Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao challenged Zhou Yi’s harsh teaching methods, arguing that fear and expulsion taught students resentment rather than right and wrong. Zhou Yi began to reconsider her approach and asked whether students could be disciplined without such cruelty.

• Zhou Yi disguised herself as an old woman and asked Huo Yuhao what he thought of her reputation as the monster teacher.
• Huo Yuhao criticized Zhou Yi’s high expulsion rate and argued that selecting talented students was not the same as teaching them.
• Zhou Yi described expelling a talented student for skipping five laps, but Huo Yuhao said the punishment taught fear rather than understanding.
• Huo Yuhao warned that harsh treatment could leave students resentful or despairing, and raised the possibility that a student might become an Evil Soul Master.
• Zhou Yi questioned how teachers could control arrogant students without strictness, and Huo Yuhao replied that strictness was only a means, not the goal.
• Zhou Yi’s impression of Huo Yuhao changed, and she eagerly awaited his suggestion for achieving results without harshness.

Huo Yuhao challenged Zhou Yi’s harsh teaching philosophy by arguing that soldiers and students should be treated as people, persuading her to reconsider her methods. After revealing that he had recognized her disguise from the start, he left Zhou Yi curious about his potential, and she reviewed his file with growing anticipation.

• Huo Yuhao argued that the Star Luo army’s strength came from soldiers understanding what they fought for, and compared them to students who deserved to be treated as people rather than tools.
• Zhou Yi admitted Huo Yuhao’s words had shaken her convictions and said she would pass them on to Teacher Zhou.
• Huo Yuhao revealed he had recognized Zhou Yi from her badge and deduced that she was wearing a disguise, prompting her to remove her mask.
• Zhou Yi introduced herself as the head teacher of Freshman Class One and said she would try new teaching methods, while warning Huo Yuhao to work hard for his assessments.
• Zhou Yi obtained Huo Yuhao’s enrollment file and read the Star Luo City Lord’s unusually high praise of his character and abilities.
• Zhou Yi reflected on Huo Yuhao’s background and hoped he would bring her a different kind of surprise.

After enrolling at Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao arranged to open a barbecue stall, explaining that cooking helped him cultivate. At the freshman dormitory, Tian Meng sensed danger and hid, leading Huo Yuhao to suspect a frail old man reclining by the entrance.

• Huo Yuhao explored the canteen, ate a meal from each of its eight serving windows, and decided its poor food and monopoly offered an opportunity for his own barbecue stall.
• Huo Yuhao bargained with the canteen staff and a supplier, secured a verbal agreement to buy ingredients, and prepared to use equipment stored in his Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao told Tian Meng that barbecuing sharpened his spiritual power and control of ice, then refused Tian Meng's request to inspect his memories again.
• As Huo Yuhao reached the freshman dormitory, Tian Meng abruptly hid, and Huo Yuhao activated Spiritual Detection but found no immediate threat.
• Huo Yuhao noticed a frail old man reclining by the dormitory entrance and concluded that the elder was the danger Tian Meng had sensed.

Huo Yuhao moved into Room 108 at Shrek Academy, discovered Tian Meng could appear outside his Sea of Consciousness, and put him to work cleaning. The pinkish-blue-haired boy who shared the room confronted Huo Yuhao and declared himself Dormitory Boss, but Huo Yuhao rejected his authority.

• Huo Yuhao spoke with the dormitory attendant, and Tian Meng sensed that the old man was a powerful Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao settled into Room 108 and realized Tian Meng had physically emerged from his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao made Tian Meng clean the dormitory, but Tian Meng's efforts left dirty marks on the walls and floor.
• The pinkish-blue-haired boy entered, saw the messy room, and demanded that Huo Yuhao get up and clean.
• The boy declared himself Dormitory Boss and ordered Huo Yuhao to obey, but Huo Yuhao rejected the declaration and asked who he was.

Huo Yuhao challenged Wang Dong to settle their dormitory dispute with a fight and defeated her without letting her use her martial soul. After Wang Dong protested the loss, Huo Yuhao reminded her that she had claimed strength gave the winner the right to make the rules.

