Chapter Summaries

Tang Ya and Huo Yuhao completed a Soul Guidance Device deal with Wei Lina’s group, earning money and advancing Huo Yuhao’s Greed Original Sin source. On their way home, Tang Ya chose a future support role after revealing her Dark Blue Silver Grass’s ability to drain enemies and restore her teammates.

• Tang Ya negotiated a sale of Soul Guidance Devices to Wei Lina, and Dean Ding’s Gluttony Original Sin Energy accelerated Huo Yuhao’s Greed source unlocking.
• Wei Lina offered to help the Tang Sect, but Tang Ya refused and left with Huo Yuhao.
• Dean Ding doubted that Huo Yuhao or Tang Ya could have made the devices, while Mu Xue suspected Huo Yuhao was unusual.
• Tang Ya celebrated their earnings, and Huo Yuhao gave her forty percent of the proceeds for her work and future help.
• Huo Yuhao urged Tang Ya to rely on friends, and she revealed her Dark Blue Silver Grass and chose the support path so she could drain enemies and aid her teammates.

Tang San revealed his Twin Martial Souls to Tang Ba and received the fatherly affection he had longed for. A year later, Huo Yuhao escorted Tang Ya to Shrek Academy before setting off for the Star Dou Great Forest, while an unexplained change puzzled a three-eyed Soul Beast.

• Tang San showed Tang Ba his Blue Silver Grass and black hammer, revealing his Twin Martial Souls and Level eight and a half Innate Soul Power; Tang Ba embraced him and took him out to celebrate.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya reached Shrek City, where Huo Yuhao warned her to conceal her life-force-devouring ability and said he planned to enter the Star Dou Great Forest alone.
• Tang Ya asked Huo Yuhao for a goodbye hug, kissed his cheek, and entered Shrek Academy using the Tang Sect's admission exemption.
• A male student approached Tang Ya after registration, and she coldly told him to scram.
• A three-eyed Soul Beast in the Great Ominous Land raised its head in confusion and wondered what was happening.

The Silver Dragon King awakened and set out to investigate a destiny aura beyond the Star Dou Great Forest while Huo Yuhao ventured into the forest to grow stronger. At night, Huo Yuhao reached the Mixed Region and encountered Zhang Lexuan and eleven Shrek Inner Courtyard Disciples.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian that she sensed a destiny aura near the forest’s edge, and the Silver Dragon King confirmed it and decided to investigate personally.
• The Silver Dragon King emerged from beneath the forest, instructed Di Tian to manage the Star Dou Great Forest, and departed while a million-year snow-white silkworm hurried toward the outskirts.
• Huo Yuhao concealed his aura with homemade ointment, entered the forest, and continued toward the Mixed Region despite sensing fluctuations from the Eye of Destiny.
• Huo Yuhao reached the Mixed Region near dusk, chose a clearing for camp, and spread beast-repelling powder around it.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived at the clearing with eleven Shrek Inner Courtyard Disciples, and Huo Yuhao recognized her from his previous life.

Huo Yuhao camped with Zhang Lexuan and her Shrek Academy group before setting off alone into the Star Dou Great Forest’s Mixed Region. Near the Core Region, he encountered the Skydream Iceworm, which recognized his Spirit Attribute and seemed to be fleeing something.

• Zhang Lexuan invited Huo Yuhao to camp with her group and offered to help him find his Soul Beast, but he declined traveling with them the next day.
• Huo Yuhao shared his roasted meat wraps with Zhang Lexuan and her hungry companions, and they introduced themselves to one another.
• At dawn, Huo Yuhao left camp alone despite Zhang Lexuan inviting him to join them again.
• Huo Yuhao traveled through the Mixed Region without encountering Soul Beasts and reached an area near the Core Region.
• The Skydream Iceworm emerged from a fissure, addressed Huo Yuhao as a human with the Spirit Attribute, and introduced itself as Brother Skydream.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Skydream Iceworm to become his Soul Spirit through a contract, but the ritual drew a mysterious gray mass into Huo Yuhao’s forehead. Inside Huo Yuhao’s crowded Spiritual Space, Skydream Iceworm discovered several other Origin Powers and recognized the Eye of Destiny as a divine artifact.

