Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao used his Ultimate Ice to help Ling Luochan overpower Ma Xiaotao’s team, then continued his flirtatious relationship with Ma Xiaotao. As the group prepared to leave for the Star Luo Empire, Xuan Zi revealed the Inner Court’s secret duty as the Shrek Inspection Corps.

• Huo Yuhao infused Ling Luochan with Ultimate Ice, letting her suppress Ma Xiaotao’s flames and secure victory for Dai Yueheng’s team.
• The students marveled at Huo Yuhao’s Twin Martial Souls, while Dai Yueheng grew jealous and Ma Xiaotao teased Huo Yuhao about meeting her later.
• Wang Dong found Huo Yuhao asleep in their dormitory and covered him with a blanket; that night, Ma Xiaotao took Huo Yuhao away for another private contest.
• The next morning, Ma Xiaotao struggled to get ready as Huo Yuhao pulled her into more practice, and the group gathered outside the academy to depart for the Star Luo Empire.
• Xuan Zi explained that Inner Court disciples served as Shrek Inspectors who intervened in dangerous Soul Master incidents, and revealed that he was the Inspection Corps’ deputy leader.

Elder Xuan introduced the Shrek Inspection Corps and its dangerous work, and most of the students agreed to join. The group set out to exterminate an Evil Soul Master bandit group in the Ming Dou Mountain Range, with Ma Xiaotao and Huo Yuhao trading a playful princess carry on the way.

• Elder Xuan explained that Inner Court inspectors protected the continent and warned that many had died on missions.
• Ma Xiaotao encouraged the students to join the Shrek Inspection Corps, and Wang Dong and the others agreed while Huo Yuhao stayed silent.
• Ma Xiaotao described the mission to wipe out nearly three hundred bandits led by an Evil Soul Master calling himself the Death's Emissary in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Wang Dong asked Ma Xiaotao to carry her, but Ma Xiaotao declined, so Xixi carried Wang Dong instead.
• The group departed for the Ming Dou Mountain Range, where Ma Xiaotao offered to carry Huo Yuhao in a princess carry and Huo Yuhao instead carried her.

Ma Xiaotao warned Huo Yuhao about the danger posed by Evil Soul Masters as the Shrek group traveled to the Ming Dou Mountain Range to hunt the Hand of Death bandit gang. After reaching the gang’s hideout and discovering its grisly atrocities, they launched an extermination campaign, while Huo Yuhao anticipated that worse dangers lay ahead.

• Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao about the Blood Infant and asked him to follow her lead when fighting Evil Soul Masters, and he agreed.
• Xuan Zi organized a barbecue feast featuring Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, bringing the Inner Court and Outer Academy members closer together.
• At the military camp, Dai Yueheng killed an officer after learning that the search for his mother’s killer had failed, then ordered the other officers to carry out a task.
• Huo Yuhao secretly watched Dai Yueheng’s meeting and looked forward to seeing his plan unfold.
• After resting and gathering intelligence, the group followed Wang Yan’s clues to the bandit gang’s hideout in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• The group found more than a hundred corpses, including infants, in the cave and began a full-scale assault on the Hand of Death.

Huo Yuhao saved the Inner Court students from the first Corpse Explosions, but the black-robed messenger escaped by detonating more corpses and abducted him. While Elder Xuan pursued them, Huo Yuhao remained unconcerned and entered the World Ring as the messenger reached the corpse-slave storehouse.

• Huo Yuhao carried Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochan, and Xixi away on his scooter, then kicked Gongyang Mo and Yao Haoxuan clear of the exploding corpses, leaving Dai Yueheng behind.
• Elder Xuan rescued the students from further explosions and dragged the black-robed messenger from the cave, but the messenger transformed into smoke and escaped while seizing Huo Yuhao.
• Elder Xuan transformed and pursued the messenger, while the messenger detonated corpses to slow him down.
• Huo Yuhao yawned and mocked the messenger, then entered the World Ring and went fishing as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chastised Soul Eater for doubting him.
• The black-robed messenger passed through a barrier and reached the place where the corpse slaves were stored.

Huo Yuhao confronted the black-robed envoy and destroyed his Corpse Slaves, then captured the envoy’s soul after surviving his self-destruction. He sealed the soul underground to suffer, and Xuan Zi arrived to find only a massive crater.

• The Corpse Slaves knelt as the black-robed envoy ordered Corpse Slave Twelve to cover his retreat from a powerful pursuer.
• Huo Yuhao appeared and used Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue to suck in and destroy the Corpse Slaves and their explosions.
• The black-robed envoy fled, but Huo Yuhao intercepted him and severed his limbs with pebbles.
• The black-robed envoy charged Huo Yuhao while exploding himself, but Huo Yuhao tore out his soul and remained unharmed.
• Huo Yuhao sealed the envoy’s soul in a blue sphere and buried it a thousand meters underground.
• Xuan Zi arrived and found Huo Yuhao beside the massive crater.

