Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao forced Dai Huabin to publicly honor his wager, after which Dai Huabin decided to leave Shrek Academy and return to the Star Luo Empire. Three days later, the academy gathered to award the Freshman Competition’s top teams, while students learned Zhou Yi would be replaced as Freshman Class One’s teacher.

• Xuan Zi accepted Huo Yuhao’s chicken drumsticks and refused to interfere in Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s wager.
• Dai Huabin knelt and admitted that he was inferior to Huo Yuhao, then repeated his apology loudly after Huo Yuhao used a speaker Soul Tool to draw the Arena’s attention.
• After fulfilling the wager, Dai Huabin spat blood on Zhu Lu and told her to take him to the infirmary before announcing that they would return to the Star Luo Empire.
• Three days later, students gathered for the academy ceremony and learned that Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu had withdrawn from Shrek Academy.
• Students discussed rumors that Zhou Yi would be replaced because the academy worried she could not control Huo Yuhao, then Du Weilun began the Freshman Competition awards ceremony.

After the Freshman Competition, Yan Shaozhe awarded each of the top three teams a Secret Art Spirit Bone and warned them to keep the reward private. Huo Yuhao accepted Ning Tian’s invitation to dinner in exchange for information about the White Tiger Family, then showed Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong’er the Deep Blue Leg Bone he had received.

• The Ning Tian Team took third place, Cui Yajie’s team was named runner-up after Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu left the academy, and Huo Yuhao’s team won the competition.
• Yan Shaozhe announced rewards for Core Disciples and gave Ning Tian, Cui Yajie, and Huo Yuhao one Secret Art Spirit Bone for each team.
• Ning Tian invited Huo Yuhao to dinner and offered information about the White Tiger Family; he accepted and arranged to meet her ten days later.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to let Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong’er see inside his pouch, revealing a Deep Blue Leg Bone.

Huo Yuhao gave Xiao Xiao a Void Demon Leopard left leg bone, then met his new homeroom teacher, Zhang Lexuan, and was elected Class One’s head monitor. He told his friends he planned to take leave to obtain his fourth Spirit Ring, then went to Zhang Lexuan’s office.

• Huo Yuhao offered Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao a hundred-year Void Demon Leopard left leg bone, and Xiao Xiao accepted it after they insisted.
• Zhang Lexuan introduced herself as the class’s homeroom teacher, with Wang Yan as deputy homeroom teacher and Ma Xiaotao as teaching assistant.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that Huo Yuhao belonged among the Control System candidates because his primary Martial Soul was the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.
• Class One elected Huo Yuhao Control System class monitor and head monitor, and chose Wang Dong'er as deputy monitor.
• After class, Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao he had reached rank forty and planned to take leave to obtain his fourth Spirit Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan called Huo Yuhao to her office, and he said his family would help him obtain the Spirit Ring.

Huo Yuhao received a half-month leave slip from Zhang Lexuan and arranged to travel with the Snow Empress to hunt for his fourth Spirit Ring. He met her at the Star Spirit Hotel, where she prepared to go with him.

• Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan tussled in the office before Huo Yuhao arrived to ask about his leave.
• Zhang Lexuan approved Huo Yuhao's half-month leave, and Ma Xiaotao offered to take him on his Soul Hunt.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that his target Spirit Ring was deep in the Star Dou Great Forest's Mixed Zone and said he would go with Sister Xue'er instead.
• Ma Xiaotao feigned distress until Huo Yuhao promised to cook her several feasts after his return.
• Huo Yuhao went to the Star Spirit Hotel and found the Snow Empress in the hot spring; she emerged dressed and ready to see him.

Huo Yuhao traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest seeking a Silver Hero Beast for his fourth Spirit Ring, concealing his auspicious aura and entering the forest without the Snow Empress's protection. After noticing that Soul Beasts had fled the area, he hid as a panicked herd rushed past and a three-eyed, dragon-clawed lion appeared.

• Huo Yuhao told the Snow Empress he wanted to find a Silver Hero Beast over twenty thousand years old in the Star Dou Great Forest, and she agreed to take him there.
• The Snow Empress confirmed that Huo Yuhao's Aura-Concealing Technique hid his auspicious aura from the forest's Ferocious Beasts, then flew him toward the forest.
• At the forest's outskirts, the Snow Empress left Huo Yuhao to proceed alone unless he faced danger he could not handle.
• Huo Yuhao crossed the Outer Zone, using Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Shock to knock out Soul Beasts, then noticed there were fewer of them than expected.
• A large herd of Soul Beasts fled through the forest, and Huo Yuhao used his Spirit Eyes and third Spirit Ring to blend into his surroundings.
• A three-eyed lion with dragon claws emerged from the bushes in front of Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao was discovered by the Emperor Auspicious Beast, Three-Eyed Golden Lion, in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Snow Empress arrived to protect him from Scarlet King. Beast God Di Tian then appeared, focused on Huo Yuhao’s auspicious aura, and confronted Snow Empress.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Huo Yuhao as another Auspicious Beast despite Jiang Ziya’s Aura-Concealing Technique and called him out of hiding.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion approached Huo Yuhao, accepted his affection, and explained that she had come alone out of curiosity about another of her kind.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion warned that Uncle Dog might have followed her, and Scarlet King arrived to guard her.
• Snow Empress appeared between Scarlet King and Huo Yuhao, pressured Scarlet King, and stroked Three-Eyed Golden Lion while Huo Yuhao urged her to leave.
• Di Tian arrived beneath a darkened sky, greeted Snow Empress, and fixed his attention on Huo Yuhao’s auspicious aura as their pressure battered the surrounding trees.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Huo Yuhao’s arrival in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Tian and the Snow Empress nearly clashed before Bi Ji intervened. Di Tian invited Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress to meet the forest’s mysterious Master, and they entered the inner forest, where the Soul Beasts fled from their path.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion ran off to find Huo Yuhao, and Di Tian followed after learning that the Auspicious Beast had sensed him.
• Di Tian and the Snow Empress’s auras swept Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion away, but Bi Ji caught them and calmed the confrontation.
• Di Tian invited Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress to meet the Master, and Jiang Ziya assured Huo Yuhao that a fortuitous opportunity awaited him.
• The Snow Empress agreed to go with Di Tian, and Huo Yuhao rode on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as they traveled toward the Land of Great Evil.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Soul Beasts fleeing as they approached, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion insisted they were merely showing her respect.

Huo Yuhao reached the Lake of Life and met Gu Yuena, who agreed to help him obtain his fourth Spirit Ring. As Di Tian went to find a suitable Soul Beast, Huo Yuhao began barbecuing beside the lake.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion brought Huo Yuhao to the Lake of Life, where Bi Ji, Di Tian, and several Ferocious Beasts were waiting.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion introduced Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, and Zi JI to Huo Yuhao.
• Gu Yuena emerged from the lake, greeted Huo Yuhao, and transformed into a woman.
• Huo Yuhao asked Gu Yuena for help obtaining his fourth Spirit Ring, and she agreed to let Di Tian find a suitable Soul Beast.
• Tian Meng explained to Huo Yuhao that the Ferocious Beasts valued a bond with him more than the loss of one Soul Beast.
• Di Tian left to find a Soul Beast, while Huo Yuhao took out a stove and started a barbecue by the Lake of Life.

Huo Yuhao shared grilled food with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Ferocious Beasts, then told Gu Yuena about his grudge against the Divine Realm. The chapter left the beasts more warmly disposed toward him, while Gu Yuena urged him to grow stronger before joining her fight.

• Huo Yuhao gave the Three-Eyed Golden Lion grilled meat and named her Di Qiu'er, making her leap around happily and pounce on Bi Ji.
• Huo Yuhao shared roasted meat with Gu Yuena and recognized her as a God, explaining that her aura resembled one he had encountered before.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena that a God had schemed against his family and caused his mother's death, and Gu Yuena considered how he might aid the Soul Beast Clan.
• Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao to focus on cultivation, while Di Qiu'er comforted him and promised to fight the bad guys with him when she grew up.
• Huo Yuhao offered grilled food to Xue'er, Bi Ji, Xiong Jun, and the other Ferocious Beasts, and Xiong Jun praised his cooking and offered him protection in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Jiang Ziya introduced an improved contract method that could let Soul Masters gain Spirit Rings without killing Soul Beasts. Gu Yuena and the Ferocious Beasts heard the proposal as Huo Yuhao prepared to test it with a Silver Hero Beast.

• Di Tian returned and stopped Xiong Jun from taking his grilled food, then gave Huo Yuhao a forty-thousand-year Silver Hero Beast.
• Jiang Ziya and Electrolux emerged from Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, prompting Di Tian to threaten them until Gu Yuena ordered him to stand down.
• Jiang Ziya offered Gu Yuena a method for obtaining Spirit Rings without killing Soul Beasts and presented Tian Meng and the Ice Empress as pioneers.
• The Ice Empress explained that she had sacrificed herself to Huo Yuhao because her damaged Origin left her little time before her next Heavenly Tribulation.
• Jiang Ziya named the improved technique the soul spirit contract method and explained that it combined beast-control spells, contract magic, and Tian Meng's sacrifice method.

Huo Yuhao formed a Soul Spirit Contract with the Silver Hero Beast, gained his fourth Spirit Ring, and named her Xiao Yin. He tested his mutated Mental Replication ability before the Ferocious Beasts, while Di Qiu'er enjoyed its speed boost.

• Jiang Ziya and Di Tian prepared Huo Yuhao and the Silver Hero Beast to form a contract, and Jiang Ziya and Electrolux joined their arrays to begin it.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the Silver Hero Beast's fear, reassured her, and chose one of her Soul Skills as his fourth Spirit Ring completed, bringing him to level forty-one.
• The contract made the Silver Hero Beast more intelligent and larger, and Huo Yuhao named her Xiao Yin as she accepted him as her partner.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated his fourth Soul Skill, Mental Replication, which had mutated from Xiao Yin's Imprint ability and could copy Martial Souls and their Soul Skills.
• Huo Yuhao replicated a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and used its speed boost on Di Qiu'er, who happily tested it around the Lake of Life.

Huo Yuhao and his teachers presented the Soul Beast leaders with an unfinished Soul Spirit Contract technique, giving them hope of reducing conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts. At the Lake of Life, the Snow Empress consumed a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus to restore her Origin and began facing her seventh Heavenly Tribulation, leaving everyone anxiously watching the storm.

• Jiang Ziya and Electrolux explained that their unfinished Soul Spirit technique could eventually let Soul Beasts form contracts with generations of Soul Masters and grow stronger from their cultivation.
• Gu Yuena, Bi Ji, and Di Tian recognized the technique’s potential to reduce Soul Beast deaths, and Di Tian warmed to Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao moved into a courtyard beside the Lake of Life with the Snow Empress, who prepared to eat the snow lotus and trigger her seventh Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Snow Empress consumed the snow lotus, restored her damaged Origin, and drew a vast thunderstorm over the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Mu En sensed the powerful tribulation from Shrek Academy and agreed with Yan Shaozhe that future Spirit Ring hunts should include elders.
• The first lightning bolts destroyed Huo Yuhao’s courtyard as the Snow Empress flew into the storm, and the others waited anxiously for the outcome.

After overcoming her Heavenly Tribulation, the Snow Empress challenged Di Tian to a spar at the Lake of Life. She admitted defeat despite Di Tian calling the fight a draw, and resolved to grow strong enough to beat him in the future.

• The Snow Empress emerged safely after her tribulation, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Qiu'er congratulated her.
• The Snow Empress challenged Di Tian to a spar, and Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao to stay on the ground.
• Di Tian and the Snow Empress fought in the sky while the Ferocious Beasts created a barrier to protect the Lake of Life from her freezing domain.
• After their clash, Di Tian called the spar a draw, but the Snow Empress said she had lost and recognized that Di Tian had held back a dangerous trump card.
• The Snow Empress reflected on what she had learned and resolved to defeat Di Tian someday.

Huo Yuhao prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, but Di Qiu'er took human form and insisted on accompanying him. Before they departed, Di Tian gave Qiu'er his reverse scale for protection, and Gu Yuena gave Huo Yuhao hers to conceal him from the Divine Realm.

• Huo Yuhao said farewell to the Ferocious Beasts and accepted Bi Ji's storage necklace as a parting gift.
• Di Qiu'er arrived in human form, embraced Huo Yuhao, and declared that she wanted to visit the human world with him.
• Huo Yuhao promised Di Tian that he and Xue'er would look after Di Qiu'er, and Di Tian gave Qiu'er his reverse scale to protect her and summon him.
• As Huo Yuhao prepared to leave with Di Qiu'er, Gu Yuena gave him her reverse scale, explaining that it could hide him from the Divine Realm once the continent's seal broke.

Huo Yuhao accidentally absorbed most of Gu Yuena's reverse scale, completing the five elemental attributes of his Four-Not-Like Martial Soul and gaining a silver Spirit Ring. Gu Yuena accepted the loss despite her private anger, while Huo Yuhao promised himself he would repay her and then found Di Qiu'er teasing his newly changed horns.

• Gu Yuena's reverse scale flew into Huo Yuhao, triggering his Martial Soul and revealing a powerful True Dragon aura.
• Jiang Ziya explained that Huo Yuhao's Four-Not-Like Martial Soul was absorbing the reverse scale to transform its five elemental attributes into ultimate attributes.
• After less than four hours, Huo Yuhao absorbed the five lights and gained a silver, dragon-scale-patterned Spirit Ring.
• Huo Yuhao apologized to Gu Yuena and returned the dull reverse scale, which retained only its light and darkness attributes.
• Gu Yuena let Huo Yuhao keep the reverse scale, though she privately mourned the loss of her only one.
• Di Qiu'er stroked Huo Yuhao's silvery-white horns until he protested that they tickled.

Huo Yuhao and Di Qiu'er left the Star Dou Great Forest on Xiao Yin, with Di Qiu'er using her Auspicious Beast presence to frighten nearby Soul Beasts. As they traveled, she persuaded Huo Yuhao to reveal his Four-Not-Like Martial Soul, then touched his horns before he could stop her.

• Huo Yuhao took Xiao Yin out of his Storage Soul Tool, fed her roast meat, and prepared to leave with Di Qiu'er riding behind him.
• Di Tian asked Huo Yuhao to take care of Di Qiu'er, and Huo Yuhao promised to bring her back safely after the first year ended.
• On their way through the snowy forest, Di Qiu'er released her Emperor Auspicious Beast presence and made a black leopard Soul Beast let them pass in terror.
• Di Qiu'er explained that she was introducing Huo Yuhao to the local Soul Beasts and urged him to release his Four-Not-Like Martial Soul.
• Nearby Soul Beasts panicked at the two Auspicious Beast presences, and Di Qiu'er reached out and touched Huo Yuhao's horns before he could protect them.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek City with Di Qiu'er and took her to enroll at Shrek Academy. Along the way, they met Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan at their grilled fish stall, and Di Qiu'er announced she was applying to the Inner Court.

• Huo Yuhao stored Xiao Yin away before entering Shrek City with Di Qiu'er, then led her toward Shrek Academy to enroll.
• Huo Yuhao and Di Qiu'er stopped at Jiang Nannan's grilled fish stall, where Xu Sanshi was helping her attract customers.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Di Qiu'er as the Snow Empress's younger distant cousin, and Jiang Nannan offered her grilled fish.
• Di Qiu'er devoured the grilled fish and said she was applying to the Inner Court, shocking Jiang Nannan.
• Huo Yuhao wiped Di Qiu'er's mouth, said goodbye to Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan, and continued with her toward Dean Yan.

Huo Yuhao brought Di Qiu'er to Shrek Academy, where Yan Shaozhe welcomed her into the Inner Court and assigned her a room in the Sea God's Pavilion. Mu En discovered that Huo Yuhao's martial soul had evolved to possess six ultimate attributes, and the chapter ended as Ma Xiaotao called out to him from across the hall.

• Yan Shaozhe confirmed Di Qiu'er's strength and welcomed her into the Inner Court, giving her a Sea God's Pavilion dormitory key next to Huo Yuhao's room.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Sea God's Pavilion to Di Qiu'er and introduced her to Mu En, who praised her Golden Dragon Martial Soul and enrollment.
• Mu En sensed that Huo Yuhao's martial soul had evolved after he absorbed a spirit ring from an ancient Silver Dragon, and recognized his five additional ultimate elemental attributes alongside ultimate ice.
• Mu En teased Huo Yuhao about practicing moderation as he led Di Qiu'er to her room, then remarked that the Inner Court would become lively.
• Di Qiu'er asked Huo Yuhao about Mu En's power, and he identified him as Dragon God Douluo Mu En, a Limit Douluo.
• Ma Xiaotao opened the door across from Huo Yuhao's room and called out to him.

Huo Yuhao introduced Di Qiu'er to Ma Xiaotao, whose mutual interest in him led them to arrange a spar. Later, Huo Yuhao disguised himself as Wang Dong'er to tease her, but the real Wang Dong'er caught him in the act.

• Ma Xiaotao mistook Di Qiu'er for Xu Jiujiu, and Huo Yuhao introduced Di Qiu'er as a gifted relative who had come to register at the academy.
• Ma Xiaotao and Di Qiu'er tested each other's strength with a handshake, then revealed their Soul Emperor ranks and Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao fled to the Outer Court while Ma Xiaotao and Di Qiu'er went to the Tournament Arena to spar, and Mu En watched them leave with amusement.
• Huo Yuhao learned from Xiao Xiao that Wang Dong'er had diarrhea after buying grilled fish from Goose Leg Auntie, then disguised himself as Wang Dong'er to prank her.
• Wang Dong'er entered the classroom and demanded to know why Huo Yuhao looked like her.

Huo Yuhao returned to class and fooled Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er by copying Wang Dong'er's Martial Soul, then revealed his new Imprint Soul Skill. After demonstrating his copied cauldron, he treated Wang Dong'er's stomach pain and explained that all five of his elemental attributes had become ultimate attributes.

• Huo Yuhao impersonated Wang Dong'er in class, confusing Xiao Xiao until Zhang Lexuan told him to stop and he revealed himself.
• After class, Huo Yuhao told Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er that his fourth Soul Skill let him copy any Martial Soul he had seen, then demonstrated it with Xiao Xiao's Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.
• Huo Yuhao used the copied cauldron's Cauldron's Tremor to shake the lake water, impressing Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Wang Dong'er was still in pain, possessed her with his Four-Not-Like Martial Soul, and eased her stomach pain with emerald-green Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao said a fortuitous encounter had made all five of his elemental attributes ultimate attributes, leaving Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er astonished.