Recaps

Huo Yuhao saved Zhou Yi from a falling Soul Tool, then stood by her as she confronted Mu Jin and Fan Yu. Fan Yu fired a Soul Missile at Huo Yuhao, triggering a chain of explosions across the Soul Tool Institute; Mu Jin and Fan Yu escaped the office but were left unconscious, while Zhou Yi and Huo Yuhao’s fate remained unknown.

• Huo Yuhao caught Zhou Yi before she struck a Soul Tool and shielded her from Mu Jin’s pressure.
• Zhou Yi pushed back Mu Jin’s soul power and stood beside Huo Yuhao, while Fan Yu watched them hold hands.
• Fan Yu aimed a Soul Tool cannon at Huo Yuhao and fired a Soul Missile, engulfing the office in flames.
• The Soul Missile set off the Soul Tools’ self-destruct programs, causing explosions throughout the Soul Tool Institute and prompting an academy-wide response.
• Mu Jin escaped through a window with Fan Yu, but both were injured by the blast and eventually passed out.

After an explosion set the Soul Tool Department ablaze, Zhang Lexuan and the department’s deans arrived to protect the injured and contain the fire. Xian Lin’er summoned a wind dragon and used water from Sea God Lake to extinguish the flames, leaving the cause of the explosion to be investigated.

• Zhang Lexuan reached the burning Soul Tool Department and confirmed that Fan Yu and Mu Jin had only superficial injuries.
• Qian Duoduo examined Fan Yu while Xian Lin’er treated Mu Jin and promised to investigate the explosion.
• Qian Duoduo warned that the fire could reach the nearby soul tool storage warehouse, so Zhang Lexuan sealed the teaching building inside a barrier.
• Xian Lin’er summoned her Azure Flame Dragon martial soul as inner court students used water to help fight the fire.
• Xian Lin’er drew water from Sea God Lake into a tornado, shaped it into a wind dragon, and sent it crashing into the barrier to scatter the smoke and extinguish the flames.

Huo Yuhao survived the Soul Missile explosion and prepared the burning office to make his rescue of Zhou Yi look like a heroic sacrifice. When Zhou Yi awoke, she found him unconscious and badly burned, and begged him to wake up.

• The Soul Missile knocked Zhou Yi unconscious, while Huo Yuhao used a field to shield himself from the flames.
• Huo Yuhao carried Zhou Yi to a cooled corner, then suppressed his defenses and staged his own collapse after the fire burned his back.
• Zhou Yi awoke in the smoke, found Huo Yuhao lying across her, and used a Soul Tool to see his injuries.
• Zhou Yi saw Huo Yuhao's blistered, bleeding back and tearfully pleaded with him to wake up.

Zhou Yi struggled to carry the unconscious, severely burned Huo Yuhao through the burning teaching building until rescuers arrived and extinguished the fire. Xian Lin'er found both of them near death, but sensed that their lives were being sustained by matching threads of vitality.

• Zhou Yi protected Huo Yuhao with her remaining Soul Power and carried him blindly through smoke and flames, suffering severe burns and injuries.
• As rescuers approached, Zhou Yi heard a dragon roar and felt the surrounding heat diminish, then called for them to save Huo Yuhao before losing consciousness.
• Zhang Lexuan suspected that Lord Shadow had used the incident to warn them about Nu, while Qian Duoduo rushed toward the Soul Tool warehouse.
• Xian Lin'er entered the teaching building, found Zhou Yi and Huo Yuhao badly burned and stuck together, and used Soul Power to keep them alive.
• Xian Lin'er ordered an inner court student to fetch medical help, then sensed an identical thread of vitality appear in both Zhou Yi and Huo Yuhao.

Zhang Lexuan arranged for Zhou Yi and Huo Yuhao to receive medical care, then went to Shadow Garden’s intelligence department to contact Nu. When Nu failed to answer repeated calls, Zhang Lexuan ordered the department to keep trying and prepare a search if they could not reach her within a day.

• Xian Lin'er treated Zhou Yi and Huo Yuhao with healing pills but left them together after discovering that Huo Yuhao’s vitality was sustaining Zhou Yi.
• Zhang Lexuan secretly used a black slime to remove metal fragments from Zhou Yi’s wounds, then handed both patients over to the medical staff.
• Zhang Lexuan returned to the Sea God Pavilion and entered Shadow Garden’s hidden intelligence department.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered 0962 to connect her to Nu in real time, but Nu did not answer two attempts.
• Zhang Lexuan instructed the intelligence department to try calling Nu every hour and to begin searching for her if they could not reach her within a day.

