Chapter Summaries

After Huo Yuhao passed Nezha’s illusion trial, he learned the truth of Nezha’s suffering and gained a deeper understanding of love, hatred, and death. Nezha taught him the Samadhi True Fire cultivation method and gave him the Demon Slaying Sword, and the two forged a bond before spending three days drinking and feasting in the Lotus Sea of Divine Soul.

• Huo Yuhao emerged from the illusion and told Nezha that he had understood his true nature through the trial.
• Nezha showed Huo Yuhao how he had cut away his flesh and bones, revealing the pain and resentment that shaped him.
• Huo Yuhao offered to help Nezha, and Nezha gave him the Samadhi True Fire method and the Demon Slaying Sword.
• Huo Yuhao called Nezha his master, and Nezha accepted their bond while saying they could stand shoulder to shoulder as fellow madmen.
• Nezha and Huo Yuhao drank wine and ate fish together for three days and nights in the Lotus Sea of Divine Soul.

After drinking through the night, Huo Yuhao woke with his Soul Power at rank thirty-five and accepted Ning Tian and Wu Feng’s challenge for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins. He defeated them without using his Martial Soul, then invited anyone else to challenge him as the arena filled with opponents.

• Huo Yuhao arrived at class hungover, and Electrolux told Tian Meng that his Soul Power had risen to rank thirty-five after he drank himself unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Ning Tian and Wu Feng’s challenge after Wu Feng offered him ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• At the Soul Fighting arena, Huo Yuhao dodged Wu Feng’s attacks, threw her to the floor, and stopped his punch just short of Ning Tian before declaring her defeated.
• Huo Yuhao offered to fight anyone willing to pay five hundred Gold Soul Coins, and dozens of challengers rushed onto the platform.
• Huo Yuhao knocked down successive challengers using only his fists and feet, while Yan Shaozhe asked whether they should stop the fight.
• Xuan Zi chose to let the battle continue so he could see Huo Yuhao’s potential as more opponents joined the fight.

Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Huabin in the arena with overwhelming power, stunning Shrek’s observers, then traveled to the Far North during the holiday to seek a companion. He continued north while thinking about how he would reunite with the Snow Empress.

• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu challenged Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao knocked Zhu Lu out of the arena before the fight began.
• Huo Yuhao evaded Dai Huabin’s attacks and defeated him despite his White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed a golden dragon phantom and struck Dai Huabin with Explosive Fist, leaving him unconscious with an arm severed.
• Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe reacted with shock to Huo Yuhao’s power and discussed his unusual Martial Soul and potential.
• During the holiday, Huo Yuhao traveled to the Far North, where Tian Meng offered to guide him and he thought about meeting the Snow Empress again.

Huo Yuhao reunited with the Snow Empress in the Far North, where she remembered their love from a previous life and confessed her feelings. They embraced and kissed, while the Ice Empress watched with conflicted emotions and Electrolux urged Tian Meng to let them enjoy the moment.

• Huo Yuhao entered the Far North's core region, where the Snow Empress and Ice Empress approached him.
• The Snow Empress recognized Huo Yuhao and recalled their bond and parting promise from ten thousand years earlier.
• The Snow Empress spoke of wanting to stand beside Huo Yuhao, and he resolved not to leave her affection unanswered.
• Huo Yuhao embraced and kissed the Snow Empress, who returned his affection as the Ice Empress watched with wistful unease.
• The Snow Empress asked Huo Yuhao to call her Xue'er, and Electrolux silenced Tian Meng when he brought up their reason for visiting the Far North.

Huo Yuhao reunited with the Snow Empress in the Far North, arranged for the Ice Empress to protect him, and spent seven days with Xue'er before preparing to leave. He departed with a new Ice Silkworm Soul Spirit named Xiao Bing, while the Snow Empress stayed behind, hoping they would meet again.

• Huo Yuhao assured the Ice Empress he would not force her to become his Soul Spirit, and the Snow Empress persuaded her to protect him instead.
• Huo Yuhao concealed the Ice Empress's identity with a spell and linked both her and the Snow Empress to his divine power so he could sense if they were in danger.
• Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress spent seven days together in the Far North, while the Ice Empress watched them and Tian Meng retreated from her advances.
• Huo Yuhao named the female Ice Silkworm Xiao Bing, who pursued Tian Meng despite his declaration that he loved the Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao gave the Snow Empress an Ice Jade Water Muscle Bone and left the Far North, while she watched him go and wished for his safe return.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy with the Ice Empress as his temporary guardian, prompting Dean Yan Shaozhe to arrange for her to stay in Huo Yuhao’s dormitory. He gave Immortal Herbs to Ma Xiaotao, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao, easing their worries and leaving each of them moved by his generosity.

