Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and the imperial guards ambushed the Snowfield Wolf Pack, and Huo Yuhao killed its forty-thousand-year Wolf King with a single punch. He then faced ten ten-thousand-year Snowfield Wolves and knocked them all back with thirty strikes.

• The imperial guards attacked the Snowfield Wolf Pack, while the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul ambushed and poisoned the Wolf King.
• Huo Yuhao joined the fight and killed the weakened Wolf King with his Extreme Ice Frost Centipede Fist, then absorbed its soul into the Ghost Banner.
• Huo Yuhao asked the imperial guards to let more wolves into the encirclement, and they sent ten ten-thousand-year Snowfield Wolves toward him.
• Huo Yuhao used Ice Haze Fist to strike all ten wolves at once, landing thirty punches and heavily injuring them.

Huo Yuhao and his companions wiped out a Snowfield Wolf Pack, then returned to the front line to claim military merit and inspect the exchange list. As Huo Yuhao regretted not learning to refine Soul of Arcana Soul Bones, a mysterious black-robed person arrived to exchange three of them for military merit.

• Huo Yuhao defeated the Wolf King and ten Ten Thousand Year Snowfield Wolves, while Bei Bei and Wei Na defeated a five-thousand-year wolf.
• Huo Yuhao declined to absorb the Wolf King's Ice Attribute soul ring and secretly collected the wolves' souls for the Ghost Banner.
• Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Wei Na submitted their mission, and Huo Yuhao received most of the military merit without intending to join the army.
• Huo Yuhao examined the exchange list, regretted not learning to refine Soul of Arcana Soul Bones, and considered trading them for military merit.
• A black-robed person placed three hundred-year Soul of Arcana Soul Bones on the exchange counter and asked to trade them for military merit.

Huo Yuhao focused on hunting Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts while secretly tracking Dai Yueheng and waiting for a chance to act. When the Military Merit Leaderboard appeared, Huo Yuhao ranked 69th, ahead of Dai Yueheng at 87th.

• A black-robed man traded three Soul of Arcana Soul Bones for military merit and medicinal herbs, then left as someone secretly followed him.
• Huo Yuhao visited the market with Wei Na and the Imperial Guard Commander, then used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to plant a locator on Dai Yueheng.
• Huo Yuhao spent the following days hunting Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts and monitoring Dai Yueheng, but Dai Yueheng's routine gave him no chance to strike.
• Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Wei Na checked the newly posted Military Merit Leaderboard and saw Huo Yuhao ranked 69th with 1,024 points.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Dai Yueheng ranked 87th with 943 points.

Huo Yuhao’s military merit ranking drew suspicion and accusations of cheating, but he ignored the crowd and took Bei Bei and Wei Na to accept more missions. At the exchange office, he noticed missions about stolen soul beast corpses and suspected Evil Soul Masters were involved.

• The crowd noticed Huo Yuhao ranked sixty-ninth with more than a thousand military merit, and Long Aotian, Yu Tianlong, and Jiang Peng questioned how he had earned so much.
• Bei Bei and Wei Na grew angry at Jiang Peng’s accusation that Huo Yuhao had been helped to farm merit, but Huo Yuhao dismissed the argument and led them away to find missions.
• Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Wei Na exchanged their completed mission certificates for military merit and checked the remaining assignments.
• Huo Yuhao found missions to catch a thief stealing soul beast corpses and guard the corpse warehouse, and wondered if Evil Soul Masters were behind the thefts.

Snow Jade Prince arranged for Shrek's Inner Court students to pursue a suspected Evil Soul Master while the Heaven Dou Empire focused on the approaching Beast Tide. After completing another difficult extermination mission, Huo Yuhao followed a masked Shrek Supervision Group team into the night.

• Ice Phoenix Douluo offered to hunt the Evil Soul Master, but Snow Jade Prince explained that he had posted a mission for Shrek's Inner Court students to handle it.
• Snow Jade Prince rejected the idea of acting against Dai Yueheng and said the news of his presence should be passed to Dai Hao, while the officials prepared for the Beast Tide.
• Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Wei Na spent an afternoon chasing and killing a ten-thousand-year Mirage Lizard, leaving Bei Bei and Wei Na exhausted.
• That night, Huo Yuhao noticed someone leaving camp and decided to investigate, leaving a clone in his tent and tunneling out with the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the cloaked figures as members of the Shrek Supervision Group, identified one with his locator, and followed them in disguise.

Dai Yueheng led Shrek Academy’s supervision group in a night operation to catch a suspected Evil Soul Master, while secretly seeking to strengthen his claim to the Duke White Tiger’s heir position. Huo Yuhao followed him, froze his mind, and began draining his bloodline and Soul Power.

