Chapter Summaries

Han Ruoruo obtained the Azure Water Golden Lion's 90,000-year left arm bone, and Huo Yuhao's group returned safely to Shrek after facing Evil Soul Masters in the Star Dou Great Forest. As Huo Yuhao considered how to spend his vacation, Mu En confronted Xuan Zi for leaving the students unprotected.

• Han Ruoruo received the Azure Water Golden Lion's soul bone after Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan declined it, and Huo Yuhao earned an Immobilization Gu for helping her obtain her eighth soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao's group left the Star Dou Great Forest, carrying the loot from the three defeated Evil Soul Masters, and returned to Shrek before sunset.
• Han Ruoruo and Zhang Lexuan encouraged Huo Yuhao to rest during the remaining vacation, and he considered visiting the Extreme North before returning to cultivation.
• Xuan Zi returned to the Sea God Pavilion and learned from Mu En that Huo Yuhao and the others had already come back safely.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi that his absence had left the students to face three Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters, shocking Xuan Zi.

At the Sea God Pavilion, Shrek Academy responded to the appearance of three powerful Evil Soul Masters while Electrolux discussed ways to create spirit rings with Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao then turned to help Tang Ya with her stagnant cultivation, leaving her and Beibei hopeful that his proposed method would work.

• Xuan Zi and Cai Mei'er reported that Zhang Lexuan, Huo Yuhao, and Han Ruoruo had defeated three foreign Evil Soul Masters in the Star Dou Great Forest, prompting Mu En to order a thorough investigation.
• Electrolux regained the ability to communicate with Huo Yuhao and suggested that artificial spirit rings could be created, then considered Huo Yuhao's ideas about Wisdom Soul Rings and Soul Spirit Contracts.
• Huo Yuhao planned to use Shrek Academy's resources and connections to advance his long-term ambitions and cultivate allies.
• Huo Yuhao met Tang Ya and Beibei, declined Tang Ya's invitation to join the Tang Sect, and asked about her confidence in the Advancement Assessment.
• Tang Ya admitted that her Blue Silver Grass talent had hindered her cultivation, and Huo Yuhao said he had a possible solution.

Huo Yuhao helped Tang Ya confront her fear of her devouring talent by giving her a powerful soul bone, and she accepted his support and taught him the Tang Sect Secret Techniques. He then experimented with his Recall Gu, refined his cultivation, and traveled to the Extreme North to discuss the Soul Spirit Contract with the Snow Empress.

• Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya and Beibei about the reserve team selections and presented Tang Ya with a Twenty Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider Right Leg Bone to help her qualify as a Core Disciple.
• Tang Ya confessed that she feared her Blue Silver Grass's devouring talent would turn her into an Evil Soul Master, and Beibei and Huo Yuhao reassured her that she could control it.
• Tang Ya accepted the soul bone, regained her confidence, and taught Huo Yuhao the Tang Sect Secret Techniques; Huo Yuhao also earned rewards from Tang Ya and Beibei's completed achievements.
• Huo Yuhao used Tian Meng's memories to feed his Five-Turn Recall Gu and tested how recall thoughts could aid memory work, Soul Skill cultivation, and combat deductions.
• Huo Yuhao and Elder Yi developed the Soul Spirit Contract, and Huo Yuhao returned to the Extreme North at Ice Empress's urging to speak with the Snow Empress.

Huo Yuhao and Electrolux created the Soul Spirit Contract, allowing Huo Yuhao to sign Tian Meng and Ice Empress as soul spirits. Huo Yuhao then traveled with Ice Empress to the Extreme North to find Snow Empress, but her absence led him to suspect she had begun re-cultivating as a human.

• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux refined the Soul Spirit Contract and established its first version for soul beasts above a hundred thousand years old who willingly sacrificed themselves.
• Huo Yuhao signed the contract with Tian Meng, creating the continent’s first soul spirit, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and received Effect Amplification Gu.
• Huo Yuhao also contracted Ice Empress, transforming her four-hundred-thousand-year soul ring into an orange-gold one, but chose not to absorb the additional rings she could provide.
• Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao to travel to the Extreme North and persuade Snow Empress to pursue the path to godhood before her seven-hundred-thousand-year limit arrived.
• At the Extreme North’s Core Zone, Ice Empress called for Snow Empress but received no reply, and Huo Yuhao suggested that Snow Empress might have successfully re-cultivated as a human.
• Ice Empress rejected the idea, but Huo Yuhao argued that Snow Empress could have obtained a rare opportunity and proposed asking the Extreme North’s other soul beasts, including Ice Bear King Xiaobai.

Huo Yuhao explored the Extreme North’s Core Circle, learned that Snow Empress had left to undergo human re-cultivation, and searched for a way to help her. A month earlier, Snow Empress had named the Titan Snow Demon King her successor before risking everything on her transformation.

• Huo Yuhao raised his Spirit Eye spirit rings to fifty thousand years, gaining a temporary imprint slot for Spiritual Replication and improving several soul skills.
• Huo Yuhao subdued a charging Extreme North Ice Plains Bear, and Ice Empress questioned it about Snow Empress’s departure and the Titan Snow Demon King’s appointment as successor.
• Huo Yuhao, Ice Empress, and Tianmeng decided to search the Core Circle’s Snow Peak region for heavenly materials that could help Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress gathered the Extreme North’s soul beasts, appointed A-Tai as lord during her seclusion, and promised to protect the region whether she succeeded or failed.
• Snow Empress mourned Ice Empress’s apparent death at a Snow Mountain Lotus Pond and resolved to use a hundred-thousand-year Snow Lotus to re-cultivate as a human and pursue godhood.

Xu Guanzheng and Hu Hao planned to capture Snow Empress during her human re-cultivation, while Huo Yuhao raced to stop them. Huo Yuhao launched a surprise attack on Xu Guanzheng, and Electrolux sensed strange powers mixed with Huo Yuhao’s faint Power of Destiny.

• Xu Guanzheng persuaded Hu Hao to help him capture Snow Empress and promised him forty percent of the proceeds if he distracted the Ice Bear King.
• Snow Empress began her final transformation as Huo Yuhao arrived and sensed that Xu Guanzheng and Hu Hao were closing in on her.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Xu Guanzheng’s Deification Platform and realized Snow Empress was in danger at her weakest stage.
• Huo Yuhao hid himself, gathered power, and attacked Xu Guanzheng with the Fifth Rank Mind-Capturing Gu’s Soul Shockwave.
• Electrolux sensed a faint trace of the Power of Destiny in Huo Yuhao, mixed with three mutually repelling powers.

Huo Yuhao rescued the Snow Empress from Xu Guanzheng’s attempt to capture her with a Deification Platform and helped her face the choice of becoming his Soul Spirit or continuing her re-cultivation. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao asking which path she would choose.

• Xu Guanzheng activated the Deification Platform at Snow Peak Lotus Pond, but Huo Yuhao killed him with a Soul Shockwave before he could capture the Snow Empress Embryo.
• The weakened Snow Empress prepared to fight or end her life when a human appeared, but the Ice Empress arrived with Huo Yuhao and stopped her.
• The Ice Empress explained her bond with Huo Yuhao and recounted the Soul Spirit method, while the Snow Empress learned how the Deification Platform had threatened her.
• Tian Meng joined the conversation, teased the Snow Empress, and argued with the Ice Empress about the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and their past.
• Huo Yuhao offered the Snow Empress two choices: become his Soul Spirit or resume her path of re-cultivation.

Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress formed a Soul Contract so she could re-cultivate as a human while keeping her independence. Snow Empress stabilized her Origin Power and emerged from the Lotus Pond as a six-year-old girl, while Huo Yuhao suspected the Ice God had taken an interest in her.

