Chapter Summaries

Yin Chen rejected the idea of refining the champion’s century-old Agility Attack System soul bone and planned to use it as a resource to build support within Shrek Academy. Back in Class One, Wang Yan began selecting class monitors, but Ye Guyi challenged the need for a vote.

• Du Weilun awarded Yin Chen, Gu Yuena, and Ye Guyi an Azure Cloud Sparrow soul bone and privately regarded the reward as a protective warning from Dean Yan.
• Yin Chen asked Gu Yuena and Ye Guyi whether they wanted the soul bone, but both declined it.
• Ye Guyi and Gu Yuena warned Yin Chen that refining a low-age soul bone could limit his future, and Yin Chen said he intended to use it for another purpose.
• Yin Chen, Gu Yuena, and Ye Guyi returned to Class One, where Wang Yan announced an election for class monitor and vice monitor.
• Ye Guyi raised her hand and told Wang Yan that a vote would not be necessary.

Freshman Class One chose Yin Chen and Gu Yuena as class monitor and vice monitor after Ye Guyi argued that the strongest students deserved the positions. As the class headed to the canteen to celebrate, two curious Inner Court disciples watched them pass.

• Ye Guyi proposed Yin Chen and Gu Yuena as class leaders, and Wang Dong objected in favor of voting and Huo Yuhao.
• Ye Guyi challenged Wang Dong to fight, while Wu Feng, Dai Huabin, and the other students backed Yin Chen and Gu Yuena.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Wang Dong from continuing the argument, and Wang Yan appointed Yin Chen and Gu Yuena class monitor and vice monitor.
• Zhou Sichen, Cao Jinxuan, Dai Huabin, and other students gathered around Yin Chen before Wang Dong dragged Huo Yuhao along to the canteen.
• Two Inner Court disciples, one white-haired and one black-haired, watched Freshman Class One head toward the canteen.

Ling Luochen and Xi Xi reported that their mission to hunt a Soul King had stalled amid strange Nirvana Corpse activity near the Far North, and Han Ruoruo considered recruiting Outer Court core disciples to join their next mission. In Freshman Class One, the academy invited eligible Soul Elders to volunteer, but Ling Luochen warned them that the target was exceptionally dangerous and difficult to kill.

• Ling Luochen and Xi Xi told Han Ruoruo that their target had escaped toward Dragon City and that Nirvana Corpses were gathering toward the Extreme North.
• Xi Xi explained that the new mission required investigating the corpses and bringing Outer Court core disciples along, so Han Ruoruo began considering suitable freshmen.
• The next morning, Han Ruoruo and Wang Yan brought Ling Luochen and Xi Xi into Freshman Class One to announce a voluntary mission for core disciples who had reached the Soul Elder level.
• Yin Chen asked about the target's threat level, and Ling Luochen revealed that the target was a Soul King with a form of undying body and was difficult to kill completely.
• Dai Huabin reconsidered joining the mission after hearing the danger and realizing Zhu Lu could not accompany him or use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Yin Chen, Gu Yuena, and Ye Guyi volunteered to support an Inner Court mission against a suspected Soul King-level Nirvana Corpse, and Han Ruoruo confirmed them as participants. At dawn, they gathered at Shrek Academy’s gates and found Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan joining Ling Luochen and Xi Xi.

• Yin Chen recognized the suspected undying target as a Nirvana Corpse and volunteered, seeing the mission as a chance to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.
• Gu Yuena and Ye Guyi also signed up because they wanted to investigate Nirvana Corpses and felt equipped to face the threat.
• Dai Huabin considered joining but withdrew after Zhu Lu reminded him that he lacked their combined Hell White Tiger technique and was not ready for the danger.
• Han Ruoruo confirmed Yin Chen, Gu Yuena, and Ye Guyi as the Outer Court participants and assigned Ling Luochen and Xi Xi to protect them.
• At dawn, the three freshmen arrived at Shrek Academy’s gates and found Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan waiting with Ling Luochen and Xi Xi.

Zhang Lexuan gathered the team for a mission to investigate unusual movements near the northern border of the Heaven Dou Empire and the edge of the Extreme North. After assigning the Outer Court disciples standard flying Soul Tools, she prepared everyone to travel under her command.

• Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao argued over Ma Xiaotao joining the mission and whether Ling Luochen would help suppress her Evil Fire, until Zhang Lexuan intervened.
• Yin Chen, Gu Yuena, and Ye Guyi arrived, and Zhang Lexuan explained the mission's reconnaissance goals and ordered the team to avoid combat unless necessary.
• Zhang Lexuan distributed standard flying Soul Tools to the Outer Court disciples while the Inner Court members used customized equipment.
• Yin Chen injected Soul Power into his metal wings, which hummed and lifted into the air.

