Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao explained how the Tang Sect’s refusal to adapt to Soul Tools had contributed to its decline, leaving Tang Ya shaken and her Devouring Talent showing signs of awakening. Electrolux noticed the unusual power within her and urged Huo Yuhao to keep in contact with her.

• Tang Ya acknowledged that Huo Yuhao’s criticisms of the Tang Sect and her Martial Soul were valid.
• Huo Yuhao argued that the Tang Sect had declined because it clung to hidden weapons instead of adapting to Soul Tools.
• Tang Ya struggled with doubts about reviving the sect and avenging her parents, while Beibei chose not to comfort her.
• Huo Yuhao noticed black light in Tang Ya’s eyes and realized her Devouring Talent was beginning to awaken.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that Tang Ya possessed an unusual evil power resembling his Necromancy and advised him to spend more time with her.

Huo Yuhao planned to use Tang Ya’s future spread of the Tang Sect Secret Techniques to gain the Power of Faith, then traveled back to Shrek City with Tang Ya and Beibei after obtaining his Soul Ring. At the city gate, Lan Mei confronted him for returning late, while Ma Xiaotao revealed she had helped secure his invitation to Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao decided to wait for Tang Ya to use her Devouring Talent, win her over, and persuade her to spread the Tang Sect Secret Techniques for his own Power of Faith.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya and Beibei that he would enroll at Shrek when school started, and he explained that his Spirit Eye had a Mutated Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao joined Tang Ya and Beibei in absorbing the morning’s Purple Qi through their secret cultivation practice and offered some to Electrolux.
• Huo Yuhao, Tang Ya, and Beibei traveled back to Shrek City with a convoy after obtaining his Soul Ring.
• Lan Mei stopped Huo Yuhao at the city gate and scolded him for returning late, while Ma Xiaotao told Beibei she had obtained Huo Yuhao’s Invitation Letter from Old Yan.

Huo Yuhao returned to Lan Mei after obtaining a Soul Ring, explained his absence, and gave her a Crimson Sun Snake. As Shrek Academy’s registration opened, Niu Tian and Tai Tan prepared to bring Xiao Dong to the academy, while Huo Yuhao began his own enrollment.

• Ma Xiaotao declined Lan Mei’s invitation, then left with Beibei and Tang Ya, who gave Huo Yuhao her Storage Soul Tool ring.
• Huo Yuhao told Lan Mei that Beibei and Tang Ya had helped him obtain a Soul Ring and gave her the corpse of a fifteen-hundred-year Crimson Sun Snake for her and Aunt Lan.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan discussed sending Xiao Qi to Shrek Academy, and Niu Tian decided they would leave for the academy that day.
• Xiao Dong prepared to depart in disguise, experienced a strange flash of azure light, and then left her room with her luggage.
• Lan Mei brought Huo Yuhao to Shrek Academy’s eastern gate, where registration and the Basic Assessment began.

Huo Yuhao entered Shrek Academy, registered with an Inner Court invitation, and explored the grounds before speaking with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm about his abilities and Second Martial Soul. He agreed to let Sky Dream choose an Ice Attribute soul beast after he reached Level 20, then wondered whether he could save Snow Empress early.

• Huo Yuhao crossed the bridge into Shrek Academy and privately vowed to put a lock on Xiao Wu if he reached the God Realm.
• Huo Yuhao presented his exemption notice, and a senior recognized it as an Inner Court student’s invitation letter and helped him register.
• Huo Yuhao collected his uniform, identity badge, and dormitory assignment, then rested beside Sea God Lake.
• Huo Yuhao asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm about using the Simulation Soul Skill, and Sky Dream confirmed he could use it by spending Spiritual Power.
• Sky Dream offered to choose an Ice Attribute soul beast for Huo Yuhao’s Second Martial Soul after he reached Level 20, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• After Sky Dream returned to sleep, Huo Yuhao wondered whether he could save Snow Empress ahead of time.

Huo Yuhao told Electrolux about the Sun God Pillar, and Electrolux took him as a disciple and taught him Divine Thread to strengthen his Spiritual Power. Huo Yuhao explained his foreknowledge and warned Electrolux about the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Three-eyed Soul Beast’s divine pursuer, while Electrolux attributed his ability to being a Son of Fortune.

• Huo Yuhao explained the Sun God Pillar and its Star Rings to Electrolux, who suspected it was a Pillar of Faith meant to help him become a God.
• Electrolux asked Huo Yuhao to become his disciple, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Electrolux gave Huo Yuhao Divine Thread, a Spiritual Power training method, and advised him to cultivate his Spiritual Power.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm seemed to be hiding something.
• Huo Yuhao told Electrolux he could foresee the future and explained that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would bring him an opportunity and that a God had targeted the Three-eyed Soul Beast.
• Electrolux said a bodiless consciousness had shown goodwill toward him and suggested it had made Huo Yuhao a Son of Fortune.

