Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao’s team won the New Student Assessment, and Yan Shaozhe tried to recruit him to the Martial Soul Department, but Huo Yuhao stayed with the Soul Tool Department. The academy’s senior leaders then convened a Sea God Pavilion Meeting to discuss Huo Yuhao’s importance.

• The proctor declared Dai Huabin’s team unable to fight and awarded the victory to Huo Yuhao’s team.
• Du Weilun announced Huo Yuhao’s team as the elimination tournament champions, and Huo Yuhao celebrated with Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Yan Shaozhe offered to train Huo Yuhao in the Martial Soul Department, but Huo Yuhao declined and chose to remain with the Soul Tool Department.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Xuan Zi to convene a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, arguing that Huo Yuhao could affect the academy’s future.
• At the meeting, Yan Shaozhe told the elders that he had called them together over a matter that could determine the academy’s rise or fall over the coming centuries.

Yan Shaozhe argued that Huo Yuhao’s extraordinary martial soul talent made him more valuable to Shrek as a future soul master than as a Soul Tool master. The elders leaned toward the Martial Soul Department, and the meeting ended with Lin Lao recognizing Huo Yuhao as the boy who entered the academy at Rank Eleven.

• Xian Lin'er struck the table and told Yan Shaozhe to stop building suspense, but Lin Lao reprimanded her and let Yan Shaozhe continue.
• Yan Shaozhe reported that Huo Yuhao had awakened an Ultimate Ice second martial soul, undergone a Second Awakening of his Spirit Eye, and reached Soul Ancestor at age twelve.
• Yan Shaozhe praised Huo Yuhao’s martial souls and sword techniques, then argued that the Martial Soul Department could cultivate him into a Limit Douluo more readily than the Soul Tool Department could make him a Tenth Level Soul Tool Master.
• Qian Duoduo objected, while Xian Lin'er grew furious as the elders increasingly favored Yan Shaozhe’s proposal.
• Lin Lao asked whether Huo Yuhao had entered the academy at Rank Eleven and said she had not expected him to be that little fellow.

Mu En praised Huo Yuhao’s wisdom, rapid cultivation, and potential, but said the academy should let him choose his own path. Huo Yuhao then received the New Student Assessment championship award with Ning Tian and Wu Feng.

• Mu En recalled Huo Yuhao’s remark about history and praised his talent, fortune, and possible future as a God.
• Mu En rejected Yan Shaozhe’s request to place Huo Yuhao wholly under the Martial Soul Department, telling the teachers to protect and guide him while letting him choose his future.
• Du Weilun announced Huang Chutian Team in third place and Dai Huabin Team in second place, with Cui Yajie accepting the latter’s award because Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu were injured.
• Du Weilun announced Huo Yuhao Team, consisting of Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng, as the New Student Assessment champions.
• Huo Yuhao led Ning Tian and Wu Feng to receive their award as students discussed his victory over Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu.

Du Weilun announced the new Core Disciples, class assignments, and the champion team's special reward, which turned out to be a Spirit Bone. Huo Yuhao recognized it without surprise, leaving Du Weilun wondering how an orphan like him could have seen one before.

• Du Weilun announced that the champion Ning Tian Team would receive a confidential special reward and named Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and other students as Core Disciples.
• Du Weilun assigned the students to new classes and appointed Mu Jin and Wang Yan as Class One's homeroom teachers.
• Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng followed Du Weilun to his office to collect their reward.
• Huo Yuhao opened the pouch and revealed a Spirit Bone, shocking Wu Feng while Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao reacted calmly.
• Du Weilun explained the Spirit Bone's value and wondered how Huo Yuhao could recognize such a rare treasure.

Du Weilun presented Huo Yuhao with a ten-thousand-year Two-Headed Azure Wind Demon Wolf King right leg bone as the academy’s special reward, but Huo Yuhao chose to sell it to Ning Tian. He revealed that he already possessed two superior Ice Jade Scorpion spirit bones, and Ning Tian agreed to buy the reward for five million Gold Soul Coins.

• Du Weilun explained the spirit bone’s value and warned Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng to keep the reward confidential.
• After leaving the teaching building, Huo Yuhao offered the spirit bone to Ning Tian for sale.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng urged Huo Yuhao to keep the spirit bone, but he revealed the two Ice Jade Scorpion spirit bones he had already fused with.
• Huo Yuhao asked for five million Gold Soul Coins, and Ning Tian agreed to have her father deliver the money within three days.

