Arc 2Chapters 26–48

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Ch. 26Leaving Shrek Academy

Hui Ye helped stop Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire outbreak, then left Shrek Academy after stealing Huo Yuhao’s Mystic Water Pill and asking for extended leave. Huo Yuhao told Wang Yan about his first Soul Skill, while Hui Ye crossed paths with Wang Dong outside the academy and was followed by Lu Feng and Lu Tian.

  • Hui Ye challenged Ma Xiaotao as her Evil Fire erupted, but she smashed him into the ground before Tian Meng used ultimate ice-cold Soul Power to calm her.
  • Yan Shaozhe arrived, gave Huo Yuhao and Hui Ye Mystic Water Pills, and took the unconscious Ma Xiaotao away after warning them to keep the incident secret.
  • Hui Ye tricked Huo Yuhao into showing him his pill, took it, and left a note saying he needed to reach level 20 and would return to Shrek Academy later.
  • Huo Yuhao asked Tian Meng to locate Hui Ye, then went to see Wang Yan and shared the effects of his first Soul Skill.
  • Hui Ye left Shrek Academy, ran into Wang Dong outside Shrek City, and continued on while Lu Feng and Lu Tian followed him.

Ch. 27More Extortion

Hui Ye turned Lu Feng and Lu Tian’s pursuit into an ambush, overpowering Lu Tian and extorting Lu Feng before escaping despite Lu Feng’s attack. Lu Feng took his wounded son away and decided to report Hui Ye to Shrek Academy as an Evil Soul Master.

  • Hui Ye noticed Lu Feng and Lu Tian following him, planted a bloodied decoy, and pretended to flee through the woods.
  • Lu Feng caught up with Hui Ye, who appeared to explode and vanish, then Hui Ye ambushed Lu Tian and severed his arm.
  • Hui Ye used the injured Lu Tian as a shield and demanded valuables from Lu Feng in exchange for his son’s life.
  • Lu Feng handed over his Soul Tool Ring containing three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Hui Ye threw Lu Tian’s body and severed arm into separate parts of the woods.
  • Lu Feng blasted half of Hui Ye’s body apart, then searched for half an hour before finding Lu Tian and carrying him away.
  • Lu Feng concluded Hui Ye was an Evil Soul Master and decided to report him to Shrek Academy.

Ch. 28Conditions for Absorbing the Second Soul Ring

Hui Ye reached Soul Power Level 20 and began building his Second Soul Ring by gathering Soul Rings of five attributes. After raising the water attribute to 5,000 years and the wood attribute to 1,500 years, he rested in the Star Dou Great Forest while Electrolux lamented Hui Ye’s repeated self-destructions.

  • Hui Ye revived from a drop of blood, equipped three Soul Tool Rings, and set out for the Star Dou Great Forest.
  • After seven days of training and taking Mystic Water Pills, Hui Ye reached Soul Power Level 20 and began collecting wood-attribute Soul Rings from Blue Silver Grass.
  • Hui Ye hunted water Soul Beasts in a lake by repeatedly self-destructing, raising the water attribute to 3,000 years before a thousand-year water python swallowed him.
  • Hui Ye burst out of the python, absorbed its purple Soul Ring, and continued hunting until the water attribute reached 5,000 years.
  • Hui Ye’s Second Soul Ring gained a blue water section and a partly filled green wood section; his physique strengthened and his Soul Power rose to about level 21.
  • After eating grilled fish and going to sleep, Hui Ye left Electrolux lamenting his constant self-destruction, while the golden-gray sphere in his soul shrank silently.

Ch. 29Bei Bei and Lu Feng Inform on Hui Ye

Lu Feng and Bei Bei reported Hui Ye’s unusual abilities and hostility toward Shrek Academy to Yan Shaozhe, who chose to wait until Hui Ye returned before acting. Meanwhile, Hui Ye advanced his attribute progress in the Star Dou Great Forest and killed a rare Black Flame Fire Crow by self-destructing.

