Chapter Summaries

Key events

• Tang Wulin and Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power unexpectedly forms a smooth circuit, fusing despite their normally very different qualities.
• On the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s urging, Huo Yuhao embraces Tang Wulin. Their auras shift through several colors and grow stronger, while life energy stabilizes and improves their bodies.
• Wang Dong notices Tang Wulin’s Clear Sky Hammer aura and wonders about his connection to the Clear Sky Sect, but puts the question aside to watch over the pair.
• Niu Tian, Tai Tan, and Mu En arrive. Wang Dong realizes her fathers came because of Tang Wulin and feels hurt and overlooked. Niu Tian promises to explain everything—including what they know about her parents—once Tang Wulin is safe.
• Mu En judges that the boys’ compatible Martial Souls are undergoing a prolonged first fusion and that both may benefit.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tries to strengthen Huo Yuhao’s part in the fusion. The two boys’ auras flare, and she wraps them in a cocoon, promising to secure Huo Yuhao a Martial Soul Fusion Skill—before abruptly crying out in distress.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Wulin and Huo Yuhao: Their physical and spiritual compatibility becomes evident, and their mutual trust deepens as they embrace and undergo the fusion. Huo Yuhao worries about harming Tang Wulin and proceeds only after being reassured.
• Wang Dong: Her concern for both boys is genuine, but she is wounded by her fathers’ apparent prioritization of Tang Wulin. Her anger softens once she knows they are likely safe.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm: Protective of Huo Yuhao, she tries to ensure he gains more from the fusion, but her intervention appears to go badly.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan: Their arrival exposes the family secrets surrounding Tang Wulin and Wang Dong, while their uncertainty about the fusion contrasts with Mu En’s reassurance.

Significant themes

• Compatibility and cooperation: Two very different powers can harmonize when their bearers trust one another.
• Family, secrecy, and belonging: Wang Dong’s hurt highlights how withheld truths and unequal attention can strain family bonds.
• Power and unequal roles: The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sees Huo Yuhao as subordinate in the fusion and tries to alter that balance.
• Care and self-sacrifice: Huo Yuhao’s first concern is Tang Wulin’s safety, while Wang Dong’s anger gives way to relief when she believes both are unharmed.

Key plot points and events

• Tang Wulin and Huo Yuhao awaken after the cocoon disappears. Both feel the effects of the power transfer: Huo Yuhao learns that a mysterious power within Tang Wulin took half of the ten sealed orbs the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had prepared for him, while Tang San secretly gives the orbs to Wulin and upgrades his first Soul Ring to more than 5,600 years. Wulin’s speed boost doubles, and his teleportation improves.
• Their embrace is witnessed by Mu En, Da Ming, and Er Ming, leaving both boys embarrassed. Wang Dong then confronts Wulin, demanding to know who he really is.
• Da Ming creates a soundproof barrier so the siblings can speak privately. Wulin reveals that he is Wang Dong’s younger brother from ten thousand years in the future, and that she is actually Tang Wutong, the biological daughter of Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• The revelation overwhelms Wang Dong. As the truth sinks in, she mourns the parents who left her to be raised by Da Ming and Er Ming. Wulin comforts her with a hug—but struggles to keep from laughing.
• Tang San, still communicating secretly from within Wulin, tells him the real reason Wang Dong was sent to the mortal world: she had been mischievous and wanted to visit Douluo Continent. Wulin repeats this explanation, leaving Wang Dong stunned.

Character developments

• Tang Wulin gains a major power increase and learns the truth about his sister. He is affectionate and sympathetic, but his effort to conceal his father’s presence—and his laughter—complicates his attempt to comfort her.
• Wang Dong/Tang Wutong moves from anger and grief to shock as she discovers her identity and family history. Her hurt reflects how deeply she has felt abandoned by her parents.
• Huo Yuhao responds gratefully to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice, even though the power transfer leaves the silkworm devastated.
• Tang San remains a mischievous, secretive influence, directing events from within Wulin while withholding the full truth from others.

Significant themes

• Family and belonging: Wulin and Wang Dong’s reunion reframes their relationship and gives Wang Dong answers about her origins.
• Secrecy and misunderstanding: Hidden motives and sealed memories have shaped Wang Dong’s life and fueled her sense of abandonment.
• Power and sacrifice: Huo Yuhao benefits from the silkworm’s intended gift, but Tang Wulin’s power claims part of it.
• Comedy amid emotional pain: Wulin’s struggle not to laugh undercuts a moment of genuine grief, highlighting the chapter’s mix of humor and family drama.

