Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao discovered that he could use Mental Sharing and Succubus Power to provoke reactions from Tang Ya during a meal. Tang Ya hinted that Yuhao's teasing was overwhelming her, while Jiang Nannan resolved to take the initiative herself.

• Huo Yuhao concealed the movement beneath the table and guessed that Tang Ya was flirting with him.
• Huo Yuhao increased the seductive power in his spiritual power, and Tang Ya briefly struggled to hide her reaction.
• Jiang Nannan noticed Tang Ya's behavior and decided to take the initiative with Huo Yuhao.
• Bei Bei asked Tang Ya if she was feeling unwell, and she blamed the spicy food.
• Huo Yuhao offered Tang Ya cake and continued varying Succubus Power, discovering a new use for Mental Sharing.
• Tang Ya told Bei Bei that Yuhao's cake was spicy and hinted that Yuhao's teasing was overwhelming her.

Wang Dong secretly made a daring move beneath the table while Huo Yuhao dined with the others, then Huo Yuhao discussed the Soul Hall proposal with Bei Bei and defended its independence. The chapter left Bei Bei unconvinced by Huo Yuhao’s criticism of Shrek Academy, while Ma Xiaotao read the proposal.

• Wang Dong crawled beneath the table and startled Huo Yuhao with her bold actions, which he concealed using Simulation.
• After Wang Dong returned to her seat, Huo Yuhao asked Bei Bei for feedback on the Soul Hall proposal.
• Bei Bei supported the Soul Hall and offered to join, but questioned whether the academy would accept an independent student organization.
• Huo Yuhao argued that giving the academy management rights would turn the Soul Hall into an instrument of the teachers rather than a defender of students.
• Huo Yuhao described how Shrek Academy and Shrek City profited from ordinary students who were later eliminated, drawing disagreement from Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao clarified that the Soul Hall aimed to help ordinary Soul Masters advance and support the academy, not oppose it.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Bei Bei and the others that the Soul Hall needed independent authority to protect students and challenge the academy’s injustices. They agreed to support its establishment and began dividing tasks, with Huo Yuhao taking responsibility for finding a room through the Soul Tool Department.

• Huo Yuhao described how the academy treated ordinary students as expendable and recalled that Zhang Le Xuan had been forced to beg for Xuan Zi’s pardon after students died during a Soul Hunting Operation.
• Huo Yuhao argued that an autonomous Soul Hall could speak out against injustice and prevent students from paying for the academy’s mistakes.
• Bei Bei accepted Huo Yuhao’s argument, pledged his support, and joined him as Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Ma Xiaotao put their hands together.
• Ma Xiaotao warned that Yan Shaozhe would oppose the Soul Hall, but Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei urged everyone to begin before the academy had formally objected.
• The group discussed securing a club room, and Huo Yuhao volunteered to apply through the Soul Tool Department while planning to seek Xian Lin’er’s support.

Huo Yuhao and his friends planned how to fund and recruit members for Soul Hall, settling on seeking sponsorship from major powers and promoting the organization at the Challenger Arena Competition. To draw Dean Yan’s attention away from Soul Hall, Huo Yuhao proposed launching a Campus Newspaper and using Bei Bei and Tang Ya’s relationship as gossip, leaving their feelings at risk.

• Huo Yuhao rejected Bei Bei’s suggestion to fund Soul Hall with members’ money and proposed seeking support from major powers by promoting their factions to Shrek students.
• Bei Bei agreed to contact major powers, while the group discussed opening recruitment to all students and the need to publicize Soul Hall first.
• Huo Yuhao proposed promoting Soul Hall through the Challenger Arena Competition, where he, Bei Bei, and Jiang Nannan could build winning streaks and wear advertisements.
• Jiang Nannan worried that Dean Yan would object, so Huo Yuhao proposed launching a Campus Newspaper to attract the dean’s attention instead.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that Bei Bei and Tang Ya pretend to have relationship trouble so the newspaper could publish gossip, though he knew the ruse could worsen real cracks between them.

Huo Yuhao assigned tasks for the new Campus Newspaper and student organization before staying behind to help Ma Xiaotao resolve her Evil Fire. He realized she had likely cultivated recklessly to see him sooner, leaving her flustered as he teased her about it.

• Huo Yuhao assigned Tang Ya, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong to run the Campus Newspaper, while Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan took charge of funding and recruitment.
• The others left, and Huo Yuhao stayed with Ma Xiaotao to help calm the Evil Fire that had built up within her.
• Huo Yuhao questioned why Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire had worsened so quickly, and she blamed her hurried cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao suggested Ma Xiaotao had deliberately accumulated Evil Fire to be with him sooner, making her blush and deny it.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao he would use his special ability to resolve her Evil Fire and teased her not to come back in another half month.