  • Lu Feng told Yan Shaozhe that Hui Ye could self-destruct and revive, but Yan Shaozhe rebuked Lu Feng for attacking a student and dismissed him.
  • Bei Bei told Yan Shaozhe about Hui Ye’s hostility toward Shrek Academy and his ability to regenerate severed limbs, while withholding details of the wager and assassination.
  • Huo Yuhao swallowed both Mystic Water Pills after Bei Bei insisted he keep them, and Tian Meng helped him survive their overwhelming medicinal power.
  • Hui Ye raised his wood-attribute progress to 5,000 years and continued building his earth- and fire-attribute progress in the Star Dou Great Forest.
  • Hui Ye provoked a Black Flame Fire Crow and killed it with a self-destruction, leaving the black-clad pursuer stunned.

Ch. 30Black Flame Fire Crow Head Soul Bone

Hui Ye outsmarted a group of Evil Soul Masters, claimed the Black Flame Fire Crow’s Head Soul Bone, and used its skill to wound one pursuer. The black-clad figure tried to convince his remaining companion that Hui Ye was nearly out of Soul Power as they prepared to keep fighting.

  • Hui Ye absorbed the Black Flame Fire Crow’s Yellow Soul Ring, then confronted the black-clad figure who blamed him for killing the prey.
  • Hui Ye spotted a multicolored Soul Bone on the Black Flame Fire Crow and tricked the Evil Soul Masters into sending two of their members after his Soul Tool Ring.
  • Hui Ye pretended to offer his special Soul Skill, then self-destructed, killing the black-clad figure’s nephew and injuring the others before reforming beside the Black Flame Fire Crow.
  • Hui Ye dug the Head Soul Bone from the Black Flame Fire Crow and fused with it, while one Evil Soul Master discovered that the Soul Tool Ring was empty.
  • Hui Ye used the Head Soul Bone Skill, Black Flame Eruption, to burn one Evil Soul Master, who fled to report to the deacon.
  • The black-clad figure warned his remaining companion that Hui Ye had little Soul Power left, and the companion agreed as they faced him.

Ch. 31Evil Soul Master Deacon

Hui Ye defeated two Evil Soul Masters by repeatedly reviving and self-detonating, then took their belongings and kept the Head Soul Bone. An Evil Soul Master deacon ordered his men to find and recruit Hui Ye, while Hui Ye left the crater area to seek metal- and earth-attribute progress outside the Star Dou Great Forest.

  • Hui Ye tricked two Evil Soul Masters into approaching him, then repeatedly revived and self-detonated until they were nearly dead.
  • Hui Ye refused Electrolux’s offer to consume their life force, killed the two Evil Soul Masters, reclaimed his Head Soul Bone, and took 50,000 Gold Soul Coins and healing medicine.
  • An Evil Soul Master deacon heard how Hui Ye could revive and self-detonate and ordered Lao Si to track him down so he could recruit him.
  • Lao Si tracked Hui Ye to the crater, but the group found only more craters and dead fire-attribute Soul Beasts; Hui Ye had already left.
  • Hui Ye completed his fire-attribute progress and decided to leave the Star Dou Great Forest to find a metal ore vein that could help him finish his metal- and earth-attribute progress.

Ch. 32Metal Ore Vein

Hui Ye joined a Zhou Clan mining expedition, only to discover that the clan had lured five hundred Soul Masters into a trap. The mine’s escape route was destroyed as powerful Soul Beasts attacked, leaving Hui Ye and the others trapped.

  • Hui Ye searched for ore-vein work and signed up to clear Soul Beasts from the Zhou Clan’s hematite mine after confronting the Blazing Tiger captain.
  • The Zhou Clan sent five hundred Soul Masters into the mine while its leaders outside discussed using them as bait for an Earthquake Beast.
  • Hui Ye entered the mine with the group, endured the Blazing Tiger captain’s threats, and absorbed the rings of two Metal-Devouring Rats after the first swarm was defeated.
  • Earth Armored Dragons and another horde of Metal-Devouring Rats ambushed the group, revealing that the Zhou Clan had deceived them.
  • A Soul Master tried to flee, but the Zhou Clan’s Soul King blocked the route and detonated a Soul Tool bomb, sealing the tunnel and trapping everyone inside.

Ch. 33Wait... Dude?

