Recaps

Huo Yuhao spent his break playing marbles, then shared lunch and a conversation with Ma Xiaotao at Cao's Rice Bowl. He learned she had entered Shrek's Inner Court and that its students joined the Shrek Inspection Corps, which monitored Soul Masters and dealt with evil ones.

• Huo Yuhao taught the neighborhood children how to play marbles before returning to Cao's Rice Bowl for lunch.
• Huo Yuhao grilled fish for Ma Xiaotao, and they discussed Shrek Academy, cultivation, and the upcoming Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao that Zhang Lexuan and Strawberry had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest to find Soul Rings and that she would soon leave on a mission.
• Ma Xiaotao paid for lunch and left, while Sister Lin teased Huo Yuhao and Huo Yun hurried him away.
• Huo Yuhao asked Huo Yun about Inner Court missions, and she explained that Inner Court students joined the Shrek Inspection Corps, which monitored Soul Masters and targeted evil Soul Masters.

Huo Yun discovered that Tang San’s followers were preparing to slaughter powerful ice-attribute soul beasts in the Far North, possibly to weaken Huo Yuhao, and sent Di Tian to warn the Snow Empress. She then investigated the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Tang San had made the surrounding Sunset Forest a poisoned wasteland, with blue-gold light concealing what lay deeper inside.

• Huo Yun explained to Huo Yuhao how evil soul masters arose and warned him to kill them if he could, then run and seek help if he could not.
• Huo Yun discovered that Tang San’s followers were heading toward the Far North to hunt soul beasts with powerful ice attributes, supposedly over the Ice God’s divine seat.
• Electrolux suggested Tang San might be trying to weaken Huo Yuhao by eliminating the powerful ice-type soul beasts he could use to grow stronger.
• Huo Yun asked Di Tian to warn the Snow Empress and prepare the Star Dou Great Forest to assist the Far North against Tang San’s forces.
• Huo Yun realized Tang San might also target the Ice Dragon King at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then found the Sunset Forest poisoned by jade-scale seven-extinction flowers and its depths hidden behind blue-gold light.

Huo Yun discovered that Tang San had concealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and considered the Ice God’s Divine Seat as a backup for Huo Yuhao. She also asked Electrolux to investigate Soul Spirits, then kept Huo Yuhao from training until his agreed rest period ended; when he reached Xinghe Manufacturing, Huo Yun told him to scout inside with Spiritual Detection.

• Huo Yun reported that Tang San had surrounded the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with divine power, so the group weighed the risks and considered Plan B.
• Huo Yun revealed that the Ice God had perished and her Divine Seat remained, prompting the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to embrace the idea of Huo Yuhao inheriting it.
• Huo Yun asked Electrolux to explore creating Soul Spirits from Soul Beast souls, and he enlisted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help.
• Huo Yun explained that Soul Spirits could reduce Soul Beast hunting but would not resolve every source of conflict, and Huo Yuhao resolved to grow strong enough to protect them.
• Huo Yun made Huo Yuhao rest instead of cultivating until the agreed period ended, and he later arrived at Xinghe Manufacturing on the tenth day.
• Huo Yun stopped Huo Yuhao from entering Xinghe Manufacturing and told him to use the Eye of Destiny to activate Spiritual Detection inside.

Huo Yuhao avoided meeting Shrek Academy vice dean Qian Duoduo after Zhao Xinghe invited him without his consent, then learned that using the Eye of Destiny refined his Soul Power at the cost of lowering his level. Huo Yun told him he would need a Soul Power Vortex by Level 20 to qualify for a God-level Martial Soul, while Qian Duoduo left Xinghe Manufacturing after waiting for him all day.

• Huo Yun told Huo Yuhao that Zhao Xinghe had invited his teacher, Qian Duoduo, to meet him without waiting for his answer, so Huo Yuhao decided to return another day rather than risk an awkward confrontation.
• After Huo Yuhao deactivated the Eye of Destiny, he noticed his Soul Power capacity had decreased, and Huo Yun explained that its quality had improved through compression.
• Huo Yun said Huo Yuhao needed to form a Soul Power Vortex by Level 20 before they could seek his third Martial Soul, and she explained that a Soul Core was condensed Soul Power that enhanced recovery and cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to keep training, while Qian Duoduo waited at Xinghe Manufacturing until evening and reprimanded Zhao Xinghe for not confirming that Huo Yuhao would come.
• Qian Duoduo left after telling Zhao Xinghe to arrange a meeting with Huo Yuhao before contacting him again or bring the boy to Shrek Academy.

