Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Di Qiuli unexpectedly finds Mu Feng in the Far North and confronts him for leaving without her, reminding him that he had promised to take her along.
• Mu Feng explains that he kept her at the academy to protect her from the dangers of his battles in the Far North and the Sun Moon Empire. After apologizing and reassuring her that he has not forgotten her, he draws her into an embrace. Di Qiuli stops resisting but remains mostly silent.
• Mu Feng’s group reaches the Snow Empress’s domain: a hidden valley enclosed by immense, translucent ice walls, with a towering ice pillar and an unfrozen pool at its center.
• Mu Feng releases the white current sealed inside the God-Sealing Platform. It is the Snow Empress, a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Mu Feng offers her a choice: take human form and cultivate, or become a Soul Spirit. She chooses to become a Soul Spirit. Mu Feng says she will need to help him obtain at least two hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Di Qiuli asks about Soul Spirits and learns that the Snow Empress is the legendary foremost Heavenly King of the Far North. Mu Feng also introduces her to the Holy Light Skyfeather Orchid.

Character developments

• Mu Feng reveals that his decision to leave Di Qiuli behind came from concern for her safety, though he recognizes that his explanation has hurt her. His apology is sincere, but he still prioritizes the dangerous work ahead.
• Di Qiuli shows her stubbornness, courage, and hurt by making the perilous journey to confront Mu Feng. His reassurance softens her, and curiosity gradually draws her back into conversation.
• The Snow Empress moves from hesitation to choosing the Soul Spirit path, helped by Mu Feng’s firm offer and the time he gave her to decide.

Themes

• Protection versus independence: Mu Feng sees keeping Di Qiuli away as protection, while she experiences it as being treated like a burden and denied agency.
• Trust and reassurance: Their relationship remains important despite Mu Feng’s silence and prolonged absence; his apology and promise of a future together begin to mend the strain.
• Coexistence and new possibilities: The Soul Spirit choice offers a way for soul beasts to support cultivation without simply being killed for their power.

Character interactions

• Di Qiuli challenges Mu Feng directly, while he answers with an apology, physical comfort, and an explanation of his motives.
• Mu Feng handles her silence gently, then uses the Snow Empress’s release and the unfamiliar Soul Spirit concept to rekindle her curiosity.
• Mu Feng gives the Snow Empress a clear choice, and her decision prompts Di Qiuli to ask questions about the new system.

Chapter Summary: “Breakthrough”

Key plot points and events

• Mu Feng contracts with the Snow Empress at the heart of the Snowfield. To prevent her immense power from overwhelming him, Electrolux divides it so some can support the contract and the rest can be saved for Mu Feng’s later breakthrough.
• The Snow Empress’s power helps Mu Feng advance six cultivation levels and supplies four orange-gold Soul Rings for his Second Martial Soul, filling its remaining slots. She takes the form of a small, white-haired Soul Spirit and watches over his cultivation.
• Meanwhile, Song Lao returns to Shrek’s outpost, where Zhang Lexuan tells him that the Lu Brothers claim Evil Soul Masters have appeared.
• Believing their report because Shrek has already accepted the claim that Mu Feng colluded with Evil Soul Masters, Song Lao agrees to lead an operation against the alleged group. The Lu Brothers guide the Shrek team to the hidden cave where they say the enemies are.
• At the entrance, Song Lao worries that the Holy Spirit Cult may have sent multiple groups. Zhang Lexuan argues that defeating even one group would hinder their plans.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu Feng demonstrates the resilience gained from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and his transformed body; the Snowfield’s extreme cold barely affects him. His successful breakthrough marks a major increase in strength.
• The Snow Empress becomes Mu Feng’s Soul Spirit. Though she looks like a young child, her cool, detached demeanor reflects her formidable nature.
• Song Lao and Zhang Lexuan act decisively on the intelligence, with Song Lao trusting Zhang’s handling of the situation and Zhang supporting the mission despite the risks.
• The Lu Brothers are intimidated by Song Lao’s presence. Their fabricated story includes inconsistencies, but Song Lao mistakes their nervousness for fear of the supposed enemies. They eagerly cooperate, expecting both to rescue their brother and receive a reward.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: Mu Feng must carefully manage the Snow Empress’s overwhelming strength, turning a dangerous burden into a source of advancement.
• Appearances and deception: The Snow Empress’s childlike form contrasts with her immense power, while the Lu Brothers’ invented account is mistaken for truth.
• Trust and confirmation bias: Because Shrek has already accepted suspicions about Mu Feng, Song Lao interprets the brothers’ report—and their nervous behavior—in ways that reinforce what he believes.
• Duty and strategy: Shrek’s stated responsibility to eliminate Evil Soul Masters drives the operation, while Zhang Lexuan sees value in weakening the enemy even if the threat is broader than expected.

