Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao gained a thousand-year Ice Silkworm Soul Ring and learned its Simulation ability before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm led him into the Northern Icefield’s core region. The chapter ended with them reaching Ice Empress’s cave, where Sky Dream revealed that the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion lived.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found a thousand-year Ice Silkworm, and Huo Yuhao defeated it and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power rose to level 22, and he gained the Simulation Soul Skill, which could mimic forms, auras, and Soul Ring colors.
• Sky Dream took Huo Yuhao toward the Northern Icefield’s core region and identified Titan Snow Demon King A Tai, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress as its Three Great Kings.
• Huo Yuhao spent a month traveling through the core region with Sky Dream as they approached Ice Empress’s habitat.
• Sky Dream told Huo Yuhao that the ice mountain cave before them was the home of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.

Huo Yuhao fused with the Ice Empress, gaining a four-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Empire, spirit bone, and soul skills that dramatically increased his strength. As he left the Northern Icefield for the Royal Academy, he encountered a group he suspected belonged to the Elements Academy.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lured out the Ice Empress, restrained her, and persuaded her to become Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit.
• The Ice Empress fused with Huo Yuhao and gave him the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Spirit Empire, a four-hundred-thousand-year torso bone, and a red First Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the torso bone, rose from Rank 22 to Rank 26, and gained new soul skills, greater physical strength, and improved aptitude.
• Huo Yuhao left the Northern Icefield with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, intending to return to the Royal Academy before school started.
• Huo Yuhao spotted a powerful soul master leading more than ten students and guessed from their uniforms that they were from the Elements Academy.

Huo Yuhao met a group from the Elements Academy after obtaining a soul ring in the Northern Icefield, and they discovered he possessed the powerful Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Spirit Empire. The teacher tried to recruit him, but Huo Yuhao revealed that he already attended Aiven Empire Royal Academy.

• An Elements Academy teacher and his students spotted Huo Yuhao leaving the Northern Icefield’s inner region alone, and Shui Ling'er wondered whether his escort had died.
• Huo Yuhao told the group that he had come to obtain a soul ring and was not yet thirteen, leading the teacher to suspect he had reached Rank 30.
• The teacher offered to help Huo Yuhao hunt for a soul ring, but Huo Yuhao said he had already obtained one.
• The teacher sensed a powerful ice-attributed beast Spirit Empire within Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao released the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Spirit Empire.
• Shui Ling'er identified the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion as a top-tier ice Spirit Empire, and the teacher eagerly invited Huo Yuhao to join the Elements Academy.
• Huo Yuhao declined, explaining that he was already a Student of Aiven Empire Royal Academy, and the teacher asked why he had come alone.

Huo Yuhao returned to the academy after meeting the Elements Academy teachers and Shui Ling'er in the Northern Icefield, then prepared for the new semester. When he reported that his Soul Power had reached Level 26, he shocked his classmates and Zhou Yi.

• Huo Yuhao politely declined the Elements Academy teachers’ offer and left the Northern Icefield for Ai City.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the academy and ignored Huo Huabin’s boast that his Soul Power had reached Level 34, privately vowing to defeat him within a year.
• Huo Yuhao found Ai Xuan Yu absent from their dormitory, cleaned it, and went to bed before the semester began.
• Huo Yuhao reunited with Ai Xuan Yu and Xiao Xiao in class, where Zhou Yi asked the students to report their Soul Power levels.
• Xiao Xiao reported Level 32 and Ai Xuan Yu reported Level 37 before Huo Yuhao announced Level 26 and stunned the class.
• Zhou Yi asked Huo Yuhao to release his Spirit Eye Spirit Soul so she could examine it.

After Huo Yuhao returned to the academy at level 26, his rapid growth made him famous across the Outer Courtyard and drew the attention of Inner Courtyard teachers. He told Ai Xuan Yu that a dying hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast had fused its final energy with him, then continued training as the two prepared to grow stronger.

