Chapter Summaries

Chen Xinjie invited Yun Qianyue to represent the Federation on an exchange visit to the Star Luo Empire, and she considered accepting as a way to build ties beyond Shrek Academy. Meanwhile, Yu Guang returned to his family’s business and his mother asked whether he had contacted Yun Qianyue.

• Chen Xinjie brought Yun Qianyue to the War God Temple, where he proposed she join the Federation’s delegation to the Star Luo Empire in half a year.
• After Yun Qianyue left, Chen Xinjie and Su Mengjun discussed her possible interest and the limited information they had found about her past.
• Yun Qianyue decided that developing a relationship with the Federation was the best way for her group to broaden its connections beyond Shrek Academy.
• Yun Qianyue told Tang Wulin and the others about the exchange visit, and they questioned the Federation’s intentions before she urged them not to worry.
• Yu Guang entered a Soul Tool specialty store tied to his family and the Sun Moon Imperial Clan, where his mother asked if he had contacted the Silver Moon girl.

Yu Guang struggled to approach Yun Qianyue as the Sun Moon Imperial Clan ordered him to recruit her and report on her circumstances. Yun Qianyue uncovered his family’s scheme and confronted him at the Yu family’s Soul Tool shop, where she let him believe she had mistaken his motives for romantic interest.

• Yu Guang told his parents that Yun Qianyue had defeated him and that recruiting her would be difficult, while Mother Yu said the family wanted him to learn about her and report back.
• Yu Guang tried to get close to Yun Qianyue, while Yue Zhengyu, Tang Wulin, and Xu Lizhi gathered information about him for Yun Qianyue.
• Yun Qianyue learned about Yu Guang’s family and waited for him outside the Yu family’s Soul Tool shop.
• Yun Qianyue confronted Yu Guang about investigating her and rejected him, leading him to believe she thought he was romantically interested in her.
• Yun Qianyue said she wanted to buy Soul Tools, and Yu Guang offered to show her around the shop.

Yun Qianyue investigated Yu Guang’s family in Ming Capital and left without finding the information she wanted, while Yu Guang’s parents planned to report her visit to their distant family. On Sea God Island, Yun Qianzhao discouraged Xu Xiaoyan from using the Spirit Ascension Platform and prepared to search for a plant-type Soul Beast for his fifth Soul Ring.

• Yun Qianyue visited Yu Guang’s family, recognized their act, and left after selecting a few Soul Tools.
• Yu Guang told Father Yu and Mother Yu that Yun Qianyue had investigated them, and they said they would report the visit through intermediaries.
• Yun Qianzhao lied to Xu Xiaoyan that Yun Qianyue had sent him messages and reassured her that her friendship with Gu Yue would endure.
• Xu Xiaoyan invited Yun Qianzhao to the Spirit Ascension Platform, but he told her to avoid it and explained that Soul Rings could be strengthened by infusing energy.
• Yun Qianzhao asked Qi Luo, Jiaojiao, and Melon about finding a Soul Beast for his fifth ring, and Qi Luo offered to track a powerful plant-type Soul Beast.

Yun Qianzhao left Shrek Academy with Xu Xiaoyan to travel and returned to Red Maple City, his former home, to find Yun Ze and Shi Hua. When the couple failed to return from patrol, Yun Qianzhao set out to search for them, with Xu Xiaoyan insisting on joining him.

• Yun Ming approved Yun Qianzhao's four-month journey, and Ya Li asked him to bring Xu Xiaoyan along.
• Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan traveled to Red Maple City, where he explained that it had once been his home and that he had survived an Evil Soul Master attack there.
• Yun Qianzhao asked the Northern Legion camp commander about Yun Ze and Shi Hua, then waited at the camp while the couple remained away on patrol.
• After Yun Ze and Shi Hua missed their expected return and their last communication had been three days earlier, Yun Qianzhao asked the major for their patrol route so he could search for them.
• Xu Xiaoyan volunteered to accompany Yun Qianzhao, while the major hesitated over allowing the Shrek Academy students to leave.