Character interactions

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explains the loss to Huo Yuhao, who thanks and embraces it.
• Wulin greets Da Ming, Er Ming, and Mu En before Wang Dong challenges him.
• Da Ming protects the private family conversation with a soundproof barrier.
• Wulin comforts Wang Dong physically, but she notices his trembling and accuses him of laughing at her.
• Wulin relays Tang San’s unexpected explanation, leaving Wang Dong speechless.

Plot points and events

• Niu Tian removes the Soundproof Barrier after Tang Wulin and Wang Dong finish talking. The two say they have resolved their misunderstanding and continue presenting themselves as sworn brothers, even though they now know they are siblings.
• Wang Dong is still annoyed that Niu Tian and Tai Tan kept their school visit from her, but Niu Tian promises her a feast. Tai Tan’s eagerness to join in makes her laugh.
• Wang Dong asks how Tang Wulin and Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill is progressing. They agree to try it again, with Tai Tan volunteering as the target.
• Tang Wulin explains that Tai Tan is a Titled Douluo, reassuring Huo Yuhao that he can withstand the test.
• As the boys embrace and activate their Martial Souls, their Soul Power merges. A pink-gold domain forms around Tai Tan, filling his mind with a painful memory of Xiao Wu and igniting flames of fury across his body.
• Illusory figures repeatedly grapple and throw Tai Tan. Tang Wulin then transforms into a golden figure and kicks him out of the domain and into Sea God Lake.
• The skill drains both boys’ Soul Power. Tang Wulin catches the unsteady Huo Yuhao, and the chapter names their fusion technique “Eternity in Illusion—Delusion Golden Body.”

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Dong shifts from anger to laughter, though she remains playfully resentful toward her fathers. Her affection for Tang Wulin deepens, now layered with the knowledge that he is her real younger brother.
• Tang Wulin and Huo Yuhao strengthen their closeness through their renewed embrace and shared experiment. Huo Yuhao is awed by Tai Tan’s status, while Tang Wulin is eager to discover what their fusion skill can do.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan tease and indulge Wang Dong; their recognition of Xiao Wu in the fusion’s phantom reveals the skill’s personal significance to them.
• Tai Tan serves as the test subject, experiencing the domain’s mental attack and painful vision before being launched into the lake.

Significant themes

• Family and brotherhood: Tang Wulin and Wang Dong preserve their brotherly bond despite discovering their sibling relationship; Huo Yuhao values the bond between brothers.
• Shared power and trust: The fusion skill depends on Tang Wulin and Huo Yuhao joining their bodies and Soul Power.
• Memory and grief: The domain draws on Tai Tan’s longing for Xiao Wu, turning emotional pain into a source of fiery power.

Tang Wulin explained the powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill he shared with Huo Yuhao, including its emotional illusion, attacks that drained an enemy’s vital essence and spirit, and the Invincible Golden Body. The group praised its potential while Wang Dong learned that his Light Goddess Butterfly was part of a path Tang San had arranged for him.

• Wang Dong and Niu Tian checked on the exhausted Tang Wulin and unconscious Huo Yuhao, while Tai Tan climbed out of Sea God Lake after Tang Wulin’s attack.
• Tai Tan described how the Martial Soul Fusion Skill trapped him in an illusion of Xiao Wu’s sacrifice, stirred his anger, and weakened his vital essence and spirit before Tang Wulin’s finishing blow.
• Mu En analyzed the skill, and Tang Wulin explained how it used the enemy’s seven emotions, mental attacks, and Huo Yuhao’s abilities before delivering a crushing strike.
• Tang Wulin revealed that the golden body was the Soft Bone Rabbit’s Invincible Golden Body, which he could activate during the fusion skill.
• Niu Tian suggested that Tang Wulin could combine the Invincible Golden Body with Ring Detonation in the future, and Tang Wulin agreed to try it.
• Wang Dong questioned why he lacked the Soft Bone Rabbit’s abilities, and Niu Tian said Tang San had arranged an easy path for him; Wang Dong blushed at Niu Tian’s comment about his laziness.

Tang Wulin, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong attended their first day of class at Shrek Academy and introduced themselves to their classmates. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao revealing his Spiritual Eyes martial soul and rank.

