Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao separated from Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and the others, then encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and asked her to pass a message to Di Tian. She eagerly agreed in exchange for seeing his recent memories, and the two began connecting their minds.

• Huo Yuhao frightened a fleeing Light and Dark Heavenly Fox with his presence, then calmed it and let it go.
• "Xuan Zi" escorted Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and the others back toward Shrek after promising to find Huo Yuhao afterward.
• Huo Yuhao met the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who recognized him and leaped into his arms.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to pass a message to Di Tian, and she agreed in exchange for access to his recent memories.
• Huo Yuhao opened his green forehead eye, and he and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion touched foreheads as golden and green light intertwined.

Huo Yuhao returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and entered its core region, where Di Tian awaited him across the Lake of Life with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. The chapter left Huo Yuhao standing beside the delighted Three-Eyed Golden Lion as Di Tian watched.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion emerged from Huo Yuhao's memories and told him to wait while she went to the core region.
• Di Tian warned Huo Yuhao not to return, but Huo Yuhao challenged him and was invited into the forest.
• Scarlet King arrived, submitted to Huo Yuhao, and carried him to the core region.
• Huo Yuhao reached the Lake of Life, whose rich life energy led Electrolux to suspect it contained gold of life.
• Huo Yuhao crossed the lake and appeared beside the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, with Di Tian waiting nearby.

Huo Yuhao defeated Xiong Jun after the beast attacked him, then entered the Lake of Life with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Inside a white space, he secretly took two chunks of gold of life before Gu Yuena introduced herself.

• Xiong Jun attacked Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao overpowered him and warned that he could take his remaining hand.
• Bi Ji healed Xiong Jun, and Di Tian allowed Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into the Lake of Life after a voice from within summoned them.
• Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion entered a white space filled with jade-green gold of life, where Electrolux recognized its value.
• Huo Yuhao quietly used the Life Gold Carving Knife to collect two chunks of gold of life.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked the mysterious voice who she was, and the voice identified herself as Gu Yuena.

Huo Yuhao met Gu Yuena at the Gold of Life and proposed an alliance against the deities controlling the continent. Gu Yuena agreed to hear him out, and he asked her to use rare materials to construct something he needed protected.

• Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion reached the life vortex, where Gu Yuena appeared.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion affectionately greeted Gu Yuena, who sent her away so she and Huo Yuhao could speak privately.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena that deities were watching the continent and offered to help her recover her strength, asking her to safeguard something for him.
• Huo Yuhao produced rare ores and materials from Xu Jiujiu's storage sphere and began explaining what Gu Yuena should construct.

Huo Yuhao left Gu Yuena after completing the life-gold pillar and arranged for her to recover her strength. He later forged a life longsword from life gold, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion chose the name Wang Qiu'er and stayed with Gu Yuena to learn from her.

• Gu Yuena finished shaping the life gold into an emerald pillar, and Huo Yuhao told her someone would coordinate her recovery before he left her small world.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion emerged from a spatial vortex by copying Huo Yuhao's method, chose the name Wang Qiu'er, and agreed to stay with Gu Yuena and learn from her.
• Huo Yuhao surfaced from the Lake of Life, and Di Tian let him leave without a fight as Bi Ji suggested they could cooperate with him.
• Huo Yuhao carved a cave in a secluded mountain and used two pieces of life gold and the Life Gold Carving Knife to forge an emerald longsword.
• Huo Yuhao wrapped the life longsword in slime, put it away, and said he would name it later.

Huo Yuhao lured a powerful spiritual-type Soul Beast toward a cave with the Life Sword’s breath of life, preparing to trap it and raise its cultivation. The ninety-nine-thousand-year Soul Beast cautiously tested the cave for danger before finally moving toward its entrance.

• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Destiny of Living Beings to extend his Spiritual Detection and draw spiritual-type Soul Beasts toward him.
• Huo Yuhao dispersed several Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and erased the corpses of the Soul Beasts he had killed.
• Huo Yuhao identified the approaching Soul Beast as a spiritual-type creature with ninety-nine thousand years of cultivation and exposed the Life Sword as bait.
• Huo Yuhao activated Simulation and spread black slime through the cave, preparing to trap the Soul Beast if it entered.
• The Soul Beast cautiously inspected the cave, tested it with a pebble, and waited before twisting toward the entrance.

