Chapter Summaries

Du Busi confronted Shrek Academy over its detained Body Sect disciples, and his clash with Mu En escalated into a threat against Shrek City. The chapter left Du Busi outside the city, daring Mu En to stop him from destroying it.

• Huo Yuhao suspected Du Busi had paid a steep price for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support and planned to ask Ning Tian about it later.
• Du Busi demanded that Shrek return every Body Sect disciple, while Xuan Zi accused him of provoking an all-out war.
• Mu En condemned Du Busi’s forced recruitment and compared his conduct to that of Evil Soul Masters, prompting Du Busi to attack Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En’s Sea God’s Light dissolved Du Busi’s emerald hand, and Mu En struck him hard enough to send him flying.
• Du Busi withdrew beyond Shrek Academy’s perimeter and threatened to attack Shrek City unless Mu En came out to stop him.
• Du Busi rejected Mu En’s warning about turning the Body Sect into an Evil Soul Master sect and declared that he might as well commit an Evil Soul Master’s deeds.

Mu En drove Du Busi and the Body Sect away after Du Busi threatened to force Huo Yuhao to join them, turning the dispute into a feud with Shrek. Mu En then summoned Huo Yuhao to the Inner Court and asked what he thought about the incident.

• Mu En told Du Busi that Huo Yuhao had to choose for himself and could wait until he graduated before joining the Body Sect.
• Du Busi threatened to use the strength of an entire city to make Huo Yuhao join, but Mu En struck him with Sea God's Light and warned him to stay away from Shrek City.
• Du Busi ordered the Body Sect to leave and vowed to settle the score with Shrek, while Xuan Zi led the students back to the Outer Court.
• Mu En asked Huo Yuhao to go to the shore of Sea God Lake, where Yan Shaozhe brought him into the Inner Court.
• Huo Yuhao met Mu En inside the Golden Ancient Tree, and Mu En asked what he thought about what had happened.

Huo Yuhao refused to remain in Shrek Academy’s Inner Court and agreed to meet its graduation requirements, including donating a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone. Mu En accepted his decision, while he and Yan Shaozhe discussed the Academy’s shortage of promising students and the decline of talent across the Soul Master world.

• Huo Yuhao told Mu En that he would graduate as soon as possible because he believed Shrek Academy should remain a pure educational institution.
• Mu En said Huo Yuhao could leave after reaching Soul King level and donating a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone to the Academy.
• Huo Yuhao reaffirmed his decision to graduate and asked Mu En to honor those two conditions.
• Yan Shaozhe complained that Huo Yuhao was unwilling to stay and worried that few students in his year could represent the Academy.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that Huo Yuhao would not be subdued by any faction and that Soul Tools and declining talent were weakening the Academy’s prospects.

Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy to hunt a ten-thousand-year soul beast for his fourth soul ring, evading the Body Sect as he traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest. There, a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear ambushed him, and its claws closed in as the chapter ended.

• Mu En rejected Yan Shaozhe’s suggestion to delay Huo Yuhao’s soul hunt and said the academy would issue his graduation certificate once he met the requirements.
• Huo Yuhao studied soul beast records, chose to search the Star Dou Great Forest for a Silverwing Beast, and prepared to leave Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao disguised himself in Shrek City and used his Ghost Domain to evade the Body Sect members following him.
• Huo Yuhao reached the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled toward its central region, leaving the Body Sect behind on a false trail.
• While resting in a tree hollow, Huo Yuhao encountered a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, which charged at him.

Huo Yuhao killed a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and learned that absorbing its Soul Ring could evolve his Spirit Eye. He began absorbing the ring as another bear left to claim the female bear.

• Huo Yuhao used his invisibility to stab the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear with the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Saber, then plunged the Soul-Eating Fierce Blade into its skull.
• Huo Yuhao pulled the saber free and beheaded the wounded Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, then confirmed that it had left no Soul Bone.
• Huo Yuhao learned from the system that absorbing the bear's ten-thousand-year Soul Ring could evolve his Spirit Eye into the Dark Radiance Gold Pupil.
• A smaller Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear watched Huo Yuhao kill its rival, smeared the dead bear's blood on itself, and went to find the female bear.
• Huo Yuhao sat in the tree hollow and began absorbing the ten-thousand-year Soul Ring as its bear-shaped remnant soul surged into him.

