Chapter Summaries

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.

Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Hao over Dai Youheng’s treatment, but Dai Hao dismissed the loss as a consequence of Youheng’s own weaknesses. Far away, Youheng’s cultivation began to awaken new potential in his evil shadow demon tiger martial soul, and the Snow Empress considered how a stronger tiger soul ring could complete its evolution.

• Dai Hao noticed Huo Yuhao’s strange reaction, and Huo Yuhao asked whether he remembered Dai Youheng before accusing Dai Huabin of ambushing him during the Core Disciple Selection.
• Dai Hao defended Dai Huabin’s victory as fair under the rules and said Dai Youheng had only himself to blame for losing.
• Dai Huabin mocked Dai Youheng as a concubine’s son, and Huo Yuhao buried his grief and hatred toward Dai Hao.
• In the Far North, Dai Youheng cultivated the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body as his evil shadow demon tiger martial soul’s aura rose toward the level of a super martial soul.
• The Snow Empress attributed the change to Youheng’s cultivation and the soul ring from the twenty-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger, then imagined using a hundred-thousand-year tiger soul ring to complete a second awakening.

The Shrek Inspection Corps fell into the Death Messenger’s trapped cave, where explosions and poison killed Yao Haoxuan and badly injured several members. Xuan Zi killed the Death Messenger, but Dai Huabin was left with severely damaged spiritual power and a crippled cultivation future as the survivors faced the cost of their first mission.

• The Death Messenger’s explosive and poisonous traps ambushed the Shrek Inspection Corps as Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng led the advance into the cave.
• Yao Haoxuan died protecting Ling Luochе, while Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, Xixi, Dai Yueheng, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochе were wounded or poisoned.
• Dai Huabin charged too far ahead, was dragged into the cave, and was nearly sacrificed by the Death Messenger; Xuan Zi killed the enemy and stopped the ritual.
• The ritual left Dai Huabin’s spiritual power devastated and his cultivation reduced from level thirty-seven to thirty-one, while Huo Yuhao privately recalled Dai Hao and Dai Huabin’s earlier remarks.
• Xuan Zi surveyed the dead and injured survivors as the Reserve Team gathered in shock and Zhu Lu tended to the unconscious Dai Huabin.

Dai Youheng, the Snow Empress, and Xiao Bai entered the sealed chamber containing the hundred-thousand-year Ice-Fire Twin Lotus. Dai Youheng released its ice pillar seal with the Snow Empress's ultimate ice, leaving the dangerous lotus exposed.

• Dai Youheng recovered his strength as the Snow Empress prepared him to face the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus.
• The Snow Empress ordered Xiao Bai to take human form and help restrain the lotus after its seal was released.
• Dai Youheng and Xiao Bai followed the Snow Empress into the chamber, where they found the lotus sealed inside an enormous ice pillar.
• The Snow Empress explained that the lotus's fire attribute had grown more powerful and warned Xiao Bai that it would attack if freed.
• Dai Youheng used Emperor's Palm, Great Cold Without Snow to dissolve the seal, and the ice pillar shattered.

The Ice-Fire Twin Lotus unleashed perfectly coordinated ultimate ice and fire attacks, overwhelming Xiao Bai in her human form. Dai Youheng gave her a Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pill, and she gained the power to resist its ice attacks before charging at the fire lotus.

• The Ice-Fire Twin Lotus attacked Xiao Bai with ultimate fire and ultimate ice, forcing her onto the defensive.
• The Snow Empress realized that her attempts to influence the lotus with ultimate ice had caused it to develop both ultimate ice and ultimate fire.
• Dai Youheng formed a second Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pill despite the heavy drain on his Soul Power and threw it to Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Bai swallowed the pill and gained powerful ultimate ice control and resistance to the lotus's ice attacks.
• Xiao Bai charged toward the fire lotus, blocking or absorbing the weakened ice attacks as she focused on its flames.

Xiao Bai tore open the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus's defenses, allowing Dai Youheng to destroy its Fire Lotus Seed and claim a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. He began absorbing it while frozen inside the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus's protection, as Xiao Bai stood guard.

• Xiao Bai endured the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus's attacks and savagely battered its ice and fire petals, exposing its core.
• At the Snow Empress's urging, Dai Youheng struck and shattered the Fire Lotus Seed with his Evil Shadow Soul-Rending Claw.
• The Ice-Fire Twin Lotus disintegrated, and a vivid red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring condensed from its remains.
• Dai Youheng swallowed the Ice Crystal Snow Lotus and used its ultimate cold, together with the Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pill, to encase himself in ice.
• The Snow Empress warned Dai Youheng to stay conscious through the Soul Ring's spiritual assault as its conflicting energies began entering him.
• Xiao Bai collapsed from exhaustion, then forced herself to stand guard over Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress.

