Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Dongfang Hao nearly uses his Spirit Abyss Realm mental power to spy through the barrier into the neighboring room, but stops after recognizing a warning: the woman inside represents a “tenfold critical opportunity.” He suspects she may be an ancient, supreme-level being and decides not to provoke her.
• Ma Xiaotao enters Dongfang Hao’s quarters, teasing him for staring toward the neighboring pavilion and accusing him of coveting the mysterious prodigy.
• Dongfang Hao turns the teasing back on her, pulls her close, and claims he has a new Soul Skill he wants her to experience.
• Ma Xiaotao dismisses his boast, noting that he is only a level-twenty-three Soul Grandmaster while she is a level-sixty-five Soul Emperor.
• Dongfang Hao reveals a purple First Soul Ring, which Ma Xiaotao believes is a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. She is stunned, unaware that its true nature is a disguised ten-million-year Purple-Gold Divine Ring.
• He then uses a powerful mental skill to give her Omnidirectional Vision, letting her perceive everything within several thousand meters. Ma Xiaotao recognizes its immense combat value and realizes it is a Mental Attribute ability, incompatible with his known Ultimate Ice Martial Soul. She concludes that he has Twin Martial Souls.

Character development

• Dongfang Hao shows growing restraint: despite his new power and curiosity, he recognizes the danger of investigating the neighboring woman. He is also confident and mischievous when demonstrating his abilities to Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao shifts rapidly from playful confidence to astonishment and alarm. Her experience lets her grasp both the significance of Dongfang Hao’s Soul Ring and the contradiction between his Martial Soul and mental ability.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Dongfang Hao’s strength is extraordinary, but survival depends on knowing when not to act.
• Hidden identities and concealed abilities: The neighboring woman’s true origins, Dongfang Hao’s disguised Soul Ring, and his apparent second Martial Soul all suggest that appearances conceal far greater power.
• Surprise and shifting status: Ma Xiaotao initially sees Dongfang Hao as an inexperienced junior, but his revelations force her to reassess him.

Character interactions

• Ma Xiaotao teases Dongfang Hao about spying on the woman next door; he responds with flirtatious confidence and turns the conversation into a demonstration.
• Their playful, physically close exchange gives way to a mentor-like moment of shock as Ma Xiaotao witnesses his abilities and identifies the possibility that he possesses Twin Martial Souls.

Key plot points and events

• Ma Xiaotao is stunned to learn that Dongfang Hao possesses both Ultimate Ice and a powerful spiritual Martial Soul. She suspects his second ability may rival or exceed the first.
• Dongfang Hao uses a spiritual technique to place a powerful bond on her, causing her feelings to shift suddenly from suspicion and shock to intense affection and loyalty.
• He explains that Spiritual Detection has further abilities, then uses it to see through Ma Xiaotao’s clothing. Rather than becoming angry, she reacts with embarrassment, excitement, and teasing.
• Ma Xiaotao jokes that Dongfang Hao may have used the same ability to spy on Vice Dean Cai Mei’er. When he awkwardly denies it, she claims to know a long-hidden secret about the vice dean and offers to reveal it.

Character developments

• Dongfang Hao remains composed and self-assured, privately pleased with the strength of his abilities. He uses his power to gain control over Ma Xiaotao and is openly curious about its effects.
• Ma Xiaotao shifts dramatically from a proud, formidable inner-court fighter to a devoted and flirtatious companion. She also shows a mischievous, provocative side, teasing Dongfang Hao and using the alleged secret to draw him in.

Significant themes

• Power and control: Dongfang Hao’s spiritual ability overwhelms Ma Xiaotao’s independent judgment and redirects her loyalty.
• Hidden strength and secrets: His undisclosed Martial Souls and the mystery surrounding Cai Mei’er’s past suggest deeper revelations to come.
• Seduction and manipulation: Attraction, teasing, and supernatural influence blur the line between genuine affection and imposed devotion.

