Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lexuan, Cai Mei'er, and Ma Sheng encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Scarlet King after a Soul Beast was killed. Gu Yuena revealed her supposed family connection to the Scarlet King, easing the standoff and leaving the humans out of immediate danger.

• Zhang Lexuan recognized the golden-furred Three-Eyed Golden Lion as an unusual Soul Beast, and Cai Mei'er and Ma Sheng arrived to back her up.
• The Scarlet King arrived to protect the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who said the humans had killed the little snake and that she had not finished playing with it.
• Cai Mei'er identified the Scarlet King and asked to leave, but he refused to let the matter go after hearing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's complaint.
• Kong Xuan warned Gu Yuena that the beasts might attack, so she stepped forward and greeted the Scarlet King as her uncle.
• Gu Yuena claimed that her clan's elders had ties to the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Circle, and Ma Sheng concluded that her connections had helped avert the crisis.

The Scarlet King ended the confrontation with Cai Mei'er and Ma Sheng, then invited Gu Yuena and Kong Xuan to the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Circle. There, Gu Yuena reunited with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who learned that she was the Silver Dragon King.

• The Scarlet King dismissed the conflict with Cai Mei'er and Ma Sheng and invited Gu Yuena to visit Di Tian in the Core Circle.
• The Scarlet King insisted that Kong Xuan come too, and Kong Xuan persuaded Ma Sheng to let him go by recalling Kong Deming's instructions.
• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena left with the Scarlet King, while Ma Sheng, Cai Mei'er, and Xu Tianyi discussed whether Kong Xuan would be safe.
• Once beyond the Titled Douluos' perception, the Scarlet King knelt before Gu Yuena and apologized for his earlier disrespect.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Gu Yuena if she was their lord, and Gu Yuena introduced herself as the Silver Dragon King and welcomed her.

Gu Yuena discovered a human soul protected by divine power inside the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Sea of Consciousness and learned that it was a fragment Tang San had split from his daughter, Tang Wutong, to help control Huo Yuhao. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion feared for her life as Gu Yuena and Kong Xuan revealed the danger.

• Kong Xuan alerted Gu Yuena to something unusual in the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Gu Yuena found a human girl’s soul inside her Sea of Consciousness.
• When Gu Yuena tried to touch the soul, divine power repelled her and made her realize that a powerful god had left it there.
• Gu Yuena recognized the girl as Wang Dong, and Kong Xuan explained that she was Tang Wutong, Tang San’s daughter from the Divine Realm.
• Gu Yuena feared Tang San was targeting her or the Soul Beasts, but Kong Xuan explained that he was scheming to control Huo Yuhao.
• Kong Xuan revealed that the soul in the Three-Eyed Golden Lion belonged to Tang Wutong and was a fragment Tang San had torn from his daughter.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion grew frightened and asked Gu Yuena whether she was going to die.

Kong Xuan reassured Gu Yuena and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion that Tang San’s threat could be dealt with, then brought Gu Yuena to the Lake of Life to ask the Ferocious Beasts for help releasing a Soul Beast embryo. Di Tian summoned the other Ferocious Beasts with a dragon’s roar.

• Kong Xuan told the Three-Eyed Golden Lion that she would survive as long as she stayed in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Yuena led Kong Xuan and the Scarlet King to the Lake of Life, where Di Tian greeted her.
• Kong Xuan asked Gu Yuena and the Ferocious Beasts to help safely release the Soul Beast embryo sealed in the God Sealing Altar.
• Gu Yuena agreed, and Di Tian called the other Ferocious Beasts back with a dragon’s roar.

Kong Xuan opened the God Sealing Altar in the Star Dou Great Forest and discovered that the soul beast inside was the Snow Empress. As the Ferocious Beasts struggled to stop her power from dissipating, Electrolux appeared to help stabilize her.

• Xiong Jun, Zi JI, Bi Ji, and the Myriad Demon King gathered at the Lake of Life, and Gu Yuena introduced them to Kong Xuan.
• Kong Xuan warned the Ferocious Beasts that the soul beast inside the God Sealing Altar might unleash unstable power, then opened it.
• The Snow Empress emerged in a wave of freezing air, and Di Tian recognized her as the third-ranked Ferocious Beast.
• Kong Xuan explained that he had brought the Snow Empress to the Star Dou Great Forest and wanted to help her regain human form.
• The Snow Empress said her interrupted transformation could not be saved, while the Ferocious Beasts slowed her fading power.
• Kong Xuan called for Electrolux, who appeared and suggested Kong Xuan might be able to stabilize the Snow Empress himself.

