Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao grew closer to Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen while studying Sun Moon Empire Soul Guide Technology and investigating the Holy Spirit Cult in Mingdu. He turned Nangong Wan into a loyal informant, seized valuables from the Sunset Water Alliance, and took Evil Soul Masters for purification experiments.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to show Meng Hongchen his first soul skill, and she teased him about peeking at her.
• Xiao Hongchen improved his Metal Control efficiency through Huo Yuhao’s guidance, then caught Meng Hongchen clinging to Huo Yuhao and warned him not to touch his sister.
• Over the next several days, Huo Yuhao built a preliminary friendship with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, borrowed Soul Engineer books, and studied the Sun Moon Empire’s technology.
• Huo Yuhao visited the Sunset Water Alliance to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and, with Tian Meng’s help, captured Nangong Wan and bound him with a Servant Contract.
• Nangong Wan swore loyalty and gave Huo Yuhao intelligence about the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu operations, while Huo Yuhao took items from the alliance treasury and kidnapped Evil Soul Masters for purification experiments.

On admissions day, Huo Yuhao negotiated with Qian Duoduo to expand his Soul Guide Class while limiting his own teaching duties. He introduced the Engraving Cultivation Method, a technique that combined Soul Guide Array practice with cultivation, leaving Qian Duoduo astonished by its potential.

• Huo Yuhao considered asking Ning Tian to assist with teaching but decided to wait until she reached two rings.
• Qian Duoduo questioned Huo Yuhao's decision to admit only ten students to the Soul Guide Class.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to expand enrollment to forty students, teach Monday morning classes, and leave the other lessons to the department's teachers.
• Huo Yuhao gave Qian Duoduo his teaching plan, which described the Engraving Cultivation Method.
• Huo Yuhao explained that engraving Soul Guide Arrays could draw Heaven and Earth Origin Energy into the body, and that his method reached sixty percent of normal meditation cultivation efficiency.

Huo Yuhao reviewed applicants for the Soul Guide Class and recognized Jiang Nannan among them. He called her to his office to ask why she had applied, while she hoped the class subsidy would help pay for her mother’s medicine.

• Huo Yuhao planned to select promising students to help guide the Soul Guide Class.
• At Shrek’s admissions office, Jiang Nannan learned the Soul Guide Class offered a monthly subsidy of one hundred Gold Soul Coins and decided to apply to help support her ill mother.
• After enrollment closed, Huo Yuhao reviewed more than a hundred applications for forty places and noticed Jiang Nannan’s profile.
• Tang Ya comforted Jiang Nannan before she went to meet Huo Yuhao about the Soul Guide Class.
• Huo Yuhao began questioning Jiang Nannan about why she had applied.

Huo Yuhao accepted Jiang Nannan into the Soul Guide Class and gave her money to help with her family’s needs. Jiang Nannan left determined to repay him and convinced that his help gave her hope.

• Jiang Nannan admitted she had chosen the Soul Guide Class for its subsidy and had no knowledge or experience with Soul Tools or personnel management, but Huo Yuhao accepted her anyway.
• Huo Yuhao assigned Jiang Nannan books to study and made her his assistant, asking her to come to his laboratory after class each day.
• When Huo Yuhao learned Jiang Nannan needed money, he gave her a Soul Gold Card with 10,000 Gold Soul Coins and told her she could repay him later.
• Jiang Nannan accepted the card, promised to pay Huo Yuhao back, and hurried out of his office with the books.
• Tang Ya worried that Huo Yuhao had bullied Jiang Nannan, but Jiang Nannan explained what happened and insisted that he was kind.

Huo Yuhao established the Soul Guide Class to teach students the Engraving Cultivation Method and promote Soul Guide technology that could reduce humanity’s dependence on Soul Beasts. He began training Jiang Nannan as his assistant, and she committed herself to working hard to cure her mother before he opened a portal to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy.

• Xian Lin'er approved Huo Yuhao’s teaching plan after seeing the Engraving Cultivation Method’s effects, while the Soul Guide Department discussed promoting it among students.
• Huo Yuhao introduced the Soul Guide Class, taught its students the youth version of the Engraving Rune Method, and explained that his research aimed to reduce dependence on Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao brought Jiang Nannan to his laboratory, showed her its facilities, and told her he would train her as his assistant.
• Jiang Nannan recalled that a Healing Soul Master had stabilized her mother’s condition for five years, and she resolved to work hard so she could eventually afford a complete cure.
• Huo Yuhao left Jiang Nannan to cultivate in the laboratory and opened a portal to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy.

