Chapter Summaries

Du Busi agreed to set aside his attempt to take Huo Yuhao after Wang Xian'er offered him a favor. Yuwen Tuo then invoked Wang Xian'er's principle of respecting a child's wishes to seek a clean break from Shrek, leaving Ma Xiaotao unable to stop him.

• Xuan Zi invoked Shrek's claim to Huo Yuhao and Star Luo's authority to deter Du Busi from taking him.
• Wang Xian'er appeared and confirmed that Huo Yuhao's wishes should be respected, then offered to heal someone for Du Busi in exchange for peace.
• Du Busi agreed to put the matter of Huo Yuhao aside, surprising Wang Xian'er.
• Yuwen Tuo asked Wang Xian'er whether her principle applied to him and declared that he wanted to sever ties with Shrek over his imprisonment and injuries.
• Ma Xiaotao tried to stop Yuwen Tuo, but Wang Xian'er suppressed her Soul Power.

Yuwen Tuo left Shrek with Xiao Xiao after Wang Xian'er accepted his decision, while Ling Luochen chose to return to Star Luo and study under Wang Xian'er. The tournament awards ceremony resumed, and Shrek received the championship soul bones to a subdued crowd.

• Wang Xian'er urged Yuwen Tuo to reconsider leaving Shrek, but after Du Busi challenged her, she agreed to respect his choice.
• Yuwen Tuo called Xiao Xiao and Ling Luochen to join him; Xiao Xiao embraced him and said she would follow wherever he went.
• Ling Luochen asked Wang Xian'er to accept her into Star Luo's Hall of Enshrinement after graduation, and Wang Xian'er agreed to teach her.
• Xuan Zi ended the dispute and asked Xu Jiawei to continue the awards ceremony.
• Xu Jiawei awarded Shrek three soul bones, but the crowd remained quiet after the earlier conflict.

Yuwen Tuo took the Rampaging Behemoth Torso Bone as compensation from Shrek, then rejected recruitment offers from Meng Hongchen and Xu Jiujiu. He revealed that he knew Star Luo had abandoned him and refused to return, leaving Xu Jiujiu shaken.

• Yuwen Tuo claimed one champion’s Soul Bone as his due, and Xuan Zi agreed to wipe away Shrek’s grudges against him.
• Yuwen Tuo collected the Rampaging Behemoth Torso Bone and left the award ceremony with Xiao Xiao and Ling Luochen, while Shrek faced the loss of its three peerless geniuses.
• Meng Hongchen invited Yuwen Tuo to return to the Sun Moon Empire, and Xu Jiujiu urged him to go to Star Luo instead.
• Yuwen Tuo rejected both offers, citing the danger of the Sun Moon Empire’s power struggle and his refusal to return to a place that had abandoned him.
• Yuwen Tuo told Xu Jiujiu to inform the woman who had abandoned him that he would treat her as if she did not exist, leaving Xu Jiujiu pale and trembling.

Yuwen Tuo chose to return to the Heaven Dou Empire because he still considered Shiwa Village his home, despite the village’s destruction and his lack of ties there. He left with Xiao Xiao and his escorts, while Xu Yueran learned that he wanted them to treat each other as strangers.

• Jiang Peng invited Yuwen Tuo to return with him to the Heaven Dou Empire, and Yuwen Tuo accepted because Shiwa Village was his home.
• Xu Jiujiu and Meng Hongchen questioned his choice, but Yu Yuancheng defended it and warned the Sun Moon Empire not to pursue Yuwen Tuo.
• Ma Lao agreed that the Sun Moon Empire would not try to take Yuwen Tuo away, and Yu Yuancheng joked that Meng Hongchen should marry into the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao said farewell to Ling Luochen and left for the Heaven Dou Empire with Jiang Peng and Yu Yuancheng.
• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Yueran that Yuwen Tuo had chosen the Heaven Dou Empire and wanted them both to act as if the other did not exist.

Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao met Princess Wei Na, Long Aotian, and the Body Sect elders aboard the Soul Tool Train, where Wei Na confirmed she had uncovered Yuwen Tuo’s scheme. Yuwen Tuo presented three valuable soul bones as gifts and prepared to explain the restrictions on one of them.

• Yu Yuancheng escorted Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao into the first-class carriage, where they met Wei Na, Long Aotian, Du Busi, and Jin Peng.
• Wei Na explained how Yuwen Tuo had used Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to contact the Body Sect and revealed that she possessed the Brain Martial Soul.
• Wei Na introduced Long Aotian as the Body Sect’s Young Sect Master, a level fifty-seven Soul King with a skin Body Martial Soul.
• Yuwen Tuo praised Long Aotian and presented three soul bones to Long Aotian, Wei Na, and Jiang Peng as gifts.
• Yuwen Tuo prepared to warn them about the absorption restrictions of the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone.

Yuwen Tuo accepted the Body Sect’s support while explaining that he hoped to honor his master by founding a sect of his own one day. Wei Na then began revealing how Yuwen Tuo’s background connected to the continent’s political situation, leaving his family history unexplained.

• Wei Na accepted the three soul bones, and Yuwen Tuo warned that the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone required an attribute close to Ultimate Ice.
• Long Aotian promised to nurture Yuwen Tuo and offered him the chance to become successor sect master, but Yuwen Tuo said he had no interest in the position.
• Yuwen Tuo told Du Busi that his late master had given him the Tan Shen Secret Appraisal and asked permission to found a sect after completing his studies.
• Du Busi approved Yuwen Tuo’s plan, citing Tang San and the Snow Demon Sect as precedents, while Jin Peng urged him to make his future sect widely known.
• Wei Na told Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao that the Three Great Nations’ strange attitude toward him had prompted an investigation, then tested Yuwen Tuo’s knowledge of the empires’ relative strength.
• Wei Na explained that the Sun Moon Empire could challenge the other three empires and that the Star Luo Empire led the frontline resistance, as she began discussing the continent’s situation.

Wei Na revealed that Yuwen Tuo was the son of Star Luo princess Xu Yueran and the Sun Moon prince who abducted her, explaining why the three empires had conflicting attitudes toward him. Wei Na, Jiang Peng, and Long Aotian welcomed him into Heavenly Soul and the Body Sect, and Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao formally joined the sect.

• Wei Na explained how Star Luo and the Sun Moon Empire’s competing interests shaped the failed marriage alliance between Xu Yueran and the Dou Ling emperor.
• Wei Na recounted how a Sun Moon prince abducted Xu Yueran, forced himself on her, and left her pregnant before she escaped with Dai Hao’s help.
• Wei Na said Xu Yueran likely left Yuwen Tuo in Heavenly Soul to keep him away from the Sun Moon and Star Luo Empires, while Dou Ling regarded him as a source of shame.
• Yuwen Tuo connected his origins to the three empires and suspected a hidden force was behind Xu Yueran’s abduction and escape.
• Jiang Peng and Wei Na affirmed Yuwen Tuo’s place in Heavenly Soul, and Long Aotian recognized him as a Body Sect disciple.
• Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao formally joined the Body Sect.

Yuwen Tuo learned that his Xuanyuan Sword Soul was a Body Martial Soul and heard how the Body Sect’s Second and Third Awakenings worked. After arriving in the Heaven Dou Empire, he learned why Wei Na wanted the group to avoid its court politics and resolved to grow strong enough to help her and the Body Sect later.

• Du Busi explained that Yuwen Tuo would undergo his Second Awakening at five rings and described how a Silver Grade Awakening could later advance to Gold Grade.
• After two days of travel, the group reached a city near Heaven Dou City, while Yu Yuancheng left near Dragon City.
• Wei Na advised Xiao Xiao not to enter Heaven Dou City unless the Emperor summoned her, warning that the imperial court’s power struggles could bring trouble.
• Yuwen Tuo recognized Wei Na’s wish to keep the group out of the succession struggle and agreed that he was not yet strong enough to intervene.
• Yuwen Tuo resolved to become strong enough to rescue the elders of Shiwa Village, avenge himself against Shrek and the Evil Soul Masters, and help Wei Na and the Body Sect protect their country and sect.

