Recaps

Huo Yuhao forced the Ice Empress to choose between becoming his Soul Spirit and being devoured, then completed the ritual that merged her soul with the White Tiger Masked Beast. The Ice Empress became the new [White Tiger · Ice Empress], while the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path opened part of its second eye.

• Huo Yuhao bound the Ice Empress with Chakra Chains and drained her power, then explained that his Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had devoured Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux offered the Ice Empress a chance to become a Soul Spirit, threatening to erase her intelligence if she refused.
• The Ice Empress agreed to sacrifice herself, and her cultivation poured into Huo Yuhao as energy for the statue and a Spirit Bone.
• Huo Yuhao rejected the Ice Empress's Spirit Bone and ordered its energy fed to the Demonic Statue, which opened part of its second eye.
• Huo Yuhao used Electrolux's Necromancy to merge the Ice Empress's soul with the White Tiger Masked Beast, naming the result [White Tiger · Ice Empress].

Huo Yuhao revealed the power of his Nine Masked Beasts and awakened Ice Release after absorbing Ice Empress's origin power. Ice Empress accepted her defeat and began to see following him as a chance to reach godhood.

• Huo Yuhao summoned all nine Masked Beasts, whose power had grown after absorbing Ice Empress's 390,000 years of origin power.
• Electrolux told Ice Empress that he had once been a necromancer who could have become a god, and Ice Empress eased her resentment over losing to Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao's Soul Power rose from level 25 to level 28, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's second eye opened halfway.
• Huo Yuhao awakened Ice Release and tested it with Swallow Snowstorm, Black Dragon Blizzard, and One-Horned White Whale.
• Ice Empress praised Huo Yuhao's ice techniques and asked his name, and Huo Yuhao declared that he would wield the power of All-Encompassing Myriad Phenomena.

After strengthening his Wood Release and helping Tang Ya build Amegakure, Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy and deceived Beibei into believing Menma had kidnapped Xiao Ya. He then faced Dai Huabin, who threatened him, and Huo Yuhao planned to use Chisen's belongings as a gift for him.

• Huo Yuhao traveled to Amegakure, where he used Wood Release to raise rows of wooden houses and gave Tang Ya a plan to fund Akatsuki through mercenary work.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at Shrek Academy just before registration closed, and Beibei demanded to know where Xiao Ya had gone.
• Huo Yuhao told Beibei that a Masked Man called Menma had abducted Xiao Ya, provoking Beibei to swear he would find Menma and rescue her.
• Huo Yuhao promised to help Beibei rescue Xiao Ya while privately reflecting that she had chosen to be with him.
• Dai Huabin mocked Huo Yuhao and threatened to defeat him in the advancement assessment, while Huo Yuhao planned to give him the belongings left by Chisen and his group.

On the day of the advancement assessment, Huo Yuhao rejected Wang Dong'er’s accidental near-kiss and Ma Xiaotao’s attempts to grow closer, then accepted Ma Xiaotao’s bet over whether he could earn a perfect score. At the Beast Fighting Area, Dai Huabin challenged him to another bet.

• Xiao Xiao accidentally knocked Wang Dong'er toward Huo Yuhao, who punched her away and told her to stay away from him.
• Ma Xiaotao called Huo Yuhao out, but he refused her invitation and said their relationship should remain a transaction.
• Ma Xiaotao bet that Huo Yuhao would not get a perfect assessment score, offering a day of shopping and a chance to touch his head if he lost.
• Huo Yuhao accepted and wagered that Ma Xiaotao would find him an elemental Spirit Bone if he won.
• At the Beast Fighting Area, Dai Huabin confronted Huo Yuhao and challenged him to make another bet.

Dai Huabin scored 145 points after defeating a thousand-year Wind Tiger, then challenged Huo Yuhao to beat his score. Huo Yuhao chose a thousand-year Wind Wolf for his assessment and subdued it with a glance, leaving the arena stunned.

• Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to a rematch wager in which the loser would kneel and kowtow, and Huo Yuhao accepted without concern.
• Dai Huabin chose a thousand-year Wind Tiger, defeated it, and tore it apart after the examiners ordered him to stop.
• Du Weilun awarded Dai Huabin 145 points and ordered him to compensate the academy for the dead Spirit Beast within ten days.
• Huo Yuhao tried to choose a ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast, but the referee explained that second-year students could only choose one between one hundred and one thousand years.
• Huo Yuhao used Genjutsu: Sharingan to make the thousand-year Wind Wolf stop, submit to him, and return to its cage.
• Dai Huabin stared in disbelief as the spectators reacted to Huo Yuhao subduing the Wind Wolf with a single glance.

Huo Yuhao retook his assessment and revealed his newly awakened Ice Release, defeating a thousand-year Blazing Savage Bull in one attack. Yan Shaozhe awarded him a perfect score, leaving Dai Huabin devastated and Ma Xiaotao realizing she had lost their bet.

• Yan Shaozhe made Huo Yuhao retake the assessment so he could demonstrate assault-type combat.
• Huo Yuhao trapped the Blazing Savage Bull inside ice walls with Ice Release Secret Art: Ice Rock Hall.
• Huo Yuhao destroyed the Blazing Savage Bull with Ice Release: Twin Dragon Blizzard, revealing his overwhelming ice-element power.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Huo Yuhao a perfect 150 points, while Dai Huabin nearly fainted.
• Ma Xiaotao realized Huo Yuhao had reached the level of Ultimate Ice and that she had lost their bet.

Huo Yuhao received a perfect examination score and a Level 3 Soul Engineer badge, prompting Shrek’s Martial Soul and Soul Guidance departments to compete for him. After the examination, Dai Huabin paid off his bet by kneeling and kowtowing to Huo Yuhao, who privately taunted him about his hatred.

• Dai Huabin challenged Yan Shaozhe over Huo Yuhao receiving full marks for killing an examination Spirit Beast, but Yan defended the score and dismissed his objection.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice and resolved that Shrek must keep him.
• Qian Duoduo arrived with Huo Yuhao’s Level 3 Soul Engineer badge, and Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei'er argued that he belonged to the Martial Soul Department.
• Qian Duoduo declared that Huo Yuhao’s department affiliation would be settled at a Sea God Pavilion meeting, and Yan Shaozhe announced the core disciples before dismissing the crowd.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Dai Huabin from leaving and made him kneel and kowtow to honor their bet.
• Huo Yuhao whispered to Dai Huabin that he was weak because his hatred was not deep enough.

At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo argued over which department should cultivate Huo Yuhao, whose talents spanned martial souls and soul tools. Mu En ruled that both departments would train him and share resources, leaving Huo Yuhao to choose his path.

• Yan Shaozhe told the elders that Huo Yuhao had the Spirit Eye, a second martial soul called the Elementalist, and had cultivated water to Ultimate Ice.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed making Huo Yuhao a Martial Soul Department core disciple and his personal student.
• Qian Duoduo revealed that Huo Yuhao had independently created a third-rank soul tool core and argued that he should join the Soul Guidance Department.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo clashed over Huo Yuhao's future and each department's merits.
• Mu En ordered both departments to cultivate Huo Yuhao together and share resources, while allowing Huo Yuhao to choose between them later.

Shrek Academy’s elders approved Huo Yuhao as a core disciple of both the Martial Soul and Soul Guidance departments, while Mu En rejected Xuan Zi’s plan to investigate and recruit him through the Shrek Inspectorate. Huo Yuhao refused Wang Dong’s invitation to the Clear Sky Sect, then left the dormitory at midnight to prepare to target Dai Huabin.

• Mu En persuaded the elders to let Huo Yuhao study in both departments and choose his path later.
• Xuan Zi proposed making Huo Yuhao an Inspectorate disciple and using Shrek’s old methods to secure his loyalty, but Mu En forbade it and declared he would personally guide Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Zi left the meeting room, determined not to give up on Huo Yuhao and convinced that Shrek needed someone to handle its dirty work.
• Wang Dong invited Huo Yuhao to visit the Clear Sky Sect, hoping to introduce him to her older sister, but Huo Yuhao bluntly refused.
• After Wang Dong fell asleep, Huo Yuhao entered the Kamui Dimension, put on a Tiger Mask and black robe, and set his sights on Dai Huabin.