Character interactions

• Dongfang Hao and Ma Xiaotao’s relationship changes rapidly from astonishment and scrutiny to intimacy and playful flirtation, though that closeness follows Dongfang Hao’s use of spiritual control.
• Ma Xiaotao challenges him about his possible spying on Cai Mei’er, turning the exchange into teasing banter and tempting him with information about the vice dean.

Ma Xiaotao told Dongfang Hao that Cai Mei'er had remained a virgin despite her marriage to Yan Shaozhe, and the revelation inflamed his desire. Dongfang Hao stopped himself from giving in to Ma Xiaotao because he needed to save her help for a dangerous breakthrough, and she suggested they cultivate instead.

• Ma Xiaotao teased Dongfang Hao about what he had seen when Cai Mei'er carried him, and he admitted he had looked at everything.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that Cai Mei'er and Yan Shaozhe were only courteous colleagues in private and that Cai Mei'er was still a virgin.
• Dongfang Hao, aroused by the revelation, tried to start an intimate encounter with Ma Xiaotao.
• Dongfang Hao stopped Ma Xiaotao, deciding he needed her help when he faced the backlash from the potential hundred-thousand-year whale glue.
• Ma Xiaotao accepted his restraint and proposed that they have a cultivation session instead.

Dongfang Hao and Ma Xiaotao spent the night cultivating together, strengthening both their soul power, and Dongfang left at dawn to attend to a secret errand involving Huo Yuhao. As Ma Xiaotao stepped outside, she froze at the sight of a graceful figure standing by the neighboring residence.

• Ma Xiaotao stripped off her armor and clothes, then clung to Dongfang Hao as they cultivated together through the night.
• By dawn, Dongfang Hao had grown stronger and expected to reach rank twenty-four within five days, while Ma Xiaotao anticipated breaking through to rank sixty-six within a month.
• Ma Xiaotao teased Dongfang Hao, but he resisted her advances and said he had important business in the outer court.
• Dongfang Hao left without telling Ma Xiaotao that he planned to deliver an opportunity to Huo Yuhao.
• Ma Xiaotao dressed and went outside, where she stopped upon seeing a graceful figure by the neighboring residence.

Ma Xiaotao encountered the mysterious Gu Yuena in the Bamboo Grove, while Dongfang Hao crossed Sea God Lake by freezing a path beneath his feet. After waking, Cai Mei'er panicked that Dongfang Hao might consume the ten-thousand-year whale glue alone and hurried to find him.

• Ma Xiaotao greeted Gu Yuena and wondered about the silver-haired girl's origins and frightening abilities after she vanished into the Bamboo Grove.
• Gu Yuena sensed her divine core dragon heart stirring and recalled that she had come to the human world seeking someone who could change her destiny.
• Dongfang Hao used his divine ice martial soul to freeze the lake beneath his feet and sprint across it toward the Outer Court freshman dormitories.
• Cai Mei'er remembered the previous night's intimacy with Dongfang Hao, then feared he might swallow the potent whale glue without help.
• Cai Mei'er flew out of the Quiet Pavilion to find Dongfang Hao before the whale glue could endanger him.

Cai Mei'er arrived at the Purple Bamboo Residence, where Ma Xiaotao teased her with fabricated claims about the black-clad boy's desire for her. Cai Mei'er was left flustered and secretly pleased as Ma Xiaotao prepared to invent more of his supposed preferences.

• Cai Mei'er hurried to the Purple Bamboo Residence while imagining how she might save the black-clad boy if his life were in danger.
• Cai Mei'er saw Ma Xiaotao looking radiant and assumed that she and the boy had spent the night together intimately.
• Ma Xiaotao claimed that the boy had told her he would stay at the academy only if Cai Mei'er came to his bed.
• Cai Mei'er reacted with embarrassment and asked Ma Xiaotao whether the boy had really made that demand.
• Ma Xiaotao claimed the boy had also told her about Cai Mei'er embracing him during their flight, leaving Cai Mei'er mortified.
• Ma Xiaotao began teasing Cai Mei'er about the boy's supposed preferences for her clothes and accessories.

