Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao treated Xie Huanyue to his expertly grilled carp at a barbecue restaurant, where they encountered Jiang Nannan and her persistent admirer, Xu Sanshi. Tang Ya and Beibei arrived at the restaurant, and Tang Ya recognized Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao and Xie Huanyue went to a barbecue restaurant in Shrek City, where they drank fruit wine and ordered food.
• Huo Yuhao prepared grilled black carp, and Xie Huanyue devoured fish after fish while leaving his meat to burn.
• Jiang Nannan arrived with several female students, and Huo Yuhao offered to add a seat for her after she found the restaurant too expensive.
• Xu Sanshi appeared and offered to pay for the meal, prompting Jiang Nannan to complain that he was following her again.
• Tang Ya and Beibei arrived, and Tang Ya recognized Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao discovered that a wisp of Sea God divine sense was trying to bind him to the Tang Sect, so he used Xu Sanshi’s Profound Nether Swap to redirect it. He left with Xie Huanyue, believing Xu Sanshi had become the Sea God’s new target.

• Tang Ya and Beibei joined Huo Yuhao and Xie Huanyue for grilled fish, and Tang Ya offered to recruit Huo Yuhao into the Tang Sect.
• Bibi Dong warned Huo Yuhao as he spotted a Sea God divine sense emerging from Tang Ya and moving toward him.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to make Xu Sanshi activate Profound Nether Swap, causing the divine sense to enter Xu Sanshi instead.
• Xie Huanyue carried the exhausted Huo Yuhao away while Beibei and Xu Sanshi remained behind, unaware of what had happened.
• Huo Yuhao told Xie Huanyue that the Sea God had tried to control his fate through the Tang Sect and admitted he had made Xu Sanshi his scapegoat.

Huo Yuhao returned to Ning Tian's villa severely weakened after overusing his Spiritual Power to escape Tang San's divine consciousness, then recovered by circulating Haodong Power with Bibi Dong. Meanwhile, Wang Dong joined the Tang Sect as Tang Ya's second disciple.

• Xie Huanyue carried the unconscious Huo Yuhao to Ning Tian's villa, where Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Nanmen Yun'er cared for him.
• Huo Yuhao told the three girls that a divine consciousness had attacked him, then lost consciousness from the strain of using his spiritual abilities.
• In Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit, Bibi Dong, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Electrolux helped him recover and warned him to avoid the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to grow stronger and circulated Haodong Power with Bibi Dong, while the three girls outside sensed Life Energy and World Spirit Energy gathering around him.
• Wang Dong approached Tang Ya, Beibei, and Xu Sanshi, revealed that he was a Clear Sky Sect disciple, and asked to join the Tang Sect.
• Tang Ya accepted Wang Dong as her second disciple, and Wang Dong greeted Beibei as his senior brother.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Ma Xiaotao at Sea God Lake, where she confronted him about the Mental Imprint he had placed in her mind. After he revealed that she had reached Soul Sage and her Evil Fire no longer troubled her, Ma Xiaotao demanded that he remove the imprint, and he left her waiting for his answer.

• Huo Yuhao went for a walk beside Sea God Lake with Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Nanmen Yun'er before class.
• Ma Xiaotao raced across the lake, seized Huo Yuhao, and carried him away while the girls returned to class.
• Huo Yuhao teased Ma Xiaotao about missing him, and she threw him into the lake before his Mental Imprint caused them both to fall in.
• Huo Yuhao pulled Ma Xiaotao from the water and learned she had reached Soul Sage and obtained a powerful Soul Ring after returning to Shrek Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao demanded that Huo Yuhao remove the Mental Imprint, and he stalled while holding her in the water.

Huo Yuhao asked Ma Xiaotao to find him a rare spatial soul bone, then gave the Purple Cloud Wings External Soul Bone to the girls living with him. Three months later, his Soul Power had not risen, but his foundation had grown stronger, and Ma Xiaotao finally brought news he had been waiting for.

• Huo Yuhao leveraged his Mental Imprint on Ma Xiaotao to ask her for a spatial soul bone over ten thousand years old, and she agreed to search the inner courtyard vault.
• Huo Yuhao tore the Purple Cloud Wings from the Purple Cloud Eagle corpse and offered the flight-type External Soul Bone to Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Nanmen Yun'er.
• Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Nanmen Yun'er decided among themselves who would receive the wings, then shared an intimate night with Huo Yuhao.
• Over the next three months, Huo Yuhao refused pills that forcibly raised Soul Power, while Mujin helped New Student Class Nine improve and his own Soul Power stayed at the same level.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and the others had gathered into the circle of the generation's Seven Monsters.
• Ma Xiaotao sent Huo Yuhao the news he had been waiting for.

Huo Yuhao obtained and absorbed the Space-Time Dragon Leg Bone, turning it into a third unusual white soul ring and gaining a spatial ability that let attacks pass through him. After removing Ma Xiaotao’s Mental Imprint, he teased her, tested his new skill against her Phoenix Meteor Shower, and vanished.

• Ma Xiaotao gave Huo Yuhao a roughly fifty-thousand-year-old Space-Time Dragon Leg Bone she had obtained from the Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Huo Yuhao checked the soul bone with Bibi Dong, then absorbed it while Ma Xiaotao stood guard.
• A third white soul ring with golden patterns appeared beneath Huo Yuhao, and he told Ma Xiaotao he had removed her Mental Imprint.
• Huo Yuhao evaded Ma Xiaotao’s attacks by letting them pass through his body, then challenged her to catch him.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed Phoenix Meteor Shower, but the meteors passed through Huo Yuhao without harming him.
• Huo Yuhao kissed Ma Xiaotao, then twisted out of sight and disappeared.

Mujin explained Shrek Academy’s upcoming freshman team-battle assessment and its rules, prompting the students to form teams. After class, she introduced Huo Yuhao to the girl he had persuaded to transfer into Class Nine, leaving his new team’s lineup to be decided.

• Mujin announced that every student had to compete in three-person teams in the freshman assessment, with teams advancing according to their battle results.
• Mujin told Class Nine’s 101 students to arrange their own teams, noting that another student would transfer in to resolve the two-person shortfall.
• The students began forming teams, while Huo Yuhao and Xie Huanyue received no invitations.
• Mujin asked Huo Yuhao and Xie Huanyue to stay after class and told Huo Yuhao that she had recruited the person he wanted.
• A pink-haired girl entered the classroom, greeted Mujin, and asked whether Huo Yuhao was the person she had heard about.

Huo Yuhao recruited Cui Yajie by demonstrating that his Spiritual Power could prevent Dai Huabin and Cui Yajie from using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then brought her to a forest to awaken her Nine-tailed Fox Martial Soul. He began preparing to teach her to harness natural energy as he called it Immortal Fox Mode.

• Cui Yajie challenged Huo Yuhao's strength and compared his team unfavorably with Dai Huabin's.
• Huo Yuhao released overwhelming Spiritual Pressure, knocking Cui Yajie and Mujin to the ground and explaining that he could stop the Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Cui Yajie accepted Huo Yuhao's offer and joined Class Nine, and he took her and Xie Huan Yue out of Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao led Cui Yajie and Xie Huan Yue to the forest where he had first met Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and isolated the area with its buried molted shell.
• Huo Yuhao told Cui Yajie he would help transform her Nine-tailed Fox Martial Soul so she could control natural energy, a state he named Immortal Fox Mode.

Huo Yuhao and Electrolux created a powerful artificial soul spirit for Cui Yajie, evolving her Nine-tailed Fox into a Nine-tailed Immortal Fox and raising her Soul Power to level thirty. Cui Yajie thanked Huo Yuhao, while the freshman assessment approached.

• Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm drew natural energy from the Star Dou Great Forest for Cui Yajie's Martial Soul awakening.
• Electrolux used the combined powers to create an artificial soul spirit, while Huo Yuhao used a binding spell to stabilize Cui Yajie as she endured the transformation.
• Cui Yajie's Martial Soul evolved into the Nine-tailed Immortal Fox, her Soul Power reached level thirty, and she gained a Hundred Thousand Year soul spirit and Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuyao secretly planted a Mental Imprint in Cui Yajie as part of his plan to build a strong foundation for the future.
• Cui Yajie awoke and threw herself into Huo Yuyao's arms, thanking him as the freshman assessment neared.

Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Cui Yajie shared their abilities and formed a team for the assessment, with Huo Yuhao revealing his second Martial Soul and naming their group the Death Fire Sea Team. In the God Realm, Tang identified a likely Son of Fortune and decided to influence him through Xiao Qi.

• Cui Yajie demonstrated her evolved fox skills, and Xie Huanyue showed the four abilities of his Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao displayed Spiritual Detection Sharing, Spiritual Simulation, and Kamui: Byakugan, then said he would avoid relying heavily on the third skill during the assessment.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his second Martial Soul, the Soul Cutting Blade, and Xie Huanyue and Cui Yajie learned he had twin Martial Souls.
• Xie Huanyue and Cui Yajie agreed that their team was exceptionally strong, and Huo Yuhao named it the Death Fire Sea Team.
• Tang observed a Dou Ling royal family member with a Black Tortoise Martial Soul, judged him a possible Sea God successor, and decided to influence him through Xiao Qi.

Huo Yuhao’s team was registered for the freshman assessment, then lunch turned into a rivalry as Cui Yajie and Wu Feng competed for his attention. Ma Xiaotao spotted Huo Yuhao and marched toward him, angered by their encounter the previous day.

• Mujin registered Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Cui Yajie as the Death Fire Sea Team and warned them to win the freshman assessment.
• Huo Yuhao ate lunch with Xie Huanyue and Cui Yajie before Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Nanmen Yun'er joined them.
• Cui Yajie and Wu Feng argued over their closeness to Huo Yuhao, then competed to feed and pamper him while Nanmen Yun'er massaged his shoulders.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao watched the commotion from nearby as Xu Sanshi joked about the scene and discussed the freshman assessment with them.
• Ma Xiaotao entered the cafeteria looking for Xu Sanshi, saw Wu Feng feeding Huo Yuhao, and headed toward him in a fury over their encounter the previous day.

Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao’s fight in the cafeteria was stopped by Yan Shaozhe, who later confronted Huo Yuhao about his ties to the Holy Spirit Cult. Huo Yuhao challenged Shrek’s judgment of Evil Soul Masters, leaving Yan Shaozhe to consider his argument.

• Ma Xiaotao attacked Huo Yuhao and his companions with Phoenix Meteor Shower, and Huo Yuhao countered with Amaterasu as the others prepared to fight.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived, neutralized both sides’ attacks, and took Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, and their companions to the dean’s office.
• Yan Shaozhe reprimanded Ma Xiaotao, acknowledged that she had started the fight, and dismissed everyone except her and Huo Yuhao.
• Yan Shaozhe confronted Huo Yuhao about his romantic reputation and revealed that he knew Huo Yuhao was the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Evil Soul Masters should be judged by their actions rather than their martial souls, and questioned whether Shrek had ever tried to guide those with mutated or incomplete martial souls.

Mu En revealed that Huo Yuhao had a Life Affinity Physique and encouraged Ma Xiaotao to be with him, while Huo Yuhao declared that she was his despite refusing to promise to support her. Mu En then explained to Yan Shaozhe why he trusted Huo Yuhao and believed he was gathering a circle of allies who could help him rule the era.

• Mu En entered Yan Shaozhe's office, praised Huo Yuhao, and said he had been observing him and knew about his unusual abilities.
• Mu En identified Huo Yuhao's Life Affinity Physique and explained that it naturally absorbed Life Energy and revealed a person's kindness.
• Mu En offered to betroth Ma Xiaotao to Huo Yuhao; after they left the office, Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao he would support her, then said he could not accept her before claiming that she belonged to him.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned Mu En's decision to let Huo Yuhao leave, and Mu En rebuked him for lacking magnanimity.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that Huo Yuhao's companions formed a circle around him and that Ma Xiaotao could evolve greatly by following him.

Zhou Yi formed Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Cao Jinxuan into a team and tasked them with winning the freshman assessment, relying on Cao Jinxuan’s time-controlling martial soul to counter a powerful fusion skill. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao spent the night with Ma Xiaotao before the assessment, leaving the story on the eve of the competition.

• Zhou Yi assigned Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and transfer student Cao Jinxuan to Group One and ordered them to aim for the championship.
• Cao Jinxuan revealed his Fleeting Time Bell and substitute companion martial soul, which Zhou Yi believed could disrupt opponents’ Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• Zhou Yi warned the group about Xie Huanyue’s team and the Star Luo Empire heirs whose fusion skill could rival a Soul King.
• Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Cao Jinxuan agreed to pursue the championship, confident that time control could stop the rival team from fusing.
• Huo Yuhao stayed at Ma Xiaotao’s residence, where they spent the night together and her soul power rose by a level.

Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Cui Yajie arrived at Area Sixty-Six for the first freshman assessment, while Wang Dong’s team began its opening match at Area Thirty-Three. The chapter ended as Huo Yuhao’s team faced three opponents who were all two-ring soul masters.

• Huo Yuhao met Xie Huanyue and Cui Yajie at Area Sixty-Six, where they prepared for their first assessment match.
• Wang Yan introduced himself to the students at Area Thirty-Three and warned them not to seriously injure their opponents.
• Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Cao Jinxuan entered the arena to face Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, and Zhao Haochen in the first match.
• Wang Dong’s team released their martial souls, and Wang Dong charged forward with his blue-violet wings spread.
• Huo Yuhao, Xie Huanyue, and Cui Yajie entered the arena for the sixth match against Cai Xudi, Ma Baoguo, and Gou Luanshi of the All-Star Team.

Huo Yuhao’s team began its assessment against Cai Xudi, Ma Baoguo, and Gou Luanshi, while Huo Yuhao concealed his and Cui Yajie’s abilities and guided Xie Huanyue through Spiritual Detection Sharing. Xie Huanyue shrugged off Ma Baoguo’s attacks and eliminated him, leaving Cai Xudi and Gou Luanshi facing him as Cai Xudi revealed a suspicious corpse-poison technique.

• Cai Xudi drew cheers from the girls in the stands, while Huo Yuhao’s team sized up him, Ma Baoguo, and Gou Luanshi.
• Huo Yuhao concealed his and Cui Yajie’s strength with Simulation and used Spiritual Detection Sharing to support Xie Huanyue.
• Xie Huanyue struck Gou Luanshi with Rubber Rebound Cannon, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Ma Baoguo attacked Xie Huanyue with Thunder Five Consecutive Whips and Voltage Amplification, but Xie Huanyue remained unharmed and threw him from the arena.
• Cai Xudi and Gou Luanshi continued the fight, and Cai Xudi used Green Corpse Chill, prompting the supervising teacher to suspect an Evil Soul Master technique.

During the freshman assessment, Gou Luanshi secretly used an Aging Ray to drain Xie Huanyue’s life force, prompting Huo Yuhao to strike him down with the Battle Soul Blade. Xie Huanyue was taken for treatment, and Huo Yuhao was left shaken by his carelessness and asked Cui Yajie to let him be alone.

• After receiving Huo Yuhao’s signal, Xie Huanyue used his second soul skill and knocked Cai Xudi into a partition.
• As Xie Huanyue moved to finish the match, Gou Luanshi secretly fired an Aging Ray that rapidly drained Xie Huanyue’s life force.
• Huo Yuhao caught the weakened Xie Huanyue, recognized the weapon’s likely effect, and used Soul Shock to stop Gou Luanshi from conceding.
• Huo Yuhao cut Gou Luanshi from shoulder to abdomen with the Battle Soul Blade, and the supervising teacher stopped the bleeding and found a destroyed Soul Tool in his sleeve guard.
• Healing teachers took Xie Huanyue away for treatment, while Huo Yuhao blamed himself and asked Cui Yajie to give him some time alone.

After Huo Yuhao’s team advanced, he struggled with guilt over injuring Gou Luanshi and his fear of losing those he cared about. Bibi Dong encouraged him in his flooded spiritual world, and Ma Xiaotao’s visit left him determined to focus on the coming assessments.

• Huo Yuhao’s match was ruled a draw, advancing both teams, while Wang Dong’s team also won its assessment.
• The academy announced that Xie Huanyue was severely injured and would miss at least a day of competition, while Gou Luanshi lay recovering in the infirmary and vowed revenge on Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao sat alone by Sea God Lake and admitted to Bibi Dong that he feared losing Fatty, Zhongli Yu, Xiaotao, and her.
• Bibi Dong revealed that Huo Yuhao’s sadness flooded their spiritual world, and Huo Yuhao embraced her as Haodong Power opened a clear patch of sky.
• Ma Xiaotao came to check on Huo Yuhao, and he thanked her for caring before turning down her invitation to spend the night together until after the assessments.

Huo Yuhao returned to the villa after spending the night with Ma Xiaotao and learned that Ning Tian's team had passed its assessment matches. As the freshman assessment continued, Wang Dong's team stayed undefeated while Dai Huabin's altered team emerged as a formidable threat, preparing to hunt for his fourth soul ring.

• Ma Xiaotao watched Huo Yuhao leave, then scolded herself for giving in to her feelings.
• Wu Feng, Ning Tian, and Nanmen Yun'er confronted Huo Yuhao at the villa, and Wu Feng accused him of smelling like another woman.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Ning Tian's team had easily passed its first assessment round, while Freshman Class One and Class Nine benefited from their training and teamwork.
• Huo Yuhao and Cui Yajie kept winning with great difficulty as other teams tried to identify and exploit their apparent weaknesses.
• Wang Dong's team won all five of its matches, and Cao Jinxuan hinted that he had a way to counter Dai Huabin's Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Dai Huabin was revealed to have reached Rank Forty, Zhu Lu had become a Soul Elder, and their team planned to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest so Dai Huabin could obtain his fourth soul ring.

Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, and Pei Jue encountered a wounded Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Dai Huabin pursued it in hopes of gaining its soul ring. Meanwhile, Wang Dong and his teammates spotted the supposedly injured Xie Huanyue near Shrek City's eastern gate.

• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu hunted soul beasts with Pei Jue in the Star Dou Great Forest as Dai Huabin prepared to reveal his four-ring strength in the freshman assessment.
• A thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger appeared, and Dai Huabin recognized it as a rare beast whose soul ring might strengthen or transform his White Tiger martial soul.
• Pei Jue struck the tiger with his Blazing Lion martial soul, injuring it and forcing it to flee deeper into the forest.
• Dai Huabin chased the wounded tiger, while Pei Jue told Zhu Lu to wait outside the forest.
• Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and their companion headed to Shrek City's eastern gate after two days of undefeated matches and saw Xie Huanyue eating roasted meat at a roadside stall, despite his recent injuries.