Chapter Summaries

Xuan Ming told Tang Yuehua that he would refuse the proposed compromise over the auction-house dispute and handle the consequences himself, despite her fears for his safety. He left Tang Yuehua worried that he intended to sever his ties with the factions around him.

• Hu Liena confronted Bibi Dong about her feelings for Xuan Ming and offered her teacher support, but Bibi Dong insisted that their past and circumstances made a relationship impossible.
• Xuan Ming visited Tang Yuehua at the Moonlight Pavilion and told her he might not be able to stay much longer because of the auction-house dispute.
• Tang Yuehua urged Xuan Ming to accept a compromise backed by Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and their allies, but Xuan Ming said the others had broken their agreement.
• Tang Yuehua warned Xuan Ming that refusing to negotiate could put him in danger, while he assured her that he could handle the consequences and told her to stay out of the matter.
• Tang Yuehua asked why Xuan Ming would not wait until he became stronger, and he said he had other things to do and had endured enough, suggesting he planned to cut ties with the factions.

Xuan Ming left Heaven Dou City for Shrek Academy after deciding he might go to Slaughter City to feed the Blood Spear, with the Ice Dragon King agreeing to follow his lead. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong struggled to believe the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's claim that Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong had stolen a forbidden treasure, while Xuan Ming arrived at Shrek and found Ma Hongjun complaining about his punishing training.

• Xuan Ming said he planned to go to Slaughter City to satisfy the Blood Spear, and the Ice Dragon King agreed after weighing the danger.
• Yu Luomian warned Ning Fengzhi that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan suspected the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect of colluding with Spirit Hall, then left without accepting an explanation.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed the claim that Bibi Dong had helped Xuan Ming steal a treasure from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, finding the timing plausible but the story hard to believe.
• Xuan Ming brought Ah Rou to Shrek Academy, where Ma Hongjun begged Flender to reduce his training, but Flender and Qin Ming said they planned to increase it.

Xuan Ming questioned whether Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were ready for the Soul Master Tournament and urged them to consider the consequences of competing. He then challenged Zhu Zhuqing to decide whether the life she had chosen with him was truly the freedom she wanted.

• Yu Xiaogang announced that the group would enter the upcoming Soul Master Tournament, arguing that they might not be together in five years and that competing now would give them experience.
• Ning Rongrong defended her and Zhu Zhuqing's strength, but Xuan Ming warned that the team might not reach the finals and advised her to discuss competing with her family.
• Xuan Ming took Zhu Zhuqing aside, while Ning Rongrong questioned Xiao Wu about her feelings for him and Xiao Wu admitted their relationship was special but kept his gift to her secret.
• Xuan Ming told Zhu Zhuqing that her strength could not protect her from her sister and the Star Luo Imperial Family, and reminded her that he disliked her offering everything she had to escape her old life.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she had chosen her new cage herself, but Xuan Ming told her he had given her the ability to fly rather than rescued her just to confine her; she replied that the cage meant more to her than a cage.

Xuan Ming rejected Zhu Zhuqing’s offer to join his dangerous plans, but she confessed her feelings and kissed him before Dai Mubai interrupted them. Yu Luomian accused Xuan Ming of stealing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s secret treasure, and as their confrontation escalated, Dai Mubai was struck by alternating extreme cold and heat.

• Zhu Zhuqing confessed to Xuan Ming that she wanted a home with him, and after he said he could not involve her in his troubles, she kissed him.
• Dai Mubai arrived and accused Zhu Zhuqing of betraying the Star Luo Empire, so Xuan Ming attacked him with ice needles before Liu Erlong intervened.
• Xuan Ming seized Dai Mubai by the throat, but Liu Erlong asked him to spare the prince before Yu Luomian arrived and accused Xuan Ming of stealing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s treasure.
• Xuan Ming admitted entering the clan’s forbidden grounds with Bibi Dong but challenged Yu Luomian to identify the supposedly stolen treasure.
• Yu Luomian attacked Xuan Ming, who used Dai Mubai as a shield and then tossed him aside; Dai Mubai was overcome by alternating cold and heat, and Liu Erlong tried to help him.

