Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao signed up for the expedition while Su Wen considered his resentment, and the Holy Spirit Cult prepared to capture three hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts and frame Shrek Academy. As Shrek’s group entered the Star Dou Great Forest, Zhang Lexuan reunited with Su Wen and helped him realize Hurricane could eventually provide the air superiority he wanted.

• Huo Yuhao signed up for the expedition, and Su Wen wondered whether Zhou Yi’s influence had made Huo Yuhao resent him.
• Zhongli Tian and the Zhongli brothers planned to capture three hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts for the Church Master’s Bone Dragon, then blame Shrek Academy and leave no evidence.
• Half a month later, Zhang Lexuan greeted Su Wen outside Shrek Academy and joined him and the other disciples as they set out under Elder Xuan’s leadership.
• Su Wen told Zhang Lexuan he wanted an Emerald Swan or a bird-type Soul Beast to gain air superiority.
• Zhang Lexuan mentioned Hurricane, prompting Su Wen to realize that Hurricane’s wind attribute could eventually give him the air superiority he sought.

Su Wen considered condensing his Golden Core into a black-hole-level Soul Core, believing his physique and future Spiritual Power would let him overcome the risks. He and Zhang Lexuan played in the stream, and she ended by asking why he had once stood between her and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Su Wen examined his shrinking Golden Core and thought through how he could condense a powerful Soul Core ahead of time.
• Su Wen joined Zhang Lexuan at the stream, and the two played together in the water.
• Zhang Lexuan recalled Su Wen shielding her from a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast when he was a small child.
• Zhang Lexuan lay beside Su Wen and asked him why he had stood in front of her back then.

Su Wen and Zhang Lexuan grew closer as the Shrek team searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Tian Meng discovered a possible Second Martial Soul for Huo Yuhao, and the injured Auspicious Beast fled a Holy Spirit Cult ambush as Crow Douluo pursued her.

• Zhang Lexuan kissed Su Wen, and he asked her to be his girlfriend; she teased him by calling him a playboy radish.
• Zhang Lexuan led the team through the forest with a Titled Douluo teacher, and an Inner Courtyard Disciple absorbed a Soul Ring from an Ironclad Crocodile.
• Huo Yuhao worried about finding a suitable second Soul Ring, while Tian Meng urged him to leave the team after sensing a Second Martial Soul opportunity.
• The wounded Auspicious Beast escaped the black-robed attackers and tried to reach Di Tian, while the Holy Spirit Cult leader ordered Wu Yun, the Ninth Consecrator known as Crow Douluo, to capture her.

Tian Meng tried to persuade the injured Emperor Auspicious Beast to become Huo Yuhao’s Second Martial Soul, then trapped it when it refused. Su Wen arrived, forcing Tian Meng to withdraw his cocoon and hide inside Huo Yuhao, while the Auspicious Beast felt an unexplained closeness to Su Wen.

• Tian Meng recognized the injured Three-Eyed Golden Lion as the Emperor Auspicious Beast and realized black-robed Evil Spirit Masters were pursuing it.
• Tian Meng claimed Huo Yuhao was the Child of Destiny and urged the Auspicious Beast to transform into an Ice Attribute Soul Beast and become his Second Martial Soul.
• The Auspicious Beast pretended to consider Tian Meng’s offer while recovering, then leaped away and rejected his proposal.
• Tian Meng trapped the Auspicious Beast in a cocoon of Spiritual Power and threatened to reveal its location if it would not cooperate.
• Tian Meng sensed Su Wen approaching, withdrew the cocoon, and hid inside Huo Yuhao as Su Wen appeared and greeted him.

Su Wen discovered that the Holy Spirit Cult had targeted the injured Auspicious Beast and realized their actions could provoke a Beast Tide against Shrek. He rescued the Auspicious Beast from two pursuing cultists and explained that he had helped because he belonged to Shrek Academy.

