Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao endured Jiang Bai’s Heaven-and-Earth Finger and learned to use its chilling power, then entered the final against Dai Huabin’s team. After Huo Yuhao stunned Dai Huabin and secretly sent the chill into him, Zhu Lu charged at Huo Yuhao, who retreated toward Wang Dong.

• Huo Yuhao endured the Heaven-and-Earth Finger while he and Tian Meng analyzed it, and he experienced a partial ice-attribute awakening.
• Mu En concluded that Huo Yuhao’s awakening was incomplete because his innate soul power was too low, then restored his depleted spiritual power.
• Jiang Bai warned Huo Yuhao to use the learned technique only on enemies or people he hated, while Tian Meng promised to ensure Dai Huabin would never advance to Soul Ancestor.
• In the final, Huo Yuhao reflected Cui Yajie’s Charm soul skill and helped Xiao Xiao attack her, while Wang Dong moved to protect Huo Yuhao from Zhu Lu.
• Dai Huabin charged Huo Yuhao, who used Soul Shock and Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon to knock him down as Tian Meng secretly sent cold air into Dai Huabin’s body.
• Zhu Lu ignored Wang Dong and lunged at Huo Yuhao, who retreated toward Wang Dong to avoid her attack.

Huo Yuhao’s team won the Freshman Assessment, and Tang Ya explained that the champions would become Core Disciples and receive valuable resources. At the awards ceremony, Du Weilun announced their rewards, including a secret special prize that Jiang Bai recognized as a hundred-year leopard-type leg bone.

• Huo Yuhao secretly planted the Heaven-and-Earth Finger inside Dai Huabin, then helped Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao defeat Dai Huabin’s team and win the tournament.
• Jiang Bai comforted the exhausted Xiao Xiao, and the group celebrated their victory over grilled fish that night.
• Tang Ya explained the benefits of becoming a Core Disciple, delighting Huo Yuhao, while Bei Bei warned that Jiang Bai might not qualify.
• Xiao Xiao insisted on keeping Little Xue Ying with her overnight, and the next day Wang Dong’s team received applause at the awards ceremony.
• Du Weilun announced that the top teams could receive suitable Soul Rings and that Wang Dong’s team would get a confidential special reward; Jiang Bai recognized it as a hundred-year leopard-type leg bone.

After Huo Yuhao was denied a core disciple position, Jiang Bai found him by Sea God Lake and heard his history and hatred of Dai Huabin. Jiang Bai challenged Huo Yuhao’s faith that Shrek would protect him, leaving Huo Yuhao to confront how little leverage he had against the White Tiger Duke’s Estate.

• Du Weilun announced the core disciples without naming Huo Yuhao, who became a half-core disciple and was assigned to Class One with Jiang Bai and Wang Dong.
• Xiao Xiao showed Jiang Bai the soul bone she had received as a reward, but he declined her offer to buy it on credit.
• Jiang Bai used the Golden Orb to find Huo Yuhao by Sea God Lake after learning he had disappeared, and Huo Yuhao revealed his background and hatred of Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao said he intended to oppose the White Tiger Duke’s Estate, and Jiang Bai questioned whether Shrek would truly protect him if Dai Huabin attacked.
• Jiang Bai asked whether Shrek would value Huo Yuhao or a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone more, and whether it would make Dai Huabin or Huo Yuhao leave if their conflict became irreconcilable.

Jiang Bai warned Huo Yuhao that Shrek might protect the White Tiger Duke's Estate and urged him to grow stronger through Soul Tools. Later, Jiang Bai defeated Dai Huabin in the class monitor contest, leaving Wang Dong as class monitor and Jiang Bai as vice monitor.

• Jiang Bai told Huo Yuhao that Shrek might oppose revenge against the White Tiger Duke's Estate and encouraged him to study Soul Tools.
• Electrolux suppressed Huo Yuhao's hatred, and Huo Yuhao agreed to focus on improving himself.
• Dai Huabin, Wang Dong, and Jiang Bai stood for class monitor, so Wang Yan sent them to settle the contest in the Soul Dueling Area.
• Jiang Bai overpowered Dai Huabin with his staff and knocked him out, while secretly dispersing the Soul Power Huo Yuhao had placed in Dai Huabin.
• The class accepted Wang Dong as class monitor and Jiang Bai as vice monitor, and Xiao Xiao asked Jiang Bai whether he had held back against her.

