Chapter Summaries

Tang San tried to interfere with Planet Douluo’s destiny, but the God of Destruction stopped his divine descent. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao gained the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year Wisdom Soul Ring and a mysterious Spectator ability, then awoke as Tang Yin arrived and doubted that he was the Child of Destiny.

• Tang San sent a wisp of his consciousness toward Planet Douluo, but the God of Destruction destroyed it and challenged him, starting a battle.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, where a gray remnant soul and a strange droplet had also appeared.
• Huo Yuhao discovered his Spectator ability, which let him discern others’ true thoughts and condense chaos qi, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained his Wisdom Soul Ring and its skills.
• Huo Yuhao used his insight to expose the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s embarrassing defeat and had Mental Interference replaced with Simulation.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained Huo Yuhao’s weak constitution and the mysterious droplet, then sent him back to consciousness.
• Tang Yin approached Tang Ya and Bei Bei as Huo Yuhao began to wake, and privately concluded that the frail boy was unlikely to be the Child of Destiny.

After Huo Yuhao awakens, Tang Ya and Bei Bei invite him and Tang Yin to join the declining Tang Sect, offering Tang Yin an examination-free place at Shrek Academy. Huo Yuhao rejects Tang Ya’s attempt to recruit him as an unpaid caretaker, but travels with the others to Shrek City to pursue the academy.

• Huo Yuhao confirms his Spiritual Detection works, and Tang Yin introduces himself as an eleven-and-a-half-year-old Blue Silver Grass Soul Grandmaster at rank twenty-nine.
• Tang Ya invites both boys to join the Tang Sect, and Tang Yin readily accepts while Huo Yuhao hesitates over the sect’s binding terms.
• Tang Ya explains that the Tang Sect has dwindled to three members and offers Tang Yin its examination-free Shrek Academy slot.
• Tang Ya proposes that Huo Yuhao join the sect and look after its empty Shrek City base, but Huo Yuhao pretends to consider it while asking for medicine and cultivation pills.
• Bei Bei apologizes for the Tang Sect’s lack of funds, and Huo Yuhao decides to travel with the group to Shrek City and see whether he can enter Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao tried to enroll at Shrek Academy without a recommendation letter, but Zhou Yi rejected and insulted him for his low talent. He left calmly, and, with little money and an empty stomach, decided to earn some money before pursuing his future elsewhere.

• Huo Yuhao learned that Shrek Academy required a recommendation letter and that registration would close in an hour.
• After hearing the volunteers criticize Zhou Yi, Huo Yuhao called her back and asked to register.
• Huo Yuhao disguised his Million-Year Soul Ring as a hundred-year ring and told Zhou Yi he had rank-one innate soul power and rank-eleven Soul Master strength.
• Zhou Yi dismissed Huo Yuhao as untalented, and he calmly defended his effort before leaving the registration desk.
• Dai Huabin mocked Huo Yuhao as a low-born servant, and Huo Yuhao glanced back at him before leaving Shrek Academy.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm encouraged Huo Yuhao, who said he was only regretful; then he realized he needed to earn money and find food.

Huo Yuhao sold grilled fish in Shrek City and met Feng Bujue, who told him about the corruption surrounding Shrek Academy’s recommendation letters. Feng Bujue paid Huo Yuhao to help promote Sun Moon Empire schooling and gave him a booklet about studying Soul Tools.

• Huo Yuhao set up a grilled-fish stall outside the merchant association, where Feng Bujue bought fish and learned that Huo Yuhao had been rejected by Shrek Academy.
• Feng Bujue explained how recommendation letters were exploited and described the corrupt arrangement involving a Regional Administrative Officer, a mother, and her talented daughter.
• Feng Bujue gave Huo Yuhao a Gold Soul Coin for the stall fee and asked him to help hand out promotional flyers after he sold his fish.
• Feng Bujue explained that the promotion recruited students for the Sun Moon Empire and offered copies of Introduction to Soul Tool, including guidance toward Mingdu Soul Tool Vocational and Technical College.

