Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao agreed on how to divide Mu Jin’s rewards, with Huo Yuhao taking the Secret Art Soul Bone. Huo Yuhao’s team then entered the Freshman Assessment knockout stage, won their first match easily, and returned to rest before the afternoon round.

• Mu Jin gave Huo Yuhao’s team two storage Soul Tools and a Secret Art Soul Bone, leaving them to decide how to divide the rewards.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao discussed the rewards over a meal, and Huo Yuhao accepted the soul bone after the others said they did not want it.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Xiao Xiao that following their team’s tactic had been an important contribution.
• Du Weilun took attendance and oversaw the lots for the sixty-four teams entering the knockout stage.
• Huo Yuhao’s team swept their first opponent in under two minutes and returned to the dormitory to rest before the afternoon match.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao prepared for their next elimination match, while their teachers Zhou Yi and Mu Jin clashed over the team’s chances. The chapter ended with the teachers betting three months of salary on which team would win.

• Huo Yuhao teased Wang Dong about sleeping and reflected on the Ice God Seed growing inside Ma Xiaotao.
• Xiao Xiao arrived in time for the match after cultivating through an inspiration and breaking through a Soul Power level.
• Xiao Xiao drew the team’s lot, assigning them to Assessment Area Eight against a team led by a three-ring Soul Elder.
• Zhou Yi and Mu Jin argued over their classes’ tournament results and the strength of Huo Yuhao’s team.
• Mu Jin and Zhou Yi wagered three months of salary on the outcome of the match.

Huo Yuhao’s team battled Ning Tian’s team as his persistent Illusionary Thought Confusion weakened their opponents across the arena. Ning Tian boosted Wu Feng and urged her to target Huo Yuhao, but Wu Feng remained locked in a worsening fight with Wang Dong as the match continued.

• Wang Dong charged at Wu Feng, and Huo Yuhao weakened Wu Feng with Illusionary Thought Confusion as they exchanged blows.
• Ning Tian summoned her Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda and used Dispel on Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er, but Huo Yuhao’s arena-wide effect quickly returned.
• Ning Tian identified Huo Yuhao’s spiritual weakening skill and boosted Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er’s speed, then gave Wu Feng a strength enhancement.
• Xiao Xiao kept Nanmen Yun'er away from Huo Yuhao while Wang Dong wounded Wu Feng despite Ning Tian’s boosts.
• Wu Feng roared and charged forward again after Ning Tian applied another strength enhancement.

Huo Yuhao revealed his Titan Snow Demon martial soul and led Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to defeat Ning Tian's team, securing a place in the top sixteen. Wang Yan reported the hidden martial soul to Xuan Zi, who decided to watch Huo Yuhao's next match closely.

• Huo Yuhao caught Wu Feng's punch, revealed his Titan Snow Demon martial soul, and threw her out of the fight.
• Wang Dong pinned Nanmen Yun'er while Ning Tian surrendered, giving Huo Yuhao's team the victory and a place in the top sixteen.
• Zhou Yi honored her wager with Mu Jin after the loss, while Huo Yuhao joked with Wang Dong about his hidden martial soul and other trump cards.
• Wang Yan told Xuan Zi about Huo Yuhao's Titan Snow Demon martial soul, and Xuan Zi asked to be informed of his next match.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao arranged to eat outside Shrek City, and Huo Yuhao's team later crushed Xie Huanyue's team.

After Huo Yuhao’s team advanced to the semifinals, he clashed with Dai Huabin in the dining hall and prepared to face him in the arena. The next morning, the semifinalists gathered as Yan Shaozhe oversaw the draw, which had only four slips.

• Mu Jin held a celebration banquet for Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao after their victory.
• Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin exchanged insults in the dining hall, and the two secretly competed with their Soul Power.
• A chef intervened, drove Zhu Lu out of the dining hall, and forced Dai Huabin and his teammate to leave.
• Dai Huabin threatened to settle things with Huo Yuhao in the arena the next day, and Huo Yuhao mocked him as he left.
• The twelve semifinalists gathered in the Assessment Area, where Yan Shaozhe personally held the box for the draw.

Huo Yuhao's team defeated Zhou Yi's seeded team and advanced to face Dai Huabin's group in the freshman assessment finals. As the two teams took their positions, Dai Huabin watched Huo Yuhao with killing intent while Huo Yuhao calmly assessed him like prey.

