Chapter Summaries

Xuan Zi provoked the core disciples into targeting Xiao Yan during a free-for-all assessment, using the contest to punish him for refusing the Sea God Pavilion’s offer. Surrounded by hostile competitors, Xiao Yan challenged them all to attack him together.

• Huo Yuhao lost the Spirit Soul Department’s interest after Xiao Yan’s ability suppressed the Ultimate Ice in his Martial Soul, leaving him a core disciple of the Spirit Guidance Department.
• Ning Tian left Class Three’s formation and joined Xiao Yan, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng.
• Xuan Zi singled out Xiao Yan, praised him as the Outer Court’s greatest genius, and announced a free-for-all assessment in which the last seven standing would win.
• After Xuan Zi started the match, most of the core disciples turned their attention toward Xiao Yan and his group.
• Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian prepared to fight as Xiao Yan stepped forward and invited everyone to attack him together.

Xiao Yan used his true strength to end the Soul Fighting Arena assessment in a single strike, freezing more than thirty disciples and humiliating Xuan Zi. When Xuan Zi declared the assessment void, Xiao Yan left with Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng, openly defying the elder.

• Dozens of senior disciples charged Xiao Yan while Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, Xie Huanyue, and Huo Yuhao held back, hoping to attack after he was weakened.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Fuxi Zither and revealed four black Spirit Rings and one Hundred-Thousand-Year red Spirit Ring, terrifying the attackers.
• Xiao Yan played one note of Cold Note: Triple Frost Fall, freezing more than thirty disciples, including Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, Xie Huanyue, and Huo Yuhao.
• Xiao Yan challenged Xuan Zi to judge his performance, but Xuan Zi angrily declared the assessment void because fewer than seven people remained.
• Xiao Yan walked out of the arena, and Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng followed him despite defying Xuan Zi and Shrek's higher-ups.

Mu En reprimanded Xuan Zi for mistreating Xiao Yan and ordered him to apologize with the Time Sundial Needle. When Xuan Zi suggested secretly killing Xiao Yan, Mu En condemned the idea and drove him out of the Sea God Pavilion.

• Mu En scolded Xuan Zi for provoking resentment toward Xiao Yan and explained how Xiao Yan’s talent could lead him to reach the Divine Level.
• Mu En reminded Xuan Zi to use people’s titles in the Sea God Pavilion, then gave him the Time Sundial Needle and ordered him to apologize to Xiao Yan on behalf of Shrek’s senior leadership.
• Xuan Zi resisted the apology and proposed killing Xiao Yan before he could become a threat to Shrek.
• Mu En unleashed his Limit Douluo pressure, condemned assassination as a disgraceful act, and ordered Xuan Zi to leave.
• Xuan Zi took the Time Sundial Needle and departed, while Mu En sank back into his recliner and sighed.

After Xiao Yan decided to withdraw from Shrek Academy, he accepted Ning Tian’s invitation to study at the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect with Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng. On the way back that night, he sensed Xuan Zi drinking alone and approached the Sea God Pavilion Elder, intent on teaching him a lesson before leaving.

• Xiao Yan told Ning Tian that he and Xiao Xiao would withdraw from Shrek Academy because he saw little value in staying and disliked the Elder’s vindictive behavior.
• Ning Tian invited Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect’s academy, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng decided to withdraw with Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao the next morning, and the four left the Drunken Immortal Pavilion together.
• Xiao Yan sensed Xuan Zi in a nearby alley and sent Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng back to the academy to pack.
• Xiao Yan found Xuan Zi drunk outside a closed butcher shop and approached him, intending to beat him before leaving Shrek.

Xuan Zi tried to kill Xiao Yan in a secluded alley, but the Snow Empress emerged from Xiao Yan’s Sea of Consciousness and countered his attack. The chapter ended as she struck Xuan Zi’s exposed chest with her Emperor Palm, Great Cold No Snow.

• Xiao Yan sensed Xuan Zi’s murderous intent and told the Snow Empress to prepare to intervene.
• Xuan Zi decided to kill Xiao Yan to erase his humiliation and protect Shrek Academy’s standing.
• Xuan Zi released his Super Douluo pressure and attacked Xiao Yan with a powerful punch.
• The Snow Empress stepped through a spatial fissure, deflected Xuan Zi’s punch, and exposed his chest.
• The Snow Empress unleashed Emperor Palm, Great Cold No Snow, against Xuan Zi.

The Snow Empress killed Xuan Zi with Great Cold No Snow and handed Xiao Yan the spoils. She asked him to call her Xue'er, then returned to his Sea of Consciousness, leaving Xiao Yan puzzled by her behavior as he prepared to leave Shrek Academy.