Huo Yuhao settled into a storeroom in Shrek City, studied Soul Tool theory with extraordinary speed, and built a friendship with Feng Bujue, who gave him books and engraving tools. Meanwhile, Tang Yin pushed his classmates through a harsh running test and discovered the dorm’s toilet shortage; Feng Bujue revealed his background and his search for a way to reach Level 50 Soul Power.

• Feng Bujue let Huo Yuhao rent a storeroom cheaply, offered him a bed and a textbook, and explained that he helped because Huo Yuhao reminded him of his own difficult youth.
• Huo Yuhao read more than eighty pages of the Soul Tool textbook overnight, then settled into a routine of cultivating, selling grilled fish, and studying.
• Zhou Yi ordered Freshman Class One to run one hundred laps, and Tang Yin demanded two hundred; Wang Dong and the rest of the class went out to run under the threat of expulsion.
• Tang Yin finished two hundred laps in three hours, then found students fighting over the dorm’s two toilets as he hurried back to use one.
• Huo Yuhao returned Feng Bujue’s textbook and demonstrated that he had nearly mastered it in a few days, astonishing Feng Bujue with his answers.
• Feng Bujue gave Huo Yuhao four Soul Tool books, an engraving knife, and practice metals, then revealed that he had graduated from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and was seeking a way to break through to Level 50 Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao studied Soul Tool theory and engraving under Feng Bujue’s guidance, then successfully completed a Level 1 Core Array in only twenty-odd days. Feng Bujue urged him to develop his skills secretly in Shrek City before entering the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy next year.

• Huo Yuhao spent more than ten days studying Soul Tool books while keeping up his usual work and cultivation routine.
• Huo Yuhao overheard students discussing expulsions at Shrek Academy and a girl whose mental breakdown left her and her mother struggling.
• Feng Bujue told Huo Yuhao that the girl lacked the money to move abroad and explained that talent and strength determined who had influence.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and precise Soul Power control to engrave a Level 1 Compression Core Array, which Feng Bujue tested successfully.
• Feng Bujue praised Huo Yuhao’s Soul Engineer talent and offered to help him enter the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy after he reached Level 2 in Shrek City.
• Feng Bujue advised Huo Yuhao to conceal his Soul Tool progress and Spiritual Detection Sharing Soul Skill while he remained in Shrek City.

Huo Yuhao received two valuable Mystic Water Pills from Feng Bujue, and the first pill raised his Soul Power from level eleven to level thirteen while improving his potential. Feng Bujue then wrote to his elder cousin at the Illustrious Virtue Hall, proposing that Huo Yuhao be trained there once he reached Level 2 Soul Engineer.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that gaining Chaos Qi could improve the essence of his Sea of Consciousness, while worrying that his Soul Power was growing too slowly.
• Feng Bujue brought Huo Yuhao two Mystic Water Pills and explained that they could boost Soul Power and improve a Soul Master's potential.
• Feng Bujue said he had bought the pills as an investment in Huo Yuhao, who solemnly promised to repay his kindness in the future.
• Huo Yuhao swallowed one Mystic Water Pill, and his Soul Power rose from level eleven to level thirteen as its effects cleansed his body.
• Feng Bujue wrote to his elder cousin, describing Huo Yuhao's Soul Tool talent and planning to bring him to the academy for further instruction after he became a Level 2 Soul Engineer.

Huo Yuhao overheard Tang Ya, Tang Yin, Bei Bei, and Xu Sanshi belittling him while he sold grilled fish, then argued with Tang Yin and Xu Sanshi about the value of soul tools. That night, Tang Yin visited the Soul Tool Department, where He Caitou challenged his crude repair of a soul tool gun barrel.

• Tang Ya, Tang Yin, Bei Bei, and Xu Sanshi ate Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish, and Tang Yin wondered whether Xiao Xiao might be the Child of Destiny.
• Huo Yuhao used his observations to read the group’s attitudes and noticed Tang Ya seemed especially attentive to Tang Yin.
• Tang Yin criticized Huo Yuhao for secretly learning about soul tools, and Huo Yuhao defended their creative potential and questioned why no soul masters had become gods in ten thousand years.
• Xu Sanshi dismissed soul tools and tossed coins at Huo Yuhao, while Bei Bei later warned Xu Sanshi not to cause trouble for him.
• Tang Yin crudely repaired a soul tool gun barrel in the Soul Tool Department, and He Caitou offered to teach him how to do it properly.

