Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao drew Jiang Nannan to his expensive barbecue stall, hoping to attract Xu Sanshi and obtain the Mystic Water Pill. When Xu Sanshi attacked him over Jiang Nannan’s refusal to buy, Huo Yuhao fought back until Tang Ya intervened.

• Huo Yuhao cooked and sold barbecue to Shrek Academy students while keeping the Gold Dragon Fish separate.
• Jiang Nannan questioned Huo Yuhao’s high prices, apologized when he explained his ingredients and refused to buy, and turned to leave.
• Xu Sanshi arrived, threw a pouch onto Huo Yuhao’s cart, and tried to take two grilled fish; Huo Yuhao struck him and handed the fish to a waiting customer.
• Xu Sanshi attacked Huo Yuhao, who dodged and countered with Eight Extremes Collapse, forcing Xu Sanshi to summon his Tortoise Shell Shield and use Dark Netherquake.
• Huo Yuhao used Soul Shock to briefly disrupt Xu Sanshi, and Tang Ya stepped between them and warned Xu Sanshi not to bully him.

Huo Yuhao confronted Xu Sanshi after he attacked him and damaged his barbecue cart, while keeping the Gold Dragon Fish from burning. Xu Sanshi begged for help to avoid expulsion, and Huo Yuhao agreed to let the matter go in exchange for Mystic Water Pills.

• Huo Yuhao controlled the grill’s flames while fighting Xu Sanshi and served food to the customers who had already paid.
• Xu Sanshi threatened Huo Yuhao over his dispute with Tang Ya, but Huo Yuhao pointed out that Xu Sanshi had damaged the cart and tried to take fish belonging to others.
• Bei Bei warned Xu Sanshi that attacking a younger student could get him expelled under academy rules.
• Huo Yuhao asked a Soul Tool Department student to fetch Vice Dean Qian Duoduo as a witness, offering three days of free barbecue.
• Xu Sanshi panicked and apologized, while Bei Bei urged Huo Yuhao to accept compensation instead of seeking expulsion.
• Huo Yuhao demanded eight or ten Mystic Water Pills from Xu Sanshi as compensation.

Huo Yuhao extorted Xu Sanshi for Mystic Water Pills and soul coins, then sold him grilled fish as Xu Sanshi tried to win over Jiang Nannan. After politely rejecting Tang Ya’s invitation to join the Tang Sect, Huo Yuhao gave the pills to Yao Lao to examine.

• Huo Yuhao demanded eight or ten Mystic Water Pills from Xu Sanshi, then agreed to accept four pills and soul coins after Bei Bei and Tang Ya pleaded for him.
• Xu Sanshi gave Huo Yuhao a black card worth fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins and two Mystic Water Pills, promising to deliver two more the next day.
• Huo Yuhao returned forty gold coins and grilled two fish for Xu Sanshi, who tried to offer one to Jiang Nannan, but she rejected him and walked away.
• Huo Yuhao served a Gold Dragon Fish to Tang Ya and Bei Bei, then declined Tang Ya’s invitation to join the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao transferred the Mystic Water Pills to Yao Lao’s Black Ring and asked his teacher to examine their effects.

Huo Yuhao learned that Yao Lao could refine Mystic Water Pills into a better foundation-building pill, but the process might require a precious Soul Bone, motivating him to target first place in the freshman assessment. He then sold Xu Sanshi grilled fish and a love song, earning another ten thousand Gold Soul Coins as Xu Sanshi left in tears to write Jiang Nannan a love letter.

• Yao Lao explained that Mystic Water Pills were crude medicinal pellets and proposed using them with Soul Beast energy condensates to refine an imitation Primal Beginning Pill.
• Huo Yuhao realized Yao Lao might need a Soul Bone, recalled that Shrek Academy's freshman assessment prize was one, and resolved to win first place.
• Yao Lao suggested Huo Yuhao take a Mystic Water Pill before breaking through, but Huo Yuhao chose to wait another day.
• Huo Yuhao served Xu Sanshi grilled fish, and Xu Sanshi lamented that Jiang Nannan could not taste it.
• Huo Yuhao sang Xu Sanshi a song called "Mercury," and Xu Sanshi offered ten thousand Gold Soul Coins for it so he could write Jiang Nannan a love letter.

Huo Yuhao absorbed Ma Xiaotao’s phoenix evil fire during her backlash, then pretended to know nothing when Shrek Academy arrived. The academy silenced him with a Soul Ascension Pill, leaving him pleased that his strength might soon improve.

