Recaps

Dai Youheng chose to pass the advancement assessment rather than risk provoking the Dai Family, and defeated a thousand-year Ironclad Rhino with a penetrating palm strike. Yan Shaozhe awarded him full marks, leaving the arena astonished by his skill.

• Dai Youheng decided to complete the assessment while concealing his second martial soul and hidden power.
• Dai Youheng used his Evil Shadow Demon Tiger martial soul and dodged the Ironclad Rhino’s charge.
• Dai Youheng struck the rhino with a corrosive palm force that damaged its organs and brought it down.
• Gong Changlong treated the rhino and praised Dai Youheng’s penetrating technique.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Dai Youheng 150 points and full marks, and Dai Youheng left the arena having changed the students’ opinion of him.

Dai Huabin paid Dai Youheng the Ten Thousand Year Head Soul Bone and three million Gold Soul Coins he had wagered, then left Shrek Academy to arrange Huo Yuhao’s assassination and reclaim Dai Youheng’s Soul Bones. Dai Youheng anticipated the plot and remained confident he could redirect the danger toward Huo Yuhao.

• Dai Huabin kowtowed to Huo Yuhao, admitted he was wrong, and paid Dai Youheng his Soul Bone and three million Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Huabin rejected Zhu Lu’s defense of him and declared that Dai Youheng was not his family, while Dai Youheng mocked him for losing the wager.
• Dai Youheng counted his fortune at over thirteen million Gold Soul Coins and considered spending it at the upcoming Treasure Appraisal Fair.
• Dai Huabin smashed a wall in a secluded path and vowed to kill Huo Yuhao and reclaim the three Soul Bones from Dai Youheng.
• Dai Huabin ordered Zhu Lu to request his leave, then left to contact people who handled dirty work.
• Dai Youheng realized what Dai Huabin intended and decided he could shift the danger onto Huo Yuhao.

Dai Youheng went with Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Xu Sanshi confronted him over a gift he had once given Jiang Nannan. Dai Youheng brushed Xu aside and entered the pavilion, while Xu held back from escalating the clash and resolved to challenge him at the upcoming core disciple selections.

• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo brought Dai Youheng an invitation to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and pulled him along to the fair.
• Dai Youheng, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo arrived at the crowded pavilion and began browsing its treasures.
• Xu Sanshi asked Bei Bei what to buy for Jiang Nannan, then spotted Dai Youheng and went over to confront him.
• Xu Sanshi demanded to know what Dai Youheng had given Jiang Nannan, and Dai Youheng jokingly named a hundred Mystic Water Pills and a hundred Black Tortoise Pills.
• Dai Youheng pushed Xu Sanshi aside and entered the pavilion, prompting Jiang Nannan to defend him and Bei Bei to restrain Xu Sanshi.
• Xu Sanshi calmed down because they were in the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and decided to settle things with Dai Youheng at the core disciple selections.

Dai Youheng visited the Treasure Gathering Pavilion with the Lan sisters and bought a mislabeled piece of ten-thousand-year whale glue and three Soul Ascension Pills. He gave two pills to the sisters, then continued touring the pavilion while considering how he might trade the incompatible Golden Earth Dragon King Soul Bone.

• Dai Youheng ignored the pavilion’s Soul Tools and Soul Bones and recognized a black lump labeled as spoiled thousand-year whale rubber as valuable ten-thousand-year whale glue.
• Dai Youheng bought the whale glue for six thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Youheng bought three Soul Ascension Pills and gave one each to Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, who accepted them gratefully.
• Dai Youheng examined the Golden Earth Dragon King Soul Bone and decided its attributes were unsuitable for him, so he would trade or sell it.

Dai Youheng stayed at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion instead of accompanying Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, hoping to avoid the ambush he expected Dai Huabin to arrange. He then learned that an Ice Crystal Snow Lotus could protect him while absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and decided to buy it.

• Huo Yuhao used his academy privilege to buy Wang Dong a Golden Earth Dragon King Left Arm Bone, and Dai Youheng declined to leave the pavilion with them.
• Dai Youheng watched Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong depart, intending to stay until the danger from Dai Huabin's assassins had passed.
• The Treasure Gathering Pavilion displayed an Ice Crystal Snow Lotus priced at nine million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The Snow Empress explained that the lotus could protect Dai Youheng's body and soul while he absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, allowing him to take in its power without sealing it.
• Dai Youheng immediately offered to buy the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus, despite Lan Luoluo questioning its price and unknown effects.

