Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao collected the immortal herbs from the sealed Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used them to strengthen the Ice Empress and Tian Meng. After returning to the Spirit Pagoda, he assessed a cultivation path that could lead to God King level and realized Tang San’s Sea God trials might ultimately allow Huo Yuhao to inherit the divinity instead.

• Huo Yuhao erased the herbs’ spiritual intelligence, sealed them for storage, and had the Ice Empress absorb the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass while Tian Meng absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• Huo Yuhao considered bringing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to the Spirit Pagoda as an energy supply, then tested Blue Silver Grass and wondered whether Tang Ya could help it evolve or absorb energy.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Spirit Pagoda with Tian Meng and the Ice Empress, and Tian Meng’s increased Spiritual Power gave Huo Yuhao enough energy to plan for a fifth external False Dantian.
• Huo Yuhao calculated that his Spiritual Soul Core cultivation method could reach God King level, though it strengthened Soul Power and Spiritual Power without addressing his body or soul.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that the Seed of Emotion might yield the God of Emotion’s divine position and that Tang San’s Sea God trials could lead to Huo Yuhao inheriting the Sea God Divinity.

Huo Yuhao considered reshaping the Sea God Divinity into an Ice God Divinity before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest. There, a wolf pack overwhelmed Zhang Lexuan’s Shrek team, and Huo Yuhao arrived as she faced death.

• Huo Yuhao planned to replace the Sea God’s faith with the faith of the Extreme North’s Soul Beasts and consult Elder Yi about his future path.
• Zhang Lexuan’s team encountered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Eclipse Moon Demonic Wolf in the Mixed Zone, and she ordered Lin Le to evacuate the younger students.
• The Eclipse Moon Demonic Wolf shattered Wang An’s Martial Soul Avatar, while Zhang Lexuan wounded it with her combined soul skills.
• More Eclipse Moon Demonic Wolves surrounded the team, and Qi Minyue sacrificed herself to save Zhang Lexuan from the beast’s attack.
• Zhang Lexuan froze amid the slaughter until Huo Yuhao arrived and struck down an approaching wolf with Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Unrivaled.

Huo Yuhao rescued Zhang Lexuan’s team from the Eclipse Moon Demonic Wolves, but six Shrek disciples had already died and Wang An could not be saved. When Xuan Zi finally arrived, the survivors confronted him over his failure to protect them.

• Huo Yuhao revealed his Ultimate Ice and powerful Soul Rings, then used the Gluttonous Dragon King’s aura to frighten the Eclipse Moon Demonic Wolf into retreating with its pack.
• Huo Yuhao gave Zhang Lexuan pills to stabilize the wounded, but Wang An had already died; Lin Le and the surviving teammates regrouped with her.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Elder Xuan had led the team and that twelve disciples had been left without their leader when the wolves attacked.
• Xuan Zi arrived carrying a chicken leg and wine, then saw the wounded disciples and six corpses and realized a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had attacked.
• The surviving Soul King accused Xuan Zi of abandoning the team, while Huo Yuhao coldly told him the dead were gone.

Huo Yuhao confronted Xuan Zi over his negligence that had led to student deaths, demanding that he personally apologize to the victims or cripple his cultivation. After Zhang Lexuan brought the injured students and bodies back to Shrek City, Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao why he had spared Xuan Zi, and he explained that killing him would endanger his plans and disguise.

• Huo Yuhao struck Xuan Zi and condemned him for violating the Shrek Teacher Code by failing to protect his students.
• Huo Yuhao demanded that Xuan Zi kneel and apologize to each victim or cripple his cultivation, then gave Zhang Lexuan medicine and a Flying Soul Guide Device.
• Zhang Lexuan took the injured students and the corpses toward Shrek City, leaving Xuan Zi behind.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao why he had not killed Xuan Zi, and Huo Yuhao said it was not the right time and that his Master Tianmeng persona could not be exposed.
• Huo Yuhao thought about seeing Qiu'er in the core region and grew unsettled beside Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena brought Huo Yuhao to the Lake of Life, where Elder Yi was teaching the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Beasts. There, Huo Yuhao saw the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and was shaken by memories of Qiu’er as Gu Yuena led him before the gathered beasts.

• Gu Yuena introduced Huo Yuhao to Di Tian as the inventor of the Artificial Soul Ring, Electrolux’s disciple, and an ally of the Soul Beast Clan.
• Di Tian escorted Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao to the Lake of Life, where Elder Yi was teaching Soul Beasts how to use their powers.
• Di Tian explained that Elder Yi had founded a school and helped Myriad Demon King and the other Soul Beasts improve their abilities.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as Qiu’er, and Gu Yuena noticed his emotions shift.
• Elder Yi praised the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s progress and sensed its connection to Huo Yuhao.
• Gu Yuena revealed her aura and led Huo Yuhao forward as the gathered Soul Beasts bowed and stared at them holding hands.

