Chapter Summaries

A modern young man took over Huo Yuhao’s body after Huo Yuhao’s consciousness disappeared, just as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fused with him and Electrolux entered his Spiritual Sea. After meeting the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm within his mind, Huo Yuhao urged him to get them out of the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Huo Yuhao’s consciousness vanished after the Wind Baboon defeated him, and a young man’s consciousness entered his body.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm healed Huo Yuhao, sealed his power and remains within him, and drew Electrolux to the site.
• Electrolux ignored the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s attack, entered Huo Yuhao’s mind, and settled into his Spiritual Sea as a Gray Bead.
• The young man absorbed Huo Yuhao’s memories and recognized Electrolux, then met the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his Spiritual Sea.
• Huo Yuhao interrupted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s boasting and asked him to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.

After recovering from the Wind Baboon’s attack, Huo Yuhao considered his options and agreed to think over Tang Ya’s invitation to join the Tang Sect. As he traveled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest with Tang Ya and Beibei, he examined his altered Spirit Eyes and discovered that the Mysterious Heaven Skill’s circulation method appeared deliberately limited.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm disguised Huo Yuhao’s First Soul Ring as a yellow hundred-year Soul Ring, and Huo Yuhao recovered from his injuries.
• Tang Ya worried over Huo Yuhao, and Beibei reassured her that his condition was stable.
• Tang Ya invited Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect, and Beibei explained the sect’s decline, resources, and connection to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao asked for time to consider the invitation and accompanied Tang Ya and Beibei deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Huo Yuhao used his altered Spirit Eyes to analyze souls and bodies, memorize structures, and observe Soul Power and Bloodline Power.
• Huo Yuhao examined the Mysterious Heaven Skill and suspected Tang San had deliberately removed parts of its circulation through the meridians and acupoints.

Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Truth and Spiritual Detection to guide Beibei and Tang Ya through the Star Dou Great Forest and into a battle with a Thousand-Year Mandala Snake. He left the fight to them, and the chapter ended as Beibei prepared a combined attack with Tang Ya’s support.

• Huo Yuhao studied Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s four Soul Skills and resolved to choose future Soul Rings carefully while preparing to evade Tang San’s plans.
• Huo Yuhao used his enhanced perception to help Beibei and Tang Ya avoid unwanted Soul Beasts as they traveled deeper into the forest.
• Huo Yuhao detected a concealed Mandala Snake, and Beibei and Tang Ya attacked it after identifying it as Tang Ya’s target Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao activated Spiritual Detection, read the Mandala Snake’s movements and poisonous attacks, and warned Beibei and Tang Ya as they fought.
• Beibei and Tang Ya exploited Huo Yuhao’s guidance to wear down the Mandala Snake, and Beibei began a coordinated Thunder Dragon Claw attack.

Huo Yuhao helped Beibei defeat a Thousand-Year Mandala Snake, then learned more about soul masters and Shrek Academy while Tang Ya absorbed its Soul Ring. After dinner, Huo Yuhao considered joining the Tang Sect but decided to first speak with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

• Huo Yuhao warned Beibei about the Mandala Snake's Lifebound Toxin, allowing Beibei to seize it and Tang Ya to kill it and absorb its Soul Ring.
• Beibei invited Huo Yuhao to seek admission to Shrek Academy and explained the city's recommendation examination as he answered Huo Yuhao's questions about soul beasts.
• Tang Ya finished absorbing the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring, gaining a third Soul Ring and pink patterns on her Blue Silver Grass.
• Huo Yuhao asked Beibei to store the Mandala Snake's corpse, and the three returned to their streamside camp and ate grilled fish and stored food.
• Huo Yuhao weighed joining the Tang Sect for its resources, then told Beibei and Tang Ya he needed to rest before speaking with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Huo Yuhao woke Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and convinced him to help cultivate by guiding Soul Power through Spiritual Sharing. After establishing the Sky Dream Automatic Cultivation Device 1.0, Huo Yuhao left his Spiritual Sea at sunrise, still considering how to awaken Electrolux's dormant knowledge.

• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Truth to locate Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's weak point and jolted him awake with a simulated Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recounted his past and proposed taking Huo Yuhao to the Far North for an Ultimate Ice Second Martial Soul, but Huo Yuhao postponed the dangerous trip.
• Huo Yuhao showed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm his Martial Soul's detailed view of his body and asked him to guide his Soul Power circulation through Spiritual Sharing.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to assist Huo Yuhao's cultivation, and his Spiritual Power helped guide and strengthen Huo Yuhao's meridians.
• Huo Yuhao ended Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing, told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to conceal his cultivation, and considered finding nourishment for Electrolux's Divine Sense before waking at sunrise.

Huo Yuhao joined the Tang Sect after analyzing Tang Ya’s Purple Demon Eye and began planning how to adapt the sect’s techniques with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s help. As the group traveled toward Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao declared that human knowledge and inheritance would let him challenge the limits imposed on Soul Masters.

• Huo Yuhao finished cultivating and reflected on how Soul Rings and the God Realm’s rules trapped Soul Masters in a path toward godhood.
• Beibei showed Huo Yuhao Tang Ya’s dawn cultivation of Purple Demon Eye, and Huo Yuhao used his Eye of Truth to analyze how it worked.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to join the Tang Sect, completed a disciple ceremony, and received a copied Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record from Tang Ya.
• Beibei gave Huo Yuhao a storage belt modeled after Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, and the three began traveling toward Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao impressed Beibei and Tang Ya with his comprehension and mutated Martial Soul while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm praised his cultivation method.
• Huo Yuhao told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that human knowledge and inheritance made civilization powerful, prompting the ice silkworm to reconsider Huo Yuhao’s potential.

Huo Yuhao delayed registering at Shrek Academy so he could avoid Zhou Yi’s class and prepare for the entrance assessment. On the final day, he was assigned to a team with Wang Dong and Zhao Haochen, and their first battle against He Hengan began.

• Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya agreed that he would spend a few days practicing before taking the entrance assessment, while Beibei rented him an inn room and gave him spending money.
• Huo Yuhao used the time to plan how to avoid Zhou Yi’s class and prepare for the assessment’s actual-combat stage.
• Beibei brought Huo Yuhao basic hidden weapons from Tang Ya, then escorted him to Shrek Academy on the final day of the assessment.
• Huo Yuhao was assigned to a team with Wang Dong, a level-twenty-one Assault Type Soul Master, and Zhao Haochen, a level-fifteen Support Type Soul Master.
• Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Zhao Haochen entered the field and introduced themselves to their examiner, He Hengan, a level-forty-five Defense Type Soul Master, as the battle began.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, and Zhao Haochen faced a combat assessment against the four-ring examiner He Hengan. Their teamwork and Soul Skills earned all three a pass, and Wang Dong'er followed Huo Yuhao afterward to ask whether he was from the Tang Sect.

• Zhao Haochen gave Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao braised Big Chicken Legs, and Wang Dong'er charged He Hengan with her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao used hidden weapons to pierce gaps in He Hengan's defenses, prompting the examiner to activate his third Soul Skill and attack the pair.
• Following Huo Yuhao's instructions, Wang Dong'er fused her Light of the Butterfly God and Wing Scythe Soul Skills into a powerful golden blade that cracked He Hengan's defense.
• He Hengan ended the test and passed all three students, praising Wang Dong'er's decisive action, Huo Yuhao's observation and leadership, and Zhao Haochen's use of Soul Skills.
• Wang Dong'er followed Huo Yuhao and asked if he was from the Tang Sect, while Huo Yuhao answered coldly and suspected she was drawn to him by the keyword.

