Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen demonstrated their newly developed Rank Five Soul Tool Handgun to Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi. Huo Yuhao revealed that it fired instantly and could be used by people without Soul Power, leaving them to consider its greater potential.

• Gu Yuena began special training for Meng Hongchen, Wang Dong'er, Di Qiu'er, and the others as they competed for places on the Soul Master Competition team.
• Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi questioned whether Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen's compact handgun could match a Soul King's attack.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Jing Hongchen to witness the handgun's power, but Jing Hongchen slapped him after he taunted his grandfather.
• Lin Jiayi volunteered to test the Rank Five Soul Tool Handgun, and Xiao Hongchen fired several shots that struck Lin Jiayi's Rank Five Invincible Shield.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the handgun fired instantly and required no Soul Power, allowing even ordinary people to use it.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen revealed their Soul Tool Handgun, which ordinary people could use and which rivaled Rank Five Soul Tools. Jing Hongchen recognized its world-changing potential and planned to present the achievement to the Emperor, while privately deciding to help Meng Hongchen win Huo Yuhao over.

• Huo Yuhao explained that the Soul Tool Handgun could be used without Soul Power and handed it to Lin Jiayi to test.
• Jing Hongchen took the handgun from Lin Jiayi, fired it, and confirmed its power and potential against even higher-level Soul Masters.
• Xiao Hongchen bragged about the invention, and Jing Hongchen teased him by claiming Huo Yuhao had designed it alone.
• Huo Yuhao defended Xiao Hongchen's contribution, saying they had developed the handgun together.
• Jing Hongchen offered to take Huo Yuhao to see Kong Deming and seek imperial recognition for the invention.
• Jing Hongchen resolved to help Meng Hongchen win Huo Yuhao over.

After Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen unveiled their Soul Tool Handgun, the Sun Moon Empire’s leading Soul Engineers recognized its revolutionary potential. The Sun Moon Emperor rewarded them as Imperial Viscounts and promised to support Huo Yuhao, including in his future revenge against the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.

• Kong Deming and the other Rank Nine Soul Engineers gathered to examine the Soul Tool Handgun and asked Huo Yuhao how he had designed a weapon ordinary people could use.
• Huo Yuhao explained his ideas and improvements, inspiring the Soul Engineers to consider new approaches to Soul Tool research.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen brought Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen’s achievement before the Sun Moon Emperor, who promised generous rewards after verifying the handgun’s power.
• The Sun Moon Emperor hosted Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen at the Imperial Palace, named them Imperial Viscounts, and offered them the highest treatment and further gifts.
• The Sun Moon Emperor promised Huo Yuhao that the empire would support his revenge against the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and privately hoped his daughter might become close to him.

After the Sun Moon Emperor named Xu Tianran his favored successor, Xu Tianran befriended Huo Yuhao in hopes of finding a cure for his paralysis. He abandoned plans to work with the Holy Spirit Cult and decided to free Ju Zi so she could pursue a closer relationship with Huo Yuhao.

• The Sun Moon Emperor decided Xu Tianran was his best heir and arranged for him to escort Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen from the banquet.
• Huo Yuhao pushed Xu Tianran's wheelchair, and Xu Tianran tried to draw closer to him by praising his kindness toward Xu Tianzhen.
• Xiao Hongchen mistook Xu Tianran's interest in Huo Yuhao for a bid to make him a brother-in-law and resolved to urge Meng to act quickly.
• After Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen departed, Xu Tianran ordered his agent to stop contacting the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Tianran decided to free Ju Zi and have her repay her life-saving debt by giving him any item she found that could heal his body.

After completing the Soul Tool Handgun project and earning an Imperial Viscount title, Huo Yuhao planned to forge Huo Ningxue a weapon that could grow with her. He worried that his growing popularity would make him every man's public enemy by the time of the Soul Master Competition.

