Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Zhou Yi opens her first class by insulting the students and demanding that anyone who fought during enrollment stand up. Huo Yuhao, Tang Chuan, Wang Dong, and Xiao Yan do so.
• She orders everyone else to run one hundred laps or face expulsion, despite their protests.
• Tang Chuan blocks the class from leaving and publicly condemns Zhou Yi’s teaching: he accuses her of using intimidation and expulsion instead of helping students, and of damaging Shrek Academy’s reputation.
• Tang Chuan urges the class to boycott her and appeal to the Academic Affairs Office. The students, already resentful, rally behind him and march out.
• Zhou Yi is left devastated, while Huo Yuhao quietly recognizes that the confrontation went according to his plan.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Chuan takes the lead as a fiery, apparently principled challenger to Zhou Yi. Privately, however, he imagines the protest will win him status and admiration from female students.
• Huo Yuhao remains in the background, having deliberately maneuvered Tang Chuan into confronting Zhou Yi. His quiet satisfaction reveals that he is plotting against Tang Chuan.
• Zhou Yi shifts from an authoritarian teacher imposing her will to a visibly shaken figure, overwhelmed by the class’s public rejection.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Yan join Huo Yuhao and Tang Chuan in admitting they fought during enrollment; the rest of the students unite behind Tang Chuan’s protest.

Significant themes

• The chapter questions whether harsh discipline and threats are legitimate teaching methods.
• It contrasts genuine concern for students with self-serving ambition: Tang Chuan’s speech sounds altruistic, but his private motives are opportunistic.
• Manipulation and appearances drive the conflict: Huo Yuhao engineers events while letting Tang Chuan believe he is in control.

Key plot points and events

• The academy suspends Zhou Yi from teaching for a week and assigns another teacher to Freshman Class One. Tang Chuan, who led the protest against her, receives no punishment—but is also ignored by the officials.
• Tang Chuan is enraged that his grand denunciation did not bring the praise and authority he expected. He had imagined becoming the class’s leader, founding the Tang Sect, and ultimately ruling the continent like a Hokage.
• The freshmen celebrate escaping Zhou Yi’s hundred-lap punishment and seeing her leave. Zhou Yi departs after glaring threateningly at Tang Chuan.
• Wang Yan takes over the class. Huo Yuhao appears attentive but secretly opens a potion guide beneath his desk.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Chuan is exposed as a deluded, attention-seeking Transmigrator who mistakes fanfiction conventions for reality. Being disregarded wounds him more than the suspension itself.
• Huo Yuhao reveals that he deliberately engineered the conflict to set Zhou Yi, Tang Chuan, and others against one another. He intends to stay out of sight and benefit from the fallout.
• Zhou Yi remains spiteful and dangerous. Huo Yuhao believes her position is protected by her relationship with Fan Yu, whose expertise in Soul Tools is too valuable for the academy to risk losing.
• Du Weilun and the academy leadership handle the complaint without being swayed by Tang Chuan’s speech. Wang Yan’s arrival provides a calmer replacement teacher.
• Huo Yuhao suspects He Caitou is another Transmigrator, based on his unusual forging and Soul Tool abilities. He also sees a wider web of tensions involving He Caitou, Zhou Yi, Fan Yu, and Xiao Yan.

Significant themes

• Fantasy versus reality: Tang Chuan expects the world to follow a protagonist’s script, but the academy responds pragmatically.
• Manipulation and political maneuvering: Huo Yuhao turns other people’s grudges and ambitions into tools, preferring to profit indirectly.
• Institutional priorities: The academy appears willing to overlook Zhou Yi’s treatment of students because of Fan Yu’s strategic value.
• Irony and hypocrisy: The students celebrate a small victory, while the deeper conflicts and Huo Yuhao’s schemes remain unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• After class, Huo Yuhao secretly buys rare potion ingredients from several shops, disguising his purchases to avoid suspicion. The ingredients cost over 20,000 Gold Soul Coins, and some are difficult to replace.
• In a rented cultivation room, he successfully brews Felix Felicis by following the Complete Guide to Potions. He drinks the entire bottle, feeling unusually confident, clear-minded, and fortunate.
• Under the potion’s influence, Huo Yuhao is prompted to make a second potion, which he brews and stores without revealing its purpose.
• A flyer carried by the wind leads him to discover that a treasure auction will feature a ten-thousand-year Lone Bamboo Soul Bone. He takes the flyer to Tang Chuan, who becomes eager to attend, hoping the soul bone will strengthen his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao accompanies Tang Chuan to the auction, privately intending to use the opportunity to reclaim the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm from him.
• Xiao Yan watches Tang Chuan leave with suspicion, while Zhou Yi, still furious over Tang Chuan’s role in a freshmen boycott that embarrassed her, openly wishes him dead.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Yuhao shows careful planning and resourcefulness in concealing his purchases. After brewing Felix Felicis, he becomes confident that luck will help him succeed in reclaiming the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Tang Chuan is drawn in by the prospect of the soul bone and accepts Huo Yuhao’s invitation, presenting it as a chance to “broaden his horizons” while promising a reward.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Chuan maintain a friendly outward exchange, though Huo Yuhao privately mocks Tang Chuan’s reluctance to spend money and has his own hidden agenda.
• Xiao Yan observes Tang Chuan’s departure with quiet hostility. Zhou Yi openly nurses a grudge against him and poses a potential threat.

