Chapter Summaries

Ming Zhao’s ghosts finally found the Jade Phosphor Poison Formation deep in Sunset Forest, and he sent one into its poisonous cloud to test its effects. The ghost began to dissolve, confirming that the formation could corrode even spirit bodies.

• Ming Zhao spent more than half a month directing his ghosts to search Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• On his eighteenth day in Heaven Dou City, Ming Zhao saw a vast Jade Phosphor Poison cloud covering a mountain valley and discovered the formation beneath it.
• Ming Zhao watched the poison plants feed on the remains of countless Soul Beasts and approved of Tang San’s decision to hide the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the formation.
• Ming Zhao ordered a Soul Saint-level ghost to charge into the Jade Phosphor Poison Formation, despite knowing it might be destroyed.
• The ghost’s spirit body began to dissipate in the poisonous mist, and Ming Zhao remarked that the formation was worthy of its name.

Ming Zhao discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and sent a hundred ghosts to seize its Immortal Herbs, hoping to use the treasure land to break through to the Titled Douluo realm. The ghosts began attacking the Immortal Herbs, whose power proved unable to match their Yin Qi and ghost Qi.

• Ming Zhao used a ghost to locate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then ordered his ghosts to check whether Tang San's divine sense was there.
• Ming Zhao assembled twelve Soul Douluo ghosts and eighty-eight Soul Saint ghosts, who joined together to pass through the Jade Phosphor Poison Formation.
• After recovering their strength overnight, the hundred ghosts entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and confronted its Immortal Herbs.
• The Silk Aromatic Immortal Treasure warned the ghosts to leave, but Ming Zhao ordered them to attack.
• The twelve Soul Douluo ghosts divided into six teams and led the Soul Saint ghosts against six hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herbs.

Ming Zhao’s hundred ghosts subdued the six Immortal Herbs and took control of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He tested whether threatening the Aromatic Silk Beauty over Tang San’s book would summon Tang San’s divine sense, but nothing happened.

• Ming Zhao’s hundred ghosts overwhelmed the six Immortal Herbs and planted controllable Ghost Qi in their roots.
• Ming Zhao concluded Tang San had left no divine sense at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used Ghost God Vision to possess a Soul Douluo ghost.
• Ming Zhao threatened the Aromatic Silk Beauty for Tang San’s book and detonated a node in her roots when she hesitated.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty handed over the white jade book despite the other Immortal Herbs’ reproaches.
• Ming Zhao flipped through the book while watching for Tang San’s divine sense, but nothing happened.

Ming Zhao concluded that Tang San’s divine sense was absent from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and set out to condense his Soul Core there while studying the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. Under his control, the Immortal Herbs secretly discussed their capture and realized they had no way to escape.

• Ming Zhao reasoned that Tang San’s failure to intervene proved his divine sense was not in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ming Zhao left Heaven Dou City for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and read the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record through the consciousness inside Dongyang City's lord.
• The Immortal Herbs held a private conversation while Ming Zhao let them speak, knowing they had no way to resist him.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty defended surrendering Tang San’s jade booklet, and the other Immortal Herbs fell silent rather than blame her further.
• Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass asked how they could escape Ming Zhao’s control, but the Immortal Herbs had no answer and faced what seemed to be a dead end.

Ming Zhao obtained the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s Silk Beauty Pill and used it to cross the Jade Phosphor Poison Formation and enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. There, he began cultivating with Zhang Lexuan and Li Ya, forming a vast ice-and-fire taiji vortex.

• Ming Zhao sent a Soul Saint paper figure into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to demand the Silk Beauty Pill from the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• After the paper figure blasted one of its nodes, the Aromatic Silk Beauty handed over the Silk Beauty Pill, which repelled poison and miasma.
• Ming Zhao used the pill to cross the Jade Phosphor Poison Formation safely and descended into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ming Zhao recognized the well as an ideal cultivation ground and adapted to its unique laws of heaven and earth.
• Zhang Lexuan and Li Ya joined Ming Zhao above the fire and ice springs, and the three formed a huge red-and-blue taiji vortex.

Ming Zhao used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to split his existence into skin and flesh, and bone and spirit, as Zhang Lexuan and Li Ya performed a blood-soaked wedding ritual. After the six hundred-thousand-year-old immortal herbs were sacrificed and six Soul Rings appeared, the two halves reunited, and Ming Zhao’s mangled body sank into the springs.