Hui Ye fought Commander Lie Hu, killed him, and then demonstrated how he could slay an Earth Armored Dragon from the inside. His example inspired another defense-type Soul Master to try the same trick, but the dragon chewed him up, leaving Hui Ye stunned.

  • The two Zhou Clan members entered the mine, hoping the deaths inside would lure out a ten-thousand-year Earthquake Beast.
  • Hui Ye defeated Commander Lie Hu with his Black Flame Eruption and kicked him into the Soul Beasts, which trampled him to death.
  • Hui Ye urged the others to keep their distance, then jumped into a 1,200-year Earth Armored Dragon and burst out through its belly, absorbing its Soul Ring.
  • A defense-type Soul Master tried to copy Hui Ye by diving into another Earth Armored Dragon's mouth, but it chewed him up and killed him.
  • Hui Ye stared in disbelief as the survivors praised the dead Soul Master as a fearless warrior.

Ch. 34The Last Ten-Year Soul Ring

Hui Ye battled through the trapped Soul Masters, using his self-destructive ability to defeat Soul Beasts and complete his earth attribute. Exhausted and one year short of completing his metal attribute, he absorbed a final Ten-Year Soul Ring and told the survivors he would take over.

  • Hui Ye continued killing Earth Armored Dragons by entering their mouths and detonating inside them, while the other Soul Masters struggled to copy his method.
  • Dong Ge organized defense-type and agility-attack-type Soul Masters into teams, and they began fighting the Earth Armored Dragons while others cleared Metal-Devouring Rats.
  • Hui Ye maxed out his earth attribute at 5,000 years and hunted Metal-Devouring Rats until his metal attribute reached 4,999 years and he collapsed.
  • A Soul Master brought a barely living Metal-Devouring Rat to Hui Ye, who killed it and absorbed its Ten-Year Soul Ring to complete his metal attribute.
  • Hui Ye looked toward the surviving Soul Masters still fighting and said, “I'll take it from here.”

Ch. 35Infinite Flame

Hui Ye completed his Second Soul Ring, reached Soul Power Level 27, and used his black flames to help the survivors defeat the Metal-Devouring Rats. As Hui Ye and the remaining members emerged from the passage, they confronted the Zhou Clan Soul King and Soul Saint over the ambush that had nearly wiped them out.

  • Hui Ye completed his Second Soul Ring and rose to Soul Power Level 27 as its five elements replenished his Soul Power.
  • Hui Ye ordered the exhausted fighters to retreat, then burned through the Metal-Devouring Rats with a sustained Black Flame Eruption before his head overheated and exploded.
  • The survivors celebrated their victory, while Old Eight and Old Nine agreed with the vice commander to abandon mercenary work and follow him into honest business.
  • A beast awakened in the deepest cavern, and the Zhou Clan Soul Saint and Soul King hurried toward the sounds of explosions in the passage.
  • Hui Ye led 61 survivors out through the rubble, and they accused the Zhou Clan Soul King of setting them up and threatened retaliation.

Ch. 36Barbecue

Hui Ye held off a Soul Saint and Soul King by repeatedly exploding and reviving so the group could flee, then trapped the enemies in a shield with his black flames. After escaping the shield, the two enemies faced another blast as the mine began to shake and a roar echoed through it.

  • Hui Ye blocked the Soul King's sonic attack and told the exhausted group to escape while he fought the Soul Saint and Soul King.
  • Hui Ye exploded, revived, and blasted the Soul Saint again to keep him from stopping the group's retreat.
  • The Soul King killed half of the fleeing 61 people with his Fifth Soul Skill, including Deputy Commander Lie Hu and the Soul Master who had given Hui Ye the Metal-Devouring Rat.
  • Hui Ye trapped the Soul Saint and Soul King inside a defensive shield with black flames, repeatedly replenishing his Soul Power as the men nearly succumbed to the heat.
  • The Soul Saint lowered the shield and extinguished the flames, but Hui Ye dived at the two men and exploded, bringing down part of the rock wall.
  • The mine shook violently, and a roar echoed through it.

