Chapter Summaries

Elder Yu captured the Snow Empress in a Deification Platform and led a force of over ten thousand toward the Star Luo Empire, but Sirin and the Herrscher of Erosion ambushed them. Sirin immobilized Elder Yu while the Herrscher of Erosion attacked the two fire-attributed Titled Douluo, leaving the captured force trapped beneath her barrier.

• Elder Yu captured the Snow Empress in a ninth-grade Soul Tool and hurried away from the Far North with two fire-attributed Titled Douluo and over ten thousand soldiers.
• The Star Luo Empire force traveled for two hours before an invisible spatial barrier stopped them near the Far North's border.
• Sirin and the Herrscher of Erosion appeared through voids and surrounded the force from the front and rear.
• The Herrscher of Erosion spread a barrier over a ten-kilometer radius, immobilizing everyone below Soul Saint rank.
• Sirin dodged Elder Yu's attack and trapped him in a red-gold barrier, while the Herrscher of Erosion caught the other Titled Douluo's Soul Skills and made them scream in pain.

Sirin and the Herrscher of Erosion overwhelmed the soul master army, while Lu Xueling gathered Honkai Energy and planned to create an Ice Herrscher Core from the Snow Empress embryo and two other sources. They provoked the Far North’s rulers into appearing, and Lu Xueling learned that Qian Renxue was beginning to resist Honkai Energy and desire its power.

• Sirin seized the Snow Empress embryo as the Herrscher of Erosion turned the soul master army into Deadwalkers and Sirin transformed three Titled Douluo into Chariot-class Honkai Beasts.
• Lu Xueling received Honkai Energy from the new creatures, tested the embryo, and decided to combine it with two more sources to form an Ice Herrscher Core.
• Sirin stored the Deadwalkers and Honkai Beasts, and she and the Herrschers entered the Far North with Lu Xueling following as their source of Honkai Energy.
• Sirin taunted the Far North’s rulers, drawing the Titan Snow Demon King, the Ice Empress Scorpion, and their clans to the ice field.
• Lu Xueling received a system notification that Qian Renxue was resisting Honkai Energy and sensed her growing desire for its power.

Lu Xueling annihilated the Three Kings of the Far North and forged an Ice Herrscher Core from their soul rings. He left the Far North’s transformed creatures under the Herrschers’ control and planned to watch Qian Renxue resist Honkai corruption, which could awaken her as a new Herrscher.

• Sirin and the Herrscher of Erosion defeated the Far North’s soul beasts while Lu Xueling arrived and crushed the embryo containing Snow Empress.
• Lu Xueling stripped the Three Kings and their clansmen of their soul rings and Soul Bones, annihilating them.
• Lu Xueling fused the three Fierce Beast soul rings into an Ice Herrscher Core, and its energy transformed the Far North’s remaining creatures into Deadwalkers and Honkai Beasts.
• Lu Xueling ordered Sirin and the Herrscher of Erosion to conceal the Far North’s changes and return with him to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Lu Xueling told the Herrschers that Qian Renxue was resisting the Honkai Crystal’s erosion and might awaken as a Herrscher if she endured until the twenty-fifth day.

The Star Luo Emperor learned that Elder Yu, two Titled Douluo, ten thousand soul masters, and the Deification Platform had vanished, and ordered the loss kept secret while searching for survivors and the Soul Tool. Back in the Sun Moon Empire, Lu Xueling prepared to fulfill his promise to Jing Hongchen by providing another Valkyrie Armor and examining the White Training Armor.

• The Star Luo Emperor ordered three black-clad men to keep the force's disappearance secret and search north for Elder Yu and the others.
• The Star Luo Emperor ordered agents to monitor major auctions and buy back the Deification Platform or any fragment at any cost.
• Sirin and Lu Xueling returned to the Sun Moon Empire, where Bella reported that the White Training Armor research had barely progressed.
• Lu Xueling gave Bella three Fierce Beast Soul Bones enhanced with Honkai Energy, and she swallowed them.
• Lu Xueling went to Jing Hongchen's office, promised to provide another Valkyrie Armor, and asked him to bring over the White Training Armor.

