Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao completed the fusion of the Ice Empress’s bloodline essence, reached the second layer of the Taiyi Eye-Brightening Skill, and sealed the white tiger bloodline essence in his Spiritual Sea. Two days later, he concealed his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul and headed west with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to find a second soul ring.

• The Ice Empress’s blood-colored scorpion destroyed the white tiger image, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm guided her bloodline essence into Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao endured the pain as his Spiritual Sea’s golden protection soothed him and the Ice Empress’s bloodline essence healed and transformed his body.
• Huo Yuhao naturally achieved the Original Eye layer of the Taiyi Eye-Brightening Skill, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sealed the white tiger bloodline essence in his Spiritual Sea.
• Two days later, Huo Yuhao dug up his clothes, revealed his new red soul ring and Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul, and asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to seal the Martial Soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shrank the Martial Soul mark to a small scorpion tattoo on Huo Yuhao’s right buttock, then sent him west to find a soul ring while hinting that he would need to explain something to Xu Jie.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy after his trip to the Extreme North Land, and Xu Jie discovered that his appearance had become much more like Huo Yun’er’s. Four days later, Huo Yuhao went with Xu Jie to take the Second-Rank Soul Engineer assessment.

• Huo Yuhao returned to Dorm 202 and found Xu Jie at breakfast in the cafeteria.
• Xu Jie recognized Huo Yuhao’s changed appearance, took him back to the dormitory, and questioned him about what had happened in the Extreme North Land.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xu Jie his second-stage Taiyi Eye-Brightening Skill and his Imitation soul skill, and Xu Jie confirmed that his body remained male.
• Four days later, Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie went to the Soul Guidance Experiment Area, where He Caitou led them to Laboratory No. 12 for Huo Yuhao’s Second-Rank Soul Engineer assessment.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the students fighting in the laboratory were using remotely controlled defensive Soul Guidance Shields.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated his soul guidance skills in an assessment against three Soul Guidance Department students, defeating them with illusions, stealth, and a second-rank Soul Guidance Device. He won but nearly collapsed from the Soul Power required to maintain Mimicry.

• Fan Yu examined Huo Yuhao's single-stroke second-rank core array and brought him into the Soul Guidance Department assessment.
• Huo Yuhao requested to fight without the Mobile Soul Guidance Shield, and Fan Yu matched him against Ye Canying, Tang Suifeng, and Ling Xue.
• Huo Yuhao used Mimicry to evade the students' Soul Light Rays and shot Ling Xue with his Colt Revolver-like Soul Guidance Device, eliminating her.
• Huo Yuhao identified Ye Canying's true body through his Phantom skill and eliminated him with the hilt of his White Tiger Dagger.
• Huo Yuhao shot Tang Suifeng and won the assessment, then staggered from Soul Power exhaustion as Fan Yu caught him.

Huo Yuhao became a Second-Rank Soul Engineer after winning his test, then showed Fan Yu his revolver-like Soul Tool and impressed him with its bullet-based Core Array design. Fan Yu offered to make Huo Yuhao his disciple and support his research, but Huo Yuhao refused, leaving Fan Yu to suspect he had ties to the Body Sect.

• Fan Yu awarded Huo Yuhao a Second-Rank Soul Guidance Medal, giving him and Xu Jie a potential source of income through the academy’s Soul Guidance Metal quota.
• Fan Yu brought Huo Yuhao to his office and examined the revolver-like Soul Tool he had used in the test.
• Fan Yu discovered that the Soul Tool’s Core Array was built into its bullets and praised Huo Yuhao for the novel design.
• Fan Yu asked Huo Yuhao to become his disciple and promised him resources, cultivation support, and a place as an inner academy disciple.
• Huo Yuhao refused to take Fan Yu as his master, saying he needed to return and prove himself, and Fan Yu suspected he had been expelled from the Body Sect.

Huo Yuhao submitted Revolver No. 1's blueprints to Fan Yu, who explained that the academy would award him compensation but would not produce the device because its designs could aid Fixed-Form Soul Guidance Device research. On the final day before school began, Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie went to meet Dugu Lu and were recruited to help register new students while they waited.

• Huo Yuhao gave Fan Yu the Revolver No. 1 blueprints and agreed to receive a one-time reward instead of production dividends.
• Fan Yu questioned Huo Yuhao about Revolver No. 1's design for three days and gave him private lessons while He Caitou watched from the side.
• Huo Yuhao woke Xu Jie and hurried him to Shrek Academy's gate to meet Dugu Lu, who was expected to return that morning.
• Zhong Sheng recognized Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao at the registration area and handed them a Soul Power Crystal and registration forms to help test and register new students.

