Huo Yuhao

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Huo Yuhao (霍雨浩)
Aliases	Huo Xiaodong; “Ignore” 111 116
Gender	Male
Martial Souls	Spirit Eyes; Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion; Holy Necromancer 54
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Soul Guidance Department; Martial Soul Department as a dual-department core disciple; Spirit Pagoda representative on formal occasions and operative within its Extreme North branch system 10 20 94 110 111
Occupation/Role	Shrek student; Soul Engineer; reserve member for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament; White Jade Rank adventurer 16 30 64 111
Cultivation	Rank 40 Soul Ancestor; possesses a fourth god-level soul ring formed from Ice Dragon King origin essence 143
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
One-ring Soul Master, Rank 12	3	An Enchanted Golden Apple rebuilds his body, strengthens his spiritual power, and awakens Gold Particle Mode; he advances only one rank but gains greatly improved aptitude. 3
Level 19	10	Reached through daily cultivation, soul-tool study, and combat training within his Sea of Spirit. 10
Rank 20 / two-ring Soul Grandmaster	16, 20	Suppresses his cultivation at Rank 20 after earning his Soul Engineer badge; later returns to Shrek after obtaining his second soul ring. 16 20
Two ten-thousand-year soul rings displayed	31	Displays two ten-thousand-year soul rings during Shrek’s reserve-team selection trials, allowing his team to overwhelm its opponents. 31
Level 30–31 / Soul Elder	28	Life Gold, the Snow Empress’s mark, and the Ice Crown raise him to Level 30. He absorbs a god-bestowed soul ring that becomes thirty-thousand years old and later states that he has reached Level 31. 28
Holy Necromancer awakened as third martial soul	54	Uses the Holy Necromancer’s power during the operation against an evil soul master, purifying enslaved corpses and releasing the souls bound within them. 54
Million-Year Simulate Soul Ring	136	Tianmeng replaces Tian Ling as Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit and creates a new million-year soul ring with an enhanced Simulate skill. 136
Rank 40 / Soul Ancestor	143	After a prolonged bottleneck associated with Ultimate Ice cultivation, Huo Yuhao breaks through Rank 40. Xia Liang provides Ice Dragon King origin essence to form his fourth, god-level soul ring. 112 143

Background / History

Huo Yuhao first encounters a god-like being in a white void after his mother’s death. His request to resurrect her is refused as impossible, so he instead wishes for the strength to avenge her. The wish is granted, and Xia Liang subsequently appears in his Sea of Spirit as his guardian. Tianmeng Iceworm becomes another presence within that Sea of Spirit, while Xia Liang restores enough life force for Electrolux to awaken. 1

After assisting Bei Bei and Tang Ya against a Datura Snake with his spiritual support skill, Huo Yuhao accepts Bei Bei’s offer to enter Shrek Academy. He trades a strange fruit for Bei Bei’s special admission slot, determined to cultivate and become stronger. 1 2

An Enchanted Golden Apple substantially repairs Huo Yuhao’s frail body and triggers a further awakening of his martial soul. Its effects grant him Gold Particle Mode, a powerful but brief golden transformation. 3

Huo Yuhao later travels with Xia Liang to the Extreme North, where he fuses with the Ice Empress and fully manifests his second martial soul. The experience leads him to view coexistence between humans and soul beasts as a personal mission; he hopes to lay a foundation for reconciliation between the two sides. 17

At the Ice God’s Palace, Huo Yuhao gains the Ice Crown, an external soul bone that increases his spiritual power and grants powerful ice-and-snow abilities. He subsequently contracts with the Snow Empress, receives her divine mark and a god-bestowed soul ring, and incorporates Life Gold into his body. 27 28

During an operation against an evil soul master, Huo Yuhao awakens the Holy Necromancer as a third martial soul. He uses its holy necromantic power to purify the twisted corpses in the enemy’s cave and release the tormented souls bound to them. 54

Following the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, Huo Yuhao spends time at the Spirit Pagoda’s Extreme North territory. To avoid attention while exploring the organization’s adventurer system, he adopts the forged identity Huo Xiaodong and the adventurer alias Ignore. 110 111

Huo Yuhao’s attempt to experience ordinary adventurer work leads to his mistaken arrest beside genuine intelligence smugglers. After his identity documents are checked and he is released, he accepts a Spirit Pagoda commission to repair Spirit Network equipment, demonstrating expertise well beyond his outwardly claimed Soul Engineer level. 116 117

