Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao visited Tang San and Liu Erlong in the Spirit Hall dungeon, declaring Tang San would be kept alive as a vessel and trying to recruit Liu Erlong. Three days later, the Advanced Soul Master Competition resumed with only Martial Soul Academy and Skywater Academy competing, while Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue made a bet on the winner.

• Huo Yuhao told the imprisoned Tang San that he could not die and would eventually become a vessel for someone's return, then used the Eye of Destiny to influence his soul.
• Huo Yuhao offered Liu Erlong a place in Spirit Hall, but she refused and defended Yu Xiaogang and the children; Huo Yuhao left after challenging her to consider what Yu Xiaogang would choose.
• Yu Luomian demanded an explanation from Spirit Hall, Ning Fengzhi waited in Spirit City, and Spirit Hall announced the competition would resume without Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao withdrew from the competition, leaving Martial Soul Academy and Skywater Academy to compete for three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Huo Yuhao bet Qian Renxue that Martial Soul Academy would win, while she chose Skywater Academy and agreed that the loser would reveal a secret; Bibi Dong reacted irritably to their conversation.

The Spirit Hall team defeated Skywater Academy to win the championship, while Huo Yuhao left with Qian Renxue as Bibi Dong worried about their growing closeness. Meanwhile, Yu Luomian persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to support a coalition against Spirit Hall over the people it had detained, with the goal of pressuring Bibi Dong to apologize or abdicate.

• Xie Yue and Hu Liena used their Enchantress fusion skill, but Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu countered with the Frost Phoenix before the Spirit Hall team wore them down and won the final match.
• Huo Yuhao told Qian Renxue that she had lost, and they left the stands together while Bibi Dong worried that Qian Renxue would fall for him.
• Yu Luomian told Yu Yuanzhen that Spirit Hall had detained Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, Tang Hao's son, Ning Fengzhi's daughter, and a Star Luo royal heir, and that Tang Hao had been killed while trying to rescue them.
• Yu Luomian urged the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the royal families in pressuring Spirit Hall, even proposing that Bibi Dong be forced to abdicate.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to support the effort but warned Yu Luomian not to let others use the clan, leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Clear Sky Sect to take the lead.

After Tang Hao's death, Tang Yuehua and the Clear Sky Sect prepared to confront Spirit Hall and join an alliance against it. In Spirit City, Huo Yuhao shared a story about a neglected boy's revenge with Qian Renxue, who did not realize it was his own past.

• Tang Yuehua learned of Tang Hao's death and hurried to the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Xiao and the elders resolved to recover Tang Hao's remains and bring his son back.
• Tang Xiao received Ning Fengzhi's letter proposing an alliance of the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the empires, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan against Spirit Hall.
• The Second Elder agreed to coordinate with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Tang Yuehua offered to accompany him and advise him.
• Qian Renxue and Huo Yuhao paused on the White Jade Steps, where Huo Yuhao guessed that she used to cry there as a child.
• Huo Yuhao told Qian Renxue a story about a boy whose father abandoned him and his mother, then revealed that the boy eventually took revenge.

Huo Yuhao advised Bibi Dong on how Spirit Hall could break the alliance of the Upper Three Sects and the Two Great Empires, then hinted that he might go out to sea. He secured Dugu Bo’s agreement to remain at Spirit Hall, leaving Bibi Dong to consider striking at the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Huo Yuhao read the joint denunciation demanding Tang Hao’s body and Tang San’s release, and discussed Spirit Hall’s response with Bibi Dong.
• Huo Yuhao urged Bibi Dong not to release the prisoners, but to divide the opposing alliance, demonstrate Spirit Hall’s strength, and target its weakest point, the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Bibi Dong questioned Huo Yuhao about his closeness to Thousand Your Highness, and he said he might go out to sea after the crisis was settled.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Bibi Dong considered killing Xue Ye to keep the Heaven Dou Empire occupied and weaken the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Huo Yuhao visited Dugu Bo, explained the threat from the allied factions, and persuaded him to stay at Spirit Hall for protection.

After Xue Ye's death plunged the Heaven Dou Empire into a succession crisis, the Upper Three Sects and the Star Luo Empire joined forces to march on Spirit City. Bibi Dong prepared Spirit Hall's defenses while Huo Yuhao sought permission to bring reinforcements from Slaughter City, with Qian Renxue assigned to accompany him.

• Xue Ye died after being poisoned, and Ning Fengzhi backed Xue Qinghe in the struggle against Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing.
• At a meeting of the Upper Three Sects, the Clear Sky Sect's Second Elder claimed command of the campaign against Spirit Hall despite Tang Yuehua's objections.
• Tang Xiao led the Clear Sky Sect's forces to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while the Star Luo Empire also sent troops toward Spirit City.
• As the allied armies advanced, Bibi Dong arranged Spirit Hall's battle deployments and authorized the use of Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao asked Bibi Dong for permission to seek reinforcements from Slaughter City, and she sent Qian Renxue with him so they could return sooner.

