Chapter Summaries

Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, the Lan sisters, and all of Class One challenged Du Weilun’s decision to deny Huo Yuhao Core Disciple status, forcing him to promise an investigation. Huo Yuhao was assigned to Class One, and Du Weilun gave him the team’s exceptional New Student Assessment reward to inspect.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao asked Du Weilun to revoke their Core Disciple status rather than strip Huo Yuhao of his, and Class One joined their plea.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo also defended Huo Yuhao, prompting Du Weilun to say he would report the Core Disciple decision for investigation.
• Du Weilun assigned Huo Yuhao to Class Three, but moved him to Class One after students objected; Zhou Yi and Wang Yan were named Class One’s head teachers.
• Du Weilun asked Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao to collect their reward, then promised to report Huo Yuhao’s Core Disciple slot for further discussion.
• Du Weilun presented the trio with a pouch containing their exceptional reward, and Wang Dong handed it to Huo Yuhao to open.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao offered a Soul Bone in exchange for Huo Yuhao receiving Core Disciple status on equal terms, but Du Weilun postponed the decision. Huo Yuhao then arranged a month-long leave to visit an acquaintance and hunt for a Soul Ring, while Zhou Yi revealed she had been wearing a human-skin mask.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao returned the Soul Bone to Du Weilun and offered it in exchange for Huo Yuhao receiving Core Disciple status on equal terms.
• Huo Yuhao declined the Soul Bone, and Du Weilun said the academy would discuss his Core Disciple status before making a decision.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that he would return what they had lost, then went back with them to the classroom.
• Zhou Yi approved Huo Yuhao's month-long leave to visit an acquaintance who would help him hunt for a Soul Ring.
• After Huo Yuhao and his friends left, Zhou Yi removed a human-skin mask and said she had nearly forgotten what she looked like.

Wang Yan held an election for Class President and Vice President, but Wu Feng and Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao’s nomination. Huo Yuhao rejected the election as childish and called them cowards who could not accept their defeat.

• Wang Yan announced the Class President and Vice President election and nominated Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Dai Huabin, Wu Feng, and other students.
• Wu Feng objected to Huo Yuhao competing, arguing that a one-ring Soul Master with a Ten-Year Soul Ring was unqualified.
• Dai Huabin joined Wu Feng’s objection and claimed Huo Yuhao had won only because of Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• Wu Feng challenged Huo Yuhao to defeat her, while Wang Yan instead held a show-of-hands vote on Huo Yuhao’s nomination.
• Huo Yuhao raised his hand against his own candidacy, called the election childish, and accused Dai Huabin and Wu Feng of being unable to accept their loss.

Huo Yuhao accepted Wu Feng’s challenge to a duel over the class monitor election and defeated her decisively in the Soul Duel Zone. The students were left stunned by his combat ability as Ning Tian carried Wu Feng away to recover.

• Wu Feng challenged Huo Yuhao, wagering that he would withdraw from the class monitor election if he lost, and Huo Yuhao accepted.
• Wang Yan approved the duel and refereed while Zhou Sichen gathered bets; Dai Huabin backed Wu Feng, while Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao backed Huo Yuhao.
• Wu Feng charged Huo Yuhao, but he used Spiritual Interference to evade her attack and kick her off balance.
• Huo Yuhao used Dragon Capture Hand to seize Wu Feng, struck her with headbutts, and hit her with three Spiritual Impacts until she collapsed.
• Ning Tian carried Wu Feng away after Huo Yuhao assured her that Wu Feng would recover, while Dai Huabin stared in disbelief at Huo Yuhao’s victory.

After Huo Yuhao defeated Wu Feng, Wang Yan and Zhou Yi discussed his planned month-long leave and worried that he would hunt for his second Soul Ring without the academy’s help. The next morning, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao were elected Class One’s Class President and Vice President, while Huo Yuhao remained uninvolved.

• Wang Yan reflected that he had overlooked Huo Yuhao’s potential before noticing his Body Martial Soul, then learned from Zhou Yi that Huo Yuhao planned to hunt for his second Soul Ring during a month-long leave.
• Wang Yan urged Zhou Yi to find a teacher to accompany Huo Yuhao, but Zhou Yi explained that the academy could not spare anyone and Huo Yuhao had refused its assistance.
• Huo Yuhao greeted Mu En beneath the locust tree, prompting Mu En to wonder how Huo Yuhao had recognized his strength and whether the academy could foster a sense of belonging in him.
• Zhou Yi let Ning Tian and Wu Feng enter class without punishment, and Ning Tian and Wu Feng reflected on Wu Feng’s defeat by Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Dong was elected Class President and Xiao Xiao became Vice President after Huo Yuhao declined to participate.