• Dai Yueheng assigned the supervision group to stake out the warehouse and ordered them to signal and support one another if a fight began.
• Dai Yueheng reflected that he had joined the mission to establish himself as captain of the Shrek Seven Devils and win Shrek Academy’s support in his rivalry with Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao secretly followed Dai Yueheng and used Mental Freeze to briefly incapacitate him.
• Huo Yuhao caught Dai Yueheng as he fell and sent the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus’s roots into his body to drain his bloodline and Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao drained Dai Yueheng’s White Tiger bloodline, crippled his martial soul, and tortured him before leaving him to die. Dai Yueheng identified his attacker as the Cihang Demon, and Ice Phoenix Douluo arrived to find his corpse.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed Dai Yueheng’s White Tiger bloodline until Dai Yueheng’s soul rings shattered and his martial soul was crippled.
• Dai Yueheng awoke and recognized Huo Yuhao’s Evil Eyes of the White Tiger lineage, realizing he was Dai Hao’s illegitimate son.
• Huo Yuhao gouged out Dai Yueheng’s eyes, called himself the Cihang Demon, and used ghostly energy to hasten Dai Yueheng’s death.
• Dai Yueheng fired a signal flare, and Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, Ling Luochen, Yao Haoxuan, and Xi Xi rushed to him.
• Dai Yueheng named the Cihang Demon before dying, and Ice Phoenix Douluo arrived at the scene.

After Dai Yueheng’s death heightened security at the camp, Huo Yuhao found a 40,000 Year Zhuqing Ice Toad for his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul’s fifth Soul Ring. He defeated it alone, collected its soul and eyes, and began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Snow Jade Prince concealed Dai Yueheng’s identity and arranged for Ice Phoenix Douluo to protect the camp as the Shrek Supervision Group stayed to seek revenge.
• Bei Bei offered help to the Shrek Inner Court students, but they refused and dismissed Huo Yuhao and his companions as too weak to assist.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that a 40,000 Year Zhuqing Ice Toad would suit his fifth Soul Ring and led Bei Bei, Wei Na, and the Imperial Guard Commander to its poisonous trail.
• Huo Yuhao insisted on hunting the Zhuqing Ice Toad alone, and Wei Na and Bei Bei reluctantly let him proceed.
• Huo Yuhao defeated the Zhuqing Ice Toad, stored its soul in the Ghost Banner, collected its eyes with Dai Yueheng’s, and began absorbing its Soul Ring.

After absorbing the 40,000 Year Zhuqing Ice Toad soul ring, Huo Yuhao reached Soul Power Level 58 and gained the Venomous Traces skill, then considered how to develop his Poison Attribute. Electrolux explained ways to approach Ultimate Poison, and Huo Yuhao chose to strengthen his poison’s elemental characteristics instead of spending decades or Fortune on purification.

• Huo Yuhao gained Venomous Traces, which caused Cold Poison to spread from poisoned targets and leave traces that could poison others.
• Huo Yuhao’s accumulated soul power surged, raising him eight levels to Soul Power Level 58, and his Poison Attribute grew stronger.
• Huo Yuhao considered using the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss and more Poison Attribute soul rings to transform his Poison Attribute into Ultimate Poison, but Electrolux warned that the process could be dangerous.
• Electrolux explained that reaching Ultimate Poison required either purifying the poison’s elemental attribute or strengthening its destructive and corrosive characteristics.
• Huo Yuhao rejected a purification process that could take over a hundred years and chose to keep building his Poison Attribute and study destructive attributes with help from his Myriad Laws Eye.

Huo Yuhao concealed his enhanced strength and set out to hunt for powerful souls, but encountered two Evil Soul Masters fleeing from disciples of Sky Dragon Gate and Earth Dragon Gate. He summoned the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul to block their escape.

• Huo Yuhao used Fortune to refine his Second Soul Ring to ten thousand years, then concealed his fifth ring and aura as a rank forty-four Soul Ancestor.
• Golden Hawksbill advised Huo Yuhao that his Soul Power was ready for him to attempt condensing a Soul Core.
• Huo Yuhao used fortune-telling to choose a direction to search for powerful souls and encountered a group chasing two Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Yu Tianlong and Nan Qiuqiu were leading disciples of Sky Dragon Gate and Earth Dragon Gate, with two Soul Douluo following behind.
• After Yu Tianlong asked him to stop the fugitives, Huo Yuhao summoned the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul and blocked the two Evil Soul Masters' path.

Huo Yuhao stopped two Evil Soul Masters pursued by Sky Dragon Gate and Earth Dragon Gate, then killed them after learning they were accused of harming members of the Shrek Supervision Group. He took their bodies for the academy, leaving Yu Tianlong and Nan Qiuqiu too shaken to object.

