Recaps

Huo Yuhao used three sniper-rifle shots to knock Li Jie out, destroy Star Luo National Academy’s Absolute Defensive Soul Tool, and trick Xu Jiujiu into wasting her Invincible Shield. With Ma Rulong and Meng Hongchen’s team exploiting the opening, Star Luo’s team battle turned toward defeat, and Xu Jiujiu acknowledged Huo Yuhao’s skill as he urged her to concede.

• Li Jie melted Lin Xi’s Invincible Shield and corroded Mi Jia’s Soul Tool Armor before preparing to attack Meng Hongchen, but Huo Yuhao shot him off the arena with a Spirit-Nourishing Cast Iron Bullet.
• Huo Yuhao fired a Gold of Life bullet that shattered the Absolute Defensive Soul Tool, while frightening Star Luo’s fighters into releasing their Invincible Shields and freeing Ma Rulong.
• Huo Yuhao’s third shot bounced harmlessly off Xu Jiujiu’s shield, but the feint drained her Soul Power and disrupted Star Luo’s battle rhythm.
• Ma Rulong attacked Huang Heyun as his shield vanished, and Huang Jinxu rescued him from the arena while Meng Hongchen and her companions suppressed their opponents.
• Xu Jiujiu admitted that she had underestimated Huo Yuhao and recognized the power of his Level Six Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu to concede as Star Luo National Academy’s defeat became clear.

The Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy defeated Star Luo National Academy in the team battle, with Huo Yuhao’s hidden sniper rifle turning the match around. In the Individual Knockout Tournament, Xiao Hongchen baited Li Jie into taking the stage, then yielded to Meng Hongchen, who faced him in Jing Hongchen’s newly made Level 6 melee soul guidance suit.

• Xu Jiujiu conceded the team battle, and the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s victory sent the spectators into an uproar.
• Huo Yuyao received Meng Hongchen’s embrace on the Competition Stage, then met Li Jie in the exit passage, where Li Jie challenged him to fight at a future tournament.
• Li Jie wagered that he would reveal his mutated martial soul’s details if Star Luo National Academy lost, while Xiao Hongchen wagered a Level Six Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle if it won.
• Jing Hongchen made Meng Hongchen a Level 6 Melee Soul Guidance Suit with an Ice Marrow Spirit Jade Rapier during the rest day.
• Xiao Hongchen entered the Individual Knockout Tournament first, defeated Star Luo National Academy’s opening Soul King, and provoked Li Jie into taking the stage.
• Xiao Hongchen jumped off the Competition Stage instead of fighting Li Jie, and Meng Hongchen stepped forward in his place.

Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy defeated Star Luo National Academy and secured a place in the finals, prompting Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu to consider recruiting Huo Yuhao. Xu Jiujiu invited him to dinner, but after their conversation turned tense, she revealed a ninety-thousand-year-old Mental Attribute Head Soul Bone as an inducement.

• Meng Hongchen defeated Li Jie with her Level 6 crystal Soul Tools, then Ma Rulong defeated Star Luo National Academy's final two competitors and secured Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's victory.
• Xu Jiawei gave Xu Jiujiu information about Huo Yuhao's background, and they agreed that she should try to win him over to Star Luo's side.
• Xu Jiujiu arrived at the Star Emperor Hotel and invited Huo Yuhao to discuss Soul Tools, while Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen reluctantly let him go with her.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Xu Jiujiu's claims that Star Luo was his home and warned her against trying to use him; when the Red-Dressed Old Woman threatened him, his Red Dust Protection blocked her pressure.
• Xu Jiujiu showed Huo Yuhao a ninety-thousand-year-old Mental Attribute Head Soul Bone and offered further rewards if he joined Star Luo.

Shrek Academy’s team discussed how to counter Huo Yuhao’s powerful soul-guidance rifle, and Tang Yin proposed a risky plan involving evil-fire absorption and a homemade poison pill. As teammates considered his offers, Wang Dong suspected that Tang Yin was scheming against Miss Fa and imagined joining forces with her.

