Chapter Summaries

Qiangu Yunche toured Sea God Island with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming before visiting Ling Luochen in her secluded cabin. After admitting that he wanted multiple partners, he faced Ling Luochen's demand to explain what responsibility and sincerity he could offer her.

• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming brought Qiangu Yunche to Sea God Island and left him at Han Ruoruo's cabin while they submitted their mission.
• Qiangu Yunche left the cabin and found Ling Luochen in her isolated home on the western side of Sea God Island.
• Ling Luochen questioned why Qiangu Yunche had come to Shrek City and learned that Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming had invited him.
• Qiangu Yunche admitted that he wanted a harem and said he would not force Ling Luochen to accept him.
• Ling Luochen acknowledged her past affection for Qiangu Yunche but asked what responsibility and sincerity he could truly give her.

Qiangu Yunche offered Ling Luochen the Hundred-Thousand-Year Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to prove his sincerity, and she accepted it despite her lingering doubts. After he fed her grilled fish and made arrangements for her transformation, he left, while Ling Luochen realized her feelings came from both the gift and Qiangu Yunche; on his way back, he was intercepted.

• Qiangu Yunche showed Ling Luochen the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and explained that it could help her become an Ultimate Ice Soul Master.
• Qiangu Yunche gave Ling Luochen the grass without demanding that she accept his advances, and she accepted it after weighing her ambition against her hesitation.
• Qiangu Yunche brought Ling Luochen food, fed her grilled fish, and discussed arrangements for absorbing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.
• Qiangu Yunche left before Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming could notice his absence, while Ling Luochen reflected that her excitement came from both her future transformation and Qiangu Yunche.
• Qiangu Yunche was intercepted on his way back.

Qiangu Yunche met Yan Shaozhe and asked to enter Sea God Pavilion’s underground meditation rooms to seek insight into his cultivation path. Yan Shaozhe promised to report the request, and Qiangu later returned to Han Ruoruo’s home, where Wu Ming’s teasing earned her a rough trip upstairs.

• Yan Shaozhe praised Qiangu Yunche for helping Shrek Academy and tried to gauge whether he might be persuaded to stay.
• Qiangu Yunche said he had come to visit Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming and requested access to Sea God Pavilion’s underground meditation rooms.
• Yan Shaozhe said he would discuss the request with the elders, then left to handle other matters.
• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming returned home, and Wu Ming showed off their matching rabbit and duckling slippers.
• Wu Ming began teasing Han Ruoruo about reading, but Han Ruoruo stopped her before she could finish, and Qiangu Yunche pretended not to hear.
• Han Ruoruo tied Wu Ming up with the Golden Binding Rope and dragged her upstairs, where a commotion and faint screams followed.

Han Ruoruo told Qiangu Yunche that Elder Lin would reward him with a treasure, then offered to trade for his Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King Soul Bones. Qiangu Yunche proposed selling her all three on credit, leaving Han Ruoruo quietly moved by the offer.

• Han Ruoruo told Qiangu Yunche that the Mission Hall had approved rewards for her and Wu Ming, and that Elder Lin had invited him to choose a treasure in thanks for saving Qing'er.
• Qiangu Yunche said Dean Yan had only spoken with him, then admitted he had eaten Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming's snacks and replaced them with rare Sea Soul Beast jerky and dried meat.
• Wu Ming went upstairs to bathe and said she would share Han Ruoruo's room, leaving Qiangu Yunche and Han Ruoruo alone.
• Han Ruoruo offered a Ten Thousand Year Right Arm Bone and ten million Gold Soul Coins for Qiangu Yunche's Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King Skull.
• Qiangu Yunche agreed to sell Han Ruoruo the skull, then offered her all three matching Soul Bones on credit.
• Han Ruoruo accepted the prospect of owing Qiangu Yunche and felt her heart stir with happiness.

Tang San worried over the upheaval on the Douluo Continent and decided he had to seize control of both rising new stars for his plans. Meanwhile, Qiangu Yunche went with Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo to collect their audit mission rewards at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where they began choosing treasures.

• Tang San told Xiao Wu that the Douluo Continent had grown chaotic and that he could not intervene as a God Realm enforcer, while blaming the Sun Moon Empire for threatening his plans.
• Tang San resolved to control both rising new stars and wondered whether his daughter Wutong could be tied to both of them.
• Wu Ming woke Qiangu Yunche and told him that the teacher handling their audit mission had returned, so they could collect their rewards.
• Qiangu Yunche, Wu Ming, and Han Ruoruo went to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and were guided to the vault reserved for Inner Court disciples.
• Qiangu Yunche and his companions noticed a Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone priced at 9.5 million Gold Soul Coins.

Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Qiangu Yunche selected treasures at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Han Ruoruo discovered a mysterious iron tablet. Qiangu Yunche recognized clues suggesting it was the divine Soul-Absorbing Tablet, though its identity remained unconfirmed.

• Wu Ming became captivated by the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, and Han Ruoruo promised they could return to buy it after collecting their rewards.
• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming purchased the Golden Python King Torso Bone and the Blazing Sun Origin of a hundred-thousand-year Yangzhi Bird.
• While searching for other useful treasures, Wu Ming recommended several exhibits for Qiangu Yunche.
• Han Ruoruo spotted a hexagonal iron tablet whose plaque listed its name, origin, and function as unknown, but noted it had survived a rank-ninety-five Super Douluo's full-force strike.
• Qiangu Yunche sensed that the tablet matched the divine Soul-Absorbing Tablet, which he believed housed the remnant soul of the third-rank deity Medusa.

Qiangu Yunche bought a Fifty-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone for his sister and learned that Treasure Gathering Pavilion belonged to Shrek Academy. He then offered to pay for the other treasures Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming wanted, including the mysterious Iron Tablet.

• Qiangu Yunche dismissed the Iron Tablet’s known hardness as useless, though Qiangu Yunche noticed Qiangu Yunche's interest in it.
• Elder Lin arrived and granted Qiangu Yunche permission to buy the Fifty-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone for Qiangu Yunmei.
• Elder Lin revealed that Treasure Gathering Pavilion was academy property and explained that purchases outside the fair required full payment without student discounts or credit.
• Han Ruoruo noted that the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, Heavenly Spirit Snow Lotus, and Iron Tablet would cost more than twenty million Gold Soul Coins, and Qiangu Yunche volunteered to pay for everything.
• Qiangu Yunche explained his family’s wealth came partly from selling Blood Soul Pills, prompting Wu Ming to jokingly pledge to follow him and Han Ruoruo.
• Qiangu Yunche completed the purchase paperwork and paid for the Iron Tablet despite the middle-aged woman warning that its origin and purpose were unknown.

Yan Shaozhe learned that Qiangu Yunche possessed extraordinary strength and spiritual power, then resolved to recruit him for Shrek Academy. After Qiangu Yunche returned to Sea God Island with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming, Electrolux revealed that the Iron Tablet contained a fragment of an evil god’s divine soul and a damaged divine position.

• Elder Lin told Yan Shaozhe that Qiangu Yunche had at least rank-sixty Soul Power and spiritual power comparable to a high-level Soul Douluo or Title Douluo, likely gained from a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Yan Shaozhe considered using Ruoruo and Ming'er to bind Qiangu Yunche to the academy, but Elder Lin said she would not object if the women chose to leave with him.
• Elder Lin ordered Yan Shaozhe to bring Qiangu Yunche to Sea God Pavilion and promised that the academy would agree to all his requests.
• Qiangu Yunche bought something from a nearby shop, then returned to Sea God Island with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming and studied the Iron Tablet in a pavilion by Sea God Lake.
• Electrolux told Qiangu Yunche that the Iron Tablet was a divine artifact containing a remnant of an evil god's divine soul and a damaged divine position.

Qiangu Yunche learned more about the Soul-Absorbing Tablet and discussed preparing to face the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. In Star Luo City, Xu Jiujiu learned that Yunche was in Shrek City with two women and decided to confront him.

• Electrolux explained that the Soul-Absorbing Tablet contained a remnant of Medusa's damaged Godhood and promised to protect Qiangu Yunche from it.
• Qiangu Yunche discussed his plan to awaken his second Martial Soul and grow stronger before facing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• The Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor told Qiangu Yunche that the Demon Empress's unstable mental state was a key weakness and urged him not to rush.
• Nebula Douluo delivered Xu Jiujiu an urgent letter from Shrek City, where Chen Yi had seen Qiangu Yunche walking intimately with two Inner Court students.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered Nebula Douluo to inform Qian Jun and set out to see her imperial brother so she could travel to Shrek City and confront Qiangu Yunche.

Wu Ming broke through to Soul Saint and learned that Han Ruoruo had reached Soul Douluo, while Zhang Lexuan returned to Shrek Academy after her mission. Zhang Lexuan watched Qiangu Yunche tease Han Ruoruo and wondered who had changed her best friend so much.

• Wu Ming refined the Blazing Sun Origin and Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, advancing from level sixty-seven to Soul Saint.
• Wu Ming challenged Han Ruoruo to a spar, but Han Ruoruo revealed she had already broken through to level eighty, prompting Wu Ming to back down.
• Zhang Lexuan returned after her surveillance mission and reunited with Wu Ming, Han Ruoruo, and Qiangu Yunche.
• Zhang Lexuan teased Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo about their connection with Qiangu Yunche, and Wu Ming hurried everyone inside.
• Qiangu Yunche teased Han Ruoruo until she blushed, leaving Zhang Lexuan astonished at how her best friend had changed.

