Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er reassured Wang Dong'er that Yuhao might accept her, and he promised to give her an answer in a few days. After Xu Yang revealed his second Martial Soul, Yan Shaozhe summoned him and offered to take him as a disciple, while Tang Yin suspected Xu Yang had taken Huo Yuhao's destiny and vowed to kill them both.

• Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er told Wang Dong'er that Huo Yuhao had rejected her to keep her out of his dangerous path, and Yuhao promised to answer her in a few days.
• Huo Yuhao hugged Wang Dong'er, Gu Qiu'er, and Gu Yuena while Tang Yin watched and decided to erase his rebellious daughter's memories later.
• Xu Yang revealed a second Martial Soul, an ice-attribute Phoenix, and defeated his opponent; Tang Yin suspected he had obtained the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and taken Huo Yuhao's destiny.
• Du Weilun brought Xu Yang to Yan Shaozhe, who offered to take him as a disciple after hearing his prepared account of gaining a second Martial Soul in the Far North.
• Xu Yang accepted Yan Shaozhe as his master, while Yan Shaozhe privately planned to pair him with Ma Xiaotao.

Huo Yuhao and his companions found a safe place in Electrolux's Undead Demiplane to remove the divine sense harming Wang Dong'er. They also began planning an industrial munitions factory there, and the chapter ended as they prepared to treat Wang Dong'er.

• Electrolux explained that the divine sense sustaining Wang Dong'er's soul had likely gone dormant and revealed that his Undead Demiplane could prevent it from sending messages.
• Huo Yuhao saw that the plane's tireless undead could staff an industrialized munitions factory, and Electrolux gave him authority to organize the plane.
• Huo Yuhao outlined plans to use Shrek Academy as a research base and starting point for opposing worship of the gods, while avoiding the Sun Moon Imperium because of suspected Evil Soul Master activity.
• Several days later, Huo Yuhao anesthetized Wang Dong'er and brought everyone into the Undead Demiplane to begin resolving her problem.

Huo Yuhao and his companions removed the Divine Sense influencing Wang Dong'er and uncovered a scheme involving her soul and the child of destiny. After Wang Dong'er learned that Tang San was likely behind it, Huo Yuhao reflected on his revenge against Dai Hao and decided it was time to build his own armed force.

• Electrolux and Gu Yuena removed the strand of Divine Sense from Wang Dong'er, revealing that her soul had been split and that the fragment was meant to parasitize the daughter of destiny.
• Huo Yuhao deduced that Tang San was the god behind the scheme, and Electrolux destroyed the Divine Sense while the remaining soul fragment strengthened Wang Dong'er.
• Wang Dong'er told Huo Yuhao about her childhood and, after seeing her Clear Sky Hammer, accepted that she was Tang San's daughter and learned what he was likely seeking.
• Wang Dong'er apologized to Gu Qiu'er before crying herself to sleep, while Huo Yuhao invited Gu Qiu'er and Gu Yuena to watch the stars with him.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to kill Dai Hao eventually but leave him alive while he remained essential to resisting the Sun Moon Imperium, and decided to build his own armed force.

Huo Yuhao planned to undermine Tang San by turning the Tang Sect against him, and enlisted Wang Dong'er to secretly gather information while helping Tang Ya rebuild the sect. Wang Dong'er agreed, reassured that her soul was being restored, and left happily holding Huo Yuhao's arm.

• Wang Dong'er arrived at class with her arm linked through Huo Yuhao's, and classmates teased her about spending the night in his dorm.
• Huo Yuhao considered his lack of experience leading armies and logistics, and thought about training Na'er and Qiu'er and trading with Ning Tian for resources.
• Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan questioned Wang Dong'er about her relationship with Huo Yuhao and her health; Wang Dong'er assured them that her physical problem had been resolved.
• Wang Dong'er told Huo Yuhao she wanted to leave the Tang Sect, but he urged her to help Tang Ya revive it and discover Tang San's role in the sect's decline.
• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Dong'er to act as a spy for the Tang Sect; she agreed, received a Secret Art and gold of life to strengthen her soul, and asked to hold his arm.

