Chapter Summaries

Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao aside to ask for his help suppressing her Evil Fire, but he first persuaded her to become his older sister and reminded her of the danger of losing control. After Huo Yuhao revealed that he had been the champion but was denied a Core Disciple slot, Ma Xiaotao vowed to seek justice for him.

• Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao to Sea God Lake after promising to help him with anything in exchange for his help.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that she reminded him of his late older sister and asked her to become his big sister; she agreed.
• Ma Xiaotao asked whether Huo Yuhao had Ice Attribute abilities and explained that she needed extremely cold energy to cultivate.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had been the champion but had not received a Core Disciple slot, prompting Ma Xiaotao to condemn the academy's decision and promise to seek justice for him.

Huo Yuhao manipulated Ma Xiaotao into confronting Yan Shaozhe over the Academy’s treatment of him, while Zhang Lexuan agreed to support her. Yan Shaozhe learned that Huo Yuhao had an Ice Attribute martial soul and Core Disciple status in the Soul Tool Department, and suspected Qian Duoduo had outmaneuvered him.

• Huo Yuhao convinced Ma Xiaotao that the Academy had treated him unfairly and that he feared being expelled if he complained, prompting her to seek help from Zhang Lexuan.
• Ma Xiaotao told Zhang Lexuan what had happened to Huo Yuhao, and Zhang Lexuan agreed they should ask Yan Shaozhe for an explanation.
• Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan headed across Sea God Lake toward the Inner Court while Huo Yuhao returned to the barbecue stall and told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that Ma Xiaotao had gone to seek justice for him.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan, then reacted with alarm upon learning Huo Yuhao had an Ice Attribute martial soul and was a Core Disciple of the Soul Tool Department.
• Yan Shaozhe recalled that Du Weilun’s report listed Huo Yuhao as having a Spirit Attribute Body Martial Soul and suspected Qian Duoduo had set a trap for him.

Yan Shaozhe and the Shrek Academy leaders learned that Huo Yuhao might possess an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul and scrambled to win his goodwill. Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan began questioning their faith in the academy, while Du Weilun appeared in Class One the next morning looking for Huo Yuhao.

• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao to befriend Huo Yuhao and planned to confirm whether he had Twin Martial Souls and Ultimate Ice.
• Ma Xiaotao challenged Yan Shaozhe’s focus on Huo Yuhao’s talent, and Zhang Lexuan reconsidered the academy’s past promises to her.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered Ma Xiaotao to summon Du Weilun and Zhang Lexuan to seek Elder Xuan’s instructions, then reprimanded Du Weilun for misjudging Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Zi advised that Du Weilun should apologize to Huo Yuhao and take responsibility for the trouble he caused.
• The next morning, Du Weilun went to Class One and asked Zhou Yi and Wang Yan where Huo Yuhao was.

Du Weilun apologized to Huo Yuhao and tried to bring him back to the Martial Soul Department, while Fan Yu argued to keep him in the Soul Tool Department. Huo Yuhao proposed receiving Core Disciple positions from both departments, and the dispute moved to the Sea God Pavilion.

• Du Weilun came to the Soul Tool Experimentation Zone after learning Huo Yuhao had joined the Soul Tool Department, and Zhou Yi led him there.
• Du Weilun bowed to Huo Yuhao and apologized for denying him a Core Disciple spot during the New Student Assessment.
• Du Weilun demanded that Huo Yuhao return to the Martial Soul Department, while Fan Yu insisted Huo Yuhao stay with the Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao told Du Weilun and Fan Yu that he could accept Core Disciple positions from both departments, then asked Du Weilun to take his proposal to the Deans.
• Fan Yu warned Huo Yuhao not to trust Du Weilun, and Huo Yuhao assured him he knew where his talent would be nurtured.
• An elderly man in the Sea God Pavilion called for the divided factions to sit down.