• Tang Wulin and Huo Yuhao woke Wang Dong and returned to their shared room before getting ready for school.
• The three arrived early at class, where Wang Dong met Xiao Xiao and she introduced herself as a 21st-rank Soul Grandmaster with two martial souls.
• Wang Dong introduced himself as a 21st-rank Soul Grandmaster with the Light Goddess Butterfly and Clear Sky Hammer martial souls.
• Tang Wulin introduced himself as a 17th-rank Soul Master with the Soft Bone Rabbit and Clear Sky Hammer martial souls, surprising Wang Yan.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as an 11th-rank Soul Master with the Spiritual Eyes martial soul.

Huo Yuhao faced his classmates’ doubts about entering Shrek Academy at low ranks, but Wang Dong, Tang Wulin, and Xiao Xiao stood up to defend him. After Wang Yan explained the freshman assessment rules, the group began considering how they could form teams.

• Wang Yan explained that Huo Yuhao had entered through a Tang Sect quota and would be expelled if he failed the grade examinations.
• Wang Dong, Tang Wulin, and Xiao Xiao stood up to support Huo Yuhao and warned the class against challenging them.
• Wang Yan asked whether the three classmates had a three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Huo Yuhao clarified that only he and Tang Wulin had one.
• Huo Yuhao promised to treat the others to barbecue, and Tang Wulin asked for a whole roasted lamb while Wang Dong teased him for ignoring his big brother.
• Wang Yan announced that the freshman assessment would take place in three months and use three-person teams with at most one Power Attack System Soul Master.
• Tang Wulin realized he and Wang Dong could not be on the same team under the rules, and Wang Dong considered asking whether Tang Wulin could team up with Huo Yuhao as a pair.

Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, Tang Wulin, and Xiao Xiao confronted Zhou Yi after she berated Wang Dong and her students for questioning her teaching methods. As Zhou Yi unleashed her power and Wang Dong attacked, Huo Yuhao guided Tang Wulin into a sudden strike from behind.

• Wang Dong agreed to find teammates after hearing that a Soul Elder and two students with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill had entered the academy.
• Huo Yuhao recalled his hatred of the Duke's Mansion, and Tang Wulin encouraged him to do his best in the coming competition.
• Wang Yan sent the class to run laps on the playground to assess their fitness, while the group noticed students running around Shrek Square under Zhou Yi's supervision.
• Wang Dong challenged Zhou Yi's teaching methods, and Tang Wulin, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao stood with him.
• Zhou Yi threatened to have them expelled and summoned her martial soul, so Wang Dong attacked with Butterfly God's Light.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to guide Tang Wulin, who activated Golden Dragon Body and struck at Zhou Yi from behind.

Tang Wulin attacked Zhou Yi after Wang Dong challenged her teaching methods, but his blow badly injured her despite his attempt to hold back. He fed her a rare healing pill and worried over her, while Wang Dong defended their actions and Wang Yan arrived to witness the aftermath.

• Tang Wulin followed Wang Dong and struck Zhou Yi from behind after Huo Yuhao helped him lock onto her.
• Zhou Yi failed to block the blow, and Tang Wulin's fist broke her fingers and struck her chest, knocking her unconscious.
• Tang Wulin fed Zhou Yi a rare healing pill and anxiously checked on her injuries.
• Wang Dong reassured Tang Wulin that Zhou Yi had brought the injury on herself and criticized her treatment of the students.
• Wang Yan arrived and heard Wang Dong claim Zhou Yi had failed to meet a teacher's basic responsibilities.

After Tang Wulin defeated Zhou Yi, Yan Shaozhe apologized to the students and announced that Zhou Yi had been dismissed for her abusive teaching and history of harming students. With Wang Yan unable to continue class, Tang Wulin and his friends decided to celebrate together.

• Wang Yan asked Huo Yuhao what had happened, then carried the unconscious Zhou Yi to the infirmary after Yan Shaozhe arrived to take charge.
• Yan Shaozhe apologized to the students for Zhou Yi's conduct and assured them the matter had been settled.
• Yan Shaozhe told Tang Wulin, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao that Zhou Yi had been dismissed after an investigation found years of abuse and arbitrary expulsions.
• Tang Wulin asked whether Zhou Yi's injured former students had received compensation, and Yan Shaozhe assured him that compensation had been distributed.
• Yan Shaozhe gave the class the day off, and Xiao Xiao invited Tang Wulin, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao to celebrate with a meal.

Tang Wulin and his companions ate hotpot, and he explained his strength and soul skill to Xiao Xiao. When Tang Wulin planned a trip to a treasured land, Tang San advised him to bring Xiao Xiao only if she agreed to become his concubine, leaving Tang Wulin confused about the word.

