Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan assigned Xiao Wu a mission to find and save the Blue Silver Emperor by returning to Tang San’s side and betraying him, while Ning Rongrong began training diligently under Zhu Zhuqing. After several days, Ning Rongrong had improved, but she noticed someone secretly watching her.

• Chen Fan gave Ning Rongrong one last chance to train seriously and told Zhu Zhuqing to lead her physical training.
• Chen Fan explained that the Blue Silver Emperor’s soul fragments remained and asked Xiao Wu to find her hidden by Tang Hao.
• Xiao Wu agreed to return to Tang San’s side, stab him when she found an opportunity, and use Darkness Power to help bring the Blue Silver Emperor under Chen Fan’s control.
• Chen Fan promised to follow Xiao Wu secretly and said completing the mission could help her evolve and gain a new physical body.
• Zhu Zhuqing continued cultivating with Darkness Power, while Ning Rongrong trained hard for several days, gained a Soul Power level, and improved physically.
• Ning Rongrong told the person secretly watching her that she could take care of herself.

Ning Rongrong threatened Oscar after he continued pursuing her, while Bibi Dong received Chen Fan’s letter and considered his request to monitor Tang Yuehua. At Shrek, Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu gave Chen Fan an awkward massage as Zhu Zhuqing cultivated nearby.

• Ning Rongrong rejected Oscar’s attempts to reconcile and warned him to stop harassing her or Chen Fan would beat him up.
• Ma Hongjun mocked Oscar, while Dai Mubai watched from the shadows and felt increasingly distant from his former brothers.
• Hu Liena delivered Chen Fan’s letters to Bibi Dong, who read that he had obtained his first Soul Ring and wanted Tang Yuehua secretly monitored.
• Bibi Dong refused to place Tang Yuehua under house arrest and sent Hu Liena to investigate what Chen Fan knew.
• Ning Rongrong massaged Chen Fan in exchange for help dealing with Oscar, while Xiao Wu gave clumsy instructions and Zhu Zhuqing cultivated.

Chen Fan arranged to use Dai Mubai to keep Oscar away from Ning Rongrong while he pursued a way to find the Clear Sky Sect and Tang Hao. The chapter ended with Ning Rongrong training with Chen Fan, leaving Oscar too afraid to bother her.

• Chen Fan planned to use Tang Yuehua to locate the Clear Sky Sect and asked Bibi Dong to watch her.
• After Ning Rongrong's massage and Zhu Zhuqing's cultivation, Chen Fan met Dai Mubai, who begged him to restore his Martial Soul.
• Chen Fan agreed to remove the force affecting Dai Mubai's Martial Soul if Dai Mubai disciplined Oscar for bothering Ning Rongrong.
• Chen Fan removed the obstructing power and told Dai Mubai to cultivate for two or three days before confronting Oscar.
• Chen Fan described his harsh Spiritual Power illusion training to Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu, who misunderstood what the training involved.
• Ning Rongrong trained with Chen Fan over the following days, and Oscar stopped bothering her.

Ning Rongrong continued her grueling training while Dai Mubai recovered his martial soul and attacked Oscar and Ma Hongjun. Flender confronted Chen Fan about Shrek’s divided students and dwindling funds, but Chen Fan dismissed his concerns and told him to focus on training the remaining students.

• Ning Rongrong endured her training and resolved to become powerful enough to earn her father and grandfather’s respect.
• Dai Mubai discovered that his martial soul had recovered, then found Oscar and beat him and Ma Hongjun for leaving him out.
• Ma Hongjun took the unconscious Oscar to the hospital and concluded that Dai Mubai had abandoned their friendship to follow Chen Fan.
• Flender questioned Dai Mubai about the beating and then approached Chen Fan, warning that Shrek’s divided students could not form a team for the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Competition.
• Chen Fan rejected the competition and Flender’s complaints about the academy’s expenses, then told him to train Dai Mubai and the others.

Chen Fan met Hu Liena in Suotuo City, revealed that his First Soul Ring was a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and explained his plans concerning Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect. Hu Liena remained shocked as she went to shower, while Xiao Wu questioned whether Chen Fan would stay the night.

• Chen Fan gave Ning Rongrong a day off, then went to meet Hu Liena after learning she had arrived in Suotuo City.
• Hu Liena delivered Bibi Dong’s warning against rash action and asked Chen Fan about his Soul Ring and plans.
• Chen Fan revealed his red, gold-flecked Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and Hu Liena saw Xiao Wu appear beside him.
• Chen Fan explained that Xiao Wu had offered herself for his Soul Ring and said he intended to deal with Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Hu Liena urged Chen Fan to consult Bibi Dong, but he told her to ask her teacher to trust him unconditionally.
• After Hu Liena went to shower, Xiao Wu asked whether Chen Fan was staying the night, and he teased her about what she had seen while hidden within his soul.

Chen Fan learned that Hu Liena had used medicine and her charm skill on him, then returned to Shrek and tried to help Xiao Wu evolve with Darkness Power. As Xiao Wu suffered through the attempt, Tang San spied on them, giving Chen Fan a chance to set his plan in motion.

• Hu Liena admitted she had used medicine to strengthen her charm attack, but her own illusion skill had bewitched her after Chen Fan rebounded it.
• The next morning, Xiao Wu told Chen Fan that Hu Liena had been caught by her own skill and had done something to him while he was unconscious.
• Hu Liena demanded that Chen Fan take responsibility, but he told her to keep Bibi Dong out of his affairs before she left.
• Chen Fan and Xiao Wu returned to Shrek, where he warned that her evolution would be difficult and began exposing her soul to Darkness Power.
• Chen Fan sensed Tang San spying at the window and decided to use the opportunity to have Xiao Wu follow him to the Blue Silver Emperor's location.
• Tang San saw Xiao Wu suffering and became furious, while Xiao Wu coughed and trembled under the cold Darkness Power.

Chen Fan followed Tang San and learned that Tang Hao planned to take him to the Heaven Dou Empire while Xiao Wu stayed behind to watch over the Blue Silver Emperor. After Xiao Wu reported Tang Hao’s hiding place, Chen Fan decided to target Ah Yin and use Darkness Power to corrupt her.

• Chen Fan secretly followed Tang San as he visited his former Shrek companions and then encountered Xiao Wu, who pretended to regret leaving Tang San and promised to help him grow stronger.
• Xiao Wu reunited with Tang San and Tang Hao, and Tang Hao said he would train Tang San before returning to Slaughter City and seeking a god’s power to remove Chen Fan’s influence.
• Tang Hao brought Tang San and Xiao Wu to the Blue Silver King and the Blue Silver Emperor; Tang San planned to travel to the Heaven Dou Empire, while Xiao Wu agreed to stay in the Star Dou Great Forest and protect Ah Yin.
• Chen Fan lost track of Tang Hao’s group in the forest, but Xiao Wu found him and revealed their plans and Tang Hao’s hiding place.
• Chen Fan rejected the idea of waiting for Tang Hao to leave and planned to use Darkness Power on Ah Yin to corrupt her and complete her rebirth.

Chen Fan used Xiao Wu to lead him to Tang Hao and revealed that he intended to force the Clear Sky Sect to submit while reviving the Blue Silver Emperor. Tang Hao realized Xiao Wu had betrayed them and tried to stop Chen Fan, but Chen Fan began enveloping the Blue Silver Emperor in darkness.

• Chen Fan sent Xiao Wu to warn Tang Hao and Tang San, then use the chance to attack Tang San.
• Xiao Wu reached Tang Hao and Tang San first and warned them that Chen Fan was coming.
• Chen Fan confronted Tang Hao, declared his own plans against the Clear Sky Sect and other forces, and demanded its submission.
• Tang Hao attacked Chen Fan, but Chen Fan shattered his hammer and overpowered him with Darkness Power.
• Chen Fan revealed a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, leading Tang Hao to realize that Xiao Wu had become Chen Fan's Soul Ring and had guided him to their hiding place.
• Chen Fan told Tang Hao he could revive the Blue Silver Emperor and covered her in darkness as Tang Hao tried unsuccessfully to stop him.

