Chapter Summaries

Mu En searched for the missing Huo Yutong and others while Qian Duoduo found them all absent. At the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Lu Yu presented Sect Master Ning with a vast rare-metal vein, prompting Ning to pledge the sect's resources to secure two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones; Ning Tian's teasing then gave Lu Yu an idea about a treasure-filled place he might investigate.

• Mu En decided to search for the missing children, and Qian Duoduo arrived looking for him after failing to find Huo Yutong and Xu Tianzhen and losing funding to Yan Shaozhe.
• Sect Master Ning celebrated Lu Yu's successful Soul Tool experiment, which had evolved two dragon Soul Masters' martial souls at the cost of greater Soul Power consumption.
• Lu Yu gave Sect Master Ning a map to a rare-metal vein and asked for priority access to its metals.
• Sect Master Ning promised to secure Lu Yu two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and left to prepare the sect's cooperation with the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires.
• Ning Tian teased Lu Yu with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and her remarks led him to consider probing a treasure-filled place.

Lu Yu postponed exploring the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well until he could obtain divine power and prepare for its dangers, then gave Xiao Xiao a powerful soul bone. Xiao Xiao gained a domain-like soul skill, but Lu Yu beat her in a sparring match before a leg-bone phantom appeared alongside a martial soul fragment.

• Lu Yu consulted Elder Yi about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and learned that he needed divine power to investigate whether Tang San had concealed a God's Trial site there.
• Lu Yu postponed the expedition, planned to explore the Far North for divine power, and gave Xiao Xiao a sixty-thousand-year Emperor Black Jade Flood Dragon Left Leg Bone to absorb.
• Xiao Xiao absorbed the soul bone and gained a skill that transformed the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron's potential into a domain that restricted Lu Yu's movement unless he knelt.
• Xiao Xiao attacked Lu Yu with her cauldron, but Lu Yu fused his martial souls into a larger Clear Sky Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, knocked hers aside, and used suction to prevent her from retrieving it.
• After their spar, Lu Yu asked Xiao Xiao about the soul skill, and a Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron fragment and the phantom image of a leg bone appeared on her.

Lu Yu absorbed Xiao Xiao’s soul bone and assessed its abilities before leaving to arrange her third soul ring. At Shrek, Mu En learned from Qian Duoduo that Lu Yu and Xu Tianzhen had left, then collapsed after hearing Yan Shaozhe had denied Lu Yu and Huo Yutong Core Disciple status.

• Lu Yu absorbed Xiao Xiao’s soul bone, identified its slowing and anti-Teleportation abilities, and planned to use terrain and a pit-digging soul tool to exploit them.
• Mu En searched Shrek City for Lu Yu and found that his group’s tracks had been erased.
• Qian Duoduo found Lu Yu’s letter and soul tool manual, which said Xu Tianzhen had left with him and offered the manual as compensation for the department’s investment.
• Qian Duoduo told Mu En that Yan Shaozhe had denied Lu Yu and Huo Yutong Core Disciple status and had taken back the thousand-year soul bone after Xiao Xiao refused it.
• Mu En became enraged, retched blood, and nearly fainted.

Mu En confronted Yan Shaozhe over denying two members of the freshman champion team core disciple slots, only to learn that all three students had left Shrek. He revealed their extraordinary talent and threatened Yan Shaozhe’s position if they were not found.

• Mu En scolded Qian Duoduo for failing to tell him about Lu Yu’s treatment, then flew to Sea God Island.
• Yan Shaozhe blamed the Soul Tool Department’s funding demands for Xuan Zi’s missing chicken-leg allowance, and Xuan Zi agreed to help him reclaim the money.
• Mu En demanded to know why the freshman champion team had received only one core disciple slot, and Yan Shaozhe defended his decision by criticizing the Blue Silver Grass and Spirit Eyes Soul Masters.
• Yan Shaozhe offered to compensate the two students after Mu En said they had left, but Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe argued that apologizing would harm Shrek’s glory.
• Mu En said he had demonstrated Ruling the World to the three students and they had mastered its essence in one afternoon, then threatened to remove Yan Shaozhe as dean if they were not found.