Qiangu Yunche offered Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming two sealed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts as Soul Rings and made his willingness to deepen their relationship clear. Wu Ming then confessed her insecurities and gratitude to him, leaving her feelings exposed as the chapter ended.

• Zhang Lexuan congratulated Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming on their breakthroughs and proposed taking them to hunt Soul Beasts after they stabilized their cultivation.
• Qiangu Yunche said Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming could obtain Soul Rings without leaving Sea God Island, and asked Zhang Lexuan to delay submitting a report to the Sea God Pavilion.
• After Zhang Lexuan left, Qiangu Yunche revealed the sealed Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and Infernal Delicate Apricot, explaining that they were Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts he was willing to entrust to the two women.
• Qiangu Yunche told Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming that he trusted them and wanted to develop the intimate relationship they had imagined, leaving both women stunned.
• Wu Ming admitted that she had feared being overlooked and felt unable to repay Qiangu Yunche for saving her and giving her precious treasures.

Wu Ming confessed her feelings and worries to Han Ruoruo and Qiangu Yunche, who reassured her that sincere love mattered more than repaying gifts. Wu Ming kissed Qiangu Yunche, and after he offered to help her and Han Ruoruo absorb two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, Han Ruoruo faced his teasing request for a kiss of her own.

• Han Ruoruo asked Wu Ming whether she would expect repayment if she willingly helped Qiangu Yunche, and Wu Ming realized his generosity reflected his feelings for her.
• Qiangu Yunche said he valued sincerity more than material repayment, prompting Wu Ming to embrace him and kiss his cheek before hiding in Han Ruoruo's arms.
• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming warned that their bodies and spiritual strength might not withstand absorbing Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Qiangu Yunche said he could control the two Soul Beasts and arrange their sacrifices, and Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming agreed to accept his help.
• Qiangu Yunche asked Han Ruoruo to kiss his other cheek, and Wu Ming urged her to do it, invoking Han Ruoruo's remark that good sisters would share a bed for life.

Qiangu Yunche visited Sea God Pavilion with Zhang Lexuan, met Mu En, and learned that Mu En had once advised his great-grandfather during the latter’s attempt to condense a second Soul Core. Mu En sent Qiangu Yunche into a specially prepared cultivation room, while Zhang Lexuan left still uncertain how to escape her painful attachment to the past.

• Zhang Lexuan led Qiangu Yunche to Sea God Pavilion, where its golden radiance nourished him and he revealed that he had reached rank sixty-six.
• Qiangu Yunche greeted Mu En and recognized him, prompting Mu En to explain that he had met Qiangu Yunche’s great-grandfather while the latter was condensing his second Soul Core.
• Mu En guided Zhang Lexuan and Qiangu Yunche into Sea God Pavilion’s hidden halls and revealed that he had prepared a special room for Qiangu Yunche’s mutated spear Martial Soul.
• Qiangu Yunche thanked Mu En and entered the room, while Yan Shaozhe arrived and Mu En urged Zhang Lexuan to leave.
• Mu En apologized to Zhang Lexuan about her past with Beibei, but Zhang Lexuan said she needed more time to think before departing in golden light.

Mu En explained why he was investing in Qiangu Yunche and the Qiangu Clan, while Yunche meditated with the Golden Tree’s power. His meditation triggered the Golden Tree’s transcendence, and Mu En ordered everyone at Shrek Academy to meditate as the tree’s light and life energy spread.

• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that emotional attachments had hindered his cultivation and that he hoped Zhang Lexuan would resolve her feelings.
• Mu En explained that he was strengthening ties with Qiangu Yunche and his clan because they could help Shrek Academy oppose the Sun Moon Empire.
• Qiangu Yunche absorbed the Golden Tree’s potent light and life energy and entered deep meditation.
• The Golden Tree and Sea God Island turned brilliant gold as the tree grew and its aura intensified.
• Mu En identified the change as the Golden Tree’s transcendence and ordered everyone at Shrek Academy to meditate.

Qiangu Yunche met Elder Jin, who offered him the untainted Seed of Life and a responsibility to protect the Douluo Plane from those seeking to corrupt its Lord and seize its Life Core. Qiangu Yunche accepted, and the Seed transformed his Sea of Spirit before he lost consciousness.

