Chapter Summaries

The Rock Crystal Dragon awakened most of its Earth Dragon King bloodline, growing to a hundred meters and gaining powerful earth-manipulating armor. Lu Ran admired its transformation, while the dragon struggled to adjust to its immense new body.

• Lu Ran sensed a strange fluctuation, and the Rock Crystal Dragon's egg cracked apart as the dragon emerged with a vastly changed body.
• The Rock Crystal Dragon discovered that the power of the earth surged through it and could support its enormous weight.
• The Rock Crystal Dragon rushed toward Lu Ran, then stopped and gently rubbed its chin against him, worried it might hurt him.
• The Rock Crystal Dragon accidentally sank into the soft ground, then used the power of the earth to reinforce it and hide the marks.
• Lu Ran praised the Rock Crystal Dragon and said it had awakened most of the Earth Dragon King's bloodline and grown a whole level stronger.

Lu Ran tested the Rock Crystal Dragon’s evolved Soul Skills, then visited Ma Xiaotao and revealed that Blazing Glue could cure her Evil Fire if refined with Ultimate Ice. He left her hopeful after explaining that Shrek lacked Ultimate Ice but it might be found elsewhere on the continent.

• Lu Ran summoned the Rock Crystal Dragon’s evolved Rock Ridges, Dragon Scale Armor, and Rock Dragon Power, which greatly expanded his battlefield control and physical abilities.
• Lu Ran praised the Rock Crystal Dragon and told it that it would grow stronger after evolving into a true Earth Dragon King.
• Lu Ran visited Ma Xiaotao and told her he had found a way to cure her Evil Fire.
• Lu Ran showed Ma Xiaotao Blazing Glue and explained that she needed Ultimate Ice to refine its pure flame energy.
• Lu Ran told Ma Xiaotao that Shrek lacked Ultimate Ice but that it might exist elsewhere on the continent, and she eagerly asked where to find it.

Lu Ran told Ma Xiaotao he could help cure her Evil Fire and bring her to the Far North to find an Ultimate Ice Soul Master. He left her in his Martial Soul Space while he went to speak with Dean Yan, and Ma Xiaotao realized he had deliberately left her guessing so she would hug him.

• Lu Ran told Ma Xiaotao that an Ultimate Ice Soul Master could help suppress her Evil Fire and that he could help her.
• Ma Xiaotao excitedly hugged Lu Ran and asked when they would leave for the Far North.
• Lu Ran placed Ma Xiaotao in his Martial Soul Space and said he would speak to Dean Yan before flying to the Far North.
• Lu Ran pointed Ma Xiaotao toward a Cloud Cluster Ground Rat nest, and she set off to find it.
• Ma Xiaotao realized Lu Ran had withheld part of the plan to prompt her hug, and Lu Ran disappeared after insisting burying his face against her had been an accident.

Lu Ran traveled to the Far North with Ma Xiaotao after telling Yan Shaozhe that she would return with a surprise. He met the Ice Empress at the Far North’s Core Area and asked her for a favor.

• Lu Ran showed Yan Shaozhe his five ten-thousand-year Soul Rings and said he and Ma Xiaotao planned to visit the Far North.
• Yan Shaozhe enthusiastically approved their trip and gave them a month off, hoping the two would grow closer.
• Lu Ran flew north on the Jade Green Luan while Ma Xiaotao played with Cloud Cluster Ground Rats in his Small World.
• After a journey of less than three days, Lu Ran reached the Far North and followed Snow Empress’s token to the Core Area.
• The Ice Empress greeted Lu Ran while sucking on a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and said her damaged core would recover by the following year.
• Lu Ran asked the Ice Empress for a favor, and she eagerly offered to help him take revenge on a human or Di Tian.

The Ice Empress agreed to help Lu Ran’s friend absorb a medicinal herb and recounted a battle with Sky Dream that left her source power gravely wounded. Lu Ran doubted her account and said he would ask the Snow Maiden to verify it, making the Ice Empress beg him not to.

• Lu Ran asked the Ice Empress to use Ultimate Ice to suppress the Ultimate Fire released by his friend’s medicinal herb, and she agreed.
• The Ice Empress told Lu Ran that Sky Dream had attacked her and threatened the Snow Empress, wielding his Silkworm Slough and golden threads.
• The Ice Empress, Snow Maiden, and Titan Blood Demon King cornered Sky Dream, who detonated his source power to escape.
• The Ice Empress shielded the Snow Empress from the explosion and suffered severe damage to her source power.
• The Ice Empress admitted she had hugged Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow while imagining it was the Snow Empress, and Lu Ran threatened to verify her story with the Snow Maiden.

Ice Empress recounted how she and Snow Empress survived Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s attack and how she killed a human Soul Master who tried to ambush Snow Empress. She explained that Snow Empress chose to transform into a human after Lu Ran’s departure intensified her sense that Douluo Star’s future was changing.

• Ice Empress told Lu Ran that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had attacked, detonated its source power, and escaped, leaving the Far North’s powerful Soul Beasts injured.
• Ice Empress described how she caught and killed a human Soul Master who approached Snow Empress while she was transforming.
• Ice Empress said Snow Empress’s growing premonition about Douluo Star had strengthened after Lu Ran left, prompting her to transform into a human.
• Snow Empress bathed in a hidden underground cave and considered whether to leave the Far North, intervene in future events, or continue transforming.

The Snow Maiden reflected on the events that led her to transform and decided to enter the human world to avoid being controlled by fate. When Lu Ran visited to ask for her help with Ultimate Ice, she gave him the Soul Tools and research notes she had found, including an intact Level 9 God-Sealing Platform.

• The Snow Maiden concluded that finding the Snow Lotus and the God-Sealing Platform confirmed her decision to transform and take control of her fate.
• The Ice Empress prepared a protected cave for the newly transformed Snow Maiden, who was now a small child with thirteen levels of Soul Power.
• Lu Ran arrived with the Ice Empress and asked the Snow Maiden for Ultimate Ice to help a friend absorb medicinal ingredients.
• The Snow Maiden asked Lu Ran about Soul Tools, then handed him her Storage Soul Tool to inspect.
• Lu Ran found the intact God-Sealing Platform and research notes, and the Snow Maiden let him take them as something they owned together.

Lu Ran discussed Snow Empress's plan to leave the Far North and helped her consider how to stay safe in the human world. Snow Empress chose to travel with him and use his Martial Soul Space for shelter, while Lu Ran devised a cover identity for her before they returned to Shrek Academy.

• Snow Empress told Lu Ran she wanted to leave the Far North and offered either to wait until level seventy or to travel with someone who would protect her.
• Lu Ran warned that her Soul Beast aura could expose her, but Snow Empress revealed she could conceal it completely and explained she still had seven hundred thousand years of origin power.
• Lu Ran showed Snow Empress and Ice Empress his warm, springlike Martial Soul Space and offered to build Snow Empress a house there.
• Snow Empress agreed that staying in the space was a good idea, and Lu Ran said she would need an identity to appear openly in the human world.
• Lu Ran proposed claiming that Snow Empress was his distant cousin, whom he had discovered and brought back from the Far North.

Lu Ran arranged for Snow Maiden to pose as his blood sister before taking her to meet Ma Xiaotao. He promised Ice Empress he would protect Snow Maiden, then brought them to the desert, where Ma Xiaotao saw them appear beside the Rock Crystal Dragon.

• Lu Ran explained that claiming Snow Maiden was his blood sister would discourage Shrek's Elders from investigating her past, and Snow Maiden agreed.
• Snow Maiden asked about Lu Ran's friend, and Ice Empress transformed into a little girl so they could visit her.
• Lu Ran promised Ice Empress he would protect Snow Maiden, and Snow Maiden practiced calling him Big Brother.
• Ice Empress became flustered imagining Snow Maiden calling her Big Sister, then recovered when Snow Maiden scolded her.
• Ma Xiaotao admired the Rock Crystal Dragon's enormous size before Lu Ran, Snow Maiden, and Ice Empress appeared in front of her.

Lu Ran introduced Ma Xiaotao to his younger sister, Xiao Xue, and the Ice Empress, who had agreed to help suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire. He gave Ma Xiaotao the Blazing Glue and told her to refine it without resisting the Ice Empress’s chill.

• Lu Ran introduced Xiao Xue as his distant younger cousin, whom he had found alone and brought along to care for.
• Ma Xiaotao was shocked by Lu Ran’s sudden explanation about Xiao Xue, then stopped staring when he said the child was shy.
• Lu Ran explained that the Ice Empress possessed Ultimate Ice and could help suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao apologized to the Ice Empress for failing to bow, and the Ice Empress calmly agreed to begin helping her.
• Lu Ran handed Ma Xiaotao the Blazing Glue and instructed her to refine it without resisting the incoming chill.

Ma Xiaotao refined the Blazing Glue with the Ice Empress suppressing its Ultimate Fire, purifying her Evil Fire and preparing her flames to advance. Lu Ran created an icy region in the Small World for the Snow Maiden, who summoned her Martial Soul to withstand the cold and wondered how he had made it snow.