Mu En removed Yan Shaozhe as dean until he brought back three students who had grasped the intent of Ruling the World, and appointed Zhang Lexuan as acting dean. Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi then plotted to earn Mu En’s approval by organizing a major Soul Hunting expedition, while Yan Shaozhe planned to claim a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for Xiaotao.

• Yan Shaozhe doubted that the three students had truly grasped Ruling the World and agreed to search for them.
• Mu En stripped Yan Shaozhe of his deanship until the students were returned and named Zhang Lexuan acting dean.
• Mu En flew to the Golden Tree to help Zhang Lexuan recover and take up her new role.
• Yan Shaozhe persuaded Xuan Zi to help prevent Zhang Lexuan from being burdened by academy affairs.
• Xuan Zi proposed helping a promising Inner Court teacher reach Level 90 and secretly obtain a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Yan Shaozhe agreed to fund the plan but claimed any Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for Xiaotao, and the two decided to recruit more teachers and students for the expedition.

At the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Xiao Xiao showed off the speed and evasive power of her new Soul Skill, while Lu Yu explained his dark Blue Silver Grass cultivation and Tang Ya’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline. Huo Yutong finished a Soul Tool, and Lu Yu prepared to go meet Bingbing.

• Xiao Xiao used Cauldron’s Abundance to evade Tang Ya’s vines and defeat her with a Soul-Suppressing Cauldron strike.
• Jiang Nannan praised Xiao Xiao’s growth, and Xiao Xiao credited Master Lu for helping her obtain her third Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu explained that dark Blue Silver Grass had raised his Soul Power to rank 38, but its addictive nature had begun affecting Tang Ya’s mind.
• Lu Yu revealed that Tang Ya possessed the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and described his plan to use a controlled Blue Silver King to grant her an exclusive Soul Ring.
• Huo Yutong announced that the Soul Tool was finished, and Lu Yu prepared to go meet Bingbing.

Lu Yu reviewed two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones negotiated by Ning Tian’s father and decided to wait for them to be sent back before leaving with Huo Yutong. Wu Feng then asked Lu Yu for help, and he agreed to let her try the stronger Dragon Blood purifier despite its dangerous side effects.

• Ning Tian told Lu Yu that her father had negotiated for two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and showed him their abilities.
• Lu Yu chose the Shadow Double Wolf King Right Arm Bone for Jiang Nannan and the Life Green Vine Emperor Right Leg Bone for Tang Ya, then asked for both to be sent back to him.
• Wu Feng came to Lu Yu’s room and pleaded for help after being transferred away from Ning Tian.
• Lu Yu criticized Wu Feng’s abilities and asked whether she could stop pursuing Ning Tian and focus on becoming stronger.
• Wu Feng explained that she wanted to escape loneliness, accepted the purifier’s possible side effects, and Lu Yu agreed to let her try it.

Mu En accepted Yan Shaozhe’s soul-ring expedition and prepared to travel to Dragon City for the Heavenly Dragon Sect. Meanwhile, Lu Yu tested his newly acquired soul bones and prepared to leave for the Far North with Ning Tian and Yutong.

• Zhang Lexuan told Mu En that Yan Shaozhe had only conducted a token search, but Mu En accepted his plans to take teachers and students to the Star Dou Great Forest for soul rings.
• Mu En agreed to visit Dragon City after learning the Heavenly Dragon Sect wanted his support in a dispute over a rare-metal vein.
• After Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan absorbed their hundred-thousand-year soul bones, Lu Yu stole several soul bones and gained new abilities, including Blue Silver Field and Twin Phantom.
• Lu Yu used a phantom empowered by Red Dragon skills to test its strength against Xiao Xiao’s Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, injuring her with a powerful strike.
• Ning Tian told Lu Yu that his carriage to Dragon City was ready and that he could travel from there to the Far North.

Lu Yu met up with Wu Feng, who had fled her reassignment to the Star Luo Empire, and took her with him toward Dragon City. There, Vina and Xue Linglan were headed to an academy amid a secret agreement to divide a vast rare-metal vein, while other factions began converging on the area.

