Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hongchen surrendered after Xiao Yan defeated the Sun Moon Team, making Skywater Advanced Soul Master Academy the tournament champions. After the celebration, Meng Hongchen offered Xiao Yan the Hongchen Family’s highest-grade token and invited him to visit her in Mingdu, leaving his response unknown.

• Xiao Yan stopped his zither music just before the killing formation could kill Xiao Hongchen, and Huang Jinxu confirmed that Xiao Hongchen had survived.
• Xiao Hongchen forfeited the remaining matches, and Huang Jinxu announced Skywater Advanced Soul Master Academy as the champion.
• The spectators erupted in celebration as Xiao Yan put away the Fuxi Zither and began to leave.
• Meng Hongchen brought Xiao Hongchen to Xiao Yan and offered him the Hongchen Token, inviting him to visit her in Mingdu.
• Xiao Hongchen recognized the token’s importance but stayed silent after seeing Meng Hongchen’s determination.

Xiao Yan accepted Meng Hongchen’s Hongchen Token and crafted her a bracelet to suppress the cold poison caused by her Vermilion Ice Toad martial soul. After he evaded her attempted embrace and left the arena, Huang Jinxu scolded the Hongchen siblings, who found their teammates had already fled.

• Xiao Yan accepted Meng Hongchen’s Hongchen Token as a parting gift between friends, disappointing her briefly before she took heart from his acceptance.
• Xiao Yan explained that Meng Hongchen’s Vermilion Ice Toad martial soul had caused cold poison to accumulate near her heart meridians.
• Xiao Yan shaped Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow into a bracelet and balanced its ice and fire powers with a Taiji Diagram.
• Xiao Yan fastened the bracelet on Meng Hongchen, relieving her pain and helping suppress the cold poison, then dodged her attempted embrace and left the arena.
• Huang Jinxu scolded Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen for flirting in the arena, while the siblings discovered Ma Rulong and the other Sun Moon Team members had slipped away.

After Skywater Academy won the tournament, Xiao Yan collected the team’s rewards and returned to the hotel to oversee Wu Feng’s final transformation. Wu Feng’s Red Dragon martial soul became the Flame Emperor True Dragon, and she awakened with a transformed body and a clearer mind.

• Xiao Yan selected three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones for himself and his teammates, accepted the Gold Soul Coins, and declined Xu Jiawei’s banquet invitation.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xiao, and Ning Tian returned to the hotel, where Xiao Xiao reunited with Qing Wan and Xiao Yan received Xiao Zhan’s praise.
• Xiao Yan entered the inner room and fed the struggling fire in Wu Feng’s formation with life energy refined from Living Gold.
• The Water-Fire Taiji Diagram reached balance, and Wu Feng’s Red Dragon martial soul transformed into the Flame Emperor True Dragon.
• Wu Feng’s body and appearance changed under the martial soul’s power, and she awoke with sharper, clearer eyes.

After Wu Feng’s transformation into a Flame Emperor True Dragon, her bloodline instincts made her attackively possessive toward Ning Tian. Xiao Yan explained the side effect and advised them to avoid being alone together until Wu Feng could control her martial soul.

• Ning Tian entered the room and Wu Feng rushed to embrace and grope her, leaving Ning Tian struggling to escape.
• Xiao Yan used his [ Mystic Yellow · Water Controller ] authority to cool Wu Feng and restore her reason.
• Xiao Yan explained that Wu Feng’s powerful Flame Emperor True Dragon bloodline was driving her impulses, though it would not corrupt her mind like Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix.
• Wu Feng’s possessiveness flared again, and she tried to approach Ning Tian until Ning Tian hid behind Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan advised Wu Feng to avoid meeting Ning Tian alone until she could control her martial soul, and Wu Feng wailed in protest.

Xiao Yan separated Wu Feng from Ning Tian to help Wu Feng master her newly awakened Flame Emperor True Dragon Martial Soul, then ended the laws’ pressure so Shui Xian’er, Shui Bing’er, and five other girls could leave their cultivation. Xiao Xiao asked Xiao Yan to help evolve her Martial Souls, and he promised they had great potential but said they would need to wait for the right materials and stronger cultivation.

