Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao left Shrek City alone as Dai Huabin prepared an ambush to assassinate him and capture Jin Qiuer. The ambushers were poisoned before they could strike, and the hidden attacker revealed himself as the Cihang Demon.

• Huo Yuhao left Shrek City alone while Dai Huabin and his men waited nearby to ambush him on his way back to Shrek Academy.
• Dai Huabin ordered his men to kill anyone accompanying Huo Yuhao and discussed capturing Jin Qiuer for his own pleasure.
• Dai Huabin’s forces assembled two Soul Douluo, five Soul Saints, and ten Soul Emperors, unaware that toxins had already spread through their bodies.
• Ten Soul Emperors collapsed from poison, and the eunuch used his fifth soul skill to tear away the concealment around the group.
• A black-robed attacker emerged from the poisonous gas and introduced himself as the Cihang Demon.

Huo Yuhao revealed himself as Cihang Demon and used his enhanced power to overwhelm Dai Huabin’s group. He killed two Soul Douluo, turned their corpses against Dai Huabin and the eunuch, and struck down the five Soul Saints, leaving their fate to his final attack.

• Dai Huabin recognized Huo Yuhao as Cihang Demon, but believed his Soul Douluo cultivation meant the group could kill him.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Freeze and a ninefold enhancement to kill the two leading Soul Douluo, then captured their souls with the Ghost Banner.
• Huo Yuhao revived the two Soul Douluo as headless corpses and ordered them to pursue Dai Huabin and the fleeing eunuch.
• The headless corpses attacked Dai Huabin and the eunuch while Huo Yuhao used Ghost Impact to overwhelm the five Soul Saints.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Bone Sword True Body and brought a giant bone sword down on the fallen Soul Saints.

Huo Yuhao annihilated the ambushers, including the eunuch, and captured Dai Huabin. He planned to keep Dai Huabin alive for now and send Duke White Tiger's Mansion a return gift.

• Shrek City's defense team noticed the battle and sent a captain and several Soul Kings to investigate, but they had to leave through the city gate.
• Huo Yuhao killed five Soul Saints and ten poisoned Soul Emperors with his Bone Sword True Body, then used the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus to recover from the strain.
• A Hui possessed Huo Yuhao, granting him Titled Douluo-level power, and Huo Yuhao activated the Eyes of Annihilation to attack the eunuch.
• Huo Yuhao destroyed the eunuch's Martial Soul Avatar with Annihilation Profound Light, then killed him with the Ghost Banner Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao poured the eunuch's blood over the terrified Dai Huabin, then said he would wait before extracting Dai Huabin's bloodline and would repay Duke White Tiger's Mansion.

After the Shrek Supervision Group investigated signs of Evil Soul Masters near Shrek Academy, Dai Huabin was found hanging naked outside Star Luo City with slogans mocking his claim to the throne. Huo Yuhao spent the day training with Wei Na and Jin Qiuer and ended the night preparing to test his newly developed Bone Fusion Secret Method.

• Shrek's defense team found a devastated battlefield with ghostly energy, and experts concluded that powerful Evil Soul Masters had fought there.
• Dai Huabin was discovered unconscious and naked on a pole outside Star Luo City beneath slogans calling for the Dai Family to reclaim the imperial throne, and he was rescued after the news reached the palace.
• Huo Yuhao trained with Wei Na, who found a red hair on him, and he quietly stepped it into the soil.
• Jin Qiuer interrupted Huo Yuhao's battle-technique training and challenged him, and they spent the day fighting and fooling around.
• After Ma Xiaotao left for the night, Huo Yuhao released the Primordial Spirit of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to keep watch and brought out a hundred-thousand-year amorphous soul bone and the ten-thousand-year Golden Light Left Arm Bone.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had developed the Bone Fusion Secret Method and planned to use it to fuse the two soul bones.

