Chapter Summaries

After Huo Yuhao escaped Mingde Hall's secret chamber with its treasures, Snow Empress awoke in his World Ring and went berserk. He released her into the battle between Du Busi and Jing Hongchen, where both men immediately fought over the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

• Huo Yuhao found many treasures in Mingde Hall's secret chamber, stored them in his World Ring, and emerged into the battle.
• Du Busi tried to seize Huo Yuhao, but Jing Hongchen stopped him and insisted that Huo Yuhao belonged to Mingde Hall.
• Snow Empress sensed the auras of human powerhouses among the stored treasures and unleashed Ultimate Ice inside the World Ring.
• Ice Empress warned Huo Yuhao that the others could no longer suppress Snow Empress, so he brought her out and threw her toward Du Busi and Jing Hongchen.
• Du Busi trapped Snow Empress in an emerald-green hand, while Jing Hongchen and Du Busi argued over who owned the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

Snow Empress’s desperate Soul Power explosion destroyed Mingde Hall and left her origin unstable, but Huo Yuhao and Elder Yi offered a way to save her by making her his Soul Spirit. Snow Empress remained wary as Elder Yi assured her he could seal her origin power.

• Snow Empress recalled Ice Empress and Tian Meng, then joined them inside Huo Yuhao’s World Ring after Ice Empress explained her cultivation path.
• Snow Empress’s explosion devastated Bright City, injured the experts, and destroyed Jing Hongchen’s Ninth-Level Defensive Soul Tool and the embryo he had pursued.
• Snow Empress said her unstable origin made her dangerous to everyone in the World Ring and prepared to leave, while Ice Empress pleaded with her to stay.
• Huo Yuhao proposed that Elder Yi seal Snow Empress’s origin power so she could become his Soul Spirit.
• Elder Yi said Huo Yuhao could bear Snow Empress’s spiritual power and assured her that sealing her origin would not be difficult, and Snow Empress asked whether he was certain.

Elder Yi sealed Snow Empress, who became Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit and helped him reach Soul King rank and Titled Douluo-level combat power. After Test Subject Number One went missing, Jing Hongchen ordered an investigation, and Huo Yuhao refused an inspector’s demand to search his storage devices, forcing Jing Hongchen to decide to inspect him personally.

• Elder Yi used his golden staff to seal Snow Empress, who then became Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit and granted him three hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
• Huo Yuhao broke through to Soul King rank, while his cursed energy remained at Grade One Jujutsu Sorcerer tier.
• Jing Hongchen learned that Test Subject Number One had gone missing and ordered an investigation and a hunt for the Body Sect.
• An inspector demanded that Huo Yuhao submit all his storage soul guidance devices to a search, but Huo Yuhao refused and displayed power that frightened the inspector.
• Jing Hongchen weighed the risks of searching Huo Yuhao and decided to visit him and conduct the inspection himself.

Jing Hongchen visited Huo Yuhao at Moon Lake to inspect his Storage Soul Guidance Device, but Huo Yuhao mocked him and refused to surrender the World Ring. Jing Hongchen arranged a match between Huo Yuhao and academy students, then left with his hostility unresolved as Fan Yu and Caitou arrived at the student dormitories.

• Jing Hongchen found Huo Yuhao fishing at Moon Lake and became furious when Huo Yuhao called him Little Red and Old Red.
• Huo Yuhao tossed Jing Hongchen ordinary Storage Soul Guidance Devices, then showed him the World Ring and dared him to take it off.
• Jing Hongchen backed down from inspecting the ring and proposed that Huo Yuhao fight students with comparable Soul Power Levels for precious metals.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the matches for three kilograms of precious metals per win but refused Jing Hongchen's offer to join the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineering Academy.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to arrange the match and authorized ticket sales, while Fan Yu and Caitou arrived at the student dormitories.

Huo Yuhao discussed the Body Sect’s attack and Jing Hongchen’s competition plan before arriving at the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineering Academy’s sparring tournament. He entered to loud cheers and jeers, then made a grand, boastful entrance that stunned the audience.