Huo Yuhao learned from Electrolux that the Divine Pillar already contained Power of Faith, then returned to Shrek Academy and considered using his golden light to help ordinary people become Soul Masters. He settled into his dormitory, wondering whether his roommate would be Wang Dong and whether his idea could work without exhausting Soul Beast resources.

• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao he would help him face the powerful enemy and revealed that the Divine Pillar already held Power of Faith.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Sea God Lake and met Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan, who explained the benefits of Ma Xiaotao's recommendation letter.
• Huo Yuhao walked with Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan to the dormitory fork, then found his assigned room, Room 201.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the camphor tree on Sea God Island had given him Power of Faith and considered using his golden light to help ordinary people cultivate Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao worried that turning everyone into Soul Masters would deplete the Soul Beasts, then wondered whether Wang Dong would be his roommate.

Di Tian learned that a human named Huo Yuhao possessed the Power of Destiny and ordered the Auspicious Beast to alert him if she sensed Huo Yuhao again. At Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao found that Wang Dong was his roommate, and their argument over dormitory rules ended with a duel challenge.

• Scarlet King told Di Tian and Bi Ji how the Auspicious Beast had fainted, and Bi Ji confirmed she had no injuries.
• After waking, the Auspicious Beast explained that she had encountered a human with the same Power of Destiny and that the human had knocked her unconscious.
• Di Tian gave the Auspicious Beast his Black Dragon Reverse Scale and ordered her to find Huo Yuhao if she sensed him again so he could capture him.
• Huo Yuhao saw that he had been assigned to Freshman Class 1 with Zhou Yi as the class teacher and noticed Wang Dong's name on the class list.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at his dormitory and found Wang Dong waiting inside as his roommate.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong argued over dormitory rules, and Wang Dong challenged him to a fight to decide whose rules would stand.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong sparred in front of a growing crowd, with Wang Dong gaining the upper hand after activating her Martial Soul and Soul Rings. As Wang Dong urged him to surrender, Huo Yuhao connected his Spiritual Power with his Ice Martial Soul, which seemed to gain a soul.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong faced off in the dormitory clearing as students gathered to watch.
• Huo Yuhao precisely dodged Wang Dong's opening strike and stopped her sweeping kick, demonstrating superior close-combat technique.
• Wang Dong enhanced herself with Soul Power and attacked faster, while Huo Yuhao continued to evade and redirect her force.
• Wang Dong summoned her Light Goddess Butterfly and revealed her yellow and thousand-year purple Soul Rings, but continued fighting without using Soul Skills.
• Wang Dong kicked Huo Yuhao several meters back and told him to admit defeat as the crowd encouraged him to surrender.
• Huo Yuhao circulated his Spiritual Power into his Ice Martial Soul, which seemed to gain a soul.

Huo Yuhao used a simulated Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to overwhelm the freshmen and defeat Wang Dong, then learned that Electrolux had protected her body from being taken over by another soul. After Wang Dong returned to the dormitory, Huo Yuhao revealed that he knew she was a girl, leaving her frozen with shock.

• Huo Yuhao released the simulated blood-red Soul Ring, terrifying the freshmen and forcing Wang Dong to surrender.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the dormitory, where Electrolux explained that he had placed a soul imprint to prevent another soul from taking control of Wang Dong's body.
• Electrolux said he would fall into a long slumber, and Huo Yuhao promised to cultivate his Spiritual Power and learn Magic.
• Wang Dong returned and asked whether Huo Yuhao was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and he told her the Soul Ring had been an illusion.
• Huo Yuhao confronted Wang Dong and told her he knew she was a girl, leaving her stunned.

Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun responded to reports of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast at Shrek Academy, only to find that Huo Yuhao’s Soul Ring had frightened dozens of upper-year students unconscious. The students recovered and fled to change their pants, while Yan Shaozhe ordered Du Weilun to investigate Huo Yuhao.

• Yan Shaozhe reviewed the new students’ files and noticed Huo Yuhao, the first person to receive an Invitation Letter to the Inner Court from Ma Xiaotao.
• Upper-year students rushed to Du Weilun’s office, claiming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had appeared and frightened new students into wetting themselves.
• Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe arrived at the dormitory district and found dozens of unconscious students; Old Zhuang used green leaves to revive them.
• The students woke, mistook Yan Shaozhe for a teacher, and then hurried back to their dormitories after realizing they had wet their pants.
• Yan Shaozhe told Du Weilun to investigate the incident and bring the person responsible to his office.

