Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan explained that dwindling Soul Beast numbers could make Soul Tools essential to future Soul Masters, and Huo Yuhao supported his view. Wang Yan later learned that he had been appointed Class One’s Class Teacher.

• Wang Yan praised Huo Yuhao’s explanation of Soul Tools and began discussing Soul Beasts.
• Wang Yan argued that Soul Beast populations would decline as Soul Masters hunted them, making Soul Tools vital substitutes for powerful Soul Rings.
• Wang Yan dismissed the class and announced special training at Shrek Plaza that afternoon.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and the class that Soul Tools would inevitably shape the future unless Artificial Soul Rings eased the strain on Soul Beasts.
• Wang Yan listened outside the classroom and decided to borrow Soul Tools from the Soul Engineering Department for the students to try.
• Du Weilun told Wang Yan that Zhou Yi had been transferred to Class 7 and that Wang Yan would serve as Class One’s Class Teacher.

Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo agreed to lend Soul Tools to Wang Yan's Freshman Class 1 for practical training. When Zhou Yi arrived at Shrek Plaza, the students feared she would make them run, but she had been reassigned to Class 7, and Wang Yan led Class 1 to combat training instead.

• Old Zhuang gave Xian Lin'er the Soul Engineering Department's assessment rewards, then considered asking Mu En about Xiaotao's Spiritual Attribute student.
• Wang Yan told Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo he wanted Freshman Class 1 to use Soul Tools in sparring, and they arranged for Fan Yu to provide suitable equipment.
• Freshman Class 1 gathered at Shrek Plaza, where Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong noticed Class 7 students arriving in a dejected state.
• Zhou Yi arrived and ordered Class 7 to run laps, revealing she had been removed as Class 1's teacher and reassigned to Class 7.
• Wang Yan and He Caitou arrived and led the relieved Class 1 students to the Assessment Area for practical combat training.

Wang Yan arranged a practical exercise comparing Soul Tools with conventional soul abilities, and Huo Yuhao faced Wang Dong using a Level Two Soul Tool Ray. Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to evade Wang Dong’s attacks and disrupt her charge, leaving the fight ongoing as he widened the distance between them.

• Wang Yan introduced a Soul Tool sparring exercise and brought He Caitou in to demonstrate the equipment.
• Huo Yuhao volunteered to use Soul Tools, Wang Dong volunteered to oppose him, and Wang Yan barred Huo Yuhao from using his Soul Ring intimidation ability.
• He Caitou gave Huo Yuhao a Level Two Soul Tool Ray and a Body Protection Soul Tool before Wang Yan began the match.
• Wang Dong attacked from the air, but Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to evade her kick and struck her wing with the Soul Tool Ray.
• Huo Yuhao targeted Wang Dong’s arms and head with another volley, forcing her to shield herself and lose her attack rhythm as he widened the distance.

Huo Yuhao used his Soul Tool and Spiritual abilities to defeat Wang Dong, then the class tested Soul Tools in a series of sparring matches. The demonstrations showed how Soul Tools enhanced different soul master roles, though Wang Dong remained the only one who had not used one.

• Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er recognized Huo Yuhao as a rare Spiritual Attribute soul master and discussed him.
• Huo Yuhao dodged Wang Dong's Light of the Butterfly God barrage and used Spiritual attacks to make her miss a finishing strike, then won the match.
• Wang Dong questioned Huo Yuhao about why she had attacked in the wrong direction, but he kept the method secret.
• Wang Yan arranged more sparring matches while He Caitou equipped students with Soul Tools suited to their abilities.
• Students from several soul master systems tested Soul Tools and saw their strengths and high Soul Power costs.
• Wang Dong was the only student who had not used a Soul Tool during the demonstrations.

Wang Yan took over as Freshman Class 1’s teacher, named Huo Yuhao Class Leader, and outlined the students’ upcoming training. In his Spiritual Sea, Electrolux explained that he could craft artificial Soul Rings and suggested Huo Yuhao absorb Ma Xiaotao’s special energy to unlock his First Star Ring sooner.

• Huo Yuhao easily defeated Song Qinghan in a Soul Tool sparring match.
• Wang Yan announced he was Freshman Class 1’s new teacher and appointed Huo Yuhao Class Leader.
• Wang Yan explained the class schedule and promised tailored physical training and practice for the New Student Assessment.
• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux about gaining Power of Faith from ordinary people, and Electrolux said he could handcraft artificial Soul Rings.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao to use his Heavenly Eye to absorb the special energy within Ma Xiaotao and unseal his First Star Ring sooner.

Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao two pills and heard his offer to absorb Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire with the energy-storing power of his Heavenly Eye. He took Huo Yuhao to Ma Xiaotao, where they found her secretly cultivating despite orders to rest.

• Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao an Enlightenment Pill and a Soul Gathering Pill, and urged him to win the New Student Assessment.
• Huo Yuhao asked about Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire and revealed his Heavenly Eye, offering to absorb some of it.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Huo Yuhao to Ma Xiaotao’s secluded cultivation room on Sea God Island.
• Yan Shaozhe scolded Ma Xiaotao for cultivating before she had rested for three months after absorbing the Ancient Ice Crystal.
• Ma Xiaotao noticed Huo Yuhao, and Yan Shaozhe began explaining why he had brought him.

Huo Yuhao absorbed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire with his Heaven’s Eye, relieving her symptoms and turning the fire into energy held by his Martial Soul. A trace of its evil nature made him kiss Ma Xiaotao, and the chapter ended with both siblings embarrassed but Ma Xiaotao unangered.

• Yan Shaozhe agreed to let Huo Yuhao absorb Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire while protecting him with his Soul Power.
• Ma Xiaotao forced the Evil Fire out of her body as Huo Yuhao’s Heaven’s Eye drew it into his First Star Ring.
• The Evil Fire vanished from Ma Xiaotao, restoring her comfort and allowing her Soul Power to circulate freely.
• A trace of the Evil Fire’s evil nature affected Huo Yuhao, and he lunged forward and kissed Ma Xiaotao before quickly pulling away.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Evil Fire had become pure energy within his Martial Soul, while Ma Xiaotao stopped him from describing how its evil nature had affected him.

Huo Yuhao suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and agreed to help her manage it monthly, while Wang Yan’s teaching greatly improved Class One over the following month. The chapter ended with the exhausted students chasing Huo Yuhao as part of their training, and the author teased the importance of his second Soul Ring.

• Ma Xiaotao said Huo Yuhao’s treatment had suppressed her Evil Fire, and she agreed to seek his help when it returned.
• Yan Shaozhe encouraged Huo Yuhao to build a relationship with Ma Xiaotao and escorted him back to the Outer Court.
• Huo Yuhao took the Enlightenment Pill and Soul Gathering Pill, raising his cultivation from Rank Seventeen to Rank Nineteen overnight.
• Wang Yan gave Class One specialized theory, Soul Skill, and physical training, helping each student improve.
• For a month, Huo Yuhao used his simulated Soul Ring to train the class in resisting pressure, while their cultivation and skills advanced.
• After training, eighty-one students chased Huo Yuhao through the Assessment Area, trying to catch him before he escaped.

Huo Yuhao reached Soul Power Level 20 and joined an Inner Court expedition to obtain his second Soul Ring. He recognized Xuan Zi among the leaders and feared the team was doomed, but learned Yan Shaozhe would be in charge.

• After absorbing Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, Huo Yuhao told her he had reached Level 20 and planned to obtain his second Soul Ring.
• Yan Shaozhe invited Huo Yuhao to join an Inner Court group heading to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Ma Xiaotao agreed to accompany him.
• At the Training Ground, Zhang Lexuan reacted uneasily to Xuan Zi joining the expedition, remembering the past mission in which eight of twelve students had died.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Xuan Zi and panicked, then relaxed when Yan Shaozhe made clear he would lead the team.
• Zhang Lexuan, Li Yongyue, Reno, and Ye Xiaosheng introduced themselves and stated their levels and Soul Ring needs.

Huo Yuhao joined Zhang Lexuan’s group in the Star Dou Great Forest and used Spiritual Detection to reveal hidden Soul Beasts, helping them locate a suitable Soul Ring for Reno. Elsewhere, a black-robed group entered the forest to hunt Soul Beasts while refusing to carry out the Demon Empress’s dangerous plan to drain the core region’s source of life.

• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as a Level 20 Control System Battle Soul Master with the Spirit Eye martial soul, and Zhang Lexuan led the group into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• As the group reached the Mixed Zone, Huo Yuhao linked their minds with Spiritual Detection and revealed hidden Soul Beasts within a three-hundred-meter range.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered Huo Yuhao to maintain his detection as the group advanced, then stopped them when he sensed a powerful Soul Beast beside a stream.
• Zhang Lexuan identified the Soul Beast as a roughly twenty-thousand-year-old Black Armored Rhinoceros suited to Reno’s Rock Bear Martial Soul and began arranging the fight.
• A black-robed group entered the forest to obtain Ninth Soul Rings for Seventh Elder and Lao Ba, while its leader refused to help the Demon Empress drain the forest’s source of life.