While operating under his adventurer identity, Huo Yuhao joins Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen in Twilight Forest. His disguise fails after he employs Fabrication to eliminate six ten-thousand-year Knight Phantoms, exposing his identity to the Hongchen siblings. 120

Huo Yuhao later returns to Shrek City with Xiao Xiao and Tianmeng after visiting the Star Dou Forest. By this time, his accomplishments have made “Yuhao the Great” a common form of address among former classmates. 122

Before reaching Rank 40, Huo Yuhao experiences an unexplained cultivation bottleneck that he suspects may be connected to Ultimate Ice. He ultimately breaks through and receives a god-level fourth soul ring formed from origin essence shed during the Ice Dragon King’s resurrection. 112 143

Appearance

Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes are azure in his normal state. His appearance changes dramatically when Gold Particle Mode is active. 3

• Spirit Eyes — Azure eyes that serve as his body martial soul. 3 11
• Gold Particle Mode — Golden particles surround his body; his skin turns gold and his eyes become pure golden-yellow. 3
• Partial transformation — Can concentrate gold particles into a solid golden film around an arm for a stronger strike. 14
• Purple Battle Armor — Uses a purple-grade ice-attributed battle armor prototype during the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament. 86 91
• Spirit Pagoda uniform — Wears a Spirit Pagoda uniform when attending the Star Luo banquet as the organization’s representative. 94 96
• Huo Xiaodong disguise — Uses a forged identity and altered appearance, including blue hair, while acting as an adventurer in the Extreme North. 111 116

Personality

Huo Yuhao is intensely driven by the death of his mother and his hatred of the White Tiger Duke’s Estate. Even so, he restrains himself when facing Dai Huabin, choosing not to kill him immediately because he wants him to witness the estate’s eventual downfall. 13 His resentment remains intense when he later sees Dai Hao in person. 87

He is diligent, practical, and willing to pursue unfamiliar paths to improve himself. He studies soul tools, trains physically, cultivates consistently, and fights spiritual bodies in his Sea of Spirit. 4 6 10 He is also capable of generosity: he refuses payment for food shared among friends and gives Xiao Xiao valuable resources in exchange for permission to study her martial soul. 6 15

Huo Yuhao is an analytical and inventive soul engineer who considers the limitations of conventional Soul Tool armor and studies the possibilities of merging metal and body. 86 He also shows increasing political awareness by agreeing to attend the Star Luo banquet under the Spirit Pagoda’s name to avoid ambiguity regarding his affiliation. 94

Despite his extraordinary status, Huo Yuhao seeks to experience ordinary life outside continuous cultivation. He declines an easy guided adventurer mission because he prefers to explore independently, though this independence and personal pride contribute to his willingness to endure embarrassment rather than reveal his identity when wrongly detained. 112 116

He is cautious when dealing with unfamiliar organizations and powerful figures. He refuses the Body Sect’s invitation despite its promises regarding his Body Martial Soul, and he remains reserved when Long Aotian immediately recognizes his unusual strength. 85 112

Abilities & Skills

Spirit Eyes

Huo Yuhao’s primary martial soul is a body martial soul centered on his eyes. Its first soul skill originated from a mutated Wind Baboon and specializes in spiritual perception and support. 10 11

• Links his spiritual power to allies, allowing them to perceive everything within roughly a fifty-meter radius. 1
• Detects hostility before attacks occur. 1
• Detects and tracks hidden observers through Spiritual Detection. 85
• Disrupts opponents’ spiritual power and can break martial soul fusion skills, including the Lan sisters’ Heavenly Net. 11 12
• Uses spiritual attacks to interrupt stronger opponents, briefly halting Dai Huabin during their final. 14
• Possesses Spiritual Shock, which Tianmeng states could kill Dai Huabin in one strike at Huo Yuhao’s then-current level. 13
• Uses a simulation soul skill to disguise his soul-ring configuration as a hundred-thousand-year soul ring during the tournament. 61
• Uses Simulate to conceal his identity while acting as Huo Xiaodong. Tianmeng later replaces Tian Ling as his Soul Spirit and upgrades this ability through a million-year soul ring. 111 136
• Detects hidden threats in Twilight Forest, including the concealed Lich King encountered during the mutant-monster riot. 120