Huo Yuhao advanced his cultivation and Soul Engineer studies, then received a Soul Ascension Pill from Feng Bujue and learned more about the ultimate Martial Soul Sky Dream had given him. After hearing how an Inner Court Soul Emperor nearly killed Tang Yin and another student, Huo Yuhao took the pill and reached rank seventeen Soul Power.

• Huo Yuhao took his second Mystic Water Pill, raising his Soul Power to the peak of rank fourteen and improving his meridians.
• Huo Yuhao told Feng Bujue that observing others could strengthen his spiritual power, explaining it as a trait of his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.
• Feng Bujue gave Huo Yuhao a Soul Ascension Pill and explained that his powerful cousin had secured it through merchant-association connections.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao that his second Martial Soul was an ultimate Martial Soul with an ultimate attribute.
• Huo Yuhao heard that an Inner Court Soul Emperor had nearly burned Tang Yin and another student to death, and that each injured student received a Soul Ascension Pill as compensation.
• Huo Yuhao took Feng Bujue's Soul Ascension Pill that night and broke through to rank seventeen Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao advanced toward becoming a Level 2 Soul Engineer while Feng Bujue received a letter asking him to bring Huo Yuhao to the academy once he qualified. At Shrek Academy’s freshman assessment finals, Tang Yin’s Hidden Weapons helped his team win, but the academy excluded him from its list of core disciples.

• Huo Yuhao showed Feng Bujue a nearly completed Level 2 Core Array, and Feng Bujue praised his rapid progress despite his insufficient Soul Power.
• Feng Bujue read a letter from Feng Yu, who asked him to bring Huo Yuhao to the academy after he became a Level 2 Soul Engineer and said she might take him as a disciple.
• Tang Yin used Hidden Weapons against Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie, while Dai Huabin defeated Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu performed the Hell White Tiger, but Tang Yin used Dragon Whisker Needles and his movement technique to fight it until his team won the final.
• Du Weilun announced the approved core disciples, and Tang Yin realized that he had been left off the list despite leading his team to victory.

Tang Yin activated the God King's Mark to force Wang Dong’s destiny to intersect with the Child of Destiny’s, while Huo Yuhao broke through to the threshold of level twenty and learned that someone had interfered with his fate. After seeing the uproar over Feng Bujue’s newspaper interview, Huo Yuhao and Feng Bujue prepared to leave before Shrek Academy reacted.

• Tang Yin activated the God King's Mark in Wang Dong’s Sea of Consciousness to make her cross paths with the Child of Destiny again.
• Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness transformed as he neared level twenty, awakening his Telepathist ability and increasing his spiritual power.
• Electrolux introduced himself to Huo Yuhao and warned that someone had maliciously interfered with his destiny, promising to alert him when it changed.
• Huo Yuhao found Feng Bujue reading newspapers that criticized his comments about the Sun Moon Empire and Shrek Academy’s rejected applicants.
• Feng Bujue confirmed Huo Yuhao had reached level twenty and urged him to leave before Shrek Academy caught on.

Huo Yuhao and Feng Bujue fled Shrek City for the Far North after Huo Yuhao sensed a mysterious summons, but Wang Dong’s search for a Soul Tool brought her and Tang Yin into their path. The chapter left Huo Yuhao’s escape undiscovered by the academy’s leadership, who dismissed a report about him as nonsense.