Ch. 37The Earthquake Beast

Hui Ye fought the Earthquake Beast after the Zhou Clan’s men awakened it and tried to use him as bait. He defeated the beast in a cavern, found no Soul Bone, and decided to rest and have Electrolux provide him with life energy.

  • Hui Ye realized the Zhou Clan had lured him into the mine to help them hunt the Earthquake Beast, and the Soul Emperor and Soul King offered him rewards to join forces.
  • Hui Ye rejected their offer and ran for the exit, but the Earthquake Beast crushed and swallowed the Soul Emperor and Soul King before pursuing him.
  • Hui Ye repeatedly revived and self-destructed against the Earthquake Beast, eventually blinding one of its eyes as they fought through the collapsing mine.
  • Hui Ye and the Earthquake Beast fell into a cavern, where Hui Ye survived the fall and the beast died.
  • Hui Ye searched the Earthquake Beast for a Soul Bone, found none, and chose to rest while planning to ask Electrolux for life energy.

Ch. 38Hui Ye's Unlimited Power Bank

Hui Ye harvested a vast cache of Soul Tool ore while Electrolux absorbed life energy from him, and the two discussed Electrolux’s chances of recovery. After Hui Ye revealed plans to target the Zhou Clan and claimed he was invincible below god level, Electrolux demonstrated how easily a powerful opponent could immobilize him.

  • Hui Ye let Electrolux draw life energy from his Second Soul Ring, though the amount was limited by its capacity.
  • Hui Ye spent three days digging out the glowing Soul Tool ore, and Electrolux stored the mountain of ore in the Undead Plane.
  • Electrolux offered Hui Ye access to the Undead Plane and explained that life energy could sustain him but could not repair his shattered divine seat or exhausted law source.
  • Hui Ye revealed that two divine officers on the Douluo Continent could provide divine power and suggested they might help weaken Tang San’s forces.
  • Hui Ye declared that he would deal with the Zhou Clan and claimed to be invincible below god level, so Electrolux used Space Lockdown to stop him from moving his Soul Power.

Ch. 39Blowing the Zhou Clan Sky-High

Hui Ye escaped the collapsed mine and confronted the Zhou Clan, whose patriarch believed his brothers were about to return. Hui Ye unleashed an explosion against the gathered clansmen, while Evil Soul Master Lao Si tracked the blast from several kilometers away.

  • Electrolux warned Hui Ye that a powerful enemy could imprison him, and Hui Ye wondered whether his third Soul Skill could counter that threat.
  • Patriarch Zhou ordered the Zhou Clan to excavate the collapsed mine and gathered his clansmen when tremors suggested his Fifth Brother had survived.
  • Hui Ye burst from the ruins and learned the Zhou Clan had mistaken him for its returning Fourth Master and Fifth Master.
  • Patriarch Zhou demanded to know what happened to his brothers, and Hui Ye said the Earthquake Beast had eaten them before the Zhou Clan attacked him.
  • Hui Ye shouted for himself to explode as the gathered Zhou clansmen surrounded him.
  • Lao Si sensed the explosion and rushed toward it, believing he had found his target.

Ch. 40The Evil Soul Master's Invitation

Hui Ye accepted the Holy Spirit Cult deacon’s invitation after helping him defeat the Zhou Clan, but said he had to return to Shrek Academy first. The deacon gave Hui Ye a cult token and asked him to persuade Tang Ya to join as well.

  • The Zhou Clan patriarch struggled to stop Hui Ye, whose repeated self-detonations had devastated the clan without harming him.
  • The deacon arrived, offered Hui Ye resources and a place in the Holy Spirit Cult, and Hui Ye accepted his offer.
  • The Zhou patriarch fled, but the deacon pursued him with his Seventh Soul Skill and returned with his head.
  • Hui Ye introduced himself as Huo Yuhao and explained that he needed to return to Shrek Academy, so the deacon gave him a Holy Spirit Cult token.
  • The deacon asked Hui Ye to persuade Tang Ya to join the cult, and Hui Ye eagerly agreed because he knew her.

Ch. 41Second Martial Soul

After destroying the Zhou Clan and rescuing the surviving Soul Masters, Hui Ye learned that Electrolux could help him awaken a Second Martial Soul and set out for the Far North to find Soul Beasts. Ten days later, Electrolux began the ritual by demanding all four of Hui Ye's Soul Bones as offerings.

  • Hui Ye gave the twelve surviving Soul Masters 1.2 million Gold Soul Coins and left them to choose their own futures.
  • Electrolux offered to help Hui Ye awaken a Second Martial Soul, and Hui Ye eagerly accepted him as his teacher.
  • Electrolux told Hui Ye to find high-age Soul Beasts and said he could force some to sacrifice themselves; Hui Ye chose the Far North over the Star Dou Great Forest.
  • Ten days later, Hui Ye met Electrolux in a cave near the Far North's ice fields, where Electrolux demanded all four of his Soul Bones for the awakening ritual.
  • Hui Ye asked to keep his Black Flame Fire Crow Head Soul Bone, but Electrolux insisted that he needed it for the offerings.

Ch. 42The Far North

Hui Ye and Electrolux created a golden-black flame Second Martial Soul from four Soul Bones, then traveled deeper into the Far North. Hui Ye forced an Ice Jade Scorpion to carry him toward the Ice Empress’s palace.

  • Electrolux used Hui Ye’s four Soul Bones and a trace of his divine power to create a golden-black flame for Hui Ye’s Second Martial Soul.
  • Hui Ye questioned Electrolux’s use of divine power, then set off for the depths of the Far North as Electrolux began recovering.
  • Hui Ye encountered Ice Jade Scorpions and repeatedly revived to cling to one until it collapsed from exhaustion.
  • Hui Ye confronted a ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion and pressured it into carrying him to the ice and snow palace.

Ch. 43Negotiating with the Ice Empress

Hui Ye confronted the Ice Empress, revealed that he could help her survive her next heavenly tribulation, and introduced Electrolux as his divine teacher. After she refused to sacrifice herself, Hui Ye told her that Tian Meng had sacrificed himself to Huo Yuhao because he could not become a god.

  • The Ice Empress trapped Hui Ye and dismissed his offer to discuss gods, but he freed himself with golden light and revealed that he knew she might not survive her next heavenly tribulation.
  • Hui Ye entered the ice and snow palace with the Ice Empress, who transformed into a human girl and demanded to know why he had come.
  • Electrolux emerged from Hui Ye's soul, and the Ice Empress recognized the divine presence and respectfully greeted him as the Holy Necromancer.
  • Hui Ye asked the Ice Empress to sacrifice herself so he could help her attain godhood, but she refused and accused him of coveting her Soul Ring.
  • Hui Ye told the Ice Empress that Tian Meng had sacrificed himself to Huo Yuhao because he discovered he could not become a god and had no Godhood Inheritance.

Ch. 44Preparing for the Sacrifice

The Ice Empress agreed to sacrifice herself to Hui Ye after learning that Soul Beasts were barred from godhood, but first arranged for the Far North to be governed during her absence. Three days later, she and Electrolux began preparing the sacrifice, with the Ice Empress planning to form several Soul Bones for Hui Ye.

  • Hui Ye told the Ice Empress that sacrifice was her only route into the Divine Realm, and she agreed on the conditions that she retain her consciousness and that he help find the Snow Empress.
  • Hui Ye explained that the Snow Empress was likely captured while transforming into a human and said Soul Beasts could not become gods; the Ice Empress asked for three days to settle affairs in the Far North.
  • The Ice Empress handed authority over the Far North to the Titan Snow Demon King, with Ice Bear King Xiaobai as his deputy.
  • At the palace of ice and snow, Electrolux raised a magic array to conceal the sacrifice, and the Ice Empress joked about wanting Tian Meng beaten afterward.
  • The Ice Empress proposed making her tail an External Soul Bone and turning her ice pincers into Hui Ye's fingernails, and Hui Ye agreed to begin the sacrifice.

Ch. 45Ice-Blue Manicure, External Soul Bone!

After the Ice Empress sacrificed herself, Hui Ye gained powerful Soul Skills and two upgraded External Soul Bones, though one left him with an embarrassing ice-blue manicure. Electrolux explained Hui Ye’s Holy Necromancer Martial Soul and advised him to prepare for more Soul Rings, while the Ice Empress urged him to target powerful Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

  • After Hui Ye’s level rose to thirty, the Ice Empress added Soul Skills to his Second Martial Soul and upgraded the External Soul Bones in his tail and fingernails.
  • Hui Ye admired his new tail but complained that the fingernail Soul Bone looked like an ice-blue manicure, and the Ice Empress admitted it could not be changed.
  • Hui Ye covered his manicured nails with black-and-gold flames, then asked Electrolux about his Second Martial Soul.
  • Electrolux explained that Hui Ye’s Second Martial Soul was the Holy Necromancer and sent him basic Necromantic Magic knowledge and techniques.
  • Electrolux advised Hui Ye to seek a third Soul Ring for his Wolffy Martial Soul and plan powerful Soul Rings for his Second Martial Soul.
  • The Ice Empress urged Hui Ye to kill Di Tian and other Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Hui Ye questioned whether she expected him to do that.

Ch. 46Hui Ye's Secret

Hui Ye revealed to the Ice Empress and Electrolux that he came from another world, and Electrolux shared that he was also an outsider. After discovering his third Soul Skill needed a fifty-thousand-year spatial Soul Ring, Hui Ye learned the Ice Empress had once encountered a seventy-thousand-year Void Beast in the Sunset Forest.

  • Hui Ye told the Ice Empress that the Silver Dragon King was hidden beneath the Lake of Life and explained that he came from another world.
  • Electrolux revealed that he, too, came from another world, while the Ice Empress felt left out and retreated to the ice house after Hui Ye teased her about liking the Snow Empress.
  • Hui Ye sensed that his third Soul Skill, Wonderful Transition, required a fifty-thousand-year spatial Soul Ring and asked the Ice Empress about spatial Soul Beasts in the Far North.
  • The Ice Empress recalled that she and the Snow Empress had encountered a seventy-thousand-year Void Beast in the Sunset Forest, but a mysterious power concealed its presence and it escaped into the void.
  • Hui Ye reacted in surprise that the Void Beast had managed to flee from the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress.

Ch. 47Broken by the Ice Empress

Hui Ye and the Ice Empress prepared to leave the Far North to search for the Void Beast near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Hui Ye's letters set off reactions at Shrek Academy. Their journey began with a mishap when the Ice Empress froze the Flying Soul Tool, and Hui Ye demanded that she pay for it.

  • The Ice Empress agreed with Hui Ye that the Void Beast might have escaped near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and they decided to search for it.
  • Wang Yan and Huo Yuhao read Hui Ye's letters, and Huo Yuhao passed his message to Tang Ya about her being safe from further harassment.
  • Tang Ya wondered how Hui Ye had dealt with the people threatening her, while Da Ming and Er Ming went to Shrek City and waited for Hui Ye to return.
  • The Ice Empress warned the Far North's Soul Beasts to hide from Tian Meng's plan, and Xiao Bai reluctantly stayed behind to help protect the region.
  • Hui Ye bought a Flying Soul Tool for their trip, but the Ice Empress froze it while trying to fly, so Hui Ye demanded that she pay for the damage.

Ch. 48Giving the Ice Empress a Thorough Training~

After the Ice Empress broke Hui Ye’s Flying Soul Tool, he imprisoned her and learned to fly using Electrolux’s Wings of Shadow spell and his black-gold flames. On the way to the Sunset Forest, he goaded the Ice Empress into giving in by threatening to tell Snow Maiden how she had behaved.

  • Hui Ye demanded compensation for the broken Flying Soul Tool, then imprisoned the Ice Empress when she refused to pay.
  • Electrolux declined to provide a bone dragon and taught Hui Ye the Wings of Shadow spell instead.
  • Hui Ye formed wings with Soul Power and used black-gold flames as thrusters to fly toward the Sunset Forest.
  • Hui Ye spent a week sightseeing on the way and landed on the outskirts of the Sunset Forest.
  • The Ice Empress refused to help Hui Ye find the Void Beast until he threatened to tell Snow Maiden everything, and she begged him not to.
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