Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao discussed their Twin Martial Souls and prepared for the New Student Assessment, while Huo Yuhao secretly tested whether his and Wang Dong’s Soul Power could fuse. After drawing District 33, the team encountered Ning Tian and Wu Feng, and Huo Yuhao invited them to join a grilled-fish gathering after the assessment.

• Xiao Xiao revealed that she had a second Martial Soul, and Huo Yuhao discovered that Wang Dong also possessed the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao discussed their likely rival and spent the day exchanging Soul Skill information for the assessment.
• Huo Yuhao hugged Wang Dong and tested their Soul Power, finding no sign that their Martial Souls could fuse.
• Wang Yan announced that the assessment would begin that afternoon, and Wang Dong drew District 33 for the team.
• Huo Yuhao met Ning Tian and Wu Feng on the way from Shrek Plaza and invited them to a grilled-fish gathering after the assessment.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao began the New Student Assessment and won their first five matches in District 33, with Huo Yuhao using Spiritual Interference to make their first opponents run off the stage. After learning that stronger teams might be reassigned to their district, the trio prepared for tougher matches the next day.

• Dai Huabin recognized Huo Yuhao as the son of the woman he hated and vowed to deal with him during the New Student Assessment.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao entered District 33's assessment and faced Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, and Zhao Haochen in their first match.
• Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Interference made Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng misjudge the stage boundaries and run off the Competition Stage, giving his team the win.
• All twenty-seven teams from Class 1 won their first matches, and Wang Yan arranged for a Healing Soul Saint to treat injured students.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao won all five of their matches across the first two days, while Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng's team finished the second day with two wins and two losses.
• Dai Qiuyu warned the trio that teams eliminated from other districts might be reassigned to District 33, and Wang Dong said she hoped to face stronger opponents.

Huo Yuhao obtained a Secret Method Soul Bone from Ma Xiaotao and led his team through the New Student Assessment round robin, using Spiritual Shock to defeat Huang Chutian’s team. Afterward, Wang Dong asked to join Tang Ya and Beibei’s Tang Sect, but Tang Ya refused because it was not accepting members.

• Huo Yuhao met Ma Xiaotao by Sea God Lake and collected the Secret Method Soul Bone, promising it was for a surprise for her.
• Huo Yuhao interrupted a couple in a garden with a Firework Soul Tool on his way back to the dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao defeated Huang Chutian’s team when Xiao Xiao controlled Huang Chutian and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Shocks stopped the Lan Susu sisters’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huo Yuhao’s team won all four of its matches that day and finished the round robin with ten consecutive wins, advancing to the Top 64 Elimination Match.
• Huo Yuhao treated Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to grilled skewers, where Beibei and Tang Ya joined them.
• Wang Dong asked to join the Tang Sect, but Tang Ya told her the sect was not accepting members for now.

Tang Ya told Beibei she planned to leave Shrek Academy, while Huo Yuhao’s class celebrated passing the freshman assessment and advanced through the elimination matches. Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao faced Xie HuanYue’s team in the top-sixteen round, and their match began.

• Tang Ya confessed that her cultivation had slowed and the Tang Sect’s revival burdened her, then told Beibei she would withdraw from Shrek Academy after the semester.
• Wang Dong explained that implanted memories had inspired his interest in the Tang Sect, while Huo Yuhao reflected that Tang Wutong would likely never appear in this life.
• Wang Yan announced that every student in Freshman Class 1 had passed the assessment and gave Huo Yuhao’s team information about the three freshman teams with Soul Elders.
• Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Tailong’s team and then another Class 1 team, advancing to the top sixteen; Huo Yuhao’s first-round victory took place with Zhou Yi refereeing.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao drew Xie HuanYue’s team for their top-sixteen match, and Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong to follow their plan as the referee started the battle.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao defeated Xie Huanyue's team to reach the top eight, then encountered Dai Huabin before the afternoon matches. Dai Huabin remained intent on settling his grudge with Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to support Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao as they faced Xie Huanyue and the Luo Brothers.
• Xiao Xiao slowed Xie Huanyue with her flute, and Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Shock knocked the Luo Brothers unconscious.
• Wang Dong revealed her Clear Sky Hammer and struck Xie Huanyue, while Huo Yuhao interrupted his Third Soul Skill with another Spiritual Shock.
• The referees stopped Wang Dong from striking Xie Huanyue again, and Huo Yuhao's team was declared the winner and advanced to the top eight.
• Ma Xiaotao praised the team and asked to speak with Huo Yuhao, but Wang Dong suggested she return that night; Wang Dong later grew gloomy, and Huo Yuhao joked that she might have her period.
• At the afternoon competition, Huo Yuhao mocked Dai Huabin, who silently vowed to settle their grudge after the matches.

