Recaps

Huo Yuhao met Shrek students Tang Ya and Bei Bei while selling grilled fish, and they invited him to join their sect. The chapter ended with Tang Ya revealing that the sect was the Tang Sect.

• The Ice Empress woke beside Huo Yuhao and felt embarrassed about having slept in his embrace, while Tian Meng teased her.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei approached Huo Yuhao after smelling his grilled fish, and he shared some with them.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei introduced themselves, and Huo Yuhao told them he was traveling to Shrek for the Freshman Assessment.
• After learning Huo Yuhao had no family, Tang Ya blurted out that she wanted him to join their sect, then apologized.
• Tang Ya told Huo Yuhao that the sect she wanted him to join was the Tang Sect.

Huo Yuhao declined Tang Ya’s invitation to join the struggling Tang Sect, then helped Tang Ya and Bei Bei defeat a Mandala Snake and revealed his powerful spirit eyes. The three set off for Shrek Academy, where Huo Yuhao planned to take the entrance assessment.

• Tang Ya explained that the Tang Sect had dwindled to just her and Bei Bei after losing its estate, members, and influence.
• Huo Yuhao refused to join the Tang Sect, and Tang Ya accepted his decision while offering to help him at Shrek.
• A thousand-year Mandala Snake attacked, but Huo Yuhao’s ultimate ice protected him from its poison and his spirit eyes revealed the battlefield to the others.
• Bei Bei knocked the snake unconscious with Thunderous Might, and Tang Ya finished it off and absorbed its soul ring.
• Bei Bei questioned Huo Yuhao about his two thousand-year soul rings, and Huo Yuhao described his spirit eyes while brushing off concern about his first soul ring.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei encouraged Huo Yuhao to enter Shrek’s assessment, and the three headed for the academy.

Huo Yuhao arrived in Shrek City, reunited with Jiang Nannan, and enrolled at Shrek Academy after revealing his two thousand-year soul rings. As evening fell, Jiang Nannan invited him to stay at her home with her mother for the night.

• Tang Ya spotted Jiang Nannan in the crowd and brought Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei over to greet her.
• Jiang Nannan greeted Huo Yuhao, and Tang Ya teased her about his coming to Shrek for her before leaving with Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao displayed two thousand-year soul rings during registration, astonishing the attendant and onlookers.
• The attendant told Huo Yuhao about a new experimental class that included soul-tool studies, and Huo Yuhao asked to hear more.
• Huo Yuhao received his enrollment certificate, uniform, and dormitory key, then accepted Jiang Nannan's invitation to stay at her home.

Huo Yuhao explored Shrek Academy and set out to visit Sister Lexuan, while Ling Luochen sensed his extreme cold and secretly followed him. When he entered Lexuan’s secluded courtyard, Ling Luochen mistook their connection for a secret romance and feared being discovered.

• Huo Yuhao passed the statues of Shrek’s founders and the first Shrek Seven Devils, then decided to visit Sister Lexuan after finding the cafeteria disappointing.
• Wang Dong entered Dorm Room 103, complained about its filth, and began cleaning her side of the room.
• Ling Luochen lamented her lack of romantic prospects until she noticed Huo Yuhao and sensed a resonance with his extreme cold.
• Huo Yuhao and the others noticed Ling Luochen following him, while Tian Meng and the Ice Empress discussed his use of ultimate ice to escape the heat.
• Ling Luochen recognized the bamboo courtyard as Senior Sister’s residence, imagined that she and Huo Yuhao were lovers, and heard a woman greet him as Little Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao visited Zhang Lexuan, revealed his ultimate ice second martial soul to her, and met Ling Luochеn, who had followed him because she sensed its ice aura. Zhang Lexuan asked Ling Luochеn to look after him, and Ling took him to stay at her residence while Wang Dong waited in their dormitory.

• Huo Yuhao visited Zhang Lexuan, and she told him she was still refining the violent Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao realized Ling Luochеn was eavesdropping, and Huo Yuhao explained that she had followed him because of his ice aura.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his ultimate ice second martial soul to Zhang Lexuan, who invited Ling Luochеn inside and told her to keep the secret.
• Ling Luochеn admitted she had followed Huo Yuhao because she sensed pure ice essence, promised to keep his twin martial souls secret, and offered to help his cultivation.
• Ling Luochеn took Huo Yuhao to stay at her residence, while Wang Dong waited in their dormitory and began cleaning Huo Yuhao's side himself.