• Xiao Yan sent Wu Feng out of the master bedroom to keep her apart from Ning Tian until she mastered her new Martial Soul, and he comforted Ning Tian when she nearly confessed her feelings.
• Xiao Yan drew in the lingering water and fire laws, releasing Shui Xian’er, Shui Bing’er, and five other girls from their meditation; the five girls had reached level fifty.
• Xiao Yan led everyone into the living room, where Xiao Xiao questioned Wu Feng about her crimson-gold dragon scales while Xiao Zhan and Qing Wan watched.
• Xiao Xiao asked Xiao Yan whether her Martial Souls could evolve, and Xiao Zhan teased her that she also wanted to become prettier.
• Xiao Yan promised Xiao Xiao that her Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and Nine Phoenix Flute could evolve, but said she needed special materials and higher cultivation first.

After the tournament, Xiao Yan arranged for his family and Skywater Academy to return to Nine Treasures City while he took Ning Tian and Xiao Xiao to Shrek Academy. He left for Shrek City riding Scarlet King, who accepted the humiliating role to avoid a deadly Lightning Tribulation.

• Wu Feng and the Skywater girls regretted missing the tournament but celebrated Skywater Academy's championship.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Zhan, Qing Wan, Wu Feng, and Skywater Academy back to Nine Treasures City, while he took Ning Tian and Xiao Xiao to meet Mu En at Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Yan asked five newly advanced Skywater students to consolidate their cultivation before he took them to the Extreme North for Spirit Rings.
• Xiao Yan planned to retrieve Frost Lament: Divine Judgment and test the Soul Spirit System in the Extreme North.
• Xiao Yan summoned Scarlet King, who enlarged himself to carry Xiao Yan, Ning Tian, and Xiao Xiao toward Shrek City.

Xiao Yan returned to Shrek City, entered Sea God Island, and met the dying Mu En in Sea God Pavilion. After Xiao Yan warned that Shrek Academy might be too corrupted to survive the changing times, Mu En asked whether Xuan Zi had once intended to kill him.

• Xiao Yan brought Ning Tian and Xiao Xiao to the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's stronghold in Shrek City, then went alone to Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Yan concealed himself from the academy's teachers and students with his spiritual power and crossed Sea God Lake to Sea God Island.
• Yan Shaozhe met Xiao Yan and led him to Sea God Pavilion, where he waited outside while Xiao Yan entered.
• Xiao Yan found Mu En gravely weakened and listened as the old man wondered whether he could still guide Shrek Academy forward.
• Xiao Yan told Mu En that he might succeed alone, but Shrek Academy itself might be too rotten to survive the changing times.
• Mu En asked Xiao Yan whether Xuan Zi had ever harbored killing intent toward him.

Xiao Yan confirmed that he had killed Xuan Zi, and the Snow Empress revealed herself to explain that she had done it. Mu En offered Xiao Yan leadership of Shrek Academy, but Xiao Yan rejected the offer and declared that he would unify the continent and create his own Divine Position, leaving Mu En stunned by his Ice God inheritance mark.

• Xiao Yan confirmed to Mu En that Xuan Zi had died because of him.
• The Snow Empress appeared, claimed responsibility for killing Xuan Zi, and warned Mu En against threatening Xiao Yan.
• Mu En offered Xiao Yan the position of Sea God Pavilion Master and control of Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Yan rejected the offer, calling Shrek Academy too small and its traditions outdated.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would unify the continent and create his own Divine Position, revealing his Ice God inheritance mark.
• Mu En was left speechless when he realized Xiao Yan already had a Divine Position inheritance yet intended to create another.

Mu En gave Xiao Yan the Radiant Dragon Core after learning of his ambition to unify the continent and create his own godhood, choosing not to burden Bei Bei with a futile struggle against him. When Mu En’s illness worsened, Xiao Yan used the Fuxi Zither to soothe his coughing and ease his suffering.