Huo Yuhao’s advancement to the semifinals prompted a dispute in the Sea God Pavilion over whether he should study soul tools. Mu En let Yuhao choose his path and ordered broader changes to help Shrek Academy keep pace with the Sun Moon Empire.

• Huo Yuhao’s team advanced to the semifinals alongside Huang Chutian’s, Ning Tian’s, and Dai Huabin’s teams, and Ma Xiaotao called him out that night as Wang Dong watched him leave.
• Qian Duoduo argued that Huo Yuhao should join the Soul Engineering Department, while Yan Shaozhe insisted his disciple should focus on martial soul cultivation; Xian Lin'er widened the dispute to the academy’s future and the need to develop soul tools.
• Mu En ruled that Huo Yuhao could study soul tools only if he agreed, and suggested he could cultivate in both departments.
• Mu En ordered Shrek to accept the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy’s exchange program, let third-year students choose their departments freely, and recruit suitable soul engineers from the Sun Moon Empire.
• After the others left, Mu En wondered whether the secret about Huo Yuhao would meet his expectations.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong joked and bickered before Huo Yuhao’s team advanced to the finals when Huang Chutian’s team conceded. Huo Yuhao revealed that Yan Shaozhe was his teacher, then prepared for the final against Dai Huabin’s team, which Yan Shaozhe moved to the Soul Dueling Arena.

• Wang Dong questioned Huo Yuhao about his level, then chased him to Shrek Plaza after he teased her.
• Yan Shaozhe introduced himself as Shrek Academy’s dean and personally drew the semifinal lots, matching Huo Yuhao’s team against Huang Chutian’s team.
• Huang Chutian conceded the match, sending Huo Yuhao’s team directly to the finals.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that Yan Shaozhe was his teacher and hinted that Dai Huabin would not remain at the academy much longer.
• Ning Tian warned Huo Yuhao that Dai Huabin’s team had won their semifinal and still possessed the Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Yan Shaozhe led both finalist teams to the Soul Dueling Arena for the final match.

Huo Yuhao's team fought Dai Huabin's team in the New Student Assessment final, using their skills and teamwork to overcome them. Huo Yuhao disrupted Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Dai Huabin's team lost the match.

• Du Weilun moved the final to the Soul Dueling Arena and explained the rules before both teams took their positions.
• Huo Yuhao startled the opposing team with a simulated display of two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, while Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao engaged Dai Huabin and Cui Yajie.
• Wang Dong fought Dai Huabin with the Clear Sky Hammer, Xiao Xiao eliminated Cui Yajie, and Huo Yuhao's spiritual techniques prevented Zhu Lu from landing her attacks.
• Dai Huabin used White Tiger Diamond Transformation, and Zhu Lu joined the battle against Wang Dong, but Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Shock helped Wang Dong escape.
• As Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu prepared their Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Huo Yuhao used Mind Control to make Zhu Lu embrace him and then leave the stage.
• Dai Huabin fainted from humiliation, and Du Weilun declared Huo Yuhao's Freshman Class 1 team the champions.

After winning the New Student Assessment Tournament, Huo Yuhao challenged Qian Duoduo’s plans for the Soul Engineering Department and agreed to take its courses without making it his main field. Electrolux gave Huo Yuhao two stored Magic Skills, leaving him poised to learn magic once his Sun God Pillar’s First Star Ring was activated.