• Huo Yuhao insulted Wang Dong after she tried to order him around, and they agreed that the loser of a fight would call the winner Grandpa.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong introduced themselves outside the dormitory, and Wang Dong mocked his single ten-year soul ring before attacking him without using her martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao dodged Wang Dong’s kicks, struck her left knee, pinned her down, and held his White Tiger Dagger to her throat until she admitted defeat.
• Huo Yuhao released Wang Dong and told her not to swagger just because she was strong, while Wang Dong wondered how he had beaten her.
• Wang Dong shouted that she would not accept the loss because her soul power and strength were higher, and Huo Yuhao confronted her with her own claim that the bigger fist made the rules.

After defeating Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao challenged her pride and explained why strength could shift between the strong and weak. Back in their room, they shared grilled fish, apologized, and agreed to get along as roommates.

• Huo Yuhao lectured Wang Dong after their fight, and an old man told her that the gap between them was too great for her to win.
• Huo Yuhao grilled black carp in their room while reflecting that he had struck Wang Dong harder than necessary.
• Wang Dong resisted Huo Yuhao's offer of fish but gave in to her hunger and asked politely for a second one.
• Wang Dong apologized for acting overbearing, and Huo Yuhao said they should keep their shared room clean together.
• Huo Yuhao invented a story about the Huo Family Fist as they chatted over the fish, and the two agreed to be roommates from then on.

In his Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao learned that his ice Martial Soul was absorbing Tian Meng’s sealed million years of power and discussed how to accelerate his growth. Tian Meng proposed evolving the Martial Soul into Ultimate Ice, and Huo Yuhao agreed to the dangerous plan, confident they would succeed.

• Huo Yuhao explored his frozen Sea of Consciousness, where he could create ice objects using spiritual power but could not take them outside.
• Tian Meng explained that Huo Yuhao’s ice Martial Soul was absorbing his sealed power, though the process was slow.
• Tian Meng proposed raising the ice Martial Soul’s tier to increase its absorption rate.
• Tian Meng revealed his plan to evolve Huo Yuhao’s ice Martial Soul into Ultimate Ice, warning that failure could kill them.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to the risky plan and reaffirmed his promise to take Tian Meng all the way to godhood.

Huo Yuhao explored Shrek Academy and Shrek City, arranged a supply of black carp for his barbecue business, and searched for a suitable shop location. Watching ordinary people live peacefully together, he challenged Tian Meng to choose between humanity and Soul Beasts, and Tian Meng chose Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao explored Shrek Academy, then entered Shrek City with Tian Meng, who appeared beside him despite Huo Yuhao's concerns about being discovered.
• Huo Yuhao arranged for a supplier to deliver black carp to the academy cafeteria and took Tian Meng through the marketplace to look for a future shop location.
• Huo Yuhao compared the peaceful cooperation of humans with the constant predation among Soul Beasts, and Tian Meng agreed that Soul Beasts could not build human society.
• Huo Yuhao said he disliked Soul Beasts and asked Tian Meng to choose a side; Tian Meng declared that he was on Huo Yuhao's side.

Huo Yuhao opened a barbecue stall outside Shrek Academy, attracting customers with his grilled fish and drawing a crowd after Tang Ya and Bei Bei stopped by. After closing for the afternoon, he recruited Tian Meng to help manage payments at the stall.

• Huo Yuhao set up his stall outside Shrek City's eastern gate and prepared and grilled black carp while using the work to aid his cultivation.
• A student named Xu Bo bought a fish, but Tang Ya arrived, took it from him, and ate it; Bei Bei offered to pay for Xu Bo and ordered five fish.
• Other students recognized Bei Bei and crowded around Huo Yuhao's stall, where he sold fish through the morning.
• After selling fifty or sixty fish, Huo Yuhao tallied his earnings and realized some customers had underpaid him.
• Huo Yuhao left the stall and returned with Tian Meng, asking her to help look after it.

Huo Yuhao’s stall at Shrek Academy welcomed Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu, and Dai Huabin accused it of being a fake Brother Hao’s Barbecue branch before recognizing Huo Yuhao. Their reunion led into a flashback to the White Tiger Duke’s decision four years earlier to make Dai Huabin live with Huo Yuhao, ending with Huo Yuhao defeating him and claiming the role of his older brother.

• Tian Meng started serving customers at Huo Yuhao’s grilled-fish stall while Huo Yuhao napped.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu arrived, bought grilled fish, and Dai Huabin questioned whether the stall was a legitimate franchise.
• Huo Yuhao revealed himself, told Dai Huabin to keep calling him Brother Hao in public, and asked him not to disclose their relationship.
• Four years earlier, Dai Huabin angrily rejected the White Tiger Duke’s decision that he live with Huo Yuhao and stormed out of the hall.
• Dai Huabin attacked Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao defeated him and declared that he was now Dai Huabin’s older brother.