• Huo Yuhao drew lot number two, and his team was matched against Zhou Yi's seeded team.
• Huo Yuhao's team quickly defeated Zhou Yi's three two-ringed Soul Grandmasters, while Dai Huabin's team soon beat Zhou Sichen's group.
• Dai Huabin learned from Ning Tian that Huo Yuhao's first soul skill weakened opponents and grew wary of his unfamiliar second martial soul.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe discussed Huo Yuhao's abilities and whether his ice power might help Ma Xiaotao, but Yan Shaozhe withheld a decision.
• The referee permitted flying within ten meters and warned both teams that being rescued meant elimination before sending them to opposite sides of the arena.
• Dai Huabin fixed Huo Yuhao with killing intent, while Huo Yuhao watched Dai Huabin with the cold focus of a hunter.

Huo Yuhao’s team faced Dai Huabin’s group, and Huo Yuhao revealed the strength of his golden power and Titan Snow Demon King soul bone. Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu summoned the Hell White Tiger, which injured Wang Dong, but Huo Yuhao seized its tail and activated Iron Will.

• Huo Yuhao charged at Dai Huabin while Xiao Xiao trapped Zhu Lu in a Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and shook her until she was disoriented.
• Zhu Lu attacked Huo Yuhao with Hell Hundred Claws, but he struck back with golden power and forced her to evade.
• Huo Yuhao blocked Dai Huabin’s White Tiger Intense Light Waves and met his punch with the strength of his Titan Snow Demon King right arm soul bone.
• Zhu Lu interrupted Huo Yuhao’s clash with Dai Huabin, but Huo Yuhao chilled her with an ice attack before she urged Dai Huabin to use Plan Two.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu fused their Soul Power to summon the Hell White Tiger, which struck Wang Dong and turned toward Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao grabbed the Hell White Tiger’s tail and activated Iron Will.

Huo Yuhao used his second Soul Skill and the Evil Eye Holy King's Eye to overpower Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger, securing the Freshman Assessment championship with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao. After the victory, Shrek’s elders discussed recruiting Huo Yuhao and building the Reserve Team around him, while Wang Yan went to approach him about joining the Inner Court.

• Huo Yuhao’s second Soul Skill greatly enhanced his abilities, allowing him to pull apart the Hell White Tiger and suppress it with the Evil Eye Holy King’s Eye.
• Huo Yuhao punched the Hell White Tiger, knocking it down and leaving Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu unconscious; Cui Yajie surrendered.
• The referee named Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao the Freshman Assessment champions, and Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao supported the unconscious Wang Dong.
• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan to ask Huo Yuhao whether he wanted to enter the Inner Court, and Wang Yan left to approach him.
• Mu En told Xuan Zi that the Reserve Team could be built around Huo Yuhao even if he remained in the Outer Court.

After waking in the infirmary, Wang Dong learned that Huo Yuhao and their team had won and recovered while he looked after her. Their quiet moment was interrupted when Zhu Lu burst in demanding the tooth she had lost during the match, and Huo Yuhao pinned her against the wall.

• Wang Dong woke in the infirmary, and Huo Yuhao told her that their team had won and Xiao Xiao was unharmed.
• Huo Yuhao fed Wang Dong apple and helped her drink water while she recovered.
• Zhu Lu kicked open the infirmary door and demanded that Huo Yuhao return her missing tooth.
• When Zhu Lu attacked him, Huo Yuhao seized her wrist and pinned her against the wall.
• Zhu Lu accused Huo Yuhao of collecting teeth from other people to make accessories.

After Zhu Lu’s strange accusation, Huo Yuhao and his friends celebrated their victory before attending the freshman awards ceremony. His team received a secret special reward, but Huo Yuhao was left off both Core Disciple lists, and Wang Dong challenged Du Weilun about the omission as they went to collect the reward.

• Huo Yuhao realized Zhu Lu had learned that his recommendation letter came from Star Wolf City, but he dismissed the rumors and declined to complain.
• Xiao Xiao returned with food, and Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao shared a celebratory meal in the infirmary.
• Du Weilun announced the Freshman Assessment results and awarded the top three teams academy help obtaining a suitable Soul Ring.
• Du Weilun granted Huo Yuhao’s team a confidential special reward, while Huo Yuhao was absent from both the Core Disciple and Reserve Core Disciple lists.
• After the class assignments, Wang Dong asked Du Weilun why Huo Yuhao had been left off the Core Disciple list.