After absorbing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's soul ring and claiming its soul bone, Huo Yuhao chose the Arrogance Eye and Gluttony Eye enhancements. As he tried to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion intercepted him, believing fate had drawn her to him.

• Huo Yuhao imprisoned the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's remnant soul in his Ghost Eye and finished absorbing its soul ring.
• A fleeing Cyclops wounded Huo Yuhao, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King charged past without attacking him.
• Huo Yuhao found a soul bone in the bear's left paw, stored the corpse in a Soul Tool, and hurried away after tending to his wound.
• The system upgraded Dark Gold Pupil to Dark Radiant Eye and offered six eye enhancements; Huo Yuhao selected Arrogance Eye and Gluttony Eye.
• As Huo Yuhao prepared to leave the forest, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared and told him she felt fate drawing her toward him.

Huo Yuhao stopped Du Busi from killing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, warning that her death would bring chaos to the human world. He left the auspicious beast in Scarlet King's care after reminding him to protect her.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion confronted Huo Yuhao about killing a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and threatened him with its kin's reaction.
• Scarlet King attacked Huo Yuhao, but a jade-green figure struck him away and pinned the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the figure as Du Busi, who said he intended to eliminate a soul beast that had attacked a human.
• When Du Busi tried to crush the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Huo Yuhao used Ghost Domain to stop him and pulled her to safety.
• Du Busi relented, and Huo Yuhao promised to remember the favor before leaving with Scarlet King and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Huo Yuhao released the two beasts near the core zone, urged Scarlet King to guard the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and departed through Ghost Domain.

After the Eye of Time and Space mysteriously lost durability, Huo Yuhao gained the Eye of Destiny and used Flesh Alchemy to prepare an upgrade for his Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Saber. He sought Xu Jiujiu’s help obtaining pure gold and asked whether she had any unusable Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.

• Huo Yuhao learned that the Eye of Time and Space had lost durability because a higher-level existence had sealed his memories from before the time reversal.
• Huo Yuhao gained the Eye of Destiny and the Emperor Auspicious Beast’s friendship, then used Flesh Alchemy to examine how to modify the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Saber.
• Huo Yuhao found that the upgrade required eight pure-gold altars, which he could not easily obtain or create through Flesh Alchemy.
• Huo Yuhao met Xu Jiujiu at the Starlight Auction House in Star Luo City and asked her to lend him pure gold for a ritual.
• Xu Jiujiu said she would ask her imperial brother about lending the gold, and Huo Yuhao asked her for poor-quality Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones that could only be used in a Soul Tool.

Huo Yuhao traveled with Snow Empress to the Far North to check on Ice Empress and offered to help with her troubles. As they reached the core region, Snow Empress sensed that Ice Empress’s aura was wrong and rushed toward the Northwest Wetlands.

• Xu Jiujiu told Huo Yuhao that the national treasury had no low-quality Soul Bones, so he decided to seek another solution.
• Huo Yuhao warned Snow Empress that trouble could come as he prepared for his graduation examination and future sect, then decided to take her to the Far North to find Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao used Ghost Domain to bring Snow Empress from outside Star Luo City to the Far North overnight.
• Snow Empress said she would not oppose hunting soul beasts as long as the Far North’s soul beasts were spared, though she would not hunt them herself.
• Snow Empress sensed that Ice Empress’s aura was abnormal and ran toward the deepest region of the Northwest Wetlands, with Huo Yuhao following.

Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress investigated why Ice Empress had fainted while condensing a Soul Ring and discovered she was trying to awaken the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan’s Ice Explosion Technique. Huo Yuhao helped her overcome the deficiency, and Ice Empress woke with the technique mastered.

• Er Bai told Snow Empress that Ice Empress had fainted while trying to condense a Soul Ring and that his attempts to raise her Soul Power had failed.
• Huo Yuhao sensed that Ice Empress’s Soul Power was pressuring her bloodline, and Snow Empress explained her lingering resentment over never possessing the Ice Explosion Technique.
• Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress concluded that Ice Empress was trying to obtain the Ice Explosion Technique through her Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao used the Ice God Eye and Eye of Destiny to strengthen Ice Empress’s ice-element bloodline while suppressing harmful effects.
• Huo Yuhao formed a black Soul Ring around Ice Empress, and she woke up rejoicing that she had mastered the Ice Explosion Technique.

