Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek and joined Wang Dong for a sparring match, where he used Soul Tools to expose her dismissive attitude toward them. Wang Dong lost again and began to reconsider Soul Tools as Huo Yuhao proposed designing equipment that could be worn with Martial Souls.

• Yan Shaozhe proposed gathering the current and reserve Shrek Seven Devils at the Soul Dueling Platform, and Ma Xiaotao flew off after challenging Huo Yuhao to fight her seriously.
• Wang Dong flew away in anger, and Huo Yuhao followed, offering to demonstrate a Soul Tool to address her aversion to them.
• Wang Dong revealed that she had advanced to a five-ring Soul King and attacked Huo Yuhao with her dragon wings, Fire Dragon King Right Claw, and Soul Skills.
• Huo Yuhao used seven Frostmourne flying knives and maneuvered past Wang Dong's attacks before an Armor Piercing Array blade reached her throat.
• Huo Yuhao pointed out that Wang Dong had underestimated Soul Tools and suggested creating equipment that Martial Souls could wear, leaving her shaken.

Huo Yuhao introduced his Soul Tool abilities to the Inner Court, then Ma Xiaotao revealed the Outer Court members’ astonishing strength and Soul Ring lineups. The Inner Court disciples were left disbelieving after seeing Huo Yuhao’s Water Dragon King Soul Rings.

• Ma Xiaotao and the Inner Court members acknowledged Huo Yuhao’s argument that Soul Tools could improve their combat ability, but Xuan Zi redirected them to introductions.
• Beibei, He Caitou, and Huo Yuhao introduced themselves, and Huo Yuhao explained his leap from Level 2 to Level 8 Soul Engineer.
• Wang Dong confronted Huo Yuhao for using a powerful Soul Tool against her, then revealed she was an eleven-year-old level 51 Soul King with twin Martial Souls.
• Xiao Xiao introduced herself as an eleven-year-old level 41 Soul Sect, and Ma Xiaotao revealed that Huo Yuhao was level 59 at the same age.
• Ma Xiaotao summoned her 100,000-year Soul Ring and urged Beibei, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao to reveal their Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao switched to his Water Dragon King Martial Soul, displaying four red Soul Rings and an ice-blue one that left the Inner Court disciples convinced they were seeing an illusion.

Huo Yuhao's team faced five inner court Soul Kings in a friendly match, and his dragon might and control over water sharply weakened their formation. As Chen Zifeng launched a powerful sword strike, Xiao Xiao activated her fourth Soul Skill to counter it.

• Ma Xiaotao proposed a friendly match between the inner court students and Huo Yuhao's group, and five inner court Soul Kings introduced themselves.
• Huo Yuhao linked his teammates through Spiritual Detection Sharing, and they privately chose opponents before the inner court team attacked.
• Huo Yuhao's Bright Holy Dragon, Wang Dong's Bright Dragon God Butterfly, and Huo Yuhao's Water Dragon King suppressed the inner court team's beast Martial Souls and cut their strength.
• Gongyang Mo struggled to reconnect with his Rainbow Dragon and buffed his teammates, while Yao Haoxuan used his Soul Skills to strengthen and control the group.
• Ling Luochen covered the platform in an ice storm, but Huo Yuhao absorbed it with his control over water.
• Chen Zifeng used his buffed Soul Chasing Sword to unleash a powerful slash, and Xiao Xiao activated her fourth Soul Skill, Bamboo Cauldron Domain Vitality.

Xiao Xiao and her teammates overwhelmed the inner court team, prompting Xuan Zi to let Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao fight for the captaincy. Ma Xiaotao asked Huo Yuhao to use only his Martial Soul abilities, and their duel began with him unharmed by her fiery assault before his counterattack froze the watching inner court students.

• Xiao Xiao trapped Xixi with Ink Jade Bamboo and Cauldron Tremor while Beibei and Wang Dong subdued their opponents, leaving the inner court team defeated.
• Xuan Zi proposed that Ma Xiaotao become captain, but Ma Xiaotao challenged Huo Yuhao and asked the winner to choose the official team members.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Huo Yuhao to fight using only his Martial Soul abilities, and he agreed before summoning the Water Dragon King.
• Ma Xiaotao used Blazing Fire Phoenix True Body and Phoenix Cloud Piercer, but Huo Yuhao survived behind the Water Dragon King's Sigh of the Gods.
• Huo Yuhao answered with Ice Bear Dragon King Roar, and its Extreme Ice blizzard froze Wang Dong and the five inner court students watching the duel.

