Chapter Summaries

Qiangu Yunche subdued Ma Xiaotao when her Evil Fire ran wild, and Yan Shaozhe later explained that the Golden Tree’s energy had triggered her relapse. He proposed matching her with Qiangu Yunche, but Ma Xiaotao rejected the idea after learning he already had four girlfriends.

• Qiangu Yunche subdued Ma Xiaotao with his lightning while Yan Shaozhe and Xuanzi watched nearby.
• Qiangu Yunche left, and Yan Shaozhe helped Ma Xiaotao return to their residence.
• Ma Xiaotao admitted she might have endangered the Outer Court and explained that absorbing the Golden Tree’s energy had worsened her Evil Fire.
• Yan Shaozhe concluded that the Golden Tree’s energy had stimulated the evil energy in Ma Xiaotao’s flames and said Qiangu Yunche might be able to cure her.
• Yan Shaozhe said he wanted to match Ma Xiaotao with Qiangu Yunche, but Ma Xiaotao refused when she learned he had four girlfriends.
• Yan Shaozhe named Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Ling Luochen, and the Princess of Star Luo Empire as Qiangu Yunche’s girlfriends.

Yan Shaozhe explained to Ma Xiaotao why Qiangu Yunche was not an Evil Soul Master and encouraged her to consider him, while Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu returned to Star Luo City. After Electrolux awakened with restored memories and greater power, he opened a mysterious spatial door and Qiangu Yunche brought Xu Jiujiu through it.

• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that Qiangu Yunche's Martial Soul opposed evil, praised his strength and generosity, and said his lightning could suppress her Evil Fire.
• Yan Shaozhe encouraged Ma Xiaotao to meet Qiangu Yunche in Star Luo City, but she asked to be left alone to think.
• Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu said goodbye to Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and Ling Luochen, then left Shrek Academy for Star Luo City.
• Three days later, Qiangu Yunche and Xu Jiujiu arrived at the Princess Mansion, where Qiangu Yunche rested and entered his Sea of Spirit.
• Electrolux revealed that he had recovered more than half of his past-life memories and opened a spatial door in Qiangu Yunche's bedroom.
• Qiangu Yunche took Xu Jiujiu's hand and led her through the spatial door.

Qiangu Yunche brought Xu Jiujiu to Electrolux’s Undead Semi-Plane, where she learned about its undead inhabitants and the realm’s possible uses. Electrolux revealed that its Plane Core could provide energy for Qiangu Yunche’s future third Soul Core, while Xu Jiujiu struggled to follow their discussion of godhood and divine artifacts.

• Qiangu Yunche led Xu Jiujiu through a spatial gate into the Undead Semi-Plane, where Electrolux introduced himself as the Holy Necromancer and explained that death was sacred to him.
• Electrolux described the semi-plane’s limits and its thirteen kinds of undead, then showed Xu Jiujiu and Qiangu Yunche a horde of skeletons.
• Qiangu Yunche used the Soul-Absorbing Tablet to destroy dozens of skeletons and absorb their Soul Fires, forming a weak connection with the divine artifact.
• Electrolux explained that the Undead Semi-Plane could shelter Qiangu Yunche, supply the Soul-Absorbing Tablet, and serve as an energy source for his future cultivation.
• Qiangu Yunche understood that he could use the semi-plane’s Plane Core to help condense his third Soul Core, while Xu Jiujiu stood aside, overwhelmed by their conversation.

Qiangu Yunche explained his second Martial Soul plans to Xu Jiujiu and brought the Snow Empress Embryo to the Princess Mansion to attempt communication. The Snow Empress rejected him and attacked his spiritual consciousness, leaving their first conversation cut short.

