Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating to Ox-Horse Village near Shrek City, Lu Yuan awakened a powerful dragon Martial Soul and twin blades, but a Shrek deacon branded him an Evil Soul Master and tried to take him by force. Lu Yuan blocked the deacon’s attack and prepared to fight as the deacon began using his second Soul Skill.

• Lu Yuan woke in a child’s body in Ox-Horse Village and learned he was near Shrek City.
• The village chief brought Lu Yuan to a Shrek deacon’s Martial Soul awakening ceremony.
• Lu Yuan awakened the Lord of Eroded Primal Fire, whose aura frightened the deacon into calling him an Evil Soul Master.
• The deacon demanded that Lu Yuan go to Shrek for reform, and Lu Yuan refused.
• The deacon attacked with Flame Slash, but Lu Yuan’s twin blades swallowed the strike.
• The deacon decided to capture Lu Yuan for a reward and began activating his second Soul Skill.

After awakening his Martial Soul, Lu Yuan wounded a Shrek deacon and fled into the Star Dou Forest to escape being branded an Evil Soul Master. His dragon aura awakened Gu Yuena, who ordered Di Tian to find and safely bring him back.

• Lu Yuan attacked the Shrek deacon with Sun-Chopping Flame, then escaped while the villagers and children hesitated to stop him.
• The Shrek deacon left to report Lu Yuan's unusual Martial Soul and strength to Shrek Academy.
• A dragon roar startled Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Di Tian at the Lake of Life, and Gu Yuena emerged from the water.
• Gu Yuena ordered Di Tian to find the human child with a pure Dragon Clan origin and bring him back unharmed.
• Lu Yuan ran into the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest, rested beneath a tree, and delighted in the power of his newly awakened Martial Soul.

Lu Yuan awakened a powerful dragon-like Martial Soul and was brought by Di Tian to the Lake of Life, where Gu Yuena mistook him for a member of the Dragon Clan. The chapter ended with Gu Yuena wondering whether his strange, smoke-billowing form was the Fire Dragon King.

• Lu Yuan discovered that his Martial Soul granted him two innate swords and black dragon wings that let him fly.
• Di Tian appeared, recognized Lu Yuan's unusually strong Dragon Clan aura, and took him to the Lake of Life.
• Lu Yuan recognized Gu Yuena and decided to gain her favor by pretending to belong among the dragons.
• Gu Yuena examined Lu Yuan's Martial Soul, while Di Tian questioned her suggestion that he resembled the Fire Dragon King.

Gu Yuena took Lu Yuan in as her little brother after deciding his unusual Martial Soul might help the Soul Beasts create a god to challenge the Divine Realm. She gave him status equal to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the Star Dou Forest, but Lord Bear objected and reluctantly obeyed Di Tian’s warning.

• Gu Yuena and Di Tian considered Lu Yuan’s claim that his Martial Soul was a lost Fire Dragon King corrupted by the Abyss, then learned he had no family and had been driven out by Shrek.
• Gu Yuena invited Lu Yuan to stay in the Star Dou Forest as her little brother, and he eagerly accepted.
• Gu Yuena revealed her plan to nurture Lu Yuan as a potential god who could represent the Soul Beasts against the Divine Realm, and Lu Yuan promised to stand by her.
• Gu Yuena summoned the Ferocious Beasts and declared Lu Yuan’s status equal to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s.
• Lord Bear protested that a human should not hold such status, but Di Tian rebuked him, and Lord Bear reluctantly accepted Gu Yuena’s decision.

Gu Yuena declared Lu Yuan a future protector of Star Dou and approved his plan to deter soul hunters by having powerful beasts patrol the forest’s edge. After learning that Mu En was Shrek’s strongest fighter, Lu Yuan asked Gu Yuena whether he could absorb his first soul ring.

• Gu Yuena explained that Lu Yuan’s talent made him a future reliance for Star Dou and ordered the Ferocious Beasts to protect him.
• Gu Yuena refused Lord Bear’s call to attack humans, warning that gods were present and the soul beasts needed to remain hidden until she recovered.
• Lu Yuan proposed that powerful soul beasts hunt soul masters who came to the forest for soul rings, and the beasts agreed to try his plan.
• Lu Yuan told the beasts that Shrek had branded him an Evil Soul Master and tried to capture him, winning their sympathy and Lord Bear’s approval.
• Lu Yuan asked Di Tian about Shrek’s strongest fighter, learned it was Mu En, and then asked Gu Yuena if he could absorb a soul ring.

