Chapter Summaries

Du Busi arrived after an assassination attempt on Huo Yuhao and learned how Huo Yuhao had gained his second martial soul. Huo Yuhao left Du Busi convinced that an Ice Jade Scorpion’s death and a fortuitous awakening had revealed his ultimate-ice martial soul.

• Du Busi restrained Zhou Yi and the six assassins from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, while Yu Tao rushed to check on Huo Yuhao.
• Yu Tao knocked Zhou Yi unconscious and beat the assassins until Huo Yuhao stopped him, saying he still needed them for questioning.
• Du Busi praised Huo Yuhao's strength and asked how he had obtained his second martial soul, soul ring, and soul bone.
• Huo Yuhao claimed he and Yu Tao had been frozen in the Far North Ice Plains, where he later found a dead Ice Jade Scorpion and awakened an ultimate-ice martial soul.
• Du Busi guessed that Huo Yuhao had possessed the hidden martial soul since birth and that the Ice Jade Scorpion's soul ring and soul bone had triggered its awakening.

Huo Yuhao used a simulated disguise to lure Dai Huabin into a trap and revealed that he was the younger brother whose mother Dai Huabin had killed. He knocked Dai Huabin unconscious with a frozen fish and vowed to destroy the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

• Du Busi asked Huo Yuhao how he would deal with the unconscious Zhou Yi and the assassins, and Huo Yuhao said he had a plan.
• Dai Huabin waited outside Shrek Academy for news, then followed a disguised Huo Yuhao after being told Huo Yuhao was dead and a valuable soul bone had been found on his body.
• Yu Tao tortured the captured White Tiger Duke's Mansion assassins in a dark room while Huo Yuhao's trap unfolded.
• Huo Yuhao revealed himself to Dai Huabin with his Simulation skill, and Dai Huabin tried to flee using White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he was Dai Huabin's younger brother and blamed him for beating their mother to death.
• Huo Yuhao struck Dai Huabin with a frozen fish, knocking him unconscious, and vowed to bring down the White Tiger Duke's Mansion.

Huo Yuhao broke the White Tiger Duke's Mansion killers’ resolve and obtained their agreement to reveal their identities, then set a plan in motion against Dai Huabin and the White Tiger Duke. He left the room staged to make Xuan Zi believe Zhou Yi had protected him from an assassin, while Du Busi confronted Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao killed the lead killer with Xiao Han’s Profound Ice Cold Flame and threatened the others into revealing their identities and evidence.
• Huo Yuhao severed Dai Huabin’s arms with Zhou Yi’s Red Dragon flame, then asked Yao Lao to erase Dai Huabin’s memory of their conversation.
• Huo Yuhao told Yu Tao to question the killers and explained to Yao Lao that he intended to drive the tiger to devour the wolf.
• Du Busi summoned Shrek Academy’s powerful figures to a hotel, where Xuan Zi found him holding Huo Yuhao beside an injured Zhou Yi, a dead masked man, and the armless Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Zi that Dai Huabin had sent an assassin and that Zhou Yi had been gravely wounded while protecting him.

Huo Yuhao manipulated the Sea God Pavilion Elders into believing Zhou Yi had protected him from an assassin and crippled Dai Huabin. Cornered by the consequences of either denying or admitting it, Zhou Yi chose to claim responsibility.

• The Sea God Pavilion Elders doubted Huo Yuhao’s account that Zhou Yi had saved him from an assassin sent by the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Xuan Zi kicked Dai Huabin unconscious, then Huo Yuhao mocked Shrek Academy over the supposed attack and its failure to secure Shrek City.
• After Xuan Zi revived Zhou Yi, Huo Yuhao praised her for protecting him and claimed she had crippled Dai Huabin and killed the assassin.
• Xuan Zi asked Zhou Yi whether she had attacked Dai Huabin and killed the assassin, leaving her trapped between Shrek Academy’s punishment and the White Tiger Duke’s revenge.
• Zhou Yi admitted that she had saved Huo Yuhao and crippled Dai Huabin.

After Huo Yuhao survived an assassination attempt, Xuan Zi and Zhou Yi presented a story implicating the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, and Xuan Zi brought Du Busi and Huo Yuhao to meet Mu En. Du Busi demanded that Shrek Academy protect Huo Yuhao and swore his bloodline would end if Huo Yuhao faced mortal danger in Shrek City.

