Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy’s leaders debated whether Huo Yuhao should become a Core Disciple of the Martial Soul Department or the Soul Tool Department. After hearing Huo Yuhao’s proposal, the head of the academy approved flexible dual Core Disciple status for him.

• Yan Shaozhe told the leaders that Huo Yuhao had twin martial souls, an ultimate attribute, and Level 3 Soul Engineer ability, prompting Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo to argue for the Soul Tool Department.
• Xuan Zi questioned Huo Yuhao’s rapid progress, then decided that Huo Yuhao’s training method made him a genius and declared that the Martial Soul Department would take him.
• Qian Duoduo played a recording of Xuan Zi rejecting Huo Yuhao, but Xuan Zi dismissed the complaint and stood by his decision.
• Xian Lin'er and Cai Mei'er argued over Huo Yuhao’s placement until the head of the academy asked what Huo Yuhao wanted.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Huo Yuhao had requested Core Disciple status in whichever department he was attending, and the head of the academy approved the arrangement.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong visited the Treasure Appraisal Fair, where Huo Yuhao rejected buying on credit and reflected on money’s limits compared with soul power. After Wang Dong discovered a costly Soul Bone, Huo Yuhao left the pavilion and sensed an undead aura in a passing black-robed figure.

• Wang Yan announced that Huo Yuhao had officially become a Core Disciple in the Martial Soul Department, while Huo Yuhao knew he had also been granted flexible dual Core Disciple status.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong went to the Treasure Appraisal Fair, where Huo Yuhao refused a credit assessment because he did not want to owe merchants favors.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Wang Dong how wealth could let an ordinary person hire powerful Soul Masters, then acknowledged her objection that such a wealthy person could not truly be ordinary.
• Huo Yuhao left the fair, while Wang Dong spotted a Soul Bone priced at nine million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and stared at it in shock.
• As Huo Yuhao walked out of Shrek City, a black-robed figure passed him, and an aged voice told him to follow because the figure carried an undead aura.

Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice could cure her evil fire, while Huo Yuhao uncovered three Evil Soul Masters planning to wreak havoc in the Star Luo Empire. Huo Yuhao wounded Fourth but was forced to face Second, a Soul King, as the fight turned against him.

• Yan Shaozhe revealed that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice could resolve Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire, and Ma Xiaotao flew to find him in Shrek City.
• Three Evil Soul Masters met outside Shrek City and discussed their order to recruit followers and cause trouble in the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao emerged from Simulation, confronted the Evil Soul Masters, and identified their power as dependent on devouring people’s resentment.
• Fourth attacked Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao used an afterimage and Ice Empress’s Pincer to seize and seriously injure him.
• Second fired a blood-red beam at Huo Yuhao, forcing him to release Fourth and dodge before discovering that Second was a Soul King.

Huo Yuhao used the Ice Empress's powers to kill Fourth, but exhausted his Soul Power and was struck down by Second. A black-haired boy then possessed Huo Yuhao's body, killed Second, seized the Evil Soul Master leader, and was recognized as the Holy Son.

• Huo Yuhao revealed his undead aura suspicions and confronted the three Evil Soul Masters outside Shrek City.
• Fourth crushed Huo Yuhao's apparent skull, but Huo Yuhao used the Ice Empress's skills to freeze Fourth's blood and kill him.
• Second slashed Huo Yuhao's chest, and Huo Yuhao fell as though dead after using up his Soul Power.
• A black-haired boy appeared, said he would demonstrate the Ice Empress's power, and killed Second with Ice Jade Guillotine.
• The boy skewered the Evil Soul Master leader and demanded to know why they had come to Shrek City.
• The leader's attack was absorbed by a gray Soul Ring, and he recognized the boy as the Holy Son.

Huo Yuhao disguised himself as a black-haired Soul Saint to interrogate an Evil Soul Master, then encountered Ma Xiaotao while she was overcome by berserk flames. He knocked her unconscious and escaped with the still-living Huo Yuhao, but the Evil Soul Master leader fled and continued proclaiming the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Huo Yuhao purified the Evil Soul Master leader’s stored soul energy and questioned him about the Holy Spirit Cult and his mission to the Star Luo Empire.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived carrying the charred body of the Evil Soul Master’s Third Brother, then mistook Huo Yuhao’s injured body for a corpse and attacked.
• Huo Yuhao threw the leader aside, vanished, and returned disguised as a Soul Saint, convincing Ma Xiaotao that Huo Yuhao was still alive and claiming they shared a Demonic Ice Cult lineage.
• The Ice Empress knocked Ma Xiaotao unconscious as a powerful figure approached, and Huo Yuhao dropped his disguise and learned that the Evil Soul Master leader had escaped.
• The wounded leader staggered through the woods, laughing and praising the Holy Son, Holy Maiden, Holy Emperor, and Holy Spirit Cult.