Gold Particle Mode

A temporary transformation awakened through the Enchanted Golden Apple. It enhances Huo Yuhao’s body and spiritual power severalfold. 3

• Greatly improves physical fitness, strength, speed, and spiritual power. 3
• Can allow him to contend with an ordinary three-ring Soul Elder while active. 3
• Lasts only three minutes; exceeding that limit leaves him exhausted and unconscious. 3
• Huo Yuhao later develops a weaker, more sustainable partial gold-particle transformation for close combat. 14

Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and Ultimate Ice

After fusing with the Ice Empress in the Extreme North, Huo Yuhao gains the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion as his second martial soul and acquires Ultimate Ice. 17

• Uses Ultimate Ice to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire. 29
• Can combine Ultimate Ice with Mental Freeze, his thirty-thousand-year soul-ring skill. 28
• His ice attribute attracts interest from ice-attribute soul masters and is considered valuable for Ma Xiaotao’s future treatment. 29 36
• Uses Ice Empress’s Pincer for concentrated close-range Ultimate Ice attacks. 91
• Uses Ice Emperor’s Protection to form an ice defense capable of withstanding Soul Tool weapon strikes. 91
• Uses Emperor’s Palm: Great Snow Without Cold, producing locking ice-and-snow palm strikes. 91
• His Ultimate Ice significantly weakens ordinary ice-attribute attacks and renders Meng Hongchen’s ice poison ineffective. 91
• Receives cultivation knowledge concerning human Ultimate martial souls from the Snow Empress, resolving several of his prior difficulties with Ultimate Ice cultivation. 89

Ice Crown

The Ice Crown is an external soul bone obtained at the Ice God’s Palace. It strengthens Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power and contains two soul skills and one divine skill. 27

• Sigh of Ice — Inflicts physical damage through ice power. 27
• Sigh of Snow — Inflicts spiritual damage. 27
• Breath of Ice and Snow — A divine skill that ignores defenses and directly freezes targets below god level. 27

Mental Freeze

A soul skill granted by Huo Yuhao’s god-bestowed thirty-thousand-year soul ring. 28

• Freezes or restricts opponents through mental and ice-based power. 28
• Can be used in combination with Ultimate Ice. 28

Holy Necromancer

Huo Yuhao’s third martial soul is the Holy Necromancer, awakened during the mission against an evil soul master. 54

• Purifies twisted corpses and evil necromantic influence rather than treating all necromantic power as inherently evil. 54
• Releases souls that have been forcibly bound and tormented by an evil soul master’s corpse-based techniques. 54
• Allows the wronged souls freed by his purification to turn upon and destroy the evil soul master responsible for their suffering. 54

Fabrication

Fabrication is a self-created soul skill that Huo Yuhao uses while operating under his adventurer identity. 120

• Instantly destroys six ten-thousand-year Knight Phantoms in Twilight Forest. 120
• Requires considerable spiritual power, and its use is intense enough to cause his Simulate disguise to collapse. 120

Life Judgment

Huo Yuhao can use Life Judgment to interfere with Soul Tools through life-based power. 84

• Temporarily disables a seventh-grade absolute-defense Soul Tool, allowing Ma Xiaotao to destroy the defense from within. 84
• Its ability to affect high-grade Soul Tools makes him a potential threat to Soul Engineers. 84

Martial Soul Fusion with Wang Dong

Huo Yuhao’s soul power can merge with Wang Dong’s under unusual circumstances, first occurring during Gold Particle Mode. 7

• Their merged power enables Huo Yuhao to defeat Ma Xiaotao during their encounter. 7
• Their fusion skill Wither attacks the soul directly and strips targets of defenses from soul power, martial soul, spirit, and body. 15
• Its power required intervention from senior Shrek figures to protect Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu during the Freshman Assessment final. 15
• During the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong use a four-body martial soul fusion technique to defeat the Sun Moon Team. 93

Divine Power

Huo Yuhao displays divine power when the Haotian Sect attempts to abduct him and Wang Dong. 34

• Helps repel Niu Tian and Titan alongside Tianmeng and the Ice Empress. 34
• Severely injures Titan, causing him to lose his right arm. 34
• His fourth soul ring is later formed from god-level origin essence shed during the Ice Dragon King’s resurrection. 143

Soul Engineering

Huo Yuhao takes a strong interest in soul tools and becomes affiliated with Shrek’s Soul Guidance Department. 5 9

