Chapter Summaries

Liu Yuan accepted Electrolux as his master after hearing about Electrolux’s past, then chose to learn both Light Magic and Necromancy. Electrolux opened the way to his Undead Demiplane and invited Liu Yuan inside to receive his gift.

• Electrolux asked Liu Yuan to become his disciple and shared the fragments of his painful past.
• Liu Yuan reassured Electrolux that he considered him a good person and separated his remnant soul from the sins of his original self.
• Electrolux offered to teach Liu Yuan Light Magic and Necromancy, and Liu Yuan chose to learn both.
• Liu Yuan promised to reshape a body for Electrolux someday, and Electrolux praised his intention.
• Electrolux summoned his staff, opened a black door to the Undead Demiplane, and led Liu Yuan inside.

Liu Yuan explored Electrolux’s Undead Demiplane and learned about its limits, its undead inhabitants, and how Plane Spirits worked. He proposed a revised way for Elder Yi to resurrect by taking control of a rudimentary Plane Spirit after the demiplane became a true world.

• Liu Yuan entered the Undead Demiplane and learned from Electrolux that it was an unfinished realm containing only the Undead Law and traces of light.
• Electrolux explained that the demiplane was about as large as the Star Dou Forest and had grown powerful undead creatures during the thousand years he had neglected it.
• Hundreds of skeletons charged toward Liu Yuan, but Electrolux concealed his aura and made them lose track of him.
• Liu Yuan asked Electrolux about Plane Spirits and learned that taking control of one could provoke disasters unless the Plane Spirit was suppressed by someone stronger.
• Liu Yuan told Electrolux his plan to resurrect Elder Yi, then revised it: Elder Yi could take control of a rudimentary Plane Spirit after the demiplane evolved into a true world.

Liu Yuan introduced his Pinduoduo Promotion Method for developing the Undead Demiplane by adding laws and resources from other places. He transported the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well into a basin, where it began bringing new energy and laws to the demiplane, but Electrolux warned that its plants would need life energy to grow.

• Liu Yuan explained that he planned to piece together the Undead Demiplane’s missing laws using resources from across the Multiverse, calling the approach the Pinduoduo Promotion Method.
• Electrolux cleared a basin by driving away the Bone Dragon, and Liu Yuan used the Platform Panel to claim Dugu Yan’s mission reward and designate the basin as its destination.
• The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well appeared in the basin, and Electrolux formed a magic array to protect it from the demiplane’s Undead Law and undead creatures.
• The Well’s water, ice, fire, and life energy formed a small rudimentary sky and spread other laws through the Undead Demiplane.
• Electrolux said the Well alone was not enough to promote the demiplane and warned Liu Yuan that the Well’s plants needed life energy to grow properly.

Liu Yuan planted an Origin Willow Clone in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to protect and nourish the treasured land, then returned from the Undead Demiplane and emerged from seclusion. Over lunch, he learned that the White Tiger Duke Mansion and the Star Luo Emperor were cracking down after the second young master was killed, while Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er kept their involvement secret.

• Liu Yuan used Myriad Transformation to grow an Origin Willow Clone in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Electrolux approved of his solution.
• Electrolux gave Liu Yuan a key to travel to and from the Undead Demiplane, where Liu Yuan saw that the Origin Willow Clone had nearly matured three immortal herbs.
• Liu Yuan returned to Douluo Continent after nearly six hours and went to lunch with his parents and Di Qiu'er.
• Father Liu and Mother Liu told Liu Yuan that the second young master of the White Tiger Duke Mansion had been ambushed and killed, prompting a crackdown that uncovered two Evil Soul Master hideouts.
• Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er silently recognized that they were the culprits, then left the table as Mother Liu called Di Qiu'er her future daughter-in-law.

Liu Yuan taught Di Qiu'er how to forge a Martial Soul Natal Weapon, and she decided to use the Golden Dragon Spear as its material. As she began dismantling her weapon design, Liu Yuan stood by to guard her.

