Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao awakened in his mother Huo Yun'er's grave and realized he had returned to the Douluo Continent after his apparent death on the Golden Throne. He vowed to avenge her, resolved to grow stronger without hunting Soul Beasts, and headed toward the Star Dou Great Forest with Shrek Academy and Dai Huabin in mind.

• Huo Yuhao awoke on Huo Yun'er's grave and recognized the headstone, then confirmed that he had returned to the Douluo Continent rather than fallen into an illusion.
• Huo Yuhao vowed to avenge his mother and reflected on how the dark gods had manipulated events around the Golden Throne.
• Huo Yuhao considered gaining strength by hunting Soul Beasts but rejected that path as resembling the dark gods' followers.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Huabin was enrolling at Shrek Academy and decided to visit Shrek City for information and a chance to confront the Dai family.
• Huo Yuhao reached the Star Dou Great Forest several days later.

Huo Yuhao met Tang Ya and Bei Bei, then ventured into the Star Dou Great Forest, where he sensed a strange sacrifice and encountered a powerful golden Soul Beast. The chapter left him face-to-face with the beast as it demanded to know what he was thinking.

• Tang Ya invited Huo Yuhao to travel with her and Bei Bei and join the Tang Sect, but Huo Yuhao politely refused and went on alone.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei discussed Huo Yuhao’s firm resolve and Tang Ya’s unusual urge to recruit him, recalling another mental-type boy they had met two days earlier.
• A Wind Baboon attacked Huo Yuhao, but he killed it with his dagger and saw a white Soul Ring appear.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a powerful mental fluctuation and witnessed a golden-marked Ice Silkworm sacrifice itself to a purple-gold-haired boy, while a gray current followed it into the boy’s head.
• Huo Yuhao tried to leave the forest, but a huge golden, three-eyed Soul Beast rushed toward him and spoke.

Huo Yuhao befriended the Emperor Auspicious Beast by calmly speaking with her and cooking a meal for her and the Scarlet King. After she was won over, she asked him to stay as her cook and promised to protect him in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The Emperor Auspicious Beast confronted Huo Yuhao, but he calmly suggested they become friends, and she admitted she had only meant to scare him.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself and learned that the Emperor Auspicious Beast had no name beyond her title.
• The Scarlet King brought several Soul Beasts, and Huo Yuhao used precise Soul Power to prepare and roast them.
• The Emperor Auspicious Beast and the Scarlet King enjoyed Huo Yuhao's cooking, and she asked him to stay by her side as her cook.
• Huo Yuhao accepted, sensing a maternal voice drawing him deeper into the forest, and the Emperor Auspicious Beast promised to protect him.

Huo Yuhao arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest’s emerald lake with the Auspicious Beast and met Di Tian and Bi Ji, who allowed him to stay as the Auspicious Beast’s cook. As Huo Yuhao learned about intelligent Soul Beasts and shared a meal with them, he concluded they deserved to be treated as people; the chapter ended with him offering secretly saved roast meat to someone hidden nearby.

• The Auspicious Beast brought Huo Yuhao to Di Tian, who moved to kill him until she explained she wanted him as her cook; Bi Ji persuaded Di Tian to let him stay.
• Bi Ji explained that Soul Beasts surviving the 200,000-Year Tribulation could take human form, and she and Huo Yuhao discussed the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Bi Ji about Soul Beast predation and concluded that intelligent Soul Beasts shared human values and should be regarded as people.
• Di Tian and the Scarlet King returned with Soul Beasts to be cooked, and Xiong Jun arrived before shrinking into human form to join the meal.
• The Auspicious Beast invited Huo Yuhao to stay with her, but he chose to sleep beside the lake; after the others left, he offered a hidden companion some roast meat.

Huo Yuhao met Gu Yuena and learned that the Divine Realm had helped doom the soul beasts by establishing the soul master system. He declared his intent to oppose the gods and formed an alliance with Gu Yuena, who agreed not to take revenge on humanity if he could resolve the soul beasts’ crisis.