• Studies soul-tool books and purchases materials independently. 6
• Receives a high-ranking Soul Guidance Department token granting access to teachers and resources. 10
• Obtains a Rank One-and-a-Half Soul Engineer badge. 16
• Is recognized as a second-level Soul Engineer and can select materials to craft Soul Tools for Wang Dong. 64
• Studies complex Soul Tool formations, including a dismantled Milk Bottle formation module prepared by Electrolux. 72
• Studies and operates a purple-grade Battle Armor prototype, including its extreme mode. 86 91
• Creates and uses a self-made soul ray weapon whose shots are guided by his spiritual power toward enemy weak points. 120
• Repairs advanced Spirit Network instruments with unusual speed and precision, while concealing his ability by claiming to be a “four and a half” level Soul Engineer. 117
• Possesses technical methods distinct from conventional Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineering, reflecting his research under Electrolux. 117

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Storage treasure — Given by Xia Liang as payment after their first meeting. 1
• Bracelet-type storage soul tool — Contains two fifteen-cubic-meter storage spaces. 6
• Seventh-grade defensive soul tools — Receives one as compensation; Wang Dong later returns another to him. 8 9
• Soul Guidance Department token — Allows direct access to Xian Lin’er and other department teachers. 10
• Red appraisal card — A Treasure Gathering Pavilion card with no credit limit. 22
• Yellow staff from the Twilight Forest — Obtained during the Treasure Appraisal Fair. 22
• Ice Crown — An external soul bone that increases spiritual power and grants Sigh of Ice, Sigh of Snow, and Breath of Ice and Snow. 27
• Life Gold carving knife — Infused into his brow by Electrolux during the Snow Empress contract. 28
• Blade of Living Nature — A ranked carving knife that Huo Yuhao already possesses, making an additional ice-attributed ranked carving knife unnecessary. 65
• Purple Battle Armor — An ice-attributed prototype battle armor supplied by Xia Liang for Huo Yuhao’s study and tournament use. 86 91
• Unabsorbed soul bones — Holds multiple soul bones, including a ten-thousand-year soul bone obtained from Mu En, but considers them unnecessary for himself. 4 15
• White Jade adventurer equipment — Receives a basic dagger, defensive robe, monster guide, adventurer badge, handbook, and certification upon registering at the Adventurers’ Association. 111
• Soul Engineer’s toolbox — Carries tools used to repair Spirit Pagoda signal-type Soul Tools and Spirit Network equipment. 117
• Enchanted iron armor — Secretly uses fully enchanted iron armor rather than the more fragile Golden Armor available to ordinary adventurers. 120

