Chapter Summaries

Gu Yue Na confronted Mu En over Huo Yuhao’s assassination attempt and demanded information on Dai Huabin’s allies and Shrek’s support for Huo Yuhao’s revenge. Huo Yuhao secured academy funding for a Spirit Pagoda, while Mu En accepted his refusal to join the Sea God Pavilion and recognized a future alliance with the Spirit Pagoda and Star Dou Great Forest.

• Gu Yue Na demanded that Mu En provide information about the forces behind Dai Huabin and support Huo Yuhao’s revenge, and Mu En agreed.
• Gu Yue Na brought Huo Yuhao to Mu En and invited him to choose compensation from Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Spirit Contract and requested that Shrek fund construction of a tower near Shrek City.
• Mu En agreed to fund the tower and offered Huo Yuhao a place in the Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao declined the offer but suggested that he could cooperate with Shrek in the future.
• Mu En concluded that Shrek should accept the chance to align with Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na’s forces.

Huo Yuhao’s identity as the student threatened by Dai Huabin remained concealed, while rumors about Tang San’s injuries made him the subject of pitying gossip. At the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, Dai Hao returned to find Dai Huabin gravely injured, and Wang Xian’er revealed that a mysterious power was preventing her from repairing his damaged Sea of Consciousness.

• The academy kept Huo Yuhao’s identity secret, while students speculated that Tang San had been the student Dai Huabin threatened and spread rumors about his painful, frequent trips to the restroom.
• Dai Hao returned to the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, where the Duchess and Wang Xian’er were attending to Dai Huabin.
• Dai Hao angrily slapped Dai Huabin and blamed him for causing trouble, then asked Wang Xian’er about his condition.
• Wang Xian’er said Dai Huabin had lost more than half of his Sea of Consciousness and that his remaining Spiritual Power was leaking away.
• Wang Xian’er explained that a mysterious power blocked her attempts to repair Dai Huabin’s Sea of Consciousness and had injured her when she came into contact with it.

After Wang Xian'er failed to treat Dai Huabin, Dai Hao decided to capture people connected to his sons and force them to reveal how to cure him. The Duchess hid her knowledge of Huo Yuhao’s identity and resolved to save Dai Huabin first, then eliminate Huo Yuhao to preserve her son’s claim to the Duke’s title.

• Wang Xian'er showed Dai Hao and the Duchess the silver force resisting her Soul Power and admitted she could not treat Dai Huabin.
• Dai Hao reasoned that the attacker might be limited in power and decided to seize people who had feuded with Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng to force out a cure.
• The Duchess identified Tang San as a possible suspect and accused Huo Yuhao of conspiring with Shrek’s teachers to kill Dai Yueheng, but Dai Hao ordered both men captured rather than killed.
• Dai Hao asked about Huo Yun'er, accepted the Duchess’s claim that she had died of a congenital illness, and left to enlist Xuanji Douluo’s help.
• The Duchess concealed Huo Yuhao’s true identity and decided to force him to reveal a cure for Dai Huabin before finding a chance to kill him.

Huo Yuhao learned that he and Gu Yue Na would skip the Selection Competition and undergo separate assessments for official team places, while the other students fought for seven remaining slots. As the melee began, Tang San revealed the power of his Eight Spider Lances and startled a Core Disciple who recognized his Tang Sect techniques.

• Huo Yuhao arrived at the Soul Duel Zone and greeted Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan before considering how difficult the team selection would be for Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Zhu Lu.
• Xuan Zi announced that the Selection Competition would be a group melee ending when seven students remained, then told Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na they would receive separate assessments instead of competing.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the arrangement and joined Gu Yue Na in the Spectator Stand, where he joked with Zhang Lexuan about having the academy's backing.
• At Xuan Zi's command, more than twenty students began fighting, and several Core Disciples targeted the injured-looking Tang San.
• Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to move freely and overwhelm his opponents, prompting someone in the arena to ask why he knew the Tang Sect's Ultimate Skills.