Huo Yuhao pressured Ma Xiaotao into asking him to help resolve her Evil Fire, then hid her when Jiang Nannan arrived. Jiang Nannan raised the problem of disadvantaged students failing the New Student Assessment, and Huo Yuhao considered how the Soul Hall could help them pass.

• Ma Xiaotao pleaded with Huo Yuhao to resolve her Evil Fire without using his special ability, and he continued teasing her.
• Jiang Nannan entered, and Huo Yuhao claimed Ma Xiaotao had already left while Ma Xiaotao hid beneath the table.
• Jiang Nannan told Huo Yuhao that many students from poor families were eliminated during the New Student Assessment because of hardship and inadequate support.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Jiang Nannan wanted the Soul Hall to sponsor the students, but she said the main problem was that too few of them passed the assessment.

Huo Yuhao convinced Jiang Nannan to bring her freshman-support organization into Soul Hall, then awkwardly found himself caught between her and Ma Xiaotao. The next morning, he checked his Solidification Task and realized its count included an unidentified seventh recruit.

• Jiang Nannan offered to merge her organization for helping disadvantaged freshmen into Soul Hall, and Huo Yuhao made her head of its new department.
• Jiang Nannan expressed her hurt over Huo Yuhao growing distant, and he reassured her that she would always be important to him while Ma Xiaotao secretly bit him.
• Jiang Nannan discovered Ma Xiaotao with Huo Yuhao, leaving both women embarrassed and Huo Yuhao to help Ma Xiaotao dispel her evil fire that night.
• The next morning, Jiang Nannan and Ma Xiaotao pretended to remain asleep while Huo Yuhao prepared soup and checked his task progress.
• Huo Yuhao saw that seven people had been recruited, although he could identify only six, and wondered who the seventh was.

Huo Yuhao investigated Soul Hall’s growth, wrote sensational Campus Newspaper stories to promote it, and advanced rapidly in Soul Tool studies. As the Challenger Arena Competition approached, Soul Hall was ready to expand, and Huo Yuhao began preparing for Yan Shaozhe’s attention.

• Huo Yuhao left Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Nannan together after teasing them, then learned that Beibei had recruited Xu San Shi into Soul Hall.
• Huo Yuhao wrote three gossip-filled articles promoting Soul Hall, and Beibei questioned their accuracy before accepting Huo Yuhao’s explanation.
• Huo Yuhao recruited applicants as unofficial External Editorial Department members, and the Solidification Task reached its first targets, including seven potential Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao made rapid progress in Soul Tool studies, and Xian Lin'er predicted he could become a First-Level Soul Engineer before the New Student Assessment.
• Huo Yuhao and his team prepared Campus Newspaper coverage for the Challenger Arena Competition, while Huo Yuhao planned how to handle Yan Shaozhe noticing Soul Hall.

Huo Yuhao completed his first Soul Tool Core Array and was declared a Rank 1 Soul Engineer after only twenty days of study. He offered the array to Xian Lin'er as an apprenticeship gift, and she joyfully accepted him as her disciple.

• Huo Yuhao finished forging, shaping, quenching, and polishing a piece of Heavy Silver, impressing Xian Lin'er with his progress.
• Xian Lin'er gave Huo Yuhao two days off for the Challenger Arena Competition and warned him against rushing into engraving a Core Array.
• Huo Yuhao used Mind Collection to draw on the brainpower of thirty people, then engraved a Rank 1 Soul Engineer Core Array without mistakes.
• Xian Lin'er examined the completed array and declared Huo Yuhao a Rank 1 Soul Engineer.
• Huo Yuhao offered his first Core Array to Xian Lin'er as an apprenticeship gift, and she happily accepted him as her disciple.
• Huo Yuhao left Xian Lin'er's embrace and asked her to help him with something.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Xian Lin'er to become Soul Hall's Guidance Teacher by arguing that students could use Soul Tools without disrupting martial soul cultivation, and she agreed to try his plan. After studying through the night, Huo Yuhao reached the level of making second-grade Soul Tools and returned to the dormitory as students celebrated Bei Bei and Xu San Shi's arena victories.

• Xian Lin'er questioned whether serving as Soul Hall's Guidance Teacher would conflict with Shrek Academy's resistance to developing the Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Outer Court students could learn to use Soul Tools as practical equipment while leaving their manufacture to Soul Engineers.
• Xian Lin'er accepted Huo Yuhao's request and agreed to guide Soul Hall, while Huo Yuhao privately planned to take its members to the Spirit Pagoda in the future.
• Huo Yuhao studied Soul Engineer fundamentals through the night and concluded that he could make second-grade Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao heard students praising Bei Bei's fourteen consecutive arena victories and Xu San Shi's ten consecutive victories on his way back to the dormitory.