• Su Wen recognized the Auspicious Beast's severe injuries and suspected the Holy Spirit Cult was responsible.
• Su Wen learned through Hurricane that the cultists were searching for the Auspicious Beast and had orders to avoid alerting Shrek Academy.
• Huo Gua fled while Su Wen urged the Auspicious Beast to leave with him.
• Two black-robed cultists cornered the Auspicious Beast, but Su Wen killed them with Hurricane's help.
• The Auspicious Beast asked why Su Wen had saved him, and Su Wen said he was from Shrek Academy.

Su Wen and the Auspicious Beast hid from the Holy Spirit Cult inside a strange overlapping space in the Star Dou Great Forest. The Auspicious Beast revealed that it wanted to escape its protected, monotonous life, and Su Wen encouraged it to try after returning home.

• Su Wen and the Auspicious Beast evaded the black-robed Holy Spirit Cult members by hiding atop an ancient tree, where Su Wen explained his affinity with Soul Beasts.
• Su Wen reasoned that the Holy Spirit Cult had trapped them in a strange space that coexisted with the outside world, allowing them to evade detection.
• The Auspicious Beast asked Su Wen about the world beyond the Star Dou Great Forest and revealed its longing to leave the forest's dull, sheltered life.
• The Auspicious Beast confessed that it had pretended to fear the Holy Spirit Cult and believed its good fortune would keep it safe.
• Su Wen told the Auspicious Beast that Di Tian and the others would let it leave, and it agreed to try escaping after returning home.

Su Wen and the Auspicious Beast were confronted by Yan Feng of the Holy Spirit Cult and two Evil Spirit Masters, but Su Wen’s surprise attack killed one pursuer and trapped Yan Feng. As the remaining Soul Emperor deployed human puppets, Su Wen empowered Hurricane and began fighting back.

• Yan Feng arrived on an ice dragon with two black-robed Evil Spirit Masters and announced that he had come for the Auspicious Beast.
• Su Wen recognized Yan Feng, froze the group with Domain of Eternal Freeze, and used Hurricane’s wind blades to kill one Soul Emperor who had shielded Yan Feng.
• Su Wen layered Advent of Winter over his freezing field, trapping Yan Feng and briefly immobilizing the remaining Soul Emperor before a wind blade cut off the man’s hand holding a signal flare.
• The remaining Soul Emperor broke free and summoned human puppets, including a Soul Sage-level puppet, while Su Wen decided to end the fight quickly.
• Su Wen used Blood Rage to boost Hurricane’s attributes, and Hurricane began crushing the human puppets and smashing them against the trees.

Su Wen and Hurricane defeated a Holy Spirit Cult member, but Wu Yun trapped Su Wen and the Auspicious Beast inside a sealed space and overpowered Su Wen and Little Gold. Electrolux took control of Su Wen’s body and shattered the secret-art space, leaving Wu Yun facing a powerful new threat.

• Su Wen and Hurricane killed the black-robed Holy Spirit Cult member, and Wu Yun appeared to recruit Su Wen before threatening to kill him when he refused.
• Wu Yun pursued Su Wen with Crow Clones as Su Wen tried to escape and hide the Auspicious Beast, then struck him and wounded his left arm despite his teleportation tricks.
• Little Gold attacked Wu Yun but was beaten back, while Wu Yun recognized its Behemoth bloodline and became determined to kill Su Wen.
• Electrolux awoke in Su Wen’s Sea of Consciousness and agreed to borrow his body to break the sealed space.
• Electrolux took control of Su Wen, dismissed Wu Yun’s Dark Energy as impure, and shattered the secret-art space with a gray pillar of light.

While Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy disciples waited for Su Wen, the Holy Spirit Cult’s spatial barrier collapsed and drew Di Tian’s attention. Wu Yun revealed that Su Wen, a boy of twelve or thirteen, had broken through the barrier while protecting the Auspicious Beast, and Zhongli Wu prepared to withdraw before Di Tian blocked his way.

