Tiger evolved into Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, while the contracted Heavenly Dragon Horse healed and reached fifty thousand years.

Lu Ran and the Jade Azure Bird searched the Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well so the bird could find the Luan-Condensing Flower and evolve. They found the well’s poisonous fog and entered behind Lu Ran’s Gilded Barrier, though the corrosive mist rapidly drained his Soul Power.

• Lu Ran traveled to the Sunset Forest with the twenty-thousand-year Jade Azure Bird to search for the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its Luan-Condensing Flower.
• Lu Ran told the Jade Azure Bird to search the inner regions for volcanic terrain and poisonous fog, but they found nothing during their first day of searching.
• The Jade Azure Bird spotted a strange fog the next day, and Lu Ran recognized it as the poisonous fog surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Lu Ran used the Golden Hawksbill’s Gilded Barrier to protect them as the Jade Azure Bird flew into the thickening fog.
• The poisonous fog rapidly depleted Lu Ran’s Soul Power, but he and the Jade Azure Bird continued deeper into it and disappeared from view.

Lu Ran and the Jade Azure Bird braved the poisonous miasma in Sunset Forest and found a vast sea of Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers. After retreating to recover, Lu Ran flew back and reached the boundary guarded by intelligent Jade Phosphorus Nine-Absolute Flowers, whose poison mist recoiled before him.

• Lu Ran and the Jade Azure Bird crossed the miasma in short flights, recovering Soul Power in the Small World between journeys.
• Lu Ran used a Level Seven Milk Bottle to sustain their flight as the miasma thickened and the land filled with poison-covered Soul Beast bones.
• Lu Ran discovered a vast sea of Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers and retreated to the Small World when their poisonous green mist rapidly drained his Soul Power.
• Lu Ran chose not to destroy or transplant the precious flowers, reasoning that moving too many into the Small World would poison its ecosystem.
• After recovering, Lu Ran returned with the Jade Azure Bird, and the mist controlled by Jade Phosphorus Nine-Absolute Flowers surged toward them before retreating at an invisible boundary.

Lu Ran and the Jade Azure Bird entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Lu Ran failed to probe the springs and met the Aromatic Silk Beauty. He told the curious flower how the outside world had changed and warned that humans might eventually breach the poisonous barrier.

• The Jade Azure Bird flew over the poisonous mist and brought Lu Ran into the valley surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Lu Ran used Yan Shaozhe’s Mental Amplification Soul Tool to probe the area, but the springs and Immortal Herbs blocked his spiritual power.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty spoke to Lu Ran and asked how he had entered and what the outside world was like.
• Lu Ran explained that Soul Masters and Soul Beasts had become stronger, while human hunting had reduced Soul Beast populations.
• Lu Ran demonstrated a Defensive Soul Tool and told the Aromatic Silk Beauty that humans might breach the Jade Phosphorus Poison Array in another thousand years or less.

Aromatic Silk Beauty learned how powerful the outside world had become and challenged Lu Ran to fight for the Immortal Herbs he wanted. Lu Ran revealed his contracted Soul Rings and asked Infernal Delicate Apricot to become his Sixth Soul Ring, leaving it to choose between remaining in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and gambling on ascending with him.

• Aromatic Silk Beauty realized that human Soul Masters might soon threaten the Immortal Herbs, though they had several thousand years to consider their options.
• Lu Ran told Aromatic Silk Beauty he had come to collect Immortal Herbs, and it recognized him as someone connected to Tang San before ordering him to fight.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty called on Infernal Delicate Apricot to face Lu Ran, and Lu Ran said he wanted it as his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Lu Ran summoned five pitch-black Soul Rings and explained that his Martial Soul formed contracts with Soul Beasts, allowing them to grow stronger without being killed.
• Infernal Delicate Apricot questioned Lu Ran's offer, and he proposed that it gamble on ascending with him or remain in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Lu Ran explained that his contracts strengthened Soul Beasts without harming them and invited the Infernal Delicate Apricot to become his fire-attribute companion, promising to return for its answer when he reached level sixty. After proving he had passed the Immortal Herbs' test, he was allowed to choose six herbs, but he also named the Infernal Delicate Apricot as something he wanted.

• Lu Ran told the Immortal Herbs that his contracted Soul Beasts grew stronger with his Soul Power and that he hoped to ascend to the Divine Realm with them.
• The Infernal Delicate Apricot questioned Lu Ran's short human lifespan, and he offered it a chance to gamble on ascending while promising to find a way for it to survive if they failed.
• Lu Ran said he would return in two years for the Infernal Delicate Apricot's decision and summoned a vast storm to finish the test.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty stopped Lu Ran and confirmed that he had passed, allowing him to take six Immortal Herbs.
• Lu Ran selected the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Dew of Autumn Vision, Luan-Condensing Flower, Earth Dragon Golden Melon, Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, and an herb suited to a Soul Beast with Bright Sacred Dragon bloodline, then looked to the Infernal Delicate Apricot.

