Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen’s Ice Soul Power resonated during a Martial Soul Fusion Skill test, prompting Jing Hongchen to encourage their growing relationship and training together. Later, Huo Yuhao began drafting Battle Armor designs based on Meng, and she found drawings that looked like her legs.

• Xiao Hongchen watched Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen’s Soul Power react together, then helped them report the test results to Jing Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen approved of Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen’s potential Martial Soul Fusion Skill, told them to practice in each other’s rooms, and named Xiao and Meng as reserve team members for the next tournament.
• Xiao Hongchen praised Huo Yuhao’s Mental Detection Sharing for greatly improving his Soul Guidance Cannon Platform and agreed to work alongside him.
• Huo Yuhao practiced Hundred Refinements Purification, forged three pieces of Hundred-Refined Titanium Gold, and began sketching Battle Armor components based on Meng Hongchen.
• Meng Hongchen entered Huo Yuhao’s room, picked up his thigh and shin guard drafts, and wondered why the drawings looked like her legs.

Huo Yuhao used Meng Hongchen as a reference while sketching Battle Armor designs, and Meng happily helped him, mistaking the close contact for an opportunity to grow closer. Meanwhile, Jing Hongchen encouraged Yuhao and Meng’s relationship, and Xiao Hongchen finally decided to intervene after worrying that Yuhao might take advantage of his sister.

• Meng Hongchen recognized her legs in Huo Yuhao’s sketches and agreed to serve as his model for designs based on her Martial Soul.
• Meng Hongchen bathed and changed into a nightgown before returning to Huo Yuhao’s room, where he studied her legs and feet with his Spirit Eyes and Soul Power.
• Meng Hongchen found Huo Yuhao’s Chest Armor sketch and shyly asked whether he would use her as a reference for that design too.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi that giving Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen private space would help their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and bring them closer.
• Xiao Hongchen saw Meng enter Huo Yuhao’s room and, after waiting anxiously for two hours, resolved to go inside and protect his sister.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao tried to develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill but discovered their Soul Powers would not react, while Wang Dong revealed her second Martial Soul and her missing memories before age six. At Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen shared a kiss during a design session, and Xiao Hongchen barged in to find Huo Yuhao sketching beside his sister’s thigh.

• Wang Dong took Xiao Xiao to the grove to test a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but their Soul Powers showed no sign of merging even after they tried holding hands and flying together.
• Wang Dong told Xiao Xiao she had a second, Tool-type Martial Soul and said she had no memories from before she was six; Xiao Xiao comforted her and urged her not to trust the voice in her head.
• At Mingde Hall, Meng Hongchen teased Huo Yuhao about taking the initiative, and Huo Yuhao kissed her cheek before she leaned in and kissed him.
• Xiao Hongchen entered Huo Yuhao’s room and found Meng Hongchen flushed under a blanket while Huo Yuhao held a design draft beside her thigh.
• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Hongchen that he and Meng Hongchen had only been working on comic illustrations and showed him the Thigh Guards draft.

Huo Yuhao finished drawing design sketches while Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen argued over his relationship with her, then Xiao Hongchen asked him for a special manga illustration. At Shrek Academy, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao tested their Martial Souls together and discovered a slight reaction between Wang Dong’s Clear Sky Hammer and Xiao Xiao’s Tool Martial Souls.

• Xiao Hongchen discovered Huo Yuhao drawing with Meng Hongchen, learned they had kissed, and warned them to put cultivation first.
• Huo Yuhao completed a thigh-guard design sketch while massaging Meng Hongchen, then used his Life Aura to help her recover from the icy stimulation.
• Xiao Hongchen escorted Meng Hongchen to her room, followed Huo Yuhao back, and asked him to draw a Pure Love Version of Six Ring Soul Emperor Female Tenant.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao failed to trigger a Martial Soul Fusion Skill while flying together, so they went on a late-night skewer date instead.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao met Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Xu San Shi, and Meng Miao at a barbecue shop, where Xu San Shi mentioned his evolved Martial Soul and its flaw.
• Back in the grove, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao tested their Martial Souls and found that her Tool Martial Souls reacted slightly with Wang Dong’s Clear Sky Hammer.

