Recaps

Huo Yuhao interrogated Wang Dong'er about why she came to Shrek Academy disguised as a boy, then secretly advanced to rank 30 and planned to develop a technique based on the Eight Inner Gates. The chapter left him preparing to test his dangerous idea with Electrolux's help.

• Huo Yuhao pressured Wang Dong'er into revealing that she had no memories of her parents and had been raised by the Clear Sky Sect's leaders.
• Wang Dong'er explained that a voice in her mind had directed her to attend Shrek Academy disguised as a boy and said she would meet her destined person; she believed that person was Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao decided to act as Wang Dong'er's destined lover while privately planning to grow strong enough to defy the God Realm.
• After Wang Dong'er fell asleep, Huo Yuhao used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to consume a Ten-Thousand Year Chaos Attribute Spirit Bone and advanced to rank 30.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Electrolux and proposed combining mental power, soul power, chakra, and physical bloodline power to force open the body's eight limiters.
• Electrolux judged Huo Yuhao's Eight Inner Gates idea theoretically feasible and offered to protect his heart meridian with necromancy.

Huo Yuhao continued his intense cultivation and was named one of the next generation of the Shrek Seven Devils before meeting the tournament’s main roster. He unsettled Dai Yueheng by asking how his younger brother Dai Huabin had been doing.

• Huo Yuhao spent half a month training to open the Eight Inner Gates while Wang Dong'er convinced herself that he was waiting for the right moment to confess to her.
• Beibei announced that Huo Yuhao and the others had been chosen as the next generation of the Shrek Seven Devils and had joined the Tang Sect; Huo Yuhao urged them to find Tang Ya.
• Xu Sanshi challenged Huo Yuhao to another match, but Xuan Zi gathered the students to prepare them for the upcoming tournament with a friendly free-for-all.
• Ma Xiaotao led the tournament’s main roster onto the stage, and Ling Luochen enthusiastically greeted Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao asked Dai Yueheng how Dai Huabin had been doing, leaving Dai Yueheng startled as he recalled his younger brother’s strange behavior.

Huo Yuhao provoked Dai Yueheng and faced him in the combat training match, where he tested his normal strength before deciding to open the Eight Inner Gates. The chapter ended as he unleashed the First Gate, the Gate of Opening.

• Huo Yuhao delighted Dai Yueheng by saying it was wonderful that Dai Yueheng's younger brother was still recovering, deepening Dai Yueheng's anger toward him.
• Xuan Zi started the combat training, and Ma Xiaotao chose Huo Yuhao for her team while Ling Luochen and Gongyang Mo launched an amplified ice attack against her.
• Huo Yuhao fought Dai Yueheng with Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere, but Dai Yueheng countered it with White Tiger Meteor Shower.
• Huo Yuhao rushed Dai Yueheng and engaged him in close combat, but the level 64 Soul Emperor repeatedly forced him back and gained the upper hand.
• Huo Yuhao reversed the flow of his Chakra, broke open a lock in his brain, and activated the First Gate, Gate of Opening.

Huo Yuhao used the Eight Inner Gates to drive Dai Yueheng back, then revealed a new Summoning Projection of the Ice Empress to freeze Dai Yueheng and several teammates. The arena was left stunned by the display of power.

• Huo Yuhao opened the second and third Eight Inner Gates and forced Dai Yueheng back with a punch.
• Dai Yueheng used his third, fifth, and sixth soul skills to launch a lethal White Tiger Destruction Kill at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao performed the Summoning Jutsu and projected an Ice Jade Scorpion infused with the Ice Empress's power.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion unleashed Ice Empress's Wrath, freezing Dai Yueheng inside a block of ice and immobilizing several teammates behind him.
• Huo Yuhao taunted Dai Yueheng as Ma Xiaotao and the arena watched in shock.

