Chapter Summaries

Ye Qing and Bi Ji traveled to Sunset Forest, where they saw the devastation caused by the Jade Phosphorus Poison Formation. Bi Ji accepted Ye Qing as her partner after he promised to help Soul Beasts, and they prepared to enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Ye Qing reconsidered the poison barrier and decided the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well would be easy to plunder, while plotting to obtain the Snow Empress through an auction.
• Bi Ji used her spatial power to carry Ye Qing toward Sunset Forest, but he asked her to slow down when they had already passed Heaven Dou City.
• Ye Qing explained that ten thousand Jade Phosphorus Flowers had turned the forest into a lifeless Poison Formation, and Bi Ji trembled with grief at the sight of the bones.
• Ye Qing comforted Bi Ji and promised to help make the culprit pay; Bi Ji accepted him as her partner and kissed him.
• Ye Qing and Bi Ji prepared to enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for a yin-yang hot pot feast.

Ye Qing and Bi Ji reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after discovering that jade phosphorus flowers had poisoned Sunset Forest to conceal it. Ye Qing arrived at the valley’s treasure-filled bottom, where a mysterious voice welcomed him.

• Ye Qing pointed out that the Myriad Demon King might assimilate the jade phosphorus flowers, and Bi Ji agreed to leave them intact for him.
• Bi Ji carried Ye Qing past the poison formation with spatial traversal, and they descended the cliff while she drained the vitality of attacking vines.
• Ye Qing and Bi Ji reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Ye Qing recognized the aromatic silk beauty, infernal delicate apricot, and octagonal mysterious ice grass among the abundant herbs.
• Ye Qing recalled that Tang San had left a youth edition of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record there, then heard someone welcome him.

Ye Qing confronted the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, mocking them as livestock raised for slaughter while Bi Ji’s strength kept them helpless. After the herbs backed down and asked what he wanted, Ye Qing demanded that the aromatic silk beauty hand something over.

• The aromatic silk beauty welcomed Ye Qing, but he openly called the immortal herbs pigs being raised for slaughter.
• The immortal herbs awakened in anger, and the infernal delicate apricot attacked Ye Qing.
• Bi Ji effortlessly destroyed the attack and overwhelmed the herbs with her aura.
• Ye Qing taunted the herbs and dismissed their threat of divine punishment, arguing that Tang San had not protected them for ten thousand years.
• The aromatic silk beauty asked what Ye Qing wanted, and he held out his hand and told her to hand it over.

Ye Qing forced the aromatic silk beauty to hand over Tang San’s book and its Silk Beauty Pill, then studied the Mysterious Heaven Skill and used its circulation principles to complete his own cultivation method. He broke through to rank forty-nine and considered using Ice and Fire Body Tempering to strengthen his body and possibly unite his two Martial Souls.

• Ye Qing threatened the aromatic silk beauty with the Eternal Spear until it surrendered Tang San’s book and its Silk Beauty Pill.
• Ye Qing read the Mysterious Heaven Skill and found that its macrocosmic orbit was mostly complete, despite missing the section on the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
• Ye Qing used the book’s circulation principles with his own Meditation Method, putting his opened hidden meridians to use and breaking through from rank forty-eight to rank forty-nine.
• Ye Qing considered using Ice and Fire Body Tempering to open more meridians, strengthen his physique, and potentially fuse his light and dark Martial Souls.

Ye Qing harvested the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s immortal herbs and precious medicinal ingredients, then used Blazing Gel and Cold Ice Jade Dew to begin Ice and Fire Body Tempering. He left the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum alive for a future Soul Ring and ended the chapter after swallowing the two potent essences.