Tang Ya exposed Tang San for using the Tang Sect’s Ultimate Skills and challenged Shrek Academy to answer for allowing it. Xuan Zi defended Tang San and proposed he join the Tang Sect, but Tang Ya refused and demanded compensation and an end to his teaching the techniques, which Tang San reluctantly accepted.

• Tang Ya unleashed her Dark Blue Silver Grass, draining and binding many Core Disciples until Xuan Zi eliminated them from the match.
• Tang Ya confronted Tang San, questioning how someone who was not a Tang Sect disciple had learned its Ultimate Skills.
• Xuan Zi suspended the match and explained that the academy believed Tang San had learned the techniques innocently from his father, Tang Ba.
• Xuan Zi proposed that Tang San join the declining Tang Sect after graduation, but Tang Ya rejected the offer and called him unworthy.
• Tang Ya demanded resources as compensation for the leaked techniques and required Tang San to stop passing them on, and Tang San reluctantly agreed.

Wang Dong'er helped the seven Core Disciples eliminate Tang San by overcoming her resistance to Soul Guidance Devices and using a barrier, then resolved to train harder. Xuan Zi announced the team selections and set Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na to challenge the main team next week, where they would face a new genius with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

• Xu San Shi pulled Tang San into the seven Core Disciples’ encirclement, and the group attacked him together.
• Tang San targeted Zhu Lu, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong'er with his Eight Spider Lances, but Wang Dong'er and the others used Soul Guidance Barriers to delay them until their attacks struck Tang San.
• Xuan Zi caught Tang San and declared him eliminated, while Huo Yuhao smiled at Wang Dong'er for overcoming her resistance to Soul Guidance Devices.
• Wang Dong'er told Xiao Xiao she wanted to work harder after realizing how far she still had to go.
• Xuan Zi announced that Tang San would join the seven winners on the reserve team for the upcoming Soul Master Competition and that Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na would challenge the main team next week.
• Xuan Zi revealed that a seventeen-year-old Soul Guidance Device Department genius with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring had forced her way onto the main team.

After Tang San left, Huo Yuhao considered how to help his friends keep pace and came up with a way to use Sensory Amplification to train their willpower. Wang Dong'er then revealed that an unexplained voice made her resist soul guidance devices, and Huo Yuhao offered to help her address it if she trusted him.

• Xuan Zi revealed that the seventeen-year-old genius Qiu'er was a Level Sixty-Six Soul Emperor with a Hundred Thousand Year Sixth Soul Ring, shocking the group before he dismissed them.
• Tang San left the Soul Duel Zone, and Huo Yuhao noticed that Xuan Zi's presence had greatly advanced the Sloth Origin's progress.
• Tang Ya regretted being unable to defeat Tang San, while Huo Yuhao cautioned her and considered how to help his companions grow stronger.
• Huo Yuhao realized Sensory Amplification could magnify minor pain to temper his friends' willpower, then invited Zhu Lu to his dorm to measure her for an Exoskeleton Soul Guidance Device.
• Wang Dong'er told Huo Yuhao that a voice in her head made her instinctively resist soul guidance devices and asked him for help; he said he had a way, and she immediately said she trusted him.

Huo Yuhao brought Wang Dong'er and Gu Yue Na to the Undead Plane to remove Tang San's Divine Sense from Wang Dong'er and help Gu Yue Na recover her strength. At the Clear Sky Sect, Niu Tian and Tai Tan failed to pull Wang Dong'er back through the broken seal, and Tang San's voice reached them.

• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yue Na that Wang Dong'er had agreed to help with the Divine Sense, and Gu Yue Na agreed to proceed.
• Huo Yuhao formed a Six-pointed Star and took Wang Dong'er and Gu Yue Na from the dormitory to the Undead Plane.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan sensed that Tang San's seal had broken and used a golden Trident to try to retrieve Wang Dong'er.
• Tai Tan failed to pull Wang Dong'er through the Space Rift and wanted to rush to Shrek Academy, but Niu Tian stopped him.
• Tang San's ethereal voice addressed Niu Tian and Tai Tan as Da Ming and Er Ming.