• Huo Yuhao told Fan Yu and He Caitou that the Body Sect may have attacked to raise its profile or to pursue the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, and he praised Jing Hongchen’s decision to hold the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the academy’s arena, where students gathered for a tournament offering a cash prize and a Soul Tool, with losing participants facing a deduction of materials.
• The academy’s students mocked Huo Yuhao or cheered for him, while Ye Xiaosheng and Fan Yu expressed support and Huo Yuhao claimed he was invincible.
• Lin Jiayi introduced Huo Yuhao as Shrek Academy’s representative, and Xuan Ziwen was named referee.
• Huo Yuhao’s fellow exchange students came out in matching uniforms and raised boastful banners, after which Huo Yuhao pointed his thumb down and drew shocked reactions.

Huo Yuhao defeated Xia Xuanchen in the first sparring match without being harmed by his Soul Tool shells, prompting Jing Hongchen to urge the students to learn from the gap in their abilities. Huo Yuhao began a second match against Wan Yijun, whose barrage passed through Huo Yuhao without exploding.

• The Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineering Academy students jeered at Huo Yuhao, and Jing Hongchen called for silence before the first match began.
• Huo Yuhao rushed Xia Xuanchen as he turned away, survived two Soul Tool cannon blasts unharmed, and kicked him off the field.
• Jing Hongchen rebuked the students for complaining and encouraged them to study Huo Yuhao's fighting skills.
• Wan Yijun started the second match by firing a barrage of Soul Tool shells at Huo Yuhao, but they passed through his figure without exploding.

Huo Yuhao effortlessly endured Wan Yijun’s barrage, prompting Wan to concede, then faced the seeded contestant Nana in a close-combat match. The chapter left Nana’s dagger trapped between Huo Yuhao’s fingers after he calmly countered her attack.

• Jing Hongchen realized Huo Yuhao’s speed made the soul guidance shells seem to pass through him, while Wan Yijun launched a heavy bombardment.
• When the smoke cleared, Huo Yuhao was unharmed and relaxing with milk tea and desserts, and Wan Yijun conceded before Huo Yuhao had attacked.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to arrange a defensive close-combat opponent for Huo Yuhao’s next match.
• Nana, a sixth-year Soul King and actual-combat soul engineer, stepped forward to challenge Huo Yuhao.
• Nana attacked Huo Yuhao with her soul dagger, but he parried her strikes and caught the blade between two fingers when she lunged at his back.
• Nana abandoned her dagger and backflipped away, bewildered by how Huo Yuhao had identified her true body.

Huo Yuhao defeated Nana in the tournament, claiming part of her soul after she tried to kill him, and finished the day with thirty straight wins. That night Nana confronted him in his room and tried to tease him into returning her soul, but Huo Yuhao pinned her against the wall and began to threaten her.

• Nana attacked Huo Yuhao with Wraith Binding and the Blink Sword, but he caught the weapon and dispersed the wraiths binding him.
• Huo Yuhao kept part of Nana's soul, and Xuan Ziwen declared him the winner of their match.
• Huo Yuhao completed thirty consecutive victories, disappointing the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineering Academy students while the Shrek Academy exchange students celebrated their betting profits.
• Nana went to Huo Yuhao's room and demanded that he return her soul, threatening to report him to the academy.
• Nana tried to tease Huo Yuhao into giving her soul back, but he pinned her against the wall and began, "Miss Nana, you wouldn't want..."

Huo Yuhao returned Nana’s soul before leaving to win two more matches at the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineering Academy. The chapter ended with Ji Juechen challenging him after recognizing the fist intent he had been seeking.

• Huo Yuhao returned Nana’s soul and left her to recover after their night together.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Shen Musu and Jing Ziyan with single strikes, winning both matches without using a Soul Tool.
• A mysterious man watched Huo Yuhao and said he possessed something the man had been pursuing.
• Ji Juechen entered the competition and challenged Huo Yuhao, saying he wanted to experience his fist intent.

Huo Yuhao defeated Ji Juechen without being harmed, and Ji Juechen conceded after seeing the vast difference between their sword intent. The sparring tournament ended with Huo Yuhao undefeated, while Jing Hongchen turned the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineering Academy students’ disappointment into renewed motivation.

• Ji Juechen attacked Huo Yuhao with Sword Intent Across the World, but Huo Yuhao stopped the sword qi with a snap of his fingers.
• Ji Juechen launched another powerful sword strike, emerged badly injured, and found Huo Yuhao unharmed and eating dessert.
• Ji Juechen conceded and left after telling Huo Yuhao he had seen what he wanted to see.
• Fan Yu asked Jing Hongchen to stop the tournament, but Jing Hongchen refused and suspected Huo Yuhao was hiding a great secret.
• Huo Yuhao defeated every genius from Mingde Hall over the next day and finished the tournament without a loss.
• Jing Hongchen encouraged the dejected students, who turned their disappointment into renewed determination to study.

