Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong spent the night together before his departure for Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, teasing each other and making a promise about her next two birthdays. They eventually fell asleep, with Wang Dong using Huo Yuhao's shoulder as a pillow despite his thunderous snoring.

• Huo Yuhao climbed into Wang Dong's bed and persuaded her to share the blanket with him for the night.
• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao to promise to agree to one request when he returned, and he accepted after she reminded him he would miss two of her birthdays.
• Huo Yuhao accidentally touched Wang Dong while they hooked pinkies, then mocked her chest muscles and angered her.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong talked about their past and families before falling asleep.
• Wang Dong blocked Huo Yuhao's snores with sponge balls and fell asleep against his shoulder.

Wang Dong woke to find Huo Yuhao had left Shrek Academy with the exchange group without waking her, while he flew west toward the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy. The group reached Maple Leaf City and settled in for the night before beginning the handover the next day.

• Wang Dong found Huo Yuhao's note, flew out to look for him, and then put away documents about the Light Goddess Butterfly that she had secretly removed from the Inner Court library.
• Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy with the exchange group, reflecting on his five years there and the challenges awaiting him at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy.
• Huo Yuhao considered how the group's Soul Tool Department students had strong cultivation and engineering skills but faced limits in the mental power and originality needed to advance beyond Rank Six.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo led the group to an inn in Maple Leaf City and told the students to rest before the next day's handover.
• The group's only Rank Six Soul Engineer approached Huo Yuhao and introduced himself after Yan Shaozhe dismissed the students.

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou met Ye Xiaosheng before Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy exchanged students in Maple Leaf City. Jing Hongchen welcomed the Shrek group, then discovered that Qian Duoduo could also walk through the air like a Super Douluo.

• Ye Xiaosheng greeted Huo Yuhao and He Caitou and agreed to look out for them during their two and a half years at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo led the Shrek students to Maple Leaf Square, where they met Jing Hongchen, the Hongchen Siblings, and the Sun Moon team.
• Huo Yuhao provoked Xiao Hongchen by mentioning the Sun Moon Empire's Invincible Shields, and Xiao Hongchen nearly lost his temper.
• Yan Shaozhe walked into the sky without a Flying Soul Tool, startling the Sun Moon team with his Super Douluo strength.
• Jing Hongchen welcomed the Shrek students, then watched Qian Duoduo rise into the air the same way and realized Shrek had brought multiple Super Douluos.

Huo Yuhao, Qian Duoduo, and He Caitou secretly memorized the advanced Flying Soul Tool as Jing Hongchen brought the Shrek group to Ming Capital. After arriving at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, the exchange students received their arrangements and headed for an entrance examination.

• Huo Yuhao used Mimicry, Mental Detection, and Mental Sharing to help Qian Duoduo and He Caitou study and memorize Jing Hongchen’s Flying Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen flew the group over Ming Capital, where Huo Yuhao noticed possible Soul Power fluctuations in the city’s lights and learned that a vast hexagonal area belonged to the academy.
• Jing Hongchen introduced the group to Lin Jiayi, then left with Qian Duoduo while glancing at Huo Yuhao.
• Lin Jiayi distributed the students’ regulations, maps, and dormitory keys, explained the academy’s advancement requirements, and led them toward the testing grounds for an entrance examination.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek students underwent physical and striking-power tests at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, revealing how far their physical abilities surpassed the local students’. Huo Yuhao’s extraordinary readings broke the testing device, and He Caitou’s cigar-enhanced punch stunned the academy’s teachers.

• The students stored their metal belongings and took turns using the physical testing device, with the Shrek students’ strength exceeding that of their Sun Moon counterparts.
• He Caitou’s test results surpassed those of a Soul Emperor, prompting Lin Jiayi to decide he should be watched closely.
• Huo Yuhao’s test revealed physical strength at Level 75, flexibility at Level 80, two torso bones, and Soul Power at Level 44.
• The testing device malfunctioned while measuring Huo Yuhao, so Lin Jiayi moved the group on to the striking-power test.
• He Caitou used a cigar to boost his punch to Level 70, stunning the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy teachers.

Huo Yuhao tested his strength by using Long Aotian’s Intentional Blast Punch, a technique that fused willpower with physical force. He shattered the testing device and left Lin Jiayi facing the damage while Huo Yuhao worried about having to pay for it.

• Huo Yuhao stepped up to the Strength Soul Tool Testing Device to measure his full-strength punch.
• Huo Yuhao gathered his vitality and blood, then used Intentional Blast Punch without activating his Martial Soul or a Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao’s punch shattered the testing device and cracked the alloy floor, stunning everyone in the testing room.
• Lin Jiayi realized that Huo Yuhao’s technique had destroyed the device’s core formation with its penetrating force.
• Huo Yuhao dropped his domineering demeanor and asked Lin Jiayi whether he had to pay for the broken device.