• Ye Qing finished studying the herb catalog, copied its contents, and returned the original book.
• The octagonal mysterious ice grass gave Ye Qing its Cold Ice Jade Dew, and the infernal delicate apricot surrendered its Blazing Gel.
• Ye Qing harvested or collected the essences of several immortal herbs, gave the earth dragon golden melon to Bi Ji for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and ignored the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Ye Qing ordered the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum to sacrifice itself as his Soul Ring while leaving seeds to regrow, and it agreed rather than face death.
• Ye Qing filled his Soul Tool with medicinal treasures, then swallowed the Blazing Gel and Cold Ice Jade Dew to begin Ice and Fire Body Tempering.

Ye Qing used Blazing Gel and Cold Ice Jade Dew to temper his body in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, triggering the complete fusion of his Martial Soul’s holy and evil aspects. He awakened the Sacred Evil Divine Domain and new innate talents, and emerged with his Soul Power at level fifty but without a fifth Soul Ring.

• Ye Qing absorbed the powers of Blazing Gel and Cold Ice Jade Dew in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, using its opposing energies to aid his body tempering.
• Ye Qing’s Sacred Radiance Heavenly God Tiger fused its holy and evil aspects into a single golden tiger with black markings, eliminating the need to switch between forms.
• Ye Qing awakened the Sacred Evil Divine Domain, which could be divided into the Evil God Domain or Sacred Radiance Divine Domain and could revive or devour lives that perished within it.
• Ye Qing’s Ultimate Light and Ultimate Darkness talents remained, while Evil Possession, God Descends to the World transformed into Holy · Judgment and Evil · Corruption.
• Ye Qing absorbed most of the herbs’ medicinal power, reached Soul Power Level fifty, and completed his Martial Soul fusion without yet obtaining a fifth Soul Ring.

Ye Qing completed Ice and Fire Body Tempering and absorbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum as his fifth soul ring, breaking through to Soul King with a golden body without leaks. He left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well far stronger, but worried that his transformation would be difficult to hide at Shrek.

• Ye Qing emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with ice and fire immunity, poison immunity, and greatly increased physical strength.
• Ye Qing asked the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to sacrifice itself and condense its soul bone in his left leg.
• The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum sacrificed itself, granting Ye Qing a hundred-and-sixty-thousand-year soul ring, a left leg bone, and its immortal herb essence, while a seed remained behind to await revival.
• The immortal herb essence opened Ye Qing's Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and he broke through the level-fifty bottleneck to reach level fifty-five.
• Ye Qing displayed five soul rings, including a blood-red ring with a golden marking, and wondered how he would conceal his new strength at Shrek.

Ye Qing used Golden Body Without Leaks to conceal his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and higher cultivation, then consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to strengthen his spiritual power. With his disguise now seamless even to Bi Ji, he left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with her.

• Ye Qing suppressed his aura, Soul Power, and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to disguise himself as a level-forty-six Soul Master, but Bi Ji warned that powerful experts could still sense the hidden threat.
• Bi Ji advised Ye Qing to strengthen and restrain his spiritual power, so he took the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• The dew expanded Ye Qing's Sea of Consciousness and raised his spiritual power to the Boundless Vast Sea realm.
• Bi Ji could no longer detect any flaws in Ye Qing's disguise, and he departed with her.
• After Ye Qing and Bi Ji left, the immortal herbs complained that they had acted like bandits.

Ye Qing traveled to Nine Treasures City to sell a nine-grade purple ganoderma and primordial magnetic thunder gold to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. After the sect verified both items and recognized the powerful protector hidden nearby, Sect Master Ning Jingxuan accepted Ye Qing’s hundred-million-gold-soul-coin asking price.

• Ye Qing decided to visit the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and prepared a nine-grade purple ganoderma and forty kilograms of primordial magnetic thunder gold for sale.
• Ye Qing and Bi Ji arrived in Nine Treasures City, and Ye Qing presented the treasures to a supervisor at the Nine Treasures Trade Association.
• The supervisor authenticated both items and summoned Sect Master Ning Jingxuan and Guardian Douluo Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao sensed Bi Ji’s concealed power and warned Ning Jingxuan that he was no match for her.
• Ning Jingxuan agreed to buy Ye Qing’s treasures for one hundred million gold soul coins without bargaining.

