Chapter Summaries

Bing Ling and Ma Xiaotao’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill drained Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, prompting Yan Shaozhe to assume they should marry. Qian Chen blocked the marriage, and after Ma Xiaotao accepted that Bing Ling might love someone else, Qian Chen prepared to report to the Shrek Inspection Corps, but Zhang Lexuan stopped him.

• Bibi Dong told Qian Chen that Bing Ling would not be harmed by the Martial Soul Fusion Skill and that Ma Xiaotao would grow dependent on him.
• Yan Shaozhe separated Bing Ling and Ma Xiaotao, then learned that their Martial Soul Fusion Skill could drain Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and eagerly gave them permission to marry.
• Qian Chen refused to let Yan Shaozhe bind Bing Ling to Ma Xiaotao against his wishes, but agreed that Bing Ling would help her release her Evil Fire when needed.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Bing Ling whether he hated her, and he said he did not but might already like someone; she said she would wait and flew back to the outer court.
• Qian Chen thanked Zhang Lexuan and said he planned to report to the Shrek Inspection Corps, but Zhang Lexuan hurriedly told him he could not go yet.

Qian Chen and Bing Ling joined Shrek’s tournament team, where Xuan Zi introduced them and Qian Chen’s entitlement to the Shrek Seven Devils title angered the substitutes. Qian Chen challenged eleven teammates at once and prepared to face them with a wooden stick instead of his sword.

• Zhang Lexuan explained that Shrek needed Qian Chen and Bing Ling to join the tournament team, and Qian Chen asked what Shrek’s glory meant to her.
• At the training ground, Xuan Zi punished the late Ma Xiaotao with thirty laps and gave Bing Ling the same punishment doubled after he tried to defend her.
• Xuan Zi introduced Qian Chen and Bing Ling as new team members, and the four new substitutes protested when Xuan Zi offered Qian Chen the Shrek Seven Devils title.
• Qian Chen challenged all thirteen teammates to attack him together, while Wu Ming and Ning Ke'er declined to participate.
• The remaining eleven summoned their Martial Souls, and Qian Chen picked up a wooden stick rather than draw his deadly Seven Kill Sword.

Qian Chen defeated the Shrek substitutes and was officially added to the team, then left the training ground to seek information on Evil Soul Masters. Zhang Lexuan warned him to stay safe before he reached the Inspection Corps and requested all its recent Evil Soul Master missions and intelligence.

• Wang Biao led the substitutes in an attack, but Qian Chen redirected his strike into a teammate and broke through their formation.
• Qian Chen knocked down Dai Yueheng, Yao Haoxuan, Chen Zifeng, and Xi Xi, then jumped over Ling Luochеn's ice wall and threw her and Gongyang Mo out of bounds.
• Qian Chen defeated the remaining substitutes, and Han Ruoruo fell apart in tears before Wang Biao surrendered.
• Xuan Zi dismissed four substitutes and announced that Qian Chen would officially join the Shrek Team for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Qian Chen told Xuan Zi he would skip training and head to the Inspection Corps; Zhang Lexuan chased after him to warn him about Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Chen found the Inspection Corps office and asked the teacher there for all recent missions and information on Evil Soul Masters.

Qian Chen investigated a report of an Evil Soul Master attack on the Ye Clan and found the clan residence destroyed in Shuangquan City. After sensing two faint traces of angel martial souls fleeing the attack, he realized that survivors might still be alive and headed west.

• Qian Chen used Mu En's name to obtain Evil Soul Master intelligence and selected a report about the Ye Clan, whose attackers had been struck by golden light.
• Qian Chen flew to Shuangquan City, replenished his Soul Power, and questioned a peddler about the attack.
• The peddler said Evil Soul Masters had besieged the Ye Clan, its patriarch had died, and the survivors' fate was unknown.
• Qian Chen found the ruined Ye residence and inferred that an angel martial soul wielder had sacrificed themselves to kill Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Chen searched the residence with his spiritual power and detected two faint traces of angel martial souls that had fled toward the western city gate.

