Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao’s talent was debated by Shrek’s leaders as he recovered from the arena fight and learned that Dai Huabin would be his next opponent. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao facing Dai Huabin in the finals as Yan Shaozhe arrived on the referee’s platform.

• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan that Huo Yuhao’s ten-year Soul Ring limited his potential, while Wang Yan resolved to keep him at Shrek.
• Yan Shaozhe agreed to let Qian Duoduo recruit Huo Yuhao for the Soul Guidance Department, while keeping Wang Dong and Zhu Lu in the Martial Soul Department.
• Huo Yuhao treated the students’ wounds in the infirmary, and the medical teacher healed them with her Martial Soul.
• Ning Tian named Dai Huabin and Zhu Yu as the next opponents, and Zhu Lu comforted Huo Yuhao when Dai Huabin stirred his anger.
• The next day, Huo Yuhao faced Dai Huabin in the finals, and Wei Qing warned him that a powerful expert was approaching.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived on the referee’s platform as the rank ninety-five Bright Phoenix Douluo.

Huo Yuhao fought Dai Huabin in the Freshman Assessment final while Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao kept Dai Huabin’s teammates occupied. After Dai Huabin unleashed his third Soul Skill, Huo Yuhao prepared the final moves of the Gale Swift Sword.

• Yan Shaozhe opened the Freshman Assessment final and told the contestants to compete without reservation.
• Wang Dong clashed with Zhu Yu, while Huo Yuhao broke Cui Yahao’s Enchantment so Xiao Xiao could attack him.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Huabin and used Spiritual Detection and sword techniques to counter his attacks.
• Dai Huabin’s White Tiger Protective Shield blocked Huo Yuhao’s initial sword qi, but Huo Yuhao later forced him back and pressed him with a rapid sequence of strikes.
• Dai Huabin activated White Tiger Vajra Transformation as Huo Yuhao finished gathering power for the final three killing moves of the Gale Swift Sword.

Huo Yuhao and his teammates fought Dai Huabin’s group as Dai Huabin and Zhu Yu completed the Netherworld White Tiger fusion. Huo Yuhao met the fusion skill with his Human Emperor Sword, and Yan Shaozhe intervened to stop both attacks, only for Huo Yuhao’s sword to cut his palm.

• Wang Dong injured Zhu Yu, but Zhu Yu then struck toward Dai Huabin while Huo Yuhao faced Dai Huabin with Thunderclap Strike and wounded his right hand.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Yu completed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Netherworld White Tiger, while Cui Yahao was eliminated.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao attacked the Netherworld White Tiger, and Xiao Xiao used an array of Soul-Calming Cauldrons to restrain it before exhausting her soul power.
• Huo Yuhao gathered power in the Human Emperor Sword and unleashed the second form, Dragon Domain Soaring the Nine Heavens, against the Netherworld White Tiger.
• Yan Shaozhe appeared between the attacks and blocked them, but Huo Yuhao’s sword cut open his palm.

After winning the Freshman Assessment, Huo Yuhao rejected Ning Tian’s invitation to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and considered seeking out the Body Sect, while Zhu Lu pledged to stay with him. The next day, Shrek Academy named Huo Yuhao only a reserve core disciple, and Dai Huabin provoked him and his friends as they left.

• Yan Shaozhe declared Wang Dong Team the Freshman Assessment champions, prompting Ning Tian and Zhu Lu to question why Huo Yuhao’s team name had been changed.
• At a barbecue with their friends, Ning Tian invited Huo Yuhao to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but he refused because he wanted to study Soul Tools in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhu Lu told Huo Yuhao about the Body Sect in the Heavenly Soul Empire, shared news about Grandpa Butler, and vowed to follow Huo Yuhao wherever he went; Wang Dong watched them resentfully.
• Du Weilun announced the assessment results, naming Huo Yuhao a reserve core disciple rather than a core disciple and revealing the rewards for the top three.
• Dai Huabin mocked Huo Yuhao for failing to become a core disciple, and Huo Yuhao’s group stopped with their auras turning hostile.

After Shrek Academy denied Huo Yuhao the status and treatment he believed he deserved, he denounced the academy and challenged its core disciples. Elex intervened to protect him, and Huo Yuhao chose to remain at Shrek for a while to study in the Soul Guidance Department.

• Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Huabin and the academy’s teachers, condemning Shrek for refusing to recognize his achievement in the Freshman Assessment.
• Huo Yuhao declared that no core disciple could presume to challenge or intimidate him, then refused to kneel when Xuan Zi used his power to pin him down.
• Elex broke Xuan Zi’s restraint and appeared before Mu En, who reprimanded Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi and offered to take Huo Yuhao as his disciple.
• Elex rejected Mu En’s attempt to resolve the dispute through an apology and insisted that Huo Yuhao decide what happened next.
• Huo Yuhao told Elex and Mu En that he planned to remain at Shrek temporarily to study in the Soul Guidance Department.
• Elex’s power had advanced close to God Rank after the Snow-Treading White Wolf shared the China Plane’s system of laws with him.

After Elex secured Shrek’s promise to let Huo Yuhao study Soul Tools, Mu En reprimanded Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe and spoke privately with Huo Yuhao about the academy’s flaws and future. Mu En asked Huo Yuhao to become his student, and Elex urged him to accept despite already having a teacher.

• Elex threatened to destroy Shrek if it used its teaching methods on Huo Yuhao again, and Mu En agreed to honor his terms.
• Mu En knocked Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe down, then praised Huo Yuhao’s strength and invited him for a walk.
• At Sea God Lake, Huo Yuhao told Mu En that Shrek acted like a faction, exploited Outer Court students, and needed to become either a world-balancing power or an ordinary academy.
• Huo Yuhao said Shrek should become an ordinary academy bound by the law, and Mu En asked him to become his student.
• Elex told Huo Yuhao to accept Mu En’s offer, saying it would help his future growth.

Huo Yuhao became Mu En’s disciple and learned spiritual-power techniques before giving his friends cultivation manuals for the holiday. After his classmates departed, Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu set off together for the Extreme North so he could obtain his second soul ring.

• Huo Yuhao accepted Mu En as his teacher and learned the Heavenly Dominion technique, while Mu En warned Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi not to interfere with his choices.
• Huo Yuhao used spiritual control to pulverize a boulder without disturbing its shape, and Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi apologized to him before leaving.
• Huo Yuhao shared his soul power control method with Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian as a holiday gift.
• Huo Yuhao told the girls not to lose their will to fight back against oppression, and they agreed before parting ways the next day.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong left for home, while Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu headed toward the Extreme North.

Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu reached Dragon City, where Elex accepted Zhu Lu as his disciple and taught both of them to cultivate their spiritual power. The next day, Yuhao entered the Extreme North’s core region with Elex, Wei Qing, and Tian Meng, and confronted the Ice Empress.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu arrived in Dragon City and rested at an inn before Yuhao announced he would enter the Extreme North alone.
• Elex offered to take Zhu Lu as his disciple, gave her undead magic scrolls, and taught her and Yuhao a spiritual power cultivation method.
• Huo Yuhao departed for the Extreme North the next morning, while Zhu Lu urged him to return safely.
• Tian Meng gave Huo Yuhao his Ice Silkworm skin to protect him from the cold as they reached the core region with Elex and Wei Qing.
• Tian Meng called out the Ice Empress, and she appeared, declaring that he could help her survive her heavenly tribulation.

Huo Yuhao and his allies convinced Ice Empress to join Tian Meng’s God-Making Plan, then fused her Soul Bone’s energy into Huo Yuhao and helped him absorb her four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao breaking through to his second Soul Ring and summoning Champion Marquis Huo Qubing.

• Ice Empress confronted Tian Meng, Huo Yuhao, and Elex, then agreed to trust their plan after seeing Huo Yuhao’s powers and Snow-Treading White Wolf.
• Ice Empress released her soul from her body, and Elex protected it while Huo Yuhao began absorbing her Soul Bone.
• Snow-Treading White Wolf transformed the Soul Bone’s power into energy that strengthened Huo Yuhao’s body and advanced his second Heavenly Cycle.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed Ice Empress’s four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring despite the strain on his meridians.
• Huo Yuhao broke through to his second Soul Ring, and Champion Marquis Huo Qubing appeared and greeted his lord.

Huo Yuhao returned from the Extreme North with Huo Qubing newly awakened as his aid, and reunited with Zhu Lu at Dragon City. After the month-long holiday, Shrek Academy began a new term, though Yuhao and Zhu Lu had not yet returned to join their friends.

• Huo Qubing awakened as Huo Yuhao's aid and promised to protect him, while Wei Qing urged him to help the person Ju'er had chosen.
• Huo Qubing entered Huo Yuhao's Spirit Sea, where he met Wei Qing, Elex, and Tian Meng and enlivened their gathering.
• Huo Yuhao traveled back to Dragon City as the Ice Empress slept and the Snow-Treading White Wolf nourished her spirit.
• Zhu Lu waited at Dragon City's gates until Huo Yuhao returned, then embraced him and asked him not to risk taking so long again.
• When the holiday ended, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Wang Dong reunited at Shrek Academy and wondered where Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu were.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy after registering with the Soul Guidance Department, reunited with his worried friends, and confronted Dai Huabin. The next day, as the entrance assessments began, Dai Huabin approached Huo Yuhao with an apparent ulterior motive.

