Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingcang tested Ma Xiaotao by exposing how her Evil Fire Phoenix controlled her and forcing her to fight through its resistance. Ma Xiaotao collapsed after continuing to battle, but her phoenix broke through the golden flames and encased her in a translucent golden egg.

• Xuan Zi arrived at the Outer Court and learned that Ye Qingcang had suppressed hundreds of students while facing the academy’s core disciples.
• Ye Qingcang manifested a true phoenix and told Ma Xiaotao that she had to master her Evil Fire Phoenix rather than submit to it.
• Ma Xiaotao resolved to defeat Ye Qingcang and attacked with Phoenix Wings Soaring and Phoenix Meteor Shower, but her martial soul weakened her abilities.
• Ma Xiaotao ordered her Evil Fire Phoenix to obey her, then repeatedly used Phoenix Meteor Shower as its enhancements gradually recovered.
• Ma Xiaotao exhausted herself and lost consciousness, but her battered phoenix shattered Ye Qingcang’s flames and formed a translucent golden egg around her.

After Ma Xiaotao’s defeat awakened her Ultimate Fire, Ye Qingcang faced Ling Luochen and demonstrated a far more powerful way to wield ice. He froze the training ground and everything in it except himself, challenging the idea that Ultimate Attributes represented the pinnacle of elemental martial souls.

• The students and Shrek Academy elders witnessed Ma Xiaotao’s newly awakened Ultimate Fire and understood why Poseidon Pavilion had offered such great rewards.
• Dai Yueheng and Gongyang Mo explained to Dai Huabin that his defeat was understandable because Ye Qingcang’s phoenix martial soul possessed an Ultimate Attribute.
• Ling Luochen entered the training ground and unleashed her ice-based soul skills, covering the arena in mist and attempting to control and bombard Ye Qingcang.
• Ye Qingcang raised and slammed down his hand, freezing the air, Ling Luochen’s soul skills, and the entire training ground while leaving himself unharmed.
• Ye Qingcang explained that true elemental mastery came from aligning with and using heaven and earth, not merely spending Soul Power to create ice.

Ling Luochen comprehended the path to Ultimate Ice under Ye Qingcang’s pressure, but he froze her again and called for more challengers. As the Shrek Seven Devils stepped forward, Ye Qingcang revealed his overwhelming spirit rings and unleashed thousands of weapons against them.

• Ling Luochen reclaimed a small area of frozen space as she contemplated ice and matter, beginning her transformation toward Ultimate Ice.
• Ling Luochen completed her transformation, but Ye Qingcang froze her again and scattered the cold current before it could reach Ma Xiaotao.
• Xi Xi, Gongyang Mo, Yao Haoxuan, and Dai Yueheng joined the challenge, while Zhang Lexuan agreed to act as the final safeguard.
• Ye Qingcang summoned his martial soul and revealed extraordinary spirit rings, including a 100,000-year fourth ring.
• Ye Qingcang filled the sky with golden rings and weapons, then sent them crashing down on the five challengers.

Ye Qingcang defeated Shrek Academy’s team in front of the assembled students and elders, then rejected Xuan Zi’s invitation to join the Inner Court. He took Shrek’s plaque and went with Xuan Zi to Poseidon Lake, leaving the others to wait while he promised to teach them some tricks.

• Chen Zifeng stacked five Soul Skills but was overwhelmed by Ye Qingcang’s weapons, while Dai Yueheng, Yao Haoxuan, Gongyang Mo, and Xi Xi were also defeated.
• Ye Qingcang revealed the Wind King Barrier sword and pinned Xi Xi, who soon fainted from her wounds.
• Zhang Lexuan began to challenge Ye Qingcang, but Xuan Zi interrupted her and told her to step aside.
• Xuan Zi announced that Poseidon Pavilion had invited Ye Qingcang to join the Inner Court, but Ye Qingcang refused and explained that he had fought Shrek because Xu Sanshi had provoked him.
• Xuan Zi handed Ye Qingcang Shrek Academy’s plaque and invited him to exchange moves at Poseidon Lake, and Ye Qingcang accepted before telling Nan Nan, Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, and Bei Bei that he would teach them tricks.