Mu En approved Huo Yuhao’s proposal to study in both the Martial Soul Department and the Soul Tool Department, while Wang Dong worried about their coming separation and Zhang Lexuan received a troubling letter from Tang Ya. Huo Yuhao traveled to the Extreme North with Ice Empress and Tian Meng to seek out the Snow Empress.

• Mu En told the academy elders that Huo Yuhao had proposed becoming a Dual Core Disciple, and he agreed to let Huo Yuhao try both departments.
• Wang Dong reflected on her feelings for Huo Yuhao and considered joining him for the holiday, but Huo Yuhao said he was visiting relatives and could not take her.
• Zhang Lexuan received a letter from Tang Ya through Huo Yuhao and decided she needed to question him about its contents.
• Huo Yuhao told Ice Empress he intended to recruit the Snow Empress, then entered the Extreme North’s core region.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Ice Empress and Tian Meng so Ice Empress could use her soul fluctuations to call out to the Snow Empress.

The Ice Empress summoned the Ice Jade Scorpion clan and brought Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng to the Snow Empress’s territory. Huo Yuhao approached the Snow Empress’s palace, suggesting that the futility of the Snow Empress’s struggle to survive would help persuade her.

• The Ice Scorpion King and its clan arrived, and the Ice Empress told them that Huo Yuhao was to be treated like her and that she had embarked on the Path to Godhood.
• The Ice Scorpion King dismissed the clan and carried Huo Yuhao, the Ice Empress, and Tian Meng toward the Snow Empress’s territory.
• Huo Yuhao asked about the Snow Empress’s domain and learned about Little White and the Titan Snow Demon King’s failed attempt to court her.
• The group reached the Snow Empress’s ice palace, where the Ice Scorpion King left them at the boundary of her territory.
• The Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao how he planned to persuade the Snow Empress, and he stepped toward the palace, pointing to the futility of her efforts to survive.

Huo Yuhao met Snow Empress at the God of Ice Palace and offered to show her a fragment of the future to convince her to cooperate. Their memory-sharing preparations ended with Snow Empress lifting him into the air and pressing her forehead against his.

• Ice Empress called Snow Empress out from the God of Ice Palace and explained that she had made a deal with Huo Yuhao for a Path to Godhood.
• Snow Empress appeared and questioned whether Huo Yuhao was worth trusting, then threatened to seize his body herself.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he knew Snow Empress planned to seal her origin and rebuild herself as a human using a 100,000-year Snow Lotus.
• Huo Yuhao claimed his divine artifact showed him fragments of the future in dreams and offered to share one with Snow Empress.
• Huo Yuhao sent Ice Empress and Tian Meng back to his Spiritual Sea, and Snow Empress agreed to receive his memory through forehead contact.
• Snow Empress grabbed Huo Yuhao, lifted him high, and pressed her forehead against his.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Snow Empress to join his plan by showing her a memory of her future calamity and explaining that soul beasts could not become gods. Snow Empress agreed to become his Dao Protector, but warned him not to call on her to act unless necessary.

• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Eternity to share Snow Empress's memory of being sealed within the Deity Conferring Platform.
• Snow Empress considered avoiding that fate and rebuilding herself as a human, but Huo Yuhao argued that she would need courage to overcome future uncertainty.
• Moved by Huo Yuhao's words, Snow Empress agreed to follow his plan and asked to hear it in full.
• At the God of Ice Palace, Huo Yuhao told Snow Empress that soul beasts could not become gods and explained the threat facing their future.
• Snow Empress agreed to become Huo Yuhao's Dao Protector, asked him to give her a human name, and cautioned him not to make her act unless necessary.

Snow Empress chose to leave the Extreme North with Huo Yuhao and first went to settle its affairs before departing. After her dance summoned the region’s soul beasts, Di Tian and another voice in the Star Dou Great Forest sensed a special Power of Destiny among humans.

