Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao persuaded Xian Lin'er to accept their relationship, then organized Soul Hall and found Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu among its members. He assigned Dai Huabin an impossible fundraising task and planned to use Zhu Lu to begin his revenge against the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

• Huo Yuhao reassured Xian Lin'er about their age difference and marriage, and she softened toward him without openly agreeing to their relationship.
• Xian Lin'er prepared an application to convene a Sea God Pavilion Meeting after Huo Yuhao left.
• Huo Yuhao returned to class and deceived Wang Dong about why he smelled like Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier.
• Huo Yuhao assigned Soul Hall members to departments, placing Zhu Lu in the Secretary Department and Dai Huabin in External Relations.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Dai Huabin to secure one hundred times the department's usual funding, and Xiao Xiao secretly doubled the target.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to use Zhu Lu to take everything from Dai Huabin and begin his revenge against the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

Cai Meier warned Huo Yuhao that Yan Shaozhe planned to oppose the Soul Hall’s independence at the Sea God Pavilion Meeting. Huo Yuhao decided to attend the meeting and promised to handle Yan Shaozhe’s advances toward Cai Meier.

• Yan Shaozhe reassured Cai Meier that he would oppose the Soul Hall’s proposal or push for Academy control, while Cai Meier worried about Huo Yuhao’s safety.
• Cai Meier summoned Huo Yuhao to her office and told him the Sea God Pavilion Meeting would be held that afternoon.
• Cai Meier explained that she supported establishing the Soul Hall but that Yan Shaozhe wanted to deny it independent autonomy.
• Huo Yuhao asked to attend the meeting as the Soul Hall’s founder so he could answer the Elders’ questions and defend its purpose.
• Huo Yuhao told Cai Meier he would handle Yan Shaozhe, and she decided to watch what he would do.

Xian Lin'er brought Huo Yuhao to the Sea God Pavilion Meeting to present his talents and propose the Soul Hall, while seeking justice over Yan Shaozhe’s attempt to imprison him. The meeting turned to debate as Yan Shaozhe argued that the Soul Hall threatened Shrek Academy’s unity and authority.

• Xian Lin'er confronted Huo Yuhao about Cai Meier, then told him to attend the Sea God Pavilion Meeting with her.
• Huo Yuhao massaged Xian Lin'er in her office, and she hurried him to the Sea God Pavilion after noon passed.
• Xian Lin'er presented Huo Yuhao’s abilities and explained the Soul Hall’s purpose and development to Mu En and the Elders.
• Xian Lin'er accused Yan Shaozhe of trying to imprison Huo Yuhao over the Soul Hall, and Yan Shaozhe disputed her account.
• Yan Shaozhe argued that the Soul Hall could divide students among outside powers, weaken teacher-student ties, and cause a struggle for authority with the academy.

The Elders debated whether to establish Huo Yuhao’s Soul Hall, with Cai Meier supporting it and accusing Yan Shaozhe of judging Huo Yuhao out of personal prejudice. Mu En approved the Soul Hall in principle but required supervision, and Huo Yuhao proposed inviting academy leaders to serve as Guidance Teachers.

• Huo Yuhao defended the Soul Hall’s purpose and argued that it could identify problems without taking disciplinary power from the academy.
• Cai Meier endorsed the Soul Hall and told the Elders that Yan Shaozhe’s opposition was influenced by his personal feelings toward Huo Yuhao.
• Yan Shaozhe accepted that he could no longer oppose the Soul Hall but proposed restricting its authority and choosing a different Hall Master.
• Xian Lin'er challenged Yan Shaozhe’s proposal, and Mu En ordered them both to sit down before explaining that the Soul Hall needed supervision.
• Huo Yuhao said he had created Guidance Teacher positions and invited Dean Qian, Dean Yan, Dean Cai, and four others to oversee the Soul Hall.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy elders established separate Soul Halls for the Outer and Inner Courts, with Huo Yuhao and Zhang Le Xuan leading them. After the Outer Court Soul Hall grew to more than five hundred members, Zhang Le Xuan joined to study its operations, and Huo Yuhao appointed her Secretary Department minister and Vice Hall Master.

• Mu En appointed Zhang Le Xuan to lead the Inner Court Soul Hall and Huo Yuhao to lead the Outer Court Soul Hall, then ordered Zhang Le Xuan to learn from Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao warmly shook hands with Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo, using his Succubus Physique to influence their impressions of him.
• The Soul Hall gained Shrek Academy's support and grew to more than five hundred members.
• Zhang Le Xuan arrived at the Outer Court Soul Hall on Mu En's order to observe and study its operations.
• Huo Yuhao assigned Zhang Le Xuan to head the Secretary Department and serve as Vice Hall Master, and she accepted his arrangements.