Ma Xiaotao pressured Cai Mei'er to wear revealing clothes to persuade Dongfang Hao to stay at Shrek, and Cai Mei'er began to waver after Ma Xiaotao invoked Xian Lin'er. Dongfang Hao arrived at the Outer Court and watched the exhausted freshmen run, drawing the attention of Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao.

• Ma Xiaotao described the revealing outfit Dongfang Hao demanded, and Cai Mei'er furiously rejected the idea.
• Ma Xiaotao warned that Shrek could lose Dongfang Hao to rival factions and taunted Cai Mei'er with the thought of Xian Lin'er mocking her.
• Cai Mei'er recalled her rivalry with Xian Lin'er and felt an unfamiliar eagerness to consider Ma Xiaotao's proposal.
• Dongfang Hao landed in Shrek's Outer Court and watched Zhou Yi make freshmen run laps in iron vests.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao noticed Dongfang Hao, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that the boy was extremely dangerous.
• A shrill roar rang across the square as the freshmen slowed down.

Dongfang Hao used his overwhelming spiritual abilities to expose Zhou Yi’s disguise and seize control of her body after she threatened to punish him. He ordered the helpless teacher to come to him.

• Zhou Yi threatened the freshmen and confronted Dongfang Hao for trespassing on her assessment grounds.
• Dongfang Hao activated Spiritual Sharing and Spiritual Detection, overwhelming Zhou Yi’s spiritual defenses.
• Dongfang Hao used Law-Piercing vision to reveal Zhou Yi’s youthful appearance and see through her clothes, enraging and humiliating her.
• Zhou Yi tried to strike Dongfang Hao, but he froze her soul power and took control of her body.
• Dongfang Hao taunted Zhou Yi and ordered her to come over to him.

Dongfang Hao used mental control to force Zhou Yi to approach him and slapped her twice in public, humiliating her despite her threats and appeals to Shrek Academy and Fan Yu. After the other students left, he announced that he would cleanse her consciousness again.

• Dongfang Hao compelled Zhou Yi to step close to him and slapped her while she was unable to resist.
• The students on the running track noticed Zhou Yi's strange behavior, and she angrily ordered them to finish the assessment and return to class.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao wondered who Dongfang Hao was and why Zhou Yi seemed strange around him.
• After the students left, Dongfang Hao slapped Zhou Yi a second time and said he was repaying her for trying to discipline him.
• Zhou Yi threatened Dongfang Hao with Shrek Academy, the Sea God Pavilion Elders, and her husband Fan Yu, but he summoned Divine Sense and threatened to cleanse her consciousness again.

Dongfang Hao forcibly dominated Zhou Yi’s mind and made her obey him, then ordered her to deliver Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue to Huo Yuhao. After Zhou Yi left, Dongfang Hao considered his next plans: waiting for a system reward and choosing his second soul ring.

• Dongfang Hao reshaped Zhou Yi’s mind and made her regard him as her master.
• Dongfang Hao gave Zhou Yi the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue and ordered her to hand it to Huo Yuhao alone.
• Zhou Yi pleaded for Dongfang Hao’s affection, but he rebuked her and told her to complete the task first.
• Zhou Yi left for the Freshman Class One teaching building with the whale glue.
• Dongfang Hao noted that his soul power had stabilized at Level 23 and considered planning his second soul ring.

Dongfang Hao planned to use pill-refining arts to strengthen Huo Yuhao so he could eventually obtain a high-age Soul Ring through the system’s critical-hit feedback. After Zhou Yi summoned Huo Yuhao and handed him a mysterious black lump instead of expelling him, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reacted with shock and excitement.

• Dongfang Hao chose the Purple Spirit Pill and the Azure Spirit Meridian-Opening Pill to improve Huo Yuhao’s cultivation and meridians.
• Zhou Yi entered Freshman Class One appearing unsteady, and Wang Dong suspected her condition was connected to Dongfang Hao.
• Zhou Yi called Huo Yuhao out of class, leading him to fear that she planned to expel him.
• In a quiet office, Zhou Yi gave Huo Yuhao a heavy, charred black lump and sent him back to class.
• After Huo Yuhao left the teaching building, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm excitedly demanded to inspect the black lump.

