Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao discovered the immense blue-rooted creature beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and entered the tree’s consciousness to ask how to stop it. The Golden Ancient Tree urged him to flee, warning that the enemy would revive endlessly even if the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well killed it.

• Huo Yuhao saw that the blue roots had bound the Golden Ancient Tree and formed a gigantic, beating heart deep underground.
• Huo Yuhao decided to consult Mu En and the Golden Ancient Tree before attacking the dangerous creature.
• Huo Yuhao contacted the Golden Ancient Tree directly with his Mental Power and learned it remembered him as the child who ate its fruit.
• The Golden Ancient Tree warned Huo Yuhao to take Shrek’s children and leave, saying a Deity aided the soul that had devoured many children.
• Huo Yuhao shared what he knew about the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and the Golden Ancient Tree said the spring could kill them both but its enemy would keep resurrecting.

Huo Yuhao learned that the monster beneath the Golden Ancient Tree was a corrupted hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor, Tang San’s mother, and that divine resurrection made it impossible to kill permanently. The Golden Ancient Tree brought him to Mu En’s fading soul, leaving Huo Yuhao facing the urgency of saving his teacher before he disappeared completely.

• Huo Yuhao learned that the monster could repeatedly resurrect because a god was restoring it, and the Golden Ancient Tree said killing it would not prevent its return.
• The Golden Ancient Tree identified the monster as a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor that had devoured its roots and revealed that it might replace the tree.
• Huo Yuhao realized that the being inside the tree was Tang San’s mother and understood why Mu En had been devastated by the truth.
• The Golden Ancient Tree told Huo Yuhao that Mu En had temporarily sealed the monster’s soul power and was exhausting his own soul to keep it from growing stronger.
• The Golden Ancient Tree guided Huo Yuhao to an illusion formed from Mu En’s soul power, where Huo Yuhao sensed that his teacher was gradually vanishing.

Huo Yuhao entered the illusory Dormitory Building formed from Elder Mu’s memories and witnessed Mu En’s lingering affection for Shrek Academy. His arrival restored Mu En’s clarity, and the building dissolved as Mu En began to realize where he was.

• The Golden Ancient Tree took over expending soul power to keep Ah Yin sealed, leaving Huo Yuhao to reunite with Elder Mu.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the Dormitory Building as an illusion created by Elder Mu’s deep obsession and explored the place where he had first met Wang Dong'er.
• Elder Mu returned to the building and murmured memories and advice about Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi, and Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao broke down in tears as he sensed Elder Mu’s profound love for the academy.
• Huo Yuhao’s voice restored Mu En’s awareness, causing the illusory Dormitory Building to collapse into soul power.
• Mu En recovered his memories, wondered how much time had passed, and heard a voice that struck him like lightning.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Mu En inside the Golden Ancient Tree and told him how the academy and continent had changed during the three or four years since his Return to the Tree. He revealed that he was now Level 97 and had gained the strength to deal with the Blue Silver Emperor, leaving Mu En to ask what he planned to do about Ah Yin.

• Mu En tried to touch Huo Yuhao but his hand passed through him, and Huo Yuhao said he had come to take him back to the academy and could now deal with the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao recounted his actions since Mu En's Return to the Tree, including reforming the academy, defeating the Sea God Douluo, and subduing the Evil Emperor.
• Mu En learned that only three or four years had passed and was shocked that Huo Yuhao had reached Level 97, then heard that his nine hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings had accelerated his advancement.
• Mu En felt reassured by the academy's progress, Xuan Zi's breakthrough to Rank 99, and the Body Sect's close cooperation with Shrek.
• Mu En asked Huo Yuhao what he intended to do about Ah Yin and the Blue Silver Emperor, whose invasion was slowly overtaking the Golden Ancient Tree.

Huo Yuhao explained that his plan to use the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to destroy Ah Yin and the Golden Ancient Tree might fail because Ah Yin could be revived by the Deities. Mu En reluctantly accepted the Golden Ancient Tree’s proposal to destroy itself along with Ah Yin and preserve its seed and shell in the well, leaving both sides with nothing.

• Huo Yuhao told Mu En how Tang San had hidden the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and why he had planned to use its spring water against Ah Yin and the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Ah Yin’s ability to revive could let the Deities restore her after she was killed.
• Mu En reflected on Tang San’s harm to Shrek and the Tang Sect, and grew disillusioned with Shrek’s celebrated history.
• Huo Yuhao told Mu En that the Golden Ancient Tree proposed destroying itself with Ah Yin and taking its seed and most of its shell to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Mu En reluctantly recognized the plan as their only way to keep Ah Yin from gaining the Golden Ancient Tree.