• Wang Sheng Jia warned the Shrek contingent that Huo Yuhao’s Level Six Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle could penetrate a Level 5 Invincible Shield, and Wang Yan urged everyone to devise countermeasures.
• Tang Yin argued that Shrek’s Soul Masters still had the advantage, then said the rifle had only two shots and outlined a plan to reach Huo Yuhao or Feng Tingting before they could fire again.
• Ma Xiaotao proposed drawing enemy fire with two Invincible Shields while Dai Yueheng and Xu Sanshi disrupted Huo Yuhao, and Xuan Zi pressured Dai Yueheng to commit.
• Dai Yueheng agreed to confront Huo Yuhao and absorb evil fire from Tang Yin, while He Caitou suggested using a Level 6 Light of Spiritual Marking against Huo Yuhao’s invisibility.
• Tang Yin presented a pill made from hundreds of medicines and poisons as protection against Meng Hongchen’s toxin, but Wang Dong, Bei Bei, Xiao Xiao, and Jiang Nannan rejected his offers of evil-fire treatment or the pill.
• Wang Dong suspected that Tang Yin’s earlier interest in her had concerned Miss Fa, and she imagined teaming up with Miss Fa against him and joining the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy as an exchange student.

Huo Yuhao warned the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team to prepare for Ma Xiaotao’s lethal tactics in the finals and later met Wang Dong disguised as Meng Hongchen. Wang Dong offered to spy on Tang Yin and asked to study at the academy, but Huo Yuhao accepted her help while rejecting her request to try a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Huo Yuhao told Meng Hongchen he had refused Xu Jiujiu’s suspicious gifts and made verbal agreements concerning the Duke’s Mansion.
• Lin Xi proposed trapping Ma Xiaotao between two Invincible Shields, but Huo Yuhao warned the team against the plan and ordered them to carry defensive Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao secured Feng Yu and Elder Ma’s approval for his precautions, including obtaining more Level 6 Invincible Shields from Jing Hongchen.
• Huo Yuhao disguised himself as Meng Hongchen and received Wang Dong, who warned that Tang Yin might be plotting against them and agreed to track his movements.
• Wang Dong asked to join the Exchange Student Program and study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, but Huo Yuhao refused to try a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy began their tournament final amid political tension and threats from Xuan Zi and Jing Hongchen. As both teams’ strategies unfolded, Dai Yueheng was lured into wasting his Invincible Shield, then shouted for the Shrek Seven Monsters’ Evil Fire Rampage.

• Huo Yuhao and the Sun Moon Team entered Star Luo Plaza for the final, where he spotted the Star Luo Emperor, Xu Jiujiu, and the White Tiger Duke, Dai Hao.
• Xuan Zi warned referee Huang Jinxu that Shrek’s opponents would be responsible for their own deaths, and Jing Hongchen challenged Xuan Zi before postponing their confrontation until after the match.
• The team battle began with Huo Yuhao making himself, Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Feng Tingting invisible while Ma Rulong’s Thunder Prison trapped Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, and Ling Luochеn.
• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng attacked from outside the Thunder Prison as Tang Yin fought Mi Jia, while Dai Yueheng used Mental Interference Armor to counter Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection.
• Huo Yuhao’s group reappeared during Dai Yueheng’s bombardment, and Meng Hongchen dodged Dai Yueheng’s attack before Xiao Hongchen’s apparent strike baited him into activating his Invincible Shield.
• Dai Yueheng realized the attack had been a feint and shouted, “Shrek Seven Monsters’ Evil Fire Rampage!”

Huo Yuhao turned Shrek Academy’s apparent victory within reach into a disastrous reversal, shooting Dai Yueheng and then Ma Xiaotao as the battle spiraled out of control. Xuan Zi interrupted the match to rescue the unconscious Ma Xiaotao and accused Huo Yuhao of corrupting her, while Bao Yin still pursued the surrendered Xiao Hongchen.