• Zhu Lu woke beneath the Competition Stage and learned that Dai Huabin had fainted, though she could not remember what had happened during their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huo Yuhao joked with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao about his humiliating gift to Dai Huabin, then considered preparing for a possible ambush.
• Qian Duoduo invited Huo Yuhao to join the Soul Engineering Department and described its Extreme Individual Soldier Plan, but Huo Yuhao argued for improving Soul Engineer education and combining Soul Tools with Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to take Soul Tool courses but chose to focus mainly on cultivating his Soul Power, and Qian Duoduo gave him an identity badge for the Outer Court’s Soul Engineering Department.
• Electrolux promised to imprint Soul Tool methods for later study, left two Magic Skills in Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea, and Huo Yuhao discovered they were Ice Arrow Technique and Ice Seal Technique.

Huo Yuhao protected himself from Dai Huabin, celebrated his assessment victory, and received an unexpected Soul Bone reward with his teammates. After Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao left with the Soul Bone, Huo Yuhao returned to Du Weilun’s office to hear what he wanted to discuss.

• Ma Xiaotao discovered Huo Yuhao’s ice magic, revealed that their teacher knew about his second Martial Soul, and promised to protect him from Dai Huabin.
• Zhu Lu learned that Huo Yuhao had controlled her into embracing him, while Dai Huabin woke and vowed resentment toward Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao and his companions celebrated at Lan Mei’s restaurant, and Ma Xiaotao noticed Dai Huabin meeting a short middle-aged man near the academy’s back gate.
• Du Weilun announced the assessment results, named Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao as champions, and listed the new Core Students and temporary Core Students.
• Du Weilun awarded the champion team a Sea Demon Turtle Left Leg Bone, and Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao agreed that Xiao Xiao should receive it.
• After Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong left with the Soul Bone, Huo Yuhao returned to Du Weilun’s office for a private discussion.

Huo Yuhao received and absorbed an External Soul Bone from Yan Shaozhe, then learned from Ma Xiaotao that Dai Huabin might be planning an ambush and agreed to help lure the attackers out. In class, Huo Yuhao was elected class leader and Wu Feng became vice class leader, while Dai Huabin quietly remained hostile and considered using Zhu Lu to target Dai Luoli.

• Du Weilun took Huo Yuhao to Yan Shaozhe, who rewarded him with an Evil Eye Soul Bone of Illusion that granted the Spiritual Illusion Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao smoothly absorbed the External Soul Bone and felt his Spiritual Power and perception of World Origin Energy improve.
• Ma Xiaotao warned Huo Yuhao that Dai Huabin might ambush him, and they agreed to use Huo Yuhao as bait while informing the teachers.
• Wang Yan held class elections, and the students chose Huo Yuhao as class leader and Wu Feng as vice class leader.
• After Huo Yuhao hinted that he would go out that night, Dai Huabin left with Zhu Lu while secretly harboring Killing Intent and considering making her Dai Luoli's woman.

Dai Huabin sent Dark Guards to assassinate Huo Yuhao, but Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao helped Huo Yuhao turn the ambush against them and captured the sole survivor. The next morning, Dai Huabin was absent from class, while Huo Yuhao kept the previous night’s events secret from Wang Dong.

• Huo Yuhao overheard Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu discussing something and quietly resolved to begin his revenge.
• Dai Huabin ordered the Dark Guards to kill Huo Yuhao if they found him away from Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao lured the assassins into a deserted park, where Ma Xiaotao killed four and Yan Shaozhe captured the last one; Huo Yuhao then killed the captive.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered the surviving Dark Guard taken to Duke White Tiger's Mansion and said he would make the Duchess or Duke White Tiger come to the academy to collect him.
• Huo Yuhao spent the night at Ma Xiaotao's residence, and the two slept in the same bed.
• The next morning, Wang Yan said Dai Huabin had requested leave, while Huo Yuhao concealed what had happened from Wang Dong.

Shrek sent Chen Tian to confront Duke White Tiger’s Mansion after Dai Huabin ambushed Huo Yuhao, and the White Tiger Family agreed to send Zhu Ruiying to Shrek with compensation. Huo Yuhao taunted the imprisoned Dai Huabin while Dai Yueheng learned that their mother was coming to the academy.

