Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao reflected on the Star Dou Great Forest’s role in supplying Soul Beasts for Soul Masters before he and Wang Dong encountered a two-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear. The bear appeared to greet them, but Huo Yuhao stayed wary as it steadily closed the distance.

• Huo Yuhao considered how many Soul Beasts the Star Dou Great Forest must produce to meet Soul Masters’ demand and wondered why Soul Rings were necessary for breakthroughs.
• Huo Yuhao thought the Auspicious Beast was vital to the forest’s survival and began explaining it to Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao detected a Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear approaching and decided he and Wang Dong should avoid it.
• The bear followed the scent of Ten Thousand-Year Soul Beast Feces Powder and came toward them, prompting Huo Yuhao to draw his Katana.
• The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear hid behind trees, waved its claw at Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, and quietly moved closer while Huo Yuhao remained alert.

Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao encountered a Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear that feigned harmlessness before attacking them. After Xuan Zi knocked it down, Wang Dong beat it to death with her Clear Sky Hammer, then basked in Huo Yuhao’s praise.

• Wang Dong tossed fruit to the approaching Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, while Huo Yuhao sensed danger and prepared an Invincible Shield.
• The bear pretended to be harmless until Wang Dong lowered her guard, then lunged and unleashed its Dark Gold Terror Claw.
• Huo Yuhao’s Invincible Shield blocked the attack but cracked, and Xuan Zi struck the bear and sent it crashing through trees.
• Wang Dong seized the bear by the ear and hammered it repeatedly with her Clear Sky Hammer until it died and released a purple Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao praised Wang Dong’s fighting, and Wang Dong cheerfully took credit for being popular with girls.

Huo Yuhao skinned and butchered the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear while explaining its cunning hunting tactics to Wang Dong. They discovered its right palm bone was a rare External Soul Bone, and Huo Yuhao gave it to Wang Dong to strengthen her ability to protect herself.

• Huo Yuhao skinned the bear and explained to Wang Dong how bear-type Soul Beasts used deception to hunt humans.
• Huo Yuhao cut up the bear for meat and removed its hide, while Wang Dong eagerly anticipated eating it.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong discovered a Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear Right Palm Bone inside the bear's paw.
• Xuan Zi identified the bone as an exceptionally valuable External Soul Bone and praised Huo Yuhao's luck.
• Huo Yuhao handed the External Soul Bone to Wang Dong, telling her to keep it because it suited her better than him.

Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong the Dark Gold Terror Claw Right Palm Bone to strengthen her close-combat abilities, and she endured its agonizing fusion. As the bone began to submit to her will, Xuan Zi was shocked by her resolve.

• Huo Yuhao decided to give Wang Dong the Dark Gold Terror Claw Right Palm Bone as a life-saving trump card.
• Huo Yuhao provoked Wang Dong into accepting the bone by challenging her strength, and she began absorbing it.
• The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's will clashed with Wang Dong's existing Soul Bone powers, causing intense burning pain.
• Wang Dong focused on catching up to Huo Yuhao and endured the pain until the bone began to submit and her condition stabilized.
• Huo Yuhao wondered whether the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's meat would taste worse because of its fear before death.
• Xuan Zi saw Wang Dong remain conscious through the painful fusion and was shocked by her iron-like will.

Wang Dong finished absorbing the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear Right Palm Bone and rested at camp while Huo Yuhao studied undead lore. The next morning, he woke to find Wang Dong wrapped around him and left puzzled by the Adam’s apple he had noticed on her neck.

• Wang Dong manifested five dark gold claws after absorbing the soul bone, which seemed to connect with her Light Breaking Evil Right Arm Bone.
• Xuan Zi praised Wang Dong’s endurance, then agreed to stand guard while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong rested and promised a Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear breakfast.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed Old I’s lessons on undead, corpses, and Spirit Bodies while Wang Dong slept beside him.
• Wang Dong rolled over in her sleep and wrapped her arms and legs around Huo Yuhao, who noticed an Adam’s apple on her neck.
• Wang Dong woke as Huo Yuhao tried to free himself and said her right arm and leg were numb from serving as his pillow.

Huo Yuhao prepared Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear meat for a campfire meal while Wang Dong tested her newly acquired Soul Bone. Xuan Zi assessed its power and praised the meat, leaving the group enjoying the rare delicacy.