Dai Youheng bought an Ice Crystal Snow Lotus to protect himself while absorbing a soul ring beyond his limits, despite Elder Lin's advice to save it for later. Suspecting Dai Huabin had arranged another ambush, he stayed overnight in Shrek City, leaving the would-be attacker waiting outside the academy route.

• Elder Lin explained the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus's protective effects and advised Dai Youheng to save it for a stronger soul ring at rank seventy.
• Dai Youheng bought the lotus and planned to combine it with the Snow Empress's soul skills to attempt absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Dai Youheng chose to stay in a city-center hotel rather than return to the academy, causing Dai Huabin's Soul King ambusher to wait outside all night.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo misunderstood Dai Youheng's intentions at the hotel, but he booked separate rooms and told them to take their Soul Ascension Pills.

Dai Youheng consumed ten-thousand-year whale glue and a Soul Ascension Pill together, breaking through rank thirty-nine and pushing toward rank forty. Next door, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo made a pact to pursue him without letting their feelings damage their sisterly bond, then began cultivating with their pills.

• Dai Youheng gave Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo the key to their twin room, then secured his own room with a simple ward.
• Dai Youheng swallowed the whale glue and Soul Ascension Pill together and used his cultivation technique to refine their medicinal energy.
• Dai Youheng broke through the bottleneck at rank thirty-nine and continued advancing toward rank forty.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo admitted they were developing feelings for Dai Youheng and agreed that neither would resent the other over whom he chose.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo each swallowed a Soul Ascension Pill and began cultivating.

Dai Youheng reached level forty and planned to use the upcoming Core Disciple Selection to leave Shrek Academy and seek a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and other treasures. Ma Xiaotao abducted Huo Yuhao to suppress her evil fire, while Dai Huabin vowed to settle his scores with Huo Yuhao and Dai Youheng during the selection.

• Dai Youheng broke through to level forty and decided to deliberately lose the Core Disciple Selection so he could seek opportunities in Star Luo City.
• Dai Youheng returned to the academy with Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, and learned that Lan Susu had reached level thirty.
• Ma Xiaotao seized Huo Yuhao and flew away with him, seeking his ultimate ice to counter her evil fire.
• Dai Youheng chose not to offer Ma Xiaotao his Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pill, wary that helping her would cost him his freedom.
• Dai Huabin learned that both his assassination and ambush plans had failed, then vowed to confront Huo Yuhao and Dai Youheng in the Core Disciple Selection.

The second-year core disciples joined the selection for the Shrek Seven Devils’ reserve team, which Xuan Zi announced would be a no-rules free-for-all. As the shifting maze separated the contestants, Dai Youheng planned to use the chaos to get himself eliminated while provoking Dai Huabin and Xu Sanshi.

• Zhou Yi led thirteen second-year core disciples to the Soul Fighting Zone, where they joined the older students and He Caitou for the selection.
• Yan Shaozhe introduced the twenty-seven contestants to Xuan Zi, who set the test as a free-for-all in which the last seven standing would advance.
• Stone walls rose to create a shifting maze that separated the contestants and would eventually force them into a central showdown.
• Dai Youheng chose not to seek out the Lan sisters and instead wandered alone, hoping to stir up trouble before getting eliminated.
• Dai Huabin found Dai Youheng and chased him, but a rising wall blocked his way; Dai Youheng then set his sights on finding Xu Sanshi.

Dai Youheng joined Jiang Nannan’s fight against Mu Shengsheng and Gui Jiankui, then swiftly defeated Gui Jiankui by breaking through her control skill and attacking at close range. He turned to the stunned Jiang Nannan and told her he had not let her down.

• Dai Youheng found Jiang Nannan defending herself against Mu Shengsheng and Gui Jiankui, then rushed to help her.
• Gui Jiankui used Void-Sky Ghost Sunflower Capture on Dai Youheng, but he broke through it with Evil Shadow Soul-Rending Claw and Demon Tiger Body.
• Dai Youheng struck Gui Jiankui, slammed her into the ground, and kicked her unconscious.
• The arena announced that Gui Jiankui had been eliminated by Dai Youheng, and Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo praised his combat awareness while noting the danger of his evil attributes.
• Dai Youheng faced Mu Shengsheng and told Jiang Nannan that he had not let her down.

Dai Youheng manipulated Xu Sanshi’s jealousy by telling Jiang Nannan a sympathetic story about his family, turning her against Xu Sanshi. After Xu Sanshi attacked, Dai Youheng led him through the maze while pretending to retreat, setting up an unknown next step.

