Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy’s tournament teams set out, and Xuan Zi explained that the Inner Court’s Shrek Inspection Corps fought dangerous Soul Masters to protect the continent. Huo Yuhao agreed to pursue justice in his own way, and the reserve team received its first mission: destroy the Death’s Hand brigands in the Mingdou Mountains.

• Xuan Zi and Wang Yan led the fourteen Shrek Academy team members on their journey toward Star Luo City, where Dai Yueheng told Huo Yuhao they would meet their father before the tournament.
• Xuan Zi told the reserve members that Inner Court disciples served as Shrek Inspectors and had to complete thirty dangerous missions, then asked whether they would accept that responsibility.
• Six reserve members agreed to join the Inspection Corps, while Huo Yuhao said he would fight for the justice in his heart.
• Ma Xiaotao issued Storage Soul Tools and briefed the team on its mission to wipe out Death’s Hand, a vicious band of brigands led by a powerful Evil Soul Master in the Mingdou Mountains.
• Huo Yuhao inwardly questioned what Dai Hao had been doing as the team prepared to hunt the brigands.

Ma Xiaotao led the Shrek students toward the Star Luo Empire to confront the Death's Hand bandit gang, while Huo Yuhao questioned why Dai Hao had not dealt with them. After arriving by Flying Soul Tool, the group met the White Tiger Guard, and Old Du recognized Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao rode with Dai Yueheng and challenged him about Dai Hao's failure to eliminate the Death's Hand bandits; Dai Yueheng explained the military and terrain difficulties.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the bandit leader's connection to the Holy Spirit Cult as the team traveled toward the border.
• The Shrek students reached the Star Luo Empire by Flying Soul Tool, and Xuan Zi left Dai Yueheng to handle the arriving soldiers.
• Dai Yueheng told Old Du that the Shrek students had come to help defeat the Death's Hand bandits and asked to see the White Tiger Duke.
• Old Du recognized Huo Yuhao and exclaimed, "It's you..."

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek students reached the Star Luo Empire’s Central Legion, where the White Tiger Duke recognized Huo Yuhao as his son despite Huo Yuhao’s cold response. After the group settled in, Huo Yuhao secretly entered the Duke’s tent and confronted him about failing to deal with a band of brigands.

• Dai Yueheng stopped Old Du from revealing Huo Yuhao’s identity as the group traveled to the Central Legion.
• Huo Yuhao warned Dai Yueheng that the Sun Moon Empire’s apparent restraint masked its true strength and that the Star Luo Empire might fall in an all-out war.
• The White Tiger Duke warmly recognized Huo Yuhao at the Marshal’s tent, but Huo Yuhao greeted him distantly as Your Grace.
• Wang Yan sent the Shrek students to rest before their mission in the Mingdou Mountains, while Wang Dong and Xu Sanshi questioned Huo Yuhao’s connection to the Duke.
• Huo Yuhao appeared inside the White Tiger Duke’s tent and coldly challenged him for failing to handle a band of brigands.

Huo Yuhao confronted the White Tiger Duke over his failure to find and suppress the Death's Hand Bandit Group, then returned to Shrek and questioned whether the bandits had powerful backing. As the Shrek group prepared to enter the Mingdou Mountains, Huo Yuhao worried that most of the bandits were ordinary people who might have been forced to join.

• Huo Yuhao appeared in the White Tiger Duke's tent and criticized him for failing to capture fewer than three hundred bandits despite commanding a large army.
• The White Tiger Duke explained that the bandits knew the mountains well, while Huo Yuhao proposed ways to find their base and questioned whether the Duke was unwilling to risk his White Tiger Guards.
• Old Du offered to lead White Tiger Guards into the mountains, but Huo Yuhao refused and said Shrek would handle the bandits; he warned that the situation seemed suspicious before disappearing.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Shrek group's tent, where Wang Dong worried about his disappearance, and he reviewed information identifying the bandits' leader as a Soul King-level Evil Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the Sun Moon Empire was supporting the bandits and wondered whether the many ordinary people among them had joined willingly or under coercion.
• Six hours later, Ma Xiaotao led the Shrek group to set out, reassuring the Reserve Team that the Inner Court Disciples would do most of the fighting.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Inspection Corps attacked the Death's Hand Bandit Group in the Mingdou Mountains, where they discovered a horrifying cave and an unexpectedly powerful force of Soul Master bandits. As the students joined the battle, a mysterious voice threatened to turn them into corpse slaves.