• Ming Zhao reversed the Yin and Yang forces of the twin springs, causing Zhang Lexuan and Li Ya to suffer and tear at him.
• Zhang Lexuan and Li Ya split Ming Zhao’s existence into skin and flesh without spirit and bone with spirit, then merged with the respective halves as bride and groom.
• The three hun and seven po gathered as witnesses while Zhang Lexuan and Li Ya bowed to heaven and earth, drawing the springs’ energy into the divided forms.
• The skin and bones bowed to each other three times, absorbing the immortal herbs’ essence, six Soul Rings, and medicinal energy from the valley.
• Zhang Lexuan and Li Ya embraced as the divided forms fused, and Ming Zhao’s mangled body fell into the twin springs.

Ming Zhao survived the Skin Marries Bone ritual at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used its energy to condense Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores. After a long slumber, he awoke with his body transformed and the Soul Cores forming within him.

• Ming Zhao performed the Skin Marries Bone ritual at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to strengthen his body and condense dual Soul Cores.
• The ritual drained the Immortal Herbs and many other plants, while the energy of the well helped Ming Zhao keep his Yin and Yang powers balanced.
• Ming Zhao's body gradually regenerated as new shoots grew over the ruined valley and the six Soul Bones were concealed among the herbs.
• After an unknown length of time, Ming Zhao opened his eyes and awoke with black and white vortices at his chest and lower abdomen.

Ming Zhao completed the Skin Marries Bone ritual, gained dual Soul Cores, and received powerful Soul Rings and a Soul Bone from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings. He emerged at Level 94 with Limit-level combat power, while secretly considering using the Dragon Kings’ remnant souls for his Martial Souls.

• Ming Zhao woke in the twin ice and fire springs after completing the ritual and breaking through the Titled Douluo bottleneck.
• Ming Zhao discovered that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remnant souls had granted him two million-year Soul Rings and a combined ice-and-fire torso Soul Bone.
• Ming Zhao rejected the idea of repaying the Dragon Kings by restoring them and considered turning their souls into embodied forms of his Water Vengeful Spirit and Ghost Bride Martial Souls.
• Ming Zhao rose from the springs using spatial control and assessed his two complementary Soul Cores, which had brought him to Level 94.
• Ming Zhao concluded that he already possessed Limit-level combat power and would have little reason to fear Long Xiaoyao after reaching Level 95.

After claiming the treasures of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Ming Zhao prepared to settle old scores with Shrek and grow his ghost army. Tian Meng feared for his life but yielded his remaining seals to Ming Zhao, bringing him close to the Super Douluo realm.

• Ming Zhao packed away six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and harvested the remaining Immortal Herbs and spiritual medicines from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, leaving seeds behind.
• Ming Zhao resolved to use talented people and future sacrifices to strengthen his hundred ghosts and planned to make Shrek, the Clear Sky Sect, and the Body Sect targets.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hid in Ming Zhao's Sea of Consciousness and sealed off his thoughts, fearing Ming Zhao would kill him.
• Tian Meng shattered his eight remaining seals and merged them into Ming Zhao's Sea of Consciousness, strengthening its capacity and the age of Ming Zhao's Soul Rings.
• Ming Zhao sensed Tian Meng's power while traveling above Sunset Forest and approached the level-ninety-five Super Douluo realm.

After gaining power from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Ming Zhao returned to Heaven Dou City and learned that a year had passed while he cultivated. He went to Dragon City to protect the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, whose powerful Soul Rings and Soul Bones he intended to claim without sacrificing his cultivation potential.

• Ming Zhao spared Tian Meng, telling him that he would live as long as he stayed obedient, and Tian Meng willingly fell asleep.
• Ming Zhao returned to Heaven Dou City, listened to the city's conversations, and learned that Huo Yuhao was about to enter his second year at Shrek.
• Ming Zhao realized that Tian Meng's absence could alter the Ice Empress and Snow Empress's fate in the Far North.
• Ming Zhao decided to keep the Ice Empress and Snow Empress alive so he could obtain their Soul Rings and Soul Bones without rushing his own levels.
• Ming Zhao arrived in Dragon City and planned to take ten pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to help the two Empresses survive their tribulations.