After trading with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Ye Qing took Bi Ji sightseeing while reviewing his gains and then returned to Shrek Academy to cultivate. He reached rank fifty-six after five months, but his Ultimate Attributes made cultivation slow, and he remained cautious about absorbing the Spirit Carving Knife or devouring Soul Beasts.

• Ye Qing left Nine Treasures City with a total of one hundred and forty million and checked that his Wings of Light, Qing Xi, and Light-Breaking Soul Bone had grown stronger.
• Ye Qing asked Bi Ji where she wanted to go, but she could not think of anywhere, so he took her to human cities to eat, stroll, and date.
• Ye Qing returned to Shrek Academy shortly before the third-year registration deadline and resumed cultivation, deciding that the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave was still too dangerous for him.
• Ye Qing advanced to rank fifty-six after five months of cultivation and lamented that his Ultimate Attributes slowed his progress despite his treasures.
• Ye Qing avoided fusing the Spirit Carving Knife into himself or devouring Soul Beasts, while Mu En remained unaware of Ye Qing's true cultivation.

Ye Qing endured his Martial Soul’s influence and continued cultivating while Bei Bei’s slow progress disappointed Mu En and left Bei Bei devastated. Ye Qing reached Level 57.5 and later reunited with Xu Jiujiu in Star Luo City, where he avoided becoming her prince consort.

• Ye Qing resolved to resist his Martial Soul’s instincts and keep his own principles despite the difficulty of cultivating.
• At the end of their third year, Bei Bei reached Level 40 and asked Mu En to assess his ability to absorb a fourth Soul Ring.
• Mu En found that Bei Bei lacked the spiritual strength for a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and told him he could only absorb one of nine thousand years.
• Bei Bei broke down over Mu En’s disappointment, then obtained a 9,300-year Soul Ring from a Raging Thunder Dragon Beast with Yan Shaozhe’s help.
• Ye Qing continued focused cultivation and raised his Soul Power from Level 55 to Level 57.5, while offering no comment on Bei Bei’s failure.
• Ye Qing visited Xu Jiujiu in Star Luo City under the alias Ye Xuan and resisted consummating their relationship because he feared being kept there as her prince consort.

Ye Qing learned why Soul Masters generally had to wait for a bottleneck before absorbing a Soul Ring, then considered using the Golden Hawksbill Turtle’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone to help Zhang Lexuan. He left planning to kill the turtle, claim its Gold of Life, and arrange for Zhang Lexuan to absorb its treasures.

• Ye Qing wondered why Zhang Lexuan had not mentioned a Soul Hunt and asked Mu En whether Soul Masters could absorb Soul Rings before reaching a bottleneck.
• Mu En explained that absorbing a Soul Ring without an empty slot could shatter a Soul Master’s Martial Soul, while forcing one early caused dangerous, violent Soul Power and long recovery.
• Ye Qing realized Zhang Lexuan could use a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone and Soul Ring to reach level eighty, though the risky process could leave her crippled or bedridden.
• Ye Qing decided to kill the Golden Hawksbill Turtle and give its Gold of Life to Bi Ji, leaving its Soul Ring and Soul Bone for Zhang Lexuan.
• Ye Qing considered whether Zhang Lexuan might become his if he gave her the turtle’s Hundred-Thousand-Year treasures.

Ye Qing joined Zhang Lexuan’s Inner Court team on a Soul Hunting trip after persuading Xuan Zi to let him come along. The group reached the outskirts of Star Dou Great Forest and prepared to enter the next day, while Ye Qing kept his strength concealed.