• Skydream Iceworm rushed to make Huo Yuhao his Soul Ring, but the Eye of Destiny stopped him and Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Spirit Contract.
• Skydream Iceworm agreed to the ritual, sealed his power, and joined Huo Yuhao in a golden magic array.
• Skydream Iceworm sensed Huo Yuhao’s calm emotions and powerful physique and Spiritual Power, then began merging with him.
• A gray mass of air pierced through space and entered Huo Yuhao’s forehead, prompting Skydream Iceworm to complain that someone was trying to steal his person.
• Skydream Iceworm entered Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Space, found seven other Origin Power spheres alongside the gray mass and his own sealed power, and realized the Eye of Destiny was a divine artifact.

Huo Yuhao completed his bond with Skydream Iceworm, gained an evolved Ice Attribute Martial Soul, and reunited with the remnant soul of his teacher Electrolux. After reaching level thirteen and testing his strengthened Mental Detection, he sensed something nearby and rushed toward it.

• Huo Yuhao reassured Skydream Iceworm that he was now an ordinary human, and Skydream vowed to help him seek revenge against the Deities he imagined had defeated him.
• Skydream Iceworm became Huo Yuhao's intelligent soul ring, expanded his Sea of Consciousness, and helped awaken his evolved Ice Attribute Martial Soul.
• Skydream Iceworm returned to Huo Yuhao's body to sleep, and Huo Yuhao tearfully greeted the memoryless remnant soul of Electrolux.
• Huo Yuhao reached level thirteen, tested his first soul ring's Mental Detection over a two-hundred-meter radius, and discovered something that made him rush away.
• A white figure emerged from distorted space and silently watched the direction Huo Yuhao had gone.

Zhang Lexuan and the Shrek Inner Courtyard Disciples faced a badly wounded Hundred Thousand Year Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard after it killed two of their companions, while Xuan Zi remained missing. Zhang Lexuan severely injured the beast’s tail and rallied the others to protect her as they fought for a chance to win.

• The Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard ambushed the group and killed Wu Luan, leaving the remaining disciples terrified by the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast.
• Zhang Lexuan urged the group to rely on themselves while Xuan Zi’s whereabouts remained unknown.
• The Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard attacked Zhang Lexuan, who used her Martial Soul Avatar and Sixth Soul Skill to badly wound its tail.
• The other Inner Courtyard Disciples launched their Soul Skills and moved to cover Zhang Lexuan, hoping to exploit the beast’s injuries and hold out for Xuan Zi.

Zhang Lexuan led the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard toward Huo Yuhao, who used Destiny—Judgment to expose its weakness and set a trap. The Soul Beast charged into a mound hiding a chain of amplified Soul Guidance Bombs, which lodged in its abdominal wound.

• The Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard killed an Inner Courtyard Disciple, leaving Zhang Lexuan and five others facing it while exhausted.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to tell Zhang Lexuan to draw the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard toward him, then urged her to believe him.
• Zhang Lexuan ran toward Huo Yuhao, and the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard pursued her.
• Huo Yuhao used Destiny—Judgment, separating golden and deathly-white phantoms from Zhang Lexuan and the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard.
• Zhang Lexuan jumped over a dirt mound, and the charging Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard smashed through it, scattering dozens of connected Soul Guidance core formations.
• The chain of Soul Guidance Bombs lodged in the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard's abdominal wound under the effect of Huo Yuhao's ability.

Huo Yuhao helped Zhang Lexuan and the surviving Inner Courtyard Disciples defeat the Hundred Thousand Year Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard, then urged Zhang Lexuan to claim its Soul Ring and Soul Bone. The group prepared to absorb the rewards, while Huo Yuhao asked to keep the beast’s corpse.

• Zhang Lexuan carried Huo Yuhao clear of the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard as his Soul Guidance Bombs exploded and tore open its wound.
• Zhang Lexuan killed the injured beast with her Sixth Soul Skill, and Huo Yuhao recalled that the encounter matched a tragedy Xuan Zi had described.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Huo Yuhao, and he concealed his unusual abilities when the surviving Inner Courtyard Disciples asked how they had won.
• The disciples discussed Zhang Lexuan absorbing the beast’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, while Huo Yuhao noticed their greed increased the unlocking progress of his Greed Origin.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan to take the Soul Ring and Soul Bone and asked for the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard’s corpse.

Huo Yuhao accepted Zhang Lexuan’s Inner Courtyard Recommendation Letter and helped prepare the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard’s remains. Xuan Zi arrived to find six disciples dead, and a survivor confronted him for abandoning the team.

