Chapter Summaries

Xu Xingyu protected Wang Dong'er from Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire rampage, using his Dragon God Martial Soul and Ultimate Ice to suppress her. Ma Xiaotao woke with strange Yin Fire and conflicting energies, then embraced and kissed Xu Xingyu, who lost consciousness.

• Xu Xingyu shielded Wang Dong'er as Ma Xiaotao arrived in a frenzy and attacked his Purple Tenuity Star God Barrier.
• Xu Xingyu released his Dragon God Martial Soul, whose pressure subdued Ma Xiaotao after she transformed into a fire phoenix.
• Xu Xingyu used Ultimate Ice to extinguish Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, but she remained unresponsive and showed signs of Yin Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao suddenly embraced Xu Xingyu and forcibly kissed him as two conflicting energies raged inside her.
• Xu Xingyu fell asleep while Ma Xiaotao kissed him.

Yan Shaozhe rushed to stop Ma Xiaotao after her Evil Fire drove her into a rampage, but found Xu Xingyu fighting her and suppressing her with his Second Martial Soul and Ultimate Ice. Yan Shaozhe was ready to thank Xu Xingyu until he saw the two kissing.

• Yan Shaozhe brooded over his distrust of the Spirit Contract Pagoda and his teacher's decision to build relations with it.
• Du Weilun told Yan Shaozhe that Ma Xiaotao had gone on a rampage and escaped the inner court.
• Yan Shaozhe recalled that Jiang Nannan's Supreme Yin Jade Body had once suppressed Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, but the fire had adapted and developed into Yin Fire.
• Yan Shaozhe reached Ma Xiaotao and saw Xu Xingyu overpowering her with his Second Martial Soul and Ultimate Ice.
• Yan Shaozhe prepared to thank Xu Xingyu, then swore when he saw Xu Xingyu and Ma Xiaotao kissing.

Xu Xingyu woke in Ma Xiaotao’s room and struggled to escape her unconscious embrace without waking her, but had to splash her with water when she pinned him down. Ma Xiaotao woke, freed him, and realized her Evil Fire had been suppressed, leaving her to wonder what had happened between them.

• Xu Xingyu woke in Ma Xiaotao’s room and recognized her while she held him in her arms.
• Xu Xingyu tried to slip free without waking Ma Xiaotao, but she rolled over and pinned him beneath her.
• Xu Xingyu dropped a ball of water onto Ma Xiaotao to wake her so he could breathe.
• Ma Xiaotao released Xu Xingyu, then recalled fighting her classmates and losing control to her Evil Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao sensed her Evil Fire had been suppressed for weeks and wondered whether she had done something to Xu Xingyu.

Ma Xiaotao mistakenly believed she had lost her chastity after waking beside Xu Xingyu, but his explanation and her own examination showed that they had only fought and she had forcibly kissed him. They apologized and agreed to help one another, then Ma Xiaotao recognized Xu Xingyu as the person Jiang Nannan had been thinking about; their conversation was interrupted by her teacher Yan Shaozhe.

• Ma Xiaotao cried and demanded that Xu Xingyu take responsibility, believing she had lost her chastity while unconscious.
• Xu Xingyu explained that their clothes were torn during the fight and that her injuries came from battling the Inner Court teachers; Ma Xiaotao examined herself and realized he was telling the truth.
• Ma Xiaotao apologized and offered Xu Xingyu one favor, which he accepted, and the two introduced themselves.
• Ma Xiaotao recognized Xu Xingyu as the person Jiang Nannan had been thinking about and explained how she had acquired Yin Fire.
• Xu Xingyu sensed someone outside the room and called out, prompting Yan Shaozhe to appear and praise his awareness.

Yan Shaozhe compensated Xu Xingyu for Ma Xiaotao’s earlier rampage by giving him three valuable Soul Bones, then asked him to help suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire. Xu Xingyu accepted the bones, suspecting Yan’s gift also served as payment for the request.