Huo Yuhao’s Soul Hall gained attention through its advertising and Campus Newspaper as he dominated the Arena Competition with illusion-based victories. Ning Tian decided to pursue a role in Soul Hall for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, while the chapter left Tang Ya fleeing from the awkward attention surrounding her work promoting the organization.

• Students noticed Bei Bei, Xu San Shi, and Nan Nan wearing Soul Hall advertisements, and Huo Yuhao was pleased that the promotion had sparked curiosity.
• Huo Yuhao defeated ten Arena Competition challengers with simulated illusions, including a senior who exhausted his Soul Power attacking an imagined opponent.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng watched Huo Yuhao compete, and Ning Tian argued that his illusions made him more dangerous than Wu Feng assumed.
• Ning Tian proposed recruiting Huo Yuhao as a partner for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School and decided to join Soul Hall to bring its members into the school after graduation.
• Huo Yuhao reached thirty consecutive victories, making him famous, while Soul Hall’s recruiters became overwhelmed by student interest.
• Tang Ya handed Campus Newspaper sales to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao and fled after classmates’ looks made her uncomfortable about promoting Soul Hall despite her breakup with Bei Bei.

Wang Yan reported Huo Yuhao’s specialized training exercises to Elder Xuan, who decided the academy would teach them and planned to meet Huo Yuhao. After completing twenty-four consecutive matches, Huo Yuhao learned the Campus Newspaper had sold out and the Soul Hall had recruited over three hundred members, though his Solidification Task still had not registered as complete.

• Wang Yan showed Elder Xuan a test report confirming Huo Yuhao’s exercises efficiently improved students’ physical fitness.
• Elder Xuan said the academy would teach the exercises and offered Huo Yuhao a Soul Ascension Pill, while Wang Yan argued for greater recognition of his student.
• After hearing that Huo Yuhao had defeated a three-ring Soul Master with one ring, Elder Xuan suspected his Body Martial Soul might have undergone a Second Awakening and resolved to meet him.
• Huo Yuhao finished his matches with twenty-four consecutive victories and learned Xiao Ya-jie had left the newspaper stall after students crowded around her.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao told Huo Yuhao that all one thousand newspapers had sold, including two hundred copies taken to Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao realized the Soul Hall had recruited more than three hundred members and met the Solidification Task’s membership requirements, but guessed it would remain incomplete until the deadline.

After Huo Yuhao won twenty-four consecutive matches, he sought Mu En’s support for establishing Soul Hall and received it, though Mu En warned him to keep the faction under control. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong returning to their dorm room and sharing an intimate moment.

• Xiao Xiao praised Huo Yuhao’s winning streak, and Wang Dong pinched his waist when he flirted with Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao showed Mu En the Campus Newspaper’s sensational stories about Tang Ya and Bei Bei, and Mu En reacted with surprise.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Mu En would support Soul Hall, and Mu En instead asked him to become his disciple.
• Huo Yuhao told Mu En he had taken Dean Xian Lin'er as his master, and Mu En accepted him as his grand-disciple.
• Mu En approved of Soul Hall’s establishment but told Huo Yuhao to keep it from endangering the academy.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the dorms with Wang Dong and spent an intimate evening with her, deciding to avoid taking things further because he feared Tang San had placed a hidden safeguard on her.

Yan Shaozhe announced the Challenger Arena winners and rewards, then summoned Huo Yuhao to his office, where he accused him of seriously harming Shrek Academy. Huo Yuhao had Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao seek out Xian Lin'er before following Yan Shaozhe.

• Yan Shaozhe named the thirteen students with at least eight consecutive victories, with Huo Yuhao first after twenty-four wins.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded every winner academy assistance in obtaining a suitable Soul Ring and gave Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and the third-place student 10,000-Year Whale Tendons.
• Cai Meier presented Huo Yuhao with his reward and looked him over approvingly because she hoped he would be a good match for Ma Xiaotao.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered Huo Yuhao to come with him, and Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to invite Xian Lin'er to the Soul Tool Department.
• In Yan Shaozhe's office, Huo Yuhao resisted his psychological pressure as Cai Meier watched, and Yan Shaozhe accused him of seriously harming the academy.

Yan Shaozhe pressured Huo Yuhao to disband Soul Hall and surrender the Campus Newspaper, but Huo Yuhao challenged his motives and defended the student organization. Xian Lin'er arrived before Yan could send Huo Yuhao to Shrek Prison, severed ties with Yan, and left with her disciple.

• Yan Shaozhe forced Huo Yuhao to kneel under Soul Power pressure and questioned him about the Campus Newspaper and Soul Hall.
• Huo Yuhao defended both projects and accused Yan Shaozhe of failing to serve the academy and acting from selfish motives.
• Yan ordered Huo Yuhao to disband Soul Hall and bring the Campus Newspaper under academy control, then threatened to send him to Shrek Prison.
• Xian Lin'er broke into the office, removed the pressure from Huo Yuhao, and condemned Yan for threatening to imprison her disciple.
• Xian Lin'er severed her ties with Yan, declared her support for Soul Hall, and left with Huo Yuhao.