• Zhou Yi claimed she had tried to protect Huo Yuhao from assassins, and Xuan Zi found a White Tiger Token on the charred assassin’s body.
• Du Busi stopped Xuan Zi from leaving and demanded to see Mu En, who invited Du Busi and Huo Yuhao into the Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao entered the pavilion and heard Electrolux awaken after sensing its strong aura of light.
• Du Busi confronted Mu En and swore that his Radiant Sacred Dragon lineage would end if Huo Yuhao encountered mortal danger in Shrek City.

After Mu En acknowledged Shrek Academy’s fault in the assassination attempt against Huo Yuhao, Du Busi agreed to let him compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament before returning to the Body Sect. Mu En promised Shrek would respect Huo Yuhao’s choice to leave, while Du Busi set conditions for his protection and independence during the tournament.

• Mu En questioned Huo Yuhao about the assassination, and Huo Yuhao said six White Tiger Duke’s Mansion experts had attacked him and that he could have died without Du Busi’s timely arrival.
• Du Busi declared that he would take Huo Yuhao back to the Heaven Dou Empire, but Mu En accepted Shrek Academy’s responsibility and offered to let Huo Yuhao compete first.
• Mu En proposed that Huo Yuhao try out for a reserve spot on Shrek Academy’s tournament team and travel with it to the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to compete, and Du Busi accepted on the condition that Huo Yuhao could return to the Body Sect afterward without Shrek interfering.
• Du Busi required a Titled Douluo to protect Huo Yuhao and insisted that Huo Yuhao remain free to reject Shrek’s name and honor during the tournament; Xuan Zi agreed to provide protection himself.

After Xuan Zi accepted Du Busi’s condition, Mu En took Huo Yuhao into the Sea God Pavilion to give him compensation for Shrek Academy’s attack. Huo Yuhao entered a room filled with strange skulls and resisted their powerful spiritual pressure, while Mu En asked what he thought of Shrek Academy.

• Xuan Zi accepted Du Busi’s condition, and Mu En privately cursed his foolishness as Huo Yuhao rejoiced.
• Mu En offered Huo Yuhao compensation for Shrek Academy’s attack and led him into the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En explained that the pavilion had been carved from a Golden Tree and directed Huo Yuhao to meditate in a room at the end of a passage.
• Huo Yuhao entered the dark room, where skulls on the walls and ceiling unleashed a powerful spiritual cage around him.
• Huo Yuhao used the heavenly-flame power in his spiritual energy to resist the cage as Mu En asked what he thought of Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao gave Mu En a blunt assessment of Shrek Academy, arguing that its power and exclusionary, sect-like education would eventually alarm the empires and provoke a conflict. Mu En thanked him for opening his eyes, then asked him to spare Shrek a remnant if he ever became its enemy.

• Mu En asked Huo Yuhao for his opinion of Shrek Academy while testing him inside the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Huo Yuhao acknowledged Shrek Academy's status and achievements but criticized its academy for functioning more like a soul master faction.
• Huo Yuhao warned Mu En that Shrek Academy's independent power and influence could make the empires fear it would seize political control.
• Huo Yuhao condemned Shrek Academy's admissions barriers, bottom-elimination system, and honor education for excluding ordinary students and fostering unhealthy loyalty.
• Huo Yuhao predicted that the three empires would turn against Shrek City after the Sun Moon Empire was defeated.
• Mu En thanked Huo Yuhao for his candid insight and asked him to leave Shrek a spark if he ever became its enemy.

Mu En used the Fear Demon Dragon skulls to temper Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power, then Huo Yuhao left the Sea God Pavilion with an invitation to Shrek City’s treasure appraisal fair. Elder Xuan hoped the fair would draw Huo Yuhao into debt, while Huo Yuhao planned to pursue alchemy and acquire another heavenly flame.

• Mu En explained why he had not attacked Huo Yuhao and activated the spiritual auras of a thousand and one Fear Demon Dragon skulls to strengthen Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power.
• Huo Yuhao endured the pressure until his Sea of Consciousness shrank and his spiritual power grew denser, deepening its fusion with his two flames.
• Yao Lao told Huo Yuhao that his improved spiritual power would strengthen his soul skills and help him refine pills.
• Huo Yuhao left the chamber and found Elder Xuan waiting with food and an invitation to the treasure appraisal fair.
• Elder Xuan secretly planned to lure Huo Yuhao into taking out a high-interest loan, but Huo Yuhao saw through the scheme and considered his plans for alchemy and another heavenly flame.

Huo Yuhao warned Ning Tian and Wu Feng that the Treasure Appraisal Fair’s generous credit could bind Shrek Academy’s Core Disciples to merchants and the academy. As the three headed to the fair through Shrek City, they encountered Dai Yueheng, who apologized for his younger brother’s past actions.