Huo Yuhao gave Ning Tian the Spirit Bone and offered to connect her school with an Alchemist selling pills, then attended his first Class One meeting at Shrek Academy. He left Dai Huabin furious after teasing him about being a defense-type soul master and turning Dai's insult back on him.

• Huo Yuhao handed Ning Tian the Spirit Bone and told her to have her father prepare funds for an Alchemist's pills.
• The new students were assigned to classes, and Ning Tian joined Class Three while Huo Yuhao and Wu Feng joined Class One.
• Wang Yan nominated candidates for Class One's monitor positions, placing Huo Yuhao, Wu Feng, and Dai Huabin among the assault-type candidates.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Huabin's assault-type classification, insisting that the Evil Eye White Tiger's defensive strength made him a defense-type soul master.
• Dai Huabin called Huo Yuhao a little bastard, and Huo Yuhao replied that Dai was the one who had called him names.

Huo Yuhao provoked Dai Huabin into attacking and then severely wounded him with the Eight-Sided Han Sword, after which the academy disciplined both students. Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu planned to transfer to Class Two, while Huo Yuhao became known across Shrek's Outer Academy as its school bully and traded flirtatious banter with Ning Tian.

• Dai Huabin lost his temper and charged at Huo Yuhao, who used the Eight-Sided Han Sword to slash him and send him crashing through the classroom window.
• Huo Yuhao accused Dai Huabin of attacking him without cause, while Wang Yan realized that Huo Yuhao had deliberately provoked the fight.
• Du Weilun ruled that Dai Huabin had struck first but gave both him and Huo Yuhao one disciplinary mark for the fight's impact.
• Dai Huabin told Zhu Lu they would transfer to Class Two and vowed to make Huo Yuhao pay later.
• Rumors of Dai Huabin's defeat and planned transfer spread through Shrek's Outer Academy, earning Huo Yuhao a reputation as the school bully.
• Ning Tian teased Huo Yuhao after class, and he flirted back before she offered money in exchange for something good.

Huo Yuhao sold Ning Tian a Marrow Cleansing Pill, claiming it could raise innate talent to level ten and demonstrating the effect with a testing tool. Ning Tian paid ten million Gold Soul Coins for it, leaving Huo Yuhao with a major profit.

• Ning Tian paid Huo Yuhao five million Gold Soul Coins for the previously discussed Spirit Bone.
• Huo Yuhao showed Ning Tian a Marrow Cleansing Pill and explained that it could raise innate talent to Innate Full Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated a level-ten reading with the testing tool, while Ning Tian's reading reached only around level seven and a half.
• Ning Tian accepted Huo Yuhao's claim and bought the pill for ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao pocketed the money and planned to search for higher-grade fine wine.

Huo Yuhao sold Ning Tian a Marrow Cleansing Pill and used his fictional alchemist friend to ask the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School to search for fine liquor. Ning Tian agreed to help in exchange for priority purchasing rights to any future pills, while Huo Yuhao hoped to find liquor that could greatly boost his Soul Power.

• Huo Yuhao sold Ning Tian the Marrow Cleansing Pill for ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian that his alchemist friend needed Flying Moutai or equally fine liquor as a catalyst for refining pills.
• Ning Tian agreed to have the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School search for fine liquor and requested priority purchasing rights to future pills.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had already searched Shrek City and wanted the sect's connections to help him find liquor that could increase his Soul Power gains.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Qian Duoduo to lead a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest instead of letting Xuan Zi take him, then encountered a berserk Ma Xiaotao by Sea God Lake. As she charged, he summoned his Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul and unleashed a powerful sword intent.

• Qian Duoduo told Huo Yuhao that he could join a senior student’s trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a Spirit Ring, including a chance to add one to his Ice God Eyes.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Xuan Zi would lead the trip alone and convinced Qian Duoduo to accompany them instead, citing his need for Soul Tool guidance.
• As Huo Yuhao walked away, he spotted Ma Xiaotao speeding across Sea God Lake in a frenzied state.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed a wave of heat and charged at Huo Yuhao, who responded by summoning his Drunken Sword Immortal Martial Soul and drinking wine.
• Huo Yuhao released a fierce sword intent beside Sea God Lake as Ma Xiaotao attacked.

