Recaps

Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy exchanged students, while their leaders traded veiled barbs over past losses and injuries. Huo Yuhao headed to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with Jing Hongchen and studied the Flying Soul Tool that carried him.

• Xiao Hongchen silenced the Sun Moon students who complained about Huo Yuhao, while Meng Hongchen watched Huo Yuhao with affection.
• Jing Hongchen and Xian Lin'er exchanged pointed remarks about Xuan Zi, Mu En, and Shrek's past gains before agreeing to begin the student exchange.
• The teachers led both groups to their new academies, and Jing Hongchen stopped Meng Hongchen from following Huo Yuhao.
• Xiao Hongchen threatened Huo Yuhao over Meng Hongchen and Wang Dong'er, but Huo Yuhao mocked him by pretending to beg for his life.
• Jing Hongchen sensed Xian Lin'er's strength and reflected that Shrek remained formidable despite its losses.
• Jing Hongchen flew toward the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy using a wing-like Flying Soul Tool, and Huo Yuhao followed while examining its design.

Huo Yuhao and the Shrek Academy students arrived in Mingdu to begin their exchange program at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. As the academy prepared to test their physical condition, Huo Yuhao realized that his concealed metal items might cause trouble.

• Jing Hongchen brought the Shrek students into Mingdu and introduced Lin Jiayi as the director overseeing their studies and daily lives.
• Lin Jiayi welcomed the students, gave them academy codes, maps, and accommodation keys, and led them to the physical testing room.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to map the academy, including the underground area beneath the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Lin Jiayi explained that students had to remove metal before their physical tests, and Huo Yuhao worried about the Gold Soul Coins in his Slime and the Longsword of Life.

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou underwent Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s physical testing after being told to remove their boosting cigars and carried weights. He Caitou impressed the examiners with his strength, but Huo Yuhao’s test produced impossible readings of one hundred for physical strength and resilience, leaving the room stunned.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to study the testing Soul Tool while He Caitou shielded him, until Lin Jiayi noticed their cigars and ordered them extinguished.
• When teachers barred them from testing under the cigars’ influence, He Caitou removed heavy metal plates and Huo Yuhao pulled numerous moneybags from inside his clothes before storing them away.
• He Caitou’s results showed level seventy physical strength, level sixty-four resilience, and level fifty-one Soul Power, prompting Lin Jiayi to mark him as an exceptional student.
• Huo Yuhao stepped onto the tester, which reported level one hundred physical strength and resilience alongside other startling data, and Ye Xiaosheng wondered if the Soul Tool was broken.

Huo Yuhao’s test overloaded and destroyed a Level 7 Soul Guidance Physical Testing Device, though the Shrek group was told it had simply malfunctioned. Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to secretly surveil the Shrek students and pay special attention to Huo Yuhao, unaware that Huo Yuhao was watching them.

• The Soul Guidance Physical Testing Device’s Core Arrays shattered while measuring Huo Yuhao, and Lin Jiayi confirmed that Huo Yuhao was at level forty without a Soul Ring.
• Lin Jiayi sent the Shrek group away for more tests and reported the destroyed device to Jing Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen determined that Huo Yuhao’s test had overloaded the device and told Lin Jiayi to treat the damage as natural wear and tear.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to secretly monitor the Shrek students, keep them from leaving the academy if possible, and investigate Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao watched Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi from the distant testing grounds and smiled helplessly.

Huo Yuhao settled into Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, secretly recorded the Soul Tool designs he had observed, and learned introductory Soul Engineer knowledge overnight. The academy separated the Shrek students by assigning each a teacher through a drawing of lots, and Huo Yuhao's name was drawn first.

• Huo Yuhao used Slime tentacles to prepare and clean his dormitory, then recorded the Core Arrays and structures he had observed.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to scan an introductory Soul Engineer book while Electrolux continued analyzing his magic.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the scanned knowledge overnight and got ready for the day with help from his Slime Bodysuit.
• He Caitou asked Huo Yuhao how he was settling in, and Huo Yuhao said the academy and Shrek each had their strengths.
• Lin Jiayi explained that the teachers would draw lots to determine their students, and the youngest teacher drew Huo Yuhao's name.

Huo Yuhao was assigned to Xuan Ziwen, who challenged him to prove his Soul Tool skills before allowing him to study independently. Huo Yuhao began crafting a spring from Flexible Elastic Gold, leaving Xuan Ziwen intrigued by what he would make next.

