Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao impressed the crowd by knocking Xu Sanshi back, then sold him grilled fish for two Gold Soul Coins after Tang Ya intervened. On his way back to the dormitories, Huo Yuhao sensed a beautiful woman radiating red Soul Power flying toward him across Sea God Lake.

• Huo Yuhao sent Xu Sanshi flying back with a palm strike, astonishing the students and earning praise from Bei Bei and Tang Ya.
• Xu Sanshi summoned his martial soul to challenge Huo Yuhao again, but Bei Bei stepped in and reminded him that the fish were reserved for Tang Ya.
• Tang Ya took Xu Sanshi's two Gold Soul Coins and gave them to Huo Yuhao in exchange for the grilled fish he wanted for Jiang Nannan.
• Jiang Nannan rejected Xu Sanshi's advances, apologized to Huo Yuhao, and left after he offered to treat her to fish another time.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy and spotted a woman glowing with red Soul Power flying toward him across Sea God Lake.

Huo Yuhao was attacked by a berserk Ma Xiaotao, but the Primordial Beginning Mirror absorbed her evil fire and drained her Soul Power, leaving them both unconscious. After academy staff intervened and gave him a Soul Ascension Pill in exchange for keeping quiet, Huo Yuhao left and considered the mirror’s newfound defensive power.

• Huo Yuhao recognized the charging red-haired woman as Ma Xiaotao and tried to flee, but her evil fire caught up with him while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm remained asleep.
• The Primordial Beginning Mirror absorbed Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire and then drained her Soul Power, causing her to fall unconscious as Huo Yuhao also passed out.
• A white-haired old man and other figures arrived, and Teacher Li healed Huo Yuhao while the old man took Ma Xiaotao away.
• Teacher Li warned Huo Yuhao to forget what he had seen and gave him a green bottle containing a Soul Ascension Pill as compensation.
• Huo Yuhao headed back to the dormitories and realized the Primordial Beginning Mirror could defend him by absorbing an opponent’s power.

Huo Yuhao discovered that the Primordial Beginning Mirror could absorb Ma Xiaotao’s Soul Power but could not convert it to help him cultivate, so he refined a Soul Ascension Pill instead. He reached Soul Power Level 19 by morning and, after classes, invited Bei Bei and Tang Ya to dinner, arranging to include He Caitou as well.

• Huo Yuhao checked the Primordial Beginning Mirror and found that it had absorbed Ma Xiaotao’s Soul Power and evil fire but could not turn the absorbed power into Primordial Beginning Power for him.
• Huo Yuhao swallowed the Soul Ascension Pill and focused on refining its medicinal potency while Wang Dong briefly woke and saw him cultivating through the night.
• Huo Yuhao checked his Soul Power with He Caitou’s Soul Tool and discovered that he had reached Level 19, gaining two levels from the pill after rising three levels from the Holy Spirit Baptism.
• Huo Yuhao decided to strengthen his foundation and convert more of his Soul Power into Primordial Beginning Power before pursuing his second Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao contacted He Caitou and invited Bei Bei and Tang Ya to dinner, intending to repay their kindness and keep his promise.

Ma Xiaotao woke after an unknown expert removed the evil fire and Soul Power that had been consuming her, while her teacher urged her to find a male Soul Master with an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao prepared a lavish meal for Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and He Caitou, and stunned Tang Ya and Bei Bei by revealing his Soul Power Level was nineteen.

• Ma Xiaotao woke in a secret chamber on Lake Heart Island and told her teacher she could not remember who had drained her evil fire and Soul Power.
• Ma Xiaotao's teacher warned her to stop cultivating, but she insisted the evil fire had diminished and wanted to continue.
• Ma Xiaotao's teacher urged her to find a male Soul Master with an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, and she reluctantly agreed after objecting to marrying someone she did not love.
• Huo Yuhao bought plentiful ingredients and began preparing a meal for Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and He Caitou.
• Bei Bei sensed that Huo Yuhao's Soul Power aura had grown stronger and asked his level; Huo Yuhao answered nineteen, leaving Bei Bei and Tang Ya stunned.

Huo Yuhao revealed his rapid cultivation progress to Bei Bei and Tang Ya, then welcomed He Caitou and cooked a lavish meal for everyone. Wang Dong returned, smelled the food, and happily accepted Huo Yuhao’s invitation to join them.