Huo Yuhao discovered that the charred lump he had found was supreme ten-thousand-year whale glue, while Dongfang Hao received a hundred-thousand-year red jade version through his reward mechanism. Dongfang Hao stored his treasure and began plotting how to consume it and deal with Huo Yuhao’s coming predicament.

• Huo Yuhao hid beside an artificial rockery and showed the charred lump to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who identified it as supreme ten-thousand-year whale glue.
• Dongfang Hao’s reward mechanism gave him hundred-thousand-year red jade whale glue, and he sealed its immense energy with his Mental Interference Domain before storing it in his Storage Ring.
• Dongfang Hao worried that consuming the treasure’s powerful yang fire would require help, and considered Ma Xiaotao, Cai Mei'er, Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming.
• Dongfang Hao anticipated that Huo Yuhao would suffer the ten-thousand-year glue’s lustful fire and looked toward Tang San’s statue with a wicked smile.

Dongfang Hao arranged for Zhou Yi to give Huo Yuhao ten-thousand-year whale glue, then ordered her to commission a feminized Tang San doll and move Wang Dong out of Huo Yuhao’s dorm. He headed across Sea God Lake to seek rare ingredients, but sensed sudden danger in a bamboo grove.

• Dongfang Hao told Zhou Yi through his divine sense to leave class and meet him.
• Huo Yuhao worried about receiving the whale glue, but the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged him to refine it and grow stronger.
• Zhou Yi reported that she had given Huo Yuhao the whale glue, and Dongfang Hao ordered her to arrange a lifelike doll modeled on a feminized Tang San and hide it in Huo Yuhao’s bed.
• Dongfang Hao ordered Zhou Yi to transfer Wang Dong from the boys’ dormitory to the girls’ dormitory, and she agreed to both commands.
• Dongfang Hao crossed Sea God Lake to seek ingredients for two pills, then felt danger as he entered a bamboo grove.

Xian Lin'er confronted Dongfang Hao on Sea God Island, doubting his claim that Cai Mei'er had invited him to help Ma Xiaotao. Dongfang Hao evaded her attacks with the Wandering Dragon Step, impressing her, but Xian Lin'er escalated the test at the chapter's end.

• Xian Lin'er blasted the jade steps near Dongfang Hao and accused him of trespassing on Sea God Island.
• Dongfang Hao explained that Cai Mei'er had invited him to help Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire.
• Xian Lin'er disbelieved him and attacked, but Dongfang Hao used his spiritual skill and Wandering Dragon Step to evade her claw strikes.
• After failing to touch Dongfang Hao, Xian Lin'er recognized his unusual skill and lowered some of her hostility.
• Xian Lin'er increased her power beyond the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor level, shattering the jade steps as she prepared to continue the test.

Dongfang Hao dodged Xian Lin'er’s swift attacks, prompting her to embrace him and try to persuade him to become her disciple. As she held him close, Dongfang Hao used his Law-Piercing, X-Ray Vision to see through her clothes.

• Xian Lin'er attacked Dongfang Hao at Soul King-level speed, but his Spiritual Detection and Wandering Dragon Step let him evade her.
• Xian Lin'er intensified her attack, then rushed at Dongfang Hao with her arms spread and embraced him.
• Xian Lin'er offered Dongfang Hao ten times what Cai Mei'er could give him if he became her disciple and left Cai Mei'er.
• Dongfang Hao activated his Law-Piercing, X-Ray Vision while holding Xian Lin'er close.

Xian Lin'er and Cai Mei'er fought over Dongfang Hao after Xian Lin'er discovered his ultimate ice and tried to recruit him. When he rejected her offer, Cai Mei'er answered Xian Lin'er's insults by revealing her black stockings to Dongfang Hao.

