Chapter Summaries

Ye Qing confronted Ma Xiaotao over her temper, then took her underwater to draw out and suppress her evil fire. He restrained her and began treating her with Holy Light Healing enhanced by additional effects.

• Ma Xiaotao reluctantly called Ye Qing her junior martial uncle after Yan Shaozhe warned her with a look.
• Ye Qing mocked Ma Xiaotao for excusing her temper, prompting her to erupt in anger.
• Ye Qing stunned Ma Xiaotao, carried her through a window, and crashed with her into Sea God Lake.
• Underwater, Ye Qing pinned Ma Xiaotao against a rock and bound her with rings of light while Mu En watched secretly.
• Ye Qing used Holy Light Healing on Ma Xiaotao and added Sacred: Judgment and Evil: Corruption to the treatment.

Ye Qing treated Ma Xiaotao beneath Sea God Lake, purifying most of her accumulated evil fire while secretly using Corruption to make her submissive to him. He brought her back to the Sea God Pavilion, where Yan Shaozhe anxiously asked whether the treatment had worked.

• Yan Shaozhe went to Mu En in frustration, and Mu En ordered him to step down as dean after Ye Qing and Zhang Lexuan had grown and enter seclusion until he passed a test.
• Ye Qing used Judgment and Holy Light Healing to clear Ma Xiaotao's accumulated evil fire and treat her injuries, while Corruption secretly instilled awe and submission toward him.
• Ye Qing left some evil energy in Ma Xiaotao's martial soul origin so her cultivation would not plummet and planned to continue treating her gradually.
• Ye Qing carried the peaceful, unconscious Ma Xiaotao out of the lake and flew to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Yan Shaozhe saw Ye Qing arrive and urgently asked whether the treatment had worked.

Ye Qing successfully suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire, though she would need regular treatments for several years. He then went with Zhang Lexuan to register with Cai Mei'er as an Inner Court disciple and collect his uniform and badge.

• Ye Qing told Yan Shaozhe that treating Ma Xiaotao had worked, but she would need treatment every month or two for two or three years.
• Yan Shaozhe thanked Ye Qing and promised him a generous gift, then Ye Qing carried Ma Xiaotao back to her dormitory.
• Mu En wondered about the sacred aura Ye Qing had displayed while treating Ma Xiaotao, but could not determine its origin.
• Ye Qing told Zhang Lexuan that Ma Xiaotao was no longer in immediate danger, and Zhang Lexuan said Dean Cai had asked him to register for the Inner Court.
• Ye Qing and Zhang Lexuan went to the Inner Court offices so Ye Qing could meet Cai Mei'er and collect his uniform and badge.

Ye Qing entered Shrek Academy’s Inner Court and received his Inspection Corps gear from Cai Mei'er. Cai Mei'er explained that the upcoming Soul Fighting Tournament would reshape the Inner Court’s plans, and Ye Qing was expected to join the team selections in three months.

• Ye Qing and Zhang Lexuan met Cai Mei'er in the dean’s office, where she welcomed Ye Qing to the Inner Court.
• Cai Mei'er gave Ye Qing his Inspection Corps ring and equipment, and Ye Qing bound the ring with his blood.
• Cai Mei'er told Ye Qing that he would not need to take Inspection Corps missions because the Inner Court was preparing for next year’s Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Cai Mei'er explained that Ye Qing’s ability to resolve Xiaotao’s Evil Fire problem had changed the team lineup, and eligible students would compete in selections beginning in three months.
• Cai Mei'er named Ling Luochеn and Yao Haoxuan as promising Outer Court recruits and asked Ye Qing whether he could reach Soul Emperor before the tournament.

Ye Qing agreed to Dean Cai’s challenge to reach level fifty-nine before the tournament, with Zhang Lexuan promised as the team’s accompanying teacher if he succeeded. After more than eighty days of meditation, he devised a possible path for managing his many attributes by transforming them into yin and yang and forming a Yin-Yang Soul Core, but decided not to test it inside the Golden Tree.

• Dean Cai challenged Ye Qing to reach level fifty-nine before the tournament and offered to send Zhang Lexuan with the team if he succeeded.
• Ye Qing left the dean’s office and spent more than eighty days in Deep Meditation at the Golden Tree, studying his powers and considering his future path.
• Ye Qing struggled to combine his six Ultimate Attributes, three special attributes, and undeveloped Wind Attribute, but noticed a balance between opposing forces.
• Ye Qing gathered divinity, evil, light, and darkness into a vortex, then stopped when he realized his experiment might disturb Tang San’s divine consciousness and Ah Yin’s sleeping soul.
• Ye Qing proposed forming a Yin-Yang Soul Core to compress his differing powers into yin and yang, and resolved to try the idea elsewhere.

