Chapter Summaries

Huo Yutong killed a Silver Hero Beast, absorbed its ten-thousand-year soul ring, and gained an Imprinting soul skill as Lu Yu praised the power of her new abilities. They set out for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Yan Shaozhe woke from Phoenix Nirvana believing he had reached rank 96 and flew back to Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yutong used the Eye of Destiny to weaken and kill a Silver Hero Beast, revealing the powers of her new skull bone to Lu Yu.
• Huo Yutong absorbed the beast's soul ring and gained Imprinting, which let her copy and store other people's soul skills; she reached rank 35 and planned to wait until four rings before taking revenge on the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
• Lu Yu chose to take Huo Yutong to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Sunset Forest to seek immortal herbs and investigate whether Tang San had left contingencies there.
• Yan Shaozhe woke in a cave, found his Bright Phoenix martial soul weakened, and discovered that he had apparently advanced to rank 96.
• Yan Shaozhe assumed Xuan Zi had withdrawn with the others after the attack and flew toward Shrek Academy, expecting his breakthrough to secure his position as dean of the Martial Soul Department.

Yan Shaozhe returned to Shrek City after reaching rank 96 and learned that Xuan Zi had come back alone while the rest of the expedition was missing. After admitting that he and Wang Dong had sought the Emperor Auspicious Beast despite a rank-98 Evil Soul Master threat, he persuaded Cai Mei'er to help shift responsibility onto Xuan Zi and conceal his return until Mu En had punished him.

• Yan Shaozhe met Cai Mei'er outside Shrek City and learned that none of the teachers or students from the expedition had returned, while Xuan Zi had come back alone.
• Yan Shaozhe told Cai Mei'er that Wang Dong had joined him to hunt the Emperor Auspicious Beast, but had escaped when they encountered Di Tian.
• Yan Shaozhe blamed the Evil Soul Masters for the expedition's disaster, then admitted that he and Xuan Zi had split up despite knowing a powerful Evil Soul Master was in the forest.
• Cai Mei'er said she would report the events to Mu En, but Yan Shaozhe begged her to help pin the blame on Xuan Zi so he could keep his position as dean.
• Cai Mei'er agreed to look for Wang Dong and advised Yan Shaozhe to hide outside Shrek City, then return pretending to be gravely injured after Mu En punished Xuan Zi.

Mu En returned to Shrek and learned that Yan Shaozhe and most of his expedition were missing after an encounter with Di Tian, while Xuan Zi came back alone. Yan Shaozhe later returned badly wounded, and as Mu En rushed him to treatment, the weakened Bright Phoenix within him began to be consumed by Feng Ling’s Evil Phoenix power.

• Mu En returned to the Sea God Pavilion and learned from Cai Mei'er that Yan Shaozhe had not returned and that only Xuan Zi and Wang Dong had survived the expedition.
• Cai Mei'er explained that Yan Shaozhe had stayed behind so Wang Dong could escape Di Tian, while two pavilion elders, eight teachers, and ten Inspection Corps members were also missing.
• Mu En fainted from shock, then confronted Xuan Zi, who offered to resign; Mu En instead stripped him of his post and confined him to Sea God Island.
• A day later, Mu En set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to search for Yan Shaozhe, but Yan Shaozhe arrived at Shrek City gravely injured.
• Yan Shaozhe asked whether Wang Dong had survived, and Mu En reassured him before carrying him for treatment; Feng Ling’s Evil Phoenix power then began devouring his weakened Bright Phoenix essence.

Lu Yu and his companions entered Sunset Forest to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, crossing a deadly miasma filled with powerful jade phosphorus flowers. After breaking through the flower colony, Lu Yu unleashed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to freeze the hundred-thousand-year soul beasts blocking their way.

• Lu Yu explained that Sunset Forest had declined but still contained the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a place where plant-type soul beasts could cultivate exceptionally quickly.
• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle enclosed the group in a barrier while Lu Yu coated it with Ultimate Ice, and Huo Yutong replenished his soul power as they crossed the corrosive miasma.
• The group found dense clusters of jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers and jade phosphorus nine absolute flowers, then flew over them under Huo Yutong's control.
• Lu Yu used Eternal Frozen Domain and Ice Explosion to destroy many of the flowers, while the Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird knocked down vines that escaped.
• When hundred-thousand-year jade phosphorus nine absolute flowers attacked, Lu Yu fused the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul with a snow lotus and unleashed Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles, freezing them.

Lu Yu and his companions crossed the miasma-filled valley and reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he explained the origins of its two Dragon King corpses and the treasures they contained. As they approached the aromatic silk beauty, its protective halo contracted and currents of ice and fire surged toward them.