• Zhang Lexuan gave Huo Yuhao an Inner Courtyard Recommendation Letter, which he accepted so he could repay Zhu Lu’s favor and visit Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan cut the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard into portions, revealing a blood-red Soul Bone, while Huo Yuhao froze the meat with his newly acquired Ice Attribute Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan that he had joined no faction and attributed his unusual talent to a martial soul mutation.
• Xuan Zi arrived and found the Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard’s skeleton and soul ring, then asked where the rest of the team was.
• A surviving female disciple told Xuan Zi that the others were dead and angrily demanded to know why he had abandoned them.

After Yu Xian withdrew from Shrek Academy over Xuan Zi’s negligence, Huo Yuhao condemned him for causing the deaths of six disciples and left the group. While crossing the forest’s outer perimeter, Huo Yuhao encountered the Soul Beast Matriarch, whom he suspected was the Silver Dragon King.

• Yu Xian rejected Xuan Zi’s defense of the tragedy, tore off her Shrek Surveillance Group ring, and announced that she was leaving Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi accepted responsibility for the deaths of six Inner Courtyard Disciples and said he would resign from the Surveillance Group and leave Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao rebuked Xuan Zi for failing to protect the disciples and told him to resign before he harmed anyone else.
• Yu Xian thanked Zhang Lexuan for saving her and told Xuan Zi that he did not deserve to be a teacher.
• Huo Yuhao left the Mixed Region and met a silver-haired girl, whom he addressed as the Soul Beast Matriarch and suspected was the Silver Dragon King.

Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Spirit Contract to the Silver Dragon King and asked her to promote it among soul beasts. She agreed to consider the proposal once he gained influence and proved the contract could be improved, then decided to accompany him into the human world.

• The Silver Dragon King questioned Huo Yuhao about why he had not killed Xuan Zi and asked about his ritual with Skydream Iceworm.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Spirit Contract and proposed that she promote it among soul beasts.
• The Silver Dragon King refused to promote the contract until Huo Yuhao gained influence among humans and demonstrated progress improving it.
• Huo Yuhao accepted her conditions and promised to return when he had results.
• The Silver Dragon King said she would accompany Huo Yuhao to observe humanity, and he asked where she would stay.

Huo Yuhao brought Gu Yue Na home, where she offered his mother, Huo Yun'er, a protective pendant in exchange for staying. He helped Gu Yue Na settle in and advised her to conceal her strength with a Martial Soul and Soul Rings, leaving her alone in her new room.

• Huo Yuhao introduced Gu Yue Na to Huo Yun'er as someone who might live with them.
• Gu Yue Na gave Huo Yun'er a Silver Dragon Reverse Scale pendant and told her to wear it every day.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Gu Yue Na for protecting his mother and agreed to owe her a favor.
• Huo Yuhao gave Gu Yue Na a Storage Bracelet and explained that she needed a Martial Soul to avoid attracting suspicion.
• Gu Yue Na formed two Soul Rings, then changed them to two deep purple rings after Huo Yuhao said her first display was too conspicuous.
• Huo Yuhao finished preparing Gu Yue Na's room and left her to rest.

After a year of training with Gu Yue Na, Huo Yuhao learned to use Predestined Death to break apart incoming energy attacks in high-speed combat. At the Medical Hall, he heard that Jiang Nannan’s mother had a complicated heart condition, and the middle-aged man invited him to examine her.

• Huo Yuhao used the White Tiger Dagger to disintegrate Gu Yue Na’s fireball, proving he could use Predestined Death against energy attacks during fast combat.
• Gu Yue Na gave the exhausted Huo Yuhao her popsicle before they headed to the Medical Hall.
• At the Medical Hall, Huo Yuhao bought herbs to nourish his and Huo Yun’er’s bodies.
• Jiang Nannan hurried into the Medical Hall to ask where her mother was.
• The middle-aged man explained that Jiang Nannan’s mother had a severe heart condition and asked Huo Yuhao if he would examine her.

Huo Yuhao examined Jiang Nannan’s mother and found that her congenital heart condition could be treated with careful Soul Power guidance. As Jiang Nannan prepared to assist, her nerves made her ask Huo Yuhao to perform the treatment himself.

• A Medical Hall doctor invited Huo Yuhao to examine Jiang Nannan’s mother, and Gu Yue Na waited behind.
• Huo Yuhao diagnosed Jiang Nannan’s mother with insufficient blood supply caused by a congenital heart condition and said he could treat it.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Jiang Nannan would need to guide Soul Power under his Mental Detection, and she immediately agreed.
• Huo Yuhao shared his Mental Detection with Jiang Nannan and instructed her to prepare for the procedure.
• Jiang Nannan became nervous while preparing her mother and asked Huo Yuhao to do the treatment himself.

