Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao brought a group of girls to the Battle Soul Area, where he planned to profit from secret betting on a match. As he watched familiar students, he considered how their bloodlines and Fortune might serve his plans, while Ning Tian grew curious about him and asked Wu Feng to investigate.

• Huo Yuhao paid the entrance fee and told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he had come to make money through secret bets.
• Huo Yuhao quietly used the White Tiger Fate Stealing Technique on students who mocked him, causing them to lose Fortune.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, considered their bloodlines useful, and added Zhu Lu to his plans.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao noticed Huo Yuhao; Wang Dong called him a lecher and led Xiao Xiao away, though Xiao Xiao kept looking back at him.
• Ning Tian smiled politely at Huo Yuhao, then asked Wu Feng to learn his identity, Soul Power Level, and martial soul.

Huo Yuhao bet three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins that Bei Bei and Xu San Shi’s duel would end within one minute, convinced his big brother’s Fortune would soon benefit him. As their match began, Bei Bei had recovered physically but remained heartbroken and worried about Tang Ya.

• Huo Yuhao found the betting pool and learned that Bei Bei and Xu San Shi were scheduled to fight at noon.
• Huo Yuhao placed a bet on the duel ending within one minute, using three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins from the girls and another hundred of his own.
• Huo Yuhao joined the girls in the stands and saw that Bei Bei had returned to the academy after recovering beside Mu En, though he still mourned Tang Ya and feared for her.
• Bei Bei and Xu San Shi entered the arena, activated their Martial Soul Possession, and prepared for the duel as Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm readied themselves to act.

Huo Yuhao used a hidden fusion of Mental Interference and Life-Reaping Sanskrit to make Bei Bei and Xu San Shi fight more viciously in the Soul Arena. As their Fortune fluctuated, his Visualization White Tiger began devouring it unnoticed.

• Bei Bei and Xu San Shi released their Martial Souls and prepared to fight in the Soul Arena.
• Huo Yuhao examined Xu San Shi's Fortune and saw the Xuanming Sect's blessing and the Xuanwu Bloodline potential in his Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fused Mental Interference with Life-Reaping Sanskrit and secretly targeted both fighters.
• The Sanskrit drove Bei Bei and Xu San Shi to attack each other with unusual ferocity, delighting the audience and worrying the referee.
• Huo Yuhao sent out the Visualization White Tiger, which began devouring the fighters' unstable Fortune without anyone noticing.

Huo Yuhao profited from betting on Bei Bei and Xu San Shi’s brief draw, then Yan Shaozhe took him to the Beast Circle to begin training. The chapter left Huo Yuhao facing a giant thousand-year centipede soul beast in a Beast Garden.

• The Visualization White Tiger devoured Bei Bei and Xu San Shi’s Fortune until they knocked each other out, ending their match in a draw.
• Huo Yuhao collected more than six hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and an IOU for two million five hundred thousand, then returned the girls’ stakes and gave each of them ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao decided to visit Bei Bei and Xu San Shi in the infirmary, but Yan Shaozhe intercepted him and flew him back to the Beast Circle.
• Yan Shaozhe said he would personally guide Huo Yuhao’s training and threw him into a Beast Garden to learn from a centipede soul beast.
• A giant thousand-year centipede appeared before Huo Yuhao, and Yan Shaozhe told him to watch carefully and learn.

The Beast Tide erupted across the empires bordering the Far North Land, while Mu En suspected Xuan Zi was involved and Xuan Zi celebrated from hiding in the Sun Moon Empire. Huo Yuhao learned of the disaster, then continued training in the Beast Circle until he reached level 28 and his Mutated Frost Centipede martial soul and the other centipedes showed signs of becoming spirits.

• A premeditated Beast Tide struck the Heaven Dou Empire, Dou Ling Empire, and Sun Moon Empire, with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast appearing in its first wave.
• Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts watched the conflict without joining, while Mu En suspected Xuan Zi was connected to the Beast Tide and ordered Shrek to remain uninvolved.
• Xuan Zi, hiding in the Sun Moon Empire, rejoiced at the damage to its people and vowed to make the Three Great Heavenly Kings pay for Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao heard from a young girl that her clan was fleeing south from the Beast Tide, then complained that the Star Luo Empire would benefit from its rivals' losses.
• After more than a month of training in the Beast Circle, Huo Yuhao reached level 28, and the Mutated Frost Centipede martial soul's first soul ring grew to six thousand years.
• The spirit-like aura of the Mutated Frost Centipede martial soul influenced the other centipede soul beasts, who learned to walk upright and realized they were not human.

Huo Yuhao continued cultivating at Shrek Academy, secretly nourishing the centipede soul beasts in the Beast Garden and planning to take them with him someday. He also spent his own fortune on enormous meals that strengthened him and his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul, while Yan Shaozhe watched and considered how Huo Yuhao might help Ma Xiaotao.