• Huo Yuhao told Bei Bei he had reached Level 19, and Bei Bei verified his soul power with astonishment.
• He Caitou arrived at Huo Yuhao’s dormitory, where Huo Yuhao introduced him to Bei Bei and Tang Ya as Fan Yu’s disciple.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya learned He Caitou thought Huo Yuhao might become Fan Yu’s disciple, while Tang Ya regretted that Huo Yuhao had not joined the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao served a plentiful meal, and Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and He Caitou praised his cooking as they ate.
• Wang Dong returned to the dormitory, grew hungry at the smell of the food, and accepted Huo Yuhao’s invitation to join them.

Wang Dong asked to join the Tang Sect, and Tang Ya set the New Student Competition championship as her test. After the gathering, Bei Bei and Tang Ya discussed Huo Yuhao's distance from Wang Dong, while a mysterious voice announced that Huo Yuhao had unlocked a new mission.

• Wang Dong praised Huo Yuhao's cooking and asked Tang Ya to let her join the Tang Sect so she could learn its hidden weapons.
• Tang Ya consulted Bei Bei and told Wang Dong she could join if she won the New Student Competition championship.
• After the guests left, Bei Bei and Tang Ya speculated that Wang Dong had done something to upset Huo Yuhao, who was now deliberately keeping his distance.
• Wang Dong offered to help Huo Yuhao wash the dishes, but he declined, leaving her to wonder how she had offended him.
• A strange voice announced to Huo Yuhao that he had unlocked a new mission.

Huo Yuhao received a mission to win the New Student Competition and decided to strengthen his Mental Detection and learn about Soul Tools to improve his chances. Tang San resumed watching him, grew angry that he had hit Tang San's daughter, and planned to use cultivation benefits to make Huo Yuhao dependent on her.

• Huo Yuhao received a mission to win the New Student Competition and worried about facing stronger students and their Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• Huo Yuhao decided to seek Soul Tool training from Fan Yu, which could also help him complete another mission.
• Huo Yuhao tested his Mental Detection range at ninety meters and spent several days converting Soul Power into Primordial Beginning Power, increasing the range to ninety-five meters.
• Tang San resumed observing Huo Yuhao and reviewed his recent actions.
• Tang San became furious after seeing Huo Yuhao hit his daughter and decided to tempt him with cultivation benefits so he would grow dependent on her.

Tang San secretly altered Wang Dong’s martial soul to make her Soul Power perfectly compatible with Huo Yuhao’s, hoping to control him through their fusion. Huo Yuhao broke free with the Tian Xuan Gong and Primordial Beginning Power, leaving Tang San stunned.

• Tang San secretly changed Wang Dong’s body and martial soul so her compatibility with Huo Yuhao would reach its maximum.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong collided in the dormitory, triggering an intense Soul Power fusion that increased their cultivation and feelings for each other.
• Huo Yuhao realized the strange influence was dangerous and used the Tian Xuan Gong to disrupt their Soul Power circulation.
• Huo Yuhao asked the system whether Tang San was watching and learned that he was.
• Huo Yuhao used the Primordial Beginning Power to break free from Wang Dong, leaving Tang San confused in the God Realm.

Tang San’s attempt to make Huo Yuhao dependent on Hao Dong Power failed when Huo Yuhao rejected Wang Dong’s offer to cultivate together. Huo Yuhao instead intensified his training, expanded Mental Detection to a diameter of 110 meters, and prepared to complete Fan Yu’s task for a blind box.

• Tang San was shocked when Huo Yuhao broke free of his influence, but assumed his plan would work after Huo Yuhao experienced the benefits of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Wang Dong invited Huo Yuhao to cultivate with her, but Huo Yuhao refused and returned to his bed.
• Tang San realized Huo Yuhao had not become dependent on the fusion skill and, unable to act openly, began planning another way to control him.
• Huo Yuoyu decided Hao Dong Power was too dangerous to cultivate because it could subtly influence his mind and thoughts.
• Huo Yuhao trained for several days, increased Mental Detection’s diameter to 110 meters, and set out to complete Fan Yu’s task for a blind box.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated that his Mental Detection could reach beyond two hundred meters in a focused sector, impressing Zhou Yi and Fan Yu. After Fan Yu explained the Soul Tool Department and offered to take him as a disciple, Huo Yuhao accepted and unlocked a new ability.

• Huo Yuhao left the dormitory and met Zhou Yi at Shrek Academy's gates, where she offered to take him to the Soul Tool Experiment Zone.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated his evolved Mental Detection and Mental Sharing to Zhou Yi and Fan Yu, extending his sensing range beyond two hundred meters ahead.
• Fan Yu praised Huo Yuhao and explained the Soul Tool Department's strengths, weaknesses, and his plans to train powerful Soul Tool Department Battle Soul Masters.
• Fan Yu offered to accept Huo Yuhao as his disciple and gave him the information he needed to make his choice.
• Huo Yuhao bowed and accepted Fan Yu as his master, triggering a mission reward and unlocking Blind Box Level Assessment.