Huo Yuhao defeated the Inner Court students with his summoned Ice Jade Scorpion, impressing Xuan Zi and alarming Ma Xiaotao. The team’s roster was finalized, and they prepared to leave for the tournament with a stop in the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Huo Yuhao’s third soul ring.

• Huo Yuhao’s Ice Jade Scorpion froze the Inner Court students, while Wang Dong'er broke through her cultivation bottleneck and worried that the voice within her might take control of her body.
• Beibei accepted that Huo Yuhao had surpassed him, and Jiang Nannan remarked on the power of his summoned Spirit Beast.
• Xuan Zi stopped the fight, questioned Huo Yuhao about his Soul Summoning ability, and secretly inspected his body before accepting his explanation.
• Ma Xiaotao protested that Huo Yuhao’s once-daily Ultimate Ice attack could decide an entire tournament match by itself.
• Huo Yuhao thawed the students, and Xuan Zi announced the roster and ordered the team to depart for the tournament the next morning, stopping at the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Huo Yuhao’s third soul ring.

Zhang Lexuan took Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er to obtain soul rings after warning that Elder Xuan’s past expedition had ended in disaster. They stopped at Ichiraku Ramen, which Huo Yuhao revealed he had secretly opened as a future Akatsuki intelligence base.

• Zhang Lexuan insisted on taking Huo Yuhao herself, and Xuan Zi agreed to let Wang Dong'er join them.
• He Caitou tried to invite Xiao Xiao to eat, but she declined and hurried away while Xu Sanshi teased him.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that only four of the twelve Inner Court students survived an earlier soul-ring expedition led by Elder Xuan.
• Zhang Lexuan brought Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er to Ichiraku Ramen, where Huo Yuhao recognized his secretly established shop and its role as Akatsuki’s future intelligence base.

Huo Yuhao took Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong'er to Ichiraku Ramen, where he revealed himself as its owner and wore a crest he claimed belonged to his destroyed family. Zhang Lexuan vowed to protect them on their trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Huo Yuhao resolved to eventually reveal the truth about her family and free her from Shrek's control.

• Huo Yuhao brought Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong'er to Ichiraku Ramen, where Zhu Li served them under her new codename, Izuna.
• Huo Yuhao admitted he owned the shop, and Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong'er praised his business skills.
• After they ate, Huo Yuhao changed into a robe bearing the Flame Uchiha Fan and claimed it represented his mother's destroyed clan.
• Zhang Lexuan recalled her family's destruction and the companions lost on a past mission, then vowed to protect Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Huo Yuhao sensed Zhang Lexuan's genuine concern and decided he would eventually reveal the truth behind her family's extermination and help her break free from Shrek.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er hunted for suitable thousand-year Spirit Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Wang Dong'er absorbed a Light Illusion Butterfly's soul ring. While waiting by a stream, Huo Yuhao encountered a golden beast that appeared to be the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

• Huo Yuhao secretly ordered Zhu Li to monitor Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin for a week.
• Zhang Lexuan led Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er into the Mixed Zone after they failed to find suitable Spirit Beasts in the outer regions.
• Huo Yuhao used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to reflect a Light Illusion Butterfly's mental attack, then defeated it with Wind Release: Air Cutting Wave.
• Wang Dong'er killed the weakened Light Illusion Butterfly and began absorbing its soul ring under Zhang Lexuan's protection.
• Huo Yuhao skipped a pebble across a stream, where a small golden beast picked it up and revealed a third eye; Huo Yuhao suspected it was the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

Huo Yuhao exchanged warnings with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but Scarlet King attacked him before they could speak further. Zhang Lexuan blocked the assault, and the Auspicious Beast ended the confrontation before leaving, wondering whether Huo Yuhao was the prophesied child.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sent Huo Yuhao a warning on a pebble, and he returned the warning to her.
• Scarlet King appeared and attacked Huo Yuhao, accusing him of endangering the Auspicious Beast.
• Zhang Lexuan used her Soul Skills to intercept Scarlet King's fireballs and stood between him and Huo Yuhao.
• Zhang Lexuan warned Scarlet King that Shrek Academy's Super Douluo were nearby, while preparing to risk her life to protect Huo Yuhao.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion ordered Scarlet King to leave, ending the confrontation and withdrawing into the forest.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion recalled a prophecy about a blue-haired, blue-eyed boy, wondered if Huo Yuhao was the child of prophecy, and told him she would remember him.

