Chapter Summaries

After Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer won their battle with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, they left the competition grounds, where Jin Qiuer fainted from exhaustion. Xu Jiujiu resolved to try to win Huo Yuhao over, while Ma Xiaotao carried him back with an unexpectedly intimate touch.

• Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer ended their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Jin Qiuer leaned on him while pretending not to be exhausted.
• Dai Huabin left in anger, and Zhu Lu followed him after apologizing to the other members of the preliminary team.
• Xu Jiujiu realized Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer had spent all their strength and decided she could still try to win Huo Yuhao over.
• Jin Qiuer fainted after the group left the competition grounds, so Huo Yuhao handed her to Jiang Nannan to take back.
• Ma Xiaotao picked up Huo Yuhao and offered to carry him, secretly touching a sensitive spot.

After Shrek Academy reached the finals, Huo Yuhao hid the full extent of his strength and made sure Jin Qiuer would sleep through the rest of the competition. He then entered Star Luo City and confronted Zhu Lu in her villa.

• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team discussed how they might withstand Huo Yuhao and Jin Qiuer’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while the Star Luo Battle Team forfeited the individual matches and sent Shrek into the finals.
• Huo Yuhao woke in Ma Xiaotao’s room, reflected on his gains and his approaching level 70 breakthrough, and left without revealing that his daytime exhaustion had been an act.
• Huo Yuhao visited the sleeping Jin Qiuer, noticed pale blue traces beneath her hair roots, and used Pseudo-Buddha’s Light to keep her asleep until the competition ended.
• Huo Yuhao slipped into Star Luo City and entered Zhu Lu’s villa while she was cultivating.
• Huo Yuhao kissed Zhu Lu before she could question his arrival, and a strange fragrance made her body grow hot.

Huo Yuhao secretly visited Zhu Lu and left when Dai Huabin arrived to take her to meet noble geniuses. As Zhu Lu left with her fiancé, Huo Yuhao watched from hiding and decided to make Dai Huabin part of his cultivation.

• Huo Yuhao teased Zhu Lu in her bedroom, and she agreed to help him while refusing to go further because she was Dai Huabin's fiancée.
• Dai Huabin called Zhu Lu from outside and asked her to accompany him to meet female noble geniuses he hoped to recruit.
• Zhu Lu closed the window, found Huo Yuhao gone, and prepared to leave without telling Dai Huabin what had happened.
• Dai Huabin admired Zhu Lu when she came outside, while Zhu Lu worried about Huo Yuhao and felt less attracted to her fiancé.
• Huo Yuhao watched Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu leave from the villa roof, then decided to use Dai Huabin for cultivation and disappeared with his concealment abilities.

After Dai Huabin took Zhu Lu into a dark alley and tried to take her to a hotel, Huo Yuhao knocked him unconscious and assaulted Zhu Lu. The chapter ended with Zhu Lu in tears as Huo Yuhao held her there, while Dai Huabin lay unconscious and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm Primordial Spirit and Golden Hawksbill ghost guarded the alley.

• After the banquet, Dai Huabin took Zhu Lu for a walk through Star Luo City, hoping to draw closer to his fiancée.
• Dai Huabin tried to put his arm around Zhu Lu, but she instinctively moved away and became increasingly uneasy.
• Dai Huabin led Zhu Lu into a deserted alley and told her he wanted her, and she reluctantly agreed to go with him.
• Huo Yuhao knocked Dai Huabin unconscious, covered Zhu Lu's eyes, and told her, “Sister-in-law, don't look back, I'm my brother!”
• Zhu Lu recognized Huo Yuhao, but he assaulted her in the alley as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm Primordial Spirit and Golden Hawksbill ghost guarded both entrances.

Huo Yuhao helped Zhu Lu cultivate until he broke through to level 70, then gave her a powerful Hell Spirit Cat cultivation art while secretly building in ways to control its practitioners. Zhu Lu returned to the Zhu Family with the art, and Huo Yuhao went back to the Starlight Hotel, already planning how to exploit its hidden flaws.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu cultivated together, allowing Huo Yuhao to break through to level 70, and he gave her Snow Lotus Dew to recover.
• Huo Yuhao taught Zhu Lu the Netherworld Golden Flower Art, a cultivation art that could strengthen her Hell Spirit Cat martial soul and accelerate her growth.
• Zhu Lu left with the unconscious Dai Huabin and the cultivation art, then hurried back to the Zhu Family while questioning whether she should cultivate it or reveal it.
• Huo Yuhao told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that the cultivation art was bait, concealing its gendered drawbacks, dependence on his guidance, and vulnerabilities he could exploit.
• Huo Yuhao returned quietly to the Starlight Hotel to rest and considered developing a counter-method to make Hell Spirit Cat practitioners his prey.

