Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan followed Xiao Bai to hunt a Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl for Xiao Yan’s Fuxi Zither. Xiao Bai and Xiao Zhan subdued the owl, while Xiao Yan stopped it from escaping through space, leaving it badly injured and near death.

• The Ice Empress told Xiao Yan about a Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl near Xiao Bai’s tribe that could serve as a suitable Spirit Ring target.
• The Ice Empress kicked Xiao Bai out of Xiao Yan’s Sea of Consciousness and made him lead Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan to the owl’s ice cliff nest.
• The Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl shrieked at Xiao Bai, who transformed into the Ice Bear King and charged at it.
• Xiao Zhan used his Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron’s Martial Soul Avatar to pin the owl down with a gravity field, allowing Xiao Bai to knock it off the cliff.
• Xiao Yan used the Eastern Emperor Bell and the Void: Immeasurable Soul Bone Skill to block the owl’s spatial escape.
• Xiao Bai battered the trapped owl until it lay in the crater, gravely injured and clinging to its final breath.

After Xiao Bai defeated the Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl, Xiao Yan absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring while Xiao Bai destroyed its remnant soul in his Sea of Consciousness. Xiao Yan declined to fuse its left arm bone himself and entrusted it to Electrolux to study, leaving the bone’s potential integration with his existing Soul Bones in Electrolux’s hands.

• Xiao Bai emerged from the pit with the defeated Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl, then returned to Xiao Yan’s Sea of Consciousness as Xiao Zhan stood guard.
• Xiao Yan killed the Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl with an Extreme Ice Spear and began absorbing its Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• The owl’s remnant soul entered Xiao Yan’s Sea of Consciousness, saw the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai, and was crushed by Xiao Bai before it could escape.
• After two and a half hours, Xiao Yan finished absorbing his fifth Spirit Ring, and Xiao Zhan gave him the owl’s Hundred-Thousand-Year left arm bone.
• Xiao Yan asked Electrolux to strip the Soul Bone’s origin and fuse it with his existing Soul Bones, and Electrolux took the bone to study it.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan left the Extreme North after Xiao Yan obtained his Spirit Rings, while Xiao Zhan recalled how he had rescued the infant Xiao Yan in the Star Dou Forest twelve years earlier. The chapter ended with Xiao Zhan asking whether anyone at Shrek Academy had caught his son's eye.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan they had finished their tasks and should return home, and Xiao Zhan flew with him out of the Extreme North.
• Xiao Zhan recalled finding infant Xiao Yan in the Star Dou Forest as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Meteor Mountain-Suppressing Elephant charged toward him.
• The Eastern Emperor Bell appeared above Xiao Yan and destroyed the elephant, while its chime immobilized the creatures across the forest, including Di Tian and the silver dragon.
• Xiao Zhan rescued Xiao Yan and took the elephant's Spirit Ring before escaping the forest unharmed.
• Xiao Zhan asked Xiao Yan whether he had met a girl at Shrek Academy who made his heart flutter.

Xiao Zhan planned to match Xiao Yan with Xiao Xiao, while Xiao Xiao returned from the Star Dou Forest as a Soul Ancestor. Xiao Yan humbled her with his Spirit Rings and doubled her training, leaving the family laughing together at Xiao Mansion.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan he would not think about romance before becoming a god, prompting Xiao Zhan to privately plan for him to marry Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Zhan grabbed Xiao Yan and flew with him back to Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan arrived at Xiao Mansion, where Qing Wan and Xiao Xiao had just returned from the Star Dou Forest.
• Xiao Xiao showed off her four Spirit Rings, including a ten-thousand-year fourth ring, and Xiao Yan answered by revealing four black rings and a Hundred-Thousand-Year ring.
• Xiao Yan judged Xiao Xiao's fourth ring too weak for her abilities and ordered her summer training doubled, with a sixty-six-thousand-year fifth Spirit Ring as her goal.

Xiao Yan and Qing Wan pushed Xiao Xiao through a punishing bone-forging training session at Xiao Mansion. In the Extreme North, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s attempt to summon Ice Empress failed, leaving it despairing while Huo Yuhao remained trapped in the freezing shelter.

