Chapter Summaries

Tang San and Xiao Wu decided to send Xiao Qi to Douluo Continent with her memories sealed so she could grow more independent. Meanwhile, Old Chen persuaded Second Madam to let Dai Luoli train under him, and Huo Yuhao came forward when Old Chen called him.

• Tang San proposed sealing Xiao Qi's memories of the God Realm and sending her to Douluo Continent, and Xiao Wu agreed.
• Huo Yuhao found that his Heavenly Eye remained unchanged and wondered if it would only develop after he obtained his First Soul Ring.
• Second Madam challenged Old Chen's dangerous training plan for Dai Luoli, while Old Chen argued that Luoli needed to become independent and strong.
• Old Chen proposed that Dai Luoli attend Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy if he reached the Soul Grandmaster realm before turning twelve.
• Dai Luoli insisted that he wanted to grow strong, and Second Madam agreed to let him train under Old Chen for three years.
• Second Madam asked where Huo Yuhao was, and Old Chen called him out from beside the wall.

Huo Yuhao completed several days of training under Old Chen, then prepared to leave for Shrek City with money for travel. As he departed Falling Maple Courtyard, he passed the Firewood Room, where servants who recognized him watched him leave.

• Second Madam asked Huo Yuhao to call her Aunt Chu, then left him and Dai Luoli with Old Chen.
• Huo Yuhao trained and studied intensively for several days, while Thousand-Year Soul Beast meat strengthened his body.
• Huo Yuhao cleaned his room before leaving, and Old Chen gave him a hundred Gold Soul Coins and advised him to go to Star Luo City if he could not settle in Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao left Falling Maple Courtyard with Old Chen and silently looked back as a maple leaf blew away.
• Servants outside the Firewood Room recognized Huo Yuhao as he passed, and two of them hurried into the Courtyard after watching him leave.

Huo Yuhao left the Duke's Mansion and stopped at Huo Yun'er's grave before setting out for Shrek City. As he reached the woods' exit, unfamiliar voices forced him to hide and observe.

• Old Chen escorted Huo Yuhao through the Duke's Mansion back gate and saw him off.
• Huo Yuhao noticed that a tree struck by golden light had grown enormously and showed unusually vigorous Life Force.
• Huo Yuhao visited Huo Yun'er's grave, said goodbye, and resolved to return for revenge when he was strong enough.
• Huo Yuhao left the woods for Shrek City but halted when he heard several voices and hid among the flowers.

Huo Yuhao ambushed Chai San, Chai Si, and Chai Wu after they came looking for him, then used misleading footprints to lure Chai Wu into the weeds. He waited in a tree for his pursuer to enter the trap, while Chai San remained behind.

• Chai San, Chai Si, and Chai Wu searched the streamside woods for Huo Yuhao after Steward Wang ordered them to find him.
• Huo Yuhao shot Chai Si through the neck with a Sleeve Arrow, killing him, and fled into the forest.
• Chai San urged Chai Wu to chase Huo Yuhao, while secretly hoping Chai Wu would bear the risk of Huo Yuhao's golden-light attack.
• Huo Yuhao left clear footprints leading into tall weeds, then climbed a tree and concealed himself without leaving tracks.
• Chai Wu followed the footprints into the weeds as Huo Yuhao waited above.

Huo Yuhao ambushed and killed Chai San, then defeated Chai Wu using a hidden ability and his Sleeve Arrow. With both pursuers dead, he thanked the sunlight that had helped him.

• Huo Yuhao silently approached Chai San and stabbed him through the heart with the White Tiger Dagger.
• Chai Wu emerged from the weeds and revealed that he had recognized Huo Yuhao's false trail and waited for Chai San to die.
• Chai Wu lunged at Huo Yuhao, who turned to face him after a golden light flashed from the crack between his brows.
• Huo Yuhao fired an Iron Spike from his Sleeve Arrow, killing Chai Wu, and absorbed energy from his corpse.
• Huo Yuhao retrieved the Iron Spike and thanked the sun, which he had stayed beneath during the fight.

After killing the men who had attacked him, Huo Yuhao continued toward Duke White Tiger's Mansion. Zhang Lexuan and Ma Xiaotao discovered that a nearby tree was developing into a Soul Beast and searched the area after finding a dead body; Huo Yuhao's whereabouts remained unknown to them.

