Chapter Summaries

Wang Rui used Teostra Roar to disrupt the opponents and help eliminate Jiang Xin, while Zhang Jingkun and Ye Xuan retaliated with enchanted Leaf Blades against Ning Tian and Huo Yuqing. The battle continued with Ning Tian and Huo Yuqing struggling to dodge the hidden attacks as Huo Yuqing urged Wang Rui to stop slacking.

• Wang Rui unleashed Teostra Roar, scattering Zhang Jingkun's Maple Leaf Sea and interrupting the Soul Power and skills of the fighters on the stage.
• Ning Tian withdrew during the opening, and Wang Rui swept Jiang Xin out of the competition area with a flap of his wing.
• Zhang Jingkun used Leaf Blade to sharpen some of the maple leaves, while Ye Xuan's Blazing Blade added fire attributes to their attacks.
• Huo Yuqing used their shared Spiritual Detection to identify the Leaf Blades, but she and Ning Tian still suffered cuts while dodging them.
• Huo Yuqing shouted at Wang Rui to stop slacking as he easily avoided the attacks in the air.

Wang Rui’s team defeated Zhang Jingkun’s team after Wang Rui secretly caused an explosion beneath Zhang Jingkun and Ye Xuan, prompting Huo Yuqing to scold him for revealing a powerful skill. The match ended with Huo Yuqing flustered by her feelings for Wang Rui, while Wang Yan called Wang Rui over.

• Wang Rui stopped slacking off and attacked Zhang Jingkun after Huo Yuqing urged him to take the match seriously.
• Wang Rui called for the referee, who pulled Zhang Jingkun and Ye Xuan away just before a fire-powered explosion tore through the arena.
• The referee declared Wang Rui’s team the winner, and Zhang Jingkun’s team accepted the result.
• Huo Yuqing reprimanded Wang Rui for using his secret skill too soon, while he apologized and followed her away from the arena.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm teased Huo Yuqing about wanting Wang Rui’s attention, and she admitted that she liked him.
• Wang Yan called Wang Rui over, and Huo Yuqing told him to go speak with the teacher.

Wang Rui explained the explosive innate ability he used in the match, then led his team through the quarterfinals as the freshmen assessment advanced to the semifinals. Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo presided over the next stage, while Wang Rui reflected on Yan Shaozhe’s unusual family connection to his past.

• Wang Yan questioned Wang Rui about the explosion that defeated Zhang Jingkun, and Wang Rui explained his Tide of Flame ability, which stored unstable fire-element dust in his wings.
• Wang Yan hurried off to research the Martial Soul records, and the morning matches concluded with the eight quarterfinalist teams decided.
• Ning Tian drew Zhou Sichen, Long Xiangyue, and Cao Jinxuan as Wang Rui’s team’s opponents, and they won decisively.
• Wang Dong’s team faced Dai Huabin’s squad and failed to reach the semifinals because of the strength gap and Wang Dong’s incomplete recovery.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo appeared to oversee the semifinals, with Qian Duoduo considering which students he might recruit for the Soul Tool Department.
• Wang Rui recalled that Yan Shaozhe was descended from Ye Xishui and Mu En, despite Wang Rui’s own connection to Mu En’s generation through his puppet Di Feng.

The chapter explained how Mu En and Ye Xishui’s romance ended after Mu En chose Shrek Academy over her, leading Ye Xishui’s second Martial Soul to become corrupted. It left the story with Yan Shaozhe’s parentage revealed and invited readers to guess who Ye Xishui’s teacher was.

• Long Xiaoyao grew close to Di Tian in the Beast Sect, while Ye Xishui chose Mu En after their adventures together.
• Ye Xishui’s teacher made her confess her second Martial Soul to Mu En, who broke up with her after his teacher opposed their relationship.
• Ye Xishui returned to the Holy Spirit Cult, where her Demonic Puppet mutated into the Blood Soul Demonic Puppet as her despair grew.
• Ye Xishui discovered she was pregnant and later left her daughter at Mu En’s doorstep after he had married another woman.
• Mu En privately cared for the girl, who inherited Ye Xishui’s Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul and became Yan Shaozhe’s mother.
• Yan Shaozhe awakened the rare Radiant Dragon Phoenix Martial Soul, and the chapter asked readers to guess who Ye Xishui’s teacher was.

Wang Rui's team defeated Class Three and advanced to the finals, where they were set to face Dai Huabin's team. Qian Duoduo approached the group hoping to recruit Huo Yuqing into the Soul Tool Department.