• Qiangu Yunche told Xu Jiujiu he was preparing to awaken a second Martial Soul and intended to reserve the Snow Empress for it.
• Qiangu Yunche brought the Snow Empress Embryo from the Star Luo Royal Research Institute to the Princess Mansion.
• Electrolux protected a wisp of Qiangu Yunche's soul power so it could enter the God Sealing Platform.
• The Snow Empress attacked Qiangu Yunche's spiritual consciousness and declared she would not talk to humans.
• Qiangu Yunche saw the Snow Empress's childlike appearance before she struck again and ended the attempted conversation.

Qiangu Yunche arranged for the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor and the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King to approach the hostile Snow Empress while Electrolux developed the Soul Spirit System. As Yunche advanced toward awakening his second Martial Soul, three Inner Court students gained powerful Immortal Herb incarnations, leaving Shrek Academy’s future poised for a transformation.

• Qiangu Yunche failed to reach the Snow Empress, so Electrolux sent the Cangming Thunder Dragon Emperor and the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King to try to calm her.
• Electrolux explained that the Soul Spirit System could preserve Soul Beasts’ consciousness but might still enslave them, and promised Yunche a stable solution within six months, or three if necessary.
• Qiangu Yunche continued training and experimenting with low-level Soul Beasts, while gathering life energy and absorbing Law power to meet the conditions for awakening his second Martial Soul.
• Han Ruoruo and two other students fused with Immortal Herb incarnations; Wu Ming purified her Golden Crow bloodline, and Ling Luochen demonstrated her strength against Ma Xiaotao.
• Yan Shaozhe celebrated the students’ decision to stay at Shrek Academy, while the chapter suggested that Qiangu Yunche might eventually reshape the academy’s leadership and identity.

Qiangu Yunche completed a thousand-year Flame Lion King Soul Spirit and explained its benefits and drawbacks to Xu Jiujiu. Qiangu Qing arrived after breaking through to Limit Douluo, and the family prepared to seek a Golden Hawksbill Turtle Soul Spirit for Qiangu Yunmei, who had reached Soul Douluo.

• Qiangu Yunche successfully turned a thousand-year Flame Lion King into a Soul Spirit, impressing Electrolux.
• Xu Jiujiu examined the Soul Spirit, and Qiangu Yunche explained its benefits and drawbacks, including why she should not convert her Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Qiangu Qing arrived with Qiangu Yunmei, and Qiangu Yunche recognized that his great-grandfather had become a Limit Douluo.
• Qiangu Yunche explained that a Golden Hawksbill Turtle Soul Spirit, combined with Qiangu Yunmei's Hundred-Thousand-Year Earth Dragon Golden Melon and Life Gold, could help her form two Beast Soul Rings and suppress the family's fortune.
• Qiangu Qing agreed to Qiangu Yunche's plan and offered to accompany the Soul Douluo Qiangu Yunmei to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Three generations found the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Clan in a lake deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Qiangu Yunche chose a hundred-thousand-year turtle as her target. After Qiangu Qing subdued the clan, Qiangu Yunche revealed that she knew the turtle had stolen Life Gold from the Lake of Life, leaving it terrified of the Beast God’s punishment.

• Qiangu Qing, Qiangu Yunche, and their elder traveled through the Core Area and found the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Clan in a secluded lake.
• Qiangu Yunche selected the largest, most listless of the clan’s three hundred-thousand-year Golden Hawksbill Turtles.
• Qiangu Qing called out the clan and overwhelmed its members with his pressure, while the targeted turtle hid in its shell, fearing the Beast God Di Tian had come after it.
• Qiangu Qing sent the turtle flying onto the shore, where Qiangu Yunche teased it for its cowardice.
• The turtle threatened the humans by invoking the Beast God, and Qiangu Yunche revealed that she knew it had stolen Life Gold from the Lake of Life.

Qiangu Yunche persuaded the Golden Hawksbill Turtle to become Qiangu Yunmei's Soul Spirit, promising to remove its Life Gold and help it grow into a Fierce Beast. As Qiangu Yunche began the conversion ritual, a distant golden Soul Beast sensed a sudden fluctuation in the Star Dou Great Forest's fate and rushed toward them.