After completing his mission, Huo Yuhao received a C-rank blind box and unlocked the ability to assess blind box rewards. The box contained mysterious Soul Tool crafting notes, and after Fan Yu accepted Huo Yuhao as his closed-door disciple, He Caitou demonstrated his arsenal, strengthening Huo Yuhao’s confidence about the New Student Competition.

• Huo Yuhao used Blind Box Level Assessment to check the ranks of his reward box and several missions.
• Huo Yuhao opened the box and received Mysterious Soul Tool Master's Notes 1, which contained Soul Tool crafting knowledge.
• Fan Yu made Huo Yuhao his second disciple and closed-door disciple, then brought him to meet He Caitou.
• He Caitou welcomed Huo Yuhao as his junior brother and demonstrated how his Soul Tools could destroy a barrage of metal spheres.
• Huo Yuhao admired He Caitou's weapons and decided that mastering Soul Tools would help him win the New Student Competition and earn its B-rank blind box.

Fan Yu began teaching Huo Yuhao about soul tools, explaining their history, strategic importance, and the ranks of Soul Tool Masters. Huo Yuhao impressed Fan Yu with his analysis, while Fan Yu left him with the gap between the Sun Moon Empire and Douluo Continent in soul tool development.

• Fan Yu explained that soul tools relied on Soul Power and could grow more effective in the hands of stronger soul masters, prompting Huo Yuhao to wonder whether his Primordial Beginning Power could enhance them.
• Fan Yu accepted Huo Yuhao as his disciple and described how the Sun Moon Continent's resources and research had helped the Sun Moon Empire advance its soul tools.
• Huo Yuhao argued that the Sun Moon Empire's shortage of the strongest soul masters limited its advantage, while Douluo Continent could catch up in soul tools.
• Fan Yu explained that Soul Tool Masters ranked from level one to ten, but no Level Ten Soul Tool Masters existed and Ninth Level masters were rare.
• Huo Yuhao identified the two paths to becoming an Eighth Level Half Soul Tool Master, and Fan Yu confirmed that Shrek's most advanced practitioner had not yet created a Ninth Level Soul Tool.

Fan Yu taught Huo Yuhao the fundamentals of soul devices and began his practical training by having him forge metal. As Huo Yuhao struggled through the work, the Mysterious Soul Tool Master's Notes gave him the Heaven Shaking Hammer Technique.

• Fan Yu explained soul device rankings, types, components, and how core arrays determined a Soul Tool Master's level.
• Fan Yu demonstrated a Sleeve Cannon and showed Huo Yuhao how soul power and engraved formation arrays powered soul devices.
• Fan Yu gave Huo Yuhao forging equipment and taught him the basics of working iron before leaving him to practice.
• Huo Yuhao hammered metal for over an hour despite his raw, painful hands.
• The Mysterious Soul Tool Master's Notes shone in Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness and placed the Heaven Shaking Hammer Technique in his memories.

Huo Yuhao used the Heaven Shaking Hammer Technique from the Mysterious Soul Tool Master's Notes to improve his forging, impressing Fan Yu and Vice-Dean Qian Duoduo. As he continued practicing, the notes revealed more knowledge about First-Level Soul Tool Masters.

• The Mysterious Soul Tool Master's Notes taught Huo Yuhao the Heaven Shaking Hammer Technique, and he quickly became more skilled at forging.
• Fan Yu told Qian Duoduo that Huo Yuhao was gifted and had a seventy percent chance of succeeding in the Ultimate Soldier project.
• Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu secretly watched Huo Yuhao persist through exhaustion as he practiced blacksmithing.
• Huo Yuhao's hammering suddenly became faster and more powerful, leading Qian Duoduo to conclude that he had grasped a forging technique of his own.
• Qian Duoduo urged Fan Yu to teach Huo Yuhao well, then left while Huo Yuhao continued forging under observation.
• The Mysterious Soul Tool Master's Notes gave Huo Yuhao extensive knowledge about First-Level Soul Tool Masters.

Huo Yuhao spent three months studying Soul Tools under Fan Yu while continuing his Martial Soul Department classes, and his Soul Power and skills improved rapidly. He reached level twenty but held off on obtaining a Soul Ring, and the chapter ended as he prepared to take the Second-Level Soul Tool Master Examination.