Jiang Bai left the academy for the Far North to obtain his third Soul Ring, where he encountered Su Tong and her party before returning to his old cave. He killed an eight-thousand-year Icefield Wolf and found a Soul Bone.

• Jiang Bai told Wang Yan that he planned to obtain his third Soul Ring in the Far North and later informed Huo Yuhao that he would leave in a few days.
• Wang Dong came to wait for Huo Yuhao outside the Soul Engineering Department, and Huo Yuhao took her hand as they sat with Jiang Bai.
• Xiao Xiao realized Jiang Bai had been gone for several days, while Huo Yuhao explained that he had gone to obtain a Soul Ring.
• In the Frozen Forest, Jiang Bai advised Su Jianghe to seek a two-thousand-year Snow Owl for Su Tong instead of the Ice Tiger, and Su Jianghe accepted his advice.
• Jiang Bai returned to his old cave, froze and killed the eight-thousand-year Icefield Wolf occupying it, and noticed a Soul Bone.

Jiang Bai met the revived Ice God and arranged the trials for his chosen inheritor, then completed condensing his third Soul Ring and reached level thirty-one. A powerful aura stirred in the Far North, which the Ice God recognized as the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s sacrifice and the inheritor’s arrival.

• Jiang Bai met the Ice God, who had recovered some Divine Sense, and declined to take the Divine Outfit for himself.
• Jiang Bai asked the Ice God to create the Ice God's Eight Trials, including safeguards, and agreed to bring him the Heavenly Snow Woman someday.
• Jiang Bai returned to his cave dwelling and spent fifteen days condensing his third Soul Ring, reaching Soul Elder level thirty-one.
• A powerful aura surged from the depths of the Far North, and the Ice God sensed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s sacrifice and the inheritor’s arrival.

After perfectly fusing with the Ice Empress, Huo Yuhao was summoned to the Ice God, who revealed that he was the Douluo World’s Child of Destiny and carried an Asura Godly Thought. The Ice God offered him a dangerous path to inherit the Ice God’s Divine Position, just as the Asura God’s Divine Sense swept across the Far North.

• Huo Yuhao completed his fusion with the Ice Empress, and Tian Meng proposed finding a Soul Ring for his Spirit Eyes.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a calling and was transported to a palace, where the Ice God dispersed Tian Meng’s and the Ice Empress’s attacks.
• The Ice God extracted an Asura Godly Thought from Huo Yuhao and explained that it could influence his mind and make him the Asura God’s puppet.
• The Ice God identified Huo Yuhao as the Child of Destiny and offered him the Ice God’s inheritance, warning that the Asura God might interfere.
• The Ice God explained his plan for Huo Yuhao to complete eight trials and later choose whether to accept the Divine Position, then sensed the Asura God’s Divine Sense passing over the Far North.

Huo Yuhao accepted Ice God’s Divine Trial and received a damaged Divine Outfit, while Ice God learned from Jiang Bai that Asura God’s legacy had brought disaster to the lower realm. Three days later, Jiang Bai went to investigate an avalanche and rescued Su Tong from an Ice King Bear, discovering that their powers could form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Ice God marked Huo Yuhao with the Divine Trial, gave him a Divine Outfit and Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and told him to leave through a one-use teleportation gate after absorbing the outfit.
• Jiang Bai showed Ice God his account of Asura God and Tang San’s actions, prompting Ice God to send a split soul outside and resolve to oppose Asura’s inheritor.
• Three days later, Huo Yuhao completed the Divine Outfit’s initial fusion with Ice Empress and left to prepare for his second Soul Ring.
• Jiang Bai noticed an avalanche and an Ice King Bear threatening Su Tong and her companions, then flew to investigate.
• Jiang Bai rescued Su Tong and discovered that her Ultimate Ice Soul Power fused with his, forming a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Jiang Bai warned Su Tong to keep their Martial Soul Fusion Skill secret, while Huo Yuhao absorbed a Simulation Soul Ring and learned that Tang San planned to manipulate his divine inheritance. After recalling the Ice God's warning about Asura Godly Thought, Huo Yuhao suspected those closest to him and considered leaving the Tang Sect as he headed toward town.

