Chapter Summaries

After Huo Yuhao vowed to grow strong enough to destroy the White Tiger Duke's bloodline, Electrolux awakened in his Sea of Consciousness and warned him not to let hatred harm the innocent. Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao then prepared for a training match, which began with Xiao Xiao attacking Huo Yuhao.

• Wang Dong tried to take Huo Yuhao to confront Dai Huabin, but Huo Yuhao said he wanted revenge on the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and would become strong enough to destroy its bloodline.
• Electrolux awakened in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, introduced himself as the Holy Necromancer, and cautioned Huo Yuhao against letting hatred lead him to hurt innocent people.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao as they discussed tactics, and the three decided to practice with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao fighting him together.
• Huo Yuhao said he had something he wanted to use against Dai Huabin, then faced Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao at the regulation match distance.
• Xiao Xiao used her First Soul Skill, Cauldron's Tremor, and sent three Bronze Cauldrons toward Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao sparred with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, revealing his Ultimate Ice and easing their frustration with his strength. After Xiao Xiao comforted him with an embrace, the group headed toward grilled fish, while Shrek's Freshman Assessment began that afternoon.

• Huo Yuhao dodged Xiao Xiao's cauldron and countered Wang Dong's attacks with his condensed spiritual power, while the two tried to use their teamwork to corner him.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao tricked Huo Yuhao with a feigned collapse and Cauldron's Swing, but he froze the cauldron with Ice Emperor's Protection and blocked it with his Jade-Green Ice Armor.
• Wang Dong declared the spar shameless, then teased Huo Yuhao about saving a hidden ability for Dai Huabin; Xiao Xiao asked what she meant.
• After hearing about Huo Yuhao's past, Xiao Xiao hugged him to comfort him, and Huo Yuhao thanked her before inviting both girls to eat grilled fish.
• The Freshman Assessment began at Shrek's Assessment Area, where the classes had been divided into teams and each group was scheduled to fight one match that day.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao dominated their Freshman Assessment matches, with Wang Dong crushing one team and Xiao Xiao defeating another. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao’s team winning again, while examiner Wang Yan still waited to see Huo Yuhao use his Martial Soul.

• Wang Yan introduced himself as the examiner and explained that students were not allowed to deliberately injure opponents.
• Wang Dong knocked out Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng with two strikes, and Zhao Haochen surrendered, giving Huo Yuhao’s team its first win.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao argued over who would get to fight next, and Wang Dong teased Huo Yuhao about having a Grilled Fish Martial Soul.
• Xiao Xiao led Huo Yuhao’s team in its final match, using her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to blast two opponents out of the arena.
• Xiao Xiao struck Wang Yi with a cauldron and sent him flying out, securing another victory for Huo Yuhao’s team.

After winning their first match, Huo Yuhao’s trio trained with Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, then prepared to face Ning Tian’s team in the elimination rounds. The chapter left off as the opposing team introduced its three members, including rank-thirty-one Soul Elder Ning Tian.

• Wang Yan guessed that Huo Yuhao’s golden-eyed ability enhanced his vision and worried that the Soul Tool Department would not let him go.
• Tang Ya brought Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi to give Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao special training, and Xu Sanshi apologized to Huo Yuhao with a Mystic Water Pill and gold coins.
• Huo Yuhao gave the Mystic Water Pill to Xiao Xiao, then Bei Bei explained that the trio would face teams led by Ning Tian, Xie Huanyue, and Dai Huabin in the elimination rounds.
• Huo Yuhao’s trio sparred with Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Shock sent Xu Sanshi flying again.
• Tang Ya praised the trio’s teamwork and asked Huo Yuhao when he would grill fish, while Mu Jin taunted Zhou Yi about her class and its students.
• Huo Yuhao’s trio lined up to face Wu Feng, Nanmen Yun’er, and Ning Tian, who introduced herself as a rank-thirty-one Support System Tool Soul Elder.

Huo Yuhao's team defeated Ning Tian's team after Huo Yuhao used his hidden strength to eliminate Wu Feng, and Ning Tian surrendered. The chapter ended as Xie Huanyue's team arrived for the next match.

• Ning Tian enhanced Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er with her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda as they attacked Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• Ning Tian directed Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er to target Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao dodged Wu Feng's attacks and threw her off the stage after using Spirit Shock.
• Wang Dong confronted Ning Tian, who surrendered, and Nanmen Yun'er also yielded, giving Huo Yuhao's team the victory.
• Ning Tian comforted Wu Feng and said they would watch Huo Yuhao during the next day's assessment.
• Xie Huanyue's team arrived on the battlefield for the next match.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao faced Xie Huanyue and the Luo brothers in the competition, using Xiao Xiao’s cauldrons and a coordinated kick to send their opponents off the platform. The match ended with Xuan Zi catching the bouncing Xie Huanyue, while Wang Yan began asking him what he thought of Huo Yuhao.

