Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao convinced Ye Guyi that he was not an Evil Soul Master and invited her to visit his Spirit Pagoda. At the base, Ye Guyi met Tian Meng and learned she was one of Huo Yuhao’s partners.

• Huo Yuhao introduced himself to Ye Guyi and explained that his light-powered undead served to capture Evil Soul Masters and protect those who had not truly become evil.
• Ye Guyi realized she had mistaken Huo Yuhao and his undead for Evil Soul Masters, and she apologized to Nana for nearly judging her unfairly.
• Huo Yuhao invited Ye Guyi to visit his Spirit Pagoda, and she accepted.
• Huo Yuhao brought Ye Guyi and Nana through a Space Door to a Spirit Pagoda base outside Shrek City.
• Tian Meng rushed into Huo Yuhao’s arms, and Nana told Ye Guyi that Tian Meng was one of Huo Yuhao’s partners.

Nana explained the Spirit Pagoda’s view of Huo Yuhao’s many rumored relationships, while Ye Guyi learned about the base and found relief from her doubts about hunting Evil Soul Masters. In the laboratory, Huo Yuhao examined Ye Guyi’s Holy Angel Martial Soul and discovered a Destiny thread tied to a far greater existence: the Six-Winged Angel.

• Nana told Ye Guyi that Huo Yuhao was responsible despite being called promiscuous, and described the Spirit Pagoda’s relationships and history.
• Huo Yuhao showed Ye Guyi the base, where she saw children purified of their Evil Soul Master aura and questioned whether she had harmed innocents.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Ye Guyi that the Evil Soul Masters she had killed had committed atrocities, and she realized the others she had tracked were likely captured by the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Reapers.
• Ye Guyi agreed to help Huo Yuhao with his research, and he took a Soul Power sample while promising to make her a sword-shaped close-combat Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Destiny to examine Ye Guyi’s Holy Angel Martial Soul and found an unusual Destiny thread that revealed the words “Six-Winged Angel.”

Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Destiny to investigate the faint Six-Winged Angel thread connected to Ye Guyi and discovered that the Angel God had survived as a remnant soul. Unsure whether the weakened deity could be trusted, he decided to wait until Sister Nana recovered before investigating with her.

• Huo Yuhao noticed a faint Six-Winged Angel thread on Ye Guyi and suspected the Angel God from ten thousand years ago was not completely dead.
• Huo Yuhao activated his three Martial Souls and used Destiny: Retrace to follow the thread to Ye Guyi's childhood Martial Soul awakening.
• Huo Yuhao saw the Holy Angel appear behind Little Ye Guyi, briefly drawing the gaze of a sleeping presence.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that a remnant of the Angel God's soul had sensed Ye Guyi's awakening and briefly stirred before falling asleep again.
• Huo Yuhao set aside the possibility of recruiting the Angel God and decided to investigate with Sister Nana after she recovered.

Ye Guyi joined the Spirit Pagoda’s field operations department, while Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress spent an intimate morning together. The Ice Empress questioned why her new cultivation method had not made her as powerful as Huo Yuhao, and he explained that his path depended on unusually rare circumstances.

• Ye Guyi became a Spirit Pagoda employee and began capturing, suppressing, and executing Evil Soul Masters, whose remains Huo Yuhao turned into high-level undead.
• Huo Yuhao woke beside Tian Meng and the Ice Empress, who kissed him and initiated an intimate encounter before Tian Meng woke and was drawn in.
• After the morning together, the Ice Empress noticed her torn pantyhose and decided to buy more in white, black, and lace styles.
• The Ice Empress asked why she had reached only near-Deity strength at five rings after changing cultivation methods, despite her rapid progress.
• Huo Yuhao explained that his own strength came from exceptional foundations and circumstances that made his path nearly impossible to replicate.

The Sun Moon Emperor recovered his health and gained at least thirty years of life through a deal with Elder Yu, wrecking Xu Tianran’s plans for the throne. At a meeting about Shrek’s dissolution and the Spirit Pagoda’s rise, Xu Tianran concealed his turmoil while the Emperor began to question his suitability as Crown Prince.

• The Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao for more Ultimate Ice energy so she could accelerate her cultivation.
• Xu Tianran recalled how Elder Yu had offered the Sun Moon Emperor thirty more years of life in exchange for three years of the empire’s mined metals, then healed him with a piece of green metal.
• The Sun Moon Emperor convened the empire’s Rank 9 Soul Guide Masters and princes to discuss Shrek’s dissolution and the Spirit Pagoda’s growing power.
• Xu Tianran listened to a minister while privately realizing his father’s recovery had shattered his hopes of taking the throne.
• The Sun Moon Emperor asked Xu Tianran’s opinion, and Xu Tianran gave a diplomatic answer supporting Kong Deming’s warning about the Spirit Pagoda.
• The Sun Moon Emperor frowned at Xu Tianran’s evasive reply and began doubting whether his crippled son was fit to inherit the throne.