• Jiang Bai let the Soul Kings and Soul Emperors escape, warned Su Tong not to reveal their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and promised her a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone if she cultivated well.
• Huo Yuhao defeated a disguised Snow Silkworm posing as a Snow Tiger and began absorbing its Soul Ring while the Ice Empress stood guard.
• Tang San decided to steer Huo Yuhao toward the Emotion God's inheritance while secretly seeking control of the Ice God's Divine Position and considering how to influence Huo Yuhao through someone close to him.
• Huo Yuhao recalled the Ice God's warning that a close person could serve as a medium for Asura Godly Thought and connected the scheme to Tang San.
• Huo Yuhao resolved that he would eventually leave the Tang Sect and walked toward a town on the outskirts of the Frozen Forest.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Jiang Bai in a Far North town, where Jiang Bai was helping commoners awaken their Martial Souls. Over a meal, Jiang Bai advised Huo Yuhao how to conceal his Ultimate Ice and navigate Shrek’s plans for him, while privately weighing the opportunities he still needed there.

• Huo Yuhao learned from a vendor that Jiang Bai had been awakening poor children’s Martial Souls for free for years.
• Lang Jiao and other Kang Family Soul Masters threatened Jiang Bai, but fled after he revealed his yellow-purple-purple Soul Rings and ordered them to leave.
• Jiang Bai and Huo Yuhao met at a restaurant, where Huo Yuhao admitted he had awakened an Ice Jade Scorpion Martial Soul with Ultimate Ice.
• Jiang Bai advised Huo Yuhao to suppress his Ultimate Ice and claim it was not fully awakened, warning that Shrek would closely monitor him because of Ma Xiaotao and his rare power.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to stay cautious and grow stronger before considering leaving Shrek, while Jiang Bai planned to secure his remaining opportunities and told him to charge Shrek if asked to help Ma Xiaotao.

Jiang Bai and Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy, where Xiao Xiao confronted Jiang Bai for leaving without telling her and Wang Dong confronted Huo Yuhao about his martial soul mutation. Jiang Bai learned Mu En was beyond saving without divine intervention, then reunited with Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong at a restaurant.

• Jiang Bai and Huo Yuhao returned to the academy, and Jiang Bai went to report to Mu En, who noted that Xiao Xiao had been searching for him.
• Xiao Xiao scolded Jiang Bai for leaving without saying goodbye and revealed she was nearing level thirty under Mu En's tutelage.
• Jiang Bai accidentally saw Wang Dong pinning Huo Yuhao against a wall, and Wang Dong blamed Huo Yuhao for the awkward encounter before asking him about his martial soul mutation.
• The Ice God's Split Soul told Jiang Bai that Mu En was nearly impossible to save because his life force was continually draining away.
• Jiang Bai and Xiao Xiao went to the market, where he bought medicinal herbs and gave Xue Ying a medicinal milk tea; Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong later joined them after meeting with Wang Yan.

During a grilled-fish gathering, Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao revealed that they had Twin Martial Souls, while Jiang Bai reached Level 33. The next day, Dai Huabin’s group challenged Huo Yuhao’s team to an assessment bet, and Zhou Yi reignited the dispute over Huo Yuhao and Jiang Bai’s late return, defying Wang Yan.

• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and Jiang Bai that he had Twin Martial Souls, and Xiao Xiao later revealed that she did too.
• Xiao Xiao explained that the promotion assessment would judge how well students demonstrated their combat roles against Soul Beasts, and Jiang Bai broke through to Level 33.
• Dai Huabin’s group confronted Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao agreed to settle the conflict through a score bet with a Soul Bone as the wager, under Wang Yan’s witness.
• Zhou Yi ordered Jiang Bai and Huo Yuhao to report to her office and threatened expulsion, despite Wang Yan reminding her he had already handled their case.
• Zhou Yi dismissed Wang Yan’s explanation and insisted that their excuse might not satisfy her.