• Yan Shaozhe and Gong Changlong observed the centipede soul beasts peacefully gathering around Huo Yuhao and discussed his rapid cultivation and future potential.
• Yan Shaozhe privately planned to make Huo Yuhao repay Shrek Academy by helping Ma Xiaotao once he reached Rank 30.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Sky Dream Ice Silkworm after his breakthrough and secretly fed Medicinal Qi to the centipede soul beasts, promising to take them with him someday.
• Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm bought ten portions of expensive Thousand Year Soul Beast dishes and ate them to strengthen their cultivation and the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul's Natal Soul Ring.
• Yan Shaozhe stopped objecting to Huo Yuhao's excessive eating after learning it improved cultivation, but he no longer supplied Huo Yuhao with Gold Soul Coins because Huo Yuhao had earned over two million.

As the Freshman Assessment approached, Huo Yuhao’s mental suggestions and training had pushed Class Two to cultivate intensely and improve their chances of passing. Huang Tao explained the assessment and formed teams, pairing Huo Yuhao with Xie Huanyue and Lu Lu as Class Two’s strongest team.

• Huo Yuhao reflected that he had used daily mental suggestions to drive the girls to train harder, and the rest of Class Two had followed their example for over a month.
• Huang Tao praised Class Two’s diligence, announced that the Freshman Assessment would begin the next day, and explained that students would choose their future development paths before being assigned teams.
• Huo Yuhao chose the Control System direction, while a Spirit Soul Master declined Huang Tao’s recommendation to join the Soul Tool Department and a Support System student took the place instead.
• Huang Tao assigned Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Lu Lu to Team One, disappointing the girls who had hoped to team up with Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao assessed his teammates’ abilities and realized Huang Tao had assembled the class’s strongest team to contend for the championship.

Huo Yuhao teamed up with Xie Huanyue and Lu Lu for the Freshman Assessment, then used Blood Nourishment to dramatically strengthen the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul. The centipede reached nine thousand years of cultivation, and Huo Yuhao sensed their connection beginning to change as the assessment approached.

• Huo Yuhao met his teammates Xie Huanyue and Lu Lu, and the three discussed their abilities before practicing together.
• Xie Huanyue and Lu Lu discovered Huo Yuhao's two Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and Huang Tao became confident their team would win the Freshman Assessment.
• That night, Huo Yuhao used Blood Nourishment to feed his blood to the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul, enduring weakness as it grew stronger.
• The Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul reached nine thousand years of cultivation, while its first soul ring approached the Ten Thousand Year level.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that continued Blood Nourishment could help him break through a bottleneck and fully transform into a demon.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a special connection forming with the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul and considered that it might lead to further changes.

Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Lu Lu began the Freshman Assessment and won their opening matches with a simple, forceful tactic. By the end of the second day, Xie Huanyue had become known as “Heavy Bomb,” while Huo Yuhao quietly looted their defeated opponents.

• Huang Tao encouraged Class Two before the Freshman Assessment began, and Huo Yuhao privately encouraged the girls beside him.
• In their first match, Xie Huanyue, Huo Yuhao, and Lu Lu faced Shui Yue, You Long, and Zhu Dagang of Class Seven.
• Lu Lu boosted Xie Huanyue with her soul skills, and he crushed the opposing team with a heavy aerial charge.
• Huo Yuhao sent out the Visualization White Tiger to loot the defeated trio.
• Over the next four matches, the group repeated its tactic and grew more coordinated, while the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul stepped in when Xie Huanyue and Lu Lu ran low on Soul Power.
• Xie Huanyue gained a reputation across the arena as “Heavy Bomb,” and Huo Yuhao kept the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul’s full strength hidden.

Huo Yuhao’s team won all ten Freshman Assessment matches and advanced to the Elimination Tournament, while his luck-stealing antics helped many of his classmates pass. After the class celebrated and declared its championship ambitions, Huo Yuhao vanished the next morning, leaving Huang Tao and his teammates alarmed.

• Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Lu Lu defeated a trio of Control System Soul Masters and finished the Freshman Assessment with ten straight victories.
• Huo Yuhao used the Visualization White Tiger to strip luck from competitors and referees, contributing to many nearby freshmen failing the assessment.
• More than seventy percent of New Student Class Two passed, and the girls celebrated Huo Yuhao’s return to class by crowding around him.
• Huang Tao announced the Elimination Tournament, and Xie Huanyue, Lu Lu, and Huo Yuhao declared that their goal was the championship.
• The next morning, Huang Tao and Huo Yuhao’s teammates discovered that Huo Yuhao was missing.

Huo Yuhao arrived late to the Elimination Tournament after a drunken celebration with more than twenty girls, drawing suspicion and ridicule from the other teams. He stood up to Wu Feng before the tournament began, while Du Weilun blamed Huang Tao for his change in behavior.