Huo Yuhao sought a fast-breeding Soul Beast that ate Blue Silver Grass so he could test whether the grass could support the cultivation of useful creatures. Myriad Demon King supplied Soft Bone Rabbits for his experiments, while Gu Yuena, Di Tian, Electrolux, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion watched.

• Huo Yuhao explained his plans to use Blue Silver Grass to cultivate Soul Beasts that could be harvested for their bones, flesh, and Soul Rings.
• Myriad Demon King identified Soft Bone Rabbits as fast-reproducing herbivores that mainly ate Blue Silver Grass and brought Huo Yuhao a rabbit.
• Huo Yuhao fed Blue Silver Grass to Soft Bone Rabbits of different cultivation ages and observed them with Spiritual Detection while dissecting others.
• Gu Yuena sent the other Soul Beasts away, leaving herself, Di Tian, Electrolux, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion with Huo Yuhao.
• Di Tian noticed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion staring fixedly at Huo Yuhao and wondered if she had taken a liking to him.

Huo Yuhao struggled with how to face the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Elder Yi urged him to confront his feelings rather than let Destiny decide for him. Huo Yuhao embraced his choice, revealed his Eye of Destiny to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and introduced himself to her.

• Huo Yuhao cooked rabbit for Gu Yuena, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Di Tian while Elder Yi noticed his unease.
• Huo Yuhao confessed that he did not know how to face the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Elder Yi encouraged him to confront the situation and choose his own path.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that his ongoing God Examination was tied to becoming the Emotion God King and decided to stop hesitating.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Eye of Destiny, prompting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to realize that his Destiny resembled hers.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion examined Huo Yuhao, apologized for mistaking him for someone else, and Huo Yuhao introduced himself while gently rubbing her head.

Huo Yuhao bonded with Three-Eyed Golden Lion over roasted rabbit, then asked Electrolux how to address the imbalance caused by his cultivation method. Electrolux explained that Huo Yuhao needed to strengthen his body alongside his Soul Power and spiritual strength, leaving the solution to be explored further.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion introduced herself to Huo Yuhao, ate roasted rabbit beside him, and enjoyed his company while he stroked her fur.
• Gu Yuena watched Huo Yuhao and Three-Eyed Golden Lion get along, while Di Tian took the Auspicious Beast away with a dark expression.
• Huo Yuhao told Electrolux that his spiritual strength and Soul Power had outpaced his body after forming a second Spiritual Soul Core.
• Electrolux proposed that Huo Yuhao could abandon his body and Soul Power to become a Spiritual Body, but Huo Yuhao rejected the extreme approach.
• Electrolux explained that Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Soul Core had strengthened his Soul Power and spirit while neglecting his body, which needed to grow for him to regain balance.

Huo Yuhao and Electrolux chose to make Electrolux a Third Martial Soul, balancing Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eye and Ultimate Ice Martial Souls through the Seed of Emotion. Electrolux began sacrificing his power as Gu Yuena sealed the Lake of Life, and his golden Runes started merging into Huo Yuhao.

• Electrolux explained that adding his Holy Necromancer as a Third Martial Soul would balance Huo Yuhao’s spirit, Soul Power, and body.
• Electrolux agreed to lose his power and begin anew, and Huo Yuhao accepted his plan.
• Huo Yuhao asked Gu Yuena to protect them, and she sealed the Lake of Life with a Space Seal.
• Electrolux covered himself in golden Runes and placed his hand against Huo Yuhao’s brow.
• Electrolux’s power flooded the area and entered Huo Yuhao as a golden phantom bearing Huo Yuhao’s grown-up face appeared behind him.

Huo Yuhao accepted Elder Yi’s power and awakened the Holy Necromancer as his second Body Martial Soul, forming two incomplete Sacred Soul Cores alongside his Ultimate Ice Soul Core. After the transformation remade his body to resemble his fifteen-year-old self, he prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest for a meeting.

• Huo Yuhao’s soul transformed into the Holy Necromancer, and he formed two Gray Radiance Soul Rings carrying incomplete Sacred Soul Cores.
• Huo Yuhao’s three Martial Souls and Soul Cores began moving toward unity, while he considered using energy in his Spiritual Sea to advance his Spiritual Soul Cores.
• Huo Yuhao emerged from the golden cocoon and noticed that his body had changed.
• Gu Yuena asked whether Huo Yuhao had grown up, and Huo Yuhao subdued her with grilled fish.
• Huo Yuhao examined his remade body, left Elder Yi to pursue a new path, and planned to move his test rabbits to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before departing for a meeting.