Huo Yuhao revealed that he knew Ning Tian’s identity and mission before leaving Shrek Academy for the northern border of the Heaven Dou Empire. There, Tian Meng used her Remains to protect and conceal him as he prepared to seek a vessel for his Second Martial Soul.

• Wu Feng offered to serve Huo Yuhao after losing their bet, and he teased her by asking her to be his maid.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Ning Tian was the young mistress of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and knew about her mission to find a way to evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to inform their teachers he had gone home, then refused Wang Dong’s request to accompany him.
• Huo Yuhao traveled alone to the northern border of the Heaven Dou Empire, where Tian Meng admitted she did not recognize the region.
• Huo Yuhao removed his clothes so Tian Meng could cover him with her Remains, which protected him from the cold and concealed his aura.
• Huo Yuhao asked Tian Meng to guide him to a vessel for his Second Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao prepared skis and a concealed ice hut before helping Tian Meng lure the Ice Empress into the Extreme North. The Ice Empress appeared, and Huo Yuhao watched as she confronted Tian Meng.

• Huo Yuhao carved skis so he could travel through the deep snow more easily.
• Huo Yuhao built an ice hut and persuaded Tian Meng to let him control the release of her origin Spiritual Power.
• Tian Meng used Spiritual Power to imitate the Snow Empress's aura and challenged the Ice Empress while Huo Yuhao concealed himself and burned Tian Meng's shedding for warmth.
• The Ice Empress sensed Tian Meng, appeared in a jade-green glow, and threatened to kill her.
• Huo Yuhao saw the Ice Empress's scorpion-like form and admired her beauty.

Tian Meng captured the Ice Empress with Huo Yuhao’s help and brought her to the edge of the Extreme North. He revealed that he was a Million-Year Wisdom Soul Ring and proposed using Huo Yuhao in a plan to create a god.

• The Ice Empress sensed that Tian Meng had a hidden ally, but a white membrane and an ancient bell-like force bound her before Tian Meng pulled her into golden light.
• Tian Meng warned Huo Yuhao that the Ice Empress’s kin were approaching and explained that fusing her power into him would require a painful seal.
• Huo Yuhao asked Tian Meng to release the Ice Empress, then Tian Meng’s Shedding immediately restrained her again.
• Tian Meng told the Ice Empress that she had been seeing his Spiritual Origin, revealed himself as the first Million-Year Wisdom Soul Ring, and announced his God-Creation Plan.
• Tian Meng explained that the plan would use Huo Yuhao and claimed that human potential surpassed even the abilities of powerful Soul Beasts.

Huo Yuhao revealed the God of Emotions’ inheritance and explained that the Dragon God and the Divine Realm had barred Soul Beasts from godhood. Ice Empress agreed to join his Ascension Plan and gave up her Spiritual Origin, which Tian Meng’s Shedding absorbed before entering Huo Yuhao.

• Tian Meng explained the God-Creation Plan and why he had chosen Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao showed Ice Empress and Tian Meng the Eye of Eternity and revealed that the Dragon God’s vow and the Divine Realm’s rules prevented Soul Beasts from becoming gods.
• Huo Yuhao told Ice Empress that the Ice God’s divine position had been shattered into a Path to Godhood and invited her to join the Ascension Plan.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Spirit System, and Ice Empress decided to gamble on joining him.
• Ice Empress released her Spiritual Origin, which Tian Meng’s Shedding devoured before it entered Huo Yuhao’s forehead.

Huo Yuhao began the Ice Empress’s Soul Spirit transformation, enduring the fusion of her Soul Bone and strengthening his body. After the fusion succeeded, he proceeded to the Martial Soul Fusion, with the Ice Empress’s power entering his body.

• The Ice Empress began the Soul Bone fusion by piercing Huo Yuhao’s tailbone with her scorpion tail.
• Huo Yuhao endured alternating extreme cold and heat as the Ice Empress’s jade-green power spread through his bones.
• Huo Yuhao suffered intense itching while the Ice Empress’s Soul Bone merged with his skeleton, and the fusion eventually succeeded.
• The Ice Empress and Tian Meng began sealing and fusing their power for the Martial Soul Fusion while Huo Yuhao protected the Ice Empress’s Spiritual Origin.
• The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion transformed into icy mist and flowed into Huo Yuhao’s body.

