Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao purified the bewitching spiritual power caused by his Succubus Physique, then faced Yan Shaozhe's continued pressure until Mu En intervened. After Yan Shaozhe left, Ma Xiaotao teased Huo Yuhao about their relationship, and Wang Dong angrily returned to the dormitory.

• Huo Yuhao purified a wisp of bewitching spiritual power and discovered he could remove its effect before using it.
• Yan Shaozhe suspected Huo Yuhao had undergone a Body Martial Soul Second Awakening and tried to continue testing him, but Ma Xiaotao defended Huo Yuhao.
• Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to stop interfering, and Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao Jade Bottles before leaving.
• Ma Xiaotao teased Huo Yuhao about being her husband and invited him to spend the weekend with her in the Inner Court.
• Wang Dong angrily went into the dormitory and slammed the door, leaving Huo Yuhao to plan how to coax him.

Huo Yuhao confirmed his relationship with Xiao Xiao and explained his feelings for the other girls before meeting New Student Class One’s new teacher, Wang Yan. After Huo Yuhao shared his observations about the class and taught Wang Yan his exercise routines, Wang Yan planned to test them and arrange for the required equipment.

• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Xiao he wanted to cherish all the girls who cared for him, and his words made her blush.
• Wang Dong swallowed a Soul Ascension Pill after Huo Yuhao told her what it was, while Huo Yuhao postponed taking one and focused on finding an ice-attributed Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Wang Yan had replaced Zhou Yi as New Student Class One’s Class Teacher, while Zhou Yi remained as an assistant after her demotion.
• Wang Yan summoned Huo Yuhao, who apologized for missing class and described his classmates’ situations to the new teacher.
• Huo Yuhao explained the value of overlooked knowledge and taught Wang Yan his exercises, then drew the equipment needed to put them into practice.

Huo Yuhao visited the Inner Court with Ma Xiaotao to pursue the remaining Succubus Physique solidification tasks. After an awkward fall into Sea God Lake, they reached Ma Xiaotao’s room, where Huo Yuhao warmed her with his Soul Power and explained that his unusual effect on women might stem from his Martial Soul.

• Huo Yuhao reviewed the Solidification Task panel and saw that only the Soul Ancestor, Soul King, and Soul Saint tasks remained incomplete.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived at Sea God Lake and carried Huo Yuhao across the water toward the Inner Court.
• Ma Xiaotao touched Huo Yuhao’s eyes, her Soul Power went awry, and they fell into the lake before swimming to shore.
• Ma Xiaotao led Huo Yuhao to her room and hurriedly gathered her scattered clothes into her Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao held Ma Xiaotao and warmed her with his Soul Power, then suggested his Martial Soul might explain her reaction to touching him.

Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that contact with Soul Masters of three ranks would let him fully control his bewitching Martial Soul, then accompanied her to the Inner Court cafeteria. There, he greeted Teacher Zhi Wei and met Lu Xiaoxiao, whose rivalry with Zhi Wei stemmed from a disastrous experiment with her cooking.

• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection Sharing to let Ma Xiaotao speak to him and explained how contact with women strengthened his control over his Martial Soul.
• Ma Xiaotao questioned whether his power was evil and grew jealous when he mentioned seeking contact with Soul Masters in the Inner Court.
• After Ma Xiaotao recovered, she took Huo Yuhao to the Inner Court cafeteria, where meals cost academy points.
• Huo Yuhao greeted Teacher Zhi Wei in the kitchen and met Lu Xiaoxiao, who offered to take him as her disciple.
• Zhi Wei and Lu Xiaoxiao argued over their cooking philosophies, and Ma Xiaotao explained that Zhi Wei's soul skill had weakened food prepared by Lu Xiaoxiao.

Huo Yuhao visited the Inner Court, where Zhi Wei assessed his cooking and urged him to develop his own Culinary Intent. He joined Ma Xiaotao for lunch after asking Zhi Wei to introduce him to a Soul Tool teacher, while Ma Xiaotao’s senior sisters crowded him with questions about their relationship.

• Lu Xiaoxiao stormed off after the Inner Court students preferred Zhi Wei’s cooking, and Zhi Wei offered to assess Huo Yuhao’s progress.
• Ma Xiaotao told Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and the other Inner Court students that Huo Yuhao was her boyfriend, shocking them with his age and reputation.
• Xi Xi shared gossip that Huo Yuhao was a first-year student who had defeated his class teacher, Zhou Yi.
• Zhi Wei praised Huo Yuhao’s cooking skills and advised him to develop a Culinary Intent that expressed his own feelings and experiences.
• Huo Yuhao asked Zhi Wei to introduce him to a Soul Tool teacher, and Zhi Wei told him to meet in the cafeteria that evening.
• Huo Yuhao joined Ma Xiaotao at lunch, where Wu Ming asked how Ma Xiaotao had tricked him into dating her and Han Ruoruo told her not to tease him.