Gu Yuena and Di Tian helped Lu Yuan strengthen his body with a Soul Bone before he absorbed his first Soul Ring. After awakening his new Soul Skill, Lu Yuan demonstrated its abilities to Gu Yuena, Bi Ji, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

• Gu Yuena asked Di Tian to find a dragon-type Soul Beast, and Di Tian advised giving Lu Yuan a Soul Bone before he attempted a stronger Soul Ring.
• Scarlet King gave Lu Yuan a Soul Bone left by his father, and Lu Yuan successfully absorbed it.
• Di Tian brought back a wounded Thousand-Shadow Miasma Dragon for Lu Yuan to use as his first Soul Ring.
• Lu Yuan killed the Thousand-Shadow Miasma Dragon and absorbed its purple Soul Ring, breaking through the level ten Soul Power bottleneck.
• Lu Yuan demonstrated his First Soul Skill, Black Cloud Covers Dust, Myriad Wraiths Born, and explained how it weakened enemies and strengthened his own abilities.

Lu Yuan broke through to level twenty and prepared to absorb his second Soul Ring, while Gu Yuena and Bi Ji helped him settle in. After eating Golden Jade Fruits, he absorbed the Soul Ring of a seven-thousand-year Black Feather Flame Dragon Falcon.

• Lu Yuan teased the Three-Eyed Golden Lion by calling her a little golden furball, and she swatted at him.
• Bi Ji explained that Lu Yuan’s stored Soul Power from his Soul Bone and first Soul Ring had carried him past the level twenty bottleneck.
• Gu Yuena sent Di Tian to find Lu Yuan a suitable Soul Ring, while Bi Ji brought Lu Yuan and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Golden Jade Fruits to eat.
• Di Tian returned with an unconscious seven-thousand-year Black Feather Flame Dragon Falcon suited to Lu Yuan’s fire and darkness attributes.
• Lu Yuan killed the Black Feather Flame Dragon Falcon and drew its thousand-year Soul Ring into himself.

After absorbing two Soul Rings, Lu Yuan reached Soul Grandmaster rank at level twenty-six, and Gu Yuena advised him to temper his confidence with caution. Gu Yuena sent him to stay with Three-Eyed Golden Lion for the night, leaving them alone in her tree hollow as his cultivation training was set to begin the next day.

• Lu Yuan broke through to Soul Grandmaster rank, and Gu Yuena examined him and revealed he had reached level twenty-six.
• Lu Yuan boasted about his rapid progress, while Bi Ji, Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Gu Yuena warned him against arrogance.
• Gu Yuena advised Lu Yuan to keep reverence and clear principles as he grew stronger, and Lu Yuan replied that he trusted her to protect him.
• Gu Yuena told Lu Yuan to stay with Three-Eyed Golden Lion and make himself a home over the coming days as part of his training.
• Bi Ji explained that Gu Yuena was injured and needed the Lake of Life, then brought Lu Yuan and Three-Eyed Golden Lion to the tree hollow for the night.

Lu Yuan and Three-Eyed Golden Lion talked through the night about fighting, food, and sleeping before settling down in the tree hollow by the Lake of Life. At Shrek Academy, the injured steward went to report the incident to Du Weilun.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked how Lu Yuan had escaped the steward, and Lu Yuan said he had injured the Soul Grandmaster and fled while he hesitated.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion complained that Scarlet King beat her despite their three-against-three matchup, and Lu Yuan explained that Scarlet King's three heads worked in sync.
• Lu Yuan promised to cook for Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who offered to catch rabbits for him the next morning.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Lu Yuan settled in to sleep, and she draped her tail across his waist.
• The injured steward, told he needed three months to recover his damaged meridians, went to Du Weilun to report what had happened.

A steward reported that a six-year-old boy with a strange darkness-type dragon Martial Soul had injured him and fled, prompting Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe to suspect the child possessed Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power. Yan Shaozhe ordered a stronger search team to bring the boy to Shrek Academy by force if necessary, and to brand him an Evil Soul Master if they could not capture him.

• The steward told Du Weilun that a boy in South Suburb Ox-Horse Village had awakened a black-flame, sword-bearing Martial Soul with a dragon's roar, injured him, and escaped.
• Du Weilun read the steward's report, considered whether the boy's Martial Soul was related to the Dark Saint Dragon, and decided to inform Yan Shaozhe.
• Yan Shaozhe suggested that the boy's swords and darkness-type dragon might be separate Martial Souls, making him a Twin Martial Soul user with Innate Full Soul Power.
• Du Weilun told Yan Shaozhe that the boy had fled toward the Star Dou Forest and was unlikely to survive there alone.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered Du Weilun to send at least a Soul King with the search team and bring the boy back to Shrek Academy, using force if needed.
• Yan Shaozhe instructed Du Weilun to label the boy an Evil Soul Master if capture proved impossible, so the continent would hunt him.

