Chapter Summaries

After Yan Shaozhe excluded Huo Yuhao from the core disciple list, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Cao Jinxuan rallied around him. Days later, the five asked to withdraw from the list, leaving Du Weilun to face the fallout from the academy’s decision.

• Huo Yuhao dismissed his exclusion from the core disciple list, while Wang Dong hugged him and vowed that the matter would not end there.
• Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng joined Wang Dong in supporting Huo Yuhao, though he insisted he did not care about the list.
• After the freshman assessment ended, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Cao Jinxuan went to Du Weilun and asked to withdraw as core disciples.
• Ning Tian told Du Weilun that Huo Yuhao’s exclusion made the honor undeserved, and the five said they were unworthy of their places.
• Du Weilun privately blamed Yan Shaozhe, recalling that he had recommended Huo Yuhao before Yan Shaozhe crossed his name off the list.

Ju Zi learned that Huo Yuhao had been treated unfairly by Shrek Academy and ordered the Spirit Medicine Pavilion to defend him through public pressure. Ning Tian also arranged to support Huo Yuhao, while teasing Wu Feng about marrying him; Wu Feng unexpectedly began to like the idea.

• Ju Zi received Xiao Xiao's urgent letter and became furious over Yan Shaozhe and Shrek Academy making things difficult for Huo Yuhao.
• Ju Zi ordered Azure Scale and Shao Xing to publicly back Huo Yuhao and spread accusations that Shrek suppressed talented commoners.
• Ning Tian told the Nine Treasure Merchant Association president to frame the criticism of Shrek as a spontaneous public movement.
• Wu Feng questioned why Ning Tian was risking the association's influence for Huo Yuhao, and Ning Tian explained that supporting his future was a valuable investment.
• Ning Tian teased Wu Feng about marrying Huo Yuhao and becoming her chambermaid, and Wu Feng began to see the proposal as appealing.

Yan Shaozhe’s plan to pressure Huo Yuhao sparked public outrage, while Ma Xiaotao mistook the plan for a chance to secure their marriage contract. In Dormitory 108, Wang Dong confessed to Huo Yuhao after he called her pretty, leaving him stunned.

• Yan Shaozhe relaxed in his office, confident that Huo Yuhao would eventually accept the academy’s arrangements.
• Rumors that Shrek Academy was suppressing Huo Yuhao, a genius with the Ultimate Attribute, spread through Shrek City and provoked public anger.
• Ma Xiaotao confronted Yan Shaozhe over Huo Yuhao’s lost core disciple slot, but she agreed with his plan after he said it could help settle their marriage contract.
• Wang Dong visited Huo Yuhao in feminine clothes and asked whether she looked pretty.
• After Huo Yuhao called her pretty, Wang Dong asked him to be her boyfriend, leaving him speechless.

Wang Dong confessed to Huo Yuhao, but he rejected her because she was underage, prompting her to attack him before he pinned her down. Ma Xiaotao arrived to support Huo Yuhao and found him restraining Wang Dong, leaving her visibly enraged.

• Wang Dong dressed up and confessed to Huo Yuhao, who rejected her because she was not yet fourteen and had not grown up.
• Wang Dong demanded to know why Huo Yuhao accepted Ma Xiaotao, and he replied that Ma Xiaotao was eighteen and mocked Wang Dong's figure.
• Furious, Wang Dong lunged at Huo Yuhao, who dodged her attack and pinned her to the bed.
• Ma Xiaotao hurried to Huo Yuhao's dormitory, intending to offer him support after Yan Shaozhe's instructions.
• Ma Xiaotao kicked open the door and found Huo Yuhao pinning Wang Dong beneath him, then her eyes turned crimson and her hair began to flutter.

Ma Xiaotao caught Huo Yuhao with Wang Dong and took him to her private room, where he persuaded her that he would not trade love for a core disciple position or an engagement. She embraced him and vowed to trust him, then became enraged at Dean Yan and set off to confront him.

• Ma Xiaotao stormed into Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's dorm room, then carried Huo Yuhao away over Sea God Lake.
• Huo Yuhao used his ultimate ice to calm Ma Xiaotao's evil fire as they flew to her private room.
• Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao to apologize to the old man so they could settle their engagement and secure his core disciple position, but he refused.
• Huo Yuhao argued that abandoning his former fiancée for benefits would mean he might abandon Ma Xiaotao for greater rewards, and she apologized and promised to trust him.
• Huo Yuhao suggested Dean Yan did not believe in him, and Ma Xiaotao stormed off to burn down the old man's office.