Ye Qing gathered the Snow Empress, Bi Ji, the Ice Empress, and the newly awakened Electrolux to discuss his plan to condense a Yin-Yang Soul Core in the Far North. He proposed using the Ice Empress’s sacrifice to bring the Snow Empress’s power to its ultimate and create balance through opposing elements, while Electrolux listened with interest.

• Ye Qing left seclusion and decided to pursue Soul Core condensation in the Far North, relying on the gold of life and Bi Ji to protect him.
• Ye Qing summoned the Snow Empress, Bi Ji, and the Ice Empress to his Sea of Consciousness and used the gold of life to awaken Electrolux.
• Electrolux formed a faint gray-black figure, met Ye Qing, and remained wary while agreeing to hear what help Ye Qing needed.
• Ye Qing explained that he wanted the Ice Empress to sacrifice herself so the Snow Empress’s power could reach the ultimate of ice.
• Ye Qing proposed turning Ultimate Ice into Ultimate Fire and using the opposition between elements and other powers to balance and condense a Yin-Yang Soul Core.

Ye Qing awakened Electrolux to help fuse the Gold of Life and advise him on condensing yin-yang Soul Cores. After Electrolux pointed out that the Far North lacked balanced ice and fire, Ye Qing headed to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Immortal Herbs recognized him and the aromatic silk beauty screamed at his return.

• Electrolux admitted that his damaged divine consciousness had left him unable to remember how to help with Ye Qing's cultivation problem.
• Ye Qing asked Electrolux to help fuse the Gold of Life, and Electrolux agreed, noting that it could also help restore his consciousness.
• Electrolux advised Ye Qing to find a place with balanced ice and fire attributes for his yin-yang Soul Cores.
• Ye Qing changed course from the Far North and flew to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
• The Immortal Herbs woke at Ye Qing's arrival, and the aromatic silk beauty cried out that the walking disaster was back.

Ye Qing intimidated the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then began merging with the Gold of Life under Electrolux’s guidance. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao learned about Ye Qing’s infamous reputation at Shrek Academy, and Wang Dong joined the Fiend Must Be Slain List.

• Ye Qing frightened the Aromatic Silk Beauty into apologizing, then assured the immortal herbs he had not come to eat them.
• Ye Qing brought the Ice and Snow Empresses, Bi Ji, and Electrolux to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and prepared to merge with the Gold of Life.
• Electrolux drew out the Gold of Life’s vitality, and Ye Qing used the Spirit Carving Knife to begin transforming his body with it.
• At Shrek Academy’s Outer Court, Huo Yuhao heard about Ye Qing’s reputation and the Fiend Must Be Slain List.
• Wang Dong became the list’s fourth entry.

While Ye Qing traveled away from Shrek, Huo Yuhao became a core disciple and the academy finalized its Soul Fighting Tournament team without Ye Qing. Meanwhile, Ye Qing completed his fusion with the gold of life, gaining the Eye of Life and a second sea of consciousness.

• Wang Dong lamented her fourth-place ranking, while Zhou Yi’s harsh teaching earned her complaints and a demotion before she became Huo Yuhao’s teacher.
• Yan Shaozhe added Huo Yuhao to the core disciple list after the freshman assessment, giving him a place outright instead of a trial pass.
• Ma Xiaotao found Ye Qing’s note saying he had gone traveling, leaving Yan Shaozhe worried about his absence from the tournament selection.
• Shrek finalized its seven-person tournament team with Ma Xiaotao as captain and Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo as accompanying teachers, while Xuan Zi remained its protector.
• Ye Qing completed his fusion with the gold of life, turning the Spirit Carving Knife into the Eye of Life and opening a second sea of consciousness.

Ye Qing finished merging with the Gold of Life, which greatly strengthened his body and restored Electrolux and the Snow Empress. He tested his newfound toughness against the Ice Empress and withstood her seventy-percent-strength punch, leaving her astonished.

• Bi Ji absorbed the vitality released during Ye Qing's merger with the Gold of Life and gained several thousand years of cultivation.
• Electrolux explained Gold of Life's immense vitality, while the Snow Empress said it had restored and strengthened her soul.
• Electrolux moved into the Eye of Life between Ye Qing's brows, and Ye Qing revealed he could hear the others' conversation.
• Ye Qing asked the Ice Empress to test his physical toughness, and he stopped her punch at thirty-percent strength without moving.
• The Ice Empress struck Ye Qing with seventy-percent strength, forcing him back three steps but leaving him unharmed, and called him an absolute beast.

