Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tianyu reassured Poison Flame Overlord, Scarlet Blood Demon Lord, and Feilian that he would not hunt them for their Soul Rings, then invited them to join his trip to the Far North. He began planning an elaborate stunt against Yu Xiaogang, while Tang San grew increasingly uneasy after Yu Xiaogang vanished for the day.

• Zhang Tianyu revealed his four God Rings and Twin Martial Souls, convincing the three big shots that he did not need their Soul Rings.
• Zhang Tianyu warned the three big shots not to cause trouble in Heaven Dou City and invited them to travel with him to the Far North, which all three agreed to do.
• Zhang Tianyu searched the Mall for an item to help him stage a new stunt against Yu Xiaogang and returned to his dormitory with a plan.
• The old Shrek Academy group watched the sunset and wondered why Yu Xiaogang had not led their usual simulated team battle training.
• Tang San recalled Yu Xiaogang's strange, hungry-wolf demeanor that morning and worried because he could not find him anywhere.

Yu Xiaogang returned to the academy after spending nights away, while Zhang Tianyu took Zhu Zhuqing on a late-night walk and promised a future together. The chapter ended with Tang San beginning his morning cultivation and hinted that Yu Xiaogang had become involved in a shocking event in Fifth District.

• Flender worried when Yu Xiaogang stayed out overnight, then found him back in bed the next morning; Yu Xiaogang refused to explain his business and went out again after lunch.
• Zhang Tianyu found Zhu Zhuqing waiting for him, took her flying sword to Heaven Dou City, and shared an intimate walk with her.
• Zhu Zhuqing admitted she could not bear being apart from Zhang Tianyu, and he asked her to wait seven years until they could stand on their own.
• Zhang Tianyu woke early, and Tang San emerged soon after and began cultivating the Purple Demon Eye and the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• The narration revealed that Yu Xiaogang was the central figure in an astonishing event in Fifth District.

Rumors that a pervert was attacking boys in Heaven Dou City made Flender suspect Yu Xiaogang, whose unusual nightly absences matched the reports. After the two fell out over Flender’s suspicions, Flender had Yu Xiaogang followed and watched him spend the afternoon wandering around the city.

• Rumors of a man targeting young boys spread through the academy, and Flender began to suspect Yu Xiaogang because of his recent absences.
• Flender confronted Yu Xiaogang, who angrily denied being the culprit and stormed out after accusing Flender of caring only about money and the academy’s reputation.
• After rumors claimed three teenagers had been attacked in one night, Flender ordered Zhao Wuji to follow Yu Xiaogang and find solid evidence.
• Yu Xiaogang left the academy at noon, and Zhao Wuji, Qin Ming, and Lu Qibin followed him before Flender joined them.
• Flender and the others watched Yu Xiaogang spend the afternoon walking around Heaven Dou City and taking breaks at restaurants and cafés, leaving Flender puzzled by his behavior.

Flender and the others followed Yu Xiaogang from the Great Soul Arena and believed they witnessed him propositioning a boy before entering a hidden passage to the Black Market. They confronted and tied him up at Shrek Academy the next morning, but Yu Xiaogang insisted the man they saw was not him.

• Flender and the others followed Yu Xiaogang at the Great Soul Arena and heard him offer a boy a path to becoming a Soul Master in exchange for sex.
• Flender led the group into a hidden passage beneath a courtyard, where they discovered Heaven Dou City's Black Market but failed to find Yu Xiaogang.
• The next morning, Qin Ming and Zhao Wuji pinned Yu Xiaogang down while Flender accused him of preying on boys.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed he had stayed at a hotel after watching the soul fights and that the person Flender's group followed was not him.
• Zhao Wuji and Qin Ming insisted they had recognized Yu Xiaogang, leaving him dumbfounded.

Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Qin Ming confronted Yu Xiaogang over accusations that he had visited a black market, but his denial faltered when they questioned his exhaustion. Zhang Tianyu publicly defended him while drawing Tang San into the scandal, and afterward Tang San admitted he sometimes wished he had no teacher, prompting Zhang Tianyu to consider breaking their relationship for good.

• Yu Xiaogang denied visiting the Fifth District and claimed someone had impersonated him, but Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Qin Ming challenged his explanation and questioned why he had returned exhausted.
• A crowd gathered outside Yu Xiaogang's residence, and Flender tried to protect his reputation by telling the onlookers that Yu Xiaogang's enemies had framed him.
• Zhang Tianyu publicly supported Flender and called on Tang San to defend Yu Xiaogang; Tang San reluctantly declared that his teacher was not a pervert.
• After Flender and the others left with Yu Xiaogang, Zhang Tianyu reassured Tang San as they walked to the cafeteria, and Tang San said he sometimes wished he had no teacher.
• Zhang Tianyu considered severing the bond between Tang San and Yu Xiaogang and making them enemies.

Zhang Tianyu’s scheme left Yu Xiaogang disgraced and emotionally shattered, while Flender chose to stand by him and keep him at the academy. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong investigated the ruined Dead Sea and suspected the mysterious Sword Soul Master Kakashi, sending Spirit Hall forces to search for him.

• Zhang Tianyu pretended to discourage Tang San from betraying Yu Xiaogang while privately plotting to keep manipulating them both.
• Flender, Qin Ming, and Zhao Wuji took Yu Xiaogang to his hotel, where the staff and a converted storage room offered no evidence that he had stayed there.
• Flender apologized to Yu Xiaogang and promised to protect him and keep him near the academy, and Yu Xiaogang broke down in tears.
• Bibi Dong recalled that the Rakshasa Divine Will had warned her not to investigate the Dead Sea, whose destruction had erased a possible path beyond godhood.
• Bibi Dong suspected Kakashi was connected to the Dead Sea’s ruin and ordered Spirit Hall teams to search the continent for him.

After completing a quest, Zhang Tianyu discovered that his sealed abilities were awakening and the system warned him not to use them lest they draw disaster. He prepared to leave for the Far North, then Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing approached him together, presenting an opportunity to complete several quests.

• Zhang Tianyu completed the [Love, Pit You, and Yu Xiaogang] quest, raising his second Martial Soul soul skill unlock progress to 90% and earning a hint for the [Mystery of Time] quest series.
• Zhang Tianyu unexpectedly perceived the system’s inner thoughts and briefly displayed immense spiritual power, prompting the system to warn him that his bloodline was awakening and he must avoid using the ability.
• Zhang Tianyu told his companions he would leave for the Far North the next morning, then gave Liu Erlong a modified Beast Core to suppress any loss of control over her Fire Dragon energy.
• Zhang Tianyu found Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing waiting for him, and realized their offer could let him complete three long-standing quests, including one that rewarded a million-year God Ring.

Zhang Tianyu spent the night with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, then reunited briefly with Xiao Wu before leaving with Feilian, Poison Flame Overlord, and Scarlet Blood Demon Lord. As they reached the Far North, Poison Flame Overlord recalled being defeated by a powerful Snow Woman, and Zhang Tianyu suspected she was the Snow Empress.

• Zhang Tianyu took Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to a lavish hotel, where their completed missions rewarded him with Soul Power, a Soul Bone, and a God Ring.
• The next morning, Zhang Tianyu returned to the academy gates to comfort Xiao Wu before setting off, and Xiao Wu resolved to cultivate harder after speaking with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhang Tianyu traveled with Feilian, Poison Flame Overlord, and Scarlet Blood Demon Lord, discussing their journey and avoiding towns because of the companions’ distinctive appearances.
• At the outskirts of the Far North, Poison Flame Overlord warned Zhang Tianyu about a Snow Woman who had once overpowered and chased him away.
• Feilian teased Zhang Tianyu about seeking out Snow Women, and Zhang Tianyu joked that Feilian might have seen the other two companions’ physiques.