Lu Xueling completed Crimson and White Lian, then explained Sacred Marks to Jing Hongchen while withholding their full potential and another project. Jing Hongchen arranged a stronger student to test Crimson as Lu Xueling prepared to visit Huo Yuhao about the Ice Herrscher Core’s future owner.

• Jing Hongchen returned with White Training and inspected the newly completed Crimson armor as Lu Xueling prepared to upgrade White Training.
• Lu Xueling inserted a crystal into White Training, completing the B-Class Domain Armor: White Lian and startling Jing Hongchen with its power.
• Lu Xueling gave Jing Hongchen a document explaining Sacred Marks and claimed his artificial set could not match the legacy described in it.
• Jing Hongchen asked Lu Xueling to teach Sacred Mark technology to Mingde Hall, but Lu Xueling reminded him that he alone controlled the research results.
• Jing Hongchen asked whether Valkyrie Armor had a men's version, and Lu Xueling hinted at another project that required resources from Jing Hongchen’s warehouses.
• Lu Xueling postponed explaining the project and said he needed to visit Huo Yuhao; Jing Hongchen arranged for a stronger student to test Crimson.

Xu Tianran visited Mingde Hall to investigate Jing Hongchen and Lu Xueling’s new equipment, and he was impressed by the Pulse Armor Crimson. Lu Xueling then received an urgent message from the Silver Dragon King, who revealed that the Auspicious Beast had gone to find him and Miss Sirin.

• Xu Tianran arrived at Mingde Hall, questioned Jing Hongchen and Lu Xueling about their collaboration, and accepted Jing Hongchen’s invitation to watch a test.
• Lu Xueling sensed a call from the Silver Dragon King and left for the underground base while Jing Hongchen showed Xu Tianran the Pulse Armor Crimson.
• Xu Tianran examined the armor with his Soul Power and praised its exquisite craftsmanship.
• The Silver Dragon King told Lu Xueling that the Auspicious Beast had gone to where he and Miss Sirin were, explaining that she had been curious about him since bringing him to the Star Dou Great Forest ten thousand years earlier.
• Lu Xueling realized the Silver Dragon King expected him to keep the Auspicious Beast safe.

Huo Yuhao earned his first-class Soul Engineer badge after a month of training at Mingde Hall. Lu Xueling gave him a mysterious crystal and ordered him to kill someone the next day, then spotted eleven-year-old Youlan on the Crimson test participant list.

• Huo Yuhao completed a first-class Soul Tool core formation, and Xuan Ziwen certified him as a first-class Soul Engineer.
• Xuan Ziwen presented Huo Yuhao with his badge, and Meng Hongchen congratulated him.
• Lu Xueling gave Huo Yuhao a porcelain bottle and secretly placed a purplish-red crystal in his body, then told him to use it to kill someone the next day.
• Huo Yuhao hesitated but agreed to Lu Xueling's order.
• A researcher delivered the Crimson test participant list, and Lu Xueling froze when he read that Youlan, an eleven-year-old Level 31 Soul Elder with a Golden Dragon martial soul, was participating.

At the Crimson Armor test, Ju Zi, Keke, Jing Ziyan, and Nana struggled to use the close-combat armor, while the newly enrolled Youlan impressed the observers with her skill and stamina. Lu Xueling chose Bella as Youlan’s opponent for the coming actual combat test.

• Ju Zi volunteered to test Crimson first and demonstrated powerful strikes before exhausting herself after an aerial spinning attack.
• Keke and Jing Ziyan managed only basic attacks, while Nana completed an aerial spin like Ju Zi.
• Youlan performed consecutive slashes and an aerial spin in three seconds, then said she could continue.
• Jing Hongchen announced an actual combat test, and Lu Xueling opened the gate for Bella to face Youlan.