Xuan Ming sealed Yu Luomian in ice after the Soul Douluo demanded he return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Dai Mubai continued suffering from the cold and heat torment. Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang failed to free Yu Luomian and concluded that only a Titled Douluo from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might be able to save him.

• Xuan Ming told Liu Erlong that Dai Mubai would survive if he endured three days, then unleashed an Ice and Snow Storm against Yu Luomian.
• Yu Luomian transformed into his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Avatar, but Xuan Ming used Winter's Wrath: Ice Seal to trap him in a massive block of ice.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the other Shrek Academy teachers arrived, and Liu Erlong revealed that Xuan Ming had sealed Yu Luomian himself.
• Liu Erlong tried to melt the ice but frostbit her fingers, then Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang summoned the Golden Sacred Dragon without freeing Yu Luomian.
• Yu Xiaogang said that only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Titled Douluo might be able to save Yu Luomian.

Xuan Ming froze Yu Luomian at Shrek Academy and planned to let the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect rescue him, gaining a favor while distancing the sect from Xuan Ming. As the unnatural snow spread across Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe and Spirit Hall investigated the disturbance, and Bibi Dong learned that a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon had been frozen.

• Yu Xiaogang said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would have to help because Yu Luomian was the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's second-in-command, and he suggested asking Ning Rongrong to contact them.
• Xuan Ming told Ning Rongrong that Yu Luomian would survive but lose his Martial Soul, and urged her to use the crisis to secure a favor and protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect by drawing a clear line between it and him.
• Ning Rongrong worried about Xuan Ming's preparations, while Xiao Wu reassured her that Xuan Ming would not die before them.
• Xue Qinghe saw unnatural snow falling over Heaven Dou City, learned it had erupted from Shrek Academy, and decided to investigate despite Snake Lance Douluo's warnings.
• Salas told Bibi Dong that Yu Luomian had been frozen in his Martial Soul Avatar at Shrek Academy and that the ice and snow had spread across nearly half of Heaven Dou City.

Xuan Ming explained that he had frozen Yu Luomian after the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master tried to capture him, while Bibi Dong and Xue Qinghe confronted him about the fallout. He revealed that he had deliberately killed and devoured opponents in the Great Soul Arena to test how others would react, leaving Xue Qinghe grim and questioning whether he had been tested.

• Bibi Dong dismissed Salas's suggestion to report the unknown ice-wielding Titled Douluo to the Elder Hall.
• Xuan Ming warned Ah Rou, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing that Bibi Dong and the Golden-Haired Lion King were coming, then let Ah Yin see through the snowflakes.
• Bibi Dong asked Xuan Ming why he had caused the snowfall, and he said he had frozen Yu Luomian when Yu Luomian came to capture him.
• Xue Qinghe confronted Xuan Ming over his defiance, but Xuan Ming told him they had no room for discussion and gave him and Bibi Dong copies of a threatening letter.
• The letter threatened to expose Xuan Ming as a Fallen Soul Master for killing people in the Great Soul Arena and consuming their blood Qi and Soul Power.
• Xuan Ming admitted he had deliberately acted that way to test others, and Xue Qinghe asked if Xuan Ming had been testing him.

Xuan Ming explained why he had exposed Blood Spear’s flaw and told Xue Qinghe he would not stop the threatened exposure, despite its danger to him and Spirit Hall. After Xue Qinghe left, Bibi Dong revealed she had been stripped of power and began considering how Xuan Ming could help her remove Golden Crocodile; the Ice Dragon King offered assistance in exchange for going to Slaughter City afterward.

