Chapter Summaries

After being betrayed by Tang San and reborn in a frail body, Huo Yuhao found Electrolux but could not locate Sky Dream or his former companions. He reached Clear Water City, where Spirit Hall registered him and gave him his monthly subsidy, leaving him wondering whether he had returned ten thousand years into the past.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Electrolux in his Sea of Consciousness and promised to find a way to restore his Divine Soul.
• Huo Yuhao realized he had been reborn with Soul Power Level ten, waited in vain for Sky Dream and his former companions, and left the forest to survive the night.
• While eating beside a campfire, Huo Yuhao recalled Tang San's betrayal and resolved never to join the Tang Sect again.
• Huo Yuhao reached Clear Water City and learned that the people there did not know of Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao visited Spirit Hall, registered as an orphan with Soul Power Level ten, and received a Soul Master Identity Certificate and three Silver Soul Coins.

Huo Yuhao determined that he had about two years before Tang San visited the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and set out to find spiritual herbs for Old Yi. To fund the journey to Sunset Forest, he used his forging knowledge to obtain refined iron and access to a blacksmith’s forge.

• Huo Yuhao exchanged his subsidy for food, then reasoned that he needed to learn whether Tang San had already taken the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huo Yuhao asked a passerby about the Continental Advanced Soul Master Competition and concluded that he had roughly two years before Tang San’s visit to the well.
• Huo Yuhao told Old Yi that they would travel to the well, and Old Yi warned that he could act only three more times before falling into slumber.
• Huo Yuhao realized he needed money to reach Sunset Forest and went to a blacksmith shop seeking Hundred Refinements refined iron.
• Huo Yuhao taught the blacksmith to forge Twenty-Forged Refined Iron, received three pieces without paying, and borrowed the shop’s forge and tools.

Huo Yuhao brought a powerful crossbow to Spirit Hall to have it appraised and sold, where he met Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan. After learning he planned to travel to Sunset Forest for his First Soul Ring, Hu Liena invited him to join her group for one hundred Gold Soul Coins.

• Huo Yuhao asked Spirit Hall to appraise his crossbow, which a yellow-clad Soul Elder tested and found capable of piercing steel plates.
• The appraiser agreed to Huo Yuhao's price of one hundred Gold Soul Coins and asked him to join Spirit Hall.
• Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan entered Spirit Hall, and Hu Liena recognized Huo Yuhao.
• The yellow-clad Soul Elder explained the crossbow's power, surprising Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his Body Soul - Eye and said he planned to hunt a Soul Ring in Sunset Forest.
• Hu Liena invited Huo Yuhao to travel with her group for one hundred Gold Soul Coins, and he accepted.

Huo Yuhao traveled with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan toward Sunset Forest, concealing his true knowledge while learning about his companions and their Spirit Hall escort. The group reached the forest and prepared to enter under the Black-Robed Man’s strict orders.

• Huo Yuhao met Senior Fang and boarded the carriage with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan as Spirit Hall’s party left Clear Water City.
• Huo Yuhao gave Hu Liena a vague account of his past, declined her invitation to join Spirit Hall, and impressed Xie Yue with his knowledge of soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan were elite young Soul Masters, while concealed Spirit Hall observers ordered an investigation into his background.
• Several days later, the group reached the edge of Sunset Forest, where the Black-Robed Man warned everyone to obey orders and led them into the forest.

Huo Yuhao rested with Spirit Hall’s Soul Master Team in Sunset Forest, where Hu Liena shared food and discussed his cultivation plans with him. Xie Yue calmed Yan’s jealousy by convincing him that Hu Liena saw Huo Yuhao only as a younger boy.

• Huo Yuhao followed Spirit Hall’s Soul Master Team through Sunset Forest and rested at their outer-region campsite.
• Hu Liena brought Huo Yuhao Soft Bone Charm Rabbit soup and told him the team would look for a suitable soul beast for him.
• Huo Yuhao told Hu Liena he wanted to follow the control-type path and hoped his first soul skill would be Mental Detection.
• Yan grew furious over Hu Liena’s attention to Huo Yuhao, but Xie Yue persuaded him that she treated the boy like a younger brother.
• Yan accepted Xie Yue’s reassurance and stopped treating Huo Yuhao as a rival, while Huo Yuhao noticed Yan staring at him strangely.