• Qiangu Yunche identified the Life Gold draining the Golden Hawksbill Turtle's life force and offered to remove it if the turtle became Qiangu Yunmei's Soul Spirit.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle refused until Qiangu Qing nearly struck it with the Coiling Dragon Staff, then agreed after Qiangu Yunmei promised it could become a guardian divine beast.
• Qiangu Yunche showed the turtle his Fierce Beast Soul Rings, convincing it to eagerly accept the Soul Spirit conversion.
• Qiangu Yunche arranged Qiangu Yunmei and the Golden Hawksbill Turtle at the Hexagram Array and began the ritual using the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and the Life Gold's energy.
• Several hundred kilometers away, a golden Soul Beast sensed the fate of the Star Dou Great Forest fluctuate and dashed toward Qiangu Yunche's group.

Qiangu Yunche helped Qiangu Yunmei complete the Golden Hawksbill Turtle Soul Spirit ritual and prepared to fuse Life Gold, but Qiangu Qing sensed powerful Soul Beasts approaching. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion then demanded that Scarlet King keep Qiangu Yunmei and Qiangu Yunche in the Star Dou Great Forest because of their unusual connection to its fortune.

• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle gave Qiangu Yunmei an ancestral torso bone and helped her absorb the Earth Dragon Golden Melon's origin power.
• Qiangu Yunche collected the Life Gold, and Electrolux urged him to fuse it, but Qiangu Qing warned that powerful Soul Beasts were approaching.
• Qiangu Yunche and Qiangu Qing recognized the arriving Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King, who confronted them near the lake.
• Scarlet King agreed to let the humans leave after Qiangu Yunmei finished absorbing her Soul Ring.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Scarlet King that Qiangu Yunmei carried the Star Dou Great Forest's fortune and that he should keep Qiangu Yunche there if possible.

Qiangu Qing subdued Scarlet King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion after she demanded that Qiangu Yunche stay with her. Qiangu Yunche teased and tickled the captive Auspicious Beast until she agreed to explain why she had asked Scarlet King to keep him there.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Scarlet King to keep Qiangu Yunche there, prompting Qiangu Qing to unleash his Limit Douluo aura.
• Qiangu Qing sealed the area with spatial control and restrained Scarlet King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Qiangu Yunche offered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion a royal guard dog position, and she angrily cursed him in reply.
• Qiangu Yunche gave the thirsty Three-Eyed Golden Lion a barrel of fruit wine, and she quickly became drunk.
• Qiangu Yunche tickled the Three-Eyed Golden Lion until she promised to explain why she wanted him to stay.

Qiangu Yunche questioned the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and learned that she felt drawn to him and recognized the Seed of Life within him. After Qiangu Yunmei completed her soul-ring absorption and her martial soul mutated, Qiangu Yunche went to speak with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that Qiangu Yunche felt familiar to her and that keeping him close seemed beneficial to her and the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qiangu Yunche revealed the Seed of Life in his forehead, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion identified him as the Child of Life and warned that the plane faced a serious threat.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion boasted about being the Fate Divine Beast, while Qiangu Yunche teased her and learned she had never seen humans besides them.
• After nearly three hours, Qiangu Yunmei completed absorbing her blood-red soul ring, and her Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul displayed a mutation resembling Weapon Soul Avatar beastification.
• Qiangu Yunche asked Qiangu Qing and Qiangu Yunmei to wait, then walked toward the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King.

Qiangu Yunche introduced the soul spirit system to Scarlet King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as a way for humans and soul beasts to coexist. After the Golden Hawksbill Turtle promoted its new soul spirit form, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion made a serious decision and called Qiangu Yunche over to speak privately.