After Huo Yuhao’s friends protested the Academy’s treatment of him, Du Weilun rewarded the trio with a Soul Bone and revealed that a Sea God Pavilion Elder wanted to meet Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao prepared for danger and entered a bamboo grove, where he found the Elder eating and drinking.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao offered to give up their Core Disciple status if Huo Yuhao was denied his, but Huo Yuhao urged them not to act rashly.
• Du Weilun said the Sea God Pavilion had not made a final decision about Huo Yuhao and gave the trio a Void Leopard Left Leg Bone, warning them to keep it secret.
• Du Weilun asked Huo Yuhao to stay and meet a Sea God Pavilion Elder, and Huo Yuhao let Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao leave before following him.
• Huo Yuhao readied the Eye of Time and Space as a precaution while Du Weilun led him to a bamboo grove beside Sea God Lake.
• An elderly man summoned Huo Yuhao into the grove, where Huo Yuhao found him holding a chicken leg and a red wine gourd.

Huo Yuhao met with Xuan Zi in a bamboo grove, where Xuan Zi tried to gauge his ambitions and persuade him to join Shrek Academy’s Inner Court. Huo Yuhao rejected the offer and explained that he only wanted to graduate from the Outer Court and pursue wealth and status.

• Huo Yuhao calmly waited while Xuan Zi ate and drank, refusing to speak first.
• Xuan Zi told Huo Yuhao to leave, but called him back when he started walking away.
• Xuan Zi asked why Huo Yuhao had not become an Outer Court Core Disciple, and Huo Yuhao said the decision was not his to worry about.
• Xuan Zi revealed that Huo Yuhao’s talent could earn him Inner Court admission and a reserved place among the next generation of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Huo Yuhao rejected the prospect of joining the Inner Court and said he had entered Shrek only to graduate from the Outer Court and seek wealth and status.

Huo Yuhao refused Xuan Zi’s invitation to join the Inner Court, prompting the elders to misunderstand his motives and impose stricter evaluations. He later celebrated with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, and the three agreed that Xiao Xiao would receive the soul bone Du Weilun had awarded them.

• Huo Yuhao repeated his refusal to join the Inner Court, and Xuan Zi angrily sent him away.
• Xuan Zi ordered Du Weilun to downgrade Huo Yuhao to Reserve Core Disciple while keeping his treatment unchanged.
• Mu En and Xuan Zi speculated that Huo Yuhao wanted to enter the Inner Court through examinations, and Xuan Zi decided to make his evaluation criteria exceptionally strict.
• Huo Yuhao reflected that he had no interest in risking his life for the Inner Court and its unreliable intelligence system.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao agreed that Xiao Xiao would take the soul bone, while the next suitable soul bone would go to Wang Dong.

Huo Yuhao dismissed his demotion to Reserve Core Disciple and explained to Wang Dong why he rejected the Inner Court, valuing survival over prestige. In class, Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao’s candidacy for class monitor, and Mu Jin prepared to respond.

• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that the academy had demoted him to Reserve Core Disciple after publicly criticizing him, but he shrugged off the news because his benefits remained unchanged.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Wang Dong that Inner Court members faced dangerous missions and often could not safely return home, so he had no wish to join.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong entered class, where Mu Jin announced candidates for the control-type and assault-type class monitors and named Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong as leaders of their groups.
• Dai Huabin argued that Huo Yuhao’s public criticism made him an unsuitable class monitor, but Xiao Xiao defended Huo Yuhao and accused Dai Huabin of refusing to accept his defeat.
• Mu Jin frowned and turned a stern expression on Dai Huabin as he prepared to answer.

Huo Yuhao became the control-system class monitor despite Dai Huabin's objections, then accepted Ning Tian's friendly offer to cooperate in the future. In the months that followed, Dai Huabin transferred classes, Huo Yuhao's Soul Power neared level thirty-three, and Wang Yan began the class's Advancement Assessment on the final day of the academic year.

• Mu Jin defended Huo Yuhao's eligibility, and the students selected him as control-system class monitor while Dai Huabin glared at him.
• Cui Yajie congratulated Huo Yuhao, distancing herself from Dai Huabin, and Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao accompanied him to the cafeteria.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng approached Huo Yuhao, and Ning Tian proposed future cooperation; Huo Yuhao responded warmly.
• Dai Huabin transferred to another class to become its class monitor, and Zhu Lu went with him.
• Huo Yuhao's cultivation reached the level-thirty bottleneck, with tests showing his Soul Power was close to level thirty-three.
• Wang Yan wrote “Advancement Assessment” on the blackboard and announced that the first academic year was ending.

