Chapter Summaries

After Huo Yuhao defeated Wu Feng, he became Freshman Class One’s Control System class monitor, while Wang Dong won the Power Attack System position. The Soul Tool Department tried to recruit Huo Yuhao, but he insisted on choosing the Martial Soul Department because he wanted to become a Limit Douluo, leaving Qian Duoduo asking why he held such an ambition.

• Ning Tian rushed to comfort Wu Feng after Huo Yuhao defeated her, and Wu Feng broke down in tears as she feared she had nearly died.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Freshman Class One with Wang Yan, and Wang Yan suspected his strength came from a second awakening of his body martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao became the uncontested Control System class monitor, while Wang Dong defeated Dai Huabin to become the Power Attack System class monitor.
• Wang Yan went to the Inner Court to urge Xuan Zi to nurture Huo Yuhao, while Zhou Yi took Huo Yuhao to meet Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo.
• Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo offered Huo Yuhao core disciple status and training in the Soul Tool Department, but he chose the Martial Soul Department because he wanted to become a Limit Douluo.
• Qian Duoduo asked Huo Yuhao why he had such an ambition, noting how few Soul Douluos ever reached that level.

Huo Yuhao explained that he wanted to become a Limit Douluo so he could unite the continent and end its wars. He rejected Qian Duoduo’s offer to join the Soul Tool Department and declared that the united world would need no emperor.

• Qian Duoduo questioned Huo Yuhao’s ambition to become a Limit Douluo, and Huo Yuhao said he needed that power to accomplish something monumental.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he wanted to unite the continent and end the conflict between its four countries, including the ongoing clashes with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Qian Duoduo proposed that Huo Yuhao join the Soul Tool Department’s ultimate soldier plan, and Fan Yu had Huo Yuhao demonstrate Spiritual Detection Sharing.
• Huo Yuhao refused because he believed wars had to be ended by removing their political causes and uniting the continent under one government.
• Huo Yuhao said he would force the rulers to submit, even if he had to kill them, but denied wanting to serve the Star Luo Emperor or become emperor himself.
• Huo Yuhao declared that the world needed no emperor.

Huo Yuhao accepted temporary Core Disciple status in the Soul Tool Department while privately brooding over the Martial Soul Department’s broken promise. He told Tian Meng that he truly intended to unify the continent and pursue godhood, and Tian Meng agreed to stay by his side.

• Huo Yuhao offered to spend an hour each day in the Soul Tool Department, and Fan Yu made him a temporary Core Disciple and gave him a necklace granting access to its areas and resources.
• Fan Yu told Qian Duoduo that he was highly confident Huo Yuhao could become the battlefield artist needed for the ultimate soldier project.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on how the academy had revoked the Martial Soul Department Core Disciple status he had won by becoming champion of the Freshman Assessment.
• Tian Meng asked whether Huo Yuhao’s claim that he wanted to unify the continent was genuine, and Huo Yuhao said he had used it as a pretext to Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo while pursuing godhood.
• Huo Yuhao told Tian Meng that he truly wanted to unify the continent and bring lasting peace, and Tian Meng promised to remain by his side.

Huo Yuhao impressed Fan Yu with his Soul Tool skills but remained limited by his Soul Power, then announced he would close his barbecue stall for a month to hunt for his second Soul Ring. He left the hunt’s arrangements unexplained, hinting that Tian Meng would accompany him.

• Huo Yuhao completed a Level 3 Soul Tool core engraving, and Fan Yu confirmed it worked despite its flaws and Huo Yuhao’s insufficient Soul Power.
• Fan Yu learned Huo Yuhao studied Soul Tools for only an hour a day, while Huo Yuhao credited his progress to applying mathematics to Soul Tool design.
• Huo Yuhao left the testing area to run his barbecue stall, where Bei Bei asked about his holiday plans and Dai Huabin asked if he would return to the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong he would hunt for his second Soul Ring and said he had already made arrangements, glancing at Tian Meng.
• Huo Yuhao announced that Brother Hao’s Barbecue would close for a month starting the next day.

As the first-year students began their month-long holiday, Huo Yuhao prepared to leave early, and Wang Dong struggled with their impending separation. Huo Yuhao departed after agreeing to return a day early, while Wang Dong left the lakeshore in tears.

• Wang Yan dismissed Class One for the holiday and warned that students would face individual and class advancement assessments when they returned.
• Huo Yuhao hurried out of the classroom, and Wang Dong followed before they walked together beside Sea God Lake.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong he was leaving that day, and she tried to persuade him to stay by asking for grilled fish.
• Huo Yuhao spoke about accepting partings and promised to return a day early, but would not promise that they would take a lakeside walk together every year.
• Wang Dong watched Huo Yuhao leave and cried; after she returned to the dorm, Huo Yuhao recalled a poem about former classmates parting.

Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng traveled into the Far North to persuade the Ice Empress to help Huo Yuhao evolve his ice martial soul into Ultimate Ice. Tian Meng drew her out with his spiritual power, and the chapter ended as the Ice Empress arrived.

• Huo Yuhao crossed the Far North while his cultivation improved in the extreme cold.
• Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng entered the Core Region, where Tian Meng doubted their plan to approach one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Tian Meng to proceed, arguing they should offer cooperation and threaten to fight if necessary.
• Huo Yuhao hid in an ice cellar while Tian Meng released his full spiritual power to lure the Ice Empress out.
• The Ice Empress appeared as the aurora turned emerald green, and Tian Meng addressed her.

Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao trapped the Ice Empress, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, with Tian Meng’s discarded shell. Huo Yuhao revealed that he wanted her to become his soul ring and began explaining their goal, while the Ice Empress dismissed him as too weak to threaten her.

• The Ice Empress appeared and mocked Tian Meng, who claimed he had become a million-year soul beast and returned for revenge.
• Tian Meng used his spiritual power to distract the Ice Empress, then trapped her in a binding net made from his discarded molted shell.
• Huo Yuhao emerged from hiding and told the Ice Empress that Tian Meng was his soul ring and that he wanted her to become one too.
• The Ice Empress accused Tian Meng of betraying the Far North, and Huo Yuhao challenged her claim that Tian Meng was her compatriot.
• Huo Yuhao offered to explain their goal openly, while the Ice Empress calmed down and judged that the low-level human posed no threat.

Huo Yuhao tried to persuade the Ice Empress to become his Soul Ring by promising to preserve her consciousness and help her attain godhood with him. When she hesitated and demanded that he release her restraints, he threatened to kill her and ordered Tian Meng to continue draining soul power, leaving the terrified Ice Empress pleading for him to stop.

• Huo Yuhao explained that the Ice Empress could willingly become his Soul Ring and survive with her spirit intact, while helping his ice martial soul evolve and sharing in his future godhood.
• The Ice Empress was tempted by the offer but worried Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng might deceive her, so she asked Huo Yuhao to release her restraints as proof of sincerity.
• Huo Yuhao refused to bargain and threatened the Ice Empress with death unless she sacrificed herself immediately.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Tian Meng to act, and Tian Meng began feeding soul power into the Ice Empress rather than attacking her.
• The Ice Empress realized Huo Yuhao intended to force her into a sacrifice, pleaded with Tian Meng to stop, and warned that her clansmen might come; Huo Yuhao ordered Tian Meng to continue, and she cried out for him to stop.

Huo Yuhao forced the Ice Empress to surrender her spiritual origin by threatening to push her toward her fatal four-hundred-thousand-year threshold, then prepared to fuse with her soul ring and soul bone. Inside his Sea of Consciousness, the Ice Empress retained a physical form and confronted Tian Meng before a sudden change erupted.

• Huo Yuhao threatened the Ice Empress with death until she released her spiritual origin, which Tian Meng carried into Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao chose to begin the fusion on the ice plain, and the Ice Empress confirmed that her aura would keep her clansmen away.
• The Ice Empress appeared in human form inside Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness and agreed to give him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and a Torso Soul Bone.
• Huo Yuhao promised to help the Ice Empress reach godhood and vanished to begin the fusion.
• The Ice Empress seized Tian Meng and accused him of being a coward, while he reflected on how Huo Yuhao had used her approaching tribulation to force her submission.
• A sudden change erupted within the Sea of Consciousness.

Huo Yuhao endured the Ice Empress’s soul ring and soul bone fusion, gaining a powerful ice attribute and an external scorpion-tail soul bone. After he refused to remain in the Far North, the Ice Empress attacked and pinned him down.

• The Sea of Consciousness fractured into an Ice Abyss, and the Ice Empress and Tian Meng escaped after sensing that Huo Yuhao’s fusion had begun.
• Huo Yuhao endured the Ice Empress’s power as it was absorbed and surpassed by the colder energy in his body, alarming the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress took control of her power while Huo Yuhao fused her soul ring and Torso Soul Bone, and her scorpion tail formed as an external soul bone.
• Huo Yuhao completed the fusion, gained a blood-red soul ring with four golden markings, and learned that the scorpion tail could evolve.
• The Ice Empress urged Huo Yuhao to stay in the Far North, but he refused, and she pinned him to the ice by his throat.