Huo Yuhao fused the Ice Radiance Dragon Unformed Soul Bone with the Golden Light Left Arm Bone, using A Hui as the bridge and turning him into an artifact spirit. The fusion created a 110,000-year left arm bone and strengthened Huo Yuhao's body and Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul, leaving him with two pairs of wings and five black soul rings.

• Huo Yuhao used his Bone Fusion Secret Method to fuse the hundred-thousand-year Ice Radiance Dragon Unformed Soul Bone with the ten-thousand-year Golden Light Left Arm Bone, while A Hui served as the soul bridge.
• A Hui endured agonizing pain during the fusion, and Huo Yuhao reassured Golden Hawksbill that he would not use him to refine a soul bone.
• The fusion transformed A Hui into an artifact spirit and produced a complete left arm bone that extended into part of the metacarpal bones and connected to Huo Yuhao's left pinky External Soul Bone.
• The fused soul bone reached 110,000 years and sent bloodline power into Huo Yuhao, improving his physique and strengthening the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao's armor and cloak-wings appeared, giving him two pairs of wings with Spiritual and Light attributes, while his five black soul rings emerged and the first showed signs of nearing 100,000 years.

Huo Yuhao gained a powerful Soul Bone and a growth-type Bone Spirit, then the Core Disciple assessment selected Shrek Academy’s reserve team. Xuan Zi began planning to remove Jiang Nannan from the team once Huo Yuhao joined it.

• Huo Yuhao fused with a hundred-and-ten-thousand-year Soul Bone, strengthening his body and Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao named A Hui a Bone Spirit after learning that the spirit could grow stronger and relearn abilities.
• The Core Disciple assessment began as a Grand Melee overseen by Xuan Zi, with the final seven candidates to become the Shrek Seven Devils Reserve Team.
• Bei Bei, Xu San Shi, Jiang Nannan, Wei Na, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Jin Qiuer survived the selection.
• Xuan Zi considered how Huo Yuhao’s future addition to the reserve team would force someone out and decided Jiang Nannan was the likeliest choice.

Xuan Zi began combat training by having Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer fight at full strength. Huo Yuhao swiftly defeated Jin Qiuer with Absolute Zero Freeze and moved to unfreeze her.

• Xuan Zi gathered the Main Team and Reserve Team for combat training, and Jin Qiuer challenged Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Zi ordered Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer to fight while the others watched.
• Jin Qiuer revealed her Golden Dragon martial soul and Golden Dragon Spear, while Huo Yuhao donned Frost Centipede Armor and displayed four soul rings.
• Huo Yuhao used Absolute Zero Freeze to freeze Jin Qiuer, then knocked her unconscious with a Mystic Ice Haze Fist without using a soul-ring skill.
• Xuan Zi told Huo Yuhao to unfreeze Jin Qiuer, and Huo Yuhao stepped forward to do so.

Huo Yuhao discovered a Martial Soul Fusion Skill between himself and Jin Qiuer while unfreezing her, while Wei Na worried about securing her place beside him. After the team introduced themselves, Ma Xiaotao revealed she had reached Soul Saint, and Xuan Zi began the day's combat training.

• Huo Yuhao sensed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Jin Qiuer as he unsealed her, and Wei Na grew concerned about her romantic rivals.
• Huo Yuhao sent Jin Qiuer to the infirmary, then the reserve team and Main Team introduced themselves and shared their levels and roles.
• Ma Xiaotao announced she had reached Level 70 and become a Soul Saint, shocking the team; Xuan Zi appeared to know how she had advanced.
• Xuan Zi arranged six-on-six combat training, with Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer sitting out.

Xuan Zi led Shrek Academy’s Main Team and Reserve Team toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range for a supervision mission, while Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao traveled separately with Yan Shaozhe to obtain soul rings. The teams headed toward their destinations with four Centipede Leg Clones secretly following Xuan Zi’s group.