Huo Yuhao considered his growing need for rare resources and sent Centipede Leg Clones to investigate resource points and search the sea for powerful Poison Attribute soul beasts. On the day of the finals, Shrek Academy faced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy without the sleeping Jin Qiuer, leaving Huo Yuhao to shoulder much of the pressure.

• Huo Yuhao reviewed his cultivation furnaces and concluded he needed rarer resources to maintain his cultivation speed.
• Huo Yuhao released Centipede Leg Clones to investigate resource points and search the sea for Poison Attribute soul beasts over one hundred thousand years old.
• Star Luo City filled with visitors as the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament finals approached.
• Huo Yuhao watched the crowds from the Starlight Hotel and felt his hunger for blood food intensify before Ma Xiaotao called him to the arena.
• Shrek Academy headed to Star Luo Plaza with Jin Qiuer still asleep, while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy brought a much larger team.
• Xiao Hongchen vowed to surpass Huo Yuhao in five years, and Meng Hongchen remarked that Huo Yuhao seemed even more handsome.

Huo Yuhao spotted his biological father, Dai Hao, among the Star Luo Empire’s officials and studied the Fate Configurations that marked him as a “good dad.” He decided to target Dai Hao and Duke White Tiger’s Mansion during the vacation, while Dai Hao considered repairing relations with Shrek Academy for the sake of his family.

• Huo Yuhao remained calm after his breakthrough as fans crowded him, while Ling Luochen kept their handkerchiefs away.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Dai Hao on the city wall and recognized him as his biological father, resolving to act against Duke White Tiger’s Mansion during the vacation.
• Dai Hao recognized Huo Yuhao and planned to visit Shrek Academy to mend their relationship, prioritizing the Dai family over his son.
• Huo Yuhao analyzed Dai Hao’s Tiger Bears Three Sons Fate Configuration and concluded that it had blessed him, making Dai Hao a “good dad.”
• Huo Yuhao noticed that Dai Hao lacked Dragon Qi, then thought about Ma Xiaotao’s admiration for him and resolved to teach her what a real man was.

Huo Yuhao entered the finals’ team battle alone and declared that he would not use his poison-based soul skills, provoking Xiao Hongchen. The match began with the Sun Moon team facing him, while Shrek’s unusual tactic left the spectators and observers stunned.

• Huo Yuhao sensed Fortune gathering above the arena for the champion and noticed Xuan Zi and Du Busi watching from the shadows.
• The Star Luo Empire’s National Fortune shielded the gathered Fortune when Xuan Zi’s Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul projection tried to devour it.
• Xu Jiawei announced the finals, and Huang Jinxu called Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to the stage for a team battle.
• The Sun Moon team fielded its strongest seven members, while Shrek sent only Huo Yuhao; Xuan Zi confronted Ma Xiaotao, who said the tactic was Huo Yuhao’s plan.
• Ma Rulong suspected Huo Yuhao would use poison, but Huo Yuhao said he would avoid his lethal soul skills; Xiao Hongchen angrily demanded that he fight fairly.
• Huang Jinxu started the match as Huo Yuhao waited alone against the Sun Moon team.

Huo Yuhao faced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy Team’s concentrated barrage without moving, yet every attack mysteriously missed him. The stunned team was left confronting his seemingly absolute evasion, secretly enabled by Heavenly Mandate Fate Configuration and the Golden Heartguard Mirror.

• Huo Yuhao assessed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy Team’s members and judged only Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Ma Rulong especially noteworthy.
• Ma Rulong ordered the team to raise a barrier and focus their Soul Guidance Cannon fire on Huo Yuhao.
• The barrage engulfed Huo Yuhao, but he emerged unharmed, still standing with his arms crossed and without summoning his martial soul.
• After Huo Yuhao claimed their instincts made them miss, Xiao Hongchen fired repeatedly, and each shot veered past Huo Yuhao.
• The arena fell silent as Xiao Hongchen and the others realized every attack had missed; Huo Yuyao’s evasion came from Heavenly Mandate Fate Configuration and the Golden Heartguard Mirror.

Huo Yuhao faced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team alone, while Ma Rulong prepared the Rank 8 Sword of Judgment to exploit his apparent overconfidence. The sword’s dark power entered Huo Yuhao, and the chapter ended before its judgment strike.

• Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao speculated that Huo Yuhao’s intimidating aura could make opponents miss, while Xu Jiujiu questioned whether he could be controlled.
• Ma Rulong rallied his teammates, then used the Rank 7 Chapter of Sacrifice to activate the Rank 8 Sword of Judgment at the cost of his life force and potential.
• Huo Yuhao summoned his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul as Ma Rulong completed his preparations, drawing alarm from spectators and Shrek’s supporters.
• Ma Rulong aimed the black side of the Sword of Judgment at Huo Yuhao and sent a dark gleam into his body, intending to make the sword’s light attribute judge him.