• After Xiao Yan’s divine pressure faded, Mu En acknowledged that Shrek was too small to match his ambitions.
• Mu En presented Xiao Yan with the purified Radiant Dragon Core and explained how it had once empowered him before its baleful energy ruined his body.
• Xiao Yan suggested giving the treasure to Bei Bei, but Mu En refused because it would burden him with an impossible mission to revive Shrek and compete with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan accepted the Dragon Core, and Mu En sent Yan Shaozhe to bring Lexuan to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En fell into a violent coughing fit, so Xiao Yan summoned the Fuxi Zither and played healing music that calmed him and eased his decay.

Xiao Yan healed Mu En enough for him to clarify Lexuan’s future and secretly tell him there might be a way to survive. The chapter ended with Mu En asking Xiao Yan whether he could really live.

• Xiao Yan used the Fuxi Zither to clear much of the decaying energy from Mu En’s meridians.
• Mu En told Lexuan that her marriage engagement to Bei Bei was annulled and apologized for using it to bind her to Shrek.
• Mu En named Lexuan the next Sea God Pavilion Master and ordered her to obey Xiao Yan unconditionally, even if he commanded Shrek’s dissolution.
• After privately receiving Xiao Yan’s message, Mu En sent Lexuan out of the hall and excitedly asked Xiao Yan if he could still live.

Xiao Yan arranged for Mu En to preserve his soul by becoming Electrolux’s apprentice, offering him a chance to accompany his mentor to the God Realm. After signing the contract, Mu En postponed leaving his body so he could settle Shrek’s affairs before joining Electrolux in the Undead Demiplane.

• Xiao Yan told Mu En that his body could not be repaired and that a contract could preserve his soul.
• Electrolux appeared and offered to take Mu En as his apprentice, explaining the duties and the possibility of ascending to the God Realm.
• Mu En accepted the offer, signed the soul contract with his blood essence, and felt his soul linked to Electrolux.
• Electrolux asked Mu En to extract his soul and join him in the Undead Demiplane to help test a new spell.
• Mu En asked for time to settle Shrek’s affairs, and Electrolux left him to arrange his departure later through Xiao Yan.

Mu En summoned the Sea God Pavilion Elders to settle Shrek Academy’s affairs before his death, appointing Zhang Lexuan as Pavilion Master and directing the academy to shift resources toward the Spirit Guidance Department and remain neutral in the coming war. After forcing the Elders to accept his decisions, Mu En died as the Golden Tree enveloped him in light.

• Mu En called an emergency Sea God Pavilion meeting while Xiao Yan concealed himself and watched.
• Mu En named Zhang Lexuan the next Pavilion Master and Elder Lin her deputy, and the Elders accepted his decision.
• Mu En ordered that the Spirit Guidance Department receive sixty percent of the academy’s resources, and Yan Shaozhe agreed after Mu En coughed blood.
• Mu En ordered Shrek Academy to recall its forces and remain neutral in the coming war, persuading the Elders that joining the three Douluo nations would risk Shrek’s destruction.
• The Golden Tree enveloped Mu En, and his body crumbled into golden light as he declared that he was going to meet Shrek’s predecessors.

Xiao Yan helped Mu En leave Shrek for the gray demiplane, then returned to Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian at the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect’s Shrek City outpost. Xiao Xiao concealed her fear of losing her brother’s attention and eagerly agreed to return to Nine Treasures City with him.

• Mu En asked Xiao Yan to send him to the gray demiplane, and Xiao Yan opened a spatial passage for him to cross through.
• Xiao Yan closed the passage, left the Sea God Pavilion, and teleported to the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect’s Shrek City outpost.
• Ning Tian offered Xiao Xiao desserts and hinted that Xiao Xiao should help her become closer to Xiao Yan, but Xiao Xiao pretended not to understand and called her a potential sworn big sister.
• Xiao Xiao worried that other women would take her brother’s attention and leave her on the margins.
• Xiao Yan arrived, comforted Xiao Xiao with a gentle pat on the head, and said they would return to Nine Treasures City.
• Xiao Xiao hid her tears, grabbed Xiao Yan’s arm, and urged him to take her back so she could feast.