Significant themes

• Luck and agency: Felix Felicis gives Huo Yuhao confidence, but also seems to guide his choices and create opportunities.
• Deception and hidden motives: Huo Yuhao disguises his shopping and conceals his true purpose from Tang Chuan.
• Ambition and power: Tang Chuan sees the soul bone as a way to improve his martial soul, while Huo Yuhao pursues the chance to recover the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Growing danger: Xiao Yan’s suspicion and Zhou Yi’s hostility suggest that Tang Chuan’s actions have attracted enemies.

Plot points and events

• After leaving Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao and Tang Chuan walk through a quiet alley, where Huo Yuhao notices something suspicious. A fireball strikes, apparently knocking him unconscious, while Tang Chuan deflects the following attacks with his lightning blade.
• Zhou Yi emerges, having sealed the alley to prevent anyone from hearing or sensing the fight. Enraged by Tang Chuan’s public accusations and the freshmen’s boycott, she invokes her Red Dragon martial soul and reveals that she is a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
• Tang Chuan answers with a golden, soul-power cloak and Shadow Clones. From a rooftop, he launches a coordinated “Hundred-hit Chidori” assault. Zhou Yi’s fireball attack destroys many clones, but others reach her and badly injure her.
• Zhou Yi survives because recently made One-Word Battle Armor absorbs much of the lightning and protects her vital areas. Her mask falls away, revealing a beautiful young face beneath her aged appearance.
• As Tang Chuan assumes the fight is over, a translucent green lotus descends. He recognizes it as a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus, signaling a new and dangerous threat.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Chuan is confident and contemptuous of Zhou Yi, turning her ambush into a showcase of his unusual techniques. His attack nearly kills her despite her superior rank, but her armor frustrates his apparent victory.
• Zhou Yi moves from vengeful confidence to shock and terror when Tang Chuan’s clones overwhelm her. Her disguise and armor also reveal that she has concealed both her appearance and her vulnerability.
• Huo Yuhao appears to be struck unconscious, but secretly watches the battle through narrowed eyes, analyzing Tang Chuan’s power and techniques.

Significant themes

• Power versus experience: Tang Chuan’s unconventional abilities let him challenge a much stronger Soul Master.
• Deception and hidden identities: Huo Yuhao feigns unconsciousness, Tang Chuan’s clones conceal the real attacker, and Zhou Yi’s mask hides her face.
• Revenge and consequences: Zhou Yi’s resentment over public humiliation drives her to ambush a student, escalating the conflict into a potentially lethal battle.
• Adaptation and protection: Zhou Yi’s Battle Armor keeps her alive, showing how equipment can counter even overwhelming attacks.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yan detonates a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus in the alley. Zhou Yi is knocked unconscious and lands in front of Huo Yuhao, while Tang Chuan is caught at the blast’s center and badly injured despite his Tailed Beast Transformation cloak.
• Xiao Yan appears carrying the bound Tang Ya. He taunts Tang Chuan, then kills Tang Ya with Eight Extremes Collapse, apparently forcing Tang Chuan to watch her die.
• Tang Chuan’s Mangekyō Sharingan awakens. He uses Izanagi, sacrificing his left eye to erase the injuries caused by the explosion and restore himself.
• Tang Chuan reveals that Tang Ya’s death was part of his plan: he expected the emotional shock to trigger the Mangekyō and had prepared for anyone to exploit her as a weakness.
• He traps Xiao Yan with Wood Release: Cutting Sprigs and boasts that he will take Xiao Yan’s powers, techniques, and Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan remains strangely joyful rather than defeated. He reveals that Tang Chuan took a Blackwater Pill from Huo Yuhao, then ignites the Fallen Heart Flame and declares it will explode.

Character developments

• Tang Chuan awakens the Mangekyō Sharingan through the apparent loss of his sister, then uses Izanagi to recover from near-fatal injuries at the cost of permanently blinding his left eye. His confidence and cruelty grow as he believes he has won.
• Xiao Yan shifts from apparent victor to apparent captive, but his smile suggests he has anticipated Tang Chuan’s move and still has a counterattack.
• Tang Ya is killed in front of Tang Chuan, though his claim that her death was planned complicates the meaning of their bond and his grief.
• Huo Yuhao remains in the background; his provision of the Blackwater Pill becomes crucial to the final reversal.

