Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao explained the Holy Spirit Cult’s strength to Xuan Zi and heard about a mission involving the Body Sect and the Extreme North. After Ma Xiaotao and Zhu Lu shared their news, Huo Yuhao gave Zhu Lu a Soul Bone and kissed her after she asked whether she could be more than his subordinate.

• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Zi that his informant had warned him about the Holy Spirit Cult, then explained why they should wait before acting against it.
• Huo Yuhao revealed the Holy Spirit Cult’s powerful experts, including two Limit Douluo, and Xuan Zi left to report the information to the Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao told Huo Yuhao that Ning Tian wanted his help in the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s competition, and he agreed to participate.
• Ma Xiaotao said Mu En planned for Huo Yuhao and a senior sister to negotiate with the Body Sect about investigating changes in the Extreme North after the competition.
• Huo Yuhao gave Zhu Lu a 30,000-year Golden Blade Tiger Right Leg Bone, and she asked whether she could be more than his subordinate.
• Huo Yuhao embraced Zhu Lu and kissed her.

Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu confirmed their relationship, while events elsewhere brought new threats and plans involving Dai Huabin and Niu Tian. Back at the Owl Hotel, Huo Yuhao reunited with Ma Xiaotao, confessed his relationship with Wang Dong, and spent the night with her.

• Zhu Lu told Huo Yuhao she loved him and would follow him for life, while agreeing that Ma Xiaotao came first.
• Ju Zi and Keke worried over the wreckage on the Official Road, and Zhongli Wu sent Dai Huabin to the Blood Pool after his White Tiger Martial Soul began its complete Evil Transformation.
• Niu Tian left for the God Realm to seek the God of Destruction, after noticing a fleeting dark fluctuation near a planet.
• Huo Yuhao shared a meal with Ma Xiaotao, Zhu Lu, Xuan Zi, and the Shrek personnel at the Owl Hotel.
• Huo Yuhao told Ma Xiaotao that he and Wang Dong were together, and Ma Xiaotao invited him to her room, where they began an intimate night together.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Ma Xiaotao and Zhu Lu, then negotiated an early end to his exchange program while Jing Hongchen received a request to report his departure time. In the God Realm, Da Ming set out to visit the Goddess of Life, while Tang San monitored a mysterious transmission ring and vowed to punish anyone who threatened Xiao Qi.

• Huo Yuhao healed Ma Xiaotao after their night together, and she and Zhu Lu told him they were investigating Elemental Storms in the Dou Ling Empire.
• Xuan Zi told Huo Yuhao that Shrek wanted to shorten his exchange program by six months, and Huo Yuhao warned Ma Xiaotao and Zhu Lu to treat their mission as dangerous.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy and told Xuan Ziwen he planned to leave in a year, but Xuan Ziwen declined to return with him.
• Qian Duoduo and Huo Yuhao negotiated with Jing Hongchen, who agreed to the early departure while concealing a Crown Prince faction letter requesting Huo Yuhao's departure time.
• Da Ming told Xiao Wu he planned to seek Spring Water of Life, and Xiao Wu opened a Teleportation Gate so he could travel to the Life Forest.
• Tang San watched a mysterious ring near an unknown planet and vowed that anyone who threatened Xiao Qi had chosen the path to death.

Niu Tian went to the Forest of Life seeking Spring Water of Life, but the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life uncovered that he was a hidden Divine Official under the Sea God. He revealed the Sea God’s plans for Douluo Star and Xiao Qi, leaving the two God Kings to consider his warning and Wang Dong’er’s danger.

• Niu Tian arrived at the Forest of Life to collect Spring Water of Life and encountered the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life.
• The God of Destruction discovered that Niu Tian was not listed among the Sea God’s Divine Officials and questioned why he had been hidden.
• Niu Tian said the Sea God might be turning Douluo Star into a land of faith and disclosed that the Sea God had first contacted the God of Ruin.
• Niu Tian explained that the Sea God had split Xiao Qi’s soul, leaving Wang Dong’er in control of her body to pursue the Auspicious Beast’s power.
• Niu Tian told the God Kings he had helped Wang Dong’er resist the Sea God’s plan to erase her soul and asked to join the God of Destruction’s faction.