• Xuan Ziwen introduced himself as Huo Yuhao’s teacher and said he would have to pass a test to avoid lessons.
• Huo Yuhao said he preferred to study on his own, irritating Xuan Ziwen, who offered permission to enter and leave Illustrious Virtue Hall if he passed a fifteen-minute test.
• Huo Yuhao chose Titanium Gold, Flexible Elastic Gold, and Blazing Fire Crystal, then used a black carving knife to shape the metals.
• Huo Yuhao compressed Titanium Gold into a rectangular block with his bare hands and fashioned Flexible Elastic Gold into a coil that stretched and sprang back.
• Huo Yuhao called the coil a spring, and Xuan Ziwen became impressed and eager to see his Soul Tool.

Huo Yuhao made a Level 5 handgun-shaped Soul Tool from Titanium Gold and Blazing Fire Crystal under Xuan Ziwen’s time limit. He hit every moving target without charging the weapon, leaving Xuan Ziwen stunned.

• Huo Yuhao carved more than a dozen Titanium Gold components and inscribed them with Core Arrays as Xuan Ziwen watched.
• Huo Yuhao shaped nine Blazing Fire Crystal bullets, assembled the components into a handgun, and finished just as Xuan Ziwen’s timer stopped.
• Xuan Ziwen examined the Soul Tool and doubted Huo Yuhao’s claim that this was his first practical attempt, then invited him to test it.
• Huo Yuhao fired all nine bullets with perfect accuracy at moving targets, and each bullet burst into flames on impact.
• Xuan Ziwen realized Huo Yuhao had not charged the Soul Tool and exclaimed in disbelief.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated a Soul Tool that worked without a charging core, prompting Xuan Ziwen to realize its technology could transform society. Xuan Ziwen praised Huo Yuhao’s talent and tried to recruit him to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, but their conversation was interrupted by a sleepy girl entering the laboratory.

• Xuan Ziwen questioned Huo Yuhao about how his Soul Tool produced Level 5 power without a charging core, then asked to buy it.
• Huo Yuhao declined to give Xuan Ziwen the Soul Tool’s technology and warned him to consider the consequences of spreading it.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized the potential social impact of the invention, thanked Huo Yuhao for the warning, and invited him to study independently or receive instruction in the laboratory.
• Huo Yuhao explained that his Spirit Eyes let him see Core Arrays clearly, impressing Xuan Ziwen with his aptitude for Soul Tool engineering.
• Xuan Ziwen urged Huo Yuhao to join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and promised he could pursue Level 9 Soul Engineer rank, but Huo Yuhao declined.
• A sleepy black-haired girl entered the laboratory, greeted Xuan Ziwen, and sat down to rest without acknowledging Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao met his fellow student Ju Zi at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and explored the campus while realizing Shrek students were being watched. At a lakeside pavilion, he encountered Ji Juechen sharpening his sword as a woman waited affectionately for him to spar.

• Ju Zi pretended to sleep while Huo Yuhao met Xuan Ziwen, who encouraged him to seek a fourth Soul Ring and offered to help find a suitable Soul Beast.
• Xuan Ziwen told Ju Zi to answer Huo Yuhao's questions and teased her that Huo Yuhao was more talented at Soul Tools than she was.
• Huo Yuhao explored Mingdu and discovered that soldiers and hidden watchers were monitoring Shrek students at the academy.
• Huo Yuhao abandoned his plan to leave the academy and settled on the roof of a pavilion beside a lake.
• Huo Yuhao saw Ji Juechen sharpening his sword while a woman waited for him to finish so they could spar.

Jing Ziyan watched Ji Juechen become fixated on Huo Yuhao and challenge him to a duel. Huo Yuhao repeatedly refused, but Ji Juechen persisted, and the chapter ended with Huo Yuhao stopping his sword between two fingers.

• Jing Ziyan noticed Huo Yuhao resting on the pavilion roof, and Ji Juechen sensed that he was different from everyone else.
• Ji Juechen approached Huo Yuhao and repeatedly asked him for guidance, while Huo Yuhao refused and tried to keep resting.
• Ji Juechen unleashed his sword intent, and Huo Yuhao sat up and warned him that he was frightening him.
• Huo Yuhao joked that Ji Juechen was a blockhead, and Ji Juechen helped him down from the roof.
• Ji Juechen thrust his sword at Huo Yuhao, who caught the blade between two fingers and called him a blockhead.