• Wang Dong'er, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao waited anxiously for Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu, then argued with Dai Huabin when he mocked Huo Yuhao's absence.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu arrived, and Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Dai Huabin with his Soul Power and punched him before revealing that he had registered with the Soul Guidance Department.
• Wang Dong'er embraced Huo Yuhao, admitted she had worried about him, and then blushed when Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian teased her.
• Huo Yuhao and his friends returned to their dormitories and prepared to take their entrance assessments the next day.
• At the Beast Arena, Dai Huabin approached Huo Yuhao just as the assessments were about to begin.

Huo Yuhao accepted Dai Huabin’s bet over their Opening Assessment scores, with the loser owing fifty million Gold Soul Coins and kneeling to call himself weak. Dai Huabin scored 145 after killing a Millennium Wind Tiger, and Wang Dong’er passed her own assessment against a Bloodthirsty Demon Bear as the contest continued.

• Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to a bet, and Huo Yuhao added a fifty-million-Gold-Soul-Coin stake that Dai Huabin accepted.
• Dai Huabin entered the Beast Arena and chose to face a Millennium Soul Beast within the assault-type assessment rules.
• Dai Huabin killed the Wind Tiger with brute force, prompting the judge teacher to reprimand him for killing rather than merely defeating it.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Dai Huabin 145 points, the highest score so far, and Dai Huabin told Wang Dong’er she would not surpass him.
• Wang Dong’er fought a Bloodthirsty Demon Bear with her soul skills and passed the assessment after knocking it unconscious.

Huo Yuhao passed the control assessment by freezing a Blazing Flame Lion with Ultimate Ice, earning full marks and forcing Dai Huabin to pay part of their wager. After Yan Shaozhe summoned him to the Academic Affairs Office, Huo Yuhao found the dean waiting to apologize.

• Wang Dong'er received a score of 120 after Yan Shaozhe deducted points for her careless combat.
• Huo Yuhao chose a thousand-year soul beast for his assessment, then used the Ice Empress's power and Ultimate Ice to restrain a Blazing Flame Lion for three minutes.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Huo Yuhao full marks and left to consider how to recruit him, while Du Weilun announced the result to the stunned audience.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Dai Huabin from escaping, made him kneel and say he was weak, and collected a gold card while reminding him that he still owed forty million plus interest.
• The academy called Huo Yuhao to the Academic Affairs Office, where Yan Shaozhe bowed and apologized to him.

Huo Yuhao resisted Yan Shaozhe’s offer to join the Martial Soul Department as Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er intervened to defend his place in the Soul Guidance Department. At the Sea God Pavilion Conference, Yan Shaozhe revealed that Huo Yuhao possessed Ultimate Ice, shocking the elders and heightening their interest in him.

• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao core disciple status in the Martial Soul Department, a complete set of soul bones, and his next three soul rings, but Huo Yuhao questioned the promise.
• Qian Duoduo interrupted Yan Shaozhe and accused him of breaking their agreement, then Xian Lin'er arrived and declared Huo Yuhao a core disciple of the Soul Guidance Department.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed a Sea God Pavilion Conference, and the deans sent Huo Yuhao away before heading to the meeting.
• At the conference, Yan Shaozhe told Mu En and the pavilion elders that Huo Yuhao had revealed his second Martial Soul: Ultimate Ice.
• The elders reacted with disbelief, while Mu En realized Huo Yuhao had concealed his power in order to choose the Soul Guidance Department.

At Sea God Pavilion, Mu En ruled that Huo Yuhao would train in both Martial Souls and Soul Tools, while ordering Yan Shaozhe to address the academy’s failures toward him. Later, Huo Yuhao and his companions received invitations to Shrek’s Treasure Gathering Pavilion and decided to visit that night.

• Elder Lin and Elder Song argued over whether Huo Yuhao should join the Martial Soul Department or the Soul Guidance Department, citing his talents and their factions’ past treatment of him.
• Mu En stopped the debate, criticized Yan Shaozhe for Shrek Academy’s failures toward Huo Yuhao, and ordered him to deal with the matter.
• Mu En revealed that Huo Yuhao was his student and decided that he would cultivate both Martial Souls and Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao walked by Sea God Lake with five girls and discussed the future importance of Soul Tools.
• Wu Feng and Ning Tian brought invitations to Treasure Gathering Pavilion, and Ning Tian explained that students could trade academy redemption credits for treasures there.
• Huo Yuhao questioned whether the credits were meant to make students indebted to Shrek Academy, but agreed to visit the pavilion with the others that night.

Huo Yuhao and his companions explored Shrek's Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where he bought Wang Dong'er a Soul Bone and chose rare Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue. They ran into Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan, whose warm greeting to Yuhao made the girls wary.

• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that Huo Yuhao had once possessed Ultimate Ice, and she hurried off to find him.
• Huo Yuhao and the five girls entered the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and saw its many treasures, including Soul Bones and Soul Tools.
• Wang Dong'er coveted the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, so Huo Yuhao used Dai Huabin's ten-million-credit card to buy it for her.
• Huo Yuhao chose Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue after Tian Meng identified it, and Ning Tian offered to pay for it.
• Huo Yuhao greeted Bei Bei and accepted Xu Sanshi's apology, then Jiang Nannan evaded Xu Sanshi and warmly greeted Yuhao, drawing wary looks from the girls.

After leaving the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Huo Yuhao and the girls were ambushed by powerful black-clothed assassins. Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi arrived to help, and just as the captain attacked Huo Yuhao, an unidentified woman intervened.

• Jiang Nannan accepted her back pay from Huo Yuhao, who advised her to use her own money so Shrek could not hold her back.
• Wang Dong'er questioned Huo Yuhao about Jiang Nannan, and he explained their conversation through Spiritual Link before the girls apologized.
• Huo Yuhao detected an ambush and led the girls away, but the assassins broke through his illusion and caught up with them.
• Ning Tian boosted the group with her soul skills, but their attacks could not overcome the Soul King and Soul Emperor among the assassins.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi arrived and attacked the assassins, but the captain charged at Huo Yuhao with his sixth soul skill.
• A blazing fireball struck the captain just before he could hit Huo Yuhao, and a woman cried, “Who dares touch my man!”

Ma Xiaotao rescued Huo Yuhao and the others from black-clad attackers, while Huo Yuhao noticed her Evil Fire was affecting her control. After the attack, Ma Xiaotao asked Huo Yuhao to come to the Inner Court, and he correctly guessed she wanted help with her Evil Fire.

• Ma Xiaotao arrived and killed the Soul Emperor attacking Huo Yuhao, while Wei Qing and Huo Qubing intercepted fleeing attackers.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed her Phoenix Meteor Shower as Jiang Nannan moved Huo Yuhao to safety, and the group reunited with the rescued girls.
• Huo Yuhao noticed that Ma Xiaotao struggled to control her flames, and Bei Bei explained that her Evil Fire could take over her mind.
• Ma Xiaotao realized she had killed every attacker and left no one alive to question, so Shrek's guards took over the aftermath.
• After questioning, Ma Xiaotao asked Huo Yuhao to accompany her to the Inner Court, and he guessed she wanted help with her Evil Fire.

Huo Yuhao confronted Ma Xiaotao about Shrek Academy’s mistreatment of him and asked her to help change it, then encouraged her to master her Evil Fire rather than suppress it. Ma Xiaotao agreed and unleashed the flames, leaving Huo Yuhao and the others watching as she began to face her power.

• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that Shrek Academy had given him a worthless Soul Ascension Pill and threatened him instead of properly apologizing for the Sea God Lake incident.
• Huo Yuhao criticized Shrek Academy’s arrogance and refusal to grant him core disciple status, then invited Ma Xiaotao to help him change it; she agreed.
• Mu En watched from the shadows and was satisfied that Ma Xiaotao would help protect Huo Yuhao.
• In Ma Xiaotao’s room, Huo Yuhao urged her to control and conquer her Evil Fire instead of suppressing it, and she agreed to try.
• Ma Xiaotao lifted her suppression and erupted in purple-red flames as Huo Yuhao activated Spiritual Detection and prepared the Human Emperor Sword.

Huo Yuhao suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire and helped her gain control of it, while Mu En restored his exhausted Soul Power. The next day, Ma Xiaotao woke to find her rank had risen to level sixty-eight, as Huo Yuhao continued cultivating with purified Ultimate Fire.

• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier worried as Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire threatened to overwhelm her, but Mu En trusted Huo Yuhao to intervene.
• Huo Yuhao used the Human Emperor Sword and Human Emperor Qi to suppress the Evil Fire and make it release its power to Ma Xiaotao.
• Yan Shaozhe found that Ma Xiaotao could control the Evil Fire and had advanced to level sixty-eight, while Mu En replenished Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao purified a mass of Evil Fire into Ultimate Fire and fused it into his heart to advance his second Heavenly Cycle circulation.
• The next morning, Ma Xiaotao woke, realized she could control the Evil Fire, and happily answered Huo Yuhao at her door.