Tang San arranged for Tai Tan and Niu Tian to bring the rising star Tang San into the Clear Sky Sect and temper him, while he realized the Plane Will and Silver Dragon King had tested his ability to interfere with the lower realm. He planned to exploit their attention and his injury, but Xiao Wu insisted he rest for a day, leaving his plans delayed.

• Tang San asked Tai Tan and Niu Tian to use the rising star Tang San’s Clear Sky Sect heritage to bring him into the sect and temper him.
• After ending his connection with Da Ming and Er Ming, Tang San concluded that the Silver Dragon King had erased his Divine Sense as a test of whether he could openly interfere with the lower realm.
• Tang San decided to use the other side’s focus on the Silver Dragon King to draw Tang San into the Clear Sky Sect and create an opening for A Yin to descend.
• Xiao Wu noticed Tang San’s weakened aura, and he told her he had been injured while observing other planes.
• Xiao Wu urged Tang San to rest and spend time with her, and he reluctantly agreed to take one day off.

Huo Yuhao woke trapped between Gu Yue Na and Wang Dong'er after an intimate morning with Gu Yue Na, then accompanied them to class. Wang Dong'er explained why she refused to uncover her sealed memories and learned that Huo Yuhao had known her since before she was born.

• Huo Yuhao woke beside Gu Yue Na and Wang Dong'er, and Gu Yue Na quietly teased him while keeping Wang Dong'er asleep.
• Wang Dong'er asked Huo Yuhao whether he had noticed a strange smell, then decided she would not examine the memories sealed within her.
• Wang Dong'er explained that she remembered none of her parents and refused to view the memories they had sealed away, wanting to judge their love for herself.
• Wang Dong'er asked whether Huo Yuhao had known her for a long time, and he said he had known her since before she was born.
• Gu Yue Na realized Huo Yuhao's connection to the Auspicious Beast began before Wang Dong'er's current life and privately felt pleased about their shared past.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na arrived to challenge Shrek’s official team for places in the Soul Master Competition. After Chen Zifeng provoked Huo Yuhao, Huo Yuhao chose him as his opponent, while Gu Yue Na picked Yao Haoxuan.

• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na joined Bei Bei and the others at the Soul Duel Zone, where several official team members resented the Outer Courtyard students’ chance to take their positions.
• Xuan Zi told Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na to each choose an opponent, with victory earning a place on the official team and defeat assigning them as alternates.
• Chen Zifeng introduced himself and challenged Huo Yuhao’s qualifications, prompting Ma Xiaotao to defend Huo Yuhao and offer to fight Chen Zifeng herself.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Chen Zifeng’s challenge and chose him as his opponent after Xuan Zi approved.
• After the team members finished introducing themselves, Gu Yue Na chose the hostile Yao Haoxuan as her opponent.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Chen Zifeng in their arena match, first using spiritual attacks and a punch before transforming his engraving knife to counter the Soul Chasing Sword. The fight continued as Huo Yuhao charged again, while Xuan Zi recognized Chen Zifeng had already lost and resented Huo Yuhao’s success.