Zhang Lexuan’s team launched a coordinated attack on the twenty-thousand-year Black Armored Rhinoceros, using Reno’s traps and Ye Xiaosheng’s arrow to control and weaken it. Zhang Lexuan struck with Moonfall, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Yan Shaozhe sent Zhang Lexuan a message assuring her that Yuhao was under his watch, and Zhang assigned Reno, Ye Xiaosheng, Li Yongyue, and herself their roles in controlling and attacking the Black Armored Rhinoceros.
• Reno used Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection to place Sonic Vibration Bombs along the rhinoceros’s escape routes.
• Ye Xiaosheng fired his fifth Soul Skill, Dark Light Absolute Shadow, exploding the rhinoceros’s left eye and covering its body in a membrane that blocked its connection to the earth.
• The Black Armored Rhinoceros charged toward an apparent escape route, where Reno detonated three bombs and left it disoriented.
• Zhang Lexuan used her fifth Soul Skill, Moonfall, sending a golden moon shadow down toward the Black Armored Rhinoceros.

Reno absorbed a twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring after the group successfully hunted a Black Armored Rhinoceros, and Huo Yuhao continued searching for a suitable Spiritual Attribute Soul Beast. The group found a strange gathering of Soul Beasts around a Demon Eye Demon Tree as they looked for a campsite.

• Reno killed the Black Armored Rhinoceros with a spear thrust and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Li Yongyue, Ye Xiaosheng, and Huo Yuhao what Soul Beasts they hoped to find, and Huo Yuhao said he wanted a powerful control skill tied to his Spiritual Power.
• After four hours, Reno completed his absorption and revealed six Soul Rings: two yellow, two purple, and two black.
• The group left the corpse, traveled through the forest at night, and Yan Shaozhe drove away a sixty-thousand-year Six-Eyed Mad Lion drawn by Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection.
• Huo Yuhao detected five thousand-year Soul Beasts carrying hundred-year prey near a plant-type Soul Beast, and Zhang Lexuan identified it as the Demon Eye Demon Tree.

Huo Yuhao chose the nearly three-thousand-year-old Demon Eye Demon Tree as his second Soul Ring, and Zhang Lexuan agreed after consulting Yan Shaozhe. As Huo Yuhao began absorbing it with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s help, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed him and rushed toward his location, while a black-robed man spotted her and Scarlet King and planned to send Shrek a feast of Soul Beasts.

• Huo Yuhao asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help seal the power of an over-limit Soul Ring, and Sky Dream said he could handle one up to four thousand years old.
• Zhang Lexuan agreed to let Huo Yuhao absorb the Demon Eye Demon Tree, then killed it and left him to finish it off with Reno’s spear.
• Huo Yuhao killed the Demon Eye Demon Tree, summoned its Purple Soul Ring, and began absorbing it with his third eye open as Yan Shaozhe watched.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Huo Yuhao and set off with Scarlet King, leaving the Three-Eyed Giant alive.
• A black-robed man recognized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King and decided to use them to deliver Shrek a feast of Soul Beasts.

Zhongli Wu sent the Holy Spirit Cult to ambush the Emperor Auspicious Beast and provoke a Beast Tide, while Huo Yuhao completed his Soul Ring absorption and gained Mind Control. The chapter ended as a mass of flames struck toward Huo Yuhao, Zhang Lexuan, and the others.

• Zhongli Wu ordered Netherworld and the other Black-Robed Men to attack the Emperor Auspicious Beast and exploit the resulting Beast Tide against Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Demon Eye Demon Tree's Soul Ring until Sky Dream Ice Silkworm helped him complete the process.
• Huo Yuhao told Yan Shaozhe and Zhang Lexuan that his new Second Soul Skill, Mind Control, could invade and control another person's body.
• An explosion and sea of fire appeared nearby, and Xuan Zi identified the aura as belonging to the Scarlet King.
• Yan Shaozhe prepared to defend the group as a mass of flames flew toward them, and a blood-red strike knocked it down where they stood.

Yan Shaozhe and the Scarlet King joined forces to protect the Emperor Auspicious Beast from Zhongli Wu and the pursuing Evil Soul Masters. Zhongli Wu revealed his overwhelming Soul Ring configuration and attacked them with his Fourth Soul Skill, Abyss of the Undead.

• Huo Yuhao warned Yan Shaozhe to save the flame, and Yan Shaozhe shielded it from a Blood Light attack.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized the Scarlet King and learned that the attackers were hunting the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Zhongli Wu arrived with five other figures and ordered Yan Shaozhe and the Scarlet King to leave.
• Yan Shaozhe refused to abandon the Auspicious Beast, and the Scarlet King prepared to fight beside him.
• Zhongli Wu revealed eight black Soul Rings and one red Soul Ring, then unleashed Abyss of the Undead against Yan Shaozhe and the Scarlet King.