After recovering from the battle with the Evil Soul Masters, Huo Yuhao learned that Electrolux wielded Undead Magic and was offered the chance to inherit it as a third Martial Soul, but he rejected the offer. Meanwhile, Ma Xiaotao woke from a nightmare and told Yan Shaozhe about the Evil Soul Masters, prompting him to launch an investigation and ask about her Evil Fire.

• After overusing the Ice Empress's power, Huo Yuhao recovered in his Sea of Consciousness while Tian Meng warned him against letting her possess him again before he became a Soul King.
• Electrolux revealed that he was the Holy Necromancer and that his power was Undead Magic, then offered Huo Yuhao a true third Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Electrolux's offer, denying that he was kind, and reflected on the Holy Spirit Cult and his role as its Holy Son.
• Ma Xiaotao awoke from a nightmare about Huo Yuhao's death and urged Yan Shaozhe to save him.
• Ma Xiaotao recounted her encounter with the Evil Soul Masters, and Yan Shaozhe ordered an investigation before asking about the state of her Evil Fire.

At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Shrek Academy’s Elders discussed an Evil Soul Master attack in Shrek City and Huo Yuhao’s connection to mysterious experts from the Demonic Ice Cult. They decided not to investigate Huo Yuhao further, leaving the old man at the head of the table privately questioning his earlier choice.

• Yan Shaozhe reported that three Evil Soul Masters had killed four civilians in Shrek City and that all three had been executed.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Ma Xiaotao had lost consciousness after fighting an Evil Soul Master, and that an ultimate-ice power had suppressed her worsening evil fire.
• Yan Shaozhe told the Elders that Huo Yuhao had been present and that two mysterious ice-attribute Soul Masters from the Demonic Ice Cult had helped defeat the Evil Soul Masters.
• Cai Mei'er proposed investigating Huo Yuhao’s background, but Xian Lin'er objected, and the Elders debated the unknown Demonic Ice Cult.
• The old man at the head of the table ruled that Shrek Academy would not investigate Huo Yuhao further and ordered the Elders to comfort the victims’ families and monitor Ma Xiaotao.
• After the Elders left, the old man sighed and wondered whether he had been right to act as he had.

Huo Yuhao agreed to help Ma Xiaotao suppress her evil fire after she asked him by Sea God Lake. He then learned that the Outer Court would hold a core disciple free-for-all, and planned to take control of the tournament.

• Ma Xiaotao thanked Huo Yuhao for helping suppress her evil fire and asked him to keep helping her, and he agreed so she would not endanger other students.
• Zhou Yi told Class One's core disciples that seven of the Outer Court's under-fifteen core disciples would be chosen in a tournament in three days.
• Zhou Yi privately warned Huo Yuhao that the deans expected him to make the top seven and revealed that the tournament would be a free-for-all.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao worried that the older, stronger students would cooperate against them, but Huo Yuhao declared that he would control the field and decide who advanced.

Huo Yuhao tried to persuade the Core Disciples to abandon the battle royale and choose a peaceful way to select seven winners. When some third-years refused, he turned the assessment into a coordinated attack against them.

• Xuan Zi announced that the twenty-seven Core Disciples would fight in a battle royale, with the last seven remaining declared winners.
• The students formed groups, while Huo Yuhao walked to the arena’s center and used Spiritual Detection Sharing to give everyone a clear view.
• Huo Yuhao proposed several alternatives to fighting, but the other students rejected them and some third-years prepared to attack him.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to the battle royale, cut off the third-years’ Spiritual Detection Sharing, and influenced the others to attack them with Soul Guidance Rays.

Huo Yuhao and his allies cleared the arena of the upper-year students, after which he claimed the authority to choose the seven Core Disciples for the assessment. He left the second-year students debating his choices, confident that his selections would meet the requirements.

• He Caitou used a soul-tool barrage to eliminate the third-year students while Huo Yuhao guided his aim with Spiritual Detection Sharing.
• Huo Yuhao used Simulation to lure two fourth-year students into attacking Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei, who knocked them out of the arena.
• Xu Sanshi teased Jiang Nannan about caring for him, and she laughed before telling him to get lost.
• Huo Yuhao named Bei Bei, He Caitou, Jiang Nannan, and Wang as four of the seven picks, then proposed himself, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao for the remaining spots.
• Wu Feng objected to Huo Yuhao choosing the final three, and Ning Tian urged him to make the assessment fairly.
• Huo Yuhao declared that he and whoever he chose would be the strongest three, insisting that his selections would meet the assessment's requirements.

