Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao inspired his classmates to persevere through physical training, earning their admiration and insisting they call him Brother Hao. After class, he headed to open his barbecue stall with Wang Dong while Dai Huabin stayed behind to wait for Lulu.

• Zhou Yi reflected on Huo Yuhao's influence as the students kept training until the bell rang.
• A Soul Saint used the Tree of Life Martial Soul to restore the exhausted students, and Zhou Yi praised Huo Yuhao for teaching them perseverance.
• The students admired Huo Yuhao, who told them to call him Brother Hao instead of class monitor.
• Back at the dormitory, Wang Dong angrily confronted Dai Huabin for repeatedly knocking, and Huo Yuhao made them address each other as Brother Dong and Brother Bin.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong left to open the barbecue stall, while Dai Huabin stayed behind to wait for Lulu.

Huo Yuhao ran his grilled-fish stall after classes, with Tian Meng helping serve customers and Wang Dong enjoying the food. As business continued, a beautiful student called Sister Nan arrived at the stall, and Huo Yuhao watched her approach.

• Huo Yuhao returned to the academy gates with Tian Meng and began grilling fish while Wang Dong waited beside him.
• Students gathered to buy the grilled fish, and Tian Meng collected payments as Huo Yuhao cooked batch after batch.
• Tian Meng demanded payment from Wang Dong for the four fish she had eaten, but Huo Yuhao stopped her from pressing the matter.
• Huo Yuhao limited Tian Meng to two more fish and paused grilling as the waiting students made way for several female students.
• Sister Nan approached Huo Yuhao's stall after her companion pointed it out, while Wang Dong admired her beauty and Huo Yuhao remained calm.

Huo Yuhao’s refusal to surrender his grilled fish provoked Xu Sanshi, who nearly struck him before Jiang Nan Nan intervened and left. Huo Yuhao taunted Xu Sanshi afterward, and Xu Sanshi charged at him again.

• A stunning senior tried to bargain for Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, but Huo Yuhao explained why he charged five Copper Soul Coins and told her to wait for the next batch.
• Xu Sanshi threw a Gold Soul Coin at Huo Yuhao’s grill, grabbed him by the collar, and demanded the fish.
• Tian Meng began gathering power for a Spiritual Shock, but Huo Yuhao interrupted him by putting a grilled fish in his mouth.
• Huo Yuhao dared Xu Sanshi to hit him, but Jiang Nan Nan called Xu Sanshi’s name and he stopped before punching Huo Yuhao.
• Xu Sanshi smashed the grill and tried to follow Jiang Nan Nan after she rejected him, while Huo Yuhao mocked him as his grandson.
• Xu Sanshi charged at Huo Yuhao again after Huo Yuhao continued taunting him.

Xu Sanshi attacked Huo Yuhao after a dispute over grilled fish, but Dai Huabin intervened before the punch landed. After Huo Yuhao explained that he had deliberately provoked Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei challenged Xu Sanshi to a fight at the Soul Fighting Zone.

• Xu Sanshi lunged at Huo Yuhao, but Dai Huabin's White Tiger Fierce Light Wave interrupted him and Xu Sanshi blocked it with his Tortoise Shell Shield.
• Xu Sanshi overpowered Dai Huabin, and Huo Yuhao revealed that he had deliberately refused to dodge so Xu Sanshi might be expelled for attacking a junior.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei arrived, and Huo Yuhao explained that Xu Sanshi had demanded the grilled fish he had saved for his cousin, Jiang Nannan.
• Huo Yuhao insulted Xu Sanshi over Jiang Nannan, while Tang Ya and Bei Bei tried to calm them down.
• Xu Sanshi repeatedly said he wanted to hit someone, so Bei Bei challenged him to fight and led him toward the Soul Fighting Zone.

After Xu Sanshi damaged Huo Yuhao’s grill, Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu offered Tang Ya’s failing Tang Sect a safe residence, but Tang Ya refused and resolved to restore it herself. Wang Dong asked to join the sect, and Huo Yuhao ended the night by planning to buy turtles for a new dish.

• Huo Yuhao stopped selling grilled fish after Xu Sanshi broke his grill, then cooked a few more fish for Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Tang Ya.
• Tang Ya explained Xu Sanshi’s Xuanming Turtle martial soul and learned that Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu descended from the White Tiger and Netherworld Douluo lineages.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu offered Tang Ya a secure residence, but Tang Ya said she would return to the Tang Sect’s original grounds and restore its glory herself.
• Wang Dong asked to join the Tang Sect to learn its hidden weapons, and Tang Ya told her to think carefully before deciding.
• Huo Yuhao said he was going into town to buy a new grill and stock for a new dish, then revealed he planned to buy dozens of turtles.