• Ma Xiaotao swallowed the Blazing Glue and began refining it as the Ice Empress suppressed the Ultimate Fire to protect her.
• The Ice Empress asked Lu Ran where he had obtained the Blazing Glue, and he said he had borrowed it from a plant-type, fire-attribute Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Lu Ran showed the Snow Maiden the Small World and explained common knowledge about the human world as they visited its varied landscapes and Soul Beasts.
• The Snow Maiden asked whether the Small World had ice or snow, and Lu Ran used its water and wind elements to create an icy region with heavy snowfall.
• The Snow Maiden summoned her Martial Soul to endure the cold and looked at Lu Ran in confusion, unable to understand how he had created the snowy landscape.

Lu Ran explained his plan to expand the Small World into a refuge for Soul Beasts and argued that humans needed ways to grow stronger without killing them. He left the solution undecided, while Electrolux studied the continent’s power systems and possible alternatives.

• Lu Ran created a small icy region in the Small World and said he wanted to expand it enough to shelter every Soul Beast on the Douluo Continent.
• Lu Ran rejected Snow Maiden’s suspicion that he wanted to monopolize Soul Beast resources and described how human development and Soul Tools had driven Soul Beast numbers down.
• Lu Ran argued that Soul Spirits did not solve the conflict because they deprived Soul Beasts of freedom and could make humans more willing to kill them.
• Lu Ran outlined self-condensed Soul Rings, bestowed Soul Rings, and life-bond contracts as possible ways for Soul Masters to grow without killing Soul Beasts.
• Lu Ran recalled Electrolux advising him to try every method, and explained that Electrolux was studying Soul Power, Soul Rings, Soul Bones, Soul Tools, and the proposed alternatives.
• Lu Ran told Snow Maiden that he could not yet say which approach would work, but promised humans would eventually stop relying on killing Soul Beasts to grow stronger.

The Snow Maiden agreed to trust Lu Ran and cultivate while he prepared a home for her. After four hours of Ice Empress suppressing Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, Ma Xiaotao purified it and advanced to Ultimate Fire, leaving her overjoyed and embracing Lu Ran.

• The Snow Maiden asked Lu Ran what he needed from her, and he told her to focus on cultivating until he called on her.
• Lu Ran offered to find the Snow Maiden clothes and build her a home, and she agreed to choose a house style in a town or village.
• Lu Ran explained to Ice Empress that he had created an icy region in his Martial Soul space for the Snow Maiden.
• Ice Empress continued suppressing Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire for four hours while the Snow Maiden cultivated nearby.
• Ma Xiaotao purified her Evil Fire, transformed into a Fire Phoenix, and advanced to Ultimate Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao excitedly hugged Lu Ran and celebrated her freedom from the Evil Fire’s torment.

Ma Xiaotao thanked Lu Ran for helping her reach Ultimate Fire, mistakenly believing he had made great sacrifices for her, and broke down in his arms. Meanwhile, the Snow Maiden prepared to leave the Small World to learn about Soul Tools and grow stronger before helping the Ice Empress face her tribulation.

• Ma Xiaotao thanked the Ice Empress for purifying her Evil Fire, and the Ice Empress said Lu Ran had already paid for the favor with the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Ma Xiaotao imagined Lu Ran had gone to great lengths and sacrificed much for her, then hugged him and cried with gratitude.
• The Ice Empress teased Lu Ran about Ma Xiaotao clinging to him before he sent her out of the Small World.
• The Snow Maiden learned that Ma Xiaotao had successfully absorbed the Blazing Glue, then told the Ice Empress she would leave soon and return in a dozen or so years to help with her tribulation.
• The Snow Maiden planned to study Soul Tools, strengthen herself for the Far North, and prepare to protect the Ice Empress.

Lu Ran and Snow Maiden left the Far North with Ice Empress’s gifts, while Ma Xiaotao tested her newly gained Ultimate Fire in the Small World. After Lu Ran reunited with Ma Xiaotao on the Sylvie Grassland, she clung to him and wondered how he had acquired a little sister.

• Ma Xiaotao calmed down after Lu Ran comforted her, then stayed in the Small World to test her new Ultimate Fire.
• Ice Empress gave Lu Ran Ice Attribute treasures for Snow Maiden, and the three left the Far North together.
• Snow Maiden chose to travel outside the Small World with Lu Ran and settled against him as they flew east.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed her purified flames in the Small World, destroying sand with Ultimate Fire.
• After landing on the Sylvie Grassland, Lu Ran brought Ma Xiaotao out of the Small World, and she embraced him and asked where they were.
• Ma Xiaotao thanked Lu Ran for helping her and grew curious about how he had gained a little sister.