Huo Yuhao defeated Ji Juechen’s challenge, then learned that Nana’s parents’ souls were imprisoned by the Holy Spirit Cult and agreed to help rescue them. Three days later, he and Nana reached the cult’s branch, where a guard recognized her and questioned Huo Yuhao.

• Ji Juechen challenged Huo Yuhao, was easily defeated, and concealed his pain by acting cool until a student recognized him.
• Nana asked Huo Yuhao for help and told him that the Holy Spirit Cult had imprisoned her parents’ souls after conditioning her mother to kill her father.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to rescue Nana’s parents and planned to investigate whether Ma Xiaotao was at the Holy Spirit Cult branch.
• Three days later, Huo Yuhao took Nana to the branch without bringing He Caitou, intending to clear it alone.
• A guard at the academy’s west gate recognized Nana and questioned Huo Yuhao, leaving Nana worried that their rescue plan had already failed.

Nana and Huo Yuhao encountered Dai Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei guarding a Holy Spirit Cult branch, then learned the three brothers did not know who their employer was. After Huo Yuhao and Nana beat them, the brothers fled, and Nana urged Huo Yuhao to enter the branch quickly.

• Nana tried to pass the red-robed guards by claiming Huo Yuhao was her little cat, but his reply exposed the ruse.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the guards as Dai Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, the three brothers he had previously encountered in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao and Nana beat the three brothers, and Nana accused Dai Bei of disgracing his ancestors by working for the Holy Spirit Cult.
• The brothers said they had taken the security jobs for food, lodging, benefits, and a monthly salary of three thousand, without knowing the employer was the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Dai Bei grabbed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and ran away, while Nana urged Huo Yuhao to enter the branch before more people arrived.

Huo Yuhao and Nana stormed a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar to rescue Nana’s imprisoned parents, but the Great Holy Spirit unleashed a Ten Thousand Souls Banner against them. The resentful spirits charged toward Huo Yuhao and Nana as the battle continued.

• Huo Yuhao killed the guards at the hidden entrance and fought his way through the Holy Spirit Cult passage with Nana.
• Nana identified the underground altar where her parents were imprisoned, and the Great Holy Spirit and Second Holy Spirit discovered the intruders.
• Huo Yuhao struck the Great Holy Spirit, who healed himself by drinking from a Thousand Blood Bottle made from the lives of over a thousand people.
• Nana attacked the Second Holy Spirit, but Huo Yuhao compressed his soul into a blue sphere and captured him.
• The Great Holy Spirit summoned the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and sent its resentful spirits rushing toward Huo Yuhao and Nana.

Huo Yuhao protected Nana from the Great Holy Spirit’s frenzied vengeful spirits, purified them, and killed the cult leader. He left Nana to find her parents’ souls while he dealt with the Holy Disciples outside.

• The Great Holy Spirit sacrificed his blood to strengthen the Ten Thousand Ghost Banner, but its vengeful spirits still could not reach Huo Yuhao and Nana.
• Huo Yuhao cast a Purification Spell that cleansed the vengeful spirits and weakened the Great Holy Spirit, who mistook him for the Holy Son before turning to dust.
• The skeleton transformed from the Second Holy Spirit seized the Great Holy Spirit, and Huo Yuhao crushed the fallen Holy Spirit Banner.
• Huo Yuhao told Nana to find her parents’ souls before the purification finished, then left the underground hall.
• Huo Yuhao defeated eight Holy Disciples outside and told them the branch had been destroyed and their relatives’ souls purified.

Huo Yuhao freed Nana and eight other Holy Servants by rescuing their families’ souls and arranged for them to flee to Shrek Academy. After they left, he destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult altar with Blue, leaving a massive pit.

• Huo Yuhao tortured the Great Holy Spirit’s soul, learned his memories, and found no information about Ma Xiaotao.
• Nana and the other Holy Servants emerged from the tunnel after reuniting with their families’ souls and pledged themselves to Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to help the nine survivors, gave Nana a token, and directed them to find Bei Bei at Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the group to leave Bright City quickly and use their Flight Soul Tools to escape the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue and erased the altar, leaving a massive pit.