Ming Zhao entered the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cavern and took ten pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow as a reward for the Ice Empresses. In the Extreme North, the Snow Empress revealed that her damaged Soul Core left her with almost no chance of surviving her next heavenly tribulation, while a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus offered her another path.

• Ming Zhao crossed the frigid spring and entered the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cavern behind a spatial shield.
• Ming Zhao sealed ten pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow into skull-shaped ornaments and wore them as a bracelet.
• Ming Zhao left the cavern and set off to find the ones he had come for.
• In the Extreme North Core Circle, the Ice Empress urged the Snow Empress to reconsider taking human form and cultivating anew.
• The Snow Empress told the Ice Empress that her damaged Soul Core gave her less than a one-percent chance of surviving the seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, but a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus had given her another option.

The Snow Empress and Ice Empress learned that their damaged origins left them both unable to survive their next heavenly tribulations, so they agreed to risk everything together. Their plans were interrupted when Ming Zhao attacked A-Tai, drawing the two Empresses out to face him.

• The Snow Empress offered to help the Ice Empress survive her next heavenly tribulation, but the Ice Empress revealed that her own origin was also gravely injured.
• The Ice Empress proposed protecting the Snow Empress while she recovered from taking human form, then sacrificing herself so they could pursue the god level together.
• Ming Zhao searched the Far North for the Ice and Snow Empresses and encountered A-Tai, the Titan Snow Demon King.
• Ming Zhao used his Holy Flame Dragon Body to overpower A-Tai and smash him into the ice and snow.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived after the Ice Empress's sword strike interrupted the fight and caught A-Tai.
• Ming Zhao faced the two Empresses and demanded that they kneel and submit or die.

Ming Zhao confronted the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, whose fused domain empowered them on their home ground. He countered it with the Ice Dragon King Domain, seized control of the Far North’s power, and left the sisters shocked as his attack sent the Snow Empress flying.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress joined hands and unleashed their fused Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain against Ming Zhao.
• Ming Zhao activated the Ice Dragon King Domain, overpowering the sisters’ domain and taking control of the Far North’s power.
• Ming Zhao used spatial flash to attack the Ice Empress from behind, but the Snow Empress intercepted his punch with Great Cold Without Snow.
• Ming Zhao’s strike sent the Snow Empress flying and left her palm numb, while she realized he had wielded the Far North’s power against her.

Ming Zhao overwhelmed the Ice Empress after taking control of the Far North’s power, and the Snow Empress mistook him for the Ice God. After he demanded submission or death, both sisters knelt and accepted him as their master.

• The Ice Empress struck Ming Zhao with Ice Emperor's Wrath, but he avoided the attack with a paper double and countered with a powerful punch.
• Ming Zhao shattered the Ice Empress's defenses and broke her arms, leaving her terrified as the Snow Empress caught her.
• The Snow Empress asked whether Ming Zhao was the Ice God, believing only the Ice God could command the Far North's power.
• Ming Zhao denied being the Ice God and issued the Snow Empress and Ice Empress a final ultimatum to submit or die.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress knelt before Ming Zhao and agreed to call him master.

Ming Zhao secured the Ice Empress and Snow Empress as sources of origin power for his plan to reach godhood by promising them survival and a share in eternal life. After they pledged their loyalty, he gave them Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and ordered them to heal before attempting their tribulations.

• Ming Zhao explained his plan to reach Level 100 through the Ice and Snow Empresses' origin power, then condense a Godhood of his own.
• Ming Zhao showed the Snow Empress and Ice Empress ten pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and asked them to sacrifice themselves when he reached Level 99.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress accepted Ming Zhao's offer and pledged to stand with him.
• The Snow Empress received six pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, while the Ice Empress received four, and both went into seclusion.
• Ming Zhao ordered the two Empresses to heal their origins and suppress their cultivation until a better time for their tribulations, since he did not trust them and feared the Snow Empress might fail.

Ming Zhao left the Far North after forcing the Ice and Snow Empresses to delay their breakthroughs, then plotted to use the tournament to kill Shrek’s students. He set traps in the Ming Dou Mountain Range and headed toward Star Luo City, leaving himself free to slaughter a town for amusement.

