Chapter Summaries

Arthas convinced the Sun Moon Empire’s leaders that he could treat Kong Deming’s long-standing injuries, then used the work to establish a complicated alchemy process and strengthen his position. The emperor and Kong Deming planned to watch Arthas during the Soul Master Tournament and use Ye Xishui to force his loyalty if he grew too close to Shrek Academy.

• Arthas explained that Kong Deming’s condition required a lengthy treatment using rare medicines, careful examination, and ingredients whose properties he would first need to study.
• The emperor agreed to provide the resources, while Kong Deming invited Arthas to stay at the Treasure Pavilion and examine its medicinal stores.
• The emperor and Kong Deming discussed monitoring Arthas at the Soul Master Tournament, using the Holy Spirit Cult to control him if necessary, and arranging for Meng Hongchen and Tian Zhen to spend more time with him.
• After returning to the academy, Arthas reported his situation to Minghui, who warned him not to let the Sun Moon Empire arrange a marriage for his incarnation.
• Arthas examined Kong Deming, devised a treatment, and built Soul Tools for extracting medicinal essences, persuading Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen to arrange more sets and have Soul Engineers help operate them.
• Ye Xishui verified the refined medicine, and Kong Deming told her to force Arthas to become a loyal patriot if he associated too much with Shrek Academy; Ye Xishui agreed.

Arthas secretly compounded medicine that improved Kong Deming’s body, prompting the Sun Moon Empire’s leaders to discuss protecting Arthas and seizing Immortal Herbs from the Clear Sky Sect. While Arthas joined the Empire’s Soul Tool training preparations, Minghui used his blueprints to strengthen Shrek Academy’s research, and Tang San grew frustrated with Huo Yuhao’s devotion to studying and Minghui.

• Arthas gave Kong Deming pills and a medicinal bath, and Kong Deming found that they removed impurities and strengthened his body and Soul Power.
• Kong Deming, Xu Tianran, and the Emperor discussed Arthas’s background, resolved to protect him, and considered taking Immortal Herbs from the Clear Sky Sect with Ye Xishui and the Holy Spirit Cult’s help.
• Kong Deming gave Arthas research notes and Level 7 Soul Tool blueprints, while Jing Hongchen asked Arthas to guide a joint training camp for the upcoming Soul Master Tournament.
• Arthas strengthened his physical body with medicine, while Minghui transferred Soul Tool blueprints and ingredients to Shrek Academy, raising the Sea God Pavilion Elders’ concern about Mingde Hall’s technology.
• Minghui trained Huo Yuhao in Soul Tools, leaving Wang Dong’er feeling neglected as Huo Yuhao focused on his studies and admired Minghui.
• Tang San watched Huo Yuhao’s behavior, resented Minghui’s influence over him, and vowed to teach Huo Yuhao a lesson.

After Meng Hongchen endured Arthas’s ice-and-fire body tempering, she recovered from her accumulated toxins and gained greater physical strength, poison resistance, and control over ice and fire Soul Power. Arthas later broke through to rank 60 and traveled with Jing Hongchen and the siblings to the Jingyang Mountain Range, where a Golden Wolf pack surrounded their camp and Arthas sensed an unusual fluctuation from its leader.

• Arthas completed Meng Hongchen’s painful two-hour tempering, and she emerged with her toxins neutralized and her body strengthened.
• Meng Hongchen explained that her Soul Power had become denser and more resistant to poison, and that she could control its ice and fire attributes; her Martial Soul also showed subtle changes.
• Jing Hongchen reported the method’s risks to the emperor, and two days later Arthas emerged from seclusion after breaking through to rank 60.
• Jing Hongchen brought Arthas, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen to the Jingyang Mountain Range to find Arthas a Soul Ring while the siblings tested their Battle Armor and weapons.
• On the fifth night, a Golden Wolf pack surrounded the group, and Arthas sensed an unusual soul fluctuation from the pack leader and considered it as his sixth Soul Ring.

Arthas used his mutated Martial Soul to summon Undead and lead Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen through the wolf packs pursuing them. After the siblings escaped toward the Number One Test Area, Arthas stayed behind and opened another Gate of the Undead.

