Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao traveled into the Far North’s core region and prepared a trap while Sky Dream explained the danger posed by its powerful Soul Beasts. Sky Dream then revealed his immense spiritual power to summon the Ice Empress and challenge her to face him.

• Huo Yuhao discussed the risks of carrying the Ice God inheritance with Sky Dream, while Xiao Han protested when he questioned the inheritance’s usefulness.
• Huo Yuhao recalled leaving the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave with Yao Lao, taking its precious ice treasures and the ice-blue lotus, and naming the Profound Ice Cold Flame’s Fire Spirit Xiao Han.
• Huo Yuhao endured the harsh winds of the Far North’s core region and used Xiao Han’s heat to dig a sheltered resting place beneath the snow.
• Sky Dream guided Huo Yuhao to wait near a stump, then unleashed his spiritual power across the Far North’s core region and manifested a golden figure from nine of his spiritual-origin orbs.
• Sky Dream called out to the Ice Empress, declaring that he had returned for vengeance and challenging her to face him.

Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lured the Ice Empress into a trap, and Sky Dream captured her before she could absorb his energy. Huo Yuhao collected the Snow Condensation Flower and escaped to Yu Tao’s resting place, where Sky Dream urged him to accept the Ice Empress as a soul ring.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm waited with Huo Yuhao for the Ice Empress, knowing she needed his energy to survive her four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
• The Ice Empress arrived, and Sky Dream proclaimed his love for her despite her furious demands that he be quiet.
• The Ice Empress attacked Sky Dream, but his life-consuming skill bound her and transported her away.
• Sky Dream found a Snow Condensation Flower with Spiritual Detection, and Huo Yuhao picked it before fleeing the area.
• Huo Yuhao reached Yu Tao’s resting place two days later, and Sky Dream urged him to use the Ice Empress as his soul ring.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm persuaded the Ice Empress to become Huo Yuhao’s Wisdom Soul Ring by revealing his plan for her to pursue godhood alongside the Ice God’s inheritor. The Ice Empress gave up her spiritual origin and entered Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, where she discovered she would share it with Yao Lao and Electrolux.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained his god-making plan and swore an oath to convince the Ice Empress to join Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Ice God inheritance and released his martial soul, convincing the Ice Empress of his divine potential.
• The Ice Empress accepted the proposal and separated her spiritual origin from her body.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm swallowed the Ice Empress’s spiritual origin and returned with it to Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, while Yao Lao stored the Remnant Husk.
• The Ice Empress encountered Electrolux and Yao Lao in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness and realized it was already occupied.

Huo Yuhao fused the Ice Empress’s Soul Bone with help from the Ice God Martial Soul, enduring the painful transformation as her power strengthened his body. The Ice Empress sacrificed her physical body and origin power to become one with him, completing the Soul Bone fusion.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress decided that Huo Yuhao would fuse with the Soul Bone before absorbing the Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao used the Ice-Attribute Soul Bone as a medium, but his Ice God Martial Soul absorbed the Ice Empress’s attempt to numb his pain.
• The Ice Empress struck Huo Yuhao’s tailbone and transformed the Ice-Attribute Soul Bone into liquid that flowed through his spine and torso.
• The Ice God Martial Soul shielded Huo Yuhao from pain and helped him absorb the Ice Empress’s Soul Bone without losing its power.
• After the fusion continued through day and night, the Ice Empress sacrificed her body and origin power, becoming one with Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao emerged from the snow after absorbing the Ice Empress’s power and set out with Yu Tao to find a ten-thousand-year ice silkworm. They discovered a girl trapped by a Frost Dragon Bird, and Huo Yuhao called out to the beast.

• Huo Yuhao awakened with a four-patterned red soul ring and greatly strengthened physical abilities, though his cultivation remained at rank twenty-eight.
• Huo Yuhao freed Yu Tao from the ice and persuaded him to continue searching for a ten-thousand-year ice silkworm.
• Following Brother Sky Dream’s directions, Huo Yuhao and Yu Tao found human footprints and sensed a battle nearby.
• Huo Yuhao and Yu Tao approached cautiously and saw a girl fighting a ten-thousand-year Frost Dragon Bird.
• The Frost Dragon Bird trapped the girl in an Ice-Snow Prison, and Huo Yuhao shouted for it to let her go.

Huo Yuhao and Yu Tao rescued Meng Hongchen from the Frost Dragon Bird, allowing her to obtain her fifth Soul Ring. Huo Yuhao then found and killed a ten-thousand-year Ice Silkworm for his own Soul Ring, while Jing Hongchen arrived as they began absorbing.

