Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan taught Freshman Class One that Soul Tools would become essential as Soul Beasts dwindled, urging the students to accept and combine them with their own abilities. Huo Yuhao supported the idea, while he privately expected the Soul Spirit system to offer another path forward once he obtained the Gold of Life.

• Wang Yan introduced Soul Tools and invited the students to share their views, then called on Huo Yuhao when the class stayed silent.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Tools were inevitable and could expand Soul Masters’ combat options, prompting the class to reconsider its distrust of them.
• Wang Yan praised Huo Yuhao’s progressive view and revealed that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong had chosen the Soul Tool elective.
• Wang Yan warned that Soul Beasts were being depleted and argued that Soul Tools would be necessary when suitable Spirit Rings became scarce.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on the cycle linking Soul Masters and Soul Beasts and thought that obtaining the Gold of Life could let Elder Yi research the Soul Spirit system.

Huo Yuhao advanced rapidly in soul tool crafting and became a Second-level Soul Tool Master, prompting the Soul Tool Department to propose making him the focus of its Extreme Solo Soldier Plan. At the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, the Soul Tool and Martial Soul Departments clashed over which department would cultivate him.

• Huo Yuhao successfully engraved a Second-level Soul Power Amplification Core Array, astonishing Fan Yu, Wang Dong, He Caitou, and Ning Tian.
• Fan Yu officially recognized Huo Yuhao as a Second-level Soul Tool Master, while Ning Tian realized he had far outpaced her progress.
• Xian Lin'er convened an emergency Sea God Pavilion Meeting and announced the Soul Tool Department's plan to cultivate Huo Yuhao into Shrek Academy's first Ninth-level Soul Tool Master.
• Qian Duoduo proposed focusing the Extreme Solo Soldier Plan on Huo Yuhao and training He Caitou as an auxiliary Soul Tool Master.
• Yan Shaozhe objected, insisting that the Martial Soul Department had already been entrusted with cultivating Huo Yuhao.

At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Mu En decided Huo Yuhao should continue studying both Martial Souls and Soul Tools, with both departments supporting him equally. The next day, students speculated about the Body Sect’s secrets, and Huo Yuhao denied belonging to it when Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao asked.

• Xian Lin'er and Yan Shaozhe argued over whether Huo Yuhao should focus on Soul Tools or Martial Soul cultivation.
• Mu En ruled that Huo Yuhao could cultivate both paths and receive equal support from both departments, leaving any future choice to Huo Yuhao.
• The Soul Tool Department granted Huo Yuhao Core Disciple status, making him the Academy’s first dual Core Disciple.
• Class One students speculated that the Body Sect recruited children with Body Martial Souls to train them in Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that he did not belong to the Body Sect, and Wang Dong asked whether his Spirit Eyes explained his rapid Soul Tool progress.

Huo Yuhao received the Spirit-Devouring Fierce Blade, a cursed Ranked Engraving Knife, and used his Spiritual Power and Ultimate Ice to refine it despite Xian Lin'er's warnings. The blade's evil intent launched a final counterattack, leaving Huo Yuhao confronting a savage green face formed from its curse.

• Huo Yuhao discussed Body Martial Souls and Soul Tools with Wang Dong, while explaining that automated hydraulic forging had improved work in the Soul Tool Department.
• Xian Lin'er gave Huo Yuhao the Spirit-Devouring Fierce Blade, ranked ninety-ninth, and warned him that all thirty-seven previous owners had met miserable ends.
• Huo Yuhao seized the blade and refined it immediately, telling Xian Lin'er that his Spiritual Power and Ultimate Ice could clear its curse.
• The Fierce Blade devoured Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power and released a vicious aura, but he countered it with his powerful Spiritual Power and Soul Shock.
• The blade let out a mournful cry as a dense green light formed a savage face and launched the curse's final counterattack.

Electrolux purified the cursed Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife, revealing its Gold of Life core and transforming it into the Life's Watch Blade. Huo Yuhao returned to his room and began the fusion Electrolux had prepared, with the outcome still unknown.

• Electrolux used the Power of Purification to remove the curse from the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife and named the transformed weapon Life's Watch Blade.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Xian Lin'er that he had used his Ultimate Power to purify the knife, and she examined it and accepted its new name.
• Xian Lin'er warned Huo Yuhao not to take such risks again, then watched him leave and anticipated that the Soul Tool Department would prosper.
• Huo Yuhao triggered Xian Lin'er's Omen of Great Prosperity achievement and received the Three-Turn Gu Insect Footless Bird.
• Huo Yuhao pressed Life's Watch Blade to his forehead as Electrolux instructed him to stay calm and prepare for their fusion.