• Xiao Yan used his Bone-Forging Marrow-Cleansing Melody to temper Xiao Xiao until she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Qing Wan arrived and joined Xiao Yan with her Nine Phoenix Flute, intensifying the pressure and making Xiao Xiao resume her horse stance.
• Xiao Zhan watched his family train together and took pride in their efforts to grow stronger.
• Huo Yuhao struggled to survive in an ice shelter, clinging to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s promise of a powerful Second Martial Soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm waited for Ice Empress to appear, expanded its spiritual perception across the Extreme North, and found no sign of her.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fell to its knees and wailed for Ice Empress as the snowstorm swallowed its plea.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao returned to Shrek Academy after a month at home, where Qing Wan had reached Level 90 and prepared to hunt for her ninth Spirit Ring with Xiao Zhan. At the academy, Ning Tian’s reunion hug sparked unfamiliar romantic feelings, but Xiao Yan mistook her reaction for travel fatigue and Wu Feng remained oblivious.

• Xiao Xiao tearfully said goodbye to Qing Wan, while Xiao Zhan awkwardly advised Xiao Yan to study hard and get along with his classmates.
• Xiao Yan reminded Xiao Zhan to be careful while taking Qing Wan to hunt for her ninth Spirit Ring in Star Dou Forest, then he and Xiao Xiao left for Shrek City.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao arrived at Shrek Academy and reunited with Ning Tian and Wu Feng outside the eastern gate.
• Ning Tian hugged Xiao Yan, felt her heart race, and blushed as she began to fall for him.
• Xiao Yan gently moved Ning Tian away and attributed her flushed, quiet state to travel fatigue, while Wu Feng offered to help her back to the dorms.

Xiao Yan and his companions registered for the new school year, then arrived at the Beast Fighting Zone for their advancement assessment. There, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao stunned Wang Yan by revealing their cultivation levels, leaving him dispirited.

• Xiao Yan noticed Huo Yuhao had not registered by the deadline and wondered what had happened to him in the Extreme North.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian agreed to meet at dawn for their advancement assessment, then returned to their dormitories.
• Xiao Yan cleaned his dorm room with a sound technique and meditated, cultivating until morning with his Soul Power at level fifty-six.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng joined Class One at the Beast Fighting Zone while Ning Tian went to Class Three's preparation area.
• Wang Yan asked about the students' cultivation, and Wu Feng reported reaching level thirty-one while Xiao Xiao revealed she was a level forty-three Soul Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan calmly announced that he had reached level fifty-six, leaving Wang Yan and Mu Jin shocked and Wang Yan feeling humiliated.

Xiao Yan mocked Wang Yan by comparing him to Yu Xiaogang, while Huo Yuhao arrived late and was forced to prove he could remain enrolled by fighting a thousand-year Soul Beast. When Huo Yuhao revealed his Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul, Ice Empress recognized her clan’s bloodline and vowed to kill him.

• Xiao Yan used Yu Xiaogang’s low soul power at age fifty as a sarcastic comparison, and Wang Yan, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng laughed at the joke.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the assessment shivering from the cold, and Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo persuaded academy officials to let him fight for his enrollment.
• Du Weilun announced that Huo Yuhao had to defeat a thousand-year Soul Beast to remain at Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao entered the arena and revealed his Ultimate Ice Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul against a Gale Demon Wolf.
• Ice Empress sensed the Ice Jade Scorpion bloodline, realized Huo Yuhao had obtained her clan’s origin, and declared that she wanted him dead.

Ice Empress nearly attacked Huo Yuhao after sensing his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul, but Xiao Yan restrained her. Huo Yuhao passed his advancement assessment, then Xiao Yan stripped away his Ultimate Ice authority as he entered the arena for the next assessment.

• Xiao Yan suppressed Ice Empress's anger and persuaded her not to attack Huo Yuhao inside Shrek's Beast Fighting Zone.
• Huo Yuhao sneezed during his fight with the Gale Demon Wolf, then used his Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul to freeze and defeat it.
• Du Weilun announced that Huo Yuhao had passed the assessment and could retain his enrollment.
• Huo Yuhao met Xiao Yan's confident gaze as they passed, while Xiao Yan decided to show him the true mastery of ice.
• Xiao Yan used Mystic Yellow Water Controller to deprive Huo Yuhao of his Ultimate Ice, leaving Huo Yuhao shocked and unable to control ice as before.
• Du Weilun ordered Huo Yuhao to leave the arena, and Huo Yuhao walked out in a daze as Xiao Yan entered for the next assessment.

Xiao Yan challenged a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Beast Fighting Zone and defeated the Flame Lion King with his Fuxi Zither and water-element authority. The referee reported his victory to Du Weilun and awaited the score.