• Qiangu Yunche entered a golden world within his Sea of Spirit and met Elder Jin, the Golden Tree's spirit.
• Elder Jin explained that powerful outsiders were conspiring to corrupt the Lord of the Plane and seize the Life Core, and offered Qiangu Yunche the Seed of Life.
• Qiangu Yunche accepted the Seed and vowed to judge those threatening the Douluo Plane.
• Elder Jin unleashed golden life energy that transformed Qiangu Yunche's Sea of Spirit and enlarged his Sea of Life as a jade-green light entered it.
• Electrolux, the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor, and the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King felt their strength and origins change under the life energy.
• Qiangu Yunche grew drowsy, saw Elder Jin speak to him once more, and then lost consciousness.

After awakening from his deep sleep, Qiangu Yunche emerged from the Golden Tree and received Shrek Academy’s gratitude for helping it transform. As he left, he saw four striking figures approaching and realized his romantic troubles were about to begin.

• The Light and Life Tide transformed plants around Sea God Island into Soul Beasts, and the awakened teachers and students benefited from the tide’s power.
• Mu En and the Shrek elders waited outside the barrier around the Sea God Pavilion while Yan Shaozhe paced and Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo bickered with him.
• Qiangu Yunche emerged from the Golden Tree, and Mu En and the elders bowed to thank him for helping it take its final step.
• Mu En invited Qiangu Yunche to visit the Sea God Pavilion that night, and Yan Shaozhe warned him that his troubles would grow.
• Qiangu Yunche spotted four women approaching and understood Yan Shaozhe’s warning.

Qiangu Yunche reunited with Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Xu Jiujiu, and Ling Luochen, and faced their anger over his relationships and the unequal attention they believed he gave Ling Luochen. He tried to make the four women promise to get along, but they answered in unison by calling him a scumbag and telling him to die.

• Qiangu Yunche was surprised when Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Xu Jiujiu, and Ling Luochen arrived together.
• Xu Jiujiu and Wu Ming confronted Qiangu Yunche for keeping his relationships from them.
• Ling Luochen said Qiangu Yunche had always been honest with her, prompting the other three women to question why he treated her as special.
• Ling Luochen said she would not compete for Qiangu Yunche, making the other women even more displeased.
• Qiangu Yunche used his imposing force to quiet the women and asked them to get along, but all four called him a scumbag and told him to die.

Qiangu Yunche explained his relationships and plans to Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Ling Luochen, and Xu Jiujiu, then told the women he would soon leave Shrek City. They agreed to meet again at the next Soul Fighting Tournament, where Ling Luochen hoped to test her progress against him.

• Qiangu Yunche recounted how he had met and grown close to Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Ling Luochen, astonishing the women with his gifts of hundred-thousand-year immortal herbs.
• Xu Jiujiu considered how her connections with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming might keep Shrek Academy from opposing the Star Luo Empire’s future unification, and imagined having a child with Qiangu Yunche.
• Qiangu Yunche explained that he had achieved his aims in Shrek City and listed the preparations and journeys he planned to undertake next.
• Qiangu Yunche told the women he would leave Shrek City and suggested they meet again at the next Soul Fighting Tournament, with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming potentially attending as teachers.
• Ling Luochen shared her progress toward Ultimate Ice and promised to show Qiangu Yunche her transformation at the tournament, while Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming accepted his departure.

After dinner with Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Ling Luochen, and Xu Jiujiu, Qiangu Yunche reflected on the threats surrounding him and planned to claim powerful beings as Soul Rings. He went alone to Sea God Lake to think, where a blazing red figure suddenly raced toward him through the mist.

• Qiangu Yunche ate dinner with the four women, drawing stares from Inner Court students, while they later held a meeting without him.
• After speaking with Mu En, Qiangu Yunche thought about Ah Yin's parasitism within the Golden Tree and the conflict involving Tang San, then resolved to eventually kill his enemies and take suitable Soul Rings from them.
• Qiangu Yunche returned to Han Ruoruo's home, heard the women discussing him, and left for Sea God Lake to plan his next steps alone.
• A red point appeared in the mist over Sea God Lake, and Qiangu Yunche watched it speed toward him like a blazing meteor.

Qiangu Yunche defeated Ma Xiaotao when her evil fire erupted and then used lightning to suppress it. Ma Xiaotao recovered her senses but cowered from him, begging him not to shock her again.

• Ma Xiaotao attacked Qiangu Yunche while out of control from her evil fire, unleashing her Phoenix skills.
• Qiangu Yunche hurled the Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear through Ma Xiaotao’s Fire Phoenix, knocking her into Sea God Lake.
• Qiangu Yunche pulled Ma Xiaotao from the lake and removed her mask, and she woke up confused and apologized for attacking him.
• Qiangu Yunche sent deep-blue lightning through Ma Xiaotao to suppress her evil fire while Yan Shaozhe and Xuanzi watched nearby.
• Ma Xiaotao spat out black smoke, burped, and begged Qiangu Yunche to stop shocking her.