Youlan tested Pulse Armor Crimson against Bella, unleashing its ultimate skill before collapsing from exhaustion. Jing Hongchen made Youlan a core disciple, while Xu Tianran sought to join Lu Xueling’s armor project and Huo Yuhao was asked to take Youlan back to her dormitory.

• Lu Xueling told Youlan that Bella would use only one percent of her strength, and Youlan attacked Bella with Crimson without managing to harm her.
• Huo Yuhao arrived to watch the test after Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed Bella’s enormous power of destiny.
• Youlan repeatedly struck Bella, then used Crimson’s ultimate skill, Amaterasu, whose blade light clashed with Bella’s icy breath and carved a deep gash in the arena floor.
• Youlan collapsed after exhausting herself, and Jing Hongchen ordered the data preserved and named her a core disciple of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xu Tianran asked to join Lu Xueling’s project, and Lu Xueling said he would have to accept the same conditions as Jing Hongchen.
• Lu Xueling asked Huo Yuhao to take the exhausted Youlan back to her dormitory, leaving Huo Yuhao surprised.

Tang San discovered that events involving Huo Yuhao and Youlan had strayed beyond his control, while Huo Yuhao prepared for a mission that might make him see blood for the first time. Qian Fei recovered from a mysterious cultivation episode and went to class, carrying a strange dark-golden light in her chest.

• Tang San left the Goddess of Life’s care, reunited with Xiao Wu, and secretly checked Douluo Star with a crystal ball.
• Tang San saw Huo Yuhao escorting Youlan and realized his plans had gone awry.
• Youlan thanked Huo Yuhao and returned to her dormitory while practicing the moves she had used in the Crimson Armor.
• Huo Yuhao discussed his upcoming mission with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and resolved not to hesitate when he acted.
• Qian Fei told Mu Jin that she was fine after a cultivation problem and went with her to class.
• After leaving the old man’s sight, Qian Fei pressed a hand to her chest, where a faint dark-golden pattern flickered.

Lu Xueling brought Huo Yuhao to the Duke's Mansion, where he explained that they needed to kill people carrying Sirin's leftover Honkai Energy. When three men arrived, Huo Yuhao recognized them as the culprits responsible for his mother's death and prepared to act.

• Lu Xueling and Bella brought Huo Yuhao through a spatial portal to the area outside the Duke's Mansion.
• While Bella scouted, Huo Yuhao told Lu Xueling how his mother had died after being beaten while protecting him.
• Lu Xueling said they had to kill humans carrying Sirin's leftover Honkai Energy so they could reclaim it, and Huo Yuhao believed him.
• Bella returned and reported that the targets were about to appear, then secretly burned the photographs she had been given.
• Huo Yuhao used the triangular object in his Sea of Consciousness to detect Honkai Energy around three men transporting supplies to the Duke's Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the three men as his mother's killers, and his Honkai Energy resistance began increasing.

Huo Yuhao ambushed Duke's Mansion soldiers transporting supplies and used Honkai Energy to overpower them as he sought revenge for his mother. After killing one soldier and preparing to kill another, he was surrounded by five people, including a Titled Douluo, who urged him to stop.

• Huo Yuhao used Soul Shock to knock the Soul King unconscious and froze the two Soul Ancestors accompanying him.
• Huo Yuhao demanded that one Soul Ancestor recognize him, then killed him with the White Tiger Dagger when the man could not.
• The remaining Soul Ancestor recognized Huo Yuhao and blamed the young master for the past abuse, while Huo Yuhao vowed to avenge his mother and destroy the Duke's Mansion.
• Huo Yuhao received 1000 HW Honkai Energy after his loyalty with the Child of Destiny reached 50%, then declared that the remaining soldier should die too.
• Five people surrounded Huo Yuhao after the dagger fell from his hand, and a disheveled old man in white asked him to end the cycle of vengeance.