Ling Luochеn took Huo Yuhao to her room and discovered that cultivating alongside his Ultimate Ice greatly strengthened her cultivation, though she overexerted herself and collapsed into his arms. She invited him to sleep in her room with a cushion dividing the bed, and they settled down for the night.

• Ling Luochеn worried about bringing Huo Yuhao back with her and chose a small path to her room.
• Huo Yuhao began cultivating while Ling Luochеn tried to tidy her cluttered room, and she noticed his powerful ice-type Soul Power.
• Ling Luochеn asked to cultivate with Huo Yuhao, and they joined their palms to circulate their ice-type Soul Power together.
• Ling Luochеn pushed herself too far, collapsed into Huo Yuhao's arms, and he soothed her with his Soul Power.
• Ling Luochеn asked Huo Yuhao to sleep in her room, and they went to bed with a stuffed cushion between them.

Ling Luochen woke embarrassed after accidentally pushing Huo Yuhao out of bed, then warned him to avoid Ma Xiaotao. Huo Yuhao moved into the freshmen dormitory, where he met his new roommate Wang Dong and learned her rules for sharing the room.

• Ling Luochen discovered she had squeezed Huo Yuhao out of bed and was caught rubbing her cheek against his pillow.
• Ling Luochen served Huo Yuhao breakfast and warned him that Ma Xiaotao was dangerous and should be avoided.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the freshmen dormitory, where Mu En checked his badge and admired his talent.
• Huo Yuhao entered room 108 and surprised Wang Dong while she was changing.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao he could not bring people over, go naked, snore, or disturb her, and assigned him the cleaning.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong clashed over dorm rules, but their hand-to-hand fight ended in an embarrassing misunderstanding that forced Wang Dong to concede. Huo Yuhao left to stay at Ling Luochеn’s courtyard, while Wang Dong woke to find him gone and wondered where he had gone.

• Wang Dong challenged Huo Yuhao to fight without Martial Souls, and he dodged her attacks before pinning her against the wall.
• Senior students entered, mistook their position for an intimate encounter, and left after telling them to keep it down.
• Wang Dong admitted defeat, introduced herself by name, and agreed with Huo Yuhao to take turns cleaning while asking him to keep the incident secret.
• Huo Yuhao went to Ling Luochеn’s courtyard and asked to stay in the guest room for a few days.
• Wang Dong woke after dark, found Huo Yuhao missing, and paced by the door before returning to her bedside.

Xian Lin'er launched a Soul Tool Department experimental class and recognized Huo Yuhao’s unusual talent after he explained his views on soul tools and demonstrated Spiritual Detection Sharing. Impressed by the skill’s potential, she offered to make him her disciple and promised him the department’s resources.

• Xian Lin'er created an experimental class with a separate Soul Tool Department test and chose to teach it herself.
• Huo Yuhao joined the experimental class, then found only a few students in the classroom.
• Xian Lin'er introduced herself as the class’s homeroom teacher and promised to teach soul tool theory, forging, and circuit research.
• Huo Yuhao explained how soul tools affected offense and defense while noting their limits at higher levels.
• Xian Lin'er learned that Huo Yuhao had a Spirit Eyes martial soul and two thousand-year soul rings, then experienced his Spiritual Detection Sharing.
• Xian Lin'er offered Huo Yuhao an apprenticeship and promised to devote most of the Soul Tool Department’s resources to him.

Huo Yuhao impressed Xian Lin'er with his soul-tool engraving and received a Core Disciple badge, while Wang Dong was punished with extra laps by Zhou Yi. Huo Yuhao secretly eased Wang Dong’s exhaustion, and Tang San sensed the Goddess of Life’s aura during a meeting.

• Huo Yuhao successfully engraved a metal piece under Xian Lin'er’s guidance, and she gave him a Soul Tool Department Core Disciple badge.
• Zhou Yi ordered her class to run a hundred laps for failing to admit they had fought, and Wang Dong confessed to fighting her roommate.
• Zhou Yi made Wang Dong run a hundred and fifty laps because her fight with Huo Yuhao had ended in a draw.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Wang Dong still running and used Azure Ruins Eye to ease her fatigue and heat.
• Tang San sensed the Goddess of Life’s aura during a meeting and turned toward the Goddess of Life.

Wang Dong finished Zhou Yi’s punishment and learned that Huo Yuhao had transferred into the Soul Tool Experimental Class. After class, she worried about surviving the coming physical conditioning and hurried back to the dorm with Huo Yuhao, while Xiao Xiao watched them and mistook their closeness for romance.