Huo Yuhao became captain of Shrek’s team after his battle with Ma Xiaotao, then selected the main lineup and recruited Ling Luochen by offering her Extreme Ice and a place in the Ice God Temple. The chapter left Xiao Xiao and Xixi about to duel over a team position while Ling Luochen reacted to the artificial Extreme Ice Huo Yuhao gave her.

• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao unleashed attacks powerful enough to force Xuan Zi to intervene, and Xuan Zi named Huo Yuhao captain of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Huo Yuhao selected Ma Xiaotao, Wang Dong, Gongyang Mo, Xiao Xiao, and Beibei for the main team, leaving the final spot to rotate among the reserves.
• Xixi challenged Xiao Xiao for a main-team position, and Xiao Xiao agreed to duel her on the Soul Dueling Platform.
• Huo Yuhao told Ling Luochen about the Ice God Temple and offered her Extreme Ice in exchange for joining it; Ling Luochen agreed if she could verify the offer with Mu En.
• Huo Yuhao gave Ling Luochen a piece of liquid ice-crystal armor, and she reacted with shock as it awakened artificial Extreme Ice.

Ling Luochen gained absolute dominion over Extreme Ice, and the Shrek Seven Devils’ teams were finalized before Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao led their sides into a sparring match. Huo Yuhao’s team gained the upper hand through coordinated Soul Skills, Soul Spirits, and Frostmourne, leaving Wang Dong surrounded and the opposing team on the brink of defeat.

• Ling Luochen awakened absolute dominion over Extreme Ice and became even more eager to seek out the Ice God Temple.
• Xiao Xiao defeated Xixi again, and the Shrek Seven Devils’ main and reserve teams were finalized.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao chose their teammates, then formed opposing teams for a sparring match.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing and Frostmourne to coordinate his team’s attacks while Ma Xiaotao fought through the blades.
• The Soul Spirits joined the battle, and Octagonal’s Eight Desolations Ice Prison froze Xixi, Ling Luochen, and Xiao Xiao’s cauldron before the Extreme Fire domains stopped its spread.
• Huo Yuhao’s team trapped Ma Xiaotao and forced Gongyang Mo to withdraw, while six Frostmournes closed in on Wang Dong.

Huo Yuhao tested Soul Pills made with a zinc-tungsten furnace, finding that they rapidly increased Soul Power but left toxins that required the Yi Jin Jing to clear. He brought the pills and their research data to Xian Lin'er and Fan Yu, who learned of their potential as Qian Duoduo departed to trade high-level Soul Tools for rare metals.

• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao refined Soul Pills from 20,000-year Soul Beast remains, and Ma Xiaotao gained nearly the Soul Power needed to advance from level 55 to 56.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Soul Pills caused medicinal residue and taught Ma Xiaotao the Yi Jin Jing's second stage; he and Ma Xiaotao then made pills up to the seventh tier.
• Huo Yuhao left Ma Xiaotao to watch over Wang Dong, who had advanced a level while cultivating, and went to see Dean Qian.
• Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, and Fan Yu discussed trading nine Level 8 Soul Tools and twelve Level 7 Soul Tools for rare metals, and Qian Duoduo flew off to the Sun Moon Empire border.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xian Lin'er and Fan Yu Soul Pills from the first through seventh tiers and explained their benefits, drawbacks, and the need for the Yi Jin Jing to clear their toxins.

Huo Yuhao and the Soul Tool Department planned a Semi-Automatic Pill-Furnace Soul Tool, then he puzzled Wang Dong by asking about Wang Dong’er. The chapter left him considering whether Extreme Water could manipulate the water inside a person’s body.

• Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Pills’ toxin-purging times and proposed auctioning them at the Treasure Appraisal Meeting.
• Huo Yuhao described his idea for a Semi-Automatic Pill-Furnace Soul Tool, and Xian Lin'er and Fan Yu helped refine its design.
• Xian Lin'er went to seek rare metals, while Fan Yu asked Huo Yuhao to replicate pre-ordered Soul Guiding Arrays and promised to help design a shield-type Soul Tool.
• Wang Dong carried the exhausted Huo Yuhao through the night sky, then threw him into Sea God Lake after he asked whether she knew Wang Dong’er.
• Huo Yuhao asked Zhuge Lan why Wang Dong had reacted so strongly, then wondered whether he could use Extreme Water to control the water inside other people’s bodies.

Huo Yuhao revived Dai Huabin in the Undead Demi-plane to test his ability to reshape flesh, then tried to sense the moisture in Dai Huabin’s body. The chapter ended as Huo Yuhao’s Extreme Water encountered the limits of acting through flesh and blood.

• Huo Yuhao opened a passage to the Undead Demi-plane after being told to use Dai Huabin as a test subject.
• He found Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng undergoing Soul Fire torture under an Undead Monarch.
• Huo Yuhao used Mangekyo: Flesh Reshaping to revive Dai Huabin, who begged to be killed and blamed his mother for making him wrong Huo Yuhao and his mother.
• Huo Yuhao used Extreme Water to sense the moisture in Dai Huabin’s body, but its power was limited by the flesh and blood.

Huo Yuhao received a darkgold round shield that dissolved Soul Power and appeared to connect to a godly inheritance, along with a valuable storage ring from Qian Duoduo. He also gave the academy a pill formula, while Zhuge Lan and the Soul Spirits speculated about the shield and Qian Duoduo’s motives.

• Huo Yuhao chose a round-shield design, and Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo forged it from darkgold; Huo Yuhao named it Captain America's Shield and tested its cutting power.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that the shield dissolved Soul Power, and Electrolux said the power had been exiled beyond space through a connection to another dimension.
• Zhuge Lan found that activating the shield’s secret cost five million Luck Value and revealed that a god was using it to select an inheritor.
• Qian Duoduo gave Huo Yuhao the Aero Ring and asked him for ingredients for the semi-automatic pill furnace; Huo Yuhao supplied a pill formula and left to cultivate.
• Zhuge Lan and the Soul Spirits discussed Qian Duoduo’s interest in producing Soul Pills, while Huo Yuhao realized the gifts were part of an exchange of interests.

Huo Yuhao was disappointed after the Soul Guiding Department tried to take advantage of him, but Wang Dong comforted him by drinking with him, and they woke up tangled together. The next day, he settled on a 70–30 Soul Pill production split with Qian Duoduo and began testing the specially equipped production line with Yan Shaozhe.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong about the Soul Guiding Department’s scheme, and she flew off before returning with alcohol to cheer him up.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong drank until they passed out, while Zhuge Lan and the other Soul Spirits left them tangled together on the floor.
• The next morning, Wang Dong accused Huo Yuhao of taking advantage of her, then blushed after realizing how tightly she had wrapped her legs around him.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo met Huo Yuhao, and Qian Duoduo agreed that the Soul Guiding Department would take only thirty percent of Soul Pill production.
• At Testing Zone 13, Huo Yuhao activated the pill-making equipment and explained that Brother Lan’s Netherworld Flower was essential to producing Soul Pills.

Huo Yuhao arranged for Wang Yan to manage the soul-pill business, then sought Mu En’s advice about the academy’s share and the Far North’s soul bones. Mu En backed Huo Yuhao and revealed his plans to leave the Sea God Pavilion, while Huo Yuhao headed to the inner courtyard after hearing his teacher’s encouragement.

• Huo Yuhao asked Yan Shaozhe to assign Wang Yan to oversee soul-pill production and auctions, offering him major benefits, including a chance for his descendants to obtain a 100,000-year Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao taught Wang Yan the basics of the Semi-Automatic Pill-Furnace Soul Tool and agreed to collect Netherworld Flowers from him every half month.
• Zhuge Lan told the others he intended to save money to buy Snow Empress, prompting Ice Empress to urge Huo Yuhao to refine pills and gather soul bones from the Far North.
• Huo Yuhao visited Mu En, who agreed to split the profits with him fifty-fifty and warned him not to keep giving to Shrek without receiving fair treatment.
• Mu En told Huo Yuhao he would leave for the Ice God Temple, make Xuan Zi the new Sea God Pavilion Master, and support Huo Yuhao’s future; Huo Yuhao bowed and flew toward the inner courtyard Teaching Building.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated his powerful custom Soul Tools to the Inner Court students by defeating Wu Ming in a sparring match. Xian Lin'er explained that the tools were designed around his abilities, prompting the students to reconsider Soul Tools.

