Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao’s team exploited Xu Sanshi’s displacement and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Erosion to eliminate Ling Luochen and weaken Beibei’s group, while Ma Xiaotao overwhelmed Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng. Ma Xiaotao then defeated the remaining fighters with Phoenix Meteor Shower, leaving only her and Huo Yuhao on the field as Xuan Zi wondered whether Huo Yuhao could turn the battle around.

• Ling Luochen nearly unleashed her Fifth Soul Skill after Xu Sanshi switched her into the enemy formation, but Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Erosion left her vulnerable to Xixi, who carried her off the field.
• Xu Sanshi switched places with Yao Haoxuan, whose soundwave attack disrupted Beibei, Jiang Nannan, and Wang Dong; Xixi eliminated Wang Dong, Gongyang Mo sent his enhancements to Ma Xiaotao, and Ning Tian and Gongyang Mo were taken off the field.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Suggestion to make Ma Xiaotao overlook him as she defeated Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng, leaving them absent from the battlefield.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower against Yao Haoxuan, Xu Sanshi, Xixi, and Xiao Xiao, and Xuan Zi rescued them after they suffered serious injuries.
• The flames faded, leaving only Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao on the field, with Ma Xiaotao nearly out of Soul Power and Xuan Zi watching to see whether Huo Yuhao could prevail.

Huo Yuhao withdrew from the friendly match after Ma Xiaotao’s team won, then prepared to travel with Shrek Academy’s teams to Star Luo City for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Soul Tournament. Before departure, the Reserve Team joined the Shrek Monitoring Group and received equipment Huo Yuhao judged dangerously inadequate.

• Huo Yuhao surrendered, and Xuan Zi declared Ma Xiaotao’s side the winner before canceling the second round and arranging care for the injured students.
• Xuan Zi announced that the students would leave for Star Luo City, while Huo Yuhao calibrated his Glazed Shield and warned Wang Dong not to rely on Xuan Zi for safety.
• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux about his recovering memories, but Electrolux said only scattered fragments had returned.
• Xuan Zi and Wang Yan led the students from Shrek Academy, and Xuan Zi persuaded the Reserve Team members to join the Shrek Monitoring Group.
• Wang Yan distributed Shrek Monitoring Group equipment and explained the mission, while Huo Yuhao criticized the conspicuous gear and its weak protection.

The Shrek group rushed to the Mingdou Mountain Range to investigate the Hand of Death Bandit Group, using borrowed Flying Soul Tools and military support from Dai Hao. After Huo Yuhao helped identify the bandits’ traces, the group found their hidden cave.

• Dai Yueheng borrowed outdated Flying Soul Tools from a Star Luo military camp, and Huo Yuhao examined his assigned tool and found its Soul Tool Core Arrays had been deliberately made inefficient.
• Xuan Zi dragged the Shrek group through the air to the military camp, where they met Dai Hao and received little useful intelligence about the bandits.
• Wang Yan ordered the group to search the Mingdou Mountain Range at night, with Dai Yueheng leading the operation and Wang Yan protecting the Reserve Team.
• Huo Yuhao spotted a recently broken tree branch and guided the group as Wang Yan deduced the bandits’ likely operating area.
• The Shrek group found the cave where the Hand of Death Bandit Group was hiding.

The Shrek Monitoring Group attacked the Hand of Death Bandit Group’s cave, where Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao slaughtered the bandits while Huo Yuhao detected Soul Power hidden in their corpses. The Death God's Emissary triggered the Corpse Explosion Technique, and Huo Yuhao shielded the Reserve Team as the cave filled with blasts and poisonous blood mist.

• Wang Yan assigned Dai Yueheng to lead the Main Team’s assault while he protected and commanded the Reserve Team.
• The teams entered the cave and found murdered bandits, displayed human skin, and infant corpses.
• Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao drove the bandits back while Huo Yuhao secretly intensified his Spiritual Erosion on Dai Yueheng and noticed sinister Soul Power inside the corpses.
• The Death God's Emissary revealed himself, and the surviving bandits fled as the corpses began to swell.
• Huo Yuhao activated the Glazed Shield around the Reserve Team before the corpses exploded and spread poisonous black blood mist.