Huo Yuhao’s hidden Light Attribute nullified Ma Rulong’s Sword of Judgment, forcing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy Team to concede the team battle. Shrek then won the championship through two two-on-two victories, and as the rewards were announced, Huo Yuhao activated White Tiger and Black Tortoise.

• Ma Rulong’s Sword of Judgment healed Huo Yuhao instead of harming him, and Huo Yuhao revealed that he possessed the Light Attribute.
• Ma Rulong collapsed, and Ma Lao conceded the team battle for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy Team.
• Ling Luochen and Jiang Nannan won the first two-on-two match for Shrek, then Huo Yuhao and Wei Na defeated Ma Rulong and his teammate with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xu Jiawei announced Shrek Academy Battle Team as champion, and the vortex of Fortune poured into the team.
• Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes and activated White Tiger and Black Tortoise.

After Shrek Academy won the competition, Huo Yuhao absorbed the fortune gathered during the award ceremony while the Sun Moon team reeled from its defeat. His cultivation advanced to the brink of breaking through to Zen Master, and his bloodline turned its attention toward Dai Hao.

• Xu Jiawei presented Shrek Academy with generous rewards, including three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, while Dai Hao considered repairing his relationship with Huo Yuhao.
• The Shrek team celebrated on the award stage as the defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team struggled with its shattered pride, and Ma Lao privately vowed that the Sun Moon Empire would not tolerate Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao secretly gathered the fortune pouring over the ceremony, using his Visualization White Tiger, Visualization Black Tortoise, and other abilities to absorb and store it.
• The Golden Hawksbill and Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed the benefits of Huo Yuhao's fortune absorption, while the Hawksbill teased the Lion and she settled comfortably inside the Ghost Banner Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao's rank-70 Soul Power condensed into liquid as golden patterns appeared on his Golden Core, bringing him within one step of reaching Zen Master.
• Huo Yuhao's bloodline took the form of a tiger and bared its fangs at Dai Hao.

After Shrek Academy won the championship, Huo Yuhao concealed his true feelings as the team mourned their losses. Xu Jiujiu brought him to the Star Luo Empire's National Treasury to choose a reward, where he selected a mysterious piece of Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron.

• Xuan Zi praised the team and decided that Huo Yuhao had the makings of a future Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, Jiang Nannan, and Xu San Shi mourned their fallen teammates while Huo Yuhao hid his smile by the window.
• Xu Jiujiu told Huo Yuhao that the emperor had granted him one item from the National Treasury as a reward for his performance.
• Huo Yuhao accompanied Xu Jiujiu to the National Treasury and examined its Soul Bones, medicinal herbs, and ores.
• Huo Yuhao chose the Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron despite Xu Jiujiu warning that its chaotic energy and extreme hardness made it difficult to use.

Huo Yuhao reviewed the tournament’s gains, including Fortune, Dragon Qi, and the Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron, and used the Dragon Qi to develop a nascent third eye and Guardian Deity. He then went to cultivate with Nan Shuishui.

• Huo Yuhao put away the Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron and returned to the hotel, where the Shrek Academy Battle Team stayed behind to rest while Xuan Zi was missing.
• Huo Yuhao sorted his tournament gains and decided to save his abundant Fortune for cultivator cultivation rather than spend it on Soul Power or soul-ring ages.
• Huo Yuhao integrated Phoenix Qi into the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus and Dragon Qi into the Visualization White Tiger and Black Tortoise, forming the beginnings of a third eye and a Guardian Deity.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed Qilin Qi into his Soul Bones and fed the Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron to his Ghost Banner Martial Soul as the Soul Devouring Engraving Knife and Blood-colored Banner Pole neared completion of their fusion.
• Huo Yuhao went to collect experience points from the furnaces and found Nan Shuishui waiting for another night of cultivation.

Huo Yuhao’s departure left Zhu Lu weighing a dangerous cultivation technique as her only route to power, while Nan Shuishui received two techniques from him. On the Shrek Academy Battle Team’s bumpy journey home, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spotted two Body Sect Soul Douluo waiting in ambush.

• Zhu Lu received Huo Yuhao’s unsigned letter warning her to seek him out if she hit a bottleneck, and suspected the technique he had given her had a flaw.
• Zhu Lu chose to cultivate the technique in secret, relying on her father’s resources and replacing her servants to conceal any changes.
• Nan Shuishui began recovering after Huo Yuhao left her the Jade Maiden Scripture and the Red Spring Art, which could strengthen her but also increase her dependence on him.
• The Shrek Academy Battle Team traveled toward Shrek Academy by carriage, with Jin Qiuer unconscious and Xu San Shi still injured.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detected two Soul Douluo from the Body Sect hiding ahead to ambush the carriage.