After Dai Huabin lost to Huo Yuhao, the White Tiger Duke made him apologize and warned the Duchess to control her household. Years later, Dai Huabin reunited with Huo Yuhao at Shrek Academy, where Huo Yuhao asked him to conceal his identity and martial souls.

• Dai Huabin refused to apologize until the White Tiger Duke ordered him to listen to his father, then ran off in anger.
• The White Tiger Duke warned the Duchess and the servants who had mistreated Huo Yuhao and his mother to behave.
• Huo Yuhao offered Dai Huabin grilled fish, and a recollection described how Huo Yuhao had gradually influenced Dai Huabin over the years.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu asked why Huo Yuhao had come to Shrek Academy, and Huo Yuhao said he had entered through Dai Hao's connections.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Tian Meng as his distant cousin and told Dai Huabin to keep his background and martial souls secret at the academy.
• Dai Huabin paid Huo Yuhao for the grilled fish before leaving with Zhu Lu, who asked him for more food.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong attended their first day in Freshman Class One, where their homeroom teacher Zhou Yi revealed her fierce disciplinary style and questioned them about their earlier fight. Zhou Yi defended student fighting as a way to encourage competition, but Huo Yuhao challenged her reasoning.

• Huo Yuhao arrived early and took a conspicuous seat in the center of the classroom, and Wang Dong sat beside him and learned he claimed to be an orphan.
• Freshmen warned one another that Zhou Yi was a harsh teacher before she arrived and introduced herself as their homeroom teacher.
• Zhou Yi ordered the class to run a hundred laps, then exposed her six Soul Rings and sent the students to the Sports Field.
• Zhou Yi kept Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong behind because they had fought, and Wang Dong admitted Huo Yuhao had beaten her.
• Zhou Yi explained that Shrek Academy encouraged student fights, but Huo Yuhao criticized her for praising troublemaking.

Huo Yuhao challenged Zhou Yi’s motto and was ordered to run a hundred laps alongside Wang Dong. After Huo Yuhao edged Wang Dong across the finish line, he reminded her that she had lost twice in a row.

• Huo Yuhao argued that Zhou Yi’s motto about stirring up trouble demeaned honest people, and Zhou Yi sent him and Wang Dong to run a hundred laps.
• Huo Yuhao quickly overtook the other students and lapped the main pack twice, while Wang Dong kept pace with him.
• Huo Yuhao discussed his anger with Tian Meng as the pair led the freshmen through the grueling run.
• On the final lap, Huo Yuhao sped ahead, and Wang Dong revealed her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul to fly after him.
• Huo Yuhao stopped near the finish and moonwalked across half a second before Wang Dong, then told her she had lost twice in a row.

Huo Yuhao impressed Zhou Yi with his Spiritual Detection Sharing, and she summoned him to meet after class. Zhou Yi then confronted nine students who had skipped laps, made them admit their misconduct, and ordered them to run extra laps before class began.

• Huo Yuhao told Zhou Yi that his martial soul was Demon Eyes and his soul power was level eleven, then demonstrated Spiritual Detection Sharing.
• Zhou Yi told Huo Yuhao to meet her after class, while Wang Dong vowed to beat him next time.
• Zhou Yi called nine students forward and accused them of skipping laps and being dishonest.
• Tai Long initially denied skipping a lap, but admitted his mistake after Zhou Yi challenged him about his military family.
• Zhou Yi ordered the nine students to run ten extra laps, with Tai Long running twenty, and sent the other students to class.

Zhou Yi appointed Huo Yuhao class monitor and Wang Dong deputy, then taught Freshman Class One about soul master combat, soul tools, and the importance of physical training. After class, she carried Huo Yuhao into the sky and took him somewhere she called nice.

• The nine students who finished their punishment laps returned, and Zhou Yi warned the class not to cut corners again.
• Zhou Yi appointed Huo Yuhao class monitor and Wang Dong deputy, then announced that students could challenge them for their positions.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that his soul power was only level eleven, prompting Zhou Yi to invite the class to challenge him.
• Wang Dong gave a conventional answer about soul master systems, while Huo Yuhao argued that the power attack system could fulfill nearly every role.
• Zhou Yi explained how soul tools blurred the distinctions between combat systems and announced three months of physical training before the freshman assessment.
• After class, Zhou Yi took Huo Yuhao flying to an unknown destination.