• Jiang Nannan eliminated Mu Shengsheng after Dai Youheng helped her against Gui Jiankui and Mu Shengsheng.
• Xu Sanshi found Jiang Nannan and Dai Youheng together, and accused Dai Youheng of pursuing her for selfish reasons.
• Dai Youheng claimed he had befriended others to secure allies because his family oppressed him, prompting Jiang Nannan to protect him and order Xu Sanshi away.
• Xu Sanshi used Black Tortoise Swap to exchange places with Jiang Nannan, then attacked Dai Youheng as a stone wall separated Jiang Nannan from them.
• Dai Youheng appeared to flee Xu Sanshi through the maze while carefully guiding the furious senior along a chosen route.

Dai Youheng lured Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu into waiting in ambush while he fought Xu Sanshi, then revealed powerful coordinated Soul Skills and struck through Xu Sanshi’s shield formation. The chapter ended with Xu Sanshi reeling from the penetrating blow as the battle continued.

• Dai Youheng used his observations of the shifting maze to seek out Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu while Xu Sanshi pursued him.
• Dai Youheng staged a desperate confrontation with Xu Sanshi, prompting Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu to hide nearby and wait for both fighters to weaken.
• Dai Youheng activated Demon Tiger Body and Shadow Surge together, greatly boosting his abilities and drawing Xuan Zi’s attention.
• Xu Sanshi used Mysterious Underworld Quake, but Dai Youheng slipped into the shadows and avoided its full impact.
• Xu Sanshi formed a defensive barrier with Mysterious Underworld Shield Formation, but Dai Youheng struck through it with his concentrated palm force and injured him internally.

Dai Youheng defeated Xu Sanshi, then allowed Dai Huabin to eliminate him as part of a plan to remove both men from the contest and help Dai Huabin advance. The teachers accepted the outcome, and Dai Youheng reflected that his elimination had achieved his goals.

• Dai Youheng used Shadow Stealth to interrupt Xu Sanshi's Black Tortoise Awakening and knock him unconscious, eliminating him from the assessment.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu ambushed the apparently exhausted Dai Youheng, and Dai Huabin was credited with eliminating him.
• Huo Yuhao inferred that Dai Huabin had attacked his brother after the fight and vowed to avenge Dai Youheng.
• Cai Mei'er questioned the free-for-all selection method, but Xuan Zi defended the rules and refused to change the result.
• Dai Youheng listened from the treatment area and concluded that his plan had worked, since Xu Sanshi was out and Dai Huabin had advanced.

Huo Yuhao’s group used a coordinated tactic to secure the final spots in the Shrek Seven Devils Reserve Team, while Dai Huabin advanced after Zhu Lu conceded. The new team was left divided, and Huo Yuhao apologized to Dai Youheng for failing to avenge Dai Huabin’s ambush.

• Huo Yuhao directed his companions to lure eight opponents into a line, where he and Wang Dong defeated them with Withering in Splendor, Golden Road.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu returned to find Huo Yuhao’s group waiting; Zhu Lu conceded, leaving exactly seven contestants.
• Xuan Zi announced Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, and Dai Huabin as the new reserve team.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo complained that Dai Youheng had been unfairly eliminated, while he remained unconcerned and focused on his plans beyond the academy.
• Huo Yuhao apologized to Dai Youheng for failing to eliminate Dai Huabin, and Dai Youheng reassured him that there would be other chances for revenge.

After the selection match, Shrek’s Reserve Team struggled with Xu Sanshi’s interference and the conflict between Dai Huabin and Huo Yuhao, so Xuan Zi chose Zhu Lu as the substitute. Dai Youheng avoided being pulled into the team and persuaded Zhou Yi to approve leave so he could clear his head.

• Jiang Nannan apologized to Dai Youheng for the trouble caused by Xu Sanshi, while Huo Yuhao promised to defeat Dai Huabin for him.
• Xu Sanshi disrupted the Reserve Team’s training by pursuing Jiang Nannan, while Dai Huabin rejected Huo Yuhao’s leadership and Spiritual Detection Sharing.
• Xuan Zi chose Zhu Lu as the substitute because she ranked eighth and could use Hell White Tiger with Dai Huabin.
• Dai Youheng felt relieved that he was not selected and asked Zhou Yi for leave to recover his composure.
• Zhou Yi approved Dai Youheng’s leave and told him to stay safe and return on time.

Dai Youheng left Shrek Academy to pursue soul rings and improve his strength, refusing the Lan sisters’ offer to accompany him. Back at the academy, the Reserve Team grew more divided over his departure and Dai Huabin’s unfair victory, while Dai Youheng set out freely toward his own goals.