• Huo Yuhao waited by Sea God Lake for Ma Xiaotao and learned from Yao Lao that her flames could help cultivate the Flame Mantra.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Huo Yuhao with her phoenix evil fire, but Yao Lao’s white flame froze and restrained her.
• Huo Yuhao used the Flame Mantra to devour all the phoenix evil fire inside Ma Xiaotao, then asked Yao Lao to knock him unconscious before witnesses arrived.
• A group from Shrek Academy arrived and dealt with Ma Xiaotao’s backlash; Huo Yuhao woke pretending to be confused.
• The middle-aged man in white warned Huo Yuhao to keep quiet and gave him a Soul Ascension Pill as compensation.

Ma Xiaotao woke after an unknown ice power sealed her evil fire, and she learned that Huo Yuhao had been involved. Later, Yao Lao refined several pills, herbs, and soul beast blood essence into a potent medicinal liquid and prepared to put Huo Yuhao through extreme body tempering.

• Ma Xiaotao woke with her evil fire sealed and learned that Huo Yuhao, the class monitor of Freshman Class Nine, had been connected to the ice power.
• Huo Yuhao attended theory lessons attentively and took notes to build up his knowledge of the continent.
• Huo Yuhao’s barbecue stall drew a larger crowd, and Xu Sanshi won the roast pig, gave him the remaining Mystic Water Pills and Gold Soul Coins for the lyrics to "Mercury," and treated Bei Bei and Tang Ya.
• Huo Yuhao gave Yao Lao the Soul Ascension Pill and a Mystic Water Pill to examine and refine.
• Yao Lao combined the pills with herbs and soul beast blood essence, then prepared to temper Huo Yuhao’s body before he took the medicinal liquid.

After enduring Yao Lao’s treatment, Huo Yuhao’s cultivation rose to rank eighteen and his meridians were greatly improved. Ma Xiaotao visited him, and Huo Yuhao used his Core Flame to provoke her Phoenix Evil Fire before demanding a Soul Bone in exchange for helping suppress its backlash.

• Huo Yuhao endured 108 lashes from Yao Lao, then absorbed the medicinal liquid and broke through to rank eighteen as his meridians were cleared and strengthened.
• Ma Xiaotao entered Huo Yuhao’s room and saw him naked in the bathing tub.
• Huo Yuhao sprang from the tub, pressed a table knife to Ma Xiaotao’s throat, then recognized her and rejected her apology over the Sea God Lake incident.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Core Flame, which stirred Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Evil Fire and frightened her into asking for help suppressing its backlash.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to help Ma Xiaotao only if she paid him with a Soul Bone.

Huo Yuhao negotiated with Ma Xiaotao to treat her Phoenix Evil Fire in exchange for Soul Bones and secured her promise to keep his secrets from Shrek Academy. Ma Xiaotao left after teasing him for negotiating while naked, and Huo Yuhao was left pleased with their arrangement.

• Huo Yuhao demanded Soul Bones from Ma Xiaotao in exchange for helping suppress her Phoenix Evil Fire, and she gave him two roughly three-thousand-year Soul Bones.
• Huo Yuhao set a Soul Bone as the payment for each future treatment after the first, and Ma Xiaotao accepted.
• Huo Yuhao required Ma Xiaotao to keep his secrets from Shrek Academy, and she swore upon her Martial Soul not to reveal them.
• Ma Xiaotao noticed Huo Yuhao was naked, teased him, and left through the guest room window.
• Huo Yuhao joked about Ma Xiaotao's insult after she disappeared into the night.

Yao Lao confirmed that Huo Yuhao could use Ma Xiaotao’s Soul Bones to refine pills, but he still needed costly medicinal ingredients for his plans to obtain heavenly flames. Huo Yuhao ended the chapter with a possible way to raise money: a red card left by Yu Chuan.

• Yao Lao confirmed that the two Soul Bones could be used in pill refining and said he needed to study medicinal herbs before making the Origin Pill.
• Yao Lao explained that the green Soul Bone would help make the Origin Pill, while the water-attribute Soul Bone would be used for a Blood Lotus Pill to protect Huo Yuhao from heavenly flames.
• Yao Lao told Huo Yuhao to find blood lotus essence and ice spirit flame grass, and Huo Yuhao lamented that he had to earn more money.
• Yao Lao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained the protection and storage materials needed to devour heavenly flames, including the ice spirit cold spring and spirit nucleation.
• Huo Yuhao realized that Yu Chuan’s old red card might still be redeemable and decided to check it at a Shrek City bank.

Huo Yuhao trained Freshman Class Nine, received a soul bone, and researched medicinal plants in Shrek Academy’s library. There, he encountered Dai Huabin and secretly planned revenge for Huo Yun’er by offering Dai Huabin a prescription for his mother.