• Jing Hongchen held off the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor while Arthas led Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen toward a mountain to escape the gathered wolves.
• Arthas revealed his ability to summon Undead, and the siblings promised to keep it secret before the Undead attacked the pursuing Golden Wolves.
• As the wolves surrounded the mountain and overwhelmed the first group of Undead, Arthas summoned a larger Bone Dragon and carried the siblings through the encirclement.
• With their Soul Power nearly depleted, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen flew toward the Number One Test Area while Arthas stayed behind to hold off the remaining Fifty-Thousand-Year Golden Wolf.
• After the siblings disappeared, Arthas said the show should be ending and opened another Gate of the Undead.

Arthas returned safely after helping Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen escape the wolves, then Jing Hongchen led a force toward the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor. Minghui and the Shrek group reached it first, killed it, and guarded Minghui as he began absorbing its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.

• Jing Hongchen searched for Arthas after Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen reported that he had stayed behind, then concluded Arthas had escaped and waited with them.
• Arthas returned the next day, revealed that he had obtained his sixth Soul Ring and collected wolf corpses, and accompanied the Hongchen family back to the academy.
• Jing Hongchen prepared to hunt the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor while Minghui and the Shrek group tracked it to a valley in the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Lin'er suppressed the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor, and Minghui killed it with his blade and an ice explosion.
• Zhang Lexuan collected the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor's Soul Bone as Minghui began absorbing its Soul Ring, while the others drove away the surrounding wolves and stood guard.

Minghui absorbed the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone while Jing Hongchen’s failed hunt sparked an investigation into a suspected traitor in Mingde Hall. The chapter ended with Minghui arranging to share the wolf meat with Arthas and the Hongchen siblings, while Shrek Academy agreed to provide Arthas with a foreleg.

• Minghui left the Jingyang Mountain Range with the Silver Moon Wolf Emperor’s corpse after absorbing its Soul Ring, and Jing Hongchen’s search party later found the empty crater.
• Jing Hongchen, the Emperor, and Kong Deming ordered an investigation into the leak, with the Emperor warning that those responsible would be treated as traitors.
• Jing Hongchen apologized to Arthas for losing the promised wolf meat, and Arthas encouraged him to investigate a possible insider at Mingde Hall.
• Minghui absorbed the Soul Bone, reached Rank 69, and examined its Moon Shadow Sprint and Silver Moon Light Blade skills alongside his Soul Ring abilities.
• Minghui received a request to share the wolf meat with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, then asked Shrek Academy to provide Arthas with a portion.
• Mu En overruled Yan Shaozhe’s objections, and Shrek Academy gave Minghui an entire foreleg for Arthas.

Arthas gave Jing Hongchen refined Silver Moon Wolf Emperor flesh essence for Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, then designed physical training plans for the tournament teams. He joined Project Zero, identified why its giant Mecha was impractical to complete, and helped redirect the laboratory toward Doukai research and incremental technological advances.

• Arthas gave Jing Hongchen two portions of refined flesh essence and blueprints for training facilities, and Jing Hongchen agreed to bring the academy teams to him for examinations.
• Arthas examined the students, prepared individual training plans, and explained the principles behind them before leaving the training ground.
• Jing Hongchen brought Arthas to Project Zero, where Arthas briefly activated the giant Machine but stopped when driving its many Core Arrays exhausted him.
• Arthas explained that improving Energy Crystal efficiency and Core Array craftsmanship was key to making the Machine smaller, and advised researching Doukai while solving Mecha technology problems step by step.
• Jing Hongchen and the researchers agreed to dismantle and analyze Project Zero, set Doukai as their research direction, and begin a tentative three-year effort with Arthas participating.

Minghui advanced to Soul Sage, strengthened himself and Ling Luochen with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, and arranged for her to gain a Soul Spirit. After learning the Sun Moon Empire planned to capture tournament participants, he brought the warning to Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En asked what Shrek should do.

• Arthas studied advanced Soul Tool technology at Zero Laboratory while Minghui sold blueprints to Shrek Academy and sent Soul Tool research to the Body Sect.
• Minghui reached Rank 70, accepted the Ice Bear King's Sacrifice, and gained a Soul Spirit and a pair of External Soul Bones.
• Minghui and Ling Luochen absorbed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, and later Ling Luochen reached Rank 70 and received a Hundred-Thousand-Year Beautiful Beast as her Soul Spirit.
• Yan Shaozhe told the Sea God Pavilion that sects would be allowed to enter the upcoming Soul Master Tournament, and Minghui agreed to investigate through Arthas.
• Arthas told Minghui that the Sun Moon Empire intended to imprison tournament participants from the original Three Great Empires, prompting Sea God Pavilion to debate how Shrek should respond.
• Mu En asked Minghui what he thought the academy should do.