• Ma Xiaotao unleashed a compressed dark Phoenix attack that forced Lin Xi to rely on a golden defensive barrier, while Xu Sanshui escaped the Thunderclap Prison and used a hidden weapon to teleport into position.
• Xu Sanshui’s swap brought Ma Xiaotao into the fight, and Dai Yueheng charged Huo Yuhao after Meng Hongchen cleared the way; Huo Yuhao teleported behind him and shot him with his Level Six sniper rifle.
• Ma Xiaotao overwhelmed Xiao Hongchen, who surrendered behind his Red Dust Shield, while Meng Hongchen pressed Jiang Nannan and Ma Rulong rushed to aid Huo Yuhao with the Sword of Judgment.
• Ma Rulong’s light aura intensified Ma Xiaotao’s loss of control, and Huo Yuhao shot her before surviving her Black Phoenix attack with Imprint-Invincible Golden Body and firing a third shot.
• Xuan Zi broke the linked shield, caught the unconscious Ma Xiaotao, and accused Huo Yuhao of secretly turning her toward evil; Jing Hongchen challenged Xuan Zi, and the match paused as a silver barrier formed over the stage.
• Bao Yin tried to attack the surrendered Xiao Hongchen, but Meng Hongchen drove him back and Huang Jinxu rebuked him for ignoring the surrender.

Tang Yin used poison against Meng Hongchen, but Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen overwhelmed him with Ultimate Ice and a sniper shot, knocking him unconscious. Xuan Zi then tried to recruit Meng Hongchen for Shrek Academy, prompting Jing Hongchen to challenge him to a fight in the sky.

• Tang Yin released poisonous mist while evading Meng Hongchen, but Huo Yuhao warned her and she froze the mist with Eternal Frozen Domain.
• Meng Hongchen struck Tang Yin with Ice Emperor's Wrath, and Tang Yin used Blue Silver Pole Vault to leap away before Huo Yuhao shot and shattered his fragile spine.
• Tang Yin collapsed unconscious, and Meng Hongchen planted the broken spear tip between his buttocks.
• Xuan Zi broke through the silver barrier and tried to recruit Meng Hongchen, claiming Shrek Academy could help stabilize her Ultimate Ice.
• Jing Hongchen shielded Meng Hongchen and Huo Yuhao, then challenged Xuan Zi to spar; Xuan Zi accepted and flew into the sky.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy won the team battle, and Shrek Academy chose to continue the tournament despite its losses. Huo Yuhao then faced Dai Huabin in the individual matches and used Soul Shock to shatter Dai Huabin’s mental defenses, leaving him disoriented and charging off the stage.

• Huang Jinxu declared the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy the team battle winner, while Tang Ya carried the injured Tang Yin away from the stage.
• Lin Xi thanked Huo Yuhao for saving his life, and Bei Bei decided Shrek Academy would use the individual matches for training rather than surrender.
• Tang Yin urged Dai Huabin to fight, and Dai Huabin joined Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, Zhu Lu, and Wu Feng in the Waiting Area.
• Meng Hongchen defeated Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, and He Caitou before yielding the stage to Huo Yuhao when Dai Huabin entered.
• Dai Huabin activated his Evil Fire and Soul Guidance Spiritual Shield, but Huo Yuhao’s Soul Shock shattered his defenses and sent him stumbling off the stage.

Jing Hongchen used a giant humanoid soul tool to fight Xuan Zi, while the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy defeated Shrek Academy to win the tournament. Shrek’s wounded members regrouped in wheelchairs as Tang Yin tried to claim that Xuan Zi had beaten Jing Hongchen, though Jing Hongchen returned safely to Huo Yuhao.

• Jing Hongchen and Xuan Zi fought in the sky, and Jing Hongchen summoned a giant humanoid soul tool that slammed Xuan Zi into the ground.
• Xuan Zi fled toward Star Luo City, and the metal giant’s beam struck his rear hooves before Jing Hongchen returned to the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Zhu Lu and Wu Feng, and Huang Jinxu declared the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy the champion.
• Shrek Academy’s team members reflected on their defeat as Dai Huabin and Dai Yueheng were taken away in wheelchairs, and Tang Yin also needed one.
• Tang Yin told the group that Xuan Zi had defeated Jing Hongchen, but they found Xuan Zi in a wheelchair when they reached the hotel.
• Huo Yuhao asked Jing Hongchen about his condition, and Jing Hongchen said the fight had left him spent but satisfied.