Xiao Yan returned to Nine Treasures City with Ning Tian and Xiao Xiao, using Scarlet King as their mount after evolving its Hellfire with an origin divine mark. At Skywater Academy, he revealed that Scarlet King was a Soul Spirit and declared that the Soul Spirit System would eventually replace the old practice of hunting Soul Beasts for Spirit Rings.

• Xiao Yan gave Scarlet King an origin divine mark that transformed its Hellfire toward Ultimate Fire and advanced its bloodline.
• Xiao Yan rode Scarlet King with Ning Tian and Xiao Xiao to Nine Treasures City, where the beast leaped over the city wall and startled the guards.
• Ning Fengyi recognized the returning party, ordered the city defenses to stand down, and went to welcome them with the guardian elders.
• Ning Tian reunited with Ning Fengyi, and Xiao Yan withdrew Scarlet King into his brow, shocking Ning Fengyi and the guardian elders with its spirit-body nature.
• Xiao Yan explained to the assembled group at Skywater Academy that Scarlet King was a Soul Spirit and that the Soul Spirit System would replace Spirit Ring hunting.

Xiao Yan explained how Soul Spirits could transform soul master advancement and end the slaughter of Soul Beasts, then organized a journey to the Extreme Northern Icefield so the Skywater Team girls could contract them. He and his companions departed for the north aboard Scarlet King and the Illusion-Sound Sky-Rending Bird, while Xiao Xiao resolved to cultivate until she reached Spirit King.

• Xiao Yan described Soul Spirits’ voluntary contracts, combat abilities, and potential to provide multiple Spirit Rings, and outlined a future with artificial Soul Spirits that would end reliance on living Soul Beasts.
• Ning Fengyi agreed to travel with Xiao Yan to the Extreme Northern Icefield, leaving Uncle Yue in charge of Nine Treasures City and appointing Uncle Li and Shui Wan'er to accompany him.
• Xiao Yan refused Xiao Xiao’s request for a Soul Spirit until she reached Spirit King, prompting her and Ning Tian to resolve to cultivate harder.
• Xiao Yan summoned Scarlet King and the Illusion-Sound Sky-Rending Bird to carry the group toward the Extreme North.
• Ning Fengyi, Li Cangqiong, Shui Wan'er, and two Skywater Team girls mounted Scarlet King, while Xiao Yan and the remaining three girls rode the bird; both Soul Spirits took off from Nine Treasures City.

Xiao Yan brought the five girls from Skywater Academy to the Extreme North Core Zone, where they formed Soul Spirit bonds with five ice-attributed Soul Beasts. After enduring the painful absorption, all five girls became Spirit Kings, and the Far North rulers watched their Soul Spirits settle in harmony.

• Xiao Yan summoned the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai to find suitable Soul Beasts for the five girls.
• The three rulers returned with five thirty-thousand-year Soul Beasts, including four dying beasts and a healthy Ice Jade Scorpion that chose to become a Soul Spirit.
• Xue Wu, Qiu Ruoshui, Shen Liuyu, Gu Qingbo, and Chu Youyou each matched with a Soul Beast whose abilities complemented her martial soul.
• Xiao Yan used five Soul Spirit Contract Arrays to guide the Soul Beasts' origins into the girls, who endured the Spiritual Shock and pain.
• Qiu Ruoshui and the other four girls completed their absorption, gaining black ten-thousand-year soul rings and becoming Spirit Kings with Soul Spirits.

Xiao Yan, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress followed the Ice God Pearl into a hidden ice world and uncovered an abandoned city built around an Ice God cathedral. Inside, the Ice God Pearl reunited with Frost Lament: Divine Judgment, while the group stood before the sword and the mystery of the frozen world remained unresolved.