Significant themes

• Grief as power—and manipulation: Tang Chuan turns the loss of his closest family member into a catalyst for awakening, presenting his apparent weakness as a trap.
• Power at a price: Izanagi saves Tang Chuan but permanently costs him an eye.
• Revenge and overconfidence: Tang Chuan’s desire to repay Xiao Yan’s cruelty fuels his apparent triumph, but his plans may have left him vulnerable.
• Reversal and uncertainty: The chapter repeatedly shifts who seems to have control, ending on Xiao Yan’s unexplained confidence and a new threat.

Character interactions

• Xiao Yan mocks Tang Chuan and kills Tang Ya in front of him, deliberately trying to make him despair.
• Tang Chuan answers with a trap, pins Xiao Yan with wooden spikes, and taunts him while threatening to claim his abilities and take Dong’er.
• Xiao Yan counters Tang Chuan’s triumph by pointing out the Blackwater Pill and activating the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Zhou Yi’s unconscious body inadvertently shields Huo Yuhao from the explosion.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yan reveals that the Blackwater Pill he gave Huo Yuhao contained a child flame of Fallen Heart Flame. Huo Yuhao passed the pill to Tang Chuan, and Xiao Yan triggers the flame inside him.
• The flame ravages Tang Chuan’s body and soul, destroying his spiritual power and temporarily disabling his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Tang Chuan sees Tang Ya lying nearby and believes Xiao Yan killed her. In a desperate counterattack, he uses Amaterasu, setting Xiao Yan alight with black flames.
• Xiao Yan escapes by releasing Emperor Flame from within himself. Though this breaks the wooden spikes pinning him down, it badly burns his own organs and meridians. His Emperor Flame consumes Amaterasu, and he flies away, calling the fight a draw.
• Tang Chuan collapses, then realizes Tang Ya is still breathing. Before he can react, Huo Yuhao attacks him from behind with a powerful palm strike and kills him with the White Tiger Dagger.
• As he dies, Tang Chuan recalls his transmigration, his powerful abilities, and his grand ambitions. He regrets trusting Huo Yuhao, taking the pill, and provoking Zhou Yi, but dies with no chance to change his choices.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Chuan goes from believing himself the destined protagonist to being overwhelmed by Xiao Yan’s trap and killed by Huo Yuhao. His last moments expose the gap between his confidence and his actual control over events.
• Xiao Yan survives through the hidden flame in Tang Chuan, but only by severely injuring himself. His confrontation with Tang Chuan ends inconclusively, and he escapes promising to return.
• Huo Yuhao reveals a ruthless, calculating side. He kills Tang Chuan to reclaim Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and take an interest in Tang Chuan’s ninjutsu, overturning Tang Chuan’s assumption that he was merely a tool.
• Tang Ya’s apparent death drives Tang Chuan’s rage, but her faint breathing suggests she may survive.

Significant themes

• Overconfidence and misjudgment: Tang Chuan’s certainty that he is the protagonist leaves him vulnerable to others’ plans.
• Betrayal and manipulation: The pill meant to control Huo Yuhao becomes the means of damaging Tang Chuan, while Huo Yuhao turns against the person who underestimated him.
• Power at a cost: Both fighters survive or strike back only by inflicting severe harm on themselves.
• The danger of treating people as tools: Tang Chuan’s contempt for Huo Yuhao blinds him to Huo Yuhao’s agency and intentions.

Key plot points and events

• Tang Chuan’s death breaks the Eight Trigrams Seal that had imprisoned Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Sky Dream emerges, relieved but alarmed to discover Tang Chuan is dead.
• Huo Yuhao persuades Sky Dream to become his Wisdom Soul Ring. To prove he can be trusted, Huo Yuhao demonstrates that he has learned Tang Chuan’s Eight Trigrams Seal.
• Fearing that Di Tian will track him down, Sky Dream agrees. He seals his Soul Power, spiritual power, and Life Origin into a rune on Huo Yuhao’s Dantian, while his consciousness enters Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness. The million-year Soul Ring will fully form when Huo Yuhao reaches Level 20.
• Huo Yuhao surveys the battlefield and plans to take Tang Chuan’s Storage Soul Tool and Zhou Yi’s Battle Armor, while keeping Zhou Yi alive to serve as a convenient scapegoat.
• He notices that Tang Chuan’s Mangekyō Sharingan remains intact after his death. This reminds him of a milky-white potion he brewed earlier, and he realizes it may be connected to the eye.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Yuhao shows confidence, resourcefulness, and opportunism: he has copied a complex sealing technique, calms Sky Dream with promises of companionship, and immediately considers how to exploit the battlefield’s spoils and cover story.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shifts from furious relief at escaping Tang Chuan to wary suspicion, then agrees to cooperate when Huo Yuhao proves his knowledge and reminds him of the danger posed by Di Tian. Their new arrangement is presented as more companionable than Sky Dream’s imprisonment under Tang Chuan.
• Tang Chuan remains influential after death: his sealing technique gives Huo Yuhao a way to bind Sky Dream, and his surviving eye sparks Huo Yuhao’s new realization.
• Zhou Yi is treated by Huo Yuhao as both a source of valuable equipment and a potential scapegoat, though she is not active in the scene.