Xu Jie worried that Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao might be selected for the upcoming Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and resolved to keep Huo Yuhao out of it. After Dugu Lu arrived, the three friends reunited and went to clean his dormitory.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao helped Beibei and Xu Sanshi with registration before Zhong Sheng sent them away.
• Xu Jie recalled the tournament and the danger Huo Yuhao had faced in the original story, then decided to prevent him from participating.
• Dugu Lu arrived, and Xu Jie instinctively threw him over his shoulder when he jumped onto Xu Jie's back.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao helped Dugu Lu into Dormitory one zero eight, where Dugu Lu offered to treat them after they cleaned.

Dugu Lu gave Xu Jie a larger Storage Soul Guidance Device, which Xu Jie transferred to Huo Yuhao in exchange for the Black Ring. Three days later, Xu Jie joined the second-year Core Disciples on their way to the Soul Duel Arena for the academy’s selection tournament.

• Dugu Lu gave Xu Jie a thirty-cubic-meter Storage Soul Guidance Device as thanks for helping improve his cultivation method.
• Xu Jie transferred the Black Ring’s contents into Dugu Lu’s bracelet and gave the bracelet to Huo Yuhao, who returned the Black Ring to Xu Jie.
• Wang Yan called the Core Disciples to attend the selection tournament and also summoned Xu Jie, surprising him and the rest of Class One.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Level 2 Soul Guidance Medal, showing his classmates that he was a Core Disciple of the Soul Guidance Department.
• Wang Yan led Xu Jie and the eight Core Disciples from Class One out, while teachers from the other classes brought their Core Disciples along.
• The three teachers led all thirteen second-year Core Disciples and Xu Jie toward the Soul Duel Arena.

Xu Jie, Dugu Lu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao surrendered from the core disciple selection competition, leaving seven others to win the free-for-all. After Elder Xuan told the eliminated students to leave, Xu Jie realized Xiao Xiao had been left behind and hurried back to take her with them.

• Elder Xuan announced that the selection competition was a no-restrictions free-for-all, with only seven disciples allowed to remain.
• Xu Jie surrendered before the competition began, and Dugu Lu, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao followed him out.
• Huo Yuhao urged He Caitou to join Beibei's group, which formed a team with Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian.
• Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and He Caitou were the final seven remaining disciples.
• When Elder Xuan told the eliminated students to leave, Xu Jie noticed Xiao Xiao had been left behind, and he, Huo Yuhao, and Dugu Lu went back to collect her.

Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, Dugu Lu, and Xiao Xiao endured Zhou Yi’s punishment for surrendering, then returned to their ordinary academy routine after a week of training. Wang Dong and other students left on a special mission connected to the tournament, while Xuan Zi revealed why Shrek’s inner courtyard had fewer than a hundred disciples.

• Zhou Yi made Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, Dugu Lu, and Xiao Xiao run until they collapsed, then gave them Soul-Returning Jade Pills to recover.
• Xu Jie used restorative magic to ease his friends’ fatigue, but claimed it was a special application of his martial soul’s light attribute.
• After a week, Zhou Yi ended the special training, and Wang Dong later left with Wu Feng and Ning Tian on an academy mission.
• Xuan Zi gathered Shrek’s main and reserve teams and explained that every inner courtyard disciple served in the Shrek Inspection Group.

Xuan Zi and Wang Yan led the Shrek Inspection Group’s students by Flying Soul Guidance Device to the Mingdou Mountain Range for their first mission. After arriving, Wang Yan identified the Hand of Death bandits as their target and ordered the students to recover before entering the mountains.

• Xuan Zi persuaded the young Soul Ancestors to join the Shrek Inspection Group and assigned them a mission to eliminate bandits near the border of the Star Luo and Sun Moon Empires.
• He Caitou distributed Flying Soul Guidance Devices, and the official team members helped the reserve members learn to use them.
• Xuan Zi used his own wings and a rope to tow the group at high speed toward the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• The group arrived near the mountains, where most reserve members became sick from the flight, and Xuan Zi left the mission to Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan explained that their target was the Hand of Death, a bandit group of over three hundred led by a Soul King, and told the students to rest and recover before entering the mountains.

Wang Yan led the Shrek Supervisors to track the Hand of Death through the Mingdou Mountain Range and attack their cave hideout. The reserve team entered the bloodied cave and reached the ongoing battle, where Ma Xiaotao’s main team was slaughtering the bandits.

