Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao reached level forty and decided to postpone obtaining his fourth Soul Ring while he pursued a new mission and prepared for the Soul Master Competition. At the training grounds, his strength and the reserve team’s Soul Tool Department affiliations shocked the Inner Court students, while he sensed hostility from Xuan Zi.

• Huo Yuhao reached level forty, chose to save his fourth Soul Ring slot for a possible powerful ring, and received a mission to achieve a perfect record in the Mixed Challenge Competition for a B-Rank Blind Box.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the training grounds and greeted Ma Xiaotao, while the reserve team and Inner Court students watched their familiar interaction with surprise.
• Huo Yuhao sensed that Xuan Zi harbored hostility toward him, then heard Xuan Zi explain that the reserve members would compete in the upcoming Pan-continental Advanced Soul Master Competition and must not lose.
• Bei Bei, He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong'er introduced themselves, revealing that all but Bei Bei belonged to the Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao announced that he was a second-year Soul Tool Department student at level forty, shocking Ma Xiaotao, Xuan Zi, and the Inner Court students.
• Dai Yueheng and the other Inner Court students noticed that most of the reserve team belonged to the Soul Tool Department and questioned how their cultivation had advanced so quickly.

Xuan Zi arranged a mixed friendly match between Ma Xiaotao’s and Dai Yueheng’s teams, and Ma Xiaotao chose Huo Yuhao to lead her team’s control. Huo Yuhao revealed his extraordinary spiritual abilities and left the match with Yao Haoxuan unconscious, shocking Dai Yueheng’s team.

• Xuan Zi explained that the reserve team members had once studied in the Martial Soul Department, then had the Inner Court Disciples introduce themselves and assigned Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng to lead opposing teams.
• Ma Xiaotao chose Huo Yuhao first, selected the rest of her team, and told him to direct their battle as its Control System Soul Master.
• At the start of the match, Huo Yuhao used his spiritual power to let Ma Xiaotao’s teammates sense their surroundings in extraordinary detail.
• When Yao Haoxuan shook the ground with his attack, Huo Yuhao used Group Weakness, Eye of Illusory Break, and Soul Impact against him.
• Huo Yuhao’s attack knocked Yao Haoxuan unconscious, leaving Dai Yueheng and the others stunned by the Level 40 student’s power.

Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power, Ultimate Ice, and Soul Tools helped his team decisively defeat Dai Yueheng’s group. After Xi Xi and Gongyang Mo admired the Soul Tools, Xuan Zi angrily dismissed them as external objects and warned the students not to rely on them.

• Huo Yuhao used his spiritual power to defeat Yao Haoxuan, prompting Xu Sanshi to warn the opposing team about his abilities.
• Ling Luochen attacked with ice, but Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice dispersed her attack and suppressed her Soul Power.
• Ma Xiaotao explained that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice absolutely suppressed Ling Luochen, and the teams began fighting with Huo Yuhao’s side holding a numerical advantage.
• Huo Yuhao bombarded the opposing team with Soul Tools while Ma Xiaotao used her Rank 6 Soul Tool to fight at full strength and defeat Dai Yueheng.
• Xi Xi and Gongyang Mo praised Soul Tools, but Xuan Zi dismissed them as external aids and urged the students to focus on strengthening themselves.

Xuan Zi rearranged the teams for the second training match, placing Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er with Dai Yueheng's side. Huo Yuhao explained how he and Ling Luochen could combine their Ice abilities and offered to handle Ma Xiaotao, then demonstrated the enormous boost Ling Luochen received from his Ultimate Ice.

• Xuan Zi reprimanded the Inner Court students for showing interest in Soul Tools, then ordered a two-hour rest and swapped Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er with Yao Haoxuan and Jiang Nannan.
• Dai Yueheng apologized to Huo Yuhao for Dai Huabin's actions, and Huo Yuhao accepted his apology.
• Huo Yuhao told his new teammates that Ling Luochen should cooperate with him and that he would deal with Ma Xiaotao using his Ultimate Fire Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao activated Mental Detection for the second match, astonishing Dai Yueheng's team.
• Huo Yuhao took Ling Luochen's hand as she summoned her Ice Staff, and his Ultimate Ice transformed her cold current into a frozen tornado that froze the arena.
• Ling Luochen felt the immense enhancement from Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice and imagined how much she would benefit if she could unite with him.

Huo Yuhao used his Ultimate Fire to suppress Ma Xiaotao during the team battle, keeping her occupied while the others fought. Ling Luochen and Dai Yueheng recognized how formidable Huo Yuhao was, and Dai Yueheng reflected that he would become even more powerful as he grew.

