Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao defeated Wang Dong's team with a hidden Mental Attack and advanced to the finals, while Mu Jin won her wager with Zhou Yi. Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Bai Yan recovered and prepared for the third-place match, but Zhou Yi confronted them as they left the Assessment Area.

• Huo Yuhao used Soul Shock to eliminate Xiao Xiao and Bai Yan, then forced Wang Dong to concede and advanced to the finals.
• Mu Jin claimed victory in her wager with Zhou Yi and demanded the Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Zhou Yi left to check on her students.
• Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Bai Yan recovered after treatment and encouraged one another to keep working toward third place.
• Zhou Yi waited for the three students outside the Assessment Area and ordered them to come with her.

After their loss to Freshman Class Nine, Wang Dong, Bai Yan, and Xiao Xiao explained Huo Yuhao’s Spirit-type attack to Zhou Yi and prepared for their third-place match. As the final between Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin’s team approached, Qian Duoduo regretted not recruiting Huo Yuhao for the Soul Tool Department and considered ways to interest him in Soul Tools.

• Zhou Yi questioned Wang Dong, Bai Yan, and Xiao Xiao about their defeat, and they described how Huo Yuhao’s mental attacks had knocked them out.
• Zhou Yi told the three to learn from the loss and ordered them to defeat Freshman Class Four in the afternoon’s third-place match.
• Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun favored Huo Yuhao to win the final, while Yan Shaozhe hoped Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu would use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to challenge him.
• Qian Duoduo arrived with Fan Yu and regretted letting Huo Yuhao slip away, since his talents suited the Extreme Solo Soldier Plan.
• Qian Duoduo considered persuading Huo Yuhao to study Soul Tool crafting as the final match was about to begin.

Huo Yuhao faced Dai Huabin’s team in the final of the assessment match and quickly eliminated Cui Yajie when her Charm skill failed against him. Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu then began their White Tiger fusion, leaving Huo Yuhao prepared to confront them.

• Du Weilun took over as referee and started the final between Huo Yuhao’s team and Dai Huabin’s team.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu prepared to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill while Cui Yajie focused her Charm skill on Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao remained unaffected by Cui Yajie’s Charm, and she collapsed before Du Weilun carried her off the field.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu joined their White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat powers to begin their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huo Yuhao watched the fusion without intervening and prepared to crush Dai Huabin’s pride.

Huo Yuhao faced Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger in the freshman final and destroyed the Martial Soul Fusion Skill with a single punch. He was declared champion, while Yan Shaozhe wondered whether Huo Yuhao had used Reign Over the World.

• Qian Duoduo and the spectators worried that Huo Yuhao could not withstand the Hell White Tiger, while Yan Shaozhe confidently told them to keep watching.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu fused into the Hell White Tiger and charged at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao stood his ground and shattered the Hell White Tiger with a single punch, leaving Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu unconscious.
• Du Weilun declared Huo Yuhao the champion and called for a healing teacher to treat the defeated students.
• Yan Shaozhe wondered whether Huo Yuhao’s soul skill had been Reign Over the World.

Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger with a single punch, winning the New Student Assessment as a one-person team. After the academy announced the results and planned the freshman class assignments, Huo Yuhao left and received a Gu Insect reward for defeating Dai Huabin.

• Yan Shaozhe recognized that Huo Yuhao’s punch fused Spiritual Power and Soul Power and showed the beginnings of a self-created combat technique.
• Qian Duoduo lamented that Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul talent made him an ideal Soul Tool candidate, while Yan Shaozhe decided Huo Yuhao should focus on Martial Souls.
• The students and teachers erupted in cheers after Huo Yuhao defeated the Hell White Tiger, and Mu Jin celebrated her class’s championship while Zhou Yi’s confidence faded.
• Du Weilun declared Huo Yuhao the undisputed champion, announced that the assessment had ended, and scheduled the freshman assembly and class assignments for the next morning.
• Huo Yuhao vanished from the Assessment Area, received the Catty Strength Gu achievement reward for defeating Dai Huabin, and anticipated that class assignments would offer more chances to earn achievements.

After the New Student Assessment, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Bai Yan joined the Tang Sect, and Shrek Academy announced the rankings, rewards, Core Disciples, and class assignments. Du Weilun then gave Huo Yuhao his secret champion’s reward: a ten-thousand-year Head Soul Bone.

• Tang Ya accepted Bai Yan and Xiao Xiao into the Tang Sect, and Bai Yan volunteered to study Soul Tools.
• Du Weilun announced that Wang Dong’s team had placed third, Dai Huabin’s team second, and Huo Yuhao had won the assessment.
• The academy promised Spirit Ring assistance to the top three teams and gave Huo Yuhao a confidential additional reward.
• Du Weilun announced the official and provisional Core Disciples, then assigned the new students to four classes.
• Du Weilun took Huo Yuhao to his office and presented him with a ten-thousand-year Head Soul Bone.

Du Weilun gave Huo Yuhao a fifty-thousand-year Spiritual Attribute skull bone as a reward from Yan Shaozhe, and Huo Yuhao considered whether to use it. Huo Yuhao and the spirits in his Spiritual Sea discussed seeking stronger spirit bones and Soul Rings, while he remained wary of the Snow Empress and the God Realm’s schemes.

• Du Weilun explained that the Fear Demon Dragon King skull bone could strengthen Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power and grant an offensive Spiritual Attribute Soul Skill, then gave him a pouch to conceal it and urged him to keep the reward secret.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the skull bone as part of his agreement with Yan Shaozhe but judged the fifty-thousand-year bone only passable compared with a suitable Hundred Thousand Year spirit bone.
• Tian Meng and the Ice Empress agreed that Huo Yuhao should aim for a Hundred Thousand Year bone, and they discussed the possibility of recruiting the Snow Empress for his Second Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that they would pursue the Snow Empress only when they had enough strength, noting that she could instead use a Hundred Thousand Year Snow Lotus to re-cultivate as a human.
• Huo Yuhao recalled the Snow Empress’s fate in the original story and maintained his false relationship with Wang Dong to guard against interference from the God Realm.
• Huo Yuhao used the Fate-Peering Gu as soon as its three-month cooldown ended.

Huo Yuhao used the Fate-Peering Gu and interpreted its revelation as a warning to visit the Star Dou Great Forest in eight months, likely because of an Auspicious Beast. After winning the New Student Assessment, he received a fifty-thousand-year soul bone from Shrek and a separate reward from Mu Jin.

• Huo Yuhao divined with the Fate-Peering Gu and interpreted its revelation as a direction to head to the Star Dou Great Forest eight months later.
• Yan Shaozhe met Du Weilun, learned Huo Yuhao had shown little reaction to receiving the Fear Demon Dragon King Skull Bone, and planned to discuss his future development with him.
• Mu Jin congratulated Huo Yuhao on taking first place among the freshmen and handed him a leather pouch as a prize.

Mu Jin gave Huo Yuhao a low-aged Ice Plains Wolf Spirit Bone, and Huo Yuhao was elected Class One monitor alongside Xiao Xiao. In Class Two, Zhou Yi enforced her authority by throwing students who challenged or delayed her orders out the window, prompting Mu Jin to investigate the commotion.

• Mu Jin gave Huo Yuhao a seven-thousand-year Ice Plains Wolf left-leg Spirit Bone and advised him not to fuse with it yet.
• Wang Yan held Class One monitor elections, and Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao became the Assault System and Control System monitors.
• Xiao Xiao completed the achievement tied to escaping Zhou Yi's class and received a Breath-Concealing Gu.
• Zhou Yi punished thirty late-responding Class Two students by ordering them into the hallway and appointed Xie Huanyue and Bai Yan as monitors.
• Zhou Yi threw Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu out the window after they questioned her decisions.
• Mu Jin arrived at the Freshman Teaching Building and reacted to the commotion from Class Two.

Zhou Yi expelled Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, then fought Mu Jin after the two teachers traded insults. Huo Yuhao intervened just as Zhou Yi's attack was about to hit Mu Jin, and a new achievement task appeared above Zhou Yi.

• Zhou Yi threw Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu out of Class Two and said she would request that the academy transfer them.
• Mu Jin confronted Zhou Yi, and their argument turned into a fight while Wang Yan tried to stop them.
• Mu Jin tore off Zhou Yi's Human Skin Mask, revealing Zhou Yi's youthful appearance to the watching students.
• Zhou Yi's Fire Dragon Martial Soul gained the advantage over Mu Jin's Ghost King Vine, and the fight drew teachers and students outside.
• Huo Yuhao crushed Zhou Yi's incoming Fireball and noticed the new achievement task, “I Am the Class Teacher!”

Huo Yuhao stepped in to defend Mu Jin from Zhou Yi and fought the Soul Emperor in front of the watching students. He left Zhou Yi badly outmatched, while Mu Jin and the crowd realized how formidable her Soul Elder student was.