Relationships

• Xia Liang — Guardian and senior figure within Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit; supplies resources, protects him from powerful enemies, and guides his cultivation. 1 23
• Tianmeng Iceworm — Spiritual companion who grants Huo Yuhao an additional martial-soul opportunity and assists with spiritual abilities and treasure appraisal. Tianmeng later replaces Tian Ling as Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit, creating his million-year Simulate soul ring. 1 22 136
• Electrolux — Awakened resident of Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Spirit; assists with training, research, the Life Gold fusion, and the development of Soul Crystal technology. 1 28 136
• Ice Empress / Bing Xue — Fuses with Huo Yuhao as his second martial soul; later acknowledges him as a sibling, protects him from the Body Sect, and supports his Ultimate Ice abilities. 17 23 85 91
• Snow Empress — Forms a contract with Huo Yuhao, grants him a god-bestowed soul ring, and supports the Spirit Pagoda that Huo Yuhao later represents. 28 94
• Tian Ling — Tianmeng’s ten-thousand-year Ice Silkworm descendant who briefly serves as Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit before Tianmeng replaces him. Electrolux gives Tian Ling a new body and Soul Crystal vessel, after which he begins working for the Spirit Pagoda. 136
• Bei Bei — Friend and benefactor who uses his special admission slot to bring Huo Yuhao into Shrek Academy. 2
• Tang Ya — Friend who protects Huo Yuhao during the Datura Snake encounter and regularly joins his gatherings with Bei Bei. 1 6
• Wang Dong — Roommate, teammate, and martial soul fusion partner. Their friendship is strained after Huo Yuhao learns Wang Dong was connected to Tang San’s plans, though Xia Liang assures him their feelings were genuine; Wang Dong later apologizes for leaving without farewell and continues to treat Huo Yuhao as a close friend. 3 7 34 59
• Xiao Xiao — Freshman Assessment teammate. Huo Yuhao offers resources and assistance to study her martial soul, leading to her Azure Phoenix awakening; she later assists him in treating teammates affected by Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire. 15 16 89
• Dai Huabin — Rival connected to Huo Yuhao’s past and the White Tiger Duke’s Estate. Huo Yuhao defeats him repeatedly, eventually forcing him to kneel and apologize after an assessment bet. 13 21
• Dai Hao / White Tiger Duke — The current White Tiger Duke and a central target of Huo Yuhao’s resentment. Although the estate avoids provoking him after Xia Liang’s intervention, Huo Yuhao remains determined to make Dai Hao understand his suffering. 53 87
• Ma Xiaotao — Initially attacks Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, then apologizes and later hires Huo Yuhao to suppress her evil fire. He continues assisting her during the tournament, though her martial soul later evolves toward an Evil Fire Phoenix. 7 29 84 89 90
• Mu En — Shrek elder who trades Huo Yuhao a ten-thousand-year soul bone for a Golden Apple and later proposes his dual-department core-disciple status. 4 20
• Ning Tian — Support-type teammate accepted by Huo Yuhao during Shrek’s tournament selection trials. She later seeks his help navigating the Spirit Pagoda to obtain a fourth-ring Soul Spirit and discusses Soul Spirit Food with him. 31 132 133
• Body Sect — The sect seeks to recruit Huo Yuhao because of his Spirit Eyes body martial soul. Huo Yuhao rejects its invitation, prompting its representatives to threaten him before the Ice Empress intervenes. 85
• Long Aotian — A powerful Body Sect member who senses Huo Yuhao’s exceptional strength during their encounter at the Extreme North Spirit Pagoda. Neither initiates conflict due to the Body Sect’s warning not to cause trouble there. 112
• Meng Hongchen — Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy captain whom Huo Yuhao defeats while testing his Purple Battle Armor. She later recognizes “Ignore” as Huo Yuhao after his disguise fails in Twilight Forest. 91 120
• Xiao Hongchen — A Sun Moon Academy competitor and fellow Soul Tool enthusiast. He approaches Huo Yuhao at the Star Luo banquet to seek special metals and later negotiates a Soul Tool-for-metal exchange with Tianmeng. He subsequently cooperates with Huo Yuhao in Twilight Forest and becomes deeply interested in the Mutation-Type Mecha X001. 95 96 120 121
• Sickle — A Soul Engineer Huo Yuhao meets while repairing Spirit Network equipment under the Huo Xiaodong identity. Sickle is impressed by Huo Yuhao’s technique, and the two become friends. 117
• Di Tian — The Star Dou Forest’s Beast God and a senior figure in the Spirit Pagoda’s human–soul beast cooperation. Huo Yuhao respectfully interacts with him during Spirit Pagoda discussions and benefits from his support of the organization’s reforms. 122 136
• Bi Ji — A healing ferocious beast whom Huo Yuhao accompanies to Shrek City while she is disguised as a small green bird. Her healing aura restores Zhou Sichen’s hidden injuries. 122
• Zhou Sichen — Former Shrek classmate who addresses Huo Yuhao as “Yuhao the Great.” Huo Yuhao helps him investigate the Zombie Scepter’s mutation of his Tome Martial Soul, leading to Electrolux’s creation of Zhou Sichen’s Contract soul skill. 122 124 125

Story Role / Major Arcs

Joining Shrek Academy

Huo Yuhao enters Shrek through Bei Bei’s special admission slot, begins living with Wang Dong, and develops his body and Spirit Eyes through Xia Liang’s resources and guidance. 2 3 4

Freshman Assessment

Teaming with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao conceals much of his strength while using spiritual interference to defeat opponents. In the final, he confronts Dai Huabin, counters the Netherworld White Tiger with Wang Dong, and wins the Freshman Assessment tournament. 11 14 15

Dual-Department Cultivation

Initially transferred to the Soul Guidance Department, Huo Yuhao later becomes a dual-department core disciple so he can study both martial souls and soul tools. 10 20

Extreme North Contracts

Huo Yuhao travels to the Extreme North, fuses with the Ice Empress, later contracts with the Snow Empress, and rises rapidly to Soul Elder rank. 17 28

