Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao’s team advanced through the tournament to the final, where he faced Dai Huabin’s team and unleashed a newly prepared, amplified Soul Shock. He entered the fight intent on defeating Dai Huabin and avenging the original Huo Yuhao’s suffering.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao’s Fusion Ring attack overwhelmed their opponents, and Xuan Zi stopped Wang Dong’s final strike before the proctor declared their team the winner.
• Huo Yuhao explained his quick-strike strategy to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, while Xuan Zi recognized him as the team’s true commander and kept the trio as candidates.
• Huo Yuhao’s team won the remaining matches and advanced to the final against Dai Huabin’s team.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to handle Cui Yajie while he faced Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu himself.
• As the final began, Huo Yuhao used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Spiritual Power to protect himself and fired his newly amplified Soul Shock at Dai Huabin.

Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Dai Huabin’s team to win the Freshman Assessment, and the academy recognized the champions at the Freshman Assembly. Huo Yuhao received Core Disciple status and prepared to use Shrek Academy’s resources as the freshmen were assigned to classes.

• Huo Yuhao struck Dai Huabin with Soul Shock, knocking him unconscious, while Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao helped defeat Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie.
• Du Weilun announced Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Xiao as the Freshman Assessment champions, while Dai Huabin woke with hatred toward them.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao celebrated their victory, and Huo Yuhao agreed to have dinner with Wang Dong and Tang Ya’s group.
• At the Freshman Assembly, Du Weilun announced the top teams’ rewards and named Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao as Core Disciples.
• Du Weilun announced the remaining Core Disciple candidates and assigned the freshmen to classes by soul-master type.

Huo Yuhao criticized Shrek Academy’s outer-court education and its class system as ineffective, but accepted remaining in Class One. Du Weilun then awarded Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao a Soul Bone for winning the Freshman Assessment, and Huo Yuhao kept it for later analysis rather than planning to fuse with it.

• Huo Yuhao judged Shrek Academy’s class assignments, teaching, and outer-court resources to be inadequate and decided not to waste time trying to change the system.
• Du Weilun finalized Huo Yuhao’s placement in Class One with Zhou Yi and Wang Yan as teachers, then called Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to collect their reward.
• Du Weilun gave the three students a pouch containing an Ethereal Demon Leopard Left Leg Bone and explained its properties and the need to keep it secret.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao agreed that Huo Yuhao deserved the Soul Bone for his contribution to their championship, and Huo Yuhao accepted it.
• Huo Yuhao stored the pouch in his belt and left with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, intending to analyze the Soul Bone rather than fuse with it.

Huo Yuhao awakened Electrolux and received a fragmented method for controlling Spiritual Power before returning to class and refusing a nomination as Control Type class monitor. Wang Dong became Assault Type class monitor, and Huo Yuhao ended the day planning to gather new data for his experiments.

• Huo Yuhao contacted Electrolux in his Spiritual Sea, and Electrolux shared a Spiritual Power control method as rent while promising help in important situations.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual avatar alerted Huo Yuhao to an unexpected classroom situation, and Huo Yuhao resumed control of his body.
• Huo Yuhao refused Wang Yan's nomination for Control Type class monitor, while Wang Dong won the Assault Type monitor election over Dai Huabin's candidate.
• Wang Dong complained to Huo Yuhao about becoming class monitor, and Huo Yuhao told her she could give up the position if she wanted.
• Huo Yuhao returned to meditative cultivation and decided to collect new data and analyze his Soul Bone further.

Huo Yuhao spent the semester improving his cultivation and studying Soul Masters at Shrek Academy, reaching roughly Rank 23 and preparing to hunt for his second Soul Ring. As vacation approached, he shared a meal with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, confident in his cultivation path and upcoming assessment.

• Huo Yuhao used his Core Disciple privileges to study matches at the Battle Soul Arena while his nutrition and Soul Power Circuit strengthened his body and accelerated his cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao pawned his White Tiger Dagger and obtained a Profound Water Pill through Beibei and Xu Sanshi, then analyzed the pill rather than consuming it.
• Huo Yuhao estimated his Soul Power at Rank 23 and concluded that his cultivation speed would continue to improve as his Soul Power Circuits developed.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao met Huo Yuhao at the arena and asked about his Soul Hunting Application; he explained that he hoped to obtain a spiritual amplification Soul Skill and had been assigned to the end-of-term Soul Hunting Team.
• Huo Yuhao defended choosing Soul Skills for his long-term plans rather than for an exam, and Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao persuaded him to treat them to a meal before vacation.