• Ning Tian explained that the Treasure Appraisal Fair offered Core Disciples goods on credit, and Huo Yuhao warned her that the loans could be used to tie their futures to the merchants.
• Ning Tian understood Huo Yuhao’s warning, while Wu Feng remained unaware of the danger.
• Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng traveled through Shrek City toward the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and passed Huo Yuhao’s many food stalls.
• Dai Yueheng approached Huo Yuhao and apologized for what Dai Huabin had done.

Huo Yuhao encountered Dai Yueheng, who offered compensation for Dai Huabin’s attack, but Huo Yuhao rejected his apology and warned that he awaited the academy’s decision. He then entered the Treasure Gathering Pavilion with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, where Ning Tian was startled by an item announced for auction.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Dai Yueheng and saw the cold hostility behind the White Tiger heir’s polite apology.
• Dai Yueheng offered compensation and support, while Ma Xiaotao defended Huo Yuhao as her friend and introduced Gongyang Mo.
• Dai Yueheng asked about Dai Huabin’s severed hands, and Huo Yuhao said Zhou Yi had burned them to ashes and rejected the mansion’s compensation.
• Huo Yuhao led Ning Tian and Wu Feng into the Treasure Gathering Pavilion for the Treasure Appraisal Fair.
• Wu Feng covered Huo Yuhao’s eyes after catching him staring at the greeters, and Ning Tian exclaimed that an astonishing item would appear at the auction.

Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng discovered that the auction offered a map to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the aromatic silk beauty could evolve Ning Tian’s martial soul. Huo Yuhao agreed to undergo the Pavilion’s credit assessment and challenged its staff to judge his worth by his name alone.

• Wu Feng and Ning Tian were shocked by the catalog’s listing for a thirty-million-gold-soul-coin map to a forbidden land containing the aromatic silk beauty.
• Ning Tian recognized that the aromatic silk beauty could evolve her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, while Huo Yuhao resolved to pursue the map and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ning Tian asked about buying on credit, and the Pavilion’s attendant explained that guests could earn credit limits through an assessment.
• Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng followed the attendant to the assessment counter and received forms requesting basic personal and cultivation information.
• Huo Yuhao wrote his name in large letters and told the attendant to ask her superiors how much the three characters of his name were worth.

Huo Yuhao learned that he had unlimited credit at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and promised Ning Tian he would secure the perilous-land map. He planned to sell his Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid in disguise to raise money for the auction while keeping his identity as an Alchemist secret.

• The Treasure Gathering Pavilion clerk discovered Huo Yuhao's unlimited credit and auction privileges, and Huo Yuhao teased her about her earlier contempt.
• Huo Yuhao assured Ning Tian that he would obtain the perilous-land map and would offer the Aromatic Silk Beauty to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect if he won it.
• Huo Yuhao asked Yao Lao whether others could reproduce Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, and Yao Lao explained that its formula and refinement were too difficult for local Alchemists to copy.
• Huo Yuhao decided to sell his remaining Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion to fund a bid for the map.
• Huo Yuhao disguised himself in a black robe and headed to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion to sell the spirit liquid without revealing his identity.

Huo Yuhao brought Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and negotiated a sale with Pavilion Master Elder Lin. After Yao Lao struck Elder Lin with a hidden mental attack, she verified the medicine’s potency and agreed to buy all five bottles for sixty million gold soul coins.

• Huo Yuhao presented a bottle of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s appraiser and claimed it could boost cultivation and help Soul Grandmasters obtain thousand-year second soul rings.
• The appraiser summoned Pavilion Master Elder Lin, who sensed danger from Huo Yuhao as she arrived to inspect the medicine.
• When Elder Lin took the bottle, Yao Lao used Huo Yuhao’s body to deliver a soul-force attack that disoriented her.
• Elder Lin tested the liquid and confirmed its medicinal potency as Huo Yuhao explained that five bottles formed a complete course.
• Huo Yuhao demanded sixty million gold soul coins for all five bottles, and Elder Lin accepted the deal.

Huo Yuhao sold five bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid to Shrek Academy’s Elder Lin for sixty million Gold Soul Coins, while she hoped to study the formula and cultivate powerful Soul Masters. He left the Treasure Gathering Pavilion with his identity concealed and a Shrek Academy admission recommendation, giving the staff the false name A-Jie.