• Lu Yu used Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles and Ice Explosion to cripple the Jade Phosphorus Nine Absolute Flowers, then spared them because they were badly injured.
• Lu Yu and his companions entered a valley filled with precious medicinal plants and found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Elder Yi reported finding two Million-Year Soul Beast remains beneath the springs, and Lu Yu identified them as the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King.
• Lu Yu explained that the Dragon Kings’ Soul Bones and Dragon Cores could provide treasures for Yutong, but she would need greater strength to absorb them safely.
• Lu Yu and his companions approached the aromatic silk beauty, whose pink halo contracted as currents of ice and fire swept toward them.

Lu Yu and his companions confronted the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and he agreed to Youyou’s test to earn seven herbs. He saw through her trick and seized her, ending the chapter with Youyou asking him to let go.

• The Golden Hawksbill Turtle blocked the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass’s attack with its Invincible Shield, while Lu Yu realized they had been holding back.
• Youyou warned Lu Yu not to anger the immortal herbs, then introduced herself, A Jiao, and Octagonal.
• Youyou refused to give Lu Yu nonsentient immortal herbs for free and offered seven herbs if he survived eating a test herb.
• Lu Yu pretended to accept the test, then froze Youyou’s stem, severed her from her roots, and ripped out her Aromatic Silk Beauty Immortal Pill.
• Youyou saw Lu Yu holding her and her pill and shakily asked him to let go.

Lu Yu threatened Youyou until she revealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well belonged to Sea God Tang San, while A Jiao and Bajiao refused to help her. A Jiao attacked Lu Yu’s group, but the Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird repeatedly dispersed her fire constructs and stopped her from fighting.

• Lu Yu froze Youyou and threatened to destroy the Myriad tribulation entangling radish, forcing her to reveal that Tang San controlled the medicinal garden and that she had been following his orders.
• Youyou offered Lu Yu the immortal herbs, but A Jiao cut off her attempt and said she would not let him take the herbs freely.
• A Jiao and Bajiao rejected Youyou’s pleas, with Bajiao admitting she had given up on becoming a god.
• A Jiao summoned a fire woman to attack Lu Yu’s group, but the Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird dispersed it with a sound wave.
• A Jiao summoned a stronger fire woman, but the Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird’s repeated sound waves kept destroying it and prevented A Jiao from forming another.

Lu Yu and Huo Yutong subdued the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after Octagonal betrayed A Jiao and offered to become Huo Yutong’s Wisdom Soul Ring. With the herbs under control, Lu Yu took Youyou’s Poison Scripture and forced her to sign a Contract of Sale, then began preparing to loot the valley.

• A Jiao called on Octagonal and the other Immortal Herbs to fight, but the Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird’s Golden Emperor Heaven-Shaking Sound suppressed their attacks.
• A Jiao and Octagonal agreed to fight together until Huo Yutong appeared and Octagonal froze A Jiao with an Ice-Freeze Ray.
• Octagonal declared her loyalty to Huo Yutong and asked to become her Wisdom Soul Ring, prompting the other Immortal Herbs to surrender.
• Youyou offered Lu Yu her Poison Scripture, which he recognized as a treasure Tang San had hidden, and Lu Yu took it.
• Lu Yu made Youyou sign a Contract of Sale and ordered her to bring him the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

Huo Yutong used the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to awaken her Spirit Eyes, and Lu Yu also enhanced his Spirit Eyes with the same power. Lu Yu then evaluated Octagonal's Soul Skills before agreeing to consider her sacrifice if she cooperated with an experiment.

• Youyou gave Lu Yu the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Lu Yu told Huo Yutong how to use it.
• Huo Yutong absorbed the dewdrops, raising her Spiritual Power to an ordinary Titled Douluo's level and enabling her Spirit Eyes' Silver Awakening.
• Lu Yu explained that Huo Yutong's Silver Awakening and Eye of Destiny could multiply her Soul Skill power, then used his own enhanced Spirit Eyes.
• Octagonal asked Lu Yu to let her sacrifice herself, but he questioned her Soul Skills and judged most of them inadequate.
• Octagonal begged to be accepted, and Lu Yu offered to consider her sacrifice if she cooperated with an experiment.

Lu Yu experimented on the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass by engraving a soul skill into a miniature soul ring, and the trial succeeded. After discovering the power of the Ice Seal Technique, she eagerly asked Lu Yu to give her more skills, joining the Rabbit Sect.

• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass reluctantly agreed to Lu Yu's experiment after he warned that failure could turn her into an undead.
• Lu Yu used a Jade-Green Knife to carve a miniature soul ring from part of her soul and origin essence, then engraved the Ice Seal Technique onto it.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass successfully cast the Ice Seal Technique on the Infernal Delicate Apricot, trapping her in layers of ultimate ice.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass celebrated her new skill and asked Lu Yu to engrave more powerful soul skills onto her.