Huo Yuhao disguised himself as a masked ancestor and confronted Dai Huabin in his dorm room after revealing the remains of Chisen and his men. He defeated Dai Huabin with a single punch and pinned him to the wall.

• Dai Huabin grew angry when Zhu Lu delivered a sealed scroll saying Chisen and the others had returned to the family instead of reporting to him.
• Dai Huabin opened the scroll and found Chisen’s dismembered remains inside, then panicked when he could not open the sealed door.
• Huo Yuhao revealed himself outside the room after Zhu Lu disappeared, then entered through the open window wearing a Tiger Mask and claimed to be Dai Mubai.
• Dai Huabin activated his White Tiger abilities and attacked the masked figure, but Huo Yuhao pierced his defense with an Inch Punch and pinned him to the wall.

Huo Yuhao disguised as a masked ancestor manipulated Dai Huabin with a fabricated history and a false lesson about the Dai Clan’s power. Dai Huabin accepted the story and concluded that he had to embrace brother-killing to defeat Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao sealed Dai Huabin’s Soul Power and tested whether he could use him to evolve his eyes, then decided Dai Huabin was unsuitable.
• Huo Yuhao claimed Dai Yueheng might be more qualified than Dai Huabin and told him that the White Tiger and Evil Eye lineages had been hereditary enemies.
• Huo Yuhao used Genjutsu to make Dai Huabin believe Tang San had betrayed Dai Mubai and that Huo Yuhao was a pawn meant to destroy the White Tiger Lineage.
• Huo Yuhao told Dai Huabin that the Dai Clan’s ancient tradition was brothers killing each other to awaken the Evil Eye Holy King’s power.
• Dai Huabin accepted Huo Yuhao’s story and blamed his weakness on failing to carry out the Dai Clan’s tradition.

Huo Yuhao branded Dai Huabin with a cursed seal and disguised himself as Dai Huabin to meet Zhu Lu. He learned that Zhu Lu’s Soul Saint sister planned to bring Spirit Cat Clan guards to attack him, while the system revealed the rewards for the Warring States Uchiha Madara template.

• Huo Yuhao convinced Dai Huabin that blood sacrifices could awaken the Evil Eye Holy King’s power, then secretly implanted a cursed seal that could control him and kill him if he exposed the Masked Man.
• Huo Yuhao made Dai Huabin collapse, disguised himself as him, and used a genjutsu to conceal the room’s corpses and the real Dai Huabin.
• Zhu Lu told Huo Yuhao that her Soul Saint-level elder sister would lead Spirit Cat Clan guards to Shrek City before the holiday ended to target him.
• Huo Yuhao decided to use Zhu Lu’s sister as a sacrifice to test a technique and inspected the Warring States Uchiha Madara template’s rewards, including a prototype Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.

Huo Yuhao used his disguise as Dai Huabin to manipulate Zhu Lu and plan to use the White Tiger Spirit Cat Clan as test subjects for Impure World Reincarnation. Meanwhile, he trained and studied Soul Tools at Shrek Academy, where He Caitou fell for Xiao Xiao and embarrassed himself while trying to impress her.

• Huo Yuhao kissed Zhu Lu after she revealed that her sister would return from the Treasure Appreciation Fair with his head, and he secretly planned to use the clan’s Soul Masters for experiments.
• Huo Yuhao used Shadow Clones to train Chakra nature transformation and study Soul Tools, while Fan Yu introduced him to He Caitou.
• He Caitou felt overshadowed by Huo Yuhao’s talent and attention in the Soul Guidance Department.
• He Caitou fell in love at first sight with Xiao Xiao when she came looking for Huo Yuhao.
• Wang Dong arrived looking for Huo Yuhao, then left with Xiao Xiao after He Caitou claimed they resembled one another and Wang Dong told him to look in a mirror.