Kong Xuan used the Ruyi Golden Cudgel's power to stabilize the Snow Empress's origin, allowing her to complete her transformation into human form. After she restored the Lake of Life and explained how she had restarted her cultivation, Gu Yuena condemned the Divine Realm's treatment of Soul Beasts, and the Snow Empress asked Di Tian who Gu Yuena was.

• Electrolux told Kong Xuan to draw on the Ruyi Golden Cudgel's suppressive power to stop the Snow Empress's origin from dissipating, and Kong Xuan succeeded.
• Kong Xuan and the Ferocious Beasts helped the Snow Empress complete her transformation into a beautiful young woman.
• The Snow Empress melted the ice around the Lake of Life and thanked Kong Xuan and the Ferocious Beasts for saving her.
• The Snow Empress explained that she had used a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus to seal her cultivation and take human form, and Di Tian questioned the danger of her choice.
• Gu Yuena angrily denounced the Divine Realm for barring Soul Beasts from godhood, and the Snow Empress asked Di Tian who Gu Yuena was.

The Snow Empress agreed to help promote Soul Spirits after Kong Xuan saved her, and his power let her transform directly into an eighteen-year-old Soul Saint. After Xu Tianyi obtained a Soul Ring, Ma Sheng and Cai Mei'er returned to Shrek City and found Kong Xuan waiting at the open gate with Xu Wei and Ji Juechen.

• Di Tian introduced Gu Yuena as the Silver Dragon King, and the Snow Empress thanked her and Kong Xuan for helping her survive.
• Kong Xuan explained Soul Spirits and asked for the Far North's support; the Snow Empress agreed to cooperate if they worked as he described.
• The Snow Empress said Kong Xuan's power stabilized her origin and let her transform as an eighteen-year-old, and she revealed that she was a level seventy-five Soul Saint.
• Cai Mei'er and Ma Sheng found a suitable destruction-attribute Soul Beast for Xu Tianyi, who absorbed its Soul Ring before they returned to Shrek Academy.
• At Shrek City's still-open eastern gate, Ma Sheng found Kong Xuan waiting with Xu Wei and Ji Juechen, and asked why they were sitting there.

After the Soul Hunting expedition, Kong Xuan and the others returned safely, and Kong Xuan settled the human-form Snow Empress in Shrek City. As the school year ended, Kong Xuan and Meng Hongchen planned to spend the holiday together, but Ma Xiaotao arrived at Sea God Lake in a frenzy, her Evil Fire apparently turning her into an Evil Soul Master.

• Xu Wei explained that Kong Xuan had waited at Shrek's east gate and persuaded the academy to keep it open until Ma Sheng returned.
• Ma Sheng reunited with Kong Xuan, thanked him for waiting, and left with the Sun Moon group as Cai Mei'er watched uneasily.
• The Soul Hunting expedition ended with Xu Tianyi advancing to Soul King and Kong Xuan breaking through to Soul Emperor; Di Tian escorted them out, and Kong Xuan housed the human-form Snow Empress in Shrek City.
• As their first year at Shrek Academy ended, Meng Hongchen told Kong Xuan she would go wherever he went for the holiday, and he invited her to come with him.
• Kong Xuan and Meng Hongchen spotted Ma Xiaotao hurtling across Sea God Lake in black flames, and Kong Xuan identified her as a powerful Evil Soul Master whose Evil Fire had worsened.

Kong Xuan stopped Ma Xiaotao’s rampage by disabling her limbs and sealing her Soul Skills, then defended his actions against two arriving teachers. An authoritative voice confirmed Ma Xiaotao had lost control first and ruled that Kong Xuan had acted in self-defense.

• Ma Xiaotao attacked Kong Xuan and Meng Hongchen while consumed by her Evil Fire, and Kong Xuan moved Meng Hongchen behind him.
• Kong Xuan dodged Ma Xiaotao’s charge and used Heavenly Prohibition to injure her limbs and seal her Soul Skills, leaving her unable to fight.
• Two teachers arrived, and one accused Kong Xuan of viciously injuring a fellow student before learning Ma Xiaotao had lost control.
• Kong Xuan challenged the teachers over the danger Ma Xiaotao posed and questioned why Shrek Academy kept an Evil Soul Master in its inner court.
• A voice from behind the teachers declared that Ma Xiaotao had lost control first and that Kong Xuan had acted in self-defense.

Yan Shaozhe arrived after Kong Xuan stopped Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire outbreak and reprimanded the teachers who had failed to guard her. Kong Xuan urged him to involve Shrek Academy against the Holy Spirit Cult, then hinted that he knew about Yan Shaozhe’s former girlfriend.