Huo Yuhao used his Frost Sword Intent to slow Ma Xiaotao’s rampage until Yan Shaozhe knocked her unconscious. Afterward, Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice might help control her evil fire, though he could not guarantee Huo Yuhao would agree to help.

• Huo Yuhao struck Ma Xiaotao with his strongest sword attack, then unleashed Frost Sword Intent to freeze the lakeshore and help restore her reason.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived and knocked Ma Xiaotao unconscious, while Qian Duoduo checked Huo Yuhao and berated Yan Shaozhe for failing to control his disciple.
• Yan Shaozhe apologized to Qian Duoduo and promised the Soul Tool Department an additional five percent of the budget before asking Huo Yuhao about his Frost Sword Intent.
• Ma Xiaotao woke at Lake Heart Island and told Yan Shaozhe she could not remember the full rampage.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice might reduce her evil-fire outbreaks, but he could not guarantee Huo Yuhao would agree to help her.

Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that Huo Yuhao could suppress her evil fire and urged her to win his help gently, even suggesting she consider him as a future partner. That evening, Ma Xiaotao visited Huo Yuhao while he ate hotpot, but he refused her request before hearing what it was.

• Yan Shaozhe explained Huo Yuhao's exceptional abilities to Ma Xiaotao and warned her not to pressure him into helping suppress her evil fire.
• Yan Shaozhe suggested Ma Xiaotao use her charms to win Huo Yuhao over and privately resolved to bring him into the Martial Soul Department.
• Huo Yuhao cooked hotpot at home and ate it with wine while reflecting on his cultivation.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm alerted Huo Yuhao that Ma Xiaotao was hiding outside his window, and Huo Yuhao called her out.
• Ma Xiaotao entered through the window and asked Huo Yuhao for a favor, but he refused without asking what she wanted.

Huo Yuhao agreed to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire in exchange for one million Gold Soul Coins, while also offering fine liquor as an alternative payment. He used his Ultimate Ice to eliminate the aura during an embrace, leaving Ma Xiaotao relieved but mortified by their awkward physical contact.

• Huo Yuhao refused to help Ma Xiaotao for free and demanded one million Gold Soul Coins per session or five jin of fine liquor comparable to Flying Moutai.
• Ma Xiaotao chose to pay and gave Huo Yuhao five black cards.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he could suppress her evil fire through physical contact or freeze her with an Ultimate Ice Spirit Skill, and Ma Xiaotao chose to embrace him.
• Ma Xiaotao released the evil fire aura, and Huo Yuhao’s Drunken Sword Immortal possession unleashed Ultimate Ice that annihilated it.
• Ma Xiaotao accidentally pressed herself against Huo Yuhao during the embrace, and he teased her for calling him a pervert.

Huo Yuhao traveled with Qian Duoduo and Mo Xuan toward the Star Dou Great Forest so Mo Xuan could obtain his fourth Spirit Ring. After Qian Duoduo warned them that danger lay ahead and promised not to intervene unless their lives were at risk, the group prepared to continue into the forest.

• Qian Duoduo introduced Huo Yuhao to Mo Xuan, a Rank Forty support-type soul master whose martial soul was Halo.
• Qian Duoduo gave Huo Yuhao a Folding Wing Flight Soul Tool, and Huo Yuhao quickly learned to fly with it.
• Qian Duoduo carried Mo Xuan while he and Huo Yuhao flew south toward the Star Dou Great Forest, reaching its outer region after more than a day.
• Qian Duoduo warned Huo Yuhao and Mo Xuan that he would not help unless they faced a major crisis, and Huo Yuhao said he understood.
• Mo Xuan worried that his support-type martial soul would make him a burden, but Huo Yuhao reassured him that he could handle most dangers in the outer region.

Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection and Simulation to guide Mo Xuan and Qian Duoduo through the Star Dou Great Forest while searching for a suitable Spirit Ring. They encountered a six-thousand-year Blazing Demon Tiger, and Huo Yuhao prepared to fight it.

• Huo Yuhao shared his Mental Detection with Mo Xuan, then used Simulation to frighten weaker Spirit Beasts away as the group traveled deeper into the forest.
• Mo Xuan explained that his fourth Spirit Ring needed to be between one and five thousand years old, with a strong bloodline or maximum compatible age preferred.
• Huo Yuhao detected an approaching Spirit Beast, and a six-thousand-year Blazing Demon Tiger charged at the group.
• Huo Yuhao activated Ice Emperor Bodyguard as Qian Duoduo watched to see how he would handle the tiger.