• Huo Yuhao shielded Mu Jin after shattering Zhou Yi's fireball, and Zhou Yi threatened him for interfering.
• Mu Jin told Huo Yuhao that the dispute was personal, but he refused to back down as the students watched anxiously.
• Zhou Yi attacked Huo Yuhao with Soul Power pressure and a punch, but he matched her strike and secretly damaged her Spiritual Sea with his First Soul Skill.
• Zhou Yi used her Soul Skills and guarded her Spiritual Sea, yet Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and Instant Teleportation to land a punch that sent her flying.
• Mu Jin and the students saw that Huo Yuhao was suppressing Zhou Yi despite being only a Soul Elder.

Huo Yuhao faced Zhou Yi’s desperate attack and revealed his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Soul, astonishing the academy with his Twin Martial Souls and Ultimate Ice. He defeated Zhou Yi by extinguishing her flames and freezing her, while Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun descended to end the confrontation.

• Zhou Yi rose after her defeat and unleashed two Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skills, warning Huo Yuhao to surrender.
• Yan Shaozhe told Du Weilun not to intervene, saying Huo Yuhao’s strength would soon become clear.
• Huo Yuhao revealed the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Soul and used Everfrost Domain to overwhelm Zhou Yi’s Fire Dragon Roar.
• The students and Du Weilun realized Huo Yuhao possessed Twin Martial Souls and Ultimate Ice as his icy current extinguished Zhou Yi’s flames.
• Huo Yuhao froze Zhou Yi into an ice sculpture, and Mu Jin, Dai Huabin, Ning Tian, and Wang Dong reacted to his victory.
• Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun descended to bring the confrontation to an end.

Huo Yuhao defeated Zhou Yi and exposed her abuses, leading Yan Shaozhe to remove her from her teaching post. After the students celebrated her dismissal, Yan Shaozhe asked Huo Yuhao about his satisfaction with his reward and his future Spirit Eyes spirit rings.

• Huo Yuhao froze Zhou Yi after defeating her, and Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun intervened to investigate her treatment of students.
• Zhou Yi defended her actions and accused Huo Yuhao of disrespect, but Mu Jin and the students publicly recounted her abuses.
• Yan Shaozhe suppressed Zhou Yi when she tried to fight and dismissed her from Shrek Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe assigned Mu Jin to take over Class Two temporarily and asked Huo Yuhao to stay behind.
• Yan Shaozhe asked whether Huo Yuhao was satisfied with his New Student Assessment reward and what spirit rings he wanted for his Spirit Eyes.

Huo Yuhao accepted Yan Shaozhe’s offer of a possible Main Team spot in the next Soul Master Tournament if he reached Soul Ancestor, while the academy searched for his desired soul beasts. Back in class, Wang Yan announced Huo Yuhao’s Inner Court admission, and the chapter ended with Ning Tian waiting near his classroom.

• Huo Yuhao requested a thirty-to-forty-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant, Mirror Image Beast, or Silver Brilliant Beast, and Yan Shaozhe promised the academy would search for one.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao a Main Team slot in the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament if he reached Soul Ancestor before selection, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Du Weilun reported Zhou Yi’s resignation, and Yan Shaozhe ordered him to tell Fan Yu what had happened and said he would speak to Qian Duoduo.
• Huo Yuhao triggered the Dragon Appears in the Field achievement and received the healing Gu insect Self-Reliance Gu.
• Huo Yuhao returned to class, where his classmates welcomed him and Wang Yan announced that he had been admitted to Shrek’s Inner Court.
• Wu Feng planned to report Huo Yuhao’s Inner Court admission to Ning Tian, who was waiting near his classroom after lessons.

Ning Tian invited Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to explore elective Soul Tool courses, hoping to strengthen Support System Soul Masters through Soul Tools. Huo Yuhao agreed to go with them, leaving the three classmates on their way to the Soul Tool Department.

• Wu Feng saw Ning Tian engrossed in talking with Huo Yuhao and realized Ning Tian had not noticed her.
• Ning Tian offered Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong application forms for elective Soul Tool courses and invited them to visit the Soul Tool Department.
• Wang Dong considered how Soul Tools could support the Tang Sect’s hidden weapons and make Ning Tian more capable in combat.
• Ning Tian explained that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect supported its disciples learning Soul Tools and that she intended to lead by example.
• Huo Yuhao agreed that the three of them would visit the Soul Tool Department together.