Huo Yuhao settled into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy and secretly checked his dormitory for surveillance. Jing Hongchen learned that the academy’s tests could not accurately measure Huo Yuhao, but still planned to watch the Shrek exchange students and pursue the Sun Moon Empire’s long-term ambitions.

• Huo Yuhao passed the Reaction Test, moved into a luxurious dormitory, and used Mental Detection to confirm that it had no surveillance equipment.
• Huo Yuhao memorized the Soul Tool structures he had scanned rather than writing them down.
• Lin Jiayi reported that Huo Yuhao’s strength and fitness tests had broken or malfunctioned, while the results showed a Rank 44 cultivation level, Soul Saint-level attributes, Soul Douluo-level toughness, and two Torso Bones.
• Jing Hongchen suspected Huo Yuhao was Dragon God Douluo Mu En’s disciple and ordered Lin Jiayi to monitor the exchange students, especially Huo Yuhao and He Caitou.
• Jing Hongchen refused to interfere with the students’ lessons and declared that the Sun Moon Empire would eventually surpass Shrek and claim the continent.
• After a night of cultivation, Huo Yuhao woke refreshed and compared the academy’s plentiful cafeteria facilities with Shrek’s inadequate dormitories.

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou began studying at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, where the students learned their assignments and access to advanced training. Xuan Ziwen tested Huo Yuhao’s creativity by giving him fifteen minutes to make a Second Level Soul Tool Core Array, and Huo Yuhao began engraving with his White Tiger Dagger.

• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou met Qian Duoduo in the canteen and acknowledged the gap between the academies.
• Lin Jiayi explained the Shrek students’ study arrangements, including a month of study before assessments for access to Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• The ten teachers drew lots to select students, and the young teacher Xuan Ziwen drew Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Ziwen led Huo Yuhao to the Third Laboratory, introduced himself, and demanded that Huo Yuhao prove his skill and creativity.
• Huo Yuhao chose an ordinary piece of metal and began engraving it with his White Tiger Dagger, prompting Xuan Ziwen to frown.

Xuan Ziwen discovered that Huo Yuhao had redesigned an Adder so efficiently that it became a faster, lower-power Zero Level Core Array, and recognized his exceptional innovation. Huo Yuhao downplayed his interest in Soul Tools and declared that his ambition was to reach the pinnacle of Soul Masters.

• Xuan Ziwen noticed that Huo Yuhao’s Adder lacked an XNOR gate and initially assumed its circuits were flawed.
• Xuan Ziwen tested the Adder and found that it calculated correctly, then discovered Huo Yuhao had replaced the XNOR gate with two Tri-state Inverters and an inverter.
• Xuan Ziwen realized Huo Yuhao’s design made the Adder faster and more power-efficient, lowering it from a First Level Core Array to a Zero Level Core Array.
• Xuan Ziwen praised Huo Yuhao’s talent and asked how he had devised the redesign.
• Huo Yuhao said Soul Tool research was only a hobby and that his ambition was to reach the pinnacle of Soul Masters.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Xuan Ziwen to accept him as a student at Sun Moon Royal Academy, then met Ju Zi, Ke Ke, Zi Mu, and Wang Shaojie in the laboratory. Ke Ke immediately challenged his friendly introduction, and Huo Yuhao prepared to record the encounter.

• Huo Yuhao argued that cultivating his Soul Power mattered more to him than studying Soul Tools, prompting Xuan Ziwen to lament his wasted talent.
• Xuan Ziwen gave Huo Yuhao an Access Card and accepted him as a student, then left to meet his other students.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had deliberately appealed to Xuan Ziwen's scholarly nature and continued scanning the laboratory with Mental Detection.
• Ju Zi entered the laboratory, followed by Ke Ke, Zi Mu, and Wang Shaojie.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as a Shrek Academy exchange student, but Ke Ke objected to him calling them senior students, so he took out an Image Recording Pearl.

Huo Yuhao used an Image Recording Pearl to expose Wang Shaojie and Ke Ke humiliating him at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, then defeated them when they attacked. He confronted Director Lin with the recording, and Qian Duoduo arrived furious, demanding to know whether the academy wanted war with Shrek.