Huo Yuhao confronted Elder Xuan and Dai Yueheng, who tried to take him to Shrek Academy after he killed the Duke of White Tiger's guards. Bella intervened with overwhelming force, leaving Elder Xuan standing against her as Huo Yuhao rejected Shrek Academy's sudden offer of education.

• Lu Xueling recognized the Shrek Academy group and feared they would take Huo Yuhao away.
• Dai Yueheng identified himself and threatened Huo Yuhao with pursuit by the Duke of White Tiger, while Elder Xuan urged him to come peacefully and accused him of evil.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Elder Xuan's hypocrisy, and Bella descended to protect him.
• Bella's aura sent four members of the group flying, while Elder Xuan transformed and stood against her with his Rank 98 strength.
• Elder Xuan invoked Shrek Academy and offered Huo Yuhao its finest education, but Huo Yuhao asked whether he would have offered it without Bella present.

Bella forced Elder Xuan to reveal that Mu En had ordered Huo Yuhao’s capture, then faced a united group of Shrek fighters and Dai Hao. As Bella transformed into Benares, Tang San tried to strike Huo Yuhao’s group, but someone abruptly stopped his attack.

• Bella threatened Elder Xuan and froze the red-haired woman until he admitted that Mu En had sent Shrek to retrieve Huo Yuhao on the supposed guidance of the will of the plane.
• Lu Xueling concluded that a god had likely provided the detailed information about Huo Yuhao and summoned Sirin through Honkai God Authority Sharing.
• Dai Hao arrived with people from the Duke’s Mansion, while Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er joined Elder Xuan and declared Bella their common enemy.
• Bella let the red-haired woman go, put Huo Yuhao on her back, and transformed into the Judgment-class Honkai Beast Benares.
• Tang San sent four streams of divine power toward Elder Xuan and the others, but his attack was interrupted as someone challenged him over his healed injuries.

Benares overwhelmed Shrek’s Titled Douluo while protecting Huo Yuhao, who asked her to spare Dai Hao so he could avenge his mother himself. In the God Realm, Sirin defeated Tang San again and left him injured, and the God of Destruction took him to the Goddess of Life for treatment.

• Benares revealed her Giant Dragon form and easily broke Xian Lin'er’s spear and sent Dai Hao flying.
• Huo Yuhao asked Benares not to kill Dai Hao because he wanted to avenge his mother himself, and Benares threatened Xuan Zi with the danger to his companions.
• Sirin mocked Tang San, defeated him, and opened a portal to leave as he collapsed from his injuries.
• The God of Destruction carried Tang San to the Goddess of Life and asked her to charge him for repairing the Sea God's Trident and for medical care.

Bella defeated Shrek’s four Titled Douluo near Star Luo City and escaped with Huo Yuhao, Lu Xueling, and Sirin. At Sea God Pavilion, Mu En learned Bella rivaled Di Tian and used Sea God’s Light to purge the corrosive energy from the injured elders, though the power had also affected him.

• Bella refused to pursue the fleeing opponents, transformed back into human form, and left through Sirin’s spatial portal with Huo Yuhao and Lu Xueling.
• Three injured Shrek elders crashed onto Sea God Island, prompting Mu En and other academy figures to gather and summon healers.
• Xuan Zi told Mu En that Huo Yuhao was protected by Bella, a dragon-type Fierce Beast whose strength matched Di Tian’s, and that she had defeated their four-person team near Star Luo City.
• Healers discovered that Yan Shaozhe’s and Xian Lin’er’s Soul Power was dissipating as an unknown force eroded their bodies.
• Mu En used Sea God’s Light for a quarter of an hour to expel the foreign energy from the three injured elders, then returned to his frail state with purple skin concealed on his left arm.

After Bella’s attack crippled Shrek Academy’s deans, Mu En worried that Shrek could not endure further losses and privately considered advancing his plans. Meanwhile, Lu Xueling weighed Huo Yuhao’s desire to become a Herrscher against his low resistance to Honkai Energy, ending with an offer to let him have the Ice Herrscher Core.

