Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao ambushed and subdued Nangong Wan, a Titled Douluo sent to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult branch, then transported him to the Undead Demigod Plane. Meanwhile, Jing Hongchen arranged a Shrek–Sun Moon Academy exchange match, and Huo Yuhao agreed to fight five bouts in return for Rare Metals.

• Nangong Wan arrived at the deserted Holy Spirit Cult branch, identified the elder’s defeat, and prepared to leave.
• Huo Yuhao appeared and used spatial control, intangibility, and a soul-shocking attack to incapacitate Nangong Wan before taking him to the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Ju Zi and Xu Tianran pushed for a combat exchange between Shrek’s students and the Sun Moon Academy, and Jing Hongchen accepted the proposal.
• Jing Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao to represent Shrek, and Huo Yuhao negotiated an appearance fee and additional Rare Metals for each of five victories.

Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan registered for Sun Moon Academy’s sparring match against Huo Yuhao, and Ji Juechen challenged Huo Yuhao to a bout on the arena. Two days later, Huo Yuhao entered the packed Soul Tool Trial Ground as Jing Hongchen began the competition.

• Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen registered for the contest, which offered a place in Mingde Hall, Gold Soul Coins, and a custom soul tool to anyone who defeated a Shrek student.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan in the cafeteria, while Ji Juechen sensed Huo Yuhao’s strength and resolved to fight him.
• After Huo Yuhao finished eating, Ji Juechen stopped him and asked to spar; Huo Yuhao agreed to meet him in the official arena.
• News of the match spread through Sun Moon Academy, and Ju Zi and Ke Ke saw Huo Yuhao demonstrate his Ice Element control during their sparring.
• Two days later, Jing Hongchen opened the competition at the crowded Soul Tool Trial Ground and introduced Huo Yuhao as the Shrek representative.

Huo Yuhao dominated Sun Moon Academy’s exchange competition, defeating Wan Yijun and Shen Musu with little effort and drawing Jing Hongchen’s attention as a potential threat to the Empire. He began his fourth match against Jing Ziyan, with the outcome still undecided.

• Huo Yuhao posted on the Spirit Net that he was fighting an entire academy alone, while Shrek’s exchange students cheered him from the stands.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Wan Yijun by dodging his soul tool barrage, destroying his flying equipment, and knocking him unconscious without summoning his martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao used his displayed five-ring configuration and Ice Emperor’s Fury to overwhelm Shen Musu’s defenses, freeze him, and claim his second victory.
• Jing Hongchen admired Huo Yuhao’s strength and conduct, then resolved that the boy must not be allowed to return to Shrek.
• Huo Yuhao began his fourth match against Jing Ziyan, holding back and letting her attack while the spectators doubted she could defeat him.

Huo Yuhao defeated Jing Ziyan with overwhelming spiritual pressure, then faced Ji Juechen in the fifth match. Ji Juechen’s sword intent was suppressed by Huo Yuhao’s Judgment Sword Intent, but he welcomed the chance to see the path ahead and prepared to strike.

• Jing Ziyan covered the arena in purple mist and ambushed Huo Yuhao with a custom sixth-rank Soul Tool high-explosive bomb, but he blocked it with Ultimate Ice techniques and Ice Emperor's Protection.
• Jing Ziyan followed with her Explosive Nine-Section Whip, but Huo Yuhao’s spiritual intent shattered her mist and crushed her will to fight, securing his victory.
• Jing Hongchen recognized Huo Yuhao’s technique as a powerful fusion of will and Spiritual Power and considered him a future threat to the Empire.
• Ji Juechen entered the arena and asked Huo Yuhao to let him experience the perfect intent he had displayed against Jing Ziyan.
• Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao faced each other from a distance as Ji Juechen raised his sword intent and Huo Yuhao manifested his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Soul, Ice Empress's Sword, and Judgment Sword Intent.
• Huo Yuhao’s presence and sword intent overwhelmed Ji Juechen, who felt the gulf between them but rejoiced at seeing the path ahead and resolved to deliver his own final strike.

Huo Yuhao defeated Ji Juechen in their sparring match, and the pressure helped Ji develop an incomplete Sword Intent domain. Sun Moon Academy accepted Huo Yuhao’s victory, and Jing Hongchen confirmed that the match had been recorded.

• Ji Juechen attacked Huo Yuhao, who used the Ice Soul Sword Domain to suppress him and show him a path toward a domain of his own.
• Ji Juechen drew his Sword Intent inward, formed an incomplete domain he named “Silence. The silence of loneliness,” and launched a final strike.
• Huo Yuhao blocked Ji Juechen’s strike, and their clash shattered Ji Juechen’s Outer Sky Meteorite Sword and left him unable to continue.
• Ji Juechen admitted defeat, and Huo Yuhao offered to replace his sword; Huo Yuhao received the Multiple Sword-Shadow Gu and Sword Sheath Gu achievements.
• Jing Hongchen announced Huo Yuhao as the winner, and the Sun Moon Academy audience applauded the result.
• Jing Hongchen used Soul Power Transmission to ask Lin Jiayi whether the match had been recorded.

After defeating Ji Juechen, Huo Yuhao earned his admiration and strengthened his bonds with Ju Zi and Ke Ke. Ju Zi passed Mingde Hall’s assessment and entered with Huo Yuhao, while Zi Mu resolved to pursue his own advancement.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Ji Juechen, who thanked him, resolved to enter seclusion, and planned to follow him so they could spar again.
• Jing Ziyan agreed to accompany Ji Juechen in future fights after deciding she also needed to improve.
• Ke Ke and Ju Zi celebrated Huo Yuhao’s victory with a meal at his dormitory, and Huo Yuhao recognized that Ju Zi’s feelings for him had become sincere.
• Ju Zi passed Mingde Hall’s assessment, and Xuan Ziwen led her and Huo Yuhao there to begin studying.
• After watching Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao leave, Zi Mu accepted that he had no chance with Ju Zi and decided to take the Mingde Hall assessment.

Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi entered Mingde Hall, where Xuan Ziwen introduced them to its vast research facilities and assigned worktables. While Huo Yuhao secretly studied the academy’s technology, Jing Hongchen ordered him monitored and prepared to attend a banquet hosted by Xu Tianran.

• Xuan Ziwen took Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi underground and explained Mingde Hall’s facilities, surveillance, and research rules.
• Xuan Ziwen assigned the two students adjacent experimental worktables and gave them identity cards and manuals.
• Huo Yuhao planned to spend his materials quota on a Level 7 soul tool longsword for Ji Juechen and used Spiritual Detection to study the worktables and other Soul Tool Masters.
• Jing Hongchen learned that Huo Yuhao was a Level 6 Soul Tool Master, allowed him to keep studying, and told Lin Jiayi to monitor his activities and record his material use and creations.
• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi spent their first day learning the worktables, and Huo Yuhao later sketched one from memory and gained ideas for improving the Spirit Net.

Over half a year at Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao secretly advanced his Soul Tool research while misleading Lin Jiayi about his abilities, and he helped Shrek’s exchange students gain valuable training. After delivering copied blueprints to Xian Lin'er, he continued his concealed work with Xuan Ziwen as Mingde Hall became entangled in a succession struggle.

• Huo Yuhao met He Caitou at Mingde Hall, where He Caitou described his internship and envy of Huo Yuhao's privileges.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek each month to help Gu Yue Na recover, and he received the Beast-Taming Gu achievement reward as their relationship quietly deepened.
• Lin Jiayi mistook Huo Yuhao for a fake genius and He Caitou for Shrek's real hidden talent, earning the Electric Eye Gu achievement reward.
• Huo Yuhao secretly recorded Mingde Hall's Soul Tool research and advanced to Level 7 in knowledge while joining Xuan Ziwen's Sealed Milk Bottle research team.
• Six Shrek exchange students, including He Caitou, passed Mingde Hall's assessment, and Huo Yuhao delivered copied Soul Tool blueprints to Xian Lin'er.

Huo Yuhao completed the Ice and Fire Duality Sword for Ji Juechen as the Body Sect launched a surprise attack on Mingde Hall. While Jing Hongchen and Du Busi’s forces clashed, Huo Yuhao slipped deeper into the facility to loot it.

• Huo Yuhao finished the Level 7 Ice and Fire Duality Sword, which he planned to further develop into a Level 8 Soul Tool for Ji Juechen.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the Body Sect’s attack and confirmed that he had sent Ju Zi, Ke Ke, Xuan Ziwen, and Shrek’s students away from Mingde Hall for safety.
• Four explosions tore through Mingde Hall, killing more than a hundred Soul Engineers before black-clad Body Sect experts emerged and began slaughtering their way through the base.
• Lin Jiayi raised the alarm, and Mingde Hall’s defensive Soul Tools slowed the attackers until Du Busi arrived and melted the dome’s weapons with poison.
• Jing Hongchen confronted Du Busi, and their forces began a fierce battle throughout the ruined base.
• Huo Yuhao remained concealed from the combatants, recorded the battle, and headed into the depths of Mingde Hall.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated Mingde Hall during the Body Sect’s attack, stole the Deification Platform, and copied the core arrays from its giant mecha prototype. After discovering that the captured Sea Soul Beast embryo had an unusual bloodline and seemed to be in a deep slumber rather than undergoing humanoid reincarnation, he prepared to claim it as well.

• Huo Yuhao entered Mingde Hall through the Body Sect’s tunnel, disguised himself as Du Busi, and reached the laboratory holding the giant mecha prototype.
• Huo Yuhao bound the Starlight Sapphire Storage Device to himself and copied the mecha’s core arrays, leaving the prototype behind.
• Huo Yuhao posed as Du Busi, accepted the Deification Platform from a Body Sect Soul Douluo, and ordered him to tell the others to withdraw.
• Huo Yuhao hid the Deification Platform in his Kamui Space and planted undead traces to make Mingde Hall and the Body Sect suspect the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ice Empress, Demon Spirit, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo had a strong bloodline and was likely asleep after consuming a treasure rather than undergoing humanoid reincarnation.

Huo Yuhao escaped the chaos after the Body Sect’s raid on Mingde Hall and secretly freed Bai Xiuxiu, an eighty-thousand-year-old Demon Soul Great White Shark. The Body Sect withdrew without the soul beast embryo, Mingde Hall began repairing its base and covering up its losses, and Bai Xiuxiu thanked Huo Yuhao as he received the Wandering Gu.

• Huo Yuhao finished copying Mingde Hall’s technology and left undead traces to make the Body Sect blame the Holy Spirit Cult for stealing the embryo.
• Du Busi learned that an Evil Soul Master had taken the soul beast embryo, covered the Body Sect’s retreat, and blamed the Holy Spirit Cult after hearing his subordinate’s account.
• Jing Hongchen ordered rescue and repairs, placed bounties on the Body Sect, and confirmed that Test Subject No. 1 and the Shrek exchange students were safe.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory and entered the Kamui Space, where he released Bai Xiuxiu from the Deification Platform.
• Bai Xiuxiu explained that she had eaten a rare immortal seaweed and been mistaken for a hundred-thousand-year soul beast; she trusted Huo Yuhao and thanked him, earning him the Wandering Gu.

Huo Yuhao helped Bai Xiuxiu digest her treasures and considered intervening in the Sea Soul Beast storyline, while the Mingde Hall attack reshaped the continent’s political balance. The chapter left Xu Tianran suspicious of Ju Zi’s relationship with Huo Yuhao and pressing his subordinate for the investigation’s results.

• Huo Yuhao gave Bai Xiuxiu Ultimate Profound Ice Marrow and a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Marrow Bed, then urged her to cultivate before he sent her home.
• Huo Yuhao considered visiting Eastern Sun City to protect Li Ya and her mother, the Sea Princess, and to undermine the Sea God’s influence among the Sea Soul Beasts.
• News of the Body Sect’s attack on Mingde Hall spread, causing high-tier Soul Tool prices to fall, Rare Metal prices to rise, and the Body Sect’s standing to increase.
• The Sun Moon Emperor punished Jing Hongchen for Mingde Hall’s losses, while Xu Tianran’s political influence strengthened and Huo Yuhao learned of his ties to the Holy Spirit Cult through Nangong Wan.
• Xu Tianran’s subordinate reported on Huo Yuhao’s background, and Xu Tianran grew suspicious that Ju Zi might be betraying him before asking for the results of his investigation into her.

Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi into the military and secretly considered using the Holy Spirit Cult to kill Huo Yuhao after his exchange studies. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao reunited with Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, defeated them in a spar, and gave Ji Juechen a new sword.

• Xu Tianran questioned Ju Zi's loyalty after learning she had spent time with Huo Yuhao, then decided to trust her and order her to join the military.
• Xu Tianran instructed his subordinate to monitor Huo Yuhao and report if he planned to return to Shrek Academy, while privately considering an attack staged as the work of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao found Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan visiting Ju Zi and Ke Ke after Ji Juechen recovered from nearly half a year of Deep Meditation.
• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan challenged Huo Yuhao to a fight, and he agreed to face them both at Mingde Hall's testing grounds.
• Huo Yuhao used Soul Tools to defeat Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, then gave Ji Juechen a new longsword.

Huo Yuhao gave Ji Juechen the Liangyi Sword, invited him and several Mingde Hall students to join the Spirit Pagoda, and used the sword to test his Spiritual Metal forging method. Ji Juechen and Ke Ke accepted, Ju Zi postponed her decision, and the sword showed potential to advance further through Ji Juechen’s nurturing.

• Huo Yuhao gave Ji Juechen the Liangyi Sword, whose ice-and-fire power and compatibility with his sword martial soul astonished him.
• Huo Yuhao invited Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan to join the Spirit Pagoda, and both accepted after hearing about Soul Spirits.
• The system awarded Jing Ziyan the Purple Smoke Cicada Gu and recorded Ji Juechen’s achievement reward as accumulating.
• Huo Yuhao invited Ke Ke and Ju Zi to join; Ke Ke accepted, while Ju Zi asked for time to consider.
• Huo Yuhao tested the Liangyi Sword and confirmed that his Fire of Creation had enabled him to make Spiritual Metal, which Ji Juechen could store within his body and might nurture toward Soul Forging metal.

Huo Yuhao showed Xuan Ziwen Sentient Metal and Spiritual Metal, explaining how his research could transform Soul Tool technology and potentially enable Battle Armor. Xuan Ziwen recognized the discovery’s far-reaching implications and was left astonished and eager to learn more.

• Huo Yuhao considered how Spiritual Metal could support Battle Armor and other Soul Tool technologies, and decided Xuan Ziwen should lead further research.
• Huo Yuhao invited Xuan Ziwen to his dormitory, where Xuan Ziwen asked whether he would reveal the technology behind Spirit Net Space.
• Huo Yuhao presented Xuan Ziwen with a piece of Sentient Metal forged from Coldheart Iron Essence and explained how it had gained spirituality.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xuan Ziwen more advanced Spiritual Metal and said the process might be reproducible without his special Soul Skill.
• Xuan Ziwen sensed the metal’s unusual properties and realized Spiritual Metal could revolutionize Soul Tools, then voiced his amazement at Huo Yuhao’s discovery.

Huo Yuhao showed Xuan Ziwen how Ji Juechen’s weapon embodied Spiritual Metal, inspiring them to pursue research together before Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek. That night, Ju Zi confessed her feelings and proposed helping Huo Yuhao become emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, but he turned her down.

• Huo Yuhao projected his memories of Ji Juechen’s Ice and Fire Duality Sword into Xuan Ziwen’s mind, revealing its Spiritual Metal properties.
• Xuan Ziwen realized Spiritual Metal might be artificially replicated and agreed to research it with Huo Yuhao when he returned from Shrek in three months.
• Huo Yuhao received the Artisan Gu as a reward for earning Xuan Ziwen’s trust and inspiring his vision for Soul Tool research.
• Ju Zi visited Huo Yuhao at night, confessed that she had fallen for him, and shared her plan to remain in the Sun Moon Empire despite Xu Tianran’s warning.
• Ju Zi kissed Huo Yuhao and offered to help him ascend the Sun Moon Empire’s throne, but Huo Yuhao said he did not need the throne.

Ju Zi told Huo Yuhao that Xu Tianran planned to use her to take control of the military, but Huo Yuhao urged her to leave the scheme and promised to protect her. After they reconciled, Ju Zi agreed to join him at the Spirit Pagoda, while Huo Yuhao secretly altered Xu Tianran’s memories to make him send Ju Zi to Shrek as an undercover agent.

• Ju Zi explained Xu Tianran’s plans for her and proposed that she help Huo Yuhao replace him once she controlled the military.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Ju Zi’s idea of pretending to marry Xu Tianran and told her that he wanted to save her.
• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi became intimate, and Ju Zi discovered that dual cultivation had improved her cultivation, physique, and martial soul.
• Ju Zi agreed to go to the Spirit Pagoda with Huo Yuhao, and Ke Ke arrived to find the two of them together.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that Xu Tianran had been spying on him and secretly implanted a memory prompting Xu Tianran to send Ju Zi to Shrek as an undercover agent.
• Huo Yuhao received a Purple Crystal Sarira Gu that he expected to help raise his Soul Power Level toward Rank 70.

Huo Yuhao finished his year at Sun Moon Academy, negotiated with Jing Hongchen for rare materials in exchange for Soul Tool blueprints, and set off for Shrek Academy. Jing Hongchen warned him that powerful assassins would attack him on the way back.

• Ju Zi spent her final months at Sun Moon Academy close to Huo Yuhao, while Ke Ke planned to leave with them and Xu Tianran remained unaware of Ju Zi's departure.
• Fan Yu reflected on Huo Yuhao's many Soul Tool blueprints and rapid progress as Huo Yuhao prepared to return to Shrek Academy ahead of the other exchange students.
• Huo Yuhao negotiated with Jing Hongchen and exchanged blueprints for rare metals and Silver Dragon Scales.
• Jing Hongchen accompanied Huo Yuhao toward Maple Leaf City, where Huo Yuhao was expected to meet Shrek's escort.
• Jing Hongchen warned Huo Yuhao that powerful assailants would attempt to assassinate him during the journey back to Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek with Jing Hongchen after learning that rival Sun Moon Empire nobles had hired the Holy Spirit Cult to attack him and test Shrek. He revealed his growing strength and described the Spirit Net Merchant Association’s secret Rare Metal trade and Soul Tool business before preparing to leave with Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er, protected by Mu En.

• Jing Hongchen warned Huo Yuhao that rival noble factions had hired the Holy Spirit Cult to target him, and he escorted him to Maple Leaf Square.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er welcomed Huo Yuhao home, while Jing Hongchen learned that his grandchildren were thriving at Shrek.
• Huo Yuhao’s secret Spirit Net Merchant Association continued buying Rare Metal and selling Soul Tools, with Ah Yin, Nana, and rescued Holy Servants helping run it.
• Huo Yuhao told Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er that he had reached level sixty-nine and warned them of the likely attack on their journey back.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that Mu En was waiting at the hotel, and the group set off to meet him before returning to Shrek.

Huo Yuhao and Shrek’s leaders encountered Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng, who argued that persecution had driven him to become an Evil Soul Master. Elder Mu confronted Zhang Peng, then Long Xiaoyao arrived, leaving the two old friends face to face.

• Huo Yuhao recalled that Yan Shaozhe was descended from Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, then he and the others discussed the Holy Spirit Cult threat with Elder Mu.
• Elder Mu led Huo Yuhao, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Lin'er toward Shrek, where Zhang Peng ambushed them in the sky.
• Zhang Peng recognized Elder Mu and explained that persecution over his Martial Soul had pushed him to join the Holy Spirit Cult and become an Evil Soul Master.
• Xian Lin'er prepared to attack Zhang Peng, but Elder Mu sensed another arrival and called for the newcomer to appear.
• Long Xiaoyao emerged from a spatial crack, and Zhang Peng fled after Long Xiaoyao told him to withdraw.