• Ye Qing returned to Shrek and found Zhang Lexuan preparing to lead eight Inner Court disciples on a Soul Hunting trip.
• Ye Qing asked to join them, and Zhang Lexuan explained that his fifth Soul Ring required a powerful Light Attribute Soul Beast the team might not be able to defeat.
• Xuan Zi agreed to bring Ye Qing along, and Ye Qing introduced himself to the team as a level-fifty third-year Outer Court student seeking his fifth Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan arranged the group’s travel formation, placing Ye Qing with the support members in the protected middle.
• The team reached the outskirts of Star Dou Great Forest before sunset, and Zhang Lexuan told everyone to rest and set off the next day.

Ye Qing joined Zhang Lexuan and the Shrek Inner Court disciples on their journey into the Star Dou Great Forest, cooking an impressive final camp dinner before helping the party travel safely. After several days, two disciples had obtained Soul Rings, and Bi Ji warned Ye Qing that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was approaching on a course that would intersect theirs.

• Ye Qing built a fire pit and cooked a lavish dinner for Zhang Lexuan and the party, drawing praise from the group and Xuan Zi.
• Zhang Lexuan led the party into the Star Dou Great Forest and assigned the disciples their positions while Ye Qing volunteered to scout ahead.
• Ye Qing and Bi Ji helped the party avoid dangerous Soul Beasts, and Ming Jing and Mo Lang obtained Soul Rings.
• Ye Qing learned that Xuan Zi had again gone out of contact and criticized him for neglecting the party.
• Bi Ji warned Ye Qing that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was approaching from ahead and would cross their path.

Ye Qing staged a deadly encounter with a hundred-thousand-year Bloodshadow Ghost Fox to make Zhang Lexuan believe he had sacrificed himself for her. After saving her and buying time for the others to escape, he left them watching the battle disappear into the distance.

• Ye Qing and Bi Ji sensed a hundred-thousand-year soul beast approaching, and Ye Qing returned to the Shrek group while Bi Ji prepared to control it.
• Ye Qing warned Zhang Lexuan and the others that the Bloodshadow Ghost Fox was coming, and it wounded Zhou Lu before Bi Ji made it obey her.
• Ye Qing shielded Zhang Lexuan from the fox's next attack, then told the group they needed to flee while someone held the beast back.
• Ye Qing charged the Bloodshadow Ghost Fox and urged Zhang Lexuan to live, while the others led her away, believing he had sacrificed himself.

Zhang Lexuan led the students away while Ye Qing staged a battle with the Bloodshadow Ghost Fox to keep them safe, then deliberately revealed his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to alert Xuan Zi. Xuan Zi intercepted the group too late and hurried toward Ye Qing with them, burdened by their silent condemnation.

• Zhang Lexuan chose to escort the students out of the Star Dou Great Forest, promising to return for Ye Qing after they were safe.
• After Zhang Lexuan's group left, Ye Qing ended his staged fight with the Bloodshadow Ghost Fox and explained that he had helped it avoid Taotie Douluo; Bi Ji thanked the beast and sent it back to the Core Zone.
• Ye Qing released the aura of his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, waking the drunken Xuan Zi, who panicked about the students and rushed toward the signal.
• Xuan Zi intercepted Zhang Lexuan and the others near the outer zone after Ming Jing told him Ye Qing had lured away the Bloodshadow Ghost Fox to save them.
• Zhang Lexuan tried to fly back for Ye Qing, but Xuan Zi stopped her and carried the group toward him; the students silently blamed Xuan Zi for arriving late, and he apologized.

After the Star Dou Great Forest disaster, Ye Qing pretended to finish absorbing the Bloodshadow Ghost Fox’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then returned to Shrek with the survivors. Zhang Lexuan clung to him and asked him not to face danger alone again, while a Sea God Pavilion meeting began to address Xuan Zi’s failure and Ye Qing’s supposed new powers.

