Chapter Summaries

Shen Yi reported the clash that left Cai Yue'er unconscious, and Long Yeyue demanded an explanation from the Sea God Pavilion elders. Yun Ming calmed the dispute and turned to negotiations over entry to Universe Asking Love Valley, where a mysterious woman arrived with a request for him.

• Shen Yi reported that Cai Yue'er had attacked Spirit Ice and Yuanen Yehui, and that the clash had destroyed the assessment site without injuring students.
• Long Yeyue pressured Shen Yi and Zhuo Shi to explain Cai Yue'er's injuries, while Ya Li explained that Spirit Ice had acted in self-defense using his powerful spiritual abilities.
• Yun Ming told Long Yeyue that Cai Yue'er had been at fault and urged her not to create an enemy for Shrek Academy.
• Ya Li reported that Heavenly Phoenix Douluo and Dark Phoenix Douluo had tentatively agreed to provide Shrek with places in Universe Asking Love Valley for the God Trial.
• A woman in a dark purple phoenix-feather robe entered and asked Yun Ming to send a strand of his divine sense to Universe Asking Love Valley.

Leng Yulai agreed to help Shrek Academy in exchange for a divine-consciousness strand from Yun Ming, while Dai Yun'er and the others escorted Yuanen Yehui to her impoverished dorm. Yuanen hurried to leave for her waitress job, but Na Nali told her the academy had approved substantial compensation.

• Leng Yulai mocked Long Yeyue, then accepted Yun Ming's agreement to her condition for helping Shrek Academy.
• Yun Ming sat in the Golden Ancient Tree's innermost room and worried over the academy's legacy as destruction and life energies remained in balance beneath him.
• Dai Yun'er, Na Nali, Wu Sidu, and Huo Yuhao brought Yuanen Yehui to her bare work-study dorm, where Dai Yun'er protested her living conditions.
• Yuanen Yehui changed into her waitress uniform and rushed to work, fearing she would lose a day's wages and food money if she was late.
• Na Nali told Yuanen Yehui that the academy had approved about one hundred thousand contribution points, rare metals, and a month's unrestricted access to the advanced Mimicry Cultivation Ground.

Yuanen Yehui learned that the academy would award her one hundred thousand contribution points, while Huo Yuhao’s companions competed for his attention at a beverage shop. Gu Yue sensed an impossibly powerful dragon bloodline from Huo Yuhao and asked him to remove the spiritual domain concealing his appearance.

• Na Nali confirmed Yuanen Yehui would receive one hundred thousand contribution points and dismissed Dai Yun'er’s demand for compensation.
• Dai Yun'er asked to stay in Huo Yuhao’s dorm, and Wu Sidu suggested spending nights there to discuss Battle Armor.
• Yuanen Yehui watched Dai Yun'er and Wu Sidu order expensive drinks at her shop and recommended a matcha Bingbing for Huo Yuhao.
• Xu Xiaoyan brought Gu Yue into the shop, took the seat Yuanen Yehui had hoped to claim beside Huo Yuhao, and crowded him into the booth.
• Gu Yue sensed that Huo Yuhao’s dragon bloodline seemed purer than her own and asked him to remove the spiritual domain covering his appearance.

Huo Yuhao revealed his true appearance by lowering his Mental Interference Domain, intensifying Wu Sidu and Dai Yun'er’s attraction to him and deepening Gu Yue’s suspicions about his Golden Dragon Bloodline. Meanwhile, Yue Zhengyu mistook Huo Yuhao for an Evil Soul Master and headed over to confront him.

• Huo Yuhao lowered his Mental Interference Domain enough for Wu Sidu, Xu Xiaoyan, and Dai Yun'er to see the full force of his appearance, while Gu Yue noticed his powerful Golden Dragon Bloodline.
• Wu Sidu and Dai Yun'er competed to feed Huo Yuhao cake, Xu Xiaoyan realized she had overlooked his attractiveness, and Gu Yue considered leaving questions to Di Tian.
• Yue Zhengyu told Yuanen Yehui that he sensed an Evil Soul Master at the café and pointed out Huo Yuhao as his suspect.
• Yuanen Yehui rejected Yue Zhengyu’s claim and returned to the counter, while Uncle Sun warned him that an Evil Soul Master was unlikely to be in Shrek’s inner city.
• Yue Zhengyu insisted his senses were right, stood up, and strode toward Huo Yuhao’s table.

