Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao served Xu Sanshi and met the mysterious Red-clad Woman, who came to try his barbecue. After eating a grilled fish, she displayed a strange ability that left Huo Yuhao wondering if she possessed a Soul Bone.

• Xu Sanshi ordered barbecue from Huo Yuhao and praised his cooking, warning him that returning seniors might soon visit his shop with gifts.
• The Red-clad Woman arrived, and Xu Sanshi greeted her nervously as Sister Xiao Tao.
• The Red-clad Woman asked Huo Yuhao to grill her a fish and noticed his precise control of the fire.
• Huo Yuhao cooked the fish alongside Xu Sanshi's skewers, while Xu Sanshi quietly went to eat at a table.
• The Red-clad Woman lifted her veil, ate the fish, and made its bones disappear without leaving grease on her hands.
• Huo Yuhao saw that she had used no soul skill and wondered whether her unexplained ability came from a Soul Bone.

Huo Yuhao’s golden eyes unexpectedly weakened Ma Xiao Tao’s Evil Fire, prompting a White-robed Elder to decide to investigate him. At Muddleheaded Soul Tool Repair, Ning Ge began explaining the Metal Fingers in his right hand to Huo Yuhao.

• Ma Xiao Tao asked Huo Yuhao to show his martial soul, but his golden eyes made her feel weak and caused her Evil Fire to wilt.
• Ma Xiao Tao told the White-robed Elder that Xu Sanshi had found it easier than usual to suppress her Evil Fire after she met Huo Yuhao.
• The White-robed Elder suspected Huo Yuhao’s eyes might suppress Ma Xiao Tao’s power and decided to visit his shop himself.
• Ning Ge told Huo Yuhao he would explain what happened to his right hand, then revealed three Metal Fingers and half a Metal Palm embedded in it.

Ning Ge showed Huo Yuhao the advanced Soul Tool technologies he had developed, including a massive metal arm built with expensive materials and sophisticated core arrays. He then demonstrated that the arm moved in sync with his own hand, leaving Huo Yuhao stunned by an unfamiliar technology.

• Ning Ge told Huo Yuhao that Jie Chu had saved him after an early experiment nearly cost him his hand.
• Ning Ge took Huo Yuhao into his private Soul Tool Development Room and showed him his collection of handmade Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao examined a massive metal arm made from Crystal Steel and Tungsten Steel and recognized several advanced technologies built into it.
• Ning Ge put on a Pure Amethyst Gold helmet and clenched his fist, causing the metal arm to clench its fist in response.

Ning Ge showed Huo Yuhao how his Mental Power controlled a mechanical arm and Metal Fingers, explaining the experimental technology behind them. Huo Yuhao grasped the principles and imagined applying them to an array of Soul Tools, leaving him excited about the possibilities.

• Ning Ge removed his Pure Amethyst Gold Helmet, causing the mechanical arm to freeze, and explained how the helmet helped control it with his Mental Power.
• Ning Ge offered to teach Huo Yuhao his unfinished research, saying it required exceptional Spirit System abilities and Soul Tool creation skills to use and understand.
• Ning Ge explained that Kinetic Constraint linked miniature trigger-type Soul Guidance Core Arrays made from Pure Amethyst Gold to enable precise remote control.
• Huo Yuhao understood the method and imagined using his Mental Power to aim multiple Soul Guidance Ray Guns mounted behind him.
• Huo Yuhao privately pictured overwhelming opponents in the New Student Tournament and felt more like a normal child after a year among friends and teachers.

Huo Yuhao worried that his next Soul Ring might make him question his Spirit Attribute, but Qian Daoliu explained that a Soul Master’s type came from their innate strengths, not only their Soul Skills. Huo Yuhao left reassured that he had many ways to improve his Mental Power.

• Ning Ge recalled Huo Yuhao’s formerly rigid manner and suspected that working at the barbecue stall had helped him show more emotion.
• Ning Ge encouraged Huo Yuhao to put his ideas into action and spoke of his own arm’s unrealized potential.
• Huo Yuhao asked Qian Daoliu whether his next Soul Ring would affect his identity as a Spirit Attribute Soul Master.
• Qian Daoliu used Xu Sanshi’s defense to explain that a Soul Master’s type depended on innate strengths rather than only their Soul Rings or Soul Skills.
• Qian Daoliu listed several ways to improve Mental Power, including the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Distraction Control Method, and Huo Yuhao felt reassured.