• Yan Shaozhe apologized to Xu Xingyu for his disciple’s actions and offered him compensation from Shrek Academy.
• Xu Xingyu opened the pouch and found a Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, a Snow Demon Head Soul Bone, and a wing-type External Soul Bone from a Silver Emperor Heavenly Falcon.
• Xu Xingyu suspected Yan Shaozhe had chosen the Soul Bones to secure his help, since they suited three girls at the academy, and accepted them for an experiment.
• Xu Xingyu asked Yan Shaozhe what else he wanted, and Yan asked him to help suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire from time to time.

Xu Xingyu saw through Yan Shaozhe’s attempt to use Ma Xiaotao’s treatment and an offer of a Shrek City branch to draw the Spirit Contract Pagoda into Shrek’s influence. He agreed to help Ma Xiaotao because her clan belonged to the Pagoda, while leaving any cooperation with Shrek for Silver Dragon Douluo to decide.

• Yan Shaozhe offered Xu Xingyu three rare Soul Bones and proposed that Shrek let the Spirit Contract Pagoda establish a branch in Shrek City.
• Xu Xingyu recognized that Shrek hoped to influence the Pagoda by placing its graduates in the organization, but trusted the Pagoda’s contracts to prevent infiltration.
• Xu Xingyu considered his plans to weaken Shrek and sever Tang San’s remaining influence through Shrek Academy and Sea God Island.
• Xu Xingyu explained that he would help Ma Xiaotao because the Ma Clan belonged to the Spirit Contract Pagoda and Ma Zhengtian had asked him to aid his sister.
• Yan Shaozhe thanked Xu Xingyu and promised to support cooperation at the next Sea God Pavilion Meeting; Xu Xingyu said Silver Dragon Douluo would decide whether to meet with Shrek.

Xu Xingyu warned Ma Xiaotao and Yan Shaozhe that their proposed treatments for her Evil Fire could destabilize the Yin Fire inside her, then offered two alternatives with different risks and rewards. After demonstrating that his Ultimate Fire fused yin and yang flames, Yan Shaozhe began to suspect Xu Xingyu possessed a mutated Silver Dragon Martial Soul and abruptly realized something about the Dragon God.

• Xu Xingyu explained that Ultimate Ice or a yang-leaning Immortal Herb could make Ma Xiaotao’s Yin Fire and Evil Fire spiral out of control, potentially killing her.
• Xu Xingyu proposed either converting Ma Xiaotao’s Yin Fire into yang fire at the cost of some cultivation levels or forming a Yin-Yang Vortex to refine her Evil Fire at greater risk.
• Yan Shaozhe favored the safer treatment, while Ma Xiaotao preferred the riskier method that could give her both Ultimate Yang Fire and Ultimate Yin Fire.
• Xu Xingyu demonstrated how his red Ultimate Fire separated into golden yang fire and black yin fire before merging again.
• Yan Shaozhe suspected Xu Xingyu’s dragon-shaped Martial Soul was a mutated Silver Dragon and began imagining his potential to become a god, then stopped short at the thought of the Dragon God.

Yan Shaozhe imagined Xu Xingyu and the Spirit Contract Pagoda were part of a divine plan to subjugate Soul Beasts, then urged Ma Xiaotao to abandon a dangerous cultivation plan. His warning was interrupted by an angry accusation that he had stolen someone from the Soul Tool Department.

• Yan Shaozhe inferred that Xu Xingyu was the Dragon God's successor and decided Shrek should fully support the Spirit Contract Pagoda's supposed plan against the Soul Beasts.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Yan Shaozhe about Xu Xingyu's fire-control method, and Yan Shaozhe realized she wanted to use it for her second treatment plan.
• Yan Shaozhe warned Ma Xiaotao that pursuing Ultimate Yang Fire and Ultimate Yin Fire could turn her into an Evil Soul Master.
• Yan Shaozhe recalled that he had spared Feng Ling after her Martial Soul awakened as an Evil Phoenix, and explained that this regret shaped his determination to protect Ma Xiaotao.
• An angry voice accused Yan Shaozhe of stealing someone from the Soul Tool Department.