• Tang San sensed a trace of the Goddess of Life’s divine power but decided not to investigate with his divine sense, believing the God of Destruction was setting a trap.
• Wang Dong completed her laps, and Zhou Yi expelled Tai Long and Tang Dao for cutting corners before sending the class to change for lessons.
• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao why he was not in class, and he told her he had transferred to the Soul Tool Experimental Class and had 24 soul power.
• In class, Zhou Yi criticized Wang Dong’s answer about soul master roles and announced three months of physical conditioning, leaving Wang Dong determined to find a way to survive.
• Huo Yuhao admitted he had waited for Wang Dong, and she blushed before grabbing his wrist and rushing with him toward their dorm.
• Xiao Xiao watched Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao leave together and concluded that they were flirting, lamenting her apparent romantic disappointment.

Huo Yuhao invited Wang Dong to eat grilled fish at Jiang Nannan’s home, where Jiang Nannan felt jealous seeing them together before learning Wang Dong was a boy. Back at the dormitory, Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao what his relationship with Jiang Nannan was, and he began explaining their closeness.

• Wang Dong joined Huo Yuhao to grill fish and enthusiastically ate several portions with Jiang Nannan’s mother.
• Tang Ya teased Jiang Nannan about missing Huo Yuhao, and Jiang Nannan denied seeing him as more than a little brother.
• Jiang Nannan returned home, saw Huo Yuhao with Wang Dong, and felt jealous before discovering Wang Dong was a boy.
• Wang Dong introduced herself to Jiang Nannan as Huo Yuhao’s roommate, and Jiang Nannan welcomed her into the courtyard.
• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao about his relationship with Jiang Nannan, and he said she treated him like her own little brother.

After Huo Yuhao revealed the pain behind his family history, Wang Dong comforted him, then shared a playful moment and experienced his Spiritual Detection. Exhausted by Zhou Yi’s training, Wang Dong decided to switch classes, while Xiao Xiao overheard and considered doing the same.

• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong that his mother had died and that he rejected his father, and Wang Dong apologized for asking.
• Wang Dong tried to pin Huo Yuhao, but he turned the tables and tickled her until she begged him to stop.
• Huo Yuhao explained his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and shared his Spiritual Detection with Wang Dong, who marveled at its usefulness for competition.
• After Zhou Yi added a hundred laps to Wang Dong’s training, Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao to recommend a class and decided to transfer to his.
• Xiao Xiao secretly overheard Wang Dong and wondered whether she should switch classes too.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao asked to transfer to the Experimental Class, and Zhou Yi approved their applications. Later, Jiang Nannan took Huo Yuhao shopping, where Xu Sanshi challenged him to a fight, leaving Huo Yuhao set to face Xu Sanshi tomorrow afternoon.

• Wang Dong told Zhou Yi she wanted to transfer to the Experimental Class to study Soul Tools, and Zhou Yi approved.
• Xiao Xiao also requested a transfer to the Experimental Class, and Zhou Yi approved her application.
• Jiang Nannan met Huo Yuhao after his lessons and invited him to stroll through Shrek City with her.
• Xu Sanshi confronted Huo Yuhao over his closeness with Jiang Nannan, while Bei Bei stepped in to stop him.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Xu Sanshi's challenge to fight at the Soul Fighting Zone the following afternoon.

Huo Yuhao prepared to duel Xu Sanshi over Jiang Nannan, drawing a crowd and the attention of powerful Shrek figures. As the two entered the arena, Bei Bei confidently predicted that Huo Yuhao would win.

• Wang Dong worried that Huo Yuhao would lose to the higher-ranked Xu Sanshi, but Huo Yuhao said he could use mental attacks and encouraged her to cultivate with him.
• Students crowded the Soul Fighting Zone to watch and place bets on the match, while Ling Luochеn and Dean Xian Lin'er arrived, each concerned about Huo Yuhao.
• Bei Bei offered Huo Yuhao Tang Sect Hidden Weapons, but Huo Yuhao refused and accepted Xu Sanshi's challenge to test whether he could protect Jiang Nannan.
• Wang Dong urged Huo Yuhao not to push himself too far and offered to join him if the fight went badly.
• Xu Sanshi promised Bei Bei he would hold back, but Bei Bei said Huo Yuhao would win.

Huo Yuhao fought Xu Sanshi in the Soul Fighting Zone, using spiritual attacks, evasive movement, and Tian Meng's Soul Power to wear him down. Xu Sanshi ran out of Soul Power and surrendered, but Xian Lin'er stopped the referee from intervening as Huo Yuhao continued beating him.

