Chapter Summaries

Su Yuan overwhelmed Dai Huabin’s Hell White Tiger by summoning a second ice dragon, leaving the Arena Stage shattered and Dai Huabin facing an imminent defeat.

• Yan Shaozhe admired the power of Su Yuan’s Soul Bone Soul Skill while Du Weilun worried that the clash could cause irreversible damage.
• Dai Huabin fought off his fear, insisted the Hell White Tiger’s power came from two people, and attacked Su Yuan with a Netherworld Blazing Light Wave.
• Su Yuan blocked the attack with his ice dragon’s tail and declared that he would never have another rival as he summoned a second ice dragon.
• Su Yuan’s first ice dragon smashed the Arena Stage with its tail, and Dai Huabin barely dodged the strike.
• Dai Huabin lost focus after landing, and Su Yuan’s second ice dragon closed in on the Hell White Tiger.

Su Yuan defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Profound Ice Dragon Soars, leading Ning Tian and Fu Mengyu to victory and securing a place in the Freshman Assessment finals. After the match, Huo Yuhao learned that he might have to face Su Yuan and wondered whether he could win.

• Su Yuan unleashed Profound Ice Dragon Soars, instantly defeating Dai Huabin and sending the Hell White Tiger crashing through the arena wall.
• Su Yuan frightened the remaining opponent into fleeing, and Yan Shaozhe announced Su Yuan’s team had won.
• Ning Tian treated Su Yuan and Fu Mengyu to a cafeteria meal, while Su Yuan reflected on Ning Tian’s support and his reluctance to get involved with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Su Yuan returned to his dormitory, and word spread that he had reached the finals after defeating Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Nanmen Yun'er learned Su Yuan was in the finals, and Huo Yuhao wondered whether he could beat him.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong doubted they could defeat Su Yuan in the Freshman Assessment final, which began the next day before a crowd of students. Su Yuan noticed Zhang Lexuan watching him and, under the influence of [Minotaur Chieftain], deepened her conflicted attachment to him as a little brother.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that their used-up Martial Soul Fusion Skill and lack of a Soul Elder left them with little chance against Su Yuan.
• Wang Dong refused to admit defeat, then went to sleep while Huo Yuhao entered meditation.
• Students from the Outer and Inner Academies, including Zhang Lexuan, gathered to watch the Freshman Assessment final.
• Zhang Lexuan watched Su Yuan and wrestled with her feelings for him and her guilt toward Bei Bei.
• Su Yuan spotted Zhang Lexuan, mouthed “Sister Lexuan,” and received her encouragement after [Minotaur Chieftain] intensified her desire to regard him as her little brother.

Su Yuan entered the Freshman Assessment finals confident that his team would defeat Huo Yuhao’s, while privately deciding to pursue Zhang Lexuan. The match began under a protective Soul Tool Shield, and Fu Mengyu’s Spiritual Weaving disrupted Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection as Su Yuan launched a wide-area attack.

• Su Yuan reflected that Zhang Lexuan’s Minotaur Chieftain trait made her especially gentle toward him, and he decided to pursue her.
• Ning Tian predicted victory over Huo Yuhao’s team, whose members appeared to have fewer and weaker Soul Rings.
• Wang Dong challenged Su Yuan before the match, then quickly insisted that the teams should prioritize friendship and avoid injuries.
• Du Weilun enclosed the Arena Stage in a Soul Tool Shield, and all six fighters released their Martial Souls for the finals.
• Su Yuan began attacking with Ice Dragon Annihilation Breath while Ning Tian enhanced him and Fu Mengyu.
• Fu Mengyu used Spiritual Weaving to interfere with Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection, leaving him unable to read Su Yuan’s team from a god’s-eye perspective.

During the freshman assessment, Su Yuan's team overwhelmed Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Nanmen Yun'er as Fu Mengyu blocked Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection. The chapter left Wang Dong charging her ultimate move while Su Yuan summoned three ice dragons, and Huo Yuhao questioned whether he could help at all.

• Fu Mengyu used her first Soul Skill to block Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection and tried to imitate his scouting technique while Su Yuan warned her to be careful.
• Nanmen Yun'er charged Su Yuan's formation, but Wang Dong caught her and knocked her unconscious, eliminating her from the match.
• Wang Dong began charging her combined Daddy God's Light and Wing Guillotine attack and challenged Su Yuan to take it head-on.
• Su Yuan summoned three ice dragons that surrounded Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao, while Huo Yuhao withdrew from the spiritual contest.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that attacking Su Yuan with Soul Shock would harm him, and Huo Yuhao lamented his inability to help.