• Xuan Zi started the match, and Huo Yuhao surprised the spectators by revealing three purple soul rings and charging at Chen Zifeng.
• Huo Yuhao evaded the Soul Chasing Sword, then used Lament of Fate, Soul Stripping, and Soul Impact to stun Chen Zifeng before punching him down and giving him a nosebleed.
• Chen Zifeng threatened Huo Yuhao, who took out his engraving knife and warned him to bear with what came next.
• Huo Yuhao used the Jealousy Origin to give the engraving knife the Golden Dragon Spear’s traits, then clashed with Chen Zifeng’s Soul Chasing Sword without being driven back.
• Xuan Zi judged that Chen Zifeng had lost and privately regretted driving Huo Yuhao away, then compared Huo Yuhao’s achievement with Tang San’s progress.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na passed the Inner Courtyard assessment, and Huo Yuhao became captain of the competition team. After his Snow Lotus Petal elevated Ling Luochen’s Martial Soul to Ultimate Ice, two figures waited outside Shrek Academy to begin a covert mission against a target.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Chen Zifeng, and Gu Yue Na overwhelmed Yao Haoxuan, eliminating both from the team assessment.
• Qiu'er proposed making Huo Yuhao captain, and Ma Xiaotao and the other team members accepted him as their commander.
• During a day of team battles, Huo Yuhao used his Ice Emperor Martial Soul and gave Snow Lotus Petals to the team, earning greater trust as captain.
• Ling Luochen’s Ice attribute rose to Ultimate Ice after she ate a petal, and she offered to protect Huo Yuhao from anyone who bullied or threatened him.
• Outside Shrek Academy, Senior Xuanji told Cheng Gang to conceal their identities and abandon their mission if they found a Titled Douluo beside the target.

Tang San was ambushed by Xuanji Douluo, who planned to abduct him to draw Shrek Academy's guards away from Huo Yuhao. Tang San tried to stall his captor with a bet, but Xuanji Douluo slapped him and carried him toward the outskirts of the academy.

• After recalling his humiliating fights against Qiu'er and worrying that Huo Yuhao's group was growing stronger, Tang San decided he needed more power.
• A black-robed Xuanji Douluo approached Tang San, who attacked with his Zhuge Divine Crossbow but was immobilized by the Titled Douluo's Soul Power pressure.
• Xuanji Douluo planned to abduct Tang San so that Giant Force Douluo Cheng Gang could exploit the distraction to capture Huo Yuhao.
• Tang San tried to buy time by proposing a bet and threatening to kill himself if Xuanji Douluo refused.
• Xuanji Douluo slapped Tang San twice, grabbed his collar, and flew silently toward the outskirts of Shrek Academy.

Xuanji Douluo abducted Tang San from Shrek Academy, but Xuan Zi's pursuit and Tai Tan's intervention forced him to give Tang San up. Xuanji escaped after breaking Tang San's arm and beating him unconscious, while Tai Tan carried the injured boy away.

• Xuanji Douluo fled Shrek Academy with Tang San as Xuan Zi chased them, using a Bright Virtue Hall Flying Soul Guidance Device to outpace him.
• Xuanji's Death Warriors fired Fixed Soul Guidance Shells at Xuan Zi, slowing his pursuit and helping Xuanji pull farther ahead.
• Tai Tan appeared and used overwhelming gravity to damage Xuanji's flight device, then demanded that he hand over Tang San.
• Xuanji agreed to surrender Tang San, but broke his arm and slapped him unconscious before tossing him to Tai Tan.
• Tai Tan caught Tang San and prepared to leave as Xuan Zi shouted for him to let the boy go.

Titan refused to release Tang San and fought Xuan Zi, overwhelming him before Xuan Zi used a powerful weapon to wound Titan. As Titan prepared a killing blow, golden light from Mu En halted both fighters, and Mu En asked Clear Sky Sect Master to end the matter.

• Titan tossed the unconscious Tang San behind a Soul Power barrier and challenged Xuan Zi to take him by force.
• Xuan Zi and Titan activated their Martial Soul Avatars and clashed, with Titan gaining the upper hand through his strength and Gravity Control.
• Xuan Zi dispelled his Martial Soul Avatar and struck Titan with a strange weapon, sending him crashing into a huge crater and injuring his arm.
• Enraged by his injury, Titan ignored Niu Tian's warning and prepared to use his Ninth Soul Skill against Xuan Zi.
• Golden light interrupted both fighters, and Mu En asked Clear Sky Sect Master to end the matter.

Mu En stopped Tai Tan and Xuan Zi from fighting over Tang San, then let Tang San decide whether to join the Clear Sky Sect. Tang San agreed to represent Shrek in the upcoming Soul Master Competition before joining the sect, leaving his departure postponed.