Zhang Tianyu went to the Far North to find Snow Empress, leaving Feilian, Poison Flame Overlord, and Scarlet Blood Demon Lord behind. Snow Empress appeared and attacked the three Soul Beasts, while Zhang Tianyu faced a terrifying aura in the distance.

• Zhang Tianyu asked Poison Flame Overlord to lead him to the Snow Maiden, and the group traveled into the Far North.
• Poison Flame Overlord stopped short of Snow Empress’s territory, so Zhang Tianyu flew alone to her Ice Sculpture Throne and found it empty.
• Poison Flame Overlord told Feilian and Scarlet Blood Demon Lord that Snow Empress had overwhelmed him even when he had more than ninety thousand years of cultivation.
• Snow Empress appeared behind the three Soul Beasts, and Poison Flame Overlord knelt in terror as she prepared to kill him.
• Feilian and Scarlet Blood Demon Lord joined forces against Snow Empress’s attack, but she scattered their beams and sent an array of ice beams at them.

Zhang Tianyu arrived in time to stop the Snow Empress from attacking the three big shots, but he let her kill the Poison Flame Overlord. He then used a strange ability to create multiple eerie copies of the dead Overlord, leaving the Snow Empress frightened as they charged her.

• Zhang Tianyu arrived on Huangquan and used Biluo to dissolve the Snow Empress's attacks before they could harm the three big shots.
• Zhang Tianyu asked the Snow Empress to stop pursuing the Poison Flame Overlord, then exposed him when she threatened to kill Zhang instead.
• The Snow Empress's ice arrows killed the Poison Flame Overlord while Feilian and the Scarlet Blood Demon Lord watched without intervening.
• Zhang Tianyu made the Poison Flame Overlord appear again and again, confusing the Snow Empress as she repeatedly destroyed the copies.
• Zhang Tianyu blamed the apparitions on the Poison Flame Overlord's vengeful spirit, and five blackened copies lunged at the frightened Snow Empress.

Zhang Tianyu used his clone soul skill to trap the Snow Empress in an illusion of increasingly horrifying Poison Flame Overlords, then convinced her that human illusionists had attacked her. When she threatened Poison Flame Overlord, Zhang Tianyu defended him and used Biluo to unleash scorching sunlight that began to harm the Snow Empress.

• The Snow Empress fought waves of grotesque Poison Flame Overlords in an illusion, while Feilian and the Scarlet Blood Demon Lord also struggled to withstand the sights.
• Zhang Tianyu told the Snow Empress to wake up, ending the illusion and revealing human corpses scattered in the snow.
• Zhang Tianyu claimed the dead humans belonged to the Phantom Legion, a group of illusion specialists who hunted soul beasts, and explained how they had supposedly ensnared her.
• The Snow Empress questioned Zhang Tianyu's story, then said she still intended to kill Poison Flame Overlord.
• Zhang Tianyu drew Biluo and Huangquan and declared that the Snow Empress would have to fight him to reach Poison Flame Overlord.
• Zhang Tianyu sent Biluo into the sky, where it cleared the clouds and unleashed intense heat that scorched the Snow Empress and melted the surrounding snow.

Zhang Tianyu won the Snow Empress’s respect with Biluo’s overwhelming power, and she guided him and his companions into the Far North’s Core Area to search for a place tied to dreams. After two days of searching without finding any mental-power fluctuations, Zhang Tianyu realized they could not keep searching blindly.

• Zhang Tianyu used Biluo to overwhelm the Snow Empress, who agreed to help him find the ancient, dream-related place.
• The Snow Empress led Zhang Tianyu and his companions into the Core Area, calming the weather with Biluo and warning the Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Empress not to provoke them.
• Zhang Tianyu split up with Feilian, Scarlet Blood Demon Lord, and Poison Flame Overlord to search the snowfield, but they found nothing by evening.
• The four searched the snowfield for another day and found no signs of mental-power fluctuations.
• Zhang Tianyu sat beside a bonfire and concluded that they could not continue searching blindly.