Niu Tian returned from the Forest of Life after winning the God of Destruction’s interest and receiving the Goddess of Life’s warning and Spring Water of Life. Tang San questioned him about his trip and Er Ming, while the God of Destruction considered testing Tang San’s loyalty; the chapter ended with Zhou Weiqing approaching the God Realm.

• The Goddess of Life explained that suppressing his cultivation was damaging Niu Tian’s Divine Body and gave him bottles of Spring Water of Life, while the God of Destruction agreed to consider his offer to join the faction.
• The God of Destruction suspected Niu Tian was telling the truth and planned to test whether Tang San contacted the Sea God, while the Goddess of Life proposed adopting Dong’er.
• Niu Tian returned to the Sea God Palace and told Tang San he had failed to meet the Goddess of Life, then claimed Er Ming had stayed behind after a mysterious God forced him to retreat.
• Tang San admitted he did not know which God was inside Xiao Qi and said he had a way to resolve the danger, while Niu Tian tried to steer his suspicions toward the God of Destruction.
• Xiao Wu gathered Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong for a meal and drinks, as Tang San continued probing Niu Tian during the gathering.
• Zhou Weiqing moved through a passage toward the God Realm.

Zhou Weiqing visited Tang San, who asked him to learn whether the God of Destruction had plans involving the Douluo Plane. Zhou Weiqing obtained an answer from the God of Destruction, but the God of Destruction recognized his suspicious question and watched him leave with cold eyes.

• Zhou Weiqing received a message from Tang San and went to the Asura God Hall, while Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing stayed behind with the drunken Dai Mubai and Oscar.
• Tang San asked Zhou Weiqing to find out whether the God of Destruction had plans targeting the Douluo Plane, promising to help advance his Divine Position and find his deceased wives.
• Zhou Weiqing returned to Destruction Castle and joined the God of Destruction and the Seven Deadly Sins Gods, who discussed a reward and the incomplete Rakshasa Divine Position.
• The God of Lust gave the Rakshasa God Fragments to the God of Destruction and speculated that more fragments might remain in the Douluo Plane.
• Zhou Weiqing used the fragments as an opening to ask about plans for the Douluo Plane, and the God of Destruction confirmed that a major plan existed but withheld its details.
• As Zhou Weiqing left Destruction Castle, the God of Destruction watched him beneath his hood with a cold gaze.

The God of Destruction secretly approached Niu Tian to recruit him, while Tang San took over the Divine Realm Committee and secretly set the Sea God Family against the Ice God’s barriers. As the chapter ended, Chen Tianhai gathered a huge force to sail for the Extreme North, while Huo Yuhao prepared to return to Shrek Academy as his one-year deadline approached.

• The God of Destruction decided to act against Tang San and sent a dark-violet light into Niu Tian’s teleportation passage to ask him to join his ranks.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at the Divine Realm Committee, where Lie Yan told them that the Ice God’s remnant power had sealed the Extreme North behind several barriers.
• Tang San took control of the Divine Realm Core and secretly sent Sea God power into the ocean, then learned from Zhou Weiqing that the God of Destruction was planning something against the Douluo Plane.
• Tang San gave Chen Tianhai a Blue Crystal and ordered him to use it to destroy one Ice God barrier each month and search for the Ice God inheritance once they were gone.
• Chen Tianhai rallied more than a thousand Sea God Family Soul Masters and over one hundred thousand clan descendants to prepare another expedition to the Extreme North.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to return to Shrek Academy as his one-year deadline approached.

Huo Yuhao prepared to leave Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy for Shrek Academy, with Ye Guyi joining him. Ju Zi warned him that Evil Soul Masters planned to attack him in the Heaven Dou Empire and offered future cooperation, while Huo Yuhao set off with Qian Duoduo and Jing Hongchen.