Qian Daoliu explained the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation Secret Method and helped Huo Yuhao choose possible attributes for his next soul ring. He revealed that soul ring age could be increased later, while secretly plotting to use abandoned Divine inheritance sites to raise Huo Yuhao’s rings to at least a hundred thousand years.

• Qian Daoliu explained how Dragonification enhanced the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s power and recalled its past strength.
• Huo Yuhao considered the Distraction Control Method and discussed wind and lightning soul beast options with Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Daoliu told Huo Yuhao that soul ring age could be increased after absorption and promised he might eventually raise all his rings to at least ten thousand years.
• Qian Daoliu privately considered using abandoned Inheritance Pillars to raise Huo Yuhao’s soul rings to at least a hundred thousand years, but decided he needed a flawless plan first.
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Huo Yuhao encountered the White-robed Elder, dean of the Martial Soul Department, outside his home and invited him in after learning who he was. The dean wanted to see Huo Yuhao's martial soul, but Huo Yuhao seized the chance to ask him for an IOU for Soul Ascension Pills.

• Huo Yuhao headed home on his day off while thinking of buying Ejiao Cakes for Huo Yun'er.
• The White-robed Elder Teleported in front of Huo Yuhao, grabbed him, and revealed that he was the dean of the Martial Soul Department.
• Huo Yuhao welcomed the dean into his home and served him crushed tea, which made the dean cough and reconsider his good impression of the boy.
• The dean said he had come to see Huo Yuhao's martial soul, and Huo Yuhao relaxed when he heard the reason.
• When the dean admitted he had brought no Soul Ascension Pills, Huo Yuhao asked him to write an IOU.

Huo Yuhao secured an admission recommendation from the White-robed Elder, then revealed the power of his Martial Soul and drew an offer to become the elder’s student. The elder tried to keep him in the Martial Soul Department, but Huo Yuhao remained interested in the Soul Tool Department.

• Huo Yuhao persuaded the White-robed Elder to write him an admission recommendation letter.
• Huo Yuhao showed his golden eyes, suppressing the elder and shocking him with the Martial Soul’s Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire energies.
• Huo Yuhao claimed his First Soul Ring came from a one-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Wind Baboon, and the elder offered him Core Disciple status and cultivation resources.
• Huo Yuhao said he preferred the Soul Tool Department, prompting the White-robed Elder to offer him a dedicated experimental table in the Martial Soul Department.
• Huo Yuhao pointed out that the Soul Tool Department could also provide an experimental table and advanced instruction.

Yan Shaozhe tried to recruit Huo Yuhao to Shrek’s Martial Soul Department, but Huo Yuhao bargained for access to both departments and dangled the possibility of studying in the Sun Moon Empire. Yan Shaozhe secured Huo Yuhao’s promise to enroll at Shrek next year, then returned to Ma Xiao Tao feeling he had given away far too much.

• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao a Core Disciple position, a One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and a Soul Bone to study in the Martial Soul Department.
• Huo Yuhao threatened to study Soul Tool knowledge in the Sun Moon Empire, prompting Yan Shaozhe to offer study in both Shrek departments and a possible exchange program.
• Huo Yuhao promised to enroll at Shrek next year, and Yan Shaozhe left unsure whether he had made a costly bargain.
• Ma Xiao Tao asked Yan Shaozhe what had happened, and he recounted his meeting with Huo Yuhao.
• Ma Xiao Tao listed the promises Yan Shaozhe had made, leaving him embarrassed and telling her to stop talking.

Yan Shaozhe left Huo Yuhao’s home frustrated after agreeing to generous terms for his enrollment, then began plotting how to alert the Soul Tool Department to Yuhao’s talent. Huo Yuhao celebrated with Qian Daoliu, who revealed how he had guided the boy to outmaneuver Yan Shaozhe, and then questioned Yuhao about his first Soul Ring.

• Ma Xiao Tao tried to console Yan Shaozhe over the concessions he had made to Huo Yuhao, and Yan Shaozhe decided to find a way to reveal Yuhao’s Soul Tool talent to the department.
• Huo Yuhao celebrated with Qian Daoliu, who explained how his advice had helped Yuhao weaken Yan Shaozhe’s authority and negotiate favorable terms.
• Qian Daoliu marveled at Shrek’s wealth and the powerful Soul Bones and Soul Ring it could provide even to a One Ring Soul Master.
• Qian Daoliu asked Huo Yuhao whether he had been hinting that his first Soul Ring came from a naturally deceased Wind Baboon, and Huo Yuhao denied it.