As Ye Qingcang sparred with Xuan Zi at Poseidon Lake, Jiang Nannan, Ling Luochen, and Ma Xiaotao revealed their interest in him, while the Sky Dream Ice Worm predicted that Ye Qingcang would win through divine power. After the battle, Mu En offered Zhang Lexuan a chance to choose her own future and proposed tying her engagement to Ye Qingcang, as Shrek Academy prepared for a coming war.

• Jiang Nannan explained that she trusted Ye Qingcang to handle Xuan Zi and openly admitted she wanted to pursue him.
• Ma Xiaotao emerged from her eggshell and told Jiang Nannan that she and Ling Luochen also intended to pursue Ye Qingcang, then flew toward Poseidon Lake.
• The Sky Dream Ice Worm told Huo Yuhao that Ye Qingcang could suppress Xuan Zi with divine power, and Mu En sensed that power from the surging emerald waves.
• Zhang Lexuan reaffirmed her promise to honor her engagement to Bei Bei, but Mu En offered to release her from her obligations and proposed changing the engagement to Ye Qingcang.
• Xuan Zi revealed that Ye Qingcang's power resembled the Asura Domain, and Mu En warned that Shrek Academy's survival depended on having powerful experts before war came.

Ling Luochen and the other students learned that Ye Qingcang defeated Xuan Zi in three moves, though Gongyang Mo could barely follow the battle. After a devastating wave struck Poseidon Lake, Xuan Zi flew toward the Inner Courtyard, leaving the students stunned.

• Ling Luochen arrived at Poseidon Lake and learned from the stunned inner-court students that Ye Qingcang had defeated Xuan Zi in three moves.
• Ma Xiaotao dragged Gongyang Mo over, and he confirmed that Ye Qingcang had sent Xuan Zi into the lakebed.
• Gongyang Mo described Ye Qingcang's crimson Killing Intent domain and the fighters' extreme speed, while Jiang Nannan explained that the white rings were sonic booms.
• Gongyang Mo recounted how Ye Qingcang struck Xuan Zi twice, sending him flying across Poseidon Lake.
• Xuan Zi retaliated with an attack that exposed the lakebed and raised a giant wave, which swept the students into the water.
• After the wave subsided, Gongyang Mo saw a streak of yellow light fly toward the Inner Courtyard and believed it was Xuan Zi.

Sky Dream Ice Worm explained what Ye Qingcang’s fight with Elder Xuan revealed and advised Huo Yuhao to focus on his own strengths. After Ye Qingcang pulled Huo Yuhao out of his Spiritual Space, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen proposed dating him, but left when he revealed his marriage contract with Zhang Lexuan.

• Sky Dream Ice Worm told Huo Yuhao that Ye Qingcang relied on exceptional physical ability and tactical skill, and warned him not to imitate a God Trial Taker.
• Ye Qingcang entered Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Space and reminded him to pay attention to the outside world after Xiao Xiao had accidentally knocked him over.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his senses, apologized to those gathered around him, and stood back up.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen each proposed dating Ye Qingcang.
• Ye Qingcang showed them his marriage contract with Zhang Lexuan, and Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen left.
• Ye Qingcang comforted Jiang Nannan and told her that he had given everyone the freedom to choose their relationships.

Ye Qingcang offered to teach Huo Yuhao and the others techniques powered by Soul Power, while Jiang Nannan quietly considered her feelings for him. At the training ground, Ye Qingcang began demonstrating his elemental arts, starting with Earth Control Art and Water Control Art.