• Huo Yuhao searched Chai San, Chai Wu, and Chai Si for money, disposed of their bodies, and washed his bloodstained clothes at a stream.
• Huo Yuhao studied Old Chen's map and continued northeast along the Official Road toward Duke White Tiger's Mansion.
• Zhang Lexuan led Ma Xiaotao and the others to investigate a tree whose Soul Power fluctuations suggested it was evolving into a Soul Beast.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered Han Ruoruo to extract the tree, and Haoxuan stored it in his Storage Belt.
• After Zifeng and Luochen reported a recently killed man nearby, Zhang Lexuan ordered the group to search within five kilometers for other evolving plants.

Ma Xiaotao left candy at the grave of Mother Huo Yun'er before rejoining the Shrek Inspection Group. The group encountered Huo Yuhao as he roasted fish, and a hungry member asked to buy some.

• After searching unsuccessfully for more evolving plants, Chen Zifeng found two similarly dressed corpses hidden in the grass.
• Ma Xiaotao read Mother Huo Yun'er's tombstone, left a wrapped candy at the grave, and flew back to the group.
• Zhang Lexuan led the Shrek Inspection Group toward Shrek City after they finished their coastal mission.
• Huo Yuhao roasted fish with salt and Chili Powder, then became wary when seven people descended nearby using Flying Soul Tools.
• Zhang Lexuan greeted Huo Yuhao and praised his eyes, while the group prepared to rest and eat.
• A fat man noticed Huo Yuhao's grilled fish and asked whether he would sell it, drawing the others' attention to his food.

Huo Yuhao grilled fish for Zhang Lexuan’s group and learned that Shrek City’s Soul Tool shops no longer took apprentices. After Ma Xiaotao offered him another option, he gave his name, prompting her to react sharply to the name Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao offered to grill fish for free if the group caught them, and Chen Zifeng used his Soul Chasing Sword to catch more than a dozen.
• Yao Haoxuan eagerly devoured Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, and the others helped prepare and cook the fresh catch.
• Zhang Lexuan asked where Huo Yuhao was going, and he said he was an orphan heading to Shrek City to become a Soul Tool apprentice.
• Xixi explained that Shrek City’s shops recruited Soul Engineering Department graduates instead of taking apprentices, but Huo Yuhao said he would find another way.
• Ma Xiaotao offered Huo Yuhao a place to go, and he introduced himself as Huo Yuhao, making her gaze sharpen.

Huo Yuhao won over the Shrek Academy group with grilled fish and traded some of it for five portions of Deep Sea Tiger Fish Meat, which he valued as nourishing food. Zhang Lexuan arranged for Ma Xiaotao to take him to Lan Mei's place and discreetly planned to save more meat for him.

• Han Ruoruo and Zhang Lexuan recommended a grilled-fish stall in Shrek City, and Huo Yuhao accepted their invitation.
• Huo Yuhao served grilled fish to the group, impressing everyone with its flavor as Zhang Lexuan noticed the unusual light in his eyes.
• Ma Xiaotao asked about Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul, and he explained that it was his eyes, which he had named Spirit Eye.
• Huo Yuhao traded grilled fish for five portions of Deep Sea Tiger Fish Meat, and Yao Haoxuan gave them to him.
• Zhang Lexuan privately asked the group to pack the remaining Deep Sea Tiger Fish Meat for Ma Xiaotao to keep for Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan's group flew toward Shrek City, where he asked whether its lord was called Schrödinger. Zhang Lexuan confirmed the lord was Shi Xing, and the group entered the city through the south gate.

• After the feast, Ma Xiaotao carried Huo Yuhao as Zhang Lexuan led the group flying toward Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao admired the countryside from the sky while Ma Xiaotao watched him with a strange, fond expression.
• The group landed outside the city because Flying Soul Tools were prohibited near Shrek City without permission.
• Huo Yuhao asked Zhang Lexuan whether the city lord was Schrödinger, and she explained that the lord was Shi Xing, a ninety-third-ranked Titled Douluo.
• At the south gate, Zhang Lexuan showed a token, allowing the group to bypass the inspection line and enter Shrek City.

Huo Yuhao entered the lively Shrek City with Zhang Lexuan and the others, then set off with Ma Xiaotao for a barbecue restaurant. Along the way, Ma Xiaotao encouraged him to befriend Yao Haoxuan, and she ended the chapter insisting that Huo Yuhao forget her childish skipping.