Huo Yuhao fused Life's Watch Blade and the Gold of Life with his Space-Time Demon Eye, gaining a third eye, a Second Spiritual Sea, and greatly enhanced spiritual and physical abilities. Elder Yi stabilized his Divine Consciousness within the Eye of Life and departed, leaving Huo Yuhao to consolidate his new power.

• Life's Watch Blade poured the Gold of Life's force into Huo Yuhao, strengthening his body and transforming his Spiritual Sea.
• The blade fused with Huo Yuhao's External Soul Bone, opening a Second Spiritual Sea that Tian Meng expanded with her Spiritual Origin.
• Elder Yi used the Gold of Life to stabilize his Divine Consciousness within Huo Yuhao's new Eye of Life, then left through a door of light.
• Huo Yuhao endured the painful transformation and awoke with a third eye, a Spiritual Sea twice its former size, and Spiritual Power at the level of an ordinary Titled Douluo.
• Elder Yi explained the Gold of Life's properties and told Huo Yuhao to enter seclusion and practice controlling his new abilities.

Huo Yuhao entered Deep Meditation while absorbing the gains from Life's Watch Blade, bringing his soul power close to a breakthrough. Wang Dong and then Zhang Lexuan guarded him as he remained unconscious, with Zhang Lexuan noticing a change in his temperament.

• Huo Yuhao, now a Second-level Soul Tool Master at soul power level thirty-six, entered prolonged Deep Meditation after gaining Life's Watch Blade.
• After Huo Yuhao missed several days of class, the teachers reported his absence, and Fan Yu asked Wang Dong to check on him.
• Wang Dong found Huo Yuhao cultivating in Deep Meditation and stayed outside his room to protect him, resolving to take her own cultivation more seriously.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived and relieved Wang Dong, then observed Huo Yuhao's cold, proud temperament and judged that his breakthrough was near.
• Zhang Lexuan left Huo Yuhao undisturbed and reflected on Wang Dong's unusual closeness to him and the attention he received from other women.

After emerging from seven days of Deep Meditation at Soul Power Level 38, Huo Yuhao shared a meal and heartfelt conversation with Zhang Lexuan, then advanced to level 40 by the end of the academic year. As the holiday began, he prepared to return to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a suitable soul beast with Zhang Lexuan accompanying him.

• Huo Yuhao woke from seven days of Deep Meditation, reached Soul Power Level 38, and thanked Zhang Lexuan for watching over him.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Huo Yuhao to cook for her, and they shared grilled fish and wine by Sea God Lake.
• Zhang Lexuan confided her worries to Huo Yuhao after drinking, triggering his Frost Moon Gu achievement reward.
• Three months later, Huo Yuhao reached Soul Power Level 40, became a third-ranked Soul Engineer, and finished his first academic year at Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao decided to ask Zhang Lexuan to accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a roughly thirty-thousand-year-old Silver Brilliant Beast located in the Core Zone.

Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that he had reached Level 40 and planned to obtain his Fourth Spirit Ring, then informed Yan Shaozhe of his breakthrough. Yan Shaozhe arranged for Xuan Zi to lead Huo Yuhao and Han Ruoruo to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a suitable spirit beast.

• Huo Yuhao offered Wang Dong an umbrella as they walked through the rain, and he declined her invitation to spend the break at her home.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong he had reached Level 40 and urged her to keep cultivating during the break.
• Huo Yuhao reported his breakthrough to Yan Shaozhe, who sensed his strength and praised his exceptional cultivation speed.
• Yan Shaozhe said the academy had found a 30,000-Year Silver Brilliant Beast suited to Huo Yuhao and arranged for Xuan Zi to lead the expedition with Han Ruoruo.

Huo Yuhao joined a Shrek Academy team heading to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings, with Zhang Lexuan leading and Cai Mei'er overseeing the students. After the team introduced themselves and received their formation, they reached the forest and prepared a grilled-fish meal before entering.

• Yan Shaozhe arranged for Zhang Lexuan to lead the Soul Ring expedition and for Xuan Zi to protect the group secretly, and the Sea God Pavilion approved the trip.
• Cai Mei'er, Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, Chu Qingtian, Jiang Nannan, Dugu Yun, and Huo Yuhao introduced themselves and stated their cultivation levels and Soul Ring needs.
• Zhang Lexuan assigned the team’s formation, and the group traveled from Shrek City to the Star Dou Great Forest before nightfall.
• Zhang Lexuan sent Chu Qingtian to catch fish while Huo Yuhao prepared his cooking equipment and showed the others how to clean the fish.
• The group worked together to prepare Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, while Huo Yuhao suspected Xuan Zi had left because he could not resist the temptation to eat it.

Huo Yuhao’s group entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone after finding soul rings for Dugu Yun and Jiang Nannan. They encountered a Swift Thunder Leopard suited to Chu Qingtian, and Han Ruoruo restrained it while Huo Yuhao prepared to attack.