Huo Yuhao traveled to Star Dou Forest to hunt a Soul Beast, relying on his homemade tools and Qian Daoliu’s promise to help him escape danger. He found a dead Ironhide Bull whose rear was still moving.

• During the holiday, Huo Yuhao reached level twenty and secretly set out for Star Dou Forest.
• On the way, Qian Daoliu promised to use his accumulated energy to help Huo Yuhao escape if necessary and told him about Bo Saixi.
• Huo Yuhao entered the forest and used a Rare Metal projectile and grappling hook to move through the trees.
• Huo Yuhao discovered a disemboweled Ironhide Bull and noticed movement near its rear.

Huo Yuhao identified and attacked a rare Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound, but its extraordinary speed and wind abilities thwarted his first strike. The fight continued as he tried to counter its advantages.

• Huo Yuhao watched an Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound emerge from an Ironhide Bull and devour its heart.
• Qian Daoliu identified the beast as a rare Wind Attribute Soul Beast and urged Huo Yuhao to kill it for its potential Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao saw the hound drag the massive Ironhide Bull while tearing at its tendons, then approached and attacked its neck.
• The Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound slipped free of Huo Yuhao's hold and lunged at him with startling speed.
• Huo Yuhao threw Gray Mist at the hound, but it dispersed the cloud with wind, so he hurled Explosive Crystal Stones at it.

Huo Yuhao fought the Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound, using Explosive Crystal Stones to blind and disorient it before discovering its speed and defenses made it a formidable opponent. After taking a wound, he identified the tell that preceded its attacks and prepared to turn the fight around.

• Huo Yuhao scattered Explosive Crystal Stones, briefly blinding and disorienting the Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound.
• Huo Yuhao slashed the hound’s left forepaw, fracturing a bone despite the airflow shielding its body.
• Huo Yuhao studied the hound’s unusual body and struggled to defend against its explosive speed.
• The hound raked Huo Yuhao’s lower abdomen with its hind claws, but he recognized the sign that preceded its attacks.

Huo Yuhao used his Illusory Eye to anticipate the Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound’s attacks and kept pressuring it, but the hound unleashed a stronger burst of energy and badly wounded him. The chapter ended with the hound charging up a tree toward Huo Yuhao as he prepared to strike.

• Huo Yuhao wore down the Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound with repeated shuriken throws and used his mechanical umbrella to block its attack and slash its weakened Airflow Shield.
• Huo Yuhao realized through his Illusory Eye that the hound’s Gray Fiber Bundles tightened before it accelerated, revealing the signs of its attacks.
• Huo Yuhao attacked with his Holy Flame-coated katana and kept the hound under pressure while watching for Pale Yellow Energy to signal another burst of speed.
• The Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound unleashed dark yellow energy, shattered Huo Yuhao’s umbrella, and tore his legs until they bled.
• Huo Yuhao used a wrist-launched projectile to reach a tree, swallowed two pills, and faced the hound as it raced up the trunk toward him.

Huo Yuhao killed the Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound after a desperate fight that left him badly injured, then defeated the Cloud-Piercing Leopard when it tried to attack him. He asked Qian Daoliu whether the demon hound’s burst of extreme speed could become one of its Soul Skills.

• Huo Yuhao used the Illusory Eye, Explosive Crystal Stones, and a final risky counterattack to break the demon hound’s paw and kill it.
• Huo Yuhao took a healing pill and recovered enough to stand while Qian Daoliu reproached him for risking his life.
• The Cloud-Piercing Leopard returned and pounced on Huo Yuhao, who pierced its abdomen and heart with his Katana.
• Huo Yuhao asked Qian Daoliu whether the Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hound could grant him its extreme-speed ability as a Soul Skill.

Qian Daoliu explained why Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hounds were hunted nearly to extinction, revealing that they could grant the powerful Potential Burst skill. Huo Yuhao absorbed a five-hundred-year-old hound’s soul ring, and as the absorption neared completion, an unexpected voice spoke inside his Sea of Spirit.