• Huo Yuhao detected the Death's Hand Bandit Group, and Wang Yan sent Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and the Inner Court Disciples to attack while the Reserve Team followed.
• Huo Yuhao warned Wang Yan that Evil Soul Masters could use dangerous methods and urged him to have Elder Xuan watch from the shadows.
• The Reserve Team entered the cave and found a gruesome scene that shocked Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and the others.
• Huo Yuhao saw that nearly all the bandits were Soul Masters, far more than the intelligence had indicated, and suspected the Sun Moon Empire was supporting them.
• Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and the Inner Court Disciples defeated the Soul King leaders, while Bei Bei led the Reserve Team into the fight against the remaining bandits.
• A shrill voice from deeper in the cave threatened to kill the intruders and turn them into corpse slaves.

The Death Messenger’s Corpse Explosions devastated Shrek’s group, killing Yao Haoxuan and severely injuring several Inner Court Disciples. Huo Yuhao disappeared during the evacuation, then intercepted the fleeing Death Messenger in a secret passage.

• Huo Yuhao warned the group as the bandit corpses began swelling, and he shielded himself from a point-blank explosion with Ice Emperor’s Protection.
• The explosions injured Chen Zifeng, Gong Yangmo, and Xixi, while Yao Haoxuan was killed; Wang Dong and the Reserve Team members mostly escaped serious harm.
• Xuan Zi captured the Death Messenger, but released him to contain Yao Haoxuan’s exploding corpse, allowing the Evil Soul Master to escape and collapse the cave.
• Xuan Zi carried the disciples outside, where Wang Dong realized Huo Yuhao was missing.
• The Death Messenger fled through a secret passage, but Huo Yuhao caught up with him, slammed him into a wall, and threatened to kill him.

Huo Yuhao killed the Death Messenger and confronted Xuan Zi over failing to protect the students. With several Shrek students badly injured, Wang Yan led the remaining team toward the tournament while Xuan Zi took the most severely wounded back to the academy.

• Huo Yuhao froze and questioned the Death Messenger, who revealed his ties to the Holy Spirit Cult before ordering his corpse slaves to attack.
• Huo Yuhao took control of the corpse slaves, which turned on the Death Messenger and tore him apart; the battle pushed Huo Yuhao to rank twenty-seven.
• Xuan Zi arrived, and Huo Yuhao challenged him for abandoning the students and allowing Yao Haoxuan to die.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Wang Dong and the others while Xuan Zi destroyed the cave and its surviving bandits in anger.
• Wang Yan reported the students' injuries, and Xuan Zi sent him with the Reserve Team toward the tournament while carrying Gong Yangmo, Chen Zifeng, and Xixi back to Shrek Academy.

After Shrek Academy’s main team was badly injured, Wang Yan asked the reserve members to carry the team through the tournament preliminaries. Alone beneath the night sky, Huo Yuhao debated his anger and sense of justice with Electrolux, who ultimately told him to follow his convictions.

• Wang Yan told the recovering Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Ling Luochеn that the reserve members might have to compete until reinforcements arrived.
• Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi vowed that the reserve team would defend Shrek Academy’s honor, while Huo Yuhao left the tent for air.
• Huo Yuhao criticized Shrek Academy’s dangerous trials and admitted to Tian Meng and the Ice Empress that he often risked his own life recklessly.
• Electrolux praised Huo Yuhao’s grasp of Undead Magic, warned him not to harm innocents in pursuit of revenge, and urged him to use the power well.
• Huo Yuhao argued that communities could share responsibility for wealth gained through murder and plunder, and proposed “Unification” as his answer to such problems.
• Electrolux questioned whether Huo Yuhao meant to rule as a tyrant, then told him to act according to his convictions.

