Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice Soul Power reacted violently with Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire while she carried him toward Sea God Island. Their clash sent them plunging into God of Sea Lake, where Huo Yuhao's cold froze the water and spread outward.

• New students discussed Wang Dong'er's Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul and Ma Xiaotao's interest in Huo Yuhao.
• Mu En recognized Wang Dong'er's identity and chose to overlook her circumstances at Shrek Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire erupted when she embraced Huo Yuhao, and he instinctively used his Ultimate Ice Soul Power to suppress it.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that he had hoped to find an ice-attribute male student to help Ma Xiaotao, but his earlier candidate, Ling Luochen, was also a girl.
• Huo Yuhao tried to resist Ma Xiaotao's advances out of loyalty to Wang Dong'er, and their opposing Soul Power sent them crashing into God of Sea Lake.
• Huo Yuhao's icy chill froze the lake water and spread outward.

Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice froze God of Sea Lake while he and Ma Xiaotao entered deep cultivation together. Yan Shaozhe kept Wang Dong'er from disturbing them and learned that Huo Yuhao's second Martial Soul was the Ice Emperor Scorpion, leaving him baffled by how a human could possess it.

• Huo Yuhao unleashed a terrifying chill that froze God of Sea Lake, and Wang Dong'er rushed toward him in alarm.
• Yan Shaozhe followed Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao's trail, found them beneath the ice in deep cultivation, and worried about whether they could withstand each other's power.
• Wang Dong'er arrived and tried to reach Huo Yuhao, but Yan Shaozhe stopped her and told her to wait until the pair awakened.
• Inner Courtyard disciples gathered at the frozen lake, and Ling Luochen watched Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao with envy before leaving.
• Wang Dong'er told Yan Shaozhe that Huo Yuhao's second Martial Soul was the Ice Emperor Scorpion, and Yan Shaozhe struggled to understand how a human could possess it.

Wang Dong'er stayed by the glacier to cultivate while Huo Yuhao used the Ice Emperor's power to help Ma Xiaotao control her rampaging Evil Fire. As the academy elders gathered and Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo eyed each other over the talented freshmen, Huo Yuhao continued enduring the strain of treating Ma Xiaotao.

• Wang Dong'er refused to leave Huo Yuhao and began tempering her unstable soul power with the glacier's cold aura.
• Yan Shaozhe noticed Wang Dong'er's rapid cultivation and Light Attribute, then wondered about Huo Yuhao's mysterious abilities.
• Qian Duoduo returned with the other elders, and he and Yan Shaozhe privately worried about recruiting the gifted freshmen for their departments.
• Huo Yuhao struggled as the Ice Emperor's Source Soul Power drained away while he suppressed Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire.
• Huo Yuhao shielded himself from Ma Xiaotao's lustful Evil Fire and used his Ultimate Ice soul power to wear away the thoughts and desires within it.

Huo Yuhao helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire and strengthen her body, but his Soul Power left behind Mental Power that influenced her. Outside, Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo argued over Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er before the elders stopped them from fighting.

• Huo Yuhao used Dual Cultivation and a Body Tempering Technique to treat Ma Xiaotao, discovering that her internal organs were fragile.
• Huo Yuhao's Mental Power lingered in Ma Xiaotao and stirred her spring dreams, causing her to cling to him while Wang Dong'er remained in deep cultivation.
• Yan Shaozhe pulled the observing elders away, and Qian Duoduo teased him about Ma Xiaotao marrying Huo Yuhao.
• Yan Shaozhe realized Wang Dong'er had the Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul, while Qian Duoduo plotted to recruit her into the Soul Tool Department.
• Qian Duoduo provoked Yan Shaozhe by bringing up his past and Huo Yuhao, and the two deans nearly fought before the other elders intervened.

Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo debated Huo Yuhao’s relationships and the academy’s students while Huo Yuhao exhausted himself cleansing Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire. Ma Xiaotao woke with the Evil Fire dispelled, found Huo Yuhao asleep in her arms, and wondered how she would repay him.

• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo set aside their rivalry and discussed Wang Dong'er, Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao, and attracting talented students to their departments.
• Qian Duoduo’s teachers inspected Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er's dormitory and discovered their soul tool workshop.
• Huo Yuhao fought Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire with his Soul Power and Mental Power, leaving himself severely depleted as Tian Meng and the Ice Emperor Scorpion watched.
• Huo Yuhao wore away the Evil Fire accumulated in Ma Xiaotao and used its essence, along with his own power, to strengthen her body.
• Ma Xiaotao woke the next morning with her Evil Fire dispelled, kissed the sleeping Huo Yuhao, and wondered how she would repay him.

