Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao accepted Beibei and Tang Ya’s offer to travel with them to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu discussed the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy. When a Spiritual Shock swept across the forest, Qiangu Yunche rushed to Huo Yuhao and intercepted the gray presence descending from the sky, which entered his Sea of Spirit.

• Tang Ya invited Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect, and Beibei offered to help him obtain his first Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to travel with Beibei and Tang Ya to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qiangu Yunche told Xu Jiujiu that Beibei was the great-grandson of Dragon God Douluo and that Tang Ya led the Tang Sect.
• A powerful Spiritual Shock swept across the southern Star Dou Great Forest, but Qiangu Yunche resisted its effects and rushed toward Huo Yuhao.
• Qiangu Yunche found the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm merging with Huo Yuhao as a gray current descended from the sky.
• Qiangu Yunche opened his Sea of Spirit, and the gray current changed direction and entered it.

Qiangu Yunche rescued Electrolux, then left Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to fuse with Huo Yuhao and arranged for a Wind Baboon to explain Huo Yuhao’s first Soul Ring. After telling Xu Jiujiu about Huo Yuhao’s potential, Qiangu Yunche returned with her to Star Luo City, where their relationship grew closer.

• Qiangu Yunche took Electrolux away, leaving Sky Dream Ice Silkworm baffled before it resumed fusing with Huo Yuhao.
• Tang Ya and Beibei awoke, found Huo Yuhao unconscious beside a Wind Baboon corpse, and learned that he had gained a ten-year Soul Ring and reached level eleven.
• Qiangu Yunche told Xu Jiujiu that Huo Yuhao had received a spiritual Soul Beast’s sacrifice and warned her not to get too close to him.
• Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu returned to Star Luo City the following evening, and Xu Jiujiu invited him into her bedchamber for a foot massage.

Qiangu Yunche learned from Electrolux that his soul carried dormant power over space and time and might awaken as a second Martial Soul capable of absorbing other attributes. Electrolux outlined three dangerous conditions for awakening it, leaving Qiangu Yunche to consider the path ahead.

• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor warned Qiangu Yunche that Electrolux had only a fragile remnant soul, but Electrolux revealed that he was more capable than she thought and shared their Sea of Spirit.
• Electrolux recognized the power of space and time fused with Qiangu Yunche’s soul and confirmed that Qiangu Yunche had crossed through time and space after death.
• Qiangu Yunche agreed to let Electrolux absorb the life energy needed to stabilize his soul and asked him to explain the power within his own soul.
• Electrolux explained that Qiangu Yunche’s soul was like an unawakened Martial Soul and speculated that it could accommodate powers beyond spiritual, spatial, and temporal attributes.
• Electrolux proposed three conditions for awakening it: life energy three times greater than the Sea of Life, exposure to the origin of heaven and earth, and a sacrifice of will through understanding life and death.
• Qiangu Yunche fell silent to consider the conditions as Electrolux returned to absorbing life energy.

Qiangu Yunche visited the Star Luo Imperial Family Research Institute after learning that Blood Bat Douluo had captured a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo, which he recognized as the Snow Empress. He saw the embryo contained on a God Sealing Platform and stood among the officials and experts deciding what would happen next.

• Xu Jiujiu found Qiangu Yunche awake after he had spent the night considering how to awaken a second Martial Soul.
• Xu Jiujiu told Qiangu Yunche that Blood Bat Douluo had captured a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo in the Far North and brought it to the Royal Research Institute.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that Blood Bat Douluo had rescued a Star Luo agent and offered the captured embryo as a token of allegiance in exchange for clearing his name and protecting his wife.
• Xu Jiujiu led Qiangu Yunche into the institute's underground core, where he met Medicine Immortal Douluo Wang Xian'er and Elder Lin.
• Blood Bat Douluo revealed the embryo on a gemstone-studded stand, and Qiangu Yunche recognized the Snow Empress inside it.

The Blood Bat Douluo exchanged the Snow Empress Embryo for help saving his family, and Qiangu Yunche revealed what the embryo truly was. He offered to trade a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast willing to sacrifice itself for the embryo, leaving Xu Jiujiu to seek her brother’s decision.

• The Blood Bat Douluo gave the Star Luo Imperial Family the God Sealing Platform and Snow Empress Embryo in exchange for treatment for Ah Rou and protection for their family.
• Qiangu Yunche gave the Blood Bat Douluo two Sacred Heart Grass herbs and received a mysterious map from him in return.
• After the Blood Bat Douluo and Ah Rou left, Xu Jiujiu proposed auctioning the embryo, but Qiangu Yunche identified it as the Snow Empress Embryo and warned her to keep it secret.
• Xu Jiujiu abandoned her plan to use the embryo as bait and decided to report its discovery to Xu Jiawei.
• Qiangu Yunche stopped Xu Jiujiu and told her to offer Xu Jiawei a trade: a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast willing to sacrifice itself for the Snow Empress Embryo.