Xu Sanshi reflected on his feelings for Jiang Nannan and decided to apologize to Huo Yuhao, then challenged Bei Bei to a Soul Fighting match. Bei Bei defeated him with a new move taught by Huo Yuhao.

• Xu Sanshi admitted to Bei Bei that he was angry with himself because love could not be forced, then stopped himself before revealing his past with Jiang Nannan.
• Xu Sanshi decided to apologize to Huo Yuhao the next day, then suggested that he and Bei Bei spar.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi released their Martial Souls in the Soul Fighting Arena and began their match.
• Bei Bei used Lightning Poison Dragon Drill to overpower Xu Sanshi's Xuanming Shield and knock him down.
• Bei Bei won the match and told Xu Sanshi that Huo Yuhao had taught him Lightning Poison Dragon Drill.

Inside Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, the Gray Figure explained that the icy realm was a plane sustained by Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power and offered to teach him how to attain godhood in exchange for help recovering his memories and strength. After the Gray Figure left, Huo Yuhao joked with Tian Meng about his willingness to face danger.

• Huo Yuhao questioned Tian Meng about troublemaking and warned him not to reveal himself unless Huo Yuhao was in mortal danger.
• The Gray Figure appeared and explained that Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness was also an ice seal plane that depended on his spiritual power.
• The Gray Figure said his divine consciousness was recovering in the plane and offered to explain how to attain godhood if Huo Yuhao helped restore his memories and power.
• The Gray Figure questioned why Huo Yuhao calmly chose extreme actions despite understanding the risks, and Huo Yuhao called himself a thinking madman.
• After the Gray Figure departed, Huo Yuhao declared that he was the crumbling wall rather than a gentleman who avoided danger.

Huo Yuhao was ambushed by a masked woman with a Fire Phoenix martial soul while eating breakfast beside Sea God Lake, and Tian Meng possessed him to fight back. Huo Yuhao knocked the woman into the lake before collapsing, and academy staff arrived to cover up the incident.

• Huo Yuhao grilled breakfast beside Sea God Lake, where Tian Meng came out of his Sea of Consciousness against his wishes.
• A red-clad woman raced across the lake and attacked Huo Yuhao with overwhelming heat.
• Tian Meng possessed Huo Yuhao, froze the area, and used an icy attack to knock the six-ring Soul Emperor into the lake.
• Huo Yuhao collapsed unconscious after Tian Meng released control, and the surrounding ice melted away.
• Academy staff rescued the woman, confirmed Huo Yuhao was only unconscious, and ordered compensation while threatening expulsion if he spoke about the incident.

After an Inner Court student nearly killed Huo Yuhao, a Shrek Academy official tried to silence him with a threat and a Soul Ascension Pill. Huo Yuhao rejected the bribe and resolved to grow powerful enough to expose and bring down the academy, leaving his determination hardened by rage.

• Tian Meng explained that using his origin power had left him too weak to possess Huo Yuhao again for a long time.
• A middle-aged man in white threatened to expel Huo Yuhao if he revealed the Inner Court student's attack and offered him a Soul Ascension Pill as compensation.
• Huo Yuhao accused Shrek Academy of covering up the attempted murder, refused to forget what happened, and threw the pill into Sea God Lake.
• Huo Yuhao returned to class in a furious mood and reflected that the academy might have concealed the attack even if he had died.
• Huo Yuhao decided he needed to grow stronger so he could reveal the truth and topple the academy's authority.

Huo Yuhao sold grilled turtles at his stall and accepted Xu Sanshi’s apology for wrecking it the previous day. After Xu Sanshi asked about Bei Bei’s new fighting technique, Huo Yuhao fooled him into believing a made-up martial art would strengthen his defense, leaving Xu Sanshi eager to train.

• Huo Yuhao opened his stall, introduced grilled turtle as a new dish, and found that the students enjoyed it.
• Xu Sanshi apologized to Huo Yuhao, bought grilled fish, and asked him about the Lightning Poison Dragon Drill Bei Bei had used to defeat him.
• Huo Yuhao claimed the technique came from his Dragon Tiger Sect and told Xu Sanshi that a made-up art called the Golden Bell Shield suited his Xuanming Turtle Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao instructed Xu Sanshi to toughen his body by crashing into trees and rocks without using Soul Power, and Xu Sanshi rushed off to begin training.
• Tian Meng asked whether Huo Yuhao had invented the art, and Huo Yuhao admitted it and said he could blame Xu Sanshi’s failure on a lack of talent.

After three months of study, Huo Yuhao reached Soul Power rank fifteen and learned that the freshman assessment would eliminate half the teams. Zhou Yi assigned Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to one team, then demanded an explanation after all three chose the Power Attack System.