Qian Chen infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult’s search in Strange Stone Valley and killed nineteen Evil Soul Masters before his disguise was exposed. Surrounded, he challenged a Soul Saint and prepared to fight his way out.

• Bishop Tang’s men searched Strange Stone Valley for Ye Qingshan’s family, while Ye Qingshan’s wife died in hiding and Ye Guyi mourned her.
• Qian Chen entered the valley in disguise and killed Evil Soul Masters one by one, taking one man’s clothes to conceal himself.
• After Qian Chen had killed nineteen men, Bishop Tang ordered the remaining searchers to gather and verify one another’s identities.
• Qian Chen ignored a nearby Soul King and approached a Soul Saint, who detected that Qian Chen lacked an evil presence and alerted the others.
• The Soul Saint blamed society for forcing him into the Holy Spirit Cult, and Qian Chen reflected on how persecuted Soul Masters had been driven to become Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Chen revealed his identity, summoned the Seven Kill Sword, and attacked the Soul Saint while surrounded.

Qian Chen fought Bishop Tang and the Holy Spirit Cult while trying to escape the valley, but Bishop Tang revealed that his Evil Fire Clear Sky Hammer was unaffected by Qian Chen’s holy light. The chapter ended with Bishop Tang attacking again as Qian Chen realized his advantage had failed.

• Qian Chen killed a Soul Saint Evil Soul Master and fought through the encirclement while Bishop Tang ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to stop him.
• Bishop Tang used Clear Sky True Body to block Qian Chen’s escape and tried to recruit him, while the two argued about the Clear Sky Sect and Tang San.
• Ye Guyi asked Ye Qingshan to return safely as he left their limestone cave to check on the fighting.
• Qian Chen and Bishop Tang fought to a standstill, then Bishop Tang ordered the remaining Holy Spirit Cult disciples to attack together.
• Qian Chen released holy light that weakened the other Evil Soul Masters, but Bishop Tang’s Evil Fire Clear Sky Hammer remained unaffected and struck at him again.

Qian Chen and Ye Qingshan fought the Holy Spirit Cult’s forces, but Ye Qingshan sacrificed himself to destroy the Evil Soul Masters surrounding him. With Bishop Tang left as the sole enemy, Qian Chen faced his Ring Detonation technique as the battle escalated.

• Qian Chen, badly wounded and unable to wake Bibi Dong, continued fighting until Ye Qingshan joined him at the cavern entrance.
• Qian Chen and Ye Qingshan agreed that Ye Qingshan and his daughter would come with him if they survived, then split up to fight Bishop Tang and the other Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Chen and Bishop Tang began a fierce duel, while Ye Qingshan was overwhelmed by the Evil Soul Masters surrounding him.
• Ye Qingshan used Angel’s Roar to stun his attackers, entrusted Ye Guyi to Qian Chen, and self-detonated, killing the Evil Soul Masters around him.
• Bishop Tang, enraged by the loss of his forces, shattered his nine black Soul Rings with Ring Detonation, and Qian Chen recognized the Clear Sky Sect technique.

Qian Chen outlasted Bishop Tang’s Ring Detonation, crippled him, and then searched Strange Stone Valley for Ye Guyi. He found her hiding beside her dead mother, and Ye Guyi emerged to stop him from carrying the body away.

• Qian Chen avoided Bishop Tang’s attacks from the air until the Ring Detonation effect wore off.
• Qian Chen defeated Bishop Tang with a punch, crushed his limbs, and rejected the offer of the secret Ring Detonation manual.
• Qian Chen searched Strange Stone Valley and found a concealed cave where Ye Guyi was hiding.
• Qian Chen discovered Ye Guyi’s dead mother and tried to carry her out of the cave.
• Ye Guyi stepped out from behind a lava rock and ordered Qian Chen to put her mother down.