• Huo Yuhao found that the Mysterious Soul Tool Master's Notes appeared blank, then continued forging with the knowledge he had gained from them.
• Zhou Yi took Huo Yuhao back to Shrek Academy, explained his study arrangements, and gave him a card to cover his expenses.
• Zhou Yi revealed her true face and explained that Fan Yu was her husband and had entrusted their savings to her.
• Huo Yuhao trained intensely for three months, reached Soul Power Level twenty, and built a close friendship with Jiang Nannan through shared meals.
• Huo Yuhao went to the Soul Tool Experiment Zone to take the Second-Level Soul Tool Master Examination, while Fan Yu and He Caitou waited nervously.

Huo Yuhao passed the Second-Level Soul Tool Master examination after only three months of training, astonishing Fan Yu and He Caitou. He began assembling his first Second-Level Soul Tool and planned to make more for the New Student Competition and its blind box reward.

• Huo Yuhao engraved the final patterns into a Soul Tool core as Fan Yu and He Caitou watched nervously.
• Huo Yuhao infused the finished core with Primordial Beginning Power and showed that it worked, confirming he had passed the examination.
• Fan Yu congratulated Huo Yuhao on becoming a Second-Level Soul Tool Master, while He Caitou celebrated by lifting him into the air.
• Huo Yuhao assembled his prepared shells with the new Soul Tool core and planned to produce more Second-Level Soul Tools for the New Student Competition.

Huo Yuhao completed and tested the Mechanical Wings, a flight and long-range attack Soul Tool that impressed Fan Yu and He Caitou. Fan Yu took it to show Qian Duoduo, while Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory and rested.

• Huo Yuhao finished the Mechanical Wings and tested its low-altitude flight and six laser cannons.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Tool's design to Fan Yu and He Caitou, who were astonished by his ideas.
• He Caitou praised Huo Yuhao as a genius, and Fan Yu said he could transform the entire Soul Tool World.
• Fan Yu asked to borrow the Mechanical Wings to show Qian Duoduo, and Huo Yuhao agreed in hopes of securing future research funding.
• Fan Yu took Huo Yuhao back to Shrek Academy, where Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory to rest.
• Fan Yu arrived at Qian Duoduo's residence with the Mechanical Wings.

Huo Yuhao kept Wang Dong at a distance despite her efforts to get closer, and he challenged Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to reveal what he was hiding. The next morning, Zhou Yi announced the first-year assessment, and Huo Yuhao realized the New Student Competition was about to begin.

• Fan Yu showed Qian Duoduo Huo Yuhao's newly made Second-Level Soul Tool and told him Huo Yuhao had become a Second-Level Soul Tool Master, prompting Qian Duoduo to promise generous support for his research.
• Huo Yuhao refused Wang Dong's invitation to cultivate together, and Wang Dong confronted him about his rejection after describing how she had tried to help him.
• Huo Yuhao left the dormitory to clear his head, where Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered to take him to the Land of the Extreme North for his second Martial Soul and Soul Ring during the holiday.
• Huo Yuhao told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he knew it was hiding something, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm realized Huo Yuhao did not blindly trust or obey him.
• Zhou Yi canceled physical training and announced that the first-year assessment would begin the following day, and Huo Yuhao recognized it as the New Student Competition.

Huo Yuhao learned the Freshman Assessment rules and was assigned to a team with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao. He agreed to practice with Xiao Xiao before the competition, while Wang Dong followed them and waited for Huo Yuhao’s response to Xiao Xiao’s invitation.

• Huo Yuhao eagerly anticipated the New Student Competition, hoping its blind box reward would advance his cultivation.
• Zhou Yi explained the Freshman Assessment’s three-on-three battles, ranking rules, and elimination round.
• Zhou Yi assigned Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to the same team.
• Xiao Xiao asked Huo Yuhao to practice together, and he agreed to go to the training grounds with her.
• Wang Dong followed them, and Xiao Xiao invited her to practice as a team; Huo Yuhao paused before responding.

Huo Yuhao agreed to train with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, then challenged them both to test their abilities. He easily evaded their attacks and knocked Wang Dong back, but she unleashed a powerful wing-blade attack that left Huo Yuhao preparing to defend himself with a Soul Tool.

• Huo Yuhao decided to let Wang Dong join the training and invited Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to attack him together.
• Xiao Xiao explained the abilities of her Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron and Nine Phoenix Auspicious Xiao, while Wang Dong described her combat strengths.
• Wang Dong charged Huo Yuhao, but he used his Eye of Illusory Break to read her movements and evade her attacks.
• Xiao Xiao tried to ambush Huo Yuhao with her cauldron, but he spotted and dodged it, then punched Wang Dong and sent her flying back.
• Wang Dong powered up her front wings and slashed at Huo Yuhao with their sharp golden edges, prompting him to take out a Soul Tool.