The Sun Moon Emperor prepared to win over the Spirit Pagoda, strengthen his soul-engineer forces, and take new consorts, while Xu Tianran issued secret orders of his own. At the Royal Soul Guide Academy, Xu Tianzhen tried to get Huo Yuhao alone, but he said he had proper business at the library.

• The Sun Moon Emperor decreed that envoys should approach the Spirit Pagoda, resources should be spent preparing soul-engineer regiments, and consorts should be selected.
• After learning that the emperor's health and cultivation had improved, Xu Tianran ordered secret contacts, purges, and schemes involving the Spirit Pagoda, Jing Hongchen, and Ju Zi.
• Xu Tianzhen complained to Huo Yuhao about her father's new consorts and asked whether he had plans that afternoon.
• Huo Yuhao said he would be going to the library to do proper business, and Xu Tianzhen imagined he would be meeting Ju Zi there.

Huo Yuhao soothed Ju Zi as she slept, then answered a remote call from someone who demanded two Soul Tool designs and threatened her with a Micro Soul Guide Bomb. The caller did not know Huo Yuhao had already removed the bomb from Ju Zi.

• Huo Yuhao arrived at the library and comforted Ju Zi in a private study room, using the Power of Emotion to ease her distress.
• Ju Zi fell asleep in Huo Yuhao's arms after her accumulated gloom and exhaustion caught up with her.
• Huo Yuhao took Ju Zi's Remote Communication Device and contacted the person who had called him.
• The caller asked Huo Yuhao to design a concealment Soul Tool and a weapon capable of killing a Titled Douluo in one blow.
• When Huo Yuhao refused, the caller threatened Ju Zi by claiming a Micro Soul Guide Bomb had been implanted in her body.
• Huo Yuhao touched the back of Ju Zi's neck, knowing he had already removed the bomb.

Huo Yuhao negotiated with Xu Tianran over Ju Zi’s life, agreeing to design two ninth-rank Soul Tools under an impossible deadline. After the call ended, Huo Yuhao realized Xu Tianran’s conflict with the Sun Moon Emperor had escalated far sooner than he expected.

• Huo Yuhao pretended the Micro Soul Guide Bomb would take time to crack and negotiated with Xu Tianran over Ju Zi’s life in exchange for two Soul Tool blueprints.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to design an aura-concealing Soul Tool and a Soul Tool that could break a self-triggering energy shield, while suspecting Xu Tianran planned to assassinate the emperor.
• Xu Tianran ordered Huo Yuhao to deliver the first blueprint within a month and both within two months, threatening to detonate Ju Zi’s bomb if he failed.
• Xu Tianran’s subordinate cut off the communication, and Huo Yuhao smiled as he concluded that Xu Tianran had taken the bait.
• Huo Yuhao realized Xu Tianran’s emotional collapse had accelerated his plans and anticipated a conflict between Xu Tianran and the Sun Moon Emperor.

Huo Yuhao considered how to weaken the Sun Moon imperial family and decided to keep Ju Zi safe in his dormitory. Ju Zi followed him there and, reassured by his closeness, tightened her hand around his.

• Huo Yuhao planned for Xu Tianran to die after an attempted rebellion, creating an opening to gradually reduce the imperial family's power.
• Huo Yuhao reconsidered where to keep Ju Zi safe and decided to bring her to his dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao took Ju Zi to his room and told her to stay there with him for a while.
• Ju Zi worried that she did not deserve to be in Huo Yuhao's dormitory and feared crossing a line with him.
• Huo Yuhao interlocked fingers with Ju Zi, and she felt reassured and held his hand tightly.

Huo Yuhao sheltered Ju Zi in his dormitory and promised to be with her after a few months, while Ju Zi grew more certain of her feelings for him. After passing her Grade Six Soul Engineer assessment, Miss Meng returned to Huo Yuhao’s dormitory and found Ju Zi there.

• Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi to stay in his dormitory, use his workbench, and avoid going out while Xu Tianran monitored them.
• Huo Yuhao kissed Ju Zi and promised to take responsibility for her after a few months; Ju Zi accepted the promise and decided to wait.
• Ju Zi thought about how she would be able to take Huo Yuhao’s shape in a few months.
• Miss Meng passed her Grade Six Soul Engineer assessment and returned to Huo Yuhao’s dormitory, where she froze after seeing Ju Zi.

