Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan bought Soul Tools at the Starlight auction after Huo Yuhao warned him about their limitations. The final lot was revealed to be the Ferocious Blade Soul Eater, a carving knife made from Life Gold, drawing Electrolux's attention and leaving Huo Yuhao weighing whether to pursue it.

• Auctioneer Qingya introduced a Class 3 Soul Paralysis Ray and explained its limits against opponents who were prepared to defend.
• Huo Yuhao advised Wang Yan that the ray was unsuitable for competition but could be useful for the Inner Court's Inspection Team if modified.
• Wang Yan bought the Soul Paralysis Ray for 2,500 Gold Soul Coins and continued purchasing distinctive Soul Tools throughout the auction.
• Auctioneer Qingya presented the final lot, a carving knife closely related to Soul Tools, and revealed it as the Ferocious Blade Soul Eater forged from Life Gold.
• Electrolux recognized the Life Gold, and Huo Yuhao began considering whether to pursue the carving knife.

Huo Yuhao decided to buy the infamous Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and won it at auction despite warnings from Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Yan. After the sale, the knife flew to Huo Yuhao and behaved as if it had acknowledged him as its master.

• Huo Yuhao resolved to bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife using his own money.
• Huo Yuhao won the knife after no other bidders dared to compete, and he told Wang Yan he believed he could undo its curse.
• Wang Dong offered to pay for the knife and told Huo Yuhao to throw it away if he could not remove the curse.
• The Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife broke free of its display case and knocked Wang Yan aside as it flew toward Huo Yuhao.
• The knife settled harmlessly into Huo Yuhao's hand and moved around his fingers, leading Qingya to declare that it had acknowledged him as its master.

After the auction, Huo Yuhao discovered that the Ferocious Blade Soul Eater contained Life Gold and had acknowledged him as its master. He and his companions went to Shrek Academy’s meeting to choose auction items and hear about a new academy policy.

• The Ferocious Blade Soul Eater fed life force to Huo Yuhao and the soul fragments in his Sea of Consciousness, allowing Electrolux to stabilize and eventually teach him undead magic.
• Wang Dong paid for Huo Yuhao’s carving knife and warned him to discard it if it caused him trouble; Huo Yuhao showed her its life force.
• Xiao Xiao visited Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, cautioned him about the knife, and told them Wang Yan had called the group to a meeting about their auction purchases and a new academy policy.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao passed Xiao Hongchen in the corridor as they headed to their respective academy meetings.
• Huo Yuhao joined Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, and the Inner Court members in Shrek Academy’s meeting room, where he sensed Ling Luochen signaling him.

Wang Yan announced Shrek Academy’s new policy of adopting Soul Tools and distributed the items the team had bought. As Shrek prepared for its second tournament match without Huo Yuhao, the crowd booed when Bei Bei took his place as captain.

• Wang Yan told the team that Shrek Academy would equip its disciples with defensive Soul Tools and distribute offensive tools to those who needed them.
• Huo Yuhao criticized the academy’s outdated information gathering, but Wang Yan dismissed his concerns by appealing to the experience of senior leaders.
• Wang Yan gave Huo Yuhao a Level 4 Milk Bottle and distributed the remaining Soul Tools among the team.
• Wang Yan led Shrek Academy to Star Luo Plaza for its second round-robin match, with Dai Yueheng and Ma Xiaotao still recovering and Ling Luochen back in action.
• Huo Yuhao stayed on the bench as planned, and Bei Bei went to draw lots as captain while the spectators booed the substitution.

Bei Bei faced Shen Ce’s taunts and was thrown down during the drawing ceremony, while Huo Yuhao refused Wang Yan’s pleas to step in for Shrek Academy. After the draw selected an individual match, Bei Bei stayed on the stage to face a Qianling Academy shield fighter.

• Shen Ce accused Shrek Academy of sending Bei Bei instead of Huo Yuhao and swept Bei Bei off his feet before throwing him.
• Huo Yuhao refused to intervene, telling Wang Yan that he would not compete in the individual match.
• Wang Yan kept Bei Bei on the stage rather than sending Ling Luochen or admitting defeat.
• Shen Ce left the arena, and a Qianling Academy shield fighter entered carrying an uncharged Soul Tool.

Bei Bei faced Yang Ming in the individual match against Tianling Academy, but his poor tactics and exhaustion left him vulnerable. Yang Ming knocked him down with an electric Soul Tool and a punch, leaving Bei Bei on the platform as the fight continued.