Lu Yu and Elder Yi completed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass’s sacrifice for Huo Yutong, granting her a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and right leg bone. They sealed the excess energy instead of creating another ring, and Huo Yutong confirmed that all three artificially added skills had taken effect.

• After three days of painful adjustments, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass formed an Octagonal Profound Ice Crystal, which Lu Yu accepted before beginning the sacrifice.
• Huo Yutong absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring and right leg bone, rising from level 35 to level 40.
• Elder Yi warned that the soul spirit’s excess energy could generate another hundred-thousand-year ring, but Lu Yu chose to seal it inside Huo Yutong’s soul bone.
• Huo Yutong checked her new abilities and confirmed that all three artificially added soul skills had attached.

Huo Yutong demonstrated four powerful skills from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and Lu Yu explained how he and Elder Yi had designed its array-based soul skills. After the experiments succeeded, Lu Yu prepared to continue selecting immortal herbs.

• Huo Yutong demonstrated Ice Seal Technique and Ice God Sealing Array, which could freeze targets and suppress their soul power.
• Lu Yu explained that he had studied tournament records and worked with Elder Yi to design the array skills using the Ice God's divine power as a reference.
• Huo Yutong revealed that Ice God Possession let her cast four arrays instantly or form a larger array, and she described her Ultimate Ice Amplification skill.
• Tian Meng mocked the Ice Empress's skills, but she escaped his Spiritual Prison with Ice Jade Laser Cannon and Ice Explosion and froze him.
• Lu Yu ignored their quarrel and began choosing the next immortal herbs.

Lu Yu secured the cooperation of several sentient immortal herbs and returned with two soul beasts to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. He warned Sect Master Ning that their next decision would be irreversible, and Ning concluded that Lu Yu intended to claim imperial rule.

• Lu Yu agreed to take the sentient immortal herbs and their hosts to the Divine Realm, while Youyou and A Jiao also asked him to find them potential godhood candidates.
• The sentient immortal herbs signed soul contracts with Lu Yu, who collected the non-sentient immortal herbs and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the two soul beasts.
• Lu Yu returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's branch, where Ning Tian told him Sect Master Ning had come back after receiving his message.
• Lu Yu warned Sect Master Ning that the matter they were about to discuss required choosing a side with no turning back.
• Sect Master Ning inferred that Lu Yu planned to challenge the empires and knelt before him, declaring that he could claim imperial rule.

Lu Yu offered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect an aromatic silk beauty in exchange for breaking with the Shrek Seven Devils and supporting him against Sea God Tang San. Sect Master Ning and Ning Tian signed Soul Contracts, and Lu Yu turned to Ning Tian to ask her current level.

• Sect Master Ning and Ning Tian misunderstood Lu Yu’s remark and thought he wanted to declare himself emperor.
• Lu Yu revealed that he had found an aromatic silk beauty, which could evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Lu Yu demanded that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect sever ties with the Shrek Seven Devils and that the Soul Master who took the herb obey him.
• Sect Master Ning agreed to oppose Tang San, explaining that the sect had long since lost its attachment to the Shrek Seven Devils and trusted Lu Yu’s potential.
• Sect Master Ning and Ning Tian signed Lu Yu’s Soul Contracts, and Lu Yu asked Ning Tian what level she had reached.

Lu Yu prepared Ning Tian to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul beast by strengthening her spiritual power, while Huo Yutong gave Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan immortal herbs to help them grow. Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan both absorbed their herbs and broke through at the same time.

• Sect Master Ning promised to gather a set of high-grade ten-thousand-year soul bones for Ning Tian after Lu Yu explained she would need to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul beast as her fourth soul ring.
• Lu Yu used the Blade of Life's Watch and gold of life to repeatedly tear and heal Ning Tian's Sea of Consciousness, increasing her spiritual power despite her screams of pain.
• Huo Yutong gave Xiao Xiao a cockscomb phoenix sunflower, which could awaken the phoenix within her Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute, and gave Jiang Nannan a narcissus jade muscle bone to strengthen her body and soul power.
• Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan followed Huo Yutong's instructions and absorbed their immortal herbs; about an hour later, both broke through at the same time.

After absorbing immortal herbs, Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan made major breakthroughs, and Xiao Xiao’s Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute partially awakened. Huo Yutong told Xiao Xiao about powerful soul spirits that could provide soul rings, then went looking for Lu Yu and discovered Ning Tian emerging from a hidden chamber.

• Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan woke after absorbing immortal herbs, with Xiao Xiao reaching rank 40 and Jiang Nannan reaching rank 50.
• Xiao Xiao shattered Huo Yutong’s ice prison with the phoenix cry of her partially awakened Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute.
• Jiang Nannan said her martial soul had not evolved, but she had gained strength and flexibility along with her breakthrough to Soul King.
• Huo Yutong told Xiao Xiao that soul spirits could provide soul rings and described immortal herb soul beasts that could suit Xiao Xiao’s second martial soul.
• Xiao Xiao urged Huo Yutong to find Lu Yu, but Huo Yutong could not locate him and cultivated for about two hours.
• A hidden door opened beside Huo Yutong, and Ning Tian emerged from the secluded chamber with a rosy complexion.

Huo Yutong returned to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect as a Soul Ancestor and Level 8 Soul Engineer, while Xu Tianzhen struggled to replicate their Soul Tools and teased her about Lu Yu. When Ning Tian summoned Xu Tianzhen for an important discussion, Xu realized the sect knew her hidden surname and suspected Lu Yu was about to reveal their cards.

• Huo Yutong asked Ning Tian what had happened, and Ning Tian said she had cultivated with the gold of life and asked Huo to fetch Xu Tianzhen.
• Xu Tianzhen complained that she could not replicate Lu Yu and Huo Yutong's Level 7 Soul Tools, then teased Huo about her relationship with Lu Yu.
• Huo Yutong resolved to wait until after the tournament in Star Luo City, about two months away, before taking revenge on the duchess.
• Xu Tianzhen noticed Ning Tian's stronger spiritual power and suspected she had secretly gained an advantage through Lu Yu.
• Ning Tian summoned Xu Tianzhen to discuss an important matter with Lu Yu and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Xu realized Ning Tian knew her hidden surname.

Lu Yu revealed that he had controlled Xu Tianzhen with a Soul Tool and proposed helping her reclaim the Sun Moon Empire’s throne so he could spread a method for everyone to awaken soul power. Xu Tianzhen accepted his plan but used its importance to tease and pressure him.

• Xu Tianzhen took Ning Tian into the secret chamber and left Huo Yutong outside to guard the door.
• Lu Yu confessed to Xu Tianzhen that he had controlled her with the Hypnosis App, then released its influence.
• Xu Tianzhen broke down in tears, while Ning Tian feared the Soul Tool; Lu Yu offered Xu Tianzhen an eight-petal immortal orchid as compensation.
• Lu Yu proposed assassinating the Sun Moon Empire’s emperor and restoring Xu Tianzhen to the throne so he could promote soul-power cultivation for everyone.
• Xu Tianzhen and Ning Tian were shocked by Lu Yu’s plan, and Xu Tianzhen hinted that she would demand more than a ferocious beast in return for her help.

Lu Yu helped Xu Tianzhen cultivate, then decided which Soul Spirit Xiao Xiao should absorb and asked Ning Tian to find Soul Skills for him to reproduce. In the Divine Realm, Tang San realized he had lost contact with Xiao Qi’s split soul in the Star Dou Great Forest and feared it was in danger.

• Xu Tianzhen challenged Lu Yu to strengthen her Sea of Consciousness, but she passed out from the pain and Ning Tian cultivated with him afterward.
• Huo Yutong saw Lu Yu and Ning Tian emerge and privately counted ten advantages she had over Xu Tianzhen.
• Lu Yu decided Xiao Xiao should absorb the Earth Dragon Golden Melon first, while the Golden Hawksbill Turtle and Ancient Song Fragrant Phoenix Bird remained in his service.
• Lu Yu asked Ning Tian to find Soul Beasts or Soul Masters with several common Soul Skills that he could reproduce as artificial skills.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San she felt something was wrong, and Tang San realized he could no longer sense Xiao Qi’s split soul in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Lu Yu and the others rapidly increased their soul power with immortal herbs, soul bones, and pills, while Tang Ya lagged behind and complained about her martial soul. Tang Ya then found a book attributed to Tang San that contained the Tang Sect’s lost poison and medicinal methods, and she realized she was alone with Lu Yu.

• Xu Tianzhen, Ning Tian, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan woke after absorbing immortal herbs or soul bones and celebrated their increased soul power.
• Lu Yu swallowed a Nine Treasures Pill and raised his soul power from level 43 to level 44.
• Tang Ya compared her slow cultivation with the others, argued with her Dark Blue Silver Grass, and admitted she was lazy.
• An ancient book appeared beside Tang Ya, and she discovered that Tang San had written it to preserve the Tang Sect’s lost poison and medicinal methods.
• Tang Ya noticed the room had emptied except for her and Lu Yu, then nervously asked what he was going to do.