Huo Yuhao proposed gradually destroying Ah Yin’s soul and Blue Silver Emperor body so the Golden Ancient Tree could consume it, and prepared to contact her soul using the God Striking Whip. As he gathered his strength to enter the spiritual realm, his cultivation drew nearly all the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi away from Shrek Inner Courtyard.

• Huo Yuhao told Mu En they could avoid killing the Golden Ancient Tree immediately by destroying Ah Yin’s soul and letting the tree slowly absorb her true body.
• Huo Yuhao said he needed to assess whether Ah Yin possessed a Divine Soul and revealed the God Striking Whip he had taken from Ning Rongrong as protection.
• Mu En contacted the Golden Ancient Tree, which agreed to temporarily release its control over Ah Yin and try Huo Yuhao’s plan.
• Huo Yuhao sat down, connected his Mental Power to the Golden Ancient Tree, and focused on preparing to contact Ah Yin.
• Huo Yuhao’s yin and yang Soul Cores drew in so much Heaven and Earth Origin Qi that Shrek Inner Courtyard’s students, teachers, and Elders had to stop cultivating.

Huo Yuhao sensed Ah Yin awakening beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and prepared to confront her, but her calm, annoyed emotions left him suspecting a hidden secret. He confirmed that her soul was not a Divine Soul and hesitated to strike as her awakening continued.

• Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan saw a massive Spiritual Power Vortex engulfing the Golden Ancient Tree, while Xuan Zi sent the Elders to reassure the Outer Courtyard students.
• Huo Yuhao focused his Dual Soul Core and spread Mental Detection toward the heart-like roots where Ah Yin's soul was sealed.
• Huo Yuhao sensed that Ah Yin's emotions were unusually calm and confirmed that her soul had not become a Divine Soul.
• As Ah Yin began to awaken, Huo Yuhao sensed annoyance and anxiety, then held back from attacking because he suspected a hidden secret.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Ah Yin was parasitizing the Golden Ancient Tree, draining its power and producing blue-gold fruits. The fruits held an immense supply of pure energy, and Huo Yuhao tested one himself.

• Huo Yuhao noticed that Ah Yin's soul contained dozens of hidden points of light, leaving him unsure whose souls they were.
• Ah Yin sent thousands of Golden Threads into the Golden Ancient Tree's decaying roots and began extracting its Primordial Qi.
• Ah Yin released spores resembling Tang Ya's Parasitism skill, which sprouted into vines and rapidly drained the tree's roots.
• The parasitic vines produced blue-gold flowers and then fruits that released pure power into Ah Yin.
• Huo Yuhao took a blue-gold fruit, crushed it, and found that it contained an enormous amount of easily absorbed energy.

Huo Yuhao ordered Shrek Academy evacuated and poured Silver White Cold Spring Water onto Ah Yin’s roots to freeze her. He left the Golden Ancient Tree’s fate unresolved as the icy water began to coat the Blue Silver Emperor underground.

• Huo Yuhao decided to attack Ah Yin while trying to protect the Golden Ancient Tree from collateral damage.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Xuan Zi to evacuate every student from Shrek Academy, including those in Deep Meditation.
• Xuan Zi found a student meditating by Sea God Lake and carried him away with the earth beneath him.
• Xuan Zi evacuated all the students, leaving only himself and Huo Yuhao in the academy.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Gate of the Undead and sent Silver White Cold Spring Water through a Space Crack toward Ah Yin’s roots.
• The Cold Spring Water froze Ah Yin’s blue-and-gold leaves and roots deep beneath Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao used Cold Spring Water against Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor, but she kept feeding her injured roots into the freezing water. When Devouring Gold Threads attacked from the Space Crack, Huo Yuhao saved Xuan Zi from further strikes, and they suspected the threads were left behind by Tang San.

• Huo Yuhao poured Cold Spring Water onto the Blue Silver Emperor, freezing and damaging its vines and roots.
• Ah Yin brought more roots toward the Cold Spring Water instead of withdrawing them, leaving Huo Yuhao puzzled by her behavior.
• A Devouring Gold Thread shot out from the Space Crack, and Huo Yuhao dodged its counterattack.
• Xuan Zi struck at the thread with his fiery hand, but it pierced his palm and its poison began devouring his blood and vitality.
• Huo Yuhao sealed the Space Crack, evaded more golden threads with Xuan Zi, and recognized them as the Devouring Gold Threads Xiao Bai had described.