• Snow Empress decided to leave the Extreme North with Huo Yuhao and planned to appoint the Titan Snow Demon King to manage the region.
• Snow Empress sealed the God of Ice Palace, carried Huo Yuhao to the Snow Basin, and began dancing in the high-altitude gales.
• Snow Empress’s dance transformed the landscape into an icy-blue realm, and she danced for half an hour before returning to Huo Yuhao.
• Countless Extreme North soul beasts charged toward Snow Empress, led by the Titan Snow Demon King and the enormous Ice Bear.
• In the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian asked what Snow Empress was doing, and another voice said a special Power of Destiny had appeared among humans.

The Extreme North’s unrest drew the attention of powerful factions across the continent as Snow Empress announced that she and Ice Empress would embark upon the Path to Godhood. Before leaving, Snow Empress put Huo Yuhao under the beasts’ protection, appointed the Titan Snow Demon King to manage the Extreme North, and asked Little White to accompany her and later guard Huo Yuhao.

• Di Tian and other powerful figures sensed an unusual Power of Destiny and investigated the turmoil in the Extreme North.
• Snow Empress reunited with Little White and the Titan Snow Demon King, then announced that she and Ice Empress would pursue the Path to Godhood.
• Snow Empress ordered the beasts to treat Huo Yuhao as they would treat her, and Huo Yuhao used Ice Empress’s aura to convince the Titan Snow Demon King to submit.
• Snow Empress appointed the Titan Snow Demon King to rule the Extreme North fairly and unite its clans.
• Snow Empress told Little White to accompany her and later protect Huo Yuhao, and Little White asked whether he should call Huo Yuhao Dad.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy after traveling with Snow Empress, while the Holy Spirit Cult plotted to reclaim him. His reunion with Wang Dong’er and the others eased their worry, but Tang Ya remained conflicted at an unknown location.

• Snow Empress sent Little White and the Ice Bear Clan back to the Extreme North, then accompanied Huo Yuhao toward Shrek City.
• Zhongli Wu learned that Shrek Academy considered Huo Yuhao’s talent lacking and planned to wait for a chance to bring the Holy Son back as his puppet.
• Wang Dong’er, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, Zhang Lexuan, and Ma Xiaotao gathered at Shrek Academy while searching for Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao arrived, and Wang Dong’er pounced on him in tears, afraid he had abandoned her; he reassured her and invited everyone to barbecue.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that his Soul Power was Level Twenty-Eight, surprising the others and deepening Zhang Lexuan’s doubts about Shrek Academy.
• Tang Ya rose at an unknown location, summoned Blue Silver Grass, and reflected on Huo Yuhao’s words with a conflicted expression.

As Shrek Academy students prepared for the Promotion Assessment, Huo Yuhao and his friends encountered Dai Huabin, who challenged Huo Yuhao to a bet and angered him by naming Wang Dong'er as the stake. Two days later, the group arrived at the Beast Fighting Arena, where the chapter outlined Shrek Academy's wealth and sources of income.

• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian waited for Huo Yuhao, and the five ate breakfast together at his small table before heading to class.
• Huo Yuhao's group ran into Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, and Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to bet their Promotion Assessment results.
• After Huo Yuhao explained that his team had refused its special New Student Assessment reward, Dai Huabin proposed Wang Dong'er as the stake if he won.
• Huo Yuhao frightened Dai Huabin and demanded that he kneel, kowtow, and bark like a dog if he lost; Dai Huabin accepted and made the same demand of Huo Yuhao.
• Two days later, Huo Yuhao's group arrived at the Beast Fighting Arena, and the chapter described Shrek Academy's tax revenue, Soul Tool sales, missions, and soul-beast hunting as sources of its wealth.

Wang Dong'er, Dai Huabin, and Huo Yuhao took their Promotion Assessments before Dean Yan Shaozhe, with Huo Yuhao earning a perfect score by subduing a thousand-year Flame Lion King. Dai Huabin lost his wager to Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er demanded that he honor it.

