Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao agreed to try studying at Mingde Hall after Lin Jiayi persuaded him, then openly broke with the Shrek Soul Engineering students who confronted him. He headed to Mingde Hall, where Xiao Hongchen announced that he and Meng Hongchen would teach Huo Yuhao introductory Soul Tool techniques for his first semester.

• Lin Jiayi persuaded Huo Yuhao to try Mingde Hall before transferring to the Practical Control Department, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Ye Xiaosheng and other Shrek Soul Engineering students confronted Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao hurt one student, slapped Ye Xiaosheng, and told them not to use Shrek to pressure him.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Ye Xiaosheng vowed to challenge him through the Practical Control Department's sparring opportunities.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory and reflected that falling out with Shrek was part of his plan to leave the academy and speed up his graduation procedures.
• Huo Yuhao went to Mingde Hall and met Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, where Xiao Hongchen said they would teach him introductory Soul Tool techniques through the end of his first semester.

Huo Yuhao began auditing classes at Mingde Hall under Instructor Zhu, a blunt ninth-ranked Soul Engineer with unusual habits and a rare technique. He learned that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen were formally studying under Zhu to master his Bloodline Linking Technique for Soul Tools.

• Huo Yuhao questioned Xiao Hongchen's claim that he had been assigned instructors, and Meng Hongchen revealed that she and her brother were students assigned to his group.
• Huo Yuhao teased Xiao Hongchen about his twitching finger, then let the siblings lead him to class.
• Huo Yuhao met Instructor Zhu, who criticized his lack of Soul Engineering knowledge and insulted people from the Douluo Continent.
• Huo Yuhao told Instructor Zhu to rinse his mouth after eating, and Zhu accepted the criticism as mutual learning.
• Xiao Hongchen explained that Instructor Zhu had mastered the Bloodline Linking Technique, and Meng Hongchen said the siblings had formally become his students despite the academy's usual rule against teaching direct relatives.

After surviving Instructor Zhu’s punishing lesson, Huo Yuhao discussed combat and battlefield tactics with Xiao Hongchen, demonstrating how easily he could steal Xiao’s storage Soul Tool. Meng Hongchen ended their debate and took Huo Yuhao on a walk through Ming Capital.

• Huo Yuhao endured Instructor Zhu’s breath-holding lesson and reflected on the value of his harsh teaching methods.
• Meng Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that Instructor Zhu’s daughter had been abducted and dismantled, explaining the tragedy behind his unusual hobby.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Huo Yuhao, who revealed he had already taken Xiao’s storage Soul Tool and argued that Soul Masters and Soul Engineers should target high-value objectives on a battlefield.
• Huo Yuhao explained the difference between a regulated fight and the deadly realities of a battlefield, leaving Xiao Hongchen thoughtful.
• Meng Hongchen interrupted the debate, took Huo Yuhao by the hand, and led him and Xiao Hongchen on a walk through Ming Capital.

Huo Yuhao returned to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and considered combining flesh weapons with Soul Tools. At the training grounds, Shrek Academy’s Soul Engineering Department students were losing a dispute with the Practical Control Department, and Fan Yu demanded that Huo Yuhao defend Shrek Academy’s honor.

• Huo Yuhao found that civilian Soul Tools in the Sun Moon Empire were mostly noncombat devices, then planned to research flesh weapons with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s help.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen took Huo Yuhao to the training grounds, where students explained that the Practical Control Department had challenged Shrek Academy’s Soul Engineering Department after its students insulted them.
• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Hongchen that Shrek Academy looked down on Soul Engineers and discussed the limits of combining martial souls with Soul Tools.
• Meng Hongchen spotted Sister Nana among the people at the training grounds, while Fan Yu called for Huo Yuhao to join the match.
• After another Shrek Academy student was injured and thrown from the platform, Fan Yu confronted Huo Yuhao and ordered him to defend Shrek Academy’s honor.

Huo Yuhao refused Fan Yu's demand to intervene in a dispute at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, and Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao chose to leave with him. Over dinner with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, he learned why the academy was supporting the Practical Control Soul Engineering Department and argued that Shrek's Martial Soul Department Inner Court disciples far surpassed its Soul Engineering Department disciples without Soul Tools.

• Huo Yuhao cited the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's rules to refuse Fan Yu, while Xiao Hongchen warned that interfering would trigger a department conflict.
• Huo Yuhao invited Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to eat with him, and they left Fan Yu's group to join him.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao dined with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen at a restaurant in Ming Capital.
• Xiao Hongchen explained that his grandfather supported the Practical Control Soul Engineering Department to combine powerful Soul Masters with Soul Tools and learn Shrek Academy's cultivation methods.
• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Hongchen that Inner Court disciples of the Soul Engineering Department could not compare with even the lowest-ranked Inner Court disciples of the Martial Soul Department without Soul Tools.