• Bei Bei stayed in the arena to fight Yang Ming after the referee announced the individual match.
• Yang Ming ran around the arena while Bei Bei chased him, and Huo Yuhao recognized that Yang Ming was conserving strength while charging his offensive Soul Tool.
• After Bei Bei grew exhausted, Yang Ming summoned his Spirit Rhino Shield and taunted him into attacking.
• Bei Bei struck Yang Ming's shield, and Yang Ming used an electric Soul Tool to paralyze him before punching him in the nose and sending him flying.
• Bei Bei lay on the platform as Yang Ming stood over him.

Yang Ming continued attacking Shrek Academy, first brutalizing Bei Bei and then using a poisoned Soul Tool to weaken Ling Luochen. Wang Yan revealed that Yang Ming’s cousin had left Shrek for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, and the chapter ended as the fight shifted again.

• Yang Ming threw the paralyzed Bei Bei into the arena barrier and continued tormenting him until Ling Luochen conceded the match for Shrek and took the stage.
• Yang Ming taunted Shrek and circled the arena, while Ling Luochen followed Huo Yuhao’s advice and stayed in place to attack him with ice.
• Yang Ming charged Ling Luochen, pierced her ice armor with a spike-shaped Soul Tool, and poisoned her through the wound.
• Yang Ming claimed his tactics were legal, and Huo Yuhao asked whether the Yang family held a grudge against Shrek.
• Wang Yan said Yang Ming’s cousin had once dropped out of Shrek and transferred to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, and Huo Yuhao wondered if Zhou Yi had been the cousin’s homeroom teacher.

Huo Yuhao entered the match after Yang Ming’s Soul Tool injured several Shrek competitors, and quickly turned the fight in his favor. He shattered Yang Ming’s Martial Soul shield with a single attack.

• Ling Luochen was poisoned and unable to use her soul power, so Huo Yuhao drew the poison from her and converted it into soul power.
• Jiang Nannan took the stage, but Yang Ming used his Soul Tool’s elastic barrier and a follow-up kick to injure her.
• Wang Yan asked Huo Yuhao to fight, and Huo Yuhao agreed after warning that surrender might be wiser than relying on him.
• Huo Yuhao helped Jiang Nannan recover, then caused Yang Ming’s Soul Tool milk bottle to explode before the match began.
• Huo Yuhao appeared in front of Yang Ming, struck his shield, and shattered Yang Ming’s Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao defeated Yang Ming and Song Hu, then faced Shen Ce after Qianling Academy’s captain stopped Bai Chen from fighting. Shen Ce conceded on behalf of Qianling Academy, but Huo Yuhao still accepted his challenge, and the chapter ended as Huo Yuhao pulled them both into the Ghost Domain.

• Huo Yuhao disarmed Yang Ming and knocked him unconscious without continuing to attack him.
• Song Hu charged Huo Yuhao with a Soul Tool, but Huo Yuhao broke his wrist, took the weapon, and sent him away.
• Shen Ce stopped Bai Chen from entering the arena and announced that Qianling Academy conceded to protect its remaining fighters.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to fight Shen Ce using soul master techniques, and caught the Thousand Strike Spear between two fingers.
• Huo Yuhao opened the vertical eye on his forehead and pulled himself and Shen Ce into the Ghost Domain.

After defeating Thousand Strike Academy, Huo Yuhao reported a suspicious rod-shaped Soul Tool to the tournament committee and reassured his teammates about Ling Luochen’s injury. As the group left the arena, a blood-red hawk attacked to seize the other rod, injuring Wang Yan before escaping; Huo Yuhao said it was not a soul beast.

• Shen Ce warned Huo Yuhao that his power resembled that of people who might be consumed by it, then surrendered the match for Thousand Strike Academy.
• Huo Yuhao gave the referees the short rod taken from Yang Ming and asked them to investigate it for possible cheating with poison.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Shrek Academy group, explained that Ling Luochen’s injury would not affect her next match, and began examining the remaining short rod.
• A blood-red hawk swooped down to snatch the rod, and Wang Yan shoved Huo Yuhao aside but was wounded by its talons.
• Huang Jinxu arrived with several Soul Douluo after the hawk escaped, and Huo Yuhao told him the attacker was not a soul beast.

After a suspicious Soul Sage tried to seize the short Soul Tool rod, Huo Yuhao warned Shrek Academy that the next tournament match was too dangerous to fight. He left Xuan Zi and Wang Yan to decide whether the team would compete, while making clear that he would not cooperate if they forced the match.