Minghui proposed exploiting the Sun Moon Empire’s planned capture of contestants to unite the original Three Great Empires and rescue the hostages. He also planned to use the resulting distraction to steal military Soul Tools from Mingde Hall, leaving the academy to decide how to support the operation.

• Minghui explained that imprisoning contestants would anger their factions and help rally resistance against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Minghui argued that rescuing the contestants would benefit the academy and the promotion of the Soul Spirit System, while Xian Lin'er worried the plan was unfair.
• Minghui reasoned that the Holy Spirit Cult would not openly join the capture operation, so the Sun Moon Empire would likely send Mingde Hall personnel instead.
• Elder Song and Minghui pointed out that stealing Mingde Hall’s military Soul Tools could weaken the Sun Moon Empire and strengthen the original Three Great Empires.
• Minghui said he could use his Simulation Soul Skill to disguise himself as a warehouse guard, steal the Soul Tools, and frame the Holy Spirit Cult, then escape through the Undead Plane.

Minghui secured agreement for a joint operation against the Sun Moon Empire and arranged the opening of Soul Spirit Hall in Shrek City. As winter break approached, Huo Yuhao agreed to accompany Wang Dong to her Sect, while Arthas was summoned at the Sun Moon Royal Academy.

• Minghui proposed drawing away the Sun Moon Empire's forces so he could infiltrate, and Mu En and others agreed to join while Yan Shaozhe stayed behind to guard the academy.
• Minghui negotiated a division of the captured goods, offering the academy a Soul Tool for research and a Level 8 blueprint; Mu En approved the deal despite Xian Lin'er criticizing Yan Shaozhe for accepting it.
• After the meeting, Minghui sent messages and cultivated, while Arthas monitored Mingde Hall's warehouse staff.
• By January, Minghui assigned his family and Sect disciples to work at the new Soul Spirit Hall in Shrek City, then returned to the academy with Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao to accompany her to her Sect to obtain a Soul Ring, and he agreed; Minghui pointed out that her invitation carried romantic meaning.
• At the Sun Moon Royal Academy, Dean of Studies Lin Jiayi ran around searching for Arthas.

Arthas treated Ju Zi after a poisoned crossbow bolt left her critically ill, and arranged to continue detoxifying her at his residence. Xu Tianran and the Emperor considered using Ju Zi’s injury and stay with Arthas to remove her as Crown Princess and potentially gain leverage over Arthas.

• Lin Jiayi told Arthas that Ju Zi had been critically wounded by a poisoned bolt, and Arthas hurried to the Crown Prince’s Mansion.
• Arthas found the poison had reached Ju Zi’s organs and warned Xu Tianran that her health, cultivation, and ability to bear children might suffer lasting damage.
• Meng Hongchen used her ice-fire-tempered blood and Soul Power to halt the poison’s spread, after which Xu Tianran arranged for Ju Zi to recover at Arthas’s residence.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen suspected Xu Tianran had lost interest in Ju Zi, while Jing Hongchen warned them to avoid speaking carelessly about the imperial family.
• Arthas requested medicinal materials from Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming as Meng Hongchen continued suppressing Ju Zi’s poison each day.
• The Emperor and Xu Tianran discussed using Ju Zi’s residence at Arthas’s home to undermine her Crown Princess status and possibly create leverage over Arthas.

Ju Zi recovered at Arthas's residence while Xu Tianran abandoned her military role and rumors spread about her and Arthas. Arthas moved to a nearby dormitory, and the chapter ended with Wang Dong's golden light blasting Huo Yuhao away when they kissed.

• Arthas told Ju Zi that her poisoned organs and cultivation would take a long time to recover, and Xu Tianran left her to recuperate at Arthas's residence.
• Xu Tianran warned Arthas that Ju Zi could not have sex or become pregnant for years while she healed, then allowed her to remain at Arthas's home.
• Keke moved in to accompany Ju Zi, and gossip about Ju Zi and Arthas spread as the academies began their breaks.
• Arthas moved to a nearby courtyard to avoid fueling rumors, while Jing Hongchen persuaded the emperor to order a crackdown on the gossip.
• Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao shared a kiss at a hotel, but golden light erupted from Wang Dong and sent Huo Yuhao crashing into a wall.