• Qian Daoliu explained that Azure-Eyed Swift Demon Hounds could grant Wind Manipulation and the rare Potential Burst skill, which heightened reaction speed by overtaxing the body.
• Qian Daoliu recounted a Healing System elder’s theory that nerves caused Potential Burst’s sensation of time slowing, and Huo Yuhao connected it to the energy he had seen in the hound’s Gray Fiber Bundles.
• Huo Yuhao hoped his Second Soul Skill would be Potential Burst, prepared traps and Warning Devices, and began absorbing the hound’s five-hundred-year-old soul ring.
• Qian Daoliu wondered whether Mother of All Souls had miscalculated and whether the Big Worm would arrive, then reflected on his own uncertain fate and Spirit Hall’s disappearance.
• As Huo Yuhao’s absorption neared completion, a voice spoke through his Sea of Spirit, rejoicing at finding a human with the Mental Attribute.

Huo Yuhao absorbed a Demon Dog Soul Ring and gained Wind Manipulation, then encountered the Million Year Soul Beast Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who urgently asked him to reach level thirty so it could hide in his Sea of Spirit. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao admitting he lacked enough Soul Ascension Pills, while Sky Dream pleaded with him to become its host.

• Huo Yuhao awakened after absorbing the Demon Dog's Soul Ring and gained the Wind Manipulation Soul Skill, though he regretted not obtaining Potential Burst.
• Qian Daoliu reprimanded an unfamiliar voice in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit as a Soul Bone burst from the Demon Dog's corpse, and Huo Yuhao stored it without absorbing it.
• The ground cracked open, and a huge jade-white silkworm with ten golden patterns emerged as Qian Daoliu reminded Huo Yuhao of Da Jiao's prediction about a Big Worm.
• The silkworm introduced himself as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and asked Huo Yuhao to reach level thirty so he could hide in his Sea of Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao said his two Soul Ascension Pills could not raise him to level thirty, and Sky Dream pleaded for help, offering to become the first Wisdom Soul Ring.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to merge with Huo Yuhao after Qian Daoliu explained that the hunted Million Year Soul Beast needed to become a Soul Ring to escape the Star Dou Forest beasts. Qian Daoliu advised him to grant Huo Yuhao a second Spirit System Martial Soul, leaving Huo Yuhao with the prospect of Twin Martial Souls and another Soul Ring.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm mistook Qian Daoliu for Huo Yuhao's guardian and asked him for a Soul Ring slot, but Qian Daoliu revealed that he was already Huo Yuhao's Wisdom Soul Ring.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm decided to create a Soul Ring slot by making Huo Yuhao his second Martial Soul.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had fled the Star Dou Forest beasts and needed to merge his power into Huo Yuhao to avoid being captured.
• Qian Daoliu urged Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to give Huo Yuhao a Spirit System Martial Soul instead of an Ice Attribute Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao realized his existing Soul Skills were not Mental Attribute skills, and Qian Daoliu recommended adding another Spirit System Martial Soul.

Qian Daoliu advised Huo Yuhao to give his second martial soul the Mental Attribute, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began merging his power into Huo Yuhao. A mysterious gray remnant soul entered Huo Yuhao’s mind during the process, leaving its identity unknown as the merger continued.

• Qian Daoliu explained that a Mental Attribute second martial soul would strengthen Huo Yuhao’s Mental Power and let him absorb Soul Beasts of any attribute.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rushed to merge with Huo Yuhao, unleashing a vast Mental Wave across the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A Gray Stream descended into Huo Yuhao’s mind despite Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Qian Daoliu trying to repel it.
• An aged remnant soul entered Huo Yuhao’s mind and became a silent Gray Orb in his Sea of Spirit.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sealed his power inside Huo Yuhao, whose wounds healed as he regained control of himself.

Huo Yuhao learned that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had sealed himself inside Huo Yuhao, giving him a second Martial Soul and a million-year Soul Ring. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained his past and the sealed power in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit, then revealed that he could provide four Soul Skills.

• Huo Yuhao found Golden Orb, white orbs, and Gray Light Orb in his Sea of Spirit and asked Qian Daoliu to explain what had happened.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had chosen Huo Yuhao as his vessel to escape the Beasts exploiting him, granting Huo Yuhao a second Martial Soul and a million-year Soul Ring.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Qian Daoliu argued over whether Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was truly the only million-year Soul Beast, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recounted his lucky journey and later ordeals.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that his ten white orbs held his sealed source power and Mental Power, which Huo Yuhao could not yet use.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that his million-year Soul Ring could provide four different Soul Skills.