• The Snow Empress struck Xuan Zi with Great Cold No Snow, freezing him from within and shattering his body into ice fragments.
• The Snow Empress collected Xuan Zi's six Soul Bones and Storage Ring and gave them to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan praised the Snow Empress's mastery of the Water Law Divine Patterns, and she asked him to call her Xue'er.
• The Snow Empress returned to Xiao Yan's Sea of Consciousness and urged him to arrange his merging with Bing'er and Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Yan put away the spoils and left the alley, expecting Xuan Zi's disappearance to shake Shrek Academy's leadership.

After defeating Xuan Zi, Xiao Yan examined the spoils he had taken, including six powerful Soul Bones and the Time Sundial Needle, then visited his sea of consciousness to obtain Electrolux's Soul Bone Fusion Method. Electrolux tried to return to studying the Eastern Emperor Bell, but the bell expelled him across the sea of consciousness.

• Xiao Yan inspected the six Soul Bones taken from Xuan Zi and decided their strength and defense attributes would suit Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Yan found the Time Sundial Needle in Xuan Zi's Storage Ring and realized Mu En had likely meant it as an apology gift.
• Xiao Yan entered his sea of consciousness, where Snow Empress practiced her technique, Ice Empress watched her, and Xiaobai slept on a bed of ice.
• Xiao Yan interrupted Electrolux's study of the Eastern Emperor Bell and received the completed Soul Bone Fusion Method from him.
• After Xiao Yan left, Electrolux tried to touch the bell's Divine Runes again, and the Eastern Emperor Bell repelled him to the edge of the sea of consciousness.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng left Shrek Academy for the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect while Xiao Yan studied a secret art for fusing Soul Bones. As Shrek’s leaders argued over the students’ departure, Mu En discovered that Xuan Zi had vanished.

• Xiao Yan studied Electrolux’s Soul Bone fusion art and analyzed the six Soul Bones taken from Xuan Zi, planning to fuse the bone essences of Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai into a million-year Divine Level Soul Bone.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng left Shrek Academy without completing withdrawal procedures and rode toward the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect in its carriage.
• Wang Yan and Du Weilun discovered the four students were gone, and Du Weilun alerted Yan Shaozhe.
• Shrek’s elders and department leaders argued at an emergency meeting over whether to pursue the students, while Mu En asked where Xuan Zi was.
• An elder reported that Xuan Zi had not returned from Sea God Island, and Mu En found no trace of his aura in Shrek City.

Xiao Yan and his companions arrived at Nine Treasures City, where Ning Fengyi and the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect’s two Super Douluo elders welcomed him. After Xiao Yan quietly repelled the elders’ spiritual probing, Ning Fengyi introduced the sect’s leaders and protectors, leaving Xiao Yan poised to begin negotiations with the sect.

• Wu Feng drove the carriage toward Nine Treasures City and spotted Ning Fengyi waiting outside the gates with two elders.
• Ning Tian explained that Ning Fengyi had come out to welcome Xiao Yan, not merely to greet his daughter.
• Xiao Yan ended his meditation and told Ning Tian he would thank Ning Fengyi for the reception.
• The two elders probed Xiao Yan with their spiritual power, but the Eastern Emperor Bell and his immense spiritual strength made their probing disappear.
• Ning Fengyi welcomed Xiao Yan and teased Ning Tian about her affection for him, embarrassing her.
• Ning Fengyi introduced himself, then named Li Cangqiong, a Level 97 Super Douluo, and Yue Zhenshan, a Level 96 Super Douluo.

Xiao Yan arrived in Nine Treasures City and met the powerful elders and Ning Tian’s family. He learned that the sect’s affiliated academy he had agreed to care for was Skywater Advanced Soul Master Academy, a school exclusively for female Soul Masters with water or ice attributes.

• Ning Fengyi welcomed Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao into Nine Treasures City and led them to a banquet attended by the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect’s powerful figures.
• Wu Feng reunited with her father, Wu Lie, the Red Dragon Douluo, while Ning Fengyi introduced Xiao Yan to the sect’s elders.
• Ning Tian embraced her mother, the dean of the sect’s affiliated academy, who teased Xiao Yan about attracting girls there.
• Ning Tian admitted that the academy was Skywater Advanced Soul Master Academy, descended from the all-female Skywater Academy founded ten thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Yan realized that the academy he had agreed to take care of was an all-girls’ school.

Xiao Yan visited the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, learned how Skywater Academy had separated from Shrek, and joined the others for a feast. In his guest room, he began fusing Ice Empress and Xiao Bai as soul spirits, breaking through to rank sixty.

