Chapter Summaries

Wang Dong'er visited Huo Yuhao after hearing he had defeated Tang San, intending to fulfill her promise to treat him to a meal. She and Huo Yuhao left the dormitory together, and he watched her enjoy the grilled fish they ate.

• Wang Dong'er asked Xiao Xiao where Huo Yuhao was and headed to his dormitory to honor her promise.
• Wang Dong'er found Ma Xiaotao with Huo Yuhao while Ma Xiaotao was recovering from suppressing her Evil Fire, then joined Huo Yuhao after Ma Xiaotao left.
• Huo Yuhao took Wang Dong'er to the cafeteria's Back Kitchen, where she learned his food was free and playfully knocked him down in mock anger.
• Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao left with grilled fish, and Huo Yuhao smiled as he watched her enjoy it.

After Huo Yuhao’s team won the New Student Assessment, Yan Shaozhe offered him lavish compensation and tried to recruit him to the Martial Soul Department, but Huo Yuhao refused out of respect for Little Tao Jie. He later met Zhang Lexuan, who arranged to meet him by Sea God Lake that evening for a meal.

• Dai Huabin’s team received third place, Wang Dong’er’s team took second, and Huo Yuhao’s team won the assessment.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao a Soul Bone as the championship reward and apologized for the Martial Soul Department’s past neglect.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao three times the Soul Guidance Device Department’s terms to join the Martial Soul Department, but Huo Yuhao declined because Yan Shaozhe was Little Tao Jie’s teacher.
• Huo Yuhao visited Zhang Lexuan, who told him he had been elected Class Monitor and asked him to cook for her.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan agreed to meet by Sea God Lake that evening.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan shared grilled meat and wine by Sea God Lake, where he mixed her a cocktail using her liquor and juice. He offered it to her, saying he thought she needed it, leaving Zhang Lexuan to question his excuse.

• Zhang Lexuan brought wine to join Huo Yuhao by the lake and asked what kind of person he thought she was.
• Huo Yuhao called Zhang Lexuan courageous, and she admitted that no one usually described her that way.
• Zhang Lexuan offered Huo Yuhao her favorite juice, and he asked her to bring out all her wine so he could show her a trick.
• Huo Yuhao used his Ice Emperor Martial Soul to mix the liquor and juice into a frosty cocktail scented with Snow Lotus.
• Zhang Lexuan recognized the drink as a seduction cocktail, and Huo Yuhao said he thought she needed it.

Zhang Lexuan realized her feelings for Huo Yuhao and kissed him, while Gu Yue Na confronted Mu En over Huo Yuhao’s safety and declared that he belonged to her. The chapter ended with Gu Yue Na warning that no one could take him from her.

• Zhang Lexuan remembered Mu En’s words and realized she had found her answer about her feelings for Huo Yuhao.
• Zhang Lexuan kissed Huo Yuhao and then kissed him again, while he struggled to understand what had happened.
• Gu Yue Na waited for Huo Yuhao outside the Dormitory Building until Mu En asked why she was protecting him.
• Gu Yue Na pressured Mu En, revealed the threat she could pose to the academy, and made him recognize her identity.
• Gu Yue Na told Mu En that Huo Yuhao was hers and that no one could take what belonged to her.

Huo Yuhao discussed the women pursuing him with Skydream Iceworm and Ice Empress, then accepted their advice to trust them. Five months later, he prepared to test Jiang Nannan’s custom Exoskeleton Leg Armor in a spar with her and Tang Ya.

• Huo Yuhao returned to the dormitory and gave Gu Yue Na grilled meat before she noticed his rumpled appearance and left without asking about it.
• Skydream Iceworm urged Huo Yuhao to accept that Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, and others wanted more than friendship, while Ice Empress advised him to trust the people he cherished.
• Huo Yuhao agreed that he understood their advice, and the story moved ahead five months to the Soul Guidance Department Testing Area.
• Huo Yuhao showed off the fitted Exoskeleton Leg Armor he had designed for Jiang Nannan, with interfaces for several protective Soul Guidance Devices.
• Tang Ya objected to Huo Yuhao using his Ice Emperor Martial Soul during their spar, so he agreed to her restrictions and produced his Engraving Knife instead.

Huo Yuhao tested Jiang Nannan’s new Exoskeleton Leg Armor in a spar and used the Jealousy Origin’s power to disable her. He explained the Origin’s ability to seal opponents and copy an item’s properties, then faced Tang Ya, who tried to negotiate a reward for surrendering.