• Huo Yuhao marveled at Shrek City's busy streets and bright shops as Zhang Lexuan and the others brought him into the city.
• Zhang Lexuan and the others said goodbye to Huo Yuhao, and Yao Haoxuan called out that he would return to eat Huo Yuhao's grilled fish.
• Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao that Yao Haoxuan was the son of the Lord of Nine Treasures City and advised him to build a good relationship with him.
• Huo Yuhao asked why Ma Xiaotao was treating him so well, but she brushed off the question and led him toward the barbecue restaurant.
• Ma Xiaotao skipped along the quiet sidewalk, stopped when she realized how childish she looked, and ordered Huo Yuhao not to mention what he had seen.

Ma Xiaotao brought Huo Yuhao to Lan Mei’s restaurant and arranged for him to stay there as an apprentice. After Ma Xiaotao left, Lan Mei showed Huo Yuhao to a room upstairs.

• Ma Xiaotao led Huo Yuhao to Lan’s Roast House on Gourmet Street and introduced him to Lan Mei.
• Ma Xiaotao praised Huo Yuhao’s cooking and asked Lan Mei to take him on as an apprentice, and Lan Mei agreed.
• Ma Xiaotao gave Huo Yuhao a heavy bag, said goodbye to Lan Mei, and left after greeting Lan Mei’s mother.
• Lan Mei teased Huo Yuhao for watching Ma Xiaotao leave, then led him inside and showed him a room on the second floor.

Huo Yuhao discovered Ma Xiaotao had left him nourishing but bitter meat chunks, while Zhang Lexuan reported strange Sea Soul Masters and an unusual camphor tree to Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion. Elder Mu warned Xuan Zi that Shrek had to adapt to the future of Soul Tools and challenged him to consider whether the academy resembled Spirit Hall.

• Huo Yuhao found Ma Xiaotao’s note advising him to eat only a small portion of the bitter medicinal meat each day.
• Zhang Lexuan told Elder Mu that Sea Soul Masters riding Ten-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beasts had crossed the sea toward the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhang Lexuan reported finding a camphor tree near Duke White Tiger’s Mansion that could sense danger before reaching ten years of cultivation.
• Elder Mu directed Zhang Lexuan to consult Xiao Zhuang about the unusual tree and record any discoveries.
• Elder Mu told Xuan Zi that Soul Tools would shape the continent’s future and asked how Shrek Academy differed from Spirit Hall ten thousand years earlier.

Mu En warned Xuan Zi that Shrek Academy’s enemies and the Body Sect’s ties to the Heaven Dou Empire threatened the Academy’s future. At the Botanical Garden, Old Zhuang discovered that the camphor tree had evolved through the Power of the Sun and might help treat Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, while Zhang Lexuan was left alone beneath the moon, looking desolate.

• Mu En told Xuan Zi that Shrek Academy had made many enemies and warned him to watch the Body Sect’s growing closeness to the Heaven Dou Empire’s Royal Family.
• Zhang Lexuan and Yao Haoxuan brought the evolving camphor tree to Old Zhuang at the Botanical Garden.
• Old Zhuang infused the camphor tree with Life Attribute Soul Power, turning its leaves golden and revealing its connection to the Power of the Sun.
• Old Zhuang explained that the tree would develop Fire and Light attributes and might help purify Xiaotao’s Evil Fire.
• Yao Haoxuan left to receive the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s delegation, while Zhang Lexuan wandered to a pavilion and gazed at the moon in desolation.

Huo Yuhao settled into the grilled fish house, where Lan Mei revealed her family's wealth and offered him a soul skill that could boost his cultivation. The chapter ended with Lan Mei inviting him to dinner and asking to try his cooking the next day.

• Huo Yuhao finished cleaning his room and the hallway, and Lan Mei gave him bedding before inviting him downstairs to eat.
• Lan Mei told Huo Yuhao that her family owned three buildings in Shrek City and collected rent, so the grilled fish house opened only when they felt like it.
• Huo Yuhao caught a table when Aunt Lan's grip slipped, and Aunt Lan welcomed him to stay at the house.
• Lan Mei explained that her martial soul was Blueberry and that her mutated Second Soul Skill, Sunlight Blueberry, could increase cultivation speed.
• Lan Mei gave Huo Yuhao a Sunlight Blueberry and promised he could become a Soul Grandmaster within five years if he used it while cultivating.
• Aunt Lan called them to dinner, and Lan Mei asked Huo Yuhao to cook for her the next day.

