Chapter Summaries

Meng Hongchen conceded to Huo Yuhao after becoming fascinated by his Spirit Rings and declaring him the one destined for her. Her brother Xiao Hongchen then fought Huo Yuhao, who provoked him into unleashing a powerful attack despite his team's plan to conserve Soul Power.

• Meng Hongchen conceded and asked Huo Yuhao about his Spirit Rings, and he used Simulation to show them changing through several colors and forms.
• Meng Hongchen blushed and ran offstage, telling Xiao Hongchen that Huo Yuhao was destined for her.
• Xiao Hongchen charged onto the stage and confronted Huo Yuhao, who ignored his questions and challenged him to fight.
• After regaining his composure, Xiao Hongchen began the match by revealing a golden third leg and scattering at least a hundred Metal Balls.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Xiao Hongchen had taken the bait and used his ultimate move instead of conserving Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao defeated Xiao Hongchen with mental attacks, then faced Ma Rulong, who had only thirty percent of his Soul Power left. Huo Yuhao used Mental Interference and released Meng’s Ice Toad Poison, leaving Ma Rulong to confront the spreading mist.

• Xiao Hongchen summoned and charged 128 Soul Tool Cannons, but Huo Yuhao vanished and used Mental Shockwave to drive him into a frenzy.
• Xiao Hongchen fired his cannons aimlessly, and Huo Yuhao stayed in the safe zone before knocking him unconscious with Mental Spike.
• The Sun Moon team sent out Ma Rulong, who told his teacher he had only thirty percent of his Soul Power remaining.
• Ma Rulong fired at Huo Yuhao and charged with a Mental Defense Soul Tool, but Mental Interference made his shots miss.
• Huo Yuhao released Meng’s Ice Toad Poison, and Ma Rulong recognized it as Meng’s technique as the mist spread across the field.

Huo Yuhao defeated Ma Rulong with poison, spiritual attacks, and Soul Tools, completing a one-against-seven victory over the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy. After the tournament ended, Shrek Academy received its champion prizes, including four Spirit Bones.

• Huo Yuhao weakened Ma Rulong with Meng Hongchen's Ice Toad Poison and Group Weakness, then overwhelmed him with repeated spiritual attacks.
• Huo Yuhao shattered Ma Rulong's shield with Dark Gold Terrorclaw and followed with an Energy Gathering Piercing Cannon, prompting the Heavenly Star Douluo to intervene and eliminate Ma Rulong.
• The spectators cheered as Huo Yuhao's victory completed his defeat of all seven Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy competitors in just over ten minutes.
• Meng Hongchen detoxified Ma Rulong, and the Sun Moon team collected its runner-up prize before leaving Star Luo City.
• Wang Yan selected four Spirit Bones for champion Shrek Academy after Xuan Zi declined the Star Luo Emperor's invitation to choose them himself.

After the tournament, Shrek's team quietly departed Star Luo City for the academy. At Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen considered Huo Yuhao a valuable prospect and planned to use the coming exchange program to draw him toward the Sun Moon Empire.

• Wang Yan gave Huo Yuhao the spirit bone gifted by the Star Luo Royal Family and kept the other two undistributed.
• Elder Xuan let Shrek's competitors rest, then led them out of Star Luo City using Flight Soul Tools.
• The Sun Moon team leader apologized to Jing Hongchen for losing the tournament, and Jing Hongchen praised the information they had gathered about Huo Yuhao.
• Jing Hongchen said Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen entering seclusion was the trip's greatest gain, since the tournament had made them feel a sense of crisis.
• Jing Hongchen noted that Meng Hongchen seemed interested in Huo Yuhao and resolved to use his interest in Soul Tools and the academy exchange to draw him closer.

Jing Hongchen entered a hidden chamber in Mingde Hall while Shrek’s deans welcomed the returning tournament champions and announced that their rewards would be given in Sea God Pavilion. Huo Yuhao noticed a withered forest near Shrek, and the team sailed toward Sea God Island as Yan Shaozhe arranged for Xu Sanshi and Beibei to recuperate.

• Jing Hongchen used a golden rune to open a concealed wall and entered the chamber behind it.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, and Qian Duoduo welcomed Xuan Zi and the returning Shrek Team at the academy gates.
• Huo Yuhao noticed that a section of forest near Shrek had withered, then exchanged greetings with Qian Duoduo.
• Yan Shaozhe announced that the team's tournament rewards would be distributed in Sea God Pavilion.
• Yan Shaozhe examined Xu Sanshi and Beibei and said they could recuperate on Lake Heart Island after receiving their rewards.
• The team crossed Sea God Lake by boat and arrived at Sea God Island, where the Outer Courtyard Disciples saw its buildings emerge from the mist.