• Huo Yuhao returned to the academy smelling of alcohol and covered in lipstick marks, and told Huang Tao that his classmates had taken him to a celebration party.
• Huo Yuhao recalled that he had resisted the girls’ advances because he did not want his cultivation to rise suspiciously before the tournament.
• Huang Tao sent Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Lu Lu to the arena, then headed toward Shrek City to retrieve the students who had stayed at the hotel.
• Huo Yuhao and his teammates arrived last, and Du Weilun and the other competitors noticed his disheveled appearance.
• Wu Feng mocked Huo Yuhao, but he snapped back at her before Du Weilun stopped them from fighting and threatened disqualification.

The Elimination Tournament began under new rules that let strong performers earn a year of Core Disciple treatment, and Huo Yuhao’s team faced Class Seven’s Seed Team in its first match. After the twins trapped Xie Huanyue with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Huo Yuhao’s Mutated Frost Centipede sent Huang Chutian flying, leaving the match’s outcome unresolved.

• Du Weilun explained the Elimination Tournament rules, and the new student teams entered the arena.
• Zhou Yi and Mu Jin began a bet involving a Soul Bone while the other teachers watched and gossiped.
• Huo Yuhao’s team faced Huang Chutian and the twin sisters Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu in the opening match.
• Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu fused their martial souls and trapped Xie Huanyue in their Heavenly Net, while Huang Chutian charged toward Huo Yuhao and Lu Lu.
• Huo Yuhao’s Mutated Frost Centipede struck Huang Chutian with its Ice Xuanhua Axes, sending him flying unconscious.

Huo Yuhao's team defeated Huang Chutian's team and then beat Luo Tianlong, Luo Tianba, and Wang Gang in an internal Class Two elimination match. After two quick victories, the team advanced while Xie Huanyue wondered how little he had contributed.

• Huo Yuhao knocked Huang Chutian unconscious, prompting Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu to surrender and give Xie Huanyue's team the win.
• Xie Huanyue questioned Huo Yuhao about his strength, and Huo Yuhao attributed it to more than a month of special training.
• Huo Yuhao reunited with Xie Huanyue and Lu Lu for their afternoon match against Luo Tianlong, Luo Tianba, and Wang Gang.
• Wang Gang used his Voice Charm and Voice Illusion skills to control Xie Huanyue while the Luo brothers rushed Huo Yuhao and Lu Lu.
• Huo Yuhao used the Mutated Frost Centipede's Ice Xuanhua Axes to knock out the Luo brothers, and Xie Huanyue's team won after Wang Gang collapsed.

Huo Yuhao's team faced Ning Tian's team in the top-sixteen elimination match, while the academy's leaders watched and Yan Shaozhe's interest in Huo Yuhao became public. As the battle began, Huo Yuhao took Lu Lu to confront Ning Tian, setting up a two-on-one fight against the support Soul Master.

• Du Weilun urged Huo Yuhao to cultivate diligently and told him the tournament champion would receive a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Yan Shaozhe watched Huo Yuhao and told Qian Duoduo that Huo Yuhao would become Xiaotao's junior disciple, prompting the teachers to take notice.
• Ning Tian's team was matched against Xie Huanyue's team, and Wu Feng provocatively challenged Huo Yuhao's side.
• Both teams activated their martial souls, and Ning Tian and Lu Lu buffed their respective teammates as the fighters charged forward.
• Huo Yuhao brought Lu Lu with him to confront Ning Tian, declaring that the two of them would fight her together.

Huo Yuhao and Lu Lu outmaneuvered Ning Tian’s team while Xie Huanyue and the Mutated Frost Centipede martial soul fought Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er. After Nanmen Yun'er was eliminated and Xie Huanyue defeated Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao confronted Ning Tian and Wu Feng with the Fairy Scepter.

• Xie Huanyue clashed with Wu Feng while the Mutated Frost Centipede martial soul parried Nanmen Yun'er's Jade Sever attack and knocked her back.
• Huo Yuhao and Lu Lu crept toward Ning Tian, who spotted them and ran toward Wu Feng as Huo Yuhao and Lu Lu chased her.
• The Mutated Frost Centipede martial soul burrowed underground, coiled around Nanmen Yun'er, and forced the referee to eliminate her.
• Wu Feng tried to reach Ning Tian, but Xie Huanyue struck her with his third Soul Skill and knocked her down; Ning Tian caught her as they both tumbled to the ground.
• Huo Yuhao approached Ning Tian and Wu Feng with the Fairy Scepter and asked whether they would lie down on their own or need his help.

Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Ning Tian’s team and advanced through the quarterfinals, drawing the attention of Shrek’s department heads and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School. After Mu Jin warned Ning Tian that Yan Shaozhe intended to take Huo Yuhao as a disciple, Ning Tian began considering how her school might approach him; Huo Yuhao’s team then reached the semifinals, with the championship match set for the next day.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Ning Tian’s team, while Wu Feng left furious and Ning Tian regarded him with conflicted interest.
• Yan Shaozhe praised Huo Yuhao’s fighting and martial soul, while Qian Duoduo hoped to recruit him for the Soul Tool Department.
• Zhou Yi and Mu Jin argued over their bet on the championship, and Zhou Yi left planning tactics for Wang Dong’s team against Huo Yuhao’s trio.
• Mu Jin warned Ning Tian that Yan Shaozhe was preparing to take Huo Yuhao as a disciple, and Ning Tian considered making a move for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.
• Huo Yuhao’s trio defeated Freshman Class Six’s Seed Team and advanced to the semifinals, where the final champion would be decided the next day.

On finals day, the semifinal draw matched Huo Yuhao’s team against Wang Dong’s team, while Dai Huabin’s team faced Zhou Sichen’s. As the first match began, Huo Yuhao studied Wang Dong’s Fortune and discovered signs of danger and a fate tied to the Sea God.

• Yan Shaozhe introduced Old Song, who coldly rebuffed him and silenced Qian Duoduo’s laughter.
• The captains drew lots, pairing Wang Dong’s team with Xie Huanyue’s and Dai Huabin’s team with Zhou Sichen’s.
• Huo Yuhao’s team and Wang Dong’s team entered the arena for the first semifinal.
• Huo Yuhao examined Wang Dong’s Fortune and saw her martial souls, a Sea God Trident projection, and signs that she faced an early death.
• Huo Yuhao inferred that Wang Dong was being directed toward conquering Douluo Continent, and the World Auspicious Cloud warned him to be careful.

Huo Yuhao used the Mutated Frost Centipede’s Cold Poison miasma to overwhelm Wang Dong’s team after they set up a defensive formation. The miasma left the three opponents blinded and weakened, and Huo Yuhao declared the match effectively over.

• Wang Dong’s team formed up behind Xiao Xiao’s Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron to draw Xie Huanyue into attacking and open gaps in his team’s formation.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Xie Huanyue from advancing and decided to handle Wang Dong’s group himself because they were gathered close together.
• Huo Yuhao and the Mutated Frost Centipede released Cold Poison miasma that engulfed Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Lan Yin.
• The three opponents lost their vision after inhaling the mist, and Xiao Xiao’s body stiffened as her Soul Power circulation slowed.
• Huo Yuhao turned away and declared that the battle was already over.

Huo Yuhao stopped Wang Dong from attacking him after she was controlled and revealed a Clear Sky Hammer, while the teachers discovered the white mist had poisoned her teammates. The match ended with Wang Dong frozen inches from Huo Yuhao, and the identity and intentions of the force controlling her were exposed.

• Yan Shaozhe ordered the match stopped and the poisoned students rescued, but Zhou Yi accused him of rigging the match.
• Old Song warned that the white mist was poisonous, and Du Weilun rushed into the arena as Xiao Xiao, Lan Yin, and Wang Dong lay incapacitated by Cold Poison.
• A blue Trident Mark appeared on Wang Dong's forehead, and the controlled Wang Dong revealed her Clear Sky Hammer and charged at Huo Yuhao.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to intercept Wang Dong, but she struck the Mutated Frost Centipede martial soul aside with a power that sealed its abilities.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that the controller was trying to force a martial soul fusion with Wang Dong, then froze her with Absolute Zero Freeze before she could touch him.

After Huo Yuhao won the semifinal with his self-created Absolute Zero Freeze, Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo competed to recruit him while Old Song recognized his Ultimate Ice. Huo Yuhao freed Wang Dong from the ice, and the academy declared his team the winner as Wang Dong was rushed away for treatment.

• Yan Shaozhe was shocked by Huo Yuhao's self-created soul skill, while Old Song recognized it as Ultimate Ice and decided to take an interest in him.
• Qian Duoduo gave Huo Yuhao a Third-level Flight Soul Tool and a Fourth-level Melee Soul Tool, prompting Yan Shaozhe to suspect that Qian Duoduo was trying to poach him.
• Huo Yuhao claimed that generations of his family had developed the eye-released skill, and Yan Shaozhe comforted him while Qian Duoduo offered him another gift.
• Du Weilun reported that Xiao Xiao and Lan Yin had suffered temporary Cold Poison and that he could not quickly melt the Solid Ice covering Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao dissolved the ice around Wang Dong, and Yan Shaozhe declared Huo Yuhao's team the victors before leaving with the unconscious Wang Dong for treatment.
• Huo Yuhao left the arena with Xie Huanyue and Lu Lu, while Du Weilun prepared to continue the tournament.