Death God's Emissary's Corpse Explosion Technique killed Dai Yueheng and poisoned the Shrek teams, while Xuan Zi arrived too late to prevent the damage. Death God's Emissary escaped through an underground passage as Xuan Zi rescued the survivors and pursued him, leaving Huo Yuhao doubtful that the pursuit would succeed.

• The Corpse Explosion Technique poisoned the Main Team and killed Dai Yueheng, while the Reserve Team escaped the worst of the blast behind the Glazed Shield.
• Xuan Zi rushed into the cave, dispersed the remaining poisonous blood, and found the surviving Main Team members injured but alive.
• Huo Yuhao urged the Reserve Team to retreat, and Xuan Zi abandoned his attempt to capture Death God's Emissary when Dai Yueheng's corpse fragments began exploding again.
• Death God's Emissary triggered the second blast and escaped underground as the cave collapsed, forcing Xuan Zi to shield the group and carry them out.
• Xuan Zi ordered Wang Yan to care for the wounded and pursued Death God's Emissary, while Huo Yuhao suspected the Soul Tools and Corpse Slaves would help the fugitive evade him.

After Dai Yueheng’s death, Electrolux confronted Huo Yuhao about his coldly calculated choice to sacrifice him, then decided to observe Huo Yuhao longer before judging whether to pass on Necromancy. Xuan Zi returned from his failed pursuit, learned the team’s injuries, and took Yao Haoxuan back to Shrek Academy while Wang Yan led the others toward Star Luo City.

• Wang Yan treated the injured students while Ning Tian helped suppress their Corpse Poison, and Huo Yuhao rested as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm restored his Soul Power.
• Electrolux questioned Huo Yuhao about deliberately influencing Dai Yueheng toward death, and Huo Yuhao admitted he had chosen Dai Yueheng as a suitable sacrifice to limit the others’ injuries.
• Electrolux worried that Huo Yuhao’s indifference to life made him an uncertain heir to Necromancy, but he chose to observe him longer.
• Huo Yuhao resumed researching the Soul Tool Core Array until Sky Dream Ice Silkworm alerted him to new developments outside.
• Xuan Zi returned after failing to capture the Death God's Emissary, heard Wang Yan’s report on the students’ injuries, and ordered Wang Yan to take the team to Star Luo City.
• Xuan Zi took Yao Haoxuan back to Shrek Academy for treatment and promised to address the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and Dai Yueheng.

Mu En reprimanded Xuan Zi for the failed Shrek Monitoring Group mission that killed Dai Yueheng and seriously injured Yao Haoxuan, and warned that Shrek Academy had to adapt to the growing power of Soul Tools. Knowing he was near death, Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to make amends and promote cooperation between the academy’s departments, then left Shrek’s future in doubt.

• Xuan Zi returned Yao Haoxuan to Shrek Academy, where Inner Court healers stabilized his condition.
• Mu En rebuked Xuan Zi for neglecting his duties and causing Dai Yueheng’s death and Yao Haoxuan’s serious injury on a mission that should have been safe.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi that his injuries were nearly beyond suppression and warned that Shrek Academy could be destroyed if it failed to adapt to the Sun Moon Empire’s advances in Soul Tools.
• Mu En ordered Xuan Zi to apologize to Duke White Tiger, give the vacant Main Team positions to Reserve Team members, and encourage cooperation between the Martial Soul Department and Soul Engineering Department.
• Mu En also ordered Xuan Zi to compensate the Inner Court Disciple he had removed from the Main Team, and Xuan Zi left the Sea God Pavilion without further punishment.

After arriving in Star Luo City, Shrek Academy inspected the tournament venue and assessed the rival teams before Wang Yan assigned the Reserve Team to handle the early matches. Beibei began planning their opening battle while the Main Team focused on recovering, leaving the academy prepared for the tournament to begin.

• Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy group arrived in Star Luo City and observed the heavily guarded tournament plaza with Wang Yan.
• Xu Sanshi boasted that the Reserve Team could handle many opponents, while Beibei cautioned him against celebrating before they had fought.
• Wang Yan told Beibei that the Reserve Team would compete in the early elimination rounds, and that Beibei and Xu Sanshi would also fill vacancies in the Main Team during Team Battles.
• Ma Xiaotao stayed behind after the other Main Team members left to rest, while Beibei took charge of planning the Reserve Team's tactics.
• Beibei assigned Xu Sanshi to target the opposing captain with Darkwater Displacement and prepare to switch positions with Beibei.

Huo Yuhao completed a concealed Spiritual Suggestion skill to help hide his future purchase of the Gold of Life, while his cultivation advanced to level twenty-six. The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament opened in Star Luo City, and Shrek Academy prepared to face Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in the first match.

• Huo Yuhao finished constructing a Soul Power Circuit skill that could guide a target’s mind and make them forget a stretch of memory.
• Huo Yuhao’s cultivation reached level twenty-six, and he began considering preparations for his third soul ring after the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao inspected the tournament arena’s defensive Soul Tools and found that he could potentially reverse-control them and siphon their Soul Power.
• The Star Luo Emperor officially opened the tournament and announced that Shrek Academy would face Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in the first match.
• Wang Yan encouraged the nervous Reserve Team, while Huo Yuhao remained calm and the Heaven Spirit team entered the arena looking intimidated.

Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team faced Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in the tournament’s first elimination match, overcoming the crowd’s doubts about their youth and weaker Soul Ring lineup. Beibei awakened the Golden Holy Dragon’s power and unleashed Overlord’s Thunder Domain, forcing Heaven Spirit to surrender and leaving Shrek victorious.

• The referee explained the team battle rules, and both teams took their positions as spectators questioned why Shrek had fielded its Reserve Team.
• The Star Luo Emperor privately considered Dai Yueheng’s death and hoped Shrek would falter, while Beibei’s team resolved that they had to win.
• Xu Sanshi swapped places with Heaven Spirit’s captain, Huo Yuhao controlled him, and Ning Tian empowered Beibei and Jiang Nannan as they knocked the captain unconscious.
• Xu Sanshi held off the remaining opponents while Beibei’s lightning transformed into gold, awakening his Golden Holy Dragon bloodline.
• Beibei released Overlord’s Thunder Domain, paralyzing Heaven Spirit’s fighters until their teacher surrendered, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner.

After Beibei’s decisive victory showcased Shrek Academy’s strength, Huo Yuhao studied the bloodline technique behind Beibei’s Golden Holy Dragon stance and tried to reproduce its awakening process. He failed to find a safe path to a full transformation, but developed a low-cost Secret Technique he named Awakening Stance, which let him construct Soul Power Circuits instantly.

• Beibei’s Golden Holy Dragon strike defeated four Heaven Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy members, but left him severely weakened.
• Ma Rulong explained Beibei’s background and technique to Xiao Hongchen, who dismissed Beibei as an unworthy opponent while resolving to watch him.
• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Truth to analyze Beibei’s transformation and considered adapting the process to his own Body Martial Soul.
• After the tournament, Huo Yuhao modeled his martial soul in his Spiritual Sea and spent two days and three nights testing ways to trigger its awakening.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that a full transformation was too risky with his current Soul Power and Spiritual Power, but discovered a cheaper control-focused technique and named it Awakening Stance.

Wang Yan and Beibei prepared Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team for the Round Robin, arranging tactics and learning that Ning Tian had brought an arsenal of advanced Soul Tools. On the tournament’s fourth day, Xu Sanshi prepared to face Cloud Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy in an Individual Elimination Match while Huo Yuhao recorded the battle and focused on his Spiritual Sea.

• Wang Yan praised the Reserve Team’s first-round performance and handed Beibei responsibility for analyzing opponents and arranging tactics.
• Beibei explained the Round Robin format and assigned lineups for Individual Elimination and two-two-three matches, while warning the team to watch for Soul Tools.
• Ning Tian revealed dozens of third- and fourth-grade Soul Tools, including three Flying Soul Tools, and Beibei considered revising the team’s tactics around them.
• Shrek Academy drew Cloud Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy as its first Round Robin opponent and selected an Individual Elimination Match.
• Beibei sent Xu Sanshi to fight first, and Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to record the battle while entering his Spiritual Sea.