On the final day of the semester, Wang Yan explained the second-year Promotion Assessment and its class-wide component, while Huo Yuhao learned more about the Divine Sense hidden in a Rune and prepared for the Soul Beast hunt. He designed a Level Three Soul Power Circuit called Refraction to help him evade attacks and protect himself.

• Wang Yan warned Class One that students needed two Soul Rings and would face individual combat assessments, while a class assessment could affect everyone’s promotion.
• After class, Zhou Yi gave class monitors Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao reminders, and Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao whether he would miss her before leaving the next day.
• Huo Yuhao consulted Electrolux about the Rune and learned it could be removed only with greater strength or by risking damage to his body.
• Huo Yuhao combined three Level Two circuits—Soul Armor, Deflection, and Shadow Escape—into the Level Three Soul Power Circuit Refraction.

Huo Yuhao joined Lie Yong’s Soul Hunting Team and helped guide the students through the Star Dou Great Forest, where the others obtained suitable Second Soul Rings. The team headed toward the city to rest before entering the Mixed Zone to find a Spiritual Attribute Soul Beast for Huo Yuhao, who was secretly steering them toward a Big-Headed Spirit Ape territory.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong parted ways at Shrek Academy, and Huo Yuhao joined Lie Yong’s Soul Hunting Team with three other students.
• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Truth to guide the team around dangerous Soul Beasts as they searched the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Lie Yong captured a Sonic Hummingbird for the bow-wielding student, who absorbed its Soul Ring successfully.
• Huo Yuhao identified a Rock Turtle’s age and watched as the students tested their abilities before Lie Yong broke its shell for them.
• The Mad Sound Bee Queen student obtained a suitable Soul Ring, while Huo Yuhao continued searching for a Spiritual Attribute Soul Beast.
• Lie Yong decided to return to the city before entering the Mixed Zone, and Huo Yuhao led the group toward the Big-Headed Spirit Ape territory he had learned about from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

Huo Yuhao and Lie Yong’s hunting party encountered a Big-Headed Spirit Ape tribe controlled by a mutated Three-Eyed Demonic Ape. Lie Yong attacked the hidden leader while Huo Yuhao resisted its spiritual assault, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao noticed the forest was unusually quiet, and Lie Yong warned the group that they had entered a dangerous Soul Beast’s territory.
• A tribe of Big-Headed Spirit Apes surrounded the party, while Huo Yuhao sensed a concealed leader whose aura belonged to a mutated Three-Eyed Demonic Ape.
• Lie Yong used his Soul Skills to injure many of the apes and strike at the hidden leader, which shattered his Sixth Soul Skill with Purple Dark Soul Power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm identified the mutant as a suitable target for Huo Yuhao’s second Soul Ring and offered to strengthen its Soul Ring later.
• Huo Yuhao knocked the other three students unconscious to protect them from the leader’s spiritual control, then activated his Refraction Soul Power Circuit and urged Lie Yong to finish the fight quickly.

Huo Yuhao chose to absorb the mutated Three-Eyed Demonic Ape’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring, relying on Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux to withstand its power and resentment. He gained Spiritual Suggestion and began considering how to adapt the skill for his own use.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used Spirit Interference to expose the mutated Three-Eyed Demonic Ape and distract the Big-Headed Spirit Apes, allowing Lie Yong to capture both it and an eight-hundred-year Big-Headed Spirit Ape.
• Lie Yong warned Huo Yuhao that the mutated ape’s roughly thousand-year soul ring might be too dangerous, but Huo Yuhao chose it because he believed its skill would suit him.
• Huo Yuhao killed the Three-Eyed Demonic Ape and began absorbing its soul ring, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm managed the soul power and Electrolux dispelled the ape’s spiritual assault and resentment.
• Huo Yuhao completed the absorption, advanced to approximately level twenty-four, and identified his Second Soul Skill as Spiritual Suggestion, which subtly altered how others perceived him.
• Huo Yuhao considered using Spiritual Suggestion to weaken targets’ spiritual defenses and experimenting with modifications to the skill.

Huo Yuhao developed Spiritual Disintegration into Spiritual Erosion with Electrolux’s help, then modified his second Soul Ring to complete the new skill. He left the ring compressed to fifteen hundred years, satisfied with its strengthened structure and ready to continue preparing for future threats.

• Huo Yuhao tested Spiritual Suggestion and designed Spiritual Disintegration to combine it with Spiritual Strong Control and Spirit Interference.
• Electrolux demonstrated how pure Spiritual Power could draw on surrounding elements to form soul skills, and explained an absorption construct that could turn an opponent’s Spiritual Power into fuel for Spiritual Erosion.
• Huo Yuhao decided to continue studying Soul Power Circuits and Spiritual Casting, then asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to guard him while he upgraded his second Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao raised the Soul Ring’s age to fifteen thousand years as he reshaped it into Spiritual Erosion, then let the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm compress it back to fifteen hundred years.