• Scarlet King tried to keep Qiangu Yunche away from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but Qiangu Yunche explained that he wanted to introduce the soul spirit system.
• Qiangu Yunmei summoned the transformed Golden Hawksbill Turtle, which revealed it had become a hundred-thousand-year soul spirit and described its benefits.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle explained that it had relinquished its share of the Star Dou Great Forest's fortune and now followed Qiangu Yunmei.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion spoke privately with the Golden Hawksbill Turtle inside an Invincible Barrier while Scarlet King listened to Qiangu Yunche's explanation and gathered his materials.
• After the private conversation ended, the Golden Hawksbill Turtle told Qiangu Yunche it had earned him a major opportunity, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion solemnly asked him to come speak.

Qiangu Yunche reflected on the benefits and risks of binding his fate to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion through Attribute Guidance. Back at the Lake of Life, Di Tian confronted the Auspicious Beast about her choice, then announced that the Master had awakened.

• Qiangu Yunche considered how Attribute Guidance tied his and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s fates together, but decided to keep moving forward despite the risks.
• Scarlet King brought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to the Lake of Life, where Di Tian asked what had happened.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion defended her choice, saying Qiangu Yunche was chosen by nature and the plane and that the Star Dou Great Forest’s fortune had risen nearly ten percent.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian that Qiangu Yunche’s aura had transformed her Sea of Spirit and affirmed that he was extraordinary.
• Di Tian sensed the Master’s awakening and respectfully addressed the Lake of Life, prompting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King to bow.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion went to meet the Master of the Star Dou Great Forest, who said the forest’s fortune had risen and that the Auspicious Beast’s bond with Qiangu Yunche might be beneficial. Back in Star Luo City, Qiangu Yunche resumed trying to persuade Snow Empress, who finally agreed to talk if he stopped the Two Emperors from harassing her.

• The Master summoned the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and told Di Tian that the forest’s fortune had risen, then invited the Auspicious Beast to visit her.
• After the Three-Eyed Golden Lion left, Di Tian ordered Scarlet King to recount everything about the soul spirit in detail.
• Qiangu Yunche and his group returned safely to Star Luo City as Xu Jiujiu trained intensely and reached Soul Emperor, gaining Aromatic Silk Beauty as her sixth soul ring.
• Qiangu Yunche entered the God Sealing Platform and found the Two Emperors continuing to pester Snow Empress while she ignored them.
• Snow Empress finally agreed to speak with Qiangu Yunche on the condition that he never let the Two Emperors appear before her again.

Qiangu Yunche negotiated with the Snow Empress to become a Soul Ring for his second Martial Soul, promising to help the Far North survive and offering Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. The Snow Empress agreed, but asked to be left in peace until he needed her.

• Qiangu Yunche explained his Martial Souls and said the Snow Empress's power would help him become a god.
• Qiangu Yunche warned that humanity would eventually take over the Far North after the Snow Empress and Ice Empress died, then threatened to destroy it if she refused.
• Qiangu Yunche promised to share Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to help the Far North's Soul Beasts survive their tribulations.
• The Snow Empress questioned how Qiangu Yunche found the treasure and whether his offer was genuine, and he swore on his Martial Soul that he was telling the truth.
• The Snow Empress agreed to cooperate if Qiangu Yunche kept his promises, then asked him to make the Two Emperors Lei and Xue leave and let her enjoy some peace.

Qiangu Yunche learned that Shrek Academy was on break and set out for the Far North, anticipating Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s search for the Ice Empress. Before leaving, Xu Jiujiu asked what their relationship meant, and Qiangu Yunche promised to answer after the tournament; he reached the edge of the Far North Snowfield and planned to wait for his targets.

• Qiangu Yunche read Han Ruoruo’s letter and realized Huo Yuhao had likely gone to the Far North to find the Ice Empress.
• Qiangu Yunche told Xu Jiujiu he would be away for about half a month, and she urged him to stay safe.
• Xu Jiujiu asked what she and Qiangu Yunche were to each other, and he promised to give her an answer after the tournament.
• Qiangu Yunche informed his second grandfather, brought the Snow Empress and her life-saving items, and traveled north.
• Qiangu Yunche reached the edge of the Far North Snowfield and decided to conceal himself and wait for Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Huo Yuhao traveled to the northern border to enter the Far North, while Qiangu Yunche secretly followed him. When the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lured the Ice Empress into a trap, an explosive blast disrupted the plan and gave her a chance to escape.