Yin Chen and the others traveled north with Zhang Lexuan, growing familiar with one another during their journey. They reached Dragon City, where Zhang Lexuan explained the two sects that protected the city, and the group recognized Beibei’s connection to the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s Martial Soul.

• Zhang Lexuan led the ten-person team north using their flying Soul Tools, and the group rested periodically as they traveled.
• Xu Sanshi pursued Jiang Nannan, while Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen exchanged barbs and Zhang Lexuan showed special care toward Beibei.
• Xu Sanshi questioned Beibei about Zhang Lexuan’s attentiveness, and Beibei said she had cared for him like an older sister.
• Yin Chen realized Beibei did not know Zhang Lexuan’s feelings for him and chose not to interfere.
• The group reached Dragon City, landed outside its gates, and walked toward the city through the snow.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Earth Dragon Sect guarded Dragon City, and everyone looked at Beibei when she named the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.

Zhang Lexuan’s group arrived in Dragon City and checked into the Dragon Slumber Inn before discussing how to search for their elusive target. They decided to seek help from the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Earth Dragon Sect, but had not yet set out when the chapter ended.

• Beibei explained that his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon lineage was separate from the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s branch.
• Zhang Lexuan led the group through Dragon City and checked them into adjacent rooms at the Dragon Slumber Inn.
• After a brief rest, the Outer Court students joined Zhang Lexuan’s group to discuss the mission.
• Zhang Lexuan said they needed local intelligence because their target was difficult to find in Dragon City.
• Zhang Lexuan assigned herself, Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan to visit the Heavenly Dragon Sect, while Ma Xiaotao, Luochen, and Xi Xi would take Yin Chen, Gu Yuena, and Ye Guyi to the Earth Dragon Sect.

Yin Chen and his companions explored Dragon City's lively night, where he sensed disguised Nirvana Corpses tied to Wangsheng Hall. The next morning, the group went to the Earth Dragon Sect to begin their visit, where they encountered a group of young people led by a pink-haired girl.

• Yin Chen suggested that the group explore Dragon City, and Xu Sanshi eagerly agreed after hearing Jiang Nannan could join them.
• Yin Chen bought small gifts for Ye Guyi and Gu Yuena while Xu Sanshi persistently tried to win Jiang Nannan over with presents.
• Yin Chen sensed at least three disguised Nirvana Corpses in the city and suspected Wangsheng Hall was preparing forces for its plans in the Extreme North.
• Zhang Lexuan and the Inner Court disciples returned after meeting the Academy's intelligence personnel, and Yin Chen's group set out for the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Ma Xiaotao presented Shrek Academy's visiting card at the Earth Dragon Sect's gate, where the group waited and saw a pink-haired girl leading a lively group toward them.

Yin Chen and the Shrek Academy group arrived at Earth Dragon Sect and met its young mistress, Nan Qiuqiu. They were welcomed into the sect and brought before its Sect Master, Nan Shuishui, who was revealed to be Nan Qiuqiu’s mother.

• Nan Qiuqiu challenged the Shrek Academy visitors at the gate, then recognized them and traded barbs with Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao’s figure made Nan Qiuqiu lose her confidence, while Ling Luochen, Ye Guyi, and Gu Yuena each reacted to the comparison.
• A gatekeeping disciple returned with the Sect Master’s invitation, and Nan Qiuqiu led her companions into Earth Dragon Sect.
• The disciple guided Yin Chen and the others through the sect’s courtyards to its Inner Court garden.
• Nan Shuishui turned from watering spiritual plants to greet the visitors, and the chapter revealed she was Nan Qiuqiu’s mother.

Ma Xiaotao and the Shrek Academy group visited the Earth Dragon Sect to investigate reports of Nirvana Corpses, while Yin Chen sensed a hidden corpse aura in Nan Shuishui’s garden. Before the group could leave, Nan Shuishui proposed a friendly spar, and Yin Chen stepped forward to face Nan Qiuqiu.

• Ma Xiaotao asked Nan Shuishui for the Earth Dragon Sect’s help investigating Nirvana Corpse activity around Dragon City, and Nan Shuishui promised their full assistance.
• Yin Chen noticed Nan Shuishui’s fingers twitch at the mention of Nirvana Corpses and sensed a concealed corpse aura among the garden’s spiritual plants.
• Nan Shuishui suggested that Nan Qiuqiu spar with one of the Shrek Academy disciples before they left.
• Yin Chen volunteered to fight Nan Qiuqiu, and Nan Shuishui led the group to the Earth Dragon Sect’s martial practice field.

Yin Chen faced Nan Qiuqiu in a sparring match at the Earth Dragon Sect and revealed his Archon of Time Martial Soul and unusual Soul Ring configuration. He deflected Nan Qiuqiu’s opening attack with Dustless Domain and launched wind blades at her.