• Xuan Zi prepared a barbecue grill, but Huo Yuhao took over and cut the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear meat into strips for grilling.
• Wang Dong tested her Dark Gold Terror Claw Soul Bone and discovered that it could cut through a tree with ease.
• Wang Dong used the Soul Bone Skill against Xuan Zi, who blocked it and explained its Light Attribute damage and future potential.
• Wang Dong explained that her Soul Bone Skill consumed nearly thirty percent of her Soul Power, while its basic form used almost none.
• Huo Yuhao grilled a strip of bear meat, and Xuan Zi watched eagerly as Huo Yuhao praised its tenderness and rich flavor.

Huo Yuhao cooked Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear steaks for Xuan Zi and Wang Dong, then spent ten days searching the Mixed Zone for suitable Soul Beasts. Near Sobbing Lake, he found Scarlet King watching the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and approached after gaining permission.

• Huo Yuhao used Xuan Zi's cookware to sear Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear steaks, and Xuan Zi regretted not taking him as a disciple first.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xuan Zi feasted before continuing their Soul Beast hunt.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong searched the Mixed Zone for ten days but found no suitable Soul Rings or Soul Beasts over ten thousand years old.
• Huo Yuhao reached Sobbing Lake but found no Lucid Ganoderma, while Wang Dong's Light Attribute Soul Beast remained difficult to locate.
• Xuan Zi sensed Scarlet King ahead, and Huo Yuhao used Mental Power to contact him and received permission to approach the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

Huo Yuhao visited the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, bribed her with a rare Golden Ancient Tree fruit, and asked for information on Light Attribute Soul Beasts. He also explained how he had temporarily forced Ultimate Darkness into his Second Martial Soul, leaving the Three-Eyed Golden Lion curious about his adventures.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion lost her breakfast when Huo Yuhao startled her, but he placated her by tossing her a Golden Ancient Tree fruit.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the fruit could strengthen a Light Attribute Martial Soul and promised Wang Dong one when he became Sea God Pavilion Master.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion marked locations of Light Attribute Soul Beasts, including newly ten-thousand-year and stronger ones, on Huo Yuhao's map.
• Huo Yuhao showed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion his Ice Empress's Claw and explained how he had forced Ultimate Darkness into his Second Martial Soul during the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion listened with interest and circled Huo Yuhao, remarking on how much had happened since they last met.

Huo Yuhao asked the Three-Eyed Golden Lion for help reversing the Ultimate Darkness in his Second Martial Soul, but she had no answer and agreed to investigate with Uncle Wan Yao and study Cyclopes. Following her map, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong found a Light Wing Spirit Butterfly suited to Wang Dong, then watched it leave Honey Dew for other Soul Beasts.

• Huo Yuhao explained his Attribute-conversion problem to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who agreed to ask Uncle Wan Yao, study Cyclopes, and keep the Sword of Judgment.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion tried to persuade Huo Yuhao to exchange memories for a secret, but he refused and left with Wang Dong.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion chased the Light Prism Tiger while the Scarlet King carried the Sword of Judgment after her.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong found a ten-thousand-year Light-Condensing Stone Turtle, which was unsuitable for Wang Dong, then located a nineteen-thousand-year Light Wing Spirit Butterfly.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong watched the Light Wing Spirit Butterfly leave Honey Dew in the sunlight, where a Thousand Jun Ant and other insect-type Soul Beasts came to feed.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong watched a Light Wing Spirit Butterfly silently slaughter a swarm of Thousand Jun Ants, then discovered a rare, nearly thirty-thousand-year-old Thousand Jun Ant Emperor. The Emperor took flight and settled beneath a tree, apparently preparing to ambush its prey.

• The Light Wing Spirit Butterfly focused sunlight through its wings and burned through the Thousand Jun Ants gathered around the Honey Dew.
• The butterfly crippled the remaining ants by burning through the legs on one side, then killed their leader, a Thousand Jun Ant nearing ten thousand years of cultivation.
• The Light Wing Spirit Butterfly descended and fed on the cooked Thousand Jun Ant corpses while Wang Dong considered attacking it.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Wang Dong and sensed a nearly one-meter-long Thousand Jun Ant Emperor with dark gold armor, four wings, and an estimated twenty-nine to thirty thousand years of cultivation.
• The Thousand Jun Ant Emperor flew to a large tree, landed beneath it, and lay motionless with its legs raised.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xuan Zi hunted a Light Wing Spirit Butterfly and a nearly thirty-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Emperor in the Star Dou Forest. Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong prepared to absorb their soul rings as Xuan Zi urged them to hurry so he could return to the academy for a drink.

