Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xiao’s sacrifice of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm nearly failed when it could not manage the second seal, but the Silver Dragon King intervened through the Gold of Life and completed the sealing. The sacrifice ended with ten seals in place and the Silver Dragon King claiming Cheng Xiao’s transformed Spiritual Sea as her own.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm failed to apply the second seal, and Cheng Xiao prepared to divert the rampaging Soul Power to Yegrit and the Shadow Legion.
• A Gold of Life emerged from the Lake of Life, and the Silver Dragon King sent a droplet of its life energy into Cheng Xiao to heal him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm completed the second, third, and fourth seals but could not apply the fifth.
• The Silver Dragon King took control, formed the golden fifth seal, and completed the sixth through tenth seals.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered Cheng Xiao’s golden Spiritual Sea, where Cheng Xiao berated it and the Silver Dragon King declared the place hers.

The Silver Dragon King ordered Di Tian to take Cheng Xiao to the Dragon Tomb, while Cheng Xiao secretly prepared an escape using his Shadow Soul Beasts. After a month of travel, he used Shadow Exchange to escape Di Tian and leave a decoy behind on a new continent.

• The Silver Dragon King settled in Cheng Xiao's Spiritual Sea and told Di Tian to take him to the Dragon Tomb, while she fell asleep inside the Gold of Life.
• Di Tian imprisoned Cheng Xiao and assigned the fierce beasts to prepare for the journey, leaving Scarlet King behind to watch the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Cheng Xiao released Shadow Soul Beasts through the cage's window, then guided Di Tian and the other fierce beasts toward the Dragon Tomb the next day.
• The fierce beasts crossed the ocean and reached a new continent, while Cheng Xiao believed his Shadow Soul Beasts had escaped the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Cheng Xiao used Shadow Exchange to replace himself with a Shadow Soul Beast and escape, prompting Di Tian to roar that he would find and kill him.

After returning to Douluo Continent, Cheng Xiao discovered that Uncle Bai and Star Luo soldiers were pursuing a wounded Heaven Dou scouting party. He rescued the soldiers and ordered Yegrit to kill Uncle Bai, the Soul Sage who had tried to assassinate him.

• Cheng Xiao returned to Douluo Continent and resolved to grow stronger before dealing with the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian.
• Cheng Xiao spotted Star Luo soldiers chasing wounded Heaven Dou scouts and recognized their leader, Uncle Bai.
• Uncle Bai used his Martial Soul Avatar to cripple the Heaven Dou soldiers and ordered his men to kill them.
• Cheng Xiao intervened with a sword strike that killed several Star Luo soldiers and stopped Uncle Bai's attack.
• Cheng Xiao revealed himself to Uncle Bai and ordered Yegrit to kill him.

Cheng Xiao summoned Yegrit to defend the soldiers, and Yegrit fought Uncle Bai, a Soul Sage transformed into a Blazing Light leopard. The fight left Uncle Bai wounded and frightened as Yegrit’s injuries healed, and Yegrit aimed a strike at his fatal weak point.

• A captain despaired at seeing the young Cheng Xiao until Yegrit appeared in black armor and the soldiers recognized him as their reinforcements.
• Uncle Bai transformed into a Blazing Light leopard and attacked Yegrit with his Explosive Flame Rending Claws, but Yegrit blocked them with a sword strike.
• Uncle Bai fired his Golden Leopard Soul Shockwave at Yegrit, then charged toward Cheng Xiao, believing Yegrit had been destroyed.
• Yegrit reappeared behind Uncle Bai, shattered his Blazing Light barrier, and pierced his shoulder with his sword.
• Yegrit and Uncle Bai exchanged fierce attacks, but Yegrit’s wounds healed while the leopard accumulated injuries and began to fear him.
• Yegrit told Uncle Bai he was afraid and thrust his blade toward the leopard’s fatal weak point.

Yegrit defeated Commander Bai, but Star Luo reinforcements arrived before Cheng Xiao could finish him. Cheng Xiao summoned more than ten thousand Shadow Legion soldiers and sent them charging at the enemy army.

• Yegrit pierced Commander Bai’s flaming shield and struck him down with a sword, leaving him wounded and unable to fight.
• Cheng Xiao prepared to execute Commander Bai, but several thousand Star Luo reinforcements led by Zhu Fei approached.
• Commander Bai and the Heaven Dou squad urged Cheng Xiao to surrender or flee, but Cheng Xiao revealed that he was no longer fighting alone.
• Cheng Xiao summoned more than ten thousand Shadow Legion soldiers from his shadow.
• Cheng Xiao ordered the Shadow Legion to attack, and its soldiers charged into the Star Luo reinforcements.