The Snow Empress and Ice Empress prepared to defend the Far North as the Sea God Family advanced with a thousand powerful Soul Masters. Huo Yuhao collected a gravity Soul Tool from Zhao Xinghe, and the chapter ended with Bo Yunjie leading the Sea God Family into the blizzard.

• The Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Di Tian spotted Sea God Family scouts in the Far North and decided to let the Far North's Soul Beasts handle them.
• The Sea God Family patriarch chose to attack the Far North directly and seize territory for their formation, despite the Snow Empress's blizzard trapping their scouts.
• Huo Yuhao collected his watch-shaped Level 7 Gravity Soul Tool from Zhao Xinghe and declined his offer of an apprenticeship, then used Simulation to slip away unnoticed.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Cao's Rice Bowl and put on the Soul Tool, which could increase gravity on his body and Soul Power to support his training.
• Huo Yun alerted Di Tian that more than a thousand Sea God Family members were gathering at the Far North, but the Snow Empress refused outside help.
• Bo Yunjie led the Sea God Family's thousand Soul Masters into the blizzard.

The Snow Empress confronted the Sea God Family as its forces entered the Far North, while the Ice Empress, Titan Snow Demon King, and Ice Bear King prepared to fight. After Bo Yunjie used the Sea God Helmet to withstand her attack, the family split into eighteen groups, and the Far North's forces launched a coordinated assault.

• The Snow Empress met Bo Yunjie and warned the Sea God Family to leave, but he summoned the Sea God Helmet and fought her with the power of the ocean.
• The Sea God Family split its thousand members into eighteen groups, and the Ice Empress, Titan Snow Demon King, and Ice Bear King moved to intercept them.
• The Ice Empress attacked Bo Yunxiu with Ice Emperor's Wrath and Ice Empress's Pincer, forcing the rank-98 Super Douluo onto the defensive.
• The Titan Snow Demon King engaged Bo Tianlong while the Ice Bear King and numerous Soul Beasts attacked the Sea God Family's scattered groups.

Tang San used the Sea God Helmet to awaken the Ice God's Divine Seat in the Far North, turning the Sea God Family’s failed raid into a continent-wide crisis. The surviving humans withdrew, while the Far North’s leaders realized that the awakened Divine Seat would draw powerful factions to their territory.

• The Ice Empress froze the Sea God Family’s forces and badly injured Bo Yunxiu, while the Snow Empress and other Soul Beasts surrounded the humans and blocked their retreat.
• Tang San watched the Sea God Family’s defeat and decided to intervene; the Sea God Helmet then unleashed divine power that blasted the Snow Empress away and suppressed most of the Soul Beasts.
• A ribbon of blue-gold light passed through Di Tian and entered the Far North, triggering a vast cold current that froze people and spread across half the Douluo World.
• Huo Yun realized that Tang San had deliberately awakened the Ice God's Divine Seat to attract human factions and provoke conflict with the Far North’s Soul Beasts.
• Bo Yunjie led the Sea God Family out of the Far North, with fewer than half of its thousand-plus members surviving; the Ice Bear King and the others then returned to the Snow Empress.
• Di Tian told the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that the cold current had come from the Ice God's Divine Seat hidden in the Far North.

The God Realm Committee approved Tang San’s plan to secretly select and test a successor for the Ice God’s Divine Seat, while the Far North’s Soul Beasts learned why they could not inherit it. Huo Yun revealed a way the Snow Empress could become human and eventually draw the Divine Seat to herself.

• Tang San explained that his Sea God Helmet replica had triggered the Ice God’s Divine Seat and proposed secretly nurturing a successor instead of removing the seat.
• The God of Evil, Goddess of Kindness, Goddess of Life, and God of Destruction approved Tang San’s proposal, requiring his chosen candidate to pass their tests.
• Di Tian told the Snow Empress and the Far North’s Soul Beasts that the Divine Seat’s counterattack had revealed its location and could draw human challengers.
• The Ice Empress, Ice Bear King, and Titan Snow Demon King supported the Snow Empress as the Ice God’s successor, but Huo Yun warned that Soul Beasts could not become gods under the Dragon God’s rule.
• Huo Yun explained that the Snow Empress could use a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus to restart her cultivation as a human and attract the Ice God’s Divine Seat after reaching rank-99 Limit Douluo.