Huo Yuhao accepted Aunt Lan’s request to handle the Grilled Fish House’s grilling while she was away, then tested a Sunlight Blueberry under the moon. The fruit caused moonlight to painfully temper his meridians for an hour, and he resumed cultivating to assess the results.

• Aunt Lan praised Huo Yuhao’s grilling and asked him to take charge of the Grilled Fish House while she went out, and he agreed.
• Lan Mei told Huo Yuhao the shop had reservations and asked him to prepare grilled food for her to taste the next morning.
• Huo Yuhao opened his Heavenly Eye in the moonlight and ate the Sunlight Blueberry Lan Mei had given him.
• Moonlight began entering Huo Yuhao’s body and painfully stimulating his meridians, which he realized was a special effect of the Sunlight Blueberry.
• After the pain faded about an hour later, Huo Yuhao returned to meditation to check how his meridians had changed.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Lan Mei’s Second Soul Skill had improved his cultivation, then accompanied her to buy ingredients for the Grilled Fish House. After Lan Mei filled her Storage Soul Tool Ring with bargains, they took a carriage home.

• Huo Yuhao found that his soul power circulated nearly one-tenth faster and wasted less power after Lan Mei used her Second Soul Skill on him.
• Lan Mei woke from a nightmare in which someone forced her to use her Second Soul Skill repeatedly.
• Lan Mei took Huo Yuhao to the market to buy ingredients reserved by the Grilled Fish House’s guests.
• Lan Mei explained the difference between ordinary markets and Soul Power Markets as she and Huo Yuhao explored Shrek City.
• Lan Mei haggled for ingredients until her Storage Soul Tool Ring was full, then took Huo Yuhao home by carriage.

Huo Yuhao learned about the Soul Tool Joint Conference and the difficulty of finding a stable power source for civilian soul tools. Back home, he helped Lan Mei prepare food and grilled vegetables and meat skewers, leaving Lan Mei delighted by the first batch.

• Huo Yuhao asked Lan Mei about the Soul Tool Joint Conference, and she explained its origins and the Soul Supply Department’s role in powering standard civilian soul tools.
• Huo Yuhao considered how a stable soul power source could transform civilian soul tools and thought of the inventions of Xuan Ziwen and Kong Deming.
• Lan Mei told Huo Yuhao that people could eat at most two Sunlight Blueberries per day and that the Soul Skill’s effects might change as it continued to mutate.
• Huo Yuhao prepared the charcoal grill and cooked meat and vegetable skewers while Lan Mei watched his technique.
• Huo Yuhao served Lan Mei the grilled vegetables, and she praised their aroma and enjoyed the taste.

Huo Yuhao discovered that eating a Sunlight Blueberry in daylight strengthened his body, unlike the moonlight’s effect on his meridians. After cultivating, he went to meet the evening’s first barbecue customer, whom he recognized from the reservation card.

• Huo Yuhao and Lan Mei ate grilled meat together, and Lan Mei gave him two Sunlight Blueberries before he returned to his room to cultivate.
• Huo Yuhao ate one Sunlight Blueberry in the sunlight and endured an hour of pain as the sunlight tempered and repaired his muscles.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that sunlight strengthened his body while moonlight strengthened his meridians, then meditated until dusk without eating the remaining berry.
• Lan Mei told Huo Yuhao that the evening’s first customer had ordered extra grilled fish and handed him the reservation card.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the customer’s name as Yao Haoxuan and went outside to speak with him.

Huo Yuhao met Yao Haoxuan’s younger sisters, Wu Feng and Ning Tian, when they visited his grilled fish shop. Ning Tian explained that she was going to Shrek Academy to escape the restrictions and marriage expectations of her sect, and she became intrigued by Huo Yuhao’s eyes.

• Huo Yuhao greeted Yao Haoxuan outside the Grilled Fish House and met Wu Feng and Ning Tian.
• Yao Haoxuan said his sisters planned to study at Shrek Academy the following year.
• Ning Tian explained that her family expected her to enter a marriage alliance and inherit sect responsibilities, so she hoped to find a suitable partner at Shrek.
• Yao Haoxuan advised Ning Tian to build connections at Shrek Academy so she could resist pressure from her sect’s elders.
• Ning Tian asked about Huo Yuhao and remarked that his eyes were exceptionally beautiful.