Huo Yuhao traveled to Slaughter City and, with Electrolux's help, resurrected Tang Chen as an undead Blood Servant. He returned to Qian Renxue with Electrolux controlling Tang Chen's body, leaving her wary of the eerie figure beside him.

• Huo Yuhao flew with Qian Renxue to Slaughter City, then entered through the cliff passage alone while she waited outside.
• Huo Yuhao raised Tang Chen from his grave and asked Electrolux to help refine him into an undead Blood Servant.
• Over three days, Huo Yuhao and Electrolux transformed Tang Chen's body, and Electrolux took control of it and armed himself with the Slaughter Blade.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux left the Undead Plane and emerged from the cliff passage, where Qian Renxue had waited for three days.
• Qian Renxue welcomed Huo Yuhao back but recoiled from the eerie, black-robed figure beside him.

The Star Luo Marshal joined forces with the Upper Three Sects and led their combined army toward Spirit City, while Bibi Dong assessed Spirit Hall’s disadvantage in powerful Soul Masters. As the allied forces began their attack, Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to deploy and summoned the Hall of Elders to battle.

• The Star Luo Marshal received Tang Xiao, Ning Fengzhi, and Yu Yuanzhen, who brought their sects’ disciples and Titled Douluos to join the campaign.
• Tang Xiao presided over the alliance and assigned Soul Master matchups while the Star Luo Marshal planned to lead the army forward with its flanks providing cover.
• The four-faction allied army advanced toward Spirit City, bringing two hundred thousand Star Luo troops and elite Soul Masters against Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong assessed the enemy’s Titled Douluos and considered how Spirit Hall’s elders could counter them, while hoping Huo Yuhao would return with reinforcements.
• After learning that the allied forces had begun attacking, Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to deploy according to plan and summoned the Hall of Elders to battle.

Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall against the Upper Three Sects Alliance and its Star Luo army as battle erupted outside Spirit City. The alliance’s boosted Titled Douluo challenged Spirit Hall’s strongest fighters, leaving the armies locked in a fierce confrontation.

• Qian Daoliu refused to let the Worship Hall intervene unless Bibi Dong lost, in which case she would have to step down as Pope.
• Tang Xiao led the Upper Three Sects Alliance and two hundred thousand Star Luo troops to Spirit City, while Bibi Dong surveyed their forces and spotted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s repeating crossbows.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo defeated Blazing Sun Douluo, then Demon Bear Douluo and Flame Eagle Douluo joined the fight against the Clear Sky Sect elders.
• Ning Fengzhi enhanced Tang Xiao, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, Bone Douluo, and Yu Yuanzhen, allowing them to reach Offering-level power temporarily.
• Tang Xiao and Bibi Dong clashed in the sky as Chen Xin attacked Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum and Ghost confronted Yu Yuanzhen, and Snake Lance and Ci Tun Douluo charged Bone Douluo.

Spirit Hall’s defenders fought off the Upper Three Sects and Star Luo forces with devastating Soul Tool attacks, while Dugu Bo blocked the city gates and Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo trapped Yu Yuanzhen. Huo Yuhao returned with Qian Renxue and Electrolux, and Electrolux’s saber strike cut through Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon and shattered Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

• Li Hao’s Soul Masters fired silver shells at the Clear Sky Sect, destroying its elite team and driving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan back.
• Tang Xiao attacked Spirit City’s gates, Sword Douluo blasted a breach in them, and Dugu Bo killed twenty thousand Star Luo vanguard cavalry with poison.
• Spirit Hall’s Soul Tools overwhelmed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Yu Yuanzhen destroyed cannons and attacked the Soul Master army before Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo restrained him with their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Ning Fengzhi raised his amplification of Sword Douluo and Tang Xiao to seventy-nine percent as they pressed Bibi Dong, while Gu Rong protected Ning Fengzhi from Snake Lance Douluo and Ci Tun Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao, Qian Renxue, and Electrolux captured the Star Luo Marshal and hurried back to Spirit City, where Bibi Dong regained the advantage after Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue arrived.
• Electrolux drew his saber and severed Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon, shattering Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and breaking Bone Douluo’s mask.

Electrolux shattered Bone Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar as Spirit Hall fought off the attackers at Spirit City, and Huo Yuhao survived Tang Xiao’s assault before Electrolux killed him. Bibi Dong pursued Sword Douluo, who broke through to Rank 97 but died alone after a final stand on Silent Extinction Hill.