• Xiao Hongchen asked whether Huo Yuhao was close to Princess Xu Tianzhen, and Huo Yuhao assured him they were only ordinary friends.
• Xiao Hongchen urged Huo Yuhao to become his brother-in-law by marrying Meng Hongchen, then headed back to the academy to see Jing Hongchen and boast about his viscount title.
• Huo Yuhao decided to use special metals to make Huo Ningxue a weapon that could grow stronger alongside its owner.
• Huo Yuhao reflected that the handgun's invention could strengthen the Sun Moon Empire and resolved to seek peaceful change and reduce civilian casualties.
• Huo Yuhao noted that Huo Ningxue and others had grown increasingly attached to him and wondered if men would treat him as a rival during the Soul Master Competition.

Xu Jiujiu feared that Huo Yuhao’s new Soul Tools would let the Sun Moon Empire overwhelm the Star Luo Empire, while Gu Yuena grew jealous of the Snow Empress’s closeness to Huo Yuhao. Gu Yuena decided to change her approach and use her beauty to draw closer to him.

• Xu Jiujiu panicked after reading that Huo Yuhao had developed offensive Soul Tools usable by ordinary people and feared the Sun Moon Empire would destroy Star Luo.
• Xu Jiujiu blamed the White Tiger Duke's Mansion for driving Huo Yuhao away from Star Luo and vented her anger by striking her pillow.
• Gu Yuena became envious that the Snow Empress received Huo Yuhao’s attention and Diary Copy rewards while Gu Yuena had not obtained what she wanted.
• Di Qiu'er suggested that she and the other girls make Huo Yuhao the target of men’s jealousy during the Soul Master Competition, and Gu Yuena agreed.
• Gu Yuena assigned Di Qiu'er extra training and resolved to use her beauty to make Huo Yuhao unable to resist her.

Huo Yuhao gave Xiao Hongchen a Marrow Cleansing Pill, restoring his cultivation potential and shocking the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s elite. As Huo Yuhao finished crafting the Snow Empress’s weapon just before the Soul Master Competition, the Diary granted him a reward that left him astonished.

• Huo Yuhao gave Xiao Hongchen a Marrow Cleansing Pill, and Xiao swallowed it before Huo Yuhao returned to his laboratory to work on the Snow Empress’s weapon.
• Xiao Hongchen expelled foul impurities from his body, then rushed to wash himself and later became stronger as the pill cleared the side effects of his previous pills and broadened his meridians.
• Jing Hongchen, Kong Deming, and the Rank Nine Soul Engineers questioned Huo Yuhao about the pill, and he claimed a powerful expert had given it to him in exchange for occasional help using his Ultimate Ice power.
• Jing Hongchen grew jealous that Xiao Hongchen had received the pill and repeatedly scolded him for not thinking of his grandfather.
• Huo Yuhao continued crafting the Snow Empress’s growth-type weapon until it was completed shortly before the Soul Master Competition, then received a surprising Diary reward.

Huo Yuhao received the Guangxiu Liuxian Dress and planned to give it, along with a Zhen Ice sword, to the Snow Empress. As the girls read his Diary, Wang Dong'er decided to pursue Huo Yuhao as his official girlfriend.

• Huo Yuhao wrote in the Diary that he would give the Snow Empress the Guangxiu Liuxian Dress and her newly forged Zhen Ice sword.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to attend the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's selection for the Soul Master Competition and see how the others' training had gone.
• The girls reading their Diary Copies felt envious of the Snow Empress, while Wang Dong'er focused on obtaining the growth-type Frostmourne.
• Wang Dong'er decided her feelings for Huo Yuhao had grown enough for her to take the initiative and become his lover.

Huo Yuhao gave Snow Empress a powerful ice sword and a beautiful dress, delighting her and prompting her to hug him. Zhang Lexuan and the other girls saw the embrace, leaving Huo Yuhao worried that their trip to select Soul Master Competition members would turn awkward.