Ma Xiaotao cleared her Evil Fire with Huo Yuhao’s help, broke through to Rank 70, and grew increasingly attached to him. Wang Dong’er, jealous of Ma Xiaotao’s closeness with Huo Yuhao, took him away as Ma Xiaotao fled in embarrassment and Yan Shaozhe followed her.

• Ma Xiaotao realized she had reached Rank 70 after Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice helped expel her Evil Fire and left its Soul Power and Mental Power within her.
• Yan Shaozhe tried to send Wang Dong’er away so Ma Xiaotao could take Huo Yuhao back, while Qian Duoduo argued that Wang Dong’er should stay with him.
• Wang Dong’er insisted that Huo Yuhao was her best friend, and Ma Xiaotao broke through the glacier while holding him.
• Yan Shaozhe celebrated Ma Xiaotao’s breakthrough as she became the youngest Soul Saint in Shrek’s history.
• Wang Dong’er snatched Huo Yuhao from Ma Xiaotao, who flew back to Sea God Island in embarrassment, and Yan Shaozhe pursued her.
• Wang Dong’er sensed that Ma Xiaotao had drained all of Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power and carried him away on her back.

Qian Duoduo brought the unconscious Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er back to the New Student Dormitory, where he examined Huo Yuhao's soul tool-making equipment and invited him to join the Soul Tool Department. After Qian Duoduo left, Wang Dong'er noticed another woman's perfume on Huo Yuhao and began changing his clothes, leaving him to cling to her while still unconscious.

• Qian Duoduo used his Flying Skateboard to take Wang Dong'er and the unconscious Huo Yuhao back to the New Student Dormitory.
• Qian Duoduo inspected Huo Yuhao's workbench and marveled at the soul tool-making equipment and unfamiliar formations.
• Qian Duoduo gave Wang Dong'er a Soul Tool Department badge and asked her to pass it to Huo Yuhao when he woke up.
• Wang Dong'er stayed with Huo Yuhao after Qian Duoduo left, then noticed the scent of someone else's perfume on him.
• Wang Dong'er stripped Huo Yuhao to change his clothes, and he instinctively hugged her while unconscious.

After spending the night with Wang Dong'er, Huo Yuhao cleaned up their dormitory while she slept. Ma Xiaotao wrestled with her feelings for Huo Yuhao until Yan Shaozhe reassured her that their seven-year age gap was no obstacle, and she flew off to find him.

• Wang Dong'er washed Huo Yuhao, then the two spent the night together behind an isolation Defensive Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao woke exhausted, dressed the sleeping Wang Dong'er, and went to buy her breakfast.
• Ma Xiaotao worried that she had fallen for Huo Yuhao and felt ashamed that her teachers had witnessed her kiss him.
• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that a seven-year age difference meant little for soul masters with long lifespans.
• Ma Xiaotao flew toward Shrek's New Student Dormitory to find Huo Yuhao, while Yan Shaozhe realized he had not told her that Wang Dong'er was a girl.

Ma Xiaotao visited Huo Yuhao to thank him for purging the Evil Fire from her body, while Yan Shaozhe worried about her feelings for Wang Dong'er. Huo Yuhao hid the truth about his exhaustion and redirected Ma Xiaotao's attention to the Evil Fire that remained.

• Yan Shaozhe wondered whether he should explain Wang Dong'er's identity to Ma Xiaotao, then decided to leave the matter to fate.
• Ma Xiaotao flew to the New Student Dormitory, thinking about Huo Yuhao and how she might overcome their age gap by becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao opened the door to find Ma Xiaotao waiting, and told her his pale appearance came from a problem during cultivation.
• Ma Xiaotao thanked Huo Yuhao and offered him pills, then entered his room and noticed Wang Dong'er asleep in bed.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had only expelled the Evil Fire accumulated in Ma Xiaotao's body, and Ma Xiaotao focused on his warning that it had not all been removed.

Huo Yuhao revealed that Ma Xiaotao's evil fire had not been fully expelled, and the discovery led to an intimate encounter between them. Ma Xiaotao then used the Conjoined Cultivation Method with Huo Yuhao again and decided she could keep visiting him for dual cultivation.

• Ma Xiaotao sensed blackish-purple evil fire still emerging from her Fire Phoenix martial soul after reaching Rank 70.
• Huo Yuhao tried to support Ma Xiaotao but collapsed beneath her, and she kissed him while Wang Dong'er slept nearby.
• Ma Xiaotao called Huo Yuhao her little brother and promised to protect him at Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the soul-power guidance he had used was the Conjoined Cultivation Method, and Ma Xiaotao persuaded him to practice it with her again.
• Ma Xiaotao decided she could use her remaining evil fire as a reason to visit Huo Yuhao for dual cultivation.