The Snow Empress and the Far North’s powerful soul beasts decided to publicly expose the Ice God’s Divine Seat and let anyone capable claim it, while the Snow Empress prepared to cultivate as a human. Meanwhile, Huo Yun accelerated Huo Yuhao’s training, and he reached level 20, formed a soul-power vortex, and built up enough strength to attempt his third soul ring.

• The Snow Empress concluded that the Far North could not safely guard the Ice God’s Divine Seat while she cultivated, and Huo Yun proposed opening it to all challengers.
• The Snow Empress ordered A-Tai to announce the challenge, assigned the Ice Bear King to guard her and the Ice Empress to oversee the Far North, and sent others to protect its soul beasts.
• Huo Yun revealed the location of a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus, and the Snow Empress went to retrieve it before beginning her cultivation.
• The Far North’s announcement spread across the continent, shocking powerful figures, and Huo Yun told Huo Yuhao to focus on cultivation so he could obtain the Ice God Martial Soul sooner.
• Huo Yuhao reached level 20 in less than half a year and spent another year compressing his soul power until it formed a vortex in his dantian.
• As Huo Yuhao approached his eighth birthday, his physical and spiritual abilities had advanced enough for Huo Yun to say he could attempt to obtain his third soul ring.

After Huo Yuhao felt a mysterious call from the Far North following his breakthrough to rank twenty, Zhang Lexuan arranged to take him there with Strawberry and two Shrek deans. The group reached the Far North’s outskirts, where Xian Lin'er questioned Yan Shaozhe’s fixation on Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao told Strawberry that an ice-attribute power and a distant call had appeared after his cultivation breakthrough, and he suspected the Far North could awaken his martial soul.
• Zhang Lexuan examined Huo Yuhao, found him healthy, and agreed to lead him and Strawberry north with Shrek teachers protecting them.
• Bo Yunxiu brought the cloaked Bing'er to Bo Yunjie, who told her to seek recognition from the Ice God's Divine Seat for Lord Sea God and their family.
• Huo Yuhao and Strawberry said goodbye to the Cao household and met Zhang Lexuan, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Lin'er at Shrek Academy’s north gate.
• The five flew to the outskirts of the Far North, where Zhang Lexuan rested after the journey and Xian Lin'er asked Yan Shaozhe why he was staring at Huo Yuhao.

Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er argued over which Shrek department should recruit Huo Yuhao, while his party traveled into the Far North toward the awakening of his second martial soul. They were confronted by the Titan Snow Demon King, and Yan Shaozhe began fighting to cover the others’ escape.

• Xian Lin'er demanded that Yan Shaozhe let Huo Yuhao choose between the Soul Tool Department and the Martial Soul Department after he joined Shrek, and Yan Shaozhe agreed.
• Huo Yuhao sensed both opportunity and danger ahead, while Strawberry explained that factions were seeking ice-attribute soul masters because they could approach and cultivate near the Far North’s divine seat.
• After Zhang Lexuan recovered, Huo Yuhao’s group entered the Far North, where Huo Yun informed Di Tian that Huo Yuhao had arrived.
• Di Tian asked the Titan Snow Demon King to help stage a distraction, but the Three-Eyed Golden Lion arrived and led the Titan Snow Demon King toward Huo Yuhao.
• More than a thousand kilometers into the Far North, Huo Yuhao’s group encountered the Titan Snow Demon King, and Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er tried to flee with him, Strawberry, and Zhang Lexuan.
• The Titan Snow Demon King attacked, and Yan Shaozhe transformed into a Golden Phoenix to block his fist with a barrier of golden light.

The Auspicious Beast and the Titan Snow Demon King separated Huo Yuhao from Zhang Lexuan and Strawberry during their fight with Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er, while Di Tian took Huo Yuhao toward the Ice God's Divine Seat. At the Divine Seat, a mysterious young woman walked into the light, and Di Tian learned that someone had entered the Divine Temple.