• Yu Tao beat the Frost Dragon Bird until it could barely move, while Huo Yuhao freed Meng Hongchen from its Ice-Snow Prison.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself to Meng Hongchen and learned she had been separated from her grandfather while hunting for a Soul Ring.
• Meng Hongchen killed the Frost Dragon Bird and began absorbing its Soul Ring as her fifth.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to find a ten-thousand-year Ice Silkworm beneath the snow, and Yu Tao dug it out.
• Huo Yuhao killed the Ice Silkworm with his Profound Ice Cold Flame and began absorbing its Soul Ring alongside Meng Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen arrived while Yu Tao guarded Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen.

Jing Hongchen found Meng Hongchen and Huo Yuhao absorbing Soul Rings with help from Yu Tao, the Body Sect’s protector. After a tense exchange, he took them out of the Far North Ice Plains and discovered that Huo Yuhao was open to using Soul Tools.

• Jing Hongchen recognized Yu Tao as a member of the Body Sect and suspected Huo Yuhao was its heir, prompting Yu Tao to prepare to protect him.
• Meng Hongchen finished absorbing the Frost Dragon Bird’s Soul Ring, reunited with Jing Hongchen, and introduced Huo Yuhao and Yu Tao as her rescuers.
• Huo Yuhao completed absorbing a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring from the Ice Silkworm and greeted Jing Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen warned that an Ice Bear might pursue them and used his Flying Soul Tool to carry everyone out of the Far North Ice Plains.
• Jing Hongchen asked whether Huo Yuhao disliked Soul Tools, and Huo Yuhao explained that he regarded them as tools for Soul Masters, like martial souls and Soul Rings.

Huo Yuhao explained the strengths and weaknesses of the Douluo Three Kingdoms’ and Sun Moon Empire’s approaches to soul tools, impressing Jing Hongchen. After receiving Xiao Hongchen’s class notes and Jing Hongchen’s personal token, Huo Yuhao set his sights on surprising Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao analyzed how the Douluo Three Kingdoms looked down on soul tools while the Sun Moon Empire relied too heavily on rare metals, then stopped before revealing more.
• Near the Heaven Dou Empire, Huo Yuhao asked Jing Hongchen to drop him and Yu Tao off, and Meng Hongchen asked about his soul engineer level.
• Huo Yuhao said he had never taken soul engineer classes, so Meng Hongchen gave him Xiao Hongchen’s class notes as thanks.
• Jing Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao his personal token, offering to cover the cost of one soul tool below Level Nine and provide the Soul Tool Hall’s help once if Huo Yuhao encountered danger in the Sun Moon Empire.
• After Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen departed, Huo Yuhao examined the notes and token and planned to surprise Shrek Academy.

As Shrek Academy prepared to begin a new school year, Dai Huabin confronted Ning Tian and Wu Feng while they waited for Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao arrived and provoked Dai Huabin into a clash, then challenged him to bet on their promotion assessment results.

• Ning Tian and Wu Feng waited at Shrek Academy's gates, where Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie mocked them and questioned whether Huo Yuhao would return in time.
• Wu Feng reminded Dai Huabin of his past defeat by Huo Yuhao, provoking his anger; Dai Huabin's cultivation had risen to rank thirty-nine after he secretly took banned drugs.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the academy and traded taunts with Dai Huabin before blocking his palm strike and staggering backward.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Huabin to fight in the Soul Fighting Zone or bet on their promotion assessment results, and Dai Huabin asked what they would wager on.

Huo Yuhao provoked Dai Huabin into wagering their places at Shrek Academy on the Freshman Assessment, then revealed that he had reached level twenty-nine. Dai Huabin realized Huo Yuhao had faked his earlier weakness as the two groups headed to registration.

• Huo Yuhao taunted Dai Huabin in front of onlookers until Dai Huabin agreed to bet on the Freshman Assessment.
• Zhu Lu demanded the Freshman Assessment rewards as stakes, but Huo Yuhao rejected the proposal and called for a bigger wager.
• Du Weilun offered to witness a wager involving apologies, but Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin agreed that the losing group would also withdraw from Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin sealed the wager with three palm strikes, leaving Du Weilun unable to stop it.
• As he left with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao told Dai Huabin he was level twenty-nine, and Dai Huabin realized Huo Yuhao had faked his trembling hands.

Wang Yan explained the second-year Upgrade Assessment, and Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng later went to the Beast Fighting Zone as the assessment began. Mu Jin arranged for Wang Dong to face a powerful soul beast first to draw out Dai Huabin’s abilities, leaving Huo Yuhao ready to confront him.