• Huo Yuhao attended a farewell grilled-meat dinner with Ju Zi, Keke, Jing Ziyan, Ye Guyi, Ji Juechen, and Xuan Ziwen, who gave him a Rank 7 Sealed Milk Bottle.
• Ye Guyi confirmed she was withdrawing from Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy to join Huo Yuhao, while Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen considered following them to Shrek Academy.
• Ju Zi gave Huo Yuhao a pen holder containing a warning that Evil Soul Masters would target him after he entered Heaven Dou Empire territory, along with an offer to cooperate with him as a servant of the Eastern Palace Crown Prince.
• Huo Yuhao met Ye Guyi and Qian Duoduo the next morning, and Qian Duoduo agreed to bring her to Shrek Academy.
• Jing Hongchen accompanied Huo Yuhao, Ye Guyi, and Qian Duoduo toward Maple Leaf City, where they met Ji Juechen, Jing Ziyan, Ju Zi, and Keke at the academy gates.

Huo Yuhao returned to Maple Leaf City with Jing Hongchen and learned that Holy Spirit Cult experts planned to ambush him. Mu En led Shrek’s strongest fighters to escort him and Ye Guyi toward Shrek City, where Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng appeared and froze in fear at Mu En’s presence.

• Jing Hongchen warned Huo Yuhao and Qian Duoduo that powerful enemies would ambush them, explaining that he wanted to protect his grandchildren’s future amid Sun Moon Empire court politics.
• Huo Yuhao reunited with Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er in Maple Leaf City, where Jing Hongchen learned Xiao Hongchen was progressing well toward Soul Saint.
• Mu En gave Ye Guyi a ball of light, and Huo Yuhao identified the expected attackers as members of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Mu En led Shrek’s experts in escorting Huo Yuhao and Ye Guyi toward Shrek City, intending to confront his longtime friend among the enemy forces.
• Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng appeared with a mass of dark clouds, then broke into a cold sweat when Mu En addressed him.

Mu En confronted Zhang Peng over becoming an Evil Soul Master, then reunited with Long Xiaoyao, who revealed that Ye Xishui had secretly saved him from a deadly injury. Huo Yuhao connected the hidden Light power in Long Xiaoyao’s bloodline to Yan Shaozhe and presented Ink Silver Water as proof, leaving Long Xiaoyao fleeing to investigate his past with Ye Xishui.

• Mu En told Zhang Peng that he had strayed toward becoming an Evil Soul Master, and Zhang Peng argued that persecution had forced him down that path before retreating.
• Long Xiaoyao emerged from a Spatial Rift, admitted he had brought Zhang Peng to ambush the Shrek group, and discussed the Holy Spirit Cult with Mu En.
• Long Xiaoyao explained that Ye Xishui had saved him after Old Ghost Zhongli nearly killed him, using a Light-attribute Soul Master to remove the evil Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao said hidden Light Soul Power in Long Xiaoyao’s bloodline matched Yan Shaozhe’s, and Mu En recalled sensing similar power in Ye Xishui years earlier.
• Huo Yuhao produced Ink Silver Water to verify the suspected bloodline connection, and Long Xiaoyao fled to investigate his body and question Ye Xishui.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy with Mu En and the others, where the Demon Empress delivered a Demon Whale Pearl for future communication. At the academy, Huo Yuhao reunited with Wang Dong'er, leaving Meng Hongchen heartbroken when she mistook their embrace for proof that Wang Dong was in love with men.

• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Long Xiaoyao was Yan Shaozhe's blood relative, and Mu En led the group back toward Shrek City.
• The Demon Empress appeared near the city, gave Mu En a Demon Whale Pearl, and left after stating she had no hostile intentions.
• Mu En sent Ye Guyi with Yan Shaozhe to register for the Inner Court and told Huo Yuhao to meet him later at Sea God Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Wang Dong was still living in the Inner Court dormitory and encountered Wang Dong'er with their friends and the exchange students.
• Wang Dong'er ran into Huo Yuhao's arms, and Meng Hongchen watched them embrace before crying to Xiao Hongchen.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy, where Wang Dong'er revealed she was a girl and introduced him as her boyfriend, while Ye Guyi enrolled and learned about a possible way to meet the Medicine Immortal Douluo. At the Inner Court sparring ground, Xiao Hongchen challenged Huo Yuhao to a match, and the two prepared to face off.