• Huo Yuhao revealed his thousand-year Spirit Ring, and Zhou Yi summoned him to her office while Ai Xuan Yu and their classmates reconsidered his talent.
• News of Huo Yuhao's level 26 Soul Power spread through the academy, surprising Thunderbolt Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, and the Inner Courtyard teachers.
• Huo Huabin heard that Huo Yuhao had reached level 26 and insisted he was still eight levels behind, though he felt threatened by Yuhao's progress.
• Three days later, Huo Yuhao told Ai Xuan Yu that a dying hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast had fused its final energy with him and become his second Spirit Empire.
• Ai Xuan Yu promised to keep Huo Yuhao's secret and encouraged him that he could defeat Huo Huabin in their Three-Year Agreement.
• Huo Yuhao and Ai Xuan Yu returned to their cultivation routines and focused on raising their strength and combat power.

Over ten months, Huo Yuhao and Ai Xuan Yu rapidly advanced in cultivation and entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Zhou Yi to obtain Soul Rings. After gaining powerful new abilities, they encountered Qian Jiaxue as they left the forest, and she approached Ai Xuan Yu.

• Huo Yuhao used the Crimson Blood Pill and cultivated to level 30, while Ai Xuan Yu reached level 40; Zhou Yi then led them into the Star Dou Great Forest for Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Zhou Yi to let him seek a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring despite her concerns.
• Ai Xuan Yu absorbed a Soul Ring from a Soul Beast over fifteen thousand years old, reached level 43, and gained the fourth soul skill Emperor Flowing Cloud Slash.
• With Zhou Yi's help, Huo Yuhao hunted a Purple Spirit Bei, rose to level 34, and gained the area-control soul skill Group Weakness.
• As Huo Yuhao, Ai Xuan Yu, and Zhou Yi left the forest, they encountered Qian Jiaxue of the Six-Winged Angel Clan, who recognized Ai Xuan Yu and approached him.

Ai Xuan Yu and Qian Jiaxue fought to test their strength, and the five-ringed Qian Jiaxue gradually gained the upper hand over the four-ringed Ai Xuan Yu. As Qian Jiaxue prepared the final blow, Huo Yuhao activated Mental Detection Sharing to help Ai Xuan Yu.

• Ai Xuan Yu and Qian Jiaxue exchanged familiar taunts before agreeing to spar.
• Qian Jiaxue revealed her Six-Winged Angel Spirit Soul and five Soul Rings, while Ai Xuan Yu released his Emperor Divine Sword Spirit Soul and four rings.
• The two traded Soul Skills and fought at close range, with Huo Yuhao watching their evenly matched techniques and Zhou Yi explaining how their familiarity helped them evade each other's attacks.
• Qian Jiaxue's Soul King advantage gradually wore Ai Xuan Yu down, and their Fourth Soul Skills left him nearly unable to defend himself.
• As Qian Jiaxue charged in for the finishing punch, Huo Yuhao activated Mental Detection Sharing.

After impressing Qian Jiaxue with his mental ability, Huo Yuhao returned to the academy, reached Soul Power level 35, and began third grade. He challenged Huo Huabin to an early match in the Soul Arena, scheduled for three days later.

• Qian Jiaxue praised Huo Yuhao's mental soul skill before leaving, while Ai Xuan Yu worried about leading Royal Academy to victory in the next Soul Master Competition.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao he could become a Royal Academy core team member within three years, and Huo Yuhao resolved to challenge Huo Huabin first.
• After two months of cultivation, Huo Yuhao reached Soul Power level 35 and entered third grade alongside Ai Xuan Yu and Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao reported his level 35 Soul Power in class, stunning his classmates and drawing attention from Inner Courtyard students.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Huo Huabin to an early fight, and they agreed to battle in the academy's Soul Arena three days later.

Huo Yuhao and Huo Huabin faced off in a packed Soul Arena, where Huo Yuhao shocked the spectators by revealing a ten-thousand-year third soul ring. The duel began with Huo Yuhao dodging Huo Huabin’s attack and punching him across the arena, but Huo Huabin charged back into the fight.