• Zhang Lexuan led the group through the Outer and Mixed Zones, assigning everyone duties and searching for suitable soul beasts.
• Dugu Yun and Jiang Nannan obtained suitable soul rings, while Chu Qingtian’s needed soul beast remained unfound.
• Huo Yuhao secretly used Spiritual Interference to lure suitable soul beasts toward the group as they explored.
• After resting overnight, the group entered the Core Zone on their third day in the forest.
• A fourteen-thousand-year Swift Thunder Leopard attacked Chu Qingtian, and Han Ruoruo trapped it with her Locking Ring Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao teleported toward the immobilized leopard, but Chu Qingtian called for him to spare its head.

Chu Qingtian absorbed a fourteen-thousand-year soul ring, and Zhang Lexuan’s team continued searching the Star Dou Great Forest for soul rings suited to Huo Yuhao, Wu Ming, and Han Ruoruo. They found a forty-thousand-year Earth King for Wu Ming, but as she began absorbing its ring, the chapter hinted that trouble was about to come.

• Chu Qingtian absorbed the Swift Thunder Leopard’s soul ring while the others guarded him.
• Zhang Lexuan led the group toward the Core Zone, and Huo Yuhao asked Tian Meng to search for suitable soul beasts.
• Tian Meng guided the group to a forty-thousand-year Earth King that suited Wu Ming’s fire-attribute martial soul.
• Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo attacked and restrained the Earth King, but its desperate strike stunned Wu Ming and engulfed her in a pillar of fire.
• Huo Yuhao protected Wu Ming with Ice Emperor’s Protection, struck the Earth King into near-death, and let Wu Ming claim its soul ring.
• Wu Ming began absorbing the Earth King’s ring as Zhang Lexuan’s team stood guard, just as the narration warned that something unexpected was coming.

In the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone, Huo Yuhao and his companions waited while Wu Ming absorbed her Soul Ring, and Huo Yuhao discussed his Soul Ring prospects with Tian Meng. Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao that finding his target Soul Beast could take time and suggested he return to the Academy with the other three after Wu Ming finished absorbing her ring.

• Tian Meng praised Zhang Lexuan’s Spiritual Power and suggested Huo Yuhao seek a high-quality Spiritual or Spatial Attribute Soul Beast for his next Soul Ring.
• Tian Meng accidentally provoked the awakened Ice Empress, and Huo Yuhao blocked off his Spiritual Sea to avoid their argument.
• As Wu Ming absorbed her Soul Ring, Zhang Lexuan arranged for the group to spend the night meditating while she and Han Ruoruo kept watch.
• Chu Qingtian thanked Huo Yuhao for helping Wu Ming and protecting the group, then pledged that Huo Yuhao’s business would be his business.
• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao that his target Soul Beast was near the Core Zone’s depths and suggested he return to the Academy with Jiang Nannan, Dugu Yun, and Chu Qingtian once Wu Ming finished absorbing her ring.

Huo Yuhao convinced Zhang Lexuan to let him help choose his own soul beast, then bonded with Han Ruoruo while they stood watch. After Wu Ming became a Soul Saint, the group traveled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Zhang Lexuan sent several exhausted students back to Shrek Academy with Cai Mei'er, leaving Huo Yuhao, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo to continue.

• Huo Yuhao revealed that his Spirit Eyes could project Spiritual Detection, impressing Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo and convincing Zhang Lexuan not to send him away.
• Huo Yuhao volunteered to keep watch with Han Ruoruo and discussed her desired eighth soul ring, while Han Ruoruo teased him about his closeness with Zhang Lexuan.
• Wu Ming successfully absorbed the Earth King's soul ring and became a Soul Saint, then promised to help Huo Yuhao find his fourth soul ring.
• After three days in the Star Dou Great Forest, Zhang Lexuan ordered Wu Ming and Chu Qingtian to escort Jiang Nannan and Dugu Yun back to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao recommended that Cai Mei'er accompany them, and Cai Mei'er agreed, leaving Huo Yuhao, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo to proceed with their search.

Huo Yuhao and his companions searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a Silver Brilliant Beast whose Imprint ability would suit him, then found and defeated one that had mutated beyond its expected strength. The beast was estimated to be at least 45,000 years old, leaving Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo urging Huo Yuhao to wait before absorbing its Soul Ring.