Xu Jiujiu returned to the mansion and learned that Qiangu Yunche had obtained the Snow Empress Embryo through an exchange arranged with Xu Jiawei. Qiangu Yunche gave her the Hundred-Thousand-Year Aromatic Silk Beauty as a potential aid to her Star Crown Martial Soul, but Xu Jiujiu's expression changed when she read the annotations on a piece of cowhide paper.

• Xu Jiujiu complained that she had gone hungry while arranging the Snow Empress Embryo exchange, then stole Qiangu Yunche's pastry and tea.
• Qiangu Yunche teased Xu Jiujiu by telling her the pastry had fallen on the floor, and she pounced on him in anger.
• Qiangu Yunche revealed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Aromatic Silk Beauty and forced her to swear she would sacrifice herself for Xu Jiujiu while he spared her seeds.
• Qiangu Yunche explained how the Aromatic Silk Beauty could benefit Xu Jiujiu's Star Crown Martial Soul, and Xu Jiujiu accepted the gift.
• Xu Jiujiu unfolded the cowhide paper, glanced at its map and annotations, and abruptly changed expression.

Xu Jiujiu and Qiangu Yunche examined Blood Bat Douluo’s account of a suspected Slaughter City ruin, and Qiangu Yunche set out to investigate it despite the danger. After finding the Blood-Colored Forest, he spotted a dark-green monster signal that suggested he had crossed paths with a familiar force.

• Xu Jiujiu read Sky Wolf Douluo’s ancient warning and Blood Bat Douluo’s account of the suspected Slaughter City ruins to Qiangu Yunche.
• Qiangu Yunche decided to investigate the ruins, and Xu Jiujiu gathered defensive Soul Tools for his journey.
• Qiangu Yunche left Star Luo City and followed the map toward the northeastern Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qiangu Yunche paid a black-market vendor for directions to the Blood-Colored Forest and heard the vendor’s outrageous claims about Blood Treasure.
• Qiangu Yunche flew east the next morning and saw a dark-green monster-shaped signal rise near the Blood-Colored Forest.

Qiangu Yunche rescued Han Ruoruo from a group of Vampire-like bandits, and the two defeated most of them together. As they prepared to speak, a Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King revealed itself, with something looming behind it.

• Qiangu Yunche spotted Han Ruoruo, a Shrek Academy Supervisory Corps member, surrounded by Vampires and Blood Bats and recognized her Golden Binding Rope.
• Qiangu Yunche joined the battle, and Han Ruoruo used Heavenly Net and Golden Thread Guidance to support his attacks.
• Qiangu Yunche and Han Ruoruo killed the Vampires, forcing the remaining Blood Bats and moths to scatter.
• An invisible spiritual needle targeted Han Ruoruo, but Qiangu Yunche shattered it and struck the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with Cangming Thunder Prison.
• Han Ruoruo identified the Bat King as a Soul Beast with at least thirty thousand years of cultivation, and Qiangu Yunche warned her to look behind it.

Qiangu Yunche and Han Ruoruo escaped a swarm of Blood Bats in the Blood-Colored Forest, where Wu Ming arrived and reunited with Han Ruoruo. After the women recognized Qiangu Yunche as the man who saved Zhang Lexuan, they connected the forest to a dangerous Shrek Academy inspection mission and its supposed Blood God.

• The Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King fled with a vast swarm of Blood Bats after heavenly lightning wounded it, and Han Ruoruo explained she had pursued bandits who had become half-human, half-Soul Beast monsters.
• Wu Ming arrived in response to Han Ruoruo’s distress signal, checked her for injuries, and tried to set her up with Qiangu Yunche.
• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming recognized Qiangu Yunche as the person who had saved Zhang Lexuan, and Wu Ming invited him to visit her in Shrek City.
• Qiangu Yunche said he had come to investigate the Blood-Colored Forest for a treasure, and Wu Ming mentioned villagers who worshipped a being called the Blood God in exchange for protection from Soul Beasts.
• Han Ruoruo recalled that a Pavilion-Entry Level Shrek inspection mission concerned a Blood-Colored Forest in the northern Heaven Dou Empire.

Qiangu Yunche, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming formed a team to investigate the Blood-Colored Forest’s mutation, each drawn by the mission’s rewards and their own goals. They entered the region and found a vast sinkhole whose depths called to Qiangu Yunche.