Shu Lingyu and Shu Lingxue returned to the Shadow Garden’s headquarters at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to submit a mission, finding the valley abuzz with a search for Lady Nu. Xu Bing’er, pregnant and meditating in the white lake, dismissed the news that the little firebird was missing, unaware that danger might be closer than she thought.

• Shu Lingyu and Shu Lingxue crossed the poisonous Jade Phosphor Seven Absolutes Flowers and entered the hidden valley.
• The sisters saw the Shadow Garden’s thriving headquarters surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and heard repeated broadcasts ordering members to track Lady Nu’s whereabouts.
• Shu Lingyu led Shu Lingxue toward the mission hall to turn in their mission.
• Xu Bing’er opened her eyes in the white lake and speculated that the missing little firebird might be fleeing a powerful enemy.
• Xu Bing’er sighed but felt confident that Shadow’s power left them safe from anyone but the gods.

Ma Xiaotao followed a mysterious red-haired man after her inner guidance led her to him in a frontier-town restaurant. When he left town, she continued after him, suspecting he might have noticed her.

• Ma Xiaotao entered a frontier-town restaurant and paid the owner a Gold Soul Coin to prepare her a meal.
• A red-haired man entered, and Ma Xiaotao felt her inner guidance point toward him.
• The man ordered the same meal as Ma Xiaotao and sat quietly while other customers chatted.
• The red-haired man paid with a Gold Soul Coin and left the restaurant, so Ma Xiaotao began following him.
• The man headed out of town toward a less populated area, and Ma Xiaotao followed despite suspecting she had been exposed.

Ma Hongjun returned to the ruins of his former home, grieving for Bai Chenxiang and planning to eliminate Shadow Garden in exchange for her resurrection. When Ma Xiaotao attacked him, he stopped her Phoenix True Body effortlessly, recognized her as his descendant, and caught her as she fainted.

• Ma Hongjun mourned Bai Chenxiang while visiting the ruins where they had once lived together.
• Ma Hongjun recalled that Tang San had promised to resurrect Bai Chenxiang if he eliminated the anomaly, which he had traced to Shadow Garden.
• Ma Hongjun sensed Ma Xiaotao following him and called her out from hiding.
• Ma Xiaotao unleashed her Phoenix True Body and attacked Ma Hongjun with her longsword.
• Ma Hongjun halted the attack with his palm, causing Ma Xiaotao's flames and weapons to vanish.
• Ma Hongjun called Ma Xiaotao his descendant and promised she would never suffer again before she fainted in his arms.

Huo Yuhao woke in the hospital and reunited with Zhou Yi, who had been badly burned while saving him. Zhou Yi accepted her scars and decided to make a younger-looking mask as they began looking ahead.

• Huo Yuhao woke after several days and learned that Mu Jin had been expelled and Fan Yu had been confined to the inner court.
• Huo Yuhao found Zhou Yi asleep in the bed beside his and saw the burn scars on her face.
• Zhou Yi woke in distress from a nightmare, and Huo Yuhao comforted her until she realized he was safe.
• Zhou Yi discovered her facial scars in the reflection of her cup, but said she could wear a mask and was not fragile.
• Huo Yuhao promised to find medicine to restore Zhou Yi's face, and Zhou Yi decided to make a younger-looking mask.

Huo Yuhao shared an affectionate moment with Xiao Xiao before meeting Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan to discuss Ma Xiaotao's disappearance. Suspecting Ma Xiaotao may have betrayed Shadow Garden, he ordered another search and declared that a traitor would be killed.

• Xiao Xiao confessed her love to Huo Yuhao, kissed him, and left to look after Zhou Yi.
• Huo Yuhao met Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan on a boat and asked about recent developments.
• Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan reported that Shadow Garden had lost contact with Ma Xiaotao for over two months and that she was last seen in a remote southern frontier town.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Jing to lead another search and sensed that the slime inside Ma Xiaotao had disappeared.
• Huo Yuhao considered that Ma Xiaotao might have extracted her slime and betrayed Shadow Garden, then declared that a traitor's fate was to be killed.