Huo Yuhao advanced his industrial plans, traded Life-Type Soul Tools for resources through Ning Tian, and offered to fund the Tang Sect. As the group prepared for a break, Tang Ya gave him the sect’s supreme techniques in thanks.

• Huo Yuhao expanded his production lines, planned to develop nuclear energy and advanced weapons, and began making Life-Type Soul Tools to trade for resources.
• The White Tiger Duke’s Mansion became a place of death after Dai Huabin and the duchess succumbed to the virus, while people also died at the Nether Duke’s Mansion.
• Wang Dong’er told Huo Yuhao she did not want to return to the Clear Sky Sect, and he encouraged her to stay and write them a letter.
• Huo Yuhao offered Ning Tian Life-Type Soul Tools in exchange for resources, then gave her a mechanical revolver and a hundred bullets.
• Huo Yuhao offered to fund the Tang Sect because Wang Dong’er wanted it to prosper, and Tang Ya thanked him by giving him the sect’s supreme techniques.

Tang Yin accepted Xuan Zi as his master, but Xuan Zi blocked Clear Sky Sect envoys from taking him back to the sect. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao brought Wang Dong'er to the Lake of Life, where Elder Yi had developed something that might help Gu Yuena and the soul beasts.

• Tang Yin revealed his Clear Sky Hammer to Xuan Zi, who offered to become his master, and Tang Yin accepted.
• Xuan Zi and Tang Yin agreed to search for demonic spider-type soul beasts so Tang Yin could obtain Eight Spider Lances.
• Two Clear Sky Sect men asked Tang Yin to return and acknowledge his ancestors, but Xuan Zi refused to let them take his disciple.
• Tang Yin pretended to be moved by the envoys' words while deciding that it was not yet the right time to visit the Clear Sky Sect.
• Gu Yuena teleported Wang Dong'er to the Lake of Life, where Huo Yuhao explained that Gu Yuena and Gu Qiu'er were soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena that Elder Yi had developed something that could be useful to her and the soul beasts.

Electrolux introduced Soul Spirits and helped Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er form their first ones with Tian Meng and a Light Butterfly. Later, the three girls celebrated Huo Yuhao's birthday, and he finally regained the ability to love specific people.

• Electrolux explained Soul Spirits and used Tian Meng's sacrifice to create one for Huo Yuhao, while saying further research could improve the method.
• Huo Yuhao performed the Soul Spirit ritual for Wang Dong'er with a Light Butterfly, and the others watched and learned from the process.
• The Soul Beasts grew more confident in Huo Yuhao as they saw how his knowledge and inventions strengthened them, and Di Tian became eager to bind him to their side.
• Gu Yuena, Wang Dong'er, and the third girl told Huo Yuhao it was his birthday and gave him gifts.
• Huo Yuhao embraced the three girls, then shared burnt fish with them, finally regaining the ability to love specific people.

Huo Yuhao discussed ways to strengthen Soul Beasts and offered to research bloodline enhancement, then tested the four Soul Skills granted by Tian Meng. He left eager to study the skills and still needed to investigate the differences between Soul Beast and human genetics.

• Huo Yuhao asked Gu Yuena how Soul Beasts could grow stronger, and she explained bloodline enhancement and the limits of their Dragon God Bloodline.
• Gu Yuena admitted that Soul Beasts had neglected studying their bloodlines, while Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao compared their reliance on innate powers and Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao offered to research bloodline enhancement, and Electrolux volunteered to help; Huo Yuhao then collected blood samples from his three girlfriends.
• Tian Meng urged Huo Yuhao to test his Soul Skills, and Spiritual Detection revealed detailed, constantly updating information within a ten-thousand-meter radius.
• Huo Yuhao tested Spiritual Sharing, Simulation, and Mental Interference, praised all four skills, and decided to analyze their Spell Pathways.