• Huo Yuhao led Freshman Class Nine through targeted physical training, and Mu Jin gave him the secret art soul bone he had won from Zhou Yi.
• Huo Yuhao found the Douluo Continent Encyclopedia of Plants in the library and discovered that its original author, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, had been erased from the cover.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Dai Huabin in the library and recalled his role in Huo Yun’er’s death, adding him and the White Tiger Duke’s wife to his list of targets.
• Huo Yuhao asked Yao Lao for a prescription to treat the duchess and wrote down the ingredients and instructions.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself to Dai Huabin and handed him the prescription, concealing his revenge behind a cheerful smile.

Huo Yuhao offered Huabin and Zhu Lu a medicinal recipe, then visited the Treasure Gathering Pavilion to check the balance on a red card and discuss a business deal. He introduced himself to the bank manager as Gao Qiqiang, leaving the card’s balance and the proposed deal unresolved.

• Huabin distrusted Huo Yuhao’s unsolicited medicinal recipe, but Zhu Lu accepted it and said the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion would verify it.
• Huabin asked whether he had met Huo Yuhao before, and Huo Yuhao denied knowing him and left the library.
• After theoretical class, Huo Yuhao went to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and asked to meet the person in charge of its banking business.
• Manager Wu Yifan welcomed Huo Yuhao into his office and served him Jade Mist Fragrant Tea.
• Huo Yuhao gave Wu Yifan a red card to check and said he had a major business deal to discuss, introducing himself as Gao Qiqiang.

Huo Yuhao used a Body Sect card to withdraw 3,470,000 Gold Soul Coins and arranged for the Treasure Gathering Pavilion to buy herbs and commission a rare-metal cauldron. After Elder Lin recognized his disguise and ordered rumors sold to the Body Sect, Yao Lao prepared to refine an Origin Pill while Huo Yuhao watched.

• Huo Yuhao pretended to be a Body Sect disciple and learned that his card held 3,470,000 Gold Soul Coins, though its secret vault was in Star Luo City.
• Huo Yuhao gave Wu Yifan a list of medicinal herbs and a cauldron design, then asked him to transfer the card’s balance and deduct the costs.
• Wu Yifan told Elder Lin about the card and Huo Yuhao’s eye martial soul, and Elder Lin recognized Huo Yuhao despite his assumed name.
• Elder Lin ordered Wu Yifan to spread rumors about Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect and charge five million for information about him.
• Yao Lao appeared in Huo Yuhao’s hotel room and began preparing to refine an Origin Pill while Huo Yuhao observed.

Yao Lao refined a Sixth-Grade Origin Pill for Huo Yuhao, who prepared to take it under his teacher’s protection. At Shrek Academy, Yan Shaozhe learned about Huo Yuhao’s fire-devouring martial soul and delayed the Soul Tool Department’s request to transfer him until after the freshman assessment.

• Yao Lao used the Black Demon Cauldron and bone white flame to refine the herbs, Mystic Water Pills, and a Three-Thousand-Year Wood Attribute Soul Bone into an Origin Pill.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to study the process and asked Brother Sky Dream to contain the pill’s fragrance.
• Yao Lao completed the pale-cyan pill, explained its plant-like pattern and benefits, and told Huo Yuhao to take it while he stood guard.
• Ma Xiaotao told Yan Shaozhe that Huo Yuhao could devour flames and had defeated a stronger student, hoping he might eventually help her control her evil fire.
• Yan Shaozhe found Huo Yuhao on the Soul Tool Department’s transfer list and postponed all student transfers until after the freshman assessment.

Three months after taking Yao Lao’s Origin Pill, Huo Yuhao had transformed his body and meridians while remaining at rank nineteen, and his barbecue stall continued to thrive. Ma Xiaotao visited to arrange another treatment for her evil fire, while Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao encountered Huo Yuhao at the stall, where Tang Ya invited Wang Dong to join the Tang Sect.

• Huo Yuhao explained to Tang Ya how to make stir-fried vermicelli and reflected on the Origin Pill’s effects, including his powerful body and ability to absorb a Soul Ring exceeding six thousand years.
• Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao she had killed a Holy Spirit Cult Soul Saint and arranged to meet him at a hotel so he could help her with her evil fire.
• Wang Dong complained to Xiao Xiao that Zhou Yi had been berating her as classmates were expelled, then followed the smell of Huo Yuhao’s barbecue to his stall.
• Huo Yuhao joked that Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao were his enemies, and Tang Ya welcomed them before inviting Wang Dong to join the Tang Sect.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao joined the Tang Sect, while Huo Yuhao declined Tang Ya’s invitation. That night, Huo Yuhao devoured the Phoenix Evil Fire, broke through to level 19 soul power, and evolved the Flame Mantra to Mid Yellow Tier.