• Electrolux shattered Bone Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar, causing Ning Fengzhi’s Avatar to collapse and leaving both men incapacitated.
• Tang Xiao attacked Huo Yuhao, who used mental assaults and the Asura Demon Sword to hold him off until Electrolux pierced his chest; Ghost Leopard Douluo then finished him.
• Bibi Dong severed Sword Douluo’s right arm while the other battles ended with three Clear Sky Sect elders dead, Ning Fengzhi captured, and Tang Yuehua taken alive.
• Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall elders pursued Sword Douluo, who broke through to Rank 97 and severely wounded three elders while trying to escape.
• Cornered on Silent Extinction Hill, Sword Douluo unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin and died as his Seven Kill Sword shattered.

Spirit Hall defeated the Upper Three Sects coalition, and Bibi Dong considered how to reward Huo Yuhao and handle the surviving captives and the war’s aftermath. Qian Renxue left with Qian Daoliu, while Electrolux revealed that he possessed the inheritance of the Great Light Art.

• Bibi Dong and the Titled Elders returned to Spirit City, where they found Yu Yuanzhen dead after he had killed two Spirit Hall Elders, and the surviving Clear Sky Sect members were captured.
• Huo Yuhao spoke with Dugu Bo, then walked back through Spirit Hall with Qian Renxue, who left with Qian Daoliu after he appeared to meet them.
• Electrolux teased Huo Yuhao about Qian Renxue and revealed that he possessed the magical inheritance of the Great Light Art.
• A report to Bibi Dong listed the deaths, captures, and losses suffered by the Clear Sky Sect, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Star Luo Empire.
• Bibi Dong considered Huo Yuhao’s reward, the imprisoned leaders, and plans to seize the Heaven Dou Empire and wage war against the Star Luo Empire.

Huo Yuhao visited the imprisoned Tang San, revealed that Spirit Hall had defeated the allied forces, and killed him with the Emerald Engraving Knife. As Huo Yuhao left, Electrolux worried that Tang San might escape his control and turned back toward the dying prisoner.

• Huo Yuhao confronted Tang San in Spirit Hall’s dungeon and learned that Tang San claimed to have lived two lives and revitalized Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang San that Spirit Hall had crushed the allied forces, killing or capturing leaders from the Upper Three Sects and the Star Luo Royal Family.
• Huo Yuhao stabbed Tang San in the abdomen and fatally wounded him while asking about Tang Wutong.
• Huo Yuhao told Electrolux that he would not lose and that emotion, rather than strength, had always bound him.
• Electrolux watched Huo Yuhao leave, then turned back toward Tang San, who remained at death’s door.

Huo Yuhao discussed Spirit Hall’s next steps with Bibi Dong and prepared to leave on an overseas journey, then spent time with Qian Renxue before departing. The chapter left Yue Guan and Ci Tun Douluo watching the pair and commenting on how well-matched they were.

• Bibi Dong offered Huo Yuhao soul bones and reported plans for a mental-attribute cultivation branch, while he requested a skull, left arm bone, and left leg bone.
• Huo Yuhao advised Bibi Dong to negotiate with the Star Luo Empire rather than attack either empire, and told her he planned to go to sea with no set return date.
• Bibi Dong gave Huo Yuhao a sea chart to Sea God Island and urged him to speak with Qian Renxue before leaving.
• Huo Yuhao met Qian Renxue, invited her for a walk, and told her he needed to go overseas for a divine examination task.
• Yue Guan and Ci Tun Douluo watched Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue together and called them well-matched.

Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue shared a quiet farewell before pursuing their separate goals, while Spirit Hall launched a purge of the Upper Three Sects. Tang San awakened in Spirit Hall’s dungeon with memories of his previous life, escaped during a prison break, and vowed revenge on Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao and Qian Renxue spent a peaceful day together in Spirit City and Green Mountain Forest, where she told him about her painful childhood.
• Huo Yuhao left for the Star Luo Empire with Electrolux as Qian Renxue returned to Douluo Hall to begin her divine trial.
• Under Pope Bibi Dong’s command, Spirit Hall destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, massacred the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and pursued survivors while negotiating with the Star Luo Empire.
• Tang San awakened in Spirit Hall’s dungeon, recognized Huo Yuhao, and recovered memories of how Huo Yuhao had changed the past and brought him to ruin.
• Tang San triggered his divine consciousness, broke the dungeon restraints, escaped amid a prison riot, and swore to repay Huo Yuhao’s hatred a hundredfold.
• At a Star Luo Empire harbor, Huo Yuhao sensed the disturbance and looked toward Spirit City with a cold expression.

Tang San escaped Spirit Hall and headed for Heaven Dou City to pursue the Ocean Heart, while Huo Yuhao encountered a Sea Princess during a storm at sea. The Sea Princess revealed her hostility toward humans, leaving Huo Yuhao facing a potential confrontation.