• Xiao Xiao was shocked by Tang Wulin's appetite, but insisted on paying for their hotpot meal.
• Tang Wulin explained that his strength came from bloodline power and described the effect of his Soft Bone Rabbit soul skill.
• Tang Wulin told Xiao Xiao that he and Wang Dong would likely leave to visit a special place, and he invited Huo Yuhao to come along.
• Xiao Xiao asked to join them, but Tang Wulin hesitated because he did not know her well.
• Tang San awoke briefly and told Tang Wulin he could bring Xiao Xiao only if she agreed to become his concubine.
• Tang Wulin asked Tang San what a concubine was, while Tang San fell silent.

Tang San manipulated Tang Wulin into agreeing to bring Xiao Xiao to the Tang family’s treasured land, where Immortal Herbs were kept. He left Xiao Xiao to choose between an Immortal Herb and Tang Wulin’s affection, and she chose the herb while agreeing to keep the choice secret.

• Tang San told Tang Wulin that divine children were rare and used his worries about the family line to urge him to take concubines, but Tang Wulin insisted he would have only one wife.
• Tang Wulin admitted that he felt some fondness for Xiao Xiao, and Tang San agreed to let her accompany him to the Tang family’s treasured land.
• Tang Wulin returned to Xiao Xiao and told her she could come with him, making her delighted.
• Tang San appeared to Xiao Xiao and offered her a choice between an Immortal Herb and Tang Wulin’s affection.
• Xiao Xiao chose the Immortal Herb, called Tang San Dad, and agreed not to tell Tang Wulin about her choice.

Niu Tian took Tang Wulin, Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao through spatial passages toward a wasteland covered in poisonous miasma. When Tang Wulin felt something inside him struggling to break free, Niu Tian brought him back into the passage, where silver light entered Tang Wulin and his strange symptoms subsided.

• Niu Tian teased Tang Wulin about bringing Xiao Xiao, then led the group while Tai Tan stayed at Shrek Academy to spar with Mu En.
• Wang Dong took Tang Wulin's free hand, and Xiao Xiao held Wang Dong's, leaving Huo Yuhao at the back as Niu Tian opened a spatial rift.
• Niu Tian guided the group through several spatial passages to a wasteland near ten-thousand-year-old jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers.
• Tang Wulin felt something inside him trying to break free, so Niu Tian took him back into the spatial passage while the others waited.
• A deafening sound rang in Tang Wulin's mind, and silver streaks of light flowed into him until the heat and pressure in his body faded.
• Niu Tian returned with Tang Wulin, and Wang Dong embraced him as Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao watched with concern.

Tang Wulin awakened a new ability to merge with space, then followed Niu Tian and the others through a poisonous miasma to a desolate field of flowers planted by his father. Seeing the damage to the land, Tang Wulin vowed to grow strong enough to change it.

• Tang Wulin explained that he could merge with space and attack while remaining beyond his enemies' reach.
• Niu Tian led the group toward the Immortal Herbs and protected them as they crossed a poisonous miasma.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to reveal the dangerous mist, and Niu Tian shielded the group from it.
• Tang Wulin saw the Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers and Jade Phosphorus Nine Absolute Flowers that his father had planted across the desolate land.
• Niu Tian told Tang Wulin that he would need to surpass his father's power to change the place, and Tang Wulin vowed to do so.

Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Tang Wulin, and Huo Yuhao reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Niu Tian confronted its plant-type Soul Beast guardians. Youyou sensed Tang Wulin’s unusual vitality and wondered why he had not become the Child of Nature, a person chosen to help nature recover.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao admired the valley’s abundant elemental energy, while Tang Wulin worried that its plant-type Soul Beasts might have grown into hundred-thousand-year creatures over ten thousand years.
• Niu Tian reassured the group and used cyan lightning to destroy vines that reached toward them as they approached the lake.
• A female voice warned the humans not to provoke the guardians, and Niu Tian dismissed the plant-type Soul Beasts as servants guarding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for the Tang family.
• Tang Wulin and Wang Dong introduced themselves as descendants of the person the guardians recognized, and Youyou approached Tang Wulin after sensing his rich, high-grade vitality.
• Youyou explained that the Child of Nature was a seed chosen by nature to help restore it when nature had been severely damaged.