• Xuan Zi introduced Wang Yan and the injured Zhou Yi as the trip’s leading teachers, and the teams set out from Shrek Academy.
• Jin Qiuer asked where Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao were, and Xuan Zi explained that they had gone ahead to obtain their fifth and seventh soul rings.
• Xuan Zi recruited the seven Reserve Team members into the Shrek Supervision Group and led the group toward the Ming Dou Mountain Range on a mission.
• After Xuan Zi’s group departed, four Centipede Leg Clones emerged from underground and secretly followed them.
• Yan Shaozhe guided Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao through the Star Dou Great Forest toward soul beasts that might suit their next soul rings.
• Huo Yuhao considered slipping away to find a suitable Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his own plans, then hoped the others were safe.

Huo Yuhao searched the mountains for a suitable Soul Beast, while Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao found a Golden-Eyed Fire Cloud Bird for Ma Xiaotao’s Soul Ring. As Yan Shaozhe fought the bird, Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao into a distant grove and pressed him against a tree.

• Huo Yuhao used the Qi Observation Technique and discovered two hidden Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast Kings, a Tyrant Dragon and a Thousand Jun Ant Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao decided to seek a Hundred-Thousand-Year Poison Attribute Soul Beast in the sea later and chose the Tyrant Dragon as his current target.
• Yan Shaozhe, Ma Xiaotao, and Huo Yuhao found a sixty-thousand-year Golden-Eyed Fire Cloud Bird, and Ma Xiaotao said it suited her Martial Soul.
• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao to retreat, then fought the bird while trying to capture it alive.
• Ma Xiaotao carried Huo Yuhao to a distant grove, pressed him against a tree, and flirted with him as the trees shook.

Huo Yuhao secretly used the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus’s aura to lure soul beasts while Ma Xiaotao absorbed the Golden-Eyed Fire Cloud Bird’s Soul Ring. As Yan Shaozhe fought off the attacking beasts, Huo Yuhao sensed a powerful presence approaching and prepared to act.

• Ma Xiaotao killed the Golden-Eyed Fire Cloud Bird and began absorbing its sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring as Yan Shaozhe guarded her.
• Huo Yuhao secretly spread the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus’s aura to attract soul beasts toward the mountaintop.
• Yan Shaozhe noticed the gathering beasts and asked Huo Yuhao to search the nest for a rare treasure, but Huo Yuhao found only herbs and ores.
• More than fifty-thousand-year soul beasts charged the mountaintop, and Yan Shaozhe used his Light Phoenix possession to hold them back.
• Huo Yuhao sensed tremors in the distance, focused on the approaching Tyrant Dragon, and prepared to make his move.

Yan Shaozhe drove off a Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Master, but two hundred-thousand-year Beast Kings arrived while Ma Xiaotao was finishing her soul-ring absorption. As Yan Shaozhe prepared to hold them off, Huo Yuhao charged the Tyrant Dragon to fight alongside him.

• Huo Yuhao confronted a black-robed Evil Soul Master, and Yan Shaozhe attacked the intruder with Phoenix Cry Piercing the Heavens.
• The Evil Soul Master fled after threatening that the Holy Spirit Cult would destroy Shrek Academy, while Yan Shaozhe stayed to protect Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao from two approaching Beast Kings.
• A Golden-Eyed Ant Emperor and a Tyrant Dragon arrived with their forces, leaving Yan Shaozhe to face two powerful enemies as Ma Xiaotao neared the end of her absorption.
• Yan Shaozhe told Huo Yuhao to escape with Ma Xiaotao, but Huo Yuhao refused and declared that he would protect his family at Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao used Frost Centipede Armor, flew toward the Tyrant Dragon, and slammed into it before Yan Shaozhe could stop him.

Huo Yuhao lured the Tyrant Dragon away from Yan Shaozhe and the mountaintop, then joined forces with Electrolux to attack it. As the ghosts held the beast in place, Huo Yuhao unleashed Life-Reaping Sanskrit and asked why it did not bow after seeing the Tathagata.