After Ma Xiaotao drained Huo Yuhao during forced Dual Cultivation, he recovered with a pill and secretly began Dual Cultivation with the sleeping Wang Dong'er. Ma Xiaotao later sat alone by the frozen God of Sea Lake as students played on the glacier.

• Ma Xiaotao left Huo Yuhao's dormitory after draining his soul power and Mental Power through Dual Cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao swallowed the Qi-Replenishing and Blood-Boosting Pill prepared by Yu Xiaogang and began recovering his strength and soul power.
• Huo Yuhao worried about hiding his involvement with Ma Xiaotao from Wang Dong'er and decided to replenish himself through Dual Cultivation with her.
• Huo Yuhao embraced Wang Dong'er and cultivated with her, allowing their compatible soul powers to circulate together.
• Yan Shaozhe lifted the restrictions around the frozen God of Sea Lake, and students flocked to play on the glacier.
• Ma Xiaotao sat alone by the lake while Ling Luochen watched the glacier with a troubled expression.

Ling Luochen confronted Ma Xiaotao and learned that she had reached rank 70 with Huo Yuhao’s help, prompting the two rivals to fight. Meanwhile, Wang Dong'er caught another woman’s perfume on Huo Yuhao and demanded an explanation.

• Ling Luochen reflected on Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice and became curious about him and his effect on Ma Xiaotao.
• Ling Luochen approached Ma Xiaotao, and the two traded insults about Huo Yuhao and their rivalry.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that she had reached rank 70 and credited her breakthrough to Huo Yuhao.
• Ling Luochen attacked Ma Xiaotao with Resisting Ice Ring, and they fought as students fled.
• Gossip spread that Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen were fighting over a man, while Wang Dong'er confronted Huo Yuhao about another woman’s perfume.

After a night of Dual Cultivation, Wang Dong'er confronted Huo Yuhao about Ma Xiaotao's perfume, then made him promise she could accompany him the next time he helped Ma Xiaotao expel her evil fire. Meanwhile, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen sparred at Shrek Academy, and Ling Luochen decided she wanted to seek out Huo Yuhao to learn about Ultimate Ice.

• Wang Dong'er woke beside Huo Yuhao, smelled Ma Xiaotao's perfume on him, and kicked him out of bed in anger.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Ma Xiaotao had visited to expel her evil fire, and Wang Dong'er reluctantly believed him after demanding to be present next time.
• Wang Dong'er asked Huo Yuhao to help her wash up, and he agreed as they prepared to go to class.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen fought across God of Sea Lake while Yan Shaozhe watched and decided to assess Ma Xiaotao before taking her to obtain a seventh soul ring.
• Ling Luochen lost the spar and resolved to seek out Huo Yuhao to learn more about Ultimate Ice.

Huo Yuhao fielded Wang Yan’s questions about his rapid cultivation and unusual soul skills before Ling Luochen asked him how to open her Sea of Consciousness so she could pursue Ultimate Ice cultivation. Wang Dong’er grew jealous of Ling Luochen, while Huo Yuhao considered seeking a single dormitory room.

• Wang Yan questioned Huo Yuhao about reaching Rank 33 with Rank 1 Innate Soul Power, and Huo Yuhao credited his teacher, Yu Xiaogang, for his progress.
• Wang Yan asked Huo Yuhao to take another soul skill test and warned him not to take the wrong path with Ling Luochen.
• Wang Dong’er spotted Ling Luochen and teased Huo Yuhao about his romantic luck, then watched jealously as Ling Luochen approached him.
• Huo Yuhao considered asking Shrek Academy for a single dormitory room and thought about contacting the Soul Tool Department.
• Ling Luochen admitted she did not know how to open her Sea of Consciousness and asked Huo Yuhao for guidance toward cultivating the Ultimate Ice attribute.

Huo Yuhao gave Ling Luochen a basic Mental Power cultivation technique, then discussed Wang Dong'er’s disguise and their plan to stay together after she revealed her identity. They prepared to use their Soul Tool knowledge as leverage with Qian Duoduo while Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao, away in the Star Dou Great Forest, sensed something was amiss.

