Chapter Summaries

The Aiven Empire revised its God Official Quota rules with Aiven's approval, and Huo Yuhao was born into a hostile family before growing up determined to leave it. At eleven, he prepared to break through to Level 10 while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm left the Divine Hall to seek a talented mental-type Soul Master.

• A descendant ascended to the God Realm and delivered the proposed quota changes to Aiven, who approved them.
• The Aiven Empire announced that youths who reached Soul Emperor before eighteen would receive a God Official Quota, while those at Level 55 or higher could earn one through an assessment.
• Huo Yuhao was born as the illegitimate son of the Huo Family Head, and his low-status mother and weak Spirit Eyes left them subjected to neglect and bullying.
• Huo Yuhao's mother died when he was ten, and he vowed to leave the Huo Family once he reached Level 10 Soul Power.
• At eleven, Huo Yuhao sat alone in a hut and attempted to break through from Level 9 to Level 10.
• After completing his ten-thousand-year term, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm left the Divine Hall and set out to find a talented young mental-type Soul Master.

Huo Yuhao broke through to Level 10 and released a powerful radiance of destiny that drew the attention of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Qian Renxue, and Aiven. While Aiven anticipated Huo Yuhao becoming an ally of the Aiven Empire, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hesitated over whether to choose the boy despite his weak cultivation.

• Huo Yuhao reached Level 10, and his radiance of destiny surged from the Huo Family cottage into the God Realm.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed Huo Yuhao's destiny and rushed to investigate, while Qian Renxue noticed the radiance and went to tell Aiven.
• Qian Renxue worried that Huo Yuhao might threaten the Aiven Empire's national destiny, but Aiven said he would likely become an important ally.
• Aiven recalled that Huo Yuhao had appeared despite the Dai Family's destruction and wondered what life he would lead under the Aiven Empire.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found that Huo Yuhao was an eleven-year-old spiritual-type Soul Master with Level 10 Soul Power, but hesitated to reject him because of his extraordinary destiny.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chose Huo Yuhao as his host and fused with him, despite his weak talent, because he believed Huo Yuhao’s fortune gave him the potential to reach a higher level of godhood. Huo Yuhao awakened in his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, where he met Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and learned about his growing Soul Ring and its abilities.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm weighed a safe choice against gambling on Huo Yuhao’s potential, then chose Huo Yuhao and began fusing with him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness and discovered the presence of Electrolux, a powerful fragment of divine consciousness from another world.
• Electrolux briefly confronted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, then withdrew, allowing the fusion with Huo Yuhao to finish.
• Huo Yuhao awakened in his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, met Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and learned that the million-year Soul Ring’s power was sealed to grow with his strength.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that his Soul Ring could eventually reach a million years, grant four soul skills, and provide an ice-attribute Spirit Empire; he planned for Huo Yuhao to absorb the Ice Empress as a second Spirit Empire.

Huo Yuhao learned that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had given him four soul skills and agreed to follow its plan to enter the Aiven Empire Royal Academy. As Sky Dream arranged an exception for him, Huo Yuhao left his family and headed toward the academy, where the chapter introduced the emperor’s gifted youngest son, Ai Xuan Yu.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to cultivate diligently and promised to guide him toward becoming a god.
• Sky Dream told Huo Yuhao it would use its influence to get him admitted to the Aiven Empire Royal Academy without waiting for the usual enrollment.
• Huo Yuhao left the Huo Family early the next morning and followed Sky Dream’s directions toward the academy.
• Sky Dream had Huo Yuhao wait near the imperial palace while it spread its spiritual power through the palace.
• The emperor advised Ai Xuan Yu, the gifted Seventh Imperial Son with the Emperor Divine Sword Spirit Soul, to cultivate diligently and lead the Royal Academy to victory in the Soul Master Competition.

Ai Xuan Yu’s father arranged for Huo Yuhao to enter the Imperial Royal Academy and gave Ai Xuan Yu three valuable pills to deliver to him. Ai Xuan Yu met Huo Yuhao at the palace gates, and they set off together for the academy.