• Huo Yuhao mocked the students who had called him a defeated opponent, then provoked Wang Shaojie by questioning his claim to royal status.
• Wang Shaojie and Ke Ke threatened Huo Yuhao and tried to destroy his Image Recording Pearl, while Ju Zi and Zi Mu held them back.
• Wang Shaojie and Ke Ke fired Soul Guidance Cannonballs at Huo Yuhao, but he knocked them down with Mental Shock and dodged the attack.
• Huo Yuhao showed Director Lin the recording and accused the academy of a premeditated provocation against Shrek.
• Qian Duoduo burst into Director Lin's office and demanded to know whether the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy wanted war with Shrek.

Qian Duoduo confronted Lin Jiayi over Wang Shaojie’s humiliation of Huo Yuhao and threatened war unless the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy gave Shrek an acceptable explanation. Lin Jiayi rushed to Jing Hongchen for help, only to report that Qian Duoduo was about to tear down the teaching building.

• Qian Duoduo used his Super Douluo pressure to shake Lin Jiayi’s office and demanded an explanation for Wang Shaojie making Huo Yuhao kneel and kowtow.
• Lin Jiayi realized Huo Yuhao’s connection to Mu En and Shrek made the incident dangerous, then promised to fetch Jing Hongchen.
• Qian Duoduo refused to leave and warned that Shrek would prepare for war if the academy failed to satisfy him and Huo Yuhao that day.
• Lin Jiayi rushed to Illustrious Virtue Hall, fearing the political consequences of harming Huo Yuhao or angering Shrek.
• Jing Hongchen was admiring the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo when Lin Jiayi burst in and reported that Qian Duoduo was about to tear down the teaching building.

Jing Hongchen learned that Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy students had bullied Huo Yuhao, prompting Oolong Douluo to threaten a confrontation with Shrek. He rushed to report the incident to the emperor and recognized that the academy had to make amends to avoid a conflict with Shrek.

• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that students had threatened and attacked Huo Yuhao, who had recorded their conduct with an Image Recording Pearl.
• Jing Hongchen's anger faded as he realized the students were at fault and that Huo Yuhao's ties to Shrek made the incident dangerous.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to seek an audience with the emperor and explain what had happened.
• Lin Jiayi warned Jing Hongchen that they might need a large payout to placate Oolong Douluo and prevent Shrek from joining the conflict.
• Jing Hongchen considered Huo Yuhao's importance to Shrek and the danger of antagonizing Mu En and Dragon God Douluo.
• Xuan Ziwen arrived and nearly fainted after learning Wang Shaojie and Ke Ke had provoked Huo Yuhao merely to give the new student a show of strength.

Qian Duoduo and Huo Yuhao confronted Jing Hongchen over the bullying Huo Yuhao suffered at Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, using the incident to demand costly concessions. Jing Hongchen began offering compensation, and Qian Duoduo stopped leaving only when Jing Hongchen offered two Ranked Engraving Knives.

• Xuan Ziwen blamed Wang Shaojie, Ju Zi, and the other students for bullying Huo Yuhao, unaware of how far Huo Yuhao and Qian Duoduo had escalated the matter.
• Qian Duoduo and Huo Yuhao privately laughed over their plan to pressure Jing Hongchen while maintaining stern appearances in the dean of students' office.
• Jing Hongchen arrived, apologized for the academy's handling of the incident, and offered compensation.
• Qian Duoduo rejected compensation at first and demanded that one of Jing Hongchen's grandchildren receive the same treatment Huo Yuhao had suffered.
• Huo Yuhao emphasized that he was a hostage who had been mistreated, prompting Jing Hongchen to offer expulsions, public apologies, and permission for Huo Yuhao to keep the materials he used.
• Qian Duoduo stood to leave until Jing Hongchen offered two Ranked Engraving Knives.

Huo Yuhao and Qian Duoduo secured two Ranked Engraving Knives from Jing Hongchen after Wang Shaojie and Ke Ke apologized, then Huo Yuhao continued his studies and secret work at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy. Ju Zi withdrew from school, and Huo Yuhao resumed making the Little Skeleton at night while awaiting the next assessment.

• Qian Duoduo accepted Jing Hongchen's two Ranked Engraving Knives, ranked sixty-second and sixty-fourth, and Jing Hongchen left vowing to punish Wang Shaojie.
• Jing Hongchen returned with Wang Shaojie and Ke Ke, who tearfully apologized, temporarily settling the dispute.
• Huo Yuhao watched Wang Shaojie and Ke Ke leave and reflected that they had brought the consequences on themselves by attacking him.
• The next day, Huo Yuhao found that Ju Zi had withdrawn from school, leaving Zi Mu heartbroken in the laboratory.
• Huo Yuhao studied Soul Tool construction with Xuan Ziwen by day and worked on the Little Skeleton in secret at night.