Huo Yuhao explained that his Spirit Eye Martial Soul needed contact with Soul Masters of different ranks to awaken, and Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming agreed to help. After spending the afternoon with Ma Xiaotao, he returned to find Han Ruoruo waiting with Su Bei and Gongyang Mo, who had volunteered to assist him.

• Han Ruoruo introduced herself and Wu Ming to Huo Yuhao, and they shared the dishes he had brought.
• Ma Xiaotao suggested Wu Ming help Huo Yuhao in exchange for his cooking, and he explained that his Martial Soul needed contact with a Soul Saint, Soul King, and Soul Ancestor.
• Han Ruoruo offered to find a Soul King and Soul Ancestor to help Huo Yuhao, while Wu Ming agreed to provide the Soul Saint contact.
• Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao toured the Inner Court together, and their relationship grew more affectionate.
• Han Ruoruo introduced Su Bei and Gongyang Mo, who had volunteered to help Huo Yuhao, then asked which of them would go first.

Huo Yuhao completed the Succubus Physique Solidification Task after the effects of his handshakes stirred Wu Ming and affected the women nearby. He discovered he could control and deactivate the Bewitchment power, but the pink mist around him left Ma Xiaotao, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming dazed.

• Huo Yuhao shook hands with Su Bei and Gongyang Mo for thirty seconds, then Gongyang Mo left feeling that something in him had changed.
• Huo Yuhao held Wu Ming's hand, causing her to become overwhelmed by a burning sensation before Ma Xiaotao caught her.
• Huo Yuhao completed the Solidification Task and found he could turn the pink energy in his Sea of Consciousness on and off and adjust the Bewitchment power.
• Han Ruoruo checked Wu Ming and questioned Ma Xiaotao, who admitted she had known the effect and hoped it might encourage Wu Ming to seek a partner.
• Pink mist spread around Huo Yuhao, and Ma Xiaotao carried the dazed Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming into her room as her own awareness began to fade.

After awakening with a greatly strengthened Succubus Physique and new spiritual attacks, Huo Yuhao left Ma Xiaotao’s dormitory and followed Zhi Wei to meet Xian Lin'er, the dean of Shrek’s Soul Tool Department. Xian Lin'er questioned him about his Martial Soul and Soul Power before preparing to test him.

• Huo Yuhao examined his enhanced physique, appearance, Spirit Eyes, and ability to channel pink spiritual power through his body.
• Huo Yuhao found Ma Xiaotao, Han Ruoruo, and another senior sister asleep together, then used Mental Detection to keep others from disturbing them.
• Huo Yuhao left to meet Zhi Wei and followed him to the Inner Court’s Soul Tool Zone.
• Zhi Wei introduced Huo Yuhao to Xian Lin'er, who asked him to state his name, age, Martial Soul, and rank.
• Huo Yuhao identified himself as a twelve-year-old Spirit Eye user with rank-20 Soul Power, and Xian Lin'er said she would test him.

Huo Yuhao challenged Xian Lin'er's belief that passion was essential for studying Soul Tools and argued that talent, training, effort, and ideas mattered more. After he demonstrated his Mental Detection Sharing, Xian Lin'er was impressed and asked him to become her disciple.

• Xian Lin'er questioned Huo Yuhao's reasons for studying Soul Tools and told him the department was not suitable for someone acting on a whim.
• Huo Yuhao argued that focus and persistence mattered more than passion, pointing out that passion alone could not make Xian Lin'er a Rank 9 Soul Engineer.
• Xian Lin'er challenged Huo Yuhao to prove he had the talent and ideas needed to study Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao activated Spirit Eye Avatar and shared his Mental Detection, showing Xian Lin'er its long range and ability to analyze the Soul Tool core in the laboratory table.
• Xian Lin'er eagerly asked Huo Yuhao to become her disciple.

Huo Yuhao refused Xian Lin'er’s offer to become her disciple until he could seek his sect’s approval, but she treated his acceptance as nearly settled and arranged for him to study with the Soul Tool Department. After learning that his martial soul had changed, Xian Lin'er questioned him about its awakening, while Huo Yuhao remained unsure what its pink glow meant.