• Xuan Ming told Xue Qinghe he had hoped to provoke her into turning against him, but had also exposed Blood Spear’s flaw because he kept his promises and no longer intended to hold back.
• Xuan Ming rejected Xue Qinghe’s warning about the consequences of exposing the secret and said he would not sabotage her plan or reveal her identity, but would not handle the matter with restraint.
• Bibi Dong blamed Xue Qinghe’s side for breaking its promise and said Golden Crocodile and the Worship Hall had stripped her of authority in Spirit Hall.
• After Xue Qinghe left, Bibi Dong asked whether Xuan Ming could freeze or cripple Golden Crocodile so she could regain power.
• The Ice Dragon King offered to help Bibi Dong deal with Golden Crocodile in exchange for going to Slaughter City with Xuan Ming afterward.

Xuan Ming prepared to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and stabilize his Soul Core, while the others dealt with the aftermath of his fight with Yu Luomian. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling learning he would leave Heaven Dou City again and showing their reluctance.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong learned from Ning Rongrong how Xuan Ming had become involved with Bibi Dong and discussed his strained ties with the Seven Great Families and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Xuan Ming asked Ah Rou about finding the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and the Ice Dragon King proposed going to the Star Dou Great Forest to search for it and help stabilize his Soul Core.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong examined Yu Luomian's ice prison and learned that Yu Xiaogang's failed attempt to break it had destabilized the Frost Qi, leaving Yu Luomian at risk of death or permanent injury.
• Gu Rong said powerful healing would be needed to save Yu Luomian from being crippled, but Ning Fengzhi revealed that Ye Lan had died two years earlier.
• Xuan Ming went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to tell Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling he planned to leave Heaven Dou City, and Dugu Yan complained that he had only just returned.

Xuan Ming told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he planned to go to Slaughter City after the tournament and revealed that he intended to provoke a public backlash against himself. At the Seven Treasure Pavilion, Ye Lingling refused to heal Yu Luomian, and Xuan Ming warned Ning Fengzhi that he expected to become a target for everyone.

• Xuan Ming told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he planned to go to Slaughter City and explained that he wanted others to condemn him so he could kill them without hesitation.
• Ye Lingling refused to help rescue Yu Luomian, while Dugu Yan challenged Yu Tianheng to learn how his second granduncle had really ended up trapped in ice.
• Yu Xiaogang told Yu Tianheng that Xuan Ming had taken a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan treasure and sealed Yu Luomian, surprising Yu Tianheng, who thought the treasure was only a legend.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to find a healer in hopes of earning the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's favor, but Xuan Ming said reconciliation was impossible and showed him threatening letters.
• Xuan Ming told Ning Fengzhi that the Pope would take part and predicted that he would soon become everyone's target after losing their trust and usefulness.

Xuan Ming told Tang Yuehua and Bibi Dong that he was leaving, and Tang Yuehua pointed him toward Sea God Island while he planned to visit the Star Dou Great Forest. After Bibi Dong kissed him and asked him to keep it from Nana, the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox revealed that it had influenced Qian Renxue’s feelings and pressed Bibi Dong to admit what she wanted.

• Xuan Ming visited Tang Yuehua at midnight to say he would be away for at least a month, and she gave him information about Sea God Island as a possible refuge.
• Xuan Ming visited Bibi Dong and told her he planned to go to the Star Dou Great Forest and return before the competition began.
• Bibi Dong urged Xuan Ming to tell Qian Renxue before he left, then kissed him and asked him not to let Nana know.
• The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox told Bibi Dong that the dragon souls were causing Xuan Ming’s pressure and admitted it had planted a seed in Qian Renxue to inflame her feelings for him.
• Bibi Dong challenged the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox about its motives, and it argued that Bibi Dong had failed to act honestly on her feelings for Xuan Ming.

Xuan Ming visited Qian Renxue to tell her he would be away until near the tournament, and she confronted him over how he had treated her during the day. After the Ice Dragon King coached him into comforting her, Qian Renxue kissed and restrained him, but Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo interrupted; Xuan Ming then prepared to leave.