• Huo Yuhao's Soul Power rose to rank fifteen as Tian Meng urged him to reach rank twenty and travel to the Far North.
• Zhou Yi announced the freshman assessment: teams of three would fight at least ten matches, and the bottom half would be eliminated.
• Zhou Yi nominated Song Qinghan for direct admission to the Soul Tool Department and assigned Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to the same team.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhou Yi he would choose three Power Attack System members for a team, and Xiao Xiao changed her specialization to match.
• Zhou Yi discovered all three teammates had chosen the Power Attack System, angrily confronted Huo Yuhao, and asked him to explain his reasoning.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao chose the control system after Zhou Yi questioned their cultivation directions and ordered their team to aim for the freshman assessment championship. After class, Huo Yuhao brought Xiao Xiao to his barbecue stall, where she met his regular customers, including Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu.

• Huo Yuhao argued with Zhou Yi that a team of power attackers could defeat different lineups, but she ordered him and Xiao Xiao to choose cultivation systems suited to their martial souls.
• Xiao Xiao revealed that she had twin martial souls, the mutated Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and the Nine-Phoenix Auspicious Ritual Flute, while Huo Yuhao changed his choice to the control system.
• Zhou Yi set the team a goal of winning the freshman assessment, then softened her demand to reaching the top four after Huo Yuhao resisted competing for first place.
• Wang Dong invited Huo Yuhao to open for business, and he took Xiao Xiao to his popular barbecue stall outside the academy gates.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu arrived at the stall, and Huo Yuhao rapped Dai Huabin on the head and told him to address Xiao Xiao as Brother Xiao.

As business at his barbecue stall grew, Huo Yuhao tried to train Tian Meng to help, while Xu Sanshi demonstrated that the made-up Golden Bell Shield technique had strengthened his body. The fire-attributed woman in red arrived at the stall, and Huo Yuhao recognized her as someone he had encountered before.

• Huo Yuhao recruited Tian Meng to learn grilling, but Tian Meng burned his first fish and turned the practice into a game.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei visited the stall and discussed Wang Dong's upcoming freshman assessment and his Tang Sect training.
• Xu Sanshi shattered a stone brick against his forehead to show off the Golden Bell Shield he had learned from Huo Yuhao, astonishing the crowd.
• The woman in red approached Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao recognized her as the fire-attribute Soul Master from their earlier encounter.
• The woman in red asked Huo Yuhao for grilled fish, and he told her to wait in line.

Ma Xiaotao visited Huo Yuhao’s grilled-fish stall, hoping to learn whether his martial soul had once suppressed her evil fire. Huo Yuhao remained hostile because the incident reminded him of Shrek Academy’s handling of his near-death, then prepared for the Freshman Assessment with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.

• Ma Xiaotao frightened away the customers, bought grilled fish from Huo Yuhao, and asked to see his martial soul before leaving with Xu Sanshi.
• Xu Sanshi’s willingness to help Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire had changed after he found that practicing Huo Yuhao’s Golden Bell Shield during the painful sessions strengthened him.
• The customers returned, and Huo Yuhao dismissed Ma Xiaotao’s fame while privately blaming Shrek Academy for how it had handled the incident that nearly killed him.
• Xiao Xiao asked about tactics for the Freshman Assessment, and Huo Yuhao told his team to follow his instructions while Wang Dong boasted that she could defeat every opponent.
• Dai Huabin mocked Wang Dong’s level, but he became nervous when Huo Yuhao challenged him and quickly agreed that soul power level did not matter.

Huo Yuhao’s team won its first Freshman Assessment match after he pretended to be a food-type soul master and Wang Dong defeated the opposing team with his Spiritual Detection Sharing. The chapter ended with Wang Yan wondering why the team was named after Huo Yuhao, whose soul power was lower than Wang Dong’s and Xiao Xiao’s.

• Wang Yan introduced the first match between Huo Yuhao’s team and Freshman Class Three, and Huo Yuhao sat down, saying Wang Dong could win alone.
• After Zhao Haochen summoned chicken drumsticks to support his teammates, Huo Yuhao produced ordinary grilled fish and claimed he was a food-type soul master.
• Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng charged Wang Dong, who used Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing to anticipate their movements and knock them both down with Winged Guillotine.
• The remaining opponent surrendered, giving Huo Yuhao’s team the victory.
• Wang Dong questioned Huo Yuhao about the ordinary grilled fish, while Wang Yan recorded the win and wondered why the team was named after Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao’s team won its first five assessment matches while he concealed his true martial soul and helped Wang Dong with Spiritual Detection. Afterward, he confronted Ma Xiaotao at Sea God Lake, rejected her apology, and refused to identify the ice-attribute Soul Master who had stopped her.