Huo Yuhao analyzed Ma Xiaotao’s bloodline and gave her a treatment to suppress the Evil Fire that had afflicted her family for generations. The chapter ended with Mu En connecting Huo Yuhao’s findings to his own Martial Soul evolution.

• Xiong Jun said his Sky-Rending Claw had injured an old man who escaped with a child.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy with his girlfriends as the new semester approached.
• Zhang Lexuan realized her feelings for Huo Yuhao and told Mu En, who revealed he had encouraged her closeness to him.
• Huo Yuhao showed Ma Xiaotao a bloodline analysis chart and explained that her Evil Fire stemmed from an inherited gene sequence.
• Huo Yuhao gave Ma Xiaotao medicine and a formula to suppress the Evil Fire, offering hope to others who shared her bloodline.
• Mu En asked whether the same gene sequence had caused his Martial Soul to evolve into the Radiant Sacred Dragon, and Huo Yuhao confirmed it.

During the semester exams, Tang Yin and Xu Yang displayed their combat abilities while each dealt with new suspicions and setbacks. Xu Yang decided to implicate Huo Yuhao in Dai Huabin’s death by informing Dai Yueheng, while also planning how to protect himself from Tang Yin.

• Huo Yuhao led the girls through their exams, while Wang Dong'er’s third Soul Ring and Tang Yin’s victory over a thousand-year Soul Beast drew attention.
• Tang Yin recalled how Xiong Jun overwhelmed Xuan Zi in the Star Dou Great Forest, badly injuring him and forcing him to flee with Tang Yin; Xuan Zi later secluded himself to recover.
• Tang Yin suspected Xu Yang was another otherworldly arrival and resolved to stay cautious, while Xu Yang showed off his two Martial Souls and obtained the Duplication Soul Skill from a seven-thousand-year Silver-English Beast.
• Xu Yang worried that he had lost access to the opportunities Huo Yuhao once enjoyed, suspected Huo Yuhao had controlled Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, and feared Tang Yin was watching him.
• Xu Yang decided to join the Shrek Seven Devils’ reserve team and tell Dai Yueheng that Huo Yuhao might have killed Dai Huabin, hoping to provoke the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion and earn a system reward.

Huo Yuhao arranged for Gu Qiu'er and the Tang Sect to handle cooperation with Ning Tian and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect over life-type soul tools and firearms. After examining the revolver and failing to reproduce it, Ning Tian's father decided to meet Huo Yuhao and seek a weapons purchase without deeper cooperation.

• Ning Tian caught up with Huo Yuhao and asked to discuss cooperation, so he assigned Gu Qiu'er to negotiate with her.
• Huo Yuhao sent Wang Dong'er to bring Tang Ya and Bei Bei into the firearms business, and Ning Tian invited everyone to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's restaurant.
• Ning Tian introduced her father, the sect master, who was astonished to learn that the young Huo Yuhao had invented the firearms.
• Ning Tian's father recalled how the sect's craftsmen had failed to reproduce the revolver because they could not forge its refined iron in bulk or make its ammunition.
• Ning Tian's father decided to meet Huo Yuhao and try to buy weapons, while avoiding any deeper cooperation because of the sect's past lesson involving Ning Fengzhi and Tang San.

Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian's father negotiated a major arms and supply deal while discussing the Tang Sect's destruction. Huo Yuhao concluded that Tang San had engineered events to control him and claim Douluo Star's fortune, leaving the group determined to kill Tang San.

• Wang Dong'er presented the firearms catalog, and Huo Yuhao, Ning Tian, and the others agreed to a deal paid partly in Gold Soul Coins and partly in supplies.
• Ning Tian's father warned Tang Ya that the Iron Blood Sect's attack on the Tang Sect had deeper forces behind it and that the attackers had seemed to search for something.
• Huo Yuhao privately concluded that Tang San had orchestrated the Tang Sect's destruction and told Wang Dong'er his suspicion was nearly certain.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Wang Dong'er, Gu Yuena, and the others how Tang San's plans could have bound Huo Yuhao and claimed human and Soul Beast fortune.
• Gu Yuena acknowledged she would not have noticed Tang San's schemes in her planned slumber, and the group silently agreed that Tang San must die.