• Huo Yuhao told Huang Jinxu that the bird he saw was a Soul Sage using a Martial Soul Avatar, and Huang Jinxu promised to investigate the incident.
• Xuan Zi returned to the hotel and spoke with Wang Yan for several hours before the team gathered for a meeting.
• Wang Yan announced that Shrek's next opponent had three Soul Kings and had reached the previous tournament's top eight.
• Huo Yuhao advised the team to concede, citing their depleted lineup, the uncertain match format, and the danger posed by the Soul Sage who had tried to take the short rod.
• Xuan Zi dismissed Huo Yuhao's concerns about the Soul Tool, and Huo Yuhao reserved his objection and warned that he would choose how to fight if ordered to compete.

Huo Yuhao argued against risking injured teammates in the tournament and went to collect the results of his Soul Tool investigation, suspecting danger awaited him in Star Luo City. At the indicated address, a foul-smelling soft object suddenly wrapped around his leg.

• Huo Yuhao argued that conceding a round-robin match would not harm Shrek Academy's honor and said he would accept responsibility for the final outcome.
• Wang Yan and Dai Yueheng blamed Huo Yuhao for proposing a surrender, and Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Yueheng to compete while injured if he wanted to impress his father.
• A royal maid delivered Huo Yuhao a letter saying the judging panel had completed its investigation of the seized Soul Tools and asking him to collect the files.
• Huo Yuhao warned the teachers that Star Luo City held dangers beyond the tournament, but Xuan Zi dismissed his concerns and promised to follow him.
• Huo Yuhao went to the address in the letter, noticed the surroundings darkening, and entered an apparently abandoned room, where a foul-smelling object wrapped around his trouser leg.

Huo Yuhao confronted a Title Douluo who had been sent to kill him, then used the Void Eye to evade detection and discovered the murdered members of the referee team. After he fired a Shrek Academy signal flare, Star Luo City’s defense force was ordered to ignore it, but Xuan Zi finally noticed and rushed toward the signal.

• A Title Douluo ambushed Huo Yuhao and revealed that a powerful lord had ordered him killed.
• Huo Yuhao used the Void Eye to disappear from the Title Douluo’s perspective and watched him attack empty space.
• Huo Yuhao found the severed heads of three referee team members in the room where the Title Douluo had hidden.
• Huo Yuhao fired a Shrek Academy signal flare into the sky to draw Xuan Zi’s attention.
• A Star Luo City officer ordered the city defense soldiers to disregard the disturbance and return to their barracks.
• Xuan Zi noticed the signal flare and rushed toward it.

Huo Yuhao helped Xuan Zi capture a Title Douluo Evil Soul Master and began using the Ferocious Blade Soul Eater to absorb and replace the remnant soul's will. As Star Luo City Defense Force soldiers finally approached, Huo Yuhao and Xuan Zi suspected that someone powerful had kept the city force away.

• Huo Yuhao wounded himself and directed Xuan Zi toward the Evil Soul Master, then watched their battle and noticed Star Luo City's defense force was absent.
• Huo Yuhao concealed himself from the Evil Soul Master and approached while Xuan Zi hurled the enemy toward him.
• Huo Yuhao stabbed the Evil Soul Master with the Ferocious Blade Soul Eater, which began draining his life force and Soul Power while weakening his remnant soul's will.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Xuan Zi from killing the Evil Soul Master, and Xuan Zi subdued him instead.
• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Zi about his plan for the carving knife, and they questioned why the city defense force had not arrived.
• A unit of Star Luo City Defense Force soldiers marched toward Huo Yuhao and Xuan Zi.

Xuan Zi and Huo Yuhao confronted Star Luo City soldiers while taking away a crippled Evil Soul Master Title Douluo. Huo Yuhao suspected a powerful outsider had influenced the patrols, but Xuan Zi took the captive back to Shrek Academy, leaving them to await the empire’s response.

• Xuan Zi pressured the city defense soldiers and declared that Shrek Academy would judge the Evil Soul Master who had injured one of its members.
• Huo Yuhao punched the lead soldier and warned the squad not to rely on the Star Luo imperial family’s authority; the soldiers withdrew.
• Huo Yuhao reasoned that another influential Title Douluo had likely threatened the soldiers, while Xuan Zi doubted the mastermind had a large force behind them.
• Xuan Zi decided to take the crippled Evil Soul Master back to the academy, and Huo Yuhao warned that other students might die if the threat was ignored.
• Huo Yuhao and Xuan Zi returned to their hotel to wait for the Star Luo Empire’s response to the Evil Soul Master’s attack on the referee team.