• The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox warned Bibi Dong that the dragon souls could eventually devour Xuan Ming and that their existence threatened him.
• Xuan Ming arrived at Qian Renxue's residence, told her he would be away for a while, and tried to leave.
• Qian Renxue caught Xuan Ming and accused him of treating her more harshly than Bibi Dong during their earlier meeting.
• Following the Ice Dragon King's advice, Xuan Ming carried Qian Renxue to the bed and held her while she rested against him.
• Qian Renxue kissed Xuan Ming and used her Angel Domain to pin him down, prompting Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo to rush into the room.
• Qian Renxue sent the two guards away, and Xuan Ming said he still had something to do as the room fell quiet.

Xuan Ming let the Ice Dragon King confront Qian Renxue about her treatment of him and reveal the power he had been hiding. Qian Renxue admitted her guilt and asked whether they could remain friends, while Xuan Ming left their future uncertain.

• Qian Renxue challenged Xuan Ming over his feelings for Bibi Dong, and Xuan Ming explained how she had hurt and burdened him despite his past efforts for her.
• The Ice Dragon King took over the conversation, froze the crown prince's residence, and told Qian Renxue that Xuan Ming had long been strong enough to resist her but had endured her treatment because he remembered their bond.
• The Ice Dragon King accused Qian Renxue of prioritizing her own feelings and contrasted her behavior with Bibi Dong's restraint, prompting Qian Renxue to cry and question whether she was truly awful.
• The Ice Dragon King released Xuan Ming and warned Qian Renxue that she had no right to interfere in whom he loved, while Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo stayed silent.
• Qian Renxue asked what she meant to Xuan Ming and whether they still had a future, and Xuan Ming called her a friend who was not quite right in the head and said the future was uncertain.

Xuan Ming entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region and was badly injured when Xiong Jun attacked him. The Ice Dragon King drove Xiong Jun off with her power, and Di Tian brought Xuan Ming to the Lake of Life for treatment.

• Xuan Ming flew into the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region and was ambushed by Xiong Jun, who mistook him for a dragon intruding on his territory.
• Xiong Jun shattered Xuan Ming’s defenses and severely injured him, but the Ice Dragon King appeared and froze the bear.
• Xiong Jun broke free of the ice, then fled when Di Tian arrived and learned that the Ice Dragon King called Xuan Ming her younger brother.
• Di Tian apologized to the Ice Dragon King and took her and Xuan Ming to the Lake of Life.
• Di Tian asked Bi Ji to heal Xuan Ming before leaving to retrieve Xiong Jun.

After Xiong Jun was ordered to find the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, Xuan Ming learned that the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's dragon bones made him a source of heaven and earth origin power. Zi JI identified him as a likely successor to the Dragon Kings, then explained his strange reaction to her as resonance between their dragon bloodlines.

• Bi JI and Ah Yin healed Xuan Ming, and Bi JI deduced that his good manners meant he was not a dragon.
• Zi JI emerged from the Lake of Life, recognized the Ice Dragon King's first-generation Dragon King bloodline, and tested Xuan Ming's powerful domain.
• Xuan Ming asked Di Tian to have Xiong Jun find the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Xiong Jun reluctantly set off to search for it.
• Di Tian led the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King beneath the Lake of Life while Xuan Ming rested on the shore.
• Zi JI and Bi JI sensed the heaven and earth origin power around Xuan Ming, and he explained that the Dragon Kings' bones inside him gathered it.
• Zi JI called Xuan Ming the Dragon Kings' successor and explained that his reaction to her came from bloodline resonance before sitting on his stomach.

The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King convinced the Silver Dragon King that Xuan Ming could help restore the Dragon God’s power, and the Ice Dragon King suggested that affection might bind their interests. After Xuan Ming was freed from the ice, the Ice Dragon King said Di Tian would teach him to control his Yin-Yang Soul Core.