• Jiang Nannan kept her affection for Ye Qingcang to herself and changed the subject to the lessons he had offered.
• Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, Jiang Nannan, Tang Ya, and Bei Bei expressed interest in learning Ye Qingcang's techniques.
• Huo Yuhao chose to learn what he believed he needed and identified greater physical fitness and methods of attack or defense as his priorities.
• Jiang Nannan led the group to a Shrek Academy Outer Court training ground where she practiced martial arts.
• Ye Qingcang demonstrated Earth Control Art, explaining its forms, advancement paths, and increasing strength with Soul Power.
• Ye Qingcang demonstrated Water Control Art by creating water, ice shards, and high-pressure jets, and described its ice and blood control paths.

Ye Qingcang demonstrated the Four Imperial Arts and offered to teach them to Huo Yuyao and the others, who struggled to grasp how casually he treated powerful Self-Created Soul Skills. He explained why he cultivated the Soul Master system and refused to give up the Ice Empress, leaving Huo Yuhao to choose whether to compete with him for her or accept equivalent compensation.

• Ye Qingcang demonstrated the Four Imperial Arts and explained that he considered them low-grade skills compared with the other arts he had learned.
• Xiao Xiao asked whether Ye Qingcang would teach them the skills, and he said he had mastered the four arts as a child and had better gifts to offer.
• Wang Dong questioned whether teaching the arts could let someone defeat Ye Qingcang, and he said he welcomed anyone who could surpass him using his foundations.
• Sky Dream Ice Worm advised Huo Yuhao to choose Earth Control Art and Qi Control Art, but Ye Qingcang revealed he had reserved the Ice Empress for his fifth soul ring.
• Ye Qingcang offered Huo Yuhao a choice between competing for the Ice Empress or giving her up for equivalent compensation, then explained how higher-quality soul rings expanded his future potential.

Ye Qingcang reached an agreement with Sky Dream Ice Worm to make the Ice Empress his soul ring, then taught Huo Yuhao and the others Earth Control Art and Water Control Art. After testing their skills in combat, he entrusted Huo Yuhao with a precious secret method and explained why he wanted others to have the chance to surpass him.

• Ye Qingcang promised Sky Dream Ice Worm that the Ice Empress could retain her consciousness if she chose to leave, and Sky Dream agreed to his terms.
• Ye Qingcang taught Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, Bei Bei, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan the basics of Earth Control Art and Water Control Art.
• Ye Qingcang tested the group in a practical fight, demonstrating how to combine their control arts and defeating them during a timed exercise.
• Xiao Xiao and the others used Water Control Art and Earth Control Art to clean themselves after the fight, then thanked Ye Qingcang for teaching them.
• Ye Qingcang told Huo Yuhao that he could decide whether to pass on the secret method and said he feared more that no one would ever surpass him than that someone would.

Qian Renxue reviewed testimonies from over a hundred captured soul masters who claimed they had come from Douluo Continent ten thousand years in the future. Though the accounts suggested Spirit Hall would be destroyed, she dismissed their history as uncertain and decided to handle the prisoners herself.

• Spear Douluo told Qian Renxue that interrogations were finished and presented the prisoners’ testimonies.
• Qian Renxue read that the prisoners described arriving from the future, and Spear Douluo explained that their matching accounts persisted despite torture and false accusations.
• Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo feared the testimony might be true and that Spirit Hall would be destroyed in the future.
• Qian Renxue argued that their world had already diverged from the reported history and said she would personally deal with the prisoners.
• Qian Renxue noted that the future Spirit Hall had provided no assistance to Commoner Soul Masters after its destruction.

Qian Renxue assessed the reactions of Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family to news of the God Trial Takers. She planned to draw Clear Sky Sect and the Four Element Families together so Spirit Hall could attack them in stages, then asked how much Bibidong knew.