Qian Duoduo came to take Xu Xingyu to the Soul Tool Department, sparking a dispute with Yan Shaozhe over which department should claim the talented first-year. The argument ended with Qian Duoduo revealing that he wanted Xu Xingyu involved in Shrek Academy’s Ultimate Soldier Plan.

• Qian Duoduo stormed into Yan Shaozhe’s office, greeted Xu Xingyu, and tried to take him off Sea God Island.
• Yan Shaozhe stopped Qian Duoduo and objected that Xu Xingyu was a first-year who did not belong to the Soul Tool Department.
• Qian Duoduo explained that Xu Xingyu had chosen to study Soul Tools early and had passed the department’s assessment.
• Yan Shaozhe argued that Xu Xingyu should focus on cultivation and join the Martial Soul Department instead.
• Qian Duoduo praised Xu Xingyu’s Soul Tool talent and said his inventions could raise the Shrek Inspection Team’s survival rate by thirty or forty percent.
• Yan Shaozhe realized Qian Duoduo might intend for Xu Xingyu to carry out the Ultimate Soldier Plan, while Xu Xingyu judged the plan to be a glorified assassination role.

Ma Xiaotao escorted Xu Xingyu away from the arguing deans and teased him about her figure and their supposed first kiss. When she explained how Jiang Nannan’s Yin Qi had fused with her Evil Fire to create Yin Fire, Xu Xingyu realized he had indirectly caused the problem.

• Ma Xiaotao quietly led Xu Xingyu out while the deans argued, then stretched after their long sleep.
• Ma Xiaotao teased Xu Xingyu about admiring her figure and offered him a chance to pursue her, but he joked that he already had fiancées.
• Ma Xiaotao told Xu Xingyu that Jiang Nannan had once helped suppress her Evil Fire, but an accident caused Yin Fire to form in her origin.
• Xu Xingyu realized that Jiang Nannan’s Supreme Yin Jade Body, which he had helped her use, had indirectly caused Ma Xiaotao’s Yin Fire.

Xu Xingyu worried that Jiang Nannan’s repeated suppression of Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire could harm her, though Ma Xiaotao assumed he was feeling guilty about the Yin Fire. As Ma Xiaotao flew him back to the Outer Court, she learned Ma Zhengtian had asked him to help her, exposing the deep rift between the siblings.

• Xu Xingyu explained how Jiang Nannan had controlled Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, then worried that the Evil Fire’s evil Qi might poison Jiang Nannan over time.
• Ma Xiaotao reassured Xu Xingyu that the Yin Fire had been her own responsibility and offered to take him back to the Outer Court.
• Ma Xiaotao carried Xu Xingyu into the air with her Phoenix Martial Soul, and he struggled to breathe before she let him catch his breath.
• Ma Xiaotao asked who in her family had requested Xu Xingyu’s help, and he told her that Ma Zhengtian had asked him.
• Xu Xingyu considered how Ma Xiaotao and Ma Zhengtian’s opposing views on Shrek Academy had estranged them, and recalled that their last conversation had been when Ma Zhengtian led the family to seek refuge with the Spirit Contract Pagoda.

Ma Xiaotao confronted her family about joining the Spirit Contract Pagoda, while Xu Xingyu understood that Ma Zhengtian had pushed the alliance to protect his sister from being used in a marriage arrangement. The chapter ended with Xu Xingyu urging Ma Xiaotao to speak with her brother, leaving her to reconsider his actions.