Huo Yuhao began fusing Ice Empress’s Soul Bone and endured extreme pain as her power merged with his body. After the fusion succeeded, he started the Martial Soul Fusion needed to turn Ice Empress into a Soul Spirit, with Tian Meng also involved.

• Ice Empress began the Soul Bone fusion by piercing Huo Yuhao’s tailbone with her tail hook and channeling emerald light into his skeleton.
• Huo Yuhao endured alternating extreme cold, heat, and unbearable itching as Ice Empress’s Soul Bone fused with his bones, improving his body and advancing him by at least one rank.
• Ice Empress and Tian Meng reacted with surprise to the results of the Soul Bone fusion, and Huo Yuhao ordered them to begin the Martial Soul Fusion.
• The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion transformed into icy mist and flowed into Huo Yuhao as the Martial Soul Fusion began.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Tian Meng and welcomed Ice Empress into the world as a Soul Spirit, naming her Bing Xixue. He revealed his new Ice Jade Empress Scorpion abilities and prepared to travel toward Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao retrieved a ring from beneath a tree, put it on, and dressed as Tian Meng appeared beside him.
• Ice Empress appeared, and Huo Yuhao named her Bing Xixue before asking her to find Snow Empress and invite her to become his Dao Protector.
• Huo Yuhao explained that powerful humans could not sense his Soul Spirits while they stayed within five meters of him, then sent Tian Meng and Ice Empress away.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion External Soul Bone and learned that its four-hundred-thousand-year scorpion tail carried the Ice Explosion Technique.
• Huo Yuhao switched to his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and used Tian Meng's Soul Spirit-provided Simulation skill.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy and reunited with Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian, learning about changes in Class One and the Ming Sect. After receiving a temporary Core Disciple badge, he declared that the Academy would soon beg him to become a true Core Disciple.

• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek City with Tian Meng and Ice Empress, then entered Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao found Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian together in the cafeteria and revealed himself after speaking to them unseen.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao told Huo Yuhao that Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu had left Class One after Dai spread rumors about him and clashed with the class.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that commoner students and Jiang Nannan had joined the Ming Sect.
• Wang Dong gave Huo Yuhao a temporary Core Disciple badge and explained that he would have to prove himself in his second year.
• Huo Yuhao said Shrek Academy would be begging him to become a Core Disciple by then, leaving Wu Feng and Ning Tian stunned.

Huo Yuhao visited Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department with Zhou Yi, Fan Yu, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian. Fan Yu tested Huo Yuhao’s abilities and was astonished by the power of his Spiritual Detection Sharing, leaving Huo Yuhao’s talent impossible to dismiss.

• Zhou Yi noticed Huo Yuhao had returned and took him and the four girls who stayed behind to the Soul Tool Department.
• Fan Yu met Huo Yuhao and explained that he had reserved a Core Disciple slot for him, then asked him to demonstrate his soul skill.
• Huo Yuhao revealed two white Soul Rings, angering Zhou Yi, who questioned his choice of a Ten-Year Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao activated Spiritual Detection Sharing, giving everyone a detailed three-dimensional image in their minds.
• Fan Yu was shocked that the skill let him process the imagery without disrupting his thoughts, while Ning Tian realized why Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao relied on Huo Yuhao in the championship.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated the range and versatility of his Spiritual Detection and Simulation, impressing Fan Yu, who invited him to become his disciple and join a secret plan. Huo Yuhao refused the apprenticeship but followed Fan Yu to the Soul Tool Experimentation Zone, where he began modifying a second-grade Soul Cannon.

• Fan Yu discovered that Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection could cover a range of hundreds of meters and offered him a Core Disciple slot and an apprenticeship.
• Huo Yuhao refused to take Fan Yu as his teacher, then used Simulation to change his Soul Ring colors and make himself appear invisible.
• Fan Yu called Huo Yuhao a genius suited to his plan and led him, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian into the Soul Tool Experimentation Zone.
• Fan Yu introduced Huo Yuhao to He Caitou and asked him to assist with a test of a Fixed-Load Soul Tool Cannon.
• Huo Yuhao picked up a second-grade Soul Cannon, concealed his work with Simulation, and reassembled it in a drastically altered form.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated his ability to rebuild a Soul Tool into a powerful hand-mounted cannon, prompting Fan Yu to recommend him for the Soul Tool Department’s Core Disciple spot and a secret plan. Two days later, Huo Yuhao reopened his barbecue stall with Ning Tian and Wu Feng helping, while several notable guests arrived and Tang Ya watched him uneasily.