• Xiao Yan asked about Skywater Academy’s history, and Wan'er explained that it had left Shrek Academy to preserve its traditions and later rebuilt with the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect’s support.
• Ning Fengyi postponed further discussion of the academy and hosted Xiao Yan, Ning Tian, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng at a lavish dinner.
• After retiring to his room, Xiao Yan prepared to fuse Ice Empress and Xiao Bai using a Soul Spirit Contract array and the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Ice Empress and Xiao Bai entered the Eastern Emperor Bell, and their origins fused smoothly with Xiao Yan’s Star River Sea of Consciousness.
• The fusion broke Xiao Yan’s Soul Power bottleneck and raised his cultivation to rank sixty, with more accumulated power awaiting a sixth soul ring.

Xiao Yan fused the Soul Bone origins of Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai into a divine-level torso bone. He named the completed bone Winter God Guard.

• Xiao Yan discovered that the Eastern Emperor Bell had merged Ice Empress and Xiao Bai's origins into a single Water Law Spirit Ring, bypassing the usual nine-ring limit.
• Ice Empress and Xiao Bai emerged from the Eastern Emperor Bell, shaken by its power.
• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai each offered their Soul Bone origin to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used his spiritual power and the Bagua Formation Map to fuse the three origins into blue-gold liquid.
• Xiao Yan shaped the liquid into a divine-level torso bone and named it Winter God Guard.

Xiao Yan absorbed the million-year Winter God Guard torso bone, surviving a violent ice-and-water phenomenon that the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai struggled to contain. He emerged with greatly strengthened physical power, heightened control over water and ice laws, and two divine Soul Bone skills that made his combat and defensive abilities formidable.

• Xiao Yan smoothly fused with the Winter God Guard, but the bone's law power unleashed a raging ocean-and-glacier phenomenon inside the guest room.
• Snow Empress raised a barrier to contain the phenomenon, while Ice Empress reinforced it and Xiao Bai suppressed the escaping fluctuations.
• After two and a half hours, the phenomenon collapsed, and Xiao Yan awakened with his body and law authority greatly enhanced.
• Xiao Yan told the three Soul Spirits that his physique had nearly doubled and that his command over water, ice, and snow laws surpassed even the Snow Empress at her peak.
• Xiao Yan revealed Winter Extinction, an offensive skill that could erase a Limit Douluo at the cost of a year-long cooldown, and Winter Boundary Guard, a divine-level shield with the same cooldown.

Xiao Yan visited Skywater Academy with Ning Tian, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng after refining his new ice-based soul bone abilities. At the academy, Ning Tian introduced him to the twin team leaders Shui Xian'er and Shui Qing'er, who were also her mother’s direct disciples.

• Xiao Yan spent the night refining Winter Extinction and Winter Boundary Guard, discovering that water laws could reduce their Soul Power cost and speed their formation.
• Wu Feng was overwhelmed by the ice aura leaking from Xiao Yan until he suppressed it with his spiritual sense.
• Ning Tian suggested they visit Skywater Academy, and Xiao Yan agreed because its water-rich environment suited his cultivation.
• The four arrived at Skywater Academy and drew the attention of its female students, while Ning Tian grew jealous of their interest in Xiao Yan.
• Shui Xian'er teased Ning Tian about returning to Skywater Academy, and Ning Tian confirmed that she and the others planned to enroll and stay.
• Ning Tian introduced Shui Xian'er and Shui Qing'er as twin Spirit Kings who led Skywater Academy’s team and were her mother’s direct disciples.

Ning Tian brought Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao to Skywater Academy to enroll, and Shui Xian'er welcomed the prospect of gaining a powerful support student for the upcoming tournament. Shui Qing'er and Shui Xian'er both reacted strongly to Xiao Yan, who silenced their advances by revealing his overwhelming authority over ice and water before walking into the cafeteria.

• Ning Tian confirmed that she and her companions had come to enroll, and Shui Xian'er welcomed her as a potential support for Skywater's tournament team.
• Shui Xian'er questioned whether Ning Tian had enough Soul Power to support the Spirit King twins, and Ning Tian argued that she could reach Soul Ancestor before the tournament.
• Shui Qing'er unexpectedly asked Xiao Yan whether he was joining Skywater, drawing Shui Xian'er's attention to him.
• Shui Xian'er moved Ning Tian aside and flirted with Xiao Yan, promising to protect him at the academy.
• Xiao Yan released the Mystic Yellow Water Controller's authority, forcing the twins' martial souls to recoil and leaving them frozen in fear.
• Xiao Yan withdrew the pressure and walked into the cafeteria, leaving Shui Xian'er and Shui Qing'er stunned.

Xiao Yan and his companions ate breakfast at Skywater Academy before Ning Tian led them to the Mimicry Training Zone for their official enrollment. Xiao Yan discovered that the zone’s extraordinary icy energy came from a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, and the chapter ended with Dean Shui Wan'er asking what he thought of the facility.

• Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng followed Xiao Yan after he intimidated Shui Xian'er and Shui Qing'er, while Wu Feng struggled to recover from his water-attribute aura.
• The group ate breakfast in Skywater Academy’s cafeteria, where Xiao Yan repelled an upperclasswoman’s staged fall and Ning Tian warned off the other students.
• Ning Tian led the group to the Mimicry Training Zone, where they entered a vast landscape of artificial snow mountains, frozen lakes, and other icy environments.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress sensed Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow beneath the training zone, and Xiao Yan realized it explained Skywater Academy’s exceptional cultivation conditions.
• The group met Shui Wan'er and the Skywater Team, including the still-frightened Shui Xian'er and Shui Qing'er, and Shui Wan'er asked Xiao Yan what he thought of the training zone.

Xiao Yan praised Skywater Academy’s ice cultivation area but exposed how little it could do with its Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. Shui Xian'er revealed that Xiao Yan possessed an ice attribute even greater than ordinary Ultimate Ice, leaving Shui Wan'er to face the solution standing before her.

• Xiao Yan assessed Skywater Academy’s cultivation area as exceptional, then demonstrated his ability to gather the essence of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Xiao Yan criticized the academy for only using the marrow’s aura, and Shui Wan'er recalled how even two Super Douluo had failed to reach its underground vein.
• Shui Wan'er lamented that the academy lacked a soul master with Ultimate Ice who could develop the marrow’s full potential.
• Shui Xian'er told Shui Wan'er that Xiao Yan possessed Ultimate Ice, possibly of a quality far beyond ordinary Ultimate Ice.

Xiao Yan played the Fuxi Zither to control ice and snow, temporarily purifying the Skywater Academy members’ martial souls and boosting their elemental affinity to near-ultimate levels. Realizing his value, Shui Wan'er offered him the post of Honorary Headmaster, freedom from administrative duties, and seventy percent of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, leaving Xiao Yan’s decision unresolved.

• Xiao Yan summoned the Fuxi Zither and played a piece that commanded water, ice, and snow throughout the simulated cultivation zone.
• The music forcibly drew out the martial souls of Shui Wan'er and the seven Skywater Team members and temporarily purified their elemental affinities to near-ultimate levels.
• Xiao Yan stopped playing, causing the enhancement to fade and leaving Shui Wan'er and the Skywater Team longing for the power they had briefly felt.
• Shui Wan'er offered Xiao Yan the position of Skywater Academy's headmaster, but recalled that he disliked administrative affairs.
• Shui Wan'er instead offered Xiao Yan the title of Honorary Headmaster, freedom from daily duties, and seventy percent of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow if he could reach its cave, then awaited his answer.

Xiao Yan accepted Skywater Academy's offer to become its honorary dean in exchange for a share of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. Shui Wan'er led him and the others to the cavern entrance, where Xiao Yan prepared to face its deadly cold.

• Xiao Yan agreed to become Skywater Academy's honorary dean after considering the benefits of the Profound Ice Marrow.
• Shui Wan'er sent an assembly order to the academy's upper ranks and offered to take Xiao Yan to scout the cavern.
• Shui Wan'er warned Xiao Yan that even a true Ultimate Ice wielder needed to be a Title Douluo to reach the cavern's core safely.
• Xiao Yan followed Shui Wan'er through the freezing terrain without using Soul Power to protect himself, while Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and the Skywater team struggled against the cold.
• Shui Wan'er led the group to a massive iceberg and pointed out the dark fissure that served as the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow Cavern's entrance.

Xiao Yan entered the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow cavern alone, using his water-law authority to withstand its extreme cold as Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Xiao Bai joined him. Outside, Ning Fengyi stopped the elders from pursuing Xiao Yan and urged everyone to wait, believing he would return with a great discovery.

• Shui Wan'er warned Xiao Yan about the cavern's deadly cold and wraiths, but he reassured her, Xiao Xiao, and Ning Tian before entering alone.
• Xiao Yan used the Eastern Emperor Bell's Mystic Yellow · Water Controller authority to tame the extreme cold inside the cavern.
• Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Xiao Bai appeared; Snow Empress judged the cavern unusually vast, and Xiao Yan estimated it held dozens or even over a hundred strands of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Ice Empress dragged sleepy Xiao Bai deeper into the cavern, while Xiao Yan and Snow Empress followed together.
• Ning Fengyi, Li Cangqiong, and Yue Zhenshan arrived outside, and Shui Wan'er told them that Xiao Yan had entered the cavern alone.
• Yue Zhenshan tried to enter and retrieve Xiao Yan, but Ning Fengyi stopped him and persuaded the group to guard the entrance and wait.