After the tournament victory, Huo Yuhao made final arrangements in Star Luo City, giving Wang Dong tracking Soul Tools and urging Bei Bei to reconsider Shrek Academy’s practices. The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy collected its prizes and departed, while Feng Tingting’s newspaper campaign put Shrek Academy under public scrutiny.

• Jing Hongchen explained that the Humanoid Soul Tool was nearing preliminary completion but required immense Soul Power, while Xu Jiawei regretted failing to recruit Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao met Wang Dong disguised as Meng Hongchen and gave her replica Soul Tools that could track Tang Yin and his storage belt.
• Huo Yuhao met Bei Bei, warned him about Tang Ya’s attention to Tang Yin, and challenged Shrek Academy’s treatment of evil fire and its claims to moral authority.
• Huo Yuhao invited Bei Bei to bring like-minded students to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s Exchange Student Program.
• Jing Hongchen selected three suitable soul bones from the tournament prizes, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy departed Star Luo City.
• Feng Tingting used the final Tournament Genius Ranking Newspaper to turn public opinion against Shrek Academy.

After the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy won the tournament, Huo Yuhao and his teammates received rewards from Jing Hongchen and Xu Tianran. At the victory banquet, Huo Yuhao noticed unusual guests and urged Feng Bujue to discuss his missing father’s case soon.

• Jing Hongchen distributed Soul Bones, Gold Soul Coins, and Soul Engineer project placements, giving Huo Yuhao seven million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Tianran presented the team with individual rewards and gave Huo Yuhao five million Gold Soul Coins and a recommendation for an internship at the Military General Research Institute.
• Huo Yuhao noticed a beautiful woman watching Jing Hongchen and a mysterious sword-carrying man whose mental body seemed unusual.
• Wang Shaojie credited Huo Yuhao’s success with inspiring him to improve himself and resolved to pass his Level 4 Soul Engineer exam and help other students with their romances.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Feng Bujue to discuss his missing father with Feng Yu after the victory banquet.
• Jing Hongchen and the team celebrated while Ma Rulong teased Xiao Hongchen about Huo Yuhao overtaking him in the Soul Engineer rankings.

Huo Yuhao proposed a long-range Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle project, and Feng Yu advised him to keep its strategic research within the Illustrious Virtue Hall rather than under imperial funding. After returning to his dormitory, Huo Yuhao tested a new Soul Power transmission device and found its initial performance limited but improvable.

• Feng Bujue told Huo Yuhao that his father, Feng Zhe, vanished with a strange rare metal vein and may have entered the Ruins of Eternal Darkness, and Huo Yuhao agreed to investigate when he was stronger.
• Huo Yuhao described how enlarged Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifles might fire Fixed Soul Cannon Shells across extreme distances, startling Feng Yu, Feng Bujue, and Feng Tingting.
• Feng Yu warned Huo Yuhao that imperial funding would give the imperial family ownership of results, and advised keeping the strategic project within the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Huo Yuhao asked Feng Yu to report the new project to their teacher, while Feng Yu hoped to join the research once it progressed.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his dormitory, combined a Level 3 Laminar Flow Output Core Array with his Ultimate Absorption Array, and tested the prototype, recording 0.3% Soul Power loss over 0.5 meters.

Tang Yin and Xuan Zi helped Shrek Academy respond to the public backlash from its tournament defeat, while Ma Xiaotao remained sealed against her out-of-control Evil Fire. The chapter ended with Xuan Zi preparing to take Tang Yin to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek life-force-rich Soul Beasts to heal his injuries.