• The Auspicious Beast suppressed Xian Lin'er and Yan Shaozhe, then had the Titan Snow Demon King blast Zhang Lexuan, Huo Yuhao, and Strawberry away in a blizzard.
• Zhang Lexuan and Strawberry survived the fall but could not find Huo Yuhao, while Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er fought the two Ferocious Beasts.
• Di Tian caught Huo Yuhao, reassured him that the others would survive, and gave him a mask and clothes before taking him toward the Ice God's Divine Seat.
• A mysterious young woman walked through the cold currents and entered the white light at the center of the basin.
• Di Tian and Huo Yuhao arrived near the basin, where Di Tian noticed the gathered factions and learned that someone had entered the Divine Temple.

Huo Yun learned that Su Tong, now known as Bing’er, had entered the Ice God’s temple, so she sent Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress to stop her. The group reached the basin, where human representatives and Far North Soul Beasts watched the temple and the gathered crowd reacted to the Snow Empress’s arrival.

• Huo Yun told Di Tian that Su Tong had become Bing’er and entered the temple, and they decided to send Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress after her.
• Di Tian brought Huo Yuhao to the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, where the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared and renewed his awkward pursuit of the Ice Empress.
• Huo Yun revealed that Huo Yuhao could use a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill with his ice Martial Soul to withstand the temple’s cold currents.
• The Snow Empress agreed to enter the temple with Huo Yuhao, and the Ice Empress led the group toward the basin.
• The group arrived at the basin, where more than a thousand human representatives faced the Far North Soul Beasts, and onlookers speculated about the Snow Empress and Huo Yuhao.

The Five Great God Kings watched the Snow Empress and Huo Yuhao approach the Ice God's divine seat, while deciding not to interfere in the mortal realm. Huo Yuhao endured the basin's cold currents but was badly injured as he neared the passage.

• The Five Great God Kings discussed Tang San's chosen successor and noticed that Huo Yuhao's figure was obscured from their sight.
• The God of Destruction recognized that someone had interfered with the Divine Realm Core, but he and the other God Kings chose not to investigate further.
• The Snow Empress crossed the basin's cold currents with ease and reached the white light in nine breaths.
• Di Tian gave Huo Yuhao a ring, and Huo Yun instructed him to use pills and retreat if he could not endure the trial.
• Huo Yuhao entered the basin and walked through the cold, shattering the frost on his body as he advanced.
• After passing the first two hundred meters, Huo Yuhao was cut by the stronger currents, and the onlookers realized he could resist freezing but was still suffering injuries.

Huo Yuhao endured the Ice God's Divine Seat's freezing currents and reached the passage after refusing to use his Martial Soul Fusion Skill for the final stretch. The Snow Empress followed him inside as his golden vertical eye merged with a white sphere of light.

• Huo Yuhao swallowed a snow-lotus pill to replenish his Soul Power and continued through the freezing currents despite the spectators' doubts.
• After reaching four hundred meters, Huo Yuhao took a second pill and pressed on as the currents began attacking his consciousness and soul.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to use his Martial Soul Fusion Skill for the final eighty meters, but Huo Yuhao swallowed five pills and kept walking, determined not to fall short again.
• Huo Yuhao crossed five hundred meters and reached the Snow Empress beside the white passage leading to the Ice God's Divine Seat.
• Huo Yuhao's golden vertical eye unraveled into threads and merged with a white sphere, transforming his body before he entered the light; the Snow Empress followed.

Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress entered the Ice God's Divine Temple, where the Ice God's Remnant Soul explained the Divine Seat's trials and the restrictions imposed on Soul Beasts. The Ice God chose to give Huo Yuhao her power to help him protect the world, while the Snow Empress was sent to take the trials.

• The God of Evil, the God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, the Goddess of Kindness, and Tang San watched Huo Yuhao enter the passage, while Tang San resolved to discard his pawn and kill the others.
• Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress met the Ice God's Remnant Soul inside the Divine Temple, and she explained that candidates could earn her legacy through trials or by reaching rank ninety-nine.
• The Snow Empress told the Ice God that the Dragon God's rules barred Soul Beasts from godhood, and the Ice God angrily learned that the Divine Realm had also altered their Heavenly Tribulations.
• Huo Yuhao told the Ice God he wanted her power to become a God King and protect his mother, and she agreed on the condition that he used it only to protect the world.
• The Ice God began transferring her power into Huo Yuhao, freezing him inside an iceberg as his ice Martial Soul absorbed it.
• The Ice God apologized to the Snow Empress for not choosing her, then urged her to take the trials and noted that Huo Yuhao might have other powers to pursue.