Huo Yuhao was brought to Mingde Hall to help investigate the Soul Power Storage Core, a device the Sun Moon Empire hoped to reproduce. With Xiao Hongchen urging him to try, Huo Yuhao began making a Rank 4 Soul Tool using the stored Soul Power, while planning to use his talent to gain influence in the empire.

• Huo Yuhao left the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guide Academy library with books and was brought by Meng Hongchen to Mingde Hall.
• The Rank 8 Soul Guide Masters explained that attempts to dismantle the Soul Power Storage Core triggered defenses that destroyed the device.
• The Sun Moon Empire bought up the available Soul Power Storage Cores and distributed samples to the Hall of Reverence and Mingde Hall for research.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao to use a Soul Power Storage Core to make a Rank 4 Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao agreed and began working at the bench as Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Lin Hai, Chu Ningping, and Chu Ningjing watched.

Huo Yuhao began engraving a Grade 4 Soul Tool with the help of his Soul Power Storage Core, while Tang San’s attempt to infiltrate the Douluo World failed to bring the Sea God Trident with him. The trident fell into the Silver-Haired Purple-Eyed Girl’s hands, and Tang San’s Divine Sense awakened in a boy in the Star Luo City slums.

• Huo Yuhao engraved Chlorophyll Alloy as Xiao Hongchen, three Rank 8 Soul Guide Masters, and Meng Hongchen watched.
• Tang San’s blue streak tried to breach the Douluo World’s Destiny Barrier, but the World Will repelled it with Destiny Arrows.
• Tang San’s blue streak escaped while the Sea God Trident fell, and the Silver-Haired Purple-Eyed Girl caught it.
• The Silver-Haired Purple-Eyed Girl recognized the trident as the Sea God’s weapon and decided to take it to Huo Yuhao.
• Tang San’s Divine Sense awakened in a boy in the Star Luo City slums and recalled his plan to use the Sea God Divinity and Trident to advance his schemes.

Tang San found that the World Will had severed his connection to the Sea God Trident, leaving the Sea God Nine Trials incomplete, but he believed he could rebuild his power in his new life. After learning that awakening a Martial Soul cost money, he set out with Little Five to earn some, confident that his plans and hidden resources would make his rise inevitable.

• Tang San discovered that the World Will had blocked his connection to the Sea God Trident and that the details of the Sea God Nine Trials were missing.
• Tang San assessed his eight-year-old body and woke Little Five to go awaken their Martial Souls.
• Little Five explained that Martial Soul awakenings cost money and that Spirit Hall might have disappeared.
• Tang San blamed the empire for Spirit Hall’s disappearance and resolved to become a god again.
• Tang San went with Little Five to make money, planning to use his Tang Sect skills and the resources he believed awaited him.

Huo Yuhao claimed the Sea God Trident and learned that Tang San had sent his Divine Sense into the lower realm, where the World Will was hunting him. After discovering he could alter Tang San’s Sea God trials, Huo Yuhao set the Trident aside and reconciled with Gu Yuena.

• Huo Yuhao removed the Asura God Power and Tang San’s imprint from the Sea God Trident, making it his own.
• The Trident’s remnants revealed that Tang San had sent his Divine Sense and Sea God Divinity into the Douluo World, but the World Will was pursuing him.
• Huo Yuhao used the link between the Sea God Divinity and its trials to locate Tang San and realized he could edit the Sea God Nine Trials.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao whether the Trident was so interesting after he had studied it for two and a half hours.
• Huo Yuhao put the Trident away, embraced Gu Yuena, and asked her to stay and rest with him; she agreed.

Huo Yuhao asked Gu Yuena to seal the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well so Tang San could not use its immortal herbs, while considering how the site’s energies might support his own plans. Gu Yuena accepted the task after Huo Yuhao promised to cook for her.

• Huo Yuhao woke early and prepared breakfast for Gu Yuena in his dormitory.
• Gu Yuena hugged Huo Yuhao from behind, complained that he had not grown up yet, and bit his shoulder, leaving a silver mark.
• After breakfast, Huo Yuhao explained that Tang San had descended to the lower realm and said he wanted to keep him from accessing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huo Yuhao described the well’s properties and considered using it to support his Ultimate Ice Martial Soul and future research.
• Huo Yuhao gave Gu Yuena a map and asked her to seal the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; she agreed after he promised to make her dinner.

Huo Yuhao remotely watched Tang San in Star Luo City and discovered that observing him could reveal the complete Mysterious Heaven Skill, which might let ordinary people develop Soul Power. He postponed plans to spread it while considering how the Sea God Divinity could solve a problem with his artificial Soul Rings.