• Huo Yuhao revealed two Thousand-Year Soul Rings and charged Xu Sanshi, then stunned him with Spirit Shock and landed a punch.
• Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Quake and Xuanming Power, but Huo Yuhao evaded his attacks and repeatedly struck him while retreating.
• Tian Meng supplied Huo Yuhao with Soul Power as he led Xu Sanshi around the arena and exhausted him.
• Xu Sanshi spent his remaining Soul Power on a final charge, but Huo Yuhao met it and remained standing while Xu Sanshi fell to one knee.
• Xu Sanshi tried to make peace and surrendered, but Xian Lin'er stopped the referee from stepping in as Huo Yuhao continued to beat him.

Huo Yuhao defeated Xu Sanshi, drawing attention from the crowd and Shrek Academy’s instructors. After receiving a Mystic Water Pill from Bei Bei and giving it to Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao left while Wang Yan went to report his suspicions about Huo Yuhao’s martial soul to Xuan Zi.

• Huo Yuhao beat Xu Sanshi, and the referee declared him the winner as the spectators erupted.
• Tang Ya revealed that Huo Yuhao was the Tang Sect’s prospective head chef, while Jiang Nannan hugged him in relief and Wang Dong felt unexpectedly awkward.
• Wang Yan suspected Huo Yuhao had a Body Martial Soul connected to his eyes, but Xian Lin'er told him Huo Yuhao had already joined the Soul Tool Department.
• Bei Bei gave Huo Yuhao a Mystic Water Pill he had won from Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao passed it to Wang Dong because he had used one before.
• Wang Yan found Xuan Zi by Sea God Lake and told him about Huo Yuhao’s victory, but Xuan Zi said Wang Yan was still wrong.

Wang Yan learned that Xuan Zi believed Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul was tied to his eyes and brain, while Yan Shaozhe persuaded Xuan Zi to return to his post at Shrek. At the dormitory, Wang Dong took a Mystic Water Pill and sent Huo Yuhao out, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm planned to find books to help shape his worldview.

• Xuan Zi told Wang Yan that Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul likely involved his eyes and brain and that part of it had awakened, explaining his thousand-year First Soul Ring.
• Yan Shaozhe urged Xuan Zi to stop blaming himself for the operation’s losses, invoking Shrek’s needs and showing him an image-recording Soul Tool of surviving students.
• Xuan Zi agreed to resume his post and continue working for Shrek’s glory.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao to leave while she used the Mystic Water Pill, and pushed him out after he joked that he could endure the smell of the impurities.
• The Ice Empress warned the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm about his comments on Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, and he decided to take Huo Yuhao to a bookstore to find books about life and values.

Huo Yuhao proposed dividing Soul Tool production among specialists and developing tools tailored to Martial Souls, prompting the Soul Tool Department to reconsider its approach. When he returned to Wang Dong, he found a petite girl with dark green twin ponytails beside her, and she greeted him as an old acquaintance.

• Wang Dong struggled with array engraving, and Xian Lin'er reminded her that forging was only one step in making a Soul Tool.
• Xian Lin'er introduced Huo Yuhao to Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu, who explained their Ultimate Soldier Plan.
• Huo Yuhao questioned the need for the Ultimate Soldier Plan and proposed pairing Soul Masters with Soul Tools, including tools tailored to Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao credited Xian Lin'er's advice about dividing tasks for his idea to split Soul Tool production among specialists, and Fan Yu praised the manufacturing theory.
• The Soul Tool Department kept the Ultimate Soldier Plan while beginning research into Huo Yuhao's production idea.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Wang Dong and found a girl with dark green twin ponytails beside her, who greeted him with, "Long time no see!"

Xiao Xiao tested Wang Dong’s feelings for Huo Yuhao, then joined Huo Yuhao in a musical duet that left Wang Dong feeling excluded. Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe dismissed the idea of competing for Huo Yuhao and chose to direct the academy’s resources toward other promising students.

• Xiao Xiao invited Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao to eat, then asked Wang Dong whether she liked Huo Yuhao, making Wang Dong blush and deny it.
• Huo Yuhao teased Wang Dong about sulking in their dorm, and Xiao Xiao felt reassured that they were only roommates.
• Xiao Xiao summoned her Nine-Phoenix Comes-to-Instrument Flute, and Huo Yuhao accompanied her with his Ancient Guqin while Wang Dong watched jealously.
• Du Weilun showed Yan Shaozhe the Experimental Class student files and raised Huo Yuhao’s strength and potential.
• Yan Shaozhe judged that Huo Yuhao’s victory over Xu Sanshi depended on their styles matching and decided to prioritize resources for Ning Tian, Xie Huanyue, and other students.