• Xiao Yan asked to challenge a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Du Weilun approved on the condition that he spare its life.
• A Ten-Thousand-Year Flame Lion King entered the arena and charged at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan activated [Mystic Yellow Water Controller] and used three zither strikes to freeze the Flame Lion King in a block of dark ice.
• The referee announced that Xiao Yan had won without injury and asked Du Weilun to assign a score.

Xiao Yan received a perfect score after defeating a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Du Weilun set his performance as the standard for future advancement assessments. His sister Xiao Xiao then revealed a Ten-Thousand-Year fourth Spirit Ring and decisively defeated a Nine-Thousand-Year Vajra Bear, leaving the academy impressed as the other students’ assessments continued.

• Du Weilun awarded Xiao Yan 150 points and declared that future students who could not defeat a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would be capped at 149 points.
• Xiao Xiao chose to challenge a Nine-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and revealed her black Ten-Thousand-Year fourth Spirit Ring.
• Xiao Xiao slowed the charging Vajra Bear with her second Soul Skill, then pinned and subdued it with her fourth Soul Skill.
• The referee declared Xiao Xiao the winner, and Du Weilun gave her a score of 149.5.
• Xiao Yan praised Xiao Xiao’s performance, while Wu Feng resolved to train harder after seeing the gap between them.

After the advancement assessment, Xiao Yan released the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, who went after Huo Yuhao. The Ice Empress found Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, then attacked them with Wrath of the Ice Emperor, leaving both in mortal danger.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian to go eat while he handled something, then entered a secluded corner.
• Xiao Yan released the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Xiao Bai from his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Ice Empress raced after Huo Yuhao, and Snow Empress followed to keep her from causing trouble.
• Huo Yuhao walked toward the Spirit Guidance Department, distressed over losing his Ultimate Ice origin, when the Ice Empress's pressure forced him to the ground.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized the Ice Empress and joyfully emerged from Huo Yuhao's brow to greet her.
• The Ice Empress accused Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Huo Yuhao of stealing her clan's origin, then fired Wrath of the Ice Emperor at them.

The Ice Empress attacked Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, but stopped when Huo Yuhao released the weakened consciousness of her clansman. After taking one portion of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Spiritual Essence as ransom, she was confronted by the Snow Empress, who condemned him for helping humans hunt Soul Beasts.

• The Ice Empress’s attack overwhelmed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s golden shield, and Huo Yuhao released the sleeping Ice Jade Scorpion consciousness from his martial soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm threatened to self-destruct his Ten-Fold Spiritual Origin, forcing the Ice Empress to halt her attack.
• The Ice Empress took the Ice Jade Scorpion consciousness and demanded one portion of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Spiritual Essence in exchange for sparing him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm handed over a golden sphere, then prepared to flee with Huo Yuhao.
• The Snow Empress appeared and accused Sky Dream Ice Silkworm of betraying his kind by helping humans hunt Soul Beasts.

The Snow Empress moved to kill Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, but the Ice Empress persuaded her to spare him in exchange for an oath and a large payment of Spiritual Essence. After the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai left, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was left weakened and lamenting over Huo Yuhao, who had fainted.

• The Snow Empress arrived with Xiao Bai and prepared to kill the terrified Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with her Emperor Sword.
• The Ice Empress stepped between them and argued that killing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could harm a younger member of her clan and attract Shrek Academy's experts.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm swore never to return to the Extreme North or let Huo Yuhao hunt its soul beasts, then surrendered thirty percent of his Spiritual Essence to the Snow Empress.
• Xiao Bai demanded a share and took another ten percent of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Essence, leaving him weakened after losing forty percent.
• The Snow Empress warned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm not to return to the Extreme North, then left with the Ice Empress and Xiao Bai.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm saw Huo Yuhao unconscious and wailed, "What a sin!!!"

Xiao Yan returned to his dorm room and found Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai waiting for him. Snow Empress explained that they had let Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the human boy go after making them pay, then revealed four spheres of Spiritual Essence; what they would do with it remained unresolved.

• Xiao Yan found Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai occupying his bed when he entered his dorm room.
• Ice Empress explained that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had vast spiritual power despite its poor combat ability and had likely sought the Ultimate Ice talent through the human boy's blank Second Martial Soul.
• Ice Empress admitted that Snow Empress had made the analysis and that she had only repeated it from memory.
• Snow Empress said they had released Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the human boy after making them pay.
• Snow Empress produced four golden spheres of Spiritual Essence, including the portions Ice Empress and Xiao Bai had taken from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Xiao Yan absorbed forty percent of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Essence and reached the peak of the Formed but Intangible realm after seven days of cultivation. He left his dormitory when Xiao Xiao invited him to a Treasure Appraisal Fair in Shrek City.

