Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao stopped running to avoid injury, challenged Zhou Yi when she threatened to expel him, and left the training field with Wang Dong. He went to the library to study soul beasts and revealed that his martial soul was Spirit Eyes, a mental-type martial soul.

• Huo Yuhao thanked the gray sphere in his Spirit Sea, then ended his run when he felt further exertion could cause hidden injuries.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Wang Dong to stop running too, and the two rested while the other students completed their laps and received healing.
• Zhou Yi berated the students and threatened Huo Yuhao with expulsion, but he told her his name, rejected her disrespect, and walked away.
• Wang Dong followed Huo Yuhao to the library, where he studied a soul beast illustrated guide to prepare for choosing future soul rings.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that he was a mental-type Soul Master whose martial soul was called Spirit Eyes.

Huo Yuhao grew more determined to leave Shrek Academy after discovering that its library books credited Martial Soul Hall scholars’ work to others, but the academy transferred him and Wang Dong to Class Four instead of expelling them. He met their new teacher, Mu Jin, who began a lesson on how Soul Masters were classified and introduced the topic of soul tools.

• Huo Yuhao showed Wang Dong that Shrek Academy’s books had falsely claimed work by Guangling Douluo and Yue Guan, deepening his resolve to leave.
• Du Weilun overruled Zhou Yi’s expulsion report and transferred the students to Mu Jin’s Class Four, warning Zhou Yi not to seek further expulsions.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong heard their new class assignment, returned to their dormitory, and meditated through the night.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong joined Class Four, where Huo Yuhao considered starting a grilled-fish business to replenish his money.
• Mu Jin introduced herself to Class Four and asked how Soul Masters were divided; after Ning Tian answered, Mu Jin wrote “Soul Tools” on the blackboard as a newer category.

Mu Jin taught the class about Soul Tools and announced the Freshman Assessment, while Huo Yuhao asked to study Soul Tools and received a promised recommendation. On the way back to the dormitories, Elex offered to investigate Wang Dong’s strange reaction to Soul Tools and revealed that Wang Dong was a girl.

• Mu Jin explained how offensive and defensive Soul Tools emerged and divided practitioners into ordinary Soul Masters and Soul Engineers.
• Mu Jin announced Shrek Academy’s Freshman Assessment, and Huo Yuhao learned it tested combat ability and Martial Soul attributes to help assign second-year classes.
• Huo Yuhao asked to study Soul Tools, and Mu Jin promised to recommend him to someone in the Soul Tool department.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that touching Soul Tools made her feel sick, and Elex offered to investigate her Spirit Sea.
• Elex revealed his name and said he had refused to become a god, then told Huo Yuhao to press his forehead against Wang Dong’s.
• Elex revealed that Wang Dong was a girl, and Tian Meng teased Huo Yuhao about her being the young sect master of the Clear Sky Sect.

Huo Yuhao examined Wang Dong's Spirit Sea and discovered that her soul was fragmented and sustained by divine power, while a powerful seal attacked him. After the Human Emperor contained the seal, Huo Yuhao concealed the truth from Wang Dong, and her family became aware that the seal had been triggered.

• Huo Yuhao entered Wang Dong's Spirit Sea, where a Trident Divine Seal attacked him and Wei Qing failed to stop it.
• A golden hand appeared and restrained the Trident Divine Seal, allowing Huo Yuhao to recover and inspect Wang Dong's Spirit Sea.
• Huo Yuhao and Elex discovered that Wang Dong's Spirit Sea was divided between her own power and golden-blue energy, and that divine power sustained her incomplete soul.
• Elex explained that the Human Emperor had sealed the danger and warned that Wang Dong's family had noticed the seal's activation.
• Niu Tian stopped Titan from rushing to Wang Dong, assuring him that she was not in danger.
• Huo Yuhao returned to consciousness and told Wang Dong that her parents' protective mechanism had been calmed, hiding what he had learned about her soul.

Huo Yuhao joined Tang Ya and Bei Bei to sell grilled fish, while Wang Dong learned about the Tang Sect and became interested in soul tools. Their stall drew a long line of students, and Huo Yuhao began earning money.

• Huo Yuhao agreed that Wang Dong could use soul tools and said she could make them herself, then set out to make money.
• Bei Bei gave Huo Yuhao Tang Sect manuals, and Huo Yuhao introduced Wang Dong to Bei Bei and Tang Ya.
• Wang Dong learned that Huo Yuhao had joined the Tang Sect and reacted with excitement and a little jealousy.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei helped Huo Yuhao set up a grilled-fish stall in a crowded plaza, where Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei prepared the fish.
• A student tasted Huo Yuhao's grilled fish, ordered four more, and drew a long line of customers to the stall.