Di Tian arrived after Zhongli Wu ambushed the Auspicious Beast, destroyed the Undead Souls, and drove Zhongli Wu into a desperate escape. After Mu En appeared to protect the Shrek juniors, Di Tian refused to let him leave, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Di Tian used the Black Stream to sweep away the Undead Souls, and Zhongli Wu ordered the other Black-Robed Men to flee.
• Di Tian intercepted Zhongli Wu, crushed him with a dragon claw, and gathered his escaping blood to track him later.
• Di Tian summoned Mu En, while Xuan Zi and the Shrek students arrived; Yan Shaozhe and Scarlet King exchanged a wary but non-hostile glance.
• The Auspicious Beast told Di Tian that Huo Yuhao was the Son of Fortune, and Mu En realized Di Tian had noticed him.
• Di Tian told Mu En he could not leave without leaving something behind, as Mu En and Xuan Zi prepared to fight.

Di Tian demanded that Huo Yuhao help the Auspicious Beast, intending to take the Power of Destiny from him. As the Auspicious Beast joined her Eye of Destiny to Huo Yuhao’s Heavenly Eye, a Gray Streamer struck her, and Huo Yuhao grinned.

• The Auspicious Beast and Scarlet King told Di Tian that Huo Yuhao had helped them, and Di Tian offered to let the group leave if Huo Yuhao did something for him.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that Di Tian likely wanted to strip away his passive Power of Destiny, and said he would handle the preparations.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to go with the Auspicious Beast, while Mu En secured Di Tian’s promise to keep the boy safe.
• Di Tian and Mu En sent the Auspicious Beast and Huo Yuhao toward each other, and the Auspicious Beast pressed her Eye of Destiny against his forehead.
• Huo Yuhao’s Heavenly Eye formed a golden cocoon around them, then sent a Gray Streamer into the Auspicious Beast as she prepared to absorb his Power of Destiny.

Huo Yuhao formed a Symbiotic Contract with the Auspicious Beast, and the Star Dou Great Forest and Shrek groups parted after the exchange. After Zhongli Wu escaped and agreed to Holy Spirit Cult terms with Xu Tianran, Huo Yuhao woke at Shrek Academy and learned that Ma Xiaotao had been caring for him.

• Electrolux formed a Symbiotic Contract between Huo Yuhao and the Auspicious Beast, then the awakened beast acted while Huo Yuhao remained unaware.
• The contract’s golden burst knocked Huo Yuhao unconscious and shattered the cocoon; the Auspicious Beast told Di Tian that she had gained something, and Mu En took the Shrek group away.
• Di Tian left with the Auspicious Beast and Scarlet King, while Zhongli Wu escaped using Blood Escape and ordered the Holy Spirit Cult to accept Xu Tianran’s terms.
• Mu En arranged Soul Beasts for Ye Xiaosheng and Li Yongyue, and Yan Shaozhe warned Reno, Ye Xiaosheng, and the others to keep the encounter secret.
• Huo Yuhao woke after several days in Sea God Pavilion, where Ma Xiaotao explained that he had been unconscious and that Teacher had changed his clothes.

After awakening, Huo Yuhao learned that Electrolux had strengthened protections around the Auspicious Beast and went back to class. Mu En prepared for a Sea God Pavilion meeting about the Evil Soul Masters, while Huo Yuhao looked ahead to the New Student Assessment and his planned gift for Dai Huabin.

• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that the Symbiotic Contract and the Auspicious Beast's Power of Destiny could help him resist a God, then urged him to meet Mu En.
• Mu En welcomed Huo Yuhao back and declined to ask about the Auspicious Beast; after Huo Yuhao left, Mu En refused to let him absorb the Dragon Core's baleful aura and ordered Yan Shaozhe to gather the Elders for a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.
• Ma Xiaotao escorted Huo Yuhao to the Outer Court and told him to win first place in the New Student Assessment, which he promised to do.
• Huo Yuhao passed Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's classroom, then returned to Class One, where Wang Yan resumed the lesson and Wang Dong joked that it was a pity he had not died.

In the months before the New Student Assessment, Huo Yuhao grew stronger and Class One built its cohesion under Wang Yan’s guidance. As the class prepared for the competition, Huo Yuhao learned the Soul Engineering Department wanted him, then encountered Dai Huabin, who recognized him and reacted with astonishment.

• Huo Yuhao’s cultivation reached level twenty-four, and his genuine Thousand-Year Soul Ring surprised Class One as Wang Yan’s training helped the students improve.
• Wang Yan gave the students division recommendations, arranged their assessment teams, and awarded Fu Nuan a direct advancement because her Nine-Leaf Grass was poorly suited to the competition.
• Wang Yan warned Huo Yuhao that the Soul Engineering Department would compete to recruit him and advised him to prioritize Martial Soul cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao met Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao outside the Teaching Building, and they planned to discuss their Soul Skills before the assessment.
• Dai Huabin spotted Huo Yuhao and stared at him in astonishment, but Huo Yuhao calmly left with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.