Dai Youheng endured the agonizing absorption of the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, with the Snow Empress helping him withstand its physical and spiritual assaults. He completed the absorption, rose in power, and manifested the Ice-Fire Lotus Wings, an unprecedented External Soul Bone.

• Dai Youheng struggled to survive as the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus's ice, fire, and spiritual energy ravaged his body and consciousness.
• The Snow Empress guided Dai Youheng through the ordeal and took on part of the assault on his soul.
• Dai Youheng circulated the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body technique to repair his meridians and absorb the energy.
• After more than two days, Dai Youheng broke free of the ice armor and absorbed the vivid red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring into his Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill Martial Soul.
• Two lotus-shaped wings of ultimate ice and ultimate fire appeared on Dai Youheng's back, forming the Ice-Fire Lotus Wings External Soul Bone.

Dai Youheng absorbed the Ice-Fire Twin Lotus’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, reached level 48, and gained extraordinary wings and two Soul Skills. The Snow Empress learned that his Yin-Yang Fate-Reversing Lotus Seed Pill could turn a recipient into a Titled Douluo bound to Dai Youheng, while he began to explain why his other pill skill might be even more valuable.

• Dai Youheng completed the absorption, gained the Ice-Fire Lotus Wings, and advanced to level 48.
• Dai Youheng demonstrated the wings’ flight effects and described their powerful Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss attack.
• Dai Youheng revealed that the Ice and Fire Body Tempering Pill doubled all of a user’s attributes.
• Dai Youheng explained that the Yin-Yang Fate-Reversing Lotus Seed Pill could raise a Soul Master below level 90 to Titled Douluo status, but permanently cap their growth and bind them to his control.
• The Snow Empress realized the skill could help Dai Youheng build a loyal force of Titled Douluos.
• Dai Youheng insisted the body tempering pill was his greatest gain, but the chapter ended before he explained its true ability.

Dai Youheng explained how the Ice and Fire Body Tempering Pill doubled his stacked attributes and considered whom to use the first Yin-Yang Fate-Reversing Lotus Seed Pill on. He decided to seek an experienced slave in a nearby black market as its first recipient and prepared to leave the Far North with the Snow Empress.

• Dai Youheng explained to the Snow Empress that the Ice and Fire Body Tempering Pill independently doubled all his existing and future attribute enhancements.
• The Snow Empress teased Dai Youheng about becoming a super stat monster, and he reflected on the strength of his growing abilities.
• Dai Youheng considered giving the first lotus seed pill to Dai Luoli but decided the younger brother lacked the experience needed to serve as an immediate enforcer.
• Dai Youheng decided to find an experienced Soul Master slave in the Underground Black Market as the first pill's recipient.
• The Snow Empress told Xiao Bai to stay near the Frost Forest and help the chosen enforcer obtain soul rings after they left for a human city.

Dai Youheng planned to build his power after transforming in the Far North, while Shrek Academy arrived in Star Luo City reeling from heavy losses. Dai Hao rushed to the capital after learning his two legitimate sons were badly injured, and Xu Jiujiu wondered whether Dai Youheng had also been affected.

• Dai Youheng decided to seek a vessel for the first lotus seed pill and recruit Xiao Bai to help hunt Soul Rings.
• Xuan Zi led the battered Shrek Academy delegation to Star Luo City, where most of the main team was injured or incapacitated and the Reserve Team faced the tournament matches.
• Dai Hao learned that Dai Yueheng had suffered severe injuries and Dai Huabin's martial soul origin had been damaged, so he hurried back to Star Luo City.
• Xu Jiawei received a secret report about Dai Hao's return and summoned Xu Jiujiu to discuss the situation.
• Xu Jiujiu asked whether Dai Youheng had been harmed, and Xu Jiawei said the report did not mention him.

Xu Jiujiu planned to use Dai Youheng’s devotion to gain control of the Dai Family and its army, unaware that he had changed. Meanwhile, Dai Youheng reached Ice Sea City and found an underground black market linked to the Ordinary Alliance.

• Xu Jiujiu urged Xu Jiawei to summon Dai Youheng from Shrek Academy and planned to use him to control the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and the Western Army Group.
• Xiao Bai carried Dai Youheng out of the Far North, and he flew onward to Ice Sea City on his Ice-Fire Lotus Wings.
• Dai Youheng gathered rumors in a tavern and learned from a shopkeeper where to find Old Viper’s underground warehouse.
• Dai Youheng entered the warehouse’s underground black market and recognized the Ordinary Alliance’s Black Mandala Flower emblem.
• Dai Youheng approached the Alliance’s stall, where a thin, mustached merchant asked what he wanted.