Long Aotian visited the Heavenly Soul emperor, who remained numb under the Body Sect's control, then discussed Shrek intelligence with Du Busi. Du Busi ordered him to squeeze the last value from Vina, and Long Aotian sent a message toward her as he prepared to use her for their revenge.

• Long Aotian entered the emperor's chambers and found the Heavenly Soul emperor unresponsive, then spent time with two imperial consorts.
• Long Aotian told Du Busi that Vina's intelligence had yielded little information about Shrek's high-level combatants.
• Du Busi dismissed Vina's usefulness and ordered Long Aotian to extract the last bit of value from her.
• Du Busi promised Long Aotian the Body Sect's secret art and leadership if he handled the matter well.
• Long Aotian returned the emperor to his chair, declared his loyalty, and sent a metal soul-tool pigeon toward Vina.

After Wu Feng defended Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er from a teasing classmate, Huo Yuhao invited them to a cookout by Sea God Lake on their day off. Vina shyly asked if she could join them.

• Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao argued over Huo Yuhao and embarrassed themselves when their classmates watched.
• Huo Yuhao confronted a male student who teased the girls, and Wu Feng grabbed the student by the collar and warned him to stop.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wu Feng about their plans for the next day and invited them to a cookout by Sea God Lake.
• Wu Feng asked to invite Ning Tian and Cui Yajie, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Vina approached the group bashfully and asked if she could join them.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao helped Vina join their joyful gathering, and Vina finally asked to be friends with them. Her happiness faded when a message from her father ordered her to abandon her mission and return to marry Long Aotian, leaving her feeling rejected.

• Xiao Xiao noticed Vina sitting alone and urged Huo Yuhao to check on her.
• Huo Yuhao encouraged Vina to enjoy the moment and choose what she wanted, while Xiao Xiao invited her to join them.
• Vina accepted the skewers, asked if they could be friends, and returned to her dormitory feeling happy.
• Vina found a metal pigeon Soul Tool and retrieved an intelligence message ordering her to return in a few days to marry Long Aotian.
• Vina realized the message came from her father and felt abandoned, torn between her new friendships and her father's rejection.

Huo Yuhao and his allies prepared for the Heavenly Soul Empire’s wedding procession, suspecting the Body Sect planned an attack on Shrek. As the carriages approached the city, Huo Yuhao confirmed their target and looked forward to the coming confrontation.

• Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan reported that the Body Sect had secretly taken control of the Heavenly Soul Royal Family and might use the wedding procession to strike Shrek.
• The women suspected Du Busi had received help from a god, while Huo Yuhao remained confident he could deal with the threat.
• Huo Yuhao ordered his people to split between Shrek and Shadow Garden identities and monitor the procession when it entered the city.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to scan the area near Shrek’s gates and saw decorated carriages followed by a hundred armed soldiers.
• Huo Yuhao examined the carriages, confirmed their target, and anticipated that the procession would bring excitement.

Huo Yuhao watched the Body Sect's wedding procession approach Shrek City and recognized that its concealed Soul Masters posed the real threat. Long Aotian's plan to enter the city and reach Shrek Academy proceeded without trouble, while the troops camped outside the gates.

• Huo Yuhao watched the procession from the city wall and suspected the Body Sect planned to target Shrek's forces, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and the External Soul Bone.
• Long Aotian briefed his senior brothers on their goals: sabotage Shrek, capture the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and External Soul Bone, bring back Vina, and investigate the mysterious organization.
• Long Aotian's senior brothers promised to follow his plan and even wrote notes on their palms so they would remember their assignments.
• As the procession neared Shrek City, Long Aotian briefly thought he saw a dark figure on the wall but found nothing when he searched.
• Long Aotian persuaded the guard captain to admit part of the procession, then led more than ten riders into Shrek City while the troops withdrew to camp outside.
• Long Aotian led the carriages toward Shrek Academy, convinced the plan was going smoothly.

Long Aotian entered Shrek Academy with his wedding procession while a hidden army prepared an attack on Shrek City. Vina remained reluctant to marry him but decided to return home and ask her father to postpone the wedding so she could stay at Shrek longer.