• Yan Shaozhe assessed Ma Xiaotao’s injuries and scolded the two teachers for abandoning their posts.
• Yan Shaozhe sent the teachers to take Ma Xiaotao to the inner courtyard for treatment and thanked Kong Xuan for stopping her.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Kong Xuan and Meng Hongchen to keep the incident quiet, but Kong Xuan argued that the outer courtyard students deserved to know the danger.
• Kong Xuan called Ma Xiaotao an Evil Soul Master and suggested that Evil Soul Masters might help treat her; he also told Yan Shaozhe about the Holy Spirit Cult and its Titled Douluo.
• Yan Shaozhe doubted Kong Xuan’s motives, so Kong Xuan hinted that he knew Yan Shaozhe had once had a girlfriend.

Kong Xuan told Yan Shaozhe that his former girlfriend Feng Ling had joined the Holy Spirit Cult and become its deputy leader and the cult leader’s wife. Yan Shaozhe left to investigate, while Kong Xuan reflected on the tangled family ties behind the revelation.

• Kong Xuan brought up Feng Ling, Yan Shaozhe’s first official girlfriend, and Yan Shaozhe recalled their breakup over differing ideals.
• Kong Xuan revealed that Feng Ling had joined the Holy Spirit Cult and become its leader’s wife and deputy leader.
• Yan Shaozhe reacted with disbelief and anger, then said he would investigate the news himself.
• Yan Shaozhe flew toward the inner courtyard to inform Shrek Academy’s elders and enlist the academy’s help.
• Meng Hongchen asked Kong Xuan whether Feng Ling had really been Yan Shaozhe’s girlfriend, and Kong Xuan confirmed it.
• Kong Xuan privately considered the family connections linking Yan Shaozhe, Zhongli Wu, Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Feng Ling.

As the first semester at Shrek Academy ended, Kong Xuan and his companions saw the Sun Moon exchange students off before heading to meet Xue Ling. Xue Ling left her job at Wei Ning’s dessert shop and joined them, carrying an unfamiliar warmth from her time among humans.

• Ma Sheng warned Kong Xuan to be careful while staying behind, and Xiao Hongchen entrusted Meng Hongchen to Kong Xuan before leaving with the other exchange students.
• Meng Hongchen linked arms with Kong Xuan, and he told her and Gu Yuena they would first find Xue Ling.
• At Wei Ning’s dessert shop, Xue Ling told Wei Ning she was leaving, and Wei Ning thanked her and gave her two hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Xue Ling accepted the money and promised to visit Wei Ning if she returned, then left the shop.
• Wei Ning looked at the now-empty queue and realized the customers had come to see Xue Ling.

Kong Xuan led his companions to the Sunset Forest to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then revealed that the Snow Empress and Gu Yuena were powerful Soul Beasts. Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen were left stunned, and Kong Xuan hoped they would grow comfortable with their companions’ true identities.

• Kong Xuan flew with his companions to the Sunset Forest and said their destination was hidden somewhere beneath poisonous miasma.
• Kong Xuan introduced the Snow Empress as the Heavenly Snow Woman, one of the Far North’s Three Great Heavenly Kings and a six-hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast.
• Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen reacted with shock and fear when they learned the Snow Empress’s true identity.
• Kong Xuan revealed that Gu Yuena was the Silver Dragon King, one half of the Dragon God and the true master of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Kong Xuan reassured Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen that Gu Yuena and the Snow Empress were their companions, though the two girls remained unsettled.

Kong Xuan and his companions searched Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then used Snow Empress’s Ultimate Ice to break through its poisonous barrier. They reached the hidden valley, where Gu Yuena asked Kong Xuan what he had come to find.

• Kong Xuan, Gu Yuena, Snow Empress, Kong Ling, and Meng Hongchen searched Sunset Forest for signs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Snow Empress sensed unusual cold and heat in a valley, and Kong Xuan spotted the seven-colored poisonous barrier through the mist.
• Snow Empress used Emperor Cold Heaven: Snow Dance Shining Sun to shield the group and neutralize the poisonous miasma.
• The five entered the valley and saw the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, surrounded by abundant vegetation.
• Gu Yuena compared the valley’s vitality to the Lake of Life and asked Kong Xuan what he had come for.

Kong Xuan brought Gu Yuena, Snow Empress, Kong Ling, and Meng Hongchen to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to claim its immortal herbs, where they encountered three hundred-thousand-year Plant-type Soul Beasts. After the infernal delicate apricot attacked, Snow Empress effortlessly froze and dispersed its Yang Spring assault, leaving the herb trembling before her.

• Kong Xuan told the others that the valley held several hundred-thousand-year Plant-type Soul Beasts, and Gu Yuena and Snow Empress sensed their presences.
• Kong Xuan identified the aromatic silk beauty, the infernal delicate apricot, and the octagonal mysterious ice grass, then refused Youyou's demand that they leave without taking herbs.
• The infernal delicate apricot accused the group of trying to seize the herbs and unleashed a massive attack made from Yang Spring water.
• Snow Empress stepped forward and destroyed the attack with a palm strike of extreme cold, freezing the fiery woman's phantom and dispersing the wave.
• Snow Empress asked the shaken infernal delicate apricot whether it still intended to attack.

