Chapter Summaries

Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen met Jiang Nannan, Meng’s longtime pen pal, and learned she was a Shrek Academy student visiting a friend. Jiang Nannan identified Ye Qingcang as that friend just as the siblings noticed him talking with Ju Zi.

• Xiao Hongchen insisted on accompanying Meng Hongchen to meet her pen pal and agreed not to act without cause.
• Jiang Nannan recognized Meng Hongchen as Jade Toad and asked how she was related to Jing Hongchen.
• Meng Hongchen revealed that Jing Hongchen was her grandfather, and Jiang Nannan explained that they had exchanged letters for over eight years.
• Jiang Nannan introduced herself as a fourth-year Shrek Academy student visiting the Sun Moon Empire with a friend.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen noticed Ye Qingcang speaking with Ju Zi, and Jiang Nannan confirmed that Ye Qingcang was her friend.

Ye Qingcang introduced Jiang Nannan to Ju Zi and explained their complicated history, while Ju Zi and the others welcomed Jiang Nannan and met Ye Qingcang. The meeting ended with Xiao Hongchen questioning Ye Qingcang’s claim that he attended Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Ye Qingcang introduced Ju Zi to Jiang Nannan and explained that Ju Zi had repaid his kindness by devoting herself to him after he revived her parents.
• Ju Zi and Jiang Nannan exchanged greetings, and Ju Zi revealed she was a disciple of Xuan Ziwen and a visiting lecturer at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy.
• Xiao Hongchen recognized Jiang Nannan as his sister’s longtime pen pal, while Meng Hongchen became infatuated with Ye Qingcang and took his hand.
• Ye Qingcang said he was fifteen and attended Blue Tyrant Academy, prompting Xiao Hongchen to recall its connection to Shrek Academy and ask whether Ye Qingcang was really a Shrek student.

Ye Qingcang clarified that he came from Blue Tyrant Academy, not Shrek Academy, and Xiao Hongchen apologized before inviting him and the others to spend time together. Their conversation was interrupted when Zi Mu confronted Ju Zi over talking with Ye Qingcang, and she bluntly rejected him.

• Ye Qingcang explained that Blue Tyrant Academy was separate from Shrek Academy and joked that history depended on who won.
• Xiao Hongchen apologized for misunderstanding Ye Qingcang and asked to join him, Ju Zi, and Jiang Nannan.
• Zi Mu angrily confronted Ju Zi after seeing her chatting with Ye Qingcang.
• Ju Zi told Zi Mu she did not like him and warned him to stop causing her trouble.
• Ye Qingcang advised Jiang Nannan to handle pursuers as Ju Zi had handled Zi Mu, and Jiang Nannan said that approach could backfire against someone like Xu Sanshi.

Ju Zi revealed her decade-long plan to overthrow the Sun Moon Empire and place it under Ye Qingcang’s control. After Ye Qingcang approved her final move, Ju Zi detonated a Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb over the imperial palace, plunging Mingdu into panic.

• Wang Shaojie challenged Ju Zi for publicly rebuking Zi Mu, but Ju Zi said she had spared Zi Mu despite his repeated harassment and declared Ye Qingcang her Master.
• Ju Zi explained that Ye Qingcang’s arrival meant her plan could begin, and Xiao Hongchen deduced that Ye Qingcang came from another world and had used Ju Zi and Jiang Nannan as informants.
• Ye Qingcang described his ambitions beyond the world, while Ju Zi vowed to clear obstacles for him and said she would make the Sun Moon Empire obey only their two voices.
• Ye Qingcang revealed that Ju Zi had infiltrated seventeen imperial departments, gained control of six, and used Faceless Men and life contracts against the empire and Holy Spirit Church.
• Ju Zi pressed the button on an orange-yellow cylinder, sending a Level 9 Soul Tool Bomb to the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, where it struck the raised defense and set Mingdu into panic.