• Nan Shuishui brought Yin Chen and the Shrek Academy group to the Earth Dragon Sect’s training arena, where Nan Qiuqiu challenged him to spar.
• Nan Qiuqiu released her Rouge Dragon Martial Soul and attacked first with her Annihilation Beam.
• Yin Chen revealed his Archon of Time Martial Soul and a yellow, two-purple Soul Ring configuration, stunning the watching disciples and elders.
• Yin Chen used Dustless Domain to deflect Nan Qiuqiu’s Annihilation Beam away from himself.
• Yin Chen swept out his right hand and sent several wind blades toward Nan Qiuqiu.

Yin Chen defeated Nan Qiuqiu in a one-sided match, overcoming her annihilation attacks with precise control of the air. After Nan Qiuqiu conceded, Nan Shuishui praised Yin Chen and used the loss to admonish her daughter.

• Nan Qiuqiu attacked Yin Chen with her annihilation skills, but Dustless Domain let him evade and deflect every strike without using a Soul Skill.
• Yin Chen trapped Nan Qiuqiu with Vortex Shackles and Vacuum Negative Pressure, then used Empty Dream Shadow to appear behind her with a Super Pressure Air Blade at her neck.
• Nan Qiuqiu admitted defeat, and the presiding elder declared Yin Chen the winner as the arena erupted in discussion.
• Yin Chen praised the Rouge Dragon's Power of Annihilation, and Nan Shuishui commended his talent and precise control.
• Nan Shuishui teased and admonished Nan Qiuqiu for neglecting cultivation after seeing the gap between her and Yin Chen.

After Nan Qiuqiu lost to Yin Chen, she vowed to cultivate, while Nan Shuishui secretly returned to the Earth Dragon Sect’s forbidden chamber. There, Nan Xi revealed that her dangerous cravings were growing stronger and that she planned to leave with a group recruiting her to protect the sect.

• Nan Qiuqiu fled the arena, embarrassed by her defeat, and declared that she would cultivate.
• Nan Shuishui apologized to Ma Xiaotao and the others, then saw them off with Yin Chen and Ling Luochen.
• After the Shrek group left, Nan Shuishui entered the sect’s hidden cultivation chamber and found her supposedly deceased mother, Nan Xi.
• Nan Shuishui warned Nan Xi that Shrek Academy was investigating the Nirvana Corpse and urged her to stay hidden while she searched for Soul Beasts.
• Nan Xi explained that the Heavenly Dragon Sect might already suspect her survival and that her growing hunger for life could endanger the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Nan Xi said she intended to leave with the group recruiting her, believing that doing so might protect the Earth Dragon Sect.

Nan Shuishui learned that her mother Nan Xi had joined Wangsheng Hall and was helping Shrek Academy find Nirvana Corpses to protect the Earth Dragon Sect. After Zhang Lexuan’s team reported that the corpses might be gathering in the Extreme North, Yin Chen suggested that the conflict between them and the Soul Beasts could temporarily protect the human world.

• Nan Xi told Nan Shuishui that Shrek Academy should be given the location of the Nirvana Corpses so they could clear them out and leave Dragon City.
• Nan Shuishui feared that Nirvana Corpses could become a threat to humans by feeding on their vitality, even as she worried about her mother’s fate.
• Yin Chen and the others returned to the Dragon Slumber Inn and exchanged information with Zhang Lexuan’s team.
• Zhang Lexuan reported that Heavenly Dragon Douluo had agreed to help search for the escaped Nirvana Corpses and believed they were gathering in the Extreme North for its natural defenses and abundant Soul Beasts.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen worried about the danger of the Nirvana Corpses gaining strength and clashing with the Extreme North’s powerful Soul Beasts.
• Yin Chen compared the gathering to the old Slaughter City and suggested that the Nirvana Corpses and Soul Beasts might weaken each other, reducing the danger to humans in the short term.

Yin Chen’s story about Slaughter City left Zhang Lexuan and the Inner Court disciples awkwardly aware of its hidden history, but Zhang Lexuan redirected the team to their mission. With intelligence from the Earth Dragon Sect, the Shrek Academy group found three Nirvana Corpses in Gray Rat Alley and launched an attack, leaving the battle underway.

• Ye Guyi asked why Slaughter City had been destroyed, and Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen reacted awkwardly because they knew more about its history.
• An Earth Dragon Sect disciple told Zhang Lexuan that the Nirvana Corpses were hiding in abandoned Gray Rat Alley in western Dragon City.
• Zhang Lexuan assigned the team roles and led the group to Gray Rat Alley, where Xi Xi confirmed that three targets were hiding in a warehouse.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao broke into the warehouse, where three Nirvana Corpses emerged and the Soul Emperor-level target recognized Shrek Academy.
• The battle erupted inside the warehouse.