• Tang Yin blamed Huo Yuhao for crippling his lower body and secretly resolved to kill him, while Xu Sanshi asked Tang Yin to absorb his Evil Fire.
• Mu En and Xuan Zi discussed Ma Xiaotao's condition and agreed that sealing her was the safest way to prevent the Evil Fire from taking control.
• Yan Shaozhe reported that public criticism of Shrek Academy had surged after the tournament, and Xuan Zi proposed a Shrek Victory Propaganda Group built around his Ten Victories Theory.
• Mu En allowed the academy to proceed with Xuan Zi's propaganda plan, and Yan Shaozhe supported it as a way to pressure the imperial families.
• Xuan Zi told Tang Yin that his reward was a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest to find Soul Beasts whose life force could help heal him.

Mu En praised Bei Bei’s choices in the tournament, urged him to join the Exchange Student Program, and advised him to end his relationship with Tang Ya. At Shrek Academy, Wang Sheng Jia received thanks from students he had saved, while Zhou Yi’s expected promotion turned out to be a cleaning assignment at the Great Beast Arena.

• Mu En praised Bei Bei’s responsibility during the journey and tournament, then supported his decision to join the Exchange Student Program after Huo Yuhao challenged his views on Shrek Academy.
• Mu En warned Bei Bei that Tang Ya might have chosen him for her Tang Sect ambitions and urged him to end their relationship before inheriting Sovereign's Descent.
• Mu En reasoned that Meng Hongchen’s ultimate ice likely came from someone else, and Bei Bei realized Huo Yuhao was the likely source.
• Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo thanked Wang Sheng Jia for saving them during the Mingdou Mountain Range battle and gave him gifts.
• Zhou Yi boasted about teaching Tang Yin and dismissed criticism from Mu Jin before Du Weilun handed her a reassignment order.
• Zhou Yi read that she had been reassigned to a cleaning position at the Great Beast Arena.

Zhou Yi was transferred to a cleaning post at the Great Beast Arena, and Wang Sheng Jia was appointed to replace her as Year Two Class One’s homeroom teacher. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao discovered an illusory monocle formed from the Marauder Pathway’s Uniqueness and received Angel God’s Divine Blood after Electrolux analyzed a Divinity Fragment.

• Zhou Yi challenged the Sea God Pavilion’s transfer order, but Du Weilun told her to report to the Great Beast Arena within three days and announced Wang Sheng Jia as her replacement.
• Zhou Yi complained to Fan Yu, who withdrew from the dispute because his research was at a critical stage.
• Huo Yuhao named his Level 3 Soul Tool the Ultra-Low-Loss Soul Power Relay Soul Tool, then investigated a disturbance in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao retrieved an illusory monocle identified as a high-level Sealed Artifact formed from the Marauder Pathway’s Uniqueness, but its vision warned him that some of its information was deadly to perceive.
• Electrolux showed Huo Yuhao a vision of the Divine War at Jialing Pass and gave him a drop of Angel God’s Divine Blood, explaining its potential uses.

Huo Yuhao discussed his dream of building a soul-tool network that could spread knowledge and soul power across the continent, while Meng Hongchen recognized the dangers but confessed that she liked him. Huo Yuhao returned her embrace, and they left his room to take a walk together.

• Huo Yuhao caught Meng Hongchen sneaking into his room and teased her before she asked him for counseling about her Assassin Potion digestion.
• Huo Yuhao showed Meng Hongchen his soul power relay device, and they discussed how a continent-wide soul-tool network could empower ordinary people and transform soul-engineering.
• The Ice Empress warned Huo Yuhao that the network could threaten soul beasts and provoke them to fight back, while Meng Hongchen pointed out its immense technical, material, and political challenges.
• Meng Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that she liked him and would stand by him despite the dangers of his dream.
• Huo Yuhao embraced Meng Hongchen and agreed to spend time together, then suggested they go for a walk.

Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen tracked the veiled bookstall owner, Ye Guyi, after learning that Xishui Alliance members had attacked her, and found her surrounded by Evil Soul Masters. Huo Yuhao guided Ye Guyi through the ambush while Meng Hongchen fought their Soul King, and the chapter ended with Huo Yuhao killing two Soul Ancestors using Ice Explosion Technique.

• Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen visited Mingdu’s flea market, where Meng Hongchen explained the city’s underworld factions and their rare-metal smuggling business.
• After finding the bookstall on fire, Huo Yuhao learned that the veiled shopkeeper had fled and tracked her with Meng Hongchen into the woods.
• Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen discovered Ye Guyi fighting four Evil Soul Master Soul Ancestors while an Evil Soul Master Soul King prepared to ambush her with a Thunder Net.
• Meng Hongchen froze the Soul King and engaged him, while Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to guide Ye Guyi out of danger and shot one Soul Ancestor dead.
• Huo Yuhao drove the vengeful spirits into a frenzy and used Soul Shock to weaken the attackers as Ye Guyi held back the Skeleton Tide.
• Huo Yuhao coordinated with Meng Hongchen to kill the Soul King, then struck one Soul Ancestor with Ice Emperor’s Wrath and detonated Ice Explosion Technique to destroy him and his companion.

Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen rescued Ye Guyi from an Evil Soul Master ambush, uncovered her connection to Spirit Hall, and brought her to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Reading Ye Guyi’s family records, Huo Yuhao learned of Qian Renxue’s secret and Tang San’s past, while the threat posed by the Holy Spirit Cult remained unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen defeated the Evil Soul Masters who had ambushed Ye Guyi, and Huo Yuhao found a Saint's Son Token identifying their leader as the Death Messenger.
• Huo Yuhao suspected that the Death Messenger served the Holy Spirit Cult and had arranged the ambush, while Ye Guyi explained that an Ordinary Alliance steward had betrayed her.
• Huo Yuhao invited Ye Guyi to join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and she accepted after learning that her family descended from a collateral branch of Spirit Hall’s Qian Family.
• Ye Guyi gave Huo Yuhao Qian Renxue’s personal writings, which revealed that Tang San had escaped her divine power and that she had left a secret for a future Holy Angel Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao read Qian Renxue’s warning about the rise of evil Soul Masters and learned that the secret had never been unlocked because her descendants had been hunted and had not reached the required rank.

Jing Hongchen explained the Crown Prince’s alliance with the Evil Soul Masters and approved Huo Yuhao’s new Ultra-Low-Loss Soul Power Relay Soul Tool project, putting him in charge with Ma Rulong as a researcher. As Huo Yuhao’s team began work, tensions over soul tools rose at Shrek Academy, while Tang Yin’s leave request prompted Wang Sheng Jia to secretly alert headquarters about the Great Enshrined’s movements.

• Jing Hongchen told Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen that the Crown Prince backed the Xishui Alliance and its Evil Soul Masters, whose strongest members might include several Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao gave Jing Hongchen his proposal for the Ultra-Low-Loss Soul Power Relay Soul Tool, and Jing Hongchen approved the project and named Huo Yuhao its leader.
• Huo Yuhao selected Ma Rulong to assist with the project, and Ma Rulong was transferred from Li Yuanxing’s laboratory to Huo Yuhao’s new research team.
• Huo Yuhao brought Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen into the project and began combining laboratory experiments with his studies and counseling work.
• At Shrek Academy, Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei drove themselves through intense cultivation, while Yan Shaozhe objected to Ling Luochеn and three students forming a Soul Tool Interest Group until Qian Duoduo offered to take them into the Soul Tool Department.
• Tang Yin received leave to travel with Xuan Zi to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Wang Sheng Jia interpreted the trip as a signal from the Great Enshrined and secretly informed headquarters.

A battle between Shrek Academy’s Titled Douluos and the Holy Church left Mu En gravely weakened, while Ma Xiaotao escaped during the attack. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Yin ate two Emerald Swan eggs to recover and planned to pursue the Auspicious Beast before returning to Shrek, where Mu En and Xuan Zi debated the academy’s exchange program with the Sun Moon Empire.