Ye Qing and the Ice Empress began her sacrifice so he could use her ice power to balance the Ice and Fire Spring Water and fuse a Yin-Yang Soul Core in his chest. The soul ring finished condensing with four golden markings as Ye Qing and the Ice Empress continued the fusion.

• The Ice Empress tested Ye Qing's strength and recognized him as a remarkable human, while the Snow Empress reacted awkwardly to her praise.
• Ye Qing, Electrolux, Bi Ji, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress spent a week developing a preliminary method to fuse the Yin-Yang Soul Core.
• Electrolux advised Ye Qing to have the Ice Empress sacrifice herself, then enter the Ice and Fire Spring Water to balance his ice and fire attributes before adding his other attributes.
• Ye Qing chose to condense the Ice Empress's soul bone into an external soul bone linked to the Snow Empress's torso bone rather than absorb it normally.
• The Ice Empress began her sacrifice, and Ye Qing jumped into the Ice and Fire Spring Water with her to begin the fusion.
• The Ice Empress's blood-colored soul ring solidified around her as she faded, and four golden markings appeared on the ring.

Ye Qing absorbed the Ice Empress’s sacrifice, transforming the power of extreme ice into Ultimate Fire and balancing ice and fire within himself. After three months, his soul bones had fused and grown stronger, and he was left with a Soul Core Embryo in his chest.

• Ye Qing stopped the Ice Empress from drawing too much power from the Ice Spring and began merging her Soul Ring and External Soul Bone into his body.
• Ye Qing fused the Secret Art Soul Bone with the Ice Empress Scorpion Tail as his Ultimate Ice awakened Ultimate Fire within him.
• Ye Qing used the resonance between his body’s miniature Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the larger well to strengthen Ultimate Fire and balance it against his ice power.
• Over three months, the Ice Empress’s sacrifice ended, and Ye Qing’s Soul Power rose from Level Sixty-Three to level sixty-eight.
• The Ice Empress Scorpion Tail fused with the Snow Empress’s torso bone and the Holy Light Eight Wings, which reached the hundred-thousand-year level and became the Holy Eight Wings.
• Ye Qing’s balanced ice and fire power formed a Soul Core Embryo in his chest, keeping his Soul Power at level sixty-eight.

Ye Qing used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the Ice and Snow Empresses’ power to nearly complete an Ice-Fire Soul Core Embryo, then began adding Holy-Evil, Light-Dark, and Wind-Thunder powers. After months of careful infusion and repeated failures with Wind-Thunder Power, he found a method that made it merge with the embryo and trigger a qualitative transformation.

• Ye Qing formed a 90%-complete Ice-Fire Soul Core Embryo in his middle dantian by drawing on the Ice and Snow Empresses’ power and resonating with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ye Qing infused balanced Holy-Evil Power into the embryo until its red, blue, blood-red, and white powers merged.
• Ye Qing added Light-Dark Power over several months, then nearly destabilized the soul power vortex when he tried to infuse Wind-Thunder Power in the same way.
• Electrolux advised Ye Qing to work with wind and thunder’s different characteristics, and Ye Qing tested methods until he learned to attach thunder to the vortex and use wind to nurture the process.
• Ye Qing’s growing Wind-Thunder infusion unified with the Soul Core Embryo and caused it to undergo a qualitative transformation.

Ye Qing successfully condensed the first Yin-Yang Attribute Soul Core, gaining the power to transform his Soul Power into attributes including life and destruction. He considered the Soul Core’s abilities and planned to use a divine pill made from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s resources to help him break through Level 100.

• Ye Qing condensed a black-and-white Yin-Yang Soul Core, transforming his Soul Power and making the Yin-Yang Attribute unique to him.
• Ye Qing tested the Soul Core by producing Ultimate Metal and Ultimate Earth, then simulated life and destruction.
• Ye Qing reasoned that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ divine power concealed his new attributes from the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction.
• Ye Qing determined that the Soul Core could transform attributes and decompose and reshape matter, letting him counter other attributes and combine materials.
• Ye Qing planned to collect the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s resources after Huo Yuhao took the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and refine a divine pill to aid his breakthrough beyond Level 99.

After forming his Yin-Yang Soul Core, Ye Qing reached level seventy and returned to Shrek Academy after nearly seven months away. Mu En teleported him to the dormitory and was stunned by how much energy it took to move him.

• Ye Qing realized his Soul Core made him nearly impossible to kill beneath Limit Douluo, and decided to seek a Soul Beast of at least three hundred thousand years for his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Bi Ji told Ye Qing that he had spent almost seven months in seclusion, so he rushed back to Shrek Academy.
• The Sea God Pavilion elders grew increasingly worried and irritated after Ye Qing disappeared for more than half a year without sending word.
• Mu En sensed Ye Qing at the academy gate and teleported him to the dormitory, where he was surprised that moving Ye Qing took more energy than moving Yan Shaozhe.