Chen Fan suppressed Tang Hao and used the Book of Darkness to search for the Blue Silver Emperor's remaining consciousness as darkness consumed her core. Meanwhile, Tang San turned back to help his parents, but Xiao Wu stabbed him to stop him from interfering.

• Chen Fan overpowered Tang Hao's Divine Slaughter's Domain with his Darkness Domain and attacked him with black lightning.
• Chen Fan poured Darkness Power into the Blue Silver Emperor's core and searched for her final trace of consciousness through the Book of Darkness.
• Tang San heard Tang Hao's cries and told Xiao Wu he would return, revealing that he had developed poison capable of killing a Title Douluo.
• Xiao Wu stabbed Tang San in the abdomen with a blade of Darkness Power and explained that she would not let him return to Chen Fan.
• Tang San expelled the darkness from his body with the Mysterious Heaven Skill and tried to catch Xiao Wu's next blade with his Mysterious Jade Hand.

Chen Fan survived Tang Hao’s poisoned needle and used Darkness Power to awaken the Blue Silver Emperor, who agreed to accept his help despite not knowing him. Xiao Wu brought the defeated Tang San to Chen Fan, who tied him beside Tang Hao while continuing the revival.

• Xiao Wu stabbed and kicked Tang San, then bound his unconscious body with Darkness Power and dragged him away.
• Tang Hao’s poisoned needle grazed Chen Fan, but Chen Fan’s Darkness Power neutralized the poison and restored his arm.
• Chen Fan dug up the Blue Silver Emperor and used Darkness Power to awaken its faint soul, promising to explain his reasons after it revived.
• Xiao Wu arrived with Tang San, and Chen Fan told her to tie him beside Tang Hao and return to the Book of Darkness.
• Xiao Wu objected to entering the book, so Chen Fan enveloped her in Darkness Power; she then recognized the Blue Silver Emperor from the book’s records.

Chen Fan watched the Blue Silver Emperor evolve into the Darkness Emperor, then prepared to travel to the Heaven Dou Empire with Tang Hao and Tang San. He left Shrek Academy in Zhao Wuji’s care and planned to use Tang Yuehua to learn where the Clear Sky Sect was hidden.

• Xiao Wu read that the Blue Silver Emperor could evolve into the Darkness Emperor, and Chen Fan assured her that she remained his first follower.
• After the night passed, the Blue Silver Emperor transformed into the black Darkness Emperor, whose cultivation quickly rose from several hundred years to one thousand two hundred years.
• Chen Fan stabilized Tang Hao and Tang San’s injuries, imprisoned them, and planned to take them to Heaven Dou to find the Clear Sky Sect through Tang Yuehua.
• At Shrek Academy, Chen Fan threatened Zhao Wuji to remain in place, instructed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing while he was away, and told Dai Mubai to keep cultivating.
• Chen Fan received a letter from Bibi Dong confirming that Xue Qinghe was the Spirit Hall spy in the Heaven Dou Empire and giving him a Holy Son Token to identify himself.
• Three days later, Chen Fan arrived in the Heaven Dou Empire with Tang Hao and Tang San, intending to locate the Clear Sky Sect.

Chen Fan met Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou and revealed that he had captured Tang Hao and Tang San, using them to pressure the Clear Sky Sect for its location. Xue Qinghe remained shocked by Chen Fan’s power and learned that he planned to visit Tang Yuehua and scout the sect.

• Chen Fan summoned Xue Qinghe and asked about Tang Yuehua, while she questioned why he wanted the Clear Sky Sect’s location.
• Chen Fan took Xue Qinghe to a basement, where she saw Tang Hao and Tang San bound and learned Chen Fan intended to use them to force the sect to submit.
• Tang Hao recognized Xue Qinghe and realized Chen Fan had kept him alive because of Tang Yuehua, then raged helplessly at Chen Fan’s threats.
• Chen Fan told Xue Qinghe he had captured Tang Hao himself and planned to bring Tang Yuehua to see him using his Martial Soul’s dark power.
• Chen Fan said he would scout the Clear Sky Sect after obtaining its location, leaving Xue Qinghe astonished by how casually he approached the plan.