Yun Qianzhao followed Jiaojiao’s sensed auras to the bottom of a cliff and found the missing patrol squad, including his adoptive parents, sheltering near a dying fire mulberry tree. A thirty-thousand-year Bloodthirsty Ghost Vine attacked them, and Yun Qianzhao began a counterattack with his Fourth Soul Skill.

• Yun Qianzhao persuaded the major to let him and Xu Xiaoyan search for the missing patrol squad, then followed Jiaojiao’s fire-attributed aura south.
• Yun Qianzhao leaped from a cliff after Jiaojiao sensed human auras below, while Xu Xiaoyan and a guiding soldier waited above.
• Jiaojiao carried Yun Qianzhao to the ravine floor, where he found the battered patrol squad and confirmed Yun Ze and his wife were alive.
• Yun Qianzhao and Jiaojiao discovered a dying ten-thousand-year fire mulberry tree that had protected the survivors from a thirty-thousand-year mutated Bloodthirsty Ghost Vine.
• Yun Qianzhao joined forces with Jiaojiao to burn and sever the vine’s tendrils, then used his Fourth Soul Skill, Great Sun Star Meteor, to attack its buried true body.

Yun Qianzhao killed the Bloodthirsty Ghost Vine and saved the Fire Mulberry Tree before confronting the Evil Soul Master who had raised it. The Soul Master recognized Yun Qianzhao from seven years earlier, and Yun Qianzhao attacked with Jiaojiao and Melon.

• Yun Qianzhao pierced the Bloodthirsty Ghost Vine's true body with the Sun God Spear, destroying it as its soul ring shattered.
• Yun Qianzhao asked Jiaojiao to save the Fire Mulberry Tree, and she used ultimate fire to restore it.
• Xu Xiaoyan and Qi Luo escorted the patrol squad, including Yun Ze and his wife, to safety at the cliff's edge.
• A Soul Saint Evil Soul Master arrived and accused Yun Qianzhao of destroying the Bloodthirsty Ghost Vine he had raised.
• The Evil Soul Master recognized Yun Qianzhao from the attack seven years earlier, and Yun Qianzhao launched an assault with Jiaojiao and Melon.

Yun Qianzhao and his companions defeated the Devouring Dragon Snake Soul Sage, who attempted to escape before Xu Ruoyu killed him. Xu Ruoyu introduced himself and tried to approach Yun Qianzhao, who remained wary as the group blocked his path.

• The Devouring Dragon Snake Soul Sage attacked Yun Qianzhao, but Melon blocked his poison and Yun Qianzhao severed his transformed tail with the Sun God Spear.
• The Soul Sage tried to self-destruct and escape, but Jiaojiao restrained him, Melon trapped him in rock, and Yun Qianzhao struck him down with the spear.
• Yun Qianzhao found the Soul Sage pinned by the Sun God Spear beside a purple-robed stranger, and Xu Ruoyu killed the wounded Soul Sage.
• Xu Ruoyu introduced himself and tried to speak with Yun Qianzhao, who attempted to leave while Jiaojiao and Melon guarded him.
• Xu Ruoyu stepped in front of Yun Qianzhao, and Jiaojiao asked whether they should fight him.

Yun Qianzhao rebuffed Xu Ruoyu’s attempt to recruit him, prompting the Sun Moon Imperial Clan to plan a new approach through Xu Ruoyu’s daughter. After returning to camp, Yun Qianzhao told Xu Xiaoyan the Evil Soul Master was dead and went to check on the injured patrol team members.

• Yun Qianzhao saw through Xu Ruoyu’s friendly act, declined his invitation, and left with Jiaojiao and Melon after giving him his name.
• Xu Ruoyu reported that Yun Qianzhao was wary, and a branch-line operative suggested sending a peer to approach him; Xu Ruoyu decided his sixteen-year-old daughter could do it.
• Xu Ruoyu returned to the Sun Moon Imperial Clan’s hidden main house, where the Sun Moon Douluo reprimanded him and said Xu Ruoyu’s daughter should approach Yun Qianzhao.
• Yun Qianzhao returned to the military camp, told Xu Xiaoyan the Evil Soul Master was dead, and followed her to visit the injured patrol team members.