Huo Yuhao brought Wang Dong and Ning Tian to the Soul Tool Department, reassuring them that Fan Yu would not make trouble despite his connection to Zhou Yi. After using Vice Dean Qian Duoduo’s token to enter Experimental Zone No. 12, Huo Yuhao met Fan Yu, who welcomed him, while Ning Tian and Wang Dong expressed interest in taking soul tool electives.

• Huo Yuhao led Wang Dong and Ning Tian to the Soul Tool Testing Area after they learned Fan Yu was the teacher they were supposed to meet.
• Huo Yuhao showed them the token Qian Duoduo had given him, explaining that it allowed him to enter anywhere in the Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao used the token to open Experimental Zone No. 12, where the three encountered loud explosions and a senior student who recognized him.
• The senior student introduced Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian to Fan Yu, who greeted Huo Yuhao warmly.
• Ning Tian said she wanted to take soul tool electives, and Wang Dong agreed to take a look as well.

Fan Yu demonstrated the power of a Fixed Soul Tool Cannon to Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian, hoping to persuade Huo Yuhao to study Soul Tools. After the shot impressed the group, Huo Yuhao prepared to prove his value to the Soul Tool Department.

• Fan Yu summoned He Caitou and asked him to demonstrate a Fixed Soul Tool Cannon for Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian.
• He Caitou loaded the cannon and fired a shell that struck a target a hundred meters away with a powerful blast.
• Fan Yu explained that Fixed Soul Tools used little Soul Power and could greatly amplify attacks against stationary targets, then singled out Huo Yuhao as a potential user.
• Ning Tian recognized how useful Fixed Soul Tools could be to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, while Wang Dong reconsidered her prejudice against Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to demonstrate his worth to the Soul Tool Department, encouraged by the Achievement Task above Fan Yu.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated his exceptional skill with a Fixed Soul Cannon by hitting three fast-moving targets with one shot, astonishing the Soul Tool Department. Fan Yu left to report the display and seek a way to involve Huo Yuhao in the department.

• Huo Yuhao volunteered to try the Fixed Soul Cannon, and Fan Yu agreed while He Caitou explained how to use it.
• Huo Yuhao asked for Moving Targets, and Fan Yu launched three fast-moving discs for him to hit.
• Huo Yuhao used his Spirit Eyes’ enhanced vision to strike all three discs with one cannon shot.
• Ning Tian, He Caitou, and the Soul Tool Department onlookers were stunned, while Wang Dong’s resistance to Soul Tools weakened.
• Huo Yuhao said the feat came from an innate ability of his Martial Soul, and Fan Yu left to report his talent to Dean Xian Lin’er.

Fan Yu told Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er that Huo Yuhao had shown extraordinary skill with a Fixed Soul Tool Cannon, prompting the Soul Tool Department leaders to seek a way to involve him in their program. Xian Lin'er decided to negotiate with Yan Shaozhe so Huo Yuhao could learn to use Soul Tools without being required to make them.

• Fan Yu rushed to Testing Area No. 1 and told Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er that Huo Yuhao had tested a Fixed Soul Tool Cannon.
• Fan Yu explained that Huo Yuhao had hit three moving targets with one shot without using a soul skill, and said he was far more suited than He Caitou to the Extreme Solo Soldier Plan.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo considered the risk of Huo Yuhao studying both Soul Tools and Martial Souls, as well as the Martial Soul Department's likely opposition.
• Xian Lin'er decided to negotiate with Yan Shaozhe so Huo Yuhao could learn to use Soul Tools while He Caitou handled their manufacture.
• Xian Lin'er left to find Yan Shaozhe and told Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo to ensure Huo Yuhao chose Soul Tools as an elective.

Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wang Dong chose soul tools as electives, drawing the Soul Tool Department’s interest. Qian Duoduo assigned Fan Yu to teach them, and their elective courses began.

• Huo Yuhao earned He Caitou’s trust and received the Hidden Stone Gu after learning about his past and unusual Cigar Martial Soul.
• Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu arrived and invited Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian to study soul tools.
• Ning Tian submitted her elective form, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong agreed to take the elective as well.
• Qian Duoduo arranged for He Caitou to get forms for Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong and assigned Fan Yu to teach all three.
• Fan Yu’s teaching achievement gave Huo Yuhao the Four-Flavor Wine Gu, and the three began their soul tool courses.