Ye Qingcang arrived in Mingdu as the Sun Moon Imperial Palace was attacked, subdued Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, and explained his vision of imposing peace through strength and expansion. He flew toward the palace, while Ju Zi revealed that she had come to act there and turned to the Hongchen siblings with a threat involving their grandfather, Jing Hongchen.

• Four Level 9 Soul Tool Bombs struck the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, but its protective device activated and a silver radiance erased their explosions as Mingdu's residents fled to shelters.
• Ju Zi invited Ye Qingcang and Jiang Nannan to Sun Moon Tower, while Xiao Hongchen aimed 128 Soul Tool Cannons at them and warned Meng Hongchen that they were dangerous.
• Ye Qingcang transformed the cannons into chains that bound Xiao Hongchen, then taught Meng Hongchen about mastering power and discussed good and evil with both siblings.
• Ye Qingcang described his plan for peace through the strong, including paying Soul Masters and expanding beyond their world, before flying toward the imperial palace.
• Ju Zi explained to Jiang Nannan why Ye Qingcang had brought her and said he considered Xiao Hongchen worth shaping, then asked the Hongchen siblings whether they wanted Jing Hongchen kept safe.

The Faceless Men launched an assault on the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, leaving the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Church confused about who was responsible. Zhongli Wu tried to halt the fighting, but an infiltrator attacked him and detonated, as Ye Qingcang entered the ruined palace.

• Kong Deming and Xuan Ziwen fought the Evil Spirit Masters attacking the Sun Moon Imperial Palace and questioned why the Holy Spirit Church’s leaders had not joined the battle.
• Feng Ling and Zhongli Wu arrived and ordered the Holy Spirit Church members to stop, but the attackers continued killing Sun Moon Empire Soul Tool Masters.
• Two Holy Spirit Church Titled Douluos accused Zhongli Wu of approving the Death God Tower’s completion with hundreds of thousands of souls.
• One Titled Douluo attacked Zhongli Wu, who tore out his heart, but the infiltrator continued his strike until Ye Xishui cut off his head.
• The severed head announced that the attackers were Faceless Men before its headless body detonated.
• Ye Qingcang entered the ruined Sun Moon Imperial Palace and remarked that the battle inside was lively.

Ye Qingcang defeated Zhongli Wu and confronted Kong Deming, offering him and the Sun Moon Empire’s loyalists a chance to surrender. Kong Deming’s answer remained unresolved as Ye Qingcang held him captive.

• Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu were badly injured when two Faceless Men used Blood Explosion Art attacks, and Long Xiaoyao shielded Ye Xishui from the second blast.
• Ye Qingcang captured Zhongli Wu’s soul with Ju Ling Qian Jiang and turned it into a puppet stored in his Gate of Babylon.
• Ye Qingcang offered the surrounded Sun Moon Empire forces a chance to submit, but Kong Deming prepared to fight for the imperial family.
• Ye Qingcang shattered Kong Deming’s Silver Moon Divine Light Shroud and seized him by the throat.
• Xuan Ziwen’s shout kept Ye Qingcang from strangling Kong Deming, and Ye Qingcang offered to spare imperial family members who sincerely surrendered.

Ye Qingcang forced Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire to surrender, then confronted the Holy Spirit Church’s leaders. He defeated Long Xiaoyao and secured Ye Xishui’s surrender, ordering them to help cleanse the Holy Spirit Church.

• Ye Qingcang threatened Kong Deming until he surrendered on behalf of the Royal Offering Hall and agreed to hand over the imperial family members who would not sincerely submit.
• Kong Deming ordered his Soul Tool Masters to carry out Ye Qingcang’s demands, while Ye Qingcang revealed that his allies were already handling Jing Hongchen, Xu Tianyuan, and the Holy Spirit Church.
• Ye Qingcang revived Zhongli Wu as a puppet and rejected Ye Xishui’s offer to leave, prompting Feng Ling to surrender and Long Xiaoyao to stay behind so Ye Xishui could escape.
• Ye Qingcang overwhelmed Long Xiaoyao, but Ye Xishui returned rather than abandon him and agreed to surrender in exchange for his life.
• Ye Qingcang gave Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao collars and ordered them to cleanse the Holy Spirit Church as his servants.