• Wang Dong joked about the size of Xie Huanyue and the names of his teammates, Luo Tianlong and Luo Tianba.
• Xie Huanyue charged at Huo Yuhao’s team, while Wang Dong kicked Luo Tianlong and Luo Tianba toward the platform’s edge.
• Xiao Xiao’s cauldrons and Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Shock briefly stopped Xie Huanyue, but he recovered and launched another attack.
• Xiao Xiao merged her cauldrons to trap Xie Huanyue, giving Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong time to kick him toward the Luo brothers.
• Luo Tianlong grabbed Luo Tianba and jumped off the platform to avoid Xie Huanyue, who bounced toward the spectator stands.
• Xuan Zi caught Xie Huanyue with a fiery-red hand, then Wang Yan asked what he thought of Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao's team advanced to the final four, while Wang Dong struggled with her feelings for him and asked how he saw her. Yan Shaozhe arrived to oversee the finals, which were about to begin.

• Xuan Zi speculated that Huo Yuhao would reveal more of his strength in the final match and considered taking him as a disciple.
• After Xiao Xiao overtaxed her Soul Power, Huo Yuhao steadied her, and Wang Dong moved in to support her instead.
• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao what he thought of her, and he called her his best brother and said she was pretty enough to attract him if she were a girl.
• Huo Yuhao's team won its remaining matches and advanced to the final four.
• Yan Shaozhe addressed the finalists and announced that he would watch all their matches, while Xian Lin'er criticized his polished speech.

Huo Yuhao's team advanced to the Freshman Assessment final after decisively defeating Freshman Class Ten, while Huo Yuhao prepared to face Dai Huabin's team. The chapter ended just before the final, with the spectators wondering what abilities Huo Yuhao and his teammates would reveal.

• Huo Yuhao drew lot number two, then became agitated when Dai Huabin appeared, and Wang Dong unexpectedly calmed him by grabbing him in a sensitive spot.
• Huo Yuhao's team fought Zhou Sichen, Long Xiangyue, and Cao Jinxuan, using Xiao Xiao's Cauldron's Tremor, Huo Yuhao's Spirit Shocks, and Wang Dong's Butterfly God's Light to win in under ten seconds.
• Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun praised Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, while Yan Shaozhe explained that Huo Yuhao was competing for the Soul Tool Department on loan.
• Ma Xiaotao joined Ling Luochеn in the stands and teased her about acting as Huo Yuhao's guardian.
• Yan Shaozhe warned that Dai Huabin's team could use Martial Soul Fusion, but Xian Lin'er confidently predicted Huo Yuhao's team would win.
• Wang Yan asked Xuan Zi what ability Huo Yuhao might reveal, but Xuan Zi had no idea.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Dai Huabin's team in the final, using spiritual attacks and close combat to dominate the match. The chapter ended with Dai Huabin pinned beneath Huo Yuhao's blows as Zhu Lu cried out to him.

• The referee announced the final's rules, and Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao faced Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie.
• Huo Yuhao charged at Dai Huabin, repelled his tiger-claw strike with Spirit Shock, and kicked him away.
• Huo Yuhao resisted Cui Yajie's Charm and knocked her unconscious with Spirit Shock, prompting the referee to remove her from the arena.
• Huo Yuhao hurled a golden Spirit Long Spear through Dai Huabin's White Tiger Fierce Light Wave, then fought him at close range despite his White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
• Huo Yuhao struck Dai Huabin repeatedly and pinned him to the ground while Zhu Lu cried out to him.

Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's Hell White Tiger with a single punch of Ultimate Ice, winning the Freshman Assessment for his team. After the match, Yan Shaozhe tried to approach Huo Yuhao, but Xian Lin'er confronted him over his attempt to claim a student who belonged to the Soul Tool Department.

• Zhu Lu abandoned her fight with Xiao Xiao and joined Dai Huabin, fusing with him to summon the Hell White Tiger.
• The Hell White Tiger pounced on Huo Yuhao, who unleashed Ultimate Ice and struck it with his Emperor's Fist, freezing it into an ice sculpture.
• Wang Yan questioned Xuan Zi about Huo Yuhao's power, and Xuan Zi identified it as an Ultimate Ice Martial Soul.
• The referee announced Huo Yuhao's team as the Freshman Assessment champions.
• Yan Shaozhe hurried toward Huo Yuhao, but Xian Lin'er stopped him and challenged his attempt to approach a student from the Soul Tool Department.