• Huo Yuhao and the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul intercepted the two Evil Soul Masters, allowing Yu Tianlong and Nan Qiuqiu's disciples to catch up.
• Yu Tianlong and Nan Qiuqiu argued over which sect would capture the Evil Soul Masters until Huo Yuhao's hostility stopped them.
• Huo Yuhao accused the Evil Soul Masters of harming the Shrek Supervision Group, summoned the Frost Centipede Armor, and killed the Soul King with a single punch.
• The Soul Emperor fled and claimed that he and his companion had never killed anyone, but Huo Yuhao pursued him and killed him with another punch.
• Huo Yuhao said he would take the corpses back to the academy, and Yu Tianlong and Nan Qiuqiu agreed without protest.

Huo Yuhao brought two Evil Soul Master corpses to Snow Jade Prince, but the Shrek members confirmed they were not Dai Yueheng’s killer and revealed the dying man’s clue: “Cihang Demon.” After earning military merit and inspecting the spoils, Huo Yuhao entered his Ghost Banner to question the two captured Evil Soul Masters.

• Huo Yuhao brought the two Evil Soul Master corpses to Bei Bei and Wei Na, and Snow Jade Prince summoned Ling Luochen and the others to investigate.
• Chen Zifeng said the two Evil Soul Masters were too weak to have killed Dai Yueheng, while Ling Luochen warned Huo Yuhao to flee if he encountered the real murderer.
• Yao Haoxuan and Xi Xi revealed that Dai Yueheng had said “Cihang Demon” before he died, and Ling Luochen suspected it was the killer’s name.
• Snow Jade Prince awarded Huo Yuhao military merit and the Evil Soul Masters’ belongings, which Huo Yuhao inspected without finding any dangerous items.
• Huo Yuhao returned to camp, entered his Ghost Banner, and went to find the ghosts of the two Evil Soul Masters to question them.

Huo Yuhao learned how the two Evil Soul Masters had been tied to the Holy Spirit Cult and refined their soul-bone method into a secret technique for strengthening soul rings. While strolling through the city with Wei Na, he spotted Wang Dong traveling with members of the Clear Sky Sect, leaving him suspicious of the God King’s plans.

• Huo Yuhao soul-searched the two malicious ghosts and learned that a Holy Spirit Cult Third Elder had taught them to make Soul of Arcana Soul Bones, which they planned to exchange for noble titles.
• Huo Yuhao destroyed the Soul King ghost, kept the weakened Soul Emperor ghost as dog food, and learned the soul-bone refinement method from their memories.
• Huo Yuhao used the Myriad Laws Eye to develop the Ring Enhancement Secret Method, which combined soul-beast materials and luck to strengthen soul rings and their skills.
• Huo Yuhao went into the city with Wei Na and saw the two Evil Soul Masters’ heads displayed on the wall as people praised Shrek Academy’s Supervision Group.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Wang Dong among Clear Sky Sect members and suspected the God King was behind their arrival, but he chose not to flee.

As the Beast Tide approached, Huo Yuhao’s cultivation was interrupted when Long Aotian challenged him over his Military Merit Leaderboard ranking. Wei Na prevented a fight and urged them to prove themselves against the soul beasts once the tide began; two days later, the Beast Tide erupted.

• Snow Jade Prince warned that the Beast Tide was imminent, and the front line prepared its defenses as soul beasts crossed the warning line.
• Long Aotian arrived at Huo Yuhao’s tent, where Wei Na and Bei Bei confronted him; he challenged Huo Yuhao, accusing him of using tricks to earn military merit.
• Huo Yuhao mocked Long Aotian, and Wei Na stepped between them before either could attack.
• Wei Na told Long Aotian to prove himself by killing soul beasts during the Beast Tide, and Bei Bei volunteered to compete against him as well.
• Du Busi watched the confrontation and hoped it would push Long Aotian to cultivate harder.
• Two days later, the Beast Tide fully erupted.

Huo Yuhao and his companions joined the western defenses as the Beast Tide attacked the Heaven Dou Empire, and they fought alongside the imperial guards. As Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts began to appear, Huo Yuhao had already collected more than a hundred souls with his Ghost Banner Martial Soul.

• Huo Yuhao, Wei Na, Bei Bei, and the imperial guard escorts joined Tyrant Dragon Douluo's western defensive force while Snow Jade Prince commanded the central city and Ice Phoenix Douluo held the east.
• Snow Jade Prince ordered the Soul Guidance Cannons to fire, blasting gaps in the approaching Beast Tide and lifting the defenders' spirits.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to collect the fallen soul beasts' souls, and Huo Yuhao explained that the Ghost Banner Martial Soul could cover only part of the battlefield.
• After cannon fire slowed the Beast Tide, soul beasts reached the defenses, and Tyrant Dragon Douluo ordered the soul masters to charge and kill.
• Huo Yuhao fought with the imperial guards, sent his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul underground to draw in souls, and collected more than a hundred before Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts appeared.

During the Beast Tide, Wang Dong’s Clear Sky Sect group fought alongside the defenders, and Wang Dong sought a chance to speak with Huo Yuhao. As the Soul Beast attack intensified, Huo Yuhao unleashed his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul’s poison against the advancing beasts.

• A Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast attacked Wang Dong’s black-robed group, and Tang Wang drove it back with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Wang Dong stopped Tang Wang from pursuing the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul, identifying it as her classmate’s Martial Soul, then watched Huo Yuhao fight.
• Huo Yuhao and his companions discussed Wang Dong’s divine protection, but he chose to focus on fighting the incoming Soul Beasts.
• As the Beast Tide grew stronger and casualties rose, Bei Bei warned Huo Yuhao while Wei Na offered to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huo Yuhao refused Wei Na’s offer and used the Mutated Frost Centipede’s poison skills to spread poisonous gas across the battlefield.

Huo Yuhao unleashed his poisonous mist against the Beast Tide, stopping the attacking soul beasts and shocking everyone with its lethal power. He claimed a ten-thousand-year Torso Soul Bone before the others moved away to fight elsewhere, while Wei Na comforted him about his reputation.

• Long Aotian killed a three-thousand-year Ice Tiger and tried to claim the crowd’s attention, but learned they were praising Huo Yuhao instead.
• Huo Yuhao spread toxic mist from his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul, killing wave after wave of soul beasts and halting the Beast Tide around him.
• A ten-thousand-year Snowscale Beast broke through the mist but was rapidly corroded to a skeleton, making the onlookers realize how deadly Huo Yuhao’s poison was.
• Huo Yuhao used the mist to retrieve a ten-thousand-year Torso Soul Bone, then urged everyone to keep resisting the Beast Tide.
• The others moved away from Huo Yuhao’s poisonous territory, while Long Aotian left dazed and Wang Dong’s guards kept her from approaching him.
• Bei Bei warned Huo Yuhao that people might call him cruel, and Wei Na comforted him by embracing him and calling him a hero.

Huo Yuhao watched the Beast Tide from behind his poison mist and secretly used a venomous ghost to kill Jiang Peng. Di'ao Academy's team discovered Jiang Peng's death and suspected Huo Yuhao, but their teacher found fang marks and ghostly energy that pointed to an Evil Soul Master.

• Experts from the various forces told their juniors to retreat as groups of Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts arrived, while Nan Shuishui led her sect's Soul Saints to intercept them.
• Huo Yuhao stopped expanding his poison mist, then used the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul to collect souls while observing the battlefield.
• Huo Yuhao sent the hidden Two-Headed Colorful Scale King Snake Ghost to bite Jiang Peng as Di'ao Academy fought an eight-thousand-year soul beast.
• Jiang Peng killed the soul beast with his teammates, then succumbed to the venom and died on the battlefield.
• Di'ao Academy's students and teacher panicked, and the teacher found fang marks and ghostly energy on Jiang Peng, identifying the aura of an Evil Soul Master.

Huo Yuhao examined Jiang Peng’s poisoned corpse, then learned that someone was collecting powerful soul beast souls from within the Beast Tide. He followed the suspected Holy Spirit Cult Soul Emperor, intending to find out whether the man could lead him to the cult’s stronghold.

• Huo Yuhao identified Jiang Peng’s poison as coming from a soul beast, but said Yin Evil power had altered it and harmed his internal organs.
• Wei Na and the Imperial Guard Commander joined Huo Yuhao as he explained his findings to Di'ao Academy’s teacher, who left with Jiang Peng’s corpse without opening it.
• The Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul reported that several people were collecting souls from high-level soul beasts, so Huo Yuhao headed into the Beast Tide to investigate.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm led Huo Yuhao to a black-robed Soul Emperor who used a Small Banner to draw in soul beast souls and swallow them.
• Huo Yuhao held back from attacking the Soul Emperor, hoping to follow him and discover the Holy Spirit Cult’s stronghold.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground stronghold and discovered that its members were gathering Beast Souls and Soul Beast corpses to refine something. He killed a Soul Emperor, absorbed what he could from him, and began searching his soul for information about the cult.

• Huo Yuhao followed an Evil Soul Master to an underground entrance and dug a tunnel past the guards into the stronghold.
• Huo Yuhao used the Mirage Lizard Ghost’s possession to scout the stronghold and found a banner drawing in Beast Souls above a pool of Soul Beast corpses.
• Huo Yuhao ambushed the returning Evil Soul Master, killed him with the Golden Hawksbill Ghost’s power, and absorbed his flesh-and-blood essence and Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao took the Evil Soul Master’s Storage Soul Tool, crushed his corpse, and used Soul Searching on his soul.