• The emperor learned from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he had chosen Huo Yuhao as his Soul Master and agreed to arrange Huo Yuhao’s admission to the Royal Academy.
• The emperor told Ai Xuan Yu to take Huo Yuhao to the academy and gave him two Mystic Water Pills and one Crimson Blood Pill for Huo Yuhao.
• Ai Xuan Yu left the palace and found Huo Yuhao waiting near the gates, though Huo Yuhao did not look like the exceptional genius Ai Xuan Yu had imagined.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized the pills and urged Huo Yuhao to accept them, while Huo Yuhao thanked Ai Xuan Yu.
• Huo Yuhao and Ai Xuan Yu introduced themselves, boarded a carriage, and traveled toward the Imperial Royal Academy.

Huo Yuhao enrolled at Aiven Empire Royal Academy and became roommates with Ai Xuan Yu, while learning about the academy’s demanding selection system. Elsewhere, the chapter introduced Qian Jiaxue, a powerful young talent at Spirit Hall Academy, setting up a future rivalry between the two academies.

• Ai Xuan Yu explained that Aiven Empire Royal Academy divided students between the Outer and Inner Courtyards and eliminated half its students each year, while Huo Yuhao worried about surviving its assessments.
• Huo Yuhao and Ai Xuan Yu arrived at the academy, admired statues of the Three Kingdoms Generals and Aiven, and shared their respective idols.
• Huo Yuhao received his specially arranged enrollment and was assigned to First Grade Class One and the same dormitory room as Ai Xuan Yu.
• The chapter introduced twelve-year-old Qian Jiaxue of Spirit Hall Academy, whose Soul Power had reached level forty-four and who was a rare genius of the Qian Family.
• The academy leaders anticipated that Qian Jiaxue and Ai Xuan Yu would meet in the Soul Master Competition finals five years later.

Spirit Hall anticipated another championship with Qian Jiaxue, while Ai Xuan Yu vowed to lead the Royal Academy to victory. Huo Yuhao boosted his Soul Power to level 12 with a Mystic Water Pill and began his first day at the academy, where Zhou Yi introduced herself as Class One’s stern homeroom teacher.

• Spirit Hall’s Dean and Vice Dean celebrated Qian Jiaxue’s talent and expected her to secure a third consecutive championship.
• Ai Xuan Yu trained with the Emperor Divine Sword and vowed to win the next Soul Master Competition for the Royal Academy.
• Huo Yuhao took a Mystic Water Pill, expelled impurities, and raised his Soul Power from level 11 to level 12.
• Huo Yuhao cultivated through the night, impressing Ai Xuan Yu with his diligence.
• Huo Yuhao and Ai Xuan Yu arrived early for their first day in Class One, where Zhou Yi introduced herself and warned that she would not pass weak students.

Zhou Yi warned Class One that half of its students would be eliminated after a freshman assessment in three months, then had the students introduce themselves. Ai Xuan Yu revealed he was the Seventh Prince and a Rank 32 Soul Master, while Huo Yuhao disclosed his Rank 12 Soul Power, leaving Ai Xuan Yu questioning why the Emperor valued him.

• Zhou Yi announced that the academy would hold a freshman assessment in three months and eliminate half the new students, prompting Huo Yuhao to resolve to cultivate harder.
• The students introduced themselves, and Xiao Xiao revealed that she was twelve years old and had Rank 26 Soul Power.
• Ai Xuan Yu introduced himself as a twelve-year-old Rank 32 Three Rings Weapon Soul Master with the Emperor Divine Sword Spirit Soul, revealing that he was the Seventh Prince.
• Ai Xuan Yu asked the class to treat him as an ordinary student, while Zhou Yi declared that the academy treated students equally.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as a Spirit Eyes Soul Master with Rank 12 Soul Power, shocking his classmates and Ai Xuan Yu.
• Ai Xuan Yu wondered why the Emperor valued Huo Yuhao and suspected that he might be the Emperor’s illegitimate son.

