Chapter Summaries

Zhou Yi taught Class One about offense and defense while trying to maintain her authority over Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao’s answer about Soul Tools won the students’ attention, and Zhou Yi then introduced her punishing running regimen.

• Du Weilun reprimanded Zhou Yi for her temper and forbade her from expelling students at will, while leaving Huo Yuhao’s discipline to her.
• Zhou Yi began her lesson by asking Wang Dong to explain Soul Master systems, then called Wang Dong’s answer foolish.
• Huo Yuhao said Soul Masters of any system could attack, defend, and support through Soul Tools, prompting the class to recognize the point.
• Zhou Yi grew irritated when the students seemed to trust and admire Huo Yuhao more than her.
• Zhou Yi explained her physical training method, which required students to run in iron clothes until they could no longer continue.

Huo Yuhao challenged Zhou Yi’s running-based training and exposed her shortcomings, using the Eye of Eternity to overwhelm her and force her to back down. The class continued with Wang Dong appointed class monitor, while Huo Yuhao privately reflected on his suspicions and his disillusionment with Zhou Yi and Yu Xiaogang.

• Zhou Yi proposed running-based training, and Huo Yuhao asked whether it was her only teaching method and questioned her promotion record.
• Huo Yuhao condemned Zhou Yi’s training as outdated and harmful, then insulted her teaching ability and appearance.
• Huo Yuhao used the pressure of his divine majesty and the Eye of Eternity to silence Zhou Yi before withdrawing the power.
• Zhou Yi appointed Wang Dong class monitor and announced that the position could be challenged by anyone who defeated her.
• Huo Yuhao noted that his intervention had verified one of his suspicions and recalled that he had come to despise Zhou Yi and Yu Xiaogang.

Huo Yuhao opened a grilled-fish stall outside Shrek Academy to cultivate while adapting to his body and build his reputation. Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao confronted him with questions, and the chapter ended when two older students arrived to buy his fish.

• Huo Yuhao left class early and set up his Little Huo BBQ stall outside Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao used grilling as a way to harmonize his body, mind, and Soul Power while pursuing his own goals.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao had followed him and answered their questions about his Martial Soul.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao asked Huo Yuhao about his attitude toward Zhou Yi and his Spirit Eyes.
• A black-haired upper-year girl and her blue-haired companion arrived, and the girl offered to buy all the grilled fish for five Copper Soul Coins each.

Huo Yuhao refused Tang Ya’s invitation to join the Tang Sect and explained why its hidden weapons had fallen behind Soul Tools. The conversation left Tang Ya’s account of the sect’s decline challenged by Huo Yuhao’s blunt assessment.

• Tang Ya and Beibei met Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao at the grilled-fish stall and learned they were Zhou Yi’s students.
• Tang Ya invited Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to join the Tang Sect, but Huo Yuhao refused.
• Tang Ya explained that the Tang Sect had declined after the Sun Moon Continent collided with the Douluo Continent and Soul Tools displaced hidden weapons.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Tools surpassed hidden weapons and blamed the Tang Sect’s conservative, complacent predecessors for its decline.
• The chapter shifted into a discussion comparing the confusing power scaling in the Douluo series.

Huo Yuhao challenged Tang Ya and Beibei over the Tang Sect’s claims about its charitable donations, then drew a crowd with his Grilled Fish and Essence Fried Fish stall. As several female students emerged from Shrek Academy, the next encounter was about to begin.

• Huo Yuhao questioned Tang Ya and Beibei about which poor communities and schools the Tang Sect had supported, leaving them unable to answer.
• Huo Yuhao accused the Tang Sect of hiding its decline and acting hypocritically as an arms dealer, and Beibei took Tang Ya away.
• Xiao Xiao admired Huo Yuhao, while Wang Dong wondered whether the Clear Sky Sect had also been at fault and suppressed an urge to reveal her identity.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Essence Fried Fish, and a student bought both it and Grilled Fish before drawing a crowd with his enthusiastic reaction.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to close his stall and promised to return the next day, just as several female students in purple uniforms came out of Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao tried to close his barbecue stall, but Xu Sanshi arrived and attacked him. Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao injured Xu Sanshi with a combined assault, and Jiang Nannan stepped in to stop him.