Huo Yuhao's grilled-fish stall drew Jiang Nannan and Xu Sanshi into a confrontation, and Huo Yuhao challenged Xu to a duel despite his limited combat abilities. The chapter ended as Huo Yuhao confidently assured Bei Bei and Wang Dong that he had a trump card.

• Huo Yuhao sold his last grilled fish, and Jiang Nannan arrived with only five copper soul coins to buy one.
• Xu Sanshi tried to use a golden soul coin to demand ten fish for Jiang Nannan, but Bei Bei knocked it away and confronted him.
• Xu Sanshi argued with Bei Bei over Huo Yuhao refusing to sell, and Huo Yuhao volunteered to fight Xu Sanshi on the Soul Duel Platform.
• Huo Yuhao taunted Xu Sanshi into accepting the duel, while Jiang Nannan apologized for involving him and Bei Bei and Wang Dong warned him about Xu's defensive martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Bei Bei and Wang Dong that he had a trump card despite having only one soul ring.

Huo Yuhao registered for the Battle Soul Arena and fought Xu Sanshi, using spiritual attacks and his new domain skill, Mirror Flower, Water Moon, to get past Xu Sanshi’s defense. The duel continued as Huo Yuhao found a way to strike through the Darkworld Shield.

• Bei Bei explained the Battle Soul Arena’s rules and rewards, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong registered under the codenames War God and Butterfly Shadow Wang Dong.
• The Battle Soul Arena arranged Huo Yuhao’s first match against Xu Sanshi, who offered him a Gold Soul Coin to concede.
• Huo Yuhao attacked Xu Sanshi, but Xu Sanshi blocked his punch with the Darkworld Shield and blasted him back with his first Soul Skill.
• Xu Sanshi recognized Huo Yuhao as a spiritual-attribute Soul Master and activated his third Soul Skill, Darkworld Force, to strengthen his defense.
• Huo Yuhao used Mirror Flower, Water Moon and Mental Chaos to confuse Xu Sanshi, then sent Soul Power through the Darkworld Shield to numb his right arm.

Huo Yuhao fought Xu Sanshi in the arena, forcing him to awaken his Black Tortoise martial soul before defeating him with a concealed final attack. Huo Yuhao returned to the lounge, where three people stared at him.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and a spiritual imprint to confuse Xu Sanshi, then attacked from above and struck through an opening in his defenses.
• Xu Sanshi revealed that his Dark Nether Turtle was only half-awakened and activated Black Tortoise Awakening, transforming his shields and appearance.
• Xu Sanshi’s awakened attacks overwhelmed Huo Yuhao and sent him outside the arena, but Huo Yuhao appeared beside Xu Sanshi and punched him out of the ring.
• The spectators were stunned by Huo Yuhao’s victory, and teachers sent Xu Sanshi to the infirmary.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the lounge and found three people watching him intently.

Huo Yuhao explained his victory over Xu Sanshi as a use of spiritual power, then learned from Liu Che that the Sea God had been targeting him and that he would have to overcome the god’s remaining schemes. He returned to cultivating, nearing a breakthrough to Grand Soul Master.

• Wang Dong pressed Huo Yuhao to reveal how he had defeated Xu Sanshi, but Huo Yuhao gave only a vague explanation and called it a trump card.
• Bei Bei encouraged Huo Yuhao to cultivate the Tang Sect Secret Techniques, and Jiang Nannan apologized and asked to work at his shop.
• Wang Dong grew jealous of Huo Yuhao’s conversation with Jiang Nannan, but Huo Yuhao placated him with grilled fish before they returned to the dorm.
• Huo Yuhao met Liu Che in Human Emperor Space, where Liu Che said the Sea God had targeted him and that the god’s daughter had been personally split off by him.
• Liu Che told Huo Yuhao that the Sea God’s consciousness had become a puppet of a previous god and that Huo Yuhao would need to defeat the Sea God’s remaining methods.
• Huo Yuhao resumed cultivation and began forming a second Small Heavenly Cycle, bringing him closer to becoming a Grand Soul Master.

Huo Yuhao formed his second Heavenly Cycle, reached level twenty, and planned to study Soul Tools and Soul Master theory. The next day, Zhu Lu joined his class and immediately focused on him, leaving Huo Yuhao worried about what she would do.

• Huo Yuhao formed the second Heavenly Cycle and began circulating Five Elements Spiritual Energy to nourish his organs, reaching level twenty.
• Huo Yuhao decided to rest, plan for his second Soul Ring, and research whether Soul Masters could break through without absorbing Soul Rings.
• Wang Dong was astonished to learn Huo Yuhao had reached level twenty and repeatedly asked about his cultivation method.
• Huo Yuhao promised to teach Wang Dong his method once Wang Dong became a Soul Elder.
• Mu Jin introduced Zhu Lu as a new student from the White Tiger Duke's Estate, and she chose the seat behind Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong while making it clear she had found Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Zhu Lu visited Shrek Academy’s soul guidance department, where Fan Yu and He Caitou demonstrated several devices. All three chose to study soul guidance devices alongside their regular classes, while Zhu Lu was appointed class monitor.