Cheng Xiao defeated the Star Luo forces with the Shadow Legion, rescued Su Tianyu’s scouting party, and reunited with Xue Qinghe at the Heaven Dou military camp. The reunion ended awkwardly when Xue Qinghe nearly embraced him before remembering her current identity.

• Cheng Xiao let the retreating Star Luo soldiers flee because sustaining the Shadow Legion was draining his Soul Power, then raised the fallen soldiers as loyal shadows.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Cheng Xiao that releasing part of his seal could rapidly restore his Soul Power, giving him a way to sustain the Shadow Legion.
• Cheng Xiao accepted the thanks of Su Tianyu and his squad after rescuing them, and Su Tianyu recognized him as the Saint Son of Spirit Hall.
• Xue Qinghe received a bracelet from Cheng Xiao and hurriedly invited him into the tent after realizing who had arrived.
• Xue Qinghe nearly embraced Cheng Xiao, but he addressed her formally, prompting her to stop and awkwardly return his greeting.

Cheng Xiao visited Xue Qinghe’s army, learned that a Star Luo force planned to attack through Maple Leaf Gorge, and offered to stop it. He summoned a vast Shadow Legion before Xue Qinghe, leaving the Crown Prince stunned by the army Cheng Xiao could command alone.

• Cheng Xiao found Xue Qinghe’s command tent and learned that Star Luo forces had attacked Suotuo City and destroyed much of Heaven Dou’s provisions.
• Cheng Xiao told Xue Qinghe that he had killed a Soul Sage, surprising him with his strength and rapid cultivation.
• Su Tianyu reported that at least twenty thousand Star Luo soldiers planned to pass through Maple Leaf Gorge and strike Heaven Dou’s rear.
• Xue Qinghe explained that Heaven Dou lacked spare troops to defend the gorge, and Cheng Xiao volunteered to go in their place.
• Cheng Xiao summoned a vast Shadow Legion outside the camp, causing alarm among the soldiers and excitement in Xue Qinghe.

Cheng Xiao ambushed the Star Luo army at Maple Leaf Gorge with the Shadow Legion while Xue Qinghe realized his opponent on the main battlefield was Zhu Fei, not Zhu Mo. Zhu Mo arrived and attacked Cheng Xiao, but Cheng Xiao escaped the strike and confronted him again.

• Cheng Xiao appeared before the Star Luo army and killed a soldier who tried to drive him away.
• Cheng Xiao summoned the Shadow Legion, trapping the Star Luo army at Maple Leaf Gorge and turning the passage into a massacre.
• Xue Qinghe recognized that the commander facing him was Zhu Fei rather than Zhu Mo.
• Yegrit gained the upper hand against a powerful Soul Sage, but Zhu Mo arrived and rescued the general.
• Zhu Mo attacked Cheng Xiao with his Martial Soul Avatar, but Cheng Xiao reappeared behind him among the Shadow Soldiers and said he could no longer be killed as he had been a year earlier.

Cheng Xiao used his Shadow Legion and newly revealed hundred-thousand-year soul ring to devastate Zhu Mo’s Star Luo army at Maple Leaf Gorge. Zhu Mo unleashed his eighth soul skill against Cheng Xiao and the Legion, but a six-winged woman arrived and shielded Cheng Xiao from the thunder.

• Cheng Xiao evaded Zhu Mo’s Hell Spirit Cat clones with Shadow Exchange and revealed his hundred-thousand-year third soul ring.
• Cheng Xiao’s Mental Storm disoriented Zhu Mo’s soldiers, allowing the Shadow Legion to kill them, while Simulation helped Cheng Xiao evade Zhu Mo and attack the army.
• Zhu Mo ordered a retreat, and the Shadow Legion pursued the Star Luo soldiers through Maple Leaf Gorge, reducing an army of over twenty thousand to fewer than ten thousand.
• Enraged by the losses, Zhu Mo trapped Cheng Xiao and unleashed his eighth soul skill, Netherworld Demon-Shaking Thunder, across the battlefield.
• A six-winged woman descended and used golden light to shield Cheng Xiao from Zhu Mo’s thunder.

Qian Renxue joined Cheng Xiao against Zhu Mo, and the two formed the Shadow King through their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The Shadow King gravely wounded Zhu Mo, who lost an arm to a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as he fled.