Huo Yuhao set out to find a suitable spiritual-attribute soul beast after Wang Dong gave him a map to a Medusa’s reported territory. He reached the guarded royal garden and sensed the fast-moving Medusa nearby, but had not yet confronted it.

• After class, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong discussed the coming assessment and resolved to train during the month-long vacation.
• Wang Dong gave Huo Yuhao a map to a former noble’s garden where a potentially suitable Medusa had been sighted.
• Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy the next morning and traveled by merchant caravan to the Dou Ling Empire’s border.
• Huo Yuhao used the Void Eye to evade the garden’s guards and entered the overgrown grounds.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed the Medusa was in the garden and used his Spirit Eye to sense it as it raced past him.

Huo Yuhao killed Medusa and absorbed its Soul Ring, gaining his third Soul Skill. After finding two unusual snake gallbladders, he put them away to test later and learned that his new skill could petrify targets and energy-based Soul Skills within his field of vision.

• Huo Yuhao used the Saint King Pupil to resist Medusa's freezing gaze, then pretended to die so he could ambush it.
• Huo Yuhao seized Medusa with his Titan Profound Ice King martial soul and tore it apart, producing a deep-purple Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed Medusa's Soul Ring, and his Soul Power reached level thirty-three.
• Huo Yuhao found no soul bone, but his Purple Demon Eye led him to two purple-black snake gallbladders, which he stored for later testing.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that his third Soul Skill, Mass Petrification, could petrify creatures in his field of vision and energy-based Soul Skills without requiring eye contact.

After reaching Soul Power level thirty, Huo Yuhao chose the Ghost Eye and Eye of Plunder, then investigated a city in the Dou Ling Empire. He encountered Ma Xiaotao at an inn, where she recognized him as Shrek Academy’s latest session champion.

• Huo Yuhao chose the Ghost Eye and Eye of Plunder, gaining a Ghost Domain, spatial displacement, and vision behind him.
• Huo Yuhao used the Ghost Domain to leave the garden and traveled to a city in the Dou Ling Empire to investigate the area.
• At an inn, Huo Yuhao overheard the staff discussing Shrek Inner Court members investigating corrupt noble accounts and noticed blood from the Medusa on his clothes.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived at the inn, and Huo Yuhao sensed the Ice Seed he had placed in her had consumed her evil fire and begun connecting with her brain.
• Huo Yuhao came out wearing a Shrek Academy Outer Court uniform, and Ma Xiaotao recognized him as Huo Yuhao, the latest session’s champion.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy after meeting Ma Xiaotao and learned that Medusa snake gallbladders could boost physical strength. He told Wang Dong he had reached Rank 34, and she shared news about Zhou Yi joining the Soul Engineering Department.

• Huo Yuhao met Ma Xiaotao on her surveillance mission and waited until he had finished eating before leaving.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy and found Wang Dong had put a new set of high-end bedding on his bed.
• Huo Yuhao showed Wang Dong his three Soul Rings and revealed that he had reached Rank 34 after obtaining a suitable Medusa soul ring.
• Wang Dong explained that Medusa snake gallbladders steeped in wine were rumored to taste good and increase physical strength.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that Zhou Yi had become an assistant instructor in the Soul Engineering Department and had clashed with its staff.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong prepared for Shrek Academy’s Upgrade Assessment before Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to a bet over their groups’ scores. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao revealing his three-ring cultivation and Dai Huabin returning to his line, surprised by his progress.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that their former teacher had relied on promising students to keep the class together, and Wang Dong shifted their attention to the upcoming assessments.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao met Ning Tian and Wu Feng in the cafeteria, where Huo Yuhao teased Wang Dong about their relationship.
• Wang Yan explained the Upgrade Assessment, and Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao went to the Beast Fighting Arena to take it.
• Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to bet that his and Zhu Lu’s combined score would beat the scores of Huo Yuhao’s group, with the losers owing the winners a request.
• Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong accepted the group bet, and Huo Yuhao revealed his three Soul Rings, startling Dai Huabin with his cultivation.