• Ming Zhao arranged for the Ice and Snow Empresses to recover and suppress their cultivation while he waited to grow stronger.
• Ming Zhao left the Far North and decided to work with the Death Messenger to attack Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao’s loss of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm changed his abilities and kept him off Shrek’s tournament reserve team.
• Ming Zhao watched the Death Messenger, decided not to rescue him from Xuan Zi, and planted two Soul Saint ghosts in his lair to strengthen the attack on Shrek.
• Ming Zhao left for Star Luo City and considered slaughtering a town while he waited for the tournament.

Ming Zhao trapped a city in a supernatural death game, while Shrek Academy's tournament team was wiped out in the Death Hand Bandit Group's cave. The cave collapsed after a Soul Saint ghost's self-destruction combined with the Death Messenger's Corpse Explosion Technique.

• Ming Zhao created seven rules for the trapped city, sealed it within an invisible domain, and began his game.
• Xuan Zi led Shrek Academy's tournament team across the border, and they found the Death Messenger's lair with Wang Yan's help.
• Shrek's team attacked the bandits after seeing the horrors in the cave, and the Death Messenger appeared and used the Corpse Explosion Technique.
• A Soul Saint ghost self-destructed amid the team, amplifying the explosion inside the cave.
• Dai Yueheng, the other thirteen competitors, and Wang Yan died in the blast as the cave collapsed.

After the cave collapsed and Shrek’s disciples died in the Death Messenger’s trap, Xuan Zi gathered their remains and flew back to Shrek, devastated and blamed for another disaster. Ming Zhao reviewed a returning ghost’s memories, replaced his ghosts with the captured souls, and wondered whether he could have killed Huo Yuhao and the God King’s daughter if they had been there.

• Xuan Zi used his power to stabilize the collapsing mountain, recovered the disciples’ remains, and watched the mountain collapse after realizing they were dead.
• Xuan Zi recalled how he had taken the blame for the deaths at Ming Zhao’s hands before and recognized that the trap had again caused an irreparable loss under his leadership.
• Xuan Zi gathered the remains in boxes, suffered a drop in Soul Power Level, and flew back toward Shrek Academy.
• Ming Zhao reviewed the records of a returning ghost and learned that Shrek’s team had been wiped out by the Death Messenger’s trap.
• Ming Zhao absorbed the Soul Saint ghost’s gains, replaced his ghosts with the captured souls of thirteen Shrek members, and wondered why Huo Yuhao and the second-years had not been on the team.

After Ming Zhao ended his deadly game in the border city, Xuan Zi returned to Shrek Academy with the contestants’ remains and explained how they had died. Though the elders could not fault him for the disaster, Xuan Zi took his own life, leaving the Sea God Pavilion stunned.

• Ming Zhao withdrew his domain and left the ruined border city, where most residents had died in the deadly game or killed one another.
• Xuan Zi knelt before the Sea God Pavilion and laid out the contestants’ remains, prompting Mu En to demand an explanation.
• Xuan Zi recounted how Dai Yueheng and the others had died in an Evil Soul Master’s Corpse Explosion before he could save them.
• The elders realized Xuan Zi had not been responsible for the deaths, while Yan Shaozhe privately felt relieved that he had not led the team.
• Xuan Zi declared that he would repay his sins with his life, shattered his Soul Core, and poured his remaining power into the Golden Tree.

After Xuan Zi’s death and Shrek’s losses, Mu En ordered the academy to withdraw from the Soul Fighting Tournament and reorganize its leadership. Ming Zhao learned of the withdrawal and began plotting to use the Holy Spirit Cult to bring about Mu En’s death.

• Mu En blamed Xuan Zi for abandoning Shrek, ordered compensation and an apology for the dead students, and kept Xuan Zi’s death secret.
• Mu En withdrew Shrek from the Soul Fighting Tournament, ordered Yan Shaozhe to step down and enter seclusion, and appointed Mei'er and Han Ruoruo to leadership roles.
• After the others left, Mu En spat blood and wondered whether Shrek could survive the crisis and preserve its legacy.
• Xu Jiawei received Shrek’s withdrawal notice and increased the Star Luo Royal Academy’s investment in the tournament.
• Ming Zhao heard that Shrek had withdrawn and decided to use the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack on Shrek to kill Mu En.