Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Huabin with a killing-intent attack, though the backlash left him unable to use his domain again for a while. As Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu began the Hell White Tiger fusion, the match was poised to continue against Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.

• Huo Yuhao explained that he had focused the Nine Nether Prison around himself to blunt Dai Huabin's attack, suffering severe Spiritual Power backlash in the process.
• Wang Dong reached Huo Yuhao and guarded him while Zhu Lu found Dai Huabin gravely wounded by Huo Yuhao's killing-intent blade.
• Dai Huabin refused to concede despite his injuries, while Huo Yuhao's victory astonished Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's Soul Power surged as they activated the Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xuan Zi warned that the fusion skill could overwhelm Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, while the chapter revealed that it might interrupt the killing intent spreading through Dai Huabin's body.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong fused their Soul Power, and Huo Yuhao formed a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to crush Dai Huabin’s Hell White Tiger. The clash triggered a heavenly tribulation that devastated the arena, but a Golden Giant Dragon destroyed the clouds and saved the survivors before Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong collapsed.

• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu fused into the Hell White Tiger, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong joined hands to unleash a Martial Soul Fusion.
• Huo Yuhao used their fused Soul Power, his Spiritual Power, and his killing intent to form a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger rather than use a conventional fusion skill.
• Huo Yuhao’s tiger gained a trace of divine presence, summoning tribulation clouds that alarmed the Ghost Demon Venerable and Di Tian.
• Huo Yuhao sent the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger crashing into the Hell White Tiger as heavenly lightning struck the arena, shattering Dai Huabin’s bones and destroying the fusion.
• A Golden Giant Dragon destroyed the tribulation clouds, absorbed the lightning, and protected Dai Huabin’s heart meridians before vanishing.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong collapsed from exhaustion, leaving the arena in silence.

Huo Yuhao woke after nearly a week unconscious and learned that Mu En had stopped a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation after he created a Soul Beast unlike anything on Douluo Continent. He resolved not to use the dangerous move again and learned that Dai Huabin had survived but might be crippled.

• Huo Yuhao woke in the infirmary and found Wang Dong asleep beside him.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that he had been unconscious for almost a week after their battle with Dai Huabin.
• Wang Dong recounted that a Golden Giant Dragon scattered the storm clouds before Dean Yan and the others carried them away for treatment by Elder Zhuang.
• Huo Yuhao realized the dragon was Mu En and suspected the Heavenly Tribulation had struck because he created a Gu World Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao decided not to use the move again until he understood its danger, then asked Wang Dong about Dai Huabin.
• Wang Dong said Dai Huabin had been saved but might be crippled.

Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Huabin had been crippled by his injuries and privately welcomed the news as revenge for his mother's suffering. After Huo Yuhao woke, Yan Shaozhe summoned him and Wang Dong and apologized for the disaster in the Soul Fighting Zone.

• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that Dai Huabin's Martial Soul source and meridians had been destroyed, leaving him unable to advance beyond Soul Elder.
• Wang Dong explained that the White Tiger Duchess had confronted Shrek Academy, which compensated her with rare resources and special admission spots before she left.
• Huo Yuhao dismissed Dai Huabin's suffering as deserved and privately vowed to settle his blood debt with the White Tiger Duchess and her son.
• A teacher escorted the recovered Huo Yuhao to Yan Shaozhe's office, and Wang Dong accompanied him.
• Yan Shaozhe apologized to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong for what had happened in the Soul Fighting Zone.

Yan Shaozhe apologized to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong for the dangerous assessment, then brought them to meet his teacher, Mu En. Wang Dong discovered that the legendary expert really was the old gatekeeper she had just bet Huo Yuhao about.

• Yan Shaozhe accepted responsibility for the life-threatening free-for-all and apologized to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that he was taking them to meet his teacher, the pillar of Shrek Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe led Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong across Sea God Lake toward Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao bet Wang Dong that Yan Shaozhe's teacher would look like the old gatekeeper outside their dormitory, and Wang Dong accepted.
• Yan Shaozhe brought them into Sea God Pavilion, where Wang Dong saw that Mu En was indeed the old gatekeeper.

Mu En praised Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong for their performance in the Soul Fighting Zone, then offered to take Huo Yuhao as his disciple. Huo Yuhao accepted, deciding he would deal with Ghost Demon Venerable's reaction later.