Zhang Tianyu found the underground ice cave containing vast stores of Ice Marrow and located the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hiding there. He began persuading it that he would save it rather than hunt it for a Soul Ring, but it remained wary and was terrified when he summoned Huangquan.

• Zhang Tianyu used the Live Map to find an ice crevice where he sensed a faint spiritual-energy fluctuation, then broke through it with Huangquan and entered the cavern below.
• Zhang Tianyu recognized the glittering crystals as Ice Marrow and had Feilian, Poison Flame Overlord, and Scarlet Blood Demon Lord gather it while he searched the cave for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Zhang Tianyu spotted signs that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had eaten the Ice Marrow and followed it to a small opening where it was hiding.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cautiously emerged after Zhang Tianyu put Huangquan away, and Zhang Tianyu told it he had come to save it and take the Ice Marrow.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm doubted Zhang Tianyu because he was human and assumed humans hunted soul beasts for Soul Rings; after Zhang Tianyu summoned Huangquan, it rolled over in fright and called the figure on the tombstone ugly.

Zhang Tianyu recruited Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, examined his powerful mission rewards, and uncovered a Blue Crystal Lotus beneath the ice that preserved the final words of an ancient spirit. After completing the hidden-region mission, he received a new objective to visit the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Zhang Tianyu reassured Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that Snow Eagle was gone, introduced him to the three big shots, and brought him into their group.
• Zhang Tianyu inspected two hundred-thousand-year arm Soul Bones and a million-year God Ring whose four skills carried doomsday powers.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that powerful ice energy lay beneath the ice, so Zhang Tianyu used Huangquan to melt a passage and found Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows surrounding a Blue Crystal Lotus.
• Zhang Tianyu freed the Blue Crystal Lotus and heard its final words, then stored it in the System Space and resolved to seek a way to restore its spiritual intelligence.
• Zhang Tianyu completed the Frozen Fragmented Dream mission, received a Mystery of Time Fragment and 5000 Reward Points, and accepted a new mission to visit the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Zhang Tianyu returned to Shrek Academy with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the treasures he had gathered in the Far North, while Flender explained the academy’s revised tournament teams. He then went to watch the first team train, where his classmates discussed how quickly they could defeat a simulated enemy with him on the team.

• Liu Erlong calmed another episode of surging energy with the Beast Core Necklace, even though Zhang Tianyu was away from the academy.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm returned with Zhang Tianyu, and Flender arranged a cool, shaded home for it near the Ice Spring.
• Zhang Tianyu learned that Yu Xiaogang had suddenly returned to normal and that Flender had moved Ma Hongjun and Oscar to the second team, with Ye Lingling taking Oscar’s place in the first team.
• Zhang Tianyu went to the Sunset Swamp Mimicry Training Ground and watched the first team defeat a simulated Swamp Giant Lizard in fourteen minutes.
• Dai Mubai, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong estimated how quickly the team could win with Zhang Tianyu, with Ning Rongrong claiming they could do it in sixty seconds.

Zhang Tianyu returned to Shrek Academy, where his team learned he had secretly reached Soul King rank and watched him defeat the Swamp Giant Lizard instantly. He intervened when he found a level-thirteen man being humiliated by three students, stripped the bullies of their Soul Power, and let the man confront them before Duan Yujia appeared.

• Zhang Tianyu returned, welcomed Ye Lingling to Team One, and took everyone to Tianxing Hotel for lunch.
• Zhang Tianyu used Huangquan to defeat the Swamp Giant Lizard in one strike and revealed that he was secretly a level-fifty Soul King.
• The Shrek group found a crowd watching an outsider confront students, and Zhang Tianyu recalled a painful past betrayal before pushing through the onlookers.
• Zhang Tianyu corroded the Soul Power of the three students who had pinned the man down and challenged them to fight him without it.
• Dai Mubai and Tang San stopped two students from running, while the man attacked them with his scythe.
• Duan Yujia arrived and called for the fight to stop.