• After Wu Ming and the others departed, Zhang Lexuan proposed that she, Han Ruoruo, and Huo Yuhao search the Core Zone for a 30,000-year Silver Brilliant Beast.
• Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo explained the beast's Imprint ability and why it suited Huo Yuhao, while Tian Meng and Xuan Zi resolved to help him find it.
• Tian Meng detected a likely Silver Brilliant Beast nearby, and the trio found one whose appearance and charge suggested it had mutated and grown far beyond 30,000 years.
• Huo Yuhao, Han Ruoruo, and Zhang Lexuan worked together to injure, restrain, and freeze the Silver Brilliant Beast before it could copy their stronger Soul Skills.
• Zhang Lexuan estimated the beast's Soul Ring at no less than 45,000 years, and she and Han Ruoruo advised Huo Yuhao to wait until he reached Soul King before absorbing it.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Silver Brilliant Beast’s forty-thousand-year spirit ring and became a Soul Ancestor, gaining a powerful replication skill. He left the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Circle with his new ability and a Mind-Capturing Gu reward.

• Huo Yuhao assured Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo that his Silver-level Secondary Awakening and strong body would let him absorb the Silver Brilliant Beast’s spirit ring safely.
• Huo Yuhao killed the Silver Brilliant Beast and absorbed its spirit ring while Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo guarded him.
• Huo Yuhao completed Tian Meng’s achievement, reached level 42, and received the Mind-Capturing Gu.
• Huo Yuhao gained the Fourth Soul Skill Spiritual Replication, which let him copy and store soul skills with limits on storage and daily use.

After Huo Yuhao absorbed the Silver Brilliant Beast’s soul ring, he and Zhang Lexuan searched for a suitable soul beast for Han Ruoruo. An Azure Water Golden Lion nearly ninety thousand years old attacked them at the lake, and the three brought it to the brink of death, leaving Han Ruoruo poised to claim her eighth soul ring.

• Huo Yuhao told Han Ruoruo that his Soul Power had reached level 42 and that he had obtained an Imprint Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan searched for a suitable soul beast for Han Ruoruo, but found none during the day and escaped an encounter with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that Spiritual Replication produced incomplete skills from soul beasts stronger than him and could not copy skills from beasts over one hundred thousand years old.
• An Azure Water Golden Lion nearly ninety thousand years old charged at Huo Yuhao, Zhang Lexuan, and Han Ruoruo beside the lake.
• Zhang Lexuan attacked with Blood Moon Eclipse while Han Ruoruo restrained the beast and Huo Yuhao struck it with Soul Shockwave.
• The three wore down the Azure Water Golden Lion until it collapsed near death, with Han Ruoruo expected to deliver the finishing blow and obtain her eighth soul ring.

Han Ruoruo killed the Azure Water Golden Lion and began absorbing its nearly ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring while Huo Yuhao copied its Azure Water Domain. In the Core Zone, Xuan Zi attacked the Emperor Auspicious Beast and fought Scarlet King; as Han Ruoruo remained occupied, Huo Yuhao sensed Evil Soul Masters nearby.

• Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao helped Han Ruoruo kill the Azure Water Golden Lion, and Han Ruoruo began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Replication to permanently store an incomplete version of the Azure Water Domain Soul Skill.
• Xuan Zi tried to seize the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Scarlet King identified her as the Emperor Auspicious Beast and sent her to warn Di Tian.
• Xuan Zi and Scarlet King began fighting while Xuan Zi resolved to get Huo Yuhao and the others out of the Core Zone.
• After Han Ruoruo continued absorbing her Soul Ring, Huo Yuhao warned Zhang Lexuan that Evil Soul Masters had appeared.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan confronted the Zhongli brothers, three Evil Soul Masters, while Han Ruoruo absorbed her spirit ring. Huo Yuhao killed Zhongli Ren with a surprise attack, and he and Zhang Lexuan froze and finished off the other two.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Zhongli Tian, Zhongli Di, and Zhongli Ren as Evil Soul Masters approaching their group.
• The brothers demanded that Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan help with an operation, then swore to let them leave afterward.
• Huo Yuhao used Instant and Soul Shockwave to kill Zhongli Ren before he could defend himself.
• Zhongli Di and Zhongli Tian released their martial souls, but Huo Yuhao trapped them in his freezing domains.
• Zhang Lexuan unleashed Blood Moon Eclipse and killed the frozen brothers, ending the confrontation.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan defeated three Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters, and the group waited for Han Ruoruo to finish absorbing her Spirit Ring. The chapter ended with everyone sensing a Spirit Bone inside the Azure Water Golden Lion's corpse.

• After the three Evil Soul Masters were confirmed dead, Zhang Lexuan thanked Huo Yuhao for turning the battle in their favor.
• Huo Yuhao recovered his Soul Power while Tian Meng and the Ice Empress praised his tactics, and he gained the Blood Moon Gu achievement reward.
• Cai Mei'er arrived, learned that the group had defeated three Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters, and questioned where Elder Xuan had gone.
• Han Ruoruo completed her Spirit Ring absorption, advanced to Soul Douluo, and named her new control-type soul skill Golden Ascension.
• Cai Mei'er led the group to inspect the Azure Water Golden Lion's corpse, where they sensed a Spirit Bone.