Wei Na brought Yuwen Tuo, Xiao Xiao, and their companions to the Body Sect’s hidden mountain estate, where Du Busi welcomed them as new disciples. Du Busi introduced the sect’s training grounds and assigned Wang Yanfeng to look after Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao.

• The group traveled through the mountains and reached the Body Sect’s grand estate and central Body Building.
• Wei Na explained that the sect remained half-reclusive to protect its children, and Du Busi said its future depended on Long Aotian, Yuwen Tuo, and Wei Na.
• Du Busi gave Xiao Xiao a warm welcome as one of the sect’s own and offered to show her around her future home.
• Du Busi led the newcomers into the Soul Duel Arena, where fewer than a hundred Body Sect disciples trained through supervised sparring.
• Du Busi introduced Wang Yanfeng as Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao’s senior brother and put him in charge of their daily needs.

Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao met the Body Sect’s younger disciples and were welcomed into the sect’s lavish Body Building, where Du Busi introduced them to its elders. The chapter ended with Wang Luohai promising that the sect would support Yuwen Tuo when he pursued revenge.

• Wang Yanfeng and Long Aotian introduced Yuwen Tuo to the Body Sect’s younger disciples, including Gu Tong, Chen Lu, Jiang Yixi, and Chen Yu.
• Du Busi led Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao into the Body Building and presented them to the elders.
• Yuwen Tuo met Second Elder Yun Yi, a Level Ninety-Five control-type Super Douluo, and heard Wei Na tease Long Aotian about her future title.
• Wei Na introduced Third Elder Wang Luohai, who urged Yuwen Tuo to hold on to his ambition and promised the Body Sect would support his revenge.

Wei Na introduced Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao to the Body Sect’s remaining elders, including the young Mind Douluo Miao Xin, whose heart Martial Soul let her read minds. Miao Xin teased Xiao Xiao and tried to read Yuwen Tuo, but his Noble Carriage Sword blocked her; she then turned her attention back to Xiao Xiao.

• Wei Na introduced Lu Si, Chen Yi, Lei Wuyan, Liang Yusu, Du Dagu, and Gu Mo, describing their Body Martial Souls and Titled Douluo abilities.
• Miao Xin interrupted Wei Na’s introduction, recognized Yuwen Tuo’s thoughts about Wei Na, and revealed that her heart Martial Soul granted her Mind Reading.
• Miao Xin read Xiao Xiao’s romantic thoughts about Yuwen Tuo and teased her until Xiao Xiao begged her to stop.
• Yuwen Tuo learned that Miao Xin was thirty and a Level 91 Titled Douluo, then used the Noble Carriage Sword to shield his thoughts from her.
• Miao Xin discovered that she could not read Yuwen Tuo’s mind and decided to tease Xiao Xiao instead.

Yuwen Tuo joined the Body Sect and learned its core manual, the Secret of the Body, then prepared to begin a plan to grow strong enough to kill Mu En. He revealed a vision of the Body Sect’s defeat by Soul Tools to Du Busi before returning to find Xiao Xiao seeking his help against Miao Xin.

• Du Busi welcomed Yuwen Tuo into the Body Sect and gave him half an hour to memorize the Secret of the Body.
• Yuwen Tuo learned that the manual described Body Martial Soul techniques and Second Awakening, and identified a path toward awakening his Xuanyuan Sword Soul.
• Yuwen Tuo told Du Busi that the plan would begin the next day, and Du Busi agreed to depart at dawn.
• Yuwen Tuo used his sword intent to show Du Busi a vision of the Body Sect and Heaven Dou Empire being defeated by Soul Tools.
• Xiao Xiao ran to Yuwen Tuo for help after Miao Xin repeatedly tried to get her to call her Sister or Teacher.

