Chapter Summaries

Ye Xixuan carried Ling Luochеn as the group flew toward the Star Luo Empire, and Ling Luochеn recalled how their families had once arranged a marriage between them. Her memories ended with the Night Family’s slaughter and her younger brother’s death.

• Ling Luochеn chose Ye Xixuan to carry her, surprising the others and leaving Yao Haoxuan heartbroken.
• Ma Xiaotao carried Xixi into the air, while Gongyang Mo used his rainbow wings to carry Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan.
• Ling Luochеn told Ye Xixuan to hold her, and he flew ahead with her in his arms using his Fallen Wings.
• Ling Luochеn remembered that four years earlier her grandfather had told her the Ling and Night families had verbally agreed to her marriage to a talented Night Family heir.
• Ling Luochеn recalled that the Night Family had been slaughtered and her younger brother had died during a soul beast hunt in the Far North.

Ye Xixuan traveled with Ma Xiaotao and the other Shrek Academy disciples toward the Ming Dou Mountains, while Ling Luochеn stunned the group by declaring that Ye Xixuan was her fiancé. Ma Xiaotao had Ye Xixuan absorb her evil fire, and the group reached their destination on the second evening.

• Ma Xiaotao landed the group at the forest edge for the night and took Ye Xixuan aside, prompting Ling Luochеn to grab his wrist.
• Gongyang Mo asked Ling Luochеn about her relationship with Ye Xixuan, and she said he was her fiancé, though he did not know it.
• Ye Xixuan helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire by absorbing it through the Mind Demon Mark.
• The group shared a campfire meal, while Yao Haoxuan remained dejected over Ling Luochеn's revelation.
• After resting overnight, the group traveled onward and reached the Ming Dou Mountains on the evening of the second day.

Ma Xiaotao led the Shrek team into the Ming Dou Mountains to find the Death Hand Bandit Group, guided by Ye Xixuan’s ability to sense evil energy. They found the bandits’ cave and launched an attack, leaving the battle underway inside.

• Ma Xiaotao ordered the team to search the Ming Dou Mountains for the Death Hand Bandit Group.
• Ye Xixuan spotted a grove of wenlan trees and sensed the bandits’ evil auras nearby.
• Ma Xiaotao announced that their opponents were Evil Soul Masters and ordered the team to prepare for battle.
• Ye Xixuan guided the disguised Shrek Inspection Corps team through the grove to a cave hidden behind hanging vines.
• Xixi killed the guards at the cave entrance, and Ma Xiaotao led the team inside.

Ye Xixuan and Shrek Academy’s team overwhelmed the bandits in the cavern and confronted the Death Messenger, who tried to raise the corpses as slaves. Ye Xixuan suppressed the corpses with his shadow domain and Dark Demon Sword, then killed the Death Messenger after the man mistook him for the Holy Church’s Holy Son.

• Ye Xixuan entered the cavern as Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and Xixi cut through the bandits, supported by Ling Luochеn, Gongyang Mo, and Yao Haoxuan.
• The Shrek Academy team defeated the bandits’ Soul Kings, and Ye Xixuan identified the remaining Soul King as the Death Messenger.
• The Death Messenger threatened to turn the fallen bandits into corpse slaves, and the corpses began swelling and reddening.
• Ye Xixuan unleashed his shadow domain and Dark Demon Sword, restoring the corpses and drawing their black energy into his blade.
• The Death Messenger recognized Ye Xixuan’s evil aura and guessed that he was the Holy Church’s Holy Son.
• Ye Xixuan denied the guess, appeared before the Death Messenger through the shadows, and killed him with a sword strike.

After the group defeated the Death Hand Bandit Group, Ye Xixuan earned the inner court students’ respect and traveled north with them toward the Heaven Dou Empire. Ling Luochen left him stunned by revealing that she was his fiancée.

• Ma Xiaotao scolded Ye Xixuan for fighting, then burned the Death Messenger’s corpse while the others finished clearing the cavern.
• Dai Yueheng questioned Ye Xixuan about his abilities, and Ye Xixuan said Mu En had told him his martial soul countered evil soul masters.
• Yao Haoxuan awkwardly urged Ye Xixuan to protect Ling Luochen, and Ma Xiaotao later burned the cavern to lay the murdered victims to rest.
• The group parted ways with Dai Yueheng, who returned to Star Luo City, while Ma Xiaotao led the others north toward Maple Leaf City.
• While carrying Ling Luochen through the air, Ye Xixuan asked whether their families were connected, and Ling Luochen told him she was his fiancée.