• Wang Yan identified a Warm Orchid Tree stripped of its core and concluded that the Hand of Death was nearby.
• The Shrek Supervisors followed human-made traces through the forest to a hill and equipped their Monitor’s Ring armor before splitting into main and reserve teams.
• Ma Xiaotao led the main team toward the cave while Wang Yan led the reserve team behind them.
• The reserve team found six Hand of Death corpses outside the cave and entered after hearing fighting inside; Ning Tian used her speed and defense boosts.
• Jiang Nannan and the others discovered human skins and an impaled infant hanging in the cave, then continued toward the battle.
• The reserve team reached the fighting and saw Ma Xiaotao’s main team working together to kill the bandits.

The Shrek team was devastated by a chain of corpse explosions triggered by the God of Death's Emissary. As Xuan Zi rescued the survivors from the collapsing cavern, an Evil Soul Master abducted Wang Dong.

• The corpses exploded, blasting the reserve team and official team members with a shockwave and corrosive poisonous blood.
• Wang Yan assessed the casualties: Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, and Yao Haoxuan were gravely wounded or dead, while Xu Sanshi had fallen unconscious after shielding the others.
• Xuan Zi arrived, purified the poisonous blood, and pulled a black-robed Soul King out of the cavern's depths.
• The Evil Soul Master escaped Xuan Zi's grasp, seized a reserve team member, and fled as explosions began collapsing the passage.
• Xuan Zi carried the Shrek survivors out of the cavern, and the reserve team reported that Wang Dong was missing.

Wang Dong’s Sea God’s Mark activated when an Evil Soul Master attacked her, and Tang San’s projection killed him before Xuan Zi arrived. Xuan Zi brought Wang Dong back to the others, where Wang Yan reported that Yao Haoxuan and Xu Sanshi had died.

• Xuan Zi charged to rescue the students while the black-robed Soul King seized Wang Dong and attacked her.
• Wang Dong’s Sea God’s Mark summoned Tang San’s projection, which killed the Soul King and then vanished.
• Tang San sensed the danger had passed, while Wang Dong’s two fathers learned the Mark had activated and set out to find her near the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Xuan Zi returned with the unconscious Wang Dong and asked Wang Yan about the situation.
• Wang Yan told Xuan Zi that Yao Haoxuan and Xu Sanshi had fallen.

After the Shrek Inspection Group suffered heavy casualties, Xuan Zi took responsibility but was demoted rather than allowed to resign. The surviving Shrek students reached Star Luo City and gathered for a pre-tournament meeting, facing the upcoming competition with a depleted team.

• Xuan Zi learned that Yao Haoxuan and Xu Sanshi had died, Chen Zifeng had lost a leg, and several other team members were injured; he ordered the survivors to continue to the tournament.
• Wang Yan led the surviving students toward Star Luo City, while Xuan Zi returned to Sea God Island with the wounded and the bodies.
• After the injured members stabilized, Xuan Zi offered to resign, but Mu En stripped him of his vice-leader position and cut his remuneration in half for three years.
• Shrek's students arrived in Star Luo City and settled into the Star Luo hotel beside Star Luo Plaza.
• Wang Yan gathered the nine students for a pre-tournament meeting and remained confident they could pass the preliminary round.

The Star Luo Emperor opened the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament, and Shrek Academy was drawn against Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in the first elimination match. Twelve days later, Shrek had reached the top sixteen, where its longstanding rival, Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, awaited.

• The Star Luo Emperor officially opened the tournament before the gathered contestants and spectators.
• Shrek Academy entered the venue to loud cheers, and Ma Xiaotao encouraged the reserve team members by reminding them of Shrek's glory.
• The tournament host announced that Shrek Academy would face Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in the opening team battle.
• Ling Luochen and the Heaven Spirit team leader confirmed they were ready, and the referee began the match.
• After twelve days of elimination rounds, Shrek advanced to the top sixteen after Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng recovered from their injuries.
• The draw paired Shrek with Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, delighting the other academies by giving them a chance to compete for second place.

Shrek Team and the Sun Moon Team fought in the tournament, but Ma Rulong’s Sword of Judgment transformed Ma Xiaotao’s flames into dark fire and triggered a terrifying change. Xuan Zi stopped the match, declared Shrek Academy’s defeat, and took the unconscious Ma Xiaotao back to the academy.

• Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Beibei, He Caitou, Ning Tian, and Jiang Nannan faced the Sun Moon Team as the referee began the match.
• Ning Tian boosted the front line while Beibei and He Caitou intercepted the Sun Moon Team’s Soul Tool orbs, and Jiang Nannan shielded Ning Tian with her Invincible Golden Body.
• Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao attacked the Sun Moon Team with their White Tiger Meteor Shower and Phoenix Meteor Shower, then broke through its three defensive barriers.
• Ma Rulong awakened the Sword of Judgment and struck Ma Xiaotao, turning her flames black and causing her evil fire to erupt as a Black Phoenix.
• The Star Luo Emperor and others moved to stop the match, but Xuan Zi broke through the arena barrier, declared Shrek Academy’s defeat, and carried the unconscious Ma Xiaotao away.

Xuan Zi carried the unconscious Ma Xiaotao toward Shrek Academy when two powerful strangers ambushed him and forced him to fight. The long-haired man sent Xuan Zi flying with a heavy blow, leaving Ma Xiaotao’s return to Shrek uncertain.

• Xuan Zi rushed through the sky with Ma Xiaotao while two middle-aged men pursued him through the forest below.
• The teal-haired man used his Slowness Domain to disrupt Xuan Zi’s flight, making him crash into a clearing while he shielded Ma Xiaotao.
• Xuan Zi confronted the two strangers and asked to return Ma Xiaotao to Shrek Academy before fighting, but they refused to let him go.
• The short-haired man and the long-haired man revealed their nine black Soul Rings, and the long-haired man said they wanted to beat Xuan Zi up.
• Xuan Zi fought the long-haired man with punches, but the man matched him and then sent him flying with a hammer blow while activating Slowness Domain.

Eleven Evil Soul Masters abducted Ma Xiaotao after overwhelming Xuan Zi, who returned to Shrek Academy gravely poisoned. Shrek’s tournament defeat shook the academy, and two and a half years later Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao had grown up as the story moved toward its next arc.

• Eleven black-robed Evil Soul Masters attacked and abducted the unconscious Ma Xiaotao while Xuan Zi fought to stop them.
• Four Titled Douluo used black smoke to poison and defeat Xuan Zi, who found Ma Xiaotao missing and flew back to Shrek Academy.
• Wang Yan returned to Shrek with eight students and news that the team had been eliminated in the Round of Sixteen.
• Xu Jie recalled seeing Xuan Zi return with unconscious students and learned that a reserve team member had died in the accident.
• Shrek Academy spent a year rallying its students after the defeat, and two and a half years passed as Huo Yuhao reached Rank 32 while Xu Jie remained Rank 30.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao faced Tang Ya’s accusation that their Colt Revolver mechanism copied the Tang Sect’s hidden weapons, and Xu Jie rejected her demands while insisting the design was independent. Tang Ya left after Xu Jie summoned his Martial Soul to draw a teacher’s attention, and Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao later learned she had withdrawn from school.

• Tang Ya threw Huo Yuhao’s Colt Revolver at him and accused him of copying the Tang Sect’s mechanisms, showing them its broken trigger and a Zhuge Repeating Crossbow.
• Xu Jie denied plagiarism and rejected Tang Ya’s demands that they join the Tang Sect, transfer ownership of the Soul Tool, apologize, or stop making similar mechanisms.
• Tang Ya attacked Xu Jie with a Dragon Beard Needle, and Xu Jie blocked it and released his Ultimate Fire aura and Martial Soul.
• Teacher Zhong Sheng arrived, warned Xu Jie against summoning his Martial Soul recklessly, and watched Tang Ya leave.
• Xu Jie explained to Huo Yuhao that their trigger mechanism differed from the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, and two days later they learned Tang Ya had withdrawn from school.

Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, and Dugu Lu helped Qian Qin prepare for Qian Ran’s martial soul awakening, spending one last day with her and the boy before beginning the ritual. The awakening produced six white wings, and Qian Qin activated a golden Seven-Pointed Star around herself and Qian Ran.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jie and Dugu Lu that he had been selected for the exchange program at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and would leave in three days.
• Xu Jie proposed awakening Qian Ran’s martial soul before Huo Yuhao left, and the three obtained leave to visit the Lonely Cloud Merchant Association.
• Xu Jie tested Qian Ran’s Pure Yang Wuji Art, while Huo Yuhao reassured Qian Qin that he would protect her son.
• Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, Dugu Lu, Qian Qin, and Qian Ran spent the day together in Shrek City before returning to the Underground Chamber.
• Xu Jie used his Sun Martial Soul to create six white wings on Qian Qin, and an ancient longsword in the Star Dou Great Forest briefly shone as a winged figure sensed it.
• Qian Qin summoned her martial soul and activated a golden Seven-Pointed Star around herself and Qian Ran.