• Mu Jin told Huo Yuhao that she had arranged for him to study soul guidance devices, and Wang Dong and Zhu Lu asked to join him.
• Mu Jin asked Wang Dong and Zhu Lu to choose a class monitor, and after both declined the role, she appointed Zhu Lu.
• Mu Jin brought the three students to the soul guidance laboratory and introduced them to Fan Yu, who agreed to show them the devices.
• Fan Yu had He Caitou demonstrate offensive, defensive, and auxiliary soul guidance devices to the students.
• Huo Yuhao asked Fan Yu to teach him, and Wang Dong and Zhu Lu also agreed to study soul guidance devices starting the next morning.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Zhu Lu, who confronted him for keeping his troubles from her, then took him to the night market after claiming him as her boyfriend. He returned to the dormitory late and was pounced on by an angry Wang Dong, who demanded to know where he had been.

• Fan Yu gently rejected Mu Jin's feelings, and she left for the Martial Soul Department.
• Zhu Lu asked Huo Yuhao to make up for leaving the Duke's Estate without a word by taking her shopping.
• Wang Dong challenged Zhu Lu, who revealed she knew Wang Dong's identity and kissed Huo Yuhao to provoke her.
• Zhu Lu confronted Huo Yuhao about hiding his family troubles, and he promised they would face them together.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu went to the night market, then said goodbye at the girls' dormitory late that night.
• Wang Dong pounced on Huo Yuhao when he returned to their dormitory and demanded to know where he had been.

Huo Yuhao confronted Wang Dong about her jealousy, then admitted he knew she was a girl and learned she had been compelled to disguise herself before enrolling at Shrek Academy. The next morning, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong arrived late to class, where Zhu Lu teased them about their late night.

• Wang Dong angrily questioned Huo Yuhao about spending the night with Zhu Lu, then became embarrassed when he wondered why she cared so much.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that he had discovered she was a girl while treating her aversion to soul tools, and she explained that an unexplained impulse had driven her to disguise herself as a boy.
• Elex suggested that Wang Dong's father had arranged her disguise to control Huo Yuhao through his lover, but Huo Yuhao kept that suspicion from Wang Dong.
• Wang Dong teased Huo Yuhao about sharing a bed, then the two overslept and rushed to class the next morning.
• Teacher Mu Jin gave Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong a verbal warning, and Zhu Lu teased Huo Yuhao about what had happened the night before.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Zhu Lu began learning soul guidance under Fan Yu, impressing him with their skill at carving propulsion formations. On the shore of Sea God Lake, Huo Yuhao accepted Elex as his master and received basic magic knowledge, but an approaching red light brought sudden danger.

• Fan Yu introduced Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Zhu Lu to beginner soul-engineering materials and tested their ability to carve propulsion formations.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Elex had once been a light mage before becoming the Holy Necromancer God.
• The three students carved flawless propulsion formations, prompting Fan Yu to report their talent to Dean Qian.
• Elex offered to teach Huo Yuhao magic, and Huo Yuhao knelt and accepted him as his teacher despite Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's protests.
• Elex passed basic magic formations and incantations to Huo Yuhao and told him to master Ice Spike, Fireball, and Earth Shield.
• Zhu Lu and Wang Dong spotted something on Sea God Lake, and Huo Yuhao realized a red light was rapidly approaching as the heat around them rose.

Huo Yuhao and his companions survived Ma Xiaotao’s uncontrolled Evil Fire, then concealed what had happened from Shrek’s teachers. They continued cultivating and studying Soul Tools through the end of the semester, with Huo Yuhao completing his second Heavenly Cycle and Wang Dong nearing Soul Elder.

• Huo Yuhao used Wei Qing’s sword energy and Tian Meng’s Ultimate Ice to defeat Ma Xiaotao’s phoenix phantom and freeze her, then had himself, Wang Dong, and Zhu Lu pretend to be unconscious.
• Shrek teachers rescued Ma Xiaotao, tried to keep the incident secret, and gave the three students jade-green pills as compensation.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Zhu Lu claimed they had been blown away by the flames and remembered nothing, then left after giving their names.
• Wang Dong regretted enrolling at Shrek, while Huo Yuhao urged her and Zhu Lu to focus on studying Soul Tools; the three later learned to make first-grade Soul Tools, and Huo Yuhao began attempting second-grade ones.
• Huo Yuhao completed his second Heavenly Cycle, while Wang Dong and Zhu Lu condensed their first; Wang Dong reached Rank 30 and Zhu Lu reached Rank 34.
• The three became acquainted with Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao learned how the Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda enhanced a chosen support target.