• Huo Yuhao offered Snow Empress the choice of becoming his Soul Spirit or re-cultivating with his help, and Snow Empress chose to pursue humanity's Path to Godhood.
• Snow Empress swore an oath to cooperate with Huo Yuhao, and, with Electrolux's advice, they signed a Soul Contract to support each other on the Path to Godhood.
• The Soul Contract strengthened both their Spiritual Power and allowed them to stabilize Snow Empress's sealed Origin Power as energy from the Lotus Pond flowed into her.
• Huo Yuhao, Ice Empress, Tian Meng, and Electrolux discussed a god-tier presence connected to Snow Empress, and Huo Yuhao suspected it was the Ice God.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Ice Bear King had killed the Titled Douluo who lured him away, then watched Snow Empress emerge from the Lotus Pond as a six-year-old girl.

Huo Yuhao helped Snow Empress choose her own path, and she accepted the Ice God’s inheritance after he left her at the ruins. He returned to Shrek Academy, where Ma Xiaotao immediately pulled him away to suppress her Evil Fire.

• Huo Yuhao and Ice Empress urged Snow Empress to stay with him for protection, but he led her to the Ice God inheritance ruins instead.
• Snow Empress entered the ruins and agreed to inherit the Ice God’s divine position, accepting the dangers of the trials.
• Huo Yuhao earned the Dark Passage Immortal Gu achievement reward and returned to Shrek Academy with Ling Luocheng.
• Ma Xiaotao rushed to greet Huo Yuhao at the academy entrance and took him away to suppress her Evil Fire, leaving Ling Luocheng behind.

Ling Luocheng left after seeing Ma Xiaotao claim Huo Yuhao, while Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao discussed his new soul skill and her cultivation. When Second Grade began, Huo Yuhao attended Wang Yan’s class, where Wang Dong’er appeared beside him.

• Ling Luocheng left the registration area, inwardly deciding to challenge Ma Xiaotao for Huo Yuhao during the upcoming tournament.
• Ma Xiaotao flew with Huo Yuhao and asked about his forty-five-thousand-year Silver Brilliant Beast soul ring and Spiritual Replication.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that she had reached Soul Power Level 69 and said she planned to compete in the Soul Master Tournament without her evil fire holding her back.
• Huo Yuhao began Second Grade in Class One, where Wang Yan explained the Promotion Assessment and the Soul Beast Zone.
• Wang Yan Dong’er appeared beside Huo Yuhao, drawing the attention of the class.

Wang Dong'er returned to Shrek Academy in her true identity, shocking her classmates and prompting Xiao Xiao to see her as a potential ally in pursuing Huo Yuhao. As Wang Yan prepared the class for the New Student Assessment, Huo Yuhao reflected on how his allies and future team were taking shape, while the assessment was set to begin that afternoon.

• At Clear Sky Fortress, Niu Tian and Titan discussed Wang Dong'er's sudden diligence and her feelings for Huo Yuhao, then agreed to inspect him when he visited the sect.
• Wang Dong'er appeared in class as a girl, revealing her true identity to the students and startling her classmates.
• Xiao Xiao accepted Wang Dong'er's identity and decided she could help her pursue Huo Yuhao, completing a system mission and receiving the Power Accumulation Gu.
• Huo Yuhao considered Xiao Xiao's and Wang Dong'er's progress, Tang Ya's new abilities, and how his future core team was taking shape.
• Wang Yan explained the New Student Assessment rules, dismissed the class early, and told the students to prepare for that afternoon's assessment.

Wang Yan and Mu Jin warned the students about the dangers of the Promotion Assessment, while Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Xiao Xiao focused on their friendship and the upcoming Reserve Team selection. At the Soul Beast Zone, Dai Huabin avoided provoking Huo Yuhao and prepared to prove his strength in the assessment.