• Huo Yuhao posed as a food-type Soul Master, and Wang Dong won the team’s first five matches with his support while Xiao Xiao stayed out of the fights.
• Wang Yan congratulated the team and warned them that their next opponents would be stronger, while Huo Yuhao urged Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to hide their abilities and demonstrated Spiritual Sharing.
• Ma Xiaotao met Huo Yuhao outside the assessment area and led him to the lakeside where they had first met.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that he resented her, rejected her apology, and said he had thrown away the academy’s Soul Ascension Pill compensation.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Huo Yuhao about the ice-attribute Soul Master who had stopped her, then grabbed his collar and threatened him when he tried to leave.

Huo Yuhao confronted Ma Xiaotao over the danger her evil fire posed to others, calling her and Shrek Academy no different from Evil Soul Masters. After Wang Dong overheard their argument, Ma Xiaotao left determined to find the ice-attribute Soul Master, while she later rejected Huo Yuhao's accusation and resolved to control her evil fire herself.

• Ma Xiaotao demanded that Huo Yuhao reveal the ice-attribute Soul Master who could suppress her evil fire, but Huo Yuhao challenged her to stop cultivating if it endangered others.
• Huo Yuhao rebuked Ma Xiaotao for nearly burning him alive three months earlier and accused her, Shrek Academy, and her teacher of acting like Evil Soul Masters.
• Ma Xiaotao found Wang Dong hiding nearby, then let Huo Yuhao go and left to seek the ice-attribute Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao explained his view of Evil Soul Masters to Wang Dong, who said she would not cultivate a powerful martial soul if it risked harming innocent people.
• Back in her room, Ma Xiaotao questioned the cost of her cultivation but resolved that her evil fire would not control her.

Huo Yuhao's team faced Huang Chutian and the Blue Sisters in the sixth round of the Freshman Assessment, and Huo Yuhao identified the twins' hair martial souls as a serious threat. Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong attacked the sisters, forcing them to prepare a hidden technique as Huo Yuhao finally made his move.

• Wang Yan announced Huo Yuhao's team's match against Huang Chutian's team while Huo Yuhao and his teammates ate grilled fish.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Huang Chutian and the Blue Sisters were all Soul Grandmasters and grew cautious of the sisters' body martial souls.
• Wang Dong charged Huang Chutian, then dodged the Blue Sisters' Hair Net with Huo Yuhao's assistance.
• Huo Yuhao directed Xiao Xiao to target the sisters, and Xiao Xiao split her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron into three attacks.
• The Blue Sisters stopped two cauldrons with their Hair Net, but Wang Dong cut through the net and rushed at them.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo began to embrace, preparing their trump card, as Huo Yuhao moved.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao completed the placement matches with ten consecutive victories, after Huo Yuhao secretly interrupted the Blue Sisters’ attempted Martial Soul Fusion Skill. As ranked matches approached, Wang Yan questioned Huo Yuhao about the Martial Soul and Soul Skill he had used throughout the examination.

• Wang Dong knocked the Blue Sisters out of the arena after Huo Yuhao used Mental Interference Domain and Soul Shock to interrupt their nearly completed Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Wang Yan concluded that Huo Yuhao had disrupted the fusion, and Huo Yuhao's team won after Huang Chutian left the arena.
• Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng discussed Martial Soul Fusion Skills, and Huo Yuhao resolved not to fuse with another man again.
• Huo Yuhao guided Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao through the remaining placement matches, and the trio finished with ten victories in ten matches.
• Wang Yan congratulated the team and questioned Huo Yuhao about his Martial Soul and Soul Skill, while Huo Yuhao jokingly claimed his Martial Soul was grilled fish.

Huo Yuhao revealed that his Body Martial Soul was the Demon Eyes and explained how he had interrupted the sisters’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Wang Dong proposed that he and Huo Yuhao try fusing their martial souls, and their close contact unexpectedly triggered a strange energy reaction that began drawing Wang Dong’s Soul Power into Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Yan that his Martial Soul was the Demon Eyes, a Body Martial Soul, and Wang Yan left excitedly.
• Huo Yuhao admitted to Wang Dong that he had used mental power to interrupt the sisters’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill during their match.
• Wang Dong suggested that he and Huo Yuhao might be compatible enough to perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Huo Yuhao refused to try with a man.
• When Huo Yuhao grabbed Wang Dong’s arm, he sensed three distinct auras within her and his own body began glowing.
• Huo Yuhao pinned Wang Dong as their energies reacted, and Wang Dong’s Soul Power began flowing into him.