Conflict with the White Tiger Duke’s Estate

After assassins pursue him and Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao’s companions help him seek justice against the White Tiger Duke’s Estate. The resulting pressure forces the estate to compensate and leads Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu to withdraw from school competition. 22 23 28

Although the estate later avoids direct confrontation with Huo Yuhao, his hatred toward Dai Hao and the White Tiger Duke’s Estate remains unresolved. 53 87

Soul Spirit Promotion and Tournament Selection

Huo Yuhao agrees to join Shrek’s reserve team for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, intending to help bring attention to soul spirits and the Spirit Pagoda. He later dominates the selection trials while displaying two ten-thousand-year soul rings. 30 31

At the tournament in Star Luo City, Huo Yuhao’s simulated soul-ring display causes spectators to believe that Shrek has formed an alliance with the Spirit Pagoda. He assists Ma Xiaotao in battle, uses Life Judgment to compromise a seventh-grade absolute defense Soul Tool, and tests Purple Battle Armor against Meng Hongchen. 61 84 91

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong ultimately deploy a four-body martial soul fusion technique to defeat the Sun Moon Team, drawing continent-wide attention. 93

Haotian Sect Incident

When Niu Tian and Titan attempt to take Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao, Huo Yuhao helps resist them with Tianmeng and the Ice Empress. He then learns that Tang San had linked Wang Dong’s fortune to his own in an effort to draw him into Tang San’s faction. 34

Star Luo Banquet

After the tournament, Huo Yuhao attends Star Luo Empire’s grand banquet under the Spirit Pagoda’s name, clarifying his association with the organization while preserving his position at Shrek. At the banquet, he meets Xiao Hongchen and connects him with Tianmeng’s proposed special-metal and communication-Soul-Tool exchange. 94 95 96

Holy Necromancer Awakening

While accompanying Ma Xiaotao’s team on a mission to eliminate an evil soul master, Huo Yuhao discovers a cave of corpses and bound souls. His Holy Necromancer martial soul awakens, enabling him to purify the dead and allow the released souls to exact retribution on their tormentor. 54

Huo Xiaodong and the Adventurers’ Association

At the Spirit Pagoda’s Extreme North branch, Huo Yuhao acts under the forged identity Huo Xiaodong and adopts “Ignore” as his adventurer alias. He registers as a White Jade Rank adventurer to experience life beyond cultivation and gain access to Twilight Forest missions. 111 112

His first attempt to investigate suspicious activity ends with his mistaken detention alongside real intelligence smugglers. After his release, he takes a Spirit Network repair commission, impresses the Soul Engineer Sickle, and conceals the extent of his technical ability. 116 117

Twilight Forest Mutant Riot

Huo Yuhao joins Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen on a Twilight Forest mission while disguised as Ignore. He assists them with spiritual targeting and a self-made soul ray weapon against mutant creatures, witnesses Mutant Group Three and the Mutation-Type Mecha X001, and destroys six ten-thousand-year Knight Phantoms with Fabrication. 120

The spiritual-power expenditure causes his disguise to fail, revealing his identity to the Hongchen siblings. 120

Return to Shrek and Soul Spirit Research

After returning from the Star Dou Forest, Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao reunite with former classmates in Shrek City, where Huo Yuhao is widely called “Yuhao the Great.” They encounter Zhou Sichen and later bring his Zombie Scepter-related martial soul mutation to Xia Liang and Electrolux for investigation. 122 124

Huo Yuhao observes Electrolux’s development of Zhou Sichen’s Contract skill and later helps Ning Tian explore the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit system. Their discussions reveal that intelligent Soul Spirits can selectively condense soul power and that Soul Spirit Food can support Soul Spirit cultivation. 125 132 133

Rank Forty Breakthrough

Huo Yuhao’s cultivation remains stalled below Rank 40 for a prolonged period, despite his belief that he should already have advanced. By the time the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass seeks to become his Soul Spirit, he has broken through and requires only a fourth soul ring. 112 143

Xia Liang provides god-level origin essence shed during the Ice Dragon King’s resurrection, allowing Huo Yuhao to form a god-level fourth soul ring instead of accepting the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. 143

Notable Quotes

“I have to become stronger!” 3

“I want him to watch the White Tiger Duke’s Estate fall.” 13

“Half a minute, if I go all out.” 21