Huo Yuhao realized Wang Qiu'er's Golden Dragon Lance could counter the Devouring Gold Threads draining the Golden Ancient Tree, so he rushed to the Spirit Pagoda to borrow it. Wang Qiu'er agreed to help him, then revealed she had reached peak Soul Douluo cultivation.

• Huo Yuhao connected the Golden Dragon Lance's life-devouring power to a possible solution for the Devouring Gold Threads.
• Elder Xuan told Huo Yuhao that Wang Qiu'er was at the Spirit Pagoda, and Huo Yuhao immediately went there.
• Wang Qiu'er startled at Huo Yuhao's sudden appearance and transformed from beast form into human form.
• Huo Yuhao asked to borrow the Golden Dragon Lance, and Wang Qiu'er offered to accompany him and wield it herself.
• Wang Qiu'er released her aura to show Huo Yuhao that she had reached peak Soul Douluo.

Huo Yuhao sought to borrow Wang Qiu'er’s Golden Dragon Lance to counter the Devouring Gold Threads of a Blue Silver Emperor hidden beneath the Golden Ancient Tree. Wang Qiu'er agreed on the condition that Huo Yuhao use the lance against Tang San when he reaches the God Realm.

• Wang Qiu'er boasted about her strength, and Huo Yuhao teased her until she charged at him with the Golden Dragon Lance.
• Huo Yuhao stepped on the lance’s thrust, felt it draining his life force, and revealed his Level 97 cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao reminded Wang Qiu'er of Tang San’s past schemes and explained that he needed the lance to fight the Blue Silver Emperor’s Devouring Gold Threads.
• Wang Qiu'er agreed to lend Huo Yuhao the Golden Dragon Lance if he promised to use it to attack Tang San in the God Realm.

Huo Yuhao tested the Golden Dragon Lance and discovered it drained his life force unless its master wielded it. He returned from near death by using the Life Engraving Knife, then devised a way to recover the lance’s stolen vitality through Wang Qiu'er.

• Wang Qiu'er lent Huo Yuhao the Golden Dragon Lance so he could use it against Tang San, but it began devouring his life force.
• Huo Yuhao held the lance for one hundred seconds, lost most of his vitality, and returned it to Wang Qiu'er.
• Huo Yuhao appeared at the student settlement looking like a dying old man, and Du Busi and the others were shocked.
• Bei Bei gave Huo Yuhao the Life Engraving Knife, which restored his vitality, and Huo Yuhao checked that Tang Ya's life force had been replenished for the night.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Laboratory and gave Wang Qiu'er the Life Engraving Knife so she could transfer the life force inside the Golden Dragon Lance into it for him to absorb.

Huo Yuhao used spatial rifts and Cold Spring Water to sever Ah Yin’s Devouring Gold Threads and damage her corrupted roots. When he thought the counterattacks had stopped, spider silk suddenly seized the Golden Dragon Lance and pulled him into the rift.

• Wang Qiu'er transferred the Golden Dragon Lance’s stored life force into the Life Engraving Knife, and Huo Yuhao returned to the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Huo Yuhao poured Cold Spring Water into Ah Yin’s roots and used shifting spatial rifts to repeatedly sever the Devouring Gold Threads.
• Huo Yuhao continued freezing Ah Yin’s rotten roots and Parasitism seeds while avoiding further attacks.
• Spider silk burst through a Space Crack and wrapped around the Golden Dragon Lance.
• The spider silk dragged Huo Yuhao and the Golden Dragon Lance into the rift.

Huo Yuhao fought to escape his opponent’s Devouring Gold Threads deep underground, using Earth Ant Emperor Slash to carve a passage through the earth. The threads seized the Golden Dragon Lance, provoking the divine artifact when they tried to drain its life force.

• Huo Yuhao burned the spider web from his hand and the Golden Dragon Lance with Holy Flame Sword Blade, but was surprised by the web’s resistance to heat.
• Huo Yuhao used Earth Ant Emperor Slash to bore a passage through the earth and evade repeated attacks from the Devouring Gold Threads.
• Huo Yuhao tried to open the Gate of the Undead, but the threads’ relentless attacks prevented him from doing so.
• Huo Yuhao threw the Golden Dragon Lance ahead and rolled forward to dodge a volley of threads, but dozens of them reached the lance before he could reclaim it.
• The Golden Dragon Lance vibrated angrily when the Devouring Gold Threads wrapped around it and tried to drain its life force.