• Huo Yuhao struck the Tyrant Dragon with Ultimate Ice and cold poison, then drew it away from the mountaintop while the Golden-Eyed Ant Emperor charged Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao’s position.
• Yan Shaozhe used his Martial Soul Avatar and World Domination to confront the Golden-Eyed Ant Emperor and its swarm.
• After luring the Tyrant Dragon deep into the forest, Huo Yuhao joined with Electrolux through Divine Soul Possession to face it.
• Huo Yuhao summoned his Ghost Banner and domains, while the Skeleton Hawksbill, Bone Spirit A Hui, and other ghosts attacked the Tyrant Dragon.
• Huo Yuhao chanted Life-Reaping Sanskrit with support from his manifested spirits, and Buddha light enveloped the Tyrant Dragon as a voice asked why it did not bow before the Tathagata.

Huo Yuhao used Life-Reaping Sanskrit to subdue the Tyrant Dragon, which sacrificed itself to the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul. After absorbing its Soul Ring and Soul Bone, Huo Yuhao reached rank sixty-eight, gained new abilities, and erased the battle site with a stomp.

• Huo Yuhao overwhelmed the Tyrant Dragon with spiritual attacks and forced it to agree to Take Refuge in Buddha.
• The Tyrant Dragon sacrificed itself to the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul, leaving behind a red Soul Ring and a right leg Soul Bone.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Soul Bone and discovered that its bloodline carried an aura resembling the Golden Dragon King.
• Electrolux bound the Tyrant Dragon's soul and turned its sacrificed body into a Skeleton Tyrant Dragon.
• Huo Yuhao completed the Soul Ring absorption, reached rank sixty-eight, and gained two Sixth Soul Skills and two Soul Bone Skills.
• Huo Yuhao used Tyrant Tremor to split the ground and bury every trace of the battle.

After Ma Xiaotao learned Huo Yuhao was missing, she lost control and attacked the Golden-Eyed Ant Emperor while Yan Shaozhe tried to stop her. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao looted the Tyrant Dragon’s nest, gained two external soul bones, and continued hunting soul beasts.

• Ma Xiaotao finished absorbing her soul ring and found Yan Shaozhe battling the Golden-Eyed Ant Emperor amid the Thousand Jun Ant corpses.
• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao to withdraw and search for Huo Yuhao, prompting her to lose control and attack the Golden-Eyed Ant Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao searched the Tyrant Dragon’s nest, collected valuable items and three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and discovered a patch of Aphrodisiac Nutmeg.
• Huo Yuhao refined a three-thousand-year Aphrodisiac Nutmeg waist vertebra external soul bone, then left the valley to hunt more soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao found a Pink Lady group with a Pink Matron and gained a three-thousand-year Pink Matron neck vertebra external soul bone.

Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao found Huo Yuhao finishing the absorption of a White-Striped Poison Weasel’s soul ring, and he convinced them that he had survived the Beast King’s attack by drifting down a river. Yan Shaozhe promised to find him a dragon-type soul bone, while Huo Yuhao secretly recorded the debt and continued benefiting from his trip through the forest.

• Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao found Huo Yuhao beside an ice-sealed White-Striped Poison Weasel as he completed absorbing his fifth soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao told Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao that he had survived the Beast King’s attack by falling into a river, then killed the weasel while injured.
• Yan Shaozhe promised to find Huo Yuhao a fifty-thousand-year dragon-type soul bone, and Ma Xiaotao offered to help.
• Huo Yuhao secretly recorded Yan Shaozhe’s promise as a debt, having staged the weasel encounter to conceal his actions.
• Huo Yuhao gained three secret-method External Soul Bones and strengthened his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul’s soul rings, reaching the six-ring Soul Emperor rank.

A corpse-explosion ambush devastated the Shrek Supervision Group, leaving several members dead or gravely injured and Bei Bei captured, while Zhou Yi began plotting to claim leadership. Elsewhere, Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao arrived in Star Luo City, where they checked into the Star Emperor Hotel and began an intimate private encounter.