Huo Yuhao killed a six-thousand-year Blazing Demon Tiger in one strike, stunning Mo Xuan and Qian Duoduo. After Huo Yuhao and Mo Xuan hid from an approaching soul beast, Mo Xuan recognized it as a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

• Mo Xuan boosted Huo Yuhao with his Strength Amplification, Speed Amplification, and Mental Focus Spirit Skills as Huo Yuhao charged the Blazing Demon Tiger.
• Huo Yuhao froze the Blazing Demon Tiger with Eternal Freeze Domain and killed it with Ice Extreme Unparalleled.
• Mo Xuan and Qian Duoduo watched in shock as Huo Yuhao checked the corpse for a Spirit Bone, found none, and called it trash.
• Huo Yuhao detected another creature approaching and used his Simulation Soul Skill to hide himself and Mo Xuan in the forest.
• Mo Xuan saw the giant bear enter their view and identified it as a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

Huo Yuhao attacked a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear that Mo Xuan hoped to absorb as his fourth Spirit Ring. He struck the bear with Fierce Dragon Sky Severing Strike, leaving it stunned and badly wounded.

• Mo Xuan agreed that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear would suit his fourth Spirit Ring, and Huo Yuhao told him to retreat and protect himself.
• Huo Yuhao created a blizzard with Snow Dance Shining Sunlight, concealed himself with Snow Concealment, and struck the bear with Mental Spike.
• Huo Yuhao used Fierce Dragon Sky Severing Strike to rush beneath the bear and slash it, sending two severed pieces of flesh flying.
• The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear stiffened in shock as Huo Yuhao's attack landed.

Huo Yuhao crippled the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear by attacking its weak points, then wore it down and froze it so Mo Xuan could deliver the killing blow. A purple Spirit Ring appeared, and Qian Duoduo and Mo Xuan stared in shock at Huo Yuhao’s brutal tactics.

• Qian Duoduo watched as Huo Yuhao used his sword skills to strike the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s groin and blind both of its eyes.
• The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear rampaged blindly, while Huo Yuhao withdrew to Mo Xuan and explained that they should wait for it to exhaust itself.
• Huo Yuhao, Mo Xuan, and Qian Duoduo waited at a distance until the bear’s frenzy subsided and its strength was nearly spent.
• Huo Yuhao froze the weakened bear with Ice Emperor's Wrath, then stabbed it through the back door with his sword.
• Mo Xuan pierced the bear’s right eye and killed it, after which a purple Spirit Ring rose and he and Qian Duoduo reacted to Huo Yuhao’s wounds.

Huo Yuhao found a rare Right Palm External Soul Bone in the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s corpse and began fusing with it. As Mo Xuan absorbed the bear’s Spirit Ring, Huo Yuhao endured the bone’s painful integration into his right hand.

• Mo Xuan began absorbing the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s roughly two-thousand-five-hundred-year Spirit Ring.
• Huo Yuhao searched the bear’s corpse, discovered a dark-gold Spirit Bone in its right paw, and identified it as an External Right Palm Bone.
• Qian Duoduo explained that the palm bone could grant the powerful Terrorclaw Spirit Skill and grow alongside its owner.
• Qian Duoduo returned the Spirit Bone to Huo Yuhao, who began fusing it into his right hand despite the intense pain.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s External Right Palm Bone, transforming his right hand and gaining the Dark Gold Terrorclaw ability. He demonstrated its two forms to Qian Duoduo and Mo Xuan.

• Huo Yuhao used his Ultimate Ice power and martial soul to suppress the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s violent energy as the External Soul Bone fused with his right palm.
• Huo Yuhao’s palm bones and muscles transformed, turning dark gold and forming five blade-like claws that he could conceal at will.
• Qian Duoduo and Mo Xuan asked Huo Yuhao about the Spirit Bone’s skill, and Huo Yuhao explained that it had an ordinary form and a Spirit Skill attack form.
• Huo Yuhao sliced a stone into smooth pieces with the ordinary claws, then unleashed a claw shadow that carved five deep trenches into the ground.