• Jiang Nannan and the other female students approached Huo Yuhao's stall as he packed up, and he insulted them when they challenged his attitude.
• Xu Sanshi attacked Huo Yuhao, who deflected his strike with a fish spatula before evading his grab.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao released their martial souls and attacked Xu Sanshi together.
• Xu Sanshi summoned his Darkwater Tortoise Shell Shield, but Wang Dong's Wing Blade Guillotine found an opening and injured him.
• Jiang Nannan stood between Xu Sanshi and the freshmen and rebuked him for bullying them.

After Xu Sanshi wrecked Huo Yuhao’s stall and refused to apologize, Huo Yuhao challenged him to a Soul Duel and negotiated a wager of three Profound Water Pills. The crowd followed them to the Soul Duel Zone, where the match was about to begin.

• Jiang Nannan demanded that Xu Sanshi apologize, but he took her rejection badly and tried to leave.
• Huo Yuhao confronted Xu Sanshi over the destroyed stall, and Wang Dong defended him when Xu Sanshi challenged him to a fight.
• Huo Yuhao negotiated a wager with Xu Sanshi, who agreed to give him three Profound Water Pills if Huo Yuhao won, while Huo Yuhao’s group would stake something of equal value if they lost.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao believed Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing gave them a strong chance to win alongside him.
• Huo Yuhao’s group and Xu Sanshi headed to the Soul Duel Zone as news of the match drew a crowd.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong faced fifth-year student Xu Sanshi in the Soul Duel Arena, with ten Gold Soul Coins at stake. As Xu Sanshi relied on his shield array to defend against Wang Dong’s attack, Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing supported her.

• Huo Yuhao gave his saved grilled fish to Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong on the way to the Soul Duel Zone.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong entered the arena to challenge Xu Sanshi, who risked ten Gold Soul Coins if he lost.
• Wang Dong released her Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul while Huo Yuhao shared his Spiritual Detection with her, drawing attention to their abilities.
• Xu Sanshi mocked Huo Yuhao’s white Soul Ring, and Huo Yuhao taunted him in return before the match began.
• Xu Sanshi used his Darkwater Shield Array to surround himself with shields, and Wang Dong fired her Light of the Butterfly God at his defenses.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong used their combined abilities to overcome Xu Sanshi in the arena. Huo Yuhao subdued Xu Sanshi as Tang Ya and Beibei watched from the stands, leaving them wondering how he knew their Tang Sect footwork.

• Wang Dong used her Wing Blade Guillotine and Spiritual Detection Sharing from Huo Yuhao to pressure Xu Sanshi and wound him with a strike that bypassed Darkwater Tremor.
• Huo Yuhao rushed Xu Sanshi using footwork that Tang Ya recognized as resembling Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, while Beibei watched with her.
• Huo Yuhao struck Xu Sanshi with a crystalline palm, briefly disrupting his consciousness and freezing him as Wang Dong launched another attack.
• Huo Yuhao declared himself the victor while Xu Sanshi was subdued, and Xiao Xiao watched his effortless move from the stands.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong defeated Xu Sanshi and claimed his three Profound Water Pills, after which Huo Yuhao introduced Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong to his supposed sect, the Ming Sect. The chapter ended with Xiao Xiao agreeing to join, while an author’s note discussed inconsistencies in the original story’s details about Shrek City.

• The referee declared Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong the winners, and Xu Sanshi handed over three Profound Water Pills.
• Xu Sanshi challenged Huo Yuhao to a one-on-one fight after the entrance assessment, but Huo Yuhao rejected his attempt to treat the challenge as accepted.
• Xiao Xiao asked Huo Yuhao about his unusual footwork, and he claimed it was a technique from his destroyed sect.
• Huo Yuhao called the sect the Ming Sect and gave its motto, prompting Xiao Xiao to ask to join.
• Huo Yuhao welcomed Xiao Xiao, who blushed and nodded.
• The author’s note pointed out conflicting descriptions of Shrek City’s leadership and another age-related continuity error in Douluo Dalu 1.

Huo Yuhao welcomed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao into the Ming Sect and defended its identity when Tang Ya questioned whether his footwork came from the Tang Sect. The three friends left for the dormitory after Huo Yuhao recited the sect’s slogan, while Mu En wondered where the Ming Sect came from.

• Wang Dong asked to join the Ming Sect, and Huo Yuhao embraced her and welcomed her.
• Tang Ya asked whether Huo Yuhao was a Tang Sect descendant; he said he belonged to the Ming Sect and challenged her suggestion that his footwork came from the Tang Sect.
• Tang Ya and Beibei discussed Huo Yuhao’s footwork and decided they could not tell whether it was connected to the Tang Sect; Tang Ya also wrestled with thoughts of her sealed talent.
• Xiao Xiao offered to help revive the Ming Sect, and Wang Dong promised to defend Huo Yuhao from anyone who bullied him.
• Huo Yuhao recited the Ming Sect’s slogan as Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao listened, and Mu En wondered whether the sect came from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao said they were still hungry, and Huo Yuhao promised to grill them more fish the next day.

Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao Profound Water Pills, then used one with Wang Dong to cleanse their bodies of impurities. Huo Yuhao finished first and left for the washroom, while Wang Dong woke later and hurried after him without realizing he was already gone.

• Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao each a Profound Water Pill, and Xiao Xiao accepted hers as a gift for joining Ming Sect.
• Wang Dong wondered about Huo Yuhao's changing attitude toward her, then followed him into their dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong swallowed their pills and cultivated, while Huo Yuhao reflected on his improved Formless Skill and other renamed techniques.
• The pills drove foul, dark impurities from their bodies, and Huo Yuhao completed his marrow cleansing before Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao opened the window and went to the corridor washroom, while Wang Dong woke, smelled the stench, and rushed to wash without noticing he was absent.

Huo Yuhao gained two ranks of Soul Power after the Profound Water Pill’s transformation and planned to awaken the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion as his Second Martial Soul. After Huo Yuhao revealed that he knew Wang Dong was a girl, she began questioning her identity and memories, while he secretly worked to weaken Tang San’s Divine Sense.

• Wang Dong stumbled upon Huo Yuhao washing in the washroom, then hurried back to the dorm, flustered by what she had seen.
• After bathing, Huo Yuhao reflected on his improved physique and Soul Power and resolved to rely on the Eye of Eternity as he prepared to awaken his Second Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao urged Wang Dong to finish bathing, then pointed out that she had stopped hiding her identity after she opened the dorm door.
• Wang Dong realized Huo Yuhao knew she was a girl and became unable to recall why she had concealed her identity in the first place.
• Huo Yuhao watched Wang Dong’s doubts deepen as she questioned her memories and wondered who she could rely on.

After Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong cleaned their dormitory, they joined Xiao Xiao for breakfast and walked to Sea God Lake, where Huo Yuhao reflected on his plans to protect Ma Xiaotao from the Holy Spirit Cult. They spotted a fiery red figure racing across the lake, and Huo Yuhao recognized Ma Xiaotao.

• Huo Yuhao finished nurturing his Truth-Shattering Eye Technique and considered how its cultivation differed from the Purple Demon Eyes.
• Wang Dong watched Huo Yuhao cultivate and worried about her scrambled memories and his knowledge of her identity.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao ate breakfast together and headed to Sea God Lake.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on his increased Soul Power, his future plans, and his intention to stop the Holy Spirit Cult from taking Ma Xiaotao.
• Xiao Xiao pointed out a fiery red figure racing across Sea God Lake, and Huo Yuhao recognized Ma Xiaotao.

Huo Yuhao used Tian Meng’s origin power and the Eye of Eternity to stop Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire rampage, but he collapsed from the effort. After teachers treated the students and took Ma Xiaotao away, Huo Yuhao considered whether to tell Tian Meng and Electrolux about the Soul Spirit System.

• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power to make Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao faint before Ma Xiaotao’s rampaging Evil Fire could reach them.
• Huo Yuhao drew on Tian Meng’s origin power and struck Ma Xiaotao with icy force and a Soul Impact, preventing her from summoning her Martial Soul and making her collapse.
• Huo Yuhao also weakened and barely stayed conscious as teachers arrived; Teacher Li healed him, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao, while the other teachers took Ma Xiaotao away.
• The white-robed elder ordered the students to keep quiet about what they had witnessed and promised them compensation.
• Tian Meng wondered how Huo Yuhao had mobilized his sealed origin power, then noticed Huo Yuhao had reached Level Eighteen and promised to help him complete his Second Martial Soul at Level Twenty.
• Huo Yuhao silently weighed whether to reveal the Soul Spirit System to Tian Meng and Electrolux and how he could explain its origins.

After surviving Ma Xiaotao’s attack, Huo Yuhao and his companions received Soul Ascension Pills from Shrek Academy as compensation, but he demanded a sincere apology instead. When the academy refused and threatened expulsion, Huo Yuhao accepted the pills while warning Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that they needed power to avoid being treated as disposable.