Fan Yu failed to persuade Qian Duoduo to recruit Huo Yuhao into the Soul Engineering Department, while Huo Yuhao prepared for the second-year Promotion Assessment. At the Beast Arena, Wang Dong defeated a thousand-year Bloodthirsty Demonic Bear, and Huo Yuhao noticed a strange Soul Bone within her.

• Qian Duoduo told Fan Yu that the Martial Soul Department's influence and Huo Yuhao's lack of interest made recruiting him to the Soul Engineering Department impossible.
• Wang Dong returned to the dormitory, learned that Zhou Yi had been looking for her, and hurried to see her.
• Huo Yuhao prepared new experimental methods for the Promotion Assessment and went with his class to the Beast Arena.
• Wang Dong chose a thousand-year soul beast for her assessment, and Huo Yuhao observed an unusual Soul Bone inside her body.
• Wang Dong defeated the Bloodthirsty Demonic Bear with her Third Soul Skill and physical strength, then taunted Dai Huabin.

Huo Yuhao tested a new combination of his spiritual Soul Skills against a Thousand-Year Mutated Mighty Ape and defeated it by taking control of its body. He passed the Promotion Assessment, then reflected on the technique he named Spiritual Annihilation.

• Wang Dong complained about losing technique points, while Huo Yuhao agreed that her fight against the Bloodthirsty Demonic Bear had gone well.
• Huo Yuhao chose a Thousand-Year Soul Beast for his assessment, drawing the attention of the teachers and Mu En.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing and Spiritual Erosion to trap the Mutated Mighty Ape's consciousness, then made it injure itself until it could no longer fight.
• Du Weilun awarded Huo Yuhao 130 points and passed him, deducting points for unnecessary movements.
• Huo Yuhao explained to himself how Spiritual Annihilation worked and considered whether he could recover the Spiritual Power consumed by Spiritual Erosion.

Huo Yuhao taught Wang Dong a technique to nourish her damaged soul through sleep, then investigated the unusual Soul Bone with Electrolux. Electrolux identified it as an artificial, rune-based energy construct and forced Huo Yuhao to rest, leaving him in his first truly peaceful sleep since arriving in the world.

• Wang Dong complained about losing five points in the Promotion Assessment, and Huo Yuhao taught her methods for improving her soul through restful sleep.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux examined the torso Soul Bone and determined it was a rune-based energy construct unlike ordinary Soul Bones.
• Electrolux explained that creating a similar construct would be difficult because it required a large supply of pure, usable energy.
• Electrolux sensed Huo Yuhao's relentless pursuit of strength was wearing him down and used a spiritual ripple to make him sleep.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his body and slept peacefully while Wang Dong rested nearby.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong attended Shrek City’s Treasure Appraisal Fair with Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er. Huo Yuhao recorded the Soul Tool designs on display and received the highest credit rating available to students of their year.

• Electrolux revealed that he had forced Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong into deep sleep so they could fully relax.
• Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong lunch and explained that Ning Tian had invited them to the Treasure Appraisal Fair.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong met Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er at the academy gates and traveled with them to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao recorded the Soul Tool Core Arrays and blueprints on display while the group toured the fair.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong received purple VIP cards granting each a credit limit of one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and a ten percent discount.

Huo Yuhao bought cultivation materials at the Treasure Appraisal Fair, accepted Ning Tian’s offer of a personal sponsorship, and refined the materials into a potent demonic potion with Electrolux’s help. The chapter ended with Zhou Yi announcing a Core Disciple Selection Tournament in three days, which Huo Yuhao resolved to enter to obtain the Gold of Life.

• Huo Yuhao bought Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, medicinal materials, and a Class 4 Glazed Shield at the Treasure Appraisal Fair.
• Ning Tian offered Huo Yuhao personal sponsorship in exchange for a favor at Shrek Academy, and Huo Yuhao accepted.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong left the fair, then returned to Shrek Academy without encountering an ambush.
• Electrolux helped Huo Yuhao refine the purchased materials into a Grade 5 demonic potion that strengthened his body and accelerated his recovery.
• Zhou Yi told the Year Two core disciples that they had to compete in a Core Disciple Selection Tournament in three days, and Huo Yuhao decided he needed to join the Shrek Reserve Team to obtain the Gold of Life.

Huo Yuhao prepared for Shrek Academy’s selection tournament while experimenting with reshaping his body by absorbing the Demonic Potion. The tournament began as a no-rules free-for-all, and He Caitou became its first elimination after Huo Yuhao disrupted his Soul Cannon attack.