• The Thousand Jun Ant Emperor crippled the Light Wing Spirit Butterfly's wings, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong attacked the butterfly while Xuan Zi confronted the ant.
• Huo Yuhao trapped the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor's mouthparts in a block of Tungsten Steel, giving Xuan Zi the chance to subdue it.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong defeated the Light Wing Spirit Butterfly through coordinated attacks, and Wang Dong worried about absorbing its nineteen-thousand-year soul ring.
• Xuan Zi knocked the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor nearly unconscious, and Huo Yuhao killed it with the Holy Flame Sword Blade, releasing a deep-black soul ring.
• Xuan Zi told Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to absorb their soul rings quickly so they could return to the academy.

Huo Yuhao risked absorbing a nearly thirty-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Emperor soul ring as his Third Soul Ring, using his resilience and the Gold of Life to withstand its immense power. He began forcibly breaking down and assimilating the soul ring’s energy, while unknowingly meeting another Divine Position’s inheritance requirements.

• Xuan Zi examined the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor and warned Huo Yuhao about the danger of absorbing such an old soul ring, but Huo Yuhao showed him his constitution and Life Power and chose to proceed.
• Wang Dong absorbed her soul ring steadily while Xuan Zi stood guard over her and Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao used Descent of Adamantine Body Spirit and began absorbing the nearly thirty-thousand-year soul ring, suffering severe injuries as its energy flooded his body.
• Huo Yuhao repeatedly clashed with the soul ring’s energy, shattered its resistance, and used the Gold of Life to keep his body from collapsing.
• Huo Yuhao forcibly devoured and assimilated the broken soul ring energy, while an unknown Divine Position’s inheritance notification was triggered.

Huo Yuhao shattered the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor's Soul Ring and survived absorbing it despite severe injuries. After the Gold of Life restored his body and the ring strengthened his cultivation, he rose as a rank thirty-eight Soul Elder, determined to reach rank forty before going to Sun Moon Academy.

• The Thousand Jun Ant Emperor's remaining consciousness tried to flee, but Huo Yuhao struck it with a blade of Soul Power and shattered the Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao endured severe pain as the Gold of Life restored his broken meridians and displaced organs, leaving faint golden changes throughout his body.
• Huo Yuhao's three Soul Rings appeared, and Xuan Zi praised him after the dangerous absorption.
• Brother Sky Dream used his Origin Power to raise Huo Yuhao's Third Soul Ring to thirty thousand years, bringing Huo Yuhao to rank thirty-eight.
• Huo Yuhao washed off the blood covering him and resolved to break through rank forty before heading to Sun Moon Academy.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao told Mu En about their gains, and Mu En laid out an intensive training plan while warning him that his time was limited. Huo Yuhao left to tell Wang Dong about the plan.

• Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy and slept until Huo Yuhao woke after two in the morning.
• Mu En summoned Huo Yuhao to Sea God Pavilion, where Huo Yuhao reported their Soul Ring gains and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s help.
• Mu En urged Huo Yuhao to develop his abilities, conceal his strength, and prepare to become Shrek’s next-generation pillar before the next tournament.
• Mu En admitted his body could last only a few more years, while Huo Yuhao recognized that the baleful aura damaging Mu En’s body and soul was beyond his current ability to treat.
• Mu En assigned Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong a seven-day training cycle, including cultivation with him, soul tool training with Duo Duo, and theoretical instruction from Wang Yan; he suggested Wang Dong also train with Shao Zhe.
• Huo Yuhao left Sea God Pavilion to tell Wang Dong about the training plan.

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou began advanced training under Shrek Academy’s Ultimate Solo Soldier Plan, but Huo Yuhao questioned whether the program’s goals and methods made sense. Xian Lin Er agreed with his criticism, leaving Qian Duoduo’s assumptions unsettled.

• Qian Duoduo announced that Huo Yuhao and He Caitou would receive intensive advanced training under the Ultimate Solo Soldier Plan, with preliminary results expected within two years.
• Huo Yuhao said he had already mastered much of the advanced curriculum and asked how the plan differed from simply training powerful Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao argued that the plan’s rare talent requirements and dependence on half the academy made it difficult to replicate.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that Soul Masters should use Soul Tools naturally and that knowing how to operate a powerful tool mattered more than having made it.
• Xian Lin Er appeared and said Huo Yuhao was absolutely right.

Xian Lin Er explained that the academy intended to train Huo Yuhao and He Caitou as both powerful fighters and Soul Tool talents, and Huo Yuhao began an intense program of study and cultivation. As his skills rapidly improved, his tireless effort impressed the Sea God Pavilion Elders.