• Han Ruoruo explained that the Blood-Colored Forest mission was a Red-Level Mission and warned Qiangu Yunche about its danger.
• Han Ruoruo persuaded Wu Ming to join by pointing out that the mission’s reward could give her the Blazing Sun Origin, while Han Ruoruo wanted a Golden Python King Torso Bone.
• Qiangu Yunche accepted Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming as teammates after they promised not to compete with him for his objective.
• After recovering their Soul Power, the three entered the Blood-Colored Region and traveled deeper through its poisonous, blood-red landscape.
• The team crossed a barren ridge and discovered a colossal sinkhole, whose depths felt perilous and strangely alluring to Qiangu Yunche.

Qiangu Yunche, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming descended into the ruins of Slaughter City and found a vast Blood Bat nest. As the trio fought the swarm, a powerful female consciousness awakened beneath the Blood Sea, noticed Qiangu Yunche, and spread its spiritual power across the area.

• Qiangu Yunche told Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming that the abyss was the ruins of Slaughter City and blamed Tang San for unleashing the Blood Sea and contributing to the later rise of Evil Soul Masters.
• Qiangu Yunche gave the women antidote pills, and the three descended through the red mist into an underground world of Blood Bat dwellings and a blood-filled waterfall.
• Blood Bat Kings, including the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King that Qiangu Yunche had wounded earlier, gathered to confront them.
• Qiangu Yunche activated his domains and Cangming Thunder Prison, then challenged Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming to compete in killing Blood Bats; Wu Ming eagerly accepted and unleashed her Golden Crow True Fire.
• A female consciousness awakened beneath the giant Blood Pool, observed the battle, became fascinated by Qiangu Yunche, and spread its spiritual power across the surrounding area.

Qiangu Yunche’s wedding to Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming turned out to be Floating Life Like a Dream, an illusion created by the Blood God after she possessed his body and Sea of Spirit. He broke free and called on Aunt Ming and Elder Yi to deal with her.

• Qiangu Yunche married Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming, while Xu Jiujiu and Ling Luochen watched from the crowd.
• Qiangu Yunche entered the bridal chamber, lifted the brides’ veils, and exchanged playful vows with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming.
• Qiangu Yunche sensed that the wedding night was an illusion and used a golden spear to shatter Floating Life Like a Dream.
• Qiangu Yunche woke in his Sea of Spirit and recognized the blood-haired woman as the Blood God, a descendant of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King.
• The Blood God claimed she had taken over Qiangu Yunche’s body and Sea of Spirit, but his hidden power drove back her influence.
• Qiangu Yunche summoned Aunt Ming and Elder Yi to handle the Blood God.

Qiangu Yunche and his allies defeated the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, who had tried to possess him, and forced her to submit. She surrendered her spiritual origin to Qiangu Yunche, leaving him with her power and a chance to claim a brain External Soul Bone.

• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor subdued the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King while Electrolux explained that her sealed origin power had entered Qiangu Yunche.
• Qiangu Yunche said he had recognized the illusion because its false memories contradicted his principles and his impatience.
• Electrolux suggested that Qiangu Yunche obtain a brain External Soul Bone and reserve the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's power as a second Soul Ring.
• Qiangu Yunche demanded a master-servant contract and a brain External Soul Bone, but the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King refused to become a slave.
• Electrolux tortured the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King with gray flames until she agreed to submit and offered her spiritual origin to Qiangu Yunche.

Qiangu Yunche gained a powerful brain External Soul Bone from the Blood-Red Nine-Head Bat King and learned how her schemes and the Blood Pool had been sustained. He found the shattered Rakshasa Demon Scythe at the pool’s bottom and decided to take it away for Electrolux to examine.

• The Blood-Red Nine-Head Bat King formed a brain External Soul Bone for Qiangu Yunche, which greatly expanded his mental power and Sea of Spirit.
• Qiangu Yunche named the soul bone Brain of Blood Nightmare and learned its Floating Life Like a Dream and Nine Nether Soul Devour abilities, including the Nine Nether Soul-Extinguishing Divine Light.
• Qiangu Yunche checked on the unconscious Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming, whose false memories from the shared illusion remained.
• Qiangu Yunche entered the Blood Pool and found the shattered Rakshasa Demon Scythe, a divine artifact that resisted his mind with its evil aura.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Head Bat King's history revealed how she had used the Blood Sea, blood sacrifices, war, and blood treasures to recover and strengthen herself.
• Qiangu Yunche decided to take the Rakshasa Demon Scythe and later ask Electrolux whether it could be studied, repaired, or used.

Qiangu Yunche freed Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming from the illusion, then discovered three Soul Bones on the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King. After explaining that the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King had died, he left Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming to deal with the remaining Blood Bat stragglers while he attended to other business.

• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming woke from Floating Life Like a Dream, overwhelmed by memories of the life they had experienced in the illusion.
• Qiangu Yunche looted the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and found a head Soul Bone in each of its three heads.
• Qiangu Yunche told Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming that the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King had tried to possess them, suffered an evil backlash, and died.
• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming thanked Qiangu Yunche, then reassured him that they had suffered no actual loss.
• Qiangu Yunche asked Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming to clear out the remaining Blood Bat stragglers while he handled other business.

Qiangu Yunche used spatial power to absorb and purify the Blood Nest’s Plane Laws, undergoing a profound transformation while the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor and Blood Emperor also benefited. After reuniting with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming, he accepted their invitation to visit Shrek City.

• Qiangu Yunche followed Electrolux’s instructions and used his Destruction Soul Core and spatial power to draw in the Blood Nest’s Plane Laws.
• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor and Blood Emperor absorbed some of the law power alongside Qiangu Yunche.
• After seven days, Qiangu Yunche emerged from the Blood Nest with a renewed aura, and the area’s blood clouds and evil atmosphere had weakened.
• Wu Ming asked Qiangu Yunche what he had done during the seven days, and he assured her he had not become an Evil Soul Master.
• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming invited Qiangu Yunche to Shrek City, and he agreed.

Qiangu Yunche arrived at Shrek City with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming, and criticized Shrek Academy’s independence and political authority. After Wu Ming brought him into the academy, he recognized Tang San’s statue and spotted an acquaintance near Sea God Lake, leaving Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao stunned by his arrival.

• Wu Ming introduced Shrek City to Qiangu Yunche, who questioned its freedom and compared Shrek’s position to Spirit Hall.
• Han Ruoruo defended Shrek Academy, but Qiangu Yunche challenged the Shrek Inspectorate’s interference in other nations’ affairs.
• At the East City Gate, Wu Ming brought Qiangu Yunche into Shrek Academy, citing the Inner Court’s debt to his family for saving twelve students.
• Qiangu Yunche examined the statues of the Golden Iron Triangle and the first generation of the Shrek Seven Devils, lingering on Tang San’s statue.
• Near Sea God Lake, Qiangu Yunche spotted an acquaintance as Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao noticed him and froze in surprise.

Qiangu Yunche reunited with Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya at Shrek Academy, where they planned to sell grilled fish to cover their living expenses. After tasting Huo Yuhao’s cooking, Han Ruoruo agreed to help advertise, while Qiangu Yunche stayed to watch what would happen next.

• Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya recognized Qiangu Yunche at the academy gate and learned he was visiting with Inner Court seniors Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he and Tang Ya had spent his money on medicinal ingredients and planned to sell grilled fish.
• Qiangu Yunche encouraged them to set up their stall, and Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo questioned his young age and remarkable strength.
• Huo Yuhao served five grilled fish to Qiangu Yunche, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming, who praised the food.
• Han Ruoruo agreed to recommend the grilled fish to customers in exchange for another five, and Qiangu Yunche stayed to watch.

Huo Yuhao’s grilled-fish stall drew a crowd, but Xu Sanshi caused a scene when he tried to take the fish by force. Han Ruoruo intervened and had Wu Ming punish him, leaving Xu Sanshi wondering whether he would survive.

• Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish attracted Outer Court students, and Jiang Nannan failed to bargain for a discount when he refused to lower the price.
• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming teased Qiangu Yunche about Jiang Nannan’s beauty and told him to focus on cultivation while he was young.
• Xu Sanshi tried to snatch the last two grilled fish from Huo Yuhao, then kicked over the grill when Huo Yuhao evaded him.
• Han Ruoruo restrained Xu Sanshi with a Golden Binding Rope and ordered Wu Ming to test his defense by beating him.
• Wu Ming advanced on the bound Xu Sanshi, who curled up and silently wondered whether he would survive.

Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo explained the incident with Xu Sanshi to Du Weilun, who punished Xu and welcomed Qiangu Yunche after learning he was a benefactor of Shrek Academy. Du Weilun left the group to show Qiangu Yunche around while he notified Dean Yan, unaware that Qiangu was contemplating the Golden Tree’s origin essence.

• Wu Ming sent the battered Xu Sanshi flying into Sea God Lake and said she enjoyed whipping someone without using a Martial Soul.
• Beibei introduced himself to Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo as Tang Ya’s boyfriend, and Du Weilun arrived to investigate the commotion.
• Han Ruoruo explained Xu Sanshi’s provocation, and Du Weilun ordered Xu to sweep Shrek Square for a month and face a doubled Inner Court assessment difficulty.
• Wu Ming teased Du Weilun and challenged him to a fight, prompting him to change the subject by asking about Qiangu Yunche.
• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo told Du Weilun that Qiangu Yunche had saved academy students and helped them complete a Red-Level Mission, so Du Weilun welcomed him as a great benefactor.
• Du Weilun let Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming show Qiangu Yunche around while he went to notify Dean Yan, and Qiangu Yunche privately wondered whether Du could cover for him if he seized the Golden Tree’s origin essence.