• Snow Empress gave Xiao Yan four golden spheres containing forty percent of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Essence and teased Ice Empress before returning to Xiao Yan's Sea of Consciousness.
• Ice Empress chased Snow Empress into Xiao Yan's Sea of Consciousness, and Xiao Bai followed after them.
• Xiao Yan refined the Spiritual Essence with the Art of the Fuxi Emperor while secluded in his dormitory, with Xiao Xiao submitting his leave request.
• On the seventh day, Xiao Yan absorbed all four portions of Spiritual Essence and reached the peak of the Formed but Intangible realm, greatly expanding his Sea of Consciousness.
• Xiao Xiao invited Xiao Yan to the Treasure Appraisal Fair in Shrek City, and he agreed to go with her.

After ending his seven-day seclusion, Xiao Yan joined Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng on a visit to Shrek City's Treasure Appraisal Fair. Ning Tian explained the fair's credit system and offered to pay for anything Xiao Yan wanted as the group entered the Treasure Pavilion.

• Xiao Xiao excitedly brought Xiao Yan out of his dorm after he said his seclusion had ended and his cultivation had stabilized.
• Xiao Yan met Ning Tian and Wu Feng at Shrek Academy's eastern gate and asked how the Treasure Appraisal Fair worked.
• Ning Tian explained that the Treasure Pavilion offered invited students credit for rare resources in exchange for repayment or future service to the academy or pavilion.
• Ning Tian offered to invest in Xiao Yan and pay for anything he liked at the fair, and Xiao Yan accepted her offer.
• Xiao Yan led Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng into the Treasure Pavilion after presenting the academy's invitation.

Xiao Yan found a disguised Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber at the Treasure Appraisal Fair and let Ning Tian pay for it. As the group prepared to leave, Elder Lin invited them to see the Treasure Pavilion’s fourth floor, where Shrek Academy hoped to impress Xiao Yan with its rarest treasures.

• Xiao Yan spotted the Thousand Year Whale Rubber, recognized it as a top-grade Ten Thousand Year specimen, and decided to take it back for Xiao Xiao.
• Ning Tian paid six thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Whale Rubber and was thrilled when Xiao Yan accepted it.
• After finding nothing else of interest on the second floor, Xiao Yan and the others headed for the stairs and encountered Elder Lin.
• Elder Lin recognized Xiao Yan, mentioned that Yan Shaozhe had told her about him, and invited him to tour the fourth floor.
• Xiao Yan accepted Elder Lin’s invitation, and she led the group up a hidden staircase protected by defensive Soul Guidance Arrays.

Elder Lin showed Xiao Yan and the others the rare treasures on the Treasure Pavilion’s fourth floor, but Xiao Yan ignored the ordinary Soul Bones until she revealed an eye-type External Soul Bone called the Time Sundial Needle. The chapter ended with Elder Lin explaining its origin and the Time Cicada’s strange life cycle.

• Elder Lin led Xiao Yan, Ning Tian, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng through a gallery of valuable Soul Bones and spirit herbs, while Xiao Yan showed no interest in the displays.
• Elder Lin praised Xiao Yan’s composure and led the group to a sealed Deep Sea Deep Silver pillar, which she opened with a series of mechanical keys.
• A strange eye-shaped Soul Bone emerged, and Xiao Yan recognized that it wielded the power of time.
• Elder Lin identified the treasure as the ten-thousand-year External Soul Bone Time Sundial Needle and explained that its temporal field distorted time and wore down Soul Tool arrays.
• Elder Lin recounted how a Sea God Pavilion predecessor killed a mutated Time Cicada five hundred years earlier, causing the creature’s time-law power to gather in its eyes and form the unique bone.

At the Treasure Pavilion, Elder Lin offered Xiao Yan the Time Sundial Needle for free, hoping to bind him to Shrek Academy, but he refused to accept the favor. Mu En watched him leave and concluded that Shrek was not destined to have him.

• Ning Tian offered one hundred million Gold Soul Coins for the Time Sundial Needle, but Elder Lin declared it priceless and reserved for someone destined to possess it.
• Elder Lin offered Xiao Yan the Soul Bone for free under his special privilege, while Xiao Yan recognized the offer as a debt that would tie him to Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Yan refused the Time Sundial Needle without explaining why and left the Treasure Pavilion with Ning Tian, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng.
• Mu En emerged from the shadows, returned the Time Sundial Needle to its tray, and said Xiao Yan saw through the academy's intentions and was not destined for Shrek.