• Huo Yuena left with the map, while Huo Yuhao used the Sea God Divinity to monitor Tang San in Star Luo City.
• Tang San worked at a blacksmith shop to earn money for awakening his Martial Soul, and he noticed that his Sea God trial had become clearer after he forged an alloy.
• Huo Yuhao observed Tang San circulating the Mysterious Heaven Skill and realized he could learn its complete form, which slightly increased Tang San's Soul Power before his Martial Soul awakening.
• Huo Yuhao considered spreading the Mysterious Heaven Skill but postponed the research while he focused on developing artificial Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao looked at the Sea God Divinity and realized it could help him create variation in the skills carried by artificial Soul Rings.

Huo Yuhao devised a plan to provide Soul Masters with God-Bestowed Soul Rings through Sea God trials, using his research on Artificial Soul Rings to reduce the energy required. Elder Yi also found a way to destroy Soul Rings left by dead Soul Beasts, though peaceful coexistence remained unresolved.

• Electrolux nudged Huo Yuhao awake, and Huo Yuyao excitedly embraced Gu Yuena before telling her he had found a solution to the Soul Ring problem.
• Huo Yuhao explained how he could use the Sea God Divinity to award modified God-Bestowed Soul Rings through trials, limiting their energy and replacing divine power with energy-based binding.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena he would work to end Soul Masters' need to hunt Soul Beasts, while noting he had asked Elder Yi to research ways for humans and Soul Beasts to coexist.
• Huo Yuhao asked Elder Yi about his research, and Elder Yi proposed inscribing Magic Arrays on Soul Beasts to shatter their Soul Rings when they died.

Huo Yuhao arranged for Gu Yuena and Elder Yi to spread the Ring Destruction Seal among the Soul Beasts while preparing to promote God-Bestowed Soul Rings. Two and a half months later, Tang San awakened his Martial Soul and received his first Sea God trial.

• Huo Yuhao named the Magic Array the Ring Destruction Seal and asked Gu Yuena to take Elder Yi to the Star Dou Great Forest to spread it among the Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yuena kissed Huo Yuhao on the cheek, thanked him, and left with Elder Yi.
• Huo Yuhao decided to use the time needed to implement the seal and reclaim part of the God Examinations to prepare his soul-ring plan.
• In Star Luo City, blacksmiths discovered their boss had vanished without paying their wages and took valuable items from the shop as compensation.
• At the Seven Star Merchant Association, Tang San and Little Five awakened their Martial Souls; Little Five had a Soft Bone Rabbit with level-seven Innate Soul Power, while Tang San had Blue Silver Grass with level-two-and-a-half Innate Soul Power.
• Tang San hurried back to his lodging and focused on his Spiritual Sea after his Sea God's First Trial became clear.

Tang San began his first Sea God trial, which required him to kill marked targets, while Huo Yuhao prepared for the trial and considered Tang San’s abilities. In Shrek City, Ma Xiaotao offered Huo Yuhao a shop at a discount, then asked to see his real appearance and insisted he not get the wrong idea.

• Tang San read the first Sea God trial’s instructions and found that more than ten people had been marked for him to kill.
• Tang San resolved to investigate the targets before choosing how to eliminate them, and confirmed he still had Blue Silver Grass, a forging hammer, and his Tang Sect skills.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had developed a Soul Ring Generator and that Tang San’s targets were the people who had bullied Huo Yuhao and his mother.
• Ma Xiaotao showed Huo Yuhao a shop that Dean Yan would sell or rent to him at a discount, and Huo Yuhao handed her a card to pay.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Huo Yuhao to show her his real appearance and offered to sell him the shop at half price, insisting that he not get the wrong idea.

Huo Yuhao refused Ma Xiaotao’s request to reveal his real appearance, then learned that Ling Luochen had been following him to ask whether her Martial Soul could evolve into Ultimate Ice. He confirmed that it was possible and invited her inside to discuss it while he renovated the place.

• Huo Yuhao gave Ma Xiaotao her card and again refused to show her his real appearance, so she left angrily.
• Ling Luochen approached Huo Yuhao after following him and questioned him about his age and Ma Xiaotao’s interest in him.
• Ling Luochen explained that she suspected Huo Yuhao’s middle-aged appearance was a disguise and revealed that she wanted to strengthen her Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao told Ling Luochen that any Martial Soul could evolve toward its ultimate attribute and invited her inside to talk.

Huo Yuhao offered Ling Luochen a path to evolve her Ice Element Martial Soul in exchange for joining his future faction after graduating from Shrek. Ling Luochen accepted and signed a magically binding contract, while Huo Yuhao revealed his Artificial Soul Ring Device.