Ye Qingcang conquered Mingdu, killed the Sun Moon emperor, and forced the Sun Moon royal family to choose between surrendering under magical collars or dying. He left Ju Zi in charge of pacifying the empire and took Jiang Nannan to inspect Sky City.

• Ye Qingcang’s forces captured Mingdu, and he killed the old emperor when the ruler refused to submit.
• Ye Qingcang offered the royal family survival in exchange for surrender, using collars that bound their souls and giving Ju Zi authority over their lives.
• Ye Qingcang persuaded Jing Hongchen to stand down and offered Xu Tianran a chance to claim the throne by convincing Xu Tianzhen to surrender.
• Ju Zi organized the occupation, assigning Kong Deming to defense and directing the others to pacify the city and eliminate listed opponents.
• Ye Qingcang invited Ju Zi to inspect Sky City, then flew there with Jiang Nannan while the royal family competed to persuade Xu Tianzhen to submit.

Yu Yuanzhen questioned Yu Luomian about Liu Erlong’s adopted son, Ye Qingcang, a God Test Taker who had helped Qian Renxue purge Heaven Dou City. After learning that Ye Qingcang attended Blue Tyrant Academy, Yu Yuanzhen considered how the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family could use its connection to him while facing Spirit Hall’s growing power.

• Yu Yuanzhen confronted Yu Luomian with intelligence about Ye Qingcang’s Asura God inheritance, his role in the Heaven Dou Palace Coup, and his connection to Liu Erlong and Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Yu Luomian insisted he knew nothing about Ye Qingcang because Liu Erlong had estranged herself from him and refused to meet him.
• Yu Yuanzhen recalled the family history behind Liu Erlong’s strained relationship with Yu Luomian and her separation from Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Yuanzhen explained that Spirit Hall had effectively taken control of the Heaven Dou Empire and warned that the family needed a God Test Taker’s support or risk destruction.
• Yu Yuanzhen resolved that the family should make use of its connection to Ye Qingcang rather than let Ning Fengzhi claim him first.

Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian discussed winning Ye Qingcang over to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family, then learned he had come to visit. Yu Yuanzhen personally received him, and Ye Qingcang greeted Yu Luomian as his grandfather and Yu Yuanzhen as his great-granduncle.

• Yu Yuanzhen asked Yu Luomian to invite Ye Qingcang into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family and said he would yield the clan leader position to him if he joined.
• Yu Luomian said Ye Qingcang's connections and standing made the family's offers unlikely to persuade him.
• A family disciple reported that Liu Erlong's son had arrived at the mountain gate with a visiting card and the jade pendant Yu Luomian had given Liu Erlong.
• Yu Yuanzhen recognized the jade pendant and hurried out to receive Ye Qingcang personally.
• Yu Yuanzhen introduced Yu Luomian to Ye Qingcang, who greeted him as Grandpa and Yu Yuanzhen as Great-Granduncle.

Ye Qingcang visited the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family to discuss its stance toward the political upheaval and revealed that he and Qian Renxue had staged the Heaven Dou Palace Coup and the Evil Spirit Master rampage. Yu Yuanzhen accepted that Ye Qingcang was speaking in good faith and asked what he intended to do, while Yu Luomian speculated about dividing the realm with Spirit Hall.

• Ye Qingcang told Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian that the Heaven Dou Palace Coup and Evil Spirit Master rampage were a performance he and Qian Renxue had planned together.
• Ye Qingcang explained that he had come to learn the family's views and that their stance would affect how the staged upheaval ended.
• Yu Yuanzhen weighed Ye Qingcang's willingness to reveal the truth and concluded that he had come to communicate rather than act against the family.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked Ye Qingcang what he intended to do and admitted he knew little about the situation beyond Spirit Hall's strength.
• Yu Luomian proposed joining forces with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, a Star Luo prince, and the Clear Sky Sect to divide the realm with Spirit Hall.