Huo Yuhao and his companions continued searching the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable soul beast, but after he killed a Thousand-Year Ice Lizard, a spiritual attack led him into conflict with Wei Na. He struck back with his Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving Wei Na unconscious as a powerful Soul Saint attacked him.

• Zhang Lexuan checked on Huo Yuhao after he encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while Wang Dong'er finished absorbing a soul ring and reacted jealously to their embrace.
• The three continued through the forest, where Huo Yuhao instantly killed a Thousand-Year Ice Lizard with Fire Style: Dragon Flame Song Jutsu.
• Wei Na's Mental Shock missed the Ice Lizard and struck Huo Yuhao, whose Mangekyō Sharingan resisted the attack and sent a Genjutsu back along its path.
• Huo Yuhao's Genjutsu overwhelmed Wei Na, causing her to spit blood and fall unconscious from a tree.
• A middle-aged Soul Saint accused Huo Yuhao of attacking Wei Na and unleashed a corrosive, sealing fog toward him.

Huo Yuhao and his companions clashed with Mo Feiyun's group after Wei Na's spiritual attack and Zhang Lexuan drove them off by revealing her hundred-thousand-year soul ring. Huo Yuhao absorbed the ice lizard's soul ring in secret, then awakened a new Mangekyou pattern in his left eye.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Wei Na, Mu Xue, and Mo Feiyun, while Mo Feiyun accused the group of injuring Wei Na and stealing their soul beast.
• Zhang Lexuan revealed her eight soul rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, and Mo Feiyun hurriedly retreated with his companions.
• Zhang Lexuan suggested that Huo Yuhao absorb the ice lizard's spiritual-type soul ring, and he pretended to do so while the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path consumed it.
• Huo Yuhao released the power he had suppressed and manifested a disguised thousand-year soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao's left eye transformed into Uchiha Izuna's Mangekyou pattern.

Huo Yuhao learned that his left Mangekyou Sharingan had awakened the immobilizing technique Yatogami, then traveled with Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong'er toward the Mingdou Mountain Range. As they approached the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, a ten-thousand-year Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine trapped them in a lightning net.

• Huo Yuhao studied Yatogami's ability to immobilize anything he fixed his gaze on before Zhang Lexuan interrupted him.
• Zhang Lexuan led Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er toward the Mingdou Mountain Range after their soul-hunting mission succeeded.
• A lightning bolt struck a purple vine on a cliff, and the vine absorbed the thunder.
• Zhang Lexuan identified the vine as a ten-thousand-year Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine and warned Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to retreat.
• The vine erupted from the cliff and sent more vines through the ground, trapping the three inside a massive electric net.

Huo Yuhao used Yatogami and Kamui to absorb a bolt of lightning, then vanished amid the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine’s attack. As Zhang Lexuan prepared to sacrifice herself to save Wang Dong'er, a golden figure arrived and shattered the lightning, leaving her wondering if Mu En had come to rescue them.

• Zhang Lexuan's Silver Moon True Body barrier cracked under the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine's lightning domain, and Huo Yuhao froze a bolt with Yatogami before absorbing it with Kamui.
• After the thunder swallowed Huo Yuhao and he disappeared, Wang Dong'er and Zhang Lexuan mourned him.
• Zhang Lexuan knocked Wang Dong'er unconscious and prepared to burn her hundred-thousand-year soul ring to break the lightning domain.
• A golden figure descended, shattered the incoming lightning, and made Zhang Lexuan wonder if Mu En had arrived.