Miao Xin teased Xiao Xiao with her Mind Reading and offered to teach her Sound Skills, while Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao settled into the Body Sect together. The chapter ended with them sharing a bed for the first time and Yuwen Tuo looking forward to a new life beyond Shrek.

• Miao Xin exposed Xiao Xiao's wedding-night thoughts, but Yuwen Tuo reassured her and encouraged her to accept Miao Xin as a teacher.
• Miao Xin offered to train Xiao Xiao in Sound Skills and arranged for her parents to be brought to the Body Sect for protection.
• Wang Yanfeng showed Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao their shared room, and Xiao Xiao gladly accepted it when Yuwen Tuo worried they had not been given separate rooms.
• Yuwen Tuo and Xiao Xiao slept beneath separate blankets, and Yuwen Tuo reflected on his plans to cultivate, care for Xiao Xiao, save people, take revenge, and repay kindness.

The Shrek team returned to the academy after winning the Soul Duel Tournament, but the losses and Yuwen Tuo’s betrayal left the victory bitter. As the students condemned Yuwen Tuo, Ma Xiaotao vowed to bring him back herself, while Lian Yue took Cao Jinxuan aside with a letter from him.

• Xuan Zi apologized to Mu En for failing to prevent Yuwen Tuo’s defection, and Huo Yuhao tried to take responsibility for drawing the Body Sect into the conflict.
• Mu En said the circumstances around Yuwen Tuo’s alliance with the Heaven Dou Empire and the Body Sect remained mysterious, then thanked the students for winning the championship.
• Wang Dong, Xu Sanshi, and other students condemned Yuwen Tuo and vowed to capture him, while Lian Yue stopped Cao Jinxuan from defending his master and told him Yuwen Tuo had left him a letter.
• Ma Xiaotao silenced the crowd and vowed to grow strong enough to bring Yuwen Tuo back, by persuasion or force.

Cao Jinxuan followed Yuwen Tuo’s instructions to win Shrek’s trust, while Ma Xiaotao discovered that Yuwen Tuo had returned her gifts and declared that only hatred remained between them. Yuwen Tuo and Du Busi reached Gengxin City to meet Medicine Immortal Douluo, who was expected to help save someone.

• Cao Jinxuan read Yuwen Tuo’s letter, which instructed him to study Soul Tool combat control at Shrek and hide his talent until he reached Rank 40.
• Cao Jinxuan publicly cursed Yuwen Tuo as a traitor, convincing Shrek’s students that he was a victim of Yuwen Tuo’s betrayal.
• Ma Xiaotao found Yuwen Tuo’s booklet and a Gold Soul Coin card containing one hundred thousand coins, including repayment for her gifts and the books he had borrowed.
• Ma Xiaotao read Yuwen Tuo’s threat against Shrek, broke down in tears, and burned the booklet as she vowed not to let him sever their relationship.
• Yuwen Tuo, Du Busi, and Wang Luohai arrived in Gengxin City, where Du Busi expected Medicine Immortal Douluo to meet them and fulfill her promise to save someone.

Du Busi met Wang Xian'er in Gengxin City to ask her to save someone, bringing Yuwen Tuo along as they entered a heavily guarded city. After Wang Xian'er asked who needed her help, Du Busi revealed that the patient was standing before her, leaving her to suspect he meant himself.

• Du Busi entered Gengxin City with Iron Palm Douluo and Yuwen Tuo to meet Wang Xian'er at the Soul Tool Research Center.
• Wang Xian'er greeted Du Busi alongside Giant Hammer Douluo and Star Shattering Douluo, and she produced a Nine Transformations Soul Conversion Instrument.
• Wang Xian'er led the group to a secret room in the City Lord's Mansion, while Yuwen Tuo explained how he had become involved with the Body Sect and asked about Ling Luochen.
• Du Busi told Wang Xian'er that the person he wanted her to save was standing before her, and she wondered whether he meant himself.

Du Busi asked Wang Xian'er to help him cultivate the Tan Shen Secret Manual by using Yuwen Tuo’s Cold Fire and evil fire, strengthened with Du Busi’s Soul Power. Wang Xian'er agreed after Du Busi swore not to enter Star Luo without her permission, and she prepared to begin the dangerous treatment.