Huo Yuhao registered at Shrek Academy, where he was assigned to Class One and placed in a dormitory with Wang Dong, who decided she wanted to join the Tang Sect. He explored the academy library and discovered that Spiritual Detection combined with the Eye of Truth let him absorb books rapidly, though the strain forced him to rest.

• Wang Dong approached Tang Ya and declared that she wanted to join the Tang Sect after hearing about its hidden weapons and secret arts.
• Huo Yuhao registered for Class One and learned that Wang Dong was his roommate, while Mu En observed the pair from his recliner.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong divided their dormitory space, and Huo Yuhao left to eat and explore the academy library.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and the Eye of Truth to memorize hundreds of books, but the flood of information exhausted much of his Spiritual Power.
• Huo Yuhao rested to stabilize his Spiritual Sea and considered limiting his next attempt to ten books at a time.

Huo Yuhao organized the knowledge he had gathered from the library and experimented with creating elemental attacks, finding a possible path beyond the Soul Master system. At Zhou Yi’s first class, she ordered the students to run one hundred laps or be expelled, and Huo Yuhao ran near the front while studying how others circulated Soul Power.

• Huo Yuhao sorted his library records in his Spiritual Sea and tested whether Soul Power could shape attacks by drawing in other elements, though his attempts were weaker than Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that independently forming Soul Skills and Soul Rings might let him escape the limits of the Soul Master system.
• Zhou Yi introduced herself to the class, demanded that anyone who had fought stand up, then ordered every student to run one hundred laps around Shrek Plaza within an hour or be expelled.
• Wang Dong offered to help Huo Yuhao and mentioned that she had joined the Tang Sect, but Zhou Yi overheard her and Wang Dong realized it.
• Huo Yuhao ran comfortably near the front using his self-circulating Soul Power and activated his Eye of Truth to study the others’ Soul Power circulation.

Huo Yuhao calmly endured Zhou Yi’s harsh first class and challenged her claims about Soul Tools and Soul Master combat roles. Zhou Yi ended the lesson by announcing three months of physical training, then summoned Huo Yuhao to her office.

• Zhou Yi expelled freshmen who failed the hundred-lap run, and Huo Yuhao completed it without showing much fatigue.
• Wang Dong questioned Huo Yuhao’s stamina, and he explained that Zhou Yi’s punishments were meant to establish authority over the class.
• Zhou Yi revealed Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power was only Level Twelve and used his running performance to shame students who had failed.
• During a lesson on Soul Master roles, Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Tools did not erase the traditional advantages of different types, leaving Zhou Yi unable to offer a clear rebuttal.
• Zhou Yi announced three months of physical training and summoned Huo Yuhao to her office after class.

Huo Yuhao refused Zhou Yi’s invitation to join the Soul Engineering Department, then explained to Wang Dong how Zhou Yi’s harsh teaching served Shrek Academy’s interests. As Mu En observed Huo Yuhao’s potential, Huo Yuhao studied the Class 5 White Tiger Dagger in his Spiritual Sea.

• Zhou Yi asked Huo Yuhao about his first Soul Skill and urged him to consider joining the Soul Engineering Department, but he refused.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the dormitory and argued that Zhou Yi’s expulsions inflated her Inner Court admission rate while filtering students for loyalty to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that nobles and sect disciples often attended Shrek Academy to build connections and recruit talent, while the academy used Zhou Yi to condition students who were expelled.
• Mu En watched Huo Yuhao and considered whether he was worth Shrek Academy’s investment.
• Wang Dong turned away Tang Ya and Beibei while Huo Yuhao rested, and Huo Yuhao studied the structure and operation of his White Tiger Dagger in his Spiritual Sea.

Huo Yuhao studied the White Tiger Dagger’s Rank 5 Soul Tool Core Array and tested its component arrays while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm controlled his body during Zhou Yi’s weighted running exercise. The class ended with Huo Yuhao still running comfortably, while most of his classmates had collapsed.