• Students from the Outer and Inner Courtyards crowded the Soul Arena to watch Huo Yuhao and Huo Huabin’s duel.
• Huo Huabin boasted that he would defeat Huo Yuhao, while Huo Yuhao calmly declared that Huo Huabin could not win.
• Huo Huabin revealed his White Tiger Martial Soul and three soul rings, and Huo Yuhao stunned the crowd with a black ten-thousand-year third ring.
• Huo Huabin activated White Tiger Transformation and charged at Huo Yuhao with a vicious punch.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Interference to throw off Huo Huabin’s punch, dodged it, and struck Huo Huabin in the face, sending him flying.
• Huo Huabin angrily charged back at Huo Yuhao and unleashed a barrage of attacks.

Huo Yuhao revealed his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Spirit Soul and defeated Huo Huabin with a single attack, shocking the arena. Afterward, he struck Huo Huabin again to repay his past humiliation, then left as Xiao Xiao questioned Ai Xuan Yu about what he had known.

• Huo Huabin pressured Huo Yuhao with a barrage of attacks, but failed to injure him.
• Huo Yuhao weakened Huo Huabin with Group Weakness as Huo Huabin launched his third soul skill, White Tiger Destruction Kill.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Spirit Soul and struck Huo Huabin with Ice Scorpion Pincers, defeating him in one move.
• Huo Yuhao punched the fallen Huo Huabin in the face and warned him not to provoke him again.
• Xiao Xiao asked Ai Xuan Yu whether he had known Huo Yuhao possessed Twin Martial Souls, and Ai Xuan Yu smiled.

After Huo Yuhao revealed his twin martial souls and defeated Huo Huabin, students and academy leaders recognized him as a potential candidate for the Royal Academy’s main team. Over a celebratory meal, Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao decided to work toward competing in the next Soul Master Competition alongside Ai Xuan Yu.

• Xiao Xiao, Ai Xuan Yu, Zhu Qingxuan, and Ye Zhenzhen praised Huo Yuhao’s talent, while Xu Sanshi, Thunderbolt Bei Bei, and Jiang Nannan resolved to train harder for a main team position.
• Lin Fei reported Huo Yuhao’s twin martial souls to the Inner Courtyard dean, who informed the Emperor of the Aiven Empire about his progress.
• The Emperor praised Huo Yuhao’s potential and wondered whether he could surpass Xuan Yu.
• Ai Xuan Yu discussed the next Soul Master Competition with Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao, explaining that they would soon be eligible to compete for a place on the academy team.
• Huo Yuhao committed to pursuing a spot in the competition, and Ai Xuan Yu encouraged Xiao Xiao until she resolved to train and fight alongside him and Xuan Yu.

One year after training together, Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao entered the Inner Courtyard alongside Zhu Qingxuan and Ye Zhenzhen. Teacher Lin Tian explained the dangers and flexible training there, then announced a team assessment with valuable rewards, including a chance for the winning team to challenge senior students.

• Ai Xuan Yu, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao trained together for a year and gained direct entry to the Inner Courtyard as a reward for placing first in the Freshman Assessment.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the Inner Courtyard gate, where Ai Xuan Yu and Xiao Xiao joined him.
• The three met Zhu Qingxuan and Ye Zhenzhen, who had also entered the Inner Courtyard, and the five went inside together.
• Lin Tian gathered the new students and explained that Inner Courtyard training included wilderness practice, dangerous missions, and life-or-death combat.
• Lin Tian announced a forty-two-student team assessment, offering the winning team rewards and the chance to challenge senior students such as Xu Sanshi, Thunderbolt Bei Bei, and Jiang Nannan.

Ai Xuan Yu's team of seven formed for the newcomer tournament and swept through the Fifth Grade teams to claim first place. They chose to challenge Thunderbolt Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan's team of Inner Courtyard seniors.

• Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, Zhu Qingxuan, and Ye Zhenzhen formed a team and selected Zhang Wenxuan and Yan Ziheng to complete their lineup.
• Ai Xuan Yu's team faced a Fifth Grade team and shocked the Inner Courtyard with their high Soul Power ranks and powerful soul rings.
• Ai Xuan Yu's team easily defeated the Fifth Grade opponents, while a Fourth Grade team was eliminated and another Fifth Grade team advanced.
• Ai Xuan Yu's team defeated the remaining Fifth Grade team and won first place in the newcomer tournament.
• Lin Tian offered the newcomers a chance to challenge the Inner Courtyard students for better rewards, and Ai Xuan Yu's team accepted a match against Thunderbolt Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan's team.

Ai Xuan Yu’s team battled Bei Bei’s seven-person Inner Courtyard team, whose greater levels and support initially gave them a strong fight. Huo Yuhao’s concealed Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Spirit Empire and Spirit Bone Skill turned the enemy’s final push into a sudden setback.

• Both seven-person teams revealed their Soul Masters and began the match with their power attackers charging while their supports provided enhancements.
• Ai Xuan Yu fought Bei Bei evenly at first, then gained the advantage, while Xu Sanshi intervened to protect Bei Bei and Xiao Xiao blocked their lightning attack.
• Zhu Qingxuan fought Jiang Nannan to a stalemate, while the enemy focused on Yan Ziheng and Zhang Zixuan and Xiao Xiao moved to help defend him.
• Bei Bei called for an all-out final push, and Xu Sanshi, the controller, and the Level 42 power attacker rushed toward Yan Ziheng.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Spirit Empire and used Ice Emperor’s Wrath, knocking out the controller and the Level 42 power attacker while Xu Sanshi alone blocked the strike.

Xu Sanshi’s tactical position swap with Thunderbolt Bei Bei turned the battle around, but Huo Yuhao froze the remaining opponents with his Eternal Frozen Domain, allowing Ai Xuan Yu’s side to win. Lin Tian awarded the winning group upgraded rewards, which they began dividing.

• Huo Yuhao attacked Xu Sanshi, but Xiao Xiao’s strike briefly stunned Xu and let Huo Yuhao reach the opposing rear line.
• Xu Sanshi used Dark Tortoise Displacement to switch places with Thunderbolt Bei Bei, whose Thunder Dragon Head took out three fighters while Huo Yuhao defeated the two support fighters.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed the Eternal Frozen Domain, restraining Xu Sanshi, Thunderbolt Bei Bei, and Jiang Nannan, and Ai Xuan Yu and Zhu Qingxuan eliminated Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan.
• Xu Sanshi admitted defeat, and Lin Tian declared Ai Xuan Yu’s newcomer group the winners and gave them five-thousand-year Whale Rubber and six Crimson Flame Pills.
• Yan Ziheng and Zhang Wenxuan chose the pills when Ai Xuan Yu asked how to divide the rewards.

Huo Yuhao and his friends began life in the Inner Courtyard and spent a year cultivating, taking missions, and fighting in life-or-death battles. As the first round of selections for the Soul Master Competition began, Huo Yuhao faced a choice between entering the Control System or Power Attack System assessment.

• Ai Xuan Yu, Zhu Qingxuan, and Ye Zhenzhen gave Xiao Xiao the five-thousand-year Whale Rubber, and the group officially became Inner Courtyard students.
• Lin Tian announced that the first selection round would begin in a year, with fifty of 243 Inner Courtyard students advancing to special training.
• Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, Ai Xuan Yu, Zhu Qingxuan, and Ye Zhenzhen cultivated and gained combat experience for a year, including fighting evil Soul Masters.
• Lin Tian divided the students into five Soul Master types for separate selection assessments, with combat-system students competing in duels and a revival group.
• Lin Tian asked Huo Yuhao whether he would enter the Control System or Power Attack System assessment, and Ai Xuan Yu advised him to choose Control System.