Key events

• Song Lao’s party surrounds the cave and confirms that the masked leader is an Evil Soul Master from the Holy Spirit Cult. He is baffled by how Shrek found him, unaware that a misunderstanding led them to his trail.
• Zhang Lexuan and four Soul Sages ambush the cultists. The Shrek team’s coordination quickly overwhelms the lesser-ranked Evil Soul Masters.
• Song Lao faces Mask Douluo, whose maggots can regenerate after being shredded. Song Lao’s wind and spatial attacks destroy many, but the insects keep reforming and begin threatening the others.
• Mask Douluo is actually using the costly insect assault to conceal his real goal: escape. As his forces dwindle, he feigns a desperate move toward Zhang Lexuan, gathers the survivors, and draws his power inward.
• Mistaking this for a Titled Douluo’s self-detonation, Song Lao orders Zhang Lexuan and the Soul Sages to retreat while continuing to attack through the remaining insect clouds.

Character developments and interactions

• Song Lao remains composed and tactically sharp, quickly assessing Mask Douluo’s strength and the danger to his team. However, the enemy’s deception exploits his expectation that the fight is nearing its end.
• Zhang Lexuan responds swiftly to Song Lao’s orders, first leading the ambush and later retreating when warned.
• Mask Douluo proves less formidable in direct power than Song Lao, but resourceful and deceptive. He abandons any hope of winning and uses his minions and a feigned self-detonation to create an opening.
• Shrek’s fighters work in disciplined coordination, contrasting with the cultists’ disorganized resistance.

Themes

• Teamwork versus disorder: Shrek’s coordinated attacks give them an advantage over the loosely organized cultists.
• Deception and misjudgment: Mask Douluo disguises his escape attempt as a suicidal last stand, showing how appearances can shape battlefield decisions.
• Power and resourcefulness: Raw strength favors Song Lao, but Mask Douluo’s regenerative insects and tactical cunning make him a persistent threat.

The Seventh Elder escaped Shrek Academy by using his Maggot Escape skill, while the rescued hostages were freed from the remaining maggots. Mask Douluo then encountered Mu Feng in the Far North and realized too late that Mu Feng had attacked him.

• The Seventh Elder exploded into maggots and escaped underground, sacrificing most of his life force to flee Shrek Academy.
• Song Lao decided not to pursue the Seventh Elder, and Shrek Academy rescued the hostages as the maggots inside them died.
• Mask Douluo blamed Mu Feng for his defeat and wandered through the Far North, searching for a source of soul power.
• Mask Douluo spotted Mu Feng and Di Qiuli, put on his mask, and approached them, hoping to find help and prey.
• Mu Feng recognized Mask Douluo and struck him with two flying swords, then revealed an enormous Angel Phantom as Mask Douluo prepared to retaliate.

Mu Feng defeated the Seventh Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult by trapping Mask Douluo and destroying him with his sixth Soul Skill, Blazing Sun Detonation. Song Lao and the Shrek Inspection Corps later found the crater and sensed both Mask Douluo’s evil aura and a familiar power of light.

• Mu Feng attacked Mask Douluo with the Sword of Sacred Judgment and chains that countered his Demon Maggot Martial Soul.
• Mask Douluo transformed into an enormous maggot and spat corrosive liquid over the sacred sword, weakening it.
• Mu Feng connected with the solar power in the air and unleashed his sixth Soul Skill, Blazing Sun Detonation, killing Mask Douluo in the explosion.
• Mu Feng, Kayle, and Di Qiuli left the crater, and Di Qiuli recognized the extent of Mu Feng’s strength.
• Song Lao arrived with the Shrek Inspection Corps and sensed Mask Douluo’s evil aura and a familiar power of light in the crater.

Song Lao and Zhang Lexuan found evidence that Mu Feng had defeated a Holy Spirit Cult elder, but the blizzard hid his trail and they returned without pursuing him. Mu Feng had already reached the Heaven Dou Empire and brought Di Qiuli to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where she asked to take Youyou’s trial.