Yan Shaozhe led the returning students to Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En’s golden light nourished and purified them. Huo Yuhao broke through to level 74, while Mu En reacted with surprise, apparently sensing something unusual.

• Yan Shaozhe led the group through Sea God Island to Sea God Pavilion and called out to his teacher.
• Mu En invited them inside, and Sea God Pavilion blazed with golden light that refreshed and nourished everyone.
• Qiu'er’s light-attribute martial soul resonated with the golden radiance, while Beibei’s Soul Power flickered with gold and a dragon’s roar.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the rich energy, entered meditation, and broke through his Soul Power bottleneck to reach level 74.
• Mu En voiced his puzzlement, and the Shrek students realized the golden light had purified their Soul Power.

The Sea God Pavilion publicly recognized the team’s tournament victory and announced Ling Luochen’s reward, first reprimanding her for the team’s earlier injuries before reducing her punishment in light of her later contributions. The meeting continued with her demerit kept off her record, while the other students awaited their awards.

• Yan Shaozhe welcomed the returning team to the Sea God Pavilion and explained that its elders had convened to announce rewards for their championship.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Ling Luochen a major demerit for failing to protect her teammates during the inspection mission and criticized the team for underestimating their enemy.
• Ling Luochen lowered her head and accepted Yan Shaozhe’s rebuke, recognizing that the team had been careless.
• Yan Shaozhe credited Ling Luochen for helping the team win the tournament after recovering from her injuries and said her merits would offset her faults.
• Yan Shaozhe announced that Ling Luochen’s major demerit would not be entered into her Academy record, and she thanked him.

After Shrek Academy’s championship, Yan Shaozhe announced rewards for Wang Yan, the supporting team members, and the reserve team. The chapter ended as he revealed that the champions would receive three additional Spirit Bones so every team member could get one.

• Yan Shaozhe promoted Wang Yan to Special Grade Teacher and granted him a year of access to the Sea God Pavilion Library, while allowing Huo Yuhao to use the Library Third Floor.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded He Caitou and Jiang Nannan a Secret Method Soul Spirit Bone each and let them apply early for the Inner Academy Assessment after the school year.
• Yan Shaozhe said Wu Feng and the other reserve team members could apply for the Inner Academy Assessment once they reached fifth grade, with possible guidance from Inner Academy teachers.
• Yan Shaozhe praised the reserve team’s championship victory and called its members heroes whose contributions Shrek would remember.
• Yan Shaozhe announced that the academy would provide three additional Spirit Bones so each champion received one, selected to suit their abilities and characteristics.

Yan Shaozhe announced the academy’s rewards and granted the team the title of Shrek Seven Devils, while Mu En set out their future studies and kept Huo Yuhao and three others behind. Mu En then led them from the Sea God Pavilion to the vast hall beneath it.

• Yan Shaozhe awarded the team Spirit Bones, the lifelong title of Shrek Seven Devils, and academy assistance in finding suitable Spirit Rings, while ordering them to keep their achievements secret.
• Mu En said Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou could apply for the Inner Academy Assessment, advised Qiu'er to remain in the Outer Academy, and told Huo Yuhao he would speak with him privately.
• Mu En asked Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Qiu'er to stay on Sea God Island and cultivate under his guidance.
• After the others left, Huo Yuhao supported Mu En as the old man explained his bent back came from an old injury.
• Mu En used a golden light to transport himself, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Qiu'er to the enormous hall beneath the Sea God Pavilion.

Elder Mu questioned Huo Yuhao about reaching Soul Saint and joining the Original Body Sect, then advised him to conceal his cultivation and consolidate it on Sea God Island. Huo Yuhao left to investigate the withering forest near Shrek City and encountered Tang Ya and Beibei at the Outer Academy.

• Elder Mu sent Qiu'er, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong'er to cultivate in Mimetic Cultivation Rooms before asking Huo Yuhao about his breakthrough to Soul Saint.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Du Busi had taken him as a disciple of the Original Body Sect and helped him obtain the Spirit Ring for his breakthrough.
• Elder Mu praised Huo Yuhao's talent, urged him to keep his Soul Saint cultivation secret, and told him to cultivate on Sea God Island while waiting for Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er.
• Huo Yuhao left Sea God Pavilion and flew toward Shrek's Outer Academy to investigate the withering forest he had seen near Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao met Tang Ya and Beibei by Sea God Lake and remarked that Tang Ya's aura seemed stronger than before.

Huo Yuhao noticed Tang Ya's sudden improvement in cultivation and suspected she was using a dangerous ability, but the Ice Wraith Guard Embryo's rapid development soon drew his attention. He returned to his apartment to watch over its final fusion, where an infant-like figure began to appear inside the Embryo.

• Beibei told Huo Yuhao that Tang Ya's cultivation had recently accelerated, raising her Soul Power from 32 to 33.
• Huo Yuhao suspected Tang Ya was using her ability recklessly, but a strange aura from his Second Spiritual Sea alerted him that the Ice Wraith Guard Embryo was stirring.
• Huo Yuhao hurried back to his apartment and entered his Spiritual Space to observe the Embryo, while telling Beibei and Tang Ya not to disturb his meditation.
• Snow Empress explained that Ilyas was completing his fusion with the Embryo and that the light-attribute power and life force Huo Yuhao had absorbed had sped up its development.
• Several hours later, the Life Tornado slowed as life-force fluctuations intensified and Huo Yuhao saw an infant-like humanoid form wriggling inside the Embryo.

The Ice Wraith Embryo absorbed Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power for seven days before radiating it back and strengthening his Spiritual Sea. As the platinum egg began to crack, a tiny hand emerged, signaling that the Soul Spirit’s birth had begun.

• Huo Yuhao felt a powerful connection with the Ice Wraith Embryo, and the Snow Empress explained that their bloodline contract was nearing its final fusion.
• The Ice Wraith Embryo absorbed more than ninety percent of Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power over seven days while life at Shrek Academy continued.
• The Embryo radiated milky-white halos that restored Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power and strengthened his Spiritual Sea beyond its previous level.
• A platinum light burst from Huo Yuhao’s forehead as cracks spread across the Embryo’s shell.
• A tiny snow-white, pink hand emerged from the egg and pulled in a piece of shell.

Ilyas successfully emerged from the Soul Spirit Embryo and rapidly grew into an adult, proving his Soul Spirit research had worked. He reverted to his familiar elderly appearance and explained how Huo Yuhao’s other Wisdom Soul Rings could transform into Soul Spirits, recommending they wait until Huo Yuhao had fully recovered.

• The newborn inside the orange-gold shell ate the eggshell and rapidly grew from a small child into an eighteen-year-old young man.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Ilyas in the young man’s eyes, and Ilyas confirmed that his mission had succeeded.
• Ilyas briefly examined his youthful face in a mirror, then changed back into his elderly appearance, saying that pretending to be young did not suit him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked whether the others could become independent Soul Spirits, and Ilyas confirmed that they could.
• Ilyas explained that Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and the others could use their contracts and Huo Yuhao’s life energy to transform, but advised waiting until he had recovered.

Ilyas taught Huo Yuhao how to create Soul Spirits, and Huo Yuhao used the new incantation to form a contract with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Sky Dream became a tiny, independent Soul Spirit, then revealed that he could draw out his old shed skin from Huo Yuhao's Storage Soul Tool.

• Ilyas taught Huo Yuhao the Soul Spirit transformation incantation and explained the process.
• Huo Yuhao completed the contract, turning Sky Dream Ice Silkworm into his Soul Spirit with little effort.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm left the Spiritual Sea and hid in Huo Yuhao's clothes, but Huo Yuhao found him with True Sight.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that he retained his intelligence and could sustain himself without absorbing Huo Yuhao's power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm drew out the skin he had shed after merging with Huo Yuhao in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used its Sloughed Shell and Life Origin Imprint to become an independent living Soul Spirit, and explained the limits and risks of creating Soul Spirits. It then showed Huo Yuhao that its million-year power had made his first Spirit Ring solid and tangible.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fused with its Sloughed Shell and used its preserved Life Origin Imprint to become a new living being independent of Huo Yuhao’s body.
• Ilyas explained how Soul Spirit creation worked and warned that a Soul Spirit’s strength had to stay within its host’s limits.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said it still depended on its contract with Huo Yuhao and that his death would destroy it and the other contracted Soul Spirits.
• Huo Yuhao released his Ice God Eyes Martial Soul and discovered that his first Spirit Ring had become solid enough to touch.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm identified the change as Soul Ring Materialization and landed on the materialized ring.

Huo Yuhao completed his Soul Spirit transformation and gained Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Life Reflection Shield, then heard reports of small animals found as Dried Corpses near Shrek City. He hurried to the academy to investigate and encountered Beibei, who was searching for Tang Ya.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that the Life Reflection Shield could block and reflect attacks, but warned that it could not reflect Soul Tool attacks and should be used no more than three times a day.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm transformed into a jade ring on Huo Yuhao’s left hand, and Huo Yuhao meditated through the night to recover.
• After waking at noon, Huo Yuhao ate at a restaurant and overheard diners discussing small animals found as Dried Corpses outside Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao rushed to the academy through a secret passage and headed for the female dormitories.
• Beibei met Huo Yuhao and said he was looking for Tang Ya, then spotted her nearby.

Beibei and Huo Yuhao followed Tang Ya out of Shrek, where they discovered her using her Blue Silver Grass to drain life force from plants and animals for cultivation. Beibei suspected that Tang Ya was responsible for the withered forests and dried animal corpses around the academy, while Tang Ya struggled to control her growing urge to devour more.

• Beibei spotted Tang Ya sneaking out of the cafeteria and persuaded Huo Yuhao to follow her.
• Tang Ya left Shrek through the East Gate and traveled to a remote patch of woods, with Beibei and Huo Yuhao trailing her.
• Beibei and Huo Yuhao watched as Tang Ya's dark-blue Blue Silver Grass spread across nearby vegetation and absorbed its life energy.
• Tang Ya's Blue Silver Grass caught a wild snake and drained it until it became a dried corpse.
• Beibei recalled reports of withered forests and dried animals near the academy and wondered whether Tang Ya had caused them.
• Tang Ya felt her Soul Power rising as her devouring ability intensified, and she found it increasingly difficult to restrain herself.

Tang Ya encountered a Vampire Soul Saint who tried to recruit her into the Holy Spirit Cult, while Huo Yuhao realized the man had come seeking revenge and launched an attack. The chapter ended as the Vampire Soul Saint shielded himself inside a blood cocoon against Huo Yuhao’s strike.

• Tang Ya confronted a pale middle-aged man who recognized her devouring martial soul and urged her to join the Holy Spirit Cult.
• The man revealed himself as the Vampire Soul Saint who had fought Huo Yuhao in Star Luo City and transformed with blood-red wings and fangs.
• Huo Yuhao and Beibei watched Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao concluded that the Vampire Soul Saint had come to take revenge on him.
• Huo Yuhao drank from a flask, unleashed his sword intent, and charged the Vampire Soul Saint with Fierce Dragon Sky Severing Strike.
• The Vampire Soul Saint formed a blood cocoon to protect himself as Huo Yuhao’s attack slammed into it.

Huo Yuhao used a sacred sword technique to kill the Vampire Soul Saint, who had attacked Tang Ya. After the battle, Tang Ya was startled to see Huo Yuhao and Beibei together, and Beibei faced her uneasily.

• Huo Yuhao wounded the Vampire Soul Saint with a sword strike and revealed his sacred sword intent.
• The Vampire Soul Saint transformed with his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked Huo Yuhao with a blood-red saber.
• Huo Yuhao’s Archangel’s Sword split the saber and killed the Vampire Soul Saint in a single blow.
• Huo Yuhao withdrew his Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul and remarked on sacred attributes’ power against Evil Soul Masters.
• Tang Ya asked why Huo Yuhao was there, then grew uneasy when Beibei appeared.

Huo Yuhao rescued Tang Ya from a Vampire Soul Saint and learned that her Blue Silver Grass had awakened the Devouring ability. After Tang Ya confessed that she had lost control and drained plants and small animals, Huo Yuhao suggested that she devour soul masters instead, shocking her and Beibei.

• Huo Yuhao defeated the Vampire Soul Saint who had attacked Tang Ya, then led Tang Ya and Beibei away from the scene and back to his apartment.
• Beibei asked Tang Ya why her martial soul had changed, and Tang Ya feared that he and Huo Yuhao would reject or report her.
• Huo Yuhao casually offered Tang Ya and Beibei juice before asking Tang Ya whether her Blue Silver Grass had awakened Devouring.
• Tang Ya admitted that she had never intentionally devoured people or soul beasts, but her loss of control had drained plants and small animals as her cultivation anxiety grew.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya that her obsession had become an inner demon, then suggested she devour soul masters' life force, shocking Tang Ya and Beibei.