• Wang Yan explained that students would fight soul beasts one-on-one in the Beast Arena and earn scores based on their choices and performance.
• Huo Yuhao took Ning Tian and Wu Feng out for a feast after class.
• The second-year students gathered at the Beast Arena, where Du Weilun and four other teachers prepared to grade and supervise the assessment.
• Mu Jin told Wang Dong to go first and Huo Yuhao second, intending for Wang Dong to draw out Dai Huabin’s hidden abilities.
• Du Weilun began the assessment as Dai Huabin stepped forward, and Huo Yuhao watched him with a playful smile.

Wang Dong defeated a thousand-year Bloodthirsty Demon Bear but lost points for risking her life, while Dai Huabin brutally killed a thousand-year Wind Tiger. Dai Huabin turned toward Huo Yuhao and challenged him to fight next.

• Wang Dong chose a thousand-year soul beast and revealed that she had three soul rings, including two thousand-year rings.
• Wang Dong defeated the Bloodthirsty Demon Bear with Butterfly God Slash, but the judges deducted points because she had exhausted her soul power and endangered herself.
• Dai Huabin chose a thousand-year soul beast and faced a fast Wind Tiger.
• Dai Huabin endured the Wind Tiger's attacks, seized its jaws, and blasted it with White Tiger Fierce Light Wave.
• Dai Huabin ignored Du Weilun's order to stop, tore open the Wind Tiger's belly, and challenged Huo Yuhao.

Dai Huabin killed a thousand-year soul beast in his advancement assessment and earned 145 points despite Du Weilun penalizing him for the beast’s death. Huo Yuhao then chose a thousand-year opponent too, but when an Ice Demon Leopard appeared, he greeted it as “Little Hakimi,” leaving the battle about to begin.

• Du Weilun scored Dai Huabin 145 points and ordered him to compensate the academy for killing the soul beast within ten days or lose his Core Disciple status.
• Dai Huabin returned to his class, then pointed at Huo Yuhao and challenged him with his bloodied appearance.
• Huo Yuhao chose to face a thousand-year soul beast despite the referee’s warning.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his ordinary white and yellow soul rings, surprising Du Weilun.
• An Ice Demon Leopard emerged, and Huo Yuhao crouched to call it “Little Hakimi.”

Huo Yuhao subdued the Ice Demon Leopard during his Upgrade Assessment by using his Ice God power and the Ice Empress’s aura, then earned full marks despite Du Weilun’s objections. After Dai Huabin lost their wager, Huo Yuhao demanded that he kowtow, admit defeat, and withdraw from the academy.

• Huo Yuhao used his Ice God power and the Ice Empress’s aura to make the Ice Demon Leopard submit, then petted and fed it in the arena.
• At Du Weilun’s urging, Huo Yuhao pretended to defeat the leopard with a finger-gun, while the beast played along.
• Gong Changlong arrived and argued that Huo Yuhao’s control of the leopard qualified him for full marks, but Du Weilun insisted the assessment required a proper fight.
• Du Weilun awarded Huo Yuhao full marks for selecting and defeating a Thousand-Year Soul Beast after controlling it for ten minutes.
• Huo Yuhao approached Dai Huabin and demanded that he kowtow, admit defeat, and complete his withdrawal paperwork after losing their wager.

After Huo Yuhao achieved a perfect score in the Upgrade Assessment, he demanded that Dai Huabin honor their witnessed wager. Dai Huabin kowtowed and admitted his mistake, but Huo Yuhao gave him and his companions three days to withdraw from Shrek Academy, leaving Dai Huabin unconscious.

• Zhu Lu accused Huo Yuhao of going too far, but he reminded her that she had proposed the penalty for losing and challenged her companions for trying to avoid the wager.
• Teacher Yuan Liang urged Huo Yuhao to forgive Dai Huabin, but Huo Yuhao rejected his appeal and argued that breaking the oath would disgrace Dai Huabin, the White Tiger Family, and Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao said Dai Huabin would not have spared him if their positions were reversed, and condemned Yuan Liang for pressuring him to abandon the wager.
• Dai Huabin spat blood, kowtowed, and shouted that he was wrong before trying to leave.
• Huo Yuhao reminded Dai Huabin that the wager also required him and his two companions to withdraw from Shrek Academy, giving them three days to complete the paperwork.
• Dai Huabin spat blood again and fainted.

After defeating Dai Huabin, Huo Yuhao demonstrated his ultimate ice and a powerful close-combat technique when Gong Changlong tested him. Gong Changlong and Du Weilun learned that Huo Yuhao had twin martial souls, and Du Weilun hurried to report the discovery to Yan Shaozhe.

• Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie helped Dai Huabin toward the infirmary while Huo Yuhao let them go, though the wager still required them to leave Shrek Academy unless they distanced themselves from Dai Huabin.
• Gong Changlong attacked Huo Yuhao to test his strength, and Huo Yuhao used his ultimate ice and Grasping the Sparrow's Tail to redirect the Beast King's force.
• Gong Changlong recognized Huo Yuhao's ultimate ice, and Huo Yuhao admitted that he had two martial souls but declined to reveal the second one.
• Gong Changlong suspected Huo Yuhao had a strength-type soul bone, while Du Weilun concluded that the Body Sect had invested in Huo Yuhao.
• After learning of Huo Yuyao's connection to the Body Sect, Gong Changlong left, and Huo Yuhao rejoined Second-Year Class One.
• Du Weilun sent another teacher to oversee the Upgrade Assessment and rushed to the Inner Academy to report Huo Yuhao's twin martial souls to Yan Shaozhe.

Yan Shaozhe recognized Huo Yuhao’s exceptional twin martial souls and ultimate ice, then tried to recruit him as a core disciple by offering Wang Yan access to the Inner Academy’s Secret Library. Huo Yuhao understood the pressure tactic and prepared to turn Yan Shaozhe’s scheme against him.

• A White Tiger Duke's Mansion Second Young Master planned to have Huo Yuhao killed outside Shrek City after leaving the academy.
• Yan Shaozhe realized Huo Yuhao’s second soul ring was likely disguised and explained to Du Weilun that Huo Yuhao possessed a first-of-its-kind ultimate ice martial soul.
• Yan Shaozhe decided Shrek Academy should recruit Huo Yuhao, while Du Weilun worried about the Body Sect’s conditions.
• Wang Yan urged Huo Yuhao to become a Martial Soul Department core disciple, but Huo Yuhao refused and praised Wang Yan for supporting him.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Wang Yan a chance to enter the Inner Academy’s Secret Library while implying that Huo Yuhao’s decision could affect it.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Yan Shaozhe’s attempt to guilt-trip him and resolved to counter the dean’s mind game.

Yan Shaozhe tried to bring Huo Yuhao into Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul Department by apologizing and offering him powerful benefits, but Huo Yuhao revealed that Du Busi had heard the negotiation. Du Busi furiously threatened Yan Shaozhe over the Sound-Transmitting Soul Tool.

• Huo Yuhao pressed Yan Shaozhe to explain why Wang Yan had only now been granted access to the Inner Academy’s Secret Library, and Yan Shaozhe approved Wang Yan’s access.
• Yan Shaozhe bowed to Huo Yuhao and apologized for Shrek Academy’s poor assessment, but Huo Yuhao returned the greeting as an equal because he was Du Busi’s successor.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao Inner Academy enrollment, personal guidance, resources, support for Ning Tian and Wu Feng, a set of soul bones, and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao brought out a Sound-Transmitting Soul Tool and handed it to Yan Shaozhe after explaining that Du Busi had heard their conversation.
• Du Busi shouted through the Sound-Transmitting Soul Tool that he was going to kill Yan Shaozhe.

Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe discussed Du Busi’s furious warning after Shrek Academy tried to recruit Huo Yuhao into its Inner Academy. Xuan Zi claimed he had a plan to bring Huo Yuhao back, and he and Yan Shaozhe ended the chapter laughing over their scheme.

• Du Busi threatened to destroy Shrek Academy if it tried to recruit Huo Yuhao again.
• Xuan Zi blamed Yan Shaozhe for acting without consulting him and inferred that Huo Yuhao had told Du Busi about Shrek’s recruitment attempt.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that he wanted Huo Yuhao to remain at Shrek because his potential could secure the academy’s standing for centuries.
• Xuan Zi told Yan Shaozhe that force would not win over Huo Yuhao and claimed he had a plan to bring him back to Shrek.
• Yan Shaozhe eagerly asked to hear the plan, and the two men laughed over their scheme.

Huo Yuhao discovered Zhou Yi and six men from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion lying in wait, then led them into an ambush of his own. After his fox's Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus badly wounded Zhou Yi and their Soul Emperor, a mysterious force stopped the airborne attacker as Du Busi arrived to protect his successor.

• Huo Yuhao sensed Zhou Yi's killing intent and detected six White Tiger Duke's Mansion ambushers near Lao Mo's fish stall.
• Huo Yuhao grabbed a frozen fish and dashed into an alley, prompting Zhou Yi and the six men to pursue him.
• Zhou Yi and the Soul Emperor intercepted Huo Yuhao and attacked him with fire and a flaming saber.
• Huo Yuhao's white fox unleashed a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus that exploded and gravely wounded Zhou Yi and the Soul Emperor, leaving Huo Yuhao exhausted.
• A flying Soul Master moved in to kill Huo Yuhao, but a surge of soul power froze him as Du Busi announced his arrival.