Huo Yuhao and the other Inner Courtyard students competed in the first round of selection for the Royal Academy’s Soul Master Competition team, and fifty advanced. After six months of intensive training, the final selection for the twelve team places was about to begin.

• Huo Yuhao chose the Power Attack System, while Ye Zhenzhen, Xiao Xiao, Xu Sanshi, Zhu Qingxuan, and Jiang Nannan advanced from their respective groups.
• Ai Xuan Yu defeated Xu Lengheng, and Huo Yuhao defeated Yan Ziheng using only his Spirit Eyes without using his Fifth Soul Skill.
• Bei Bei, Ai Xuan Yu, and Huo Yuhao won their remaining matches and secured spots among the fifteen Power Attack System qualifiers.
• Fifty students passed the first round, and Lin Tian announced that only twelve would represent the academy after the final selection six months later.
• Huo Yuhao, Ai Xuan Yu, and the other qualifiers underwent intensive daily training, including seven-versus-seven combat, for six months.

After six months of training, Lin Tian announced the twelve students chosen to represent Aiven Empire Royal Academy in the Soul Master Competition and explained the tournament format. Ai Xuan Yu and Huo Yuhao were named captain and vice-captain, and the team began preparing for a championship run.

• Ai Xuan Yu and Huo Yuhao developed a desire to face each other in a true duel as they grew to recognize each other's strength.
• Lin Tian named Ai Xuan Yu captain and Huo Yuhao vice-captain of the seven-member main team, alongside Zhu Qingxuan, Xu Sanshi, Ye Zhenzhen, Lu Ling, and Huang Xu.
• Lin Tian selected Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, Wang Siyu, and Chen Ze as substitutes, then released the unselected students from intensive training.
• Lin Tian explained the competition rules and the Preliminary Tournament, Promotion Tournament, and Finals, noting that 107 teams would advance from nearly 500.
• Ai Xuan Yu vowed to win the championship for the Royal Academy as Lin Tian sent the twelve selected students back to training.

The Soul Master Competition began in Soul City, where the Aiven Empire Royal Academy won its opening match after sending a lineup that concealed much of its strength. Ai Xuan Yu and Huo Yuhao watched the other teams and identified their strongest potential opponents as the Wind Sword Sect and the Single-Attribute Family.

• The Aiven Empire emperor announced the start of the competition, and the teams entered the Soul Arena for the knockout-format Preliminary Tournament.
• Lin Tian selected Ai Xuan Yu, Huo Yuhao, Wang Siyu, Chen Ze, Xiao Xiao, Bei Bei, and Jiang Nannan, instructing Ai Xuan Yu to hold back and Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to conceal their other Spirit Souls.
• The Royal Academy defeated Radiance Academy quickly in the third match of the first round.
• Ai Xuan Yu and Huo Yuhao watched the first day's matches until thirty-two teams advanced, identifying the Wind Sword Sect Team and Single-Attribute Family Team as the greatest threats.

The Royal Academy and three other dominant teams advanced from the Ai City Preliminary Tournament, and Lin Tian explained the Promotion Tournament format and the strongest rivals. Ten days later, the teams gathered at the Royal Hunting Ground, where Shui Ling'er and her teacher recognized Huo Yuhao from their meeting in the Northern Icefield.

• The Royal Academy, Wind Sword Sect, Single-Attribute Family, and Fire Burst Sect teams advanced early by crushing their opponents.
• The Preliminary Tournament ended with ten Ai City teams advancing, and Lin Tian explained that twenty-five teams would compete for fifteen Finals berths in the Promotion Tournament.
• Lin Tian warned that the Single-Attribute Family Team and Elements Academy were the Royal Academy's main threats, and Huo Yuhao remembered meeting Shui Ling'er in the Northern Icefield.
• Ai Xuan Yu told Huo Yuhao that Shui Ling'er's strength was likely comparable to hers and Qing Xuan's.
• Ten days later, Shui Ling'er and her teacher recognized Huo Yuhao at the Royal Hunting Ground and were surprised he represented the Royal Academy.