• Huo Yuhao reached the last human city on the northern border and asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm what preparations he needed for the Far North.
• Qiangu Yunche secretly followed Huo Yuhao after sensing him in the tavern, then tracked him toward the Far North.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lured the Ice Empress to him and tried to trap her with his spiritual power and molted shell.
• An explosion struck as the shell was about to bind the Ice Empress, disrupting the trap and letting her find a chance to break free.

The Ice Empress escaped Tian Meng’s scheme after a Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball disrupted his attempt to bind her, and she injured his spiritual form while blasting Huo Yuhao from hiding. Tian Meng then vanished with Huo Yuhao using spatial power, leaving the Ice Empress to investigate a hidden human in the core circle.

• A Fixed Soul Guidance Cannonball interrupted Tian Meng’s plan, allowing the Ice Empress to break free and strike him with her Domain of Eternal Freeze and Wrath of the Ice Emperor.
• The Ice Empress discovered Huo Yuhao and grew furious when Tian Meng admitted he had chosen him as a host to help create a god.
• Tian Meng tried to persuade the Ice Empress to join his plan, but she rejected him and attempted to kill him and Huo Yuhao.
• An invisible force blocked the Ice Empress’s attack as Tian Meng used spatial power mixed with time to escape with Huo Yuhao.
• Tian Meng warned the Ice Empress that a concealed human expert was somewhere in the core circle, and she flew toward the core region to seek the Snow Empress.

Qiangu Yunche escaped the Ice Empress and was ambushed by the Titan Snow Demon King, whose spiritual lock-on forced him to endure its blows. He wounded it, used a Snow Empress illusion to escape, and fled as the Titan Snow Demon King unleashed an expanding wave of energy.

• Qiangu Yunche left after the Ice Empress headed toward the Snow Empress’s territory, but the Titan Snow Demon King ambushed him before he had traveled far.
• Qiangu Yunche used teleportation to evade the Titan Snow Demon King’s first punch, then took its next attack and was hurled into an iceberg.
• Qiangu Yunche realized the Titan Snow Demon King was using spiritual power to lock onto him and prevent him from escaping its attacks.
• Qiangu Yunche cut the Titan Snow Demon King’s face with the Evil-Breaking Dragon Emperor Spear, then used Floating Life Like a Dream to make it see the enraged Snow Empress and fled.
• The Titan Snow Demon King broke free of the illusion and released a rapidly spreading energy fluctuation, leaving Qiangu Yunche alarmed.

Qiangu Yunche escaped the Titan Snow Demon King’s Soul Beast army and reached the Ice Sea, where he realized the Sea Princess might suit his second Martial Soul. He then discovered a human city nearby and recognized that he had entered the Sun Moon Empire.

• The Titan Snow Demon King summoned Soul Beasts across the Far North, forcing Qiangu Yunche to flee the approaching beast army.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm what to do about his second Martial Soul, and the silkworm agreed to seek another suitable Soul Beast.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Huo Yuhao gloated over the human they believed had been attacked by the Far North’s Soul Beasts, then decided Huo Yuhao should recuperate in a nearby city.
• Qiangu Yunche escaped the pursuit with the help of the Snow Empress’s Breath and inferred that the Huo-Meng duo had been involved in the trouble.
• Qiangu Yunche reached the Ice Sea and recalled that the Sea Princess, a powerful spiritual-type Mermaid, was one of his candidates for a Soul Ring.
• Qiangu Yunche spotted a human city whose Soul Tools and customs showed that it lay within the Sun Moon Empire.