Tang San ordered Daming and Erming to put Huo Yuhao through brutal training, while Arthas and Ju Zi agreed to exploit their growing closeness to advance their plans in the Sun Moon Empire. Huo Yuhao began training at Haotian Fort, and Ju Zi proposed that Xu Tianran might eventually use her relationship with Arthas to demonstrate his trust in him.

• Tang San instructed Daming and Erming to give Huo Yuhao harsh special training when he arrived, and they reluctantly agreed.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong reached Haotian Fort, where Daming and Erming welcomed him and arranged for him to stay beside a Frozen Spring on a Cold Jade Bed.
• Daming and Erming began combat training with Huo Yuhao, and Erming beat him while Wang Dong watched and Tang San judged his resolve.
• Ju Zi told Arthas she wanted to leave her role as Crown Princess and asked him to help her escape Xu Tianran's control.
• Arthas revealed that he was a Living Dead and rejected Ju Zi's offer to serve him, but he agreed to consider her proposal after she explained how their apparent relationship could help both of them.
• Ju Zi suggested that she show affection for Arthas in front of Xu Tianran's spies, potentially giving Xu Tianran a way to display generosity and trust in Arthas.

Ju Zi and Arthas spent New Year's together after Xu Tianran approved their request while privately plotting to deal with them later. Months afterward, Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek with Wang Dong'er, and the academy prepared to assess Wang Qiu'er, a powerful new arrival whose Golden Dragon martial soul drew Minghui's attention.

• Ju Zi invited Arthas to spend New Year's with her, and Xu Tianran approved while secretly deciding to postpone dealing with them until after the Soul Master Tournament.
• Minghui and Arthas spent the holiday amid awkward but harmonious gatherings, and Minghui's Soul Power later reached Rank 74.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek with Wang Dong'er, who had resumed wearing women's clothing, and told their friends he had reached Rank 50 after training at Haotian Fort.
• Du Weilun brought Wang Qiu'er's application to Yan Shaozhe, who ordered an exceptional Inner Court assessment and appointed Minghui as chief examiner.
• Beibei and Tang Ya told Huo Yuhao's group that Wang Qiu'er had Rank 60 cultivation at seventeen and a Golden Dragon martial soul, so they hurried to watch her assessment.
• Minghui warned Wang Dong'er to stabilize her cultivation, then advised Huo Yuhao to seek a Silver Spirit Beast for its ability to copy and analyze Soul Skills.

Minghui discussed the academy’s tournament plans and met Wang Qiu'er, a new freshman who triggered Martial Soul Attraction in him. As Minghui prepared to assess her, Han Ruoruo learned of the attraction and grew jealous.

• Minghui explained that Shrek Academy might send a tournament team under its own name and another under the Soul Spirit Hall, while the Body Sect would remain hidden within the Heaven Dou Empire's team.
• Minghui and the others discussed Wang Dong'er's estrangement from her parents, while Tang San watched from the God Realm and grew angry at their remarks.
• Wang Qiu'er arrived with Yan Shaozhe, and Minghui sensed Martial Soul Attraction between them before consulting the God of Destruction's hidden Divine Sense.
• Minghui and Wang Qiu'er introduced themselves to the group, and Yan Shaozhe ordered her to last half a stick of incense against Minghui for her assessment.
• Han Ruoruo arrived to watch the assessment, learned from Ma Xiaotao that Minghui felt Martial Soul Attraction toward Wang Qiu'er, and became jealous.

Wang Qiu'er challenged Minghui for the Inner Court assessment, but he defeated her after matching her spear skills. After a blood test confirmed she and Wang Dong'er were unrelated despite their identical appearance, Minghui asked to speak with Wang Qiu'er alone, leaving her worried he had recognized her identity.

• Wang Qiu'er and Minghui fought in the assessment, exchanging Soul Skills before Minghui matched her spear technique to her level.
• Minghui exploited Wang Qiu'er's inexperience, disarmed her, and stopped his spear at her face, earning her a place in the Inner Court and the academy's tournament team.
• Wang Dong'er questioned whether Wang Qiu'er was her sister, but Wang Qiu'er said she had no parents and no second Martial Soul.
• Minghui used a Blood Test Soul Tool to show that Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er were not blood relatives, and Wang Dong'er left with Huo Yuhao.
• Minghui asked Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Han Ruoruo to leave so he could speak privately with Wang Qiu'er, who feared he had seen through her identity.