• The Silver Dragon King questioned whether Xuan Ming would remain trustworthy after reaching the God Realm, and the Ice Dragon King explained that she only expected him to help the Silver Dragon King obtain the Golden Dragon King's power.
• The Ice Dragon King revealed that the Dragon Kings’ remaining consciousness would disappear within a thousand years, while the Fire Dragon King said Xuan Ming would not worsen the Soul Beast Clan’s position even if he refused to help.
• The Ice Dragon King suggested that the Silver Dragon King love Xuan Ming to align their interests, but Di Tian objected, and the Silver Dragon King said she would not force herself to feel affection.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King linked their dragon souls with the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian so they could see what they had witnessed; the Fire Dragon King accused Di Tian of pretending to sleep and spying.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion arrived at the lakeshore while Xuan Ming remained frozen, and Bi Ji explained that Zi JI had teased him with bloodline resonance.
• The Ice Dragon King told Xuan Ming that Zi JI had been teasing him, and Xuan Ming broke free of the ice before asking whether their discussion was over; the Ice Dragon King said Di Tian would teach him to control his Yin-Yang Soul Core.

After stabilizing his Yin-Yang Soul Cores, Xuan Ming built an ice amusement park to entertain the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then prepared grilled meat for the arriving Zi JI. He had not yet found the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and the chapter ended with Zi JI enjoying his food and expecting more.

• After months of training under Di Tian's guidance, Xuan Ming stabilized his Ice-Fire Soul Cores and reached level fifty-nine.
• Bi Ji told Xuan Ming that the search for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was still underway, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked him to play.
• Xuan Ming froze the Lake of Life and fashioned an amusement park of slides, pools, ice houses, toys, and a maze for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion rushed to play, and Bi Ji joined her while Xuan Ming set up his camping gear to cook.
• Zi JI came to investigate the amusement park, tasted Xuan Ming's grilled meat, and silently finished several servings.

Xuan Ming endured Di Tian’s brutal training to develop his Black Dragon Martial Soul’s darkness and light attributes while preparing to return for the Soul Master Tournament. When Xiong Jun brought in the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, it unleashed its Evil God Thorn and pulled Xuan Ming and itself into a black hole.

• Di Tian used his Ultimate Darkness Domain to push Xuan Ming’s darkness attribute to evolve, while Bi Ji healed him between attacks.
• Xuan Ming said he had little time before the Soul Master Tournament and had reached level sixty during his training.
• Xiong Jun brought back the supposedly crippled Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and explained that he had found it far north of Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger escaped its feigned helplessness and attacked Bi Ji with its Evil God Thorn, but Xuan Ming pushed her out of danger.
• Xiong Jun shattered the tiger’s protective evil god presence, but its black hole swallowed Xuan Ming and the tiger before Di Tian could stop it.

Xuan Ming was trapped in the Life and Death Arena with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and both were reverted to childhood. He awakened his Black Dragon power and beat the tiger to death, then emerged from the arena injured but alive.

• The Silver Dragon King explained that the Life and Death Arena forced one side to die, while the Ice Dragon King said Xuan Ming might awaken his Martial Soul early under the pressure.
• Xuan Ming dodged the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's opening attack and used poison and Soul Tools to make it hesitate.
• Xuan Ming's Black Dragons appeared as his body transformed, and he attacked the tiger with his fists while healing it with his domain.
• Xuan Ming relentlessly battered the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger until its defenses broke and it died.
• Xuan Ming emerged from the arena with the tiger's corpse, and Bi Ji began healing him as the others questioned how he had won.

After absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Soul Ring and life bead, Xuan Ming gained the evil attribute and a new Soul Skill, Evil God Thorn. Once he tested its limits with Di Tian, he prepared to return to Heaven Dou City, while the Ice Dragon King proposed that the Ferocious Beasts accompany him.

• Bi Ji healed Xuan Ming, who absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Soul Ring and life bead after the Ice Dragon King advised him to swallow the bead.
• Xuan Ming survived the absorption, reached rank sixty-three, gained the evil attribute, and strengthened his control over time, space, darkness, and lightning.
• Xuan Ming tested Evil God Thorn against Di Tian and learned that it shattered or weakened energy attacks and defenses, though stronger or successive attacks could overwhelm it.
• After Bi Ji healed him again, Xuan Ming said he needed to return to Heaven Dou City for the approaching tournament.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked to go with Xuan Ming, and the Ice Dragon King offered to conceal her and the other Ferocious Beasts if they accompanied him.