Huo Yuhao revealed that Wang Dong was a girl but agreed to keep her secret, then left her breakfast before going to the Academic Affairs Office to explain the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring rumors. He told Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe that students were already treating him as a transformed Soul Beast and some had threatened to kill him for his Soul Bone and Soul Ring.

• Huo Yuhao deduced that Wang Dong was a girl because her Martial Soul was the Light Goddess Butterfly, but promised not to expose her and suggested she could move to the girls' dormitory.
• Wang Dong insisted on staying in their shared dormitory and set rules, while Huo Yuhao bathed quickly and began cultivating as she bathed.
• Wang Dong woke to find Huo Yuhao gone and discovered he had left her hot breakfast and a note saying he was going to the Academic Affairs Office.
• A senior student escorted Huo Yuhao to the Academic Affairs Office, where Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe questioned him about the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring incident.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had warned the freshmen and said students had called him Brother Beast, while some had threatened to kill him for his Soul Bone and Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated his unusual Soul Skills to Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun, who agreed to conceal them and offered him a reward if he won the New Student Assessment. Yan Shaozhe recognized Huo Yuhao as the student Xiaotao had recommended and considered matching him with Xiaotao, while Huo Yuhao returned to the dormitory area and encountered Xu Sanshi.

• Huo Yuhao revealed a simulated Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and demonstrated a Spiritual Power Soul Skill that let Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun perceive their surroundings in extraordinary detail.
• Yan Shaozhe promised Huo Yuhao a special gift if he won the New Student Assessment and joined the Martial Soul Academy, while agreeing to conceal his abilities.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Yan Shaozhe recognized him as Xiaotao's recommended student, ordered Du Weilun to keep his Soul Skill secret, and considered grooming him as Xiaotao's future husband.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the dormitory area and noticed students watching him strangely before he came upon Xu Sanshi near the stairway.
• Xu Sanshi sized Huo Yuhao up and decided he was too young to interest Nannan, then two people rushed over and addressed Xu Sanshi.

Huo Yuhao cleared up Xu Sanshi’s misunderstanding about Jiang Nannan, then learned that the Shrek Seven Devils would be selected ahead of the next tournament. After the academy addressed the previous night’s incident, Huo Yuhao was left with the nicknames Brother Beast and Pee Inducer.

• Tang Ya and Beibei joined Huo Yuhao and Xu Sanshi, and Tang Ya warned Xu Sanshi not to harm her friend.
• At a pavilion, Xu Sanshi explained that his lackeys had mistaken Huo Yuhao’s interactions with Jiang Nannan for romantic rivalry, and he apologized.
• Xu Sanshi learned that Huo Yuhao had released the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring that frightened the freshmen, while Huo Yuhao denied being a transformed Soul Beast.
• Beibei told Xu Sanshi, Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao that the Shrek Seven Devils selection would take place ahead of the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the dormitory as Du Weilun’s broadcast explained the previous night’s incident and calmed the students’ speculation.
• Huo Yuhao remained known as Brother Beast and acquired the nickname Pee Inducer.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong began their first day at Shrek Academy and attended Freshman Class 1, where their teacher Zhou Yi introduced herself with a harsh challenge. The chapter ended with Zhou Yi ordering everyone who had not fought during registration to run one hundred laps or leave the academy.

• Huo Yuhao continued cultivating while Wang Dong began taking her own training more seriously.
• On the first morning of term, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong walked together to Freshman Class 1 and sat by the window, where they noticed Xiao Xiao among their classmates.
• Zhou Yi entered the classroom and used her Spiritual Pressure to silence the students before declaring that she would train monsters, not idiots.
• Zhou Yi ordered the students who had fought during registration to stand, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were the only ones to do so.
• Zhou Yi told everyone who had not fought to run one hundred laps around Shrek Plaza or drop out.

Zhou Yi tried to force Freshman Class 1 to obey her by threatening expulsion, but the students were unimpressed by her Soul Emperor aura, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong exposed her fear of powerful backing. She ordered the class to run one hundred laps as an assessment, and the students headed for Shrek Plaza.

• Zhou Yi threatened to expel students who failed to complete a run, but her Soul Emperor aura barely affected most of the class.
• Wang Dong laughed and invoked the Clear Sky Sect, causing Zhou Yi to back down from questioning her.
• Huo Yuhao laughed as well and warned Zhou Yi that Dean Yan had forbidden her request, prompting her to stop pressing him.
• Zhou Yi ordered the entire class to run one hundred laps around Shrek Plaza in one hour, declaring it their first assessment.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong joined the students heading to the plaza, while Huo Yuhao recognized that Zhou Yi was using her authority to enforce her control-focused teaching methods.