Jiang Bai confronted Zhou Yi after she used her Soul Rings to pressure the class, and Wang Yan forced her to leave. At the afternoon advancement assessment, Huo Yuhao chose a hundred-year Soul Beast, then unleashed a blood-red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

• Jiang Bai challenged Zhou Yi's authority and criticized her for expelling ordinary students and suppressing the class with her Soul Power.
• Zhou Yi used her six Soul Rings to pressure the students, but Jiang Bai, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong kept their heads raised.
• Wang Yan asserted his authority as homeroom teacher and ordered Zhou Yi to leave the classroom, then told the students the advancement assessment would take place that afternoon.
• Jiang Bai told Xiao Xiao that passing the assessment was enough, while she worried that a low score could cost him his provisional Core Disciple status.
• Huo Yuhao volunteered to go first in the Beast Fighting Area assessment and selected a hundred-year Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao released his second Soul Ring, sending blood-red pressure across the Beast Fighting Area and revealing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao’s simulated Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring disrupted the Beast Fighting Arena assessment and left Dai Huabin unable to compete. Xian Lin'er rescued Huo Yuhao from Du Weilun’s attempt to force him to reveal his Martial Soul, then learned that he had awakened the Ice Jade Scorpion, though its Ultimate Ice had not fully awakened.

• Xiao Xiao realized that Huo Yuhao’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring stopped the Soul Beasts from fighting, so Dai Huabin could not take the assessment and she had won their bet.
• Gong Changlong took Huo Yuhao away, and the teachers suspended the assessment after the arena descended into chaos.
• Jiang Bai asked Xiao Xiao to contact Xian Lin'er, who arrived and revealed that Huo Yuhao was her student and had asked her to come if trouble arose.
• Xian Lin'er confronted Du Weilun as he tried to force Huo Yuhao to reveal his Martial Soul, then sent him flying and took Huo Yuhao away.
• Huo Yuhao told Xian Lin'er that he had awakened the Ice Jade Scorpion, but its Ultimate Ice had not fully awakened.

Huo Yuhao revealed his Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul during the advancement assessment, prompting Shrek’s Martial Soul Department to compete for him and ultimately making him a core disciple of both departments. After agreeing to help Ma Xiaotao for a negotiated price, Huo Yuhao prepared to attend the Treasure Appreciation Pavilion with his friends.

• Xian Lin'er confirmed that Huo Yuhao’s ice attribute had not yet reached Ultimate Ice, and he agreed to help Ma Xiaotao if the Martial Soul Department paid his price.
• Xian Lin'er and Yan Shaozhe argued over Huo Yuhao, while Huo Yuhao left with Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong; Yan Shaozhe rejected her demands.
• Three days later, Huo Yuhao chose a thousand-year soul beast for his advancement assessment and revealed his Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul, which Yan Shaozhe realized could eventually reach Ultimate Ice.
• The Martial Soul Department tried to win Huo Yuhao over, and a Sea God Pavilion elder ruled that he would become a core disciple of both departments; Jiang Bai was also promoted to an official core student.
• Huo Yuhao gave Jiang Bai a storage bracelet of resources and soul tools, and Xiao Xiao invited Jiang Bai, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong to visit the Treasure Appreciation Pavilion that night.

Jiang Bai, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao visited Shrek City's Treasure Appreciation Fair, where they received their credit limits and examined rare items. Huo Yuhao spotted a ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber being sold as a low-quality piece, while Bei Bei learned the academy may have offered him a suitable soul bone to mend his relationship with Mu En.

• Jiang Bai and his companions entered the Treasure Pavilion and asked to have their credit limits assessed.
• Huo Yuhao admired a Rank 7 Soul Tool blueprint, and the group learned their limits: Jiang Bai received fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins, Wang Dong one hundred thousand, Xiao Xiao three hundred thousand, and Huo Yuhao unlimited credit.
• Jiang Bai pointed out a light-attribute Golden Earth Dragon King soul bone that seemed suited to Bei Bei, who suspected the academy had arranged it to ease tensions with Mu En.
• Xu Sanshi gave up searching for a suitable soul bone, and Huo Yuhao's group continued browsing the fair.
• Huo Yuhao bought Whale Rubber that Wang Dong thought was low quality, then whispered that it was actually ten thousand years old, shocking Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.