After Huo Yuhao returned safely, a second attack left several Shrek members gravely injured, forcing the team to split up and leaving seven Outer Academy students to compete in the tournament. Huo Yuhao suspected Dai Yueheng had arranged the ambush to draw Xuan Zi away, while the remaining team arrived in Star Luo City and prepared for its first match.

• Xuan Zi brought Huo Yuhao back safely, and his companions rushed to embrace him in relief.
• Dai Yueheng secretly ordered deathsworn to attack the team, and their ambush poisoned and gravely wounded four members.
• Wang Yan arranged for Xuan Zi to take the injured members back to the academy while the remaining students continued to Star Luo City for the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao suspected Dai Yueheng was the traitor who had arranged the attack to lure Xuan Zi away and target him.
• The seven remaining Outer Academy students arrived at the Star Emperor Hotel, then Bei Bei called them to Wang Yan's conference room to prepare for the opening ceremony and first match.

Wang Yan reassured Shrek Academy’s reserve team ahead of the tournament while worrying that the injured main team could not return for several matches. Huo Yuhao promised the reserves would win, and the chapter ended as the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Arena Tournament began in Star Luo City.

• Wang Yan calmed the reserve team, explained the tournament rules, and then admitted to Ma Xiaotao that he had hidden his own anxiety to boost their morale.
• Ling Luochan, Ma Xiaotao, and Dai Yueheng estimated that their injuries would take ten, fifteen, and seventeen days to heal, leaving Wang Yan worried about the coming elimination matches.
• Huo Yuhao assured Wang Dong and the other reserves that they would win the first match.
• Huo Yuhao visited the injured Ma Xiaotao that night, and the two spent the night together until she passed out from exhaustion at dawn.
• The emperor of the Star Luo Empire declared the tournament open as the crowd cheered, and Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong remarked on the scale of the event.

At the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, Huo Yuhao led Shrek Academy’s reserve team to a victory over Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy without using a proper attack. His display of five genuine hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings shocked the audience and drew the Emperor of Star Luo’s attention.

• The Emperor of Star Luo welcomed the competing academies and introduced Shrek Academy to the cheering crowd.
• Wang Yan and Shrek’s senior team members encouraged the reserve team before its elimination match against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Huo Yuhao entered the arena alone and revealed five hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, terrifying Tianling’s team into surrendering the match.
• Huo Yuhao said the opponents had not even warmed him up, while Wang Dong promoted the Tang Sect and the audience mistakenly thought Huo Yuhao belonged to it.
• The Emperor of Star Luo ordered an investigation into Huo Yuhao, and maids crowded around him in the rest room to praise his performance.

After Shrek Academy’s reserve team won its opening match, rival Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy discussed Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen’s confidence, while Mu En chose to let Shrek’s young competitors gain experience without reinforcements. Huo Yuhao later continued treating Ma Xiaotao before leaving to discuss tactics with Wang Yan.

• Wang Yan and the Shrek students celebrated their victory, and Xu Sanshi vowed that the team would keep winning while awaiting reinforcements and the seniors’ recovery.
• Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s team leader identified Shrek as their greatest obstacle and warned Ma Rulong not to lose, while Xiao Hongchen dismissed Huo Yuhao as a possible rival.
• Xiao Hongchen’s three companions speculated that Huo Yuhao might be their husband and planned to uncover his blindfold to check his eyes.
• Mu En rejected Yan Shaozhe’s request to send more reinforcements, saying the reserve team needed to be tempered for the academy’s future.
• Ma Xiaotao hid Huo Yuhao from Ling Luochan when she came looking for him, then Huo Yuhao left to discuss tactics with Wang Yan after treating her.

Huo Yuhao and the others learned that He Caitou’s unusual cigar Soul Skills had powerful effects, then Huo Yuhao secretly used Mirror Flower, Snow Moon to terrify Xiao Hongchen. As Shrek’s round-robin match against Yunluo Academy began, Wang Yan sent Xu Sanshi out first.

• He Caitou demonstrated his cigar Soul Skills, and Wang Yan praised their strong boosts even as the others laughed at his incantations.
• Xiao Hongchen confronted Huo Yuhao and promised to defeat him, but Huo Yuhao used Mirror Flower, Snow Moon to make Xiao Hongchen collapse in terror.
• Referees investigated Huo Yuhao after Xiao Hongchen’s incident but found no evidence that he had used a Soul Skill.
• Shrek’s first round-robin match against Yunluo Academy began under one-on-one elimination rules.
• Wang Yan chose Xu Sanshi to fight first, and Xu Sanshi confidently vowed to defeat all seven opponents.