• Du Busi showed Wang Xian'er part of the Tan Shen Secret Manual and explained that mastering it could greatly strengthen him, though its cultivation risked death.
• Du Busi revealed his plan to channel his Level Ninety-Eight Soul Power through the Nine Transformations Soul Conversion Instrument to strengthen Yuwen Tuo’s flames and temper his internal organs.
• Wang Xian'er realized her Healing Angel Martial Soul would be needed to protect and heal both Du Busi and Yuwen Tuo during the process.
• Du Busi promised not to set foot in Star Luo without Wang Xian'er's permission, and Wang Xian'er agreed to help him.
• Wang Xian'er sent Suixing, Giant Hammer, and Iron Palm outside, then released her Healing Angel Martial Soul and began the treatment.

Yuwen Tuo helped Du Busi begin cultivating the Tan Shen Secret Manual, while Wang Xian'er kept them alive through the dangerous process. After leaving the chamber, Yuwen Tuo went to a secluded forest and took out the Snow Empress Embryo.

• Yuwen Tuo sent his opposing flames into Du Busi, who used the Nine Transformations Soul Conversion Instrument to transfer his power into Yuwen Tuo.
• Wang Xian'er used her Martial Soul Avatar and Healing Holy Light to heal them as Du Busi began cultivating the Tan Shen Secret Manual.
• Yuwen Tuo left Du Busi and Wang Xian'er to continue their months-long cultivation while three Titled Douluo waited outside.
• Yuwen Tuo told Iron Palm Douluo Wang Luohai that Du Busi would emerge in three to six months, then set out to explore.
• Yuwen Tuo traveled to a secluded forest ten li from Gengxin City and took the Snow Empress Embryo from the Ruyi Treasure Pouch.

Yuwen Tuo used the Subduing and Transforming Technique to accept Snow Empress’s sacrifice and gain her soul ring and an unusual soul bone. He emerged with new Xuanyuan Sword abilities and the Snow Empress’s Heart, though the reason her soul ring’s age increased remained unknown.

• Yuwen Tuo opened the God Sealing Platform and began Snow Empress’s soul sacrifice, drawing her power, soul ring, and soul bone into himself.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress helped Yuwen Tuo endure the sacrifice as snow swept through the forest for two days.
• Yuwen Tuo completed the sacrifice, and his second red soul ring gained an eighth golden pattern, indicating an increase to eight hundred thousand years.
• Yuwen Tuo gained the Xuanyuan Sword skills Emperor Sword and Emperor Domain, and his strength rose beyond Level Forty.
• Yuwen Tuo discovered that Snow Empress’s soul bone had attached to his xiphoid process, and Snow Empress named it the Snow Empress’s Heart.

Yuwen Tuo examined the abilities of Snow Empress's Heart and discovered that Snow Empress had left behind a doll-like body. He also found a hundred-thousand-year Snow Lotus Torso Bone, but Ice Empress advised him not to absorb it because it did not suit his fighting style.

• Yuwen Tuo learned that Snow Empress's Heart strengthened his body and Sea of Consciousness, let him summon the Empresses with reduced cooldowns, and could link his Soul Bones into Soul Bone Armor.
• Ice Empress reminded Yuwen Tuo to preserve Snow Empress's body, and he picked up a doll shaped like a little girl.
• Snow Empress questioned why her body was a doll, and Yuwen Tuo claimed it reflected the form she might have taken as a human.
• Snow Empress urged Yuwen Tuo to hunt for his fourth soul ring, but he found an ice-blue torso bone beneath her doll instead.
• Yuwen Tuo explained that Snow Empress's Subduing and Transforming Technique had caused the Snow Lotus's remaining vitality to form a Soul Bone and had added its power to Snow Empress's Soul Ring.
• Ice Empress advised Yuwen Tuo not to absorb the Snow Lotus Torso Bone because its abilities did not suit a strong attack Battle Soul Master.