The Ice Empress tried to force Huo Yuhao to remain in the Far North, but a mysterious Gray Figure persuaded her to travel with him instead. After the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe departed, the Ice Empress joined Huo Yuhao and demanded that he help her find and avenge someone she believed humans had killed.

• The Ice Empress held Huo Yuhao captive as her Ice Jade Scorpion tribe surrounded him and Tian Meng.
• Huo Yuhao refused to stay in the Far North, insisting that he would give up on godhood rather than let the Ice Empress control him.
• A mysterious Gray Figure advised the Ice Empress to travel with Huo Yuhao and promised that his future achievements would surpass her expectations.
• The Ice Empress released Huo Yuhao and arranged for her tribe to leave the Far North before agreeing to accompany him.
• The Ice Empress demanded that Huo Yuhao help her find a woman she believed humans had killed, shocking Tian Meng.

Huo Yuhao absorbed a thousand-year ice silkworm soul ring, gained a second soul skill, and advanced to level twenty-six. When he asked about using Ice Empress's clansmen for another ring, he challenged her ideas about kinship and declared that soul beasts were divided by class rather than species.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the ice silkworm's purple soul ring, and his soul power rose to level twenty-six.
• Huo Yuhao tested Demon Eyes' second soul skill, Simulation, and used it to hide or disguise his soul rings and aura.
• Tian Meng advised Huo Yuhao not to rush to find another soul ring for his ultimate-ice martial soul because suitable soul beasts were rare.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that Ice Empress had many ultimate-ice clansmen, and she angrily forbade him from hunting them.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Ice Empress's claim that all soul beasts were kin and said that class, not species, divided them.

Huo Yuhao debated the conflict between humans and soul beasts with the Ice Empress, then returned to Shrek Academy as vacation ended. Wang Dong arrived expecting to find him in their dormitory, but discovered it empty before Huo Yuhao appeared at Shrek Square.

• Huo Yuhao argued that humans and soul beasts were both enslaved by the pursuit of power, then claimed he would exterminate all soul beasts after attaining godhood; the Ice Empress and Tian Meng were appalled.
• Huo Yuhao promised not to attack the Ice Empress's clansmen, and the Ice Empress reluctantly agreed to experience human society by returning to his Sea of Consciousness.
• The month-long vacation ended, and Wang Dong returned to Shrek Academy hoping to reunite with Huo Yuhao in Dormitory 108.
• Wang Dong found the dormitory empty and went looking for Huo Yuhao, believing he had broken his promise to meet her.
• Huo Yuhao appeared at Shrek Square using his Moonwalk and told Wang Dong to lead the way.

After returning to the academy, Huo Yuhao enjoyed the gains from fusing with the Ice Empress and showed Fan Yu the Soul Tool cores he had made. Fan Yu promoted him to Level 3 Soul Engineer, but Huo Yuhao returned the necklace Fan Yu had given him, leaving their conversation at a tense turn.

• Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao reunited in Dormitory 108, where they ate grilled fish and talked until midnight.
• In Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, the Ice Empress discussed her remaining strength and her fear of the old man at the dormitory entrance, while Tian Meng revealed that Xiong Jun had once slashed him.
• The next day, Huo Yuhao reported back to the academy and went to the Soul Tool Department's testing area.
• Huo Yuhao showed Fan Yu the cores for a Level 3 and a Level 4 Soul Tool, impressing Fan Yu and He Caitou.
• Fan Yu officially declared Huo Yuhao a Level 3 Soul Engineer and presented him with a badge.
• Huo Yuhao handed Fan Yu's necklace back and said he was returning it.

Huo Yuhao revealed his twin martial souls and his decision to join the Martial Soul Department, disappointing Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo despite his extraordinary progress as a soul engineer and cultivator. By the shore of Sea God Lake, he explained to the Ice Empress that he was willing to endure humiliation to help her and Tian Meng reach godhood, then Wang Dong found him as he contemplated his future path.

• Huo Yuhao told Fan Yu he would join the Martial Soul Department and demonstrated his twin martial souls, prompting Fan Yu to respect his choice and keep the Soul Tool Department's doors open to him.
• Fan Yu told Qian Duoduo that Huo Yuhao had reached level three as a soul engineer, advanced to level twenty-six, and possessed twin martial souls, before revealing that he still planned to join the Martial Soul Department.
• Qian Duoduo declared that the Soul Tool Department would consider Huo Yuhao its core disciple regardless of the Martial Soul Department's decision and urged Fan Yu to persuade him to stay.
• Huo Yuhao felt ashamed for refusing the Soul Tool Department's kindness, but told the Ice Empress that he would endure the situation to help her and Tian Meng attain godhood.
• The Ice Empress forgave Huo Yuhao and called him by name, while he wondered how to balance his principles with the sacrifices his future might demand.
• Wang Dong found Huo Yuhao beside Sea God Lake as he thought about his road to godhood.