Meng Hongchen discovered that Ju Zi had moved into Huo Yuhao’s dormitory, and she protested their living together before spending the night with him. A month later, Xu Tianran received reports that Huo Yuhao had remained in his dormitory researching, and he said they would soon learn whether the work was genuine.

• Meng Hongchen returned to find Ju Zi cooking in Huo Yuhao’s dormitory, and Ju Zi greeted her with surprising deference and envy.
• Huo Yuhao told Meng Hongchen that Ju Zi would live in his room while he worked in the laboratory for two or three months, and Meng protested before they later spent the night together.
• The next day, Meng Hongchen left after eating Ju Zi’s lunch, and Ju Zi considered how to please Huo Yuhao while he returned to the laboratory.
• A month later, Xu Tianran’s subordinate reported that Huo Yuhao had stayed in his dormitory, requested metals, and discarded scrap bearing concealed Soul Guide Arrays.
• Xu Tianran stopped the report and said they would soon see whether Huo Yuhao had worked hard and focused on research.

Huo Yuhao negotiated with Xu Tianran over a semi-finished Rank 9 Soul Tool design and agreed to deliver another set of blueprints in a month. Xu Tianran planned to use Ju Zi and the Micro Soul Guide Bomb to pressure Huo Yuhao, while Huo Yuhao anticipated Xu Tianran’s next move.

• Ju Zi brought Huo Yuhao a letter containing a Remote Communication Device, and Huo Yuhao connected with Xu Tianran’s contact.
• Huo Yuhao said he had completed the Soul Tool’s core and arrays but needed Rank 9 Soul Guide Masters to finish the design.
• Xu Tianran accepted the semi-finished blueprints and asked Huo Yuhao to prepare another Soul Tool design by the same day next month.
• Xu Tianran privately decided that Ju Zi could be sacrificed, believing the Micro Soul Guide Bomb would force Huo Yuhao to keep negotiating.
• Huo Yuhao’s Remote Communication Device overloaded and broke, and he anticipated that Xu Tianran would test the design before acting.

Huo Yuhao spent the month building his influence and preparing a Soul Tool deal with Xu Tianran while the Sun Moon Emperor’s pregnancy news spurred Xu Tianran to act. The final exchange ended with Xu Tianran obtaining a Soul Tool that could break through a Level 9 Triggered Energy Shield, and Huo Yuhao anticipated the conflict between father and son.

• Huo Yuhao used his travels to gather Power of Faith, monitor the Golden Ancient Tree, and oversee the reconstruction of Shrek Academy while ruling much of the sea through the Beast Sect.
• The Sun Moon Emperor’s two newly taken Thirty-Six Consorts became pregnant, and Xu Tianran concealed his anger while congratulating his father at court.
• Xu Tianran tested a Soul Tool that concealed its user’s aura, and three days later one of the Emperor’s other consorts was reported to have drowned accidentally.
• A week later, Huo Yuhao completed the final transaction with Xu Tianran, who received the Level 9 Soul Tool capable of breaking through a Level 9 Triggered Energy Shield.

A Sun Moon Empire envoy tried to recruit Huo Yuhao and the Spirit Pagoda as a Nation-Protecting Sect, but Huo Yuhao sent back a sealed wooden box instead of giving a clear answer. Zhang Lexuan accepted his plan to keep the Spirit Pagoda neutral and focus on its own development.

• The Sun Moon Empire envoy praised Huo Yuhao and argued that the empire would inevitably unify the Douluo Three Nations, offering the Spirit Pagoda the status of a Nation-Protecting Sect if it joined them.
• Huo Yuhao gave the envoy a sealed wooden box as his answer and told him to deliver it to the Sun Moon Emperor.
• Zhang Lexuan entered after the envoy left and scolded Huo Yuhao for neglecting his duties as Tower Master.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan that the Spirit Pagoda would remain a spectator and focus on developing itself, and she agreed to follow his lead.

Huo Yuhao briefly left to handle an envoy, while Zhang Lexuan struggled with her growing feelings for him. Ju Zi feared that he had abandoned her, but Huo Yuhao returned and reassured her, leaving him resolved to take her fragile emotions more seriously.

• Zhang Lexuan asked Huo Yuhao how to handle an envoy claiming to represent the Sun Moon Empire's Second Prince, and Huo Yuhao told her to throw him out.
• Huo Yuhao left through a Space Door, and Zhang Lexuan wondered whether he had gone to see another young woman before struggling to focus on work.
• Ju Zi waited with the meal she had cooked for Huo Yuhao and feared that she was unimportant to him and should leave.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Ju Zi's dormitory, apologized for leaving, and reassured her that he had come back for her cooking.
• Ju Zi embraced Huo Yuhao in tears, and he felt guilty and resolved to be more careful with her feelings.

Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi finally crossed the line in their relationship. Meanwhile, Zhongli Wu discovered that Tang San’s ability to absorb life force could help overcome the impurities that hindered Evil Soul Master cultivation.

• Huo Yuhao removed Ju Zi’s glasses, comforted her, and kissed her as she struggled with her doubts.
• Huo Yuhao carried Ju Zi to the bedroom, where she quietly agreed to be with him.
• Zhongli Wu used Tang San’s vitality and felt his Rank 98 bottleneck loosen.
• Zhongli Wu recalled how Tang San had risen from Soul Elder to Soul Saint by absorbing others’ life force, and recognized him as an unusually valuable cultivation cauldron.
• Zhongli Wu compared Tang San’s ability with the Zhongli Clan’s Dual Cultivation Cauldron Method and noted that Tang San avoided the impurities that normally slowed Evil Soul Masters after they reached Titled Douluo.

Zhongli Wu turned Tang San into the Holy Spirit Cult’s life-force source, using him to harvest power from Evil Soul Masters and strengthen his own cultivation. After draining Tang San and discovering he could use the cycle to challenge his bottleneck, Zhongli Wu brought him before the cult and ordered everyone to line up.

• Zhongli Wu recognized that Tang San could absorb life force while compressing its impurities into his External Soul Bone, and devised a plan to harvest life force through him.
• Zhongli Wu made Tang San the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son, built a Holy Altar for him, and offered Blood Food rewards to members who contributed life force.
• Evil Soul Masters crowded the Holy Altar each day as Tang San absorbed their life force, and Zhongli Wu harvested most of it at the end of each month.
• Zhongli Wu infused Tang San with his own life force and Soul Power, then reclaimed it with the cultivation furnace technique, raising his cultivation while Tang San fell back to Soul Elder.
• Zhongli Wu brought the unconscious Tang San before the waiting Evil Soul Masters and ordered them to line up one at a time.

Huo Yuhao woke beside Ju Zi and reflected on how her feelings for him had become dangerously dependent. After they spent the morning together, he found that changing her mental state might do more harm than good.

• Huo Yuhao woke in Mingdu beside Ju Zi and remembered how she had revealed her vulnerable, unguarded self the night before.
• Ju Zi woke, expressed her intense love for Huo Yuhao, and hoped that their relationship might lead to a child.
• Ju Zi initiated another intimate encounter with Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao compared Ju Zi's unconditional devotion with the different ways the others responded to him.
• Huo Yuhao used Simulation to assess Ju Zi and concluded that interfering with her current state could cause problems.

Meng Hongchen and Xu Tianzhen saw Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi acting like a married couple, while Xu Tianzhen struggled with jealousy and her failed attempts to drug Huo Yuhao. Meng Hongchen reported that the Sun Moon Emperor had taken thirty-six consorts and promoted twelve pregnant consorts, and Xu Tianzhen revealed her growing resentment toward her father for ordering her to secure Huo Yuhao even if it meant becoming his concubine.

• Meng Hongchen and Xu Tianzhen watched Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi prepare dinner together, and Xu Tianzhen envied their closeness.
• Xu Tianzhen recalled that her drugging attempts had no effect on Huo Yuhao and complained that her plans to marry into a comfortable life had failed.
• Huo Yuhao asked Meng Hongchen what her teacher had said, and Meng Hongchen reported that the Sun Moon Emperor's thirty-six consorts had dwindled to thirty-two, with twelve confirmed pregnant.
• Meng Hongchen explained that the Sun Moon Emperor had recovered from his illness and begun taking consorts again, while Xu Tianzhen called him an old lecher.
• Xu Tianzhen recalled that her imperial father had ordered her to secure Huo Yuhao at any cost, even by selling her beauty and becoming his concubine, and admitted that the order had made her resent him.

Huo Yuhao heard about the emperor’s plans for the Soul Master Tournament and an offer to bring him into court, then discussed moving to a larger residence with Meng Hongchen, Ju Zi, and Xu Tianzhen. He revealed that he had already applied for a teacher’s villa with four bedrooms.

• Meng Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that the emperor planned to hold the Soul Master Tournament two years early, raise the age limit, and allow sect teams to compete.
• Meng Hongchen relayed that Huo Yuhao’s teachers had asked whether he wanted a position at court, and Huo Yuhao requested only the right to attend as an observer.
• Meng Hongchen suggested moving Huo Yuhao to a larger residence, hinting that she and the others might live with him.
• Xu Tianzhen offered Huo Yuhao one of her properties near Kong Deming’s home, hoping she could move in too.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had applied for a two-story teacher’s villa with a basement laboratory and four bedrooms.