• Xuan Zi found Ye Qing alive and apparently absorbing the Bloodshadow Ghost Fox’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, while Ye Qing and Bi Ji maintained the illusion until he pretended to break through to level 54.
• Zhang Lexuan rushed into Ye Qing’s arms, and Ye Qing questioned Xuan Zi for leaving the group exposed to the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast; Xuan Zi admitted fault and said he would accept punishment.
• Xuan Zi flew the survivors back to Shrek, where he took the badly injured Zhou Lu to Elder Zhuang for treatment and the other Inner Court disciples went their separate ways.
• Ye Qing and Zhang Lexuan sat beside Sea God Lake, where she asked him not to leave her to face danger alone again, and they kissed beneath the sunset.
• After Elder Zhuang treated Zhou Lu, the Sea God Pavilion convened a meeting about the incident and Ye Qing’s supposed hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone; Mu En asked Xuan Zi to explain why they had gathered.

After Xuan Zi revealed that Ye Qing had gained a hundred-thousand-year fifth Soul Ring, the Sea God Pavilion granted Ye Qing major privileges and prepared him to succeed Mu En. Ye Qing moved into private quarters as fourth year began, while Xuan Zi received severe punishment for abandoning the students.

• Xuan Zi confessed that he had left the students alone in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ye Qing killed a hundred-thousand-year Bloodshadow Ghost Fox and gained his fifth Soul Ring.
• Mu En and the Senior Elders marveled at Ye Qing's strength, and Mu En declared that Ye Qing would lead Shrek to new heights.
• The Sea God Pavilion granted Ye Qing unrestricted cultivation and library access, future membership, and the right to succeed Mu En as Pavilion Master upon reaching nine rings.
• Ye Feng told Ye Qing about his new privileges, and Ye Qing learned he could move into private quarters and stop eating in the cafeteria.
• Mu En banned Xuan Zi from drinking for five years and ordered him to hunt Soul Rings for two students; Xuan Zi completed the task and withdrew into seclusion.
• Ye Qing moved into a detached villa and received a private room in the Sea God Pavilion as the fourth year began.

Ye Qing spent another year cultivating freely at Shrek, learned Mu En’s Sovereign’s Descent and adapted its techniques to his own abilities. After reaching rank sixty and becoming overwhelmingly strong, he wondered whether to obtain his sixth soul ring.

• Mu En trusted Ye Qing’s account of killing the Bloodshadow Ghost Fox and decided he needed no formal training beyond lessons in Sovereign’s Descent.
• Ye Qing continued cultivating, studying only the classes that interested him, and spending time with Zhang Lexuan; Bi Ji served as his body pillow after exhausting training sessions.
• Over the next year, Ye Qing reached rank sixty, mastered Sovereign’s Descent, and incorporated it into his soul skills, including a tiger-form version of Mu En’s signature technique.
• Ye Qing’s Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum soul ring and soul bone gave him four powerful skills, though he had not yet needed to use them in battle.
• Ye Qing defeated Zhang Lexuan in all three of their spars, while Shrek’s Senior Elders looked forward to his debut at the tournament two years later.
• Facing the rank-sixty bottleneck, Ye Qing wondered whether he should go obtain a soul ring.

Ye Qing planned to intercept Electrolux and later obtain the Snow Empress Embryo, while a Level 9 Soul Engineer captured the Snow Empress during her transformation and carried her away. After the holidays began, Ye Qing traveled to Star Luo City to meet Princess Jiujiu and investigate the embryo.

• Ye Qing decided to stake out the place where Huo Yuhao would meet Bei Bei and the others so he could seize Electrolux.
• The Snow Empress used an immortal-grade Snow Lotus to seal her origin and begin transforming into a human.
• On the final day of the transformation, a Level 9 Soul Engineer trapped the Snow Empress in a God-Sealing Platform and planned to sell her embryo in the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Ye Qing left Shrek City during the holidays and traveled to Star Luo City to meet Princess Jiujiu, investigate whether the Snow Empress Embryo had arrived, and prepare to buy it.