Chapter Summaries

Xue Xin welcomed Shrek elder Song Yunzhi to Di'ao Academy, where she sought help lifting the Ice Seal on Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul. He warned that the decision rested with the Heaven Dou Empire and urged Shrek to handle Ma Xiaotao’s dangerous Evil Fire carefully, leaving Song to promise the academy would address it.

• Xue Xin supervised the reconstruction of the Dean’s Tower before remembering that Song Yunzhi was waiting in the academic affairs office.
• Su Tong told Song Yunzhi that she could not undo Ma Xiaotao’s Ice Seal and argued that the seal could help Ma Xiaotao control her Evil Fire.
• Song Yunzhi considered Su Tong’s advice while Ma Xiaotao struggled between it and Yan Shaozhe’s belief that battle would help her Martial Soul evolve.
• Xue Xin gave Song Yunzhi Ma Xiaotao’s file and warned that the empire expected Shrek to manage her special Martial Soul cautiously.
• Song Yunzhi promised Xue Xin that Shrek Academy would properly handle Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire.

Xue Xin explained why the Heaven Dou Empire distrusted Shrek Academy and planned to use Ma Xiaotao’s situation to test whether Shrek would heed the empire’s warnings. He left Su Tong with the view that Shrek’s next choice would determine the empire’s future relationship with the academy.

• Xue Xin and Su Tong discussed whether Shrek would heed their warning about Ma Xiaotao, and Xue Xin predicted that Shrek’s hawkish elders might use the Golden Tree to unseal her martial soul.
• Xue Xin explained that Shrek had once intervened in an imperial noble case to avenge Zhang Lexuan, killing the nobles involved and angering the Heavenly Soul Royal Family.
• Xue Xin told Su Tong that Mu En had wanted Zhang Lexuan to marry Bei Bei and suspected that he had arranged Bei Bei’s entry into the Tang Sect to obtain the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Su Tong recognized that the empire was using Ma Xiaotao’s situation to test Shrek, and Xue Xin said Shrek’s decision would determine whether the empire reassessed their relationship.
• Xue Xin urged Su Tong to remember that coercion was foolish and that the empire had given Shrek a choice.

Tang Ya visited the Azure Dragon Manor and learned that the Heaven Dou Empire was willing to help rebuild the Tang Sect, but only if it severed ties with Shrek. She refused because Bei Bei was the last family she had, and Long Aotian left her to consider the offer before the empire’s terms became less generous.

• Tang Ya stood outside the Azure Dragon Manor, reflecting on Huo Yuhao’s rise and the loss of the Tang Sect’s former grounds.
• Long Aotian found Tang Ya and explained that the empire had imprisoned the Iron Blood Sect’s leaders and could allocate new land for the Tang Sect.
• Long Aotian said the empire would support the Tang Sect only if it cut all ties with Shrek.
• Tang Ya refused to abandon Bei Bei, whom she called her last family.
• Long Aotian challenged Tang Ya’s choice and warned that the empire’s offer would become less generous after the Soul Master Tournament, then left her outside the manor.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated new Soul Tool designs at the Mind-Soul Forging Research Institute and explained how the Heaven Dou Empire had reorganized production to increase efficiency. He aimed to develop Life Metal, while privately considering whether it could be turned into genuine Metal Life.

• Long Aotian returned from talks with Tang Ya and told Huo Yuhao that she still hesitated to leave Shrek behind.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated a modified Godly Zhuge Crossbow whose bolts tracked targets, but said its costly materials and manual engraving made mass production impossible.
• Huo Yuhao explained the institute's five specialized departments and said Gu Tong and he were being trained as all-round Soul Engineers.
• Huo Yuhao unveiled the Wrath of the Firmament, a powerful lightning-and-fire Soul Tool that relied on a rare dual-attribute Soul Bone and could not be mass-produced.
• Huo Yuhao said the empire's goal was Life Metal, while privately wondering whether Talisman Puppet methods and Electrolux's spells could create genuine Metal Life.

Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian discussed evidence suggesting that He Caitou might be Xu He, the vanished crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire’s previous dynasty. The Heaven Dou Empire began investigating He Caitou’s past and planned to expose his identity at the Soul Master Tournament if the suspicions were confirmed.

• Huo Yuhao asked Long Aotian about the Sisters Lan, and Long Aotian explained that they had told him about Fan Yu’s classes and He Caitou.
• Long Aotian described He Caitou’s mysterious past, his indifference toward the Heaven Dou Empire, and his unusual reaction to reports about the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian connected He Caitou’s age, dark skin, cigar martial soul, and talent to the former crown prince Xu He.
• Long Aotian said the Heaven Dou Enforcement Team and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect were investigating He Caitou’s claimed hometown, family, and school records.
• Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian agreed that evidence of a false identity would be serious, and Long Aotian said the empire planned to expose He Caitou at the Soul Master Tournament.

Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian discussed how He Caitou’s possible identity as the former Sun Moon crown prince could destabilize the Sun Moon Empire and damage Shrek Academy. The discussion ended when Wang Dong and two companions from Clear Sky Castle arrived to meet Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao recognized that He Caitou’s possible identity could force the Sun Moon Empire into political turmoil and expose Shrek Academy to accusations of harboring a rival crown prince.
• Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian reasoned that the Sun Moon Empire would struggle to kill He Caitou without implicating itself, while sacrificing Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen could provoke Jing Hongchen to rebel.
• Vina told Huo Yuhao that Wang Dong from Clear Sky Castle had come to see him with Tang Yao, a Soul Saint, and the young man Tang Yi.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Clear Sky Castle’s leader had not come and decided to meet Wang Dong, while Vina sent people to contact the Body Sect and the Imperial Family.

Wang Dong, Tang Yao, and Tang Yi waited outside Azure Dragon Manor to meet Huo Yuhao, having come from Clear Sky Castle at the sect masters’ direction. Huo Yuhao welcomed them and praised the Clear Sky Hammer’s history, leaving Tang Yi struck by his mention of a technique missing from the library.

• Wang Dong and Tang Yao waited for Huo Yuhao outside Azure Dragon Manor while Tang Yi questioned Clear Sky Castle’s isolation.
• Tang Yi recalled being ostracized and punished after searching the library for the original Clear Sky Hammer techniques and asking why the Sea God wielded a trident.
• Tang Yao praised Wang Dong’s strength and insisted that the Clear Sky Hammer remained the continent’s strongest tool Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao opened Azure Dragon Manor’s gates, welcomed the visitors, and praised the Clear Sky Hammer’s distant ancestor and Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Tang Yi realized he had never seen or heard of the Great Sumeru Hammer, while Wang Dong remained wary of the planned match with Huo Yuhao.

Tang San was injured by a mysterious force while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm escaped his control, so he activated schemes involving Mu En and Wang Dong to regain influence over Huo Yuhao. A second surge of power nearly killed him, and Xiao Wu found him unconscious in the Sea God Hall.

• Tang San's link to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was severed by a vast force, injuring him and leaving him to blame the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life.
• Tang San contacted Ah Yin and ordered her to help Chen Fuhai take over Mu En's body and control Shrek Academy.
• Chen Fuhai attacked Mu En's soul, while the Golden Tree's opposing forces began suppressing one another and Mu En realized Shrek's ancestors may have served competing powers.
• Tang San ordered Niu Tian and Tai Tan to have Wang Dong fight Huo Yuhao, but a furious force surged through his connection to Wang Dong and shattered his God King body.
• Tang San accused Destruction and Life of scheming against Xiao Qi before losing consciousness, and Xiao Wu found him and called for help.

Huo Yuhao accepted Wang Dong’s challenge and effortlessly stopped her butterfly-wing attacks, shocking the Clear Sky Castle attendants with his soul rings. He then seized Wang Dong’s wings and began tearing them off, leaving the spar at a sudden and alarming turn.

• Tang Yao explained that Wang Dong had come to spar with Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong rebuked him for boasting about her talent.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to fight Wang Dong at Azure Dragon Manor, with Jin Peng serving as referee.
• Wang Dong used Butterfly God’s Light, but Huo Yuhao froze the attack and revealed one thousand-year and two ten-thousand-year soul rings.
• Wang Dong charged with Winged Blade, and Huo Yuhao caught her wings, urged her to use the Clear Sky Hammer, and began tearing them off.