Huo Yuhao endured Zhou Yi’s hundred-lap test and spent three months training with Ai Xuan Yu, steadily improving his Soul Power and combat ability. As the freshman assessment began, Zhou Yi announced that students would compete in three-person teams.

• Zhou Yi ordered the freshmen to run one hundred laps in an hour or be expelled, and Ai Xuan Yu invited Huo Yuhao to run with him.
• Huo Yuhao kept running after Ai Xuan Yu pulled ahead, finished all one hundred laps, and resolved to close the gap between them.
• Huo Yuhao trained intensely, earned money selling grilled fish, and raised his Soul Power to Level 13 after taking a second Mystic Water Pill.
• Ai Xuan Yu respected Huo Yuhao’s diligence, trained him in combat, and was inspired to work harder himself.
• After three months, Huo Yuhao had reached the middle of the class in combat ability, though his classmates still considered him the weakest.
• Zhou Yi announced that the freshman assessment would consist of three-person teams competing in 3v3 matches, with no more than one Power Attack System Soul Master per team.

Huo Yuhao revealed that his Soul Power had reached Level 16 after three months of cultivation, changing how his classmates viewed him. As freshmen began forming assessment teams, Ai Xuan Yu surprised the class by inviting Huo Yuhao to join him in competing for first place.

• Zhou Yi announced that only the top 150 of roughly 300 freshman teams would pass and told the students to report their Spirit Empires and Soul Power levels.
• Ai Xuan Yu reported Level 34 Soul Power, while classmates mocked Huo Yuhao before he announced that he had reached Level 16 at his peak.
• The class reacted with shock at Huo Yuhao's rapid progress, and Ai Xuan Yu defended him against students who had underestimated him.
• Zhou Yi told the students to form teams for the assessment, which would begin in three days, and many rushed to ask Ai Xuan Yu to join them.
• Ai Xuan Yu walked through the crowd and invited Huo Yuhao to team up with him and aim for first place, prompting classmates to object that Huo Yuhao would hold him back.

Ai Xuan Yu formed a new student assessment team with Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao, then the three prepared together before the assessment began. They entered the sixth division, where the rules required each of its six teams to fight every other team, with the top three advancing.

• Ai Xuan Yu defended his choice of Huo Yuhao, explaining that Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eye support abilities made him a worthwhile teammate despite his low Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao recommended Xiao Xiao, and Ai Xuan Yu invited her to join their team; Xiao Xiao eagerly agreed.
• Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao trained together for three days, learning about one another’s abilities and improving their coordination.
• The new student assessment began, and the trio was assigned to the sixth division among around three hundred participating teams.
• The sixth division’s teacher explained that its six teams would compete in a round-robin tournament, with the three teams earning the most victories advancing and Soul Tools prohibited.

Huo Yuhao, Ai Xuan Yu, and Xiao Xiao began their regional assessment match against a team from Class Three, Year One. With Huo Yuhao’s enhanced Mental Detection Sharing supporting him, Ai Xuan Yu swiftly defeated the opposing attackers, leaving the match firmly in their hands.

• Huo Yuhao, Ai Xuan Yu, and Xiao Xiao entered the arena to face Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, and Zhao Haochen.
• Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, and other powerful students gathered to watch Ai Xuan Yu, and they were shocked to learn that his Soul Power had reached level 34.
• Both teams released their Spirit Empires, and the opposing Food System Soul Master used Big Chicken Legs to boost his teammates’ speed.
• Huo Yuhao shared his Mental Detection with his teammates, allowing Ai Xuan Yu to read and evade the opponents’ attacks.
• Ai Xuan Yu countered with two swift sword strikes and knocked both charging opponents to the ground.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao helped Ai Xuan Yu’s team win every match in the group stage, and Huo Yuhao advanced to Level 17 Soul Power. After the first stage eliminated fifteen teams, Zhou Yi announced that the undefeated teams would proceed to the elimination rounds.