Huo Yuhao showed Zhang Lexuan around Soul Hall, where she joined the Secretariat as his personal secretary, and he handed her the organization’s work. After his Hive Mind ability solidified and refreshed, he gained the ability to travel to a parallel Douluo Continent set ten thousand years earlier, though the task for solidifying the new ability left him unsure how to proceed.

• Huo Yuhao introduced Zhang Lexuan to Soul Hall’s departments and members, including Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Xu San Shi, while Zhang noticed Bei Bei’s telltale lie.
• Zhang Lexuan joined the Secretary Department as Huo Yuhao’s personal secretary, and her arrival brought two hundred more Outer Court students into Soul Hall.
• Huo Yuhao delegated Soul Hall’s work to Zhang Lexuan and focused on cultivation and Soul Tools while spending time with Cai Meier and others.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Hive Mind’s solidified abilities let faction members use Mind Collection and Power Collection.
• Huo Yuhao received the Dual-World Gate ability, which could take him to a parallel Douluo Continent in the era of ten thousand years earlier.
• Huo Yuhao read that solidifying the new ability required recognition from the other plane’s destiny and wondered whether that meant Tang San or an Auspicious Beast.

Huo Yuhao obtained a living-creature storage Soul Tool and the academy's Immortal Herb Compendium before using the Dual-World Gate to travel to Douluo 1. His arrival disrupted Douluo 2's Destiny Power, alerting Tang San that the Child of Destiny had vanished from his sight.

• Huo Yuhao asked Xian Lin'er for a month off to obtain a Soul Ring, then secured her help in getting a Soul Tool that could store living creatures and the Immortal Herb Compendium.
• Huo Yuhao handed the Soul Hall's affairs to Zhang Le Xuan, secretly returned to Shrek City, and stepped through the Dual-World Gate.
• Huo Yuhao emerged high above a forest and desperately tried to slow his fall toward a black-clad maiden below.
• The disturbance in Douluo Star's Destiny Power caused the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to collapse while she hunted a Seven-Colored Fox, and a roar accused the fox of harming the Auspicious Beast.
• Tang San sensed that the Child of Destiny's fortune had vanished, reassured Xiao Wu that Xiao Qi was safe, and considered awakening the divine consciousness within their daughter.

Huo Yuhao used Simulation to make Zhu Zhuqing save him from a deadly fall, then helped her evade Zhu Zhuyun’s pursuers and cared for her injuries. The next morning, he introduced himself and asked whether she was headed to Suotuo City, while Zhu Zhuqing wondered how he knew Dai Mubai.

• Huo Yuhao transformed into Dai Mubai’s appearance and called out to Zhu Zhuqing, who caught him as he fell from the sky.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing were badly injured by the impact, then took healing pills he had prepared.
• Huo Yuhao concealed himself and Zhu Zhuqing with Simulation as Zhu Zhuyun’s group searched nearby and left without finding them.
• Zhu Zhuqing questioned Huo Yuhao, then walked away and collapsed; Huo Yuhao carried her to a tent and watched over her overnight.
• Zhu Zhuqing woke with most of her injuries healed, thanked Huo Yuhao, and said she would repay him; Huo Yuhao asked whether she was going to Suotuo City.

Huo Yuhao traveled toward Suotuo City with Zhu Zhuqing, then fainted as the Plane Will merged the destinies of two worlds and made him a Child of Destiny in both. After waking, he learned that the Dual-World Gate Solidification Task had completed, while Zhu Zhuqing followed Dai Mubai and confronted him outside a hotel.

• Huo Yuhao asked Zhu Zhuqing to take him to Suotuo City so he could confirm Tang San's whereabouts and search for Ah Yin.
• Huo Yuhao collapsed, and Zhu Zhuqing carried him toward Suotuo City as the Plane Will redirected destiny toward him; the Three-Eyed Golden Lion also fainted in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhu Zhuqing reached Suotuo City at night and spotted Dai Mubai with two identical women, then followed him while Huo Yuhao secretly woke on her back.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the world's acknowledgment and received the notification that the Dual-World Gate Solidification Task was complete.
• Dai Mubai confronted Zhu Zhuqing outside a rose-red hotel, and Zhu Zhuqing called him disgusting.

Huo Yuhao claimed Zhu Zhuqing was his fiancée and defeated Dai Mubai with a single spiritual attack after Dai Mubai confronted them. At the Rose Hotel, Zhu Zhuqing took the only vacant room while Dai Mubai paid for it, leaving her furious at his apparent familiarity with the hotel.