• Wang Sheng Jia watched Mu En and the Golden Giant Dragon overpower the Evil Soul Masters, while Ma Xiaotao broke through her seal and escaped the Sea God Pavilion.
• Tang Yin replaced his Ten-Year Soul Ring with a Ten-Thousand-Year Cave Demon Spider ring, reached level forty-five by hunting Soul Beasts, and searched the forest for powerful vitality and the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Xuan Zi brought Tang Yin two Emerald Swan eggs, which Tang Yin ate to strengthen his recovery; Tang Yin then planned to capture the Auspicious Beast’s fortune for Xiao Qi and Meng Hongchen.
• Xuan Zi told Mu En that Ma Xiaotao had escaped during an attack by twelve Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters, and Mu En described the vitality he had spent fighting them.
• Mu En and Xuan Zi disagreed over the exchange program’s student selection and team leader before agreeing that Lexuan could lead a program open to qualified Martial Soul Department students.
• Tang Yin learned that Mu En would not meet him, and Xuan Zi asked him to discuss the expedition he had mentioned once they had both recovered.

Seven months after the Soul Fighting Tournament, Huo Yuhao advanced rapidly in soul tool theory and research while his soul power reached level 38. As the inter-school soul tool network project drew interest and raised the problem of collecting martial soul data, Huo Yuhao looked to Shrek Academy for help and learned that several of its Soul Masters might come to Mingdu.

• Huo Yuhao reached level 38 in soul power, mastered large amounts of intermediate soul tool theory, and advanced his projects, including the Ultimate Cooling Array and the soul tool network.
• Ma Rulong developed improved level 4 and level 5 relay soul tools, while readers of Soul Engineer Genius suggested features such as forums, news, a public library, and simulated soul tool design.
• Ma Rulong asked Huo Yuhao how he would gather martial soul and soul power data, and Huo Yuhao decided to seek help from Shrek Academy instead of explaining his knowledge of the Collective Sea of Collective Subconscious.
• Huo Yuhao sent Wang Dong improved intermediate soul tools, and she responded with secret letters about her progress, Meng Hongchen, and Shrek Academy's Soul Masters.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi had become Soul Kings and entered Shrek's Inner Court, while He Caitou and Jiang Nannan had reached rank forty-nine and several Martial Soul Department members might visit.

After breaking the seal on Qian Renxue’s secret scroll, Huo Yuhao learned that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay in Sunset Forest and set out with Jing Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to find it. Tang Yin also learned that the Heaven Dou Empire planned to search Sunset Forest and raced to claim the well for himself, while Huo Yuhao’s group evaded an aerial patrol and continued toward their destination.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that students had turned his old library seat into a shrine, and he reflected on the counseling work that had brought him close to advancing to Sequence 6.
• Huo Yuhao broke the seal on Qian Renxue’s scroll and learned that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was in Sunset Forest, then decided to search for it and sent a letter to Tang Yin.
• Jing Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that Meng Hongchen’s Vermilion Clear Ice Toad could become dangerous at high cultivation, and Huo Yuhao decided to bring her along to seek a remedy at the well.
• At Shrek Academy, Tang Yin demanded payment and Tang Sect membership from Xu Sanshi and the others before resolving their Evil Fire, then read that the Heaven Dou Empire planned to scour Sunset Forest and hurried to get there first.
• Huo Yuhao, Jing Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen flew toward Sunset Forest in a Level 9 Flying Soul Tool while Huo Yuhao concealed them from a Heaven Dou Empire patrol led by Mu Xue.

Huo Yuhao, Jing Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and met the immortal herb Youyou, who explained that the well could suppress but not cure Meng Hongchen’s mixed ice, fire, and poison. Huo Yuhao challenged the herbs’ reverence for Tang San, and Youyou asked them to leave or remain trapped.

• Huo Yuhao identified the likely location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and the group found a vast, highly corrosive poisonous miasma over the Sunset Forest.
• Jing Hongchen used a specialized Soul Tool to shield the group as they descended through the miasma and found a valley filled with rare plants and a divided red-and-white spring.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to recognize that many plants had developed intelligence, then began speaking with the immortal herb Youyou.
• Youyou said the well could suppress Meng Hongchen’s cold and fire poisons but could not cure them, and she named the Mysterious Heaven Skill as a way to balance them.
• Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen challenged the herbs’ claims that Tang San had been kind to them, arguing that his protections had isolated them and harmed the Sunset Forest.
• Youyou defended Tang San, then told the group to leave or stay in the valley.