• Dai Huabin looked at Wang Rui without recognizing Huo Yuqing, who renewed her determination to avenge her mother with Wang Rui's support.
• Ning Tian drew Class Three as their semifinal opponent and promised to help Huo Yuqing defeat Dai Huabin in the finals.
• Wang Rui's team defeated Zuo Lan, Tian Shan, and Yi Xing, with Blaze Cat's Dragon Chariot blasting all three from the arena.
• Qian Duoduo argued with Yan Shaozhe for permission to recruit a semifinalist, then waited to approach Wang Rui's group.
• Qian Duoduo decided Huo Yuqing's evasiveness and body martial soul made her a promising Soul Tool Department student.

After Huo Yuqing explained how Soul Tools could have changed the assessment match, Qian Duoduo discovered she had become a first-rank Soul Engineer in only half a year. He invited her to the Soul Tool Department for certification the next day, leaving eager to bring her into his department.

• Ning Tian and Huo Yuqing agreed with Qian Duoduo that Soul Tools should have been allowed during the assessment, and Huo Yuqing described openings where they could have used them.
• Qian Duoduo tested Huo Yuqing's knowledge of low-rank Soul Tools, and she answered fluently.
• At Qian Duoduo's request, Huo Yuqing showed him first-rank Core Arrays she had carved herself.
• Qian Duoduo examined the flawless arrays and learned Huo Yuqing had studied Soul Tools for less than half a year but had not received certification.
• Qian Duoduo invited Huo Yuqing to the Soul Tool Department the next day to certify her as a Soul Engineer, and she agreed.

Wang Rui's team faced Dai Huabin's team in the finals, where Wang Rui used his enhanced abilities to blunt their opening attacks. The match continued as Ning Tian and Huo Yuqing prepared to counter Cui Yajie's charm.

• An Wen taunted Dai Huabin's team in the cafeteria, and Dai Huabin said they would settle things in the arena.
• Wang Rui's team and Dai Huabin's team entered the enormous Assessment Zone and began the final match.
• Wang Rui activated Flame King Armor and charged Dai Huabin, overpowering him in their initial clash.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu attacked toward Huo Yuqing and Ning Tian while Cui Yajie used Nine-Tailed Charm on Huo Yuqing.
• Wang Rui raised Molten Shield, dissolving Dai Huabin's attack and forcing Zhu Lu to veer away.
• Ning Tian boosted Huo Yuqing, who looked directly at Cui Yajie and unleashed her charm skill.

Huo Yuqing defeated Cui Yajie with a powerful mental attack, leaving Wang Rui’s team to face Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger. Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui fused their powers into a spectacular azure-flame form, and the chapter ended with both opponents stunned by her transformation.

• Huo Yuqing’s spiritual attack overwhelmed Cui Yajie, and Yan Shaozhe confirmed that she would recover after resting.
• Wang Rui’s team gained a three-against-two advantage, while Dai Huabin prepared to unleash a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Zhu Lu.
• Wang Rui told Ning Tian to leave the arena, then Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu transformed into the Hell White Tiger.
• Huo Yuqing drew on Wang Rui’s strength, and the two fused their powers as Huo Yuqing sought revenge against Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuqing’s fusion with Wang Rui raised her Spiritual Power to the Tangible but Formless realm and transformed her into a towering figure amid sapphire-blue flames.

Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill revealed an Ultimate Fire ability and transformed Huo Yuqing into a beautiful woman, forcing Wang Rui to confront his mistaken assumption that she was male. He accepted her gender but worried that the change might alter her destiny and the soul beasts’ future.

• Yan Shaozhe recognized that Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing’s fusion skill had reached the level of Ultimate Fire and worried Shrek’s support for Wang Rui would leave Ma Xiaotao disadvantaged.
• Xian Lin’er and Qian Duoduo considered using Huo Yuqing’s ties to Wang Rui to strengthen the Soul Tool Department.
• Wang Rui realized Huo Yuqing was a girl and blamed Tian Meng for letting him believe otherwise.
• Wang Rui accepted Huo Yuqing’s true gender but suppressed his attraction, mindful of his responsibility to the soul beasts.
• Wang Rui considered whether Huo Yuqing’s changed gender could affect her path to godhood, her allegiance to the soul beasts, and the plans of the God King surnamed Tang.

Huo Yuqing used her fused Spiritual Power and Ultimate Fire to create a sea of blue Heart Fire, then tried to shape her anger into a tangible spiritual attack. With Wang Rui’s help, she formed a dark-golden saber and swung it at the Hell White Tiger as it struck.

• Huo Yuqing’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill created a blue sea of flames that could burn Spiritual Power and souls.
• Huo Yuqing entered an enlightenment state and tried to forge her anger into a tangible spiritual attack.
• Wang Rui helped her gather her dispersing Spiritual Power and supplied memories of injustices to strengthen her anger.
• Huo Yuqing formed a long, dark-golden saber from tangible Spiritual Power and fury.
• The Hell White Tiger swiped at Huo Yuqing, and she swung the saber toward its claw.

Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Huo Yuqing sensed Wang Rui’s deep-seated anger and comforted him. The chapter ended with Wang Rui resting his chin on her shoulder as her words reached him.

• Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill clashed with the Hell White Tiger, and Du Weilun intervened to stop both attacks from colliding directly.
• The Hell White Tiger shattered, leaving Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu unable to fight, while Huo Yuqing’s sword passed through Du Weilun’s barrier.
• After Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui separated from their fusion state, Wang Rui demanded that she reveal her real name, but he saw that she was crying.
• Huo Yuqing hugged Wang Rui and told him, “You’ve worked hard,” after sensing the pain and anger he carried.
• Wang Rui was moved by her words and quietly rested his chin on her shoulder.

After Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill ended the match, Dai Huabin struggled with his feelings toward the phantom he had seen, while Zhu Lu sensed his distance. Du Weilun remained under the influence of Huo Yuqing’s Blade of Wrath, lost control of his anger, and charged toward Zhou Yi.

• Zhu Lu watched Dai Huabin admire Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing’s closeness, then felt uneasy when he showed no interest in comforting her.
• Dai Huabin recalled the beautiful phantom created by the fusion skill and tried to suppress his attraction to it.
• Yan Shaozhe and the other teachers wondered about the fusion attack and Du Weilun’s failure to announce the match result.
• Du Weilun’s reason was overwhelmed by the Blade of Wrath’s lingering effect as buried grievances flooded his thoughts.
• Du Weilun shouted at the teacher who urged him to announce the result, spotted Zhou Yi, and strode toward her.

Du Weilun publicly slapped Zhou Yi and unleashed years of pent-up anger over her abuses of authority and reckless expulsions. He confronted Yan Shaozhe with an ultimatum: either Zhou Yi left the Martial Soul Department, or he would.

• Du Weilun slapped Zhou Yi twice in front of the teachers, and she furiously demanded to know what was wrong with him.
• Qian Duoduo tried to calm Du Weilun, but Du Weilun accused the Soul Tool Department of sending Zhou Yi to cause trouble and told her to return there.
• Du Weilun blamed Zhou Yi's unjust expulsions for harming the Martial Soul Department's student numbers and teaching results while leaving him to face the consequences.
• Du Weilun accused Zhou Yi of using her authority for personal revenge and forcing him to deal with complaints from students' families and other factions.
• Du Weilun criticized Yan Shaozhe for repeatedly protecting Zhou Yi and declared that either he or Zhou Yi would leave.

After Du Weilun erupted in uncontrollable rage, Xian Lin'er transferred Zhou Yi to the Soul Tool Department, while Qian Duoduo carried the unconscious Du Weilun away. Yan Shaozhe declared Wang Rui's team the freshman assessment champions and later reported Du Weilun's condition to Mu En, who said it was troublesome.

• Xian Lin'er reassigned Zhou Yi to the Soul Tool Department after acknowledging that she had gone too far.
• Qian Duoduo knocked Du Weilun unconscious, claimed he had fainted, and took him away with Zhou Yi.
• Yan Shaozhe attributed Du Weilun's outburst to Wang Rui's team's Martial Soul Fusion Skill and declared the team the champions.
• Yan Shaozhe asked everyone to keep the fusion skill's effects private before dismissing the gathering.
• Yan Shaozhe told Mu En about Du Weilun's condition, and Mu En judged it troublesome.

Mu En explained that Wang Rui and Huo Yuhao’s fusion attack had caused Du’s spiritual injury and warned Yan Shaozhe that the Beast Sect intended to emerge from seclusion. The chapter ended with Gong Changlong tormenting a nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Four-winged Demonic Tiger imprisoned beneath Sea God Island.

• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that the fusion skill’s fire could exceed the ultimate threshold and explained how an emotion-infused spiritual attack had left Du consumed by anger.
• Mu En said Du might need months to recover, asked Yan Shaozhe to investigate Wang Rui and Huo Yuqing’s grievances, and warned him that Huo Yuhao might have another martial soul.
• Mu En revealed that the Beast Sect planned to emerge from seclusion and ordered Yan Shaozhe to halt Gong Changlong’s soul-beast experiments and keep the experimental creatures under guard.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe to treat Jiang Lan as Shrek’s rising star and cautioned that confronting Long Xiaoyao or the Beast Sect could be dangerous.
• Gong Changlong fed and taunted a nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Four-winged Demonic Tiger confined in a Soul Tool cage beneath Sea God Island.