Huo Yuhao questioned Yue Zhengyu about the Angel Family’s forbidden trial land after revealing his own Purification Power, but Yue could not identify the mysterious God of Angels. Huo Yuhao postponed investigating the forbidden land until he was stronger, while Ya Li warned Leng Yulai not to target him with the trials in Universe Asking Love Valley.

• Yue Zhengyu approached Huo Yuhao to make his acquaintance, but Wu Sidu and Dai Yun'er ordered him to leave when Xu Xiaoyan teased him about his intentions.
• Huo Yuhao showed Yue Zhengyu his Purification Power and invited him to speak privately, leaving Yue shocked that someone outside the Holy Angel Family could wield it.
• Leng Yulai told Ya Li that she had sent a strand of Yun Ming’s divine consciousness into Universe Asking Love Valley to generate Psychic Power, and Ya Li warned her not to set trials for Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao asked Yue Zhengyu about the Angel Family’s Land of God Trials and the identity of the God of Angels, but Yue admitted he did not know.
• Huo Yuhao decided to delay visiting the Angel Forbidden Land until he had forged his Four-Word Battle Armor, then left after saying he might visit the Holy Angel Family’s headquarters later.

Yuanen Yehui visited Huo Yuhao’s villa to discuss her Battle Armor designs, where Dai Yun’er and Wu Sidu’s rivalry over the master bedroom made her uneasy and Huo Yuhao’s appearance flustered her. Huo Yuhao then reviewed Yuanen’s blueprints and began simplifying their complex design for the three girls to learn from.

• Yue Zhengyu decided to report Huo Yuhao’s Purification Power and their conversation to his grandfather.
• Yuanen Yehui arrived at Huo Yuhao’s villa and found Dai Yun’er and Wu Sidu there; Dai Yun’er claimed she had won a bet over the master bedroom.
• Yuanen Yehui became flustered when Huo Yuhao emerged from his bath, then shared her Battle Armor blueprints with Wu Sidu and Dai Yun’er.
• Huo Yuhao teased Dai Yun’er for eating his snacks, then invited all three girls to learn from Yuanen’s designs.
• Huo Yuhao identified flaws in Yuanen’s complicated blueprints and began revising them into a simpler, more effective design.

Huo Yuhao explained that Yuanen Yehui’s Twin Martial Souls made ordinary One-Word Battle Armor a poor fit, then offered to supply Spirit Alloy and make her armor in exchange for an IOU. Yuanen accepted his offer to use the highest-quality alloy, leaving herself with a potentially enormous debt but a stronger chance of entering Shrek Academy’s Inner Court.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Twin Martial Soul Soul Masters faced problems designing One-Word Battle Armor and that Spirit Alloy could provide better compatibility.
• Yuanen Yehui admitted she had avoided Spirit Alloy because she could not afford it, while Wu Sidu recognized that she faced a similar difficulty.
• Dai Yun'er urged Huo Yuhao to help Yuanen Yehui and joked that he could make any improper request of her instead.
• Huo Yuhao offered to supply Spirit Alloy at cost, redesign and make Yuanen Yehui’s Battle Armor, and let her repay him later with an IOU.
• Huo Yuhao proposed using Spirit Alloy with the highest possible fusion rate, and Yuanen Yehui agreed despite the prospect of taking on a massive debt.

Huo Yuhao tutored Dai Yun'er, Wu Sidu, and Yuanen Yehui late into the night, then let the girls stay at his villa. The next morning, he took Dai Yun'er and Wu Sidu to class, where Xu Xiaoyan began suspecting a secret between them.

• Huo Yuhao made Dai Yun'er stay for design lessons and invited Wu Sidu and Yuanen Yehui to learn with them.
• After the lesson ended late, Dai Yun'er persuaded Yuanen Yehui and Huo Yuhao to let everyone stay overnight at the villa.
• Dai Yun'er teased Huo Yuhao beneath the covers the next morning, while he got up to prepare breakfast.
• Huo Yuhao's breakfast impressed Wu Sidu, and she and Dai Yun'er bickered as they headed to class with him.
• Shen Yi greeted Huo Yuhao and checked the students' seating, while Xu Xiaoyan wondered why Wu Sidu and Wu Yun'er had arrived with him.

Ya Li announced that fourteen places at Universe Asking Love Valley would be decided through a competition between the first- and second-year students, and Shen Yi organized a free-for-all to choose Freshman Class 1’s leaders. As the students entered the simulation, Ya Li told Huo Yuhao she could take him to meet God Craftsman Zhen Hua, then asked what he thought of the world ten thousand years later.