• Huo Yuhao arrived at Shrek Academy with the Ice Empress, and Yan Shaozhe arranged for her to stay in Huo Yuhao’s dormitory after she agreed to act as his guardian.
• Ning Tian urged Wu Feng to recruit Huo Yuhao into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, fearing his strength could eventually surpass the sect’s ability to oppose him.
• Ma Xiaotao mistook the Ice Empress for Huo Yuhao’s girlfriend, but Huo Yuhao reassured her and gave her a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to purify her Evil Fire.
• Huo Yuhao gave Jiang Nannan an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, explaining that he was giving gifts to his friends, and she accepted it with gratitude.
• Huo Yuhao gave Xiao Xiao an Immortal Herb in exchange for the meal she had prepared, leaving her overwhelmed and flustered.

Huo Yuhao refused the academy’s core disciple selection, rejecting the fame and tournament role that the senior leaders hoped he would accept. Xuan Zi then named seven other candidates for the next Shrek Seven Devils and sent them to compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament.

• Yan Shaozhe told Xuan Zi that Ma Xiaotao’s Fire Phoenix Martial Soul had gained Ultimate Fire, and Xuan Zi insisted Huo Yuhao must join the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Wang Yan announced that second-year students could enter the core disciple selection and told Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong they could pass directly.
• Huo Yuhao refused to participate, saying he pursued strength to protect those he cared about rather than empty fame, and left the classroom.
• Yan Shaozhe told Xuan Zi that Huo Yuhao had rejected the selection, and Xuan Zi urged him to persuade Huo Yuhao again.
• Xuan Zi named Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, Jiang Nannan, and Ning Tian as candidates for the next Shrek Seven Devils.
• Xuan Zi ordered the seven candidates to set out as Shrek’s reserve team for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament.

Xuan Zi ordered Yan Shaozhe to meet Huo Yuhao’s demands, while Huo Yuhao confronted Tang Ya about her hatred and desire for revenge. He urged her to choose a future with the people who loved her, leaving her to face the cost her revenge could bring.

• Xuan Zi praised Huo Yuhao’s battlefield talent and told Yan Shaozhe to grant his requests if Shrek could provide them.
• The Shrek Seven Devils gathered at the tea house, where He Caitou asked Tang Ya to let him join the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao entered and confronted Tang Ya about her buried hatred and her temptation to seek revenge alone.
• Huo Yuhao warned Bei Bei that Tang Ya might lose herself to revenge, then asked whether they loved each other.
• Bei Bei admitted he loved Tang Ya, and Tang Ya quietly said she loved him too.
• Huo Yuhao urged Tang Ya to consider the grief and loss her death would cause Bei Bei if she pursued revenge.

Huo Yuhao gave Tang Ya the Immortal Herb Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew but refused to join the Tang Sect, leaving to sever his ties with them. Later, he agreed to compete for Shrek Academy as an ordinary student after Yan Shaozhe offered him generous rewards, though he refused the title of one of the Shrek Seven Devils.

• Huo Yuhao gave Tang Ya Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and urged her not to let hatred blind her.
• Tang Ya asked Huo Yuhao to join the Tang Sect, but he refused and left, considering his old debts repaid.
• Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wang Dong reacted to Huo Yuhao's departure and his fondness for sweets.
• Yan Shaozhe pleaded with Huo Yuhao to compete in the Continent-wide Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament as one of the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to compete for Shrek Academy as an ordinary student, refusing the title and agreeing to meet the current Shrek Seven Devils.

The reserve team and the current Shrek Seven Devils met to introduce themselves before the tournament, but Huo Yuhao’s arrival turned the gathering into a confrontation with Dai Yueheng over Dai Huabin. Huo Yuhao openly rejected the Duke’s Mansion’s authority, leaving the others stunned by the hatred and killing intent he revealed.

• Xuan Zi gathered the reserve team and the current Shrek Seven Devils, announced the tournament was ten days away, and said an important companion would join them.
• Bei Bei, He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong, and the inner-court disciples introduced themselves and their Soul Master levels.
• Huo Yuhao arrived, and Dai Yueheng demanded to know who he was; Huo Yuhao teased him before declaring himself Dai Yueheng’s grandpa.
• Dai Yueheng accused Huo Yuhao of crippling Dai Huabin, and Huo Yuhao admitted it, arguing that Dai Huabin had brought the beating on himself.
• Huo Yuhao dismissed the Duke’s Mansion and rebuked Ma Xiaotao when she tried to calm him, then apologized as his anger subsided and the gathered disciples reacted to his killing intent.

Huo Yuhao challenged the Shrek Seven Devils and Dai Yueheng, wagering that he would admit fault if defeated and demand an apology and one million Gold Soul Coins if he won. He began fighting three at a time and instantly knocked out Yao Haoxuan and Gongyang Mo, then turned to Ling Luochеn as his next opponent.

• Yao Haoxuan confronted Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao mocked him and told Xuan Zi that Dai Yueheng had come seeking trouble over his crippled younger brother.
• Huo Yuhao challenged the Shrek Seven Devils and reserve team to fight him together, then set terms with Dai Yueheng: defeat meant he would kowtow and admit fault, while victory meant Dai Yueheng would do so and pay one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Yueheng accepted Huo Yuhao's terms, and Huo Yuhao announced that his opponents would fight three at a time.
• Yao Haoxuan and Gongyang Mo challenged Huo Yuhao alongside Ling Luochеn, while the reserve team members, including Ma Xiaotao, forfeited.
• Huo Yuhao used Soul Shock and an enhanced Reign Over the World punch to knock out Yao Haoxuan and Gongyang Mo almost instantly.
• Xuan Zi and the spectators reacted in shock, and Huo Yuhao called Ling Luochеn his next opponent.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Ling Luochеn with Ultimate Ice, then faced Dai Yueheng after the others withdrew. Dai Yueheng rejected Huo Yuhao’s refusal to join the Duke’s Mansion with an attack, and the chapter ended as he unleashed White Tiger Destruction Kill.

• Huo Yuhao froze Ling Luochеn’s ice attack, then gently calmed her Martial Soul until she conceded and stepped off the platform.
• Chen Zifeng and Xi Xi withdrew, leaving Huo Yuhao and Dai Yueheng to settle their conflict.
• Dai Yueheng offered Huo Yuhao a position in the Duke’s Mansion, but Huo Yuhao insulted the offer and refused.
• Dai Yueheng attacked Huo Yuhao, who dodged and countered with precise strikes before blocking his White Tiger Fierce Light Wave with an ice shield.
• Dai Yueheng activated his White Tiger abilities and launched White Tiger Destruction Kill at Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Yueheng with the Golden Dragon Flame Fist, forcing Xuan Zi to intervene, and was named Dai Yueheng’s replacement. Before the Shrek group departed for the tournament, Huo Yuhao refused Xuan Zi’s call for the reserve team to accept the Inner Court’s responsibilities and turned back toward the academy.

• Huo Yuhao unleashed the Golden Dragon Flame Fist, and Xuan Zi blocked the attack before Dai Yueheng lost consciousness.
• Xuan Zi praised Huo Yuhao’s dual Ultimate Attributes and told him to replace the badly injured Dai Yueheng.
• Ma Xiaotao, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao waited outside Huo Yuhao’s dormitory with breakfast before he joined the group.
• Xuan Zi asked the reserve team to accept the Inner Court’s responsibilities and keep the matter secret, and everyone agreed.
• Huo Yuhao turned back toward the academy, saying he was unwilling to shoulder the responsibility.

Xuan Zi explained the Shrek Inspection Corps’ dangerous mission and invited Huo Yuhao to join the inner court, but accepted his refusal and urged him to follow his own heart. Meanwhile, Dai Huabin remained determined to target Huo Yuhao despite Dai Yueheng’s warning.

• Xuan Zi revealed that inner court disciples served as Shrek Inspectors, protecting people from evil Soul Masters despite the danger, and the gathered youths agreed to join.
• Huo Yuhao refused the inner court and Inspection Corps, saying he would act according to his own heart rather than accept a duty that might cost him his life.
• Xuan Zi praised Huo Yuhao’s honesty and told him he would not force him to join.
• Dai Yueheng warned Dai Huabin that Huo Yuhao had defeated three Soul Kings and a Soul Emperor and threatened the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion if Dai Huabin acted rashly.
• Dai Huabin dismissed Dai Yueheng’s warning and vowed to continue pursuing his goal against Huo Yuhao.

Xuan Zi’s students began their first mission as probationary inspectors, traveling to the Ming Dou Mountain Range to eradicate a bandit group led by the Evil Soul Master known as the Death Messenger. After Huo Yuhao secretly attacked Dai Hao at the military camp, Wang Yan led the group to the bandits’ lair, where they discovered a hundred corpses, including infants.

• Wang Yan distributed Inspector’s Rings, and Ma Xiaotao explained that the students’ mission was to wipe out nearly three hundred bandits in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao told Electrolux that he wanted to kill the bandits himself and leave purifying their souls to his teacher.
• The group traveled through the forest, rested by a stream, and stopped for a barbecue after Xuan Zi insisted on tasting Huo Yuhao’s cooking.
• When Xuan Zi led the students into the Western Army Group camp, Huo Yuhao stayed behind and secretly struck Dai Hao with a Golden Dragon Flame Fist, injuring his right arm.
• Wang Yan found signs of the bandits and led the group to their lair, where they discovered more than a hundred corpses, including infants.

Huo Yuhao shielded his companions from the Death Messenger’s corpse explosions, then tricked the Evil Soul Master into lowering his guard and rescued the hostages. He destroyed the Death Messenger with his necromantic power, and his companions learned that his apparent cruelty had been an act.

• Xuan Zi watched the campaign against the Hand of Death Bandit Gang while Huo Yuhao protected the group from the Death Messenger’s exploding corpses with Ultimate Ice.
• The Death Messenger tried to seize Yao Haoxuan and Gongyang Mo as hostages, but Huo Yuhao pretended to abandon them and provoked the Evil Soul Master into dropping his guard.
• Huo Yuhao struck the Death Messenger with Soul Shock, allowing Xuan Zi to rescue Yao Haoxuan and Gongyang Mo.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the dead within a golden array, and their spirits tore apart the Death Messenger before the light purified them.
• Jiang Nannan, Ma Xiaotao, and Xiao Xiao rushed to Huo Yuhao and admitted that his cold performance had fooled them.

After Huo Yuhao explained his deception during the inspection mission, Xuan Zi praised his abilities at a Sea God Pavilion meeting, where the elders agreed to keep him at Shrek Academy. The team arrived in Star Luo City, and the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament officially opened, with its first-round draw due the next day.

• Huo Yuhao told Yao Haoxuan that he had pretended to be ruthless to lure the enemy into exposing a weakness, then lied to Xuan Zi about his sacred power being an innate attribute of his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul.
• Xuan Zi convened a Sea God Pavilion Meeting and described Huo Yuhao's talent and battle skill to Mu En and the other leaders.
• Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion members agreed that keeping Huo Yuhao at Shrek Academy was the best choice, despite his reluctance to join the inner court or the Shrek Inspection Corps.
• Wang Yan explained the tournament rules to the Shrek team in Star Luo City, while Huo Yuhao skipped the meeting and reached level thirty-nine.
• The Star Luo Emperor welcomed the delegations at Star Luo Plaza and declared the tournament officially open.

Huo Yuhao obtained the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife at an auction while continuing to avoid drawing attention during the tournament. When he and Ling Luochе faced Changning Academy, he amplified her ice attribute, and she froze all seven opponents with Ultimate Ice.

• Huo Yuhao watched Shrek Academy win its early matches, while Ma Rulong and Xiao Hongchen dismissed him as a weak substitute.
• Huo Yuhao went to a Soul Tool auction with several female teammates and obtained the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, hoping his sacred attribute could purify it for Teacher.
• Wang Yan urged Huo Yuhao to demonstrate his abilities after rumors mocked him for hiding behind his teammates, and arranged for him and Ling Luochе to fight together.
• Against Changning Academy, Huo Yuhao supported Ling Luochе by amplifying her attribute instead of attacking himself.
• Ling Luochе used her fifth Soul Ring and Ultimate Ice to freeze all seven opponents, then reflected on Huo Yuhao's power and the warmth of his Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao attended the Starlight Auction and bid on a Level 8 Soul Tool and a seventy-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, charging both to Shrek Academy. After exposing a defect in the Soul Bone, he persuaded the Star Luo Emperor to offer it to him, then held the emperor to his promise as the chapter ended.

• Qing Ya invited the Shrek group to the Starlight Auction, where Huo Yuhao planned to acquire the Ice Explosion Soul Bone for the Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao won the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade for one million Gold Soul Coins, intending to charge Shrek Academy and give it to Ma Xiaotao.
• Huo Yuhao bid thirty million Gold Soul Coins for the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and raised each further offer by one coin, then warned that its defect made it dangerous to attach.
• Xu Jiujiu informed the Star Luo Emperor of the defect, and the emperor chose to give the Soul Bone to Huo Yuhao to maintain ties with Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the emperor's offer while pretending to refuse, then reminded him that witnesses had heard his promise.

Huo Yuhao secured a promise from the Star Luo Emperor to receive the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone after a strong tournament performance, then clashed verbally with Xiao Hongchen. After evolving the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife and opening the Eye of Life, Huo Yuhao learned Shrek planned to send him alone against Star Luo Royal Academy in the semifinal, leaving him stunned as the crowd questioned the decision.

• The Star Luo Emperor promised Huo Yuhao the Soul Bone after the tournament if he gave a strong performance, and Xu Jiujiu called him Shameless.
• Xiao Hongchen provoked Huo Yuhao in the corridor, but Huo Yuhao mocked him and walked away.
• Huo Yuhao fused the Gold of Life into the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, opened the Eye of Life, and gave Electrolux a separate domain within it.
• Wang Yan told Shrek’s team that Huo Yuhao would fight Star Luo Royal Academy alone in the semifinal, with Princess Jiujiu as his opponent.
• At the semifinal, Huo Yuhao discovered he was Shrek’s sole contestant as the crowd questioned and ridiculed the decision.