• Huo Yuhao used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Spiritual Power to dismantle the White Tiger Dagger’s Rank 5 Soul Tool Core Array and compare its structure with Soul Skills.
• Wang Dong pulled Huo Yuhao to class, where Zhou Yi appointed Wang Dong class monitor and ordered the students to run laps in Iron Clothes under threat of elimination.
• Huo Yuhao asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to control his body while he tested the dismantled Soul Tool Core Arrays during the run.
• Huo Yuhao identified several arrays’ effects, including compressing Soul Power, gathering energy, accelerating energy conversion, and storing Soul Power.
• As most students collapsed and Wang Dong struggled to continue, Huo Yuhao kept running until the bell rang and took back control of his body.

After Zhou Yi expelled a student and dismissed her class, Huo Yuhao studied Soul Tool arrays and academy history while growing closer to Wang Dong. The next day, rumors spread that students had disappeared near Seagod Lake, and Huo Yuhao resolved to avoid it.

• A Tree of Life Soul Sage healed the exhausted students, after which Zhou Yi expelled the student with the weakest constitution and warned the others that their failed laps would be recorded as punishment.
• Huo Yuhao considered how a Martial Soul Avatar might be adapted into a Soul Tool, then spent the evening researching in the library and talking with Wang Dong late into the night.
• Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong unofficial histories of Shrek Academy’s ancestors and urged her to use them to question the official record.
• Huo Yuhao found the first-year theory lessons inadequate, while Wang Dong complained that the classes were boring.
• Students told Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong that several new students had disappeared, prompting Huo Yuhao to decide to stay away from Seagod Lake.

Huo Yuhao spent three months improving his cultivation before Zhou Yi assigned him, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to a team for the Freshman Assessment. After Zhou Yi ordered them to aim for the championship, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong discussed how he had uncovered her identity.

• Huo Yuhao used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's help to open more meridians and raise his Soul Power to Level Seventeen without taking pills.
• Zhou Yi explained the Freshman Assessment and assigned Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to Group One.
• Huo Yuhao chose Agility Assault Type, but Zhou Yi urged him to consider Control Type, and he agreed after seeing a golden Rune appear in Wang Dong's Spiritual Sea.
• Zhou Yi tasked the three students with winning the Freshman Assessment championship and threatened to personally teach them if they failed.
• Wang Dong tried to avoid Xiao Xiao after class, and Huo Yuhao teased her before explaining how he deduced she was a girl from a book about Martial Souls.

Huo Yuhao secretly prepared a concealed acceleration Soul Power Circuit for the Freshman Assessment, using Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's help to install it in his body. On the assessment's first day, he met with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to discuss their abilities and proposed that they follow his commands in battle.

• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Sea to combine a second-level Acceleration Soul Skill with a Soul Power Compression Array, creating a circuit that could briefly increase his movement speed by roughly sixty percent.
• Huo Yuhao woke Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and had him attach the new Soul Power Circuit to his meridians without disrupting their normal circulation.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong went to meet Xiao Xiao after breakfast and introduced their Martial Souls and Soul Skills to one another.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao each described how their Soul Skills could control or injure stronger opponents, and Xiao Xiao mentioned her second Martial Soul, the Nine Phoenixes Auspicious Flute.
• Huo Yuhao proposed that Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao follow his commands during each battle, with any objections settled by a fight.

Huo Yuhao’s team won their first five Freshman Assessment matches, drawing assessment teacher Wang Yan’s attention to Huo Yuhao’s hidden-weapon tactics and possible Body Martial Soul. As their sixth match against Huang Chutian and the Lan sisters began, Huo Yuhao watched their martial soul possession, curious whether their hair martial souls could help him transform his own.