After helping the patrol squad recover, Yun Qianzhao traveled with Xu Xiaoyan toward the Mingdou Mountains to search for fire-attributed Soul Beasts. Meanwhile, Yun Qianyue asked the War God Temple to take her to the Far North for a soul spirit and set out with Su Mengjun, whose account of the region left the Titan Snow Demon King’s fate uncertain.

• Yun Qianzhao thanked the camp major, declined to wait for his commendation, and asked that the material rewards go to the patrol squad.
• Yun Qianzhao followed Jiaojiao’s suggestion and took Xu Xiaoyan by soul-guided train to the Mingdou Mountains to look for fire-attributed Soul Beasts.
• Yun Qianyue asked Su Mengjun about alternatives to Spirit Pagoda soul spirits and requested the War God Temple’s help reaching the Far North.
• Chen Xinjie approved Yun Qianyue’s request, and Su Mengjun escorted her north from Ming Capital.
• Su Mengjun explained that the Far North’s former kings had vanished or ascended, and that no one knew whether the Titan Snow Demon King still lived.

Yun Qianyue and Su Mengjun searched the Extreme North for a natural Soul Spirit, but a fierce blizzard separated them when the Titan Snow Demon King abducted Yun Qianyue. The Titan Snow Demon King said he would not harm her and revealed that he had brought her to make a request after sensing fierce beasts within her.

• Su Mengjun and Yun Qianyue traveled deeper into the Extreme North, where they found only a fleeing thousand-year Ice Silkworm.
• Bajiao sensed Ultimate Ice behind the worsening blizzard and warned Yun Qianyue that an Ultimate Ice-attribute Soul Beast was driving it.
• The Titan Snow Demon King appeared in the storm, seized Yun Qianyue, and vanished before Su Mengjun could stop him.
• Su Mengjun pursued the Titan Snow Demon King through the blizzard as Yun Qianyue found herself surrounded by him and many Extreme North Soul Beasts.
• The Titan Snow Demon King told Yun Qianyue he would not harm her and asked about the fierce beasts inside her, so she brought out Bajiao, Xiao Qiu, and Momo.

The Titan Snow Demon King asked Yun Qianyue to protect the Extreme North and its young Heavenly Snow Woman, offering her a Soul Beast as a soul ring. Yun Qianyue accepted and chose a fifty-thousand-year snow rabbit, whose black soul ring and soul spirit emerged as she absorbed it.

• The Titan Snow Demon King told Yun Qianyue that his origin was failing and asked her to take responsibility for the Extreme North and the Heavenly Snow Woman born from the Snow Empress's power.
• Yun Qianyue recognized the Titan Snow Demon King's human ally as Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao and agreed to his request.
• The Heavenly Snow Woman introduced Yun Qianyue to the Extreme North's Soul Beasts, and a fifty-thousand-year snow rabbit leaped into Yun Qianyue's arms.
• The Titan Snow Demon King recommended a stronger Soul Beast, but Yun Qianyue chose the snow rabbit to spare the Extreme North's powerful protectors.
• Yun Qianyue used a soul spirit guidance formation to absorb the snow rabbit, and a black soul ring and translucent snow rabbit soul spirit appeared.

Yun Qianyue received the snow rabbit Jade Rabbit as a soul spirit and used the Titan Snow Demon King's Ultimate Ice power to evolve her laurel soul spirit. After reuniting with Su Mengjun, she revealed Jade Rabbit's ability to suppress both spiritual power and Soul Power.

• The Titan Snow Demon King gave Yun Qianyue an Ultimate Ice crystal, and her laurel absorbed it until her first four soul rings turned black.
• The Titan Snow Demon King entrusted the Extreme North to Yun Qianyue and warned her about powerful Evil Soul Masters operating there.
• Yun Qianyue warned the Titan Snow Demon King about the Evil Soul Masters, then watched him leave with the Snow Maiden and the other Soul Beasts.
• Su Mengjun found Yun Qianyue, who explained that Yun Ming had helped her escape and introduced Jade Rabbit as her new soul spirit.
• Yun Qianyue demonstrated Jade Rabbit's dual suppression of spiritual power and Soul Power, surprising Su Mengjun.

Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan entered the Mingdou Mountains, where Xu Ziyue found them and tried to draw them to her home. After learning Yun Qianzhao was nearby, the Sun Moon Douluo prepared a beast tide to force him into a confrontation.

• Su Mengjun praised Yun Qianyue’s soul skill and brought her back toward Ming Capital as Yun Qianyue reflected on her future responsibility for the Extreme North Snowfield.
• Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan traveled into the Mingdou Mountains in search of Soul Beasts.
• Xu Ziyue introduced herself as Xu Ruoyu’s daughter and offered to escort Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan, but Yun Qianzhao declined.
• Xu Ziyue reported Yun Qianzhao’s presence to Xu Ruoyu, who informed the Sun Moon Douluo.
• The Sun Moon Douluo obtained a ninety-thousand-year fire-attribute Soul Spirit and released captured ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts near Yun Qianzhao, forming a beast tide.

Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan were caught in a beast tide, and Xu Ziyue brought them to her family’s secluded home. The next morning, Xu Ruoyu led Yun Qianzhao to see the family’s inherited Soul Spirit, where Yun Qianzhao found a giant fiery-red tree.

• Qi Luo warned Yun Qianzhao that a beast tide was approaching, and Yun Qianzhao told Xu Xiaoyan to stay behind him.
• Xu Ziyue arrived and drove back the Soul Beasts, then invited Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan to her home.
• Xu Ruoyu and his family welcomed the pair, and Xu Ruoyu offered Yun Qianzhao the family’s inherited Soul Spirit for his fifth soul ring.
• Xu Ruoyu led Yun Qianzhao into a mountain cave, where Yun Qianzhao saw a massive fiery-red tree standing in boiling water.

Yun Qianzhao absorbed the ninety-thousand-year Blazing Sun Fire Mulberry with ease, impressing the Sun Moon Douluo, who resolved to recruit him into the Sun Moon Imperial Clan. After staying with Xu Ruoyu's family, Yun Qianzhao agreed that Xu Ziyue could try to enter Shrek Academy, and Xu Ruoyu wanted her to travel with him when he left.

• Xu Ruoyu offered Yun Qianzhao the ninety-thousand-year Blazing Sun Fire Mulberry, and Yun Qianzhao confirmed it had not been tampered with before absorbing it.
• Yun Qianzhao absorbed the Blazing Sun Fire Mulberry within minutes and gained a black soul ring with a faint trace of crimson.
• The Sun Moon Douluo witnessed Yun Qianzhao's talent and decided to bring him into the Sun Moon Imperial Clan at any cost.
• Xu Ruoyu asked Yun Qianzhao whether Xu Ziyue could enter Shrek Academy, and Yun Qianzhao said it was possible if she was willing.
• After Yun Qianzhao stayed with Xu Ruoyu's family for several days, Xu Ruoyu asked him to take Xu Ziyue along when he left.

Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan traveled north in search of Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters. At a village near the Extreme North, they discovered the cult had trapped the settlement inside a life-draining array.

• Yun Qianzhao declined Xu Ruoyu and Madam Xu’s attempt to send Xu Ziyue with him, then told Xu Xiaoyan that the Xu family wanted to make use of their talent.
• Yun Qianzhao took Xu Xiaoyan northwest to the Ice Sea, explaining that the north was where they were most likely to encounter Holy Spirit Cult members.
• Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan traveled along the coast for months without finding Evil Soul Masters, then reached a village near the Extreme North.
• Red lightning struck the village, and a blood-red barrier rose around it as several Soul Sages appeared overhead.
• Yun Qianzhao overheard the Evil Soul Masters mention the Blood River Godslaying Grand Array and learned from Qi Luo and the others that it could devour all life and energy.