• Ling Luochen decided that joining forces with Huo Yuhao would help her become stronger, while Gongyang Mo, Xi Xi, and the others struggled against his enhancement of Ling Luochen’s Ice Storm.
• Ma Xiaotao burned away Ling Luochen’s Ice Storm and rushed toward Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen to target the Control System Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ling Luochen to step back and confronted Ma Xiaotao himself, changing his Ice Dragon into a Fire Dragon and revealing his Ultimate Fire.
• Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Fire suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul, and his attacks injured her despite her resistance to fire.
• Ma Xiaotao could not effectively attack Huo Yuhao and was forced to defend within his range, while Ling Luochen marveled at his strength.
• Dai Yueheng reflected that Huo Yuhao would become nearly impossible to challenge once he matured.

Huo Yuhao’s performance in the training matches earned him the Inner Court students’ respect, but Xuan Zi cut their praise short and began explaining the risks and responsibilities of joining the Inner Court. Huo Yuhao recognized the familiar speech about Shrek Academy’s Supervision Group and listened skeptically as Xuan Zi condemned students who chose not to join.

• After Huo Yuhao suppressed Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng’s team defeated Gongyang Mo and the other Inner Court students, and Xuan Zi ended the training.
• The Inner Court students praised Huo Yuhao for his decisive contributions in both matches and treated him with newfound respect.
• Irritated by the praise, Xuan Zi warned the students not to let Huo Yuhao become arrogant and announced that he had something important to tell them.
• Xuan Zi explained that some Inner Court disciples had died defending the academy’s ideals and said entering the Inner Court meant accepting a heavy responsibility.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Xuan Zi’s speech as the prelude to the Supervision Group and silently criticized his contradictory remarks about students who declined to join the Inner Court.

Xuan Zi explained Shrek Academy’s Supervision Group and urged the reserve team to join the Inner Court, while Huo Yuhao recognized the arrangement as coercive, unpaid labor with no clear authority. When the group chose whether to join, Huo Yuhao refused, and Wang Dong’er, Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi followed his lead, leaving Xuan Zi furious.

• Xuan Zi described the Inner Court’s responsibility to supervise dangerous Soul Masters and officials, requiring its students to complete thirty risky missions without compensation.
• Dai Yueheng praised the Supervision Group and recounted completing twenty-eight missions, stirring the other students’ enthusiasm.
• Xuan Zi asked the reserve team whether they would join, and Bei Bei agreed first.
• Huo Yuhao refused to join and stopped Wang Dong’er and Xiao Xiao from agreeing; both then refused as well.
• Jiang Nannan and Xu Sanshi also refused, while He Caitou agreed to join.
• Xuan Zi demanded a reason, and Huo Yuhao calmly reminded him that the academy had said it would not interfere with their choices.

Huo Yuhao persuaded the others to refuse Shrek Academy’s Supervision Group, arguing that its missions lacked legitimate authority and bound members to unpaid service. His explanation made Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen realize that their membership had pushed them into missions they never wanted, leaving them regretful.

• Xuan Zi ended the discussion after most of the reserve team refused to join the Supervision Group and announced they would leave for the Star Luo Empire the next morning.
• The other students asked Huo Yuhao why he rejected the group, and he argued that Shrek Academy had no authority to interfere in other empires’ affairs.
• Huo Yuhao explained that joining the Supervision Group or Inner Court required members to complete thirty missions without pay and restricted their freedom to choose their own actions.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen whether their missions had strayed from their original goal of hunting Evil Spirit Masters and protecting the weak.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen recognized that the Supervision Group had made them accept unwanted missions and regretted joining it.

Huo Yuhao persuaded his companions to reject the Shrek Supervision Group, criticizing its unpaid missions and binding contracts. After returning to his dormitory, he claimed his system rewards and received both a Hundred Thousand Year Spiritual Soul Ring and the Primordial Beginning Stone.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Shrek's Supervision Group forced students into dangerous, unpaid missions without letting them choose their assignments.
• Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Xu Sanshi, and the others agreed with Huo Yuhao and resolved not to join or remain at Shrek Academy after graduating.
• Huo Yuhao reminded everyone not to spread their criticism, and they left before he returned to his dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao activated his system and completed the mission to persuade Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan to refuse the Supervision Group.
• Huo Yuhao opened his two A-Rank Blind Boxes and obtained a Hundred Thousand Year Spiritual Soul Ring and the Primordial Beginning Stone.

Huo Yuhao absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year spiritual-type Soul Ring, broke through to level forty-five, and gained two new abilities. He then unlocked Divine Concealment with the Primordial Beginning Stone, giving him a way to evade Tang San’s Divine Sense.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and advanced from level forty to level forty-five.
• Huo Yuhao learned that his new abilities were Enter Dream, which could put enemies to sleep, and Eat Dream, which could control dreams and kill enemies within them.
• Huo Yuhao used Primordial Beginning Power to awaken the new stone and add its gem to the Primordial Beginning Realm.
• The Artifact Spirit announced that Divine Concealment had been unlocked, allowing Huo Yuhao to block Divine Sense detection while carrying the Primordial Beginning Realm.