• Tang San hid from pursuers, suppressed the Hell King's Decree poison with herbs, and decided to seek the Ocean Heart before pursuing the Asura Godhood in Slaughter City.
• Huo Yuhao sailed aboard a Star Luo Empire royal ship searching for Dragon Valley and entered the Stormy Sea Area.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a Sea Princess's song and used his Spiritual Power to block its Mental Interference.
• Captain Perris warned Huo Yuhao that the Sea Princess's song could bewitch the crew, but Huo Yuhao approached her on deck.
• The Sea Princess asked whether Huo Yuhao had canceled her song, then declared that all humans deserved to die.

Huo Yuhao drove off the hostile Sea Princess and continued his voyage, spending more than two months cultivating and crafting Soul Tools before the Star Luo Ship stopped at Horus for supplies. The Sea Princess followed them to the port, suspecting the people there might be accomplices.

• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power to frighten the Sea Princess away and ordered the Star Luo Ship to leave the Stormy Sea Area.
• The Sea Princess wondered whether Huo Yuhao could help her race avert a calamity, then followed the ship.
• After more than two months at sea, Huo Yuhao cultivated and engraved an eighth-level Soul Tool while the ship sailed toward Horus.
• Captain Perris told Huo Yuhao that Horus was a neutral port, and Huo Yuhao instructed him to keep the sailors from causing trouble ashore.
• Huo Yuhao went ashore with the sailors at Horus, while the Sea Princess approached the harbor and wondered whether they were accomplices.

Huo Yuhao investigated a Sea God Church plot to capture a mermaid and discovered that the church secretly worshipped an ancient Deity called the Lord of the Deep Sea. After a soul restriction killed the cultist he interrogated, Huo Yuhao and Electrolux headed to the church’s cathedral to investigate further.

• Huo Yuhao overheard two black-robed men discussing the Sea Princess and the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans to capture her, then followed one of them from a tavern.
• Huo Yuhao subdued the black-robed man, who recognized him as the Holy Son and revealed that the Sea God Church secretly worshipped the Lord of the Deep Sea.
• The black-robed man explained that the cult sacrificed merfolk souls to the ancient Deity, but his soul shattered when Huo Yuhao invaded his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux concluded that the church was hiding the cult’s sacrifices and set out for its cathedral.

Huo Yuhao and Electrolux interrupted the Sea God Church’s sacrifice and defeated its leaders, rescuing the Sea Princess. Huo Yuhao then used Undead Magic to free the imprisoned spirits, including the Sea Princess’s people.

• The Sea God Church prepared to sacrifice the bound Sea Princess to the Lord of the Deep Sea.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux entered the rear courtyard, and Huo Yuhao’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain suppressed the church members as he attacked the Archbishop.
• The Great Elder summoned the Lord of the Deep Sea’s phantom, but Electrolux cut down the Great Elder, the obsidian staff, and the phantom with the Slaughter Blade.
• Huo Yuhao slaughtered the remaining church members and found many human and merfolk undead inside the broken staff.
• Huo Yuhao cast Undead Magic, and holy light freed the spirits from their confusion and restored their consciousness.

Huo Yuhao freed the Sea Princess spirits and received their Seven-Colored Heart Scale before sailing away, while Tang San escaped with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and went to the Star Dou Great Forest seeking Xiao Wu's support. His arrival was met with suspicion, and the Sky Azure Bull Python attacked him.

• The purified Sea Princess spirits thanked Huo Yuhao with a Seven-Colored Heart Scale, which merged with his Spiritual Eye and increased his Spiritual Power.
• Huo Yuhao discussed the Abyss Plane's influence on the Douluo Plane with Electrolux, then departed by ship as the crew speculated about the Sea God Church's destruction.
• Tang San fled a high-level Soul Master Team with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and resolved to seek Xiao Wu, believing the soul beast faction could help him regain power.
• Tang San entered the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Area and found Xiao Wu beside the Titan Giant Ape at Star Lake.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python recognized Tang San as an enemy and struck him with its tail, while Ah Yin and Xiao Wu watched him emerge from beneath the shattered trees.

Tang San found Ah Yin in the Star Dou Great Forest and claimed to be her son, recounting his family’s past and accusing Huo Yuhao of destroying it. Ah Yin rejected his account, accused him of seeking her soul ring and soul bone, and drove him away from the forest.

• Tang San crawled from the fallen trees and called Ah Yin his mother, prompting Xiao Wu and the soul beasts to question his claim.
• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass martial soul and described his childhood, his parents, and his hatred of Huo Yuhao.
• Ah Yin and Xiao Wu recognized that Tang San’s accusations conflicted with their experiences of Huo Yuhao and Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin asked Tang San whether he was nearing level fifty and accused him of wanting her soul ring and soul bone.
• Ah Yin spared Tang San but warned him to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, while the Titan Giant Ape ordered him to go.