Yan Shaozhe ordered a search for a child with Twin Martial Souls, but had to rush off when Xiaotao's Evil Fire flared up again. At the Lake of Life, Lu Yuan began meditation training with Bi Ji, and Gu Yuena told him to continue cultivating before practicing swordsmanship.

• Yan Shaozhe told Du Weilun to arrange the search and warned him that Star Dou Forest seemed unsettled.
• Yan Shaozhe learned that Xiaotao's Evil Fire had flared up and hurried to find her.
• Lu Yuan escaped the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's weight by squeezing out of the tree hollow's window and went to Lake of Life.
• Bi Ji taught Lu Yuan how to meditate, and he completed five cycles over two and a half hours.
• Bi Ji gave Lu Yuan nourishing spirit fruits, and Gu Yuena instructed him to meditate until noon and practice swordsmanship afterward.

Du Weilun sent a Soul King and ten Soul Elders into the Star Dou Forest to capture a six-year-old boy, but Lord Bear and the young Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bears ambushed and devoured them. Lord Bear was left satisfied that Lu Yuan’s plan had worked.

• Du Weilun ordered the eleven Shrek Academy members to search the forest outskirts for the boy and bring him back unharmed.
• Lord Bear spotted the Soul Masters entering the forest and led several young Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bears to prepare an ambush.
• The Soul Elders found enormous bear tracks and encountered Lord Bear and the young bears in a clearing.
• Lord Bear and the young bears killed and ate the Soul Elders and their Soul King leader despite their attempts to fight back and flee.
• Lord Bear told the youngsters to finish the meal, then praised Lu Yuan’s plan as he watched them eat.

Lu Yuan trained the paired flame blades under Gu Yuena’s guidance, then cooked roasted rabbits for her and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. As he considered his future cultivation, he began thinking about obtaining Immortal Herbs from Sunset Forest.

• Gu Yuena taught Lu Yuan to control his stance and Soul Power as he practiced basic strikes with his two flame blades.
• After training, Lu Yuan prepared a bonfire and roasted the Soft Bone Rabbits the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had brought him.
• Gu Yuena joined Lu Yuan and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion by the fire, and they ate the roasted rabbits together.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion left to search for seasonings among human Soul Masters’ abandoned belongings.
• Gu Yuena asked Lu Yuan about his plans, and he decided to cultivate until he was twelve before considering what came next.
• Lu Yuan considered seeking Immortal Herbs in Sunset Forest to support his cultivation.

Lu Yuan used a fabricated dream about a misty forest and a hot-and-cold spring to persuade Gu Yuena to search for a hidden treasure land. They found a poisoned valley in Sunset Forest, where the aura of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings left Gu Yuena and Di Tian trembling.

• Lu Yuan described his supposed dream of a misty forest and a spring with hot and cold currents, and Gu Yuena believed it might be guidance from a Dragon Clan ancestor.
• Gu Yuena asked Di Tian to identify forests matching the dream, and he named Sunset Forest and Evil Demon Forest.
• Gu Yuena decided to search Sunset Forest with Lu Yuan and Di Tian the next day, avoiding large-scale use of divine power to stay hidden from the Divine Realm.
• Di Tian opened a spatial fissure, bringing Gu Yuena and Lu Yuan to Sunset Forest, where Gu Yuena sensed deadly poison and few Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yuena brought Lu Yuan and Di Tian into a beautiful valley with a divided milky-white and crimson pool, and they recognized the aura of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.

Tang San sensed that someone had entered a forbidden area on Douluo Continent, while Destruction noticed the Silver Dragon King’s awakening and planned to use it against him. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Gu Yuena claimed the Immortal Herbs and awakened the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King, who questioned Lu Yuan’s identity.

• Tang San sensed that someone had trespassed in a forbidden area below and hoped to investigate after Xiao Wu let him go.
• Destruction discovered Gu Yuena had awakened and noticed Lu Yuan’s strange Abyssal aura, then went to the Sea God Temple to watch Tang San and provoke him into breaking the Divine Realm’s rules.
• Di Tian slapped Youyou when she tried to drive him and Gu Yuena away from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Gu Yuena ordered him to collect the Immortal Herbs.
• Di Tian moved the Immortal Herbs to Lake of Life in Star Dou and left Bi Ji to watch over them before returning to Gu Yuena and Lu Yuan.
• Gu Yuena released her Silver Dragon King aura at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, awakening the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King, who recognized Di Tian and questioned what kind of dragon Lu Yuan was.

Gu Yuena and Di Tian met the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, who revealed that the Dragon Clan’s downfall began with the Dragon God’s actions rather than a human rebellion. They urged the survivors to rebuild the clan and left them the herbs growing around their Dragon Bones.