• Ma Xiaotao returned to the Speed Clan and questioned her younger brother about why the family had become a vassal of the Spirit Contract Pagoda.
• Xu Xingyu recalled Ma Zhengtian's explanation that the clan feared another decline and hoped to secure its future by joining the rising force.
• Ma Zhengtian had supported the alliance partly to prevent the elders from forcing Ma Xiaotao into a marriage alliance and to help revive the family.
• Xu Xingyu decided not to reveal Ma Zhengtian's motives and told Ma Xiaotao to talk to her brother again.
• Ma Xiaotao began reviewing her brother's past actions, hoping to understand him.

Xu Xingyu said goodbye to Ma Xiaotao after agreeing to help suppress her Evil Fire, then returned to the dormitory and reassured a worried Wang Dong'er. He explained his plans for Shrek and revealed that he intended to use the academy's three Soul Bones in an experiment to advance Soul Spirit technology.

• Ma Xiaotao thanked Xu Xingyu for helping her understand her situation and said she would talk with her brother before flying back to the Inner Court.
• Xu Xingyu entered the dormitory and found Wang Dong'er waiting; she scolded him for disappearing all day and worried that he had been hurt.
• Xu Xingyu explained how he had protected Wang Dong'er from Ma Xiaotao and agreed to help suppress Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire.
• Xu Xingyu told Wang Dong'er that opening a Spirit Contract Pagoda in Shrek City could help spread its Soul Spirit Method across the continent.
• Xu Xingyu revealed that he had accepted the academy's three Soul Bones to use as materials in an experiment aimed at advancing Soul Spirit technology.

Xu Xingyu explained his Spirit Gathering experiment to Wang Dong'er, hoping to restore the spirituality of three fading Soul Bones and use what he learned to improve Soul Spirit resurrection and achieve Spirit Forging. The chapter ended with Wang Dong'er realizing that Xu Xingyu planned to keep training her until the freshman assessment a month later.

• Xu Xingyu explained that Soul Bones gradually lost their energy as their spirituality faded, and that the three bones Yan Shaozhe gave him were nearing that state.
• Xu Xingyu said he would use necromancy and forging techniques to restore the Soul Bones' spirituality, improve the resurrection ritual, and learn how to Spirit Forge.
• Wang Dong'er admired Xu Xingyu's plan and asked why he had not used Soul Bones already stored at the Spirit Contract Pagoda.
• Xu Xingyu explained that he had only recently devised the experiment and had planned to request Soul Bones from Gu Yuena before Yan Shaozhe delivered the three.
• Xu Xingyu told Wang Dong'er that their morning training would continue for about a month, until the freshman assessment, and she protested in despair.

Xu Xingyu kept to his ordinary routine until Jiang Nannan reminded him of his promise to take her on a date. On the evening they arranged, he met her at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, complimented her appearance, and entered the pavilion with her hand in his.

• Xu Xingyu recalled that he had promised Jiang Nannan a date and agreed to take her out that weekend.
• Jiang Nannan arranged to meet Xu Xingyu at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, and a week later he waited there dressed for their date.
• Jiang Nannan arrived wearing a purple dress and makeup, and Xu Xingyu was struck by her beauty.
• Xu Xingyu reassured Jiang Nannan and offered her his hand, and she accepted.
• Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan walked hand in hand into the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan visited Shrek Academy’s Treasure Appraisal Fair for a date, finding little of interest among its cultivation goods and browsing the accessories instead. Just before they left, Xu Xingyu spotted an ice-blue headband.

• Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan browsed the fair’s resource trading area and bought a few Soul Tool blueprints, medicinal herbs, and a piece of Whale Rubber.
• Xu Xingyu took Jiang Nannan to the accessories section, hoping to buy her something she would like.
• Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan ran into Dugu Yanran scolding Xu Sanshi after his antics nearly damaged merchandise.
• Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan continued their date, but found no accessories they liked as they prepared to leave.
• Xu Xingyu spotted an ice-blue headband just before they left the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.