Jiang Bai stayed behind with Xiao Xiao while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong left the exhibition, then helped rush to their aid when assassins attacked them outside Shrek City. The attack ended with Ma Xiaotao killing the assassins, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong suspected Dai Huabin had ordered the ambush.

• Huo Yuhao bought several practical Soul Tools, then left the exhibition with Wang Dong while Jiang Bai persuaded Xiao Xiao to stay behind.
• Six assassins, including a Soul Emperor and five Soul Kings, attacked Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong outside Shrek City after Huo Yuhao fired a distress signal.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Jiang Bai, and Xiao Xiao rushed to help; Jiang Bai used a Soul Tool longbow to pierce the Soul Emperor, while Huo Yuhao used an Invincible Barrier to withstand the assassins' attacks.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived and killed the assassins, while Jiang Bai gave Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong medicinal pills to help them recover.
• When asked who had sent the assassins, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong both suspected Dai Huabin.

Jiang Bai discovered that Xue Ying's ice powder could be condensed into a Skill Stone and used it to store Frost Descent, then considered joining the upcoming National Tournament. The next day, Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao away to suppress her evil fire, while Wang Dong waited angrily for his return.

• Jiang Bai learned that Xue Ying could remain in its cute first stage and received strange ice powder from it.
• The Ice God guided Jiang Bai in turning the powder into a Skill Stone, and Jiang Bai successfully imprinted Frost Descent in it.
• Jiang Bai considered using Skill Stones to replicate powerful skills and joining the National Tournament to investigate the Golden Tree.
• Ma Xiaotao entered class with her evil fire out of control, declared that she wanted Huo Yuhao, and took him away after he agreed to help.
• Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice suppressed Ma Xiaotao's evil fire, and he used Ice Heaven to refine it into energy.
• Wang Dong waited for Huo Yuhao to return while picking green leaves from his hair.

Jiang Bai used Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice to attempt to awaken Bei Bei’s bloodline, while Xiao Xiao reached Rank 30 and went to absorb a Soul Ring. She found a rare Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear caught by Zhang Lexuan, and Jiang Bai left before Xiao Xiao began absorbing it.

• Jiang Bai had Huo Yuhao fill an Ice Element Spirit Fragment with ice-element Soul Power so he could use it to help Bei Bei.
• Xiao Xiao broke through to Rank 30, and Mu En directed her to the Beast Fighting Arena to obtain her third Soul Ring.
• Bei Bei arrived to attempt a bloodline awakening, and Jiang Bai used Ultimate Ice-enhanced Heaven-and-Earth Finger to freeze him.
• Xiao Xiao dragged Jiang Bai to the Beast Fighting Arena, where Gong Changlong introduced a Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear caught by Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhang Lexuan told Xiao Xiao to absorb the bear’s Soul Ring, and Jiang Bai left the area.

Jiang Bai waited as Xiao Xiao survived a dangerous Soul Bone absorption, then spoke with the Ice God about the limits of its power. The next day, Ning Tian summoned Jiang Bai and asked for his help securing a place among the Selection Tournament’s top seven.

• Zhang Lexuan gave Jiang Bai Heavenfrost Spring as a welcome gift while Xiao Xiao absorbed her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Xiao Xiao emerged frightened and exhausted, and Zhang Lexuan disguised the External Soul Bone mark on her hand as a temporary secret technique.
• Jiang Bai asked the Ice God how much power its backup measure could provide, learning it could raise him to Soul Saint level or Huo Yuhao to Titled Douluo level, at a cost of a year’s recovery after full use.
• Wu Feng told Jiang Bai that Ning Tian wanted to meet him alone, and Xiao Xiao let him go after he declined to bring her along.
• Ning Tian told Jiang Bai she wanted to place among the Selection Tournament’s top seven and asked him for help, explaining that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could not rely on Shrek’s favor.