Huo Yuhao explained why his chosen team of seven was best suited for the academy’s mission, and Xuan Zi approved his selection. After the other core disciples left, Xuan Zi asked the seven whether they had heard of the title “Shrek Seven Devils.”

• Xuan Zi questioned Huo Yuhao’s confidence, and Huo Yuhao demonstrated his Spiritual Detection to show why he was indispensable to the team.
• Huo Yuhao explained his choices, favoring Wang Dong and Dai Huabin for an all-power-attacker lineup while also considering support options Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian.
• Huo Yuhao advised Ning Tian to develop her soul-tool abilities, and Ning Tian said she would consider his advice.
• Xuan Zi approved Huo Yuhao’s seven choices, despite protests from eliminated students, and explained that the team needed both coordination and strength.
• Xuan Zi sent the other core disciples away and asked Huo Yuhao and the other six whether they had heard of the “Shrek Seven Devils.”

Xuan Zi explained that the seven selected students would form Shrek Academy’s reserve team for the Soul Fighting Tournament, with Huo Yuhao singled out for his leadership and strategic abilities. After Xuan Zi shared the loss of students he had once led, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong left, and Huo Yuhao admitted he had chosen Wang Dong partly to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Xuan Zi explained the history of the Shrek Seven Devils and revealed that the seven students had been selected as the reserve team for the Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Xuan Zi warned that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was Shrek’s only opponent of concern and ordered the reserve team to keep its selection secret and train alongside the current Shrek Seven Devils.
• Xuan Zi questioned Huo Yuhao about his soul skills and praised his team leadership, while Huo Yuhao argued that strength depended on how much soul power a person could control.
• Xuan Zi recalled that eight of the twelve children he had once led had died after encountering a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Wang Dong thanked Huo Yuhao for choosing her, and Huo Yuhao said he had selected her for her flight ability and their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Huo Yuhao discussed the Ultimate Soldier Plan with He Caitou, who revealed that he was Xu He, a surviving member of the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family seeking revenge. Huo Yuhao agreed to help him, asking in return for help reshaping the world.

• Huo Yuhao pondered the deaths of students killed by a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and the limits of unity before absolute power.
• He Caitou told Huo Yuhao that the teachers had chosen him for the Ultimate Soldier Plan and that He Caitou would support him as a mobile arsenal.
• Huo Yuhao noticed He Caitou’s fire-attribute soul power and deduced that he had a second martial soul.
• He Caitou revealed that his second martial soul was the sun and that he was Xu He, the emperor’s nephew who had survived his uncle’s purge of his family.
• He Caitou asked Huo Yuhao to help him take revenge and offered to give him anything in return.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to help He Caitou but asked him to help reshape the world.

Huo Yuhao helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her increasingly dangerous evil fire and challenged her reckless cultivation ahead of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament. After she flew away, he went to reopen his barbecue stall with the Ice Empress appearing beside him as Huo Bing'er.

• Huo Yuhao sensed Ma Xiaotao's evil fire flaring and let her carry him to the lake while Wang Dong headed to the academy gates.
• Huo Yuhao froze the lake around himself and Ma Xiaotao, suppressing her evil fire and calming her down.
• Huo Yuhao learned Ma Xiaotao had been taking rare fire-attribute natural treasures to grow stronger for the tournament, and warned her that her fire could make her lose control.
• Ma Xiaotao insisted she had to push her limits for Shrek Academy and flew away despite Huo Yuhao threatening not to help her next time.
• Huo Yuhao discussed Ma Xiaotao's risk with the Ice Empress, then went to his barbecue stall, where Dai Huabin asked who the green-haired girl was and Huo Yuhao introduced her as his cousin, Huo Bing'er.

Huo Yuhao continued helping the Ice Empress learn fine control over her ice while dominating the reserve team's combat training with his tactical skills. Ten days before the tournament, seven Inner Court disciples joined the training group, and Dai Yueheng recognized Huo Yuhao as the teams prepared to introduce themselves.

• The Ice Empress repeatedly extinguished her charcoal fire while trying to control her cold, and Huo Yuhao encouraged her to keep practicing as Tian Meng teased her.
• Dai Huabin questioned where Huo Yuhao's younger cousins came from, but Huo Yuhao brushed off his curiosity.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing, War Fog, and Simulation to help whichever reserve team he joined stay undefeated during Xuan Zi's combat lessons.
• Seven Inner Court disciples, including Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, arrived at training, where Xuan Zi announced the tournament began in ten days and assigned the fourteen students as competitors and substitutes.
• The reserve team introduced themselves, and Huo Yuhao stated that he was a second-year Level 26 Control System Battle Soul Master.