• Huo Yuhao grilled black carp for the Shrek Academy disciples while Zhang Lexuan worried that Su Wen had not returned.
• Tian Meng urged Huo Yuhao to keep quiet about the barrier and suggested Su Wen’s death would protect Huo Yuhao’s secret.
• A gray beam rose into the sky, and Xuan Zi rushed toward it after realizing a spatial lockdown had trapped Su Wen.
• Di Tian transformed into a massive Black Dragon and roared across the Star Dou Great Forest, sending Soul Beasts and human teams into panic.
• Wu Yun told Zhongli Wu that Su Wen had protected the Auspicious Beast and broken the Holy Spirit Cult’s barrier despite being only twelve or thirteen.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to withdraw, but Di Tian appeared in his path as he tried to take the captured Scarlet King and other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Su Wen brought the Auspicious Beast back to the Lake of Life after escaping the humans who had tried to capture it, and Bi Ji treated his severe injuries. Di Tian offered Su Wen one wish in return for saving the beast, but Su Wen immediately asked for two.

• Di Tian failed to catch Zhongli Wu, then ordered the Bear Lord to mobilize the Soul Beasts and prepare a Beast Tide against Shrek Academy.
• Electrolux retreated into Su Wen’s Sea of Consciousness to recover, and the Auspicious Beast carried the badly wounded Su Wen toward Bi Ji.
• Di Tian threatened Xuan Zi and Shrek Academy over the Auspicious Beast’s disappearance, then left to search for it.
• The Auspicious Beast returned to the Lake of Life and told Di Tian that Su Wen had saved it from the humans who tried to take it.
• Bi Ji treated Su Wen, who woke at the Lake of Life and identified the Emerald Swan as his first choice for a target.
• Di Tian offered Su Wen one wish for saving the Auspicious Beast, and Su Wen asked for two.

At the Star Dou Great Forest, Su Wen negotiated a reward from Di Tian for saving the Auspicious Beast, while Shrek Academy’s elders suspected the Holy Spirit Cult had taken Su Wen and prepared to investigate. The chapter ended with Bi Ji refusing to offer an Emerald Swan as Su Wen’s Soul Ring unless one volunteered.

• Mu En heard Xuan Zi’s account of the Evil Spirit Masters and concluded they might have captured the Auspicious Beast and Su Wen.
• Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to return to the Star Dou Great Forest and demand an explanation from Di Tian, then planned to lead others to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Su Wen asked Di Tian for a ladle of water from the Lake of Life, and Di Tian agreed to provide it from the lake’s deepest area.
• The Auspicious Beast complained that Su Wen’s reward made her life seem worth only one ladle of water, and Bi Ji laughed at their exchange.
• Su Wen asked Bi Ji for a ten-thousand-year Emerald Swan as a Soul Ring, but she refused to sacrifice one of her kin unless it volunteered.

Su Wen showed Bi Ji and the Fierce Beasts that contracting with him was symbiosis, offering a separate world, faster cultivation, and the chance for Soul Beasts to evolve as his strength grew. He chose a willing Emerald Swan to contract with, while the beasts began considering joining him.

• Bi Ji summoned the Emerald Swan clan and asked whether any of them would join Su Wen.
• Su Wen explained that his contracts were symbiotic, then showed the beasts the Purple Pokeball’s world and its benefits.
• Su Wen revealed that his Soul Beasts evolved with his strength and said Di Tian might evolve as well.
• The Fierce Beasts reacted with interest, and Su Wen vouched for his claims by inviting Di Tian to verify them at Shrek Academy.
• Bi Ling volunteered, but Su Wen declined her and chose an unremarkable Emerald Swan who eagerly agreed to join.
• Su Wen threw a Black Pokeball toward the chosen Emerald Swan, and a pillar of light rose into the sky.