Chen Fan forced Tang Yuehua to confront the capture of her brother Tang Hao and demanded the location of the Clear Sky Sect. Tang Yuehua began to waver, while Chen Fan claimed he wanted to recruit the sect rather than destroy it.

• Chen Fan met Tang Yuehua at the Court Etiquette Academy and demanded that she come with him to reveal the Clear Sky Sect's location.
• Chen Fan threatened Tang Yuehua with Tang Hao and his son, then showed her Tang Hao's inherited right arm Spirit Bone.
• Tang Yuehua tried to take her own life, but the Darkness Power Chen Fan had planted in her stopped her and weakened her resolve.
• Tang Yuehua agreed to leave with Chen Fan, while Qian Renxue followed them to observe what he would do.
• Chen Fan brought Tang Yuehua to Tang Hao and told her he wanted to recruit the Clear Sky Sect under his command.

Chen Fan used his Darkness Domain to influence Tang Yuehua and pressure her into revealing the Clear Sky Sect’s location. Tang Yuehua agreed to guide him there, while Tang Hao blamed her for the sect’s exile and Tang San watched in despair.

• Tang Yuehua said the Clear Sky Sect would not agree, and Chen Fan explained that he wanted to bring the sect under his control.
• Chen Fan spread his Darkness Domain and told Tang Yuehua that he planned to rescue the Clear Sky Sect and make them stop hiding.
• Chen Fan brought Tang Yuehua into the basement, where Tang Hao and Tang San were being held, and offered to spare them if she revealed the sect’s location.
• Tang Hao urged Tang Yuehua not to betray the Clear Sky Sect, while Qian Renxue secretly sensed Chen Fan’s power affecting her.
• Tang Yuehua remained unmoved by Tang Hao’s pleas and agreed to tell Chen Fan how to reach the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao accused Tang Yuehua of forgetting that he had caused the sect to retreat from the world.

Tang Yuehua confronted Tang Hao over the Clear Sky Sect’s downfall, then spared him and Tang San at Chen Fan’s discretion. Chen Fan delayed his visit to the sect while the Darkness Emperor evolved, and learned that Tang Chen might still be alive.

• Tang Yuehua blamed Tang Hao for provoking the Spirit Hall and driving the Clear Sky Sect into hiding, and Tang Hao fainted after hearing her words.
• Tang Yuehua asked Chen Fan to keep Tang Hao and Tang San alive and leave their judgment to the Clear Sky Sect, and Chen Fan agreed.
• Chen Fan removed the inherited Spirit Bones from Tang Hao’s severed limbs, treated his bleeding, and left him and Tang San free to move.
• Qian Renxue emerged from hiding and asked about Chen Fan’s plans, and he said he would wait for the Darkness Emperor to evolve before going to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Renxue warned Chen Fan about Tang Chen, and Chen Fan later learned the Clear Sky Sect’s hidden location from Tang Yuehua.
• The Darkness Emperor’s cultivation reached the ten-thousand-year level, and Chen Fan planned to raise it further before having it sacrifice itself.

Chen Fan tracked Yu Xiaogang and Flender to Blue Tyrant Academy and confronted them, binding Liu Erlong when she tried to intervene. He offered Flender a chance to gain power while dismissing Yu Xiaogang, who then begged Chen Fan to improve him.

• Chen Fan entered Blue Tyrant Academy and found Yu Xiaogang leading students in training.
• Yu Xiaogang argued with Chen Fan about whether he belonged to Shrek and demanded compensation for working under him.
• Liu Erlong and Flender arrived, and Chen Fan restrained Liu Erlong with Darkness Power.
• Chen Fan forced Darkness Power into Flender, offering him the chance to become much stronger if he passed its test.
• Chen Fan rejected Yu Xiaogang as too weak to be useful, and Yu Xiaogang offered to become his slave if Chen Fan improved him.