• Qian Renxue arrived to protect Cheng Xiao and used her evolved Flame of Judgment to withstand Zhu Mo's lightning.
• Zhu Mo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and unleashed his eighth soul skill against Qian Renxue and Cheng Xiao.
• Cheng Xiao pulled Qian Renxue into an embrace, triggering their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and summoning the Shadow King.
• The Shadow King tore through Zhu Mo's lightning and struck him with a powerful sword blow.
• Zhu Mo fled toward Maple Leaf Gorge, but a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger severed one of his arms.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger appeared amid the battle and attacked the wounded Zhu Mo, hoping to devour him and increase its cultivation. Zhu Mo escaped after the tiger was struck by Cheng Xiao’s sword, while the tiger turned its attention to the Shadow King.

• The Dark Demon Evil Tiger recognized Zhu Mo as powerful prey after devouring his severed arm.
• Zhu Mo used his Nether Shadow Clone to evade Cheng Xiao’s sword, but the tiger crushed his clones and forced him to use Nether Phantom Body.
• Zhu Mo kicked the tiger into Cheng Xiao’s sword strike and fled toward the horizon.
• The wounded tiger survived the sword strike and caught up to Zhu Mo, striking him with dark power before he escaped.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger fixed its attention on the Shadow King, believing that devouring him would help it reach one hundred thousand years of cultivation.

Cheng Xiao and Qian Renxue’s Shadow King fusion ended, leaving them vulnerable to the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. As the tiger attacked Cheng Xiao, the woman sleeping in the Gold of Life awakened and merged with his Spiritual Body, taking control as he confronted the beast.

• Cheng Xiao and Qian Renxue exhausted their strength, causing the Shadow King to collapse and disappear.
• Qian Renxue stunned the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with Angel's Roar, but it blocked her strike with its Evil God Hook and wounded her with a claw.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger enveloped Cheng Xiao in evil aura and lunged to devour him, but Cheng Xiao escaped using Shadow Exchange.
• The evil aura invaded Cheng Xiao’s Spiritual Sea, where the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fled from it.
• The woman sleeping in the Gold of Life awakened, dispersed the evil aura, and merged with Cheng Xiao’s Spiritual Body.
• Cheng Xiao unleashed the Dragon Emperor Martial Soul as the woman took control and declared that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger should never have existed.

The Silver Dragon King possessed Cheng Xiao and used his Dragon Emperor power to fight the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. After countering the tiger’s attacks and trapping it with Space Control, she prepared to finish the battle.

• The Silver Dragon King awakened and possessed Cheng Xiao, transforming him into a dragon and gaining control of his elemental power and the Dragon Emperor’s Power of Destruction.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger overcame its fear of Cheng Xiao’s changed aura and attacked with blades of fused wind and evil.
• The Silver Dragon King shattered the blades and erased the evil mist with the Power of Destruction.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger used a withering black beam and then struck from behind with its Evil God Hook, but Cheng Xiao blocked both attacks.
• The Silver Dragon King used Space Control to turn the tiger’s retreat toward Cheng Xiao, then raised an elemental blade to strike it.

Cheng Xiao, under the Silver Dragon King’s control, killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and seized the strange bead it tried to escape with. After sealing the bead, Cheng Xiao regained control of himself, then collapsed into Qian Renxue as she caught him.

• The Silver Dragon King trapped the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and destroyed its devouring sphere with the Blade of Elements and the Power of Destruction.
• The Dark Demon Evil Tiger died in the blast, and a black soul ring and strange bead emerged from its corpse.
• The Silver Dragon King stopped the bead from escaping through a black hole, pulled it back, and sealed away its hostile emotions.
• Qian Renxue arrived and questioned whether the silver-eyed Cheng Xiao was still himself.
• Cheng Xiao returned to human form, lost his strength, and fell onto Qian Renxue.

Cheng Xiao recovered after the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s defeat and examined the Evil God Orb and its Soul Ring. Despite Qian Renxue warning that the sixty-thousand-year ring was far beyond what he could absorb as a fourth ring, he resolved to take the risk.

• Qian Renxue and Cheng Xiao awkwardly separated after crashing into each other, and she stood guard while he restored his Soul Power.
• Cheng Xiao identified the black stone as the Evil God Orb, the essence of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and put it away for later use.
• Cheng Xiao approached the Dark Demon Evil God's corpse and considered absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Qian Renxue urged Cheng Xiao not to absorb the sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring, warning that it would likely kill him.
• Cheng Xiao decided to proceed despite the danger, and Qian Renxue angrily said she would stop trying to dissuade him.