Huo Yuhao survived the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine’s lightning and revealed a powerful golden form, then joined forces with Zhang Lexuan to defend against another strike and seal the vine inside the Flame Gourd. He ended the chapter exhausted but victorious, having captured the rare spirit beast.

• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan that an ancient Defensive Soul Tool had given him temporary Titled Douluo-level power and asked her to lend him her Soul Power.
• Zhang Lexuan trusted Huo Yuhao and transferred her remaining Soul Power to him as the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine unleashed a stronger lightning strike.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Susanoo, which grew into a half-body form and blocked the destructive lightning while protecting Zhang Lexuan.
• Huo Yuhao fused the Flame Gourd with Susanoo and used the Totsuka Blade to pull the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine toward the gourd.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Huo Yuhao more Soul Power, and he sealed the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine inside the Flame Gourd.

Huo Yuhao defeated and sealed the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine with the Totsuka Blade, exhausting the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s origin power in the process. After securing Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong'er, he entered the Kamui Dimension with Electrolux to turn the captured vine into his Three-Tails.

• Huo Yuhao sealed the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine, received the Great Flame Technique and Prototype Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, and caught the unconscious Zhang Lexuan as she collapsed.
• Huo Yuhao replenished his strength with the Ice Emperor’s origin power, built a wooden villa, laid Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong'er inside, and left two Wood Clones to guard them.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Kamui Dimension and showed Electrolux the Totsuka Blade, which had become an energy construct fused with his Sharingan.
• Huo Yuhao found the shrunken Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine trapped inside the gourd and declared that he would make it his Three-Tails.
• Electrolux agreed to use their old method to transform the lightning vine into a Nine Masked Beast.

Huo Yuhao subdued the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine, gained Ultimate Thunder, and awakened Storm Release by combining it with Ultimate Ice. When he returned to the wooden house, Zhang Lexuan embraced him after waking from a nightmare, and Wang Dong'er walked in and saw them.

• Huo Yuhao forced the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine to submit, and Electrolux sealed it into a Soul Spirit that Huo Yuhao named Three-Tails Golden Snake Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine.
• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux to refine the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu: Prototype, and Electrolux eagerly began combining it with his Necromancy.
• The Ice Empress marveled at Huo Yuhao’s power and considered bringing the Snow Empress into his group.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine’s origin awakened Ultimate Thunder and that it merged with Ultimate Ice to create Storm Release.
• After learning Zhang Lexuan was waking, Huo Yuhao returned to the wooden house, where she hugged him in relief after her nightmare.
• Wang Dong'er entered the room, saw Zhang Lexuan embracing Huo Yuhao, and the light vanished from her eyes.

After surviving the Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Zhang Lexuan reunited, and Zhang Lexuan offered Huo Yuhao her family's Silver Moon Pendant as a prize if he helped Shrek win the upcoming Soul Master Tournament.

• Wang Dong'er found Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan embracing, then Zhang Lexuan revealed that she knew Wang Dong was a girl and promised to keep her secret.
• Zhang Lexuan took a commemorative photograph with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er using a Recording Stone.
• Zhang Lexuan showed Huo Yuhao her family's Silver Moon Pendant and explained that it had once saved her life but had lost its stored Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao suspected Zhang Lexuan might be related to Kong Deming because of their moon-associated Martial Souls.
• Zhang Lexuan wagered that she would give Huo Yuhao the pendant if he helped Shrek win the upcoming Soul Master Tournament as a reserve-team member.

Huo Yuhao returned with Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong'er to the Shrek teams at the Mingdou Mountain Range, where he learned they would head to the Star Luo Empire Northwest Field Army camp and meet Dai Hao. Before the teams set out on a Shrek Inspectorate extermination mission, Xuan Zi assigned Ma Xiaotao to brief Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er.