• Jiang Nannan charged Huo Yuhao with her thrusters and attacked, but he blocked her blows while the Jealousy Origin’s power disrupted her Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao grabbed Jiang Nannan and knocked her unconscious after Tang Ya’s attempt to pull her back failed.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Jealousy Origin could seal an opponent’s power and let one infused item copy another item’s properties, though it had strict limits.
• Huo Yuhao asked Tang Ya whether she wanted to continue, and Tang Ya tried to bargain for part of the winner’s reward in exchange for surrendering.

Huo Yuhao attended a farewell meal with the girls before vacation, where his familiar affection toward Gu Yue Na stirred jealousy and Wang Dong'er realized the others were rivals for his attention. Ma Xiaotao asked him to suppress her Evil Fire that night, and the group decided they would all spend the night together.

• Huo Yuhao cooked for the group at Sea God Lake and fed Gu Yue Na, then awkwardly fed the other girls after they caught him showing her special treatment.
• Xiao Xiao told Wang Dong'er that the other girls were competing for Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er realized she might be the only one who had come just to eat.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Huo Yuhao to help suppress her Evil Fire before vacation, and Zhang Lexuan insisted on accompanying them to observe the process.
• Wang Dong'er objected to Ma Xiaotao being alone with Huo Yuhao late at night, and Tang Ya and the others agreed.
• Someone suggested that everyone spend the night together, and no one objected as Huo Yuhao looked on helplessly.

Huo Yuhao and the women spent an increasingly chaotic night playing a clothing-based dice game at a hotel in Shrek City. The next morning, he left with Gu Yue Na for the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Soul Ring, while his friends said goodbye.

• Tang Ya suggested a dice game at a hotel after the group realized the dormitory could not fit them all, and the punishment eventually became removing clothing.
• Wang Dong'er, Zhu Lu, Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Ma Xiaotao, and Zhang Lexuan lost clothing during the game while Gu Yue Na remained undefeated at first.
• Gu Yue Na lost for the first time, removed her top, and moved closer to Huo Yuhao as the game continued.
• The next morning, Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao he would travel with Gu Yue Na to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya warned Huo Yuhao about supposedly respectable older women who might deceive him, and he hugged her before leaving.

Gu Yue Na returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and allowed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to leave the Great Ominous Land after she sensed that Huo Yuhao had returned. She recovered a huge piece of Gold of Life, discovered that another piece had been bitten, and spread her Spiritual Power across the forest to investigate.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion tried to sneak out of the Great Ominous Land to find the human with Fate Power, but Di Tian stopped her on Gu Yue Na's orders.
• Gu Yue Na emerged from a Space Rift and told Di Tian that she had returned, though she planned to leave again soon.
• Di Tian asked Gu Yue Na to let the Three-Eyed Golden Lion roam the Star Dou Great Forest, and Gu Yue Na agreed.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion happily rushed away to find Huo Yuhao.
• Gu Yue Na retrieved a massive piece of Gold of Life, then sensed that a large section was missing from another piece near the Lake of Life.
• Gu Yue Na enveloped the Star Dou Great Forest with her Spiritual Power, alerting its Soul Beasts.

Gu Yue Na recovered the stolen Gold of Life from a Golden Hawksbill and ordered the Ferocious Beasts to protect Soul Beasts nearing death. She then asked for advice about a human who had drawn her interest, and Bear Monarch bluntly suggested that she snatch the person and mate with them.

• Gu Yue Na used her Spiritual Power to locate the Golden Hawksbill that had stolen part of the Gold of Life, and Di Tian brought it before her.
• Gu Yue Na spared the Golden Hawksbill and stripped the Gold of Life from its body, then ordered Scarlet King to take it away and guard it.
• Gu Yue Na told the Ferocious Beasts to watch over injured, dying, and elderly Soul Beasts, explaining that Soul Spirits might help them survive.
• Gu Yue Na asked the Ferocious Beasts what they would do after noticing a special flower that attracted other people, and Ten Thousand Demons King explained that she meant a human.
• Bear Monarch told Gu Yue Na that she should snatch the person she liked and mate with them.

Huo Yuhao searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a Silver Eagle Beast to become his third Soul Spirit, but the one he found was younger than expected. Qiu'er arrived, and after Huo Yuhao petted her, she pinned him down and used her Vertical Eye to investigate him.