Huo Yuhao joined Spirit Hall’s team in Sunset Forest as Hu Liena hunted for her Fourth Soul Ring, but their successful hunt drew the attention of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Hell White Tiger. As the beast attacked the group, a mysterious black-robed figure appeared to confront it.

• Huo Yuhao traveled with Hu Liena and Spirit Hall’s team through Sunset Forest, searching the terrain while they sought a suitable soul beast for her Fourth Soul Ring.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan killed a Netherworld Wolf, and Hu Liena absorbed its soul ring while Huo Yuhao watched from the rear.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao of approaching danger, and Huo Yuhao retreated into the forest as the Black-Robed Man ordered the team to flee.
• A Hell White Tiger descended, killed the Black-Robed Man, and sent the three Seven Ring Soul Saints fleeing.
• The Hell White Tiger’s sonic attack was stopped by Gray Stillness, and the beast turned toward a floating black-robed figure who declared his power.

Huo Yuhao defeated the Hell White Tiger by attacking its soul, then captured it in the Land of the Undead and absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. After gaining two Spirit Skills and receiving the beast’s right arm bone, he prepared to continue without Electrolux, who was about to enter slumber.

• Electrolux helped Huo Yuhao overcome the Hell White Tiger’s attack, and Huo Yuhao destroyed the beast’s soul with Spirit Eyes World Creation.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Gate of the Undead, drew the Hell White Tiger inside, and erased the Spirit Hall Soul Masters’ memories of what they had seen.
• In the Land of the Undead, Huo Yuhao recovered, then absorbed the Hell White Tiger’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring with Electrolux sealing most of its power.
• Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power reached the peak of level twenty, and the ring granted him White Emperor Sword and Eye of Insight.
• Electrolux gave Huo Yuhao the Hell White Tiger’s right arm bone, opened part of his authority to the Land of the Undead, and said he would soon fall into slumber.

After absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and right arm bone, Huo Yuhao left the Land of the Undead and entered Sunset Forest to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Meanwhile, Hu Liena and the others believed he might have died and were questioned about the mysterious events that had driven their team away.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the 100,000 Year Right Arm Bone, gained Valiant Sharpness and Netherworld Stealth, and was warned by Electrolux not to absorb another soul ring soon.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Gate of the Undead, emerged in Sunset Forest, and realized that Spirit Hall's Soul Master Team had withdrawn.
• Huo Yuhao searched for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, hid from a Ten Thousand Year Man-Faced Demon Spider, and continued deeper into the forest.
• Hu Liena worried that Huo Yuhao had died, while Xie Yue tried to reassure her that he might have escaped by another route.
• Xie Yue and Yan told three Black-Robed Soul Sages about the Hell White Tiger, the deathly black-robed figure, and the mysterious voice, but they could not explain what happened afterward.

Huo Yuhao found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, hoping to use its resources to save Old Yi, but Poison Douluo Dugu Bo confronted him there. Huo Yuhao faced Dugu Bo alone and claimed that his master had sent him with a message.

• Huo Yuhao used his Insight Eye and stealth to cross Sunset Forest, avoiding dangerous Soul Beasts as he searched for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huo Yuhao spotted the valley, swallowed an antidote, crossed its poisonous fog, and climbed down into the hidden herb garden.
• Huo Yuhao reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and rejoiced that he might save Old Yi.
• Dugu Bo emerged from a cave and immobilized Huo Yuhao with his terrifying presence.
• Huo Yuhao steadied himself and told Dugu Bo that his master had sent him to deliver a message.

Huo Yuhao used a vision of Old Yi’s divine power to intimidate Dugu Bo, then waited while Dugu Bo suffered a venom flare-up and explored the immortal herbs in the valley. He collected a sample from Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, considered an herb for Old Yi, and threw away the Lovesick Heartbreak Red seed.

• Huo Yuhao invoked Old Yi’s power in Dugu Bo’s mind, then cut Dugu Bo’s wrist with his soul-bone claw when Dugu Bo released him.
• Dugu Bo returned to his cave, where Huo Yuhao observed that his venom had flared up and waited outside.
• Huo Yuhao examined the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, scraping a trace of the latter onto a jade shard.
• Huo Yuhao considered using the Aromatic Silk Beauty to nurture Old Yi’s Divine Soul.
• Huo Yuhao rejected the Lovesick Heartbreak Red as a cursed flower and hurled its seed into the clouds and mist.