Ye Qing explained his unexplained absence to Mu En by presenting an eight-petal immortal orchid and arguing that Soul Tools deserved serious study. Mu En was impressed by Ye Qing’s perspective, while Ye Qing prepared to tell him what he had discovered in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Mu En demanded to know why Ye Qing had left without telling anyone, and Ye Qing asked to speak privately in the Sea God Pavilion.
• Ye Qing opened a jade box and showed Mu En an eight-petal immortal orchid, whose fragrance eased Mu En’s pain.
• Ye Qing said he had traveled to the Sun Moon Empire to learn about Soul Tools and prepare for next year’s Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Ye Qing argued that Soul Tools were practical tools for Soul Masters, and Mu En recognized how far his disciple’s thinking reached.
• Ye Qing began to explain that he had accidentally wandered into a certain place in the Sun Moon Empire, and Mu En leaned in to hear more.

Ye Qing told Mu En that he had found an Otherworldly Space called Qiankun Asking Love Valley, where he received two Immortal Herbs, and left the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid with the Sea God Pavilion. Mu En resisted the temptation to give it to Bei Bei, but others at Shrek might argue that the herb should go to someone who could benefit more from it.

• Ye Qing described the strange Otherworldly Space, its lake that showed Zhang Lexuan's face, and the voice that asked whether he had a lover.
• Ye Qing said the voice sent him out and gave him an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and a Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, which he had already consumed.
• Ye Qing left the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid with Mu En and hurried off to see Zhang Lexuan.
• Mu En considered giving the herb to Bei Bei, but decided that favoring his descendant would violate his principles.
• Mu En hesitated over what should happen to the herb, while others might seek to give it to a Soul Master who could gain more from it.

After returning from seclusion with his Yin-Yang Soul Core condensed, Ye Qing visited the Soul Fighting Zone to find Zhang Lexuan and reunited with her and Ma Xiaotao. Ma Xiaotao reminded him that her worsening Evil Fire needed his treatment, leaving Zhang Lexuan watching her departure with narrowed eyes.

• Ye Qing reflected on his increased strength and decided he could take time to explore his new power and rest.
• Ye Qing went to Zhang Lexuan's residence, found her absent, and headed to the Soul Fighting Zone.
• A guard confirmed Zhang Lexuan was inside, then went to notify her that Ye Qing had arrived.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao came out to meet Ye Qing, who embraced Zhang Lexuan after nearly ten months apart.
• Ma Xiaotao teased Ye Qing about her worsening Evil Fire and left, while Zhang Lexuan watched her suspiciously.

After returning from six months of secluded cultivation, Ye Qing spent the afternoon receiving Zhang Lexuan’s affection before discussing the upcoming Soul Fighting Tournament with her. As they headed back, Ma Xiaotao waited beneath a streetlamp and blocked their way.

• Zhang Lexuan noticed Ma Xiaotao’s interest in Ye Qing and quietly embraced him, telling him she had missed him.
• Ye Qing walked with Zhang Lexuan and enjoyed her comforting attention until sunset.
• Ye Qing told Zhang Lexuan he wanted to relax for a few days before applying to join the tournament’s main team.
• Zhang Lexuan explained the tournament rules while she and Ye Qing ate together, and Ye Qing considered how to conserve his effort while gaining a reputation.
• Ye Qing and Zhang Lexuan set off back together and found Ma Xiaotao waiting beneath a streetlamp.

Ye Qing discovered that Ma Xiaotao’s incomplete transformation into his Chángguǐ had turned her submission into an intense dependence, while her Evil Fire was flaring up again. After purifying it and continuing the transformation overnight, he left her asleep and sat alone on a branch of the Golden Tree.

• Ye Qing explained to Zhang Lexuan that Ma Xiaotao had sought him out because her Evil Fire was becoming uncontrollable, and Zhang Lexuan let him help her.
• Ye Qing reasoned that Ma Xiaotao’s conversion had been interrupted and that her Evil Fire might have changed her obedience into dependence on him.
• Ye Qing ordered Ma Xiaotao to call him Daddy, and she obeyed before blushing and giving him a brooding look.
• Ye Qing brought Ma Xiaotao to his dormitory, gradually purified her Evil Fire, and continued using his Corruption talent on her through the night.
• Ye Qing returned Ma Xiaotao to her dormitory after she fell asleep, then sat alone on a Golden Tree branch and pondered.