Xu Sanshi used tricks and provocations to win Shrek Academy’s first two matches against Yunluo Academy. As Yunluo captain Situ Yu began assembling a fortress-like Soul Tool for their match, Xu Sanshi had yet to reveal whether he would fight seriously.

• Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Exchange to switch places with Ma Yingjun as he left the stage, making Ma Yingjun fall out of bounds and giving Shrek Academy the first win.
• Xu Sanshi provoked Yunluo Academy’s female contestant into charging past him, then struck her off the stage with his shield to win the second match.
• Situ Yu introduced himself as Yunluo Academy’s captain and challenged Xu Sanshi to a fair match, offering to end the team contest if he lost.
• Xu Sanshi continued teasing Situ Yu as Situ Yu deployed Soul Tools that assembled into a fortress-like cannon platform.

Xu Sanshi defeated Yunluo Academy’s Situ Yu by enduring a barrage of Soul Tool attacks and breaking through his defenses, securing Shrek Academy’s victory. In the aftermath, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discussed Xu Sanshi’s skill and their interest in facing Shrek’s fighters.

• Situ Yu bombarded Xu Sanshi with Soul Tool missiles, but Xu Sanshi defended himself behind the Mysterious Underworld Shield and brushed off the attack.
• Situ Yu launched tracking missiles and activated his Soul Power Beam Cannon as Xu Sanshi charged through the barrage using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and his second Soul Skill.
• Xu Sanshi reached Situ Yu and struck with Mysterious Underworld Shock, shattering the turret Soul Tool and sending Situ Yu flying.
• Situ Yu admitted defeat, Yunluo Academy surrendered, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Xu Sanshi flirted with Jiang Nannan after the match, and she slapped him as the crowd cheered Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Hongchen told Meng Hongchen that Xu Sanshi’s footwork seemed dangerous and said he wanted to fight Shrek’s fighters, including Huo Yuhao.

Wang Yan took Huo Yuhao and the others to a Soul Tool auction to encourage them to accept Soul Tools as the future of combat. Most of the group attended and bought suitable items, while Wang Dong refused to go; the auction ended with a mysterious finale item still to be revealed.

• Wang Yan walked in on Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong roughhousing, then invited them to visit an auction house.
• Wang Yan explained that Soul Tools were becoming essential and urged the students to accept them, while Wang Dong refused to use them.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to attend, and Xu Sanshi, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, and Jiang Nannan followed; Wang Dong chose to return instead.
• Wang Yan took the group to the auction, where nearly everyone bought a suitable Soul Tool, including Milk Bottles to replenish Soul Power.
• The auctioneer announced that the mysterious finale item was about to appear.

Huo Yuhao bought the cursed Soul Devouring Carving Knife at auction despite warnings from Wang Yan and He Caitou. He promised to let Old Fan supervise him as he tried to remove its curse, then returned to Wang Dong’s room.

• The young auctioneer revealed that the Ranked Carving Knife was the infamous Soul Devouring Carving Knife, whose thirty-seven owners had all died tragic deaths.
• He Caitou warned Huo Yuhao not to touch the knife, and the guests declined to bid after hearing about its curse.
• Huo Yuhao bid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and won the Soul Devouring Carving Knife.
• Wang Yan cautioned Huo Yuhao, who promised to have Old Fan supervise him while he tried to remove the curse at the academy.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Wang Dong’s room and sat down on the sofa.

Huo Yuhao investigated the seal in Wang Dong’s Sea of Spirit and discovered that Tang San had split her soul and left behind a lethal protective rune. The seal attacked Huo Yuhao but failed to harm him, while Niu Tian and Tai Tan reacted to the rune’s activation from the Clear Sky Sect.

• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that an unfamiliar consciousness made her feel inexplicably hostile toward Soul Tools, but he fell asleep before she finished explaining.
• Huo Yuhao entered Wang Dong’s Sea of Spirit and found a Fishfork Rune left by Tang San, which he believed was connected to her soul having been split in two.
• The rune appeared on Wang Dong’s forehead and shot into the sky, prompting Tai Tan to threaten to go to Shrek before Niu Tian restrained him.
• The seal attacked Huo Yuhao as he left Wang Dong’s Sea of Spirit, but he used Stopping Power to avoid spiritual damage.
• Tian Meng, the Ice Empress, the Thousand Illusion Spirit Emperor, and Elder Yi felt the seal’s power inside the World Ring, and Elder Yi warned Huo Yuhao not to get closer to Wang Dong until he could withstand it.