Su Wen’s Emerald Swan evolved into Bi Ling Swan, gaining powerful life-related abilities and condensing a Spirit of Emerald far beyond what her cultivation should allow. After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest with Di Tian, Su Wen was handed back to Xuan Zi, who learned that he had saved the Auspicious Beast.

• Su Wen inspected Bi Ling Swan’s new skills, including a passive ability that locked an ally’s health and restored it after ten seconds, and an active skill that sped injury recovery.
• Bi Ji explained that Bi Ling Swan had condensed a Spirit of Emerald at only six thousand years of cultivation, and her crystal surpassed Bi Ji’s in purity and color.
• Bear Lord reflected on the power of bloodlines and wondered whether Little Gold might evolve into a Behemoth Beast.
• After Shrek Academy called out for Di Tian, Su Wen left the forest with him and said goodbye to the reluctant Auspicious Beast.
• A voice from the Lake of Life noted that the evolution was interesting, then Di Tian gave Su Wen to Xuan Zi and told him to explain how he had saved the Auspicious Beast.

Su Wen returned safely from the Star Dou Great Forest, where he had saved the Auspicious Beast, and reunited with Zhang Lexuan, who kissed his cheek before he left. Back in his dormitory, he found Wang Dong'er in her girl form and learned she had believed he was dead, while her explanation for being disguised as a boy and moved between boys' dormitories left him questioning the Clear Sky Sect's motives.

• Zhang Lexuan embraced Su Wen after his return, and Su Wen admitted that he had saved the Auspicious Beast but could not explain how he had broken through space.
• At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Mu En ended the discussion and told Zhang Lexuan to take Su Wen to rest; Lu Xiaoxiao later served him beef noodles at the cafeteria.
• Zhang Lexuan kissed Su Wen on the cheek beside Sea God Lake before he headed back to the dormitory.
• Su Wen found Wang Dong'er asleep in his bed in her girl form and learned that she had thought he died in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wang Dong'er tried to dodge Su Wen's questions, then admitted the Clear Sky Sect had kept her disguised as a boy and moved her between boys' dormitories; Su Wen brought up Huo Yuhao, leaving her distressed.

Su Wen returned to class after spending the night cultivating with Wang Dong'er, who had awakened in her true female body, and found that the class had believed he was dead. Meanwhile, the Silver Dragon King decided to visit Shrek to investigate Su Wen’s evolution, and the Auspicious Beast secretly set out after him.

• Wang Dong'er spent the night cultivating with Su Wen in her female body, then changed back into Wang Dong's appearance after waking.
• Su Wen returned to class, where Xie Huanyue and Mu Jin were shocked to see him alive, while Dai Huabin feared Su Wen would discover he had spread the death rumor.
• The Silver Dragon King chose to leave for Shrek to learn about Su Wen's evolution despite Di Tian's concerns about her injuries and the academy.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji that the Auspicious Beast had also prepared to leave, likely because of his interest in Su Wen.
• The Auspicious Beast slipped away while Scarlet King slept and set off on his journey.

Gu Yuena warned the Auspicious Beast about the dangers of humans before heading off on a mysterious journey. At Shrek Academy, Dai Yueheng reprimanded Dai Huabin for antagonizing Su Wen, while Su Wen reflected on his cultivation and Soul Tools before his classmates invited him to a match.

• Gu Yuena encountered the Auspicious Beast near the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, warned him to avoid danger, and departed without revealing where she was going.
• Dai Yueheng slapped Dai Huabin and warned him that Su Wen's background and talent made him too dangerous to offend.
• Dai Huabin stayed silent as Dai Yueheng left, then coldly watched his brother go.
• Su Wen reflected on reaching rank forty-four and decided that researching Soul Tools was not worth his time.
• Wang Dong complained about Su Wen's boastful remarks on his cultivation, and Xiao Xiao invited her to watch the Twin Stars of the Outer Courtyard compete.