• Song Lao identified Mu Feng’s aura at the battlefield and concluded that Mu Feng had likely defeated the masked Soul Douluo, shocking Zhang Lexuan.
• Song Lao led the Shrek Inspection Corps back the way they had come because the snow had concealed Mu Feng’s tracks.
• Mu Feng quietly returned to the Heaven Dou Empire in disguise and decided to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before seeking his next breakthrough.
• Mu Feng brought Di Qiuli to meet Youyou and asked the immortal herb to let her take its trial.
• Youyou noticed that Di Qiuli’s aura seemed unusual, but Mu Feng deflected her suspicion, and Youyou prepared a trial for her.

Di Qiuli visited the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Mu Feng, where Youyou guided her to immortal herbs. She consumed Primordial Yin Yang Grass to strengthen her spiritual power and soul, and its energy awakened the mark of her Eye of Destiny.

• Youyou tested whether Di Qiuli was human, then allowed her to take seven immortal herbs.
• Mu Feng said he wanted Aromatic Silk Beauty for Ning Tian, making Di Qiuli jealous before he flew east to find the herb.
• Youyou learned Di Qiuli was the Emperor Auspicious Beast and upgraded her to black-gold member while showing her the immortal herbs.
• Di Qiuli chose Primordial Yin Yang Grass, which Youyou said could balance her powers and strengthen her spiritual power and soul.
• Di Qiuli consumed Primordial Yin Yang Grass at the boundary between the springs, and its yin-yang energy strengthened her soul as the mark of her Eye of Destiny shone.

After absorbing the Primordial Yin Yang Grass and reaching Soul King, Di Qiuli chose the Lovesick Heartbreak Red. She successfully picked it by offering heart’s blood and proving her sincere feelings for Mu Feng, then embraced him as they silently shared their feelings.

• Di Qiuli absorbed the Primordial Yin Yang Grass, reached Soul King, and slightly strengthened her power of destiny.
• Di Qiuli asked Youyou to take her to the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, despite thinking Mu Feng would never be able to pick it for her.
• Di Qiuli offered a drop of heart’s blood and recalled her history with Mu Feng, then shed a tear onto the flower.
• The Lovesick Heartbreak Red bloomed, and Di Qiuli picked it without resistance.
• Di Qiuli tucked the flower against her chest, rushed into Mu Feng’s arms, and held him in silence.

Mu Feng brought Di Qiuli to the Star Dou Great Forest to fulfill his promise to Bi Ji by introducing the Soul Spirit Method. After revealing the Snow Empress to Di Tian, he was escorted to the Lake of Life, where the Silver Dragon King acknowledged his arrival.

• Mu Feng and Di Qiuli entered the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian stopped them and asked why they had come.
• Mu Feng explained that he had a discovery that could change the relationship between Soul Beasts and human Soul Masters.
• Mu Feng summoned the Snow Empress and introduced her as an example of his Soul Spirit Method, surprising Di Tian.
• Di Tian led Mu Feng and Di Qiuli to the Lake of Life, where Bi Ji greeted them.
• Di Tian knelt by the lake and addressed his lord as the Silver Dragon King’s presence stirred the water; the Snow Empress felt her overwhelming aura.

Mu Feng explained his Soul Spirit method and proposed cooperation between humans and soul beasts, earning the Silver Dragon King's support. After receiving the Lake of Life's Life Crystal, he broke through to Soul Sage and began condensing an unprecedented soul core.

• Mu Feng revealed that Snow Empress had become his Soul Rings through the Soul Spirit Method and explained how contracts could support cooperation between humans and soul beasts.
• Mu Feng demonstrated his divine power and declared that he intended to surpass the Dragon God, convincing the Silver Dragon King that he could bring hope to the Soul Beast Clan.
• The Silver Dragon King gave Mu Feng the Life Crystal, the core of the Lake of Life, as an investment in him.
• Mu Feng absorbed the Life Crystal's energy and broke through to Soul Sage at level seventy.
• Mu Feng used his spiritual power and Martial Souls to compress the three-colored vortex in his dantian and begin forming a soul core.

Mu Feng condensed a unique soul core, reached the Soul Sage realm, and formed a golden God-given Soul Ring. He returned to Shrek City on his way to the Sun Moon Empire to confront the Holy Spirit Cult, where a familiar voice interrupted his visit to a restaurant.

