Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao’s team used coordinated attacks to eliminate Wang Dong, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan, while Bei Bei held off Xi Xi and Yao Haoxuan long enough for the plan to work. With Yao Haoxuan activating a powerful team-wide soul skill, Xi Xi and Yao Haoxuan charged Huo Yuhao’s remaining teammates.

• Gongyang Mo boosted Bei Bei, who used Wrath of Thunder to hold off Xi Xi and Yao Haoxuan while Huo Yuhao confronted Jiang Nannan.
• He Caitou fired a barrage of Golden Flame Soul Guided Cannons at Wang Dong and Xu Sanshi, and Xuan Zi rescued them from the explosions.
• Bei Bei endured Xi Xi and Yao Haoxuan’s attacks for several seconds before being sent flying.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection and dual katanas to wound Jiang Nannan, who surrendered and was carried away by Xuan Zi.
• Yao Haoxuan transformed into a giant and activated a soul skill that strengthened his team while disorienting Huo Yuhao’s side.
• Xi Xi and Yao Haoxuan charged Huo Yuhao and his remaining teammates.

Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and He Caitou fought Yao Haoxuan and Xi Xi in the Soul Duel, using cigars and coordinated attacks to turn the battle against them. Xiao Xiao immobilized Yao Haoxuan with her merged Martial Souls, giving He Caitou and Huo Yuhao time to attack before Xuan Zi stopped Huo Yuhao’s spear.

• Huo Yuhao used He Caitou’s cigars to boost his strength and Mental Power, then targeted Xi Xi while He Caitou and Xiao Xiao held off Yao Haoxuan.
• Yao Haoxuan unleashed his Ten Thousand Year gravity-control Soul Skill, weighing down He Caitou and Xiao Xiao and pressing them from every direction.
• Xiao Xiao used He Caitou’s Soul Power Amplification cigar and merged her three cauldrons with the Nine Phoenixes Arriving Flute to pin Yao Haoxuan in place.
• He Caitou bombarded the immobilized Yao Haoxuan with Soul Guidance Cannonballs while Huo Yuhao turned back and thrust his Mechanical Spear toward Yao Haoxuan’s kidneys.
• Xuan Zi appeared on the Soul Duel Stage and grabbed the tip of Huo Yuhao’s spear before it could strike.

Ma Xiao Tao’s team won the Shrek Civil War, and Xuan Zi announced another match after an hour of rest. As Huo Yuhao reflected on the limits of his fighting style, he entered Deep Meditation again.

• Ma Xiao Tao defeated Dai Yue Heng while Ling Luochen restrained Chen Zi Feng, and Xi Xi surrendered as the last fighter standing.
• Dai Yue Heng, Yao Haoxuan, Chen Zifeng, Xi Xi, and Jiang Nannan accepted Xuan Zi’s punishment by saying, “I’m a pig.”
• Xuan Zi gave both teams an hour to recover before they fought again.
• Huo Yuhao considered how Xi Xi’s elemental attacks exposed shortcomings in his Ashina techniques and resolved to adapt his fighting style.
• Huo Yuhao entered a blank Soul Duel Arena in his thoughts and began repeatedly facing Xi Xi in remembered deathmatches.
• He Caitou and the others realized that Huo Yuhao had entered Deep Meditation again.

After emerging from Deep Meditation, Huo Yuhao revealed a genuine hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and tested the abilities he had developed against Xi Xi. He left the onlookers stunned by dodging her Lightning Arrows through the air.

• Huo Yuhao awoke from Deep Meditation and told Xuan Zi that Xi Xi’s attacks had helped him develop something new.
• Xuan Zi arranged a one-on-one spar, and Huo Yuhao revealed his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, frightening Xi Xi and the Inner Court students.
• Huo Yuhao used Ice Emperor’s Protection to withstand Xi Xi’s claws, while Xuan Zi noticed that his palm healed rapidly.
• Huo Yuhao evaded Xi Xi’s attacks with unfamiliar footwork that Xu Sanshi compared to the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• When Xi Xi’s Lightning Arrows sealed off his escape routes, Huo Yuhao stepped through the air to evade them, astonishing everyone.

After defeating Xi Xi with a new movement technique, Huo Yuhao explained how he created Flowing Water Treading Moon during Deep Meditation. His effortless invention and mastery astonished the Inner Court disciples.

• Huo Yuhao used Flowing Water Treading Moon to evade Xi Xi's attacks, take her down, and stop his katana before it reached her throat.
• Xi Xi rejected Huo Yuhao's embarrassed offer of help and returned to her team in tears.
• Xuan Zi asked Huo Yuhao to explain his new Self-Created Soul Skill, and Huo Yuhao described combining his Flowing Water Swordplay, Air Walking, and ideas from Qian and Du Busi's spar and Bei Bei's Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• The Inner Court disciples marveled that Huo Yuhao had created and nearly perfected the technique in one shichen.