• Zhang Lexuan offered Huo Yuhao her Silver Moon Pendant as a wager that he would win the soul master tournament, and he accepted.
• Huo Yuhao released his Four-Pillar House Technique, making the wooden villa sink into the ground as Zhang Lexuan and Wang Dong'er watched in astonishment.
• Huo Yuhao, Zhang Lexuan, and Wang Dong'er reached the Mingdou Mountain Range and reunited with the Shrek competition teams led by Xuan Zi.
• Ma Xiaotao grew wary of Zhang Lexuan's closeness with Huo Yuhao and considered using his Whale Rubber to create an opportunity with him.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er showed their disguised soul rings, and Xuan Zi announced they would rest at the Star Luo Empire Northwest Field Army camp and meet Dai Hao.
• Xuan Zi announced an extermination mission for the Shrek Inspectorate and told Ma Xiaotao to explain its rules and details to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er.

Huo Yuhao joined the Shrek Inspectorate and secretly infiltrated Dai Hao’s barracks, where he used genjutsu to make a woman cut off Dai Hao’s Demon Pill. He escaped underground as Dai Hao screamed in agony, beginning his revenge against his father in name.

• Ma Xiaotao explained the Inspectorate’s dangerous, unpaid missions, and Huo Yuhao and the reserve team agreed to join.
• Dai Yueheng offered to teach Huo Yuhao how to gain “real gains” from Inspectorate missions, and Huo Yuhao pretended to accept.
• Dai Hao arrived at the Star Luo Empire military camp, and Huo Yuhao resolved to take revenge on him for abandoning his mother.
• After Wang Yan announced the group would enter the Mingdou Mountain Range in six hours, Huo Yuhao used a Wood Clone and earth techniques to infiltrate Dai Hao’s private barracks.
• Huo Yuhao froze Dai Hao with Yatogami and controlled a Soul Ancestor woman with Sharingan genjutsu, making her sever Dai Hao’s Demon Pill before he escaped underground.

Huo Yuhao joined Shrek’s Inspection Group as they attacked the Hand of the Grim Reaper’s lair, where the Messenger of the Grim Reaper’s corpse explosions devastated the Inner Court team. Xuan Zi arrived and brought the cavern down around the injured survivors, leaving Huo Yuhao suspicious of his intentions.

• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao that her Soul Power was nearing a breakthrough, so she would miss the mission.
• Wang Yan led the group into the Mingdou Mountain Range, and Ma Xiaotao directed the assault on the bandit lair.
• Huo Yuhao helped clear the cave with a Great Fireball Technique and sensed the Messenger of the Grim Reaper’s corpse explosions before warning the others.
• The explosions badly injured Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, and Xixi, and killed Yao Haoxuan.
• Xuan Zi entered the cave in his Martial Soul Avatar, triggering a collapse that buried the already injured Shrek students under falling rocks.

The Grim Reaper Messenger took Huo Yuhao hostage and fled into the Mingdou Mountain Range, unaware that Huo Yuhao had secretly marked him. There, Huo Yuhao used Electrolux’s improved Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu on the Messenger’s twelve Corpse Slaves, transforming them into powerful enemies Huo Yuhao had killed before.

• The Grim Reaper Messenger seized Huo Yuhao and threatened Xuan Zi with detonating the corpses, while Xuan Zi deliberately let him escape with Huo Yuhao.
• As the Grim Reaper Messenger carried him away, Huo Yuhao secretly planted a Flying Thunder God Cursed Seal on his lower back.
• The Grim Reaper Messenger stopped in a forest, summoned twelve Corpse Slaves, and boasted of his future power before Huo Yuhao rose and demanded that he submit.
• The Grim Reaper Messenger ordered the Corpse Slaves to attack, but Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that he had perfected the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu using corpses and deathly energy.
• Huo Yuhao cast the jutsu, severing the Messenger’s control and transforming the twelve Corpse Slaves into powerful figures he had killed, including Chisen and the Blazing Wing Elder.