• Wang Dong discovered that Huo Yuhao’s Level 1 Compression Ray Soul Tool did not make her feel sick and learned it had come from a small chamber of commerce connected to the Red Dust Chamber of Commerce.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Feng Bujue to travel north toward the Far North, and the two slipped out of Shrek City while Huo Yuhao used Simulation to avoid notice.
• City Management officers searched the chamber of commerce and Feng Bujue’s dormitory after the pair had escaped, finding only failed Core Arrays in Huo Yuhao’s room.
• At the city gate, Wang Dong confronted Feng Bujue about the Compression Ray, and Huo Yuhao explained that he had signed for the Soul Tool in a shipment from the Red Dust Chamber of Commerce.
• Tang Yin appeared and questioned Huo Yuhao, who claimed he was going outside the city to buy fish supplies; Tang Yin accepted the explanation and encouraged him to keep grilling fish.
• Yan Shaozhe dismissed a report identifying Feng Bujue and Huo Yuhao as Sun Moon Empire agents and told Du Weilun not to submit such reports again.

Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm traveled into the Far North, where Huo Yuhao left Feng Bujue safely hidden before meeting the Ice Empress. After persuading her to join the plan, Huo Yuhao endured the transformation and gained the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion as his Second Martial Soul.

• Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm put Feng Bujue to sleep, hid him in a protected ice chamber, and left him supplies and a letter.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that his plan to make Huo Yuhao a god was tied to his feelings for the Ice Empress.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm persuaded the Ice Empress that joining Huo Yuhao offered a chance at godhood and eternal life.
• Huo Yuhao promised to grow stronger, and the Ice Empress agreed to become his Second Martial Soul despite the dangers of the process.
• Huo Yuhao endured nearly an hour of severe pain as the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm completed the transformation.
• Huo Yuhao gained the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring with two Soul Skills, and a four-hundred-thousand-year torso bone with two abilities.

After awakening a second martial soul in the Far North, Huo Yuhao arrived at the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where his rare talents drew the attention of its master, Jing Hongchen. His screening went well, and Feng Yu prepared to take him to Quiet Heart Studio to meet Jing Hongchen.

• Huo Yuhao woke after a powerful spiritual presence caused him to pass out and discovered he had awakened the Ice Jade Scorpion as a second martial soul.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained Huo Yuhao's Spectator ability to the Ice Empress, who recognized how deeply it could affect his consciousness and soul.
• Feng Bujue brought Huo Yuhao to the academy, where Feng Yu arranged his enrollment and said Jing Hongchen wanted to meet him.
• Feng Tingting took Feng Bujue to the Review Office to complete paperwork while Jing Hongchen discussed delivering the Level 9 Soul Tool Red Dust Protection.
• Huo Yuhao passed his screening with reports showing pass rates above 98%, and Feng Yu took him toward Quiet Heart Studio.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated Spiritual Detection Sharing to Jing Hongchen, who judged him a gifted Soul Engineer and presented him with profiles of potential teachers. After considering the candidates and Jing Hongchen’s resources and standing, Huo Yuhao chose him as his teacher.

• Huo Yuhao explained the principles of interlocking core arrays and demonstrated Spiritual Detection Sharing for Jing Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen praised Huo Yuhao’s ability and gave him profiles of senior Soul Engineers to choose from.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed the profiles, including those of Jing Hongchen, Ye Yulin, and Xuan Ziwen, and noted Jing Hongchen’s strong resources and group of disciples.
• Feng Yu praised Jing Hongchen’s research funding and teaching record after Jing Hongchen signaled him to speak.
• Huo Yuhao bowed to Jing Hongchen and chose him as his teacher.

Jing Hongchen welcomed Huo Yuhao as his final disciple and gave him generous access to the academy’s resources, while warning him to conceal his rare Martial Souls. After explaining his high-stakes plan to invest in Huo Yuhao, Jing Hongchen decided to verify the boy’s background.

• Jing Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao about Soul Engineer classifications, then gave him a supplementary card that granted access to academy resources, except medicinal pills.
• Jing Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao study books and arranged for him to meet with Jing Hongchen on weekends, while telling him to keep his Twin Martial Souls and Ultimate Martial Soul secret.
• Feng Yu escorted Huo Yuhao to his dormitory and reminded him to attend Year Two, Class One the next day.
• Feng Yu questioned Jing Hongchen’s extravagant gift, and Jing Hongchen explained that Huo Yuhao’s talents could transform the continent and that he would invest in him even if he were a spy.
• Jing Hongchen told Feng Yu to review Feng Bujue’s report, rewarded Feng Yu with a future research opportunity, and ordered everyone informed to sign a confidentiality agreement.
• Jing Hongchen decided to investigate Huo Yuhao’s background by searching Star Luo City’s Martial Soul records.

Huo Yuhao began classes at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and learned about the empire’s advanced soul-engineering fields. Teacher Feng excused him from most regular classes and gave him a reading list and a box from their teacher, leaving Huoyuhao to explore the academy’s library and resources.

• Huo Yuhao introduced himself to Class One, whose students admired his appearance, while he used his Telepathist ability to read their reactions.
• Teacher Feng explained five levels of skill among Level 7 Soul Engineers and described advanced soul-tool fields, including linked, healing, and high-altitude tools.
• The Ice Empress marveled at the empire’s soul-guidance technology, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to interest her in stockings and was rebuffed.
• After class, Teacher Feng told Huo Yuhao he could skip most lessons if he submitted reports, gave him a reading list and a box from their teacher, and invited him to dinner.
• Huo Yuhao explained to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that accepting benefits helped build ties, then brushed off Hu Mei’s questions and left the classroom.

Huo Yuhao studied the foundations of Soul Tools and gave Feng Bujue a precious Barrier-Clearing Pill to repay his past help. He spent the following week living in the library, while Jing Hongchen postponed his study at Quiet Heart Studio because the research project had run into problems.

• Huo Yuhao reviewed Feng Yu’s reading list and mapped out the Soul Tool knowledge he needed, estimating he could learn the recommended books in fifty to sixty days.
• Huo Yuhao gave Feng Bujue a Barrier-Clearing Pill, explaining that Jing Hongchen had intended it to repay Feng Bujue for helping him and to show how much the dean valued him.
• Feng Bujue accepted the pill and planned to prepare himself before taking it in a few days.
• Huo Yuhao spent the next week studying in the library and meditating there instead of returning to his dormitory.
• Jing Hongchen sent Feng Yu to tell Huo Yuhao that the research project had encountered serious problems, so he did not need to study at Quiet Heart Studio during the first week.

Huo Yuhao defused Wang Shaojie's challenge by teaching him to pursue Hu Mei through extravagant, relentless flattery, then enjoyed a lavish meal in the Teachers' Canteen. He promised Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress that he would restore their bodies so they could share the finest food.

• Hu Mei's friend showed her Huo Yuhao's article and offered to tell Wang Shaojie about her anger.
• Huo Yuhao noticed students watching him in the library and realized Wang Shaojie was approaching to confront him.
• Huo Yuhao guessed Wang Shaojie liked Hu Mei, claimed he already liked someone else, and advised him to keep spending money and simping for her.
• Wang Shaojie accepted Huo Yuhao's advice and hurried off to pursue Hu Mei, while Huo Yuhao left for the Teachers' Canteen.
• Huo Yuhao ate a nourishing Soul Engineer meal and promised Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress that he would restore their bodies and share the best food with them.

Huo Yuhao welcomed his senior siblings Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen at the Quiet Heart Studio, where he demonstrated Spiritual Detection and received a fine engraving knife. He then settled into independent study under Jing Hongchen, while Xiao and Meng began to recognize his unusual abilities.

• Meng Hongchen welcomed Huo Yuhao and gave him the Class 6 engraving knife Ice Edge.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao to demonstrate his Soul Skill, and Spiritual Detection gave Xiao and Meng a detailed perception of everything within a hundred meters.
• Xiao Hongchen used his Martial Soul to shape metal and realized Spiritual Detection could greatly improve his Soul Tool work.
• Meng Hongchen used Spiritual Detection to examine Huo Yuhao and was astonished that she could find no openings in his defenses.
• Huo Yuhao showed Jing Hongchen the two books he planned to study and began reading and working through diagrams in the office.
• Jing Hongchen watched Huo Yuhao study seriously, while Xiao Hongchen grew bored and eventually opened a book of his own.