Huo Yuhao unlocked new powers from the Obito template and, with Electrolux's help, created the first form of a soul-severing blade called an Asauchi. He headed to Sea God Island to collect Ma Xiaotao's promised Soul Bone, but Ling Luochen suddenly clung to his arm and declared him her destined one.

• Huo Yuhao received an increased Kamui intangibility duration and the Tailed Beast Extraction Seal after guiding Tang Ya and Dai Huabin onto different paths.
• Huo Yuhao shifted his plans toward unlocking the Warring States Madara and Wandering Obito templates, and considered how to meet the Wandering Ronin's sentient-blade condition.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that he had developed a soul weapon, and Huo Yuhao summoned a Tang Dao that he identified as an Asauchi awaiting further refinement and a true name.
• Huo Yuhao remembered Ma Xiaotao's wager over an Elemental Soul Bone and went to Sea God Island to collect it.
• Ling Luochen rushed to Huo Yuhao, clung to his arm, and called him her destined one after claiming her Tarot Cards had predicted their meeting.

Huo Yuhao visited Ma Xiaotao to collect the Spirit Bone she owed him, but she proposed taking him to Shrek City’s Treasure Appreciation Fair instead. Wang Dong joined them, setting off a quiet rivalry with Ma Xiaotao as they headed for the fair.

• Huo Yuhao pushed Ling Luochen away, but she took his rejection as a sign of his charm before Ma Xiaotao arrived and claimed his attention.
• Ma Xiaotao learned Huo Yuhao wanted the Spirit Bone from their bet and offered to take him to the Treasure Appreciation Fair, where she could use her credit limit to help him choose one.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to go, thinking the Treasure Pavilion might also offer rare materials for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Wang Dong found Huo Yuhao and reminded him that the annual fair was being held that day, then accepted Ma Xiaotao’s invitation to join them.
• Ma Xiaotao realized Wang Dong was a girl disguised as a boy and decided to tease her, while Wang Dong compared herself unfavorably to Ma Xiaotao’s figure.

Wang Dong planned to reveal that she was a girl to Huo Yuhao, while Ma Xiaotao’s closeness made her more anxious. At the Treasure Appreciation Fair, Huo Yuhao claimed several treasures and sensed that a Class Seven Flame Gourd resonated with his Sharingan.

• Wang Dong resolved to confess her identity to Huo Yuhao during a private moment on the night road, encouraged by the voice in her mind.
• At the Treasure Pavilion, Wang Dong received a purple privilege card, while Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao received the highest-ranking red cards.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Huo Yuhao to call her Sister Xiaotao, intensifying Wang Dong’s jealousy and resolve to act that night.
• Huo Yuhao bought a ten-thousand-year Chaos-attribute Spirit Bone despite Wang Dong’s warning, and Ma Xiaotao used her selection privilege to pay for it.
• Huo Yuhao collected Whale Rubber, rare metals, and medicinal herbs before a Class Seven Flame Gourd made his Sharingan resonate, prompting him to suspect it was a divine artifact.

Huo Yuhao claimed a Flame Gourd he suspected contained the Totsuka Blade while Wang Dong bought a Golden Earth Dragon King Spirit Bone. On the walk back, Wang Dong revealed she was Wang Dong'er, but an assassin attacked and took her hostage, leaving her to cut off her own hair to escape.

• Wu Feng tried to claim the Flame Gourd, but Ning Tian apologized to Huo Yuhao and offered him the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s friendship.
• Huo Yuhao used his high-grade material selection privilege to take the Flame Gourd, while Wang Dong bought a Golden Earth Dragon King Spirit Bone.
• Ma Xiaotao left Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong alone as they walked back to the academy.
• Wang Dong revealed her female form as Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao shoved her aside to save her from a throwing knife.
• A female assassin attacked Huo Yuhao, seized Wang Dong'er by her hair, and demanded that Huo Yuhao kill himself.
• Wang Dong'er tried to strike the assassin with a Soul Guidance Dagger but cut off her own hair instead.