Xu Sanshi defeated Cloud Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy captain Situ Yu in the third match, forcing the academy to forfeit its remaining rounds. With Shrek’s matches finished for the day, Huo Yuhao prepared for the auction where the Gold of Life he sought would appear.

• Situ Yu challenged Xu Sanshi to an upright battle and promised Cloud Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy would forfeit its next four rounds if he lost.
• Situ Yu deployed Soul Tool Armor and Turret Tactics, bombarding Xu Sanshi as he approached behind his Darkwater Tortoise Shell Shield.
• Xu Sanshi used Propulsion Soul Tools to charge through the barrage and deflected Situ Yu’s Energy-Gathering Soul Cannon blast onto the arena’s protective shield.
• Xu Sanshi knocked Situ Yu off the platform with Darkwater Quake, and Situ Yu admitted defeat.
• Shrek Academy’s matches ended for the day, while Huo Yuhao began preparing for the auction where the Gold of Life would appear.

Wang Yan took the Reserve Team to an auction to introduce them to the growing role of Soul Tools, while Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Suggestion to keep the others from noticing his plan. He bought the Spirit Devouring Blade and, with Electrolux’s help, purified it, leaving the Gold of Life ready to bond with Huo Yuhao as Electrolux withdrew to rest.

• Wang Yan led the Reserve Team to an auction house and explained how Soul Tools had become common among competing academies; Wang Dong left for the hotel.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Suggestion to influence the group while Wang Yan bought several Soul Tools during the auction.
• Huo Yuhao bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and won the Spirit Devouring Blade, which contained Gold of Life and a damaged Evil Soul Master’s soul.
• Back at the hotel, Huo Yuhao allowed Electrolux to control his body and use Purifying Light to erase the remnant soul and cleanse the Spirit Devouring Blade.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao that possessing the Gold of Life would free him from needing a host, then told Huo Yuhao to keep the purified blade close while he rested.

Huo Yuhao used Electrolux’s Divine Sense to harmonize his life aura with the Gold of Life, strengthening his body and expanding his Spiritual Sea. He completed the Secondary Awakening of his Martial Soul, gaining a powerful new eye within his Spiritual Sea and a personal trump card.

• Huo Yuhao pressed the Soul Devouring Carving Knife to his brow as Electrolux guided the Gold of Life’s energy into his body and harmonized their life auras.
• The Gold of Life strengthened Huo Yuhao’s body to the standard of a Soul Ancestor and helped his Spiritual Sea expand as the carving knife entered it.
• Electrolux returned to his original form, promised to teach Huo Yuhao his recalled knowledge when he reached level fifty, and then departed through a cyan door of light.
• Huo Yuhao asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to guard him while he began the planned Secondary Awakening of his Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao endured intense pain as a golden phantom eye fused into his brow, leaving a black vertical line and a massive eye within his Spiritual Sea.

After completing his Gold-Grade Martial Soul Secondary Awakening, Huo Yuhao explored the Eye of Truth’s new powers and learned that it could analyze and decompose objects through an invisible phantom hand. He recovered the energy spent testing it and left with a major boost to his spiritual abilities, while wondering why the power resembled an image from Fullmetal Alchemist.

• Huo Yuhao returned from his Spiritual Sea and discovered that his senses and body had grown stronger, while absorbing his Second Soul Ring’s soul power had raised him to the Rank 30 bottleneck.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the golden phantom of his awakened Martial Soul, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was astonished that his Spiritual Power had reached the Tangible but Formless realm.
• Huo Yuhao used an invisible hand-like phantom to reduce Crimson Bloodwood heartwood to powder, then broke a glass cup into neat cubes while Sky Dream failed to perceive either action.
• Huo Yuhao realized the Eye of Truth could analyze structures and decompose objects according to his intent, with greater distance and complexity costing more Spiritual Power and Life Force.
• Huo Yuhao recovered the energy he had spent and named the awakened ability the Eye of Truth, while questioning its resemblance to the Gate of Truth from Fullmetal Alchemist.

Shrek Academy faced Thousand Spirits Advanced Soul Master Academy in a team battle, where the opposing team used four Psychic Shield defenders to protect Soul King Shen Ce and support his spear attack. Xu Sanshi survived Shen Ce’s strike and used Darkwater Displacement to swap places with him, leaving Shen Ce stunned as Beibei and Jiang Nannan closed in.

