Chapter Summaries

Ling Feng engraved a Class 3 Soul Tool core formation on his first attempt, impressing Xian Lin'er, who asked him to favor the Soul Guidance Department. He accepted her as his teacher and quickly advanced toward Class 4 Soul Engineer, while Xian Lin'er left to handle an urgent matter.

• Xian Lin'er gave Ling Feng a Class 3 Soul Tool core formation blueprint, and he engraved it successfully in two hours.
• Xian Lin'er asked Ling Feng to lean toward the Soul Guidance Department and promised it would offer him twice whatever the Martial Soul Department did.
• Ling Feng declared Xian Lin'er his teacher, and she excitedly hugged him before letting go when he said he felt stuffy.
• Xian Lin'er promised Ling Feng he could take whatever he liked at the next Treasure Appraisal Fair and charge it to her name.
• Xian Lin'er taught Ling Feng, helping him reach the threshold of becoming a Class 4 Soul Engineer in one night, then hurried off to handle an important matter.

Xian Lin'er secured Ling Feng as her disciple and persuaded the Sea God Pavilion to make him a priority for the Soul Tool Department. After seven months of rapid progress, Ling Feng prepared to take his final assessment and use an early holiday to search for the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao did.

• Xian Lin'er argued with Yan Shaozhe over Ling Feng joining the Soul Tool Department, and Mu En ruled that she had done nothing wrong.
• Xian Lin'er told the Sea God Pavilion elders that Ling Feng could become a level-nine or even level-ten Soul Engineer, and Mu En approved her plan to devote resources to training him.
• Zhang Lexuan and Xian Lin'er trained Ling Feng in combat and Soul Tools, and he reached the threshold of level forty and independently inscribed a level-five Soul Tool core formation.
• After seven months, Ling Feng had completed his yearly academic tasks early and could begin his holiday after passing the final assessment.
• Ling Feng planned to use his two-month holiday to find the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao did.

Ling Feng passed the Soul Guidance Department assessment by engraving a flawless sixth-grade Soul Tool core, and Xian Lin'er assigned him a Shrek Supervisory Group mission with Lexuan. Ling Feng, Ling Luocheng, and Lexuan arrived at a courtyard where the current Shrek Seven Monsters had gathered.

• Ling Feng completed a sixth-grade Soul Tool core, and Xian Lin'er praised his precision and declared him successful in the Soul Guidance Department assessment.
• Xian Lin'er told Ling Feng that Lexuan would take him on a Shrek Supervisory Group mission the next day, which would also count as his Martial Soul Department assessment.
• Ling Feng reunited with Ling Luocheng, and they spent the night together before leaving early the next morning.
• Ling Feng and Ling Luocheng met Lexuan outside her dormitory, and she led them to a courtyard on Sea God Island.
• Ling Feng recognized Ma Xiaotao and Yao Haoxuan among the people gathered there and realized that the group was the current Shrek Seven Monsters.

Xuan Zi assigned Ling Feng, Ling Luocheng, Zhang Lexuan, and the others to hunt bandits and evil soul masters in the Extreme North Land while Ling Luocheng sought her sixth soul ring and Ling Feng sought his fourth. After Dai Yueheng challenged Ling Feng's right to join, Ling Feng accepted a ten-move wager and offered to follow Dai Yueheng's orders if he lost.

• Xuan Zi announced that the team would travel to the Extreme North Land to eliminate bandits led by an evil soul master and help Ling Luocheng and Ling Feng obtain soul rings.
• Dai Yueheng objected to bringing Ling Feng, calling him a potential burden, and Ling Luocheng defended him by demonstrating how he could help her wield Ultimate Ice.
• Zhang Lexuan backed Ling Feng and challenged Dai Yueheng's doubts about his strength.
• Dai Yueheng challenged Ling Feng to withstand ten moves, and Ling Feng accepted, wagering that he would submit to Dai Yueheng's orders if he lost.

Ling Feng challenged Dai Yueheng to defeat him within ten moves, then used his ice spear and Spirit Eyes to withstand Dai Yueheng’s attacks and wound him. As Dai Yueheng unleashed his strongest moves, Ling Feng revealed two martial soul phantoms beginning to fuse, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Ling Feng wagered that he could defeat Dai Yueheng within ten moves, and Dai Yueheng accepted the challenge.
• Dai Yueheng attacked Ling Feng with White Tiger Possession, but Ling Feng blocked his claws with an ice spear.
• Zhang Lexuan defended Ling Feng, pointing out that he was holding his own without even having his fourth soul ring.
• Ling Feng parried Dai Yueheng’s attacks and wounded his shoulder with a counterthrust.
• Dai Yueheng used three enhancement skills and White Tiger Meteor Shower, but Ling Feng redirected the attack with Spiritual Interference and blocked the remaining projectiles.
• Dai Yueheng unleashed White Tiger Annihilation Strike as Ling Feng’s Spirit Eyes and Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion phantoms began to fuse.