• Mu En confronted Tai Tan over his attempt to take Tang San and proposed letting Tang San choose for himself.
• Tang San weighed the Clear Sky Sect’s resources against his troubled time at Shrek and decided he wanted to join the sect.
• Xuan Zi challenged Tai Tan’s claim to Tang San, and Mu En intervened to prevent the two sides from fighting again.
• Tai Tan offered Tang San a trial that could let both him and his father, Tang Ba, return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xuan Zi asked Tang San to compete for Shrek before joining the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang San agreed.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er used their Dragon's Roar of Fate Martial Soul Fusion Skill to confront Cheng Gang after Gu Yue Na sealed off the area. Huo Yuhao’s power surged toward Soul Douluo level, and his attacks began freezing Cheng Gang as their battle continued.

• Cheng Gang prepared to capture Huo Yuhao, but after seeing the retreat signal and discovering Huo Yuhao, Gu Yue Na, and Qiu'er had vanished, he found them waiting nearby.
• Gu Yue Na sealed the space around them, while Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er joined hands and said they would test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill without her help.
• Qiu'er transformed into golden armor around Huo Yuhao, and Dragon's Roar of Fate fused their martial souls and raised Huo Yuhao's strength close to Soul Douluo level.
• Cheng Gang released his nine soul rings and struck the ground, but Gu Yue Na's spatial seal stopped the spreading cracks before they reached Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao attacked with the Golden Dragon Spear and Engraving Knife, then used Lament of Fate to weaken Cheng Gang's Soul Power Defense.
• Huo Yuhao struck Cheng Gang with Ice Emperor's Wrath, stiffening his retreat and spreading a bone-deep chill through his body.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Qiu'er’s fusion pushed back Giant Force Douluo Cheng Gang, but their power was running low as the battle continued. Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Destiny to expose Cheng Gang’s weakness and killed him, while Mu En left after Gu Yue Na warned that Xuan Zi was in trouble.

• Huo Yuhao wounded Cheng Gang with Emperor Sword, forcing him to reveal his Martial Soul Avatar and suppress the spreading cold in his wound.
• Cheng Gang attacked with waves of earth, but Huo Yuhao used Golden Dragon Overlord Body and Golden Dragon Shockwave to shatter them.
• Gu Yue Na told Mu En she had expected Cheng Gang not to leave alive, then warned him that Xuan Zi was in trouble, prompting Mu En to depart.
• Huo Yuhao charged Cheng Gang again as his Soul Power waned, and Cheng Gang prepared to use his Ninth Soul Skill.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Eye of Destiny and struck Cheng Gang’s exposed weakness with the Golden Dragon Spear, causing Cheng Gang to vanish in death.

After Huo Yuhao killed Cheng Gang, Shrek Academy prepared to confront the Duke’s Mansion and the Star Luo Royal Family, while Huo Yuhao recovered and continued attracting the attention of his senior sisters. Ling Luochen visited him for dinner, and Ma Xiaotao arrived just as Ling Luochen offered to spend more time with him.

• Huo Yuhao used Predestined Death to erase Cheng Gang, then collected his Storage Ring and struggled with the severe Spiritual Power depletion.
• Gu Yue Na gave Huo Yuhao a popsicle to help him recover, while Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to take the injured Tang San for treatment and told Huo Yuhao the academy would demand answers from the Duke’s Mansion and the Star Luo Royal Family.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to handle the matter in Xingluo City, and the next day Zhang Lexuan privately met with him in her office.
• Ling Luochen found Huo Yuhao after class, gave him the data she had recorded, and accepted his invitation to dinner in his dormitory.
• Ling Luochen suspected Ma Xiaotao had been exploiting Huo Yuhao to suppress her Evil Fire and offered to spend more time with him, just as Ma Xiaotao entered the dormitory and asked why Ling Luochen was there.