• Salas told Qian Renxue that Clear Sky Sect had sealed off its mountain and had not reacted to the news, while Ning Fengzhi was staying at Blue Tyrant Academy under Chen Xin’s protection.
• Qian Renxue ordered Spirit Hall to increase its surveillance of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family after Salas reported that the clan had recalled Soul Saints and later ended its war readiness.
• Qian Renxue asked Salas about the Four Element Families, and Spear Douluo warned her that Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan posed a serious threat.
• Qian Renxue ordered Spirit Hall to hint the other world’s history to the Strength Clan and let Clear Sky Sect hear about it, so their opponents would gather without being disturbed.
• After Porcupine Douluo warned that Spirit Hall could not defeat all the assembled Titled Douluo at once, Qian Renxue decided to split the fighting into multiple stages and asked how much Bibidong knew.

Qian Renxue pressured Salas to reveal when Bibidong would arrive in Heaven Dou City, then interrogated the time-displaced Ji Luo about his knowledge of her family. Ji Luo agreed to answer after brutal torture, leaving Qian Renxue focused on how he had learned Spirit Hall’s secrets.

• Salas struggled to choose between protecting Bibidong and answering Qian Renxue, who threatened him until he knelt and trembled.
• Qian Renxue dismissed Salas and questioned Ji Luo, a prisoner from Vast Sea City ten thousand years in the future who recognized her as the Angel God.
• After Qian Renxue ordered the interrogation squad to torture him, Ji Luo broke and promised to tell her everything he knew.
• Qian Renxue asked Ji Luo how a descendant of Poseidon Island had learned that Bibidong had killed the former Pope and seized power.

Bibidong arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy searching for an unnamed man and revealed that she was a God Trial Taker. After overpowering Chen Xin, she warned Ning Fengzhi and the others to watch their words before leaving.

• A black-robed figure entered Heaven Dou City after showing the guards a Spirit Hall Elder Token and asking for Blue Tyrant Academy.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, Chen Xin sensed the figure’s divine aura, and Ning Fengzhi realized the visitor was neither Ye Qingcang nor Qian Renxue.
• Bibidong removed her hood and asked whether the man she sought was there.
• Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Chen Xin recognized Bibidong and reacted to learning that the Spirit Hall’s Pope was a God Trial Taker.
• Bibidong used her divine power to send Chen Xin flying and warned them that she would not show restraint if they spoke carelessly again before leaving.

Ning Fengzhi told Liu Erlong that Bibidong had come to Heaven Dou City seeking Ye Qingcang, while he concluded that Bibidong faced opposition within Spirit Hall. At the same time, Qian Renxue learned that her father had violated her mother and kept torturing Ji Luo because she could not accept what she had heard.

• Bibidong left Ning Fengzhi's quarters after sending Chen Xin through a wall, and Ning Fengzhi told Liu Erlong she was searching for Ye Qingcang.
• Liu Erlong realized that neither she nor Ning Fengzhi knew Ye Qingcang's whereabouts, and Ning Fengzhi asked her to warn him if she made contact.
• Chen Xin judged Bibidong to be at least a level ninety-eight Titled Douluo, but Ning Fengzhi argued that someone in the Worship Hall could keep her in check.
• Qian Renxue questioned the mutilated Ji Luo and learned that her father had violated her mother when she was his disciple, which explained her mother's hatred of her.
• Spear Douluo warned Qian Renxue that Ji Luo could no longer answer consciously, but Qian Renxue continued torturing him because she refused to believe her grandfather had lied.

Bibidong and Qian Renxue confronted the abuse and resentment that had poisoned their relationship, then reconciled as mother and daughter. Bibidong agreed to spare Qian Renxue, though she still demanded that everyone else who knew the details die.

• Bibidong appeared behind Qian Renxue, struck her with the Rakshasa God Scythe, subdued Snake Lance and Pufferfish, and killed Ji Luo.
• Qian Renxue accused Bibidong of rejecting her as a daughter, and Bibidong recognized her own responsibility for their broken relationship.
• When Bibidong threatened to kill everyone who knew the details, Qian Renxue demanded that she spare Grandpa, Ye Qingcang, Snake Lance, and Pufferfish.
• Qian Renxue called Bibidong a coward who was repeating the cruelty she had suffered, and Bibidong admitted she had been wrong.
• Bibidong invited Qian Renxue to call her Mother or Mom, and Qian Renxue embraced her as Bibidong promised to try to be a mother.