During the advancement assessment, Huo Yuhao surprised the examiners by switching from the Control System to the Power Attack System. He chose to face a thousand-year Soul Beast and asked for one with a slightly thinner neck.

• Zhou Yi explained the advancement assessment to Class One, Second Year, and dismissed the class.
• Dai Huabin gave Huo Yuhao a gold card containing two million Gold Soul Coins as dividends, and Huo Yuhao asked him to accidentally reveal some secrets about him.
• At the Beast Arena, Huo Yuhao told the examiners he was currently in the Control System, then switched to the Power Attack System for his assessment.
• After getting approval to use the Power Attack System criteria, Huo Yuhao chose the strongest thousand-year Soul Beast available and asked for one with a slightly thinner neck.

Huo Yuhao defeated a thousand-year Bloodthirsty Demon Bear in one strike, passed his advancement assessment, and concealed the true nature of his powers. Wang Yan investigated the bear’s arena and concluded that Huo Yuhao possessed Twin Martial Souls.

• Huo Yuhao used Ice Empress’s Pincer to defeat the Bloodthirsty Demon Bear without killing it, earning a perfect score of 150 points.
• Du Weilun questioned Huo Yuhao’s Soul Master rank, but Huo Yuhao revealed two white rings from his Demon Eyes and persuaded the teachers to let him leave.
• Huo Yuhao departed for Fan Yu, while Wang Yan remained puzzled about why he had seen only one ring during the fight.
• Wang Yan sensed an unusual ice-attribute aura near the Bloodthirsty Demon Bear’s enclosure and hurried back to Du Weilun.
• Wang Yan told Du Weilun that Huo Yuhao had a second Martial Soul and possessed Twin Martial Souls.

Wang Yan confirmed that Huo Yuhao had twin martial souls and pushed for his Core Disciple status. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao visited Shrek City and sensed an eerie undead presence in an alley, though he could not identify it himself.

• Wang Yan asked Wang Dong and Dai Huabin whether Huo Yuhao had a second martial soul, and Dai Huabin confirmed that he had an ice martial soul.
• Wang Yan told Du Weilun that Huo Yuhao had twin martial souls, prompting Du Weilun to arrange a report to the Dean and Sea God Pavilion and summon Huo Yuhao the next day.
• Huo Yuhao walked through Shrek City's marketplace with the Ice Empress and explained that running a stall kept him connected to ordinary people's lives.
• Huo Yuhao entered a dead-end alley after sensing something strange, and Tian Meng and an aged voice identified the presence as the aura of the undead.

Huo Yuhao used his ultimate ice and Simulation soul skill to expose the Martial Soul Department’s mistake and make it reconsider recruiting him. The dispute was interrupted when Fan Yu declared that Huo Yuhao was already a core disciple of the Soul Tool Department.

• Du Weilun offered Huo Yuhao Martial Soul Department core disciple status and apologized for the academy’s unfair treatment, but Huo Yuhao refused and admitted he resented it.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his second martial soul’s ultimate ice attribute, and Wang Yan and Du Weilun lamented that he had given it a ten-year soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao used Simulation to change his soul rings’ apparent colors and imitate the aura of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, impressing Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan urged Huo Yuhao to join the Martial Soul Department as a core disciple, but Huo Yuhao hinted that others might object.
• Fan Yu barged into Du Weilun’s office and said Huo Yuhao was already a core disciple of the Soul Tool Department.

Huo Yuhao’s ultimate-ice martial soul and Soul Engineer talent sparked a contest between the Martial Soul Department and the Soul Tool Department. He left both departments stunned by proposing to be a core disciple of each.

• Fan Yu argued that Huo Yuhao was already a core disciple of the Soul Tool Department, while Du Weilun and Wang Yan challenged the claim.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived, confirmed Huo Yuhao possessed ultimate ice, and offered him Inner Court disciple status in the Martial Soul Department.
• Fan Yu called in Qian Duoduo, and Xian Lin'er arrived to defend the Soul Tool Department’s claim on Huo Yuhao.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er argued over Huo Yuhao’s value and competing offers, with Xian Lin'er revealing that he was already a Level 3 Soul Engineer.
• When Yan Shaozhe asked Huo Yuhao to choose a department, Huo Yuhao proposed flexible dual core disciple status in both departments.