The group reached Maple Leaf City and split up for the evening, while Ye Xixuan learned that Ling Luochеn was his fiancée through an engagement arranged four years earlier. Ling Luochеn took him for a walk and declared that being his fiancée was her privilege.

• The group arrived in Maple Leaf City, ate together, and discussed their plans to return home or stay overnight.
• Chen Zifeng and Yao Haoxuan left, followed by Gongyang Mo and Xixi, while Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochеn, and Ye Xixuan stayed behind.
• Ye Xixuan accidentally mentioned his fiancée, and Ling Luochеn revealed that she was engaged to him by an arrangement made four years earlier.
• Ling Luochеn linked her arm through Ye Xixuan's and pulled him out of the restaurant, leaving Ma Xiaotao confused.
• Ling Luochеn sat with Ye Xixuan at Maple Leaf Square and told him that being his fiancée was his privilege.

A year after the events in Maple Leaf City, Ye Xixuan continued cultivating at Shrek Academy while Zhang Lexuan recovered and Ling Luochеn grew closer to him. He demonstrated his latest Shadow Knight ability to Fan Yu, who was shocked when He Caitou recognized it as a humanoid soul tool.

• Ling Luochеn asked Ye Xixuan to call her Sister Luochеn, and the two walked back to their hotel hand in hand.
• Ye Xixuan returned to Shrek Academy, trained with Mu En, studied core arrays with Fan Yu, and occasionally walked with Ling Luochеn by Sea God Lake.
• Ye Xixuan accompanied Jiang Nannan to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where she bought medicine for her mother's heart defect.
• A year passed as Zhang Lexuan recovered from the backlash of fusing with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Blood Moon Wolf Emperor's soul ring and soul bone.
• Ye Xixuan showed Fan Yu and He Caitou over a hundred Shadow Knights controlled through his martial soul and Heavenly Spider Claws.
• He Caitou recognized the Shadow Knights as a humanoid soul tool, and Fan Yu stared in shock.

Ye Xixuan demonstrated his Humanoid Shadow Puppets and their potential as humanoid soul tools, prompting Fan Yu to seek support for research. After leaving the Soul Tool Department, Ye Xixuan headed toward the Martial Soul Department, planning to accompany Tang Ya to hunt for a soul ring.

• Ye Xixuan explained how his external soul bones controlled the Humanoid Shadow Puppets and demonstrated one using a soul tool through his soul power.
• Fan Yu recognized the potential of humanoid soul tools and wanted to bring the idea to Dean Xian and Dean Qian, while Ye Xixuan warned that the Sun Moon Empire might already be researching them.
• Ye Xixuan agreed to assist the Soul Tool Department's research but said his martial soul cultivation would remain his priority.
• He Caitou recalled that the Sun Moon Empire had begun researching humanoid soul tools while he was its crown prince.
• Ye Xixuan left the Soul Tool Department and headed toward the Martial Soul Department, intending to accompany Tang Ya to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain a soul ring.

Ye Xixuan reunited with Tang Ya, spent the evening eating with her, and admitted that he liked her. As Tang Ya responded to his confession, Ye Xixuan thought of Zhang Lexuan and wondered whether she would forgive him.

• Ye Xixuan found Tang Ya waiting by Sea God Lake, and she happily leaped into his arms.
• Tang Ya pulled Ye Xixuan to the food stalls outside Shrek Academy's East City Gate, where she tried every dish.
• Bei Bei watched Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya leave and asked Xu Sanshi whether he still had a chance with Tang Ya.
• Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya walked home, and Tang Ya teased him about whether he liked her.
• Ye Xixuan admitted that he liked Tang Ya and thought of Zhang Lexuan cultivating in seclusion.

Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest, while Vina and her teacher Lang Ya planned to visit the Ling Family for information about a missing body-martial-soul genius. Elsewhere, a boy fled the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and took his mother’s surname, becoming Huo Yuhao.

• Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya left Shrek City and headed south to enter the Star Dou Great Forest from a safer direction.
• Tang Ya and Ye Xixuan shared an intimate journey, and Ye Xixuan acknowledged that he loved both Tang Ya and his eldest senior sister.
• Vina learned that her soul power had reached level 40, and Lang Ya promised to take her to the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul ring.
• Lang Ya told Vina they would visit the Ling Family to investigate the missing body-martial-soul genius from the Night Family.
• A boy escaped from the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, vowed revenge, and took his mother’s surname, calling himself Huo Yuhao.

Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya reached the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ye Xixuan sensed evil energy in Tang Ya’s martial soul origin. They followed the smell of grilled fish to Huo Yuhao, while four First-Level Gods watched events on the Douluo Plane.

• Two indistinct gods discussed Tang San’s watch over Ye Xixuan and decided they could not stay uninvolved; they also noticed Rong Nianbing had become involved.
• Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest, and Ye Xixuan sensed a strand of evil energy in Tang Ya’s martial soul origin.
• Tang Ya killed a Wind Baboon with Ye Xixuan’s Shadow Needle and joked with him about food and learning the Tang Sect’s cultivation methods.
• Tang Ya smelled grilled fish, and Ye Xixuan realized they might encounter the Succubus Grilled Fish.
• Huo Yuhao cooked fish beside a stream, and Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya approached as Tang Ya asked whether he was selling them.

Tang Ya and Ye Xixuan met Huo Yuhao in the Star Dou Great Forest and learned he planned to hunt a soul beast, while a hidden mental presence considered choosing one of the three. Huo Yuhao continued toward the forest and spotted a white-furred lion with golden eyes.

• Tang Ya and Ye Xixuan shared Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, and Tang Ya’s teasing embarrassed him into leaving.
• Ye Xixuan sensed Huo Yuhao’s weak soul power and persuaded Tang Ya to follow him, hoping to encounter Electrolux or the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detected the three and weighed Huo Yuhao against Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya as a potential host.
• Huo Yuhao hurried toward the Star Dou Great Forest, concealing his rank-ten soul power and resolving to become a soul master.
• Huo Yuhao used Spirit Eyes to spot a white-furred lion with brilliant golden eyes deep in the woods.

Huo Yuhao nearly died to a Golden-Eyed White Lion but was rescued by Tang Ya and Ye Xixuan, who helped him obtain his first soul ring. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to merge with Ye Xixuan, but a mysterious figure stole its origin power and drove it away, leaving the silkworm to seek another host.

• The Golden-Eyed White Lion used Mental Deterrence to immobilize Huo Yuhao and lunged to kill him.
• Tang Ya bound the lion with vines, and Ye Xixuan struck it down before it could kill Huo Yuhao.
• Tang Ya suggested the lion as Huo Yuhao's first soul ring, and Huo Yuhao killed it with the White Tiger Dagger.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged and began merging with Ye Xixuan, sealing its origin power in his Sea of Consciousness.
• A mysterious figure appeared, severed the silkworm's connection to its origin power, and entered Ye Xixuan instead.
• The weakened Sky Dream Ice Silkworm failed to enter Ye Xixuan again and flew off to seek another host rather than choose Huo Yuhao.

After the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm left, Ye Xixuan watched Huo Yuhao absorb his first soul ring and considered who the silkworm’s next target might be. Meanwhile, the silkworm lured a swarm of powerful soul beasts toward Vina’s party as it gambled on merging with her.

• Ye Xixuan wondered whether Vina was the twin-martial-soul girl the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had chosen, while Huo Yuhao began absorbing the Golden-Eyed White Lion’s soul ring.
• Ye Xixuan reassured Tang Ya that Huo Yuhao would survive the absorption, and Huo Yuhao’s aura gradually stabilized.
• Tang Ya teased Ye Xixuan about their future children and traveling together, then blushed when he suggested moving their plans forward.
• Lang Ya stopped his party of Vina and Yu Tao after sensing at least ten ten-thousand-year soul beasts approaching.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used his Million-Year Shed Husk to lure the soul beasts and create a chance to merge with Vina.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Golden-Eyed White Lion’s soul ring and became a great soul master, strengthening his resolve to avenge his mother. Tang Ya gave him the Tang Sect’s admission token for Shrek Academy, and he prepared to travel there alone.

• Tang Ya asked Ye Xixuan what kind of soul beast she should choose for her third soul ring, and he advised her to keep choosing plant-type beasts.
• Huo Yuhao finished absorbing the Golden-Eyed White Lion’s soul ring and vowed to destroy the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion in revenge for his mother.
• Tang Ya congratulated Huo Yuhao and offered him the Tang Sect’s unused admission spot at Shrek Academy.
• Tang Ya gave Huo Yuhao a Tang Sect token and told him he could sell the Golden-Eyed White Lion’s pelt to cover his enrollment fee.
• Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya headed into the Star Dou Great Forest, while Huo Yuhao set off toward Shrek City on his own.