Bibidong and Qian Renxue debated how to handle the secrets exposed by the other world and agreed that they needed to defeat Poseidon Tang San, while Bibidong promised not to harm Ye Qingcang. The Rakshasa God then altered the Rakshasa Nine Trials to test how her inheritor would choose.

• Qian Renxue persuaded Bibidong to erase Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo’s memories instead of killing them, then argued that they should focus on defeating Poseidon Tang San rather than suppressing the truth.
• Qian Renxue reminded Bibidong that Yu Xiaogang had not stopped Tang San from destroying Spirit Hall, and Bibidong agreed to investigate the man Yu Xiaogang had become before deciding what to do.
• Bibidong asked whether Qian Renxue had fallen for Ye Qingcang; Qian Renxue admitted she felt comfortable with him and became jealous at the thought of him with other girls.
• Bibidong promised not to harm Ye Qingcang and authorized Qian Renxue to mobilize the Titled Douluos, while Qian Renxue said she trusted Ye Qingcang and believed he would not hurt her.
• The Rakshasa God learned that the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King did not know Ye Qingcang’s whereabouts, then changed the contents of the Rakshasa Nine Trials.

Bibodong received a new Rakshasa trial tablet while discussing Spirit Hall’s plans with Qian Renxue, but hid its contents and hurried away. She reached the Heaven Dou City Spirit Sub-Hall and vented her fury behind locked doors, leaving the trial’s challenge unrevealed.

• Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo woke and mistook Bibodong for an enemy, but Qian Renxue explained that she and her mother had reconciled and united Spirit Hall’s factions.
• Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo realized their memories had been erased, and Bibodong nearly threatened them with her Rakshasa God Scythe before Qian Renxue explained the memory loss was permanent.
• A black crystal tablet descended, and Bibodong saw its contents before Qian Renxue could inspect it; she said she was on her eighth trial and claimed the challenge was difficult.
• Bibodong dodged Qian Renxue’s offer to help, hid the tablet, and hurried away, leaving Qian Renxue and the two Douluo confused.
• Bibodong reached the Heaven Dou City Spirit Sub-Hall, ordered Salas to seal the area, and spent over an hour smashing objects inside.

Bibidong confronted the Rakshasa God over the altered eighth test, only to be subjected to the god’s power and urged to marry Ye Qingcang. The Rakshasa God sent Bibidong away after explaining her own brutal rise to power and calling the ordeal a form of training.

• Bibidong demanded that the Rakshasa God explain the altered eighth test and attacked her, but desire overwhelmed her body.
• The Rakshasa God taunted Bibidong and defended the test’s demand that she marry Asura God Test Taker Ye Qingcang.
• The Rakshasa God used twisted perception to turn Bibidong’s pain into pleasure and told her that a god could resurrect her if needed.
• The Rakshasa God described how she had endured abuse and suffering to become powerful, urging Bibidong to prove she could rise from weakness.
• The Rakshasa God sent Bibidong away from the Dark God Temple.

At Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, Meng Hongchen recognized a girl who had become her pen pal through a message bottle, while Xiao Hongchen learned about their correspondence for the first time. The chapter ended as Meng Hongchen went to meet the girl, unsure whether she had identified her correctly.

• Teacher Ju Zi dismissed her class precisely on time, and students complained that she never stayed to answer questions.
• Xiao Hongchen explained that Ju Zi was balancing her research with her studies, while Meng Hongchen defended her theoretical contributions to Soul Guidance research.
• Students praised Ju Zi's paper on adding independent runes to Soul Tool cores and mentioned her nomination as one of the Sun Moon Empire's Ten Outstanding Young Representatives.
• Outside the classroom, Meng Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen she was going to meet a female friend.
• Meng Hongchen explained that the friend was her pen pal, whom she had first contacted with a letter sent in a message bottle years earlier.