Lu Ran persuaded the Immortal Herbs to let him take six herbs and borrow Infernal Delicate Apricot’s Blazing Glue by revealing the Life Gold’s immense life force. With Aromatic Silk Beauty’s directions, he began collecting the herbs and picked Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and Earth Dragon Golden Melon.

• Lu Ran argued that Jiaojiao’s Blazing Glue and the little Soul Beast would not count against the six-herb limit because they would leave of their own free will.
• Infernal Delicate Apricot gave Lu Ran its precious Ten-Thousand-Year Essence, the Blazing Glue, after he offered to compensate the Immortal Herbs with the Life Gold’s life force.
• Lu Ran released the Life Gold’s energy, astounding the Immortal Herbs and promising to help them grow.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty agreed to let Lu Ran take six Immortal Herbs and identified Spirit Rhinoceros Green Heart Grass as the herb that would improve his control over multiple attributes.
• Lu Ran followed the pink beams into the garden, picked Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and placed it in a jade box.
• Lu Ran used Soul Power to pull Earth Dragon Golden Melon from the soil.

Lu Ran collected six Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, choosing them for his Soul Beasts and companions and considering how to propagate the Aromatic Silk Beauty. He left with the Jade Azure Bird, while the sentient Immortal Herbs erupted into questions about his power.

• Lu Ran found the Earth Dragon Golden Melon for the Rock Crystal Dragon and the Luan-Condensing Flower for the Jade Azure Bird, telling it to wait until they had left before eating it.
• Lu Ran collected the Spirit Rhinoceros Green Heart Grass and took one stalk of Ink Jade Divine Bamboo for Tang Ya.
• Lu Ran picked the Aromatic Silk Beauty and planned to propagate it so he could provide it to Soul Masters with the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda.
• Lu Ran thanked the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with the Jade Azure Bird.
• After Lu Ran disappeared, the sentient Immortal Herbs argued about his five growing ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and his ability to withstand the poisonous clouds.
• The Jade Azure Bird flew through the poison miasma with Lu Ran, who soon brought it into the Small World.

Lu Ran gave the Jade Azure Bird the Luan-Condensing Flower, awakening its ancestral Jade Green Luan bloodline and Ultimate Wind, then watched the Rock Crystal Dragon begin its own transformation. After drinking Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and absorbing demonic power, Lu Ran discovered his spiritual power had nearly doubled and tested the Jade Green Luan’s enhanced Soul Skills.

• Lu Ran gave the Jade Azure Bird the Luan-Condensing Flower, and it entered a green vortex as its Jade Green Luan bloodline awakened.
• Lu Ran summoned the Rock Crystal Dragon, which ate the flower and encased itself in a massive shell of rock armor.
• Lu Ran drank Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and absorbed demonic power while both Soul Beasts remained inside their transformation shells.
• Lu Ran awoke with nearly doubled spiritual power and sensed the Jade Green Luan’s wind power changing into Ultimate Wind.
• The Jade Green Luan emerged, and Lu Ran tested its transformed Soul Skills, unleashing stronger wind blades and a vast tornado formation.

Lu Ran absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and gained heightened perception and spiritual power. The Jade Azure Bird then completed its transformation into a Jade Green Luan, and Lu Ran examined its new form and wind mastery.

• Lu Ran drank the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and refined its effects, sharpening his senses and nearly doubling his spiritual power.
• Lu Ran sensed the Jade Azure Bird’s wind power transforming into Ultimate Wind and the Rock Crystal Dragon’s bloodline power awakening as earth power.
• The Green Egg’s ripples shattered its surrounding Green Vortices, and a powerful whirlwind formed around it.
• The Jade Azure Bird burst from the green mist, flew at tremendous speed, and stopped abruptly before Lu Ran.
• The Jade Green Luan showed off its changed appearance and wings as Lu Ran examined its transformation.

After the Jade Green Luan returned to its ancestral form, Lu Ran tested the greatly strengthened Soul Skills it granted him. The chapter left him surveying three skills that could strike across a wide area with overwhelming force.

• The Jade Green Luan showed Lu Ran that Jade Slash could now appear from any direction and had become faster and more powerful.
• Lu Ran admired the Jade Green Luan's new form, and it celebrated being the world's only Jade Green Luan and the ancestor of its clan.
• Lu Ran used Jade Slash to shred a tree from every direction, discovering the blades could keep tearing their target apart and strike anywhere within three hundred meters.
• Lu Ran tested Jade Shadow Flowing Light and found that it moved him three times faster in complete silence.
• Lu Ran unleashed Jade Whirlwind, creating a huge tornado surrounded by eight others that formed a hundred-meter wind domain.

