Chapter Summaries

Tang San schemed to control the Douluo Plane’s chosen child, while a transmigrated Huo Yuhao fought a wind baboon with the help of a mysterious black ring. The ring froze the beast, and Sky Dream finally spoke to Huo Yuhao.

• Tang San imprisoned the Douluo Plane’s will and plotted to make its chosen child serve his family.
• A former assassin from Blue Star, now inhabiting Huo Yuhao, tried to escape a wind baboon despite his frail body and missing White Tiger Dagger.
• Huo Yuhao threw his black ring at the wind baboon to distract it, but the ring swallowed the beast’s white attack.
• A wisp of white flame emerged from the ring and froze the wind baboon and everything nearby within twenty meters.
• Sky Dream spoke inside Huo Yuhao’s mind, and Huo Yuhao recognized him.

Huo Yuhao confirmed that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm still existed in this timeline and persuaded him to delay their fusion so they could search for valuables left by a dead cultivator. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to lead Huo Yuhao to the corpse, while Huo Yuhao trusted that his black ring would keep them safe.

• Huo Yuhao put the plain black ring back on his finger and killed the Wind Baboon with a knife.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged from the ground, introduced himself as a million-year soul beast, and announced that he would become Huo Yuhao’s Wisdom Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao stopped the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm from forcing their fusion by asking about soul coins and proposing they search for valuables left by dead cultivators.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm remembered a human killed by a hundred-thousand-year Nether Tiger during a beast tide and offered to take Huo Yuhao there.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned that he might not be able to protect Huo Yuhao during the trip, but Huo Yuhao said the black ring would keep them safe.

Huo Yuhao fused with the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, gaining a soul ring while a mysterious gray remnant entered his body and a wisp of the silkworm’s power vanished into his black ring. As Huo Yuhao explored his Sea of Consciousness and heard Sky Dream’s story, soul beasts converged on him, but a white flame from the ring froze them.

• Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream reached a grove in the outer Star Dou Great Forest, where Huo Yuhao placed his ancient black ring on a stone and prepared to fuse with Sky Dream.
• Sky Dream transformed into white radiance and entered Huo Yuhao, while a wisp of that radiance was drawn into the black ring.
• A gray stream of energy entered Huo Yuhao, and an aged remnant spirit briefly appeared before vanishing; Sky Dream’s million-year soul ring then merged into Huo Yuhao.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei searched for Huo Yuhao nearby as a peach-pink snake approached them through the woods.
• In Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, Sky Dream explained his past and the four soul skills he had granted Huo Yuhao, while Huo Yuhao kept his past-life memories secret.
• Soul beasts sensed Sky Dream’s aura and rushed toward Huo Yuhao, but a white flame emerging from the black ring froze them into ice sculptures.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had given him a soulless Ultimate Ice martial soul, then met the spirit of Yao Lao and became his disciple. Yao Lao offered to teach him alchemy, and Huo Yuhao eagerly accepted the Yellow Tier Low Grade Flame Mantra.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that Huo Yuhao’s second martial soul would take shape as a beast martial soul when he absorbed an ice-attribute soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao awoke to find nearby soul beasts frozen and the Black Ring floating above the bluestone.
• Yao Lao appeared and offered to teach Huo Yuhao alchemy, explaining that his fire and wood attributes and strong soul perception suited the craft.
• Huo Yuhao performed the disciple ceremony, and Yao Lao introduced himself and described the cultivation methods of his world.
• Yao Lao offered Huo Yuhao the Yellow Tier Low Grade Flame Mantra, and Huo Yuhao immediately agreed to learn it.

Huo Yuhao chose the dangerous Flame Mantra after learning it could evolve by devouring heavenly flames and might help Yao Lao regain a body. After cultivating it, his Spiritual Eyes Martial Soul changed, and he named its new form the Flame God Eyes.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao about a white flame in an ice cavern and a core earth fire in the Scarlet King's magma lair.
• Yao Lao warned Huo Yuhao that absorbing heavenly flames was perilous, then revealed that the Flame Mantra might let him forge a body for Yao Lao's soul.
• Yao Lao offered Huo Yuhao the Flame Mantra and a safer fire-attribute cultivation method, and Huo Yuhao chose the Flame Mantra and promised to help Yao Lao return to his world.
• Huo Yuhao cultivated the Flame Mantra while Yao Lao found a glittering purple ring and a white skeleton in a deep pit.
• Huo Yuhao's soul power gathered in his eyes, which turned fiery red and emitted blazing light, so he named his changed Martial Soul the Flame God Eyes.

Huo Yuhao found a Shrek Grace Token among the possessions of Yu Chuan, a Body Sect Soul Douluo, and decided to attend Shrek Academy. Before they set out, Yao Lao passed on two powerful Dou Techniques and warned Huo Yuhao that he would need to toughen his body through harsh training.

• Huo Yuhao examined Yu Chuan's belongings and discovered a Shrek Grace Token that could grant entry to Shrek Academy without an entrance exam.
• Huo Yuhao decided to study at Shrek Academy, where he could pursue revenge against Dai Huabin, and felt the original Huo Yuhao's lingering resentment fade.
• Yao Lao transferred the Eight Extremes Collapse and Heavenly Net Art to Huo Yuhao.
• Yao Lao warned that Huo Yuhao's weak body could not withstand Eight Extremes Collapse and promised to condition him with medicinal herbs, soul beast blood essence, and punishing training.

Huo Yuhao endured Yao Lao’s punishing body-tempering training and used Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid to recover before reaching Shrek City. At the academy’s eastern gate, he revealed a Shrek Grace Token, and a student went to report it to a teacher.

• Yao Lao struck Huo Yuhao with controlled bursts of energy until Huo Yuhao endured sixty-two lashes, surpassing his previous limit.
• Huo Yuhao soaked in diluted Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid made from herbs and soul-beast essence while Yao Lao brought him food and returned to the Black Ring.
• Huo Yuhao traveled around the dangerous parts of the Star Dou Great Forest and arrived at Shrek City the next day.
• Shrek Academy students stopped Huo Yuhao at the eastern gate and explained the admission requirements after he said his soul power was rank eleven.
• Huo Yuhao displayed his white ten-year soul ring, then showed the gate students a Shrek Grace Token.
• The leading student recognized the token and went to report it to a teacher before allowing Huo Yuhao into the city.

Huo Yuhao used a Shrek Grace Token to enroll at Shrek Academy, where Dean Qian Duoduo recognized his rare Flame God Eyes Martial Soul and welcomed his ambition to study Soul Tools. After registering and receiving dormitory key 108, Huo Yuhao headed to meet his new roommate.

• Qian Duoduo confirmed Huo Yuhao's Shrek Grace Token was genuine and asked how he had obtained it.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his dual-attribute Flame God Eyes Martial Soul, and Qian Duoduo offered to help him enroll.
• Huo Yuhao told Qian Duoduo he wanted to become a Soul Engineer and argued that Soul Tools were essential tools for Soul Masters.
• Qian Duoduo escorted Huo Yuhao through Shrek Academy and helped him register after Huo Yuhao paid his own tuition.
• Huo Yuhao received dormitory key 108 and decided to meet the spoiled little princess who would be his roommate.

Huo Yuhao avoided sharing a dormitory with Wang Dong and secured permission from Mu En to live off campus so he could keep his cultivation plans private. After demonstrating his strength, he settled into a Shrek City hotel and learned that Zhou Yi would be his homeroom teacher.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Mu En as a Level 99 Limit Douluo, and Yao Lao warned him that living near Mu En could expose his presence.
• Wang Dong ordered Huo Yuhao to clean their dusty dormitory and follow her rules, so he left and asked Mu En for permission to rent a place in Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao broke a rock with Eight Extremes Collapse, prompting Mu En to remark that Huo Yuhao might defeat Wang Dong in a fight to the death.
• Mu En approved Huo Yuhao's request, and the registration office processed his off-campus living arrangements.
• Huo Yuhao rented a hotel room for three hundred Gold Soul Coins per month and saw that Zhou Yi would teach Freshman Class One.

On his first day at Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao clashed with homeroom teacher Zhou Yi after she threatened to expel him for avoiding a fight with Wang Dong. Mu Jin intervened and claimed Huo Yuhao as his student, leaving Zhou Yi furious.

• Huo Yuhao entered Freshman Class One and recognized Wang Dong among the students as Zhou Yi began her harsh introduction.
• Zhou Yi ordered the entire class to run a hundred laps for not having fought during registration, then singled out Huo Yuhao for retreating from Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao walked out after Zhou Yi said he did not deserve to study in her class, drawing laughter from the students and irritating Zhou Yi.
• Mu Jin confronted Zhou Yi over her attempt to expel Huo Yuhao and reminded her that she had expelled Mu Jin's younger brother.
• Mu Jin knocked Zhou Yi's hand away from Huo Yuhao and declared that Huo Yuhao would be his student.

Huo Yuhao used a tearful appeal about his late mother’s teachings to stop Zhou Yi from expelling him, and Du Weilun sent him back to Freshman Class Nine while summoning Zhou Yi to the academic affairs office. In his new class, Huo Yuhao introduced himself and faced a challenge from a contemptuous red-haired student as the class prepared to elect a monitor.

• Mu Jin offered to take Huo Yuhao into Freshman Class Nine after Zhou Yi threatened to expel him.
• Huo Yuhao told Mu Jin and the watching teachers that he had avoided fighting Wang Dong because his late mother had taught him not to cause trouble.
• Du Weilun ruled that Huo Yuhao had done nothing wrong, sent him back with Mu Jin, and ordered Zhou Yi to meet him after class.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself to Freshman Class Nine as an eleven-year-old specially invited student with rank-eleven soul power.
• Mu Jin announced a class monitor election, and Huo Yuhao answered a red-haired girl's insult with a joking retort about her being fit for a key.

Huo Yuhao accepted Wu Feng’s challenge and used his combat experience, Flame God Eyes, and Flame Mantra to defeat her despite her superior cultivation. Wu Feng surrendered, leaving the class stunned by Huo Yuhao’s strength.

• Huo Yuhao mocked Wu Feng and accepted her challenge after Mu Jin warned him that she was a Soul Grandmaster.
• Ning Tian questioned why Huo Yuhao dared to fight Wu Feng despite his low cultivation, but Wu Feng remained confident.
• At the training grounds, Wu Feng revealed her Red Dragon martial soul while Huo Yuhao activated his Flame God Eyes.
• Huo Yuhao dodged Wu Feng’s attacks, caught her fist, and used his Flame Mantra to devour the fire from her Dragon’s Fire soul skill.
• Wu Feng used Dragon’s Wrath and attacked Huo Yuhao’s abdomen, but he countered with Eight Extremes Collapse and continued draining her soul power.
• Unable to keep fighting, Wu Feng surrendered and admitted defeat.

Huo Yuhao defeated Wu Feng and was chosen as Freshman Class Nine’s monitor after Ning Tian and the other students backed him. Mu Jin then began the class’s first lesson by asking Huo Yuhao to explain a soul master’s approach to attack and defense.

• Huo Yuhao forced Wu Feng to surrender by countering her Red Dragon martial soul, and Ning Tian helped the exhausted Wu Feng.
• Mu Jin erased “class monitor” from the board, wrote Huo Yuhao’s name, and nominated him for the position.
• Ning Tian supported Huo Yuhao, explaining that she recognized his potential and hoped the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect might gain his help in the future.
• The students voted for Huo Yuhao, and Mu Jin appointed him class monitor while allowing anyone who defeated him to take the position.
• Mu Jin wrote “Attack! Defense!” on the blackboard and asked Huo Yuhao to explain a soul master’s system of attack and defense.

Huo Yuhao challenged the usual division of soul masters into offensive and defensive roles, arguing that soul tools could both compensate for weaknesses and amplify strengths. Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo listened from the classroom entrance as he left Ning Tian inspired by his ideas.

• Huo Yuhao told Freshman Class Nine that the traditional classification of soul master systems as offensive or defensive was outdated because soul tools could change their capabilities.
• Huo Yuhao argued that soul tools could strengthen every system rather than merely make up for its shortcomings, impressing Mu Jin and the students.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo went looking for Huo Yuhao, hoping to assess him before the freshman classes were assigned after the assessment.
• After learning Huo Yuhao had transferred to Freshman Class Nine, Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo listened to his lecture unseen from the classroom entrance.
• Huo Yuhao explained that soul tool manufacturing and use could be handled by soul masters with different levels of talent, while Ning Tian found inspiration in his words.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Freshman Class Nine that Soul Tools could help Soul Masters cover their weaknesses through teamwork, earning the class’s respect and drawing the Soul Tool Department’s interest. While eating afterward, he learned from Yao Lao that absorbing sufficiently powerful beast flames might evolve his Flame Mantra, and he thought he knew where to find them.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Soul Tools could not erase the weaknesses of support and food system Soul Masters, but suitable tools and teamwork could let Soul Masters complement one another.
• Ning Tian led Freshman Class Nine in applauding Huo Yuhao, and even Wu Feng applauded him after his speech.
• Xian Lin'er decided to teach Huo Yuhao how to make Soul Tools, leaving Qian Duoduo to give up his own plan to take him as a disciple.
• Huo Yuhao bought an expensive meal at the Shrek Academy dining hall and asked Yao Lao why his Flame God Eyes had absorbed Wu Feng’s flames.
• Yao Lao told Huo Yuhao that absorbing enough powerful beast flame might evolve his Flame Mantra, and Huo Yuhao said he might know where to find such flames.

Huo Yuhao realized he lacked the funds to begin learning Alchemy, so he found a way to obtain materials while practicing flame control. He arranged for Lao Mo to supply fish and other goods, leaving Yao Lao curious about his plan for that night.

• Yao Lao explained that Huo Yuhao needed a medicinal cauldron and many sets of ingredients, but Huo Yuhao calculated that he could not afford them without risking his cultivation expenses.
• Huo Yuhao considered borrowing money from Wang Dong, Ning Tian, or Qian Duoduo, then wondered aloud where he could find a big fish.
• Lao Mo approached Huo Yuhao and said his daughter had caught a twenty-jin Gold Dragon Fish, which Huo Yuhao agreed to buy.
• Huo Yuhao offered Lao Mo three times the market price to supply fish, fresh meat from ten-year soul beasts, and vegetables, then gave him a deposit and arranged the code phrase, “Tell Lao Mo I want fish!”
• Huo Yuhao told Yao Lao he had found a clever way to practice controlling flames and promised to show him that night.

Huo Yuhao was appointed Freshman Class Nine’s class monitor and chose Ning Tian as his vice class monitor before Mu Jin began the class’s weighted running assessment. Zhou Yi challenged Mu Jin’s confidence in Huo Yuhao, proposing a running contest between the class monitors.

• Freshman Class Nine students discussed Huo Yuhao’s arguments for Soul Tools, and Ning Tian said she planned to study Soul Tool creation while Wu Feng should learn to use them.
• Huo Yuhao chose Ning Tian as vice class monitor, and Mu Jin led Class Nine to the square for weighted running and physical fitness rankings.
• Zhou Yi confronted Mu Jin, complaining that she and Huo Yuhao had gotten her scolded by Du Weilun.
• Mu Jin mocked Zhou Yi and predicted Class Nine would defeat Class One at the freshman assessment.
• Zhou Yi challenged Class Nine’s monitor Huo Yuhao to compete against Class One’s monitor by running laps.

Mu Jin wagered a Soul Bone against Zhou Yi on a race between Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, expecting Huo Yuhao to win. Huo Yuhao outran Wang Dong even after she flew, leaving Zhou Yi owing Mu Jin a Soul Bone as Class Nine celebrated.

• Mu Jin challenged Zhou Yi to wager a Soul Bone on a race between Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, and Zhou Yi accepted.
• Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao ran ten laps wearing Iron Vests, but Huo Yuhao maintained pace while Wang Dong began to tire.
• Wang Dong used her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul to fly, but Huo Yuhao sprinted so fast that he lapped her five times and she crashed.
• Mu Jin demanded the Soul Bone from the furious Zhou Yi, who led Freshman Class One back to class while Class Nine cheered Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao opened a barbecue stall near Shrek City's eastern gate, drawing a crowd with his inventive cart and delicious food. Tang Ya and Bei Bei found him, and Tang Ya began recruiting him into the Tang Sect before Huo Yuhao urged her to order first.

• Huo Yuhao set up his mobile barbecue cart near Shrek City's eastern gate and prepared fish, meat, and vegetables for grilling.
• Huo Yuhao used the Flame Mantra to control the charcoal while cooking, and the aroma attracted students and nearby vendors.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei arrived at Huo Yuhao's stall and greeted him.
• Bei Bei told Tang Ya that Huo Yuhao had impressed the freshmen and become the monitor of Freshman Class Nine.
• Tang Ya praised Huo Yuhao and tried to recruit him into the Tang Sect, but Huo Yuhao told her to order first.

Huo Yuhao drew Shrek students to his food stall with delicious grilled skewers and fish, then launched an auction for his Gold Dragon Fish. After Bei Bei won the fish for 2,400 Gold Soul Coins, Huo Yuhao looked forward to using his earnings to buy a medicinal cauldron and ingredients.

• Huo Yuhao set prices for his grilled fish, meat skewers, and vegetable skewers, while promising a refund if customers disliked the food.
• Tang Ya devoured grilled fish, and a male student praised Huo Yuhao’s soul beast meat skewers and bought nearly all the remaining food.
• As students crowded the stall and began competing for food, Huo Yuhao fixed the regular prices and introduced the Gold Dragon Fish as the day’s auction item.
• Shrek students bid against one another for the Gold Dragon Fish, and Bei Bei won it for 2,400 Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao gave Bei Bei a limited-edition token and explained that five tokens could be redeemed for a free King of the Grill.