• Elder Lin agreed to buy Huo Yuhao’s Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid for sixty million Gold Soul Coins, hoping Shrek Academy could reproduce it.
• Huo Yuhao handed over the remaining four bottles and an anonymous stored-value card, and the Treasure Gathering Pavilion transferred the money.
• Elder Lin refused to investigate Huo Yuhao and sent A-Kun to escort him, warning that the pavilion must not offend the mysterious expert.
• A-Kun gave Huo Yuhao a recommendation letter that let one young Soul Master enter Shrek Academy without an examination.
• When A-Kun asked for his name, Huo Yuhao called himself A-Jie and invited him to visit his home.

Huo Yuhao returned to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion auction after disguising himself to evade Shrek Academy, and watched Jiang Nannan host the sale. He ignored the Frostfall Sword but became interested when Yao Lao, Sky Dream, and the Ice Empress urged him to buy the next lot.

• Huo Yuhao changed back into his own clothes after escaping Elder Lin and returned with Ning Tian and Wu Feng to the auction.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Jiang Nannan as the auction host and watched Xu Sanshi buy a sound-recording Soul Tool for thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Jiang Nannan presented the Class 6 Frostfall Sword, which a coolly beautiful girl won for one hundred and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a familiar aura from the sword's buyer but chose not to bid on the weapon.
• When the next lot appeared, Yao Lao, Sky Dream, and the Ice Empress all urged Huo Yuhao to buy it.

Huo Yuhao recognized a supposedly deteriorated piece of thousand-year whale rubber as valuable ten-thousand-year whale glue and bid against Dai Yueheng to secure it. Dai Yueheng withdrew after driving up the price, while Huo Yuhao resolved to retaliate against him.

• The auctioneer described the black whale rubber as a low-quality thousand-year item, and Huo Yuhao opened the bidding at six thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian that the item was actually weathered ten-thousand-year whale glue.
• Dai Yueheng bid against Huo Yuhao, claiming he wanted the whale rubber to nourish his injured younger brother, Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao raised the bid to thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins and accused Dai Yueheng of wanting Dai Huabin dead.
• Ma Xiaotao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng backed Huo Yuhao, and Dai Yueheng withdrew after raising the price to twenty-five thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao bought the whale glue and said Dai Yueheng should be ready for him to set a trap in return.

At the Treasure Gathering Pavilion auction, Huo Yuhao provoked Dai Yueheng by drawing attention to the true value of the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, driving up its price. Dai Yueheng threatened him as the bidding continued, and Huo Yuhao answered with a joke about rough seas and expensive fish.

• Jiang Nannan introduced the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone, a ten-thousand-year soul bone from a Golden Earth Dragon King, with a starting bid of three million Gold Soul Coins.
• Bei Bei bid three million six hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and an unfamiliar young man raised the offer to four million.
• Dai Yueheng bid eight million Gold Soul Coins, hoping to secure the bone and improve his White Tiger martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao pointed out that the bone’s light and fire attributes made it worth over ten million Gold Soul Coins, reigniting the bidding and angering Dai Yueheng.
• Dai Yueheng threatened Huo Yuhao, who replied that rough seas made fish more expensive.

Huo Yuhao outbid Dai Yueheng for the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone and taunted him about risking the White Tiger Duke's Mansion's money. After winning the ten-million-Gold-Soul-Coin auction, Huo Yuhao found Wang Dong and offered her the Soul Bone in exchange for calling him big brother and repaying him with interest.

• Huo Yuhao raised the bid for the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone to ten million Gold Soul Coins and dared Dai Yueheng to wager his fortune against him.
• Dai Yueheng backed down, and Huo Yuhao mocked him about his family and offered to arrange a high-interest loan before Jiang Nannan declared Huo Yuhao the winner.
• Huo Yuhao paid for the Soul Bone and searched the auction hall until he found Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao offered Wang Dong the Soul Bone if she called him big brother and agreed to repay the ten million Gold Soul Coins with interest.
• Wang Dong called Huo Yuhao big brother and asked for the Soul Bone.

Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong a Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone and warned her and Xiao Xiao not to rely on the Treasure Gathering Pavilion's credit. He considered recruiting Wang Dong into his alliance against Tang San and Shrek Academy, and left them pondering his warning.

• Huo Yuhao reflected on Wang Dong's character and resolved to bring her into his Father-Hating Alliance against Tang San.
• Huo Yuhao gave Wang Dong the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone as thanks for supporting him during his conflict with Zhou Yi.
• Wang Dong joyfully accepted the arm bone, and Xiao Xiao thanked Huo Yuhao.
• Xiao Xiao revealed that she and Wang Dong had purple-tier credit ratings at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, with limits of one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao warned them that accepting credit and gifts could leave them indebted, then returned to his seat.