After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, Huo Yuhao celebrated becoming a Soul Master but was judged worthless by Lang Ya and Yu Tao. Vina learned that her second martial soul could become an ultimate ice-type combat martial soul, and she asked her teacher to take her to Heaven Dou City before visiting the Far North.

• Huo Yuhao cheered over becoming a Soul Master as he headed away from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lang Ya examined Huo Yuhao and dismissed his potential, while Yu Tao agreed that the Body Sect had no reason to recruit him.
• Vina recalled that the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had transformed her snow lotus martial soul and instructed her to seek an Ice Jade Scorpion soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao checked his map and hurried toward Shrek Academy to avoid more powerful Soul Masters.
• Vina asked her teacher to return to Heaven Dou City first so she could visit the Far North.

Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya encountered a Ghost King Vine in the Star Dou Great Forest while searching for a suitable soul beast for Tang Ya. Ye Xixuan defeated its attack and restrained one of its vines, leaving the pair with a potential soul beast target.

• Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya searched the forest for a plant-type soul beast suited to Tang Ya and discussed living in seclusion someday.
• Tang Ya spotted a hundred-year Soft Bone Rabbit, but a hidden Ghost King Vine trapped and consumed it.
• Ye Xixuan identified the Ghost King Vine as an unusually young specimen with about fifteen hundred years of cultivation and said it suited Tang Ya.
• The Ghost King Vine attacked with a rain of purple light, and Ye Xixuan shielded Tang Ya with his Fallen Wings.
• Ye Xixuan cut apart the surrounding vines with Shadow-Carved Cycle and immobilized a thick vine with Heavenly Binding.

Tang Ya absorbed a thousand-year Ghost King Vine soul ring and reached Soul Elder rank, but the process awakened a sinister devouring talent within her martial soul. As Ye Xixuan protected her from an approaching ten-thousand-year soul beast, an Emperor Auspicious Beast appeared behind it.

• Tang Ya killed the thousand-year Ghost King Vine and began absorbing its purple soul ring while Ye Xixuan guarded her.
• After four hours, Tang Ya completed the absorption and advanced to Level 30, becoming a three-ring Soul Elder.
• Ye Xixuan noticed that Tang Ya's martial soul had transformed into spiked purple vines and sensed that her devouring talent had awakened.
• Tang Ya admitted she feared the evil aura of her life-devouring ability, but Ye Xixuan suddenly pulled her into his arms as a shock wave swept through the forest.
• A ten-thousand-year One-Eyed Giant charged toward them, followed by a golden, three-eyed creature that Ye Xixuan recognized as an Emperor Auspicious Beast.

Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya joined forces to kill a ten-thousand-year Light Cyclops that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had been chasing. Afterward, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion approached Ye Xixuan and took his gesture toward the corpse as an offer to share the cyclops’s brain.

• Ye Xixuan used his ultimate dark attribute to slow the Light Cyclops, then raised a black-thread cage to protect himself and Tang Ya from its charge.
• Tang Ya attacked the wounded Light Cyclops with Blood Thorn and Parasitism, draining its strength and vitality.
• Ye Xixuan restrained the Light Cyclops with Shadow Domain and killed it by piercing its eye with the Dark Demon Sword.
• Tang Ya rushed to Ye Xixuan and checked whether he was injured, while he reassured her and watched her eyes return to normal.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion approached Ye Xixuan, who pointed toward the Light Cyclops’s head, and she understood that he was offering her its brain.

Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya left the Star Dou Great Forest with a rare head soul bone, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion discovered Ye Xixuan possessed ultimate darkness and a pure light constitution. At their campsite, Ye Xixuan began absorbing the evil energy from Tang Ya’s martial soul, giving her hope that she would not become an evil soul master.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion killed the Light Cyclops and offered its ten-thousand-year head soul bone to Ye Xixuan, who took it and left with Tang Ya.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told the Scarlet King that Ye Xixuan had ultimate darkness and a light constitution purer than her own.
• The Scarlet King decided to take the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to see Di Tian so she could report what she had learned about Ye Xixuan.
• Ye Xixuan and Tang Ya left the forest and camped on a plain, where Tang Ya worried that her martial soul would make her an evil soul master and a burden to the academy.
• Ye Xixuan formed a connection with Tang Ya’s martial soul and began absorbing its evil energy, reassuring her that she would not become an evil soul master.