Huo Yuhao attended the Bright Moon Auction House with Meng Hongchen and encountered Xuan Ziwen, Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Wang Shaojie. Xiao Hongchen arrived praising Yuhao’s comics, then offered to pay for anything Yuhao wanted as the student auction began with Thousand-Year Whale Glue.

• Huo Yuhao told Meng Hongchen that Xiao Hongchen had kept him up drawing two volumes of comics, and Meng gave him food and a drink.
• Xuan Ziwen introduced Huo Yuhao to his students and said he hoped to have Yuhao work in his Laboratory under his guidance.
• Wang Shaojie approached Huo Yuhao familiarly, then changed his attitude after Xiao Hongchen arrived and reprimanded him for calling Yuhao Little Huo.
• Ju Zi introduced herself to Huo Yuhao and discussed how her citrus-based soul bombs might relate to his Boltgun Soul Tool.
• Meng Hongchen returned and led Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen into their private room, where Xiao offered to pay for Yuhao’s purchases.
• The student auction began, and auctioneer Yue Yue presented Thousand-Year Whale Glue as the first item.

At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy auction, Huo Yuhao recognized a supposedly deteriorated piece of Thousand-Year Whale Glue as Ten Thousand Year Whale Blubber and bought it with help from the Hongchen Siblings. At the Lake of Life, Three-Eyed Golden Lion decided she wanted to leave the Star Dou Great Forest and see the world.

• The Auctioneer offered weathered Thousand-Year Whale Glue at a steep discount, but the students showed little interest.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection Sharing with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to inspect the glue, and Xiao Hongchen confirmed it was Ten Thousand Year Whale Blubber.
• Huo Yuhao won the whale blubber for five hundred and fifty Gold Soul Coins, and Xiao Hongchen offered to cover the cost as a gift.
• The auction continued as the Hongchen Siblings bought a few herbs, and the Bright Moon Auction House delivered the whale blubber to their private room.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion reflected on the Light Orb’s story and told Scarlet King she wanted to leave the Star Dou Great Forest and see the world.

Three-Eyed Golden Lion prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest and secured Di Tian’s permission after negotiating thirty rules for her journey. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao began studying under Xuan Ziwen and built a Chainsaw Sword in the laboratory.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Scarlet King she wanted to see the human world, packed a travel bag, and filled a bottle with water from the Lake of Life.
• Scarlet King alerted Di Tian, who discussed the journey with Three-Eyed Golden Lion and eventually agreed after setting thirty rules.
• Xuan Ziwen told the Hongchen Siblings that he would teach Huo Yuhao, while Meng Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao Calming Roses and offered to help if he struggled.
• Huo Yuhao went to Xuan Ziwen’s Laboratory, took out Titanium Gold, and assembled a Chainsaw Sword with high-speed rotation and pressure-cutting Core Arrays.
• Ju Zi examined Huo Yuhao’s Chainsaw Sword and marveled at its combination of a chainsaw and a sword.

Huo Yuhao impressed Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Xuan Ziwen by demonstrating his Chainsaw Sword, then continued developing Soul Tools and helping the Hongchen Siblings. Three months later, as he prepared for his Second-Level Soul Engineer assessment, Wang Dong lamented that she and Xiao Xiao had no Martial Soul Fusion Skill after losing the Freshman Assessment finals to Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu.

• Huo Yuhao explained the Chainsaw Sword’s design, and Ju Zi tested it by slicing through a Soul Guidance Shield.
• Xuan Ziwen recorded the Chainsaw Sword’s data, while Jia Xu quietly showed Huo Yuhao a timed miniature Soul Missile device.
• Meng Hongchen fetched Huo Yuhao from the Laboratory, and Xiao Hongchen eagerly took him to the Soul Guidance Device Training Field for cannon practice.
• Huo Yuhao spent three months studying, practicing with the Hongchen Siblings, and working on Battle Armor designs before preparing a Second-Level Boltgun for his assessment.
• Xuan Ziwen discussed the transformative potential of Thousand Forging, while Wang Dong complained that she and Xiao Xiao had no Martial Soul Fusion Skill after losing the finals to Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao received core disciple status after losing the Freshman Assessment, while Xuan Zi extended core disciple treatment to other promising students to motivate them for a future selection tournament. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Huo Yuhao became a Second-Level Soul Engineer in record time, and Li Yan revealed an old account of a Soul Master who grew stronger by combining rare flames.