• Huo Yuhao explained that he was seeking a thirty-thousand-year Silver Eagle Beast for his third soul ring, and Ice Empress said he could look for another beast if it refused to become his Soul Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao found a Silver Eagle Beast with just over twenty thousand years of cultivation and doubted it could understand a negotiation.
• Huo Yuhao sensed Qiu'er approaching and waited for her instead of trying to communicate with the Silver Eagle Beast.
• Qiu'er arrived, recognized Gu Yue Na's scent on Huo Yuhao, and let him pet her before pulling away to ask how he knew her favorite spot.
• Qiu'er pinned Huo Yuhao to the ground and pressed her Vertical Eye to his forehead to uncover the truth about him.

As Huo Yuhao fused attributes with Three-Eyed Golden Lion, their fate and other auras disappeared from Gu Yue Na’s perception, while Tang San misread the changes as a plot by the Douluo Plane and planned to intervene. Huo Yuhao’s Eye of Destiny then awakened power from his previous life, revealing two million-year Soul Rings and a third rose-gold Soul Ring beginning to form.

• Gu Yue Na appeared beside Huo Yuhao and Three-Eyed Golden Lion and wondered why she could no longer sense their fate.
• Tang San saw silver radiance obscuring the Star Dou Great Forest and deduced that the Douluo Plane was hiding Huo Yuhao while secretly supporting another Tang San.
• Tang San planned to groom the lower realm Tang San through the Clear Sky Sect and considered having A Yin replace the Douluo Plane’s Plane Core.
• Huo Yuhao’s Eye of Destiny opened during the fusion, and golden flames surged from his body.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eye revealed two million-year Soul Rings as a rose-gold Soul Ring from his previous life began to solidify.

Huo Yuhao recalled Qiu'er's final promise from his previous life as a rose-gold Soul Ring formed through his connection with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Qiu'er decided to follow him into the human world, and after they returned home, she kissed him and declared she was making her mark on him in this life.

• At the brink of death in his previous life, Qiu'er kissed Huo Yuhao and said she wanted to be with him again in the next life.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Gu Yue Na that his connection with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had awakened his Eye of Destiny and formed a rose-gold Soul Ring with two familiar Soul Skills.
• After waking and recalling Huo Yuhao's memories, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion told him she wanted to go to the human world with him.
• A few days later, Huo Yuhao brought Qiu'er home, where Huo Yun'er welcomed her and Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan watched them from the sofa.
• Huo Yuhao escaped upstairs, where Jiang Wan Jun changed his bedding and chatted with him about the academy.
• Qiu'er joined Huo Yuhao in his room, complained that he had left her alone with his family, then pinned him down and kissed him, saying she was making her mark on him.

Qiu'er reassured Huo Yuhao that he could accept the affection he deserved, then promised to visit him that night. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San killed a Man Faced Demon Spider but learned it did not have the Eight Spider Lances, while Xuan Zi left him to set up camp and recover.

• Qiu'er told Huo Yuhao that his past-life feelings had already reached her, and she drew him into an intimate embrace.
• Qiu'er teased Huo Yuhao about touching her, then told him she would come find him that night.
• Tang San defeated a nearly five-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider with his Clear Sky Hammer and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Tang San asked Xuan Zi whether the spider had the Eight Spider Lances, and Xuan Zi said it did not.
• Xuan Zi told Tang San to set up camp and rest until the next day, then went to look for game and reminded him to pitch a tent for him too.

Gu Yue Na gave Huo Yuhao a Gold of Life, then kissed him and abruptly unlocked his Lust Origin, overwhelming his self-control. While they were isolated together in his room, Qiu'er discovered Gu Yue Na was not in her room and realized what was happening; Bear Monarch sensed humans near the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Gu Yue Na gave Huo Yuhao a Gold of Life, and he accepted it gratefully while feeling indebted to her.
• Gu Yue Na kissed Huo Yuhao, triggering enough lust energy to unlock his Lust Origin and flood his body with desire.
• Huo Yuhao tried to stop things, but Gu Yue Na locked the door, isolated the room with spatial power, and brought him into an intimate encounter.
• Qiu'er waited for Gu Yue Na, then discovered Jiang Wan Jun had been using the bathroom and realized Gu Yue Na was likely with Huo Yuhao.
• Bear Monarch sneezed while searching for dying Soul Beasts, then sensed humans nearby and sharpened his gaze.

Xuan Zi discovered a nest of Nightshadow Feathered Eagle eggs in the Star Dou Great Forest, but Bear Monarch attacked him before he could take them. As their fight turned against Xuan Zi, he spotted golden-red sparks near Tang San and realized something had happened.