Wang Dong tried to kiss Huo Yuhao while he was unconscious, but he woke up and fought her off, leaving their relationship as teasing and unresolved as ever. At the Soul Arena, Shrek faced Thousand Spirits Academy while members of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy watched and argued in the viewing room.

• Wang Dong tried to give Huo Yuhao CPR by kissing him, but he dodged until he woke up and caught her.
• Wang Dong admitted she wanted to kiss Huo Yuhao, and they wrestled until she left love bites on him and he retaliated with Sure-Hit Heart-Piercing Dragon Claws.
• Wang Dong nearly revealed that she was a girl, while Huo Yuhao kept quiet about already knowing her secret.
• At the Soul Arena, Meng Hongchen and Ma Rulong discussed Shrek's team battle against Thousand Spirits Academy and assessed its fighters.
• Xiao Hongchen interrupted Ma Rulong, claimed Huo Yuhao as his opponent, and traded barbs with Ma Rulong and Meng Hongchen as they watched the match.

Huo Yuhao turned Thousand Spirits Academy’s Frost Tornado against its own team, and Shrek won as spectators and rival academies questioned his apparent Hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings. Before Shrek’s match against Zheng Tian Academy, Wang Yan proposed conceding, but Wang Dong insisted the team fight for Shrek’s honor.

• Huo Yuhao froze and redirected Thousand Spirits Academy’s Frost Tornado, leading Shrek Academy to victory and renewing speculation that he possessed five Hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Leng Ye told Moon Spirit Academy’s captain that Huo Yuhao’s aura matched that of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast she had encountered in the Far North.
• Ma Rulong vowed to defeat Shrek Academy, while Xiao Hongchen declared that he would expose Huo Yuhao’s apparent power.
• Wang Yan explained that Zheng Tian Academy’s three Soul Kings made the two-two-three format dangerous and proposed conceding to conceal Shrek’s strength.
• Huo Yuhao volunteered to take all three victories, and Wang Dong urged the team to fight for Shrek’s honor until the last moment.

Bei Bei arranged Shrek Academy’s first two-on-two match, pairing Xu Sanshi with He Caitou after Huo Yuhao helped Jiang Nannan avoid fighting alongside Xu. As Shrek faced Zheng Tian Academy, the spectators and rival observers anticipated seeing Huo Yuhao’s strength, and the chapter ended as Zheng Tian’s Soul King contestants launched their opening attacks.

• Wang Dong rallied the team to defend Shrek’s honor, and Wang Yan handed command to Bei Bei.
• Bei Bei chose Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan as the first pair, but Huo Yuhao intervened, and He Caitou became Xu Sanshi’s partner instead.
• At the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen discussed their belief that Huo Yuhao’s Hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings were an illusion.
• Two young women watched Huo Yuhao and anticipated learning more about his strength and curse technique during the battle.
• Xu Sanshi and He Caitou entered the arena to face Zheng Tian Academy’s two Soul Kings, who immediately launched powerful attacks at Xu Sanshi.

Xu Sanshi awakened his Black Tortoise Divine Beast bloodline after seeing Jiang Nannan kiss Huo Yuhao, turning the tide against their Soul King opponents. He and He Caitou combined their defenses and firepower, but the chapter ended with smoke obscuring the result of their attack.

• Xu Sanshi's Xuanming Exchange redirected two attacks toward He Caitou, who took them head-on and was badly hurt.
• Jiang Nannan called to Xu Sanshi, then kissed Huo Yuhao on the cheek, triggering Xu Sanshi's Green War God transformation.
• Xu Sanshi blocked the blonde contestant's Angel God-Sealing Slash with his Black Tortoise Shield after fusing his first three Soul Rings into one Ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Xu Sanshi trapped the blonde contestant with his Black Tortoise aura while He Caitou fired his Soul Tool Cannon.
• The referee shielded the blonde contestant from the cannon blast, and white smoke filled the arena before clearing to reveal deep trenches from the impact.

Shrek Academy and Zheng Tian Academy each won one match, leaving the final battle to decide the round. Huo Yuyao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao entered the arena to face Zheng Tian Academy captain Ye Wuqing and his team.

• Xu Sanshi and He Caitou won the first match for Shrek Academy, though both were injured and Xu Sanshi fainted.
• Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan lost the second match after Bei Bei awakened his Divine Beast Bloodline but ran out of Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Wang Dong before the deciding match, and she and Xiao Xiao declared they would protect Shrek's glory.
• Shrek Academy and Zheng Tian Academy fielded their teams for the final battle, and Huo Yuhao introduced himself to Ye Wuqing.