Huo Yuhao discovered that the Golden Trident mark on Wang Dong had tried to invade his soul, and the Martial Scripture destroyed it. He suspected Tang San had been manipulating Wang Dong and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and the chapter ended with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm realizing he might have been used as a pawn.

• When Huo Yuhao grabbed Wang Dong's wing, the Martial Scripture revealed blue-gold chains binding her and a Golden Trident mark on her brow.
• The chains attacked Huo Yuhao's soul, but the Martial Scripture shattered them and turned their power into nourishment for his Spirit Eyes Talisman Seal.
• The Golden Trident mark broke apart and merged into Wang Dong's right hand, so Huo Yuhao released her and incapacitated her with a dragon's roar.
• After returning to his room, Huo Yuhao reconsidered the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sacrifice and suspected Tang San had targeted him from the beginning.
• Huo Yuhao connected Tang San to the possible imprisonment of his mother's soul and vowed to kill his whole family if the suspicion proved true.
• Huo Yuhao explained his evidence to Electrolux, the Ice Empress, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who realized he might have been controlled as a pawn.

Huo Yuhao and his companions uncovered a theory that Tang San had manipulated the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Shrek Academy’s Children of Destiny to control the Douluo Continent. Tian Meng chose to become an undead to fight back, and Huo Yuhao and Electrolux began his transformation before leaving to meet guests from Clear Sky Castle.

• The Ice Empress and Huo Yuhao considered how Tang San and the earlier Sea God might have schemed against powerful Soul Beasts, while Electrolux suggested Huo Yuhao’s status as a Child of Destiny could explain Tang San’s interest in him.
• Huo Yuhao theorized that Tang San used Wang Dong, the Golden Tree, and the destinies of Shrek Academy’s geniuses to pursue control of the Douluo Continent through Tang Hao or the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that Tian Meng’s million-year cultivation might have been a gift from the planar will, and that his original fate was to help guard the Far North before Tang San’s interference.
• Tian Meng overcame his despair and declared that he wanted revenge on Tang San by transforming into an undead.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux began the Undead Transformation Ritual, using Huo Yuhao’s blood to strengthen Tian Meng as his body repeatedly disintegrated and reformed.
• Huo Yuhao left Tian Meng to endure the rest of the transformation and went with Electrolux to meet the guests from Clear Sky Castle at Azure Dragon Manor.

Huo Yuhao exploited Tang Yi’s doubts about Clear Sky Castle’s history and persuaded him to investigate its legacy from within. After Tang Yi agreed to cooperate, Huo Yuhao secretly arranged a contract to protect their conversation, while Chen Fuhai awoke at Shrek Academy.

• Gu Mingxi reacted with hostility when she learned Tang Yi came from Clear Sky Castle and left Huo Yuhao to speak with him.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Tang Yi about the Great Sumeru Hammer and showed him books suggesting the Sea God had obscured the Clear Sky Hammer’s history and neglected Clear Sky Castle.
• Tang Yi realized Huo Yuhao had deliberately guided him toward suspicion, challenged his motives, and refused to become an inside man without an explanation.
• Huo Yuhao gave Tang Yi a partial explanation and asked him to investigate Clear Sky Castle; Tang Yi agreed and planned to persuade Wang Dong to take him to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux completed a contract that would erase Tang Yi’s memories of their conversation if anyone probed his mind.
• At Shrek Academy, Chen Fuhai awoke after suppressing Mu En’s soul within the Light Sacred Dragon Martial Soul.

Chen Fuhai took control of Mu En’s recovered body and revealed that he could manifest the Radiant Sacred Dragon outside it. He ordered Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul unsealed and vowed to confront the Body Sect, while Mu En’s soul remained suppressed within the dragon.

• Chen Fuhai awakened in Mu En’s body, discovered Mu En’s three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and manifested the Radiant Sacred Dragon as a separated Martial Soul.
• Chen Fuhai announced himself as Dragon God Mu En returned, then used his Spiritual Power to suppress Mu En’s resisting soul.
• Xuan Zi briefed Chen Fuhai on events at Shrek Academy and asked about cooperation with Clear Sky Castle and Ma Xiaotao’s sealed Martial Soul.
• Chen Fuhai ordered Shrek to cooperate with Clear Sky Castle and immediately unseal Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul, overruling Song Yunzhi’s objections.
• Chen Fuhai declared that the Body Sect would pay for attacking Shrek Academy and said he would visit it after his condition stabilized, shocking the elders.

Huo Yuhao brought Du Busi and Su Tong to the Far North, where Du Busi explained the origins and nature of his Life-and-Death Tribulation poison and his failed efforts to form dual Soul Cores. The Snow Empress arrived, and Huo Yuhao revealed that she had successfully condensed yin-yang complementary dual Soul Cores, presenting Du Busi with a chance to learn from her.

• Huo Yuhao arranged for Du Busi to accompany him and Su Tong to the Far North, hoping Du Busi could discuss Soul Cores with the Snow Empress.
• Du Busi told Huo Yuhao and Su Tong that he and his late twin brother inherited a poison-and-detoxification mutation from their Jade Phosphorous Serpent and Body Sect lineages.
• Du Busi explained that their Life-and-Death Tribulation poison trapped victims in prolonged agony and that yin-yang complementary dual Soul Cores were the path best suited to its opposing powers.
• Huo Yuhao and Du Busi reached the Far North's core, where Huo Yuhao summoned the Snow Empress with a dragon's roar.
• Huo Yuhao told Du Busi that the Snow Empress had formed yin-yang complementary dual Soul Cores and showed him the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd as the reason she might guide him.

Huo Yuhao asked the Snow Empress to help Su Tong find a Soul Ring and help Du Busi break through his limits. After negotiating an alliance and a visit to the Body Sect, the Snow Empress agreed and led them to the Far North Abyss, where a suitable Ice Crystal Phoenix awaited Su Tong.

• Huo Yuhao asked the Snow Empress to open the Far North Abyss so Su Tong could hunt for a Soul Ring, and she agreed to choose a suitable Soul Beast herself.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Snow Empress to help Du Busi break through, but she feigned anger as Du Busi shielded Huo Yuhao and Su Tong and prepared to fight.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Holy Spirit Cult could threaten the Far North, and Du Busi promised the Body Sect's support if the Snow Empress helped him.
• The Snow Empress required the Body Sect to support the Far North in a future crisis and let her visit the sect; Du Busi agreed to both conditions and swore an oath upon their Soul Cores.
• The Snow Empress concealed her Soul Beast aura with the Far North's fortune, then led the group toward an over-twenty-thousand-year-old Ice Crystal Phoenix she had suppressed in the Far North Abyss.

Su Tong fought the Ice Crystal Phoenix in the Far North, then joined Huo Yuhao in using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Dragon Silk Xue Wu, to defeat it. The Snow Empress was satisfied with Su Tong’s performance and decided to train her personally after they returned to the Body Sect.

• The Snow Empress captured the Ice Crystal Phoenix and ordered Su Tong to fight it while Huo Yuhao supported her.
• Su Tong used her Soul Skills and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing to wound the Ice Crystal Phoenix, but it knocked her out of the sky and destroyed her Flying Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao lent Su Tong his Dragon Wings, and they combined their powers to use Dragon Silk Xue Wu.
• Su Tong’s fusion skill filled the sky with frost and snow, and the Ice Crystal Phoenix was defeated.
• The Snow Empress saw the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring appear above the Ice Crystal Phoenix’s corpse and decided to train Su Tong herself.

Su Tong absorbed the Ice Crystal Phoenix’s Soul Ring and External Soul Bone, gaining the Snow Rainbow Heavenly Garment, while the Snow Empress took human form as Su Ji. The group reached the outskirts of Heaven Dou City, where Du Busi would arrange for Su Ji to be introduced as Su Tong’s family.

• Su Tong absorbed the Ice Crystal Phoenix’s Soul Ring, and the Snow Empress revealed the beast had left behind an External Soul Bone.
• Su Tong absorbed the feather-like Soul Bone, named it the Snow Rainbow Heavenly Garment, and gained gliding and a limited Ice Crystal Nirvana ability.
• The Snow Empress transformed into a human Soul Master and chose the name Su Ji, while Huo Yuhao said he had reached level thirty-five.
• The Snow Empress examined Soul Tools and discussed experimenting with one for the Ice King, since adapting them for Soul Beasts would be difficult.
• The group arrived outside Heaven Dou City, and Du Busi said he would handle the arrangements for Su Ji to travel as Su Tong’s family.

The Snow Empress agreed to live in Heaven Dou City as Di'ao Academy's honorary dean and explained Yin-Yang Complementarity to Du Busi. Her guidance helped Du Busi understand how the Life and Death Tribulation could lead him to the Limit, and he left to cultivate in seclusion, while she prepared to train Huo Yuhao and Su Tong.

• Xue Heng agreed to cooperate with the Snow Empress and offered her a secluded residence and the honorary dean position at Di'ao Academy.
• The Snow Empress explained that Yin-Yang Complementarity required two soul cores to contain and transform into each other, using her extreme cold and fortune soul cores as an example.
• Du Busi realized that he needed to balance life and death through the Life and Death Tribulation poison to form his second soul core.
• Du Busi thanked the Snow Empress for her guidance, then flew back to the Body Sect to enter seclusion and pursue the Limit.
• The Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao and Su Tong to follow her and said she would have the Azure Dragon Guard's Golden Dragon Martial Soul holder spar with Su Tong.

The Snow Empress taught Huo Yuhao and Su Tong the principles of ice, temperature, and elemental balance, helping them understand a path toward Yin-Yang Soul Cores. As the Snow Empress and Huo Yuhao toured Di'ao Academy, Nan Qiuqiu announced her cultivation breakthrough, and the Snow Empress suddenly recognized Gu Mingxi as an Auspicious Beast.

• The Snow Empress used a vision of water transforming into ice and snow to teach Huo Yuhao and Su Tong about temperature and the essence of ice and snow.
• Huo Yuhao considered refining his Desolate Ice, while Su Tong demonstrated how she could alter the temperature of her Jade Firmament Cold Embers.
• Su Tong connected the Snow Empress's explanation of elemental balance to the path Ultimate Soul Masters could take toward Yin-Yang Soul Cores.
• The Snow Empress agreed to meet Gu Mingxi later, and Huo Yuhao explained that Tian Meng's transformation into an Undead had not yet finished.
• Nan Qiuqiu told Huo Yuhao she had reached the Quasi-Soul Ancestor realm and asked to go Soul Hunting.
• The Snow Empress and Gu Mingxi saw each other, and both recognized the other as an Auspicious Beast.

The Snow Empress and Gu Mingxi recognized each other as Auspicious Beasts and both became wary over Huo Yuhao and the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd. Meanwhile, Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul was unsealed, Chen Fuhai prepared revenge against the Body Sect, and the captured Yan Shaozhe learned that Long Xiaoyao led the Holy Spirit Cult as its Chief Priest.

• The Snow Empress sensed Gu Mingxi’s Star Dou Great Forest Fate Power, while Gu Mingxi identified the Snow Empress as the Far North’s Auspicious Beast and suspected she had come for Huo Yuhao’s Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd.
• The Snow Empress offered to accompany Huo Yuhao, Gu Mingxi, and Nan Qiuqiu on their Soul Hunting trip, revealing her overwhelming aura and intensifying Gu Mingxi’s suspicions.
• Chen Fuhai and the Golden Tree unsealed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, and Ma Xiaotao thanked him.
• Chen Fuhai ordered Xuan Zi to investigate Yan Shaozhe’s disappearance and announced his plan to retaliate against the Body Sect when Di'ao Academy opened.
• Feng Ling told the imprisoned Yan Shaozhe that Long Xiaoyao, the Dark Sacred Dragon, was the Holy Spirit Cult’s Chief Priest.