• Mu Feng used the Life Crystal and life gold to condense his powers into a small, radiant soul core and entered the Soul Sage realm.
• Mu Feng manifested his Angel True Body, then formed a pure golden God-given Soul Ring from the holy light in his mental sea.
• Mu Feng told Di Tian he planned to return to the Sun Moon Empire and settle matters with the Holy Spirit Cult, while Bi Ji stopped Di Qiuli from accompanying him.
• Mu Feng disguised himself and entered Shrek City, where he discovered the Star Spirit Chamber of Commerce had moved beside the Nine Treasures Chamber of Commerce in the Core District.
• Mu Feng ordered food at the restaurant that occupied the Star Spirit Chamber of Commerce's former premises, then recognized the voice of someone entering.

Mu Feng secretly met Huo Yuhao and his companions, paid for their meal, and then visited Su Jinyuan at the Star Spirit Chamber of Commerce. After revealing that he had absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, he announced he was heading to the Sun Moon Empire to settle some scores.

• Huo Yuhao brought Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and He Caitou to a pastry shop, where they noticed Mu Feng sitting by the window.
• Huo Yuhao worried aloud about Brother Mu, and Mu Feng overheard him before slipping out through the window.
• The server told Huo Yuhao and his companions that the mysterious man had ordered extra dishes and paid their bill in advance.
• Mu Feng went to the Star Spirit Chamber of Commerce and met Su Jinyuan and Ye Guyi in her office.
• Mu Feng explained that his changed appearance came from absorbing an ice-and-snow Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, astonishing Su Jinyuan and Ye Guyi.
• Mu Feng told Su Jinyuan he was going to the Sun Moon Empire to settle some scores, then leaped from the office window and disappeared.

Mu Feng secretly met Ning Tian and gave her the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which could help her Martial Soul evolve. Before leaving for the Sun Moon Empire, he promised to return, while Ning Tian stayed behind to wait for him.

• Mu Feng followed Wu Feng away from the Nine Treasure Merchant Association and asked her to bring Ning Tian to him.
• Mu Feng showed Wu Feng the Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained that it could help Ning Tian's Martial Soul evolve.
• Wu Feng brought Ning Tian to the alley, where Mu Feng gave her the Immortal Herb and shared his feelings with her.
• Ning Tian asked Mu Feng to return, and he promised to find her after his journey to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ning Tian embraced Mu Feng and asked him to come back; he kissed her forehead and disappeared before she could stop him.

Mu Feng went to Mingdu to hunt Evil Soul Masters and found three Sunset Alliance members preying on a girl in the slums. He killed them, freed the girl, and disappeared before she could react.

• Mu Feng entered Mingdu and headed to the eastern district to investigate the Sunset Alliance, the Holy Spirit Cult's local presence.
• Mu Feng listened in the Qinse hotel as patrons discussed the Sunset Alliance's killings and the city guards' refusal to intervene against Evil Soul Masters.
• Mu Feng searched the slums with his spiritual power and located three Evil Soul Masters inside a dilapidated house.
• Mu Feng restrained and killed the two Soul Kings and one Soul Emperor, burning their bodies with Sacred Flame.
• Mu Feng cut the girl free and vanished from the house.

Mu Feng infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground black market and revealed himself to Nangong Wan, the cult’s second elder. Nangong Wan unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and prepared to hold Mu Feng off until Feng Ling arrived.

• Mu Feng spent a month purifying more than fifty Evil Soul Masters in Mingdu’s slums, raising his cultivation to rank seventy-four and prompting the Holy Spirit Cult to increase its patrols.
• After discussing the cult’s response with Electrolux, Mu Feng infiltrated the Sunset Alliance’s black market using his Morgana Martial Soul.
• Mu Feng climbed to the market’s top floor, sensed a powerful elder there, and decided to reveal his presence rather than remain hidden.
• Mu Feng blasted through the floor and purified more than a dozen guards with his holy light.
• Nangong Wan recognized Mu Feng as the Holy Son who had defected from the cult, and Mu Feng identified Nangong Wan as the rank ninety-three second elder.
• Nangong Wan activated his Heavenly Centipede Avatar, intending to hold Mu Feng until Feng Ling arrived.

Mu Feng killed Nangong Wan with his Holy Angel powers and destroyed the Black Market, then escaped before Mingdu’s major powers arrived. Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to capture Mu Feng, while Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao suspected he had also killed the Seventh Elder.