After unlocking Divine Concealment, Huo Yuhao sent his External Incarnation away to secretly pursue godhood through faith while keeping his true body visible to Tang San. Tang San sensed that something was wrong but could not discover what had happened.

• Huo Yuhao summoned the Ice Empress and told her that Divine Concealment let them begin their plan to secretly make his External Incarnation a god.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the incarnation would gather faith in the Land of the Extreme North and that he could later absorb its energy and Divine Power.
• Huo Yuhao sent his External Incarnation out of Shrek Academy with the Ice Empress under Divine Concealment, while his true body stayed behind to keep Tang San's attention.
• After the incarnation traveled far from Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao concluded that he had deceived Tang San and waited for it to reach the Land of the Extreme North.
• Tang San felt an ominous unease in the God Realm and used Divine Power to investigate, but his calculations revealed nothing.

Huo Yuhao joined Shrek Academy’s mission to hunt the Death God's Messenger bandits and won over the Inner Court disciples with his cooking and defensive Soul Tools. Xuan Zi returned and mocked the gifts, insisting that Soul Tools were unnecessary for the students.

• Tang San sensed a vague fear but failed to deduce Huo Yuhao’s plans because of Divine Concealment, so he dismissed his concerns.
• At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi gave Bei Bei and He Caitou Supervisor’s Rings and announced a mission to kill bandits near the Star Luo Empire and Sun Moon Empire border.
• Xuan Zi appointed Ma Xiaotao to lead the mission, and the group traveled toward the bandits’ mountain hideout using Flying Soul Tools.
• During a meal break, Huo Yuhao cooked a feast that impressed Gongyang Mo, Xi Xi, Ma Xiaotao, and the other students.
• Huo Yuhao distributed fourth-tier defensive Soul Tools, and Ma Xiaotao tested one before urging everyone to take one.
• Xuan Zi suddenly appeared and disparaged Huo Yuhao’s Soul Tools, saying the Inner Court students did not need them and calling the gifts stingy.

Huo Yuhao’s group reached the western border of the Star Luo Empire to begin their mission, after Xuan Zi discouraged the Inner Court Disciples from taking Huo Yuhao’s defensive Soul Tools. Huo Yuhao received a mission to kill the White Tiger Duke, and the Supervision Group departed for its assignment with Dai Yueheng increasingly resentful of him.

• Xuan Zi criticized Huo Yuhao for offering Soul Tools, and Ma Xiaotao challenged him while Wang Dong’er and Xiao Xiao ate all the meat before he could take any.
• Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, Gongyang Mo, and Xi Xi accepted Huo Yuhao’s defensive Soul Tools, while the others declined; Huo Yuhao understood Bei Bei’s decision not to accept one.
• Huo Yuhao and the others flew to the western border of the Star Luo Empire, where General Du Leisi recognized Dai Yueheng and escorted them to the White Tiger Duke.
• Huo Yuhao received a system mission to kill the White Tiger Duke, then held back his hatred while refusing to bow to him; the Duke smoothed over the dispute and provided mission information.
• Huo Yuhao warned Ma Xiaotao and the others to beware of Evil Spirit Masters, and Dai Yueheng led the Supervision Group away while resenting Huo Yuhao’s refusal to bow.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er left White Tiger Duke's Military Camp to speak privately after she noticed his killing intent toward White Tiger Duke. Huo Yuhao decided to use the conversation to show goodwill toward Wang Dong'er and potentially lower Tang San's guard, and he began to offer her a secret.

• Ma Xiaotao and the Shrek Supervision Group departed to eliminate the Evil Spirit Masters, while Huo Yuhao and the others stayed behind at White Tiger Duke's Military Camp.
• Wang Dong'er visited Huo Yuhao and cautiously asked about the killing intent she had seen when he faced White Tiger Duke.
• Huo Yuhao took Wang Dong'er to a secluded mountain top so they could speak without being overheard.
• Huo Yuhao considered using Wang Dong'er's concern to show goodwill and make Tang San lower his guard.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er he would reveal a secret if she promised to keep it.

Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er about his family’s suffering and his blood feud with the White Tiger Duke, explaining why he had kept her at a distance. Wang Dong'er revealed that she was the Clear Sky Sect’s Little Princess and pledged to help him, while Tang San watched their reconciliation and planned to use their relationship to control Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Dong'er what she knew about the White Tiger Duke, then revealed that Dai Huabin was his brother and recounted how the White Tiger Duke had abandoned him and his mother.
• Wang Dong'er comforted Huo Yuhao as he described his mother’s death and explained that he had kept away from her because his revenge against the White Tiger Duke could bring down the Star Luo Empire’s military might.
• Wang Dong'er revealed that she was the Clear Sky Sect’s Little Princess and said she did not mind if Huo Yuhao used her to help with his revenge.
• Huo Yuhao embraced and kissed Wang Dong'er after she promised to face the danger with him.
• Tang San watched them from the God Realm, decided their relationship had advanced his plan, and prepared to give Huo Yuhao a taste of sweetness before trying to control him.