• Cai Mei'er found Xian Lin'er embracing Dongfang Hao and accused her of making advances toward him.
• Dongfang Hao explained that he was a guest invited to help Ma Xiaotao, then demonstrated his ultimate ice martial soul.
• Xian Lin'er tried to recruit Dongfang Hao into the Soul Tool Department, but he refused to join her department or take her as a master.
• Cai Mei'er and Xian Lin'er traded insults over Dongfang Hao, and Xian Lin'er mocked Cai Mei'er's lack of feminine charm.
• Cai Mei'er lifted her gown to reveal her black stockings and declared that she had everything Xian Lin'er had and more.

Cai Mei'er used black stockings to shock Xian Lin'er and drive her away, then faced Dongfang Hao's teasing advances. The chapter ended with him pinning her against bamboo and asking whether she had dressed that way specifically to see him.

• Xian Lin'er and Dongfang Hao were stunned when Cai Mei'er revealed her black-stocking-clad legs.
• Cai Mei'er taunted Xian Lin'er, who vowed to wear something more seductive and fled toward the Soul Tool Department.
• Cai Mei'er covered her legs and blushed after Xian Lin'er left.
• Dongfang Hao teased Cai Mei'er and asked her to show her stockings again.
• Dongfang Hao pushed Cai Mei'er against bamboo and asked whether she had dressed to see him.

Dongfang Hao failed to persuade Cai Mei'er to go further than offering to help him with her hands or feet, but he realized the Hundred-Thousand-Year Red Jade Whale Glue’s power might require more help. After Ma Xiaotao heard what happened, she agreed to introduce him to several powerful Inner Court senior sisters and challenged him to prove he could handle them.

• Cai Mei'er resisted Dongfang Hao’s advances but offered to help him at his Purple Bamboo Residence without crossing her final boundary.
• Cai Mei'er fled after Dongfang Hao mocked her and insisted that Ma Xiaotao alone would not be enough to relieve the glue’s medicinal power.
• Dongfang Hao considered seeking help from more Inner Court senior sisters because the Hundred-Thousand-Year Red Jade Whale Glue could be too dangerous for Ma Xiaotao and Cai Mei'er alone.
• Ma Xiaotao met Dongfang Hao and laughed when he recounted how Cai Mei'er and Xian Lin'er had competed over him.
• Dongfang Hao asked Ma Xiaotao to introduce him to powerful Inner Court senior sisters, and she named Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming before accepting his challenge.

Ma Xiaotao brought Dongfang Hao to meet Zhang Lexuan, but he concealed his intentions after sensing her formidable spiritual awareness. On the way back, he encountered Ling Luochеn, an ice-attribute Inner Court core disciple, as Ma Xiaotao provoked her.

• Ma Xiaotao warned Dongfang Hao about Zhang Lexuan and led him to her courtyard.
• Dongfang Hao politely greeted Zhang Lexuan, exchanged pleasantries, and left without revealing his plans.
• Ma Xiaotao questioned Dongfang Hao about his unexpectedly restrained behavior, and he claimed Zhang Lexuan had been busy contemplating.
• Dongfang Hao realized Zhang Lexuan's spiritual awareness could expose an attempt to control her, so he decided against acting rashly.
• Dongfang Hao and Ma Xiaotao encountered Ling Luochеn, and Ma Xiaotao mocked the ice-cold senior sister as she approached.

Dongfang Hao revealed his Ultimate Ice Martial Soul to Ling Luochеn, who tried to recruit him away from Ma Xiaotao. He pretended to accept, then used his spiritual power and Neural Control Method to take control of Ling Luochеn, leaving Ma Xiaotao stunned.

• Ling Luochеn mocked Ma Xiaotao and invited Dongfang Hao to serve as her companion page.
• Ma Xiaotao announced that Dongfang Hao possessed Ultimate Ice, and he demonstrated its power, suppressing Ling Luochеn’s Martial Soul.
• Ling Luochеn offered Dongfang Hao her family’s resources and her companionship if he joined her side.
• Dongfang Hao agreed to go with Ling Luochеn, shocking Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochеn embraced him.
• Dongfang Hao used his divine sense and Neural Control Method to rewrite Ling Luochеn’s will, and she clung to him and offered to warm his bed.