After destroying a Holy Spirit Cult branch, Huo Yuhao reported the threat and gained a powerful undead protector for Nana. More than half a year passed as he continued his studies at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, where Jing Hongchen watched his progress and waited for a chance to seize his secrets.

• Dai Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei escaped the destruction of their employer and discussed where to seek work next.
• Huo Yuhao gave Fan Yu a report on the Holy Spirit Cult, and Fan Yu tried to send warnings about its alliance with Mingde Hall and the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao purified the Second Holy Spirit's skeleton, strengthened it with the Great Holy Spirit's soul power, and gave it to Nana for protection.
• Shrek Academy sent its Inspection Corps to search the continent for the hidden Holy Spirit Cult, but the search uncovered no clues.
• After more than half a year, Huo Yuhao finished his second academic year with Soul Tool knowledge comparable to a Level-9 Soul Engineer, while remaining at four rings without a fifth Soul Ring.
• Jing Hongchen noted that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen had reached level sixty and watched Huo Yuhao, planning to seize his secrets when he left the Sun Moon Empire.

He Caitou lured Huo Yuhao toward the academy gates, where they ran into Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen, who insisted on sparring. He Caitou launched Huo Yuhao into flight to help him escape, but the two pursuers immediately followed.

• He Caitou dragged Huo Yuhao from his dormitory toward the academy gates, promising him a surprise.
• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou encountered Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen, who challenged Huo Yuhao to spar.
• He Caitou lifted Huo Yuhao and hurled him into the air, where Huo Yuhao activated his Bamboo Dragonfly and flew toward the gates.
• Jing Ziyan used her soul-powered thruster to carry Ji Juechen after Huo Yuhao, and Ji Juechen unleashed sharp sword intent as they pursued.

Huo Yuhao fled Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen until Wang Dong arrived and shielded him with a powerful attack. The old friends reunited at the academy gates, where Huo Yuhao challenged Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen to a two-on-two fight, and the confrontation began.

• Huo Yuhao escaped through the academy gates on his Bamboo Dragonfly, but Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen pursued him.
• Wang Dong appeared and blasted Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen back with golden-blue light blades.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Wang Dong, flew to him, and embraced him.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen to fight him and Wang Dong without Soul Tools, and they accepted.
• Wang Dong held Huo Yuhao's hand as Jing Ziyan teased them, and Huo Yuhao stepped in front of Wang Dong when Jing Ziyan approached.

Huo Yuhao defeated Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen in a sparring match, then learned Jing Ziyan planned to pursue an exchange to Shrek. He reunited emotionally with Wang Dong and He Caitou before they arranged to eat together that evening.

• Jing Ziyan attacked Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong with her smoke and Explosive Nine-Section Whip, but Huo Yuhao froze the mist with his Permafrost Domain and caught the whip.
• Ji Juechen charged Huo Yuhao with his Heavenly Meteoric Iron Sword, but Huo Yuhao shattered his sword energy and knocked both Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan down.
• Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen expressed their desire to keep challenging Huo Yuhao, and Jing Ziyan decided to ask the hall master to join the next group of exchange students to Shrek.
• Wang Dong teased Huo Yuhao about his relationship with the two fighters, and Huo Yuhao explained that they were battle maniacs who kept seeking matches with him.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong embraced after their reunion, while He Caitou left to invite Teacher Fan Yu to dinner.

Wang Dong reunited with Huo Yuhao at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy after he had clashed with Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan. The guards let Wang Dong enter with Huo Yuhao, and the two reached his dormitory still teasing each other about their appearance and romantic prospects.

• Wang Dong explained that he had arrived early and found He Caitou, who helped arrange her surprise reunion with Huo Yuhao.
• The guards confronted Huo Yuhao over the damage from the Golden Road, and he agreed to pay for repairs while blaming Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan for provoking him.
• The guards recorded the incident, then embellished their report to clear Huo Yuhao and allowed Wang Dong to enter the academy.
• As they walked to Huo Yuhao's dormitory, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong joked about Wang Dong's looks, hair, and whether Huo Yuhao had attracted girls at the academy.
• Wang Dong asked whether Huo Yuhao really had picked up girls, and Huo Yuhao led her into his dormitory.