• Dai Youheng thanked Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo for their concern, declined their offer to join him, and left Shrek Academy alone.
• Xiao Xiao told the Reserve Team that Dai Youheng had taken leave to clear his head, prompting the others to regret his departure and criticize Dai Huabin’s conduct.
• Huo Yuhao brooded over Dai Huabin’s role in Dai Youheng’s elimination, while the Reserve Team’s hostility toward Dai Huabin deepened.
• Xuan Zi lamented that the Reserve Team’s infighting made them look unlike a team.
• Dai Youheng dismissed the Shrek Seven Devils title as unimportant and looked forward to obtaining powerful soul rings and raising his rank.

Dai Youheng reached the Far North and, guided by the Snow Empress, settled near a lake where her son Xiao Bai often came to fish. As he cultivated while waiting for Xiao Bai, Dai Youheng named his body-tempering method Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body, and its aura began spreading through the ice.

• Dai Youheng crossed the Far North with unusual stamina, and the Snow Empress attributed his strengthening physique to his mysterious cultivation method.
• The Snow Empress warned Dai Youheng that they needed to find Xiao Bai before seeking a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, then guided him around dangerous territories.
• Dai Youheng used a Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pill to withstand the Far North and followed the Snow Empress to a lake where Xiao Bai often caught fish.
• Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress made an ice cave near the lake and waited for Xiao Bai while Dai Youheng cultivated.
• Dai Youheng named his cultivation method Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body, and its powerful aura spread through the ice toward the darkness below.

Dai Youheng disturbed a terrifying presence beneath the glacier, and two legendary Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers emerged from the abyss. He retreated as the Snow Empress recognized the supposedly extinct beasts, leaving him uncertain whether one was the hundred-thousand-year soul beast she had prepared for him.

• Two Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers sensed an unfamiliar aura above them, and the larger one roared through the glacier.
• Dai Youheng stopped cultivating and asked the Snow Empress to identify the roar; she warned him to suppress his aura and stay alert.
• Dai Youheng tried to flee as the glacier cracked beneath him, but he sensed a savage presence pursuing him from below.
• The glacier exploded, and two enormous tigers burst out of the abyss.
• The Snow Empress identified them as legendary Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers and said she had thought they were extinct; Dai Youheng retreated, unsure whether either was his intended soul beast.

Dai Youheng was attacked by two Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers and nearly drowned after their domain suppressed his abilities. The Snow Empress summoned help, and Ice Bear King Xiaobai rescued him and struck the tigers.

• The Snow Empress identified the Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers and warned Dai Youheng that the larger one had surpassed one hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Dai Youheng fled, but the larger tiger enveloped the valley in its Darkness Zone and nullified his enhancement skills.
• The juvenile tiger struck Dai Youheng, sending him through the ice and into the freezing lake, where he began to sink.
• The Snow Empress shielded Dai Youheng, raised a signal of ice-blue light, and called for help.
• Ice Bear King Xiaobai answered the signal, knocked both tigers away, and lifted Dai Youheng from the lake.

Xiao Bai rescued Dai Youheng from the frozen lake and learned from the Snow Empress that her soul shared his body, so she vowed to protect him. She fought the hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger while keeping him safe, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Xiao Bai heard a plea for help, rushed to the shattered lake, and slapped away two Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers before lifting Dai Youheng from the water.
• The Snow Empress told Xiao Bai that her soul lived inside Dai Youheng and that his death would destroy her soul.
• Xiao Bai placed the weakened Dai Youheng on her back and stood guard against the tigers.
• The hundred-thousand-year Ice Prison Tiger attacked Xiao Bai with its poison hook and paw, but she dodged the hook and met its blow head-on.
• Xiao Bai shattered the tiger's Abyssal Ice Armor and staggered it with a strike to its side.
• The juvenile Ice Prison Tiger attempted a sneak attack, but Xiao Bai hurled it into an ice wall, leaving it unable to rise.

Xiao Bai defeated the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Prison Tiger and knocked out her cub, which the Snow Empress chose as a fourth soul-ring candidate for Dai Youheng's Evil Shadow Demon Tiger. Just as Dai Youheng prepared to absorb it, the Snow Empress warned that they had to leave immediately, hinting at another danger nearby.