Huo Yuhao completed his absorption of the Ice God's power and emerged with a god-level soul ring just as Tang San, controlling Bing'er's body, attacked the Snow Empress. Huo Yuhao confronted Tang San over his schemes, then charged him as Tang San suddenly lost control of his soul power.

• Bing'er attacked Huo Yuhao's ice prison, but the Snow Empress intervened and recognized Tang San's signature techniques.
• The Snow Empress fought Tang San, but he deflected her Emperor Palm and nearly struck her with an ice sword.
• Huo Yuhao broke free from the ice with the Ice God's martial soul and a crystalline ice-blue and gold soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao and the Ice God accused Tang San of trying to control the world, while Tang San defended his plan and claimed he had intended to help Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao charged at Tang San, whose legs weakened as his soul power began flowing uncontrollably toward Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao used his ice-control Soul Skill to kill Tang San, then let the Ice God take over his body and leave the Divine Temple carrying Bing’er’s remains. As the Ice God emerged from the newly revealed castle in a female form, Huo Yun recognized her longing for the world that had nurtured her, and the Ice God said goodbye.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed Tang San’s ice-element Soul Power and killed him with a single punch, explaining that he wanted to free the innocent person whose body Tang San had taken.
• Huo Yuhao let the Ice God take control; she changed into a blue-and-white outfit, took up the Ice Frost Sword, and told the Snow Empress to care for the Far North.
• The Ice God carried Bing’er’s remains out of the Divine Temple as the enormous Ice God castle appeared above the basin and its doors opened.
• Huo Yun and the others saw that Huo Yuhao had become a beautiful woman, while the Snow Empress emerged behind her.
• The Ice God sensed the world that had raised her, and Huo Yun recognized her from memories of the former Douluo Consciousness before the Ice God said goodbye.

The Ice God brought Huo Yuhao to the Divine Realm, confronted its rulers over the restrictions imposed on Soul Beasts, and withdrew her Divine Seat from the realm. She secured compensation for Huo Yuhao before preparing to leave, while Tang San tried to involve himself in the payment.

• The Ice God used her Divine Seat to amplify Huo Yuhao and brought him into the Divine Realm, where they met the God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, Tang San, and two other God Kings.
• The Ice God demanded an explanation for Bing'er and learned that the Divine Realm had barred Soul Beasts from becoming gods and imposed Heavenly Tribulations on them.
• The Ice God declared that she was withdrawing from the Divine Realm and that her Divine Seat would belong to Douluo, causing the realm's ice element to decline.
• The God of Destruction offered one percent of the Divine Realm's Immortal Spirit Qi, and the Goddess of Life gave the Ice God a shoot from the Life Tree as compensation.
• Tang San offered to pay the compensation himself, but the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life argued that the Divine Realm should bear responsibility; Tang San then proposed offering his Ice and Fire wine.

The Ice God tested the Divine Realm’s God Kings, secured compensation for Huo Yuhao, and returned to the Douluo Plane to make a final attempt to break the rules imprisoning its consciousness. Her remnant soul vanished without freeing Huo Yun, leaving Huo Yuhao with her last wish and a grieving world.

• The Ice God accepted gifts from the God of Evil, the Goddess of Kindness, and Tang San, then explained that she had tested the God Kings’ attitudes and warned Huo Yuhao not to become their lackey.
• The Ice God sent Huo Yuhao back to her Divine Temple and told him to care for Mother before using her remaining strength to attack the rules binding the Douluo Consciousness.
• Huo Yun cried out as the Ice God’s remnant soul faded, and she explained to Huo Yuhao that the Ice God had chosen to die after making her final attempt to free her homeland.
• The Ice God’s last mote of light entered the Douluo Core, while rain fell across the Douluo Plane and snow covered the Far North.

The Ice God’s final message entrusted her temple, inheritance, and remaining resources to Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress before her remnant soul vanished. Meanwhile, the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life suspected Tang San was plotting against Douluo, while Tang San planned to eliminate the plane’s threat; Huo Yuhao then prepared to leave the Far North with the Ice God’s Divine Seat secured.