Yan Shaozhe tried to recruit Huo Yuhao into the Martial Soul Department after learning he possessed Ultimate Ice, offering him exceptional training and resources. Huo Yuhao rejected the offer and chose to remain in the Soul Tool Department.

• Yan Shaozhe argued with Xian Lin'er over Huo Yuhao, and Xuan Zi suggested letting Huo Yuhao choose between their departments.
• Yan Shaozhe promised Huo Yuhao's champion team compatible soul bones of up to ten thousand years, then asked Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to leave so he could speak with Huo Yuhao alone.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that his martial soul was pure Ultimate Ice.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Huo Yuhao inner court status, his personal guidance, a path to becoming a Titled Douluo before forty, and promises of rare soul bones and soul rings for him and his friends.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Yan Shaozhe but chose to stay in the Soul Tool Department.

Huo Yuhao chose to remain in the Soul Tool Department, prompting Xian Lin'er and Yan Shaozhe to bring their dispute before the Sea God Pavilion elders. Yan Shaozhe argued that Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice could also help Ma Xiaotao transform her Evil Fire Phoenix, leaving the elders to consider the competing departments' claims.

• Huo Yuhao confirmed that he wanted to stay in the Soul Tool Department, and Xian Lin'er took him under her protection.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed settling the dispute at a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, and Xian Lin'er agreed to summon the elders.
• Mu En opened the meeting, where Yan Shaozhe explained Huo Yuhao's talent and argued that the Soul Tool Department needed him.
• Xian Lin'er defended the department's claim, while Xuan Zi said Huo Yuhao should choose for himself and offered to personally teach him if he joined the Martial Soul Department.
• Yan Shaozhe revealed that Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice might help Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire Phoenix transform toward Ultimate Fire.

At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Yan Shaozhe argued that Huo Yuhao should join the Martial Soul Department, while Xian Lin'er objected and impulsively claimed she liked him. Mu En ended the dispute by allowing Huo Yuhao to study soul tools while the Martial Soul Department also supported his cultivation, leaving Yan Shaozhe curious about Ma Xiaotao's evil fire.

• Yan Shaozhe argued that Huo Yuhao should move to the Martial Soul Department, and Xian Lin'er shocked the elders by saying she was fond of him.
• Mu En asked whether Huo Yuhao had fallen behind in either field, and Yan Shaozhe admitted that he had not.
• Mu En ordered the academy to follow Huo Yuhao's wishes, let him study in the Soul Tool Department, and have the Martial Soul Department provide cultivation resources.
• Yan Shaozhe realized that Ma Xiaotao had not recently suffered an evil-fire backlash and began investigating why.
• Xian Lin'er wondered whether Ma Xiaotao knew about Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice, while Mu En reflected on the girls who might be interested in him.
• The Sea God Pavilion meeting ended with no change to Huo Yuhao's studies, though the Martial Soul Department was expected to provide resources.

After earning a private courtyard beside Sea God Lake, Huo Yuhao invited Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to live with him, and both moved in. He hosted friends to celebrate the team’s Freshman Assessment victory, but Jiang Nannan arrived alone and discovered that Huo Yuhao’s teammates shared his residence.

• Xian Lin'er told Huo Yuhao about the academy’s promises and gave him the key to his new courtyard.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to bring Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao to live in the courtyard, leaving Wang Dong jealous when Xiao Xiao pleaded with him.
• Wang Dong chose the bedroom beside Huo Yuhao’s, while Xiao Xiao settled into a room on the ground floor.
• Huo Yuhao invited his acquaintances to celebrate the team’s victory, but Jiang Nannan came alone after deliberately not inviting Tang Ya and Bei.
• Jiang Nannan praised Huo Yuhao, then met Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao in the courtyard and wondered why both teammates had moved in.

Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao competed to reach Huo Yuhao first, then joined him and his friends for a lively meal. Afterward, Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao about the conditions for Martial Soul Fusion Skills and began to reveal something.

• Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao raced to Huo Yuhao's residence, where Wang Dong accused Ma Xiaotao of taking him away.
• Huo Yuhao, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Xiao Xiao shared a meal while Zhang Lexuan was away.
• Jiang Nannan reminisced about training with Huo Yuhao and took his hand, making the other women jealous.
• Xiao Xiao asked about Dai Huabin's recovery, and Huo Yuhao described the plans he had made against him.
• Wang Dong entered Huo Yuhao's bedroom and brought up the compatibility required for Martial Soul Fusion Skills before starting to explain something.

Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao to help her sense the aura of her Martial Soul, but their experiment turned awkward and unexpectedly thrilling. Xiao Xiao overheard them, while Wang Dong insisted on trying one final method.

• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that a mysterious power inside her restrained her aura and asked him to sense it through physical contact.
• Huo Yuhao hugged Wang Dong and tried to detect her Martial Soul's aura, but their closeness embarrassed them both.
• Wang Dong backed away in shame after realizing what Huo Yuhao had felt, and he playfully slapped her bottom.
• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao to slap her again and then requested one more time, while Xiao Xiao listened outside the room and hurried away embarrassed.
• Huo Yuhao suggested they stop because it was late, but Wang Dong announced that there was one last method.

Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao about her unexplained resistance to using Soul Tools, so he entered her Sea of Consciousness to investigate. A Golden Trident seal revealed that Wang Dong was an independent personality formed from Tang Xiao Qi’s divided and sealed divine sense, leaving the God of Destruction furious at the Sea God.

• Wang Dong explained that an unknown consciousness had once made her feel irritated whenever she used a Soul Tool.
• With Wang Dong’s trust and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s support, Huo Yuhao entered her Sea of Consciousness to search for the cause.
• A terrifying aura erupted from within Wang Dong, and divine powers from Huo Yuhao’s mind helped stabilize the Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux identified the disturbance as a seal, which appeared as an enormous Golden Trident surrounded by writing from the Divine Realm.
• The God of Destruction reacted angrily to the Sea God’s seal after learning that Wang Dong was an independent personality created from Tang Xiao Qi’s divided divine sense.

The God of Destruction and Goddess of Life examined Wang Dong’s sealed Divine Sense and explained to Huo Yuhao that Wang Dong was a distinct person connected to Tang Xiao Qi. After they marked the seal and promised to preserve both identities, Huo Yuhao learned Wang Dong was a girl; elsewhere, two men sensed Xiao Dong’s seal stir and worried about her.

• The God of Destruction and Goddess of Life determined that Wang Dong was not Xiao Qi, but a separate personality whose Divine Sense had been affected by Xiao Qi’s.
• The God of Destruction revealed that the seal belonged to Tang San and that the sealed Divine Sense was his daughter, Tang Xiao Qi; Electrolux reassured Huo Yuhao that Wang Dong was still her own person.
• The God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, and Electrolux marked the seal to preserve both Xiao Qi’s and Wang Dong’s Divine Senses, and the Goddess of Life promised to reconstruct Xiao Qi’s body later.
• The God of Destruction told Huo Yuhao to choose his own path and revealed that Wang Dong was a girl before leaving to find the Goddess of Life.
• Two men in a mountain castle felt Xiao Dong’s seal stir; one worried and offered to go to Shrek Academy, while the other told him not to act rashly.

After examining Wang Dong’s divine sense, Huo Yuhao discovered that she was a girl and confronted her about her disguise. Wang Dong confessed, and Huo Yuhao reassured her that he would keep her secret; she left after hugging him good night.

• Huo Yuhao returned from Wang Dong’s Sea of Consciousness and realized that Wang Dong was a girl.
• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Dong whether she was a girl, and she denied it before admitting the truth.
• Wang Dong explained that she had disguised herself as a boy and worried that Huo Yuhao would hate or report her.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Wang Dong that she was still the same person to him and promised not to tell anyone.
• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao to keep the secret from Xiao Xiao, hugged him good night, and hurried back to her room.
• Huo Yuhao noticed sticky water by the door.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong struggled to process the revelations and their recent embrace, while Xian Lin'er questioned Ma Xiaotao about Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice and Yan Shaozhe interrupted. Ma Xiaotao accidentally revealed that Zhang Lexuan had introduced Huo Yuhao to her, as Zhang Lexuan finished a mission and prepared to return to Shrek to see him.

• Huo Yuhao set aside his questions about his master, Wang Dong, and Tang San to focus on cultivating.
• Wang Dong tossed and turned over hugging Huo Yuhao, then tried to distract herself by reading his book.
• Tang San urged Xiao Wu to drink his soup, but she demanded papaya ice cream instead.
• Xian Lin'er asked Ma Xiaotao whether she and Huo Yuhao had been together, and Yan Shaozhe burst in to confront her.
• Ma Xiaotao blurted out that Zhang Lexuan had introduced Huo Yuhao to her, then admitted the rest was her own guess.
• Zhang Lexuan completed her mission and prepared to return to Shrek, thinking about visiting Huo Yuhao.