Tian Meng took over Huo Yuhao’s body to buy him a stack of books, including several questionable adult titles, while Huo Yuhao cultivated with the Ice Empress in his Sea of Consciousness. After the Ice Empress kissed him, Huo Yuhao returned to find Wang Dong inspecting the books and blushing over their contents.

• Tian Meng took over Huo Yuhao’s body and bought a pile of books, including titles from the adults-only section.
• Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress cultivated together, and the Ice Empress kissed him before Tian Meng returned.
• Tian Meng noticed the blushing Ice Empress and teased her, prompting the Ice Empress to turn away and sting her.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his body, told Wang Dong he had gone to the bookstore, and left to find his teacher in the Soul Tool Department.
• Wang Dong examined the books Huo Yuhao left behind, blushed at the illustrations, and found a booklet titled “Eighteen Uses for a Grape Trellis.”

Wang Dong discovered a book about unusual uses for a grape trellis and secretly put it and another book into her storage space. Ling Luochеn took Huo Yuhao for a walk, but Ma Xiaotao interrupted them and Zhang Lexuan later took Huo Yuhao away, leaving Ling Luochеn frustrated.

• Wang Dong read about the grape trellis’s eighteen uses and hid the books in her storage space.
• Ling Luochеn met Huo Yuhao outside the Soul Tool Department and invited him to walk with her by Sea God Lake.
• Ma Xiaotao appeared, teased Ling Luochеn about her feelings for Huo Yuhao, and playfully ruffled his hair before flying away.
• Ling Luochеn took Huo Yuhao back to her courtyard, intending to cultivate with him.
• Zhang Lexuan was waiting outside the courtyard and took Huo Yuhao with her, leaving Ling Luochеn watching them go.

After refining her hundred-thousand-year soul ring, Zhang Lexuan sought Huo Yuhao’s company and found comfort in his advice to keep a clear conscience. Mu En later urged her to release herself from the old agreement that bound her to Shrek, leaving her to question her feelings for Huo Yuhao.

• Zhang Lexuan finished refining her hundred-thousand-year soul ring and took Huo Yuhao with her after learning the Inspection Corps had resumed work.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Huo Yuhao to grill fish, and he told her Ling Luochеn’s advice was to stop worrying about others and keep her conscience clear.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Mu En joined Zhang Lexuan by the campfire, praised Huo Yuhao’s abilities, and told her not to become like Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi.
• Mu En said the conditions Zhang Lexuan had agreed to long ago no longer mattered and that she should not let them shackle her life.
• Alone beneath the moon, Zhang Lexuan wondered whether she wanted more than to protect Huo Yuhao, then took the last grilled fish back to her courtyard.

Huo Yuhao spent the night at Ling Luochеn’s villa, then returned to the dorm exhausted and fell asleep while Wang Dong hid the book she had been reading. At combat practice, Ling Luochеn’s unexpectedly powerful Ice-Cold Nether Mist made Ma Xiaotao realize something was wrong.

• Huo Yuhao went to Ling Luochеn’s villa, where she welcomed him and persuaded him to stay the night.
• Ling Luochеn clung to Huo Yuhao all night, leaving him unable to sleep; he made breakfast for her before returning to the dorm.
• Huo Yuhao caught Wang Dong reading a hidden book, but went straight to bed without questioning her further.
• Xuan Zi announced training matches for the Shrek Seven Devils, and Ling Luochеn faced Ma Xiaotao.
• Ling Luochеn used Ice-Cold Nether Mist, and Ma Xiaotao found that it suppressed her far more strongly than before.

Ling Luochеn’s improved ice power made Ma Xiaotao suspect that Huo Yuhao had an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul. Ma Xiaotao tracked him down at the Outer Court plaza and carried him away to question him.

• Ling Luochеn used her Ice Radiance Ring against Ma Xiaotao, and Xuan Zi called their match a draw after interrupting the clash.
• Ma Xiaotao questioned Ling Luochеn and guessed that Huo Yuhao had an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, but Ling Luochеn denied it.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Xu Sanshi about the new students and described Huo Yuhao’s appearance.
• Ma Xiaotao approached Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao at the plaza, then pulled Huo Yuhao into her arms and took him away.