Minghui recruited Wang Qiu'er into Soul Spirit Hall and discussed its plans, while the God of Destruction convened an Assembly of All Gods to put Tang San on trial for interfering with her fate. The gods learned about Minghui’s identity and Soul Spirit plans, and Tang San faced growing opposition over his attempt to claim the Golden Dragon bloodline for his daughter.

• Minghui revealed that he knew Wang Qiu'er was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, explained his Soul Spirit Hall plans, and recruited her to join.
• Minghui offered to try Martial Soul Fusion with Wang Qiu'er and said they would set out to obtain Soul Rings the next day.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of plotting to use Wang Qiu'er’s Golden Dragon bloodline for Tang Wutong and called for a trial over his interference in the lower realm.
• Tang San defended his actions as necessary to protect the God Realm and proposed that Wang Qiu'er become a Spirit God of the Soul Spirit Realm.
• The Goddess of Life explained Minghui’s reincarnation, Soul Spirit System, and the rule against interfering with his growth, prompting the gods to turn against Tang San.

The God of Destruction judged Tang San for secretly interfering in the lower realm and suspended him from his duties, taking the God Realm Central Key into safekeeping. At the Sea God Hall, Tang San told his allies to wait for a future crisis and began considering how to recruit Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao’s allies to his side.

• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of breaking the God Realm Rules by interfering in the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s affairs, while the gods argued over how severely he should be punished.
• The God of Destruction revoked Tang San’s God Realm Central Key and duties, ordered him to return Wang Dong’er’s Divine Sense, and allowed him to keep the Golden Dragon Spear inside the Three-Eyed Golden Lion for the time being.
• Tang San returned the key to Ji Dong for safekeeping, then left the Committee Hall with Xiao Wu as the other gods departed.
• At the Sea God Hall, Tang San told his allies that a future cosmic crisis would vindicate his plans and urged them to accumulate strength while they waited.
• Tang San suggested that Ma Hongjun pass his God Position to Ma Xiaotao, promising to help him find Chenxiang’s reincarnation, and considered recruiting Minghui and Rong Nianbing to strengthen his position.

Tang San enlisted Ma Hongjun to help win over Ma Xiaotao, while Minghui led an academy mission into the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings. The group encountered three Evil Soul Masters who enslaved Soul Beast souls, and Minghui and the others killed them and purified the corrupted souls.

• Tang San persuaded Ma Hongjun to approach Ma Xiaotao when an opportunity arose and considered how to bring Huo Yuhao to Rong Nianbing's attention.
• Minghui led Huo Yuhao, Wang Qiu'er, and the academy team into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Mo Xuan and Li Yongyue obtained Soul Rings.
• Minghui detected three Evil Soul Masters, and the group saw them use a Soul Tool to enslave a Blood Rat's soul.
• Wang Qiu'er charged toward the Evil Soul Masters, but Cai Mei'er and Xian Lin'er told the team to coordinate before attacking.
• Minghui, Ma Xiaotao, Wang Dong'er, and Wang Qiu'er killed Zhongli Ren, while Cai Mei'er and Xian Lin'er dealt with Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di.
• Minghui used Light of Purification to cleanse the corrupted Beast Souls, prompting Ning Tian and Wang Qiu'er to ask what Soul Skill he had used.

Minghui helped Wang Qiu'er form a Soul Spirit contract with an injured Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, while Huo Yuhao obtained a Silver Spirit Beast Soul Ring. After returning to the academy, Han Ruoruo left to reconsider her feelings for Minghui, and Huo Yuhao opened Niu Tian's letter and learned that Wang Dong'er needed the Lovesick Heartbreak Grass to survive.

• Minghui and Wang Qiu'er entered the tree hollow, where the wounded Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear agreed to become her Soul Spirit and gave her a powerful claw skill and an External Soul Bone.
• Minghui led the group around Wolf Apes and toward a Silver Spirit Beast, and Huo Yuhao later absorbed its Soul Ring.
• After the group returned to the academy, Han Ruoruo told Minghui she would travel to reconsider her feelings and then left.
• Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm broke the seal on Niu Tian's Brocade Pouch, and Huo Yuhao found a letter and map inside.
• Huo Yuhao read that Wang Dong'er would die before turning twenty unless the Lovesick Heartbreak Grass cured her, and he rushed out after learning it required the heart's blood of her one true love.