Huo Yuhao attended the Sea God Pavilion meeting and announced that he had developed new attribute-based branches of Artificial Soul Rings. He argued that elders could use their own Soul Power to create rings that might help their descendants’ Martial Souls mutate beneficially or return to their ancestral origins.

• The elders gathered for a Sea God Pavilion meeting while Xuan Zi drank in guilt over recent events, and Yan Shaozhe tried to comfort him.
• Mu En said he was only a witness, and Huo Yuhao entered the meeting room to take his seat opposite Xuan Zi.
• Huo Yuhao told the elders that Artificial Soul Rings had sold well and that many of them had privately gone to inquire about them.
• Huo Yuhao revealed new Ice Attribute and Fire Attribute Artificial Soul Rings made from pure attribute Soul Power, with their quality and age depending on the provider’s Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that elders could provide rings to descendants with similar Martial Souls and potentially trigger beneficial mutations or ancestral evolution.

Huo Yuhao used the promise of Artificial Soul Rings that could guide Martial Soul Evolution to draw Shrek’s leaders’ attention, then shocked them by claiming he could produce hundred-thousand-year rings. The meeting ended with Shrek’s leaders stunned and increasingly dependent on the technology he controlled.

• Huo Yuhao tempted Mu En with an Artificial Soul Ring that could help Beibei’s unstable Radiant Holy Dragon bloodline evolve.
• Yan Shaozhe asked whether the rings could guarantee safe Martial Soul Evolution, and Huo Yuhao admitted that success was not certain.
• Huo Yuhao cited Yu Xiaogang’s poor innate talent, and Shrek’s leaders excused his disrespect rather than defending their ancestor.
• Huo Yuhao described limits on Attribute Soul Rings, including the cultivation required to create them.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he could barely make ordinary hundred-thousand-year Artificial Soul Rings and offered Zhang Lexuan one as proof, leaving everyone stunned.

Huo Yuhao used the promise of Artificial Soul Rings to pressure the Sea God Pavilion elders while Xuan Zi resigned over the students’ deaths. When Yan Shaozhe tried to persuade Xuan Zi to stay, Huo Yuhao mocked the academy’s lack of accountability, leaving everyone silent.

• A Sea God Pavilion Elder asked Huo Yuhao what price he would charge for a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring-level Artificial Soul Ring, but Huo Yuhao redirected the question to Xuan Zi.
• Xuan Zi accepted responsibility for the deaths of six students and announced that he would resign as deputy leader of the Shrek Inspection Group and as a Sea God Pavilion Elder.
• The elders stayed silent rather than defend Xuan Zi, while Yan Shaozhe argued that the blame was not entirely Xuan Zi’s and pleaded with him to remain.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Yan Shaozhe from signaling the Inner Academy members by fixing him with a cold stare.
• Huo Yuhao sarcastically described how he could kill students during expeditions and escape punishment by resigning temporarily, and no one in the room dared rebuke him.

Mu En apologized to the injured students and punished Xuan Zi, while Huo Yuhao offered several students places in the Spirit Pagoda. Mu En invited Zhang Lexuan to consider joining as Huo Yuhao’s deputy, leaving her decision open.

• Mu En asked most of the Sea God Pavilion meeting attendees to leave, then apologized to the surviving students on behalf of himself and Shrek.
• Mu En stripped Xuan Zi of his Shrek positions and ordered him to visit the dead students’ families and apologize in person.
• Huo Yuhao offered six students contracts to join the Spirit Pagoda after graduation, promising support for their cultivation and Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Qi Minyue, Lin Le, and another Soul King signed Huo Yuhao’s contracts.
• Mu En asked Zhang Lexuan to consider joining the Spirit Pagoda and requested that Huo Yuhao let her serve as his deputy if she agreed.

Huo Yuhao revealed his true appearance and overwhelming power when he struck Xuan Zi, then secured major concessions for Shrek’s Soul Guide Department. He left the Golden Ancient Tree intending to present himself to the continent as a young, powerful Soul Engineer and attract powerful enemies for his experiments.

• Huo Yuhao agreed to let Xuan Zi strike him once, then revealed his youthful face and seven soul rings before unleashing Emperor's Palm: Great Cold Without Snow and Monarch Over Heaven.
• Huo Yuhao froze and shattered Xuan Zi’s Martial Soul Avatar, stopping when Mu En intervened; Mu En then recognized Monarch Over Heaven in the attack.
• Mu En allocated fifty percent of Shrek City’s revenue to Soul Guide Department research and promoted Tian Meng to dean and Sea God Pavilion member.
• Huo Yuhao left the meeting, planning to reveal himself as a twenty-two-year-old level 70 Soul Saint and draw powerful pursuers to serve as experimental subjects.
• Huo Yuhao walked out of the Golden Ancient Tree, turned back to gaze at it, and smiled meaningfully.