• Ya Li entered Freshman Class 1 with transfer students Xinglan and Lizhi, then announced the Sea God Pavilion’s plan to award fourteen Universe Asking Love Valley places through a competition in three months.
• Shen Yi explained that the new students could compete with the second-years and announced a free-for-all to select the class monitor and vice monitors.
• Xu Xiaoyan suggested that she, Gu Yue, and Wu Sidu team up, while Gu Yue considered using Universe Asking Love Valley to unseal part of her origin and seize the God of Love’s Celestial Spirit Qi.
• Shen Yi led the students to the Grand Martial Practice Field, where they entered simulation pods for the virtual forest free-for-all.
• Ya Li told Huo Yuhao that she could take him to Ming Capital to meet God Craftsman Zhen Hua, then asked what he thought of the world ten thousand years later.

Huo Yuhao discussed the Soul Beast crisis, the Golden Ancient Tree’s caution, and his plan to use the Vast Ocean Universe Crystal to return the ocean’s authority to the Plane. As Ye Xinglan’s overwhelming attack eliminated many students in the class-monitor trial, Ya Li asked Huo Yuhao to guide her, and he agreed.

• Huo Yuhao blamed the Soul Spirit Contract and the Spirit Pagoda’s artificial Soul Spirit research for worsening the decline of Soul Beasts, while Ya Li reminded him he had done what he could.
• Ya Li told Huo Yuhao that Elder Jin had admitted sheltering Tang San’s mother but would not reveal their conversation to the Blue Silver Emperor, and Huo Yuhao concluded Elder Jin was avoiding choosing sides.
• Huo Yuhao decided he needed the Vast Ocean Universe Crystal to release the ocean’s bound authority, but Ya Li warned that borrowing it would alert Long Yeyue.
• Shen Yi reported that sixty students remained in the virtual space, where Dai Yun’er and the others were transported into a crowded forest clearing.
• Ye Xinglan accepted Xu Lizhi’s Bloodthirsty Red Bean Bun and unleashed Sword Star Fall, eliminating nearly ten students with the storm of sword energy.
• Ya Li asked Huo Yuhao to guide Ye Xinglan away from blindly pursuing an invincible path, and Huo Yuhao agreed as Ye Xinglan’s attack left the remaining students stunned.

Ye Xinglan fought off a chaotic assault in the virtual space until her Bloodthirsty Red Bean Bun enhancement expired, then eliminated herself before Wang Jinxi could defeat her. Gu Yue, Dai Yun'er, Xu Xiaoyan, and Wu Sidu emerged from hiding to face the few remaining students, leaving their team poised to win.

• Yang Nianxia rallied the surviving students to attack Ye Xinglan, but she pierced through his Dark Gold Bear defense and eliminated him with one strike.
• Gu Yue maintained oxygen in the underground hiding place and explained that the four teammates would wait until the battle above had nearly exhausted their opponents.
• Xie Xie and Wang Jinxi attacked Ye Xinglan together, but she defeated Xie Xie and escaped Wang Jinxi's bone dragon claw as her enhancement wore off.
• Ye Xinglan pierced herself with the Stargod Sword and disappeared from the virtual space before Wang Jinxi could kill her.
• Xu Xiaoyan's group emerged, and Dai Yun'er used Soul Shock to knock Wang Jinxi unconscious and eliminate him.
• Dai Yun'er told Xu Xiaoyan she would need to kill herself once only their four teammates remained, but Xu Xiaoyan said she would surrender instead.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated several perfected Sword God paths to Ye Xinglan and offered to guide her toward a path of her own, leaving her intrigued and considering his proposal. After the simulation matches, Shen Yi named the class leaders and vocational committee members, then dismissed the other students.

• Ye Xinglan approached Huo Yuhao after speaking with Ya Li and asked whether he could help her advance toward the Sword God realm.
• Huo Yuhao showed Ye Xinglan several different Sword Intents and explained that copying a path would only make her an imitation of herself; he invited her to decide whether she wanted to learn from him.
• Xu Lizhi watched Huo Yuhao touch Ye Xinglan's shoulder and grew anxious, while Ye Xinglan remained behind, newly inspired by the demonstration.
• Shen Yi appointed Gu Yue as class monitor, with Wu Sidu and Wu Yun'er as assistant class monitors.
• Shen Yi named Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Wu Sidu, and Yang Nianxia to the design, production, repair, and forging committee positions, respectively.
• Shen Yi told the class leaders and committee members to stay and collect their registration forms, then dismissed the remaining students.