Huo Yuhao asked Dai Hao to investigate whether Star Luo Empire officials had helped the Evil Soul Masters recruit, then prepared Shrek Academy’s reserve team for the tournament. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao telling Wang Dong that the other academies had strong Soul Ancestors and Shrek had no reinforcements, leaving the seven reserves to carry the team until the injured students recovered.

• Huo Yuhao told Dai Hao that the White Tiger Guard could not have prevented the bandits’ Corpse Explosion and asked him to investigate possible recruitment links to Soul Master academies and the Adventurers' Guild.
• Wang Yan explained the tournament format and urged Shrek’s seven reserve members to win their opening match, while concealing that no reinforcements were coming.
• After the reserve members left, Wang Yan admitted to Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Ling Luochеn that the team depended on the seven reserves, and Ma Xiaotao said she believed in Yuhao.
• Wang Dong entered Huo Yuhao’s room to discuss the match and asked whether Wang Yan’s reassurance had been true.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that rival academies had plenty of Four-Ring Soul Ancestors and that Shrek had no reinforcements until the injured students recovered.

Shrek Academy's Reserve Team prepared to face Tianling Academy in the tournament's opening match, despite the team's anxiety over competing without reinforcements. Huo Yuhao remained unfazed and led the young team onto the stage, where Xu Jiawei recognized something familiar about him.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that the Reserve Team would compete and said he would do his best despite having little attachment to Shrek Academy.
• Wang Yan noticed that Star Luo City had changed since his last visit as the tournament opened before a vast crowd.
• Xu Jiawei declared the tournament underway, and the emcee announced that Shrek Academy would face Tianling Academy in the first match.
• Ma Xiaotao encouraged the anxious Reserve Team members, while Huo Yuhao calmly promised Wang Dong that he would command the team.
• Huo Yuhao put on sunglasses to avoid being recognized and led the Reserve Team onto the stage against Tianling Academy.
• Xu Jiawei questioned why Shrek had sent its Reserve Team and froze when he saw Huo Yuhao, feeling that he had seen him before.

Shrek Academy won its first elimination match with ease, while the Sun Moon team noticed Huo Yuhao and wondered about his abilities. During the debrief, Wang Yan discovered He Caitou’s food-type martial soul and then asked Huo Yuhao to use Spiritual Detection Sharing from offstage, prompting Huo Yuhao to ask if he was being told to cheat.

• Huo Yuhao led Shrek Academy to a quick victory over Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy, which was eliminated.
• Xu Jiawei wondered if Huo Yuhao was someone he recognized, while Xiao Hongchen became curious about him and Meng Hongchen said Wang Dong was good-looking.
• At the Star Emperor Hotel, Wang Yan learned that Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, and Ling Luochеn would need at least half a month to recover.
• Wang Yan discovered that He Caitou’s cigars came from his food-type martial soul and praised their usefulness for supporting the team.
• Wang Yan told Huo Yuhao to use Spiritual Detection Sharing from offstage during matches, and Huo Yuhao asked whether he wanted him to cheat.

Huo Yuhao refused Wang Yan’s plan to use his Spiritual Detection Sharing to aid Shrek from outside the arena, insisting the team should win without cheating. While practicing their Martial Soul Fusion with Wang Dong, he discovered she had a second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, and realized she was a girl.

• Huo Yuhao rejected Wang Yan’s request to secretly support Shrek during the tournament, despite Wang Yan insisting he was responsible for the team’s results.
• Huo Yuhao left the conference room, ignored Xiao Hongchen’s introduction in the corridor, and returned to his room with Wang Dong following him.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Wang Dong’s belief that Shrek’s glory meant winning the tournament and said he would fight only for what he wanted.
• Wang Dong suggested practicing their Martial Soul Fusion, and Huo Yuhao sensed that she possessed another martial soul.
• Wang Dong revealed her Clear Sky Hammer, and Huo Yuhao broke off their fusion when he realized she was a girl.