Ling Feng revealed a self Martial Soul Fusion Skill and defeated Dai Yueheng, leaving him severely injured. As Zhang Lexuan's group prepared to depart, Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to follow Ling Feng closely and heed his words.

• Ling Feng fused his two martial souls and froze the courtyard, trapping Dai Yueheng in ice before releasing him.
• Dai Yueheng suffered severe spiritual injuries, and Xuan Zi summoned Ma Xiaotao to fetch Zhuang Lao for treatment.
• Xuan Zi cleared the ice, and Zhang Lexuan led Ling Feng and the others away after he recovered for an hour.
• Mu En appeared before Xuan Zi, said Ling Feng seemed extraordinary, and instructed him to watch Ling Feng and listen to him.
• Xuan Zi agreed to follow Mu En's orders but privately dismissed the need to pay Ling Feng so much attention.

Ling Feng and the Shrek Academy group reached Extreme North City and learned that evil soul masters had badly injured the Ling Family, including its head, Ling Zhen. After assessing the remaining threat, Lexuan split the group, staying with Ma Xiaotao’s team in the city while taking Ling Feng and Ling Luocheng into the Extreme North Land to obtain soul rings.

• Ling Feng explained to Lexuan and Ling Luocheng that his Twin Martial Souls could fuse and that he had recently tested his self-body Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The group traveled north for several days and arrived at a damaged, unusually quiet Extreme North City.
• Ling Feng and Ling Luocheng learned that Ling Zhen had been injured and that the Ling Family had lost members fighting more than a dozen criminals, including four Soul Emperors.
• The First Elder said Ling Zhen had killed two of the enemy Soul Emperors, leaving only four or five criminals, with two Soul Emperors among them.
• Lexuan ordered Ma Xiaotao and the others to remain in Extreme North City while she took Ling Feng and Ling Luocheng into the Extreme North Land to obtain soul rings.

Ling Feng, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luocheng entered the Extreme North Land, where Ling Luocheng absorbed a suitable Soul Ring. The Ice Empress appeared and questioned Ling Feng about why he possessed her Martial Soul and why she sensed herself within him.

• Ling Feng, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luocheng traveled into the Extreme North Land and avoided powerful Soul Beasts as they searched for a suitable target.
• Zhang Lexuan captured a twenty-five-thousand-year Ice Scorpion, and Ling Luocheng killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• A jade-green light spread across the sky, and the Ice Empress's overwhelming pressure struck Ling Feng and Zhang Lexuan.
• Ling Feng released his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul, causing the pressure around him to vanish and drawing the Ice Empress's attention.
• The Ice Empress appeared before Ling Feng and asked why he possessed her Martial Soul and why she sensed a familiar presence within him.
• Ling Feng calmed himself and silently called out, "Check in!"

Ling Feng used his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul and knowledge of Ice Empress’s approaching tribulation to propose helping her survive by pursuing godhood. Ice Empress, intrigued by his unusual power and promise, asked how confident he was, and Ling Feng claimed he was one hundred percent certain.

• Ling Feng received Electrolux’s abilities and steadied himself as Ice Empress sensed a change in him.
• Ling Feng confirmed that the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion was his martial soul and asked whether his companions were safe; Ice Empress said she had spared them and revealed that Xuan Zi had followed them.
• Ling Feng released his martial soul, showing Ice Empress three black soul rings and Ultimate Ice that slightly surpassed her own.
• Ling Feng told Ice Empress that her next great tribulation was less than a hundred years away and offered to help her survive it through their cooperation.
• Ling Feng argued that humans had better chances of becoming gods than soul beasts, and Ice Empress asked how confident he was; Ling Feng answered, “One hundred percent!”

Ling Feng persuaded Ice Empress to consider partnering with him to become gods and drew her spiritual origin into his mind with his Spirit Eyes soul skill. As Ice Empress examined him, she discovered that his soul bone and first soul ring came from an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, leaving her shocked by their shared origin.

• Ling Feng endured Ice Empress's pressure and argued that his past impossible feats gave her reason to trust his claim that he could help them become gods.
• Ice Empress weighed her limited lifespan and asked to hear Ling Feng's plan before deciding to cooperate.
• Ling Feng asked Ice Empress to release her spiritual origin, then used his Spirit Eyes' third soul skill, Spirit Gathering and Soul Expulsion, to draw it into his mind.
• Ice Empress examined Ling Feng and noticed his unusually strong constitution and a soul bone that seemed connected to her bloodline.
• Ice Empress found that Ling Feng's soul bone and first soul ring came from an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and wondered whether another one existed.