• Long Aotian handed out red envelopes and paperwork to enter Shrek Academy with his wedding procession.
• A soldier watching through a telescopic Soul Tool signaled the army outside Shrek City, where red-glowing spheres had been placed around the city and a squad had disappeared.
• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian tried to comfort Vina, but Vina stayed silent about her reluctance to marry Long Aotian.
• Wang Dong'er offered to fight Long Aotian if Vina refused the marriage, but Vina declined her help and Wang Dong'er stormed out.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that Shrek's teachers could help Vina refuse, but Vina decided to return home and ask her father to postpone the wedding.

Vina prepared to leave with Long Aotian, but explosions in Shrek City disrupted the bridal procession and revealed that Long Aotian was leading a Body Sect operation. He imprisoned Vina and joined the attack on Sea God Island, leaving her trapped in the carriage as the assault began.

• Vina told Huo Yuhao she planned to return, and Huo Yuhao watched her head downstairs before disappearing.
• Long Aotian proposed to Vina in front of the students, then offered to help her into the carriage.
• Explosions erupted in Shrek City, drawing the students away from the procession.
• Long Aotian shoved Vina into the carriage, revealed the procession was made up of Body Sect members, and sent his senior brothers toward Sea God Island.
• Long Aotian told Vina she would be forced to marry him and locked her inside an iron cage within the carriage.
• Long Aotian transformed his body and charged toward Sea God Island.

A bomb attack and a beast tide struck Shrek City at the same time, while Shrek’s leaders discovered that Body Sect disciples had caused the explosion. As the Soul Beasts froze outside the walls, the leaders sensed powerful presences appearing inside Shrek Academy.

• The city guard captain saw a beast tide pursuing fleeing Heavenly Soul soldiers and ordered Shrek City’s gates closed, leaving the soldiers outside to be swallowed by the beasts.
• Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei'er arrived at the wall, where Jiang Nannan explained that thousands of Soul Beasts had been drawn to the city and that she had prepared paralysis rays.
• Jiang Nannan ordered the defenders to fire, freezing the Soul Beasts beneath the city walls.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo reported that Body Sect disciples had planted bombs in the city, then killed themselves after being caught.
• Cai Mei'er suggested the attack was revenge for Xuan Zi nearly killing Du Busi, and the leaders realized dozens of powerful presences had appeared inside Shrek Academy.

As the Body Sect attacked Sea God Island, Di Tian’s roar dispersed the Soul Beast tide threatening Shrek. Huo Yuhao freed Vina and froze a path across Sea God Lake so she could reach the battle, while Zhang Lexuan struggled to stop Long Aotian and the Body Sect.

• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er hurried back toward Shrek after sensing Zhang Lexuan’s presence, while Di Tian received a letter and burned it.
• Di Tian’s dragon roar sent the Soul Beasts fleeing from Shrek, and Jiang Nannan left the city wall after the danger passed.
• Zhang Lexuan fought three Body Sect Titled Douluo as Long Aotian pushed toward the Sea God Pavilion, and she restrained the attackers with ice chains.
• A mysterious Shadow Garden figure spoke to Vina before disappearing, after which Huo Yuhao arrived and opened her carriage.
• Vina asked Huo Yuhao to take her to Sea God Island, so he froze a wide path across the lake and she stepped onto the ice.

Vina crossed onto Sea God Island while Zhang Lexuan held three Body Sect Titled Douluo at bay. Zhang Lexuan revealed her overwhelming strength and killed all three, ending the invasion of Shrek.

• Huo Yuhao created an ice path across the water, and Vina ran across it to Sea God Island.
• Vina reached the Sea God Pavilion and saw Zhang Lexuan fighting three Body Sect Titled Douluo while a dark figure followed her onto the island.
• Zhang Lexuan stopped concealing her presence, and her cultivation surged beyond the three men’s ability to measure.
• Zhang Lexuan summoned a blood-red full moon and brought it crashing down on the three Titled Douluo, killing them.
• Zhang Lexuan identified herself as Sea God Pavilion’s Pavilion Master, and no one else came to invade Shrek.