Su Yuan overwhelmed Wang Dong’s final attack, leaving her in tears, and Huo Yuhao conceded. Su Yuan’s team won the Freshman Assessment finals, while a system message announced a new trait.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that Su Yuan’s ice dragons came from a powerful Soul Bone Skill and promised him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone if he reached level twenty.
• Wang Dong spent nearly twenty seconds draining her Soul Power to charge the Light Guillotine, then attacked Su Yuan while believing his patience had made him arrogant.
• Su Yuan’s ice dragon caught Wang Dong’s Light Guillotine, crushed and swallowed it, then roared at her until she was covered in frost.
• Su Yuan mocked Wang Dong’s boast about slaying a dragon, and she cried, shouted “Go 'way!”, and fled the arena.
• Su Yuan triggered an iconic-scene system message, and Huo Yuhao conceded before hurrying after Wang Dong.
• Yan Shaozhe announced Su Yuan’s team as the Freshman Assessment champions.

After the Freshman Assessment, Su Yuan received a cultivation treasure and gained the weakling mark trait, then joined the reassigned Freshman Class One with the other prominent students. The class settled into a quiet routine, leaving Su Yuan to slack off while Huo Yuhao continued studying Soul Tools.

• Shrek named Su Yuan, Ning Tian, Fu Mengyu, and the other top students core disciples or trial candidates, then awarded Su Yuan a thousand-year snow lotus for winning the assessment.
• Su Yuan extracted the [Old Man Teasing a Child] trait, which let him mark defeated opponents and read their fighting patterns when they faced him again.
• More than six hundred freshmen left Shrek after the assessment, and the remaining students were reassigned to classes.
• Mu Jin appointed Ning Tian and Su Yuan class monitor and deputy monitor of Class One, where Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, and others also studied.
• Huo Yuhao avoided conflict with Dai Huabin, continued training, and visited Fan Yu's Soul Tool Department after class, while Su Yuan began slacking off.

Su Yuan spent his time reading and learning soul-tool manufacturing while his traits raised his cultivation to the Level 40 bottleneck and beyond. After making a Level 1 soul tool, he decided to aim to become a Level 9 Soul Engineer within ten years.

• Su Yuan studied soul master knowledge with Wang Yan and read alongside Mu En, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Fu Mengyu, and Zhang Lexuan while his cultivation continued to rise.
• Su Yuan broke through to Level 39 less than a month and a half after the Freshman Assessment, then reached the Level 40 bottleneck two and a half months later.
• Over eleven months at Shrek, Su Yuan read through Wang Yan's library and advanced to roughly Level 42 without obtaining a soul ring.
• After exhausting Wang Yan's books, Su Yuan explored the Soul Tool Department and discovered his aptitude for manufacturing and assembling soul tools.
• Su Yuan completed the Level 1 Soul Engineer curriculum through self-study in two months and made a Level 1 Paralysis Ray.
• Su Yuan set a goal of becoming a Level 9 Soul Engineer within ten years.

Su Yuan completed a level-one Explosive Core Array after two and a half months of studying Soul Tools, then ran into Huo Yuhao, who had finished his semester's Soul Tool studies. The conversation ended with Su Yuan teasing Wang Dong by calling her the Dragon Slayer.

• Su Yuan finished and tested a level-one Explosive Core Array, completing his mastery of three basic Core Arrays.
• Su Yuan met Huo Yuhao, who said he had finished his Soul Tool studies for the semester.
• Su Yuan told Huo Yuhao he had mostly been learning how to use Soul Tools rather than make them.
• Wang Dong arrived, and Su Yuan teased her by calling her the Dragon Slayer.
• Wang Dong blushed and angrily demanded that Su Yuan stop using the nickname.

Su Yuan teased Wang Dong until she fled with Huo Yuhao, and his teasing triggered a Mixed-Blood trait that let him use the Ice Emperor Word Spirit. Later, Xiao Xiao asked him for another lollipop, triggering the keyword “Feed me,” while Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao went to Sea God Lake for grilled fish.

• Su Yuan called Wang Dong Shrek Academy’s mightiest dragon slayer and an S-rank Mixed-Blood, triggering the extraction of the Mixed-Blood trait and the Ice Emperor Word Spirit.
• Wang Dong grabbed Huo Yuhao and ran from the Soul Tool Department building, while Xiao Xiao asked Su Yuan why he could always make Wang Dong lose her temper.
• Su Yuan took Xiao Xiao under his umbrella toward the cafeteria, then tearfully reacted when she asked for another lollipop and extracted the keyword “Feed me.”
• Wang Dong cursed Su Yuan as Huo Yuhao tried to calm her, then agreed to go with him to grill fish by Sea God Lake and told him to feed her until she was full.
• Mu En overheard Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao and reminisced that he had once fed many women until they were full.

After eleven months at Shrek Academy, Su Yuan obtained an entry that could evolve his frost dragon martial soul into an ice soul sacred dragon, but decided to wait until he left for Star Luo City to use it. He continued caring for Xiao Xiao and resolved to find a way to bring her and Zhang Lexuan with him.