Chen Fan harvested the Immortal Herbs from Sunset Forest and raised the Darkness Emperor to a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, gaining a new Soul Ring and Soul Skill through her sacrifice. He preserved her soul, and she appeared before Xiao Wu after the ritual.

• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong asked Chen Fan for help, but he warned that Yu Xiaogang could not withstand Darkness Power and promised to reveal a possible remedy later.
• Chen Fan traveled to Sunset Forest, where the Darkness Emperor had grown to around thirty thousand years by absorbing the forest’s Blue Silver Grass.
• Chen Fan entered the poisonous area, found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its medicinal field, and collected the Immortal Herbs for relocation.
• Chen Fan fed several Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to the Darkness Emperor, bringing her cultivation to the hundred-thousand-year level, and obtained a ten-thousand-year left leg bone.
• The Darkness Emperor sacrificed herself to become Chen Fan’s second one-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, granting him the Thousand Mile Soul Chase skill.
• Chen Fan protected the Darkness Emperor’s soul, and she appeared beside Xiao Wu, who introduced herself.

Chen Fan chose the Clear Sky Sect as his next target and prepared to set out with two experts. Before leaving, he admitted to Dugu Bo that he had taken the Immortal Herbs from his lair and offered him a way to manage the poison in his body.

• The Darkness Emperor accepted that she was living a second life and affirmed her loyalty to Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan chose the Clear Sky Sect for his mission and was ordered to subjugate it within ten days and gather the former lower four clans.
• Chen Fan told Qian Renxue he had invited two experts to accompany him and asked her to summon Dugu Bo.
• Chen Fan confessed to Dugu Bo that he had taken the Immortal Herbs from his lair and gave him a Spirit Bone as a way to store the poison affecting his body.
• Dugu Bo forgave Chen Fan and mentioned his granddaughter, Dugu Yan, before Chen Fan saw him off.

Chen Fan freed Tang Hao and Tang San and took them away with Tang Yuehua, while revealing that Ah Yin had been reborn as Little Yin and was now his woman. The convoy continued on with Tang Hao and Tang San miserable in one carriage, while Chen Fan and the women traveled in a cheerful mood in another.

• Chen Fan took Tang Yuehua, Tang Hao, and Tang San from their imprisonment, and Tang Hao and Tang San emerged haggard after several dozen days in captivity.
• Tang Hao saw Ah Yin with Chen Fan and tried to reach her, but Chen Fan stopped him and said she had been reborn as Little Yin and had no connection to her former life with Tang Hao.
• Chen Fan had Tang Hao and Tang San put in a carriage and told them to return to the Clear Sky Sect to await punishment; Tang San spotted Xiao Wu and blamed Chen Fan for her betrayal.
• During the journey, Tang San used sleeping powder on himself and Tang Hao to escape their misery, while Xiao Wu warned Tang Yuehua that Chen Fan was morally corrupt.
• Little Yin told Chen Fan that Xiao Wu had badmouthed him, so Chen Fan confined Xiao Wu for a few days as punishment.

Chen Fan traveled with Tang Yuehua, Tang Hao, Tang San, and the others toward the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang Yuehua grew more comfortable around him and Tang Hao worried about the sect’s prospects. The group reached the sect’s guarded mountain approach, where the disciples confronted them.

• Chen Fan camped with Tang Yuehua, teased her about her awkward sleep, and kept watch with his Blue Silver Grass while she rested.
• Chen Fan planned to hand Tang Hao and Tang San over to the Clear Sky Sect, hoping to learn the Mysterious Heaven Skill from Tang San.
• Tang Hao regretted provoking Chen Fan and urged Tang San to cultivate quietly, while Tang San resolved not to challenge Chen Fan again.
• Xiao Wu worked to absorb the Dark Power and evolve, but she resented Chen Fan favoring Little Yin.
• Chen Fan’s party reached the outskirts of the Clear Sky Sect, where armed disciples challenged them after seeing Tang Yuehua, the crippled Tang Hao, and Tang San.