Qian Chen rescued Ye Guyi, helped her avenge her family, and told her the history of the Angel Clan and Spirit Hall. After she reclaimed the name Qian Guyi and vowed to rebuild Spirit Hall, he appointed her its new Holy Maiden; while she mourned her parents the next day, a group approached.

• Qian Chen told Ye Guyi that her father had died fighting the Evil Soul Masters, and she recognized Bishop Tang as one of her family's attackers.
• Qian Chen gave Ye Guyi a dagger, and she killed Bishop Tang before breaking down from grief and exhaustion.
• Qian Chen found secret techniques and other valuables in Bishop Tang's Storage Soul Tool, then fed Ye Guyi after she woke by the campfire.
• Qian Chen recounted the Angel Clan's history and urged Ye Guyi to reclaim its surname, so she renamed herself Qian Guyi and vowed to revive the clan and rebuild Spirit Hall.
• Qian Chen appointed Qian Guyi as Spirit Hall's new Holy Maiden, then accompanied her to bury her mother and her father's belongings.
• As Qian Guyi mourned at her parents' grave the next day, Qian Chen signaled her to be quiet when a group of people approached.

Qian Chen settled Qian Guyi at Watch Valley while Shrek won the Soul Master Tournament under Bing Ling’s lead. Three years later, the Iron Blood Sect attacked the Tang Sect, and Tang Ya escaped toward Shrek Academy as Tie Li ordered her hunted down.

• Qian Chen named his secluded valley Watch Valley and made it Qian Guyi’s home, telling Pan Long to care for her and arrange combat practice.
• With Qian Chen overseeing the Shrek Team, Bing Ling dominated the Soul Master Tournament in Heaven Dou City and led the team to victory.
• Tie Tang persuaded Tie Li to attack the Tang Sect, then bribed Heaven Dou City’s patrol camp to keep patrols away from its grounds.
• Tang Ya woke with a sense of danger and saw her father and mother murdered by Iron Blood Sect attackers.
• Tang Ya squeezed through a gap in the Tang Sect garden wall and fled toward Shrek Academy, determined to seek help and rebuild the sect.
• Tie Li learned Tang Ya was missing and ordered his disciple to find and kill her.

Tang Ya reached Shrek Academy seeking help after the Iron Blood Sect destroyed the Tang Sect, and Bei Bei brought her to meet Mu En. Shrek refused to intervene directly but offered Tang Ya support in rebuilding the sect, and Bei Bei agreed to join and help recruit students.

• Tang Ya arrived at Shrek Academy and told Bei Bei that the Iron Blood Sect had wiped out the Tang Sect, leaving her as its sole survivor.
• Bei Bei brought Tang Ya to the Sea God Pavilion and asked Mu En to help avenge the Tang Sect.
• Mu En refused to let Shrek Academy intervene in disputes between sects but offered Tang Ya a special admission slot each year and permission to recruit Shrek students.
• Tang Ya thanked Bei Bei and asked him to join the Tang Sect, and Bei Bei agreed and promised to support her.
• Tang Ya asked Bei Bei to introduce her to powerful students, and Bei Bei offered to take her to Senior Bing Ling.

Qian Chen learned that Huo Yun'er was critically ill and hurried toward the White Tiger Duke's Mansion to save her or secure her soul before Tang San could use it against Huo Yuhao. The chapter left Qian Chen flying toward the mansion after an unseen force locked onto him and made him descend.

• Bing Ling refused Bei Bei's invitation to join the Tang Sect and said Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochеn would join his own sect.
• Zhang Lexuan rejected Bei Bei and Tang Ya's request for a meal, while Bei Bei promised Tang Ya he would help avenge her and rebuild the Tang Sect.
• Tang San watched Huo Yuhao and Huo Yun'er, planning to seize Huo Yun'er's soul after her death and use it to control Huo Yuhao.
• Bing Ling delivered Qian Chen a letter saying Huo Yun'er was critically ill, and Qian Chen decided to save her if possible and keep Tang San from taking her soul.
• Qian Chen left Shrek Academy for the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, but an unseen force immobilized him and made him descend.