Ma Xiaotao asked Lu Ran how he had met Xiao Xue and tried to understand their unusual Martial Souls. Lu Ran explained that he had found Xiao Xue alone with her Martial Soul awakened in early childhood, while keeping his meeting with Bing'er secret; Ma Xiaotao accepted his account as they continued traveling together.

• Ma Xiaotao questioned Lu Ran about his origins and wondered how his and Xiao Xue's powerful Martial Souls had mutated.
• Lu Ran told Ma Xiaotao that he had spotted Xiao Xue fishing on a frozen river when she was two or three years old and learned that her adoptive parents had died.
• Lu Ran explained that Xiao Xue's adoptive family had connections to his own, leading him to recognize her as a distant little sister.
• Lu Ran said Xiao Xue's Martial Soul had awakened automatically at birth, and Ma Xiaotao believed him despite her shock.
• Ma Xiaotao asked how Lu Ran had found Bing'er, but he called it a secret, and Ma Xiaotao stayed close to him as they traveled on.

Lu Ran flew across the Seville Grassland with Snow Maiden and spotted a prosperous city where he hoped to find her a suitable home. As they circled above it, Snow Maiden looked over the city with fresh curiosity.

• The Purple Wolf King spotted a fast-moving figure in the sky, readied its pack to defend their pups, then relaxed when the figure passed without attacking.
• Lu Ran, riding the Jade Green Luan, noticed a large city on the grassland and decided to explore it for a house Snow Maiden might like.
• Lu Ran summoned Snow Maiden and told her he wanted to replace the temporary rock castle he had built for her.
• Snow Maiden agreed to follow Lu Ran, and the Jade Green Luan flew toward the city.
• Lu Ran and Snow Maiden circled above the bustling city, taking in its river, walls, and busy outskirts.

Lu Ran took Snow Maiden to a clothing store in Shrek City and bought her hundreds of dresses. After leaving the shop, he introduced her to sugar-roasted chestnuts, which she tasted for the first time.

• Lu Ran descended into the busy street with Snow Maiden and brought her into a clothing store to choose dresses.
• The shop manager guided them upstairs, where Lu Ran picked out dresses for Snow Maiden and then bought every dress that fit her.
• Lu Ran paid the manager 785 Gold Soul Coins and told Snow Maiden they would shop for shoes and hair accessories next.
• Lu Ran bought sugar-roasted chestnuts and gave one to Snow Maiden, who peeled and tasted it.

Lu Ran returned to Shrek Academy with Ma Xiaotao and Snow Maiden, whose arrival and Ultimate Ice shocked Mu En. He secured Snow Maiden a room and protection from the Elders, while Ma Xiaotao excitedly told Yan Shaozhe that she had advanced to Ultimate Fire.

• Lu Ran returned to Shrek Academy with Snow Maiden and Ma Xiaotao and recounted their trip to Mu En.
• Mu En accepted Lu Ran’s request to let Snow Maiden stay beside his room and ordered the Elders not to disturb her.
• Lu Ran showed Snow Maiden her room in Sea God Pavilion and explained the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Ma Xiaotao found Yan Shaozhe and announced that she had advanced to Ultimate Fire after absorbing Blazing Glue with Lu Ran’s help.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned Ma Xiaotao about Blazing Glue and Snow Maiden as she began describing the trip.

Ma Xiaotao told Yan Shaozhe about Lu Ran’s return with Xiao Xue and Senior Bing’er, and how she had advanced to Ultimate Fire. Yan Shaozhe sought answers from Mu En, who told him to respect Lu Ran’s privacy and stop Shrek from investigating.

• Ma Xiaotao explained that Lu Ran found Xiao Xue using Soul Power to freeze a river and learned that her Ultimate Ice Martial Soul had awakened at birth.
• Ma Xiaotao said Lu Ran took Xiao Xue in as his distant little sister and that Senior Bing’er helped her absorb Blazing Glue and advance to Ultimate Fire.
• Yan Shaozhe hurried to the Sea God Pavilion to question Lu Ran, but Mu En told him that Lu Ran and the others had gone to Shrek City.
• Yan Shaozhe pressed Mu En for answers, but Mu En said Lu Ran had his reasons and ordered him not to investigate, promising to restrain the Elders.