Huo Yuhao fought off the Spirit Cat Clan assassins after Wang Dong'er flew to Shrek Academy for help. He killed several Soul Kings and incapacitated their Soul Emperor, leaving him standing over the defeated attackers.

• Wang Dong'er realized she would burden Huo Yuhao, then flew toward Shrek Academy to find help.
• Huo Yuhao froze one Soul King assassin and used Kamui to evade three others’ attacks.
• Huo Yuhao ignited his Tang Dao with Kagutsuchi and burned the three Soul King assassins to ash.
• The Soul Emperor attacked Huo Yuhao with Nether Flash, but he blocked her strike after using White Zetsu Possession.
• Huo Yuhao’s Zanpakuto pierced the Soul Emperor’s Spirit Body Transformation and left her unconscious.

Huo Yuhao defeated Zhu Li, a seven-ring Soul Saint, using Kamui and a Wood Clone, then trapped her in his eye space. He activated the Ice Empress’s Stage Two Tailed Beast Cloak and prepared to finish her with a Tailed Beast Bomb.

• Zhu Li emerged from the shadows, revealed her Space-Rending Cat martial soul, and attacked Huo Yuhao with her silver claws.
• Zhu Li used Space Leap and a three-pronged dagger to strike Huo Yuhao, but her attack hit his Wood Clone.
• Huo Yuhao grabbed Zhu Li from underground and used Kamui: Banishment to pull her into his eye space, where he considered copying her teleportation technique to awaken Flying Thunder God.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Ice Empress for power, activated Stage Two of the Tailed Beast Cloak, and reached Soul Douluo strength.
• Huo Yuhao immobilized Zhu Li with a giant ice pincer and formed a Tailed Beast Bomb aimed at her.

Huo Yuhao defeated Zhu Li, learned why she had joined the assassination, and recruited her into Akatsuki after saving her. He staged his own apparent collapse when Yan Shaozhe and Wang Dong'er arrived, leaving Wang Dong'er convinced he had risked his life to protect her.

• Huo Yuhao swallowed Zhu Li's Tailed Beast Bomb and counterattacked with a Tailed Beast Cannon, leaving her near death.
• Huo Yuhao used Genjutsu: Sharingan to learn about Zhu Li's history and hatred of the Spirit Cat Clan, then healed her and invited her to destroy the clan for him.
• Zhu Li agreed to join Huo Yuhao's Akatsuki organization, and he placed a Cursed Seal on her neck.
• Huo Yuhao sensed that his Sharingan might evolve when he reached level thirty, then returned from the Kamui Dimension and disguised himself as an exhausted survivor.
• Yan Shaozhe and Wang Dong'er arrived at the battle site, where Wang Dong'er caught Huo Yuhao as he pretended to collapse and convinced herself that he cared about her.

Huo Yuhao refined a spatial teleportation technique, collected a spirit bone from Yan Shaozhe, and arrived at the Core Disciple Selection Tournament by teleporting in just after Zhang Lexuan revoked his eligibility for being late.

• Huo Yuhao realized he could use Chakra and Kamui to mark space coordinates and teleport, while Wang Dong'er awkwardly thanked him for saving her.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao a Ten Thousand Year Wind Demon Wolf right leg bone and questioned how he had defeated the assassins.
• Huo Yuhao claimed a dying Ten Thousand Year Ice Jade Scorpion had given him Ultimate Ice and could be summoned through a Self-Created Soul Skill.
• During the following week, Huo Yuhao focused on cultivation and kept his distance from Wang Dong'er, who assumed he was embarrassed about learning she was a girl.
• Zhang Lexuan revoked Huo Yuhao's tournament eligibility for arriving late and ordered the selection battles to begin.
• Huo Yuhao's Tang Dao landed in the arena, and he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear beside it and ask whether he was late.

Huo Yuhao opened the arena match by teleporting into the opposing group and instantly defeating several core disciples with Chidori Current. As he prepared a devastating lightning attack against Beibei and the others, Zhang Lexuan stopped him, warning that it could kill people.