Huo Yuhao searched the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for medicine to nourish Old Yi’s Divine Soul, then refined Ink Jade Divine Bamboo into Spiritual Liquid. After Huo Yuhao brought the medicine to the Undead Plane, Electrolux awakened.

• Huo Yuhao examined the medicinal herbs and realized he could make Mystic Water Pills, but he continued searching for medicine to awaken Old Yi first.
• Huo Yuhao chose Ink Jade Divine Bamboo to nourish the Divine Soul and avoided seeking Holy Soul Grass in the dangerous Core Area of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Huo Yuhao harvested the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo and refined it with soul-nourishing spiritual medicines while keeping watch on Dugu Bo.
• Huo Yuhao collected the finished Spiritual Liquid in a Jade Bottle and entered the Undead Plane after Old Yi failed to answer him.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Jade Bottle, and Electrolux absorbed the Spiritual Liquid and reappeared.

Huo Yuhao refined the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, advanced his Purple Demon Eyes, and decided to use the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to strengthen his body. He swallowed the cores of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then emerged from the spring alive, confronting the painful reality of his past.

• Electrolux awakened in the Undead Plane, told Huo Yuhao that his soul had recovered, and thanked him.
• Huo Yuhao refined the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and reached the Micro Realm of the Purple Demon Eyes while remaining at level twenty.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux discussed how to deal with Dugu Bo, whose suffering from the snake venom continued.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot could strengthen his body when used in the Blazing and Frigid Dual Pole Spring.
• Huo Yuhao swallowed the cores of both herbs and plunged into the spring, enduring freezing and scorching pain before bursting back to the surface.

Huo Yuhao used Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to trigger Dugu Bo’s snake venom, then offered to cure Dugu Bo and his granddaughter in exchange for the medicinal garden and protection for his disciple. Dugu Bo agreed to the terms only if Huo Yuhao could resolve the venom in both of them.

• Huo Yuhao made twelve pills from herbs in the medicinal garden and confronted Dugu Bo in the cave.
• Huo Yuhao overpowered Dugu Bo and forced him to swallow a pill that amplified the snake venom in his body.
• Dugu Bo rushed to the medicinal garden to eat herbs, but Huo Yuhao revealed that the venom’s pain had already begun to fade.
• Huo Yuhao offered to cure Dugu Bo and his granddaughter if Dugu Bo gave him the medicinal garden and protected his disciple for three years.
• Dugu Bo first rejected the protection duty, then agreed on the condition that Huo Yuhao cure them both.

Huo Yuhao refined the Mystic Water Pill while Dugu Bo tried and failed to copy his process. After making three pills, Huo Yuhao awaited Dugu Bo’s return, and Dugu Bo arrived with his granddaughter, Dugu Yan.

• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Bo that the pill could ease his symptoms but that curing his snake venom at its root involved his martial soul, while Dugu Yan’s condition was too severe for her to abandon her cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao prepared the Mystic Water Pill at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as Dugu Bo secretly watched and then tried to replicate the recipe.
• Dugu Bo poisoned himself with his copied pills, and Huo Yuhao gave him an antidote before leaving him to recover.
• Dugu Bo departed to fetch his granddaughter, while Huo Yuhao switched to the real ingredients and refined three Mystic Water Pills.
• Dugu Bo returned with Dugu Yan, who studied Huo Yuhao as they approached him.

Huo Yuhao used the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to purge the snake venom from Dugu Yan, stabilizing her with ice energy when the treatment nearly overwhelmed her. Dugu Yan recovered with her Soul Power raised to Level Thirty-Nine and a mutated Martial Soul, while Huo Yuhao left exhausted.

• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to meet Huo Yuhao, who gave her a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and warned her to endure the pain as she refined it.
• Dugu Yan swallowed the herb, and its fierce yang energy burned through her body as the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul struggled in the flames.
• When Dugu Yan neared collapse, Huo Yuhao gave her an icy pill and used the chill of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to suppress the herb’s energy.
• Dugu Yan regained consciousness, and Dugu Bo confirmed that the snake venom had disappeared from her body.
• Dugu Yan discovered her Soul Power had risen from Level Thirty-Four to Level Thirty-Nine and saw that her Martial Soul had mutated into a Crimson Scale Python.
• Dugu Bo realized Huo Yuhao had cured the Martial Soul’s defect through mutation, but Huo Yuhao had already walked away.

Huo Yuhao cured Dugu Yan’s snake venom with the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and prepared to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Dugu Bo repaid him with a storage pouch, entrusted him with the medicinal garden’s care, and offered help with his next Soul Ring, while Huo Yuhao kept his own plans private.

• Huo Yuhao gathered herbs after Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan celebrated Dugu Yan’s recovery.
• Dugu Bo gave Huo Yuhao a Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch and agreed to look after the medicinal garden for him.
• Dugu Yan joined Huo Yuhao and Dugu Bo in gathering herbs, while Dugu Bo asked about Huo Yuhao’s teacher and Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Bo that he was eleven, at level twenty, and had a Mental Martial Soul with few suitable soul beasts.
• Dugu Bo offered to help Huo Yuhao find a Soul Ring and recommended Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Huo Yuhao said his teacher had already planned his itinerary.

Huo Yuhao and Dugu Bo found a Thousand-Year Golden Ghost Butterfly, which Huo Yuhao defeated with Dugu Yan’s help. Despite warnings that the Soul Ring exceeded his limit, Huo Yuhao began absorbing it while Old Yi concealed the color of his First Soul Ring.

• Dugu Bo led Huo Yuhao and Dugu Yan through Sunset Forest in search of a suitable Spirit-type Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao spotted a Golden Ghost Butterfly, and he and Dugu Yan fought it while Dugu Bo sealed off the sky.
• Huo Yuhao endured the butterfly’s Mental Impact and pierced its brow, killing it and producing a Purple Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan warned Huo Yuhao that absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his Second Soul Ring was dangerous, but he insisted he could handle it.
• Old Yi concealed Huo Yuhao’s First Soul Ring as Huo Yuhao began absorbing the Golden Ghost Butterfly’s Soul Ring, leaving Dugu Yan anxious and Dugu Bo curious about the size of his ring.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Golden Ghost Butterfly’s Thousand-Year Soul Ring and unexpectedly gained an External Soul Bone, its wings granting him flight. After Dugu Bo warned him to conceal the Soul Bone and be cautious of powerful factions, Huo Yuhao chose to travel with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to Heaven Dou City.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Golden Ghost Butterfly’s Soul Ring as Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan watched, and Golden Butterfly Wings burst from his back.
• The Soul Ring became Huo Yuhao’s Second Soul Ring, granting him the Brilliant Light skill and raising him to Soul Power Level 30.
• Dugu Bo identified Huo Yuhao’s wings as an External Soul Bone and explained that they could be mistaken for part of his Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that the wings let him fly, and Dugu Bo warned him to hide the Soul Bone and beware of factions seeking to recruit him.
• Huo Yuhao decided to go to Heaven Dou City to seek Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng for Old Yi and arrange to auction the Mystic Water Pill, and Dugu Bo offered him a ride there.

Huo Yuhao brought a Mystic Water Pill to the Heaven Dou Auction House for appraisal, claiming it could raise Innate Soul Power and speed up cultivation. The appraisers could not verify its ingredients or effects, so they decided to summon the president.

• Huo Yuhao parted from Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan in Heaven Dou City, then considered seeking the Speed Clan’s Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng and locating the Strength Clan.
• Huo Yuhao visited the Heaven Dou Auction House in disguise and requested an appraisal of a pill.
• Huo Yuhao presented the Mystic Water Pill and said it could raise Innate Soul Power, open meridians, and increase cultivation speed.
• The appraiser and a group of senior experts identified only five ingredients and could not confirm the pill’s effects.
• Huo Yuhao estimated the pill’s auction price at one million Gold Soul Coins, and the experts decided to summon the president.

Huo Yuhao secured the Heaven Dou Auction House’s agreement to auction the Mystic Water Pill, which was claimed to raise Innate Soul Power. As news spread across the empire, Dugu Bo suspected Huo Yuhao had made it and considered that its effects might be real.

• Huo Yuhao revealed his eight soul rings to prove his standing, then agreed to the auction house’s terms for listing the Mystic Water Pill.
• The Heaven Dou Auction House president decided to report the pill to the imperial family, and the young man in white wondered whether innate talent could truly be changed.
• Ning Fengzhi received the auction house’s message and decided to attend, while Gu Rong doubted the claims.
• Salas was surprised by the news, and Yu Mianluo planned to inspect the pill as word spread among sects and clans.
• Dugu Bo heard about the pill, remembered Huo Yuhao taking herbs from his garden, and suspected the pill might really work.