Huo Yuhao and his companions visited the Treasure Appraisal Fair, where the sight of exploited young girls stirred his memories and resolve to change society. After they trapped and killed two would-be assassins, Xu Yang claimed his schemes had ruined Huo Yuhao’s life and received knowledge from the God of Wisdom System as a minor reward.

• Huo Yuhao brought Wang Dong'er, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where the young girls serving guests reminded him of the suffering he had witnessed in the Imperium.
• Huo Yuhao restrained his anger and left the fair with the others, but Gu Qiu'er detected people following them, so they moved to a secluded spot.
• The masked pursuers sounded Shrek Academy’s Distress Signal and attacked, but Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena trapped them in another place and killed two before Ma Xiaotao arrived.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that the assassins had fled, and she ordered the corpses taken back for investigation.
• Xu Yang watched the group leave and told the God of Wisdom System that he had intercepted Huo Yuhao’s whale glue and arranged an assassination attempt; the system granted him previously unmastered knowledge as a minor reward.

Huo Yuhao told his companions about the Imperium’s brutal use of wetware and Servitors, explaining that humanity had adopted them after Chaos corrupted artificial intelligence and brought civilization to ruin. He promised not to use those methods in this world, then learned that Dai Yueheng had sent the assassins and agreed to give their leader a quick death if he identified him.

• Huo Yuhao gathered Electrolux, Gu Yuena, and the others in the prison and explained how living people were turned into wetware and Servitors.
• Electrolux and the others condemned the Imperium’s methods, so Huo Yuhao explained that Chaos had corrupted humanity’s artificial intelligence and fed on humanity’s hopes and virtues.
• Huo Yuhao promised that he would never use wetware or Servitors in this world and said Electrolux’s undead magic could replace those methods.
• The assassins’ leader revealed that Dai Yueheng, the eldest young master of the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, had sent them.
• Huo Yuhao asked the leader to identify Dai Yueheng and agreed to grant him a quick death.

Huo Yuhao exposed Dai Yueheng as the mastermind behind the assassination attempt and secured his expulsion from Shrek Academy. Mu En learned that Huo Yuhao had killed Dai Huabin, while Huo Yuhao agreed to spare Dai Hao and Dai Luoli for now.

• Huo Yuhao identified Dai Yueheng as the person who ordered the assassins to kill him.
• Huo Yuhao produced the captured Soul Saint assassin, who confessed that Dai Yueheng had hired him.
• Mu En ordered Zhang Lexuan to arrange Dai Yueheng's expulsion and killed the assassin.
• Huo Yuhao admitted to killing Dai Huabin and said he would spare Dai Hao until someone could replace him and would not harm Dai Luoli.
• Dai Yueheng recalled learning Huo Yuhao's identity and ordering the assassination, and Zhang Lexuan entered the Soul Fighting Arena.

Zhang Lexuan brutally beat Dai Yueheng and expelled him from Shrek Academy, appointing Ma Xiaotao as his replacement on the tournament team. Later, Huo Yuhao confronted Mu En over the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s treatment of its female attendants, leaving Mu En unable to defend the practice.

• Zhang Lexuan attacked Dai Yueheng with her Soul Power and sword until she had broken nearly every bone in his body.
• Zhang Lexuan announced that Dai Yueheng had been expelled and that Ma Xiaotao would take his place on the team.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Ling Luochеn to tell Ma Xiaotao about her new role, promising to intervene if Ma Xiaotao mistreated her again.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Mu En over the Treasure Gathering Pavilion making young women work in revealing outfits, and Mu En could only say the practice had existed for a long time.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether an ancient practice was therefore right, and Mu En lowered his head without answering.