Huo Yuhao explained to Xiao Hongchen why Shrek Academy produced capable graduates, then settled into life at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy as its Shrek exchange students split into hostile groups. Jing Hongchen later chose Huo Yuhao to assist with a new Soul Tool test in the Evil Demon Forest.

• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Hongchen that Shrek Academy's harsh assessments prepared its students for the dangers of life on the Douluo Continent and attracted talented students.
• After Shrek Academy lost to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's Soul Engineering Department, its exchange students ostracized Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong, who began attending Mingde Hall with Huo Yuhao.
• Over the following week, the Shrek exchange students split into two groups, while Fan Yu lost his ability to make things difficult for Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao after their transfer.
• About half a month later, Jing Hongchen summoned Huo Yuhao and showed him an invitation from Kong requesting an assistant for a new Soul Tool test in the Evil Demon Forest.
• Huo Yuhao volunteered for the test, and Jing Hongchen told him to prepare and not offend Master Kong.

Huo Yuhao met Kong Deming to assist with Soul Tool testing, and his newly awakened Soul Tool Eye changed how Kong Deming assessed him. As Kong Deming described his vision for Soul Tools, Huo Yuhao challenged his ideas and left him considering a different approach.

• After Huo Yuhao left, Jing Hongchen decided not to attack him and hoped to keep their relationship useful.
• Huo Yuhao boarded Kong Deming's flying Soul Tool and gained the Soul Tool Eye, which gave him mastery of Soul Tool knowledge.
• Kong Deming sensed Huo Yuhao's sudden Soul Engineer aura and became wary, viewing him as a possible threat to the imperial family.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Kong Deming's reasons for testing Soul Tools personally, and Kong Deming lectured him about a Soul Engineer's duty to test their own work.
• Kong Deming explained his vision of simplicity and combining the strongest Soul Tool with the strongest Soul Master, while Huo Yuhao proposed that the ideas might be one path and argued for firepower saturation in warfare.
• Kong Deming frowned and considered Huo Yuhao's argument.

Huo Yuhao discussed Soul Tool warfare with Kong Deming, who weighed whether to recruit or eliminate him, while the Eye of Destiny warned of shifting murderous intent nearby. Huo Yuhao showed Kong Deming his owner-bound spear, whose power cracked a Grade 9.5 defensive Soul Tool, and Kong cautioned him about its devouring force.

• Huo Yuhao argued that portable Soul Tools with maximum explosive power represented the true path of Soul Tools, and Kong Deming considered how to deal with him.
• Huo Yuhao sensed through the Eye of Destiny that someone nearby repeatedly formed and suppressed murderous intent toward him.
• Huo Yuhao asked Kong Deming whether a person could have more than one Innate Soul Tool, and Kong explained their nature and limits.
• Huo Yuhao showed Kong Deming his three-bladed spear and warned him that it recognized its owner.
• Kong Deming briefly held the spear, which cracked his Grade 9.5 defensive Soul Tool, and he warned Huo Yuhao to control its sinister devouring power.

Kong Deming brought Huo Yuhao to Evil Demon Forest to test a humanoid Soul Tool, secretly exposing him to a dangerous spiritual-power storm. Huo Yuhao realized Kong Deming was setting him up, but remained trapped inside the machine as Kong ordered him to fire a shot.

• Kong Deming landed near Evil Demon Forest and led Huo Yuhao to test the humanoid Soul Tool at the forest's outer edge.
• Kong Deming had Huo Yuhao enter the machine and operate its controls, while an assistant explained that only someone with no more than five rings could safely withstand the test.
• Huo Yuhao felt the machine's Soul Power fluctuations tear at his Sea of Consciousness as Kong Deming dismissed concerns about the danger.
• Huo Yuhao changed his martial soul, but the spiritual assault continued, confirming that Kong Deming had lied about its cause.
• Kong Deming told Huo Yuhao to press the green button and fire an energy beam at him for the next test.

Huo Yuhao turned Kong Deming’s test of the humanoid Soul Tool against him, firing its Soul-Gathering Cannon and escaping unseen. His shot killed the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler’s son, leaving Kong Deming to face the enraged ruler after it discovered Huo Yuhao’s hair inside the machine.

• Huo Yuhao secretly took control of the humanoid Soul Tool and fired its Soul-Gathering Cannon at an Evil Eye Tyrant.
• Huo Yuhao escaped using the Void Eye and left a strand of Kong Deming’s hair inside the machine.
• The blast killed the Evil Eye Tyrant, and the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler emerged, demanding to know who had killed its son.
• Kong Deming blamed the humanoid Soul Tool, but the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler found his hair inside and realized he was trying to deceive it.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler attacked Kong Deming with a crimson beam, which his Silvermoon Divine Light Shield absorbed.
• Kong Deming insisted someone else had killed the ruler’s son and warned it not to let others use it as their blade.