Ye Qingcang explained his vision of unification to Yu Yuanzhen, who challenged him to prove the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family should follow him. The fight began with Ye Qingcang revealing overwhelming power and striking Yu Yuanzhen before he could react.

• Ye Qingcang told Yu Yuanzhen that unification would bring peace and consistent laws across the empires.
• Yu Yuanzhen refused to let the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family become cannon fodder and set challenges for Ye Qingcang to earn the clan's obedience.
• Ye Qingcang recorded Yu Yuanzhen's promise of unconditional surrender if he was defeated, then summoned a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Ye Qingcang took to the air to spar as the clan watched.
• Ye Qingcang activated his Slaughter Domain and Magnetic Field Martial Arts, sealed soul skills, and hit Yu Yuanzhen with a Mach-speed kick.

After taking over as patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family, Ye Qingcang reorganized its leadership, revealed the family’s compromised intelligence network, and gave its leaders a Soul Core method and a plan to contact the Sky Dragon Gate and Earth Dragon Gate. Back at Blue Tyrant Academy, he learned that Dai Mubai’s scheme against Zhu Zhuqing had reached its final stage and decided to keep him alive for a future confrontation with Dai Weisi.

• Ye Qingcang became patriarch and shifted the former leaders down one rank while leaving Yu Yuanzhen in charge of the family’s affairs.
• Ye Qingcang revealed that his people and Spirit Hall controlled most of the family’s intelligence organization, declared the two groups friends, and gave Yu Yuanzhen a history book and a Soul Core method.
• Ye Qingcang ordered Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin to be summoned and instructed the family to approach the Sky Dragon Gate and Earth Dragon Gate about returning to the ancestral clan.
• Ye Qingcang returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Violet reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had bought Soul Tool blueprints and arranged training with the Soul Tool Department.
• Violet told Ye Qingcang that Dai Mubai had arranged for thugs to slander Zhu Zhuqing, who publicly revealed her Virginity Mark and then became withdrawn.
• Ye Qingcang told Violet to pass Stellar Martial Arts to Dai Mubai but spare him, because he should die in the Star Luo Empire during a confrontation with Dai Weisi.

Zhu Zhuqing offered to take the blame for the scandal harming Blue Tyrant Academy, but Ye Qingcang rejected her sacrifice and explained that the academy’s fairness rested on his authority. Suspecting someone had plotted against her, she drank the water Ye Qingcang demanded and followed him to the study to hear his answer.

• Zhu Zhuqing apologized to Ye Qingcang for the scandal and offered to accept responsibility, including withdrawing from Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Ye Qingcang rebuked Zhu Zhuqing for misunderstanding the academy’s principles and said its reputation and rules were his to define.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Ye Qingcang whether someone had plotted against her, and he made his answer conditional on her drinking a glass of water and following him to the study.
• Zhu Zhuqing hesitated, then drank the water and followed Ye Qingcang upstairs.

Ye Qingcang questioned Dai Mubai about his scheme to turn Zhu Zhuqing against him and secretly recorded Dai Mubai admitting to it. After Dai Mubai left with the first three volumes of Stellar Martial Arts, Zhu Zhuqing emerged from beneath the desk, sickened and furious at Ye Qingcang for using his own flesh as part of the deception.

• Violet warned Dai Mubai not to ask questions or look around as she escorted him to Ye Qingcang’s study.
• Dai Mubai explained that he had hired thugs to ruin Zhu Zhuqing’s reputation so Ye Qingcang could win her favor, and he said he could replace her as his Martial Soul Fusion Skill partner.
• Ye Qingcang played a recording of Dai Mubai and listened as he justified betraying Zhu Zhuqing and described the fate of women in the Zhu Family.
• Ye Qingcang rewarded Dai Mubai with the first three volumes of Stellar Martial Arts, and Dai Mubai left after ordering them through the Jade Seal Machine.
• Zhu Zhuqing crawled out from beneath the desk, vomited, and confronted Ye Qingcang for enduring the pain as part of his plan to gain her trust.