After the Jade Green Luan returned to its ancestral form, it became jealous when it discovered the Rock Crystal Dragon was also receiving an Immortal Herb-fueled transformation. Lu Ran reassured it of its special place in his life, and they prepared to fly out of the poisonous miasma.

• The Jade Green Luan proudly celebrated its enhanced Soul Skill after returning to its ancestral form.
• The Jade Green Luan spotted the Rock Crystal Dragon transformed into a colossal rock egg, and Lu Ran explained that it was awakening its Earth Dragon King bloodline with an Immortal Herb.
• The Jade Green Luan felt hurt that it was not the only one to receive an Immortal Herb and turned away from Lu Ran.
• Lu Ran reminded the Jade Green Luan of their shared history and told it that it had been the first of his companions to transform and gain an Ultimate Attribute.
• The Jade Green Luan accepted Lu Ran's comfort, invited him onto its back, and prepared to carry him through the poisonous miasma.

Lu Ran and the Jade Green Luan left the Poisonous Fog Zone, while the awakened Heavenly Dragon Horse discovered the Rock Crystal Dragon’s Dragon King bloodline. Tang Ya continued secretly absorbing life force and worried about how to repay Lu Ran for the Blue Silver Azure Vine.

• Lu Ran judged that the Rock Crystal Dragon would not wake soon, so he and the Jade Green Luan hurried back toward Shrek.
• The Heavenly Dragon Horse woke in unfamiliar surroundings, remembered that Lu Ran had contracted it, and sensed a powerful dragon bloodline nearby.
• The Heavenly Dragon Horse found the Rock Egg and recognized the being inside as a Dragon King descendant whose status surpassed its own.
• Tang Ya emerged from her hidden cave after sealing its entrance with Blue Silver Grass and prepared to continue absorbing life force.
• Tang Ya worried that her Blue Silver Azure Vine would run out soon and that she had no way to repay Lu Ran for his help.

Tang Ya fretted over how to thank Lu Ran for helping her, while Lu Ran returned to Shrek Academy intending to give her an Immortal Herb before she might succumb to darkness. They met on a path, where he asked whether she had finished absorbing the Azure Vine, and Tang Ya said she would be done within a day or two.

• Tang Ya struggled to choose a gift for Lu Ran, dismissing money, pills, Soul Bones, and Tang Sect manuals as unsuitable.
• Lu Ran returned to Shrek Academy on the Jade Green Luan after traveling from the Sunset Forest and decided to check on Tang Ya.
• Lu Ran worried that Tang Ya might be driven into becoming an Evil Soul Master, and considered giving her an Immortal Herb to offer her hope.
• Tang Ya wandered beneath the academy's street lamps, still trying to think of a gift, when she spotted Lu Ran and stopped herself from running away.
• Lu Ran asked whether Tang Ya had finished absorbing the Azure Vine, and she replied that she was almost done and expected to finish within a day or two.

Lu Ran gave Tang Ya Blue Silver Azure Vine and an Ink Jade Divine Bamboo Immortal Herb, then urged her to cultivate carefully and avoid becoming an Evil Soul Master. Tang Ya wept with gratitude and resolved that she could finally avenge her parents, while Lu Ran headed to Jiang Nannan’s dorm.

• Lu Ran gave Tang Ya a large batch of Blue Silver Azure Vine and promised to bring her more each month.
• Lu Ran gave Tang Ya an Ink Jade Divine Bamboo and explained its benefits for her Martial Soul, Soul Power, and future Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya accepted the Immortal Herb, broke down in tears, and thanked Lu Ran.
• Lu Ran told Tang Ya to focus on cultivation, hide her abilities, and seek his help rather than act rashly or become an Evil Soul Master.
• Tang Ya asked how she could repay Lu Ran, then watched him leave while thinking she could finally avenge her parents.
• Lu Ran headed to Jiang Nannan’s dorm, mindful that the Jade Green Luan and Rock Crystal Dragon might resent Tang Ya receiving an Immortal Herb.

Lu Ran rested at Sea God Pavilion, then inspected the Blue Silver Rice fields he had developed in his Small World and considered expanding his crop experiments. He left the story planning to crossbreed Blue Silver Grass with Aromatic Silk Beauty.

• Lu Ran entered Jiang Nannan’s dormitory through a window, cuddled with her, and explained the gifts he had prepared for Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao before promising her an Immortal Herb.
• Lu Ran returned to Sea God Pavilion after several days of work and rested until nightfall.
• Lu Ran checked the Blue Silver Grass by Sea God Lake and estimated it would produce a white Soul Ring in two or three years.
• Lu Ran entered his Small World and inspected the Blue Silver Rice fields, which were nearing their third harvest after one planting.
• Lu Ran credited the Cloud Cluster Ground Rats for helping manage the fields and planned to crossbreed Blue Silver Grass with Aromatic Silk Beauty.