Huo Yuhao tried to capture a peculiar Soul Beast that swallowed the Longsword of Life and escaped, then discovered its eyes could create subtle spiritual illusions. The beast’s consumption of the Gold of Life pushed it to the hundred-thousand-year level and drew tribulation clouds, so Huo Yuhao hurried after it.

• Huo Yuhao bound the Soul Beast with black slime, but it resisted with a spiritual attack and escaped his grasp.
• The Soul Beast swallowed the Longsword of Life and fled while Huo Yuhao realized it had gone unnoticed because of its unusual eyes.
• Electrolux and Tian Meng examined the Soul Beast’s eyes with Huo Yuhao and identified their ability to cause imperceptible spiritual hallucinations.
• Huo Yuhao learned the Soul Beast had reached the hundred-thousand-year level after swallowing the Gold of Life and set off to find it before the tribulation lightning struck.

Huo Yuhao killed a soul beast as it broke through to two hundred thousand years, using its body to shield the Longsword of Life from heavenly lightning and obtaining a two-hundred-thousand-year soul ring and head soul bone. After preparing a hidden barrier and calling his clone Xuan Zi to guard him, he began absorbing both treasures simultaneously.

• Huo Yuhao watched a soul beast nourish itself with the Longsword of Life’s vitality while heavenly lightning gathered for its second strike.
• Huo Yuhao killed the soul beast and hurled its corpse into the lightning, protecting himself while the Longsword of Life endured the strike and a head soul bone was revealed.
• Huo Yuhao obtained a two-hundred-thousand-year soul ring as the beast’s breakthrough coincided with his intervention, and he planned to use the method for others’ soul rings.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux encouraged Huo Yuhao to absorb the soul ring and head soul bone for their potential Soul Skills.
• Huo Yuhao summoned his clone Xuan Zi to guard him, then began absorbing the soul ring and head soul bone at the same time.

Huo Yuhao finished absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring while his Xuan Zi clone drove away three powerful Soul Beasts that had come to claim the fallen beast’s remains. He left the clearing with new Soul Skills and his strength fully at the Soul Elder realm.

• A Lightning Leopard, an Azure Flame Falcon, and a Mountain Turtle approached Huo Yuhao’s hidden clearing, drawn by the heavenly lightning and the fallen Soul Beast’s remains.
• Xuan Zi restrained all three Soul Beasts with earthen pillars, intimidated them, and sent them fleeing.
• Huo Yuhao completed his absorption of the blood-red Soul Ring, and its six-pointed patterns briefly appeared in his eyes.
• Huo Yuhao reached the Soul Elder realm and learned that the hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring granted Eye of Spirit and a spiritual flame skill.
• Huo Yuhao withdrew the barrier, and Xuan Zi carried him toward Xiao Xiao and the others as he examined his new abilities.

Huo Yuhao returned to the group with a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring after a mental-type Soul Beast sacrificed itself to him. Back at Shrek, the students resumed classes, where Zhou Yi announced that a transfer student would join them the next day.

• Huo Yuhao reunited with Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian, then revealed that a dying mental-type Soul Beast had sacrificed itself to grant him a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• "Xuan Zi" flew Huo Yuhao and the girls back to Shrek and praised their performance on the trip.
• Huo Yuhao gave the girls time off from training and returned them to their classes to catch up on coursework.
• During Zhou Yi's lesson, Xiao Xiao shared a tender moment with a sleeping Huo Yuhao, while Zhou Yi scolded Wang Dong'er and Wu Feng for not paying attention.
• Zhou Yi announced that a new student would join the class the next day, leaving the students speculating about the transfer student's identity.

Huo Yuhao and five companions went to Shrek City for a meal and passed the guards’ routine inspection. A young woman arriving by carriage also cleared inspection and followed them into the city, hoping to ask them questions.

• Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, Wu Feng, Cui Yajie, Ning Tian, and Huo Yuhao walked toward Shrek City while discussing his lack of sleep and their classmates’ teasing.
• The group presented their Shrek student identifications at the city gate and was allowed to enter.
• A young woman in a carriage watched Huo Yuhao and his companions enter the city before submitting a letter to the guards.
• The guards approved the young woman’s letter, and she told her driver to catch up with the Shrek students and ask them questions.

Huo Yuhao separated from the girls to meet someone at a music shop, while Vina arrived in Shrek City to infiltrate Shrek Academy for the Body Sect. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao unexpectedly approaching Vina and offering her a burger, leaving her wondering if he had discovered her mission.

• A carriage driver lost sight of Vina in the crowded streets, so she went to the hotel and planned to report in the next day.
• Huo Yuhao accompanied Xiao Xiao, Cui Yajie, Wu Feng, Wang Dong'er, and Ning Tian on a shopping trip through Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Shadow Garden's emblem on Tianyi Music Shop and sent the girls inside while he went to a burger shop.
• Vina set out from Shrek Grand Hotel and used her spiritual power to search the streets while recalling Long Aotian's plan for her to join Shrek Academy and report its movements to the Body Sect.
• Huo Yuhao sat beside Vina at a fountain and offered her a burger, startling her because she had not noticed him approach.

Vina, a spy and princess of the Heavenly Soul Empire, met Huo Yuhao by chance and ate all the burgers he had bought. After Huo Yuhao left with his friends, Vina headed back to her hotel, unaware that two figures were watching her.

• Vina nervously confronted Huo Yuhao, but realized he had not been following her and sat beside him.
• Vina took a burger from Huo Yuhao, explained that her strict parents had never let her try one, and ate all the burgers in his bag.
• Vina apologized and offered to repay Huo Yuhao the next day, since she had left her money at the hotel.
• Xiao Xiao, Cui Yajie, Wang Dong'er, and Ning Tian joined Huo Yuhao, and the group left for Shrek Academy.
• Vina realized she had forgotten to ask Huo Yuhao's name and headed toward the hotel as two black silhouettes watched her from a rooftop.

Huo Yuhao took Vina to the teaching building after she paid him to help, and she began considering whether he could assist with her operation. When Vina joined Huo Yuhao in class, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng reacted warily to finding her beside him.

• Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan noticed Vina approaching Huo Yuhao and fought over Zhou Sichen's romance notebook.
• Vina reminded Huo Yuhao that they had met the day before and paid him to guide her to the teaching building.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself to Vina, who considered whether he could help with her operation.
• Xiao Xiao woke Wang Dong'er, and the two rushed to class with Wu Feng just before the lesson began.
• Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao, and Wu Feng found Vina sitting beside Huo Yuhao and took seats behind them, watching the pair warily.

Vina joined Zhou Yi's Class One despite being an Auxiliary System student, and her attention toward Huo Yuhao stirred jealousy among Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wu Feng. The girls chose to trust Huo Yuhao while Vina eventually turned her attention to Zhou Yi's lesson.

• Zhou Yi introduced Vina to Class One, where Vina announced she was a rank forty-five Auxiliary System Soul Ancestor with a Snow Lotus Martial Soul.
• Zhou Yi explained that limited teaching resources had placed Vina in Class One, and the students applauded her welcome.
• Vina asked Huo Yuhao to show her around the academy and help carry her luggage to the girls' dorm, prompting jealous reactions from Wang Dong'er and Wu Feng.
• Xiao Xiao reminded Wang Dong'er and Wu Feng to trust Huo Yuhao, and the three girls turned back to taking notes.
• Vina kept asking Huo Yuhao questions, but he gave vague replies and pretended to doze, so she became annoyed and listened to Zhou Yi's lesson.

Zhou Yi assigned Huo Yuhao and the others to show Vina around the outer courtyard, and Wang Dong'er and Wu Feng insisted on joining them. At the cafeteria, Xiao Xiao explained its rule against taking food outside, and Huo Yuhao decided to ask Zhang Lexuan to change it.

• Zhou Yi told Huo Yuhao, Vina, Wang Dong'er, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao to tour the outer courtyard and warned them that mistakes would affect their grades.
• Wang Dong'er and Wu Feng linked arms with Vina and took her along despite her protests, while Xiao Xiao led Huo Yuhao out of the classroom.
• Huo Yuhao secretly transferred Soul Power to Xiao Xiao and reflected that he had left similar reserves with his close companions.
• Xiao Xiao explained that cafeteria food could not be taken outside and directed Vina to a nearby food street as an alternative.
• Huo Yuhao returned with food, realized he had forgotten the cafeteria rule, and planned to ask Zhang Lexuan to change it.

Vina secretly assembled a recording Soul Tool while Huo Yuhao completed a defensive magic array around Shrek Academy and received her message. As he headed back, he heard a woman crying by Sea God Lake and recognized her.

• Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Wu Feng, and Vina cleaned Vina's dusty dorm room before Xiao Xiao and the others went downstairs.
• Vina secretly assembled a carrier-pigeon-shaped Soul Tool, inserted a sound-recording stone, and hid it under her bed.
• Huo Yuhao completed a defensive magic array around Shrek Academy and gave its control box to Ling Luochеn for Sorrow to safeguard.
• Ling Luochеn brought Huo Yuhao the metal carrier pigeon, and he listened to Vina's recording before ordering it released the next morning and an investigation into the girl on it.
• Huo Yuhao heard a woman sobbing by Sea God Lake, looked over, and recognized her.

Huo Yuhao found Zhou Yi crying over her divorce and heartbreak, comforted her, and agreed to meet her privately after class the next day. At Shrek Square, Zhou Yi began another weighted-running lesson and warned the students that repeated poor performance could get them expelled.

• Huo Yuhao noticed Zhou Yi had been crying and sat with her as she tried to hide her sadness.
• Huo Yuhao left, then returned after hearing Zhou Yi cry, draped his jacket over her shoulders, and learned she was heartbroken over a divorce.
• Zhou Yi asked Huo Yuhao to keep her divorce private and ordered him to meet her after class the next day without Xiao Xiao or the others.
• The next day, Zhou Yi had the class put on iron vests and run, while Huo Yuhao explained the exercise to Vina.
• Wu Feng told Vina that Zhou Yi used an elimination system and could expel students who repeatedly ranked last, so Vina joined the run.

Huo Yuhao and his friends helped the struggling Vina endure Zhou Yi’s exhausting training. After class, Zhou Yi arranged a dinner and walk with Huo Yuhao, while Zhou Sichen impulsively asked Vina to be his girlfriend and was rejected.

• Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Wu Feng helped Vina run by teaching her a steady breathing rhythm.
• After the class ended, Zhou Yi reminded Huo Yuhao of their earlier conversation and persuaded him to have dinner and take a walk with her.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to the outing, and Zhou Yi privately decided to treat it as her last chance to indulge her feelings for him.
• Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan saw Huo Yuhao chatting with Zhou Yi and joked that he was pursuing his teacher.
• Zhou Sichen suddenly asked Vina to be his girlfriend, and Vina insulted him before leaving.

Huo Yuhao accompanied Zhou Yi from Shrek Academy to the Soul Guidance Train station while Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan secretly followed and recorded their interactions. On the train, Huo Yuhao watched Zhou Yi by the window and was reminded of his first love from his previous life.

• Zhou Yi dressed up and kept Huo Yuhao waiting outside the teachers' dormitory before coming downstairs to meet him.
• Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan secretly watched Zhou Yi take Huo Yuhao's hand and followed them toward the station.
• Zhou Yi and Huo Yuhao boarded the Soul Guidance Train together while Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan took seats farther away to observe them.
• Huo Yuhao watched Zhou Yi's hair move in the wind and recalled a beautiful moment with his first love from his previous life.
• Huo Yuhao unconsciously said that Zhou Yi was beautiful.