• Two corpse explosions killed Yao Haoxuan, Chen Zifeng, and Xi Xi, left Gongyang Mo missing, and badly injured Ling Luochen, Wang Yan, Zhou Yi, Xu San Shi, and Bei Bei.
• The Death God Messenger seized Bei Bei and escaped; Xuan Zi pursued him but returned without finding either captive or captor.
• Jin Qiuer smashed through collapsing rock to protect the survivors, while Zhou Yi secretly resolved to lead the team and win the competition.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao arrived in Star Luo City, checked into the Star Emperor Hotel, and found that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was staying on the same floor.
• Ma Xiaotao pressed Huo Yuhao onto a meeting-room table and began an intimate apology.

Huo Yuhao recovered Gongyang Mo, the Death God Messenger, and the critically injured Bei Bei after the attack on Shrek’s team. He preserved Bei Bei for later use, transformed the Death God Messenger into a spy under his control, and sent him toward the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire.

• Huo Yuhao learned that the Death God Messenger’s attack had left Ling Luochen unconscious and Shrek’s team severely depleted, while the Centipede Leg Clones had recovered several captives.
• Huo Yuhao used the Small Holy Spirit Banner to collect the dead souls, then found Gongyang Mo, the Death God Messenger, and Bei Bei sealed in Ultimate Ice.
• Huo Yuhao treated Bei Bei, who still had a thread of life, and planned to use his debts and identity for his own purposes.
• Huo Yuhao extracted Gongyang Mo’s Rainbow Dragon Bloodline and stored it in a Snow Lotus seed rather than fusing it into himself.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux altered the Death God Messenger’s soul and cognition, directing him to join the Holy Spirit Cult and serve Huo Yuhao without knowing it.
• Huo Yuhao installed magical eyes made from Dai Yueheng’s and the Vermillion Sunny Ice Toad’s eyes into the Death God Messenger, giving himself a way to monitor and control him.

Huo Yuhao sent Bei Bei away from Shrek Academy to clear his path toward becoming Sea God Pavilion’s heir, then spent the night cultivating with Nan Shuishui and reached rank 69. He searched Star Luo City for valuable auction items and assessed rival students before Shrek Academy’s team finally arrived on the day before registration closed.

• Huo Yuhao persuaded Bei Bei to leave Shrek Academy with Death God Messenger and head to the Sun Moon Empire, hoping to remove a rival for the Sea God Pavilion succession.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Star Luo Imperial City and spent the night with Nan Shuishui after she gave him several Ice Pole Divine Crystals, including one containing an ice spirit.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the meeting room, told Ma Xiaotao he had received a night of guidance from Nan Shuishui, and invited her to eat and explore the city.
• Huo Yuhao searched the auction house for the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife but failed to find it, then spent the following days probing students’ fortunes and martial souls, including Yu Mengdi’s Two-Winged Angel.
• Shrek Academy’s team arrived on the day before registration ended.

The Shrek Academy team arrived at the competition hotel with most of its original members missing, and Ling Luochen revealed that several teammates had died while Bei Bei had been abducted. Zhou Yi pushed the remaining team to pursue the championship, while Huo Yuhao suspected her motives and privately decided she deserved his hostility.

• The Shrek Academy team arrived with ten members, and Ma Xiaotao discovered that Ling Luochen was injured and the other main-team members were absent.
• Zhou Yi told Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao that Gongyang Mo, Xi Xi, Chen Zifeng, and Yao Haoxuan had died, Bei Bei had been taken by an Evil Soul Master, and Wang Yan had been returned to the academy for treatment.
• Ma Xiaotao revealed that she had become a Soul Saint and vowed to win the competition, while Zhou Yi urged the team to claim the championship for Shrek Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao took Ling Luochen to her room, and Jiang Nannan organized the remaining members as they settled in.
• Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong compared Zhou Yi's harsh motivational style to a familiar teacher, while Wei Na followed Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer focused on resting and enjoying the city.
• Huo Yuhao suspected that Zhou Yi wanted to claim the academy's glory for herself and thought that she had made an enemy of him.