• Nangong Wan attacked Mu Feng with his poison skills, but Mu Feng’s holy light resisted the venom and purified his Ninth Soul Skill.
• Mu Feng used Light's Demon-Breaking to kill Nangong Wan and absorb five ranks of his soul power.
• Mu Feng burned the Black Market to ashes and left before Feng Ling arrived.
• Zhongli Wu berated Feng Ling for failing to stop Mu Feng and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to mobilize every force to capture him.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao concluded that Mu Feng had likely killed the missing Seventh Elder and recognized that his strength had reached the Titled Douluo level.

Mu Feng spent two months destroying Evil Soul Master forces across the Sun Moon Empire, reaching rank eighty-four before Electrolux advised him to throw the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans into chaos. As Mu Feng returned to Mingdu, Mu En died, and Huo Yuhao arrived there as an exchange student and began investigating Mu Feng’s attack, drawing the Sunset Alliance’s attention.

• Mu Feng hunted Evil Soul Masters across the Sun Moon Empire, killing more than three hundred and advancing to rank eighty-four as the Holy Spirit Cult recalled most of its stronger experts.
• Mu Feng reconsidered his stance on the imperial succession, deciding that weakening the Holy Spirit Cult could also hinder Xu Tianran’s ambitions.
• Electrolux advised Mu Feng to overturn the situation and create chaos across Mingdu and the empire, so Mu Feng set off for Mingdu again.
• Mu En privately spoke with Xuan Zi, gave his final instructions, and died; Xuan Zi succeeded him as Elder of the Sea God Pavilion and recalled Song Lao’s team while honoring the exchange-student agreement.
• Huo Yuhao arrived in Mingdu, identified the Holy Angel behind the eastern district’s destruction as Mu Feng, and began investigating the attack.
• Huo Yuhao traced the attack site to the Sunset Alliance’s territory and investigated in disguise, but the vigilant alliance noticed him.

Mu Feng infiltrated Mingdu and destroyed the Third Regiment of the Royal Soul Engineer Corps, forcing Xu Tianran to call on the Holy Spirit Cult. After the cult’s elders rushed toward the city, Mu Feng had already left to ambush them.

• Mu Feng entered Mingdu to disrupt Xu Tianran’s plans and targeted the Third Regiment of the Royal Soul Engineer Corps.
• Mu Feng used Blazing Sun Detonation to destroy the regiment’s ammunition depot and devastate its camp.
• Mu Feng revealed his Angel True Body as he escaped, and news of the attack spread through Mingdu.
• Xu Tianran informed the Holy Spirit Cult that Mu Feng had returned, and its elders changed course toward Mingdu.
• Mu Feng slipped out of the city and prepared to ambush the Holy Spirit Cult elders on their way there.

Mu Feng ambushed Nether Thunder Douluo in the woods and defeated him with the combined power of holy light and Electrolux’s undead energy. After absorbing the elder’s soul power and reaching rank 88, Mu Feng escaped into the darkness, intent on hunting another target.

• Electrolux warned Mu Feng that Nether Thunder Douluo was approaching, and Mu Feng hid in a tree to ambush him.
• Mu Feng struck Nether Thunder Douluo with sacred flames and flying swords, then charged him with the Holy Angel Martial Soul.
• Nether Thunder Douluo unleashed his Nether Thunder Avatar, but Mu Feng’s holy light shield withstood the lightning and purified his thunder.
• Nether Thunder Douluo used Nether Thunder Divine Punishment, and Mu Feng combined his holy light with Electrolux’s undead power to destroy him with the Light of Judgment.
• Mu Feng absorbed Nether Thunder Douluo’s soul power, rose to rank 88, and fled before the other Holy Spirit Cult members arrived.

The Holy Spirit Cult set a trap for Mu Feng, but he eluded them and withdrew to the Falling Star Mountains to cultivate. In Mingdu, Huo Yuhao learned that Evil Soul Masters were pursuing him and fled with He Caitou and Xuan Ziwen, only to find the city’s exits sealed and take refuge in an abandoned hut.

• Zhongli Wu ordered the remaining elders to bait Mu Feng into an ambush, and Li Lizheng volunteered in exchange for a path to the Offering Hall.
• Mu Feng sensed danger, hid in a cave in the Falling Star Mountains, and began secluded cultivation.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that Evil Soul Masters had been tracking him and were likely to attack soon.
• Huo Yuhao told He Caitou and Xuan Ziwen about the danger, and the three escaped the Illustrious Virtue Hall with essential belongings.
• Huo Yuhao led He Caitou and Xuan Ziwen through Mingdu while avoiding pursuers, but they found every exit guarded and hid in an abandoned hut in the slums.