• The Goddess of Life restored Bing’er, and the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life left the God Realm Committee after the Ice God’s remnant soul disappeared.
• Tang San reflected on his failed plan to make Bing’er an ally and resolved to secretly remove the Douluo Consciousness and its Child of Destiny.
• The God of Destruction told the Goddess of Life that only a Plane Consciousness could have concealed the Ice God’s heir, and they suspected Tang San was targeting Douluo Star but agreed to seek evidence first.
• The Ice God’s final message told Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress how to use her temple, inheritance, divine artifact, and remaining gifts, and she asked them to protect her home and family.
• After three days of rain, Huo Yun decided they should continue forward and took Huo Yuhao and the others to leave the Far North; Di Tian escorted Huo Yuhao from the Ice God’s temple.

Huo Yuhao left the Far North and reunited with the Shrek Academy group, claiming his second Martial Soul was Ultimate Ice and that he had obtained a Soul Ring. As the group headed for Shrek City, news of Huo Yuhao’s female form and the Divine Seat spread across the continent, prompting Xi Shui and another figure to send people to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Di Tian left Huo Yuhao at the edge of the Far North, and Huo Yuhao changed his clothes to look bedraggled before walking onward.
• Yan Shaozhe found Huo Yuhao and brought him to Zhang Lexuan, Strawberry, Xian Lin'er, Ling Luochen, and the others, who welcomed him back.
• Huo Yuhao displayed his Frost Martial Soul, and Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Ling Luochen recognized its power as Ultimate Ice.
• Huo Yuhao told the group that a blizzard had left him buried in snow, where his second Martial Soul awakened, and claimed an Ice Silkworm had given him the Spiritual Simulation Soul Skill.
• The Shrek group flew toward Shrek City, while the blizzard in the Far North and the rain across the continent stopped and reports of the Divine Seat spread.
• Xi Shui ordered people to search the Star Dou Great Forest for Huo Yuhao's female form, and an evil presence in the Evil Demon Forest announced it would return there.

Major powers discussed how to find and win over Huo Yuhao after he received recognition from a Divine Seat, while Huo Yuhao demonstrated his Spiritual Simulation and declared he wanted to study Soul Tools at Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with him rejecting Yan Shaozhe’s argument that Soul Tools would waste his talent and insisting that cultivation and Soul Tools could strengthen each other.

• A man in the Sun Moon Empire ordered a cautious approach to the woman in Huo Yuhao’s portrait, while Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu discussed inviting Beast God Di Tian to make contact with Huo Yuhao.
• Xu Jiujiu persuaded Xu Jiawei to send an invitation in the Xu family’s name, and other major powers pursued their own plans to find Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Simulation to create Strawberry’s Restorative Blue Strawberry, and Strawberry confirmed that it restored Soul Power.
• Yan Shaozhe offered to take Huo Yuhao into Shrek Academy’s Inner Court as his disciple, but Xian Lin'er objected because they had agreed to compete fairly for him.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to study Soul Tools, surprising Yan Shaozhe and delighting Xian Lin'er.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Tools complemented cultivation, and that cultivating both internal strength and external tools was the right approach.

After Shrek’s leaders agreed to let Huo Yuhao explore Soul Tools without forcing him to choose a department, he returned to Shrek City and absorbed the Life Tree’s budding branch. As the branch took root inside him, Huo Yun concealed its effects and rejected an aged voice’s attempt to claim its life force.

• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er reported that Huo Yuhao wanted to pursue both Soul Master and Soul Engineer paths, and the old man in the lounge chair ordered the academy to let him try and open the Soul Tool Department’s facilities to him.
• The old man in the lounge chair proposed ending competition over core disciples and having the Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments select them jointly.
• Huo Yuhao and Strawberry returned to Cao's Rice Bowl, where they told Uncle Cao and Aunt Lan about their Far North trip and joined a welcome-home meal.
• Strawberry described her admiration for the Ice God's successor, while Aunt Lan urged her to find a boyfriend and attend Sea God's Fate.
• Huo Yuhao pressed the Life Tree’s budding branch to his chest as Huo Yun and Electrolux instructed him, and its life force cleansed and strengthened his body before he fell asleep.
• The branch took root inside Huo Yuhao as Huo Yun concealed its aura, then rejected an aged voice that wanted its life force and criticized its owner for refusing to struggle against Tang San.