Zhou Yi expelled seventeen freshmen who failed to complete the running assessment, then Ma Xiaotao arrived to take Huo Yuhao away on Sister Lan Mei’s business. When Zhou Yi tried to stop her, Ma Xiaotao confronted her, and Du Weilun arrived as the dispute escalated.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong completed the hundred-lap assessment, while Zhou Yi named and expelled seventeen students who had fallen short.
• The expelled students left together, and Zhou Yi ordered the remaining eighty-three students back to class.
• Ma Xiaotao waited outside the classroom and asked Huo Yuhao to come with her about a matter Sister Lan Mei had assigned.
• Zhou Yi tried to forbid Huo Yuhao from leaving, but Ma Xiaotao released crimson Soul Power and challenged her authority.
• Du Weilun arrived and called out to Zhou Yi as the confrontation intensified.

Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao to Shrek’s Inner Court to have Old Zhuang examine his Martial Soul, after arranging for Zhou Yi to go to the Academic Affairs Office. Old Zhuang found no trouble but hinted at a surprise, leaving Huo Yuhao’s examination result unexplained.

• Du Weilun took Zhou Yi to the Academic Affairs Office, while Ma Xiaotao brought Huo Yuhao to the Inner Court.
• Ma Xiaotao explained that Lan Mei had asked her to check whether Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul had undergone a second mutation.
• Ma Xiaotao flew Huo Yuhao to Sea God Island, where the Sun God Pillar’s first Star Ring stirred as he arrived.
• Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao to the Botanical Garden and asked Old Zhuang to examine his Martial Soul.
• Old Zhuang inspected Huo Yuhao’s eyes with Soul Power, then told Ma Xiaotao that there was no trouble, but there was a surprise.

Huo Yuhao learned that Old Zhuang recognized his eye-and-brain Martial Soul as an exceptionally powerful Body Martial Soul, while Yan Shaozhe discussed recruiting him and pairing him with Ma Xiaotao. The chapter ended with Yan Shaozhe learning that Zhou Yi had expelled seventeen students and that someone had placed a bounty on her.

• Old Zhuang told Ma Xiaotao that Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul combined eyes and brain and urged her to inform Yan Shaozhe.
• Huo Yuhao recognized a camphor tree from the stream near the Duke's Mansion, now transformed into a Soul Beast at Shrek Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao hurried Huo Yuhao away from Xian Lin'er and then led him toward another building to keep his abilities from being exposed.
• Yan Shaozhe told Cai Meier he wanted to recruit Huo Yuhao, whom he believed possessed a hidden Ice Attribute Martial Soul, and considered pairing him with Ma Xiaotao.
• Du Weilun reported that Zhou Yi had expelled seventeen students from Class 1, and Yan Shaozhe ordered the expelled students assigned to other classes.
• Yan Shaozhe learned that a student had placed a ten-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin bounty on Zhou Yi.

Ma Xiaotao brought Huo Yuhao to Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier, hoping Yan Shaozhe would recognize the importance of Yuhao’s unusual Martial Soul. Yan Shaozhe accepted Huo Yuhao as his second disciple and gave him a Storage Soul Tool, then arranged to remove Zhou Yi as Freshman Class 1’s Class Teacher.

• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier discussed removing Zhou Yi and keeping Huo Yuhao at Shrek Academy, while Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao overheard them speculating about the two becoming a couple.
• Ma Xiaotao told Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier that Huo Yuhao had a Body Martial Soul consisting of eyes and a brain, and asked Yan Shaozhe to take him as a disciple.
• After learning Dean Xian might also discover Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul, Yan Shaozhe urgently offered to make Huo Yuhao his second disciple; Huo Yuhao agreed after Old Yi encouraged him.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao a spatial Storage Soul Tool and sent him and Ma Xiaotao back to the Outer Court.
• Yan Shaozhe told Du Weilun to remove Zhou Yi from Class 1 and appoint Wang Yan as its Class Teacher; Du Weilun also asked about transferring Zhou Yi to Class 7.

Huo Yuhao returned to Class One after teasing Ma Xiaotao and met Teacher Wang, who began a lesson about Soul Tools, Soul Beasts, and Martial Souls. Huo Yuhao explained how Soul Tools could broaden Soul Masters’ abilities, leaving his classmates considering their potential.

• Ma Xiaotao gave Huo Yuhao Yan Shaozhe’s Storage Soul Tool ring and warned him to forget what Teacher had said earlier.
• Ma Xiaotao flew Huo Yuhao back to the Outer Court and asked him to call her Senior Sister instead of Sister Xiaotao.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao he liked girls older than him, then ran off before she could respond.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Class One, where Wang Yan introduced himself and began the lesson.
• At Wang Yan’s request, Huo Yuhao explained that Soul Tools could help Soul Masters overcome some limitations, while warning that they required sufficient Soul Power and had to suit their users.