• Huo Yuhao rebuilt a Soul Cannon into a hand-mounted weapon and used it to destroy a moving target and strike a distant metal plate.
• Fan Yu recommended Huo Yuhao to Qian Duoduo, who agreed to give him a Core Disciple spot despite doubts that it would secure his loyalty to the Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that he would reopen his barbecue stall in a couple of days and remarked that fish had to be caught before it could be grilled.
• Huo Yuhao reopened the stall with Ning Tian and Wu Feng helping, and he taught both of them the same fine skills he had taught Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• Jiang Nannan, Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Tang Ya visited the stall, while Tang Ya secretly glanced at Huo Yuhao as if she wanted to speak to him.

Tang Ya confronted Huo Yuhao about the Tang Sect, and he revealed that the Iron Blood Sect had destroyed it while Shrek and the Clear Sky Sect ignored its plea for help. The chapter ended with Tang Ya learning that Beibei was Mu En’s great-grandson and hearing that Mu En had arranged a child bride for him.

• Tang Ya asked Huo Yuhao about the Tang Sect, but he refused to discuss its secrets in public.
• Ma Xiaotao approached Huo Yuhao, suspected his power could suppress her Evil Fire, and left without testing him.
• After the others departed, Tang Ya met Huo Yuhao privately and asked whether the Tang Sect was as terrible as he claimed.
• Huo Yuhao named the Iron Blood Sect and revealed that it had destroyed the Tang Sect while Shrek and the Clear Sky Sect ignored its plea for help.
• Tang Ya broke down in tears, and Huo Yuhao told her that Beibei was Mu En’s great-grandson and that Mu En had arranged a child bride for him.

Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya about Zhang Lexuan’s forced child-bride oath and Beibei’s role in approaching Tang Ya, leaving her shaken and questioning the Tang Sect. Back at the dormitory, he persuaded the frightened Wang Dong that a demon was manipulating her and promised to help her defeat it, while other students talked about him and cultivation.

• Huo Yuhao explained Zhang Lexuan’s story and Mu En’s plan involving Beibei to Tang Ya, who was left doubting what she had believed about the Tang Sect and Beibei.
• Huo Yuhao warned Tang Ya that she could not return once she fell into darkness, then left her to seek answers from Beibei herself.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to train with Soul Tools, but Wang Dong tearfully said she could not bring herself to use them.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that a demon had sealed her memories and controlled her, and urged her to resist its temptations while promising to help defeat it.
• Wang Dong fell asleep peacefully in Huo Yuhao’s arms, while Xiao Xiao watched the moon and Ning Tian and another student discussed cultivating with him.

Huo Yuhao accepted the Soul Tool Department's Core Disciple badge and demonstrated his forging talent by creating two Second-Rank Soul Tools called Crimson Proof. Fan Yu left to report Huo Yuhao's achievement to Qian Duoduo, while Huo Yuhao gave the tools to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao and prepared to teach his companions about Soul Tools.

• Huo Yuhao accepted Fan Yu's offer to become a Core Disciple of the Soul Tool Department, but agreed to keep his status secret until Qian Duoduo brought him over from the Martial Soul Department.
• Huo Yuhao requested forging materials and began making two Soul Tools as Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Fan Yu watched.
• Huo Yuhao used Simulation to conceal his Dragon Dance Blade Technique while engraving Core Arrays onto two crimson, teardrop-shaped crystals.
• Huo Yuhao named the Second-Rank Soul Tools Crimson Proof and explained that each could withstand a Soul Elder's strongest attack.
• Fan Yu recognized Huo Yuhao as a Level 2 Soul Engineer and hurried to report his achievement to Qian Duoduo.
• Huo Yuhao gave one Crimson Proof each to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, then offered to teach the group how to use Soul Tools.

Qian Duoduo decided to recruit Huo Yuhao into the Soul Tool Department after learning of his talent, while Fan Yu awarded him a Level 2 Soul Engineer Badge. Later, Ma Xiaotao came to Huo Yuhao’s barbecue stall and urgently asked him to help suppress her Evil Fire.

• Fan Yu told Qian Duoduo that Huo Yuhao was an exceptionally talented Soul Engineer, and Qian Duoduo decided to secure him for the Soul Tool Department.
• Ma Xiaotao told Zhang Lexuan that her extreme cold power was running out and asked to find Huo Yuhao for help with her Evil Fire.
• Fan Yu returned to the Soul Tool Experimentation Zone and awarded Huo Yuhao his Level 2 Soul Engineer Badge.
• Huo Yuhao’s barbecue stall served a crowd of customers, with Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian helping him.
• Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao that she might die without his help, and he agreed to hear her out.