After the referees’ deaths postponed the tournament by two days, Huo Yuhao warned Shrek’s team that the danger surrounding the competition made it unwise to reveal their full strength against Zhengtian Academy. Wang Yan nevertheless urged them to prepare for the match, hoping they could use an upcoming auction to gain an advantage.

• Wang Yan told Shrek’s team that the Star Luo Empire had postponed the next match by two days because of problems with the referees.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Yan discussed Dai Yueheng’s worsening injuries and the threat posed by the Evil Soul Masters involved in the tournament’s violence.
• Huo Yuhao urged the team to forfeit the next match rather than risk their remaining strength, while Wang Yan revealed that Elder Xuan had secured them invitations to a high-level auction.
• Wang Yan said the auction would offer powerful Soul Tools that could help the team against Zhengtian Academy.
• Huo Yuhao warned Wang Yan not to expose Shrek’s trump cards before facing the Sun Moon team, but Wang Yan still urged them to try their best against Zhengtian Academy.

The Shrek team’s meeting ended amid tension over Wang Yan’s proposed match against an established powerhouse team, while Huo Yuhao received a special invitation from the Star Luo Imperial Family. In his room, he discovered a hidden jade card and concluded that the imperial family was divided over how to approach him.

• Bei Bei agreed that facing an established powerhouse team could be worthwhile, while Huo Yuhao warned the others not to ask him for help if they lost.
• A palace maid delivered Huo Yuhao a custom black invitation from the Star Luo princess and said the others’ invitations would arrive later.
• The team received ordinary silver invitations, and Wang Yan told everyone to prepare for the Starlight Auction House visit the following evening.
• Ling Luochen urged Wang Yan to stop pressuring the younger Outer Court students, then returned to her room.
• Huo Yuhao found a hidden deep-green jade card inside his invitation and suspected the Star Luo Imperial Family was divided over him.

Shrek Academy attended an auction at the Star Luo Auction House, where Xu Jiujiu singled out Huo Yuhao and arranged a private meeting. She explained that the auction was a gesture of goodwill and that the emperor was interested in him, then asked what he wanted to drink.

• Wang Yan led Shrek Academy to the Star Luo Auction House after dinner.
• Xu Jiujiu greeted the group, fixed her attention on Huo Yuhao, and left Qingya to escort the others.
• A red-robed Soul Douluo took Huo Yuhao through a hidden entrance to the exclusive Zero Auction Hall.
• Xu Jiujiu met Huo Yuhao in a lavish private room and said the emperor was interested in him.
• Xu Jiujiu explained the auction was mainly a gesture of goodwill and offered Huo Yuhao a drink.

Xu Jiujiu met with Huo Yuhao, tested his loyalty to Shrek Academy, and tried to recruit him by explaining the Star Luo Empire’s weakening position. Huo Yuhao declined to discuss his future for now and asked to proceed with the auction, which began with the presentation of its first stand-in hostess.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Xu Jiujiu’s status, accepted her hospitality, and questioned why she was treating him so generously.
• Xu Jiujiu said she had watched Huo Yuhao’s matches and asked how much he cared about Shrek Academy; Huo Yuhao described his obligation to it as limited to not harming its reputation.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed that the Empire had investigated Huo Yuhao and said his talent had attracted its interest.
• Xu Jiujiu warned that the Star Luo Empire was growing weaker and feared the Sun Moon Empire might attack, but Huo Yuhao asked her to begin the auction instead of discussing his future.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced the Light-Guiding Screen and explained that the woman presenting the auction was one of her stand-ins.

Huo Yuhao proposed that the Star Luo Empire awaken every commoner’s martial soul for a nominal fee to build loyalty and resist the Sun Moon Empire. He then asked Xu Jiujiu to help him secure territory for the independent force he planned to establish, and she prepared to respond.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu he could offer a strategy to keep the Star Luo Empire from falling to the Sun Moon Empire, provided the empire carried it out without compromise.
• Huo Yuhao proposed awakening every commoner’s martial soul for two Copper Soul Coins, explaining that the policy would strengthen the populace and build gratitude toward the imperial family.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Star Luo-supported Soul Masters could perform the awakenings and win the people’s loyalty, creating a force that would rally to protect the empire in wartime.
• Xu Jiujiu praised Huo Yuhao’s proposal, said she would discuss it with the emperor, and asked what he wanted in return.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to establish his own force and asked Xu Jiujiu to help him obtain territory; Xu Jiujiu began to answer.