Ye Qingcang explained his Stellar Martial Arts philosophy to Zhu Zhuqing while demonstrating his regenerative flesh and its effects on her body. He left her confronting his view that life evolves by recognizing its own ordinariness, while making clear that he would not restrain his desires for her sake.

• Ye Qingcang crushed and regenerated the bones in his hand, forming a fragrant Flesh Rose, and asked Zhu Zhuqing if she wanted to eat it.
• Zhu Zhuqing instinctively licked the rose and recalled how consuming Ye Qingcang's flesh had strengthened her body and Soul Power.
• Ye Qingcang argued that power was a byproduct of life's evolution and challenged Zhu Zhuqing to reconsider what it meant to be ordinary.
• Ye Qingcang showed Zhu Zhuqing examples of ants, tardigrades, and cats, explaining how humans could learn from other creatures to pursue perfection.
• Ye Qingcang explained that his flesh was made of cells and nutrients, then told Zhu Zhuqing he would not restrain his desires or care about her feelings.

Zhu Zhuqing accepted Ye Qingcang’s control and asked him to help her gain the power to take revenge on Dai Mubai. Afterward, Violet confessed her jealousy, and Ye Qingcang left her to decide what she wanted while keeping Zhu Zhuqing by his side.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked Ye Qingcang to kill Dai Mubai and offered her sincerity in exchange for the chance to gain revenge.
• Ye Qingcang rejected Zhu Zhuqing’s attempt to surrender herself without resolve, then accepted her choice and removed the scars on her body.
• Violet emerged from the shadows and questioned Ye Qingcang’s choice of Zhu Zhuqing over her, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong.
• Violet confessed that she liked Ye Qingcang and asked why he had chosen Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ye Qingcang told Violet he would respect her decision about their relationship, while Violet warned Zhu Zhuqing not to harbor ulterior motives before retreating into the shadows.

Ye Qingcang challenged Zhu Zhuqing to reach Training Ground Thirty-Six within fifteen minutes despite her exhausted state, testing whether she could push beyond her limits. She made it, earning the chance to learn from him, while Ye Qingcang and Violet discussed the risks and what it meant to offer someone an opportunity.

• Ye Qingcang told Zhu Zhuqing that revenge required strength and ordered her to reach Training Ground Thirty-Six within fifteen minutes, even though she could barely move.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected the idea of giving up and vowed to crawl to the training ground rather than abandon her chance at revenge.
• As they headed to the training ground, Violet admitted she had been wrong to act jealous, and Ye Qingcang explained the risks Zhu Zhuqing faced in pushing past her limits.
• Ye Qingcang and Violet waited at the training ground, discussing Magnetic Field Martial Arts, Zhu Zhuqing's chances, and whether she might suffer lasting injuries.
• Zhu Zhuqing reached the training ground, and Ye Qingcang caught her as she collapsed, promising to teach her what she was capable of learning once she recovered.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Ye Qingcang that she willingly entrusted herself to him because he had given her a chance to change her fate.

Tang Hao brought Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to the Clear Sky Sect, insisting that Tang San would become a God Test Taker and defeat Spirit Hall. The Sixth Elder’s report of Spirit Hall’s rise and Ye Qingcang’s role shattered their confidence, while Tang San became convinced Ye Qingcang had stolen his destined Asura God identity.

• Tang Xiao welcomed Tang Hao at the Clear Sky Sect’s gate, where the elders questioned whether Tang San would truly become a Deity.
• Tang Hao recounted the future history in which Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils became gods, and assured the elders that Tang San would fulfill that future.
• The Sixth Elder arrived with intelligence stating that Qian Renxue had become Heaven Dou’s Regent and Spirit Hall had seized control of the empire’s cities.
• Tang Hao, Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and the others read the report and learned that Ye Qingcang was an Asura God Test Taker.
• Tang San blamed Ye Qingcang for taking the identity and divine seat he believed should have been his.