• Huo Yuhao gave Snow Empress an ice sword and invited her to name it.
• Snow Empress happily accepted the sword, and Huo Yuhao also gave her the Guangxiu Liuxian Dress.
• Snow Empress threw herself into Huo Yuhao's arms while Ice Empress watched and pleaded for him to let her go.
• Zhang Lexuan and eight girls arrived and saw Snow Empress embracing Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao explained the gifts and suggested they go together to select Soul Master Competition members, but the girls mostly stayed silent.

Huo Yuhao arrived at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s competition selection with the Snow Empress and the other girls, drawing attention and jealousy. Jing Hongchen reserved him a competition spot, and after Huo Yuhao demonstrated Mental Detection and Sharing, the academy’s students and teachers accepted his qualification.

• Meng Hongchen and Gu Yuena grew jealous after seeing Huo Yuhao embrace the Snow Empress, and Gu Yuena resolved to use her Soul Tool skills to get closer to him.
• Jing Hongchen praised the talents of the young women accompanying Huo Yuhao and announced that everyone except Huo Yuhao would compete for a place on the team.
• The senior students wondered why Jing Hongchen had directly selected Huo Yuhao instead of Xiao Hongchen.
• At Jing Hongchen’s request, Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection and Sharing to let everyone experience his thousand-meter perception range.
• Old Ma and the other teachers and students agreed that Huo Yuhao deserved a competition spot, impressed by how useful his abilities would be to Soul Engineers.

Huo Yuhao secured a place in the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s competition team through his Mental Detection and Sharing, while the selection began for the remaining competitors. As the girls angrily battered upperclassmen over Huo Yuhao’s closeness with Snow Empress, he prepared for the competition and anticipated Shrek’s next move.

• Huo Yuhao’s Mental Detection and Sharing won the academy’s Soul Engineers over, and Xiao Hongchen vowed to defeat every opponent before accepting the upperclassmen’s challenges.
• Jing Hongchen began the competitor selection, while Ling Luochen chose to earn her place through fair competition despite already being promised a spot.
• Gu Yuena, Meng Hongchen, Wang Dong'er, Di Qiu'er, and the other girls beat upperclassmen after Jing Hongchen stopped them from confronting Huo Yuhao about hugging Snow Empress.
• Huo Yuhao wrote in the Diary that he would avoid intimate relationships for his safety, which further enraged the girls and made them attack the upperclassmen more fiercely.
• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao that Kong Deming was arranging the competition preparations and had instructed him not to hold back.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan trusted that Gu Yuena could protect them if necessary, while keeping her identity and strength concealed as they awaited Shrek’s actions in the competition.

The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy completed its team selection for the Soul Master Competition, with Huo Yuhao among its seven official contestants and Zhang Lexuan named a team leader. Jing Hongchen sent the team to prepare for the journey to the Star Luo Empire, while the Snow Empress and the others followed Huo Yuhao to test his new sword.

• Huo Yuhao reflected on Zhou Yi's wager and the danger Shrek Academy might face at the competition, while Zhang Lexuan recalled refusing Kong Deming's attempt to bring her and Huo Yuhao together.
• Kong Deming later apologized to Huo Yuhao for trying to influence his relationship with Zhang Lexuan, though Huo Yuhao suspected he still hoped they would grow closer.
• The selection ended with Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, Gu Yuena, Meng Hongchen, the Snow Empress, Ling Luochen, and Ma Rulong named as official contestants.
• Jing Hongchen declared that the academy's team should win the championship and named Old Ma and Zhang Lexuan as team leaders, with himself and Kong Deming accompanying the group in secret.
• The Snow Empress pulled Huo Yuhao away to test his new sword, and Gu Yuena, Meng Hongchen, Wang Dong'er, Di Qiu'er, and others followed while the bruised Xiao Hongchen went for treatment.

After the free-for-all, Xuan Zi told the seven selected students they were substitute team members for Shrek Academy’s Soul Master Competition, not the main team. Ning Tian privately anticipated that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er would make Shrek’s team lose its long-standing glory.

• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Dai Huabin, He Caitou, Zhu Lu, and Ning Tian emerged as the seven final victors of the selection match.
• Ning Tian thanked Wu Feng for protecting her, while Wu Feng brushed off her own elimination and warned Ning Tian to be careful.
• Wu Feng confronted Xu Sanshi over his teasing, but Xuan Zi sent the eliminated students away before she could act.
• Xuan Zi announced that the seven victors had been selected as substitute team members who might gain experience against weaker opponents during the Soul Master Competition.
• Xu Sanshi, Dai Huabin, and the others celebrated the opportunity, while Ning Tian thought Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er would end Shrek’s ten-thousand-year glory.

Ning Tian and the substitute team members considered Shrek’s future and Bei Bei’s offer to join the Tang Sect. Dai Huabin’s insult about Tang Ya’s status as an Evil Soul Master left Bei Bei unable to answer Jiang Nannan’s questions, and the group separated in anger and disappointment.

• Ning Tian reflected that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would likely distance itself from Shrek and decided to compete for Shrek one last time.
• Xuan Zi dismissed the substitutes after praising Shrek and disparaging Soul Engineers, angering He Caitou.
• Bei Bei invited the six substitutes to join the Tang Sect, but Ning Tian refused and left.
• Dai Huabin rejected Bei Bei’s offer and called the Tang Sect Master an Evil Soul Master, provoking Bei Bei.
• Zhu Lu followed Dai Huabin away, while Jiang Nannan demanded an explanation about Tang Ya and Bei Bei could not answer.
• Jiang Nannan and He Caitou left, and Xu Sanshi sat down, dispirited by the group’s divisions.

As the Sun Moon Empire team traveled to the Star Luo Empire for the Soul Master Competition, Huo Yuhao wrote in his Diary that Shrek’s competitors might be massacred by the Death God Envoy if Xuan Zi led them. The Diary’s readers reacted with concern, while Ning Tian heard Xuan Zi defend the deaths of Shrek’s Inner Court students and questioned his account.

• Xiao Hongchen excitedly told Huo Yuhao he wanted the Sun Moon Empire to defeat Shrek and win the championship.
• Huo Yuhao decided to write about the danger facing Shrek’s Supervision Group and hoped Xuan Zi would protect them from the Death God Envoy.
• Meng Hongchen and Xu Tianzhen doubted that a Soul King could wipe out Shrek’s team, while Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen believed Huo Yuhao’s warning.
• Zhang Lexuan hoped Shrek’s competitors would survive, since their deaths would disrupt Huo Yuhao and Kong Deming’s plan to undermine Shrek.
• Xuan Zi told Ning Tian that Shrek’s Inner Court students had died fighting for the academy’s ideals, and Ning Tian wondered how many had died because of his irresponsibility.

Ning Tian feared that Shrek Academy’s mission would end in disaster, especially after learning that the target was the Death God Envoy Huo Yuhao had warned about. She joined the Shrek Supervision Group but could not persuade Xuan Zi to provide defensive Soul Tools, and Ma Xiaotao rejected her offer of Invincible Barriers.

• Ning Tian worried that the Shrek team might be wiped out and resented being drawn into danger for Shrek’s ideals.
• Xuan Zi and the senior students praised the Supervision Group, while Bei Bei silently struggled with his anger toward Ma Xiaotao over Tang Ya’s fate and the deaths of two Outer Academy Students.
• Dai Huabin, Jiang Nannan, Zhu Lu, and Ning Tian agreed to join the Shrek Supervision Group after Xuan Zi demanded their decision.
• Xuan Zi revealed that the mission target was the Death God Envoy, leaving Ning Tian alarmed as the others dismissed the danger of facing a Soul King.
• Ning Tian asked Xuan Zi to equip the group with defensive Soul Tools, but he refused, so she offered her Invincible Barriers instead.
• Gongyang Mo moved to borrow an Invincible Barrier, but Ma Xiaotao stopped him and insisted that Shrek soul masters needed no external protection.