Huo Yuhao’s team was ambushed by two Body Sect Soul Douluo while Xuan Zi was held back by Du Busi. The chapter ended with the Shrek team facing Lang Ya and Yu Tao, unsure of their purpose.

• Xu San Shi rushed out to confront the roadblockers but was punched back into the carriage, worsening his injuries.
• Ma Xiaotao and the others left the carriage to face the attackers, while Huo Yuhao secured Jin Qiuer inside.
• Xu San Shi refused Huo Yuhao’s advice to rest and ran out again, declaring that he would protect Jiang Nannan.
• Du Busi stopped Xuan Zi in the wilderness and fought him, then chose to hold him back rather than risk trying to kill him.
• Lang Ya and Yu Tao revealed themselves as Body Sect Soul Douluo, and Huo Yuhao realized Du Busi had arranged the ambush.

Lang Ya and Yu Tao confronted Huo Yuhao under the pretense of testing his strength, while his teammates rallied around him. Princess Wei Na understood that the Body Sect hoped to awaken Huo Yuhao’s second martial soul and recruit him, but Huo Yuhao was already manipulating the sect and the Heaven Dou Empire to further his own plans.

• Lang Ya and Yu Tao named Huo Yuhao as their target and challenged him to spar, claiming they would let his teammates leave if he agreed.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the challenge, and Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and the others pledged to stand with him.
• Princess Wei Na realized Du Busi had sent Lang Ya and Yu Tao to assess Huo Yuhao’s strength and prepare to recruit him after his second martial soul awakened.
• Huo Yuhao had already used hints to persuade Princess Wei Na to promote plans for the Body Sect and Heaven Dou Empire to exploit Shrek Academy and eventually take it over.
• Princess Wei Na had recruited Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu, whom Huo Yuhao intended to use as pieces within the Body Sect.

Huo Yuhao used Absolute Zero Freeze to catch Yu Tao off guard, then slammed him into the ground and traded blows with him. Yu Tao recovered and prepared to continue fighting, unaware that Huo Yuhao had already poisoned him with Hidden Profound Poison and Bone Piercing Cold Qi.

• Yu Tao invited Huo Yuhao to attack, confident that his strength and poison resistance would protect him.
• Huo Yuhao froze Yu Tao with Absolute Zero Freeze, then struck him with Awakening Thunder and drove half his body into the ground.
• Yu Tao broke free, injured Huo Yuhao's arm in a counterattack, and forced his dislocated left arm back into place.
• Huo Yuhao concealed the strength of his left arm and reassured his worried companions that he was fine.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had secretly poisoned Yu Tao's shoulders with Hidden Profound Poison and Bone Piercing Cold Qi, while Yu Tao remained unaware.

Huo Yuhao used a hidden poison to weaken Yu Tao before enduring his powerful assault. When Yu Tao’s arm came down, Huo Yuhao blocked it with both arms and revealed golden eyes, suppressing Yu Tao’s right-arm martial soul as he began his counterattack.

• Huo Yuhao kept Yu Tao occupied with repeated punches while secretly letting Cold Poison spread through both of Yu Tao’s arms.
• Wei Na explained that Body Sect soul masters relied on their bodies rather than soul skills, while Ma Xiaotao realized Huo Yuhao was waiting for an opportunity.
• Yu Tao discovered the poison and charged Huo Yuhao, smashing the ground and trapping him in the air currents from his strikes.
• Huo Yuhao braced Yu Tao’s descending right arm with both arms, revealed brilliant golden eyes, and used his Body Double to suppress Yu Tao’s right-arm martial soul.

Huo Yuhao ambushed Yu Tao with Ultimate Ice and assimilated his right-arm Martial Soul before Lang Ya took Yu Tao away. After Huo Yuhao's group escaped and Xuan Zi found them, Du Busi learned of Huo Yuhao's strength and began preparing to bring him into the Body Sect.

• Huo Yuhao trapped Yu Tao inside the Blood Rose Formation, froze them both, and completed the assimilation of Yu Tao's right-arm Martial Soul.
• Lang Ya freed the frozen pair, took Yu Tao, and vanished while Ma Xiaotao hurried Huo Yuhao and the others away from the battlefield.
• Du Busi released Xuan Zi after sensing Lang Ya and Yu Tao's return, then Xuan Zi found Huo Yuhao's group and discovered Huo Yuhao was only unconscious from exhaustion.
• Du Busi helped Yu Tao remove the Cold Poison and thawed him, then heard Yu Tao describe how Huo Yuhao's golden eyes had suppressed and seemingly controlled his right arm.
• Du Busi concluded that Huo Yuhao had terrifying talent and that his Second Martial Soul might soon awaken, so he began making preparations for Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect.