Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao was trapped by Xu Jiujiu’s Absolute Defense Soul Tool while Star Luo Royal Academy’s Star’s Guardian contained Ling Luochеn’s icy mist. He escaped by using the Mysterious Heavy Ruler and prepared to strike back with a powerful flame technique.

• Xu Jiujiu used Star Guidance Technique to search the icy mist, but Huo Yuhao’s reflective crystals concealed Shrek Academy’s members.
• Xu Sanshi used Black Tortoise Displacement to switch places with Sheng Yi and protect Xu Jiujiu from her teammates’ rescue attempt.
• Xu Jiujiu survived Huo Yuhao’s attack with an Invincible Shield and trapped him inside an Absolute Defense Soul Tool.
• Xu Jiujiu activated Star’s Guardian, which blocked Ling Luochеn’s icy mist while Huang Heyun kept Dai Yueheng occupied.
• Huo Yuhao used an emerald carving knife to shatter the Absolute Defense Soul Tool, then summoned the Mysterious Heavy Ruler and unleashed Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.

Huo Yuhao used his heavenly flames to defeat Yi Chen and unleashed a devastating Flame Splitting Wave Ruler against the Star Luo Royal Academy. The strike tore through the team’s combined defense and shattered the arena’s golden barrier, leaving the attack’s full impact unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao stood in midair by forming ice beneath his feet, revealing his mastery of the ice element.
• Yi Chen tried to absorb the heavenly flames with her fire-element martial soul, but the flames shattered her attack and knocked her unconscious.
• Wang Shiying caught Yi Chen as Huo Yuhao launched a powerful Flame Splitting Wave Ruler at the Star Luo Royal Academy.
• Huang Heyun and three teammates combined their strength to unleash Dark Hurricane against the crescent blade, but it pierced through the tornado.
• Huo Yuhao’s attack struck Star’s Guardian, shattered its twelve stars, and blew apart the golden barrier around the arena.

Huo Yuhao broke Star Luo Royal Academy’s defenses and led Shrek Academy to a semifinal victory after the opposing team forfeited the individual knockout tournament. The next morning, Xu Jiujiu brought him to meet her brother Xu Tianji, whose first words revealed that he knew Huo Yuhao had come from another world.

• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team discussed Huo Yuhao’s combat strength and his ability to destroy soul tools.
• Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy broke through Star Luo Royal Academy’s formation, leaving Xu Jiujiu as its last member.
• Xu Jiujiu conceded the team battle and forfeited the individual knockout tournament, giving Shrek Academy the semifinal victory.
• Huo Yuhao visited Xu Jiujiu at the imperial palace, where she revealed that her brother Xu Tianji possessed the body martial soul star eyes.
• Huo Yuhao entered Xu Tianji’s bedchamber and heard him call him a traveler from another world.

Huo Yuhao learned that Xu Tianji’s Star Eyes Martial Soul let him glimpse fragments of the future, though revealing them brought severe punishment. Xu Tianji offered Huo Yuhao a deal: find an immortal-grade medicinal herb to heal him, and he would share information about Huo Yuhao’s coming deadly calamity.

• Huo Yuhao entered Xu Tianji’s bedchamber and met the frail, bedridden prince.
• Huo Yuhao asked Brother Sky Dream to seal off their spiritual fluctuations, and Brother Sky Dream explained that Xu Tianji was a human counterpart to an Emperor Auspicious Beast whose power drew punishment from fate.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Xu Tianji about recognizing that he came from another world, and Xu Tianji admitted his sister had coached him to speak mystically during negotiations.
• Xu Tianji revealed that his Star Eyes Martial Soul had shown him the power of destiny on Huo Yuhao when they saw each other at the palace banquet.
• Xu Tianji said he wanted Huo Yuhao to find an immortal-grade medicinal herb to heal his body, offering information about Huo Yuhao’s coming deadly calamity in return.

Huo Yuhao heard Xu Tianji’s warning about a fate-bound death tribulation and agreed to help cure him in exchange for his joining the Body Sect. As Shrek Academy prepared to face the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the finals, Huo Yuhao arrived and announced that he had advanced to Soul Ancestor.

• Xu Tianji warned Huo Yuhao that a powerful enemy could force him onto his original path of fate, and that a treasure connected to the threat could save him.
• Xu Tianji explained that the Star Luo Spirit Pearl could heal his damaged body and asked Huo Yuhao to help him find it in exchange for joining the Body Sect.
• Xu Tianji revealed that the Star Crown Xu Family would lose the Star Luo throne and decline, apparently because of the same hidden enemy targeting Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Xu Tianji’s offer and agreed to help cure him.
• Wang Yan briefed Shrek Academy’s team on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s varied tactics and its overwhelming Soul Tool firepower.
• Huo Yuhao entered the conference room and told Wang Yan that he had advanced to Soul Ancestor.

Huo Yuhao revealed that he had reached rank forty-three and become a Soul Ancestor, while Wang Yan planned Shrek Academy’s lineup and strategy for the final against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy Team. As Star Luo City filled with spectators awaiting the finals, Xu Jiujiu passed on a cryptic prediction that the Xu Family’s future lay with Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao told Shrek Academy’s conference room that he had reached rank forty-three, but kept his new soul skills secret.
• Xu Sanshi explained the limits of his Xuanming Displacement, and Wang Yan chose Xiao Xiao to replace Wang Dong in the team battle.
• Wang Yan reviewed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy Team’s abilities, including captain Ma Rulong’s strength as a Level 6 Soul Engineer.
• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Jiawei that Heavenly Secret had suggested the Xu Family’s future lay with Huo Yuhao, leaving the siblings stunned.
• Spectators flocked to Star Luo City for the finals, prompting the empire to send in more soldiers and supplies.

The Shrek Team and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy arrived in Star Luo Plaza for the tournament final as rain favored Shrek’s ice-attribute fighters. After Xu Jiawei announced the prize and Huang Jinxu explained the rules, both teams prepared to begin the team match, with the crowd chanting Huo Yuhao’s name.

• Ling Luochе looked to the cloudy sky and wondered whether Xixi and Xiaotao had brought Shrek’s ice-attribute fighters a natural advantage.
• The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s members approached the final nervously, while Meng Hongchen watched Huo Yuhao.
• Dai Hao silenced the arena, and Xu Jiawei addressed the spectators and announced the championship rewards and referee.
• Huang Jinxu explained the three-match format, substitution limits, and safety rules for the final.
• Ma Rulong led the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s predicted seven-member lineup onto the platform, and the crowd cheered for Huo Yuhao.

Shrek Academy faced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the tournament’s deciding match, with Huo Yuhao and Dai Yueheng leading an unexpected lineup. After Ling Luochеn concealed Shrek in icy mist and Meng Hongchen sent her Ice Toad Poison into it, Huo Yuhao cleared the mist and began his counterattack with the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

• Shrek Academy fielded Huo Yuhao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochеn, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Xiao Xiao, and Ning Tian, leaving Jiang Nannan and Wang Dong among the substitutes.
• At the start of the deciding match, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy formed a single-file line behind Lin Xi, who raised a soul tool shield to guard against Xu Sanshi’s Xuanming Displacement.
• Ling Luochеn released Frost Mist, hiding Shrek’s team and forcing the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to hold its formation.
• Meng Hongchen revealed her Red-Eyed Ice Toad martial soul and used her first soul skill to push Ice Toad Poison into the mist.
• Huo Yuhao erupted in silver-white flame, cleared away the icy mist, and announced his Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

Meng Hongchen revealed powerful level-six Soul Tool Armor, while Wang Yan and Elder Song discussed Shrek Academy’s lack of Soul Tool technology. As Xiao Hongchen aimed 128 Soul Cannons at Huo Yuhao’s apparent duplicates, Huo Yuhao summoned the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife to devour them.

• Meng Hongchen donned a master-crafted suit of level-six Soul Tool Armor and used it to pierce Ling Luochеn’s ultimate ice.
• Wang Yan urged Elder Song to advance Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool research, and Elder Song described the academy’s resistance to change and the Sun Moon Empire’s technological secrecy.
• The icy mist cleared to reveal more than a dozen Huo Yuhaos, each displaying the same four Soul Rings.
• Xiao Hongchen dismissed the figures as illusions and assembled 128 level-five Soul Cannons to attack them.
• Huo Yuhao appeared beside Xiao Hongchen and called on the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife to devour the Soul Cannons.

Huo Yuhao used the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife to destroy the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s Soul Cannons and Soul Tools, then joined his teammates’ assault. He froze Mi Jia and handed him to the Heavenly Fiend Douluo, leaving the match in progress.

• Huo Yuhao appeared beside Xiao Hongchen and used the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife to turn all 128 Class 5 Soul Cannons into powder.
• Xiao Hongchen attacked Huo Yuhao, but his Bulwark of Resilience blocked the strike while consuming half his Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao created multiple illusions as Dai Yueheng and Bei Bei charged, while Ning Tian, Ling Luochеn, Xiao Xiao, and Xu Sanshi supported the team.
• Ma Rulong ordered his team to keep moving and sweep the enemy with portable weapons after Xiao Xiafeng warned that Huo Yuhao could destroy their Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao revealed himself to Mi Jia, destroyed his Soul Guidance Armor and weapons, froze him with Ultimate Ice, and handed him to the Heavenly Fiend Douluo as eliminated.

Huo Yuhao outmaneuvered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team with illusions and defended Shrek from their soul-tool attacks. After saving Chen Fei from a lethal barrage, he earned Chen Fei’s respect and friendship, while the match continued.

• Mi Jia was eliminated when Huo Yuhao destroyed his valuable soul tools, alarming the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team.
• Ma Rulong fired a Flash Cannon at Dai Yueheng and Bei Bei, but Huo Yuhao reflected its light with an Ice Mirror.
• Lin Xi tried to trap Huo Yuhao inside overlapping soul-tool shields, but discovered that he had caught an illusion instead.
• Ma Rulong and Xiao Xiafeng launched attacks at Shrek, and Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Displacement to redirect the barrage toward Chen Fei.
• Huo Yuhao blocked the incoming fire with Eight Extremes Fire Control, was wounded by Ma Rulong’s Level 7 Soul Tool, and saved Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei admitted defeat, called Huo Yuhao his friend, and pledged to repay him for saving his life.

Huo Yuhao saved a Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy competitor from a fatal attack, then faced criticism from Shrek Academy and the White Tiger Duke. With Ning Tian defending his actions, the match resumed, and Huo Yuhao prepared to unleash the Snow Empress's Three Absolutes.

• Huo Yuhao jumped from the arena after rescuing his opponent, while Dai Hao condemned him for sparing a future enemy and Xu Jiawei warned Dai Hao not to target him.
• Dai Yueheng questioned Huo Yuhao's decision, but Ning Tian defended it by comparing his actions to Tang San's and invoking the tournament's call for friendship before competition.
• Ma Rulong thanked Huo Yuhao, who said the match should continue, and both teams returned to their formations.
• Xiao Xiafeng replenished Ma Rulong's soul power and deployed the Soul Tool Turret Tactics as Huo Yuhao froze the arena and formed ice-blue armor and a sword.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to use the Snow Empress's Three Absolutes against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Huo Yuhao’s Ice God powers shattered Xiao Hongchen’s barrier, forcing Ma Rulong to wield the Sword of Judgment against him. Huo Yuhao revealed a gray soul ring and struck Ma Rulong with undead magic, while cloaked Holy Church members recognized him as their Holy Son.

• Huo Yuhao used Emperor Sword, Ice-Extreme Peerless to break Xiao Hongchen’s Unyielding Barrier, while Meng Hongchen found her poison useless against his ice domain.
• Lin Xi erected a golden dome to shield the Sun Moon team, and Ma Rulong revealed the Sword of Judgment as the dome began to fail.
• Ma Rulong awakened the Sword of Judgment and infected Huo Yuhao’s powers with darkness, hoping to stop him without causing him serious harm.
• Huo Yuhao’s ice armor and visible soul rings vanished, and a gray soul ring appeared as he prepared to answer Ma Rulong’s attack.
• Huo Yuhao pointed at Ma Rulong, whose body began melting beneath purple-black undead magic despite his Invincible Shield.
• Cloaked spectators praised the Holy Emperor and identified Huo Yuhao as the Holy Church’s Holy Son.

Huo Yuhao defeated Ma Rulong with undead magic and ice before Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Red Dust Attachment. Huo Yuhao answered with his own Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ice and Fire Annihilation, as the match reached its climax.

• Huo Yuhao cast the Withering Spell on Ma Rulong, draining his strength until he dropped the Sword of Judgment.
• Huo Yuhao used Xuanming Displacement to bring Ma Rulong within reach, then froze him with Great Cold Without Snow.
• Xiao Hongchen thanked Huo Yuhao for showing him a greater goal and declared that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy would make one final move.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen fused their Martial Souls into the giant toad of Red Dust Attachment, which unleashed a torrent of reddish-gold energy toward Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao combined the power of his Flame God Eyes and Ice God Martial Soul to activate Ice and Fire Annihilation.

Huo Yuhao unleashed the overwhelming power of Ice and Fire Annihilation, defeating the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team. Shrek Academy won the team battle and was declared the tournament’s champion after Xiao Hongchen forfeited the remaining matches.

• Ling Luochеn and Xiao Xiafeng protected their teammates from the aftershocks of Huo Yuhao’s ice-and-fire attack, but their barriers soon failed.
• Huo Yuhao expanded a ring of silvery-white flames, overpowering Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s Red Dust Attachment Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The Heavenly Fiend Douluo shielded the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team, but Huo Yuhao’s final attack erupted in a devastating explosion.
• Xu Jiawei protected the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy members with Star’s Guardian as the blast struck his barrier.
• Xiao Hongchen forfeited the remaining matches, and the Heavenly Fiend Douluo announced Shrek Academy as the team battle winner and overall tournament champion.

After Shrek Academy won the tournament, Huo Yuhao met with the Body Sect elders and gave Yu Tao a key linked to a long-lost sect vault. The chapter ended with the White Tiger Duke’s wife reacting with fear when she heard Huo Yuhao’s name.

• Wang Yan and Elder Song celebrated Shrek Academy’s victory and recognized Huo Yuhao’s role in securing it.
• Emperor Xu Jiawei postponed the awards ceremony and ordered the crowds to leave Star Luo City.
• Du Busi and the Body Sect elders visited Huo Yuhao, praising him for bringing new members and fame to the sect.
• Huo Yuhao gave Yu Tao a red card found with Yu Chuan’s remains, and Yu Tao identified it as the key to a vault containing cultivation records and martial techniques.
• Dai Yueheng told his mother that Huo Yuhao had been Shrek’s most outstanding student, and the White Tiger Duke’s wife reacted with fear at the name.

At the awards ceremony, Shrek Academy received three precious soul bones, while Xu Jiawei compensated Huo Yuhao for the stolen Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone with a Star Luo Token. As the academies prepared to leave, Dai Hao challenged Huo Yuhao over a family matter and demanded his surrender.

• Xu Jiawei awarded prizes to the tournament's top three teams, and Shrek Academy received three soul bones selected by Elder Song.
• Elder Song gave the Nine-Colored Deer Torso Soul Bone to Ning Tian and assigned the tiger and ice soul bones to Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochеn.
• Xu Jiawei gave Huo Yuhao a Star Luo Token promising the empire's help once during his lifetime to compensate for the missing Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone.
• After the ceremony, Dai Hao invoked a family matter and accused Huo Yuhao of betraying his brothers, demanding that he surrender.

Huo Yuhao confronted White Tiger Duke Dai Hao after his identity as Dai Hao’s son was revealed, rejecting the family that abandoned him and blaming Dai Hao for Huo Yun’er’s suffering and death. He vowed to take revenge on the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, then challenged its guards as he declared that no one could stop him from leaving.

• Dai Hao revealed that Huo Yuhao was his son, and Dai Yueheng offered to ask their father to forgive him if he returned to the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Dai Yueheng’s offer, used Eight Extremes Collapse to drive him back, and declared that Dai Hao was not his father.
• Huo Yuhao recounted how Dai Hao and the Duke’s wife had abandoned and abused Huo Yun’er and him, and said he had struggled alone to grow powerful and avenge his mother.
• Huo Yuhao blamed Dai Hao for Huo Yun’er’s death and named him as the next target of his revenge.
• Dai Hao ordered his White Tiger Guards to seize Huo Yuhao, claiming the matter belonged to the White Tiger family.
• Huo Yuhao declared that no one could stop him from leaving and vowed to destroy everything Dai Hao cherished the next time they met.

Du Busi and Jin Peng arrived at the Star Luo Imperial Palace and protected Huo Yuhao from Dai Hao. Huo Yuhao left with the Body Sect, warning Dai Hao that he would take revenge on Dai Hao’s wife, while Dai Hao was left facing the consequences of his failed attempt to control him.

• Dai Hao sent his White Tiger Guards toward Huo Yuhao, while Elder Song decided to intervene despite the family dispute.
• Du Busi and Jin Peng arrived, and Du Busi warned the imperial Douluos and Dai Hao not to harm Huo Yuhao, whom he claimed as the Body Sect’s successor.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Hao for bringing guards into the imperial hall and vowed to take revenge on Dai Hao’s wife with his own hands.
• Du Busi and Jin Peng took Huo Yuhao away, and Elder Song left with the Shrek Academy members.
• Dai Hao realized Huo Yuhao threatened the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and asked Xu Jiawei for help, but Xu Jiawei left without offering support.

Jing Hongchen praised the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team leader for the lessons and research opportunities the tournament had brought, while keeping his most important motive secret. Shrek Academy welcomed its victorious team home and brought them to the Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En summoned Huo Yuhao after the ceremony.

• Jing Hongchen told the Sun Moon Academy team leader that the tournament had taught its students to consolidate their skills and understand their paths, then assigned him a research project.
• Jing Hongchen privately hinted that the team leader’s greatest contribution was something he was not yet qualified to know.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Cai Mei'er, and Qian Duoduo waited at Shrek Academy’s East Gate to welcome Elder Song and the returning team, while Dai Yueheng stayed behind in Star Luo City.
• Yan Shaozhe announced that the Sea God Pavilion meeting had decided to present the team’s rewards at the Sea God Pavilion.
• The team arrived at Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En invited everyone inside and asked Huo Yuhao to meet with him afterward.