• Wang Yan warned Beibei that Thousand Spirits Advanced Soul Master Academy relied on a Soul King captain, two Control Type soul masters, and four coordinated Psychic Shield defenders.
• The referee announced a team battle, and both teams released their martial souls as Shrek advanced against the opponents’ shield wall.
• An Lengye used ice skills to slow Shrek’s charge, while Feiyu Yan combined fire-based support with Shen Ce’s Thousand Strike Spear.
• Huo Yuhao tracked the opponents’ techniques through Eye of Truth and Spiritual Detection as Shen Ce prepared his strongest attack behind the shields.
• Shen Ce pierced Xu Sanshi’s layered defenses and sent him flying, but Xu Sanshi endured the blow and used Darkwater Displacement to exchange places with him.
• Huo Yuhao’s Second Soul Ring lit as Shen Ce was stunned, and Beibei and Jiang Nannan used Propulsion Soul Tools to move in on him.

After Shrek Academy finished the Round Robin, Huo Yuhao used the tournament to study other factions’ Martial Souls and Soul Skills before attending Star Luo City’s Top Auction. The auction began without the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone or Snow Empress embryo, leaving Huo Yuhao curious about what would replace them.

• Huo Yuhao controlled Shen Ce, allowing Beibei and Jiang Nannan to knock him off the stage and secure Shrek Academy’s victory over Thousand Spirits Academy.
• Shrek Academy’s recovered Main Team members defeated Righteous Heaven Academy in the first two battles, seriously injuring its two strongest Soul Kings.
• During the remaining Round Robin matches, Ling Luochen and Xixi led Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan to quick victories while Huo Yuhao studied competitors’ Martial Souls and Soul Skills with the Eye of Truth.
• On the eve of the elimination rounds, Wang Yan led Shrek Academy’s group to the Starlight Auction House, where Qing Ya guided them into Auction Hall Number One.
• Xu Jiujiu opened the Top Auction, and Huo Yuhao noted that its usual Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and Snow Empress embryo were absent when the next item was presented.

Xu Jiujiu presented an External Soul Bone believed to come from an ancient ice dragon, revealing its Ultimate Ice power and deadly fusion requirements. Xuan Zi urged Shrek Academy to acquire it for Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao, as the auction prepared to begin.

• Xu Jiujiu introduced the eighth auction item as an External Soul Bone that could grow with its wielder and could not be passed down after death.
• Xu Jiujiu said the bone came from an ice-attributed Dragon-kin Soul Beast and that its Dragon's Might had suppressed a Soul Sage with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
• Xuan Zi secretly entered Shrek Academy's auction room after sensing the bone's Ultimate Ice aura and declared that Shrek must win it to help Ma Xiaotao and potentially elevate Ling Luochen's ice abilities.
• Xu Jiujiu warned that the bone's ancient Dragon's Might and powerful ice attribute made fusion dangerous, with ordinary Soul Masters below Soul Sage unable to establish a connection.
• Xu Jiujiu gave the guests ten minutes to examine the bone before bidding began, and the attendees considered how to gather enough funds.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm identified the Ice Dragon External Soul Bone’s dangerous requirements, but Shrek Academy won it for fifty-nine million Gold Soul Coins. The auction then revealed its finale: a living Fire Dragon egg, which led Huo Yuhao to suspect both treasures came from the Dragon Tomb hidden on an overseas continent.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that only someone with Ultimate Ice and Pure Dragon Aura could safely absorb the Ice Dragon External Soul Bone.
• Shrek Academy, the Star Luo Empire, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy competed for the Soul Bone, and Shrek Academy won it for fifty-nine million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu unveiled a living Fire Dragon egg preserved inside a massive crimson crystal as the auction’s finale item.
• Huo Yuhao connected the dragon egg and the ancient Soul Bone to the Dragon Tomb, and recognized the overseas continent that held it as a possible destination for future exploration.
• Xu Jiujiu described the egg’s preservation crystal and its potential value, then opened thirty minutes of viewing time before bidding began.