Cheng Xiao tested whether he could summon a sixty-thousand-year Soul Beast before risking the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s soul ring. He endured the ring’s painful absorption without a Soul Shock and opened his eyes as Qian Renxue asked what soul skill he had gained.

• Cheng Xiao ordered Yegrit to find a sixty-thousand-year Soul Beast, and Qian Renxue joined him in bringing back a Flame Demon Lion.
• Cheng Xiao summoned the Flame Demon Lion’s shadow after several attempts, revealing to Qian Renxue the battlefield potential of his ability.
• Cheng Xiao realized that summoning the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s shadow might exceed his limit, but decided to absorb its soul ring for the chance of gaining a powerful skill.
• Cheng Xiao absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s soul ring, enduring intense pain while avoiding a Soul Shock.
• Cheng Xiao finished absorbing the ring and opened his eyes, and Qian Renxue asked what soul skill he had gained.

Cheng Xiao discovered that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Time-Space Reversal soul skill could weaken opponents and revert their bodies and souls to childhood, inspiring him to consider creating shadow-based Spirit Souls. After explaining ways to counter the skill, he realized his Soul Power had reached level forty-six.

• Cheng Xiao described Time-Space Reversal to Qian Renxue, explaining that it trapped targets in a looping space, reverted them to childhood, and weakened their abilities.
• Cheng Xiao connected the soul skill with Tian Meng's Soul Stripping and hypnosis, imagining a method to create shadow versions of Spirit Souls.
• Cheng Xiao cautioned himself that the idea was only preliminary and that creating Spirit Souls would be far more difficult than developing a Soul Core.
• Qian Renxue asked how Time-Space Reversal could be broken, and Cheng Xiao listed spatial skills or defeating him as possible counters.
• Qian Renxue questioned Cheng Xiao's Soul Power level, and Cheng Xiao discovered it had reached level forty-six.

After reaching level forty-six, Cheng Xiao left Xue Qinghe and the Heaven Dou army to return to Shrek Academy, hoping to obtain Tang San’s Immortal Herb Album and save Ye Renxin. At Shrek, Yu Xiaogang remained unaware that Cheng Xiao was alive and considered his absence a relief.

• Cheng Xiao revealed that he had reached level forty-six, and Qian Renxue worried that Spirit Hall’s leader might try to recruit or kill him.
• Cheng Xiao and Qian Renxue parted, then met again in camp, where Xue Qinghe told Cheng Xiao that the Star Luo army was retreating after its commander and detached force were devastated.
• Cheng Xiao declined to stay with the army and warned Xue Qinghe that remaining away from the capital too long could endanger his position.
• Cheng Xiao set off for Shrek Academy to seek Tang San’s Immortal Herb Album and find an immortal herb that could help Ye Renxin survive.
• At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang watched the students train and thought their teamwork had improved without Cheng Xiao, whom he believed might be dead.

Cheng Xiao disappeared in the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Yu Xiaogang worried about Tang San and the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma. After Zhu Zhuqing returned and tensions with Dai Mubai ruined their teamwork, Cheng Xiao suddenly reappeared at Shrek Academy.

• Yu Xiaogang led the Shrek group out of the Star Dou Great Forest after the Titan Giant Ape abducted Xiao Wu and Tang San chased after it.
• Zhu Zhuqing returned to Shrek Academy alone and said she knew nothing about Cheng Xiao's whereabouts.
• Dai Mubai learned that Zhu Zhuqing had lured Uncle Bai away, but stayed silent because she knew he had ordered the ambush against Cheng Xiao.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu defeated Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing in combat training because the pair failed to coordinate.
• Yu Xiaogang assigned Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing twenty laps, then Cheng Xiao appeared at Shrek Academy after two months away.

Cheng Xiao returned to the group and explained that he had been separated after an Ice Silkworm hypnotized him, then found Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow in an underground cavern. Yu Xiaogang eagerly asked if Cheng Xiao remembered how to reach it, while Tang San and Dai Mubai struggled with jealousy over Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Yu Xiaogang and Dai Mubai reacted to Cheng Xiao's return, each thinking about the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma.
• Cheng Xiao greeted Zhu Zhuqing warmly, and Dai Mubai grew furious as she smiled back at him.
• Xiao Wu rushed to inspect Cheng Xiao, making Tang San realize he felt possessive of her and threatened by Cheng Xiao.
• Cheng Xiao explained that an Ice Silkworm had hypnotized him and led him into an underground cavern where he found Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Yu Xiaogang seized Cheng Xiao's hand and urgently asked whether he remembered the cavern's location.