• Wang Dong'er defeated a nine-hundred-year giant bear and passed with a score of 140.
• Dai Huabin killed a thousand-year Wind Tiger, passed with a score of 140, and was ordered to compensate the academy or lose his Core Disciple status.
• Huo Yuhao chose to fight a thousand-year Soul Beast despite being a two-ring Soul Grandmaster, and two white Soul Rings appeared as the Flame Lion King emerged.
• Huo Yuhao leaped onto the Flame Lion King's neck and subdued it, earning a perfect score of 150 from Yan Shaozhe.
• Dai Huabin realized he had lost his wager to Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er told him it was time to fulfill it.

After Huo Yuhao completed the assessment, Yan Shaozhe tried to recruit him into the Martial Soul Department with Inner Court status and powerful cultivation resources, but Huo Yuhao insisted on remaining a Dual Core Disciple and bringing his friends with him. The group received early Inner Court admission, and Wang Dong'er later asked Huo Yuhao whether they should attend a Treasure Appreciation Fair.

• Dai Huabin kowtowed to Huo Yuhao, barked that he was a little dog, and fled while Zhu Lu followed.
• Gong Changlong asked who had subdued the Flame Lion King, and Yan Shaozhe arranged to speak with Huo Yuhao after the students left the colosseum.
• Yan Shaozhe apologized for the assessment and offered Huo Yuhao Inner Court admission, personal instruction, and rare soul resources, but Qian Duoduo interrupted to defend the Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao chose Dual Core Disciple status, refused Yan Shaozhe's offer to become his master, and asked for his friends to enter the Inner Court early; Yan Shaozhe agreed.
• Wang Dong'er showed Huo Yuhao an invitation to the Treasure Appreciation Fair, while Ning Tian reflected on how comfortable she had become with the group.

Wu Feng reflected on Huo Yuhao’s influence as he and his friends visited Shrek Academy’s Treasure Appreciation Fair. Huo Yuhao recognized a Soul Bone for Wang Dong’er and bought a piece of seemingly low-quality Whale Glue, leaving its purpose unexplained.

• Wu Feng concluded that Dai Huabin had been humiliated for crossing Huo Yuhao’s boundaries and felt fortunate to have become his maid.
• Wang Dong’er, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng asked Huo Yuhao about their invitations to the Treasure Appreciation Fair, and Ning Tian offered her twenty million Gold Soul Coins.
• The group traveled to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, which Huo Yuhao revealed belonged to Sea God Pavilion, and browsed its displays.
• Wang Dong’er found a Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, and Ning Tian went to pay its 9.5 million Gold Soul Coin price.
• Huo Yuhao led the group to a display of dark, low-quality Thousand Year Whale Glue and asked Wang Dong’er to pay for it.

At the Treasure Appreciation Fair, Huo Yuhao learned that assassins were waiting for him outside Shrek City and used Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao to capture them. Afterward, Ma Xiaotao suffered an Evil Fire backlash and brought Huo Yuhao to a secluded lake, where he used his Ultimate Ice to suppress it.

• Wang Dong'er paid for the Whale Rubber, and Huo Yuhao spoke with the Lan Family Sisters and Jiang Nannan before Xu Sanshi arrived and failed to win Jiang Nannan's favor.
• Huo Yuhao warned Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan that someone planned to kill him, then left Shrek City alone while the others followed at a distance.
• Huo Yuhao detected six ambushers and shared his Spiritual Detection with the group; Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao defeated and captured the one Soul Emperor and five Soul Kings.
• Shrek City's Guard Team took the captives away, while a white figure quietly slipped away from the scene.
• Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire backlash flared, so she carried Huo Yuhao to a secluded lake and asked him to suppress it with his extreme cold.
• Huo Yuhao used his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Soul to cover Ma Xiaotao in ice, and the two fell into the lake as his Soul Power was heavily drained.

Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire backlash drove her to use Huo Yuhao to suppress it, and she accidentally consumed his Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue with him. They returned to Shrek Academy the next morning, where Ma Xiaotao fled from questions about their night and Huo Yuhao asked to prepare before moving to Sea God Island.