• News spread that Bella had crippled Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er and that she could rival Di Tian, terrifying human powers and delighting the Sun Moon Empire and Body Sect.
• At Sea God Pavilion, Mu En urged Xuan Zi to recover and said he had sent Xiao Lin and others to negotiate with Di Tian about Bella’s origins.
• As Mu En dozed, he privately worried about entrusting Shrek to Xuan Zi, clenched his injured hand, and thought that his plans had to be moved up.
• After receiving a system message about the terror caused by Benares, Lu Xueling spoke with Huo Yuhao, who declared that he wanted power and wanted to become a Herrscher.
• Lu Xueling and Sirin warned Huo Yuhao that his resistance to Honkai Energy was low, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged him not to risk using the core.
• Lu Xueling wiped away Huo Yuhao’s tears and told him that obtaining the Ice Herrscher Core was possible.

Ma Xiaotao woke in the Sea God Pavilion with Bella’s icy energy still in her body, suppressing her evil fire. After learning how badly Shrek’s mission had ended, she visited Yan Shaozhe and learned that Mu En had used Sea God’s Light to save him, Xuan Zi, and Xian Lin’er; the chapter left Yan Shaozhe wondering where he had encountered Bella’s power before.

• Ma Xiaotao woke and learned from Mu En that Shaozhe and Lin’er had survived, though Yan Shaozhe’s Soul Power was crippled and Xian Lin’er had lost a rank.
• Mu En told Ma Xiaotao that Bella’s cold energy had suppressed her evil fire and warned her not to target Huo Yuhao again.
• Ma Xiaotao worried that the foreign energy in her body might be dangerous, then went to visit Yan Shaozhe.
• Yan Shaozhe told Ma Xiaotao that Gongyang Mo, Yao Haoxuan, and Chen Zimo had died, and that Mu En had used Sea God’s Light to remove Bella’s power from him, Xuan Zi, and Xian Lin’er.
• After Ma Xiaotao left, Yan Shaozhe wondered where he had encountered Bella’s strange power before.

Lu Xueling completed the Crimson Armor upgrade while Youlan tested Valkyrie Armor at Mingde Hall. Nana visited him in distress and revealed that the Holy Spirit Church had taken her mother away, leaving her family in ruin.

• Youlan tested the White Training Armor for nearly half an hour, then switched to the newly upgraded Crimson Armor when it ran out of energy.
• Youlan told Lu Xueling that the Silver Dragon Lord had allowed her to leave and that she had chosen the name Youlan herself.
• Nana entered after watching the testing and begged Lu Xueling to help her, then recounted her family's history.
• Nana explained that her mother had returned from hunting for a fourth soul ring changed and increasingly powerful, while her family lost valuables and her father grew older.
• Lu Xueling asked where the strangers who took Nana's mother had come from, and Nana answered that they were from the Holy Spirit Church.

Nana told Lu Xueling how the Holy Spirit Cult destroyed her family and imprisoned her parents’ souls, and he agreed to help free them. After learning about the cult’s Mingdu branch, Lu Xueling prepared to attack its altar the following night, making it the Valkyrie Armor’s first real battle.

• Nana revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had controlled her mother, forced her to kill Nana’s father, and sealed both parents’ souls in the cult’s altar.
• Lu Xueling promised to help Nana and set three conditions: she would wear his new Valkyrie Armor, keep his plan to take over the branch secret, and prepare to become an enemy of Shrek Academy.
• Nana agreed to Lu Xueling’s conditions and explained that the Mingdu branch had more than twenty members, including a seven-ring Soul Saint Elder, Holy Spirit Disciples, and Holy Servants.
• Nana told Lu Xueling that the branch altar held her parents’ souls along with many others.
• Lu Xueling ordered Nana to prepare for an attack the next night, then decided the Holy Spirit Cult would face the Valkyrie Armor’s first real battle.