• Wang Dong joined Huo Yuhao in class and made him promise to cultivate with her every night.
• Xian Lin'er asked Huo Yuhao to demonstrate how Soul Tools could strengthen a Soul Master, then invited Wu Ming to challenge him.
• Wu Ming attacked with her fire-based Martial Soul, but Captain America's Shield absorbed her fire while Frostmourne destroyed her attacks.
• Wu Ming used her Golden Crow True Body and a powerful flame pillar, but Captain America's Shield swallowed the flames and Huo Yuhao froze her Martial Soul Avatar with Frostmourne.
• Xian Lin'er explained that Huo Yuhao's Level 8 Soul Tools had been custom-designed for him, and the Inner Court students began considering the benefits of doing the same.

Huo Yuhao attended Xian Lin'er’s lesson on Soul Tools, then questioned whether his many abilities were enough. Zhuge Lan discovered that Tang San, a God King, was plotting to kill Huo Yuhao and reclaim his accumulated Luck Value, leaving the group to prepare for the threat.

• Xian Lin'er explained how Soul Tools could complement Martial Souls, and Huo Yuhao promised Wang Dong he would design her a custom Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong cultivated together to refine pill toxins while Huo Yuhao read and discussed his abilities with the soul spirits.
• Zhuge Lan listed Huo Yuhao’s strengths and used a Create permission to investigate the anxiety he felt.
• Zhuge Lan revealed that Douluo’s consciousness had warned him Tang San was trying to kill Huo Yuhao and return his Luck Value to the world.
• Electrolux agreed to help advance the secret technique clone’s work and to destroy its soul and enter the Undead Demi-plane if it faced danger.

Huo Yuhao and his allies prepared safeguards against Tang San, while the Soul Pill business earned a fortune. Half a year later, Huo Yuhao’s Shrek Inspection Team reached the Hand of Death Bandit Group’s bloodstained cave in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

• Zhuge Lan created a core nucleus that could restore Huo Yuhao if he and his secret art avatar were both killed, and Electrolux guarded it while filling Huo Yuhao’s spiritual world with a soul-killing curse.
• Zhuge Lan proposed provoking a clash between the Sea God’s Divine Sense in Wang Dong’s spiritual world and the Ice God’s divine sense to make Tang San anxious.
• Wang Yan reported that Soul Pills had earned 2.97 million Gold Soul Coins at a Treasure Appraisal Meeting, and Huo Yuhao told him to keep expanding the business.
• Huo Yuhao assured Wang Dong that she could use his wealth, but she kept her identity secret and continued dual cultivation with him.
• Half a year later, Wang Yan and Han Ruoruo led Huo Yuhao and the competition participants to the Hand of Death Bandit Group’s cave, where Spiritual Detection Sharing revealed human skins and an infant’s corpse.
• Wang Dong vowed to kill the bandits, Tang Ya wanted to feed them to her Dark Blue Silver Grass, and Huo Yuhao argued that evil Soul Masters should be judged by their actions.

Huo Yuhao led the Shrek Inspection Team into a bandit stronghold and used his Octagonal Profound Ice Left Leg Bone to shield them from a deadly chain of corpse explosions. Xuan Zi killed the hidden evil Soul Master, destroying evidence of the Sun Moon Empire’s plot, and the team set off for Star Luo City.