• The Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Prison Tiger's Abyssal Ice Fiend Wave lost to Xiao Bai's Ice Bear Blizzard, leaving the mother gravely injured and Xiao Bai with a minor wound.
• The wounded Ice Prison Tiger tried to flee with her cub, but the Snow Empress stopped Xiao Bai from pursuing the mother and ordered her to capture the cub alive.
• Xiao Bai knocked the roughly twenty-thousand-year-old cub unconscious, and the Snow Empress identified it as an ideal fourth soul ring for Dai Youheng's Evil Shadow Demon Tiger.
• Dai Youheng thanked the Snow Empress and Xiao Bai, then prepared to absorb the cub's soul ring to help recover from his injuries.
• The Snow Empress interrupted Dai Youheng and ordered everyone to leave immediately, while Xiao Bai wondered what stronger danger could remain.

The Snow Empress warned Dai Youheng and Xiao Bai that the wounded hundred-thousand-year Ice Prison Tiger might have gone to summon its hidden clan, so they fled with the unconscious young tiger. The clan leader emerged too late to find them, then withdrew with its wounded kin while marking Dai Youheng and Xiao Bai as enemies.

• The Snow Empress reasoned that the wounded Ice Prison Tiger had likely gone to seek help from a powerful clan member beneath the glacial abyss.
• Dai Youheng agreed to leave, and Xiao Bai carried him and the unconscious twenty-thousand-year Ice Prison Tiger away at full speed.
• The wounded hundred-thousand-year Ice Prison Tiger returned to its lair, where the five-hundred-thousand-year Prison Tiger Clan Leader emerged from the abyss.
• The Prison Tiger Clan Leader found Xiao Bai and Dai Youheng's tracks already obscured by snow and roared in fury.
• The Prison Tiger Clan Leader wrapped its tail around the wounded tiger, retreated beneath the lake, and placed Xiao Bai and Dai Youheng on the clan's blacklist.

Dai Youheng absorbed the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger’s soul ring in the Ice Castle and became a Soul Ancestor. He gained the Darkness Zone skill, leaving him eager to use its powerful battlefield-control effects.

• Xiao Bai brought Dai Youheng and the weakened Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger into the Ice Castle.
• Dai Youheng killed the tiger and began absorbing its nearly twenty-thousand-year soul ring.
• Dai Youheng endured the soul ring’s violent energy and remnant soul, overcoming both with his Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body and powerful spiritual strength.
• Dai Youheng completed the absorption, reached peak level 42, and gained his fourth soul ring.
• Dai Youheng told the Snow Empress that his new Darkness Zone disrupted opponents’ vision and weakened or nullified support effects within a fifty-meter radius.

After recovering, Dai Youheng learned why the Snow Empress had returned to the Ice Castle and why she could not use the treasure she had prepared for him. She offered him the hundred-thousand-year Ice-Fire Twin Lotus, whose fire-altered lotus seed might solve his pressing problem, and he prepared to seek it in the castle’s depths.

• The Snow Empress explained to Xiao Bai how a Level 9 Soul Engineer had ambushed her during her transformation and how Dai Youheng had become her vessel.
• The Snow Empress scolded Xiao Bai for leaving her unprotected, and Xiao Bai showed remorse before asking why she had returned.
• The Snow Empress revealed that she had prepared a hundred-thousand-year Ice-Fire Twin Lotus for Dai Youheng, a rare plant whose two flowers embodied opposing elements.
• The Snow Empress explained that divine fire power had shifted the lotus’s core toward fire, making it dangerous for her to consume despite more than a thousand years of efforts to restore its ice balance.
• The Snow Empress gave the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus to Dai Youheng, expecting its essence to strengthen him and potentially grant his special-effect pill a useful ability.
• Dai Youheng welcomed the prospect of the lotus, while Xiao Bai indicated that she would help.

Dai Youheng prepared to absorb the hundred-thousand-year Ice-Fire Twin Lotus by restoring his body and Soul Power at the Snow Empress's castle. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy's two generations of the Shrek Seven Devils reached the Western Legion to gather intelligence on Evil Soul Masters, where Dai Hao welcomed his sons and arranged support for their mission.

• Dai Youheng told the Snow Empress and Xiao Bai that he needed a day to recover before attempting to absorb the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus, then began cultivating in the castle.
• Xuan Zi led the Shrek Seven Devils toward the Star Luo Empire's capital, stopping at the Western Legion to obtain intelligence on Evil Soul Masters near the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Zhou Yi revealed her youthful appearance after explaining that her Eight-Sided Exquisite Martial Soul let her disguise herself as an intimidating older teacher.
• Xuan Zi disappeared while Zhou Yi, Dai Yueheng, and the others entered the military camp and learned about the strength of the Western Group Army.
• Dai Hao met Dai Yueheng, Dai Huabin, and the Shrek Inspection Corps, ordered scouts to assist their mission, and praised his sons for becoming members of the Shrek Seven Devils.