• Huo Yuhao easily defeated Xiao Xiao in a spar, then told her and Wang Dong to stretch out their next assessment match so he could study their opponents’ Soul Skills.
• Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, and Zhao Haochen after his hidden weapons interrupted their attacks and Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao finished the fight.
• After gathering enough intelligence, Huo Yuhao abandoned his plan to prolong later matches and went back to sleep; his team then won all four matches on the second day.
• Wang Yan became intrigued by Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes, hidden weapons, and possible Body Martial Soul, while Huo Yuhao considered seeking more academy resources.
• Huo Yuhao’s team was named the seeded team for Area Thirty-Three and began its sixth-round match against Huang Chutian, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo; Huo Yuhao held back and watched their martial soul possession.

Huo Yuhao’s team faced Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, whose Martial Soul Fusion Skill nearly defeated Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao. Huo Yuhao found and disrupted the skill’s weakness with Soul Shock, securing victory and leaving Wang Yan suspicious of his hidden abilities.

• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Truth to study the twins while directing Xiao Xiao to support Wang Dong against Huang Chutian.
• Xiao Xiao disoriented Huang Chutian with Cauldron’s Quake, and Huo Yuhao’s hidden needles temporarily sealed the tendons in Huang Chutian’s feet.
• Wang Yan paused the match so Huo Yuhao could remove the needles, then resumed it after Huang Chutian recovered.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao pressured Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo until the sisters unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Heavenly Net and Earthly Web.
• Huo Yuhao used Soul Shock to exploit the fusion skill’s weak point, causing it to collapse and knocking Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo unconscious.
• Wang Yan awarded victory to Wang Dong’s team and wondered what Huo Yuhao was hiding, while Huo Yuhao rested and Wang Dong pondered whether he had made the final move.

After sweeping their round-robin matches, Huo Yuhao’s team advanced to the elimination rounds, where his hidden weapons and Soul Power Circuits helped them dominate their first serious opponents. The match ended with Nanmen Yun’er carried off the field, while Wu Feng remained trapped under pressure.

• Wang Yan reported Huo Yuhao and other promising Body Martial Soul students to Xuan Zi, who explained why Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes were especially valuable and decided to attend the ranking matches.
• Huo Yuhao began experimenting in his Spiritual Sea and managed to stack two identical Soul Power Circuits without causing a conflict.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao won their first elimination-round match and drew Wu Feng, Nanmen Yun’er, and Ning Tian in the afternoon.
• Huo Yuhao directed Wang Dong to pressure Nanmen Yun’er and Xiao Xiao to contain Wu Feng, while his hidden weapons disrupted both opponents and Xiao Xiao’s cauldron briefly dazed Wu Feng.
• Ning Tian boosted her teammates, but Huo Yuhao used Soul Power Circuits and heavier hidden weapons to restrict their movements; Nanmen Yun’er was injured and carried off the field.

Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Wu Feng and Ning Tian’s team through his precise hidden-weapon barrage and Wang Dong’s finishing attack. The next day, they faced Xie Huanyue’s team, where Xiao Xiao pinned down the three-ring Soul Elder as Wang Dong charged a powerful fused Soul Skill.

• Huo Yuhao coordinated with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to overwhelm Wu Feng with hidden weapons and cauldron tremors, then Wang Dong knocked her unconscious with Light of the Butterfly God.
• Ning Tian conceded, and the proctor declared Wang Dong’s team victorious; Huo Yuhao retrieved the usable hidden weapons before leaving the arena.
• Ning Tian wondered why Huo Yuhao had spared her, while Fan Yu recognized his combat perception and rushed to tell Qian Duoduo about recruiting him for the Extreme Individual Soldier Plan.
• The next day, Huo Yuhao’s team faced Xie Huanyue’s team in the round of sixteen, and Huo Yuhao assigned Wang Dong to attack Xie Huanyue while Xiao Xiao controlled him.
• Xiao Xiao used Three Cauldrons United to suppress Xie Huanyue as Wang Dong charged a Soul Skill Fusion Ring; unable to surrender easily under the suppression, Xie Huanyue faced the incoming Wing Scythe fused with Light of the Butterfly God.