• Huo Yuhao declined Xian Lin'er’s offer to teach him and provide a 100,000-Year Soul Ring, saying he needed his sect’s approval.
• Xian Lin'er accepted his answer and gave him a token that granted access to the Soul Tool Department, where she planned to guide him after class.
• Xian Lin'er said she would coordinate with the Martial Soul Department and take Huo Yuhao to the Star Dou Great Forest next weekend to find a soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao said his martial soul had changed that day and asked to wait before choosing a second soul ring.
• Xian Lin'er asked Huo Yuhao to describe the changes, and he selectively explained what had happened.

Huo Yuhao was injured when Xian Lin'er tested his Succubus Physique, but she healed him and was left overwhelmed by its effects. Meanwhile, Ma Xiaotao woke beside Han Ruoruo and another woman, and the three faced what had happened between them.

• Huo Yuhao asked Xian Lin'er to test the Succubus Physique, and her rank-97 Soul Power blast sent him crashing into the office wall.
• Xian Lin'er gave Huo Yuhao special healing medicine, and he recovered before she told him to return to the Soul Tool Department the afternoon after tomorrow.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Xian Lin'er sealed her office with Soul Power and gave in to the lingering effects of the Succubus Physique.
• Ma Xiaotao woke beside Han Ruoruo and Ming'er, remembered what had happened, and pretended to remain asleep.
• Han Ruoruo addressed the others, saying they should not let the incident damage their bond as sisters.

Han Ruoruo and Ma Xiaotao explained to Wu Ming what had happened after she fainted, dispelling Wu Ming’s mistaken belief that Han had seduced them. After learning Ma Xiaotao had been with Huo Yuhao, Han Ruoruo realized the scent on Xiaotao was his and became furious with him.

• Wu Ming woke to find herself, Han Ruoruo, and Ma Xiaotao entangled, then wrongly concluded Han had drugged them and confessed she would join Han’s plan.
• Han Ruoruo proposed that the three of them pretend nothing had happened, but Wu Ming demanded that Han take responsibility for her.
• Han Ruoruo explained what had really happened while Wu Ming was unconscious, and Wu Ming retreated to the corner in embarrassment.
• Ma Xiaotao told Han Ruoruo that the fishy scent was not hers, and Han realized it came from Huo Yuhao.
• Ma Xiaotao confirmed she and Huo Yuhao had been together, and Han Ruoruo became enraged with him.

Wu Ming, Han Ruoruo, and Ma Xiaotao confronted Huo Yuhao over his failure to explain the effects of his ability and the incident that entangled them. After they beat him, he rejected Ma Xiaotao’s help and said he had anger of his own to vent.

• Wu Ming, mortified by her remark about Huo Yuhao’s ability, set out to beat him, and Han Ruoruo and Ma Xiaotao joined her.
• The three women waited for Huo Yuhao outside the Soul Tool Department, where Wu Ming attacked him and Han Ruoruo bound him with her Shaking Gold Rope.
• Han Ruoruo made Huo Yuhao accept responsibility for deceiving Wu Ming and seeing the women exposed, then Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo struck him while Ma Xiaotao gave him a gentle kick.
• Ma Xiaotao offered to help Huo Yuhao recover, but he stood up without her assistance, and Wu Ming rebuked him for rejecting her kindness.
• Huo Yuhao stared coldly at Han Ruoruo and said he could no longer keep his own anger bottled up.

Huo Yuhao confronted Ma Xiaotao about her closeness with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming, then softened his rejection into a promise to take their relationship slowly. He returned to the dormitory with Ma Xiaotao and embraced Wang Dong, leaving Ma Xiaotao determined to win him back.

• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that seeing her tangled up with Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo had shattered his image of her, but suggested they take their relationship slowly.
• Ma Xiaotao, Wu Ming, and Han Ruoruo felt guilty after Huo Yuhao challenged them and questioned their actions.
• Ma Xiaotao carried the injured Huo Yuhao across Sea God Lake to the freshman dormitory despite his protests.
• Wang Dong greeted Huo Yuhao, and he embraced her and told her she was still the best.
• Ma Xiaotao left dejected but resolved to make up for disappointing Huo Yuhao and win him over.

Huo Yuhao used Ma Xiaotao’s guilt to draw her closer while spending the next half month recovering, studying under Xian Lin'er, and growing more intimate with Wang Dong. By the end, Ma Xiaotao had become accustomed to his aloof-but-gentle treatment, while his relationships with the other girls continued to develop.

• Huo Yuhao reflected on how he had confronted Ma Xiaotao and left her a chance to regain his affection by treating him well.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong shared a tender kiss and cuddled after he gained control of his Succubus Physique.
• Huo Yuhao recovered from his injuries, studied Soul Tools and combat under Xian Lin'er, and repeatedly used his seductive spiritual power on Zhou Yi when she provoked him.
• Xu San Shi delivered the Xuan Water Pill, but Huo Yuhao declined his because his aptitude had already surpassed Innate Full Soul Power.
• Over the half month, Huo Yuhao spent time with Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, and Ma Xiaotao as their relationships shifted around him.
• Ma Xiaotao grew accustomed to Huo Yuhao’s cool manner and occasional concern, unaware that she had fallen into the trap he had set for her.