Xu Lizhi secretly followed Ye Xinglan to Huo Yuhao’s villa, fearing she had gone to meet him, while Huo Yuhao tutored Dai Yun’er, Wu Sidu, and Yuanen Yehui. Ye Xinglan arrived seeking what she believed was secret sword instruction, and Huo Yuhao learned that female students had voted him the academy’s new male idol.

• Xu Lizhi saw Ye Xinglan leave the dormitory late at night and followed her toward the teachers’ residential area.
• Huo Yuhao discussed Dai Yun’er and Wu Sidu’s team, their lack of a Blacksmith, and their plans to use Spirit Alloy for Battle Armor.
• Dai Yun’er and Wu Sidu asked Huo Yuhao to supply Spirit Alloy, but he told them to complete their Battle Armor designs first.
• Ye Xinglan arrived at Huo Yuhao’s villa, explaining that she had mistaken his earlier pat on her shoulder for an invitation to receive secret sword instruction.
• Ye Xinglan told Huo Yuhao that his academy ID photograph had made him popular on the internal forum and that female students had chosen him as the new male idol.
• Dai Yun’er clung to Huo Yuhao and asked Ye Xinglan why the Female Killing God had come to his villa in the middle of the night.

Ye Xinglan asked Huo Yuhao to assess her Star God Sword Intent, so he arranged a nighttime team battle where the girls could attack him using only his domain. Dai Yun'er recruited Xu Xiaoyan to help the team land a single hit, and the chapter ended as Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Wheel Ice Staff drained her Soul Power to immobilize Huo Yuhao briefly.

• Ye Xinglan asked Huo Yuhao to watch her swordsmanship and guide her cultivation, while Dai Yun'er misunderstood her intentions and protested.
• Huo Yuhao prepared the arena and offered to fight using only his domain as Ye Xinglan and the others planned their attack.
• Dai Yun'er called Xu Xiaoyan as reinforcements and explained that the team needed Ye Xinglan’s sword to touch Huo Yuhao once.
• The five girls formed up and launched their attack, with Wu Sidu and Dai Yun'er charging while Yuanen Yehui covered the arena in darkness.
• Xu Xiaoyan used her Star Wheel Ice Staff to bind Huo Yuhao for a moment, exhausting all her Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed the girls’ coordinated attack with his Snow Dance Ultimate Ice Domain and used an illusion to guide Ye Xinglan toward a deeper understanding of her sword path. Ye Xinglan asked him to formally accept her as his disciple, but Dai Yun’er distracted her with the prospect of having to call her “Mistress” and arranged a grilled-meat celebration instead.

• Dai Yun’er, Wu Sidu, Yuanen Yehui, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Xiaoyan coordinated their attacks to try to hit Huo Yuhao, but he unleashed the Snow Dance Ultimate Ice Domain and froze the Soul Fighting Platform in a blizzard.
• Huo Yuhao drew Ye Xinglan into a star-filled mental realm and taught her to trust her sword path and strike through doubts that might shake her resolve.
• After waking, Ye Xinglan thanked Huo Yuhao and asked him to formally accept her as his disciple.
• Huo Yuhao signaled Dai Yun’er to intervene, and she argued that Ye Xinglan could keep learning from him as his academy student instead.
• Dai Yun’er proposed a grilled-meat late-night snack, and Huo Yuhao agreed on the condition that the girls help prepare it.
• Dai Yun’er privately warned Ye Xinglan that becoming Huo Yuhao’s disciple might mean calling her “Mistress,” leaving Ye Xinglan awkwardly speechless.

Xu Lizhi grew suspicious after Ye Xinglan concealed her late-night visit to Spirit Ice, while Huo Yuhao and Ya Li departed Shrek Academy for Ming Capital in a cramped mecha cockpit. The chapter ended with Ya Li blushing after the mecha’s acceleration made her bump into Huo Yuhao.

• Xu Lizhi waited outside the dormitory for Ye Xinglan, but she claimed she had been training and hurried inside without explaining further.
• Xu Lizhi imagined that Spirit Ice had coerced Ye Xinglan and other girls, then regretted his lack of combat ability.
• Ya Li asked Huo Yuhao whether Wu Yun'er might be his biological daughter, and he explained that she had gone with Gu Yue's group to the Soul Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao and Ya Li boarded her Prayer Angel mecha to travel from Shrek Academy to Ming Capital to visit Zhen Hua.
• The mecha’s acceleration pressed Ya Li against Huo Yuhao, leaving her embarrassed in the cramped cockpit.