• Wang Dong agreed to join the Tang Sect after Tang Ya explained its decline and conditions for membership.
• Tang Ya recruited Xiao Xiao, while Huo Yuhao refused to join and made Tang Ya stop pressing him; the Tang Sect celebrated with Xu Sanshi’s roast lamb.
• Huo Yuhao used the Pulse-Protecting Pill and Ice Heart Pill before circulating the Phoenix Evil Fire through the Flame Mantra’s cultivation route.
• Huo Yuhao’s Flame Mantra soul power devoured the evil fire, which he identified as the Dark Phoenix’s source flame, and he broke through to level 19 soul power.
• Huo Yuhao told Yao Lao that the Flame Mantra had evolved to Mid Yellow Tier.

Mu Jin explained the Freshman Assessment to Class Nine, which would determine whether students could remain at Shrek Academy, and assigned provisional teams for the three-on-three battles. He began announcing the teams with Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng grouped together.

• Mu Jin gave each student a written evaluation and asked them to consider their future cultivation paths.
• Huo Yuhao’s classmates respected him after he had led their physical training and defeated them in close-combat practice.
• Mu Jin explained that nearly three hundred teams would compete in the Freshman Assessment, with only the top one hundred and fifty advancing and the top sixty-four entering a knockout tournament.
• Mu Jin offered Chen Guang a direct pass into the Soul Tool Department, and Chen Guang accepted.
• Mu Jin announced that Class Nine had been divided into thirty-three provisional teams and named Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng as Team One.

Mu Jin finalized the Freshman Assessment teams and discussed Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng’s chosen development paths. He tasked their team with winning the championship, and the three pledged that Class Nine would win.

• The students realized Huo Yuhao had been assigned as a support system Soul Master despite his formidable physical combat ability.
• Mu Jin collected the students’ forms and asked Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng to stay behind.
• Ning Tian explained that she chose the power attack system class to learn more about Soul Master battles and improve her support skills.
• Huo Yuhao changed his choice from support to control system after Mu Jin told him Zhou Yi would no longer teach the power attack system class.
• Mu Jin urged the three to take responsibility for their team and set winning the Freshman Assessment championship as their goal.
• Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng stacked their hands and declared that Class Nine would win.

Huo Yuhao prepared for the Freshman Assessment, learned a new flame-control technique, and planned to conceal his strength while his team faced the early rounds. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi wagered her position at Shrek Academy against Mu Jin’s, and Mu Jin accepted after she raised the stakes.

• Huo Yuhao cultivated with the Phoenix Evil Fire and learned the Eight Extremes Fire Control technique from Yao Lao.
• Huo Yuhao warned Wu Feng and Ning Tian about formidable rival teams, then told them to conserve their soul skills while he hid his own strength.
• Mu Jin announced that the Freshman Assessment would begin that afternoon and instructed students to draw lots at noon.
• Zhou Yi challenged Mu Jin to wager their positions at Shrek Academy on their classes’ assessment results, adding a Level Eight Close-Combat Soul Tool made by Fan Yu.
• Mu Jin accepted Zhou Yi’s wager.

Huo Yuhao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian began the Freshman Assessment in Zone 33, where their coordinated abilities overwhelmed Ouyang Junyi's team. The trio won their opening match, leaving the other teams wary of their strength.

• Wang Yan introduced himself as the assessment overseer and paired Huo Yuhao's team from Freshman Class Nine against Ouyang Junyi's team from Freshman Class Three.
• Ning Tian revealed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Wu Feng displayed her fire-attribute dragon martial soul and Huo Yuhao showed a ten-year soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao connected Wu Feng and Ning Tian through Spiritual Detection Sharing, allowing them to perceive their opponents' movements in detail.
• Zhao Haochen summoned chicken drumsticks for his teammates, but Ning Tian boosted Wu Feng's speed and Wu Feng kicked down Ouyang Junyi and the other front-line opponent before they could eat.
• Wang Yan declared Huo Yuhao's team the winner, and the other teams in Zone 33 watched them with grave expressions.

Huo Yuhao’s team swept its first five Freshman Assessment matches, with Ning Tian’s buffs and Wu Feng’s attacks doing most of the visible work. As Area Thirty-Three’s seeded team, they began the next round against Huang Chutian’s team from Freshman Class Seven.

• Wu Feng quickly defeated two members of Ouyang Junyi’s team, while Huo Yuhao jokingly took credit for the victory.
• All thirty-three teams from Freshman Class Nine won their first-round matches, aided by Huo Yuhao’s combat training and Mu Jin’s physical conditioning.
• Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng won all four of their matches on the second day, bringing their record to five wins.
• Wang Yan warned the trio that their next opponents would be stronger, but Huo Yuhao said simply passing the assessment would count as success.
• The next morning, Wang Yan named Huo Yuhao’s team the seeded team in Area Thirty-Three and announced their sixth match against Huang Chutian’s team from Freshman Class Seven.