Huo Yuhao received the Hive Mind ability and its task to build a faction with a Titled Douluo and ten promising candidates. He recruited Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao into his Spirit Pagoda and tested Mind Collection, leaving them exasperated by his teasing and flirtatious logic.

• Huo Yuhao learned that Hive Mind granted loyalty from willing faction members, along with Mind Collection and Power Collection, and received a task to recruit one Titled Douluo and ten likely future Titled Douluos.
• Huo Yuhao invited Wang Dong to join his faction, and she accepted as its second member; Xiao Xiao then asked about the faction and joined as well.
• Huo Yuhao named the faction the Spirit Pagoda and noted that Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao advanced his recruitment task as promising future Titled Douluos.
• Huo Yuhao borrowed Wang Dong's mental capacity and tested it with riddles, while Wang Dong alternated between confusion and correct answers.
• Huo Yuhao defended his desire for multiple girlfriends with a twisted probability argument, and Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao dismissed his reasoning.

Huo Yuhao devised a plan to establish a student organization at Shrek Academy as a way to complete his task of building a force. He named it the Soul Hall and declared himself its Hall Master, despite Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao objecting to its titles.

• Huo Yuhao struggled to figure out how to recruit members and powerful future Titled Douluo for his force.
• Huo Yuhao realized that a Student Union could recruit students and invite Titled Douluo teachers to serve as Guidance Teachers.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the student organization could help students and assist with academy management, while Xiao Xiao raised concerns about approval and authority.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to establish the organization first and planned to ask Xiao Ya-jie and the others for advice over hot pot the next day.
• Huo Yuhao named the organization the Soul Hall, assigned grand titles to its leaders and members, and refused to let Wang Dong or Xiao Xiao opt out.

Huo Yuhao drafted the Soul Hall’s charter while growing closer to Wang Dong, who proposed reclaiming what Ma Xiaotao had taken from her. The next day, Tang Ya revealed that Bei Bei seemed to have fallen for Xu San Shi, and Huo Yuhao shocked her by explaining that Wang Dong was a girl in disguise.

• Huo Yuhao wrote the Soul Hall’s slogan, structure, and regulations while Wang Dong watched beside him.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong kissed, and Wang Dong offered to go to Ma Xiaotao’s dormitory to prove she could take back what she had lost.
• Huo Yuhao met Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao at the school gates, and Tang Ya pulled him along to get food.
• Huo Yuhao learned through Mental Sharing that Tang Ya suspected Bei Bei and Xu San Shi had gotten together, and he promised to support her.
• Tang Ya questioned Huo Yuhao about Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao revealed that Wang Dong was a girl disguised as a boy.

Huo Yuhao manipulated Tang Ya into recognizing her growing feelings for him while Bei Bei secretly followed them. Tang Ya refused to become Huo Yuhao’s girlfriend but agreed to stay by his side and called him “Husband,” despite Bei Bei being nearby.

• Tang Ya questioned Huo Yuhao’s claim that Wang Dong was a girl, then admitted she was being affectionate with him to make Bei Bei jealous.
• Huo Yuhao acted hurt and accused Tang Ya of using him, prompting her to cling to him and insist she had not treated him as a tool.
• Huo Yuhao guided Tang Ya into comparing her feelings for him with her feelings for Bei Bei, and she realized she liked Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao promised to stay by Tang Ya and support her, while she said she could not be his girlfriend but would always remain with him.
• With Bei Bei following close behind, Tang Ya granted Huo Yuhao’s wish and called him “Husband.”

Huo Yuhao continued secretly drawing Tang Ya closer while keeping up appearances with Bei Bei, then gathered his companions for hotpot, where Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and the group’s jealous tensions surfaced. The meal ended with Wang Dong eyeing Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao with a newly bold idea.

• Huo Yuhao urged Tang Ya to call him “Husband” aloud and helped her hide her feelings from Bei Bei as they approached the rented courtyard.
• Huo Yuhao gave Bei Bei and the others his written plan, then prepared hotpot while they read it.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire had built up and agreed to ease it after they ate.
• Ma Xiaotao sat beside Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao took the other seat beside him, leaving Wang Dong irritated by the seating and his attention to the girls.
• Wang Dong tried to kick Huo Yuhao under the table, missed, and then watched him and Ma Xiaotao with an eager new idea.