Huo Yuhao sabotaged Kong Deming's Silvermoon Divine Light Shield, triggering an explosion that killed Kong and his assistants while Huo survived by hiding in a damaged Soul Tool. After several days in the medical center, he woke to find Jing Hongchen questioning him.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler prepared to attack Kong Deming, but Huo Yuhao distracted it and secretly pried apart the Silvermoon Divine Light Shield's core formation.
• Kong Deming suffered severe injuries when the shield's connection to him broke, and the stored power of the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler exploded, killing Kong and his assistants as the ruler retreated.
• A squad from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps found Kong Deming's remains and discovered Huo Yuhao alive inside a wrecked humanoid Soul Tool.
• The Soul Engineers brought Huo Yuhao to Ming Capital's medical center, where he remained unconscious for several days.
• Huo Yuhao woke to find Jing Hongchen at his bedside and invited him to ask questions.
• Huo Yuhao recalled that he had staged his injuries after the explosion so the Evil Emperor would leave without detecting him.

After Kong Deming’s death, the Sun Moon Empire’s Imperial Family Disciplinary Squad interrogated Huo Yuhao while Jing Hongchen watched. Huo Yuhao maintained that a Soul Beast attack caused the disaster, and the questioning ended with his dislocated shoulder being reset.

• Jing Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that he would coordinate the case but leave the interrogation to the imperial family’s investigators.
• Two members of the Imperial Family Disciplinary Squad arrived and questioned Huo Yuhao while using Soul Power to inflict pain.
• Huo Yuhao described the Soul Tool losing control after a tentacle struck it, and said he had opened the door to rest with Kong Deming’s permission.
• When the interrogators accused him of causing Kong Deming’s death, Huo Yuhao insisted his death had nothing to do with him and threatened to return to Shrek Academy injured.
• After an hour-long confrontation, one interrogator reset Huo Yuhao’s dislocated shoulder and apologized for the harsh questioning.

After surviving the explosion that killed Kong Deming, Huo Yuhao endured Sun Moon Empire interrogations while secretly analyzing the Soul Tool designs he had obtained. He was eventually cleared, but a rise in Evil Soul Master activity around the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineers left him wary.

• Huo Yuhao dismissed the interrogators’ pressure and used the Soul Tool Eye to analyze the blueprint of the damaged Sun Moon Divine Needle and review the Silvermoon Divine Light Shield.
• Huo Yuhao stunned the soldiers blocking Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong, then asked them to watch for Soul Engineer competitions offering rare metals.
• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong that the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler had caused the explosion and kept his Soul Tool Eye secret from them.
• After more than half a month of interrogations, the Sun Moon Empire declared Huo Yuhao innocent because it lacked evidence and could not try a Shrek Academy exchange student itself.
• Following Kong Deming’s state funeral, Huo Yuhao noticed more Evil Soul Masters near the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineers and warned Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen to be careful.

Huo Yuhao warned Xiao Hongchen that Evil Soul Masters might be targeting him, but Xiao went out anyway and failed to return overnight. As Jing Hongchen began searching for his grandson, Meng Hongchen revealed Xiao’s unusual habit of taking his carving knife to an old woman in the outer city.

• Huo Yuhao warned Xiao Hongchen that Evil Soul Masters were watching the academy and urged him not to go out, but Xiao dismissed the warning and left that afternoon.
• Huo Yuhao saw the suspicious people disappear after Xiao left and told Meng Hongchen to alert Jing Hongchen that her brother might be in danger.
• Xiao Hongchen failed to return overnight, convincing Jing Hongchen that something had happened to him.
• Meng Hongchen explained that Xiao regularly took his carving knife to an old woman in the outer city for maintenance, unlike everyone else at the academy.

Huo Yuhao advised Jing Hongchen to investigate the Evil Demon Forest after clues suggested Xiao Hongchen might be dead. When Jing Hongchen tried to lead a search party there, the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps blocked the academy gates under the emperor’s orders, and Huo Yuhao persuaded him to retreat.

• Meng Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that no one had found her missing brother, Xiao Hongchen, and she feared something had happened to him.
• Investigators found Xiao Hongchen’s bloodstained cloth and broken carving knife, deepening Jing Hongchen’s worry about his fate.
• Huo Yuhao secretly left Jing Hongchen a note advising him to watch the Evil Demon Forest.
• Three days later, Jing Hongchen’s search party was stopped at the academy gates by the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Corps, acting under orders from the emperor and their commander.
• Huo Yuhao urged Jing Hongchen not to fight the soldiers, and Jing Hongchen ordered his party to dismiss.