Xuan Zi arranged a second training match after Huo Yuhao’s abilities stunned the Inner Court students, but his Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire support made one team overwhelmingly powerful. The group then left Shrek Academy in ordinary travel clothes, with Huo Yuhao carrying the clothes and coins Huo Yun’er had prepared for him.

• Xuan Zi reassured and challenged the demoralized Inner Court students, then ordered a second match with the captains switched.
• Ma Xiao Tao objected to facing Huo Yuhao because of his Ultimate Fire Attribute, and Ling Luochen learned that he also had Ultimate Ice.
• Xuan Zi placed Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiao Tao, and Ling Luochen on one side, and their team defeated the other eleven students in under a minute.
• Xuan Zi dismissed the students and struggled to think of a fair way to balance future matches.
• The next morning, the students left Shrek Academy in varied clothes, while Xu Sanshi flirted with the girls and Huo Yuhao wore clothes Huo Yun’er had prepared with coins in their pockets.

Xuan Zi explained the Shrek Supervisory Troupe’s mission and the sacrifices made by Inner Court disciples, then asked the Reserve Team whether they would join. The seven students agreed, while Huo Yuhao questioned Shrek Academy’s authority to punish people beyond its school and its fight against Soul Masters.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong cultivated together as the group walked, while Wang Dong woke up when she sensed gossip about Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan.
• Xuan Zi told the students that many Inner Court disciples had died fighting for Shrek Academy’s ideals rather than graduating.
• Xuan Zi described the Shrek Supervisory Troupe’s battles against Evil Soul Masters and its actions against bandits, outlaws, corrupt officials, and wicked bureaucrats.
• Huo Yuhao questioned whether Shrek Academy had the authority to act as a court of judgment, and Electrolux and Qian Daoliu expressed surprise at its power.
• Xuan Zi asked the Reserve Team to join the mission or withdraw, and all seven students chose to join.

The Reserve Team received its Shrek Monitor rings and learned that their first mission was to exterminate a bandit group led by an Evil Soul Master. Huo Yuhao condemned the academy’s reckless planning and demanded accountability from Elder Xuan, leaving the group stunned and Elder Xuan speechless.

• Wang Yan distributed Monitor rings, and Ma Xiao Tao explained their functions and the mission to eliminate the Angel of Death's Envoy bandits.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Ma Xiao Tao over the lack of intelligence, equipment, and contingency plans for the mission.
• Huo Yuhao accused the academy of sending students to their deaths through arrogance and threatened to quit.
• Huo Yuhao recalled surviving a hunt by powerful Soul Masters and demanded that Elder Xuan explain the academy’s disregard for student lives.
• Elder Xuan trembled and could not respond as the Reserve Team listened in stunned silence.

Huo Yuhao accepted Mu En’s request to lead Shrek’s mission against the Evil Soul Masters and received full command authority. He equipped the team with Soul Tools and ordered them to depart for the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

• Dai Yueheng recalled his father warning him that the battlefield shattered young soldiers’ illusions about death and danger.
• Mu En apologized for Shrek’s arrogance and asked Huo Yuhao to give the academy a chance to make amends.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi not to take all the blame and appointed Huo Yuhao commander-in-chief, granting him authority over everyone on the mission.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiao Tao gathered a large supply of Soul Tools from the Soul Tool Department and distributed equipment suited to the team.
• Huo Yuhao urged the team to use their Soul Tools against the Evil Soul Masters and led them toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

Huo Yuhao led the group in preparing a meal after their run, asking Xuan Zi to judge his cooking and organizing the Inner Court disciples to gather ingredients. He began cooking five dishes at once, leaving the group amazed by his skill.

• Huo Yuhao asked the group to gather ingredients and asked Xuan Zi to evaluate his cooking.
• Xuan Zi assigned Ma Xiao Tao to tend the fire, sent Dai Yue Heng and Chen Feng to catch fish, and sent Ling Luochen, Xi Xi, and Gongyang Mo to hunt game.
• Ling Luochen used her ice element to clean and prepare two rabbits, two chickens, and a roe deer.
• Huo Yuhao began preparing the rabbits and chickens while directing Ling Luochen to handle the roe deer, tending three stoves and cooking five dishes at once.

Huo Yuhao cooked a lavish meal that brought the Shrek students closer together, then led the group toward the Heaven Dou–Star Luo border to study their mission battlefield. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao examining a map before preparing to conduct reconnaissance on-site.