Huo Yuhao faced Ji Juechen’s sudden sword challenge and secretly evaded his attacks beneath the lake. Their blades finally clashed, sending one of them flying onto the shore, but the chapter ended before revealing who.

• Ji Juechen took Huo Yuhao’s request for help as acceptance of a duel, while Huo Yuhao denied agreeing and Jing Ziyan rushed to stop them.
• Ji Juechen attacked Huo Yuhao with a powerful sword strike that sent him off the stone bridge and into the lake.
• Huo Yuhao dodged Ji Juechen’s attacks underwater and used bursts of water to conceal his movements.
• Ji Juechen unleashed a sphere of Sword Qi, but Huo Yuhao calmly blocked it with a dead branch.
• Ji Juechen charged across the lakebed, and Huo Yuhao met his longsword with the branch before a figure shot out of the water and struck the shore.

Huo Yuhao lost a sparring match to Ji Juechen, who insisted the victory was unfair and demanded another fight. Jing Hongchen then changed the rules for Shrek students leaving the academy, while Huo Yuhao spent the next day studying the library and watching Ju Zi engrave a Core Array.

• Huo Yuhao lost to Ji Juechen, who said Huo Yuhao had held back and promised to challenge him again with a sword.
• Jing Ziyan praised Ji Juechen and announced that she also wanted to spar with Huo Yuhao.
• Jing Hongchen warned a teacher not to underestimate Shrek students and allowed them to leave the academy when they had a legitimate reason.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xuan Ziwen for somewhere relaxing, but Xuan Ziwen took him to the library, where he spent the morning memorizing its books.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the laboratory and quietly watched Ju Zi work on a nearly completed Core Array.

Huo Yuhao secretly met with Ju Zi, who had infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire and built influence while researching Soul Tool technology. They reviewed preparations to act against the Holy Spirit Cult, but Huo Yuhao decided to wait until after Ju Zi hunted for her Fourth Soul Ring.

• Ju Zi startled at Huo Yuhao’s sudden voice and attacked him with black spears, which he dissolved before sealing and concealing the laboratory.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ju Zi about her situation, and she reported that she expected to complete her infiltration in about six months.
• Ju Zi said Xu Tianran trusted her and wanted her as his crown princess, while she had used his connections to bring most Sun Moon Empire officials under their control.
• Ju Zi showed Huo Yuhao a map marking the Holy Spirit Cult’s strongholds and reported that Joy and Bei Bei had become its holy maiden and holy son.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui were in the empire and said they would prepare to act after Ju Zi hunted for her Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ju Zi told Huo Yuhao to call her Senior Sister Ju Zi while they were working.

Huo Yuhao avoided Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan by staying in the laboratory, where he spent time with Ju Zi and met Ke Ke, Wang Shaojie, and Zi Mu. He exposed Wang Shaojie’s bluff by asking him to explain a Class 8 Core Array, leaving Wang Shaojie to take Xuan Ziwen’s book away and promise an answer the next day.

• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan repeatedly challenged Huo Yuhao to spar, so he hid in the laboratory to escape them.
• Ju Zi attended to Huo Yuhao in the laboratory, and he told her she could visit the Star Luo Empire when her work was done.
• Ke Ke entered the laboratory and became quiet when she noticed Huo Yuhao, while Wang Shaojie and Zi Mu arrived soon afterward.
• Wang Shaojie offered to answer Huo Yuhao’s questions, and Huo Yuhao asked him to explain a Class 8 Core Array from Xuan Ziwen’s book.
• Wang Shaojie could not explain the Core Array, but agreed to study it and return the book with an answer the next day before leaving in embarrassment.

Huo Yuhao accompanied Ju Zi and Ke Ke to the Jingyang Mountain Range to test Teacher Xuan’s latest Soul Tool and obtain his Fourth Soul Ring. After sensing a troubling premonition, he urged them to finish quickly and return to headquarters, then led them into the mountains.