• Su Yuan extracted the single-use [Feed Douluo] entry, which could evolve his frost dragon into an ice soul sacred dragon equal to Mu En's radiant sacred dragon.
• Su Yuan considered the immense increase in power and dragon bloodline purity the evolution would bring, and realized Mu En and Xuan Zi would likely notice it.
• Su Yuan decided not to equip the entry at Shrek Academy and planned to wait until Wang Xian'er took him back to Star Luo City.
• Su Yuan reassured Xiao Xiao, gave her lollipops, and thought about how much Zhang Lexuan enjoyed them too.
• Su Yuan resolved to find a way to take Xiao Xiao and Zhang Lexuan to Star Luo City with him.

Su Yuan decided to stay at Shrek for now and planned to give Xiao Xiao two of his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones. Wang Xian'er revealed that the gold of life had raised her to a Level 99 Limit Douluo with complementary dual soul cores, leaving Su Yuan with a powerful ally.

• Su Yuan weighed whether to leave Shrek for Star Luo Royal Academy and decided staying at Shrek was better for him.
• Su Yuan promised Xiao Xiao a transformative present and planned to give her the soul bones suited to her two martial souls.
• Su Yuan returned to his dorm, prepared it for the holiday, and considered keeping some of the six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones for himself.
• Wang Xian'er appeared behind Su Yuan and revealed that her cultivation breakthrough had succeeded.
• Wang Xian'er showed her green-gold sun and silver-blue moon, confirming that she had become a Level 99 Limit Douluo with yin-yang complementary dual soul cores.
• Wang Xian'er thanked Su Yuan and pulled him into a tight embrace.

Mu En discovered that Wang Xian'er had reached Limit Douluo and asked her to treat his long-standing injuries. As she revealed nine 900,000-year Soul Rings and yin-yang complementary dual soul cores, Mu En was left stunned by how powerful she had become.

• Mu En entered Su Yuan's dormitory and was surprised to find Wang Xian'er radiating the aura of a Limit Douluo.
• Wang Xian'er said she had reached the realm through a chance insight, but Mu En doubted her explanation and did not press her for details.
• Mu En asked Wang Xian'er to examine his decades-old injuries, hoping she might heal him and give him more time to protect Shrek Academy.
• Wang Xian'er released her Martial Soul, revealing nine blood-red Soul Rings and six pairs of wings.
• Mu En sensed her yin-yang complementary dual soul cores and realized her Soul Rings were each 900,000 years old, leaving him unable to understand how she had achieved it.

Wang Xian'er demonstrated that she could heal Mu En, but the treatment would cost her two hundred years of lifespan, so he left to consider what he could offer. Afterward, Su Yuan told Wang Xian'er he planned to obtain a Soul Ring and break through to Soul Ancestor, then turned his attention to Huo Yuhao.

• Wang Xian'er used her Healing Angel staff to ease Mu En's pain and confirmed she could heal his body by spending around two hundred years of her life.
• Wang Xian'er offered to help Mu En live a few more months if he could not pay, and warned that even after a full recovery his damaged soul would leave him only thirty to fifty years to live.
• Mu En asked for time to consider the price and left after Wang Xian'er gave him a final infusion of vitality.
• Wang Xian'er invited Su Yuan to return with her to Star Luo City, but he said he first wanted to obtain a Soul Ring and break through to Soul Ancestor.
• Su Yuan identified Huo Yuhao as the boy who delivered treasures and looked toward him as he said he was ready to put his plan into action.

Su Yuan and Wang Xian'er left Shrek Academy while his subordinates began tracking Huo Yuhao toward the Far North. Wang Xian'er explained her immense gains from seclusion, and Su Yuan warned her to conceal her ability to gather faith until he became powerful enough to protect her.

• After Mu En left, Wang Xian'er and Su Yuan departed Shrek Academy and found a temporary place to stay in Shrek City.
• Su Yuan arranged for the prince's estate's subordinates to follow Huo Yuhao toward the Far North until he and Wang Xian'er could take over.
• Wang Xian'er told Su Yuan that she had reached level 99 by condensing a life-and-space second soul core through Yin-Yang Complementarity.
• Wang Xian'er explained that her nine soul rings were red, with her seventh ring strengthened by one golden stripe and her eighth and ninth rings advanced to two- and three-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast rings.
• Wang Xian'er revealed that her twelve-winged angel martial soul could sense and store the power of faith, and Su Yuan warned her to keep that ability secret and unused.

Wang Xian'er became a Limit Douluo and chose to devote the gold of life's power to strength rather than longevity. She and Su Yuan followed Huo Yuhao into the Far North, where Su Yuan revealed his plan to steal the Ice Empress and make her his fourth soul ring.