• After the Soul Spirit Contract ceremony, the Ice God Pearl led Xiao Yan, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress into the deepest part of the Extreme Northern Icefield.
• The Ice God Pearl opened a hole through the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice, and Xiao Yan and the two empresses followed it through a spatial vortex into a world of ice and snow.
• The three found a frozen city filled with buildings but no signs of life, and the Ice God Pearl mourned beside a half-collapsed ice house before heading toward the city center.
• Xiao Yan recognized the colossal statue outside the Ice-Snow Cathedral as the Ice God, and the Snow Empress and Ice Empress bowed in reverence.
• Inside the cathedral, the Ice God Pearl reunited with the small sword Frost Lament: Divine Judgment, and their powers resonated with one another.

Xiao Yan completed the Ice God's inheritance and learned the history of the Ice God's Remnant Clan, whose members had died after the Ice God fell. He left the hidden space with Snow Empress and Ice Empress and restored Frost Lament: Divine Judgment to its complete form in the Extreme North.

• The Ice God Pearl guided the little sword to Xiao Yan, who grasped it and completed the master-recognition ceremony amid a violent surge of Divine Power.
• The little sword entered Xiao Yan's Ice God Inheritance Space, and he received ancient memories revealing that the hidden world was contained within Frost Lament: Divine Judgment.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Ice God's Remnant Clan had depended on the sword's Divine Power to live, but could never inherit the Divine Position because they lacked independent souls and complete potential.
• Xiao Yan opened a spatial passage, and he, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress returned to the Extreme North Core Zone.
• Xiao Yan gathered Divine Power and summoned Frost Lament: Divine Judgment in its complete form, revealing its formidable sword aura to the Far North.

Xiao Yan gave Snow Empress the divine sword Frost Lament: Divine Judgment and used his authority as the Ice God's inheritor to help her claim its power. After she accepted the gift and leaned into his embrace, she agreed to dance with a sword for him in the future, and they walked together across the ice plains.

• Xiao Yan offered Frost Lament: Divine Judgment to Snow Empress, who initially refused because she believed the Ice God's weapon would not acknowledge a soul beast.
• Xiao Yan guided Snow Empress's hand onto the sword and used the Ice God inheritance mark to calm its resistance, allowing its sword techniques and Divine Power to enter her.
• Snow Empress was overwhelmed by the memories and power, and Xiao Yan caught her as she fell against his chest.
• Ice Empress watched the pair, wondered whether she could join them, then blushed and fled into Xiao Yan's spiritual sea.
• Xiao Yan asked Snow Empress to let him play the qin while she danced with a sword for him, and she shyly agreed.
• Xiao Yan and Snow Empress walked hand in hand across the ice plains as a barrier parted the blizzard around them.

Xiao Yan and Snow Empress summoned the ice-attributed Soul Beasts of the Extreme Northern Icefield, and Xiao Yan claimed the Frost Throne as the new Ice God. As the assembled beasts pledged their loyalty, he connected with the entire icefield and received the divine skill Winter's Gift: Heart of Ice and Snow.

• Xiao Yan's Ice God inheritance mark resonated with Snow Empress's Frost Lament: Divine Judgment, summoning ice-attributed Soul Beasts from across the Extreme Northern Icefield.
• The glaciers formed a towering stairway and a Frost Throne while A-Tai and countless Soul Beasts gathered to await the source of the divine might.
• Xiao Yan and Snow Empress arrived hand in hand, but the beasts grew hostile when they realized Xiao Yan was human.
• Snow Empress raised Frost Lament: Divine Judgment and used the Ice God's divine might to suppress the Soul Beasts' hostility.
• Xiao Yan sat upon the Frost Throne, and A-Tai led hundreds of thousands of Soul Beasts in pledging their loyalty to him.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Extreme Northern Icefield as an extension of himself and received the Ice God's divine skill, Winter's Gift: Heart of Ice and Snow.