The Plane Consciousness equipped Qian Chen with a substitute soul, a Soul-Preserving Pill, a soul-trapping jade bottle, and two God-Given Soul Rings to help him save Huo Yun'er without drawing Tang San's attention. Qian Chen reached the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and found Huo Yun'er near death, then began preparing his plan.

• The Plane Consciousness warned Qian Chen that rescuing Huo Yun'er openly would expose him to Tang San, and gave him a false soul and a Soul-Preserving Pill to protect her soul.
• The Plane Consciousness gave Qian Chen a jade bottle capable of imprisoning souls and two God-Given Soul Rings that granted Divine Light of Life and Absolute Purification.
• The Plane Consciousness told Qian Chen to avoid provoking Tang San, delay taking Huo Yuhao, and obtain the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and the gold of life.
• Qian Chen flew to Star Luo City and secretly entered the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, where he found Huo Yuhao nearing ten years old and Huo Yun'er fading in and out of consciousness.
• Qian Chen sensed that Huo Yun'er could survive for another two or three days and devised a plan.

Qian Chen arranged for Wang Hui to preserve Huo Yun’er's soul, but Tang San captured the false soul that emerged after her death. Qian Chen kept the real soul and left confident that Tang San had been deceived.

• Qian Chen recruited Wang Hui, gave her a Soul-Preserving Pill and a jade bottle, and instructed her to treat a patient and bring the bottle back.
• Huo Yuhao told Uncle Yang that Huo Yun'er was gravely ill and that he could not afford medicine, so Uncle Yang brought Wang Hui to help.
• Wang Hui treated Huo Yun'er for three days, but Huo Yun'er died after telling Huo Yuhao to keep living well.
• Wang Hui opened the jade bottle, releasing a false Huo Yun'er soul, and Tang San captured it from the Divine Realm.
• Qian Chen watched Tang San's divine hand appear over the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, then received the jade bottle from Wang Hui and rewarded her with a Storage Soul Tool and Gold Soul Coins.

Qian Chen rescued Huo Yun'er's soul and let her witness Huo Yuhao bury her body and vow to take revenge on the White Tiger Duke's Mansion. After assigning Pan Long to manage Angel Mountain Manor, Qian Chen prepared to leave with Qian Guyi and retrieve the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife.

• Qian Chen secretly entered the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and took Huo Yun'er's departing soul into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Qian Chen explained the curse and Huo Yuhao's destiny to Huo Yun'er, who realized she had been deceived and agreed to stay in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao buried Huo Yun'er, changed his surname from Dai to Huo, and vowed to make the White Tiger Duke's Mansion repay its harm to her.
• A woman in the Divine Realm learned that the child of destiny's mother had been rescued and ordered continued monitoring of the Asura God.
• Qian Chen told Pan Long to manage Angel Mountain Manor and asked Qian Guyi to leave with him for future work at Shrek Academy.
• Qian Chen set his sights on retrieving the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife.

Qian Chen bought the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife from Xu Jiujiu and returned to Angel Mountain Manor with Qian Guyi. He awakened the evil spirit inside the knife so they could destroy it, but black-mist faces began crawling over him as Qian Guyi cried out.

• Qian Chen negotiated with Xu Jiujiu and bought the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife for two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu warned Qian Chen about the knife, and Granny Manyi identified him as a powerful Shrek Academy Soul Master who might soon become a Titled Douluo.
• Qian Chen brought Qian Guyi to his room and explained that they would destroy the Titled Douluo-level evil spirit in the knife.
• Qian Guyi agreed to help Qian Chen, and he awakened the evil spirit by injecting Soul Power into the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife.
• Black-mist faces crawled from the knife over Qian Chen's hand and body, and Qian Guyi cried out in alarm.