Huo Yuhao negotiated with Jing Hongchen to help him escape the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy in exchange for support hunting a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant. They teleported out of Mingdu City and reached the Evil Demon Forest, where Jing Hongchen agreed to help restrain a beast before leaving to search for the path mentioned on a note.

• Jing Hongchen grew furious over being prevented from leaving, and Huo Yuhao warned him that forcing his way out could endanger the Hongchen Family.
• Huo Yuhao offered to help Jing Hongchen escape if Jing Hongchen helped him obtain a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant soul ring, and Jing Hongchen accepted with conditions.
• Huo Yuhao gathered raw bloody meat and used a flesh-and-blood array to teleport himself and Jing Hongchen outside Mingdu City.
• Jing Hongchen ordered the group to prepare their equipment, and they traveled to the Evil Demon Forest.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to help restrain an Evil Eye Tyrant, then leave to search for the strange path mentioned on a note.

Jing Hongchen found a hundred-thousand-year Ice Evil Tyrant, and Huo Yuhao defeated it with spiritual power and Flesh Alchemy. Huo Yuhao absorbed its soul ring and obtained an eye-shaped External Soul Bone, while the Tyrant's curse appeared to erase one soul from his mind.

• Jing Hongchen located an Ice Evil Tyrant and used a Soul Tool to weaken its Mental Force Field.
• Huo Yuhao bound the Ice Evil Tyrant with Electrolux's incantation and sent Jing Hongchen away with a signal Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao used Flesh Alchemy to crush the Ice Evil Tyrant, but its curse struck him and one soul vanished from his mind.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed Electrolux was unharmed and began absorbing the hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Plunder to weaken the soul ring, absorbed it, and pressed its eye-shaped External Soul Bone against his left eye.

After Sky Dream Ice Silkworm died from Ice Evil Tyrant’s curse, Huo Yuhao struggled to contain the million-year soul energy inside him and survived by condensing a Soul Core. He returned to the evacuation camp, where a red signal flare prompted him to cautiously head toward the danger.

• Ice Evil Tyrant’s curse struck the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who withered and died, releasing immense energy inside Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao followed the Titan Snow Demon King’s advice and began condensing a Soul Core to control the surging Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao locked down Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year soul ring, survived the crisis, and reached Level 60 while wasting some of the beast’s energy.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the evacuation camp, slept, and saw no sign that Jing Hongchen or the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers had arrived.
• A red signal flare rose from elsewhere in the Evil Demon Forest, and Huo Yuhao decided to investigate cautiously.

Huo Yuhao watched Ye Xishui threaten Jing Hongchen while Xiao Hongchen was held in a machine that extracted his bloodline. He realized Ye Xishui was targeting the Hongchen family's divine beast Martial Souls, while Jing Hongchen faced her demands for Meng Hongchen.

• Huo Yuhao chose the Lust Eye and Greed Eye, then followed Jing Hongchen's group and hid nearby.
• Huo Yuhao saw Xiao Hongchen unconscious in a device that injected black substances into his blood and extracted material from his spine.
• Ye Xishui confronted Jing Hongchen, revealed her Ultimate Douluo strength, and dismissed his threat to remove her head.
• Ye Xishui demanded that Jing Hongchen send Meng Hongchen to serve her in exchange for Xiao Hongchen's release.
• Huo Yuhao used his Soul Tool Eye to discover that the machine was extracting Xiao Hongchen's Three-Legged Golden Toad bloodline, and realized Ye Xishui was targeting both divine beast Martial Souls in the Hongchen family.

Huo Yuhao weighed whether to intervene as Ye Xishui threatened Jing Hongchen’s family, then secretly contacted Jing Hongchen and arranged a plan to save Xiao Hongchen. The chapter ended as Jing Hongchen pretended to accept Ye Xishui’s demands, just as the hourglass ran out.

• Huo Yuhao decided that the bloodline Ye Xishui had extracted from Xiao Hongchen was not enough to endanger his life, but worried Jing Hongchen might start a fight.
• Huo Yuhao used the Void Eye to approach Ye Xishui unseen and considered how to rescue Xiao Hongchen without provoking her.
• Huo Yuhao contacted Jing Hongchen through spiritual intent and told him to pretend to agree, then walk away so Huo Yuhao could save his grandson.
• Jing Hongchen asked what Ye Xishui was doing to Xiao Hongchen, and Huo Yuhao explained that a device was extracting the boy’s Martial Soul bloodline.
• As the hourglass ran out, Jing Hongchen shouted that he accepted Ye Xishui’s demands and told her to release his grandson.