After Ma Xiaotao demanded that Yan Shaozhe apologize to Huo Yuhao, Yan refused and ordered Shrek Academy to suppress the uproar over its treatment of commoner geniuses. Just as he believed the crisis had passed, the Azure Scale Douluo arrived in Shrek City to demand an explanation.

• Du Weilun reported to Yan Shaozhe that freshmen were withdrawing from the core disciple list and rumors about Shrek Academy suppressing commoner geniuses had spread through the city.
• Ma Xiaotao urged Yan Shaozhe to apologize to Huo Yuhao and restore his core disciple position, but Yan confined her to the Inner Court and forbade her from seeing Huo Yuhao.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered Du Weilun to suppress the rumors, have Zhou Yi deal with the student protesters, and punish prominent troublemakers.
• Shrek Academy quickly silenced the public uproar, and Yan Shaozhe believed the matter had been resolved.
• The Azure Scale Douluo arrived over Shrek City and demanded an explanation.

Dugu Ling confronted Shrek over Huo Yuhao’s unfair exclusion from the core disciple list and threatened to take him away. Shrek’s elders ordered Yan Shaozhe to publicly apologize and restore Huo Yuhao’s status, leaving Yan Shaozhe humiliated and forced to comply.

• Dugu Ling appeared over Shrek City, denounced the academy for denying Huo Yuhao core disciple status, and mocked its decline.
• Huo Yuhao wondered who Dugu Ling was and marveled at Ju Zi’s ability to recruit a Titled Douluo for the Spirit Medicine Pavilion.
• After Du Weilun explained the core disciple decision, Shrek’s elders blamed Yan Shaozhe, and Dugu Ling threatened to withdraw Huo Yuhao from the academy.
• Shrek’s leaders pleaded with Dugu Ling to allow them to investigate, and he left after agreeing to hear their explanation.
• Mu En ordered Yan Shaozhe to publicly apologize to Huo Yuhao, announce the corrected decision, restore his core disciple status, and provide emotional compensation.
• Yan Shaozhe reluctantly accepted Mu En’s order despite the humiliation of apologizing publicly.

Huo Yuhao regained his core disciple status after Yan Shaozhe publicly apologized, then prepared to spend the semester break pursuing his second martial soul. As vacation began, Ju Zi arrived at Shrek Academy and embraced him in front of Wang Dong, Ma Xiaotao, and the other students.

• Yan Shaozhe apologized to Huo Yuhao before the academy and reinstated his Martial Soul Department core disciple status.
• Huo Yuhao completed a framework for shaping his second martial soul and planned to meet Ju Zi before traveling to the Far North.
• Ma Xiaotao, Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Wang Dong, and Ning Tian each invited Huo Yuhao to spend vacation with them, but he declined.
• Ju Zi and Ye Guyi arrived at Shrek Academy's gates to pick up Huo Yuhao.
• Ju Zi embraced Huo Yuhao in full view of Wang Dong and Ma Xiaotao, leaving them stunned.

Ju Zi reunited with Huo Yuhao at Shrek and left with him and Ye Guyi for a hot spring villa, where Ye Guyi opened up about seeing Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi as her family. The chapter ended with Ye Guyi taking Huo Yuhao by the hand to the hot spring.

• Ju Zi embraced Huo Yuhao at Shrek, then took his hand and left with him and Ye Guyi as the watching students looked on.
• Huo Yuhao traveled with Ju Zi and Ye Guyi to a hot spring villa in the Heaven Dou Empire after months of exhausting work.
• Ye Guyi entered Huo Yuhao's study in a bathrobe and offered to take him to the hot spring, but he hesitated because they were grown up.
• Ye Guyi embraced Huo Yuhao and told him that he and Ju Zi were her most important family.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Ye Guyi's offer, and she led him by the hand toward the hot spring.

Huo Yuhao went to the Far North to complete his second Martial Soul, Extreme Ice, and persuaded Ju Zi and Ye Guyi to let him enter alone. After leaving them behind, he joined Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and set out to claim four powerful beings and treasures.

• Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi that his second Martial Soul lacked a true form and that he needed something from the Far North to complete it.
• Ju Zi agreed to let Huo Yuhao go on the condition that Ye Guyi accompany him and the Spirit Medicine Pavilion prepare a rescue team.
• At the Far North's edge, Huo Yuhao convinced Ju Zi to let him enter alone, while she and Ye Guyi waited in a border town and set a seven-day check-in deadline.
• Ye Guyi gave Huo Yuhao a short sword bearing her Soul Power mark so she could find him if he was in danger.
• After Huo Yuhao disappeared into the blizzard, he called on Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and planned to obtain the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, Titan Snow Demon King, and a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus.