Qian Chen and Qian Guyi purified the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, destroying the Titled Douluo evil spirit and gaining power from its defeat. Qian Chen absorbed the knife’s gold of life, greatly strengthening his body and awakening Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue, who recognized him when he entered his Sea of Consciousness.

• Qian Chen and Qian Guyi spent three days purifying the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, then Qian Chen shielded Guyi from the Titled Douluo evil spirit’s desperate attack.
• Qian Chen’s superior spiritual power rebuffed the evil spirit, and his holy light destroyed it completely.
• The purified knife became gold of life, Qian Chen broke through his Level 90 bottleneck, and Qian Guyi advanced three levels to Level 39.
• After testing the gold of life, Qian Chen touched it to his forehead, and it flowed into his Sea of Consciousness, reshaping and strengthening his body.
• Qian Chen discovered that Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue had awakened and were questioning Huo Yun’er in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Qian Chen stopped the questioning, and Qian Renxue saw him and exclaimed, “Dad?”

After Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong awoke in Qian Chen’s Sea of Consciousness, Qian Chen moved them to a new, life-filled Sea of Consciousness to recover. Back in reality, he decided to return to Shrek Academy and claim the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone it had promised him.

• Bibi Dong mistook Qian Chen’s adult appearance for Qian Xunji, but Qian Chen denied being Qian Renxue’s father and argued with Bibi Dong over her behavior.
• Qian Chen asked Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue to help him in future crises, and they agreed while explaining that their divine powers were gone.
• Qian Chen discovered that the gold of life had greatly expanded his Sea of Consciousness and created a second one filled with life spiritual Qi.
• Huo Yun’er chose to remain in the original Sea of Consciousness, while Qian Chen moved Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue to the new one so they could recover.
• Qian Renxue reassured Bibi Dong that Qian Chen was not evil, and Qian Chen decided to return to Shrek Academy to claim his promised Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

Qian Chen returned to Shrek Academy with his niece, Qian Guyi, and arranged for her enrollment while asking the academy to help him obtain a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. He stayed at Shrek as a senior instructor and Inspection Corps commander, then prepared to leave with Mu En, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe to hunt a Golden-Feathered Scarlet Eagle.

• Qian Chen brought Qian Guyi to Shrek Academy and told her to watch Huo Yuhao and recruit commoner students for Angel Mountain Manor.
• Qian Chen told Xuan Zi that he had reached level 90 and asked the academy to hunt a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast for him.
• Qian Chen arranged Qian Guyi's enrollment and chose to remain at Shrek Academy, taking charge of the Martial Soul Department's dean-of-studies role and the Inspection Corps.
• Mu En selected a hundred-thousand-year Golden-Feathered Scarlet Eagle as Qian Chen's target, and Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe agreed to accompany the hunt the following day.
• Qian Chen left the Sea God Pavilion with Qian Guyi, and Zhang Lexuan greeted him outside.

Qian Chen reunited with Zhang Lexuan, then traveled with Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe to confront a hundred-thousand-year Golden-Feathered Scarlet Eagle. The eagle offered to sacrifice itself if Qian Chen could defeat it, and Qian Chen added a condition to their bargain.

• Qian Chen used his Fatigue Recovery Soul Bone Skill on Zhang Lexuan, but she avoided explaining her troubles and hurried into the Sea God Pavilion.
• Qian Guyi asked Qian Chen whether he liked Zhang Lexuan, but he brushed off the question and told her to ask Bing Ling for high-quality whale rubber.
• Qian Chen, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe flew to the Star Dou Great Forest and found the Golden-Feathered Scarlet Eagle in its cliffside nest.
• Qian Chen persuaded the Golden-Feathered Scarlet Eagle to negotiate instead of fighting, and it offered to sacrifice itself if he defeated it.
• Qian Chen accepted the challenge but proposed that the eagle serve him whenever needed if he could restore its depleted soul after its sacrifice.