Zhou Yi brought Huo Yuhao to the Soul Tool Department's experiment area, where his Spiritual Detection Sharing impressed Fan Yu and helped He Caitou hit a moving target with a fixed-installation soul cannon. Fan Yu invited Huo Yuhao to join the Soul Tool Department, but Huo Yuhao chose the Martial Soul Department and left Fan Yu stunned by a small object he tossed to him.

• Zhou Yi introduced Huo Yuhao to Fan Yu as a mental-attribute soul master with the abilities Fan Yu had been seeking.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated his first soul skill, allowing Fan Yu to perceive the experiment area in detail.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to help He Caitou fire a fixed-installation soul cannon accurately at a moving target.
• Fan Yu invited Huo Yuhao to become his disciple in the Soul Tool Department, but Huo Yuhao declined and reaffirmed his choice of the Martial Soul Department.
• Huo Yuhao tossed a small object to Fan Yu, who reacted with astonishment when he saw it.

Huo Yuhao impressed Fan Yu with his Level 1 Soul Engineer badge and exceptional talent, but refused the Soul Tool Department’s offer and reaffirmed his choice of the Martial Soul Department. He later explained to Tian Meng that he wanted to pursue godhood and keep his promise to take Tian Meng with him.

• Fan Yu tested Huo Yuhao’s soul-tool knowledge and learned that he had become a Level 1 Soul Engineer in about five months, beginning his training before age ten.
• Fan Yu offered Huo Yuhao resources and core-disciple status, but Huo Yuhao refused and said he would join the Martial Soul Department.
• Huo Yuhao predicted that soul tools would transform everyday life and warfare, then declined to explain his choice and left after agreeing to reconsider after the new student assessment.
• Fan Yu took Zhou Yi to see the dean, telling He Caitou not to mention what had happened.
• Huo Yuhao told Tian Meng that he had turned down the offer because students could choose only one department and he wanted to pursue godhood while keeping his promise to take Tian Meng with him.

Zhou Yi made Freshman Class One run laps in Iron Garments, while Huo Yuhao endured easily and teased Wang Dong about her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul. After the exhausted students collapsed, Huo Yuhao was the only one left standing.

• Zhou Yi ordered Freshman Class One to run laps in Iron Garments until the bell rang, forbidding Soul Skills.
• Huo Yuhao ran steadily and told Wang Dong that his years of exercise had built his stamina.
• Wang Dong revealed that her Martial Soul was the Light Goddess Butterfly, and Huo Yuhao teased her about its name and appearance.
• Tian Meng excitedly drew an ice silkworm with butterfly wings and described a legend that Ice Silkworms could evolve into butterflies; Huo Yuhao argued the legend was false.
• As the students collapsed from exhaustion, Huo Yuhao moonwalked backward and offered to teach Wang Dong the movement.
• Wang Dong ran out of strength and fell, leaving Huo Yuhao as the only student still standing.

Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to gather Freshman Class One’s attention and introduced himself as class monitor, prompting Tai Long to challenge him. Zhou Yi refereed their Soul Fighting match, which Huo Yuhao won almost instantly.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing to direct the class’s attention toward him.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as class monitor and joked that his classmates could call him Brother Hao or Big Brother One.
• Tai Long challenged Huo Yuhao for the class monitor position, and Zhou Yi approved the match.
• Tai Long revealed his two-ring dragon-type martial soul, but Huo Yuhao quickly knocked him down and claimed victory.

Huo Yuhao defeated Tai Long with mental Soul Ring abilities, then used his own physical training and the responsibilities of being class monitor to persuade his classmates to keep running. The students rejoined the laps, while Zhou Yi recognized Huo Yuhao’s leadership potential and he resolved to promote better values in the class.

• Huo Yuhao used Mental Interference and Soul Shock to daze Tai Long, then kicked him down and won their match.
• Tai Long protested that he had not lost, but Zhou Yi explained that the opening would have been fatal in a real fight.
• Huo Yuhao told the class he was only level eleven and credited his strength and speed to years of physical training despite having low innate Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao urged his classmates to persevere with Zhou Yi’s training so they could protect themselves and improve their chances in the freshman assessment.
• A student agreed with Huo Yuhao and resumed running, prompting the rest of the class to rejoin the laps.
• Zhou Yi saw Huo Yuhao’s potential as a leader, while Huo Yuhao decided to use his class monitor role to instill better ideas in his classmates.