• Huo Yuhao prepared several meat dishes and assigned Wang Dong to brush oil onto the Crispy Roasted Rabbit.
• The group eagerly ate Huo Yuhao’s cooking, and Dai Yue Heng and Ma Xiao Tao went to catch more food so he could fill everyone’s stomachs.
• Wang Dong praised Huo Yuhao’s cooking, and the meal helped the seven Inner Court seniors and seven Outer Court students grow closer.
• Yao Haoxuan and Ling Luochen offered to carry Huo Yuhao, but he refused because he wanted to run off the meal.
• The group reached the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, where Dai Yue Heng returned from a military camp with a map.
• Huo Yuhao studied and marked the map with help from He Caitou, then planned to take the group on an on-site reconnaissance.

Huo Yuhao led the Shrek team to the western border of the Star Luo Empire, where they met the White Tiger Guard and prepared for close reconnaissance of the Hand of Death Bandit Group. He took Ma Xiao Tao and Dai Yueheng into the Ming Dou Mountain Range and found evidence that the bandits’ base was nearby.

• Huo Yuhao assigned Ma Xiao Tao and Dai Yueheng to accompany him on close reconnaissance while the rest of the team learned to use Flying Soul Tools.
• Xuan Zi carried the team through the air, and the students landed at the military camp, where Dai Yueheng resolved a misunderstanding with the White Tiger Guard.
• Huo Yuhao borrowed a sand table and taught the team basic counter-tracking techniques before setting out with Ma Xiao Tao and Dai Yueheng.
• Huo Yuhao led the pair into the Ming Dou Mountain Range on foot and found a Wen Lan tree whose heartwood had been harvested, indicating the bandits’ base was nearby.

Huo Yuhao led Ma Xiao Tao and Dai Yueheng on a stealth reconnaissance mission into the bandits’ cave, mapping its defenses and forces while avoiding detection. After gathering nearly all useful intelligence, they withdrew safely and returned to camp for a meeting, where Huo Yuhao briefly dozed from exhaustion.

• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to locate the bandits’ cave and led Ma Xiao Tao and Dai Yueheng around the hill to find its escape tunnel.
• Huo Yuhao gave Ma Xiao Tao, Dai Yueheng, and the hidden Xuan Zi Buddha Candy, then led the group into the cave under its concealment.
• Huo Yuhao and his companions observed the cave’s corpses, traps, patrols, and sleeping bandits before turning back when a huge lieutenant blocked the deeper passage.
• Huo Yuhao assigned Ma Xiao Tao and Dai Yueheng separate intelligence to memorize as the three hid above the cave and scanned the camp for more than twenty hours.
• Huo Yuhao ended the reconnaissance after learning the camp’s defenses, patrol schedules, weapons, numbers, and key figures’ locations, then returned to camp and called a meeting before dozing off.

Huo Yuhao taught the Inner Court students cave-combat tactics and organized them into roles for their mission against the enemy camp. The group embraced his plan and prepared to fight with coordinated procedures rather than relying on individual strength.

• Ma Xiao Tao and Dai Yueheng shared map corrections and intelligence about the enemy's Heavy Soul Guidance Ray Guns, and Huo Yuhao agreed to revise the map.
• Huo Yuhao taught the group cave-search methods, coordinated advances, corner-clearing tactics, and ways to use Soul Guidance Devices against enemies.
• Huo Yuhao ruled out poison gas and artillery, then set aside his plan to burn the mountain because the mission was meant to teach the students.
• Huo Yuhao assigned assault fighters, firepower fighters, and observers distinct roles for suppressing the enemy and disrupting its command.
• The Inner Court students shouted that they understood and recognized the value of Huo Yuhao's organized combat system.

Huo Yuhao led fourteen Shrek Academy members into the Ming Dou Mountain Range to infiltrate a bandit hideout, teaching them reconnaissance and coordinating their stealth approach. The team silently killed the guards and sleepers in the first cave as they advanced into the Long Snake Tunnel.

• Huo Yuhao assigned combat roles, distributed Moon Concealing Buddha Candies and supplies, and linked the fourteen members through Mental Communication.
• Huo Yuhao led the team through the forest, teaching them to spot signs of enemies and guiding them to their infiltration positions.
• Dai Yueheng reported that Group Four was in position, and Huo Yuhao began the infiltration with Chen Zi Feng leading the assault.
• Chen Zi Feng silently decapitated a patrolman, while He Caitou snapped the neck of another guard carrying a Repeating Crossbow.
• Huo Yuhao led the team through a tunnel fork and killed a sleeping bandit with his White Tiger Dagger.
• Huo Yuhao and the others silently slaughtered every bandit in the small cave.

Huo Yuhao and the Inner Court teams cleared the bandits and Soul Masters from the cave while disguising the bodies and preparing to confront the awakened Angel of Death's Envoy. After explosions announced that Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen had engaged the enemy, Huo Yuhao ordered his group to hurry to their support.

• Huo Yuhao led the teams in silently killing the patrols and moving through the cave.
• Huo Yuhao planted a Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell beneath a sleeping bandit, while Ling Luochen extinguished a torch to help the teams kill three guards at once.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the target had woken and sent Ling Luochen and Team Two to support Team Four against the Corpse Wizards.
• Angel of Death's Envoy left through the underground tunnel and climbed out through a trapdoor as twelve Corpse Slaves saluted him.
• Explosions sounded, and Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen had engaged the enemy, so he ordered the teams to rush to their aid.

Huo Yuhao and the others detonated the cannon shell to escape the cave, then joined the battle against Angel of Death's Envoy and his Corpse Wizards. After Huo Yuhao warned the group about the envoy's corpse-explosion skill and removed the Death Miasma from Yao Haoxuan's arm, Angel of Death's Envoy detonated the Corpse Wizards, leaving the students protected by Invincible Shields amid the blasts.

• Huo Yuhao detonated the Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell after the squads escaped the cave, destroying Corpse Slaves and blasting flames from both tunnel exits.
• Ma Xiao Tao, Ling Luochen, Xi Xi, and Bei Bei joined Dai Yueheng's fight against Angel of Death's Envoy and the Corpse Wizards.
• Angel of Death's Envoy used Death Resistance to break through the attackers, and Yao Haoxuan stopped him long enough for Huo Yuhao to explain his dangerous soul skills.
• Angel of Death's Envoy inflicted Death Miasma on Yao Haoxuan, and Huo Yuhao cut open his arm and burned the poison from his bones with Golden Flame.
• Angel of Death's Envoy activated Death Explosion, causing the Corpse Wizards to swell and explode as the students raised their Invincible Shields.

Huo Yuhao and the Inspection Team defeated the Angel of Death's Envoy after surviving his Blood Mist and Corpse Explosions. The battle ended with Huo Yuhao destroying the Envoy's final Soul Resentment and healing Yao Haoxuan's injured arm.

• Huo Yuhao ordered the team to retreat from the Blood Mist and ready their Heavy Soul Guidance Ray Guns.
• The team fired on the Angel of Death's Envoy and blasted him into charred remains.
• Huo Yuhao struck the Envoy's attacking Soul Resentment with his Golden Flame Katana, reducing it to ashes.
• Xuan Zi praised Huo Yuhao, and Ling Luochen prepared to treat Yao Haoxuan's wound.
• Huo Yuhao used life force to regrow Yao Haoxuan's arm and restore its sensation.

After Angel of Death's Envoy injured four Shrek students, Xuan Zi sent them to recuperate and praised Huo Yuhao for his fight. Huo Yuhao reflected on how to grow stronger, then Electrolux identified the enemy's corpse magic as low-grade Necromancy and explained that its true power lay in controlling souls.

• Xuan Zi sent Yao Haoxuan, Dai Yueheng, Xi Xi, and Ling Luochen to the Military Camp to recover, assuring them they could still compete in the tournament.
• Xuan Zi gave the injured students Antidote Pills, promised to invite Old Li to treat their remaining corpse poison, and escorted them back to camp.
• Huo Yuhao worried that he lacked strength after Angel of Death's Envoy had injured four Inner Court students, and he considered developing Fixed Soul Guidance Ground Drilling Shells.
• Huo Yuhao shared his memories of the battle with Electrolux, who recognized Angel of Death's Envoy's abilities as low-grade Necromancy.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that true Necromancy focused on controlling souls and that Angel of Death's Envoy had taken the wrong path.

Huo Yuhao accepted Electrolux as his master and learned why Electrolux considered him a Child of Light. At Shrek Academy, Old Xuan proposed that Inner Court students study individual combat with Soul Tools.

• Electrolux recounted his tragic life and asked Huo Yuhao whether he still wanted to inherit the undead arts.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he wanted the inheritance despite its evil reputation, and Electrolux accepted him as his sole disciple.
• Electrolux praised Huo Yuhao's pure desire for strength and promised to teach him to modify Soul Skills and pursue a Third Soul Ring.
• Ice Empress and Tian Meng discussed Electrolux's story while Qian Daoliu restored his power to help Huo Yuhao evacuate in an emergency.
• Old Xuan recalled Huo Yuhao's tactics against the bandits, then attended a Sea God Pavilion meeting and proposed combat training with Soul Tools for all Inner Court students.