• Tian Meng warned Huo Yuhao that his body could not withstand another inheritance of such power, then returned to sleep.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao woke to find Teacher Li offering them Soul Ascension Pills as compensation and ordering them to forget what they had seen.
• Huo Yuhao demanded an in-person apology from the academy, but Teacher Li refused and threatened to expel them if they revealed the incident.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao urged Huo Yuhao to accept the valuable pills, but he insisted their lives mattered more than the compensation.
• After Teacher Li left, Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to use the pills and said that Shrek Academy would eventually regret refusing to apologize.
• Huo Yuhao explained that they needed power to keep others from treating them as helpless prey, leaving Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to consider his words.

After Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire rampage was suppressed by an unknown Ice Attribute power, Yan Shaozhe identified Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao as the likely source and urged Ma Xiaotao to find an Ultimate Ice Soul Master. Ma Xiaotao refused to accept a marriage arranged to cure her, leaving Yan Shaozhe concerned that her Evil Fire would again endanger her cultivation and others.

• After classes, Huo Yuhao took Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao out for barbecue, and the two deferred to his judgment after what they had witnessed at Shrek Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao woke in the ice chamber and learned from Yan Shaozhe that an outside Ice Attribute force had suppressed her Evil Fire during her rampage.
• Ma Xiaotao admitted she could not remember what happened before she passed out, while Yan Shaozhe warned that her rampage had nearly killed several Outer Court students.
• Yan Shaozhe named Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao as the students under investigation and told Ma Xiaotao not to approach them recklessly.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed finding a male possessor of an Ultimate Ice Attribute Martial Soul to resolve Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, but she refused to marry someone she did not love.
• Yan Shaozhe insisted Ma Xiaotao suspend her cultivation and threatened to disown her as his disciple if she continued being willful.

Three months after classes began, Huo Yuhao’s Barbecue Trio had become famous, and Huo Yuhao had reached Level Twenty while teaching Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to train their Soul Power. Zhou Yi announced the freshman assessment and selected Song Qinghan to enter the Soul Tool Department, but Song Qinghan questioned whether he had any choice.

• The Barbecue Trio gained fame, and Tang Ya, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan became customers at Little Huo BBQ.
• Huo Yuhao taught Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to train their Soul Power through everyday actions, and he advanced to Level Twenty.
• Zhou Yi announced that the freshman assessment would use three-person teams, a draw system, and elimination rounds with rewards for the top teams.
• Zhou Yi nominated Song Qinghan to pass the assessment directly and told him to enter the Soul Tool Department or leave the academy.
• Song Qinghan hesitated and asked Zhou Yi whether he truly had no right to choose.

Song Qinghan challenged Teacher Zhou’s authority, while Huo Yuhao’s influence changed the classroom atmosphere and prompted questions about his Omni-System classification. Outside Shrek City, Ma Xiaotao arrived at Little Huo BBQ, and Huo Yuhao resolved to save her from her berserkness once he was able.

• Song Qinghan told Teacher Zhou he would give up the direct pass and form a team with the others, and Zhou Yi dropped the matter.
• Zhou Yi explained the New Student Assessment rules and patiently handled students’ questions as they arranged their groups.
• Zhou Yi asked Huo Yuhao what Omni-System meant, and Huo Yuhao said he could assault, support, and control; Xiao Xiao joked that he could cook.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived at Little Huo BBQ, and Huo Yuhao recognized her as the woman who had gone berserk.
• Huo Yuhao decided he would pull Ma Xiaotao out of her berserkness, but he could not yet do so because his Second Martial Soul had not taken shape.

Huo Yuhao served Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan at his barbecue stall while discussing the New Student Assessment and the need to cultivate inner strength with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao. Ma Xiaotao remained determined to suppress her Evil Fire herself as Zhang Lexuan reflected on her own inner struggle.

• Ma Xiaotao visited Huo Yuhao's stall to find out whether he and his companions knew who had suppressed her Evil Fire, and she felt an unexplained pull near them.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived, spoke privately with Ma Xiaotao, and agreed to let her finish her food while keeping watch over her.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered Xiangbei Wangbao and Plum Oil Crispy Sauce, and she and Ma Xiaotao tasted their food.
• Xiao Xiao raised concerns about rival elite teams in the New Student Assessment, and Huo Yuhao told her and Wang Dong that cultivation also required strengthening the heart.
• Ma Xiaotao insisted she would suppress her Evil Fire herself, while Zhang Lexuan questioned whether Ma Xiaotao—or she herself—could overcome an inner struggle.