Zhang Lexuan defeated the Body Sect attackers at Shrek, and the remaining leaders decided to strengthen the academy while she recovered. Long Aotian, wounded after escaping Yan Shaozhe’s attack, faced approaching Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Zhang Lexuan killed the invading Body Sect members, earning the respect of Yan Shaozhe and the other deans as Shrek’s pavilion master.
• Qian Duoduo blocked a surprise attack on Zhang Lexuan, and Yan Shaozhe struck the two fleeing assailants with Fire Phoenixes.
• Zhang Lexuan warned Yan Shaozhe not to pursue the escapees, and he ordered disciples to search for them while protecting Shrek.
• Yan Shaozhe proposed carrying out Zhang Lexuan’s exchange-student plan, and the deans agreed Shrek should devote more effort to developing Soul Tools.
• Long Aotian recovered from his wounds in the woods near the Star Dou Great Forest, then provoked the Soul Beasts gathering around him.

Huo Yuhao rescued Vina from the battle at Shrek and secretly ordered Shadow Garden members to escort her to the Heavenly Soul Empire. After recovering, Vina set off to find her father and investigate the Body Sect’s role, while Huo Yuhao told his friends that tensions between Shrek, the Body Sect, and the empire had sharply worsened.

• Huo Yuhao laid the unconscious Vina down in the forest, dismissed his liquid longsword, and ordered the kneeling Shadow Garden members to escort her home in secret.
• Vina woke alone in the forest, recovered through meditation, and concluded that a mysterious expert from Shadow Garden had rescued her.
• Vina decided to return quietly to the Heavenly Soul Empire, see her father, and investigate the incident before going back to Shrek.
• Vina thanked her unseen rescuer and set off, worried that Long Aotian might reach the imperial palace before her.
• At Shrek, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian found Huo Yuhao, who explained that Vina was likely returning home and that the Body Sect’s attack had strained relations among Shrek, the sect, and the Heavenly Soul Empire.

Xuan Zi ordered Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian to train in the Sea God Pavilion for two years, while revealing that Huo Yuhao would study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. The four girls were sent away to follow their own paths as Huo Yuhao prepared to leave for his exchange.

• Huo Yuhao visited the recovering Zhou Yi with Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian before the four girls received Xuan Zi's summons.
• Xuan Zi told the four girls they would live and train in the Sea God Pavilion, with a minimum goal of reaching rank sixty within two years.
• Xuan Zi set Wang Dong'er a higher target of rank seventy and absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and she reluctantly agreed to his training.
• Xiao Xiao and the others asked to stay near Huo Yuhao, but Xuan Zi revealed that he would send Huo Yuhao to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy as an exchange student for two years.
• Wang Dong'er and Wu Feng asked to accompany Huo Yuhao, but Xuan Zi refused and explained that each of them had to follow a separate path.
• Xuan Zi sent the four girls out of the Sea God Pavilion and ordered them to walk their own paths.

Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er packed to leave for special training and received a letter from Huo Yuhao, who had departed for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy as an exchange student. Huo Yuhao traveled with Xian Lin'er and He Caitou, planning to visit the Sun Moon Empire and check on Si.

• Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er packed their belongings and tried to sneak out before finishing, but Jiang Nannan arrived after hearing them scream.
• Jiang Nannan gave Xiao Xiao a letter from Huo Yuhao, explaining that the exchange had come up suddenly and he had left without seeing them.
• Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er read Huo Yuhao's letter as Jiang Nannan watched from nearby and complained that Lord Shadow had not left her one.
• Huo Yuhao rode toward the exchange location with Xian Lin'er and He Caitou, intending to check on Si in the Sun Moon Empire.

Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen waited in a wealthy town for the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s exchange delegation to arrive. After the two academies’ leaders exchanged greetings, Huo Yuhao ended the chapter smoking one of He Caitou’s cigars in full view of the visitors.

• Meng Hongchen offered Huo Yuhao food while they waited for the delegation, and He Caitou arrived to apologize for what had happened to him and Fan Yu.
• Huo Yuhao spotted the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s Flying Soul Tools approaching and sent He Caitou to notify Xian Lin'er.
• Jing Hongchen and the delegation landed in the square, where Xiao Hongchen challenged Huo Yuhao about Shrek’s absence and Meng Hongchen defended the academy.
• Jing Hongchen and Xian Lin'er exchanged formal greetings as the Shrek group joined them.
• He Caitou mistook Huo Yuhao’s excitement for nerves and gave him a cigar; Huo Yuhao lit it and smoked as the Sun Moon delegation watched.