• Wang Dong recognized the old dorm supervisor as Dragon God Douluo Mu En and realized she had lost her bet with Huo Yuhao.
• Mu En sent Yan Shaozhe out so he could speak privately with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong.
• Mu En reassured the two that the academy would take responsibility for the incident and praised their performance.
• Mu En told Huo Yuhao that the Outer Academy teachers could no longer teach him and asked him to become his disciple.
• Huo Yuhao considered whether Ghost Demon Venerable would object, then bowed to Mu En and accepted him as his teacher.

Mu En took Huo Yuhao as his closing-door disciple, and Wang Dong persuaded him to take her as his locking-door disciple so they would not be separated. He sent them to move to Sea God Island and told Huo Yuhao the academy would help him obtain a suitable Second Soul Ring.

• Mu En accepted Huo Yuhao as his closing-door disciple, and Huo Yuhao felt pleased that he had gotten some revenge on the Ghost Demon Venerable.
• Wang Dong worried that she would be separated from Huo Yuhao, then asked Mu En to take her as a disciple too.
• Wang Dong proposed becoming Mu En's locking-door disciple, and Mu En accepted her.
• Mu En told both disciples to leave Outer Academy classes, pack their things, and move to Sea God Island.
• Mu En told Huo Yuhao that he had reached the level-twenty bottleneck and offered academy help finding his Second Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao agreed to let Shrek Academy find him a suitable Spirit-type Soul Beast for his next Soul Ring, while Mu En warned him to avoid the Star Dou Great Forest because its powerful inhabitants were searching for the source of the disturbance he had caused. Xuan Zi left to find a top-quality Soul Beast as punishment, as Di Tian prepared to investigate Shrek himself.

• Huo Yuhao accepted Mu En's offer to arrange a Soul Beast hunt and learned that he must stay away from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xuan Zi confessed his remorse to Mu En, who ordered him to find Huo Yuhao a top-quality Spirit-type Soul Beast and travel alone.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji that an unusual aura from Shrek threatened the future of the Soul Beast Clan and vowed to uncover what the academy was hiding.

At a restaurant celebration, Wang Dong learned that Elder Mu was Bei Bei’s great-grandfather, while Xu Sanshi tried to use Huo Yuhao’s new status to gain an advantage with Ma Xiaotao. Huo Yuhao left after Ghost Demon Venerable awakened, and Dai Yueheng told Dai Huabin that he would be sent back to the Star Luo Empire after the year ended, leaving Dai Huabin alone and furious at Huo Yuhao.

• Xu Sanshi arrived at the restaurant dejected after Jiang Nannan rejected him, and Wang Dong proudly announced that she and Huo Yuhao had entered the Inner Academy and become Elder Mu’s disciples.
• Tang Ya told Wang Dong that Elder Mu was Bei Bei’s great-grandfather, and Xu Sanshi realized Huo Yuhao was Ma Xiaotao’s uncle-master and asked to join the Tang Sect.
• Tang Ya threatened to tell Ma Xiaotao about Xu Sanshi’s scheme, then Bei Bei asked about the commotion in the Soul Fighting Zone as Wang Dong began recounting it.
• Ghost Demon Venerable awakened in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, so Huo Yuhao excused himself and went to an empty restroom stall.
• Dai Yueheng slapped Dai Huabin, blamed him for damaging the White Tiger Duke Mansion’s standing, and told him not to provoke Huo Yuhao, Elder Mu’s disciple.
• Dai Yueheng said Dai Huabin would return to the Star Luo Empire after the year ended, and Dai Huabin was left alone, bitterly hating Huo Yuhao.

Ghost Demon Venerable gave Huo Yuhao the Soul Beast Refining Method, while Huo Yuhao suspected the gift concealed an ulterior motive. As the Treasure Appreciation Fair approached, Ma Xiaotao persuaded Yan Shaozhe to pay for her and Huo Yuhao to attend.

• Ghost Demon Venerable praised Huo Yuhao's killing-intent technique and gave him a revised Soul Beast Refining Method to study.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the private room, where Wang Dong and the others discussed Xu Sanshi's failed visit to Jiang Nannan and the upcoming Treasure Appreciation Fair.
• Bei Bei explained that the annual fair offered rare treasures to academy core disciples, who could use a credit limit to shop.
• Over the next week, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong settled into Inner Academy life, and Ma Xiaotao visited Huo Yuhao nearly every day to ease her Evil Fire.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Yan Shaozhe to take her and Huo Yuhao to the fair, then got him to hand over his Gold Card to cover their expenses.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ma Xiaotao visited the Treasure Pavilion’s Treasure Appreciation Fair, where Sky Dream Ice Silkworm identified a piece labeled as Thousand Year Whale Rubber as a rare ten-thousand-year specimen. The chapter left Ma Xiaotao surprised as Huo Yuhao told her what they had found.

• Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to the Treasure Pavilion with Yan Shaozhe’s gold card, while Xu Sanshi fled after running into her.
• The three entered the pavilion, met its master Elder Lin, and received permission to browse the second floor at half price.
• Huo Yuhao asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to search the exhibits for something valuable.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spotted a black crystal labeled Thousand Year Whale Rubber and identified it as Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that the displayed Whale Rubber was ten thousand years old, and she asked whether he was sure.

At the Treasure Pavilion, Ma Xiaotao bought Whale Rubber and Wang Dong chose a Soul Bone while Huo Yuhao quietly made plans after noticing Dai Huabin’s killing intent. Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong left the pavilion and drew six hidden assassins into pursuit, with Huo Yuhao revealing that he had deliberately set a trap.

• Ma Xiaotao bought the Whale Rubber after hearing about its effects, and Wang Dong persuaded her to buy a Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone.
• Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin met Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ma Xiaotao at the pavilion entrance, and Dai Huabin glared at Huo Yuhao with killing intent.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Dai Huabin’s hostility and led Wang Dong and Ma Xiaotao back inside to buy more things.
• Ma Xiaotao left the pavilion alone, then Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong departed toward the outskirts of Shrek City.
• Six masked assassins emerged from hiding and moved to intercept Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, while Huo Yuhao recognized that his bait had been taken.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were ambushed by five Soul Kings and a Soul Emperor, but used a Mist Bomb and their Spiritual Detection Sharing to strike back. They unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Golden Road, and deprived the weakest assassin of his Martial Soul.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong sensed six assassins closing in and prepared to use a Mist Bomb Huo Yuhao had bought at the Treasure Pavilion.
• Five Soul Kings and a Soul Emperor ambushed them in a secluded alley, so Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong fused their Soul Power and charged toward the weakest Soul King.
• Huo Yuhao threw the Mist Bomb, filling the alley with fog that blocked the assassins' senses while Spiritual Detection Sharing let him and Wang Dong track their targets.
• The weakest Soul King detected killing intent, turned, and attacked the empty fog, leaving himself open to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's Golden Road.
• Golden Road struck the Soul King, dispelled his Martial Soul, and extinguished his Soul Rings, giving Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong an opening to attack.

Huo Yuhao killed a Soul King with the Ghost Killing Art and discovered that taking a life strengthened his cultivation. As the remaining assassins attacked, a fiery figure descended from the sky to intervene.

• Huo Yuhao ended the Golden Road fusion and used Nine Nether Prison and Ghost Killing Art to cut open the Soul King's throat and chest.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed killing intent from the corpse and blood, restoring his Soul Power and spiritual power as the Ghost Killing Art surged.
• The assassins cleared the fog and saw Huo Yuhao shielding Wang Dong beside their dead companion; Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered to take over, but Huo Yuhao refused.
• The Soul Emperor ordered the four remaining assassins to attack Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong together.
• Huo Yuhao said they could not get away, and a rain of meteors fell on the assassins as a fiery-winged figure swooped down and shouted, "How dare you!"

Ma Xiaotao rescued Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong from an ambush, and Huo Yuhao killed the captured assassin without questioning him. At the Treasure Pavilion, Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin saw the bloodied trio return, and Dai Huabin realized the assassination had failed.

• Ma Xiaotao attacked the assassins and killed or incapacitated them, then asked Huo Yuhao what to do with their Soul Emperor leader.
• Huo Yuhao refused to question the captured Soul Emperor and killed him, then left with Ma Xiaotao and Wang Dong.
• Dai Yueheng left the Treasure Pavilion with a Soul Bone and noticed Dai Huabin acting suspiciously.
• Dai Huabin waited for word that Huo Yuhao had been killed by the assassins he hired.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Ma Xiaotao appeared bloodied at the end of the street, horrifying Dai Huabin and alarming Dai Yueheng.

Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Huabin at the Treasure Pavilion while Ma Xiaotao accused the Dai brothers of arranging an ambush. Lin Huiqun restrained Dai Yueheng, but Huo Yuhao said his attack on Dai Huabin was unrelated to the assassins, leaving the brothers stunned.