After Wang Rui confronted Huo Yuqing about hiding her identity, she revealed her real name and teased him about taking responsibility for their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Huo Yuqing privately acknowledged her complicated feelings for Wang Rui and resolved to grow stronger so she could keep him close.

• Wang Rui confronted Huo Yuqing in the dormitory about concealing her identity and using an unfamiliar move during their match.
• Huo Yuqing revealed that her real name was Huo Yuqing and that she had disguised herself as a boy for safety.
• Huo Yuqing joked that partners in a Martial Soul Fusion Skill had to marry, making Wang Rui flustered as he considered the possibility of a relationship.
• Huo Yuqing told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that Wang Rui had taken her joke seriously and reflected on her affection, friendship, and fear of losing him.
• Huo Yuqing resolved to grow stronger so she could hold on to Wang Rui and keep rivals from standing close to him.

After Huo Yuqing earned her Soul Engineer certification, Wang Rui called Miss Jin across worlds and talked through his feelings about the changed world and Huo Yuqing. He woke the next morning with Huo Yuqing beside him, and she vaguely recalled dreaming that someone had been beaten up.

• Huo Yuqing went to the Soul Tool Department and passed her Soul Engineer certification assessment.
• Wang Rui called Miss Jin across worlds and told her that Huo Yuhao was a girl in his world.
• Miss Jin told Wang Rui that his world had become his own and urged him to be with Huo Yuqing.
• Wang Rui's cross-world call drained his Spiritual Power, and he went to sleep after accepting the world's differences.
• Wang Rui woke to find Huo Yuqing sleeping beside him with her new Soul Engineer badge, and he let her hug his arm.
• Huo Yuqing woke and said she thought she had dreamed that someone kept getting beaten up.

Wang Rui discovered that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had given Huo Yuqing a powerful Simulation Soul Skill, while Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui adjusted to their changed relationship. At the freshman assessment ceremony, their team was named champion, and Huo Yuqing was announced as a Core Disciple of the Soul Tool Department.

• Wang Rui found Sky Dream Ice Silkworm hiding in Huo Yuqing's Sea of Consciousness and learned that Tian Meng had given her the Simulation Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuqing and Wang Rui held hands on the way to the cafeteria, where Ning Tian and the other girls teased them and admired Huo Yuqing's Rank One Soul Engineer badge.
• An Wen warned Wang Rui about Di Tian discovering his relationship with Huo Yuqing, and Wang Rui chased her after she called him gay.
• Yan Shaozhe announced Team Zuo Lan in third place, Team Dai Huabin in second, and Team Wang Rui as the freshman assessment champions.
• Yan Shaozhe named the Core Disciples and announced that Huo Yuqing had become a Core Disciple of the Soul Tool Department after earning her Rank One Soul Engineer assessment.

After the freshman assessment, Mù Jǐn rewarded Wang Rui, Huo Yuqing, and Ning Tian with a rare Secret Method Soul Bone whose creation required the slaughter of many soul beasts. Wang Rui recognized it as cursed, but took it anyway, leaving his reasons unclear.

• Yan Shaozhe assigned the first-year students to four classes, placing Ning Tian in Class Three and Wang Rui, Huo Yuqing, and Wu Feng in Class One.
• Mù Jǐn called the three students aside and offered them a reward for winning the freshman assessment.
• Mù Jǐn revealed an incomplete Secret Method Soul Left Arm Bone that permanently increased Soul Power by five percent.
• Wang Rui and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized the bone as cursed, while Mù Jǐn explained that such bones were made through a brutal method involving the slaughter of many soul beasts.
• Wang Rui bitterly remarked that people harmed their own kind for profit, and Ning Tian agreed from her experience with political struggles.
• Despite Mù Jǐn advising them to keep the bone secret and consider its future value, Wang Rui took it for himself.

Wang Rui accepted the Secret Method Soul Bone while recalling how he had fought the practice of creating such bones and why he suspected the Bone Condensing Secret Technique had a troubling origin. His account traced the ancient political turmoil surrounding the technique, but the chapter ended before revealing what the empires had worked together to accomplish.

• Wang Rui accepted the Secret Method Soul Bone, while Mù Jǐn wondered whether he intended to absorb it.
• Wang Rui recalled leading soul beasts against soul masters who created Secret Method Soul Bones, earning them the name Cursed Soul Bones.
• Wang Rui remembered how the Silver Dragon King rebuked him and Di Tian and Zi Ji confined him to the Star Dou Forest’s core region.
• Wang Rui suspected the Bone Condensing Secret Technique was foreign or connected to the Divine Realm, but he could not identify its inventor amid the chaos after Spirit Hall’s collapse.
• Wang Rui recalled the civil strife in Star Luo and Heaven Dou, including Xue Beng’s suppression of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan and Ning Fengzhi’s eventual death.