• Chen Tian delivered Yan Shaozhe’s letter to Duke White Tiger’s Mansion and warned that Shrek would demand an explanation if its demands were refused.
• Dai Qingnan and Zhu Ruiying learned that Dai Huabin had ambushed Yan Shaozhe’s personal disciple, and the White Tiger Family agreed to pay compensation and send Zhu Ruiying to Shrek Academy.
• Dai Dianchen arranged three million Gold Soul Coins, precious medicinal herbs, and a Soul Bone for the compensation.
• Zhu Lu told Dai Yueheng that Dai Huabin had disappeared, and Dai Yueheng said he would handle the situation.
• Huo Yuhao visited the restrained Dai Huabin, taunted him about Zhu Lu and Dai Yueheng, and revealed that Yan Shaozhe was his teacher.
• Du Weilun told Dai Yueheng that their mother was coming to the academy, while reassuring him that the academy would not hold Dai Huabin’s actions against him.

Yan Shaozhe expelled Dai Huabin from Shrek Academy after the White Tiger Family apologized, while Huo Yuhao received compensation and considered how to reach the Extreme North. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao planning to use Yan Shaozhe’s help to travel north, then rely on Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s teleportation to pursue the Ice Empress.

• Yan Shaozhe told Zhu Ruiying and the White Tiger elders that Dai Huabin would be expelled, and Zhu Ruiying struck him before taking him home.
• Yan Shaozhe advised the White Tiger Family to focus on nurturing Dai Yueheng, and Zhu Ruiying revealed plans to match him with Xu Jiujiu.
• Dai Yueheng left with his family, while Zhu Ruiying planned to send Dai Huabin to Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy and forgot to take Zhu Lu.
• Du Weilun gave Huo Yuhao the White Tiger Family’s compensation, and Huo Yuhao suggested Zhu Lu consider leaving her family’s control.
• Huo Yuhao planned to travel to the Extreme North with Yan Shaozhe and use Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s teleportation to escape and seek the Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Wang Dong to cultivate harder, and she resolved to prove herself before the school year ended.

As the school year ended, Huo Yuhao prepared to travel to the Extreme North with Yan Shaozhe to obtain a Soul Beast for his Second Martial Soul. He revealed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s plan and proposed a way to hide the Ice Empress fusion from his teacher, leaving the two of them ready to carry it out.

• Wang Yan warned the students that they would need to reach Level 20 and challenge a Hundred-Year Soul Beast alone to pass the Second Year promotion test.
• Zhu Lu told Huo Yuhao she wanted to reject her family’s plan to send her to Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy and choose her own path.
• Huo Yuhao told Yan Shaozhe that his Second Martial Soul could take the form of an absorbed Soul Beast, and Yan Shaozhe agreed to accompany him to the Extreme North.
• Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao shopping, bought several outfits including black stockings, and teased him about staring at her legs.
• Huo Yuhao discovered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had awakened and confessed that he knew about the plan to fuse with the Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao proposed using Yan Shaozhe to hold off the Titan Snow Demon King while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm teleported him away to meet the Ice Empress, and Sky Dream agreed to the plan.

Huo Yuhao traveled with Yan Shaozhe to the Extreme North to search for an Ice Jade Scorpion or Titan Snow Demon as his next Soul Ring. After Sky Dream Ice Silkworm provoked the Titan Snow Demon King, it caught up with them and unleashed a powerful attack, leaving Yan Shaozhe preparing to defend them.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong to rely on herself before departing Shrek with Yan Shaozhe, while Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong left for the break.
• Yan Shaozhe flew Huo Yuhao to Dragon City, where they rested overnight before continuing toward the Extreme North.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao a Feather of Light for protection and brought him into the Extreme North’s core region to search for thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpions and Titan Snow Demons.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed that the Snow Empress was gathering the Extreme North’s natural power to attempt a breakthrough to 700,000 years.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm provoked the Titan Snow Demon King, which pursued Yan Shaozhe and Huo Yuhao and shattered Yan Shaozhe’s golden defense with a powerful attack.
• The Titan Snow Demon King launched a tangible soundwave at the fleeing pair, and Yan Shaozhe released Huo Yuhao while preparing to counter it with his nine Soul Rings.