• Wang Xian'er discovered that faith could strengthen her soul bones, but she obeyed Su Yuan's warning and did not use it.
• Wang Xian'er explained that she had prioritized becoming strong enough to protect Su Yuan over extending her life.
• Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy for the Far North, followed first by two Wang residence soul masters and then by Su Yuan and Wang Xian'er.
• After Huo Yuhao entered the Far North, Su Yuan and Wang Xian'er secretly followed him toward the Extreme North Core Circle.
• Su Yuan told Wang Xian'er that the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm planned to secure the Ice Empress's sacrifice for Huo Yuhao, and asked her to seize the Ice Empress for him.
• Wang Xian'er agreed to help Su Yuan take Huo Yuhao's opportunity and make the Ice Empress his fourth soul ring.

Su Yuan and Wang Xian'er followed Huo Yuhao into the Far North and seized the Ice Empress when the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm released her from his shed skin. With the Ice Empress captured, Su Yuan opened a Gate of the Dead and prepared to take her somewhere unknown.

• Su Yuan explained his plan to use Wang Xian'er's spatial power to capture the Ice Empress, and Wang Xian'er promised she could subdue her.
• Su Yuan and Wang Xian'er followed Huo Yuhao for two days as he traveled toward the Far North's core region.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lured the Ice Empress out of the core, trapped her in his shed skin, and brought her into Huo Yuhao's body.
• When the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm released the Ice Empress near the Far North's edge, Wang Xian'er sealed the space around her, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fled with Huo Yuhao.
• Su Yuan led Wang Xian'er away and opened a Gate of the Dead, alarming the captured Ice Empress.

Su Yuan brought the Ice Empress to his Undead Demiplane and offered to save her from the heavenly tribulation by helping him become a god. He proved his divine connections by summoning three Divine Official-level Bone Dragons, and the overwhelmed Ice Empress agreed to trust him.

• The Ice Empress rejected Su Yuan's offer and insisted she would never give him her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Su Yuan explained that the Ice Empress was nearing another deadly heavenly tribulation and reminded her that she had considered Tian Meng's plan to help a human become a god.
• Su Yuan summoned three Divine Official-level Bone Dragons in the Undead Demiplane, frightening Wang Xian'er before reassuring her that they were his subordinates.
• Wang Xian'er released the Ice Empress from the shed skin, but the Bone Dragons' pressure pinned her to the ground.
• Su Yuan had a Bone Dragon lift the Ice Empress before him, and she admitted defeat and agreed to trust him.

Su Yuan persuaded the Ice Empress to become his Wisdom Soul Ring and asked her to transform into human form before arranging her sacrifice. The chapter ended with the Ice Empress offering to help him absorb a seventy-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, only for Su Yuan to say he wanted her to copy its skill onto his own Soul Bone instead.

• Su Yuan explained how Wang Xian'er could protect the Ice Empress's soul during her sacrifice, and the Ice Empress agreed to gamble on becoming his Wisdom Soul Ring.
• Su Yuan asked the Ice Empress to transform into human form, and she became a petite girl in a Lolita dress with twin ponytails.
• Su Yuan told the Ice Empress that his rank-forty cultivation required her sacrifice as his fourth Soul Ring, and she agreed to control her power and seal the excess into a Soul Bone.
• Su Yuan showed the Ice Empress an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, and she reacted angrily to seeing a Soul Bone from one of her clansmen before offering to help him fuse with it.
• Su Yuan revealed that he wanted the Ice Empress to imprint the Soul Bone's Ice Blast skill onto his own Soul Bone, leaving her stunned that he considered the seventy-thousand-year-old Soul Bone not worth absorbing.

Su Yuan and the Ice Empress settled which Soul Skills he would receive before beginning her sacrifice in the Undead Demiplane. As the Ice Empress and a Secret Art Soul Bone fused with his left arm, Su Yuan endured escalating agony and suspected she was making him suffer on purpose.

• Su Yuan rejected the Ice Empress's duplicate close-range Soul Skills and chose Ice Blast, Ice Emperor's Wrath, Eternal Frozen Domain, and Extreme Ice Body.
• Su Yuan had Wang Xian'er prepare a nearly ten-thousand-year-old Secret Art Soul Bone to help balance the fusion with the Ice Empress's Soul Bone.
• The Ice Empress began her sacrifice in the Undead Demiplane, with Wang Xian'er suppressing the repulsion and preparing to support Su Yuan and protect the Ice Empress's soul.
• The Ice Empress pierced Su Yuan's left elbow with her tail hook, and ultimate cold began reshaping his arm as he struggled through intense pain.
• The Ice Empress poured the energies of the Secret Art Soul Bone and Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone into Su Yuan's arm, pushing him to the limits of his endurance.