Huo Yuhao used Impure World Reincarnation to control twelve resurrected fighters, stripped the Messenger of the Grim Reaper of his martial soul, and had the group kill him. As Xuan Zi approached, Huo Yuhao concealed his aura and Chakra.

• Twelve dead fighters revived through Impure World Reincarnation and submitted to Huo Yuhao's control.
• The Messenger of the Grim Reaper tried to flee, but Huo Yuhao caught him with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Huo Yuhao used the Tailed Beast Extraction Seal to strip the Messenger of the Grim Reaper's Death Puppet martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Yellow Sand Elder to bind the Messenger with Sand Binding Coffin and commanded all twelve fighters to attack.
• The twelve fighters killed the Messenger of the Grim Reaper, and Huo Yuhao sensed Xuan Zi approaching and concealed his aura.

Huo Yuhao hid the Impure World Reincarnation soul masters, staged an exhausted victory, and convinced Xuan Zi that he had defeated the Messenger of the Grim Reaper to protect his companions. Xuan Zi hinted at the Shrek Inspectorate’s secret role, and Huo Yuhao concluded that the academy was recruiting him into a hidden organization he intended to turn against its masters.

• Huo Yuhao used Reverse Summoning Jutsu to send the twelve Impure World Reincarnation soul masters into the Kamui Dimension, then disguised himself as battered and exhausted.
• Xuan Zi arrived and found Huo Yuhao alive amid the destruction, with the Messenger of the Grim Reaper apparently gone.
• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Zi he had lured the Messenger outside the cave to protect the injured Ma, Chen Zifeng, and the others from the Corpse Explosion Jutsu.
• Xuan Zi praised Huo Yuhao as a worthy successor to the Sea God's Will and said the Golden Tree saying had a hidden second half about shadow and buried roots.
• Xuan Zi promised Dai Yueheng would explain the true duty of the Shrek Inspectorate after the tournament, while Huo Yuhao resolved to resist the academy's secret agenda.

After Huo Yuhao returned safely from killing the Messenger of the Grim Reaper, the survivors mourned their losses and blamed themselves for the ambush. Back at Shrek Academy, Mu En praised Huo Yuhao for risking himself to protect the others and declared that he had the mindset of a Sea God Pavilion master.

• Wang Yan counted one dead, three critically injured, and Huo Yuhao missing after the Evil Soul Masters were defeated, while Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er worried about Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao returned with Xuan Zi and revealed that he had killed the Messenger of the Grim Reaper after deliberately luring him away from the cave.
• Xuan Zi assigned Wang Yan to take the reserve team to Star Luo City and secretly took Yao Haoxuan's remains back to conceal the dead student's investigation of the academy's Inspection Group.
• Zhang Lexuan returned after reaching Soul Douluo rank, collapsed in grief over the casualties, and regained her composure after Huo Yuhao reassured her that he had avenged the seniors.
• Mu En praised Huo Yuhao for sacrificing himself to protect the students and said he already had the mindset of a Sea God Pavilion master.

Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion elders staged Xuan Zi’s resignation and punishment to cover up the deaths and injuries from the failed operation. Mu En then entrusted the tournament to Huo Yuhao alone and named him the next Sea God Pavilion Master, leaving Zhang Lexuan troubled by Shrek’s hypocrisy but impressed by Yuhao.

• Mu En recalled the mysterious force in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness and planned to use the Golden Tree to control him after his own death.
• Xuan Zi accepted responsibility for the failed operation and offered to resign, but Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and the other elders urged him to stay.
• Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to apologize to the injured students’ families and remain in Sea God Pavilion to atone through service while continuing to lead the tournament team.
• Zhang Lexuan recognized the elders’ response as the same routine they had used after an earlier disaster and began doubting Shrek’s ideals.
• Mu En refused to send reinforcements and declared that Huo Yuhao would lead the tournament team to victory on his own.
• Mu En announced that he would make Huo Yuhao the next Sea God Pavilion Master after the tournament, and Zhang Lexuan admired his influence.