Yan Shaozhe battled the Titan Snow Demon King, but Huo Yuhao vanished in the blizzard and was teleported to a hidden cave. There, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm awakened Huo Yuhao’s Million Year Soul Ring and summoned the Ice Empress, who arrived to face him.

• Yan Shaozhe repelled the Titan Snow Demon King's attack, but the Titan Snow Demon King shattered Huo Yuhao's Radiant Chain and blocked Yan Shaozhe's attempt to rescue him.
• Huo Yuhao disappeared into the blizzard, and Yan Shaozhe transformed into a Radiant Phoenix and attacked the Titan Snow Demon King in fury.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used the Ice Silkworm Exuviae and Spatial Power to send Huo Yuhao to a sheltered cave, where Huo Yuhao waited while recovering from the cold.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm activated Huo Yuhao's Million Year Soul Ring, then sent his origin essence outside the cave to challenge the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress arrived after Sky Dream Ice Silkworm taunted her and offered to help her overcome the Four Hundred Thousand Year barrier.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm captured Ice Empress and persuaded her to become Huo Yuhao’s Second Martial Soul by promising a path toward godhood through the Sun God Pillar. Ice Empress’s Torso Soul Bone fused with Huo Yuhao and awakened the First Star Ring’s power, while the final stage of their fusion began in the cave.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used his spiritual power and the Ice Silkworm Exuviae to capture Ice Empress, then told Huo Yuhao to flee before her clansmen arrived.
• Huo Yuhao sensed that Snow Empress was in danger from humans, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm led him to another cave to prepare for Ice Empress’s fusion.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained the Intelligent Soul Ring plan and showed Ice Empress the Sun God Pillar, persuading her to become Huo Yuhao’s Second Martial Soul.
• Ice Empress released her spiritual origin and replaced Huo Yuhao’s back bones with her Torso Soul Bone, while the Sun God Pillar’s First Star Ring balanced its heat against her Ultimate Chill.
• The First Star Ring awakened, changing Huo Yuhao’s body and granting him alternating heat and cold; Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm then began the final fusion, unnoticed as a golden feather on Huo Yuhao’s chest flickered.

Huo Yuhao successfully fused with Ice Empress, gaining her Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul and a 400,000-year Soul Ring, then learned that Snow Empress was in danger at Ice God Canyon. He followed Yan Shaozhe to observe six Titled Douluo from the Star Luo Empire as Snow Empress’s re-cultivation began.

• Huo Yuhao awakened his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul and displayed the power of Ice Empress’s 400,000-year Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao warned Ice Empress that Snow Empress faced a crisis, and Ice Empress sent a message asking Xiao Bai to help her.
• Huo Yuhao concealed his new powers from Yan Shaozhe, who found him injured and accepted his account of absorbing an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Yan Shaozhe to follow six Titled Douluo heading toward Ice God Canyon, where they learned the Star Luo Empire planned to capture a shapeshifting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• A pillar of light rose from Ice God Canyon, and Xu Shengzu announced that the group would enter once Snow Empress’s Sealed Soul Power dissipated.

Huo Yuhao and Yan Shaozhe reached the Frozen Throne as the Star Luo Empire’s six Titled Douluo attempted to capture Snow Empress during her vulnerable re-cultivation. Ice Bear King arrived just as the Deity Confinement Platform trapped her, leaving Huo Yuhao poised to help.

• Ice Empress guided Huo Yuhao and Yan Shaozhe through Ice God Canyon, where they gathered rare medicinal herbs and reached the Frozen Throne.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed studying Snow Empress’s re-cultivation to develop Artificial Soul Rings, while he and Huo Yuhao hid and watched the Star Luo Empire’s six Titled Douluo arrive.
• Huo Yuhao planned to help Snow Empress only if Ice Bear King arrived, and he abandoned the plan when the bear did not appear before the attack began.
• Xu Shengzu and four other Titled Douluo sealed Snow Empress’s Origin Power while Hu Yaozong drew her into the Deity Confinement Platform.
• Ice Bear King charged into the open area with a blizzard, freezing the platform before Hu Yaozong could close it, and Ice Empress urged Huo Yuhao to act.