• Huo Yuhao freed Zhu Zhuqing from her bindings, called her his fiancée, and challenged Dai Mubai after accusing him of flirting with her.
• Dai Mubai attacked Huo Yuhao, who struck Dai Mubai's consciousness and sent him crashing face-first to the ground.
• Dai Mubai offered Huo Yuhao help at Shrek Academy, but Huo Yuhao said he was not there to enroll and went with Zhu Zhuqing to the Rose Hotel.
• The attendant said only one room was vacant, so Zhu Zhuqing took its key after Dai Mubai arrived and paid for their room.
• Zhu Zhuqing learned Dai Mubai had kept a room reserved at the hotel year-round and gave him a frigid look as she went upstairs.

Huo Yuhao comforted Zhu Zhuqing after she heard Dai Mubai enjoying himself next door, then urged her not to join Shrek Academy. Zhu Zhuqing reconsidered her future as Huo Yuhao described the academy’s shortcomings and its students.

• Huo Yuhao found Zhu Zhuqing cultivating in their room and sat with her as she watched the moon after hearing Dai Mubai next door.
• Huo Yuhao praised Zhu Zhuqing’s strength and perseverance, and she leaned against him and cried before calming down.
• Zhu Zhuqing called Huo Yuhao no good, and he asked about her plans for the future as she prepared to cultivate.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she might join Shrek Academy, but Huo Yuhao warned that it was fraudulent and criticized its teaching and graduation record.
• Huo Yuhao described Ma Hongjun’s behavior and mentioned an older sister with the same Martial Soul who had become a Soul Emperor before age twenty.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Zhu Zhuqing to leave the Star Luo Empire with him after revealing that her eldest sister had sent a Soul Saint to drive her away rather than kill her. Zhu Zhuqing accepted, began wondering whether she loved Huo Yuhao, and the next afternoon they encountered Tang San and Xiao Wu confronting Dai Mubai and the twins.

• Huo Yuhao urged Zhu Zhuqing to leave Shrek Academy and offered his teacher's protection, and Zhu Zhuqing agreed to go with him after the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Zhu Zhuqing's eldest sister had sent a Soul Saint after her, leading Zhu Zhuqing to realize her sister may have been trying to free her from the Star Luo Empire.
• Zhu Zhuqing entrusted her future to Huo Yuhao, wondered whether her feelings for him were love, and fell asleep peacefully while he watched over her.
• The next afternoon, Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing went downstairs and found Dai Mubai and the twins facing Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu, considered Xiao Wu as a possible source of a soul ring, then dismissed the idea; Tang San felt Huo Yuhao had taken something important from him.

Huo Yuhao gave Zhu Zhuqing a powerful ability to protect herself, then tricked Flender into giving him valuable goods by exploiting Flender’s interest in his Soul Tool belt. Tang San realized Huo Yuhao had used a belt like his own to swindle Flender and vowed to punish him.

• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to locate Tang Hao, then took Zhu Zhuqing around Suotuo City and invited her to join the Spirit Pagoda and Soul Hall.
• Huo Yuhao gave Zhu Zhuqing the ability to combine the power of several Soul Masters so she could protect herself while he was away.
• Huo Yuhao found Flender’s dark yellow crystal in his shop and used his Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moonlit Night belt to persuade Flender to give him the crystal and other goods for free.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu entered Flender’s shop, where Flender noticed Tang San’s identical belt and learned that Yu Xiaogang had given it to him.
• Flender realized Huo Yuhao had swindled him and closed the shop, while Tang San concluded that Huo Yuhao had used Yu Xiaogang’s name to deceive his teacher’s friend and decided they deserved death.

Huo Yuhao found Ah Yin’s hidden cave near Notting City, took the Blue Silver Emperor and her Soul Bone, and left a taunting message for Tang Hao. He headed back toward Suotuo City, leaving Ah Yin’s eventual fate undecided.

• Huo Yuhao traveled alone to Notting City and paid a hunter to locate a nearby waterfall and Holy Soul Village.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to find the cave behind the waterfall and discovered Ah Yin as a Blue Silver Emperor plant.
• Huo Yuhao collected liquid from Ah Yin’s leaves and transplanted her into a flowerpot stored in a living-creature Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao took the Blue-Gold Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, intending to save it for Tang Ya, and decided to keep Ah Yin for now.
• Huo Yuhao carved a mocking message for Tang Hao into the cave wall and left for Suotuo City.

Zhu Zhuqing encountered Dai Mubai, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ma Hongjun in Suotuo City, where their insults and attacks prompted her to unleash powerful abilities Huo Yuhao had given her. She left all four Shrek students badly injured and the group helpless on the street.