• The Ice Empress and Tian Meng discussed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and the danger of her unleashing her full power.
• Ma Xiaotao, overwhelmed by her feelings for Huo Yuhao, took his Whale Rubber and shared it with him, and they absorbed its effects together.
• Ma Xiaotao woke to find Huo Yuhao beside her and realized the Evil Fire had weakened, while her body and flames had grown stronger.
• Huo Yuhao claimed he remembered nothing, but Ma Xiaotao recognized his feigned innocence, punched him, and flew him back to Shrek Academy.
• Wang Dong'er confronted Ma Xiaotao about what she meant by having used Huo Yuhao, and Ma Xiaotao hurried away.
• Huo Yuhao asked Zhang Lexuan to let him make preparations before they went to the Inner Court dormitories on Sea God Island.

Huo Yuhao and his companions arrived at Sea God Island, where Zhang Lexuan introduced them to Ling Luochen, an Inner Court senior assigned to help supervise Ma Xiaotao. Huo Yuhao let Ling Luochen briefly wield ice enhanced by his Ultimate Ice, prompting Ma Xiaotao to intervene and spar with her before the group settled in for the night.

• Zhang Lexuan took Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian to their dormitory and brought back Ling Luochen, a Control System Battle Soul King assigned to keep Ma Xiaotao in check.
• Ling Luochen asked to see Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice, and he offered to let her experience it by temporarily enhancing her Elemental Ice Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao pressed his palms to Ling Luochen's back, causing her ice attacks to gain the power of Ultimate Ice and surprising Zhang Lexuan.
• Ma Xiaotao rushed in and attacked Ling Luochen, but Zhang Lexuan restrained them after Ling Luochen's enhanced ice suppressed Ma Xiaotao's flames.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen argued over Huo Yuhao, and Zhang Lexuan told them to notify the early-entry students about Outer Court duties before she departed.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen resumed bickering, and Huo Yuhao urged them to rest and continue their argument the next day.

Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao that the academy expected him to place in the top seven of the Outer Court Core Disciple Selection Tournament, and he questioned the demand while asking whether she would stand by him if he opposed the academy. Before the tournament began, Wang Dong'er absorbed a Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, Ning Tian and Wu Feng joined the Ming Sect, and Huo Yuhao's group arrived at the Soul Duel Zone, where Huo Yuhao said they would concede immediately.

• Ma Xiaotao explained the Selection Tournament and warned Huo Yuhao that he had to place among the top seven; she promised to help him if he ever came into conflict with the academy.
• Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Wang Dong'er gathered in Huo Yuhao's room, where Wang Dong'er began absorbing the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone.
• Huo Yuhao offered Ning Tian and Wu Feng the Formless Skill and welcomed them into the Ming Sect; he also gave each of them a Crimson Proof.
• Wang Dong'er completed the Soul Bone fusion and gained an all-around amplification soul skill.
• Huo Yuhao's group went to the Soul Duel Zone for the Selection Tournament, and he told Zhou Yi that they would concede as soon as they stepped forward.
• Elder Xuan arrived at the tournament with the Core Disciples from the Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments.

Huo Yuhao and four companions withdrew from the Core Disciple selection melee, then challenged Xuan Zi over the deaths of Inner Court disciples he had cited as an example. Xuan Zi named the tournament’s survivors and several promising students as reserve-team candidates, and Huo Yuhao stayed behind to speak with He Caitou.

• Xuan Zi announced that the Core Disciples had to fight until seven remained, while Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and three others immediately left the arena.
• Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, He Caitou, Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Xie Huanyue survived the melee, and Xuan Zi also called several eliminated students and Huo Yuhao's group to stay.
• Xuan Zi defended the harsh selection by recounting how eight Inner Court disciples died while facing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Huo Yuhao questioned why their teachers had allowed them to become separated.
• After Zhang Lexuan broke down in tears, Xuan Zi revealed that the tournament selected reserve-team members and ordered the chosen students to train with him while warning that they could still be replaced.
• Xuan Zi told Huo Yuhao's group to attend the upcoming event, and He Caitou stopped Huo Yuhao at the arena entrance to speak with him about revenge.