• Xiao Xiao suppressed two opponents with Cauldron’s Ripple, while Huo Yuhao and Ai Xuan Yu quickly defeated the opposing team to claim their first win.
• Ai Xuan Yu let Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao take the lead in later matches, and they defeated two more teams as Huo Yuhao impressed the freshmen with his combat ability.
• Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao finished the group stage undefeated, and Huo Yuhao broke through to Level 17 Soul Power.
• Zhou Yi announced that twenty-two Class One teams had advanced and fifteen eliminated teams had to leave Aiven Empire Royal Academy.
• Zhou Yi said the advancing teams would enter the elimination rounds and noted that six teams had achieved flawless records, including Ai Xuan Yu’s team.

As the freshman assessment elimination rounds began, Huo Yuhao, Ai Xuan Yu, and Xiao Xiao identified the strongest rival teams and learned of their powerful family lineages. Their team advanced easily through two rounds, while the other leading teams did the same.

• Huo Yuhao suggested that the team watch other strong groups, and Ai Xuan Yu and Xiao Xiao agreed.
• After their first-round victory, Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao scouted the undefeated teams and identified four dangerous rivals.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Huo Huabin was his half-brother and that Huo Huabin had indirectly caused his mother's death, but he insisted on defeating him himself.
• Ai Xuan Yu explained that Zhu Qingxuan and Ye Zhenzhen descended from Aiven's family lines, and Huo Yuhao realized their team carried the legacies of two godly families.
• Ai Xuan Yu's group crushed its second-round opponents, as did the teams led by Ning Tian, Huo Huabin, Meng Xukun, and Zhu Qingxuan.

Aiven, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao advanced to the semifinals, where Zhu Qingxuan’s team faced Ning Tian’s team. Zhu Qingxuan broke through Ning Tian’s team’s defense and charged toward Ning Tian, just as Aiven had predicted.

• Aiven, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao won their matches and reached the top four alongside Zhu Qingxuan, Huo Huabin, and Ning Tian’s teams.
• The semifinal matchups were set: Aiven’s team faced Huo Huabin’s team, while Zhu Qingxuan’s team faced Ning Tian’s team.
• Ning Tian, Nanmen Yun’er, and Wu Feng released their Spirit Empires and Soul Rings against Zhu Qingxuan, Ye Zhenzhen, and Chu Yan.
• Huo Yuhao judged that Ning Tian lacked close-combat ability, and Aiven predicted that Zhu Qingxuan’s team would exploit that weakness.
• Ning Tian boosted her teammates with three support skills, but Nanmen Yun’er could only barely suppress Chu Yan, while Wu Feng could not match Zhu Qingxuan.
• Zhu Qingxuan knocked Wu Feng back with one claw strike and charged toward Ning Tian.

Zhu Qingxuan’s team defeated Ning Tian’s team, and Ai Xuan Yu’s team began its semifinal match against Huo Huabin’s team. After Huo Yuhao accepted Huo Huabin’s challenge to fight again in three years, Ai Xuan Yu overwhelmed Huo Huabin and unleashed his third soul skill against his teammates.

• Zhu Qingxuan knocked Ning Tian down, ending the match, and her team defeated Ning Tian’s teammates.
• Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao entered the arena to face Huo Huabin’s team.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Huo Huabin’s wager to fight in the Soul Arena in three years and vowed to defeat him.
• Ai Xuan Yu released the Emperor’s Might of his Emperor Divine Sword Spirit Soul and struck Huo Huabin with sword intent.
• Huo Huabin’s two teammates attacked Ai Xuan Yu, who activated his third soul skill, Emperor Sword Rain.

Ai Xuan Yu overwhelmed Huo Huabin in the semifinal, and his team advanced to face Zhu Qingxuan’s team in the Freshman Assessment Finals. As the final match began, Zhu Qingxuan predicted that Huo Yuhao’s low Soul Power would make him vulnerable to their attack.