• Liu Yuan showed Di Qiu'er his Origin Willow and explained the Martial Soul Natal Weapon system, including its risks and potential.
• Di Qiu'er eagerly agreed to cultivate the system and forged an illusory spear from her Soul Patterns.
• Liu Yuan offered Di Qiu'er several thousand-year Soul Bones, but she refused them and said she had other materials in mind.
• Di Qiu'er proposed using the Golden Dragon Spear to forge a weapon that belonged solely to her, and Liu Yuan agreed to watch over her despite his doubts.
• Di Qiu'er dismantled her spear design back into four Soul Patterns and began a different process.

Di Qiu'er forged the Golden Dragon Spear into her Martial Soul Natal Weapon, then sparred with Liu Yuan before they planned to teach the method to Yuhao and the others. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao reached the Extreme North with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to seek the Ice Empress, and offered to give up the Ice Empress’s Soul Bone for his companion, who had no way to obtain one himself.

• Di Qiu'er integrated four Soul Patterns into the Golden Dragon Spear and made it her Martial Soul Natal Weapon.
• Di Qiu'er challenged Liu Yuan to a spar, and their battle shocked Father Liu and damaged the clearing.
• Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er repaired the clearing, and Liu Yuan said they would teach the forging method to Yuhao and the others after returning to the academy.
• Huo Yuhao arrived in the Extreme North with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and learned that they were seeking the Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao offered to give Sky Dream Ice Silkworm the Ice Empress’s four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone, but Sky Dream admitted he could not obtain a Beast Soul Bone for himself.

Huo Yuhao gave Ice Empress's soul bone to his brother, and Ice Empress agreed to strengthen him through her bloodline instead. After Huo Yuhao left the Extreme North transformed and ready to seek a Soul Ring, the Cult Master sent Old Seven to investigate recruits in the Douluo Continent and hinted at a coming reckoning with Shrek.

• Huo Yuhao insisted on giving Ice Empress's soul bone to his brother, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm eventually supported his decision after seeing a chance for Liu Yuan to help Huo Yuhao become a god.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm persuaded Ice Empress to join the God-Making Plan, and she agreed to give Huo Yuhao her bloodline power while sealing her cultivation in his Soul Ring.
• Ice Empress sacrificed herself amid azure flames, leaving Huo Yuhao with a right arm bone and a transformed body; he reached level thirty and prepared to obtain a Soul Ring.
• Half a month later, Old Seven reported to the Cult Master that Soul Masters in the Douluo Continent faced intensified suppression, especially in the Star Luo Empire.
• The Cult Master ordered Old Seven to investigate the Douluo Continent for promising recruits and ended by threatening Shrek.

Before returning to Shrek Academy, Liu Yuan rescued Huo Yun'er from the White Tiger Duke Mansion and arranged for his family to move to Shrek City. At the academy gates, he and his friends waited anxiously as registration neared its end, until Huo Yuhao finally appeared.

• Xu Jiujiu visited Liu Yuan several times, while he used Di Qiu'er to deflect her advances and accepted the Star Luo Royal Family's offer of support for the Liu Family business.
• Liu Yuan secretly visited Huo Yun'er at the White Tiger Duke Mansion, learned that the Duchess had left her bedridden, and decided to take her away.
• With Elder Yi's help, Liu Yuan smuggled Huo Yun'er out, staged a fire to cover her disappearance, and brought her to the Liu home, where Di Qiu'er found a ten-year soul beast for her recovery.
• Liu Yuan decided his family should move to Shrek City for safety, then bought two residences and a shop after arriving there with Di Qiu'er.
• Wang Dong'er joined Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er for an afternoon in the city, and they returned to the academy shortly before registration closed.
• Xiao Xiao worried that Huo Yuhao would miss registration, but Liu Yuan assured her he would not be expelled, and Di Qiu'er spotted Huo Yuhao rushing toward the academy.