Xian Lin'er severed her ties with Yan Shaozhe after he tried to punish Huo Yuhao, and she insisted that only she had the right to discipline her disciple. Xuan Zi then arrived and revealed that Huo Yuhao's training method had been credited to him as a contribution to the academy, leaving Huo Yuhao displeased.

• Yan Shaozhe tried to win Xian Lin'er back, but she rejected his excuses and declared that only she could punish Huo Yuhao.
• Cai Meier threatened to leave Yan Shaozhe if he pursued Xian Lin'er, making him hesitate as Xian Lin'er walked away with Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Zi met Xian Lin'er and Huo Yuhao on the stairs and invited them to discuss Huo Yuhao's reward and Body Martial Soul.
• Xuan Zi said the academy had decided to reward Huo Yuhao for the training method he had contributed, and Huo Yuhao suspected Wang Yan had submitted it without his permission.

Elder Xuan examined Huo Yuhao, praised his talent, and rewarded him with Jade Soul Liquid before opposing the Soul Hall. Xian Lin'er left with Huo Yuhao after insisting that the Sea God Pavilion would decide whether the organization could exist.

• Huo Yuhao showed Elder Xuan his Martial Soul, and Elder Xuan praised his spiritual power and physical condition despite his low Soul Power cultivation.
• Elder Xuan gave Huo Yuhao a bottle of Jade Soul Liquid, and Huo Yuhao thanked him after learning its value.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that he opposed the Soul Hall, while Xian Lin'er accused him of wanting to send Huo Yuhao to the Evil Soul Master Prison.
• Elder Xuan read the Soul Hall charter and ordered Huo Yuhao to disband the organization, arguing that students had no right to supervise teachers.
• Xian Lin'er said she would bring the Soul Hall's establishment to a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, then left with Huo Yuhao.

Cai Meier and Yan Shaozhe discussed Huo Yuhao’s conflict with the dean, while Xian Lin'er supported her disciple and helped him absorb a rare Whale Tendon. Huo Yuhao used his Succubus Physique to draw Xian Lin'er into an intimate relationship, then realized someone had witnessed it and asked whether they should silence the witness.

• Cai Meier urged Yan Shaozhe not to involve the Elders over the Soul Hall dispute, then went to see Xian Lin'er, while Yan Shaozhe followed her toward the Soul Tool Department.
• Xian Lin'er reassured Huo Yuhao that she supported the Soul Hall and would handle the Sea God Pavilion Meeting as he focused on cultivating.
• Xian Lin'er softened Huo Yuhao’s 10,000-Year Whale Tendon, and Huo Yuhao ate it and began refining its effects.
• Huo Yuhao pretended the Whale Tendon’s aphrodisiac had affected him, then used his Succubus Physique to weaken Xian Lin'er’s resistance and kiss her.
• Afterward, Xian Lin'er scolded Huo Yuhao for calling her his teacher and teasing her with terms of endearment, and he warned her that someone already knew about their relationship.

Cai Meier sneaked into Xian Lin'er's office and discovered her with Huo Yuhao, but Xian Lin'er and Huo Yuhao subdued her with his Succubus Physique. Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo waited outside, unaware of what was happening, while Cai Meier woke and found herself compelled to obey Huo Yuhao.

• Cai Meier heard sounds from Xian Lin'er's office, secretly opened the door, and saw Xian Lin'er with Huo Yuhao.
• Xian Lin'er pulled Cai Meier inside and restrained her while Huo Yuhao used his Succubus Physique to make her go limp.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived to find Cai Meier, and Qian Duoduo questioned why he was outside Xian Lin'er's office.
• Xian Lin'er ignored Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo's knocks and told them to return in an hour.
• Cai Meier woke and, under Huo Yuhao's Succubus Power, called him Master, then fell silent when Xian Lin'er threatened to let Yan Shaozhe hear her.

Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier kept Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo outside while Huo Yuhao became involved in their private encounter. After the visitors left, Xian Lin'er told Huo Yuhao to treat her only as his teacher, but he refused to forget what happened.

• Xian Lin'er taunted Cai Meier inside the office while Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo waited outside and argued about their relationships.
• Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier told the men they were sparring, and the office door shook as the commotion grew louder.
• The office opened with Cai Meier exhausted and Xian Lin'er flushed; Qian Duoduo praised Huo Yuhao's talent as a Soul Engineer, while Yan Shaozhe argued he belonged in the Martial Soul Department.
• Xian Lin'er ordered Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier to leave, then sent Qian Duoduo away so she could speak with Huo Yuhao alone.
• Xian Lin'er told Huo Yuhao to forget what happened and remain only her teacher, but he refused, making her blush as she scolded him.