Ning Tian offered Invincible Barriers to the competitors before Xuan Zi led them out to face the Death God Envoy. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao discovered that Gu Yuena had secretly become a Rank Eight Soul Engineer, then exposed her progress in his Diary and considered working with her on Battle Armor.

• Ma Xiaotao refused to let Gongyang Mo borrow Ning Tian's Invincible Barrier, and he abandoned the idea.
• Ning Tian gave Zhu Lu an Invincible Barrier, while Dai Huabin refused one to uphold his pride.
• Xuan Zi ordered the group to leave and kill the Death God Envoy before heading to Star Luo City.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Gu Yuena had reached Rank Eight Soul Engineer and questioned her interest in Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao revealed Gu Yuena's secret progress in the Diary, drawing hostile attention toward her.
• Huo Yuhao considered researching Battle Armor with Gu Yuena after the Soul Master Competition, and the others turned knife-like gazes on her.

Gu Yuena’s Soul Tool research plan was exposed, prompting the girls around Huo Yuhao to see her as a rival and decide to pursue him more actively. Meanwhile, Xu Jiujiu worried over the Star Luo Empire’s growing vulnerability and hoped Huo Yuhao’s plans concerning Shrek would succeed.

• Huo Yuhao persuaded Gu Yuena to collaborate with him on developing Battle Armor after the Soul Master Competition, and she agreed despite her frustration with him.
• Di Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er accused Gu Yuena of using special training to keep the other girls occupied while she learned Soul Tool crafting, and the girls realized she had schemed against them.
• Meng Hongchen blamed Gu Yuena for keeping her from getting closer to Huo Yuhao and resolved to become his first woman, while the other girls decided to take the initiative.
• Xu Jiujiu worried about the Sun Moon Empire’s growing strength and considered how the Star Luo Empire should respond to Shrek Academy.
• Granny Manyi urged Xu Jiujiu to treat Shrek with contempt, but Xu Jiujiu feared the consequences of provoking its powerful experts and hoped Huo Yuhao’s revelations would benefit the Star Luo Empire.

Shrek's teams entered a cavern to hunt the Death God Envoy while Ning Tian and Leng Qiuyu stayed outside. The hunt began with explosions and fighting inside, as Ning Tian watched without offering help.

• Wang Yan led Shrek's main and reserve teams to the cavern, where he said the Death God Envoy's strong scent of blood indicated many victims.
• Ning Tian asked whether Elder Xuan would join them, but Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Zhou Yi mocked her and urged her to stay outside if she was afraid.
• Ning Tian abandoned her plan to distribute Invincible Barriers and agreed to wait outside, while the others entered the cavern.
• Wang Yan assigned Ning Tian and Leng Qiuyu to stand guard as the teams went inside to confront the Death God Envoy.
• An explosion, shouts, impacts, and surging Soul Power sounded from within the cavern as the hunt began.

The Shrek Supervision Group attacked the Death God Envoy in his cave, where his corpse-explosion trap killed and gravely wounded several members before Xuan Zi arrived. The Death God Envoy escaped during the chaos, leaving Wang Yan to question why Xuan Zi had come so late.

• Wang Yan led the Shrek Supervision Group deeper into the cave, and the members attacked the Death God Envoy and his subordinates without waiting to assess the situation.
• The Death God Envoy detonated corpses scattered around the group, killing Xi Xi, mortally wounding Gongyang Mo, and severely injuring Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Wang Yan, and Zhou Yi.
• Xuan Zi rushed into the cave and found the Death God Envoy stabbing Dai Huabin, then pulled the enemy toward himself while trying to protect the injured disciples.
• The Death God Envoy triggered another chain of corpse explosions and escaped through a tunnel as Xuan Zi sealed Gongyang Mo's body and shielded the others.
• Wang Yan stared at the dead and wounded and wondered why Xuan Zi had arrived only after so many had fallen.