Huo Yuhao learned that Wang Dong was a girl named Wang Dong'er and promised to keep her secret. During the round-robin tournament, Wang Yan took Shrek Academy's team to an auction to buy soul tools, where Electrolux urged Huo Yuhao to acquire the final lot.

• Huo Yuhao deduced that Wang Dong was a girl, and she admitted that her real name was Wang Dong'er.
• Wang Dong'er asked Huo Yuhao to keep her identity secret, and he agreed.
• Xu Sanshi defeated several Yunluo Academy opponents in the round-robin tournament, securing Shrek Academy's first victory.
• Wang Yan brought the team to the Starlight Auction House to buy soul tools, but Wang Dong'er left before the auction.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he already carried a concealed soul tool, and Electrolux urged him to obtain the auction's final lot.

Huo Yuhao secretly bought the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and, with Electrolux’s help, purified it into gold of life. He returned to the hotel and prepared to absorb it, after Wang Dong waited anxiously for him.

• The auctioneer revealed that the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife ranked ninety-ninth and had killed all thirty-seven of its owners, so no one bid on it.
• After the auction ended, Huo Yuhao returned to the Starlight Auction House and bought the unsold knife for one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The knife’s fierce aura attacked Huo Yuhao, but the Ice Empress drove it back, and Electrolux purified the blade into gold of life.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that the gold of life could transform his Sea of Consciousness into a true plane and urged him to absorb it soon.
• Wang Dong waited outside Huo Yuhao’s room because the group had worried when he went missing, and they returned to their separate rooms.
• Huo Yuhao took out the purified Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and asked Elder Yi to begin.

Electrolux fused the gold of life with Huo Yuhao’s Ice Seal Demi-Plane, transforming it into a true plane and granting Huo Yuhao new abilities. Huo Yuhao discovered he could bring objects into and out of the plane and create things, though creation quickly exhausted him.

• Huo Yuhao pressed the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife to his forehead as Electrolux began the fusion, unleashing violent changes in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Ice Empress protected Tian Meng as the frozen plain cracked and then closed, and Electrolux appeared before them.
• Electrolux explained that the gold of life had transformed the demi-plane into a true Ice Seal Plane, and Huo Yuhao’s soul power rose to Rank 28.
• Huo Yuhao successfully brought grilled fish into the plane, and Tian Meng eagerly ate some while the Ice Empress and Electrolux declined.
• Electrolux revealed that Huo Yuhao could create things using the plane’s life force, and Huo Yuhao formed a small iron cube before nearly collapsing from exhaustion.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that he would pass on his Undead Plane and greatest achievement once Huo Yuhao reached five rings.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong unveiled a devastating new Martial Soul Fusion Skill that defeated Zhengtian Academy, and Huo Yuhao explained the possibility of fusing a person's own Martial Souls. After the match, Guardian Douluo Cheng Gang mistook Huo Yuhao's aura for that of a ferocious beast before recognizing him, and Huo Yuhao asked him to deliver a message to Jiujiu.

• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Bei Bei entered the third match against Zhengtian Academy, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong used a new Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat all three opponents, including a Soul King.
• Wang Yan praised Shrek Academy's reserve team to the spectators, while Huo Yuhao privately felt the losses that forced them to compete could have been avoided.
• At the post-match review, Huo Yuhao told Wang Yan that twin Martial Souls could be fused in multiple ways, then urged Wang Dong to try fusing her own Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao sensed danger in his room as Cheng Gang sealed it and mistook the aura of the Ice Empress for that of a ferocious beast.
• Cheng Gang recognized Huo Yuhao as the former Dai Family member, withdrew the seal, and agreed to tell Jiujiu that Huo Yuhao needed to see her.