• Wang Shaojie disappeared from the laboratory, though the book he had borrowed was returned.
• Ju Zi and Ke Ke helped Huo Yuhao get ready before they set out to test Teacher Xuan’s new Soul Tool and seek Huo Yuhao’s Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ju Zi teased Ke Ke with a jar of beef jerky, and the two friends made up after Ke Ke pretended to be offended.
• Huo Yuhao noticed that the soldiers and surveillance at the academy gates no longer monitored him, then led Ju Zi and Ke Ke out of Mingdu.
• As they flew toward the Jingyang Mountain Range, Huo Yuhao felt a premonition and ordered them to hurry and return to headquarters once they were done.
• Huo Yuhao led Ju Zi and Ke Ke down into the Jingyang Mountain Range.

Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to map the rare-metal veins in the Jingyang Mountain Range, helping Ju Zi secure information for future mining. After lunch and a rest, Ju Zi introduced the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool she had developed from Huo Yuhao’s ideas, and the three climbed aboard to test it.

• Huo Yuhao scanned the Jingyang Mountain Range and marked the locations of thousands of mineral veins on Ju Zi’s recording device.
• Ju Zi thanked Huo Yuhao for helping her locate the metals, then served lunch to him and Ke Ke.
• Ju Zi and Ke Ke rested and recovered their Soul Power while Ju Zi told Huo Yuhao about her recent work in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ju Zi revealed the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool she had developed with Xuan Ziwen, and Ke Ke opened its hatch.
• Ke Ke and Ju Zi climbed into the device, and Huo Yuhao joined them as they prepared to set off.

Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke encountered a pack of wolves while searching for a suitable Soul Beast, and Huo Yuhao identified the Silver Moon Wolf King as his target. Ke Ke and Ju Zi began fighting the surrounding wolves as Huo Yuhao moved to confront the king.

• Ju Zi and Ke Ke tested the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool and replaced its Milk Bottles as they searched the area with Huo Yuhao.
• A Silver Wolf attacked the group, and Ju Zi dodged its elemental projectiles while the Soul Tool Shield blocked its wind blades.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to locate the Silver Moon Wolf King, protected by three Golden Wolves, and told Ke Ke to bring it to him alive.
• Ke Ke charged into the forest to engage the wolves while Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi left the detection Soul Tool.
• Ju Zi killed the three-thousand-year Silver Wolf and trapped the surrounding wolf packs inside a black barrier as she attacked them.

Huo Yuhao experimented with combining the wolves’ Soul Rings to raise the Silver Moon Wolf King to the hundred-thousand-year level. After the wolf failed to produce a Soul Bone, he recorded the result and absorbed its blood-red Soul Ring while considering what had gone wrong.

• Ju Zi and Ke Ke reported completing their tasks after killing hundreds of Golden Wolves and Silver Wolves.
• Huo Yuhao healed the badly injured Silver Moon Wolf King, then used Spiritual Shock to annihilate its soul while keeping its body alive.
• Huo Yuhao gathered the wolves’ Soul Rings into a mass of energy and infused it into the Silver Moon Wolf King, raising it to the hundred-thousand-year level and changing its appearance.
• Huo Yuhao found that the transformed wolf produced no Soul Bone and asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to record the result for later analysis.
• Huo Yuhao killed the Silver Moon Wolf King, absorbed its blood-red Soul Ring, and considered the flaws in his method.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shadow Garden headquarters with Ju Zi and Ke Ke after absorbing the Silver Moon Wolf King's soul ring and spending the night in Sunset Forest. He found the Ice Empress at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where a powerful pressure was coming from her swollen abdomen.

• Huo Yuhao gained Mental Confusion and Mental Storm from the Silver Moon Wolf King's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, but received no Soul Bone and recorded his thoughts about why.
• Huo Yuhao cooked wolf meat while Ju Zi and Ke Ke washed in a nearby stream, and the three rested overnight.
• Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke flew through Sunset Forest toward headquarters as a powerful pressure drove Soul Beasts toward the forest's outer edges.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Ju Zi and Ke Ke to secure the concealment equipment and use his magic array before entering Shadow Garden headquarters.
• Huo Yuhao spotted the Ice Empress by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and rushed toward her when he realized the pressure came from her swollen abdomen.

Huo Yuhao watched the Snow Empress emerge safely from Xu Bing'er after absorbing the primordial power of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He held the newborn, who eagerly clung to him, and named her Huo Xue'er.