Huo Yuhao independently opened the Gate of the Undead using Electrolux’s lessons and entered the undead Demiplane. There, Electrolux appeared to criticize his slow casting, while Huo Yuhao explained that he had feared miscalculating the destination.

• Huo Yuhao used Electrolux’s lessons about imaginary numbers and vectors to locate the Gate of the Undead.
• Huo Yuhao constructed and activated a Space Teleportation Array, then traveled through it to the Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao explored the dark land of Death Breath Soil beneath the Demiplane’s Purple Sun and learned how its energy cycle sustained undead creatures.
• Electrolux appeared beside Huo Yuhao and criticized him for taking thirty seconds to trace the array.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had been careful because a wrong anchor point could have sent him into dangerous space turbulence.

Electrolux trained Huo Yuhao in Void Casting while preparing Qian Daoliu to impersonate a living inheritor and test the Shura God Imprint. Qian Daoliu successfully took control of a disguised Skeleton Soldier, and Huo Yuhao began practicing Teleportation Rune construction.

• Electrolux scolded Huo Yuhao for relying too much on the Gate of the Undead and assigned him three hundred rounds of Void Casting practice.
• Qian Daoliu examined the light-attributed skeletons in the Undead Demiplane, then returned to Huo Yuhao when he could no longer maintain his physicalized Mental Power.
• Electrolux removed a skeleton's Soul Fire and rebuilt its bones while Huo Yuhao supplied the Life Engraving Knife and Qian Daoliu merged with the skeleton.
• Huo Yuhao used Mimicry to conceal Qian Daoliu's skeleton and make his form appear alive, fooling the God Trial Imprint's inspection mechanism.
• Electrolux explained that the imprint only checked whether an inheritor was suitable and alive, then Huo Yuhao began Teleportation Rune construction training.

Huo Yuhao continued practicing instant spatial magic while Qian Daoliu tested controlling undead creatures. Qian Daoliu proposed using Soul Rings and Soul Power to help undead grow stronger, sending Electrolux into seclusion to investigate the idea.

• Huo Yuhao practiced casting the Gate of the Undead instantly until he collapsed onto a hill of bones.
• Qian Daoliu tested controlling a Little Skeleton and then crawled toward Huo Yuhao in the form of a Skeleton Centipede.
• Qian Daoliu noted that undead creatures advanced too slowly by relying on their strength in life and devouring flesh and blood.
• Qian Daoliu suggested that undead could cultivate Soul Power and use Soul Rings to grow stronger, and Electrolux became excited by the possibility.
• Electrolux returned to Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness to research undead advancement, while Qian Daoliu released his centipede form and logged off.
• The Ice Empress struck Tian Meng with her Ice Empress's Claw after he resumed dreaming about her.

Huo Yuhao developed unconventional ideas for redesigning undead skeletons after studying an All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool. Half a month later, Xuan Ziwen brought him into Illustrious Virtue Hall, where Huo Yuhao immediately questioned whether its underground labs had safe ventilation and emergency exits.

• Huo Yuhao teleported from the Undead Demiplane to his dormitory after watching Little Skeletons reassemble themselves.
• Huo Yuhao followed his usual routine of studying Soul Tools by day and practicing forging and Magic in the Undead Demiplane at night.
• Xuan Ziwen showed Huo Yuhao an All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool, inspiring him to imagine skeleton soldiers equipped with spider legs or bone tracks.
• Jing Hongchen brought the Shrek exchange students to Illustrious Virtue Hall, and Xuan Ziwen guided Huo Yuhao through its security checkpoints and underground facility.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xuan Ziwen whether the ventilation system and emergency exits could protect everyone during an attack, making Xuan Ziwen worry about the facility's safety.

Huo Yuhao reflected on war and the suffering imposed on ordinary people, while Jing Hongchen judged his soul tool abilities and ordered Lin Jiayi to monitor him and obstruct He Caitou. The chapter left Huo Yuhao comparing the coming conflict on Douluo Continent with Ashina’s struggle to defend its homeland.

• Huo Yuhao tested the Soul Guidance Experimental Table and recognized the Sun Moon Empire’s technological advantage over Shrek.
• Huo Yuhao worried that the Sun Moon Empire would eventually unite the continent and questioned why ordinary people had to suffer for rulers’ ambitions.
• Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi watched Huo Yuhao, concluded he posed little threat as a Soul Tool Master, and decided to record the soul tools he made.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to keep obstructing He Caitou, whom he considered Shrek’s true priority.
• Huo Yuhao avoided returning to the experimental hall and recalled Ashina’s people defending their homeland and customs from the shogunate’s invasion.