Significant themes

• Freedom and trust: Sky Dream escapes physical confinement but must decide whether to trust Huo Yuhao with his power and consciousness.
• Power and exploitation: The chapter contrasts Huo Yuhao’s promised partnership with the repeated draining and capture of powerful beings for their abilities.
• Cunning and concealment: Huo Yuhao plans not only to seize useful resources but also to manipulate blame so he appears innocent.
• Foreshadowing and discovery: The unexplained potion and Tang Chuan’s surviving eye point toward a new ability or development.

Chapter Summary: Obtaining the Ninjutsu Compendium, Electrolux Awakens!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Huo Yuhao considers using the Universal Fusion Potion to transplant Tang Chuan’s remaining Mangekyō Sharingan into himself. Because a Martial Soul is closely connected to its Soul Master’s soul, he believes the Sharingan can replace the physical “vessel” of his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and become fully integrated rather than merely transplanted.
• After Tang Chuan’s death, Huo Yuhao loots his storage item, the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges, which is disguised as a belt. He finds that Tang Chuan possesses very little personal wealth, aside from roughly 10,000 Gold Soul Coins obtained by selling Tang Sect examination-exempt admissions.
• Huo Yuhao discards Tang Chuan’s clothes, food, dirty socks, and the inferior version of the Tang Sect’s Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
• In the final storage compartment, he discovers the Naruto world’s Ninjutsu Compendium, containing techniques such as:
  • Clone, Transformation, and Substitution Techniques
  • Shadow Clone and Multiple Shadow Clone Techniques
  • Orochimaru-style Substitution
  • Rasengan
  • Impure World Reincarnation
• Huo Yuhao plans to combine ninjutsu with his existing abilities. His Wind Attribute could allow him to develop Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, while his Wind, Earth, and future Fire Attributes might enable him to learn Dust Release.
• He realizes that obtaining a Fire Attribute should be possible by visiting a dangerous location later, where he also expects to encounter more transmigrators.
• While reading about Impure World Reincarnation, Huo Yuhao is surprised by an aged voice in his Sea of Consciousness. The speaker praises the technique’s ability to resurrect the dead with their former strength.
• The speaker is revealed to be Electrolux, the Holy Necromancer, who had been drawn into Huo Yuhao’s world through a spatial rift. Electrolux explains that he noticed Huo Yuhao fighting over both the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and himself and asks whether Huo Yuhao is also a transmigrator.

Character Developments

• Huo Yuhao becomes more pragmatic and opportunistic. He accepts that even an incomplete prize, such as one Mangekyō Sharingan, is valuable and avoids risking himself in pursuit of perfection.
• His ambitions expand beyond ordinary Soul Master cultivation. He begins planning a hybrid path involving the Sharingan, ninjutsu, elemental releases, Rasengan, Rasenshuriken, and possibly Dust Release.
• Huo Yuhao also demonstrates increasing confidence in exploiting the resources and secrets left behind by other transmigrators.
• Electrolux awakens or reveals his consciousness within Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness. He is portrayed as intelligent, calm, and fascinated by forbidden or advanced necromantic techniques.
• Brother Sky Dream remains protective and curious, immediately noticing Electrolux’s presence and questioning Huo Yuhao about the unexpected “local” within his consciousness.

Significant Themes

• Adaptation and synthesis: Huo Yuhao seeks to combine abilities from multiple worlds rather than follow a single established cultivation system.
• Pragmatism over perfection: The chapter emphasizes that partial gains are still worthwhile, especially in dangerous circumstances.
• The value of knowledge: The Ninjutsu Compendium may be more important than Tang Chuan’s money or conventional treasures, giving Huo Yuhao a new direction for growth.
• The ethics of resurrection: Impure World Reincarnation introduces the morally troubling idea of desecrating the dead while also offering immense power.
• Transmigration and hidden identities: Electrolux’s question reinforces the chapter’s broader mystery surrounding multiple transmigrators and their influence on the world.

Character Interactions

• Huo Yuhao mentally interacts with Brother Sky Dream, who reacts with surprise upon sensing another consciousness in the Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao reassures Sky Dream that his arrival is timely rather than inconvenient.
• Huo Yuhao then directly faces Electrolux, who calmly reveals that he has been aware of Huo Yuhao’s actions and asks whether he is a transmigrator.
• The chapter ends with the beginning of a potentially important dialogue between Huo Yuhao and Electrolux, setting up cooperation, conflict, or the revelation of further secrets.

Plot points and events

• Huo Yuhao tells Electrolux and Sky Dream that he knows the original story of their world—and that he intends to change its tragic outcomes.
• He condemns the future he believes awaits him: his teacher’s death being dismissed, his beloved being sacrificed and transformed, his revenge-driven self reduced to pleading, and his estranged father rewarded with immortality.
• Declaring that he refuses to accept this fate, Yuhao experiences a surge of clarity and spiritual power; his Soul Power stabilizes at rank sixteen.
• Electrolux, moved by Yuhao’s resolve and recalling his own regrets, offers to become his teacher. Yuhao accepts, while Sky Dream promises his support.
• Electrolux praises the Impure World Reincarnation technique but considers adapting it to use undead instead of living sacrifices.
• He warns Yuhao that keeping incriminating items in his Storage Soul Tool could expose him to investigation—or make him a target. Electrolux then uses Yuhao’s body to send the suspicious possessions, including Zhou Yi’s equipment, through a spatial rift.
• Tang Ya, barely alive, has witnessed the events. Electrolux kills her with a Withering Spell, explaining that he will handle such “dirty jobs” rather than leave them to his new disciple. A terrified cry for help follows.

Character developments

• Huo Yuhao openly embraces his identity and his determination to defy the future. His resolve brings a sudden increase in spiritual and Soul Power.
• Electrolux shifts from questioning observer to mentor, recognizing a kindred spirit in Yuhao. He also demonstrates practical caution and a willingness to take morally troubling actions himself.
• Sky Dream moves from confusion to enthusiastic support, while maintaining a playful, lighthearted manner.

Significant themes

• Fate versus free will: Yuhao rejects the story laid out for him and insists on choosing his own future.
• Regret and redemption: Electrolux’s past failures make him eager to guide Yuhao differently.
• The cost of changing the future: Yuhao’s ambitions involve dangerous techniques, secrecy, and morally compromised choices.
• Power and vulnerability: Hidden possessions could make Yuhao a target even when he is powerful, underscoring the need for foresight.

Character interactions

• Yuhao confides the truth about the original plot to Electrolux and Sky Dream; Electrolux quickly grasps why Yuhao wants to alter it.
• Electrolux offers mentorship, and Yuhao accepts; Sky Dream joins them as an ally.
• Electrolux advises Yuhao on concealing evidence and acts through his body to dispose of it.
• Electrolux’s final decision to kill Tang Ya contrasts with his supportive, paternal attitude toward Yuhao, leaving his mentorship morally unsettling.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• A violent murder scene is discovered in an alley in Shrek City. Tang Ya, the last heir and sect master of the Tang Sect, and her younger brother Tang Chuan, a newly enrolled Shrek student, have been killed. Tang Chuan has been decapitated.
• Xuan Zi, a powerful Shrek elder, is enraged that the killings occurred inside Shrek City, especially because the victims are descendants of Tang San, the founder of the Tang Sect and an honored ancestor of Shrek Academy.
• Investigators discover a Soul Tool on a nearby roof that concealed the battle’s Soul Power fluctuations and sound. Because it lacks the Sun Moon Empire’s insignia, its origin is uncertain.
• Zhou Yi, a Shrek teacher, is found unconscious at the scene. She has suffered severe injuries and burns but is expected to survive. Her presence makes her the primary suspect, since the evidence suggests a Shrek teacher may have attacked students.
• Xuan Zi summons Huo Yuhao and Ling Yuan, a student capable of probing memories through mental power. Huo Yuhao gives an account claiming that he and Tang Chuan came to the alley after finding a Treasure Pavilion flyer, only for a fireball to knock him unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao’s memories appear truthful because Electrolux’s gray orb secretly absorbs Ling Yuan’s mental probing. In reality, Huo Yuhao carefully mixes truth and lies to conceal what happened.
• Since Huo Yuhao is supposedly only a rank-fifteen Soul Master, Xuan Zi dismisses the possibility that he killed Tang Ya and Tang Chuan. He instead suspects Zhou Yi.
• Xuan Zi considers erasing Huo Yuhao’s memories to protect Shrek Academy’s reputation, but Ling Yuan warns that doing so could turn Huo Yuhao into a vegetable. The presence of witnesses also makes such a cover-up too dangerous.
• As Huo Yuhao is taken away, he dramatically cries over Tang Ya and Tang Chuan and announces that he will withdraw from Shrek Academy and avenge them across the continent.

Character Developments

• Xuan Zi is shown as powerful but deeply concerned with Shrek Academy’s reputation. His loyalty to the academy leads him to contemplate immoral measures, including memory manipulation and suppressing the truth.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrates considerable cunning and emotional control. He successfully deceives the investigators while using genuine grief and tears to make his story convincing. His final declaration of revenge may also serve as a calculated attempt to shape public perception.
• Ling Yuan acts as a truth-verifying mental specialist but cannot penetrate Huo Yuhao’s mind because of Electrolux’s protection. He also resists Xuan Zi’s suggestion to erase Huo Yuhao’s memories.
• Zhou Yi becomes the central suspect after being found injured at the murder scene. Her possible involvement creates a severe threat to Shrek Academy’s legitimacy.
• Electrolux remains hidden but actively protects Huo Yuhao by blocking the mental investigation.

Significant Themes

• Institutional reputation versus justice: Shrek’s leaders are more frightened of scandal than eager to uncover the truth, revealing how prestige can corrupt moral judgment.
• Deception and hidden power: Huo Yuhao appears weak and innocent, yet secretly possesses protection and abilities far beyond what the academy knows.
• Legacy and betrayal: The deaths of Tang Ya and Tang Chuan are especially serious because of the Tang Sect’s historical connection to Shrek and Tang San.
• Truth versus official narratives: The investigation produces an apparently reliable account, but the reader knows that Huo Yuhao has manipulated what the academy believes.
• Political consequences of violence: The incident threatens not only individual lives but also Shrek Academy’s status as the continent’s premier institution.

Character Interactions

• Xuan Zi questions the investigators and reacts angrily to the deaths of the Tang siblings.
• He consults Ling Yuan about the accuracy of Huo Yuhao’s testimony and whether his memories can be erased.
• Ling Yuan’s mental examination is secretly blocked by Electrolux.
• Xuan Zi and the investigators interpret Huo Yuhao’s low cultivation level as proof that he could not have committed the murders.
• Huo Yuhao publicly mourns Tang Ya and Tang Chuan, declares his intention to leave Shrek, and vows revenge, leaving the academy with an emotionally powerful but potentially misleading impression of him.

Key plot points and events

• After witnessing the aftermath of Tang Ya and Tang Chuan’s deaths, Huo Yuhao pretends to be distraught and threatens to leave Shrek Academy to seek revenge. Xuan Zi, worried that the scandal will spread, tries to persuade him to stay.
• Huo Yuhao turns the situation into a negotiation. Xuan Zi promises him a Martial Soul Department core disciple position after the freshman assessment, with its benefits available immediately, and gives him a Blackwater Pill and a Soul Ascension Pill. Huo Yuhao accepts, having concealed most of his valuables in the Undead Demiplane so Shrek’s inspection of his Storage Soul Tool finds little.
• Huo Yuhao asks an Inner Academy student to tell Bei Bei about the deaths. He is surprised to learn that Bei Bei never drinks, contradicting Huo Yuhao’s belief that Bei Bei is known as “Drunkard Beibei.”
• At the library, Chen Jue meets Ning Tian and Wu Feng. He reports that Shrek’s Soul Tool Department has a gifted student, He Caitou, and that the Sea God Pavilion Holy Son may be an Outer Academy student with twin ultimate martial souls.
• Ning Tian is mainly interested in buying soul tools from the department and plans to meet He Caitou. Chen Jue identifies the Holy Son’s twin martial souls as the black and white holy dragons. Wu Feng wonders whether the mysterious genius could surpass Chen Jue, who confidently asserts the superiority of the Chen Clan’s Seven Killing Sword.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Yuhao shows himself to be calculating beneath his display of grief, using the deaths to secure status and resources. He also intends to notify Bei Bei, partly to free himself from the Tang Sect’s exploitation.
• Xuan Zi is forced to bargain with Huo Yuhao to prevent a public scandal, though he is irritated by the boy’s repeated demands.
• Chen Jue is tender toward Ning Tian despite his formal “young mistress” address. Ning Tian asks him to call her by her name at school, while Wu Feng’s affectionate gaze toward him hints at a complicated romantic dynamic.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Chen Jue share information and discuss the potential power of the Holy Son, though Chen Jue remains openly self-assured.

Significant themes

• Self-interest and bargaining: Huo Yuhao converts grief and danger into personal advancement.
• Secrecy and reputation: Shrek’s response is shaped by its desire to contain damaging information.
• Ambition and rivalry: The discussion of soul-tool prodigies and exceptional martial souls introduces competition among powerful young talents.
• Romantic tension: The affectionate looks and formal relationship between Chen Jue, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng suggest an emerging love triangle.

Plot points and events

• Huo Yuhao visits the Forget Her Tavern at night and finds Bei Bei waiting alone, sober and composed.
• Bei Bei admits he staged his earlier drunken act and arranged for Huo Yuhao to meet a senior student. He has monitored Huo Yuhao since his time at the White Tiger Duke’s estate, eliminating several other Transmigrators who tried to approach him.
• Bei Bei reveals that he learned the continent’s history and future from a book, Peerless Tang Sect, which he received at age three. Knowing what the story had in store, he chose to seek Huo Yuhao as a possible ally.
• He condemns Tang San for shaping people’s lives through his schemes, including Tang Ya’s future and Bei Bei’s role in the Tang Sect. He also says Tang Hao and Ah Yin feed on the souls of past Sea God Pavilion Masters, including the Grand Ancestor who raised him.
• Bei Bei says that, alongside the book, he received the Light and Dark Dragon Kings’ divine legacies. At six, he awakened twin ultimate Martial Souls—the Radiant Sacred Dragon and Dark Sacred Dragon—and was trained by the Grand Ancestor as the future Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Huo Yuhao recognizes the extraordinary power Bei Bei may possess and silently raises his estimate of him as a threat.

Character developments

• Bei Bei is revealed as an informed, deliberate opponent of the future described in the book. His anger over the Grand Ancestor’s fate and his own predicted subservience to Tang Ya motivates his desire to resist Tang San’s influence. His divine legacies and status make him far more formidable than Huo Yuhao had assumed.
• Huo Yuhao remains outwardly calm, listens without revealing much, and assesses Bei Bei pragmatically. He agrees with Bei Bei’s condemnation of Tang San but is wary of the power Bei Bei represents.

Significant themes

• Free will versus a predetermined story: Bei Bei rejects the idea that Tang San—or a book—has the right to dictate people’s lives.
• Exploitation and inherited sacrifice: The alleged draining of Sea God Pavilion Masters’ souls turns Shrek’s legacy into a source of horror and betrayal.
• Power and resistance: Bei Bei’s extraordinary abilities give him the means to challenge the future he has seen.
• Trust and concealed motives: The tavern conversation exposes how much both men have hidden, while leaving their potential alliance uncertain.

Character interactions

• Bei Bei confronts Huo Yuhao with the truth about his surveillance, his staged drunkenness, and his reasons for seeking an ally.
• Huo Yuhao questions Bei Bei’s actions and listens as he explains his history and grievances, responding mostly through controlled silence and private judgment.
• Their exchange establishes a possible alliance, but also a wary relationship shaped by secrets, ideology, and Bei Bei’s immense potential power.

Key plot points and events

• Bei Bei reveals that he deliberately gave Huo Yuhao information about Tang Chuan. He says Tang Ya had used him, and he is glad Huo Yuhao killed her.
• Bei Bei proposes an alliance to eliminate the many transmigrators hidden across Shrek Academy and the rival factions of both continents. He sees Huo Yuhao’s unusual companions and future potential as both a powerful weapon and a reason others will target him.
• Huo Yuhao refuses to trust Bei Bei, judging him too calculating to be a safe ally. Bei Bei nevertheless offers a trade: Huo Yuhao gives him the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, and Bei Bei keeps Huo Yuhao’s identity secret. Huo Yuhao agrees, giving Bei Bei a legitimate claim to lead the Tang Sect.
• The two part on uneasy terms. Both are Tang Sect inheritors, yet both ultimately intend to kill Tang San.
• Back in his dorm, Huo Yuhao reflects on Bei Bei’s control over Shrek and the threat posed by other, less conspicuous transmigrators.
• Huo Yuhao asks Electrolux to open the Undead Demiplane. Using Tang Chuan’s preserved head, he prepares to transplant the Mangekyō Sharingan and increase his power.

Character developments

• Huo Yuhao remains cautious and independent: he accepts a practical exchange with Bei Bei but refuses to place his life or plans in Bei Bei’s hands. He shifts his attention toward strengthening himself.
• Bei Bei reveals his ambition to hunt transmigrators and his considerable influence within Shrek. His calm response to rejection suggests he expected Huo Yuhao’s refusal and is willing to leave the offer open.
• Electrolux supports Huo Yuhao’s next step by opening the route to the Undead Demiplane.

Significant themes

• Trust versus usefulness: Huo Yuhao distinguishes a mutually beneficial deal from genuine partnership, wary that alliances can become relationships of control.
• Power and hidden threats: Huo Yuhao’s advantages make him a target, while unseen transmigrators may be even more dangerous than the conspicuous ones.
• Ambition and inheritance: Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao share Tang Sect’s legacy but pursue their own agendas, including opposition to Tang San.
• Self-advancement: Huo Yuhao responds to danger by seeking greater power through the Sharingan transplant.

Character interactions

• Bei Bei appeals to Huo Yuhao’s importance and offers him freedom and partnership; Huo Yuhao rejects the alliance but accepts the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record exchange.
• Huo Yuhao challenges Bei Bei about the risk of exposing him. Bei Bei answers confidently, citing Mu En, Shrek’s forces, and the Sea God’s Light as protection.
• Huo Yuhao then turns to Electrolux for help with the transplant, relying on his teacher’s necromantic abilities.

Key plot points and events

• In the Undead Demiplane, Huo Yuhao has Electrolux remove his own left eye and replace it with Tang Chuan’s Mangekyō Sharingan. He pours Universal Fusion Potion over it and uses the Divine Illumination Scripture to help connect and heal the new eye.
• The fusion succeeds without affecting his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul or Soul Skills. The Sharingan enhances his already powerful Spiritual Detection, and the Divine Illumination Scripture may help repair damage from using the eye.
• Huo Yuhao studies Tang Chuan’s Ninjutsu Compendium and finds a warning about Sage Mode, which uses Natural Energy to create Senjutsu Soul Power but can turn an uncontrolled user to stone.
• Since Electrolux can summon a Soul-Devouring Banshee capable of absorbing excess energy, Huo Yuhao begins practicing Sage Mode.
• At first, he successfully combines Natural Energy and Soul Power, gaining physical strength and sharper vision. But he absorbs Natural Energy too quickly; it overwhelms the balance, and stone-like markings spread up his right arm.

Character developments

• Huo Yuhao demonstrates extreme resolve by undergoing eye replacement without hesitation. He gains a powerful new sensory ability and immediately takes on the dangerous challenge of Sage Mode.
• Electrolux acts as a steady guide, enabling the eye fusion and providing a safeguard for Huo Yuhao’s cultivation.
• Tang Chuan remains important through his legacy: his Sharingan and Ninjutsu Compendium give Huo Yuhao new powers and techniques.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reacts with shock at Huo Yuhao’s self-inflicted ordeal, while recognizing his unusual determination.

Significant themes

• Power through sacrifice and risk: Huo Yuhao accepts severe pain and danger to grow stronger.
• Control and balance: Sage Mode requires a precise ratio of energies; losing control has immediate, potentially fatal consequences.
• Inheritance and adaptation: Huo Yuhao builds on Tang Chuan’s knowledge while using his own abilities to overcome the limitations Tang faced.

Character interactions

• Huo Yuhao asks Electrolux to guide the procedure and later to provide an energy-absorbing undead creature.
• Electrolux praises Huo Yuhao’s ruthlessness and summons the Soul-Devouring Banshee as a safety measure.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm voices amazement at Huo Yuhao’s willingness to endure pain; Electrolux explains that this resolve is part of why Huo Yuhao has succeeded.

Key plot points and events

• Huo Yuhao turns the Soul-Devouring Banshee into a small toad statue by channeling his unstable Senjutsu Soul Power and excess Natural Energy into it, discovering a way to contain Sage Mode’s dangerous backlash.
• Over the next month, he trains intensely: he masters a basic Rasengan, gains preliminary control of Sage Mode, and uses five of the seven Banshees as “safety valves” during practice.
• The Blackwater Pill, Soul Ascension Pill, and his unusually long training hours raise his Soul Power from Level 16 to Level 20, allowing him to prepare to absorb a Second Soul Ring.
• Shrek Academy publicly blames the murders of Wu Shi, Lan Sheng, Tang Ya, and Tang Chuan on an Evil Soul Master, who is executed. In reality, the Academy uses the accusation to conceal Zhou Yi’s role in the killings and protect its reputation.
• Huo Yuhao plans to release Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sealed power and form an unprecedented Million-Year Wisdom Soul Ring. As he returns to his dormitory to begin, he finds Taotie Douluo Xuan Zi waiting there, eating chicken and drinking wine.

Character developments

• Huo Yuhao grows markedly stronger and more disciplined, advancing in cultivation while adapting techniques from his other abilities. His focus remains on power and on finding an opportunity to kill the injured Xiao Yan.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm is astonished by Huo Yuhao’s improvised solution to Senjutsu’s instability; Electrolux recognizes the danger and audacity of the method.
• Xiao Yan remains badly injured and weakened, though he continues to encounter Huo Yuhao around the Academy.
• Zhou Yi has been reinstated despite her confession, while Wang Yan continues teaching the class in her absence.

Significant themes

• Ambition and risk: Huo Yuhao pursues rapid growth through hazardous experiments and relentless training.
• Power and adaptation: He combines different techniques and uses practical improvisation to overcome limitations.
• Institutional hypocrisy: Shrek’s public image of justice is preserved through a fabricated account and scapegoating rather than honest accountability.
• Reputation over truth: The Academy’s concern for its legacy outweighs justice for the victims.

Character interactions

• Huo Yuhao exchanges cordial greetings with Xiao Yan, masking his awareness of Xiao Yan’s weakness and his own hostile intentions.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux react differently to Huo Yuhao’s training breakthrough: one is incredulous, while the other cautions him about its risks.
• Huo Yuhao keeps his activities secret from the Academy, training alone at night in the Undead Demiplane.
• The chapter ends with an unexpected face-to-face encounter between Huo Yuhao and Xuan Zi, just as Huo Yuhao is about to absorb his new Soul Ring.