Recaps

After leaving the Duke’s Mansion, Huo Yuhao gained Tian Meng as a soul ring and made his way to Shrek Academy. He enrolled, challenged Zhou Yi’s teaching methods, and began his new life by defeating Wang Dong in a dormitory dispute.

• Huo Yuhao rejected Dai Hao’s offers of a military future and arranged admission to Shrek Academy before leaving his mother’s grave and the Duke’s Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao met Tang Ya and Bei Bei on the road, encountered Tian Meng and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the Star Dou Great Forest, and accepted Tian Meng as his soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao joined Tang Ya and Bei Bei on their journey out of the forest, helped them defeat a Mandala Snake, and shared his Spiritual Detection ability with them.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at Shrek Academy, registered as a special-admission student, and challenged Zhou Yi’s harsh teaching philosophy until she agreed to reconsider her methods.
• Huo Yuhao explored the academy, planned to sell barbecue, and discovered that Tian Meng had emerged from his Sea of Consciousness in his dormitory room.
• Huo Yuhao refused Wang Dong’s demand that he obey her as Dormitory Boss, defeated her in a fight, and confronted her when she rejected the loss.

Huo Yuhao settled into Shrek Academy, built influence among his classmates, and expanded his grilled-fish business while pursuing his own training. After an Inner Court student attacked him and the academy tried to silence him, he resolved to grow strong enough to expose its actions, then began training Xu Sanshi with a fabricated technique.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong made peace over grilled fish and agreed to remain roommates, while Huo Yuhao accepted Tian Meng’s dangerous plan to evolve his ice Martial Soul into Ultimate Ice.
• Huo Yuhao opened a grilled-fish stall in Shrek City, encountered Dai Huabin, and recalled how he had defeated and gradually influenced his younger brother.
• At Shrek Academy, Zhou Yi put Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong through punishing training, appointed them class monitor and deputy, and took Huo Yuhao to meet Fan Yu, whose Soul Tool Department offer Huo Yuhao declined.
• Huo Yuhao won Tai Long’s challenge and persuaded his exhausted classmates to resume training, earning their respect and strengthening his influence as class monitor.
• Xu Sanshi attacked Huo Yuhao’s stall after Jiang Nan Nan rejected him, Dai Huabin intervened, and Bei Bei later defeated Xu Sanshi in a match using a technique Huo Yuhao had taught him.
• The Gray Figure explained that Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness held an ice-seal plane and offered to teach him about godhood if he helped recover the figure’s memories and power.
• A red-clad Inner Court student attacked Huo Yuhao by Sea God Lake, but Tian Meng possessed him and froze her before academy staff rescued her and threatened Huo Yuhao into silence.
• Huo Yuhao rejected the academy’s compensation and vowed to expose it, then introduced grilled turtle at his stall and sent Xu Sanshi to train in a fabricated body-hardening art.

Huo Yuhao led Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao through the freshman assessment while developing new martial soul fusion skills and drawing the attention of Shrek’s leaders. The arc ended with the team facing Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu in the finals, and Huo Yuhao’s department placement still under discussion.

• Zhou Yi assigned Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to a team, and Xiao Xiao revealed her twin martial souls before joining Huo Yuhao in the Control System.
• Huo Yuhao’s team won all ten round-robin matches, with Wang Dong fighting under his Spiritual Detection Sharing while Xiao Xiao concealed her abilities.
• Ma Xiaotao confronted Huo Yuhao about the ice-attribute Soul Master who had suppressed her evil fire, and he rebuked her for nearly burning him alive.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong created their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Afterglow, and Huo Yuhao later fused his Spirit Eyes and ice powers into Soul Freeze.
• Huo Yuhao’s team defeated Ning Tian’s team and Xie Huanyue’s team, while Xuan Zi questioned Huo Yuhao’s suitability as a core disciple and Fan Yu recognized his soul engineering talent.
• Huo Yuhao’s team advanced through the knockout rounds, and Huo Yuhao defeated one opposing team alone before guiding his teammates to victory over Zhou Sichen’s team.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao faced Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu in the finals, where Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao trapped Zhu Lu as Dai Huabin protected her from Wang Dong’s attack.
• Yan Shaozhe approved core disciple status for Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao and accepted Qian Duoduo’s proposal to place Huo Yuhao in the Soul Tool Department, while the final match remained undecided.

Huo Yuhao won the Freshman Assessment but clashed with the academy over his Core Disciple status, pursued his ambitions through the Soul Tool Department, and gained the Ice Empress as a Soul Ring. After returning to Shrek Academy and revealing his ultimate-ice martial soul, he proposed becoming a Core Disciple in both departments.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong defeated the Hell White Tiger with their fusion skill, and Du Weilun declared their team the champions, but the academy later excluded Huo Yuhao from the permanent Core Disciple roster.
• Huo Yuhao refused the academy’s Soul Bone reward and turned down the Soul Tool Department’s offer of Core Disciple status, choosing the Martial Soul Department because he wanted to become a Limit Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao told Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo that he wanted to unite the continent and end its wars, then accepted temporary Core Disciple status in the Soul Tool Department while continuing to pursue his own goals.
• Huo Yuhao left Shrek Academy for the Far North, where he and Tian Meng persuaded the Ice Empress to become his Soul Ring and Torso Soul Bone, and she agreed to accompany him after a Gray Figure intervened.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the academy and reunited with Wang Dong, demonstrated his progress as a Soul Engineer, and told Fan Yu he would join the Martial Soul Department while remaining grateful to the Soul Tool Department.
• Huo Yuhao earned a perfect score in his advancement assessment by defeating a Bloodthirsty Demon Bear, and Wang Yan revealed to Du Weilun that Huo Yuhao had twin martial souls.
• Huo Yuhao refused the Martial Soul Department’s offer of Core Disciple status, demonstrated his ability to disguise his soul rings, and revealed that he had already become a Core Disciple of the Soul Tool Department.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao Inner Court status as Xian Lin'er defended the Soul Tool Department’s claim, and Huo Yuhao proposed flexible Core Disciple status in both departments.