• Huo Yuhao told Ling Luochen that his help would require her to work for him after graduating from Shrek.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he planned to build an independent faction while cooperating with Shrek, and Ling Luochen weighed the offer against her desire to keep pace with Ma Xiaotao.
• Huo Yuhao described three possible ways to evolve Ling Luochen's Martial Soul, including an Ultimate Ice soul ring produced by his Artificial Soul Ring Device.
• Ling Luochen agreed to join Huo Yuhao and signed the contract he had prepared.
• Ling Luochen sensed a real connection form through the contract and realized that breaking it would bring a penalty.

Huo Yuhao gave Ling Luochen a portion of his Ultimate Ice Soul Power, letting her temporarily elevate her Ice Attribute and begin refining it. Half a month later, workers in Star Luo City discussed a mysterious illness at the Duke's Mansion, the Eldest Young Master's cure, and the wanted notice he issued afterward.

• Huo Yuhao explained that his Ultimate Ice Soul Power could temporarily strengthen Ling Luochen and help her cultivation, and Ling Luochen agreed to try it.
• Huo Yuhao engraved the Ultimate Ice Soul Power into Ling Luochen, who briefly gained the ability to command ice at the Ultimate Ice level.
• Huo Yuhao suppressed the effect, checked Ling Luochen for problems, and let her leave; Ling Luochen decided to test her new strength against Ma Xiaotao.
• Half a month later, workers at a tea stall in Star Luo City said more than thirty people had died from a strange illness at the Duke's Mansion.
• The workers said the Eldest Young Master had bought a cure from a Little Divine Doctor and treated the mansion's servants, then issued a wanted notice the next morning.

Tang San arrived in Shrek City with Little Five after completing Sea God's First Trial by poisoning targets in the Duke's Mansion. He learned about the Spirit Pagoda's new Artificial Soul Rings and received a warning not to visit the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Tang San entered Shrek City with Little Five and looked for somewhere for them to stay.
• Tang San recalled completing Sea God's First Trial by poisoning people marked as targets at the Duke's Mansion, and he kept twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins from the Eldest Young Master.
• Tang San rented a small house for five hundred Gold Soul Coins per year.
• An attendant told Tang San that the Spirit Pagoda sold Artificial Soul Rings and offered free first Soul Rings and other services to Soul Masters.
• Tang San learned how Artificial Soul Rings worked and concluded that his God-Bestowed Soul Ring could still reach a higher age.
• The attendant warned Tang San that he should not go to the Star Dou Great Forest if he wanted to obtain a Soul Ring soon.

Tang San learned that Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest were rapidly disappearing and turned toward medicinal baths while considering artificial Soul Rings. Huo Yuhao reprimanded Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen, then went to check on Tian Meng at the Spirit Pagoda.

• An attendant told Tang San that Soul Rings from the Star Dou Great Forest vanished after about ten minutes, so Tang San asked about other hunting grounds and heard about customized artificial Soul Rings.
• Tang San led Little Five to a nearby pharmacy to arrange medicinal baths.
• Huo Yuhao scolded Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen for repeatedly exhausting their seals and energy while fighting, then ordered them to submit four-thousand-character self-critiques.
• Jiang Nannan delivered Huo Yuhao a letter from the Spirit Pagoda, and Huo Yuhao left the two girls with their punishment.
• Tian Meng greeted Huo Yuhao angrily when he arrived through a teleportation gate, then forgave him after he explained that he trusted her to oversee the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao asked where the Ice Empress was, and Tian Meng said she had gone out to explore the human world.

Huo Yuhao reviewed the Spirit Pagoda’s successful spread of free Artificial Soul Rings and considered how to create higher-grade versions. He brought Tian Meng and the Ice Empress to the sealed Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to investigate its energy, but memories of Tang San and his past suffering troubled him.

• Huo Yuhao read Tian Meng’s report and learned that free Hundred-Year Artificial Soul Rings had helped the Spirit Pagoda thrive in Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao decided to expand the Spirit Pagoda into major cities and develop Artificial Soul Bones and higher-grade Artificial Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao took Tian Meng and the Ice Empress to Sunset Forest, where his Dragon King bite mark caused the seal around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to open a passage for them.
• The Ice Empress observed that the well’s extreme energy suited Fire- and Ice-attribute Soul Beasts, while Huo Yuhao noted that plant-type Soul Beasts could grow much faster there.
• Huo Yuhao thought bitterly about Tang San’s past tests and the losses he had endured, then suppressed his emotions and urged the others onward.