Huo Yuhao discovered that his first soul skill let Tian Meng condense a temporary physical body, and Tian Meng led him into the Far North to obtain his complete second Martial Soul. At the core of the Far North, Snow Empress sensed Huo Yuhao’s arrival and went to meet him, delaying her plan to recultivate as a human.

• Tian Meng materialized beside Huo Yuhao and started a snowball fight, which Huo Yuhao won using Mental Telekinesis.
• Tian Meng explained that Huo Yuhao’s Mind-Clearing and Mental Telekinesis allowed him to form a temporary spiritual body near Huo Yuhao.
• Tian Meng led Huo Yuhao toward the Far North’s core to obtain his complete second Martial Soul.
• Snow Empress waited beside an Ice Crystal Snow Lotus as she prepared to seal her cultivation and recultivate as a human to avoid her coming seven-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.
• Snow Empress sensed Huo Yuhao’s arrival and left the frozen lake to meet him.

Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng sheltered from the Far North’s blizzard while discussing its dangerous Extreme Ice Soul Beasts and Huo Yuhao’s research on Soul Power. Huo Yuhao argued that human civilization had outpaced Soul Beasts, leaving Tian Meng unable to refute his criticism except by blaming Soul Masters for hunting them.

• Huo Yuhao formed a snow shelter with Mental Telekinesis, and Tian Meng insisted they stay inside because powerful Soul Beasts roamed at night.
• Tian Meng explained that most Far North Soul Beasts possessed the Extreme Ice attribute, making their Soul Rings and Soul Bones deadly for ordinary Soul Masters to absorb.
• Huo Yuhao used Mind-Clearing to write theories about Soul Power while Tian Meng read the titles and praised his intelligence.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had organized and refined knowledge gathered by human sages, then argued that accumulated learning had allowed humans to surpass Soul Beasts.
• Tian Meng tried to defend Soul Beasts, but Huo Yuhao criticized their lack of civilization and knowledge; Tian Meng could only blame Soul Masters for hunting them.

Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Beasts were declining not only because Soul Masters hunted them, but because their own society lacked solidarity and moral boundaries. His critique left Tian Meng shaken, while an unknown woman silently stood nearby in the snow.

• Tian Meng blamed Soul Masters for the declining number of Soul Beasts, and Huo Yuhao said internal causes were more important.
• Huo Yuhao cited the Three-Eyed Golden Lion hunting other Soul Beasts and compared it to humans eating members of their own kind.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Beasts lacked shared values, pointing to Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts draining Tian Meng's origin while claiming to protect their race.
• Tian Meng reconsidered Soul Beast society and realized that its members had no clear shared identity beyond an imposed label.
• Huo Yuhao called Soul Beasts a rabble that deserved their predicament, while an unidentified beautiful woman stood silently less than ten li away.

Snow Empress overheard Huo Yuhao’s criticism of the Far North and was shaken by his words about Soul Beasts’ needless slaughter of one another. She entered Huo Yuhao’s snow house, where he recognized her and felt an inexplicable connection, though he could not understand why she was there at full strength.

• Snow Empress listened from outside as Huo Yuhao challenged the Far North’s cruelty and questioned whether its Soul Beasts truly formed a unified race.
• Snow Empress reflected on the needless killing among Soul Beasts and felt her worldview collapse.
• Tian Meng sensed a terrifying presence approaching and warned Huo Yuhao that they could not defeat it.
• A blizzard appeared inside the sealed snow house, and Snow Empress materialized before Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Snow Empress, wondered why she had not undergone her expected tribulation, and felt an inexplicable resonance with her.
• Snow Empress asked Huo Yuhao why he possessed such powerful destiny.

Snow Empress questioned Huo Yuhao and Tianmeng Iceworm about their plans, while Tianmeng urged her to become Huo Yuhao’s second martial soul. She then asked Huo Yuhao how Soul Beasts could resolve their predicament.

• Snow Empress sensed Huo Yuhao’s extraordinary fortune, and he pretended not to understand while identifying her as Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress recognized Tianmeng Iceworm’s million-year origin, and Tianmeng proudly recalled his unusually easy cultivation before Huo Yuhao kicked him to act serious.
• Snow Empress asked why Tianmeng had brought Huo Yuhao to the Far North, and Tianmeng described his god-making plan at length.
• Snow Empress remained skeptical as Tianmeng urged her to become Huo Yuhao’s second martial soul, but she did not attack.
• Snow Empress recalled Huo Yuhao’s earlier words about the Soul Beast race and asked him how Soul Beasts could resolve their predicament.

Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Beasts could escape their decline by reproducing on a massive scale and spreading the strongest bloodlines throughout their populations. He left Snow Empress and Tian Meng considering his proposal to use Di Tian’s bloodline to revive the True Dragons.

• Snow Empress and Tian Meng asked Huo Yuhao how Soul Beasts could resolve their predicament, and he answered that they should reproduce in large numbers.
• Snow Empress threatened Huo Yuhao with an Ice Soul Longsword until he explained that exceptional Soul Beasts could spread their powerful bloodlines and drive collective evolution.
• Huo Yuhao used Di Tian as an example, proposing that the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King sire many offspring with lower-ranking draconic Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao calculated that one million descendants could yield a hundred pure-blooded True Dragons at a one-in-ten-thousand rate, potentially restoring the ancient dragon race over time.

Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Beasts could restore their fortunes by increasing food production and developing through population pressure, competition, and war, using human history as his example. The Snow Empress was shaken by his reasoning and began to understand why the Far North’s fortune had drawn her to him.

• Huo Yuhao criticized Di Tian for doing nothing to restore the Soul Beasts and called him an old-fashioned ruler.
• Huo Yuhao claimed that Xiong Jun’s repeated mating had spread the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear’s powerful bloodline throughout the species.
• The Snow Empress objected that unchecked reproduction would exhaust the Far North’s resources and cause starvation.
• Huo Yuhao proposed researching ways to increase food production, then described how population growth, resource shortages, competition, and war drove human technological development.
• The Snow Empress traced Huo Yuhao’s argument through human history, reconsidered her view of humans, and understood why the Far North’s fortune had drawn her to him.

Huo Yuhao told Snow Empress he wanted to become a god, and she agreed to help him while refusing to become his Martial Soul. After Tian Meng pitched the God-Making Plan to the Far North’s Fierce Beasts, Huo Yuhao rejected the proposal just as Ice Empress began to consider it.

• Huo Yuhao told Snow Empress that he wanted to become a god, and Snow Empress agreed to help him but chose to cultivate anew as a human.
• Snow Empress brought Huo Yuhao to meet five super Fierce Beasts and explained that several others were hibernating to avoid heavenly tribulations.
• Tian Meng presented the God-Making Plan and asked the Fierce Beasts to sacrifice themselves as Soul Rings, but the Titan Snow Demon King and others rejected the idea.
• Snow Empress vouched for Huo Yuhao, and Tian Meng urged Ice Empress to become Huo Yuhao’s second Martial Soul.
• Ice Empress wavered as she faced her coming four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, but Huo Yuhao stepped forward and said, “I refuse.”

Huo Yuhao rejected Ice Empress as a candidate for his second Martial Soul and chose Titan Snow Demon King for his powerful physique and dual bloodlines. After A-Tai accepted Huo Yuhao’s invitation, he began sacrificing himself, enveloping Huo Yuhao in blue light as Snow Empress sensed the Far North’s fate gathering around him.

• Huo Yuhao refused Ice Empress because her Extreme Ice power would not meet his need to strengthen his body and sustain his Super Brain.
• Huo Yuhao named Titan Snow Demon King as his target and explained that he wanted A-Tai’s Titan physique and Extreme Ice bloodline.
• Huo Yuhao invited A-Tai to join him, and A-Tai accepted after struggling with the decision.
• The Fierce Beasts gathered as A-Tai began sacrificing himself, turning into a torrent of pure energy that surrounded Huo Yuhao.
• Snow Empress watched Huo Yuhao within the blue light and felt the Far North’s fate converging upon him.

Huo Yuhao used Mind-Clearing to control the Titan Snow Demon King's sacrificial energy, reshaping his second martial soul while forcing excess power into a soul ring and soul bone. The Snow Empress realized he was doing something unprecedented, while Tian Meng feared Huo Yuhao’s actions had derailed his carefully planned scheme.

• Huo Yuhao activated Mind-Clearing and used his mental power to stop his second martial soul from taking the Titan Snow Demon King's form.
• Huo Yuhao separated the Titan and Ice God bloodline powers, directing their purest essence into his second martial soul and expelling excess energy to form a blood-red soul ring and a blue soul bone.
• Tian Meng sensed Huo Yuhao's mental power draining rapidly and panicked that his original plan had gone off course.
• The Snow Empress observed Huo Yuhao splitting and redirecting the sacrificial energy, and realized that his ability to reshape it explained why he had refused Bing'er.