• Huo Yuhao used medicinal herbs and the Demonic Potion to strengthen and reshape his body, successfully making his hair more resilient.
• Wang Yan brought the Core Disciples to the Battle Soul Arena, where Huo Yuhao noticed Wang Dong’s strengthened hands and greeted Ning Tian.
• Xuan Zi announced that the last seven students standing in the no-rules free-for-all would win, then started the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao struck He Caitou with Mental Shock, interrupting his Soul Cannon and leaving him vulnerable.
• Several Core Disciples attacked He Caitou, who became the first student eliminated.

Huo Yuhao and his group stayed unnoticed while the other students fought Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan in the selection tournament. After Huo Yuhao intervened to help the trio win, Wu Feng was eliminated, and the chapter ended with Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan as the final winners.

• Huo Yuhao formed a group with Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng, then used Spiritual Erosion and Spiritual Suggestion to keep their group off the other students’ radar.
• Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan fought the other teams as the students concentrated their attacks on the three Soul Ancestors.
• Huo Yuhao directed Ning Tian to free key students from control effects, keeping the battle balanced while his group remained at the arena’s edge.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu unleashed the Hell White Tiger, and Xu Sanshi used Darkwater Displacement to swap Beibei into its path as the fighters struggled to hold their ground.
• Huo Yuhao struck the Hell White Tiger with Mental Shock, eliminating Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, then sent his group to support the exhausted fighters.
• Wu Feng was quickly knocked out after charging into close combat, while Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao helped Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan defeat their remaining opponents.

Xuan Zi announced the free-for-all’s seven survivors as the victors and selected them as the Reserve Team for the next generation of Shrek Seven Monsters. After the students left, Ning Tian gave Huo Yuhao a black card containing 130,000 Gold Soul Coins, and he went to the cafeteria with Wang Dong.

• Xuan Zi had Xu Sanshi treated, declared Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, Ning Tian, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao the victors, and lectured the students about the dangers and sacrifices of Inner Court life.
• Xuan Zi announced that the seven survivors would be Reserve Team members for the next generation of Shrek Seven Monsters and ordered them to keep their status secret and train with him weekly.
• Beibei proposed ranking the Reserve Team members by age, and Huo Yuhao left after the group settled their order.
• Ning Tian thanked Huo Yuhao for the Selection Tournament and gave him a black card with 130,000 Gold Soul Coins as an investment in their future partnership.
• Wang Dong complained that she had a black card too, and Huo Yuhao invited her to the cafeteria, where she eagerly dragged him along.

Xuan Zi brought Shrek Academy’s tournament Main Team and Reserve Team together for introductions and a friendly match. Ma Xiaotao’s evil aura appeared close to a dangerous transformation, and the chapter ended with the teams chosen and a wager set before their sparring match.

• Xuan Zi introduced the seven Main Team competitors to the Reserve Team and explained their roles in the upcoming tournament.
• Huo Yuhao examined Ma Xiaotao and learned from Electrolux that her evil aura had saturated her power and could eventually affect her mind.
• Huo Yuhao assessed Gongyang Mo’s Rainbow Dragon Martial Soul and considered how its elemental abilities might help him overcome his own limitations.
• The Main Team and Reserve Team members introduced themselves, then Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng took turns selecting their sparring teams.
• Xuan Zi gave both teams ten minutes to prepare and wagered that the losing side would have to shout, “I am a pig.”

Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao’s teams planned their tactics before beginning a friendly match, while Xuan Zi worried about Ma Xiaotao’s growing isolation and the sinister energy within her. Ma Xiaotao overwhelmed Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng with her transformed Evil Fire Phoenix, leaving Dai Yueheng’s team at a severe disadvantage.

• Dai Yueheng assigned Xu Sanshi and Huo Yuhao to suppress Ling Luochen while the other teammates pressured Ma Xiaotao’s side.
• Ma Xiaotao claimed Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng as her opponents, while Gongyang Mo organized the others around supporting her.
• Xuan Zi reflected that Ma Xiaotao had changed since the Seagod Lake Incident and that sinister energy had penetrated deep into her body.
• Both teams charged into battle, and Ning Tian and Gongyang Mo strengthened Ma Xiaotao with their support abilities.
• Ma Xiaotao struck Dai Yueheng with her Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike and followed with Phoenix Cloud Piercing Strike, forcing Chen Zifeng to intervene and rescue him.
• Ma Xiaotao’s transformed Evil Fire Phoenix overwhelmed Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng, disrupting Dai Yueheng’s plan and putting his team on the back foot.