Mu Jin announced the Freshman Assessment teams, splitting the six friends into opposing groups, and Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao practiced together. Their sparring revealed Xiao Xiao’s cauldron abilities and Huo Yuhao’s powerful Spiritual Detection, while Xiao Xiao learned that Wang Dong was a girl.

• Mu Jin announced that Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao were grouped together, while Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Zhu Lu formed another team.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao went to the forest to practice teamwork before the Freshman Assessment.
• Wang Dong agreed to spar against Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao after demanding that Huo Yuhao use only his Spirit Eyes abilities.
• Huo Yuhao linked his Spiritual Detection to Xiao Xiao, helping her control her Three-Lives Soul-Calming Cauldron and repeatedly intercept Wang Dong.
• Xiao Xiao used Cauldron Tremor to stun Wang Dong, who eventually sat down and complained about Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection.
• Huo Yuhao assigned Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao the main attacks for their upcoming battles, then told Xiao Xiao that Wang Dong was a girl.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao won their first Freshman Assessment match, but the next day they faced Xie Huanyue’s stronger team, which targeted Huo Yuhao. As his teammates were held back, Huo Yuhao vanished from sight and struck one attacker with a powerful punch.

• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao defeated Ouyang Junyi’s team through coordinated attacks, while the audience dismissed Huo Yuhao as dead weight because of his white Soul Ring.
• A teacher wearing sunglasses recognized Huo Yuhao as the mediator behind Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao’s seamless coordination.
• Wang Dong claimed that Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection would make their next battle easy, but the following day the team faced Xie Huanyue, a three-ring Soul Elder.
• Xie Huanyue transformed with his Elephant Body skill and kept Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao from helping Huo Yuhao as two opponents attacked him with bone scythes.
• Huo Yuhao vanished just before the scythes struck, then reappeared with a heavy punch that sent one attacker flying.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao defeated Xie Huanyue’s team, then Huo Yuhao revealed his Spirit Eyes to Teacher Wang while criticizing Shrek Academy’s hostility toward Soul Masters. As Huo Yuhao left, an old man in a wheelchair watched him with keen interest.

• Huo Yuhao swiftly eliminated two Soul Masters and charged at Xie Huanyue, who used Elephant's Fury to withstand his sword energy.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao joined Huo Yuhao in a combined attack that defeated Xie Huanyue and secured their team’s victory.
• Teacher Wang approached Huo Yuhao and asked about his Martial Soul, so Huo Yuhao explained that his Spirit Eyes granted 360-degree detection within about fifty meters.
• Huo Yuhao objected when Teacher Wang asked whether he belonged to the Body Sect, then said Shrek Academy should not act like a faction hostile toward Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao left, denounced Shrek Academy, and was watched by an old man pushing a wheelchair.

Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Huang Chutian’s group after Huo Yuhao incapacitated the Lan sisters and their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The next day, Huo Yuhao’s team faced Zhu Lu’s team in the semifinals, and the match remained fiercely contested.

• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo used Heavenly Net to trap Wang Dong and sent their hair toward Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power knocked them unconscious.
• Xiao Xiao defeated Huang Chutian, and Huo Yuhao’s team advanced before meeting Zhu Lu and the other semifinalists.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu promised to fight without regrets, while Ning Tian wished him well and Xiao Xiao quietly reflected on her feelings for him.
• At the semifinal’s start, Ning Tian boosted Wu Feng, Zhu Lu, and herself with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Wu Feng and Xiao Xiao clashed while Wang Dong fought Zhu Lu, whose strength was enhanced to that of a high-level Soul Elder.

Huo Yuhao and his teammates fought Ning Tian’s group in the arena, where Xiao Xiao’s second Martial Soul helped eliminate Wu Feng and Ning Tian. Huo Yuhao then defeated Zhu Lu in a fierce duel and carried her off the stage.

• Huo Yuhao rescued Xiao Xiao from Wu Feng, while Ning Tian strengthened Zhu Lu and Zhu Lu knocked Wang Dong away.
• Xiao Xiao revealed her Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute and used Cauldron Suppression to pin the opposing team, enabling Wang Dong to attack Zhu Lu.
• Zhu Lu avoided Wang Dong’s Butterfly God Slash with Netherworld Possession, and Huo Yuhao eliminated Wu Feng while Xiao Xiao exhausted her Soul Power.
• After the Cauldron Suppression ended, Zhu Lu eliminated Wang Dong, and Huo Yuhao eliminated Ning Tian before the two remaining fighters faced off.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu exchanged nearly three hundred moves before their strongest attacks devastated the arena, and Zhu Lu admitted defeat.
• Huo Yuhao caught Zhu Lu as she collapsed and carried her off the stage.