Zhang Tianyu forced Duan Yujia to agree to repay her husband and handled the fallout from the academy scandal, then brooded over gender conflict and received a mission to make people suspect him less by pitfalling himself. He ended the chapter wondering how to appear miserable without actually harming himself.

• Tang San condemned Duan Yujia’s conduct, and Zhang Tianyu demanded that she repay her husband 2,000 Gold Soul Coins and apologize.
• Duan Yujia agreed to repay 1,999 Gold Soul Coins within a week after Zhang Tianyu threatened her with expulsion and an Illusion Sword.
• Dai Mubai ordered the three male students to resume their matches, and they lost badly and were expelled; Duan Yujia left the academy that afternoon.
• Zhang Tianyu reflected on gender conflict before deciding that becoming a god would require him to pitfall Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• The system activated the Confession of the Innocent mission, ordering Zhang Tianyu to pitfall himself, and he began considering how to look miserable without suffering real harm.

Zhang Tianyu used a system item to make Tang San and Ma Hongjun attract metal objects and each other, causing them to collide and kiss in public. The two tried to pull apart as onlookers watched, while Zhang Tianyu’s trick remained in effect.

• Zhang Tianyu accepted a task to prank Tang San and one of Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, or Oscar, and chose Ma Hongjun as his second target.
• Zhang Tianyu selected a Bipolar Device from the system Mall and secretly used its effects on Tang San and Ma Hongjun.
• The next morning, Tang San found an iron nail stuck to his clothes, then discovered metal utensils attached to his back after breakfast.
• Ma Hongjun joked that he might turn to men if no girls liked him, and the device abruptly pulled him and Tang San together.
• Tang San and Ma Hongjun kissed and interlocked fingers while their friends and nearby students stared in shock.
• Tang San and Ma Hongjun realized they needed to push each other’s heads apart, as Zhang Tianyu watched them struggle to escape the attraction.

Tang San and Ma Hongjun became stuck together by an unexplained force, and Zhang Tianyu and the others tried to find a way to separate them. After learning that a magnetic-field Soul Master might help but was far away, they prepared to test Zhao Wuji’s gravity Soul Skills.

• Tang San and Ma Hongjun could not separate their mouths or hands, while onlookers mistook their struggle for a passionate kiss.
• Zhang Tianyu and Dai Mubai tried to pull the pair apart, then realized the two were being held together by an outside force.
• Zhang Tianyu connected Tang San’s attraction to metal utensils with the incident and suggested that Tang San was acting like a magnet.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang arrived, and Yu Xiaogang said rare magnetism-controlling Soul Masters taught at Spirit Hall Academy.
• Zhang Tianyu proposed using Zhao Wuji’s gravity Soul Skills, and Dai Mubai and Zhang Tianyu steadied Tang San as Zhao Wuji prepared to use Gravity Squeeze on Ma Hongjun.

Zhao Wuji separated Tang San and Ma Hongjun, but they were pulled together again, and Zhang Tianyu was also briefly drawn toward Tang San. After the attraction ended, the group wondered who was behind the strange incident and whether Tang San’s past bad luck had a hidden cause.

• Zhao Wuji used his gravity skills to separate Tang San and Ma Hongjun, but they immediately became stuck mouth to mouth again.
• Zhang Tianyu was pulled toward Tang San, escaped by flying away with Huangquan, and sent Illusion Swords out to search for whoever was manipulating the force.
• Dai Mubai and the others separated Tang San and Ma Hongjun again, and the academy students left after the farce ended.
• An hour later, Tang San stopped attracting metal objects, and tests confirmed that he, Ma Hongjun, and Zhang Tianyu were no longer drawn together.
• Dai Mubai wondered whether someone had caused Tang San’s past misfortunes, but Tang San said he doubted it.