Shrek’s Inner Court disciples fought three Nirvana Corpses in a warehouse while Yin Chen joined the battle with his self-created skills. He killed a Soul King-level Nirvana Corpse with one precise strike, as Ma Xiaotao continued battling the Soul Emperor-level corpse.

• The Nirvana Corpses tried to break out, but Ma Xiaotao engaged the Soul Emperor-level corpse while Ling Luochen and Xi Xi blocked the other two.
• Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan arrived and helped contain the Soul King-level corpses as Yu Tianlong and Nan Qiuqiu watched from outside the warehouse.
• After Zhang Lexuan confirmed the area was clear, Ye Guyi joined the fight and Gu Yuena strengthened Ma Xiaotao’s flames while weakening the Soul Emperor’s death energy.
• Yin Chen used Vortex Shackles and Vacuum Negative Pressure to expose a Soul King-level Nirvana Corpse’s weakness, then pierced its heart with his Super Pressure Air Blade and killed it in one strike.

After Shrek’s team destroyed the three Nirvana Corpses, Yin Chen announced that he had reached rank forty and needed a fourth Soul Ring. Zhang Lexuan agreed to take him to the outskirts of the Far North Ice Plains to find a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and investigate the region’s recent changes.

• Ma Xiaotao used Gu Yuena’s elemental support to burn the Soul Emperor-level Nirvana Corpse to ash with her True Phoenix Fire.
• Ye Guyi purified the last Nirvana Corpse with her Angel Holy Sword and gained a small boost to her Soul Power.
• Zhang Lexuan confirmed that Shrek’s team had cleared the mission, and the group returned to the Dragon Slumber Inn to compile its intelligence.
• Yin Chen told Zhang Lexuan and the others that he had broken through to rank forty and needed to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan agreed to personally take Yin Chen to the Far North Ice Plains’ outskirts to seek a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and investigate the region.

Yin Chen and Zhang Lexuan left Dragon City for the Extreme North so Yin Chen could obtain his fourth Soul Ring and pursue benefits amid the conflict there. Meanwhile, Castorice and Feiyan watched Long Xiaoyao battle a hundred-thousand-year Dark Prison Demon Owl in the Jingyang Mountain Range.

• Zhang Lexuan assigned Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and the others to rest in Dragon City and report back to the academy after her return.
• Yin Chen questioned Istaroth about his fourth soul skill, and she assured him it would let him get involved in the coming events.
• Yin Chen and Zhang Lexuan said goodbye to the others and set out for the Extreme North.
• Castorice and Feiyan observed Long Xiaoyao confronting a hundred-thousand-year Dark Prison Demon Owl in the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• The Dark Prison Demon Owl unleashed a tide of darkness and a rain of corrosive feathers, and Long Xiaoyao answered with a dragon's roar.

Long Xiaoyao used his Dark Sacred Dragon powers to defeat and seal the Dark Prison Demon Owl, preventing it from escaping. Feiyan brought Castorice to the battlefield, where Castorice thanked Long Xiaoyao as her elder.

• Long Xiaoyao unleashed his Dark Sacred Dragon Martial Soul and effortlessly swallowed the Dark Prison Demon Owl’s Nether Death Rays.
• Long Xiaoyao dodged the demon owl’s many afterimage attacks and cut through its clones with dark Soul Power.
• Long Xiaoyao trapped the fleeing demon owl in his Silent Darkness Domain and sealed its Soul Core, meridians, and soul.
• Feiyan brought Castorice down from the cliff after Long Xiaoyao subdued the demon owl.
• Castorice looked toward Long Xiaoyao and thanked him, addressing him as Uncle Long.

Castorice used her fourth soul skill, Death Memory, to recreate Ye Xishui’s Death God’s Light and kill the gravely wounded Dark Prison Demon Owl. Its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring rose from its corpse, leaving Castorice poised to attempt the dangerous absorption.

• Long Xiaoyao warned Castorice that failing to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring would destroy her body and soul, but she calmly accepted the risk.
• Castorice summoned her Archon of Death, Ronava, and activated her fourth soul skill, Death Memory, while Long Xiaoyao and Feiyan watched over her.
• Death Memory manifested a projection of Ye Xishui wielding the Death God Tower, which fired Death God's Light through the Dark Prison Demon Owl's skull.
• The Dark Prison Demon Owl died, and its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring rose from its corpse.
• Feiyan recognized the attack as Ye Xishui's Death God's Light and learned that Castorice's Death Memory could recreate an attack that had once killed her because her second soul skill, Death Dream, could turn her death into a dream.