Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao revealed that his Soul Power had reached the Rank 80 bottleneck and began transforming the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass into a Soul Spirit. Before the fusion, Octagonal gave him its ten-thousand-year-old Eight-Angle Profound Ice Crystal, and the transformation began without difficulty.

• Huo Yuhao told the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass that his Soul Power had reached the Rank 80 bottleneck after a year of cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Spirit fusion contract to the plant-type soul beasts, and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass agreed to become his Soul Spirit.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass released its origin essence and gave Huo Yuhao the Eight-Angle Profound Ice Crystal, which contained its refined cultivation and could boost cultivation or grant metal the power of Ultimate Ice.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the crystal and began the fusion using his evolved Ice God Eyes and Soul Spirit incantation.
• Golden light guided the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass's soul origin toward Huo Yuhao as the plant began transforming into a Soul Spirit.

Huo Yuhao successfully turned the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass into his Soul Spirit, completing his set of limb Spirit Bones and gaining an eighth Spirit Ring Skill. The chapter ended with his Ultimate Ice power overwhelming the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well valley.

• Huo Yuhao used his powerful Spiritual Power and Ilyas's Divine Sense fragment to complete the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass's Soul Spirit contract.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm welcomed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and asked it to keep the other Soul Spirits' existence secret.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass became Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit and condensed into his missing left leg Spirit Bone.
• Huo Yuhao revealed an eighth blood-red Spirit Ring and gained the Spirit Skill Ultimate Ice Amplification.
• Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice aura scattered the valley's Poisonous Miasma, sharply lowered the temperature, and suppressed the Blazing Sun Spring.

After more than a year at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, Huo Yuhao emerged with a Soul Core, Soul Douluo cultivation, and a newly evolved Spirit Bone. He traveled to the Sun Moon Empire and arrived in Mingdu, while considering how to establish the Spirit Pagoda and who could manage it.

• Huo Yuhao's fusion with the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass evolved it into a pure energy body and convinced Aromatic Silk Beauty, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and the other plant-type soul beasts to consider becoming Soul Spirits.
• Huo Yuhao left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, returned briefly to Shrek, and exchanged news with Beibei before departing for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass Spirit Bone's skills, Eight-Angle Ice Source Condensation and Myriad Manifestations Ice Thorns, and considered establishing the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao decided that a short platinum-blond-haired girl would be a suitable manager for the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at Mingdu at night and was astonished by the enormous, brightly lit city and its towering buildings.

Huo Yuhao arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy to reunite with Meng Hongchen and ask for her help enrolling as an individual student. Meng Hongchen took him to see her grandfather, Jing Hongchen, so he could approve Huo Yuhao as a special recruit.

• Huo Yuhao flew to the academy in Mingdu and admired its research-focused students and expansive grounds.
• Huo Yuhao asked the gate guard to notify Meng Hongchen, who had just finished an experiment at Mingde Hall.
• Meng Hongchen hurried to the entrance, happily reunited with Huo Yuhao, and led him inside.
• Huo Yuhao told Meng Hongchen that he wanted to study soul tool technology at the academy as an individual.
• Meng Hongchen brought Huo Yuhao toward Mingde Hall to ask Jing Hongchen to approve him as a special recruit.

Huo Yuhao sought individual study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy and impressed Jing Hongchen with his vision for Soul Tool technology. He then shocked Jing Hongchen by revealing he was a Seven-Ring Soul Tool Master, while secretly concealing his greater abilities to win Jing Hongchen over.

• Meng Hongchen brought Huo Yuhao to Jing Hongchen's office, where Jing recognized him from the tournament records.
• Huo Yuhao told Jing Hongchen he wanted to study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy independently of Shrek.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Tools could transform civilization by empowering ordinary people, and that solving the energy problem was key to their development.
• Jing Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao's Soul Engineer rank, and Huo Yuhao revealed he was a Seven-Ring Soul Tool Master.
• Huo Yuhao privately noted that he was hiding his true abilities to win Jing Hongchen over.

Huo Yuhao revealed that he was a Seventh Level Soul Tool Master and a Soul Emperor, prompting Jing Hongchen to test his abilities in a private laboratory. As Huo Yuhao began crafting a Soul Tool with Jing Hongchen’s rare metals, Jing became convinced of his skill.

• Huo Yuhao told Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen that he was a Seventh Level Soul Tool Master and a Soul Emperor.
• Jing Hongchen offered Huo Yuhao admission to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy and Mingde Hall if he proved his Soul Tool skills.
• Jing Hongchen brought Huo Yuhao to his private laboratory and let him use its materials, promising that whatever he made would belong to him.
• Huo Yuhao used his Dark Gold Blades to cut Titanium Gold and selected other rare metals for his project.
• Huo Yuhao took out the Life Spirit Watching Blade and began precisely engraving the metal, convincing Jing Hongchen that he was an exceptionally skilled Seventh Level Soul Tool Master.

Huo Yuhao completed a custom Soul Tool, the Barrett sniper rifle, and demonstrated its devastating Ultimate Ice bullets to Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen. He revealed that he was Shrek’s hidden Ultimate Ice Soul Master with two Martial Souls, then estimated the rifle could effectively hit targets at four thousand meters and reach eight thousand meters at maximum.

• Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen watched Huo Yuhao finish engraving the rifle’s Core Arrays and assemble the Barrett.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated the Barrett by firing an Ultimate Ice bullet into a metal wall, blasting it apart and frosting the impact area.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he was Shrek’s true Ultimate Ice Soul Master and had concealed his second Martial Soul during the tournament.
• Jing Hongchen assessed the Barrett’s power and limitations, noting its Core Array overheated too quickly for rapid continuous fire and that only Huo Yuhao could use it.
• Huo Yuhao told Jing Hongchen that the Barrett’s effective range was four thousand meters and its maximum range was eight thousand meters.

Huo Yuhao impressed Jing Hongchen by creating an ultra-long-range Soul Tool, earning permission to study at Mingde Hall and a villa near Meng Hongchen. The next morning, Meng brought him academy uniforms, a Meal Card, and an Identity Badge before offering to take him somewhere.

• Huo Yuhao demonstrated that his custom Soul Tool could achieve an effective range of around four thousand meters, and Jing Hongchen gave it to him.
• Jing Hongchen offered Huo Yuhao a place at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, citizenship, and the chance to become his disciple, but Huo Yuhao declined to join a faction.
• Jing Hongchen arranged for Huo Yuhao to live in an empty Hongchen Family villa beside Meng Hongchen and study at Mingde Hall.
• Meng Hongchen showed Huo Yuhao the villa and explained that he could use the family's small cafeteria.
• Huo Yuhao settled into the villa and slept, then woke the next morning to find Meng Hongchen waiting with academy supplies and an invitation to go somewhere.

Huo Yuhao learned how Mingde Hall’s project-based teaching worked as Meng Hongchen guided him through the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy. At Jing Hongchen’s office, he met ten Eighth Level Soul Tool Masters selected as potential mentors and received their files so he could choose one.

• Meng Hongchen explained that Mingde Hall assigned each student to a project team and that Huo Yuhao could choose among ten specially selected teachers.
• Meng Hongchen escorted Huo Yuhao through the academy and described its areas, grade requirements, and Soul Tool Master assessments.
• Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen arrived at Jing Hongchen’s office, where ten Soul Tool Masters waited to meet the new Special Recruit.
• Jing Hongchen warmly welcomed Huo Yuhao and handed him the ten teachers’ files, startling the Soul Tool Masters with his familiarity toward the young man.

Huo Yuhao chose Xuan Ziwen as his mentor at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy and impressed him by proving he could create a Seventh Level Soul Tool. Xuan Ziwen brought him to his laboratory and asked him to make a sixth-level Soul Tool Core Array, where Huo Yuhao began shaping Mithril with his Dark Gold Terrorclaws.

• Huo Yuhao chose Xuan Ziwen as his mentor, explaining that Xuan Ziwen’s skill and achievements made him a worthy teacher.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xuan Ziwen the Soul Tool he had made independently, convincing him that Huo Yuhao was a gifted Soul Emperor capable of creating a Seventh Level Soul Tool.
• Xuan Ziwen accepted Huo Yuhao as his student and led him to his laboratory.
• Xuan Ziwen challenged Huo Yuhao to make an impressive sixth-level Soul Tool Core Array within four hours so he could observe Huo Yuhao’s distinctive methods.
• Huo Yuhao used his Dark Gold Terrorclaws to cut refined Mithril into a small cube, astonishing Xuan Ziwen with their sharpness and his precise work.

Huo Yuhao engraved a complex sixth-grade Soul Tool Core Array in Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory, impressing Xuan Ziwen and Ju Zi with his precision and skill. Ju Zi told Xuan Ziwen about Huo Yuhao’s background as a Shrek student who had defeated their academy’s previous competitors.

• Xuan Ziwen noticed Huo Yuhao’s precise work with his Dark Gold Blades, but Huo Yuhao asked him to move so he would not block the light.
• Huo Yuhao brought out the Life Spirit Watching Blade and began engraving a Core Array while using Mental Detection to monitor each stroke.
• Ju Zi entered the laboratory, saw Huo Yuhao’s work, and realized he was engraving a sixth-grade Soul Tool Core Array.
• Xuan Ziwen identified arrays for scanning, memory, touch, and alarms, and judged Huo Yuhao’s skill to exceed sixth-grade Soul Engineer level.
• Xuan Ziwen told Ju Zi that the boy was Huo Yuhao, specially recruited by the Hongchen Hall Master, and Ju Zi recognized his name.
• Ju Zi explained that Huo Yuhao was a Shrek student who had single-handedly defeated their academy’s previous competitors, shocking Xuan Ziwen.

Huo Yuhao successfully engraved a new Core Array and introduced his Fingerprint Lock to Xuan Ziwen and Ju Zi at Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy. He met Ju Zi for the first time and explained that he had left Shrek and entered the academy as a special recruit.

• Huo Yuhao finished engraving the Core Array, and Xuan Ziwen excitedly recognized his success.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Core Array powered a Fingerprint Lock that opened doors using stored fingerprint data.
• Ju Zi questioned whether two people could share identical fingerprints, and Huo Yuhao insisted they could not.
• Xuan Ziwen introduced Ju Zi as one of his students, and Huo Yuhao told her he had left Shrek and joined the academy as a special recruit.
• Ju Zi welcomed Huo Yuhao and offered to ask him for Soul Tool guidance as they studied together.

Huo Yuhao explored Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory and enjoyed a lavish lunch with Meng Hongchen before Xuan Ziwen asked to buy his fingerprint lock. Huo Yuhao agreed to consider selling it in exchange for rare metals and demanded a sincere offer, leaving negotiations pending.

• Xuan Ziwen told Ju Zi that Huo Yuhao had qualified for Mingde Hall and arranged to take him there after lunch.
• After Ju Zi left to get him an access card, Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to memorize the Soul Tools in Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory.
• Meng Hongchen invited Huo Yuhao to lunch, gave him a card charged to the Hongchen Family’s account, and treated him to premium dishes.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory to wait, then continued studying its Soul Tools.
• Xuan Ziwen asked to buy Huo Yuhao’s fingerprint lock, and Huo Yuhao said he wanted rare metals rather than money and insisted the academy make a sincere offer.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated the potential of his fingerprint lock and Mental Detection to Xuan Ziwen, who offered to take him as a student and grant him access to Mingde Hall’s research. Huo Yuhao refused, intending to learn from Mingde Hall and later build a force of his own.

• Huo Yuhao convinced Xuan Ziwen that fingerprint locks could secure safes, drawers, and other valuables, and Xuan Ziwen agreed to report the proposed rare-metal exchange to Jing Hongchen.
• Huo Yuhao shared Mental Detection with Xuan Ziwen, who was astonished by its ability to reveal the laboratory in a three-dimensional image.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he could adjust Mental Detection’s range and use it to sense changes within people, including their Soul Power and movements.
• Xuan Ziwen asked Huo Yuhao to become his student and join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, promising access to Mingde Hall’s confidential research and his full instruction.
• Huo Yuhao declined Xuan Ziwen’s offer, planning to learn from Mingde Hall before recruiting its research elites and founding his own force.

Huo Yuhao showed Xuan Ziwen his AK47 design, a Class 3 Fixed Soul Device that ordinary people could operate with a Milk Bottle. He offered Xuan Ziwen a future place in his planned sect, and Xuan Ziwen pledged to join if Huo Yuhao developed ten more distinct, innovative Soul Tools and established the sect.

• Xuan Ziwen explained that he wanted to remain at Mingde Hall because it gave him the best resources for his research.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xuan Ziwen the AK47 Blueprint and explained that a Milk Bottle could power it for ordinary users.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized the design's potential as a Class 3 Fixed Soul Device and asked to buy it, but Huo Yuhao said he would reserve it for his future sect.
• Huo Yuhao offered Xuan Ziwen access to his other innovative ideas if he joined the sect he planned to establish.
• Xuan Ziwen agreed to join if Huo Yuhao created ten more distinct, innovative Soul Tools and founded the sect, and they sealed the promise with three high-fives.

Huo Yuhao began studying Soul Tool concepts under Xuan Ziwen, who praised his understanding of Soul Tools as a means of advancing civilization. Xuan Ziwen explained that Soul Tool research had stalled because it relied on Soul Masters and urged Huo Yuhao to focus on making devices usable by ordinary people.

• Xuan Ziwen began Huo Yuhao's first lesson by teaching concepts rather than crafting techniques.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Tools advanced civilization by helping humans make use of things and grow stronger.
• Xuan Ziwen agreed that Soul Tools could drive humanity's evolution and said ordinary people needed to be able to use them.
• Xuan Ziwen explained that Soul Tools' dependence on Soul Masters had limited their spread and asked Huo Yuhao to research civilian devices.
• Xuan Ziwen noted that Fixed Soul Devices were among the few successful civilian applications, but their high cost limited production.

Huo Yuhao discussed Soul Tool research with Xuan Ziwen, proposing ways to improve energy storage and divide research into specialized fields so ordinary people could help. Xuan Ziwen arranged Huo Yuhao’s workstation in Mingde Hall and began warning him about the risks of being from the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

• Xuan Ziwen described his research into storing Soul Power, and Huo Yuhao recognized that the work was nearing a breakthrough on the Sealed Milk Bottle.
• Xuan Ziwen shared Soul Tool principles and research ideas, while Huo Yuhao absorbed the knowledge and suggested that ordinary people could assist with specialized research.
• Huo Yuhao explained that fields such as Fluid Mechanics could guide ship and dam projects and reduce repeated experiments, impressing Xuan Ziwen.
• Huo Yuhao joked that experts from his hometown were treated like idiots, and Xuan Ziwen found the custom unusual.
• Xuan Ziwen received word that Huo Yuhao’s workstation was ready, then escorted him toward Mingde Hall and warned him about his ties to the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

Huo Yuhao entered Mingde Hall with Xuan Ziwen and saw its vast underground Soul Tool research and production facility. Xuan Ziwen explained how Mingde Hall operated and gave Huo Yuhao badges to conceal his Seven-Ring status as he began exploring the hall.

• Xuan Ziwen warned Huo Yuhao to keep quiet, observe carefully, and protect Mingde Hall's secrets before they entered.
• Xuan Ziwen led Huo Yuhao through several security checkpoints and down an elevator more than a hundred meters underground.
• Huo Yuhao saw Mingde Hall's enormous metal hall, filled with thousands of Experiment Tables and Soul Tool researchers.
• Xuan Ziwen explained Mingde Hall's facilities, research groups, and star-ranked badges, noting that private laboratories belonged to at least Eight-Ring Soul Tool Masters.
• Xuan Ziwen gave Huo Yuhao Six-Ring and Seven-Ring badges and advised him to wear the Six-Ring badge publicly; Huo Yuhao accepted and pinned it on.

Huo Yuhao entered Mingde Hall and learned how its advanced experiment tables and research facilities worked. After spending the day studying the equipment and secretly memorizing its details, he left with Xuan Ziwen, eager to learn more from the hall’s visible research.

• Xuan Ziwen explained Mingde Hall’s ranks and introduced Huo Yuhao to experiment table 1238, giving him an ID Card and a manual.
• Huo Yuhao learned that his table could dispense limited quotas of rare Soul Tool materials and perform many manufacturing tasks.
• Xuan Ziwen entered the No. 1 Secret Lab Area while Huo Yuhao studied the table, tested its functions, and used his Spiritual Power to memorize it.
• Huo Yuhao observed the researchers’ routines and spent the day at his table until he and Xuan Ziwen left Mingde Hall after dark.
• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Ziwen that Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Tool technology far surpassed that of the Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao reunited with He Caitou and Ning Tian at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy after secretly contacting He Caitou through Mental Detection. The three went to a quiet cafeteria, where Huo Yuhao began explaining his situation as a Mingde Hall student.

• Huo Yuhao left Xuan Ziwen and used Mental Detection to locate He Caitou in the boys' dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao contacted He Caitou through Mental Detection Sharing and asked him to bring Ning Tian to the back of Mingde Hall.
• He Caitou found Ning Tian, and the two hurried to meet Huo Yuhao.
• Ning Tian recognized Huo Yuhao, ran into his arms, and greeted him with joy.
• Huo Yuhao led He Caitou and Ning Tian to the Small Cafeteria and briefly explained his situation while they ate.