• Wang Dong struggled with her loss to Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu's Hell White Tiger, and she and Xiao Xiao discussed their unsuccessful attempts to develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xiao Xiao told Wang Dong that they had received core disciple status, while Bai Yunli received core disciple treatment.
• Wang Yan reported the Freshman Assessment results to Xuan Zi, who granted core disciple treatment to the talented students not chosen as core disciples so they could compete in the Reserve Team Selection Tournament.
• Huo Yuhao completed a Second-Level Boltgun and passed the Second-Level Soul Engineer assessment using three Fire Lotus Bombs, breaking Xiao Hongchen's speed record.
• Xiao Hongchen introduced Huo Yuhao to Li Yan, who described an ancient Soul Master who combined rare flames with his Martial Soul to increase its power.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated how his Martial Soul fused two flames, received patent earnings for Hundred Refinements Purification, and continued designing Meng Hongchen’s Battle Armor. After consuming Ten Thousand Year Whale Blubber softened by Bone Spirit Cold Fire, he felt an uncontrollable heat and tried to stop Meng Hongchen from eating some too.

• Huo Yuhao showed Li Yan how he fused Bone Spirit Cold Fire and Purple Fire, and Li Yan resolved to improve his Li Fire Martial Soul.
• Xiao Hongchen told Li Yan that Jing Hongchen would arrange a friendly match between the Reserve Team and Main Team Members, and he planned to demonstrate his cannon platform with Huo Yuhao’s support.
• Xiao Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao a Gold Card containing more than one million Gold Soul Coins in patent fees, and Huo Yuhao promised to make later Hundred Refinements techniques public.
• Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen worked on Battle Armor designs, completing blueprints for the leg armor and beginning the Battle Skirt design.
• Huo Yuhao ate Ten Thousand Year Whale Blubber softened with Bone Spirit Cold Fire, but the resulting heat resisted his Ice Soul Power.
• Meng Hongchen embraced Huo Yuhao and offered to eat some Whale Blubber herself, but Huo Yuhao stopped her and warned that she would not be able to hold back.

Meng Hongchen ate a small piece of Ten Thousand Year Whale Blubber to prove she could withstand its effects, but the heat overwhelmed her and she drew close to Huo Yuhao. The chapter ended with Meng Hongchen kissing him and admitting she was happy, while refusing to confess that she had planned to use the opportunity to get close to him.

• Meng Hongchen insisted that her will and Jade Sunny Ice Toad Martial Soul would let her resist the Ten Thousand Year Whale Blubber, and Huo Yuhao warned her to try only a small amount.
• After eating a small pinch, Meng Hongchen felt the heat take hold and locked the room while Huo Yuhao used his Origin Ice Soul Power to control his own reaction.
• Meng Hongchen comforted Huo Yuhao about avenging his mother and promised that she, Xiao, and Mingde Hall would support him.
• As the effects intensified, Meng Hongchen hugged Huo Yuhao, listened to stories about his past, and pushed him onto the bed.
• Meng Hongchen kissed Huo Yuhao and held his wrist down, then admitted she was happy despite his warning that she was giving herself away for nothing.
• When Huo Yuhao asked whether she had planned this, Meng Hongchen denied having a scheme and secretly peeked at him.

Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen spent the night together, while Jing Hongchen confirmed their places on the academy’s competition reserve team and arranged a friendly match against the main team. The match began with Chen Fei charging at Huo Yuhao, who aimed a modified boltgun at him.

• Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen shared an affectionate night, and Meng told Xiao Hongchen that she had cared for Yuhao after he mishandled the Ten Thousand Year Whale Blubber.
• Jing Hongchen confirmed Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen as reserve team members and ordered a selection tournament for four more students.
• Xiao Hongchen, Huo Yuhao, and the main team gathered at the Soul Guidance Device Training Field for a friendly match against Ma Rulong and his teammates.
• Ma Rulong agreed to let Chen Fei join him against Xiao Hongchen, while Chen Fei planned to rush Huo Yuhao and eliminate him.
• After the match began, Xiao Hongchen fired a barrage of Flying Knives, and Huo Yuhao aimed a Buddha's Wrath Fire Lotus boltgun at the charging Chen Fei.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated how his Simulation and Mental Detection Sharing let Xiao Hongchen overwhelm Ma Rulong in a friendly spar. At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi began a free-for-all selection to choose the Reserve Team Members for the Soul Master Competition.

• Huo Yuhao fired Fire Lotus Bombs at Chen Fei while Xiao Hongchen's disguised shells turned into precise strikes against Ma Rulong.
• Jing Hongchen helped protect Ma Rulong from the bombardment, and Xiao Hongchen boasted about his performance after Ma Rulong emerged from the crater.
• Huo Yuhao explained Simulation and Mental Detection Sharing to the Main Team Members, who realized how much his abilities had boosted Xiao Hongchen.
• Wang Yan reported Shrek Academy's finalized Main Team Members to Xuan Zi, who ordered the Reserve Team selection to begin immediately.
• Xuan Zi arrived at the Battle Soul Area and announced that the reserve selection would be a collective free-for-all, promising to protect the students.

Xuan Zi began a free-for-all selection at Shrek Academy while Huo Yuhao attended a Reserve Team Member selection at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Jiang Nannan revealed that Huo Yuhao had helped her mother and given her a Light Orb, and Na Na asked Huo Yuhao to team up with her.

• Wang Yan confirmed that all students had arrived, and Xuan Zi explained that the final seven students remaining in the arena would win the selection.
• Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Xu San Shi, Meng Miao, and Jiang Nannan formed a team, and Jiang Nannan showed Tang Ya a Light Orb depicting Xiao Wu's Eight Section Throw.
• Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Bai Yunli discussed the unclear team-size rules, then accepted Ning Tian into their group with Wu Feng accompanying her.
• Xuan Zi started the Battle Soul Arena selection and disappeared, while Huo Yuhao attended Xu Sheng's class at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Na Na asked Huo Yuhao to team up with her for the Reserve Team Member selection, and Xu Sheng led the under-fifteen students to the Soul Guidance Training Ground.

Huo Yuhao and Na Na joined the selection tournament for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s reserve team, while the Death God Messenger broke through to Soul King in a hidden cave. The tournament began with Huo Yuhao and Na Na positioned in the arena, and the Messenger planned a raid toward Star Luo despite warnings about Shrek’s response.

• Na Na explained that Huo Yuhao’s reputation as a fast-rising Soul Engineer had prompted her to seek him out, then teamed up with him for the selection tournament.
• Lin Jiayi announced a free-for-all tournament for students under fifteen, with reserve-team positions available to top-performing teams and Level 8 Soul Engineers assigned to protect the contestants.
• Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi discussed keeping Princess Xu Tianzhen off the reserve team, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen prepared to fight and looked for Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao and Na Na entered the arena’s central area, and Huo Yuhao introduced his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul as the tournament began.
• The Death God Messenger broke through to Soul King and planned to cross the Ming Dou Mountain Range to raid Star Luo, dismissing Scarface’s warning that Shrek’s Supervision Corps might hunt them.

Huo Yuhao and Na Na competed in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s selection tournament, where Na Na demonstrated her strength with his Mental Detection Sharing. At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi resolved the reserve-team selection debate by removing Ning Tian and Wu Feng from consideration.

• Huo Yuhao shared his Mental Detection with Na Na, astonishing her with a detailed view of the training field, and prepared a concealed Buddha's Wrath Fire Lotus as the tournament began.
• Huo Yuhao intercepted a student's Third-Level cannonball with a Fire Lotus Bomb and eliminated the attacker with a second shot.
• Na Na used her Ghost Martial Soul and Short Blade to evade a Blue Spirit Vine user's barrage, while Huo Yuhao supported her with Mental Detection.
• Jing Hongchen asked Lin Jiayi about Na Na after watching her perform well in the tournament, and Lin Jiayi identified her as a skilled Agility Attack System Soul Engineer.
• Wang Yan told Xuan Zi that selecting two reserve-team members beyond the five-person winning team was difficult, so Xuan Zi chose to cross Ning Tian and Wu Feng off the list because Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Wang Yan and Elder Xuan finalized Shrek Academy’s reserve competition roster and assigned other promising students observer status to motivate them. At Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Jing Hongchen argued that Na Na’s Ghost Martial Soul did not make her evil; a Soul Master’s conduct did.

• Wang Yan and Elder Xuan chose Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu for the reserve team, citing their Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and left Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao off the roster.
• Wang Yan proposed giving Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, Bai Yunli, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Lan Susu, and Lan Ruoluo reserve disciple treatment so they could observe the competition and potentially replace reserve members later.
• Wang Yan confirmed the reserve team as Bei Bei, Xu San Shi, He Caitou, Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Zhu Lu, and Dai Huabin, though Elder Xuan said Jiang Nannan should be observed because she had missed classes.
• At Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Lin Jiayi warned Jing Hongchen that Na Na’s Vengeful Spirit skill and Ghost Martial Soul seemed associated with Evil Soul Masters.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi that Shrek Academy judged Evil Soul Masters too superficially and said a Soul Master’s conduct, not their Martial Soul, determined whether they were evil.

Jing Hongchen explained that a Soul Master’s conduct mattered more than unusual abilities and promised protection for the students at the upcoming tournament. In the trial grounds, Huo Yuhao and Na Na confronted Zhou Xinghao and Lan Xiu, and the battle began with both sides revealing their abilities.

• Lin Jiayi compared Tang San’s Devouring abilities to those of Evil Soul Masters, and Jing Hongchen argued that conduct and character determined whether a Soul Master was evil.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi that Elder Ye Yulin would secretly protect the students at the tournament and that he might accompany them himself.
• Na Na introduced Zhou Xinghao and Lan Xiu to Huo Yuhao when their teams met in the trial grounds.
• Zhou Xinghao deployed his cannon platform and prepared to attack Huo Yuhao and Na Na, while Lan Xiu urged him to use covering fire after they turned invisible.
• Na Na rushed toward Zhou Xinghao, Huo Yuhao intercepted three incoming shells with Fire Lotus Bombs, and Lan Xiu summoned his Nine Radiance Linked Soul Tool to help Zhou Xinghao.

Three-Eyed Golden Lion prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest by choosing how to shape her Martial Soul, taking human form, and settling on an initial cultivation level. After completing her transformation, she realized she still needed to choose a name before setting out.

• Three-Eyed Golden Lion discussed her Golden Dragon bloodline and Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire with Scarlet King, and Di Tian confirmed she could turn them into Martial Souls or keep her bloodline power separately.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion agreed to follow Di Tian's rules, then asked Bi Ji for guidance on taking human form and shaped her appearance according to her own wishes.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion took a pill from Di Tian, chose to begin as a Soul Ancestor, and stabilized her cultivation with his help.
• Miss Auspicious Beast tested her Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire and prepared to leave, but Scarlet King reminded her to choose a name first.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion began considering a name, remembering that she had been born in autumn.

Huo Yuhao helped Xiao Hongchen dominate the Selection Tournament with precise cannon fire while negotiating for privacy with Meng Hongchen and enduring her brother’s warnings. The tournament ended with three new Reserve Team candidates chosen, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Huo Yuhao’s pendant and wondered why he was far from Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao secretly aided Xiao Hongchen’s accurate bombardment, which eliminated more than half the contestants as Meng Hongchen and Na Na fought together.
• Huo Yuhao told Xiao Hongchen he wanted him not to interrupt his late-night blueprint work with Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen warned him not to let Meng have her way too easily.
• Zhou Xinghao and Lan Xiu faced Xiao Hongchen, but Lan Xiu withdrew his Nine Radiance after Huo Yuhao revealed a Buddha's Wrath Fire Lotus that could destroy it.
• Meng Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao whether he liked Na Na’s legs, and he reassured her that he and Na Na were only teammates.
• Lin Jiayi reported that Na Na, Zhou Xinghao, and Lan Xiu had been selected for the Reserve Team, and Jing Hongchen said Xiao Xiafeng could fill the remaining place if needed.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed the cut half of the Gold of Life pendant and wondered why Huo Yuhao was so far away from Shrek Academy.