Huo Yuhao confronted Mu En about Shrek Academy’s corruption, political overreach, and the Shrek Inspection Corps, pressing him to reform the school into an academy focused on education. Mu En resolved to convene a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, while Zhang Lexuan reassigned Dai Yueheng’s position and discussed team placements for Huo Yuhao and his companions.

• Huo Yuhao drew on Mu En’s memories of helping poor children to discuss Shrek Academy’s origins as Blue Tyrant Academy, which admitted talented commoners.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Shrek’s influence and noble bias threatened its future, and Mu En agreed that the academy needed to focus on teaching and nurturing students.
• Mu En explained the Shrek Inspection Corps’ activities, and Huo Yuhao urged it to stop interfering in other nations’ affairs, cooperate with local forces against Evil Soul Masters, and keep accurate records.
• Huo Yuhao left after advising Mu En to protect the girls and teach them practical skills, and Mu En decided to convene a Sea God Pavilion Meeting to address Shrek’s problems.
• Zhang Lexuan told Mu En that she had severely injured Dai Yueheng and given his position to Ma Xiaotao; they discussed placing Huo Yuhao, Na'er, and Qiu'er on the main team’s reserve roster and Dong'er in contention for the reserve team.
• On the way back, Wang Dong'er asked whether Zhang Lexuan was interested in Huo Yuhao, and Gu Qiu'er said he would not accept her.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena abducted Dai Yueheng on his way to the Mingdou Mountains and brought him to the Undead Demiplane. There, Dai Yueheng learned that his captured assassins blamed him and that he was expected to become the first subject of the undead's experiments.

• Dai Yueheng rode toward the Northwest Army Group, resenting Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan and dreading how his father would learn he had been expelled from Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena used Spatial Stroll to seize Dai Yueheng's carriage and send it into the Undead Demiplane.
• Dai Yueheng awoke bound among the assassins he had sent after Huo Yuhao, unable to use his Martial Soul or Soul Power.
• A captive told Dai Yueheng that the undead were keeping them alive for experiments and that his strong physique made him the likely first test subject.
• Dai Yueheng tried to kill himself but found that something in his mouth prevented him from closing it, and he fell into despair.

Huo Yuhao learned that someone had revealed his background to Dai Yueheng, but could not identify who. At the Soul Fighting Arena, the students competed for places on the Shrek Seven Devils' Reserve Team, while Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er were named first-choice substitutes.

• Huo Yuhao told Gu Qiu'er that Dai Yueheng had tried to assassinate him because he feared Huo Yuhao would compete for the White Tiger Duke position, but Dai Yueheng did not know who had revealed Huo Yuhao's background.
• Zhang Lexuan brought the core disciples to the Soul Fighting Arena, where Xuan Zi announced a free-for-all to select seven Reserve Team members and said Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er would have separate arrangements.
• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan formed a group, while Xu Yang gathered allies and the students began attacking one another.
• The students eliminated Tang Yin, then Xu Yang betrayed a teammate and was forced off the platform after the others joined Wang Dong'er in attacking him.
• Elder Song announced the seven students remaining on the stage as the Shrek Seven Devils' Reserve Team and named Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er first-choice substitutes.
• Xu Yang saw Huo Yuhao's calm expression after his own elimination, trembled, and made a decision.

Zhang Lexuan brought Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er to meet the Shrek Seven Devils and announced that they would be substitutes. After Chen Zifeng challenged their abilities, Gu Qiu'er defeated him in three moves, leaving the others convinced of the newcomers' strength.

• Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao's group arrived at the Soul Fighting Arena, where Ma Xiaotao said Huo Yuhao's medicine had suppressed her evil fire.
• Zhang Lexuan introduced Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and Gu Qiu'er as substitutes, prompting Chen Zifeng to question their qualifications.
• Gu Qiu'er accepted Chen Zifeng's challenge and fought him on the arena stage.
• Gu Qiu'er disarmed Chen Zifeng and held her spear to his throat, defeating him in three moves.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Gu Qiu'er to replace Chen Zifeng, but Gu Qiu'er refused, and Zhang Lexuan let Chen Zifeng remain on the team.