As Huo Yuhao and Ya Li arrived in Ming Capital, Xu Xiaoyan's group prepared to challenge the Soul Spirit Pagoda, while Gu Yue secretly informed Di Tian of their destination. At the Blacksmith Association's Ascension Platform, Zhen Hua awaited Huo Yuhao to demonstrate Heavenly Forging and assess the young Level Eight Blacksmith as a possible successor.

• Xu Xiaoyan changed her appearance and argued with Dai Yun'er and Wu Sidu about their feelings for Huo Yuhao before Ye Xinglan urged the group to leave for the Spirit Pagoda.
• Gu Yue secretly sent Di Tian a message saying “Ming Capital,” and he set out with the King of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Ya Li landed the Prayer Angel mecha on the Ascension Platform rooftop and explained its role in Heavenly Forging to Huo Yuhao.
• Zhen Hua told Mu Ye that Huo Yuhao was a twenty-year-old Level Eight Blacksmith and said he would consider him as a successor after judging his character and talent.
• A staff member announced that Holy Spirit had arrived, and Mu Ye went to prepare a welcome meal while Zhen Hua prepared to receive her.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Ya Li’s life energy could calm the dangerous urges in his Godhead of Ruin and Golden Dragon King Divine Core, so he decided to visit Devil Island with her to learn why their powers were connected. Gu Yue sensed the Golden Dragon King and felt a surge of resentment, while Zhen Hua and Mu Ye entered the reception room after the pair finished their private treatment.

• Ya Li told Huo Yuhao that the Goddess of Life had said she could guide the extreme emotions caused by his Godhead of Ruin and that he would need to meet the God Kings on Devil Island to learn more.
• Huo Yuhao held Ya Li’s hand to test their connection, triggering a powerful devouring urge that stirred the Golden Dragon King Divine Core.
• Ya Li pressed life energy to Huo Yuhao’s forehead, calming the Divine Core, and he resolved to visit Devil Island with her after handling his other affairs.
• Gu Yue sensed the Golden Dragon King’s presence and felt as if something belonging to her was being taken; her errant fireball burned an Earth Bear to ash.
• Zhen Hua and Mu Ye entered the reception room after its Soul Power barrier dispersed, and Ya Li explained that she had isolated the room to treat Huo Yuhao.

Ya Li brought Huo Yuhao to meet Zhen Hua, who was amazed by his talent and insisted that he become his disciple in exchange for learning Heavenly Forging. Huo Yuhao refused the offer, and Mu Ye privately helped Zhen Hua devise a plan to win him over as they prepared to share wine.

• Ya Li felt the Life Seed inside her growing active after her intimate encounter with Huo Yuhao, while Zhen Hua became captivated by Huo Yuhao's forging talent.
• Zhen Hua offered to teach Huo Yuhao everything he knew about God Craftsman forging if Huo Yuhao became his disciple, but Huo Yuhao said he only wanted to observe Heavenly Forging.
• Zhen Hua refused to let Huo Yuhao observe without accepting him as a master, and Ya Li objected that this was not what they had agreed upon.
• Mu Ye brought the group to lunch, where Huo Yuhao impressed him by readily solving a difficult Mecha Design problem.
• Mu Ye privately advised Zhen Hua to use strong wine to make Huo Yuhao more receptive and argued that Huo Yuhao could become his successor even without a formal master-disciple bond.
• Zhen Hua agreed with Mu Ye's plan and went to find the Dragon Blood Wine.

Huo Yuhao drank a bottle of Dragon Blood Wine, which stirred the Fire Dragon King's egg and broke his fifth seal, greatly strengthening his Golden Dragon King bloodline. Mu Ye tried to recruit him to lead the declining Body Sect, and Huo Yuhao entered the Ascension Platform considering whether he could help.

• Huo Yuhao drank Zhen Hua's Dragon Blood Wine, and the Fire Dragon King's egg absorbed its energy and expressed its longing for more.
• The wine triggered Huo Yuhao's fifth seal to break; the Eye of Destiny suppressed the Golden Dragon King's destructive power, and his fifth Blood Essence Soul Ring formed.
• Mu Ye sensed Huo Yuhao's dense bloodline power and offered him the future position of Body Sect Master if he joined the sect.
• Zhen Hua told Huo Yuhao that the Body Sect's decline stemmed from lost experts, outdated recruitment and dangerous techniques, and Mu Ye's poverty.
• Zhen Hua warned Huo Yuhao against risking himself for the Body Sect, but said he could help Mu Ye within his means as they entered the Ascension Platform.