Huo Yuhao stopped Wang Dong'er from rushing into intimacy, wanting to keep their relationship progressing slowly so Tang San would not interfere. After reassuring Wang Dong'er, he received two system missions that threatened to complicate his plans.

• Tang San chose not to place a seal on Wang Dong'er, hoping to keep Huo Yuhao from changing his mind.
• Wang Dong'er moved closer to Huo Yuhao and suggested they become intimate now that they had confirmed their relationship.
• Huo Yuhao stopped her and explained that he wanted to take their relationship step by step.
• Wang Dong'er worried that Huo Yuhao disliked her, but he reassured her and calmed her down.
• The system gave Huo Yuhao missions to win Wang Dong'er over and turn her against Tang San, leaving him frustrated by the demands.

Huo Yuhao accepted Wang Dong'er's feelings, while Xiao Xiao hid her heartbreak after seeing them together. Meanwhile, Xuan Zi skipped the hunt for Evil Spirit Masters and visited Dai Huabin, where wine distracted him from checking on the students.

• Huo Yuhao wrestled with the system's tasks involving Wang Dong'er and decided to take things one step at a time.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er returned to camp holding hands, and Xiao Xiao congratulated them before flying away.
• Xiao Xiao returned to the mountain where Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er had confirmed their relationship and cried over her rejection.
• Xuan Zi went to Dai Huabin's camp instead of joining Ma Xiaotao and the Supervision Group in hunting Evil Spirit Masters.
• Dai Huabin offered Xuan Zi Dragon Bone Wine, and Xuan Zi chose to drink and ask for meat rather than check on the students.

Xuan Zi ignored the Supervision Group’s mission and stayed behind to feast, while Ma Xiaotao led the students into the Mingdou Mountain Range to hunt Evil Spirit Masters. Dai Yueheng pushed the group to advance recklessly, and the chapter ended when a mysterious voice from the cave threatened to turn them into Corpse Slaves.

• Dai Huabin stopped urging Xuan Zi to join the mission and brought him meat and Dragon Bone Wine.
• Ma Xiaotao led the Supervision Group into the Mingdou Mountain Range, following Huo Yuhao’s warning to proceed cautiously.
• Dai Yueheng argued that the students should hurry because Xuan Zi was secretly protecting them, and the group followed his lead.
• The students found fresh footprints and rushed into a cave filled with corpses, where Evil Spirit Masters and bandits were fighting.
• Dai Yueheng ordered the Supervision Group to attack both groups, and a voice from the cave’s depths threatened them in the name of Death God's Messenger.

Ma Xiaotao and the others encountered a corpse-exploding Evil Spirit Master, leaving Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, and Yao Haoxuan badly injured while those protected by Huo Yuhao’s defensive Soul Tools escaped with minor wounds. As the survivors headed to the White Tiger Duke's Barracks, Ma Xiaotao blamed Xuan Zi for telling them to reject the Soul Tools and vowed to report him to the academy.

• The dead bandits exploded, and Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Gongyang Mo used Huo Yuhao’s defensive Soul Tools to shield themselves.
• Dai Yueheng was poisoned, Chen Zifeng lost his right leg, and Yao Haoxuan was mortally wounded in the explosions.
• Ma Xiaotao killed the Evil Spirit Master and scolded Dai Yueheng and the others for ignoring her warnings and refusing the defensive Soul Tools.
• Ma Xiaotao searched for Xuan Zi, then used Huo Yuhao’s Medical Kit to treat the injured before the group set out for the White Tiger Duke's Barracks.
• Chen Zifeng apologized to Ma Xiaotao, who said Xuan Zi was most at fault and vowed to report him to the academy.

Ma Xiaotao blamed Xuan Zi for the Supervision Group’s losses, while the injured group returned to the White Tiger Duke’s camp. Huo Yuhao noticed Xuan Zi was missing, and Du Leisi warned the White Tiger Duke that the group had suffered heavy injuries.

• Ma Xiaotao accused Xuan Zi of abandoning the Supervision Group, and Dai Yueheng refused to defend him.
• Wang Yan urged the group to stop arguing and return to the White Tiger Duke’s camp for treatment.
• Huo Yuhao detected the returning group with Mental Detection and found Bei Bei, Dai Yueheng, and others badly injured, but could not locate Xuan Zi.
• The injured Supervision Group members reached the camp after a difficult journey.
• Du Leisi told the White Tiger Duke that the Supervision Group had completed its mission but suffered serious injuries and heavy losses.