Huo Yuhao persuaded the Ice Empress to join his sect while she remained in the Far North to stabilize her transformation. Back in Star Luo City, he used Flesh Alchemy to forge the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s remains and the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Saber into a life-devouring spear.

• The Snow Empress scolded the Ice Empress for nearly burning herself alive, and Huo Yuhao explained that he and the Snow Empress had returned to help her.
• Huo Yuhao invited the Ice Empress to join his sect, and she agreed after he promised the Far North would not be neglected.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Star Luo City with the Snow Empress while the Ice Empress stayed in the Far North to stabilize her power.
• Huo Yuhao assembled the golden altar, dismantled the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Saber, and inscribed its soul tool formations anew.
• Huo Yuhao used Flesh Alchemy to combine the saber’s components with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s remains, forging a spear that could devour life force and grow stronger.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy after the tournament and learned that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy had arrived on important business. Du Weilun then urgently summoned him to meet the Sea God Pavilion’s important figures.

• Huo Yuhao tested the spear created through Flesh Alchemy, then absorbed it into his blood and returned the eight golden altars to Xu Jiujiu.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek, where the academy stripped the students of their Shrek Seven Devils titles and Core Disciple privileges after their championship defeat.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao about events at the academy, including Ma Xiaotao’s return to missions and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s arrival.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong ate together, and Wang Dong went to sleep while Huo Yuhao drank wine by the window.
• Du Weilun came to Huo Yuhao’s dormitory and ordered him to dress formally and meet the important figures of the Sea God Pavilion.

Jing Hongchen told Mu En and Xuan Zi that Ma Xiaotao had become an Evil Soul Master after an ambush near the Sun Moon Empire, then proposed an academic exchange between the two academies. The chapter ended as Huo Yuhao and the other requested students entered the Sea God Pavilion and Jing Hongchen greeted Huo Yuhao.

• Wang Dong refused to lend Huo Yuhao clothes, and Du Weilun summoned Huo Yuhao and other students to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Jing Hongchen told Mu En and Xuan Zi that Ma Xiaotao had been ambushed near the border, disappeared for two days, and later appeared in Risheng City with an evil aura and black souls around her.
• Jing Hongchen showed a recording of Ma Xiaotao and said she had killed the Soul Engineer force sent to fight her before escaping.
• Jing Hongchen said he had concealed Ma Xiaotao's connection to Shrek and proposed an academic exchange, offering his two descendants and an exemption decree as guarantees.
• Du Weilun brought Huo Yuhao and two other students into the meeting room, and Jing Hongchen stood to greet Huo Yuhao.

Mu En and Jing Hongchen finalized an exchange arrangement for Huo Yuhao and He Caitou, then demanded compensation for Jing Hongchen targeting Shrek City with Soul Cannons. Jing Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao the ninth-rank Red Dust Protection, and Huo Yuhao presented a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone as his graduation gift.

• Jing Hongchen agreed to accept He Caitou as an exchange student, while Mu En confirmed Huo Yuhao’s two-year study arrangement at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Mu En confronted Jing Hongchen over aiming Soul Cannons at Shrek City and demanded he leave behind a ninth-rank Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao the Red Dust Protection and departed after Mu En accepted the gift.
• Huo Yuhao presented Mu En with a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone from the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Saber and described its Tyrant's Will skill.
• Mu En observed that the Soul Bone could retain its energy for a thousand years, while Huo Yuhao claimed he had not strengthened it.

Huo Yuhao rejected Mu En and Xuan Zi’s expectation that he would help Shrek Academy’s Soul Engineering Department, but agreed to consider the exchange program on his own terms. After Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy set an assessment focused mostly on Soul Masters rather than Soul Engineering, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao passed and could accompany him.

• Huo Yuhao gave Mu En a soul bone, then refused to act as a nanny for Shrek Academy’s students and left after saying he might join the exchange program by choice.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong about the proposed two-year exchange, and Wang Dong decided to overcome her aversion to Soul Tools by visiting the Soul Engineering Department.
• Wang Dong spent the next two days around the Soul Engineering Department to get used to Soul Tools.
• Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy sent assessment questions that focused on Soul Power, martial souls, and soul skills rather than Soul Engineering.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao passed Shrek Academy’s exchange assessment, with Wang Dong’s Light Goddess Butterfly helping her qualify.

Shrek Academy’s exchange delegation traveled to Maple Leaf City to meet the students from Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. Jing Hongchen substituted Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen with his grandnephews, prompting Yan Shaozhe to accuse him of exploiting the agreement as the exchange began.