• Huo Yuhao warned Ling Luochen that his Ultimate Ice cultivation insights might take years to help, then gave her a basic Mental Power technique after she insisted.
• Wang Dong'er questioned Huo Yuhao for sharing the technique, and he explained that it was only an introductory version and that making allies at Shrek Academy would help them.
• Wang Dong'er worried that Wang Yan had guessed she was a girl and feared having to leave Huo Yuhao’s dormitory, so Huo Yuhao proposed asking Qian Duoduo to let them stay together.
• Huo Yuhao planned to use the Soul Tool knowledge their teacher had taught them as leverage with Qian Duoduo, and Wang Dong'er agreed to go with him.
• Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao sneezed in the Star Dou Great Forest, felt uneasy, and decided to change locations while continuing to seek Ma Xiaotao’s Third Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao brought Wang Dong'er to the Soul Tool Department and decided to join after meeting He Caitou and Qian Duoduo. Qian Duoduo promised him Core Disciple status if he passed the Soul Engineer assessment.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er arrived at the nearly empty Soul Tool Department to find Qian Duoduo.
• He Caitou greeted them, and Huo Yuhao showed Qian Duoduo's badge and explained that he wanted to join.
• He Caitou mistook Huo Yuhao for a girl until Huo Yuhao clarified that he was a boy.
• Qian Duoduo stormed out to scold He Caitou, then warmly welcomed Huo Yuhao and asked if he had decided to join.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed his decision, and Qian Duoduo offered him Core Disciple status if he passed the Soul Engineer assessment.
• Qian Duoduo ordered He Caitou to make tea, sending him hurrying off.

Huo Yuhao bargained with Qian Duoduo for a villa and permission for Wang Dong'er to keep living with him, while Wang Dong'er revealed her true identity. The chapter ended with her worrying whether Shrek Academy’s other teachers could also see through her disguise.

• Qian Duoduo asked Huo Yuhao to explain the Semi-automatic Soul Tools, and Huo Yuhao used his cramped dormitory as leverage to request better housing.
• Qian Duoduo offered Huo Yuhao a villa and agreed to let Wang Dong continue living with him, mistaking their relationship for a romance.
• Wang Dong'er revealed herself by removing her disguise, and she offered Qian Duoduo the Soul Bone disguise Soul Tool.
• Qian Duoduo recognized that the disguise Soul Tool had been made from a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and refused to take it, warning that its source was being consumed.
• Wang Dong'er asked whether she and Huo Yuhao could really live together and worried that other Shrek Academy teachers might discover her identity.

Qian Duoduo made Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er Core Disciples of the Soul Tool Department, gave them a villa, and arranged for Huo Yuhao to take a Soul Engineer assessment the next day. He watched them leave, pleased that Huo Yuhao had chosen his department and that Yan Shaozhe would have little ground to object.

• Wang Dong'er asked Qian Duoduo why the teachers had not exposed her true gender, and Qian Duoduo teased her about guarding Huo Yuhao from boys as well as girls.
• Huo Yuhao explained that absorbing soul rings had changed his appearance, and Qian Duoduo brushed off the issue and gave him and Wang Dong'er a villa.
• Qian Duoduo named Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er Core Disciples of the Soul Tool Department and promised to provide Huo Yuhao with cultivation resources and Soul Tool materials.
• Qian Duoduo offered to assess Huo Yuhao's Soul Engineer rank, and Huo Yuhao asked to postpone the assessment until the next day while they moved into the villa.
• Huo Yuhao offered to bring Qian Duoduo a copy of Soul Tool Fundamentals, and Qian Duoduo agreed to accept it.
• Qian Duoduo watched Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er leave, celebrating that Huo Yuhao had chosen his department and that he had followed Mu En's rule about student choice.

Huo Yuhao brought Wang Dong'er to their new home in the boys' dormitory, where her arrival shocked the new students. After the two entered their room, the students recognized her resemblance to Wang Dong and speculated that a man and a woman were competing for Huo Yuhao.

• After Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er left, Dean Qian Duoduo celebrated the Academy's prospects.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er walked hand in hand toward their new home as he looked forward to their life together.
• Huo Yuhao brought Wang Dong'er into the boys' dormitory, where the new students stared, shouted, and whistled at her arrival.
• Wang Dong'er calmly held Huo Yuhao's arm and entered their dormitory with him.
• The new students noticed Wang Dong'er resembled Wang Dong and wondered whether she had stolen Huo Yuhao from him.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er packed their belongings and moved into the neglected villa Qian Duoduo had given them. After arriving to find it dusty and overgrown, they cleaned the master bedroom and made it ready for the night.

• Wang Dong'er teased Huo Yuhao while they packed, and Huo Yuhao stored their belongings in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er left the New Student Dormitory together as the new students watched them.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er arrived at the old villa and found it dusty, dirty, and overgrown.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er used Household Soul Tools to clean the master bedroom and make the bed.