• Huo Yuhao found Xu Bing'er absorbing the lake's energy while the Snow Empress developed safely inside her.
• Youyou complained to Huo Yuhao about the strain of guarding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Ju Zi comforted her.
• A burst of white light and a snowfall signaled the Snow Empress's birth, and Xu Bing'er emerged holding the newborn.
• The Snow Empress froze Youyou after she insulted her, then reached for Huo Yuhao and happily clung to him.
• Huo Yuhao named the newborn Huo Xue'er.

Huo Yuhao left Xu Bing'er and Huo Xue'er at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while he returned to Mingdu with Ju Zi and Ke Ke. Ju Zi reported to Xu Tianran, who discussed her becoming crown princess, and the chapter revealed that the long-missing Bei Bei was working with the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Xu Bing'er had reached the Titled Douluo level and told her to care for Huo Xue'er while improving her strength.
• Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke flew to Mingdu, where Ke Ke took the experimental records to Teacher Xuan and Ju Zi went to the palace.
• Ju Zi used the Eight-Clawed Fire Dragon Token to enter the palace and reported her recent Soul Tool test to Xu Tianran.
• Ju Zi asked Xu Tianran for more time before becoming crown princess, and he agreed to let her establish her prestige first.
• After Ju Zi left, Bei Bei emerged from the shadows and urged Xu Tianran to accept the Holy Spirit Cult's proposal.
• Xu Tianran promised the Holy Spirit Cult benefits after he took the throne, and Bei Bei offered to keep the crown princess safe before disappearing.

Xu Tianran left in anger for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where he watched Huo Yuhao spar with Ji Juechen and noticed Ju Zi watching Huo Yuhao. He ordered Jing Hongchen to report their movements and considered recruiting Huo Yuhao, while concealing his hostility toward him.

• Xu Tianran ordered a carriage to take him to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy after threatening to settle accounts with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao's wooden sword broke during his spar with Ji Juechen, and he surrendered to avoid Ji Juechen's next attack.
• Jing Ziyan teased Huo Yuhao, but Ji Juechen insisted on continuing their spar, and the two fought evenly with iron swords.
• Ju Zi watched Huo Yuhao spar with a sweet smile as Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen observed from a nearby roof.
• Xu Tianran asked about Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao, then ordered Jing Hongchen to report their daily movements and said he might recruit Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou sneaked out of their school at night to visit Mingdu’s black market, where rare metals and other goods were sold. After paying the guards and agreeing to follow the rules, they entered the masked marketplace.

• He Caitou woke Huo Yuhao and invited him to visit the black market, where competitions could offer rare metals as prizes.
• Huo Yuhao noticed that the people watching them had disappeared and agreed to go with He Caitou.
• He Caitou led Huo Yuhao through Mingdu’s dark streets to the black market entrance.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to survey the masked guards, stalls, and visitors inside the market.
• He Caitou and Huo Yuhao put on masks, paid the guards, and entered the black market.

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou bought rare metals from the masked stall owner, Old Tang, at the black market. Old Tang sold He Caitou information about the upcoming competition at Mingling Pavilion, and the two hurried there to take part.

• He Caitou browsed rare metals at Old Tang’s stall while Huo Yuhao inspected the wares.
• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou bargained Old Tang down to a hundred and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins for ten jin each of ten metals.
• After they paid, Old Tang offered to reveal the theme of a competition at Mingling Pavilion for thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• He Caitou agreed to the deal, and Old Tang whispered the competition’s theme to him.
• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou hurried toward Mingling Pavilion.

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou went to Mingling Pavilion for its Soul Tool competition, where He Caitou registered as a Level 6 Soul Engineer. Huo Yuhao accepted an arranged private seat and came face-to-face with Xu Tianran, who introduced himself as Ju Zi’s fiancé.

• He Caitou learned Mingling Pavilion’s location and headed there with Huo Yuhao to compete for rare metals.
• Huo Yuhao read the entry requirements, and He Caitou revealed that he had recently become a Level 6 Soul Engineer.
• He Caitou disguised himself and registered, while Huo Yuhao paid for a ticket to watch the competition.
• A supervisor redirected Huo Yuhao to a private room after claiming the ordinary seats were full, and Huo Yuhao realized someone was luring him there.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to spot an unexpected person in a private room and followed the supervisor into the underground venue.
• Xu Tianran greeted Huo Yuhao, identified himself as the Sun Moon Empire’s crown prince and Ju Zi’s fiancé, and pressed him with an invisible force.