Liu Yuan brought Huo Yuhao to meet Mu En and asked him to accept Huo Yuhao as a disciple. After learning about Huo Yuhao’s newly awakened Ultimate Ice Martial Soul and his rapid growth, Mu En agreed to take him as a Locked-Door Disciple.

• Liu Yuan hurried Huo Yuhao away from Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Di Qiu'er to meet Mu En.
• Liu Yuan asked Mu En to accept Huo Yuhao as a disciple because Huo Yuhao had missed registration.
• Mu En examined Huo Yuhao and discovered that he had reached Rank 32 with a solid foundation.
• Liu Yuan revealed that Huo Yuhao possessed an Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul with the Ultimate Ice attribute.
• Mu En confirmed that Huo Yuhao's Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul had awakened after his first Soul Ring and agreed to take him as a Locked-Door Disciple.

Liu Yuan accompanied Huo Yuhao to register with the Soul Guidance Department, where Fan Yu and He Caitou hoped Liu Yuan would help secure the department a Reserve Team spot. Back at the dormitory, Huo Yuhao offered Liu Yuan a powerful jade-green right arm Soul Bone, and Liu Yuan accepted it.

• Liu Yuan took Huo Yuhao to register, then met He Caitou, who enthusiastically repeated Huo Yuhao’s praise of Liu Yuan.
• He Caitou gave Liu Yuan a cigar from his food-type Martial Soul, and Liu Yuan lit it and asked He Caitou to fill a box with twenty.
• After Liu Yuan and Huo Yuhao left, Fan Yu confirmed to He Caitou that Liu Yuan had understood their hopes that he would help the Soul Guidance Department keep a Reserve Team spot.
• At the dormitory, Huo Yuhao presented Liu Yuan with a jade-green right arm Soul Bone and insisted it was a gift.
• Liu Yuan accepted the Soul Bone, and a wave of coldness surged up his arm.

Liu Yuan absorbed Ice Empress's Soul Bone and gave Huo Yuhao the Improved System, which Huo Yuhao believed his brother had created. Liu Yuan prepared Huo Yuhao to demonstrate the system at the Sea God Pavilion meeting, then gave him a letter from his mother that left him in tears.

• Huo Yuhao confirmed with Ice Empress that Liu Yuan could safely absorb her willingly offered Soul Bone, and Liu Yuan absorbed it, gaining two skills and reaching level forty-eight.
• Liu Yuan transmitted the altered Improved System to Huo Yuhao, and Ice Empress urged him to cultivate it despite the possibility of a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that Liu Yuan had created the system, and Liu Yuan claimed that he had improved it.
• Liu Yuan stopped Huo Yuhao from forging a Martial Soul Natal Weapon and told him to forge one at the Sea God Pavilion meeting so he could seek materials from the Elders.
• Liu Yuan gave Huo Yuhao a letter from Huo Yun'er, and Huo Yuhao cried after reading that she had left the White Tiger Duke Mansion and moved in with the Liu Family.

At the advancement assessment, Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Huabin had died and met Shrek Academy’s Titled Douluo at a Sea God Pavilion meeting. Mu En announced Huo Yuhao as his locked-door disciple, then asked Liu Yuan to chair the next part of the meeting.

• Di Qiu'er told Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao that Dai Huabin had died on his way home, while Zhu Lu had returned to school in another class.
• Liu Yuan explained that Dai Huabin was reportedly killed by bandits or an Evil Soul Master, and the students completed their advancement assessments.
• Yan Shaozhe introduced Gong Changlong, and Liu Yuan, Di Qiu'er, and Huo Yuhao accompanied them to Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En named Huo Yuhao his locked-door disciple and revealed that Yuhao had Twin Martial Souls, including an Ice Jade Scorpion of Ultimate Ice.
• Mu En asked Liu Yuan to chair the next part of the Sea God Pavilion meeting.