• Wu Feng caught up with Lu Yu’s carriage and explained that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had transferred her to the Star Luo Empire, so she had sneaked away rather than remain separated from Ning Tian and Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu agreed to let Wu Feng travel with them, and she pulled the carriage whenever the soul beast horse needed to rest.
• Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Wu Feng traveled from the Star Dou Great Forest to the outskirts of Dragon City.
• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Heavenly Dragon Sect, and Earth Dragon Sect traded information about a huge rare-metal vein for cooperation and soul bones from the Dou Ling and Heaven Dou Empires.
• The two empires and three sects divided the vein into nine shares, and Vina and Xue Linglan traveled to Dragon City to study at an academy as the mining plans drew people and rival factions to the region.

Lu Yu’s group was attacked by Evil Soul Masters while traveling, and Lu Yu rescued Vina and her companion while discovering that Vina possessed two Martial Souls suited to fusion. After absorbing their Martial Soul Fragments, he left the carriage to face the approaching Water Ghost Soul Master.

• A group of Evil Soul Masters spotted Vina’s carriage and attacked, hoping to capture its passengers for information.
• Mo Feiyun and the other guards engaged the attackers while two Soul Kings used a Water Ghost Soul Skill to approach Vina’s carriage.
• Lu Yu teleported onto the carriage and used Nation’s Law to prevent displacement, killing the two Soul Kings by removing their lower bodies.
• Lu Yu invited Vina and her companion into his carriage, then discovered that Vina had Twin Martial Souls: a brain and a Snow Lotus.
• Lu Yu absorbed fragments of Vina’s Martial Souls, then jumped from the carriage and spread Blue Silver Grass as the Water Ghost Soul Master approached.

Lu Yu killed Water Ghost, used his memories and Simulation to impersonate him, and destroyed Elder Hun and the Holy Spirit Cult group with concealed Fixed Soul Cannon Shells. He rescued Mo Feiyun and two Soul Kings, found a Soul Ring Upgrade Token, and suspected the Holy Spirit Cult had a god backing it.

• Lu Yu killed Water Ghost with a Class 6 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, captured his soul, and used Simulation to create a convincing copy of him.
• Lu Yu’s simulated Water Ghost reached Elder Hun with Vina and Xue Linglan, claiming he had captured them and bargaining over the captives.
• Elder Hun gave Water Ghost a Soul Ring Upgrade Token, and Water Ghost swallowed Mo Feiyun and the two remaining Soul Kings with his black water.
• The princesses turned out to be Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, including a Class 8 shell, which detonated and engulfed Elder Hun, Water Ghost, and the others.
• Three kilometers away, Lu Yu used Water Ghost’s Martial Soul to release the unconscious Mo Feiyun and Soul Kings, then collected the Soul Ring Upgrade Token.
• Lu Yu concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult’s token suggested a god was backing it, likely the Rakshasa God, and wondered why Tang San had not intervened.

Lu Yu rescued Vina’s guards from the Evil Soul Masters and learned that their organization operated in the Sun Moon Empire with a Titled Douluo gathering intelligence near Dragon City. After arriving in the city, he took Huo Yutong to a nearby river to search for the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow that had made the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm a million-year soul beast.

• Lu Yu recalled that the Evil Soul Masters belonged to a powerful Sun Moon Empire organization backed by a god, and decided to seek out a nearby branch base for more intelligence.
• Vina worried that Lu Yu and her guards had died in the explosion, but Lu Yu returned unharmed with the guards, and Huo Yutong and Wu Feng checked him over.
• A stooped old man spotted Lu Yu from the sky and said he had finally found him.
• At Dragon City, Sect Master Ning welcomed Lu Yu, questioned Wu Feng’s presence, and then learned that Evil Soul Masters and a Titled Douluo were gathering information nearby.
• Lu Yu took Huo Yutong to a river and revealed that they had come to find the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Lu Yu searched Dragon City for the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and found it beneath the Earth Dragon Sect, where Mu En caught up with him. Mu En asked Lu Yu to eliminate Shrek Academy in next year’s Soul Fighting Tournament, and Lu Yu was left to consider the surprising request.

• Lu Yu traced unusually cold river water to the Earth Dragon Sect and learned from Tian Meng that its strongest member was a Soul Saint.
• Tian Meng discovered that Mu En was secretly following Lu Yu, so Lu Yu called him out.
• Mu En tried to persuade Lu Yu to return to Shrek Academy, but Lu Yu refused and pointed out that Shrek had benefited from the manual and technique he left behind.
• After Lu Yu mentioned the two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had given him, Mu En accepted that Lu Yu would not return to Shrek.
• Mu En asked Lu Yu about next year’s Soul Fighting Tournament, and Lu Yu mistakenly thought he wanted Shrek to win the championship.
• Mu En clarified that he wanted Lu Yu to eliminate Shrek Academy at any cost.

Lu Yu persuaded Mu En not to wipe out the nearby Holy Spirit Cult members, warning that a deity might be backing them and that their mission targeted two powerful Soul Beasts in the Far North. After Mu En realized the cult could have a Limit Douluo, Lu Yu proposed infiltrating it together, leaving Mu En stunned by the plan.

• Mu En explained that he wanted Shrek to lose its ten-thousand-year winning streak so its leaders would recognize the need for Soul Tools and let him reshape the academy’s leadership.
• Lu Yu revealed that he suspected a deity backed the Holy Spirit Cult and described its plan to capture two Far North Soul Beasts using God-Sealing Platforms.
• Tian Meng recognized that one of the targeted Soul Beasts was Bingbing and urged Lu Yu to bring her into their plan to become Gods.
• Mu En realized that absorbing the Soul Beast embryos could give Evil Soul Masters ultimate ice, twin martial souls, and immense power, and vowed to kill the cult members.
• Lu Yu warned that the Holy Spirit Cult might have a Limit Douluo, so killing its members could provoke an even more dangerous response.
• Lu Yu proposed that he and Mu En join the Holy Spirit Cult together.

Lu Yu and Huo Yutong searched the Earth Dragon Sect for a dark-attribute dragon martial soul and the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow. Lu Yu rescued Nan Qiuqiu from a freezing spring, but she woke up and mistook his treatment for assault.

• Mu En agreed to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult if Lu Yu could simulate a dark-attribute dragon martial soul for him.
• Huo Yutong suggested searching the Earth Dragon Sect for a mutated dark dragon martial soul, and Lu Yu agreed.
• Lu Yu and Huo Yutong sneaked into the Earth Dragon Sect, found few people there, and postponed searching for the profound ice marrow until night.
• Lu Yu found Nan Qiuqiu frozen beside an open well and discovered that she was a Soul Ancestor with a rouge dragon martial soul.
• Lu Yu used warm Soul Power from his sun martial soul to drive the cold from Nan Qiuqiu's body.
• Nan Qiuqiu woke up, accused Lu Yu of being a pervert, and warned that her mother and the returning sect members would punish him.

Lu Yu saved Nan Qiuqiu and bartered his research into dragon-type martial souls for access to the Earth Dragon Sect’s hidden darkness-attribute dragon soul masters. Nan Qiuqiu agreed to let him take the ores from the cold spring, leaving Lu Yu free to claim them.

• Lu Yu expelled the cold energy from Nan Qiuqiu, who jokingly offered to marry him, but he rejected her and teased her about her strength and talent.
• Lu Yu set his partner standards at reaching Soul Saint by age twenty, prompting Huo Yutong to worry about her own cultivation while Tian Meng encouraged her to pursue the Ice Empress’s power.
• Nan Qiuqiu offered to help Lu Yu take something from the sect, and he asked to study its darkness-attribute dragon-type soul masters.
• Lu Yu gave Nan Qiuqiu his research on dragon-type martial souls and explained that he had originally planned to sneak in and steal what he wanted.
• Nan Qiuqiu agreed to bring out the hidden soul masters and gave Lu Yu permission to take all the ores in the cold spring.

Lu Yu, Huo Yutong, and Nan Qiuqiu descended into the Cold Spring inside Tian Meng's protective Silkworm Moult, while Huo Yutong imagined gaining the Ice Empress's Soul Bone to outmatch Nan Qiuqiu. They discovered a cavern full of Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, and Tian Meng declared that they had found a treasure.

• Nan Qiuqiu insisted on joining Lu Yu and Huo Yutong inside the Silkworm Moult, and Tian Meng secretly shrank it until she was pressed tightly against Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu jumped into the Cold Spring with the others, protected from the cold and water pressure by the Silkworm Moult.
• Nan Qiuqiu explained how the Cold Spring could help her cultivate and invited Lu Yu to train at the Earth Dragon Sect; Lu Yu agreed.
• Huo Yutong asked Tian Meng for help, and Tian Meng promised that absorbing the Ice Empress would grant her a powerful Soul Bone.
• Lu Yu found and opened a concealed doorway, leading the group into a cavern covered in Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.
• Tian Meng recognized the crystals as valuable and celebrated the discovery.

Lu Yu and Huo Yutong descended into the Ice Spring and retrieved a piece of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow from a cavern containing forty-five pieces. After escaping, Lu Yu explained that they had to obtain it before Huo Yutong absorbed the Ice Empress, then recalled how the Ice Empress’s soul skills had failed him in a past game save.

• Tian Meng told Huo Yutong that the treasures could help her become a Soul Saint at twenty, while Lu Yu used a specialized soul tool to mine ice extreme divine crystal.
• Lu Yu gave Nan Qiuqiu a cold-resistant suit and entered the Ice Spring with Huo Yutong, saying its pressure could help awaken her Spirit Eyes martial soul.
• Tian Meng found forty-five pieces of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow in a cavern, and Lu Yu took one using Tian Meng’s origin power before they hurried back to safety.
• Lu Yu told Tian Meng that they could not wait until Huo Yutong absorbed the Ice Empress to collect the marrow, then discussed how her second martial soul would become the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
• Lu Yu recalled that the Ice Empress’s Ice Empress’s Pincer and Ice Emperor Possession skills had been melted by Ma Hongjun’s first-ring Phoenix Fire Line, and blamed both the Ice Empress and Tian Meng’s Ice Element martial soul.

Lu Yu explained how a ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow could help Yutong gain the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul, then left the well with Yutong and Nan Qiuqiu. After copying the Earth Dragon Sect's dark dragon martial soul, he returned to find Mu En waiting so they could set off.

• Lu Yu explained to Tian Meng that the profound ice marrow could let the Ice Empress reconstruct Yutong's second martial soul as the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
• Lu Yu, Yutong, and Nan Qiuqiu emerged from the well and met Nan Shuishui, who thanked them for saving her daughter and agreed they could take the well's treasures.
• Nan Qiuqiu showed Nan Shuishui the dragon soul master manual Lu Yu had given her, then left to find a dark-attribute dragon soul master for him.
• Lu Yu went to the Earth Dragon Sect the next morning and finished copying the dark dragon martial soul.
• Lu Yu returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's branch, where Mu En was waiting, and agreed to set off with him.

Mu En and Lu Yu infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult by posing as Dragon Emperor Douluo and his disciple, securing a deal to escort the cult into the Far North. After they left, Mu En asked Lu Yu whether he would become his disciple if Mu En seized two Ferocious Beast Embryos for him.

• Mu En and Lu Yu traveled to a Soul Beast forest near Dragon City, where Mu En seized an Evil Soul Master and forced him to lead them to the cult's altar.
• White Bone Douluo killed a subordinate who had failed to investigate the empires and sects, then confronted Mu En and Lu Yu when they arrived.
• Mu En claimed he had completed a task for the cult and demanded a Ring Ascension for Lu Yu; White Bone Douluo instead offered a Secret Technique Soul Bone and promised upgrades in exchange for an escort to the Far North's core region.
• Mu En agreed to provide long-range support with Class 9 Soul Cannons and secured an additional Soul Ring Upgrade Token, then left with Lu Yu and received a communication Soul Tool.
• Mu En praised Lu Yu's flawless disguise and asked whether he would become his disciple if Mu En took both God-Sealing Platforms and gave him the two Ferocious Beast Embryos.