• Ma Hongjun leered at Zhu Zhuqing and threatened to sell her to a brothel after she insulted Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Tang San attacked Zhu Zhuqing, who confirmed nothing when Dai Mubai demanded to know whether she was Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dai Mubai struck Zhu Zhuqing in the back, knocking her down and making her spit blood.
• Zhu Zhuqing unleashed Bei Bei's full-force attack, electrocuting Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun and leaving them barely alive.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Jiang Nannan's full-force attack on Tang San and Xiao Wu, breaking their bones and badly injuring them.

Flender found his injured students and confronted Zhu Zhuqing, while Dai Mubai claimed her as his fiancée and urged the dean to punish her. Huo Yuhao arrived to defend Zhu Zhuqing, demanded that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun be castrated, and faced Flender’s threat to attack him.

• Flender found Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun badly injured, then accused Zhu Zhuqing of hurting them.
• Dai Mubai identified Zhu Zhuqing as his fiancée, and Flender decided to take her to Shrek Academy for punishment.
• Huo Yuhao appeared beside Zhu Zhuqing and challenged Flender after Dai Mubai insisted she belonged to him.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Mubai and the others had harassed Zhu Zhuqing, then demanded that Flender castrate Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun.
• Flender warned Huo Yuhao that he was a Soul Saint and offered to spare Zhu Zhuqing if Huo Yuhao left his students alone.

Huo Yuhao defeated Flender and subdued the Shrek group after they threatened Zhu Zhuqing. He left Tang San alive but used his Succubus Power on him and Xiao Wu, intending to alter Tang San’s preferences and build him a harem.

• Huo Yuhao ambushed Flender with a crimson beam that severely wounded him and knocked him unconscious.
• After Zhu Zhuqing left their punishment to him, Huo Yuhao castrated Dai Mubai and the unconscious Ma Hongjun, then used his Succubus Physique on both men.
• Huo Yuhao threatened Xiao Wu until Tang San surrendered the Hidden Weapons hidden on his body.
• Huo Yuhao incapacitated Tang San and used Succubus Power on him while Xiao Wu pleaded for Tang San’s safety.
• Huo Yuhao decided not to castrate Tang San and planned to make him love more than one person.

Huo Yuhao sowed doubts in Xiao Wu about Tang San and his father, then left with Zhu Zhuqing for an inn. He and Zhu Zhuqing agreed to go to Heaven Dou City the next day and fell asleep embracing after he apologized for pushing her too far.

• Huo Yuhao questioned Xiao Wu's trust in Tang San and suggested Tang San and his father knew her identity and might want her Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao left with Zhu Zhuqing and booked one room at an inn.
• Huo Yuhao urged the injured Zhu Zhuqing to rest and asked whether she would go with him to Heaven Dou City the next day, and she agreed.
• Huo Yuhao kissed Zhu Zhuqing and touched her until she pulled away and told him to stop.
• Huo Yuhao apologized, and Zhu Zhuqing curled up in his arms as they slept together.

After Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing badly injured Flender and the others, Ning Rongrong summoned Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect agents to investigate them. Dai Mubai awoke to discover he had been castrated and demanded revenge, while Oscar still failed to notice anything amiss as Dai Mubai ate his Recovery Sausages.

• Oscar and Ning Rongrong waited for Flender's group, then joined the teachers in finding the injured party in Suotuo City.
• Xiao Wu told the teachers that Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing had defeated Flender and injured the others.
• Ning Rongrong secretly summoned two Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members and ordered them to investigate Huo Yuhao's group and their plans.
• The Medical Soul Master explained that the injured students needed months to recover and that Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun could no longer perform as men.
• Dai Mubai woke, realized he had been castrated, and begged the teachers to avenge him.
• Dai Mubai grabbed Oscar's hand and ate his Recovery Sausages while Oscar remained oblivious to the situation.

Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing left Suotuo City for Heaven Dou City, but Ning Rongrong followed them to learn Huo Yuhao’s secrets. In Beauty Town, they encountered a trafficker holding a mother and daughter captive, and Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing moved to rescue them.

• Huo Yuhao declined Ning Rongrong’s request to reveal his Martial Soul and how he had injured Flender, then left Suotuo City with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Rongrong learned that Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing had left for Heaven Dou City and hired a flying Soul Master to catch up with them.
• Ning Rongrong followed Huo Yuhao and Zhu Zhuqing to Beauty Town and offered to buy the secret Huo Yuhao had mentioned, but he refused.
• Huo Yuhao, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong heard a woman calling for help and found a burly man holding her unconscious daughter captive.
• Huo Yuhao stunned the burly Soul Ancestor with a mental attack, and Zhu Zhuqing rescued the mother and daughter.