• Wang Yan explained that students had to earn more than thirty points by fighting selected soul beasts, and Mu Jin warned that carelessness could lead to casualties.
• Xiao Xiao teased Wang Dong'er about her name and tickled her, prompting Wang Dong'er to retaliate while Huo Yuhao walked ahead.
• Huo Yuhao shared his lavish Inner Court-level meal with Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao and encouraged them to pursue the Reserve Team selection and enter the Inner Court.
• The students gathered at Shrek Academy's Soul Beast Zone to begin the Promotion Assessment in its massive Beast Fighting Arena.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu saw Huo Yuhao and left without confronting him; Dai Huabin had reached level thirty-six and intended to demonstrate his training in the assessment.

Second Grade Class One began its Promotion Assessment in the grand Beast Fighting Arena, where Xiao Xiao earned a high score by controlling a thousand-year Bloodthirsty Demon Bear without defeating it. Yan Shaozhe then invited Huo Yuhao to face a Twenty-Thousand-Year Silver Brilliant Beast for an additional reward.

• Wang Yan warned Huo Yuhao not to use his Simulation Soul Skill to create Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring pressure during the assessment.
• Xiao Xiao volunteered to go first and chose to face a thousand-year soul beast despite having only two Soul Rings.
• Xiao Xiao used her Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron, Nine Phoenixes Bringing Auspiciousness Flute, and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to control and evade the Bloodthirsty Demon Bear until she conceded when her soul power ran low.
• Du Weilun awarded Xiao Xiao 130 points and declared that she had passed the Promotion Assessment.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao an additional reward if he passed a challenge against a Twenty-Thousand-Year Silver Brilliant Beast, and Huo Yuhao agreed.

Huo Yuhao challenged a twenty-thousand-year Silver Brilliant Beast during the Promotion Assessment and revealed that he had become a Soul Ancestor with a ten-thousand-year Fourth Spirit Ring. He defeated the beast with a replicated Phoenix Meteor Shower, and Du Weilun rescued it before it was killed.

• Dai Huabin killed a thousand-year Wind Tiger in one brutal exchange, earned 140 assessment points, and was ordered to compensate the academy within ten days.
• Huo Yuhao challenged a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Yan Shaozhe arranged for him to face the Silver Brilliant Beast despite Gong Changlong's concern for its safety.
• Huo Yuhao revealed four Soul Rings, including a black ten-thousand-year Fourth Ring, shocking Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao used Spatial Control to remain airborne, preventing the Silver Brilliant Beast from Imprinting that ability, and gained a Two-Turn Gu Insect reward tied to Wu Feng's achievement.
• Huo Yuhao replicated Phoenix Meteor Shower, and Du Weilun rescued the struggling Silver Brilliant Beast as the challenge was declared successful.

Huo Yuhao earned full marks in the Promotion Assessment after defeating a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with a copied Phoenix Meteor Shower, then received an invitation to the Inner Court Treasure Appraisal Meeting. As he and Ma Xiaotao headed to the meeting, he prepared to sell his accumulated treasures and wondered what reward Yan Shaozhe had in mind.

• Huo Yuhao defeated the Silver Brilliant Beast with Phoenix Meteor Shower, and Yan Shaozhe awarded him full marks for the assessment.
• Xie Huanyue and Wang Dong'er passed their challenges, and fifty-one students completed the assessment by dusk.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao an invitation and Red-Level VIP card for the Inner Court Treasure Appraisal Meeting, approved Tang Ya as a core disciple, and told Huo Yuhao to compete for a place on the Inner Court Main Team.
• Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao to the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, where he arranged to sell surplus treasures and calculated that his fortune was about twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins.

Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao attended Shrek Academy’s Inner Court Treasure Appraisal Meeting, where they learned the bidding rules and watched rare treasures go up for auction. When Li Ya revealed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone that did not suit Huo Yuhao, he wondered what Yan Shaozhe was hiding.

• Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s third floor and explained that Inner Court Disciples could receive discounts and claim certain treasures based on their VIP rank and academy evaluation.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao chose Room Nine and waited for the annual Inner Court Treasure Appraisal Meeting to begin.
• Li Ya opened the meeting with three Soul Ascension Pills, and Ma Xiaotao explained how the bidding system limited how many items each student could win.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao bid on several items as Soul Tools, pills, treasures, and Soul Bones were presented.
• Li Ya revealed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone that Huo Yuhao recognized as unsuitable for him, leaving him suspicious about Yan Shaozhe’s intentions.

Huo Yuhao tried to bid on the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, but the academy secretly removed his bid and arranged a different treasure for him. Yan Shaozhe showed him a seventy-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone with the Ice Explosion skill, and Huo Yuhao learned it was perfectly suited to his Ultimate Ice martial soul.

• Ma Xiaotao explained that the academy controlled bids on soul bones, while Huo Yuhao used his Red-Level VIP card to try for the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone.
• Dai Yueheng bid twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins, but Elder Lin deleted Huo Yuhao's bid and the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone went unsold.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao settled their purchases, and Ma Xiaotao used her free privilege to waive the cost of her Hundred Year Vermilion Fruit.
• After Ma Xiaotao left, Huo Yuhao used Simulation to reach the Treasure Gathering Pavilion's fourth floor, where Yan Shaozhe showed him a special soul bone priced at nearly fifty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that the seventy-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone carried the Ice Explosion skill and was exceptionally compatible with Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice martial soul.

Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er about a costly Soul Bone that suited her, then competed in Shrek Academy's Main Team preliminaries and overwhelmed the Inner Court students. He and Ma Xiaotao reached the final, where Ma Xiaotao conceded, leaving the selection matches for the seven tournament places to continue.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er that Golden Radiance, a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone suited to her, would appear at the Treasure Appraisal Meeting, and she agreed to prepare for the purchase.
• Yan Shaozhe told Elder Mu that Huo Yuhao had accepted the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone and discussed his rapid cultivation and Ma Xiaotao's return to competition.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao advanced through separate brackets in the Main Team preliminaries, with Huo Yuhao defeating Chu Qingtian and Lie Sha by overwhelming force.
• Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Ling Luocheng, and Gongyang Mo watched Huo Yuhao's victories and worried about the competition for Main Team places.
• Ma Xiaotao conceded the final preliminary match, surprising Chen Zifeng and ending the preliminaries.

Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao advanced from the preliminaries and challenged the previous Shrek Seven Devils for places on the tournament team. Ma Xiaotao chose to fight captain Dai Yueheng, and their battle remained unresolved as their attacks collided.

• Yan Shaozhe announced that the three preliminary qualifiers would challenge the previous reserve team, whose members introduced themselves and their abilities.
• Yan Shaozhe decided to replace Yao Haoxuan and Luo Sheng, while considering Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, and the existing members for the final team.
• After a preliminary qualifier lost to Ling Luocheng, Ma Xiaotao challenged Dai Yueheng for the captain's position.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed her sixty-ninth-level cultivation and unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower as Dai Yueheng strengthened himself and countered with White Tiger Destruction Kill.

Ma Xiaotao defeated Dai Yueheng and secured the captain’s position, after which Huo Yuhao chose to challenge Chen Zifeng rather than Luo Sheng. Huo Yuhao won their duel, bringing the Seven Devils selection to an end.

• Ma Xiaotao overwhelmed Dai Yueheng with Phoenix Meteor Shower and Phoenix Cloud Piercing Strike, and Yan Shaozhe intervened to save him before declaring her the winner.
• Dai Yueheng accepted his defeat and prepared to hand over the captain’s position.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Chen Zifeng, then met his Soul Chasing Sword with the Ice Blade Gu and Ice Empress’s Claws.
• Huo Yuhao shattered Chen Zifeng’s Annihilation attack and charged in, giving Chen a final chance to use his fifth Soul Skill, Kill.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Chen Zifeng in their close-range clash, and Chen admitted defeat as the Seven Devils selection ended.