On his birthday, Su Wen complained to Yan Shaozhe about the academy’s facilities, then celebrated with friends at Jiang’s mother’s home. The night ended with Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen sneaking into his room before Jiang Nannan arrived.

• Wang Dong refused Xiao Xiao’s invitation because she worried about hurting Xiao Xiao’s feelings and wanted to remain friends.
• Su Wen criticized the academy’s crowded bathrooms and stool-less student cafeteria, so Yan Shaozhe ordered Du Weilun to add cafeteria stools and dorm-room bathrooms.
• Xu Sanshi dramatically saw Jiang Nannan off as she and Su Wen traveled to South Shrek City for the weekend.
• Su Wen returned to find Jiang’s mother and his friends gathered to celebrate his birthday.
• After dinner, Ma Xiaotao sneaked into Su Wen’s room, and Ling Luochen soon joined them, asking him to pass Ultimate Ice to her.
• Jiang Nannan knocked at the door, and Su Wen welcomed her while Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen hid under the covers.

Su Wen helped Electrolux recover his consciousness with life-rich lake water and accepted him as his disciple. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena and the Auspicious Beast met in human form at the academy and denied knowing each other.

• After the birthday banquet, Su Wen returned to classes, cultivation, and caring for his Pet Beasts.
• Su Wen used a spoonful of lake water and the Bi Ling Swan's surrounding Life Aura to restore Electrolux's consciousness.
• Electrolux asked Su Wen to become his disciple, and Su Wen agreed.
• Gu Yuena confronted the Auspicious Beast in Du Weilun's office for entering the human world, and the Auspicious Beast pointed out that Gu Yuena had done the same.
• Gu Yuena and the Auspicious Beast both denied knowing each other and threatened to leave the academy if Du Weilun kept asking.

Gu Yuena and Mu Qiu'er joined Su Wen's class, while Huo Yuhao advanced as a Soul Engineer and prepared to travel to the Land of Extreme North. Su Wen agreed to go there with Gu Yuena and Mu Qiu'er, following Huo Yuhao and hoping to meet the Ice Empress.

• Du Weilun registered Gu Yuena and Mu Qiu'er, both twelve-year-old Soul Ancestors with Silver Dragon and Golden Dragon martial souls, in Class Two after they each chose Su Wen's class.
• Mu Jin introduced Gu Yuena and Mu Qiu'er to Class Two, and Su Wen was stunned to see Gu Yuena had left the Lake of Life.
• Mu Qiu'er knocked Xie Huanyue out of the classroom after he demanded she apologize, then told Su Wen she had sneaked away without Di Tian stopping her.
• Mu En gave Gu Yuena and Mu Qiu'er their dormitory keys and was left shaken by their visit.
• Huo Yuhao completed a Class 2 soul guidance core and, after speaking with Tian Meng, decided to visit Zhou Yi before traveling toward the Land of Extreme North.
• Su Wen agreed to travel to the Land of Extreme North with Gu Yuena and Mu Qiu'er, intending to follow Huo Yuhao and approach the Ice Empress.

Su Wen traveled with Gu Yuena and Mu Qiu'er to the Land of Extreme North to befriend the Ice Empress, while Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng confronted her with a plan to force her sacrifice. Tian Meng trapped the Ice Empress and demanded she sacrifice herself to Huo Yuhao or face the destruction of her remaining hope.

• Su Wen told Mu Qiu'er and Gu Yuena that he had come to the Land of Extreme North to make a friend of the Ice Empress, not to hunt her.
• Huo Yuhao reached the core region with Tian Meng and hid while Tian Meng used his Spiritual Power to call out the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress emerged and accused Tian Meng of returning, while he distracted her with a confession of love.
• Tian Meng spent his source power to bind the Ice Empress in a cocoon, then revealed that he wanted her to sacrifice herself to Huo Yuhao.
• Tian Meng gave the Ice Empress a choice between sacrificing herself and having him detonate his source power to destroy her remaining hope.