The reserve team and Inner Court disciples introduced themselves before Xuan Zi arranged a friendly match between two mixed teams. Huo Yuhao joined Ma Xiaotao’s side and claimed he could handle the tactics alone, leaving the others doubtful.

• Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and the other Inner Court disciples introduced their levels and abilities, while Dai Yueheng reacted uneasily to seeing Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Zi assigned a friendly match and had Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng take turns choosing main-team and reserve members.
• Ma Xiaotao chose Huo Yuhao and Gong Yangmo, while Dai Yueheng chose Chen Zifeng and Xu Sanshi; Xu Sanshi protested to avoid facing Huo Yuhao but obeyed Xuan Zi.
• The teams finished choosing their members, and Xuan Zi gave them ten minutes to plan before the losing side would have to call itself a pig.
• When Gong Yangmo questioned Ma Xiaotao’s lineup, Huo Yuhao offered to take charge of the tactics and said he was all it took.

Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing and Simulation to support Ma Xiaotao’s team while remaining invisible during the seven-on-seven match. As his side struggled with a one-person disadvantage, he decided to target Ling Luochеn.

• Xuan Zi began the match between Ma Xiaotao’s team and Dai Yueheng’s team.
• Huo Yuhao activated Spiritual Detection Sharing, then vanished with Simulation, startling Ma Xiaotao, Gong Yangmo, and Xixi.
• Huo Yuhao secretly relayed battlefield information to his teammates as they fought Dai Yueheng’s team.
• Ma Xiaotao kept Dai Yueheng on the defensive while the others engaged across the arena, but Huo Yuhao’s team faced a six-against-seven disadvantage.
• Huo Yuhao chose Ling Luochеn as his target.

Huo Yuhao seized control of Ling Luochеn’s ice Soul Power and unleashed an overwhelming Ultimate Ice attack that froze the examination field. After revealing his ability, he won the team’s bet and learned that everyone would depart for Star Luo City the next morning.

• Ling Luochеn attacked Ma Xiaotao with her ice abilities, but Huo Yuhao secretly overwhelmed her with Ultimate Ice and took control of her Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao used Ling Luochеn’s Soul Power to unleash an enhanced Eternal Frozen Domain, freezing the other twelve students before collapsing from the strain.
• Xuan Zi questioned Huo Yuhao about his aura and scorpion-like tail, and Huo Yuhao explained that his External Soul Bone and first ice Martial Soul Soul Ring came from an Ice Jade Scorpion.
• Huo Yuhao thawed the students and told them that his Ultimate Ice could suppress ice-attribute Soul Masters and let him control moves resembling Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• Huo Yuhao made everyone except himself shout that they were pigs, secretly recorded them, and learned that the team would leave for Star Luo City the next morning.

Huo Yuhao closed his barbecue stall before departing for the Star Luo Empire, while the Ice Empress discovered a taste for cooked fish and candied hawthorn. After helping an elderly woman, the Ice Empress took Tian Meng into an alley and angrily declared she was done playing house.

• The Ice Empress learned to control the grill, cooked a fish, and tried warm food for the first time.
• Dai Yueheng told Huo Yuhao he was preparing to graduate, while Dai Huabin questioned why Huo Yuhao had chosen Wang Dong for the reserve team.
• Huo Yuhao announced that the stall would close temporarily while he traveled to the Star Luo Empire and went inside to discuss matters with his ingredient supplier.
• The Ice Empress accepted candied hawthorn from Tian Meng and helped an elderly woman whose cane had broken, using frost power to mend it.
• The Ice Empress led Tian Meng into an alley, pinned her against the wall, and shouted that she had had enough of playing house.

The Ice Empress admitted she wanted Tian Meng’s help to take over Huo Yuhao’s body, but he refused to betray Yuhao. After Yuhao learned what happened, he promised to bring both soul beasts to Godhood within thirty years, and the Ice Empress said she believed in him.

• The Ice Empress confronted Tian Meng about enjoying life among humans and asked him to help her take over Huo Yuhao’s body.
• Tian Meng refused to betray Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao interrupted them before the Ice Empress could force him to comply.
• At the night market, Huo Yuhao revealed that he had heard their conversation and proposed that the Ice Empress could take his body if he failed to bring her and Tian Meng to Godhood within thirty years.
• The Ice Empress declined the offer, said she did not want Huo Yuhao’s body, and told him she believed in him.