• Huo Yuhao detected a hidden space beneath the lake and met Gu Yuena, while Di Tian arrived and greeted her as his lord.
• Huo Yuhao questioned why soul beasts had to serve as stepping stones for humans and argued that they deserved the chance to change their fate.
• Di Tian explained that the human gods had defeated the Dragon God and barred beasts from becoming gods, then established the soul master system to exterminate them.
• Huo Yuhao condemned the Divine Realm for manipulating mortals and said he would destroy those who ruled as gods.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena agreed to oppose the Divine Realm, with Gu Yuena promising not to take revenge on humanity if he resolved the soul beasts’ crisis.

After forming a fragile alliance, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena planned to travel to Shrek Academy while the Divine Realm's surveillance of Douluo Continent was blocked. Gu Yuena and the Auspicious Beast would accompany him, and Huo Yuhao asked Di Tian to arrange their entry; the group prepared to leave the day after tomorrow.

• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena he planned to visit Shrek Academy to study the world, and Gu Yuena decided to go with him despite Di Tian's objections.
• Gu Yuena explained that fortune had blocked the Divine Realm's surveillance for up to twenty years, though contingencies and restricted divine interference remained possible.
• Huo Yuhao planned to make arrangements the next day and accepted Gu Yuena's company as both protection and surveillance.
• The Auspicious Beast asked to join them, and Gu Yuena agreed, believing she could keep her safe and that she could help connect humans and Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao asked Di Tian to obtain three recommendation letters for Shrek Academy, and Gu Yuena named the Auspicious Beast Gu Qiu'er and said they would pose as sisters.

Gu Yuena made Huo Yuhao an ally and prepared to accompany him to the human world while ordering the Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest to organize and gather resources. After the Illusion Butterfly sacrificed itself to give Huo Yuhao a Soul Ring, he studied its workings and Storage Soul Tools; the chapter ended with Gu Qiu'er taking human form and rushing to see him.

• Gu Yuena declared Huo Yuhao an ally and ordered the Ferocious Beasts to survey and organize the Soul Beasts, gather ores, and avoid drawing human attention.
• Gu Yuena offered Huo Yuhao a dying Illusion Butterfly, which agreed to sacrifice itself and raised his Soul Power to rank seventeen.
• Huo Yuyao analyzed the Soul Ring as a pathway that used energy and his Martial Soul to cast a fixed spell.
• Di Tian showed Huo Yuhao Storage Soul Tools, and Huo Yuhao discovered that one contained a ten-meter-cubed pocket dimension.
• Huo Yuhao spent the day studying the Storage Soul Tools and stabilizing his cultivation while Gu Qiu'er took human form.
• Gu Qiu'er emerged as a golden-haired girl and hurried to Huo Yuhao, prompting Gu Yuena to form ideas and Di Tian to react darkly.

Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er registered at Shrek Academy and were assigned dorm rooms, where Huo Yuhao quickly defeated his new roommate, Wang Dong, in a fight. The dorm supervisor recognized Huo Yuhao’s combat experience, while Wang Dong accepted his criticism and headed inside.

• Gu Yuena teleported Huo Yuhao and Gu Qiu'er near Shrek City, and the three registered at Shrek Academy on the final day.
• Huo Yuhao showed his rank-seventeen Soul Power and Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, while Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er revealed their Soul Elder cultivation and passed registration.
• The three were assigned to Freshman Class Nine, with Huo Yuhao in Room 108 and Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er sharing Room 408.
• Huo Yuhao met his roommate, Wang Dong, who ordered him to follow her rules and challenged him after he called her a spoiled young lady.
• Huo Yuhao caught Wang Dong’s kick and slammed her to the ground, then went to apply for a room change as Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er came to meet him.
• The dorm supervisor told Wang Dong that Huo Yuhao’s combat experience had given him the advantage and that she had lost her nerve; Wang Dong thanked him and went inside.

Huo Yuhao failed to get a new dorm room and met Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er for a meal, where he questioned Shrek Academy’s dining customs. After meeting Xu Yang, whose hostility toward him and interest in the girls raised suspicions, Huo Yuhao decided to stay alert and investigate.

• Huo Yuhao learned that no dorm rooms were available and left without confronting Wang Dong.
• Huo Yuhao joined Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er in the dining hall and planned to buy tables and chairs after they questioned the academy's lack of them.
• Huo Yuhao reunited with Tang Ya and Bei Bei and met Xu Yang, a Mental Attribute Soul Master who appeared hostile toward him.
• Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er sensed Xu Yang's strange interest in them, and Huo Yuhao agreed to investigate rather than attack him immediately.
• Huo Yuhao warned Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er that Shrek Academy might impose other unreasonable practices and asked them to tell him if they encountered any.

Huo Yuhao returned to Dorm 108 and resumed cultivating after Wang Dong apologized, while Gu Yuena decided to trust his plan to challenge the Divine Realm. Xu Yang suspected that Tang Yin was a reborn Tang San and that Huo Yuhao had also been reborn, and he resolved to claim Huo Yuhao’s opportunities as a faint tremor stirred the gray ball in his spiritual world.

• Huo Yuhao returned to Dorm 108, accepted Wang Dong’s apology, introduced himself, and resumed cultivating while Wang Dong went to bed.
• Gu Yuena told Gu Qiu’er that Huo Yuhao intended to destroy the Divine Realm and explained how his plan could let Soul Beasts attain god-level cultivation.
• Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu’er said they believed in Huo Yuhao and would gamble on his plan because the Soul Beast Clan had no other path to survival.
• Xu Yang brought Tang Yin dinner and watched his reaction when he mentioned meeting Huo Yuhao, concluding that Tang Yin was a reborn Tang San.
• Xu Yang recalled his transmigration, his plans to take Huo Yuhao’s opportunities, and his suspicion that Huo Yuhao was also reborn; he resolved to awaken Electrolux, while a gray ball in his spiritual world trembled faintly.

Tang San’s memories revealed how he had plotted against Huo Yuhao, only for Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena to defeat him and annihilate his allies. After the God of Wisdom resurrected Tang San in a child’s body and sent him to Huo Yuhao’s era, Tang San began cultivating as Tang Yin and struggled through his early years.

• Tang San gathered evidence against Huo Yuhao and planned to kill him with Tang Xuanyu, while Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena prepared to overthrow the Divine Realm.
• Tang San and Tang Xuanyu ambushed Huo Yuhao at the Sea God’s Mansion, but Huo Yuhao repelled their attacks and killed Tang Xuanyu.
• Gu Yuena killed Tang Wulin and held off the God Kings as Huo Yuhao and Wang Qiu’er slaughtered Tang San’s allies and descendants.
• Huo Yuhao annihilated Tang San, but the God of Wisdom rescued Tang San’s soul and sent him to Huo Yuhao’s era to stop the Dark King.
• Tang San agreed to the God of Wisdom’s mission, cultivated under the alias Tang Yin, and faced hardships while pursuing his goals.

Tang San suspected Xu Yang had taken the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s destined opportunity and planned to investigate him while pursuing his own secret ambitions. At Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao and the Gu sisters met their new homeroom teacher, Zhang Lexuan, who began the first lesson after Ning Tian and Wu Feng volunteered as class monitors.

• Tang San recalled Xu Yang’s visits to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice site, suspected divine interference, and decided to have Da Ming and Er Ming investigate.
• Tang San planned to keep Xiao Qi away from Xu Yang for now and considered sending Xu Yang to Qiankun Asking Love Valley after learning who supported him.
• Wang Dong woke late, rushed to class, and saw Gu Qiu'er and Gu Yuena seated beside Huo Yuhao.
• Zhang Lexuan introduced herself as the class’s homeroom teacher and revealed her eight Soul Rings, including a red one.
• Zhang Lexuan recalled that Mu En had asked her to watch Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er, especially Huo Yuhao and his Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng volunteered as class monitor and deputy monitor, and Zhang Lexuan began teaching the class about Soul Masters.

After class, Ning Tian invited Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, but Huo Yuhao proposed cooperation instead of joining. Their conversation about Soul Tools led Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er to ask to visit Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department, and Huo Yuhao agreed to go after afternoon classes.

• Zhang Lexuan ended the morning lessons and announced that she would test the students’ practical combat abilities in the afternoon.
• Ning Tian invited Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er to a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect restaurant and asked Huo Yuhao to join her faction.
• Huo Yuhao declined to join the sect but said it would make a good partner, then asked Ning Tian for her personal views on Soul Tools.
• Ning Tian explained that the Douluo Three Kingdoms and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect lagged behind the Sun Moon Imperium in Soul Tool development.
• Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er said they wanted to visit the Soul Tool Department, and Huo Yuhao agreed to take them after class.

Class Nine competed against Zhou Yi’s class at the Soul Fighting Arena, where Huo Yuhao swiftly defeated Wang Dong and Class Nine proved stronger overall. After watching the remaining matches, Huo Yuhao decided to visit the Soul Tool Department with Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er.

• Zhang Lexuan agreed to Zhou Yi’s challenge to have their students compete, and Huo Yuhao accepted Wang Dong’s rematch to keep Zhou Yi from targeting his roommate.
• Wang Dong revealed her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul and attacked Huo Yuhao, who answered with a black ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao dodged Wang Dong’s Butterfly Wing Guillotine and struck her out of the ring with his sword, drawing surprise from the crowd and praise from Zhang Lexuan and Zhou Yi for his skill.
• The students fought in singles, pairs, and teams; Tang Yin and Xu Yang avoided Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er, while both girls revealed their Soul Rings and won easily.
• Class Nine showed greater strength overall, and Huo Yuhao judged the matches dull before deciding to visit the Soul Tool Department with Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er.

Huo Yuhao visited Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department with Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er, quickly grasped how a soul tool worked, and carved a functioning Class 2 soul tool core. He declined Fan Yu’s invitation to join the department for now, leaving with books to study on his own as Fan Yu alerted Dean Qian and Zhang Lexuan reported his interest to Mu En.

• Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er found the out-of-the-way Soul Tool Department, where Zhou Yi and Fan Yu asked whether they wanted to study soul tools.
• Fan Yu showed the three students the testing area, and Huo Yuhao dismantled a sample soul tool before quickly reassembling it.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he wanted materials to study soul tools, then carved a working Class 2 soul tool core at a workbench.
• Fan Yu eagerly invited Huo Yuhao to join the Soul Tool Department, but Huo Yuhao chose to study independently and accepted introductory books.
• After the three left, Fan Yu told Zhou Yi he would inform Dean Qian about the talented new students, while He Caitou said Xu Yang had gone away.
• Zhang Lexuan reported Huo Yuhao’s interest in soul tools to Mu En, who reacted with a sharp gleam in his eyes.

Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao to help Soul Beasts face the rise of Soul Tools, and he agreed to teach her while insisting they should be comrades rather than lovers. He revealed his connection to another world and his opposition to the Divine Realm, while Electrolux secretly recruited the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to observe Xu Yang.

• On the way back, Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao to teach her about Soul Tools, and he explained how their development could lead to Soul Beasts being raised in captivity for Soul Rings.
• Gu Yuena begged Huo Yuhao for help, but he lifted her up and said he respected her as a ruler and wanted them to be comrades; Gu Qiu'er agreed to forget the moment.
• Gu Yuena asked whether Huo Yuhao came from another plane, and he told her about his soul's journey to a human Imperium ruled by his father, the Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao said he could not tolerate gods manipulating humanity, and Gu Yuena decided to study his knowledge and Soul Tools with him.
• Xu Yang grew jealous after seeing Huo Yuhao return with Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er, then struggled to fall asleep.
• Late that night, Electrolux asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to secretly observe Xu Yang as an assessment of whether he was a suitable host.

Huo Yuhao taught a group of students the scientific principles behind Soul Tools, drawing the interest of Ning Tian and He Caitou. After the lesson, Ning Tian committed to studying the material, while Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao to call her Na’er.

• Huo Yuhao brought Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er to the Soul Tool Department to teach them, and He Caitou asked to join the lesson.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng followed them, and Ning Tian and He Caitou were allowed to sit in.
• Huo Yuhao taught the group Newtonian principles from Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, using experiments to explain the material.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to hold lessons every other day after Ning Tian asked for time to review, and He Caitou left to tell Teacher Fan Yu about the lesson.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao to call her Na’er, and Gu Qiu'er was surprised that Gu Yuena understood the lesson so well.
• Ning Tian rebuked Wu Feng for dismissing Huo Yuhao's teaching and warned her not to attend if she did not intend to learn.

Huo Yuhao spent two months teaching and training Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er before sharing a meal with Tang Ya, Bei Bei, Wang Dong, and Jiang Nannan. When Mu En asked why he was freely teaching the Soul Tool Department, Huo Yuhao said knowledge should benefit everyone.

• Huo Yuhao coached Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er in combat and left study notes and metallurgical production plans for the Soul Beasts.
• He Caitou passed Huo Yuhao's lessons to Fan Yu and Qian Duoduo, who were delighted by what they learned.
• Huo Yuhao hosted Tang Ya, Bei Bei, Wang Dong, and Jiang Nannan for grilled fish, where they met Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er and learned the girls were Soul Elders known as the Golden and Silver Dragon Girls.
• Tang Ya invited Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect, but he declined, while Wang Dong boasted that he would soon defeat him.
• Mu En joined the group and asked Huo Yuhao why he taught the Soul Tool Department for free; Huo Yuhao replied that knowledge should not be monopolized and technology should benefit humanity.

Huo Yuhao agreed to teach at Shrek Academy and requested access to its library, then challenged the academy’s harsh treatment of students under Zhou Yi. After Mu En promised to investigate and suspend her, a masked woman lost control near them, and Mu En confronted Yan Shaozhe over the academy’s attempt to silence witnesses.

• Huo Yuhao told Lady Euten that he wanted to become a schoolteacher after the Emperor’s work was complete.
• Mu En asked Huo Yuhao to teach more people, gave him access to the Inner Court’s Library Pavilion, and directed Bei Bei and Tang Ya to study.
• Wang Dong complained that Zhou Yi had expelled many students and imposed exhausting training, and Huo Yuhao argued that teachers should guide students with suitable methods.
• Mu En said he would investigate Zhou Yi’s conduct and temporarily suspend her from teaching.
• A masked woman rushed toward the group, and Mu En struck her into the lake with a golden hand.
• Yan Shaozhe tried to make the witnesses forget what they had seen, but Mu En called him over furiously.

After discovering years of abuse and cover-ups at Shrek Academy, Mu En disciplined the Martial Soul Department and ordered compensation for expelled and injured students. He then arranged to meet Huo Yuhao again, hoping to win his help and preserve the academy’s future.

• Mu En confronted the newcomers over their treatment of students, sent them away with Xiaotao confined, and apologized to Huo Yuhao.
• Mu En reviewed academy records, found evidence of past tragedies being covered up, and summoned the academy’s leaders to a meeting.
• Mu En removed Yan Shaozhe as dean, restricted Du Weilun’s authority, dismissed Zhou Yi’s associates, and ordered compensation and apologies for abused students and victims’ families.
• Mu En told Zhang Lexuan that the Soul Tool Department could learn directly from Huo Yuhao and invited her to meet him the next day.
• Mu En privately resolved to seek Huo Yuhao’s knowledge and a way to live another twenty years, fearing the academy’s future if Huo Yuhao became its enemy.