Huo Yuhao escaped the Devouring Gold Threads underground, using tremors in the soil to sense attacks beyond his Mental Detection. He was ambushed by enormous black spider spears from an unidentified Soul Beast, which remained invisible to his Mental Detection.

• The Devouring Gold Threads tried to drain the Golden Dragon Lance, but the lance’s essence flowed back into it and unleashed its power.
• Huo Yuhao realized that touch could help him detect movement underground, stripped off his boots and clothes, and sensed the soil’s vibrations with his bare feet.
• Huo Yuhao recovered the Golden Dragon Lance and used Space Power to escape as thousands of Devouring Gold Threads attacked him from every direction.
• Huo Yuhao blasted through the earth with Earth Ant Emperor Slash while evading the threads and draining energy from the ones he could not avoid.
• A massive black spider spear attacked Huo Yuhao from below, and his Golden Dragon Lance stopped it, revealing several more spears that his Mental Detection could not sense.

Huo Yuhao discovered that the enemy was Tang San’s sentient Eight Spider Lances, which had taken the form of a colossal Man Faced Demon Spider. He sought to defeat and absorb it to evolve his own spinal External Soul Bone, but the creature’s overwhelming speed forced him to activate Inexhaustible Burst to keep fighting.

• Huo Yuhao realized the spider lances were Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances and watched them form a gigantic Man Faced Demon Spider phantom.
• Huo Yuhao attacked with two Grade 7 shuriken carts, but the spider cut them apart and endured their explosions.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the threat and realized that absorbing the Eight Spider Lances could evolve his own spinal External Soul Bone.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider rushed Huo Yuhao and repeatedly stabbed at him with its front legs, forcing him to evade.
• Huo Yuhao activated Inexhaustible Burst, then rose and swept his Golden Dragon Lance to knock aside the spider’s attack.

Huo Yuhao fought the Man Faced Demon Spider with the Golden Dragon Lance, draining the essence from its Eight Spider Lances and driving it toward a desperate escape. The spider burrowed through the cavern ceiling, and Huo Yuhao leapt after it as it fired a web at him.

• The Golden Dragon Lance absorbed the Divine Armor's essence and fed some of it to Huo Yuhao without draining his vitality.
• Huo Yuhao charged the Man Faced Demon Spider, kicked the joint of its Eight Spider Lances, and cracked it with a blow from his lance.
• Huo Yuhao parried the spider's rapid strikes with Chaotic Points to the Heavenly Palace and drained essence from its front legs.
• Huo Yuhao struck the spider with Phoenix Pierces Flowers, but it dug through the cavern ceiling to escape.
• Huo Yuhao leapt after the spider to seize its Eight Spider Lances, and the spider fired a mass of web at him.

Huo Yuhao broke free of the Man Faced Demon Spider’s web and discovered that Ah Yin was blocking the spider’s escape. He pursued it into its tunnel and pierced one of its hind legs with the Golden Dragon Lance, leaving the battle underway.

• Huo Yuhao froze and shattered the Man Faced Demon Spider’s web, but the spider fled into its tunnel as Ah Yin’s roots surged toward him.
• Huo Yuhao realized Ah Yin’s roots were trapping the Man Faced Demon Spider, and he sensed that both her actions and the spider’s fear were genuine.
• Huo Yuhao charged into the tunnel as the Man Faced Demon Spider struggled to cut through Ah Yin’s roots and escape.
• Bear Lord’s gravitational control pulled the Man Faced Demon Spider backward, allowing Huo Yuhao’s thrown Golden Dragon Lance to pierce its hind leg.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that the lance had unexpectedly changed course and struck the spider’s leg, draining its life force.

Huo Yuhao's Golden Dragon Lance devoured the essence of the Man Faced Demon Spider's Eight Spider Lances, causing his External Spinal Bone to evolve and begin advancing along the Path to Godhood. The evolution culminated in golden plate armor covering his torso, a prototype of Divine Armor.

• Huo Yuhao struck the Man Faced Demon Spider's Eight Spider Lances with the Golden Dragon Lance and drained one leg of its essence, but the spider tore off that leg and escaped underground.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the devoured essence as his back grew hot and powerful, and his External Spinal Bone began transforming toward gold.
• Huo Yuhao realized that his External Spinal Bone and torso bone had become the first of his bones to enter the Path to Godhood.
• Twelve round protrusions appeared on Huo Yuhao's External Spinal Bone, but nothing grew from them after the Eight Spider Lances' essence was absorbed.
• Golden armor formed over Huo Yuhao's chest, abdomen, and back, and he recognized it as the prototype of Divine Armor.