• Dai Yueheng pretended to be concerned about Huo Yuhao and denied Ma Xiaotao's accusation that he and Dai Huabin had sent assassins after him.
• Huo Yuhao punched Dai Huabin and knocked him down, while Ma Xiaotao stopped Dai Yueheng from intervening.
• Lin Huiqun arrived, heard Ma Xiaotao report the ambush, and immobilized Dai Yueheng with her power.
• Dai Yueheng swore that neither brother had arranged the attack and pleaded for Lin Huiqun to believe him.
• Huo Yuhao told Lin Huiqun he had attacked Dai Huabin simply because he disliked him, leaving Dai Yueheng confused and Dai Huabin terrified.

Huo Yuhao concealed his knowledge of Dai Huabin’s role in the attack and planted a Soul Seed in him, intending to make him suffer personally. Two months later, the Sea God Pavilion convened over Xuan Zi’s disappearance while the investigation into the attack remained fruitless.

• Dai Huabin realized Huo Yuhao knew he was behind the attack, but stayed silent after Dai Yueheng warned him not to endanger the family.
• Huo Yuhao denied knowing who had tried to kill him, and Lin Huiqun warned the Dai brothers that she would report the matter to the Sea God Pavilion.
• On the way back, Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong and Ma Xiaotao that he planned to torment Dai Huabin himself, revealing that he had planted a Soul Seed in Dai Huabin’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that either Dai Huabin and the White Tiger bloodline would live, or he would.
• Two months later, Yan Shaozhe attended an emergency Sea God Pavilion meeting, where the elders faced Xuan Zi’s disappearance and an investigation that had found no clues about Huo Yuhao’s attacker.

Mu En told the Sea God Pavilion Elders that Xuan Zi had been missing for two months and suspected the Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest were involved. As the Elders prepared to search for him, Mu En sensed that the Ferocious Beasts had arrived.

• Cai Mei'er and the other Elders questioned Mu En about Xuan Zi's disappearance, and Mu En said Xuan Zi had vanished while hunting a Soul Ring for Yu Hao.
• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei'er tried to reassure Mu En, while Xian Lin'er volunteered to search for Xuan Zi with Qian Duoduo.
• Yan Shaozhe argued against sending Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo, warning that Xuan Zi's disappearance might be a plot against Shrek.
• Mu En said Soul Beasts, likely the Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, were the most likely cause of Xuan Zi's disappearance.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed asking the three great nations to search for Xuan Zi and then contacting the Ferocious Beasts if needed.
• Mu En stopped the Elders as they prepared to leave and announced that the Ferocious Beasts had come.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong rushed to Shrek City’s southern wall after a massive beast tide appeared from the Star Dou Great Forest. The Soul Beasts halted before the city and threw a bloodied, barely conscious Xuan Zi before Shrek’s defenders.

• Huo Yuhao suspected the sudden darkness and oppressive weather signaled a beast tide, and he and Wang Dong hurried to the southern wall after Yan Shaozhe summoned the Inner Academy disciples.
• Shi Xing reported that tens of thousands of Soul Beasts had appeared without warning and that Shrek City’s defenses were fully activated.
• Yan Shaozhe and the other Sea God Pavilion elders arrived at the wall and realized the approaching force was no ordinary Soul Beast riot.
• The Soul Beast army parted to let Xiong Jun approach, and Xiong Jun threw a battered man onto the ground before the city.
• Xian Lin'er recognized the bloodied man as Xuan Zi.

Xuan Zi appeared gravely injured in Xiong Jun’s custody, and the Soul Beast army threatened Shrek City over an alleged attack on the Auspicious Beast. As Xiong Jun moved to kill Xuan Zi, Mu En’s golden light stopped him, and Mu En called out to the Beast God.

• Shi Xing learned from Qian Duoduo that Mu En suspected Xuan Zi had provoked the Soul Beast tide by entering the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiong Jun struck the weakened Xuan Zi and accused Shrek City of sending someone into the forest’s core territory to attack the Auspicious Beast.
• Yan Shaozhe and Lin Huiqun suspected the Star Dou Great Forest was using Xuan Zi’s actions as an excuse, while Huo Yuhao wondered whether the incident involved the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and him.
• Xiong Jun threatened to start a war and raised his paw to kill Xuan Zi when Shrek City did not answer.
• Mu En spread a golden barrier over Shrek City, stopped Xiong Jun’s attack, and asked the Beast God why he was taking things so far.