The Sun Moon Empire struggled to reproduce the Artificial Soul Ring Device as the curse preventing Soul Beasts from producing absorbable Soul Rings spread through its territory. Xu Tianran suggested that Huo Yuhao might help solve the crisis, leaving his possible involvement to be tested.

• The Spirit Pagoda spread through the original three empires, earning Huo Yuhao prestige and Power of Emotion as Soul Beasts stopped producing absorbable Soul Rings.
• The Sun Moon Empire panicked as the curse spread among its many Soul Masters, and its Soul Engineers failed to replicate the Artificial Soul Ring Device.
• Xu Tianran told Kong Deming that the empire needed a working device or it risked being overtaken by the original three empires.
• Kong Deming suggested that someone with exceptional Soul Power control might solve the problem, and Xu Tianran proposed having Huo Yuhao try.

Huo Yuhao helped Ju Zi study at the library, and their growing closeness was interrupted when Meng Hongchen caught them together. Meng Hongchen pulled Huo Yuhao into her embrace while Ju Zi remained unbothered, leaving the two girls facing off over him.

• Ju Zi asked Huo Yuhao to explain a Soul Engineer problem, and he solved it while she leaned close to him.
• Ju Zi recalled how Huo Yuhao had understood her dream of crushing the empires and how his cooking and guidance had drawn her toward him.
• After Huo Yuhao finished explaining the problem, Ju Zi kissed his cheek as a reward.
• Meng Hongchen arrived at the library, saw Ju Zi close to Huo Yuhao, and angrily pulled him into her embrace.
• Ju Zi smiled calmly at Meng Hongchen, who realized she had a troublesome rival.

Meng Hongchen took Huo Yuhao to Mingde Hall, where he repaired an imitation Artificial Soul Ring Device and made it produce a soul ring. Kong Deming ordered the Soul Guide Masters to find someone to test whether the ring could be absorbed.

• Meng Hongchen pulled Huo Yuhao away from Ju Zi and told him Jing Hongchen wanted to see him at Mingde Hall.
• Xiao Hongchen failed to complete an imitation Artificial Soul Ring Device after months of training under Huo Yuhao.
• Kong Deming let Huo Yuhao inspect the prototype seized from the Spirit Pagoda and Xiao Hongchen's failed imitation.
• Huo Yuhao made a tiny Soul Guide Core, replaced the imitation's core, and powered the device with his Soul Power Storage Device until it produced a soul ring.
• Kong Deming ordered the Soul Guide Masters to find a test subject to absorb the artificial soul ring.

Huo Yuhao impressed the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Guide Masters by reproducing an artificial Soul Ring, then proposed a way to equip Soul Rings without Soul Skills with Soul Tools. His suggestion caught Kong Deming’s attention, and the elder offered to take him as his closed-door disciple.

• Huo Yuhao replicated the special component for the thirty-first time, but the Rank 8 and Rank 9 Soul Guide Masters could not reproduce his microscopic Soul Power Control.
• Kong Deming praised Huo Yuhao’s talent and considered him a possible successor, while Jing Hongchen remained silent.
• A servant reported that the test subject had absorbed the artificial Soul Ring and advanced in cultivation but gained no Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao suggested fusing a Soul Tool with the empty Soul Ring so the Soul Tool could serve as a Soul Skill.
• Kong Deming offered to make Huo Yuhao his closed-door disciple, and Jing Hongchen reluctantly agreed that Huo Yuhao could have another teacher.

Kong Deming took Huo Yuhao as his student and brought him into the Sun Moon Empire’s research on Soul Ring-bearing Soul Tools. After producing a thousand components, Huo Yuhao obtained the Soul Guide Soul Fusion Method and compared it with the Ring Embedding Method, considering how the Empire could counter the Douluo Three Nations.

• Kong Deming declared Huo Yuhao his student, warned Xu Tianran not to harm him, and instructed Jing Hongchen to bring Huo Yuhao to the laboratory.
• Kong Deming asked Huo Yuhao to make one thousand components, and Huo Yuhao requested more Grade 6 Soul Power Storage Devices to complete the work.
• Huo Yuhao delivered the components the next day, and Kong Deming assigned him to assist with research into Soul Ring-bearing Soul Tools and gave him the Soul Guide Soul Fusion Method.
• Huo Yuhao studied the Soul Guide Soul Fusion Method alongside the Ring Embedding Method that Ning Tian and a noblewoman had brought him from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Huo Yuhao considered how the Sun Moon Empire might use the methods to counter the Douluo Three Nations’ Artificial Soul Rings and Artificial Soul Bones.