Kong Xuan used the Snow Empress’s strength to make the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well hand over several rare herbs, while Youyou explained how to preserve and consume them. He then demanded treasures from the infernal delicate apricot and the octagonal mysterious ice grass, but the latter refused to yield.

• The infernal delicate apricot, Youyou, and the octagonal mysterious ice grass fell silent after the Snow Empress demonstrated her strength.
• Youyou warned Kong Xuan that the herbs required special harvesting and consumption methods, and Kong Xuan revealed he knew she had the medicinal section of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• Kong Xuan demanded nine rare immortal herbs, and Youyou reluctantly provided them with instructions for handling them.
• Kong Xuan demanded blazing gum and octagonal mysterious ice crystal from the infernal delicate apricot and the octagonal mysterious ice grass.
• Youyou tried to calm A Jiao and Bingbing, but the octagonal mysterious ice grass refused to hand over her treasure unless she died.

Kong Xuan convinced three immortal herbs to offer their treasures by revealing a divine power and promising them a chance at eternal life. After reassuring Meng Hongchen that she could accompany him to the Divine Realm, he said he would rather help her and Kong Ling become gods too.

• Kong Xuan promised the octagonal mysterious ice grass and the infernal delicate apricot a chance at eternal life in exchange for their treasures.
• Kong Xuan released the Sea-Calming Divine Needle Iron’s overwhelming divine presence, shocking the Snow Empress and convincing the immortal herbs of his divine inheritance.
• The octagonal mysterious ice grass, infernal delicate apricot, and aromatic silk beauty each offered their treasure to Kong Xuan in exchange for a chance at eternal life.
• Meng Hongchen worried that Kong Xuan would leave her behind when he ascended, and Kong Xuan reassured her that she could accompany him.
• Kong Xuan told Meng Hongchen and Kong Ling that he would rather help them become gods too.

Kong Xuan gave Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen immortal treasures to help their Martial Souls attain Ultimate Attributes, then opened a spatial rift to investigate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s connection to the Dragon Kings with Gu Yuena. He left the Snow Empress to guard the two girls as they absorbed the treasures.

• Kong Xuan told Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen that he intended to help them pursue godhood and gave them immortal treasures to strengthen their Martial Souls.
• Kong Xuan explained that the blazing gum could help Kong Ling’s sun divine fire reach Ultimate Fire, while the octagonal mysterious ice crystal might give Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul Ultimate Ice.
• Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen began absorbing their treasures, and Kong Xuan asked the Snow Empress to protect them.
• Kong Xuan revealed to Gu Yuena that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was where the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King had fallen.
• Kong Xuan opened a spatial rift with the Atlas Spear, took Gu Yuena’s hand, and led her through it.

Gu Yuena and Kong Xuan discovered the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s burial place beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Gu Yuena awakened their remaining dragon souls. She let the souls return to their resting place, then offered Kong Xuan the two Dragon Kings’ claw bones.

• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena entered a vast cavern divided between magma and glaciers, and Gu Yuena recognized it as the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s true burial ground.
• Gu Yuena called to the Dragon Kings’ remaining power, causing their red and white dragon souls to emerge from the magma and ice.
• Gu Yuena explained that the Dragon Kings’ souls had lost their intelligence and survived only as traces of their fundamental power and instinct.
• Gu Yuena chose to leave the dragon souls in their resting place so the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well would endure.
• Gu Yuena summoned the Dragon Kings’ claw bones and offered them to Kong Xuan.

Gu Yuena gave Kong Xuan the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ External Soul Bones, and he began fusing with both using the Sea-Calming Divine Needle to suppress their power. After hours of waiting at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the Snow Empress, Kong Ling, and Meng Hongchen saw Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena return.

• Gu Yuena gave Kong Xuan the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ dragon claw bones as thanks for bringing her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Kong Xuan consulted Yun Ming and Electrolux, who said the Sea-Calming Divine Needle could help him endure the fusion.
• Kong Xuan fused with the Fire Dragon King’s right palm bone, and Gu Yuena calmed the Fire Dragon King’s awakened consciousness by calling him their friend.
• Kong Xuan began fusing with the Ice Dragon King’s left palm bone as well, hoping the two Ultimate Attributes would strengthen his body.
• Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen finished absorbing the Blazing Gum and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, then waited with the Snow Empress for Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena.
• Kong Xuan and Gu Yuena reappeared at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well under the moonlight.