• Xuan Zi found seven Nightshadow Feathered Eagle eggs and pinned their parents down with his Soul Power.
• Bear Monarch charged at Xuan Zi, who recognized him as one of the Ten Ferocious Beasts and summoned his Gluttonous Divine Cow Martial Soul.
• Xuan Zi and Bear Monarch clashed, but Bear Monarch broke through Xuan Zi’s defenses and wounded him with his Dark Gold Terrorclaws.
• Xuan Zi argued that killing him could start a war between Shrek and the Star Dou Great Forest, but Bear Monarch dismissed the threat and attacked again.
• Xuan Zi noticed golden-red sparks near Tang San and lost focus, allowing Bear Monarch to launch another strike before he could fully defend himself.

Xuan Zi fought Bear Monarch and rushed back after Tang San fired an SOS flare, but Tang San was attacked by a ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider. Xuan Zi arrived as it tore a chunk from Tang San’s abdomen.

• Xuan Zi used his Gluttony Bloodline to knock Bear Monarch back, but suffered severe wounds and bloodline backlash.
• Xuan Zi threatened Bear Monarch and flew toward the SOS Signal Flare, while Tang San waited at their camp and suspected Xuan Zi had delayed returning for food.
• A ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider appeared near the camp, and Tang San fired the SOS Signal Flare before fleeing.
• Tang San’s hidden weapons failed to stop the spider, and he was wounded when he tried to strike it with his Haotian Hammer.
• Xuan Zi arrived and shouted at the spider to let Tang San go, but it bit Tang San’s abdomen and tore away a large chunk of flesh.

Xuan Zi rescued Tang San from the Man Faced Demon Spider, but Tang San was gravely injured and poisoned. After discovering an External Soul Bone, Xuan Zi brought him back to Shrek Academy, where Tang San survived but faced uncertain nerve damage, while Xuan Zi struggled with guilt over the incident.

• Xuan Zi crushed the Man Faced Demon Spider after it critically wounded Tang San, then suppressed the poison and stopped his bleeding.
• Xuan Zi found an External Soul Bone on the spider’s remains and took it as he carried the unconscious Tang San back to Shrek Academy.
• The next morning, Yan Shaozhe told Xuan Zi that Tang San had awakened and was out of mortal danger, though the poison might have damaged nerves near his wounds.
• Xuan Zi tearfully apologized for failing Yan Shaozhe and Tang San, while Yan Shaozhe reassured him that the attack by Bear Monarch and the spiders could not have been anticipated.
• Yan Shaozhe recalled that Mu En had rejected his proposal to pressure the Star Dou Great Forest and had refused to explain why.

Yan Shaozhe reassured Xuan Zi that Tang San did not blame him for the failed mission, while Qiu'er noticed changes in Gu Yue Na and Huo Yuhao after the previous night. Huo Yuhao explained the effects of Lust Origin and considered its potential, leaving Qiu'er’s hesitant invitation hanging between them.

• Yan Shaozhe persuaded Xuan Zi that Tang San appreciated his help in obtaining the External Soul Bone and would not blame him for his injuries.
• Gu Yue Na came downstairs, and Qiu'er noticed her altered bearing and Huo Yuhao’s scent on her as she passed.
• Qiu'er found Huo Yuhao pale and distant, asked if he was all right, and then asked whether he had time that night.
• Huo Yuhao recalled his repeated encounters with Gu Yue Na and agreed to Qiu'er’s hesitant request.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on Lust Origin’s affinity boost, faster cultivation, and ability to amplify others’ senses, remembering how it helped him defeat Gu Yue Na.

Huo Yuhao invited Qiu'er to Sunset Forest to obtain a compatible Immortal Herb Soul Spirit, and revealed that Old Yi had awakened after he refined the Gold of Life. The chapter left Qiu'er eager to gain a powerful new Soul Ring before her planned intimate contest with Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao asked Qiu'er whether her Soul Power had reached rank sixty, and she confirmed that it had.
• Huo Yuhao offered to take Qiu'er to Sunset Forest after dinner so she could obtain a suitable Immortal Herb as her Soul Spirit, and Qiu'er agreed.
• Qiu'er asked how Huo Yuhao would transport the other Immortal Herbs, and he said he could use the Gate of the Undead to bring them into the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao told Qiu'er that Old Yi had awakened after he refined the Gold of Life, and he reflected on how Old Yi had accepted him as a disciple.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Lust Origin let him cultivate Soul Power and Spiritual Power through intimate battles instead of meditation.