After Shrek Academy advanced to the Elimination Tournament, its team attended a premier auction hosted by Princess Xu Jiujiu, where a rare Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone and a hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo were offered. The chapter ended with the embryo revealed as the auction’s final lot.

• Shrek Academy won all seven Round-Robin matches, advanced to the Elimination Tournament, and recovered during a three-day break.
• An auctioneer invited Shrek Academy to the Starlight Auction House’s premier auction, where Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to scan the platform.
• Dai Yueheng recognized auctioneer Jiujiu as Princess Xu Jiujiu and won a Level 8 Close-Combat Soul Tool, while Wang Yan bought twelve Level 6 fixed soul cannon shells.
• Xu Jiujiu presented an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone with the intrinsic skill Ice Explosion, and the Ice Empress urged Huo Yuhao to obtain it.
• The soul bone sold to the only bidder after its starting price of twenty-five million gold soul coins deterred the others.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed the final lot as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo imprisoned in a Level 9 Soul Tool, the God-Sealing Platform.

Huo Yuhao met Xu Jiujiu privately during the auction and warned her that the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone could only be absorbed by someone with an ultimate ice martial soul. In exchange for his promise to make up for the auction house’s lost income, Xu Jiujiu asked him to let Star Luo Royal Academy defeat Shrek Academy if they met in the tournament.

• Huo Yuhao heard the Ice Empress worry that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo came from the Far North, then left his room under Simulation.
• Huo Yuhao secretly met Xu Jiujiu, who told him she had sent the Emperor away and praised his progress.
• Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiujiu that only someone with an ultimate ice martial soul could absorb the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, and she gave the bone to him.
• Huo Yuhao offered Xu Jiujiu one promise to make up for the auction house’s lost income.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Huo Yuhao to let Star Luo Royal Academy win if it faced Shrek Academy in the Soul Fighting Tournament.

Huo Yuhao rejected Xu Jiujiu’s attempt to persuade him to betray Shrek Academy, accepted the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, and discussed Star Luo City’s progress in soul tool development. As Xu Jiujiu prepared to auction a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo identified as a Snow Maiden, the Ice Empress reacted furiously.

• Huo Yuhao refused to let Star Luo Royal Academy eliminate him early and pushed back the box containing the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed that she had been teasing him, returned the soul bone, and challenged him to fight Star Luo Royal Academy fairly if they met in the Elimination Tournament.
• Huo Yuhao stored the soul bone in his Sea of Consciousness, where the Ice Empress examined it and he noticed that the icy plane drained power and eroded objects without an ice attribute.
• Xu Jiujiu showed Huo Yuhao the Star Luo City First Five-Year Development Plan and reported progress in soul tool research, including a machine that could engrave Class 1 soul tool arrays.
• Huo Yuhao explained how automated soul tool production could expand manufacturing, then learned the auction’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo was a Snow Maiden from the Far North.
• The Ice Empress roared in fury after hearing that the embryo was a Snow Maiden.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo might contain the Snow Empress, whom the Ice Empress vowed to save, while Shrek advanced through the tournament. Shrek defeated Star Luo Royal Academy in the semifinals and reached the finals against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, then two strangers blocked the team at the hotel.

• The Ice Empress recognized a familiar aura from the auctioned embryo and suspected it belonged to the Snow Empress, but Tian Meng persuaded her not to act rashly.
• The mysterious buyer in VIP room two acquired the embryo for one hundred and fifty million Gold Soul Coins, and Huo Yuhao suspected the Sun Moon Empire was behind the purchase.
• Shrek defeated Douling Academy and Zhengtian Academy, then faced Star Luo Royal Academy in the semifinals.
• Huo Yuhao intervened when Ma Xiaotao's attack broke Xu Jiujiu's Star's Guardian, and Shrek won the team battle and advanced to the finals.
• Shrek officially defeated Star Luo Royal Academy and advanced to face Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the finals.
• Two strange figures blocked Huo Yuhao and the Shrek team in the Star Emperor Hotel lobby.