• Di Tian reunited with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, and Gu Yuena explained that Lu Yuan’s dream had led them to the valley.
• Gu Yuena said she could not restore the Dragon Clan alone and planned to cultivate Lu Yuan into a God, while Di Tian explained that Divine Realm rules and Heavenly Tribulations kept Soul Beasts from becoming Gods.
• Gu Yuena told the Dragon Kings that only four true dragons remained, or five if Lu Yuan was counted, and Di Tian asked to take their Dragon Souls away.
• The Fire Dragon King explained that the Dragon God had slain him and that the Dragon Bones anchoring the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had preserved the Kings’ last traces of their Dragon Souls.
• The Ice Dragon King told Gu Yuena and Di Tian what had really happened in the Dragon Clan’s calamity, shocking them with the Dragon God’s responsibility for the disaster.
• The Fire Dragon King urged them to avenge the Dragon Clan’s remaining losses, and the Kings told them to take the valley’s spiritual and Immortal Herbs to cultivate future generations.

The Fire and Ice Dragon Kings gave Lu Yuan the Fire Dragon King's Dragon Core before returning to slumber, while Gu Yuena and Di Tian renewed their resolve to take revenge on the gods. Lu Yuan and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion began absorbing Immortal Herbs, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yun and Xiao Xiao camping at the Star Dou Forest’s outskirts.

• The Fire Dragon King gave Lu Yuan his Dragon Core, and the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings explained to Di Tian why they could not leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before returning to sleep.
• Gu Yuena told Di Tian that they must take revenge on the gods and ordered him to distribute the Immortal Herbs among promising Soul Beasts, including Lu Yuan.
• Di Tian gave the Three-Eyed Golden Lion a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and gave Lu Yuan Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to boost his spiritual power.
• Lu Yuan and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion absorbed their herbs, and Lu Yuan’s cultivation advanced beyond level twenty-seven before they set out to hunt.
• Xiao Yun camped with six-year-old Xiao Xiao at the Star Dou Forest’s outskirts, warning her to stay close because of the forest’s recent disturbances and reports of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Xiao Yun and Xiao Xiao were ambushed in the Star Dou Forest by five killers hired by rival families to eliminate the Xiao Family’s gifted child. Xiao Yun launched Xiao Xiao into the forest to save her and trapped all five attackers with her ultimate Soul Skill, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Xiao Yun prepared camp while the hidden killers watched her and Xiao Xiao, intending to kill them on behalf of rival families.
• The Soul Sage leader and four Soul Emperors surrounded the clearing and revealed that they had been hired to take the pair’s lives.
• Xiao Yun recognized the danger and offered the killers double their fee, but they refused and attacked.
• Xiao Yun hurled Xiao Xiao into the forest and urged her to run, then fought to stop one killer from pursuing her.
• Xiao Yun burned her blood essence and used her Sixth Soul Skill, Cauldron Suppresses Heaven and Earth, to imprison all five attackers.

Xiao Xiao fled after Aunt Yun was defeated protecting her, then encountered Lu Yuan, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Scarlet King. Scarlet King killed the five pursuers, and after Xiao Xiao introduced herself, Lu Yuan began plotting while the soul beasts felt pity for her.

• Xiao Yun held off five black-clad pursuers so Xiao Xiao could escape, but the men eventually defeated and killed her.
• Xiao Xiao ran through the forest and stumbled upon Lu Yuan and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, pleading with them not to eat her.
• The five pursuers caught up and threatened Xiao Xiao and Lu Yuan, but the Three-Eyed Golden Lion summoned Scarlet King.
• Scarlet King burned all five pursuers to ashes, and Lu Yuan reassured the shaken Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao introduced herself and explained that she and Aunt Yun had come to hunt for her first soul ring before the assassins attacked.
• Lu Yuan recognized Xiao Xiao and began scheming, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King felt pity for her.

Lu Yuan brought Xiao Xiao back to the Lake of Life after she found Xiao Yun dead, then proposed recruiting human geniuses to build a fighting force for the Soul Beasts. Di Tian agreed to raise Xiao Xiao after learning she had twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power.

• Xiao Xiao found Xiao Yun dead at the campsite and grieved as Lu Yuan comforted her.
• Lu Yuan brought Xiao Xiao to the Lake of Life, where Gu Yuena and Di Tian heard how assassins had targeted the six-year-old.
• Lu Yuan proposed recruiting human geniuses to fight humanity's sects and empires, and suggested hunting Sea Soul Beasts for their Soul Rings.
• Di Tian learned Xiao Xiao possessed the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and the Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute, and decided to raise her.