Tang Wulin met Youyou at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, proved his connection to Tang San, and received an ancient book containing the Tang Sect’s lost Medicine and Poison Chapters. Youyou then summoned immortal herbs suited to strengthening Tang Wulin’s Spiritual Power and body, leaving him ready to choose them.

• Youyou sensed Tang Wulin’s life force and destructive aura, then recognized his surname and asked after Tang San.
• Youyou said Tang Wulin had to pass a trial to receive a book, but Niu Tian revealed Wang Dong’er’s golden trident mark and confirmed their identities as Tang San’s children.
• Youyou gave Tang Wulin the book, and he and Wang Dong read Tang San’s Medicine and Poison Chapters.
• Youyou allowed Tang Wulin to choose a limited number of immortal herbs and said he needed stronger Spiritual Power and a stronger body to withstand the power within him.
• Youyou summoned Jiaojiao and Bingbing, then produced a purple medicinal herb and advised Tang Wulin to follow Tang San’s path of tempering his eyes and body.

At the ice-and-fire spring, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass offered to sacrifice itself and become Huo Yuhao’s second martial soul, hoping he would eventually help it regain sentience. Huo Yuhao refused because he had already promised to accept the Ice Empress as his soul, and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass said they would have to use another method.

• The Infernal Delicate Apricot gave Niu Tian a fist-sized piece of Blazing Gel as compensation for offending the group.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass asked Huo Yuhao whether his ice-attribute martial soul lacked a soul, then offered to sacrifice itself to become his martial soul.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass explained that it hoped Huo Yuhao could follow Tang Wulin, the Son of God, and help it regain its sentience by reaching godhood.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao not to accept, revealing that it planned for him to obtain the Ice Empress as his soul.
• Huo Yuhao refused the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass because he had already committed to the Ice Empress, and the grass said they would use the final method.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass chose to sacrifice herself to Huo Yuhao, and Tang Wulin accepted the decision before preparing for his Ice and Fire Golden Body refinement. After absorbing the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Tang Wulin advanced his Purple Demon Eye to the perfected pinnacle of Subtlety, and Niu Tian announced that the dangerous refinement was next.

• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass offered to sacrifice herself to Huo Yuhao and have her soul reside in a Soul Bone, and Tang Wulin urged Huo Yuhao to accept.
• Niu Tian assured Tang Wulin that the sacrifice would not endanger Huo Yuhao and gave Tang Wulin the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal and the Blazing Gel for his refinement.
• Youyou gave Tang Wulin the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Tang Wulin drank its droplets.
• The herb's power strengthened Tang Wulin's spiritual power and advanced his Purple Demon Eye from Panoramic View to the perfected pinnacle of Subtlety.
• Niu Tian announced that Tang Wulin would next undergo the dangerous Ice and Fire Golden Body refinement.

Tang Wulin swallowed the Blazing Gel and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, then entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to refine their power and break through the Golden Dragon King's third seal. As his strength increased, the opposing dragon auras awakened two ancient dragon souls and terrified the plant soul beasts.

• Niu Tian explained the refinement process and gave Tang Wulin the Blazing Gel and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal.
• Tang Wulin swallowed both treasures, endured their clashing powers, and jumped into the meeting point of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well when Niu Tian called to him.
• Tang San guided the well's power and the treasures' energy toward the Golden Dragon King's third seal, whose power balanced the ice and fire within Tang Wulin.
• Tang Wulin absorbed the power safely, strengthening his body and forming the embryonic second Blood Essence Soul Ring.
• The Golden Dragon King's pressure awakened two ancient dragon souls, and Youyou and the plant soul beasts trembled in fear.

Tang Wulin absorbed the immortal herb and was baptized by the Water and Fire Dragon Kings, transforming his body and evolving his Martial Souls. The Dragon Kings returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Tang Wulin emerged stronger but still unable to absorb their Soul Bones.

• The Water and Fire Dragon Kings appeared above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and poured their essence into Tang Wulin.
• The Dragon Kings' essence reshaped Tang Wulin and evolved his Soft Bone Rabbit into a top-tier super Martial Soul.
• The essence transformed Tang Wulin's Clear Sky Hammer, adding ice and fire powers and increasing its weight to a ton and a half.
• The Water and Fire Dragon Kings returned to the well after their essence stopped flowing, leaving their Soul Bones beyond Tang Wulin's current strength.
• Tang Wulin climbed from the spring, dressed with Niu Tian's help, and told him that he had absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and the Dragon Kings' essence.