• Ai Xuan Yu defeated Huo Huabin with his Emperor Divine Sword, securing victory for his team in the second semifinal.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to keep cultivating and personally defeat Huo Huabin in the academy’s Soul Fighting Arena three years later.
• The next day, Ai Xuan Yu’s team and Zhu Qingxuan’s team entered the crowded venue for the Finals, watched by Outer and Inner Courtyard students and teachers.
• Ai Xuan Yu and Zhu Qingxuan exchanged greetings, and Ai Xuan Yu asked whether she and Ye Zhenzhen had arranged to team up against him.
• Zhu Qingxuan denied planning their pairing and said Huo Yuhao’s level 17 Soul Power would leave him unable to withstand their offense.

Huo Yuhao recognized that his low Soul Power limited his ability as the Class One team faced Zhu Qingxuan’s Class Three team. Ye Zhenzhen revealed herself as a formidable battle healer, and her team’s healing and Soul Power recovery threatened to wear Ai Xuan Yu’s team down in a prolonged match.

• Huo Yuhao admitted that his strength was insufficient to keep up with stronger opponents, while Ai Xuan Yu had been carrying the team since the quarterfinals.
• The match began, and Ye Zhenzhen charged into combat alongside Zhu Qingxuan and Chu Yan, surprising the spectators and revealing her battle-healer training.
• Ye Zhenzhen overwhelmed Huo Yuhao with her strength, but his Mental Interference disrupted her attack and let him counter before Xiao Xiao intervened.
• The two teams regrouped, and Ai Xuan Yu’s team prepared to fight together as Zhu Qingxuan’s team launched a coordinated assault.
• Zhu Qingxuan and Chu Yan began trading injuries with Ai Xuan Yu while Ye Zhenzhen healed them, and the Ten Heart Begonia’s Soul Power recovery threatened to decide the prolonged battle.

Ai Xuan Yu’s team overcame Zhu Qingxuan’s side after Xiao Xiao revealed her second martial soul and Huo Yuhao used a hidden mental attack. The freshman assessment ended with Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao in first place, earning rewards and a path to the Inner Courtyard.

• As Ai Xuan Yu’s team began to falter, Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao urged him to counterattack and promised to restrain their opponents.
• Huo Yuhao used Soul Impact while Xiao Xiao revealed her Twin Martial Souls and used the Nine Phoenix Auspicious Flute’s Slowdown skill.
• Ai Xuan Yu struck down Chu Yan, then defeated Ye Zhenzhen, leaving Zhu Qingxuan to concede.
• The teachers praised Xiao Xiao’s Twin Martial Souls and discussed Huo Yuhao’s unusual mental abilities and low Soul Power.
• The referee declared Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao the first-place winners and awarded them Mystic Water Pills, direct Inner Courtyard places after third grade, and a hundred-year soul bone.

After seven months of cultivation, Huo Yuhao, Ai Xuan Yu, and Xiao Xiao completed their first-grade assessments and parted for the break. Huo Yuhao traveled to the Northern Icefield to find his second soul ring and, protected by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, ventured from the outskirts into the inner region.

• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao let Ai Xuan Yu decide who should receive the hundred-year soul bone, but he declined it, so Huo Yuhao encouraged Xiao Xiao to take it along with Ai Xuan Yu's Mystic Water Pill.
• Xiao Xiao absorbed the soul bone and two Mystic Water Pills, then reached Soul Power level 28 within half a month as the three friends trained together.
• Seven months later, Ai Xuan Yu had reached level 36, Xiao Xiao level 30, and Huo Yuhao level 20, and all three passed their final first-grade assessment.
• Huo Yuhao said goodbye to Ai Xuan Yu and Xiao Xiao and set off alone to find his second soul ring in the Northern Icefield, following Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's guidance.
• Huo Yuhao reached Ice Snow City, bought supplies, and entered the Northern Icefield with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's protection, advancing into the inner region.