• Huo Yuhao warned the team of danger, assigned their battle formation, and led them through the bandits’ sentries into a cavern where the attackers had been feasting on human victims.
• Ma Xiaotao, Beibei, and the others attacked the bandits, but the hidden Death God's Messenger triggered explosions among the living, the corpses, and the bodies hanging in the cave.
• Huo Yuhao activated Eight Desolations Ice Prison, freezing the team and shielding them from the blast and toxic air until Xuan Zi arrived and purified the poison.
• Huo Yuhao struck the black-robed Soul King with Captain America's Shield, but Xuan Zi’s furious punch killed him and blasted through the cave, destroying evidence that could have linked the attack to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao exchanged memories with Zhuge Lan, then rallied the shaken team and led them toward Star Luo City for the tournament.

After reaching Star Luo City for the Soul Master Competition, Huo Yuhao met Zhuge Lan in secret and let him remove his Mangekyo so the eyes could merge into an Eternal Mangekyo. Wang Dong discovered the procedure and panicked, but Huo Yuhao stopped her from intervening; the fusion succeeded and left him with a six-pointed-star pattern in his eyes.

• The Shrek team arrived in Star Luo City and received rooms at the Star Emperor Grand Hotel.
• Wang Yan explained the competition format and told the team to explore the city and prepare for the elimination rounds.
• Wang Dong followed Huo Yuhao into a secluded alley, where he introduced her to Zhuge Lan.
• Zhuge Lan removed Huo Yuhao's Mangekyo, and Huo Yuhao stopped Wang Dong from attacking because they had agreed to the procedure.
• Zhuge Lan merged the two pairs of eyes with Wood Release, awakening Huo Yuhao's Eternal Mangekyo.

Zhuge Lan rejoined Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, revealed the Hall of Light God’s deadly protection, and pushed Wang Dong’er to confess her feelings before the Soul Master Competition’s third round. Back in Huo Yuhao’s spiritual world, Zhuge Lan broke Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s illusion and found him newly smitten with the real Ice Empress.

• Zhuge Lan failed to restore Huo Yuhao’s Sharingan and agreed to travel with him under a new identity.
• Zhuge Lan told Wang Dong that Light could not be killed and explained how Light’s attacks had forced the Sun Moon Imperial Family to recognize the Hall of Light God.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Zhuge Lan teased Wang Dong’er about confessing to Yuhao and set the third round as her deadline.
• Wang Dong’er decided to seek Ma Xiaotao, who had shown interest in Zhuge Lan, and thought she would stop him from hiding from her.
• Zhuge Lan returned to Huo Yuhao’s spiritual world and shattered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s illusion, after which Sky Dream gazed adoringly at the Ice Empress.

Zhuge Lan dealt with Ma Xiaotao’s bold pursuit and used her to provoke Wang Dong’er over her secret. Wang Dong’er apologized after Zhuge Lan threatened to expose her, while Zhuge Lan also teased Sky Dream Ice Silkworm by withholding help with his transformation.

• Zhuge Lan noticed Ice Empress had begun tolerating Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s attention and considered transforming them into human form.
• Ma Xiaotao rushed in, recognized Zhuge Lan’s incarnation, and proposed becoming his woman if he defeated her in a spar.
• Zhuge Lan refused Ma Xiaotao and ignored Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s pleading messages after threatening to cancel his help.
• Zhuge Lan and Ma Xiaotao teased Wang Dong’er about her hair and body, prompting her to rush out and cover Ma Xiaotao’s mouth.
• Zhuge Lan threatened to tell Huo Yuhao about Wang Dong’er, and she quickly apologized for glaring at him.

Wang Dong'er tried to spend time alone with Huo Yuhao, while Zhuge Lan and the soul spirits bet on whether either of them would recognize her feelings. Huo Yuhao misread the crowd's reactions and decided Wang Dong was a boy who loved him, leaving Wang Dong'er furious when she realized his mistake.

• Ma Xiaotao stopped struggling after Wang Dong'er offered her a Clear Sky Sect hair-care secret, then left to find Han Ruoruo for a fight.
• Wang Dong'er dragged Huo Yuhao out shopping, while Zhuge Lan organized a bet in the spiritual world about who would confess or catch on first.
• Huo Yuhao bought Wang Dong'er whatever caught her interest and noticed people reacting to the two boys holding hands.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that Wang Dong loved him as a fellow man, clasped his hand, and declared that he wanted to spend his life with him.
• Wang Dong'er used Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing to see the crowd's reactions, then flung his hand away and shouted that he was the gay one.