Xu Xingyu bought Jiang Nannan a Cold Jade Rhinoceros horn headband to help protect her during spiritual cultivation, then accompanied her on a date. At Sea God Lake, he reflected on his feelings and resolved to find out why she loved him.

• Xu Xingyu examined a Cold Jade Rhinoceros horn headband and recognized that its calming effect could help Jiang Nannan safely use her Dream Tapir Head Soul Bone.
• Xu Xingyu bought the headband for fifteen thousand gold coins and placed it on Jiang Nannan, who shyly asked whether it suited her.
• Jiang Nannan invited Xu Xingyu somewhere, and the two left the Treasure Gathering Pavilion hand in hand.
• Xu Xingyu considered his relationships with Gu Yuena, Xu Yanxue, and Wang Dong'er, but could not understand why Jiang Nannan loved him or whether her feelings came from gratitude.
• Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan arrived at Sea God Lake, where he hoped to learn why she liked him.

Jiang Nannan took Xu Xingyu to Sea God Lake and confessed that she loved him, explaining how her feelings had grown as she watched him pursue his ambitions. Xu Xingyu accepted her feelings with a kiss, beginning a relationship despite already being involved with other girls.

• Jiang Nannan told Xu Xingyu that she would enter the Inner Court next year and have less time to spend with him, prompting him to worry that she was injured.
• Jiang Nannan explained that she expected to reach Soul King and had asked Ma Xiaotao about the Inner Court; Xu Xingyu revealed that he was now helping Ma Xiaotao with her Evil Fire.
• Jiang Nannan confessed that she liked Xu Xingyu and hoped he would stay by her side for life.
• Jiang Nannan explained that she fell in love with Xu Xingyu because of his dedication to the Spirit Contract Pagoda and admitted she knew he was already with Pagoda Master Gu Yuena and Wang Dong'er.
• Xu Xingyu picked Jiang Nannan up and kissed her, accepting her feelings by the shores of Sea God Lake.

Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan confirmed their relationship and discussed how Wang Dong'er and Gu Yuena would react. Their conversation was interrupted when Ma Xiaotao arrived in distress, and Xu Xingyu discovered that her Yin and Yang flames had become unbalanced after she tried to convert them on her own.

• Jiang Nannan told Xu Xingyu that Wang Dong'er had accepted their relationship, and Xu Xingyu worried that the two women had plotted against him.
• Jiang Nannan warned Xu Xingyu that Gu Yuena would be possessive and might punish him when he returned to the Spirit Contract Pagoda.
• Xu Xingyu spotted an out-of-control Ma Xiaotao approaching and tried to leave with Jiang Nannan, but Ma Xiaotao called for his help.
• Xu Xingyu examined Ma Xiaotao and learned that she had tried to create a flame vortex to convert Yin Fire and Yang Fire herself.
• Xu Xingyu discovered that Ma Xiaotao's Yin and Yang flames were unbalanced because she had nearly succeeded but lacked the spiritual power to complete the conversion.

Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan helped Ma Xiaotao balance the fires in her body and establish a Yin-Yang Vortex. Afterward, Xu Xingyu required Ma Xiaotao to visit him weekly for Evil Fire suppression and told her to warn him before making changes to her treatment.

• Xu Xingyu realized Ma Xiaotao had secretly formed a Yin-Yang Vortex, causing her Yin Fire, Evil Fire, and Yang Fire to clash.
• Xu Xingyu decided Jiang Nannan would nurture Ma Xiaotao's Yin Fire while he used the Power of Chaos to restrain the Evil Fire.
• Jiang Nannan and Xu Xingyu balanced Ma Xiaotao's fires, and Xu Xingyu used Chaos Fire to help form a Yin-Yang Vortex inside her body.
• Ma Xiaotao regained her senses and apologized for interrupting Xu Xingyu and Jiang Nannan's date, while Jiang Nannan reassured her.
• Xu Xingyu told Ma Xiaotao to come to him weekly for Evil Fire suppression and warned her to tell him about her plans beforehand.