• Yan Shaozhe led Shrek Academy’s fifteen selected students toward Maple Leaf City, while Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao traveled easily using Huo Yuhao’s Ghost Domain.
• After resting overnight in Maple Leaf City, Yan Shaozhe led the Shrek delegation to Maple Leaf Square to meet Jing Hongchen’s group.
• Yan Shaozhe noticed Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were absent and asked Jing Hongchen whether the full delegation had arrived.
• Jing Hongchen introduced his grandnephews Feng Chenliang and Feng Chenxia as the two descendants he had promised to send.
• Yan Shaozhe sarcastically accepted the substitutions and welcomed the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy students, while Jing Hongchen expressed hope that the exchange would foster friendship.

Jing Hongchen welcomed Fan Yu and the Shrek Academy students to Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and demonstrated the gulf between their Flying Soul Tool technology. As they sped toward Ming Capital inside his enormous golden light wings, Huo Yuhao challenged Jing Hongchen’s pessimism about future inventions.

• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen exchanged pointed remarks and a tense handshake before their academies switched places.
• Jing Hongchen introduced himself to Fan Yu and the Shrek students, then used his advanced wing-like Flying Soul Tool to take flight.
• Huo Yuhao concealed his group with Ghost Domain while Shrek’s Soul Engineering Department students flew using outdated equipment.
• Jing Hongchen expanded his Flying Soul Tool into enormous golden wings, enclosed the group in a quiet light film, and accelerated their journey.
• Fan Yu acknowledged Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s technological lead, and Jing Hongchen described his hope of transporting people with ordinary metals.
• Huo Yuhao urged Jing Hongchen not to underestimate what people of the era could accomplish, and Jing Hongchen agreed that a future inventor might already have been born.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy students arrived in Ming Capital for a two-and-a-half-year exchange at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. After Huo Yuhao’s unusual eye caused an examination machine to explode, Lin Jiayi reported the problem to Jing Hongchen.

• Jing Hongchen flew the Shrek students over Ming Capital, where Huo Yuhao pointed out crimes and mistreatment of ordinary people below.
• Jing Hongchen brought the group to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and introduced them to Lin Jiayi before leaving with Fan Yu.
• Lin Jiayi handed out dormitory keys and uniforms, then led the students through a pre-enrollment examination, where Huo Yuhao and Ye Xiaosheng stepped forward.
• Huo Yuhao’s forehead eye glowed red during the first test and caused the examination machine to explode.
• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that the machine could no longer scan Huo Yuhao after he closed his eye.

Jing Hongchen learned that Huo Yuhao had left no trace in the Soul Tool data and ordered the investigation paused while warning Lin Jiayi to protect the Shrek Academy students. Huo Yuhao gained an upgraded Void Eye, then discovered the Shrek students arguing with Lin Jiayi over their assigned classes.

• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that the machines had recorded no data for Huo Yuhao, and Jing Hongchen ordered him not to investigate further for now.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to watch the Shrek Academy students closely and ensure none of them came to harm.
• Huo Yuhao obtained the Eye of the Emperor, which upgraded his Void Eye so it could conceal up to five people from multiple observers at once.
• The next morning, Huo Yuhao saw Ye Xiaosheng and the other Shrek students arguing with Lin Jiayi downstairs.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Lin Jiayi had assigned the Shrek students to the Practical Control Soul Engineer class, which they rejected because they had come to learn about Soul Tools.

Huo Yuhao defended the Practical Control Soul Engineer program as a sensible way for the Shrek exchange students to learn Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s methods. Lin Jiayi then told him that Jing Hongchen had approved his entry into Mingde Hall as an auditor, leaving Huo Yuhao surprised by the unexpected opportunity.

• Lin Jiayi told Ye Xiaosheng and the Shrek students that their weak foundation meant they should first study basic Soul Engineering in the Practical Control program.
• Huo Yuhao asked Lin Jiayi whether students could later transfer to other Soul Engineering branches through assessments, and Lin Jiayi confirmed they could.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Ye Xiaosheng’s assumption that Soul Engineers should master every field and argued that the exchange students should learn Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s teaching methods.
• Lin Jiayi told Huo Yuhao that Jing Hongchen had waived compensation for the damaged Soul Tool and invited him to attend Mingde Hall as an auditor in Research Group Three.