• Dai Huabin recalled that the academy had barred him from the Inner Court and secretly placed his hopes in the Three Tomoe Cursed Seal and the Evil Eye Holy King.
• Huo Yuhao teleported into the group of core disciples and knocked them all down with Chidori Current before they could finish activating their martial souls.
• Zhang Lexuan watched Huo Yuhao and remembered Mu En urging her to build a bond with him for Shrek’s sake, while acknowledging that her own fate was not in her hands.
• Huo Yuhao gathered powerful lightning as thunderclouds formed above the arena, alarming Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Wang Dong’er, and the others.
• Zhang Lexuan appeared behind Huo Yuhao, grabbed his raised wrist, and told him to stop before his attack killed someone.

After Huo Yuhao’s performance at the Soul Fighting Platform, Mu En summoned him and offered to make him his personal disciple. Huo Yuhao accepted for the training and protection, while secretly comparing his pledge of loyalty to Orochimaru and Sasuke’s violent history.

• Zhang Lexuan stopped Huo Yuhao’s fight, announced that the remaining assessment would continue, and escorted him to meet Mu En.
• Xu Sanshi and Beibei speculated that Mu En might take Huo Yuhao as a disciple, while Wang Dong’er admired Huo Yuhao and imagined his lightning attack had been meant to impress her.
• Mu En confirmed that Huo Yuhao had a clean background and powerful Martial Souls, then offered to teach him as his final personal disciple.
• Huo Yuhao asked what he would gain, and Mu En promised to share his Self-Created Soul Skills and Martial Soul knowledge as a Rank 99 Limit Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Mu En as his master and promised to honor him like his clan elders, Orochimaru and Sasuke, while privately recalling their betrayals and killings.

Mu En made Huo Yuhao his disciple and demonstrated his Self-Created Soul Skill, Reign Over the World. Huo Yuhao copied it instantly, impressing Mu En and Zhang Lexuan, then began considering whether its principles could help him develop the Eight Inner Gates.

• Mu En welcomed Huo Yuhao as his disciple and offered to teach him Reign Over the World.
• Mu En demonstrated how Reign Over the World fused spiritual power and Soul Power into a domineering pressure that could brand an opponent's mind.
• Huo Yuhao used his Sharingan to analyze the technique and immediately replicated it, astonishing Mu En and Zhang Lexuan.
• Mu En praised Huo Yuhao as a future inheritor of the Sea God's Will, and Huo Yuhao pledged to uphold it while hiding his true thoughts.
• Huo Yuhao considered combining Soul Power, spiritual power, and Bloodline Power to develop the Eight Inner Gates.

Mu En gave Huo Yuhao access to his guidance, while Xuan Zi offered to lead his hunt for a third soul ring, prompting Mu En to assign Zhang Lexuan to accompany the reserve team. After the academy chose its tournament reserves and Wang Dong'er joined the Tang Sect, she tried to speak with Huo Yuhao in their dormitory, but he confronted her about being the Clear Sky Sect's Young Master.

• Mu En promised to guide Huo Yuhao at Sea God Pavilion each month and have Shao Zhe teach him martial soul cultivation techniques.
• Xuan Zi offered to lead Huo Yuhao to hunt for his third soul ring, but Huo Yuhao deferred to Mu En, who assigned Zhang Lexuan to accompany Xuan Zi and oversee the reserve team's safety and training.
• Wang Yan announced that Beibei, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, He Caitou, and Huo Yuhao had been selected as reserve team members and future Shrek Seven Devils.
• Inspired by Beibei, the reserve members joined the Tang Sect.
• Wang Dong'er complained about Huo Yuhao's absences, then found him in the dormitory after he walked in while she was bathing; he insulted her and left, but later reappeared on her bed.
• When Wang Dong'er tried to explain that she was a girl, Huo Yuhao grabbed her shoulders and demanded to know why the Clear Sky Sect's Young Master had disguised herself as a boy to approach him.