Huo Yuhao used his Soul Power to save Jiang Nannan's mother, then left after giving Jiang Nannan instructions for her recovery. Her mother woke and asked about her rescuer, while Jiang Nannan planned to make the prescribed porridge and wondered where she had heard Huo Yuhao's name.

• Jiang Nannan asked Huo Yuhao to treat her mother, and he used Soul Power to resolve the dangers in her heart.
• Huo Yuhao exhausted himself, declared Jiang Nannan's mother out of danger, and gave Jiang Nannan frozen Blood Erosion Dragon Lizard meat and instructions for making porridge.
• Jiang Nannan offered Huo Yuhao Gold Soul Coins, and he accepted half before her mother woke up.
• Huo Yuhao disappeared before Jiang Nannan's mother could thank him, and Jiang Nannan told her he would return in five days.
• Jiang Nannan went to the kitchen to make porridge and wondered why Huo Yuhao's name sounded familiar.
• Jiang Nannan's mother noticed that her chest would not return to its previous state and felt embarrassed and irritated.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na returned home, where Tang Ya had come back from Shrek Academy and reunited with him. Tang Ya shared her cultivation progress and affectionately hugged Huo Yuhao, while Gu Yue Na watched nearby.

• Huo Yuhao wondered whether Tang Ya had returned from Shrek Academy and bought an ice pop for Gu Yue Na on the way home.
• Tang Ya greeted Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na when they arrived, then told Huo Yuhao she had returned that afternoon.
• Tang Ya said she had become a level twenty-five Great Soul Master, won first place in the New Student Assessment with her roommate, and become an Outer Court Core Disciple.
• Tang Ya asked Huo Yuhao for a hug, embraced him, and said she only needed her little Yuhao.

After Huo Yuhao fell asleep exhausted, Tang Ya secretly entered his room and kissed him, then left when she encountered Gu Yue Na in the hallway. The next morning, Huo Yuhao noticed his lips felt swollen and Lust's unlocking progress had increased, but he did not learn what Tang Ya had done.

• Huo Yuhao went to sleep without meditating after exhausting his Spiritual Power.
• Tang Ya entered Huo Yuhao's room while he slept, kissed him, and began unbuttoning his pajamas.
• Tang Ya left Huo Yuhao's room and encountered Gu Yue Na, who said she had gone downstairs for water.
• Huo Yuhao woke with swollen lips and noticed Lust's unlocking progress had increased slightly.
• Tang Ya acted nervous around Huo Yuhao the next morning, while Gu Yue Na denied noticing anything strange during the night.

At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Xuan Zi agreed to remain at Shrek Academy after the elders and surviving disciples urged him to stop blaming himself for the deaths in the Star Dou Great Forest. Zhang Lexuan privately rejected the meeting’s easy absolution and decided to look for a mission that would take her to Huo Yuhao in Heaven Dou City.

• Yan Shaozhe found Xuan Zi drinking and summoned him to the Sea God Pavilion meeting.
• Mu En asked Xuan Zi to state whether he would resign, and Xuan Zi accepted responsibility for the six disciples who died.
• Yan Shaozhe and four surviving Inner Courtyard Disciples urged Xuan Zi to stay, and Xuan Zi agreed to continue serving Shrek.
• Zhang Lexuan questioned the lack of punishment and remembered Huo Yuhao’s warning that Xuan Zi should resign.
• Zhang Lexuan decided to watch for a mission in Heaven Dou City so she could visit Huo Yuhao.

Tang San hunted a murderous Ghost Vine in Sunset Forest, using his unusual Blue Silver Grass abilities and concealed weapons. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao left home for the Medical Hall to meet Jiang Nannan, expecting to be out late.

• Tang San reached the Ghost Vine he had found on an earlier trip and saw that it had killed more Soul Beasts.
• Tang San attacked the Ghost Vine with concealed weapons and used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Blue Silver Grass to fight back.
• Tang San reflected that his first Soul Ring granted Proliferation and that he had learned to use Entanglement without a Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao told Huo Yun'er he might return late and left for the Medical Hall to meet Jiang Nannan.
• Huo Yuhao headed toward the bustling street and anticipated being run over by a cart again.