Liu Yuan revealed his Martial Soul Natal Weapon cultivation system to the Sea God Pavilion Elders and demonstrated how it could be forged. The demonstration stopped for lack of materials, so Yan Shaozhe paid up with a thirty-thousand-year Fear Demon Dragon Soul Bone.

• Liu Yuan presented Origin Willow and explained that it was a Martial Soul Natal Weapon, not a physical object transformed from his Martial Soul.
• Di Qiu'er revealed her Golden Dragon Spear as another example of the system, and Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to transmit Liu Yuan's improved cultivation method to the Elders.
• At Liu Yuan's request, Huo Yuhao began demonstrating the forging process but stopped when he reached the Soul Pattern mirror stage because they lacked materials.
• Yan Shaozhe took a thirty-thousand-year Fear Demon Dragon left leg bone from his Storage Soul Tool and offered it to Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao forged the Spirit Ice Mirror, while Liu Yuan outlined a plan to test the Martial Soul Natal Weapon system with willing Inner Court students. After the meeting approved the trials, the remaining members discussed the Reserve Team, where Yan Shaozhe’s objection to He Caitou provoked Xian Lin'er.

• Xian Lin'er gave Huo Yuhao a piece of Soul Gold, and Xuan Zi and the other Titled Douluo offered valuable gifts as well.
• Huo Yuhao fused Soul Gold, the Fear Demon Dragon's left leg bone, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's discarded shell to forge the Spirit Ice Mirror.
• Liu Yuan explained that Soul Patterns could conflict with a Soul Tool's Core Matrix and proposed using willing Soul Emperor- or Soul Saint-level Inner Court students to test the system's Thunder Tribulation.
• Mu En left the decision to the students, who unanimously approved selecting loyal students without family pressure as candidates for the trials.
• As the group discussed the Reserve Team, Yan Shaozhe objected to He Caitou's inclusion, and Xian Lin'er angrily defended the Soul Guidance Department.

Liu Yuan secured a place for He Caitou on the Reserve Team by demonstrating his preserved food-type cigars, then proposed reforms to end the rivalry between Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul and Soul Guidance Departments. The Sea God Pavilion members approved his plan, leaving Liu Yuan with new respect and influence among the Elders.

• Yan Shaozhe argued that the Martial Soul Department’s students should receive Soul Tools, prompting Xian Lin'er to angrily confront him.
• Liu Yuan presented cigars made by He Caitou and showed that they could retain their effects for two days, convincing the Elders to approve He Caitou for the Reserve Team.
• Liu Yuan explained that the Martial Soul Department should strengthen users while the Soul Guidance Department should develop Soul Tools, so the departments should complement rather than compete with each other.
• Liu Yuan proposed that the Martial Soul Department emphasize martial training, the Soul Guidance Department prioritize research, and students in both departments study the other discipline.
• Mu En asked the Sea God Pavilion members to consider Liu Yuan’s reforms, and Xuan Zi, the other Elders, and the four deans agreed.

After the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Liu Yuan asked Mu En for a resource to strengthen his Martial Soul Natal Weapon and negotiated for a living Golden Ancient Tree twig. He left with the twig, while Mu En urged him to stop asking for more.

• Huo Yuhao praised Liu Yuan, and Mu En asked why Liu Yuan was lingering in the hall after the meeting.
• Liu Yuan asked Mu En for help because his Martial Soul Natal Weapon lacked metal, and Mu En offered him half of a Light-Attribute White Dragon corpse.
• Liu Yuan asked whether he could trade the dragon corpse for something else and initially requested a living branch from the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Mu En refused to give up a branch, but agreed to provide a living twig when Liu Yuan revealed that was what he wanted.
• The Golden Ancient Tree produced a leafy twig as tall as a person, and Liu Yuan took it before leaving with Huo Yuhao and Di Qiu'er.