• Xian Lin Er told Qian Duoduo, Huo Yuhao, and He Caitou that the academy would continue its plan to develop powerful all-rounders skilled in Soul Tools.
• The academy skipped Huo Yuhao and He Caitou's Beast Pen assessment because it already understood their abilities and Bow Lao feared the damage they might cause.
• Huo Yuhao followed a demanding schedule of Soul Tool study, cultivation instruction from Mu En, and theory classes with Wang Yan.
• Huo Yuhao finalized a spice-business deal with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, receiving thirty percent of the profits and the Distraction Control Method while the academy took twenty percent.
• Huo Yuhao secretly studied Magic and artifact forging under Electrolux, aiming to create a god-grade Soul Tool.
• The academy's Elders saw Huo Yuhao endure relentless training and rapidly improve, and his talent and will impressed them.

A year and a half later, Shrek’s students had strengthened their cultivation while the academy’s reforms advanced. Ma Xiao Tao remained undercover inside the Holy Spirit Cult, intending to learn its secrets despite the danger.

• Tang Ya stayed at Shrek, ran the Tang Sect, taught Xiao Xiao and He Caitou, and entered the Inner Court using Tang Sect skills and Soul Tools.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan entered the Inner Court, while Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi became Soul Kings.
• Wang Dong reached Level 48, Huo Yuhao reached Level 44, and Xiao Xiao reached Level 41 as the Shrek Seven Devils continued cultivating.
• Xuan Zi lost Ma Xiao Tao when she disappeared in the Core Zone while they sought her Seventh Soul Ring.
• Ma Xiao Tao later told Shrek through the Wild Beast Mercenary Group that the Holy Spirit Cult had abducted her, changed her Martial Soul into a Black Phoenix, and given her a One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ma Xiao Tao refused Shrek’s plan to retrieve her and chose to remain undercover in the Sun Moon Empire’s Devil Forest to gather information on the Holy Spirit Cult.

Ma Xiao Tao remained undercover in the Holy Spirit Cult to gain power by killing its low-level members, leaving Yan Shaozhe worried but unable to persuade her to return. At Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao and Ning Ge demonstrated the powerful Soul Guidance Mechanical Tentacles they had spent a year and a half creating.

• Ma Xiao Tao’s persistence forced the academy’s Elders to accept her decision to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Yan Shaozhe worried over Ma Xiao Tao’s letters, fearing she would be exposed while acknowledging that killing the cult’s low-level members helped her cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao used the four Mechanical Tentacles to hit 108 moving targets in three seconds with a 100 percent hit rate.
• Ning Ge reported that Huo Yuhao’s shooting was qualified and that further improvement depended on increasing his Mental Power.
• Qian Duoduo, Fan Yu, and Xian Lin Er examined the Mechanical Tentacles and discussed their combat potential and the possibility of connecting machinery to a person’s nerves.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek delegation prepared to leave for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, where they would exchange knowledge and pursue a covert mission. On the eve of departure, Huo Yuhao visited Wang Dong and told her he had brought a parting gift before their separation of two and a half years.

• Huo Yuhao's all-purpose Soul Tool impressed the veteran Soul Engineers, and Qian Duoduo became Shrek's first Rank Nine Soul Tool Master.
• Mu En appointed Qian Duoduo to lead the exchange delegation and instructed He Caitou to help conceal Huo Yuhao's abilities while recording the Sun Moon Empire's knowledge.
• Qian Duoduo gave Huo Yuhao Soul Tool Master rank badges and told him to choose a suitable rank after reaching the Sun Moon side.
• As the departure approached, Wang Dong felt forlorn about being separated from Huo Yuhao for two and a half years.
• Huo Yuhao visited Wang Dong, explained the mission and long absence, and said he had prepared her a parting gift.

Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong a Soul Guidance Rotorcraft and taught her how to operate it before preparing to leave for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy. Wang Dong considered joining her, but they parted with an embrace and a promise to remain best friends.

• Huo Yuhao presented Wang Dong with a Pure Amethyst Gold helmet and a unique Soul Guidance Rotorcraft, explaining how the helmet helped her control it.
• Wang Dong charged the rotorcraft with soul power and used her mental power to fly it, discovering that its goggles displayed a view from above.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the rotorcraft had limited flight time and no offensive capabilities because it lacked adequate soul power reserves.
• Wang Dong said she would ask Mu En to let her attend the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy with Huo Yuhao, worried about being separated for two and a half years.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong embraced, and Huo Yuhao promised they would remain best friends while asking Wang Dong to look after Mu En.