Yun Qianzhao broke the Evil Soul Masters’ sacrifice array and captured them before forcing their leader to reveal that the Holy Spirit Cult had begun preparing attacks on Shrek Academy and an Abyss invasion. After learning of other testing sites, Yun Qianzhao burned the Soul Sage alive, leaving the village’s survivors and the wider threat behind.

• Yun Qianzhao ordered Xu Xiaoyan and the village-guarding Soul Emperor to protect the villagers while he confronted the Evil Soul Masters.
• Yun Qianzhao and Qi Luo shattered the incomplete Blood River Godslaying Grand Array, and the Evil Soul Masters fled.
• Yun Qianzhao used the Moon Cold Pool to slow the fleeing Evil Soul Masters, and Qi Luo sealed them in the village square.
• Yun Qianzhao questioned the captured Soul Sage with Listen to Dreams Tune and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult planned to bomb Shrek Academy and bring about an Abyss invasion.
• Yun Qianzhao learned several other testing locations, switched to the Heavenly Gold Holy Sun Martial Soul, and killed the Soul Sage with Burning Heart Golden Sea.

Yun Qianzhao and his companions hunted the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters, saving settlements from the Blood River Godslaying Grand Array while discovering the devastation already inflicted on the northern border. After the Ghost Emperor sent Blood Demon Douluo to stop them, he confronted Yun Qianzhao just after another battle.

• Yun Qianzhao burned the Evil Soul Masters in the village with golden flames and told the village-guarding Soul Emperor to notify the Federation before leaving with Xu Xiaoyan and Qi Luo’s group.
• Yun Qianzhao and his companions found villages and towns destroyed by the Blood River Godslaying Grand Array, then stopped further sacrifices and defeated Title Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters.
• Qi Luo warned Yun Qianzhao that the Holy Spirit Cult might send stronger forces, but Yun Qianzhao continued onward and Xu Xiaoyan insisted on staying with him.
• A fleeing Title Douluo reported the intruders to the Ghost Emperor, who suspected the Yun siblings and sent Blood Demon Douluo after them.
• Blood Demon Douluo confronted Yun Qianzhao on a plain after Yun Qianzhao killed another group of Evil Soul Masters preparing to sacrifice a village.

Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan faced the Blood Demon Douluo, who tried to seize them and the Fierce Beasts accompanying Yun Qianzhao. Yun Ming and Ya Li arrived to protect them, and Yun Ming severely wounded the Blood Demon Douluo before the battle continued.

• The Blood Demon Douluo identified Qi Luo, Jiaojiao, and Melon as Fierce Beasts and demanded that Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan surrender to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan raised their weapons, and their Martial Souls began to resonate as the Blood Demon Douluo attacked them.
• A spear radiance burst through the Blood Demon Douluo's blood mist and cut his face, just before Yun Ming and Ya Li arrived.
• Ya Li shielded Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan while Yun Ming confronted the Blood Demon Douluo and split apart his Blood Demon Wraith with his Heavenly Spear.
• Yun Ming pressed his attack as the injured Blood Demon Douluo swelled and released more blood energy.

Yun Ming protected Yun Qianzhao, Xu Xiaoyan, and a village from the Blood Demon Douluo, who survived by escaping as a drop of blood. After returning to Shrek Academy, Yun Qianzhao joined the delegation to the Star Luo Continent, where Xu Ziyue was also selected.

• Yun Ming pierced the Blood Demon Douluo, who self-destructed, but Yun Ming shielded Ya Li, Yun Qianzhao, Xu Xiaoyan, and the village from the blast.
• The Blood Demon Douluo survived as a drop of blood and returned to the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, where the Ghost Emperor promised to replace his lost Three-Word Battle Armor.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li ended Yun Qianzhao and Xu Xiaoyan's training and took them back to Shrek Academy as the Federation investigated the northern region.
• Yun Qianzhao discovered that Xu Ziyue had entered Shrek Academy's inner court and learned that she would join the delegation to the Star Luo Continent.
• Yun Ming appointed Yun Qianzhao captain of Shrek Academy's delegation and warned him to be cautious beyond the academy's reach.
• Three days later, Yun Qianzhao led the delegation to the port to meet the Federation's group.