Liu Yuan brought Huo Yuhao and Di Qiu'er to meet Yan Shaozhe and learned that Ma Xiaotao needed help controlling her Martial Soul's Evil Fire; Huo Yuhao agreed to help in exchange for compensation. Liu Yuan then began assembling the Reserve Team, questioned Bei Bei about Tang Ya's possible ties to Evil Soul Masters, and announced that the team would challenge every Outer Courtyard Core Disciple in three days.

• Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er teased Ma Xiaotao about addressing them as Junior Uncles before Yan Shaozhe explained her Evil Fire problem to Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to help Ma Xiaotao after Yan Shaozhe promised compensation, while Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er returned to the Outer Courtyard to assemble the Reserve Team.
• Liu Yuan found Bei Bei troubled by news that the Iron Blood Sect had been destroyed and asked what he would do if Tang Ya had become an Evil Soul Master.
• Bei Bei said he would save Tang Ya if she had been forced into evil, but would kill her himself if she had joined willingly.
• Liu Yuan gathered the Reserve Team in the Soul Fighting Zone and announced they would challenge all the Outer Courtyard Core Disciples in three days.

The Reserve Team held a coordination practice, where Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er effortlessly defeated the others. After the practice, Liu Yuan explained Martial Soul Natal Weapons and the Improved System, making the team its first group of beneficiaries and warning them to keep it secret.

• He Caitou worried about the final selection, but Bei Bei reassured him that the test would be easy for the team.
• Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er dominated the coordination practice, eliminating Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Bei Bei before He Caitou surrendered.
• Liu Yuan healed Huo Yuhao's injury, and Di Qiu'er remarked that Huo Yuhao had looked like a six-thousand-year soul beast during his transformation.
• Wang Dong'er questioned how Liu Yuan and Di Qiu'er had fought without using their Martial Souls, and Liu Yuan explained Martial Soul Natal Weapons and the Improved System.
• Liu Yuan told the Reserve Team that they were the earliest beneficiaries of the Improved System and ordered them to keep the matter secret, even from their parents.

Liu Yuan explained the Improved System for forging Martial Soul Natal Weapons and warned that cultivating it could bring Heavenly Tribulation, while the others agreed to try it. At the Treasure Appreciation Fair, Wang Dong'er found two suitable treasures but could not afford their eleven-million-Gold-Soul-Coin price and begged Liu Yuan for a loan.

• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, and Bei Bei agreed to cultivate the Improved System despite the risk of Heavenly Tribulation.
• Liu Yuan explained that forging Martial Soul Natal Weapons was straightforward, but finding suitable materials was difficult, and answered Wang Dong'er’s question about making weapons for Twin Martial Souls.
• Liu Yuan told the group about the academy’s Treasure Appreciation Fair and warned Wang Dong'er to bring enough money.
• At the fair, Huo Yuhao offered to cover Xiao Xiao’s purchases, and the group split up to browse.
• Wang Dong'er found a Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone and a Golden Earth Dragon King Bone, but their combined price was eleven million Gold Soul Coins.
• Wang Dong'er clung to Liu Yuan and begged him to lend her money after realizing she had brought only five million Gold Soul Coins.

Wang Dong'er asked Liu Yuan to lend her money so she could buy a Golden Earth Dragon King Bone and its Soul Bone at the Treasure Appreciation Fair. After she secured them, the group reunited with Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao and continued shopping.

• Wang Dong'er persuaded Liu Yuan to lend her money and hurried to the dragon bone display, while Di Qiu'er said the Soul Bone was too low-level for her.
• Wang Dong'er found Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi beside the display, but Bei Bei assured her he would not compete for the dragon bone.
• Liu Yuan gave Wang Dong'er his card, and Xu Sanshi envied him before Bei Bei drew Xu Sanshi away by mentioning Jiang Nannan.
• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao told Liu Yuan they had bought Gravity Steel and half of a weathered True Dragon skull.
• Liu Yuan, Di Qiu'er, Wang Dong'er, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao continued around the fair and bought more items, including weathered Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber.