Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao learned to engrave a Soul Tool Core Array instantly with a skill book, astonishing Qian Duoduo, and continued training with Ning Tian and Wu Feng. The New Student Assessment began, and the team prepared to discuss tactics before their first matches.

• Qian Duoduo demonstrated how to engrave an Energy Gathering Core Array and explained the precision required of Soul Engineers.
• Huo Yuhao used a Low-Grade Skill Learning Book to master Energy Gathering Array Engraving, then completed the array in under a minute.
• Qian Duoduo declared Huo Yuhao the greatest genius in the history of the Shrek Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao learned about Soul Tools and trained with Ning Tian and Wu Feng for half a month, putting Wu Feng through punishing practice sessions.
• Mu Jin announced that the New Student Assessment would begin that afternoon and that classmates would not face one another in the first ten Round Robin matches.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng asked Huo Yuhao whether they should discuss their team tactics.

Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng entered the New Student Assessment and faced Ouyang Junyi's team in their first match. As Ning Tian and Wu Feng revealed their powerful Martial Souls, teacher Wang Yan wondered why Huo Yuhao was the team captain.

• Huo Yuhao joked about their simple tactics, then left to get breakfast instead of watching Wu Feng test her training.
• Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng arrived at Area Thirty-Three for the New Student Assessment.
• Wang Yan explained the assessment rules and announced Huo Yuhao Team would face Ouyang Junyi Team.
• When Wang Yan started the match, Ning Tian summoned her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and Wu Feng revealed her Red Dragon Martial Soul.
• Wang Yan recognized Ning Tian's status and cultivation, then wondered whether Huo Yuhao was stronger than her.

Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection Sharing and a Mental Spike to help Ning Tian and Wu Feng defeat their opponents, though the spectators thought he had been carried by the two girls. Wang Yan suspected Huo Yuhao was the team’s real core, while Mu Jin credited him for Wu Feng’s decisive victory as the first round ended.

• Huo Yuhao released his ten-year Spirit Ring, shocking Wang Yan and the students, then linked Ning Tian and Wu Feng with Mental Detection Sharing.
• Huo Yuhao told Wu Feng to attack the other two opponents while he targeted Zhao Haochen, and Ning Tian boosted Wu Feng’s speed.
• Huo Yuhao’s Mental Spike interrupted Zhao Haochen’s chant, allowing Wu Feng to eliminate Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng and win the match.
• Wu Feng accepted Huo Yuhao’s praise, prompting the spectators to envy how easily he seemed to be carried by his teammates.
• Wang Yan suspected Huo Yuhao had caused Zhao Haochen’s pain, and Mu Jin watched Area Thirty-Three as the first round of the assessment ended.

Mu Jin and Zhou Yi made a public bet over their classes’ New Student Assessment results, while Huo Yuhao’s team continued its winning streak. Wang Yan grew increasingly uncertain about Huo Yuhao’s role in battle, and the team stayed in Area Thirty-Three to face newly assigned opponents.

• Mu Jin traded insults with Zhou Yi and agreed to bet a Spirit Bone and a custom Eighth Level Soul Tool against Zhou Yi resigning from Shrek Academy.
• The academy intensified the New Student Assessment schedule, and Huo Yuhao Team relied on Huo Yuhao’s blinding tactics, Ning Tian’s buffs, and Wu Feng’s attacks to win.
• Huo Yuhao Team finished the second day with five wins and no losses, while Wang Yan remained unable to determine what Huo Yuhao contributed in battle.
• Wang Yan warned Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng that stronger opponents awaited them, and Huo Yuhao told Wu Feng not to get complacent.
• The next morning, Huo Yuhao Team remained in Area Thirty-Three and received five newly assigned groups as opponents.

Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng faced Huang Chutian and the Lan Susu sisters in their sixth arena match. Huo Yuhao warned his teammates about the twins’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and the fight began with Wu Feng charging Huang Chutian as the sisters’ hair slowed her down.

• Wang Yan announced Huo Yuhao’s team as the seeded team and matched them against Huang Chutian’s team.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian and Wu Feng that the Lan Susu sisters had a control-type Martial Soul Fusion Skill, claiming his Martial Soul could reveal the future.
• Both teams released their Martial Souls, and Ning Tian strengthened Wu Feng with two buffs while Wu Feng activated her own two skills.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo used Hair Net together to trap and slow Wu Feng despite her flames burning their hair.
• Huang Chutian activated his second Spirit Skill and fired Power Cannon Hammer at Wu Feng.

Huo Yuhao's team won their match after he stopped Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo from completing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Wu Feng defeated Huang Chutian. Wang Yan recognized Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Attribute Original Martial Soul and resolved to recommend him to Xuan Zi, but Huo Yuhao expected the Great Elder to remain unimpressed.

• Huang Chutian charged toward Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian while Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo prepared their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to hold Wu Feng back.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Spike to knock Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo unconscious and interrupt their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Wu Feng chased down Huang Chutian and sent him flying with a powerful punch, allowing Huo Yuhao's team to win.
• Huo Yuhao scolded Wu Feng for throwing Huang Chutian toward him, while the watching students criticized Huo Yuhao for seeming to contribute nothing.
• Wang Yan deduced that Huo Yuhao had a rare Spiritual Attribute Original Martial Soul and decided to tell Xuan Zi about him after the assessment.
• Huo Yuhao anticipated Wang Yan's plan and thought that the Great Elder would not favor him without seeing his Twin Martial Souls.

Huo Yuhao's team finished the Round Robin undefeated, while Wang Yan urged Xuan Zi to recruit Huo Yuhao and was told to keep observing him. Freshman Class Nine celebrated passing the assessment, and Mu Jin announced that Huo Yuhao's team would advance to the Elimination Tournament.

• Huo Yuhao's team won its remaining Round Robin matches, becoming Freshman Class Nine's only undefeated team.
• Wang Yan reported Huo Yuhao's talent and potential to Xuan Zi, but Xuan Zi dismissed his recommendation and told him to continue observing Huo Yuhao.
• Mu Jin announced that more than two-thirds of Freshman Class Nine had passed the New Student Assessment and become first-year students of Shrek Academy's Outer Academy.
• Mu Jin said fifteen groups from Class Nine had advanced to the Elimination Tournament and named Huo Yuhao's team among the six undefeated groups.

Huo Yuhao’s Class Nine celebrated as the New Student Assessment entered the Elimination Tournament, where he faced a Seed Team from Zhou Yi’s class. Qian Duoduo revealed that Huo Yuhao was his Personal Disciple and came to watch the match.

• Ning Tian told Class Nine that she and Wu Feng together would be no match for Huo Yuhao, and Da Jiangyou abandoned his plans to challenge him.
• Mu Jin explained the upcoming Elimination Tournament and named Dai Huabin's, Xie Huanyue's, and Wang Dong's teams as Seed Teams.
• The students drew their opening-round matchups, and Zhou Yi taunted Mu Jin about facing her class's Seed Team.
• Qian Duoduo arrived to watch his Personal Disciple, and Wang Yan realized that the disciple was Huo Yuhao.
• Qian Duoduo confirmed that Huo Yuhao had become his Personal Disciple three months earlier and said he would watch Huo Yuhao's match against Zhou Yi's class.

Huo Yuhao’s team faced Wang Dong’s seeded Class One team in the New Student Assessment, and he let Xiao Xiao unleash her control skill because he liked her. The match was still underway as Song Rentou used his speed to attack Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng identified Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Song Rentou as their opponents and discussed their battle plan.
• Wu Feng charged Wang Dong while Ning Tian boosted her, and Xiao Xiao slowed Wu Feng with her Cave Flute’s Deceleration Aura.
• Huo Yuhao admitted he had let Xiao Xiao use her skill because he liked the look of her, angering Wu Feng and confusing Wang Dong.
• Xiao Xiao revealed her second martial soul, the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron, and the teachers criticized Zhou Yi for allowing her to add a Spirit Ring to it.
• Wu Feng and Wang Dong fought evenly as Xiao Xiao moved to assist Wang Dong, while Song Rentou vanished and attacked Huo Yuhao with Leopard Flash.

Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Power techniques to manipulate the match, helping Wu Feng defeat Wang Dong while making his interference look accidental. Qian Duoduo revealed Huo Yuhao's Spirit Skills and explained that his other tricks were self-created techniques, leaving the teachers stunned.

• Huo Yuhao knocked Song Rentou unconscious by letting the charging student run into his fist.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Interference to make Xiao Xiao's attacks hit Wang Dong, allowing Wu Feng to gain the advantage.
• Wang Dong suspected Huo Yuhao was manipulating the fight, while Zhou Yi accused Mu Jin of rigging the match.
• Mu Jin explained that Huo Yuhao had a rare Spiritual Attribute Martial Soul, and Qian Duoduo revealed his Spirit Ring had mutated to produce two Spirit Skills.
• Qian Duoduo named Huo Yuhao's Spirit Skills as Mental Detection Sharing and Simulation, and described his other Spiritual Power techniques as Self-Created Soul Skills.

Huo Yuhao ended his inactivity in the New Student Assessment by overpowering Xiao Xiao’s cauldron attack and using it to strike Wang Dong. With Xiao Xiao incapacitated and Wang Dong badly hurt, he urged her to surrender.

• Xiao Xiao redirected the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron toward Huo Yuhao, while Wang Dong and Wu Feng continued fighting under Huo Yuhao’s Mental Detection.
• Huo Yuhao grabbed one of Xiao Xiao’s three cauldrons and smashed it into the other two, shattering her Spirit Skill and leaving her dizzy and unable to control her martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao hurled the cauldron at Wang Dong, who was struck and knocked down after the explosions briefly disrupted her.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong to surrender, explaining that Xiao Xiao could no longer help her and that she could not defeat Wu Feng alone.

Huo Yuhao defeated Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao’s team, helping Mu Jin win her bet against Zhou Yi. After Zhou Yi threatened to expel her defeated students, Huo Yuhao encountered them in the cafeteria and asked whether she really intended to do so.

• Wang Dong refused to surrender, so Huo Yuhao struck her with Mental Spike and made her collapse; Xiao Xiao surrendered, and the referee declared Huo Yuhao Team the winner.
• Mu Jin collected her bet from Zhou Yi and warned her she would claim the custom-made Eighth Level Soul Tool from Fan Yu.
• Wang Yan deduced that Huo Yuhao possessed Twin Martial Souls, and Qian Duoduo confirmed it.
• Huo Yuhao’s team won its next match that afternoon without difficulty.
• In the cafeteria, Xiao Xiao and Song Rentou complained that Zhou Yi blamed them for losing and threatened to expel them; Huo Yuhao asked whether she truly planned to expel them.

Huo Yuhao helped Wang Dong plan revenge on Teacher Zhou, then drew the attention of Shrek’s senior officials as they learned of his extraordinary talents. After his team won an easy match, Wang Dong played a recording of Teacher Zhou threatening and insulting him, leaving the officials stunned.

• Xiao Xiao told Huo Yuhao that Teacher Zhou had scolded her team and threatened to expel Song Rentou and Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao whispered a plan to Wang Dong, who agreed to use it if Teacher Zhou tried to expel her unfairly.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Lin'er discussed Huo Yuhao’s Twin Martial Souls and his rapid progress as a Soul Tool Master.
• Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Freshman Class Six without difficulty, with Wu Feng overpowering two opponents after Huo Yuhao incapacitated their control-type soul master.
• Wang Dong played a loud recording of Teacher Zhou insulting and threatening him, causing the academy officials to freeze and darken their expressions.

Huo Yuhao’s plan to expose Zhou Yi’s treatment of her students succeeded when Wang Dong played a recording before Shrek’s leaders and revealed her Twin Martial Souls and Clear Sky Sect identity. Yan Shaozhe took Wang Dong to resolve the matter, and Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao later told Huo Yuhao that Zhou Yi was finished.

• Huo Yuhao watched as Wang Dong’s recording of Zhou Yi’s remarks played in the arena, forcing Shrek’s leaders to pay attention.
• Wang Dong confronted Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun, explained Zhou Yi’s punishments and expulsions, and said she had copies of the recording to spread publicly.
• Wang Dong revealed her second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, and told the leaders she was from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xuan Zi angrily rebuked Yan Shaozhe over Zhou Yi’s conduct, and Yan Shaozhe took Wang Dong away to give her an answer.
• Huo Yuhao left the Assessment Area in high spirits and later ate in the cafeteria, where Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao told him Zhou Yi was finished.

After learning that Zhou Yi had been stripped of her teaching qualifications and barred from frontline teaching, Huo Yuhao entered the New Student Assessment Tournament’s round of 16. He faced Xie Huanyue’s team and revealed his Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul as the match began.

• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that Zhou Yi had been assigned to guard the Inner Academy archives and forbidden to teach or expel students again.
• Huo Yuhao treated Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to top-tier dishes to celebrate Zhou Yi’s downfall.
• The round-of-16 matches began, and Huo Yuhao’s team was assigned to face Xie Huanyue, Luo Tianlong, and Luo Tianba.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to track the Luo brothers while Wu Feng charged at the opposing team under Ning Tian’s buffs.
• Huo Yuhao summoned his golden Eight-Sided Han Sword and revealed his Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul, drawing the Shrek leaders’ attention.

During the freshman team match, Huo Yuhao revealed the overwhelming power of his Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul and defeated Xie Huanyue with a single strike of Ultimate Ice. Class Two’s remaining fighters surrendered, leaving Huo Yuhao’s strength impossible to ignore.

• Xie Huanyue followed Class Two’s plan and launched himself toward Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian while the Luo Tianlong brothers held Wu Feng back.
• Huo Yuhao coated his Eight-Sided Han Sword in Ultimate Ice and struck Xie Huanyue with Ice Extreme Unparalleled.
• Xuan Zi recognized the Ultimate Ice, and Huo Yuyao froze Xie Huanyue and sent him flying toward the edge of the Arena.
• Yan Shaozhe caught the frozen Xie Huanyue before he could crash, while the fighters and referee stared in shock.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Luo Tianlong and Luo Tianba, and the brothers surrendered.

Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice and Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul stunned Shrek Academy’s teachers as his team advanced to the final against Dai Huabin’s team. The chapter ended as both teams entered the assessment field for their decisive match.

• Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Xie Huanyue’s team, then won their next two matches to reach the final.
• The academy’s teachers discussed Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice and humanoid Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul, while Qian Duoduo explained what he knew.
• Dai Huabin’s homeroom teacher warned the team about Huo Yuhao’s spiritual abilities and Ultimate Ice, then advised them to unleash their trump card immediately.
• Dai Huabin vowed to prove he was the strongest student as the final assessment approached.
• Teachers gathered to watch Huo Yuhao’s team face Dai Huabin’s team, and the spectators questioned Huo Yuhao’s slight appearance and chances of victory.

Huo Yuhao faced Dai Huabin’s team in the three-versus-three Finals, while Qian Duoduo hinted that Huo Yuhao was stronger than Yan Shaozhe assumed. The match began with both teams activating their Martial Souls, and Cui Yajie used her Charm skill against Huo Yuhao.

• Yan Shaozhe warned Qian Duoduo that Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin could combine into a formidable Hell White Tiger, but Qian Duoduo hinted that Huo Yuhao was more than a Soul Elder.
• The referee explained that the finalists could fight without holding back and would be removed from the match if he had to rescue them.
• Dai Huabin insulted Huo Yuhao and his Twin Martial Souls, and Huo Yuhao restrained Ning Tian and Wu Feng before muttering that he wanted to beat Dai Huabin.
• Both teams began the match and activated their Martial Souls, with Dai Huabin transforming into the White Tiger and Zhu Lu moving to join him.
• Cui Yajie activated her first Spirit Skill, Charm, while secretly protecting her own mind.

Huo Yuhao revealed himself as a Soul Ancestor and overwhelmed Cui Yajie and Dai Huabin in the arena. Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu then used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger, to face him.

• Huo Yuhao possessed his Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul and revealed four Spirit Rings, shocking the teachers and students watching.
• Huo Yuhao struck Cui Yajie twice with Mental Spikes, defeating her after her charm Spirit Skill failed.
• Dai Huabin charged Huo Yuhao, who swung his Eight-Sided Han Sword into him and sent him flying despite his defensive Spirit Skills.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu joined together and transformed into the Hell White Tiger.

Huo Yuhao used the Giant Sword Technique to overwhelm Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger in the arena. After breaking their fusion skill and pursuing Dai Huabin, he was stopped by the referee, then defended his attack by recalling the instruction to go all out.

• Huo Yuhao drank wine and unleashed the Giant Sword Technique, enlarging his Eight-Sided Han Sword as the Hell White Tiger charged.
• Huo Yuhao struck the Hell White Tiger with the flat of his giant sword and chased it across the arena, battering it repeatedly.
• Wu Feng and Ning Tian watched in shock as Huo Yuhao’s attacks overwhelmed the fusion skill, while Qian Duoduo taunted Yan Shaozhe.
• Huo Yuhao smashed the Hell White Tiger apart, sending Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu flying and leaving them badly injured.
• Huo Yuhao pursued Dai Huabin and swung again, but the referee blocked the blow with a shield and rebuked him.
• Huo Yuhao smiled and reminded the referee that the teachers had told them to go all out and hold nothing back.