• Wang Dong'er revealed her female appearance to Meng Hongchen, explained she had avoided answering her pursuit because she was a girl, and declared Huo Yuhao her boyfriend.
• Huo Yuhao reunited with his Shrek friends, then accompanied Ye Guyi to complete her Inner Court registration.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that the Medicine Immortal Douluo was in seclusion trying to break through to Level 96 and needed high-quality Life Energy, so Huo Yuhao offered to help.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Ye Guyi, a Level 62 Soul Emperor with the Holy Angel Martial Soul, to the Inner Court students at the Training Ground.
• After Lu Yisheng won a sparring match, Xiao Hongchen challenged Huo Yuhao to a one-on-one match, and Huo Yuhao accepted.

Huo Yuhao defeated Xiao Hongchen in a sparring match by evading his Soul Cannon barrage and reversing the time of his Explosive Heavy Cannon. After returning to the stands, Huo Yuhao left the ongoing sparring to the other students as his friends gathered around him.

• Xiao Hongchen opened the sparring match by deploying more than a hundred Soul Cannons and firing a powerful barrage at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had used his Simulation Soul Skill to leave a decoy in the barrage, then avoided Xiao Hongchen's next attacks with Spiritual Detection and ice walls.
• Xiao Hongchen combined his Soul Cannons into an Explosive Heavy Cannon and fired it at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao used his silver-white Time Attribute ability to freeze the explosion and reverse it back into the cannon, then advanced with his Terror Claw Bear strike ready.
• Xiao Hongchen conceded, and Zhang Lexuan declared Huo Yuhao the winner.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the stands, told Beibei and the others to wait until the sparring ended to talk, and the matches continued.

Huo Yuhao reunited Wang Dong'er with Ma Xiaotao, then shared stories from his two years in the Sun Moon Empire with his friends. After their gathering, he learned Ye Guyi had been assigned to Wang Dong'er's dormitory, while he was reminded to visit the Sea God Pavilion.

• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao to accompany her to Heaven Dou City in a month and asked him to send the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect his decision to help Ning Tian at its Sect Competition.
• Ma Xiaotao welcomed Wang Dong'er, who embraced her and confided through her tears how much she valued having a sister; Huo Yuhao explained Wang Dong'er's painful past to Ma Xiaotao.
• Huo Yuhao joined Beibei, Tang Ya, and the others for dinner and recounted his encounters with Evil Soul Masters, the Sun Moon Empire's court struggle, and the attack on Mingde Hall.
• Beibei reminded Huo Yuhao to visit the Sea God Pavilion, and after the group returned to Sea God Island, Huo Yuhao found Ye Guyi had taken the dormitory room he had expected to share with Wang Dong'er.
• Ma Xiaotao promised to prepare Huo Yuhao's bedding, and he kissed her before leaving for the Sea God Pavilion.

Huo Yuhao explained Demon Empress’s connection to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and joined the Sea God Pavilion Elders in contacting her. After Huo Yuhao predicted that he would become an enemy of the Sea Soul Masters, Mu En assured the Elders that Shrek would protect him and ordered weekly meetings with Demon Empress to investigate her intentions.

• Mu En showed the Elders the Demon Whale Pearl, and Huo Yuhao revealed that Demon Empress was the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s wife and hated Tang San.
• Xuan Zi supported contacting Demon Empress, and the Elders agreed before Mu En used his Soul Power to establish communication through the pearl.
• Demon Empress asked how Shrek Academy viewed the Sea God’s followers, and Huo Yuhao said they were strangers for now but would become enemies.
• Huo Yuhao attributed his prediction to the Auspicious Beast’s Power of Destiny, prompting the Elders to connect it to Sea Soul Masters reportedly entering the Extreme North.
• Mu En said Huo Yuhao must travel to Heaven Dou City to meet the Body Sect, but Shrek could refuse to inspect the sealed Extreme North; he also vowed to protect Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao suggested recruiting Demon Empress as an ally, and Mu En ordered the Sea God Pavilion Elders to meet every Sunday and continue speaking with her.

Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao shared an intimate night before Huo Yuhao prepared to travel to Heaven Dou City with Ye Guyi to meet the Medicine Immortal Douluo. As the group departed, Ye Xishui sent Long Xiaoyao to investigate a possible Secret Realm in the Dou Ling Empire and promised to abandon slaughter if it held a God’s inheritance.

• Ma Xiaotao teased Huo Yuhao after her bath, then kissed him and spent the night with him.
• Huo Yuhao and Ye Guyi asked Yan Shaozhe to arrange a meeting with the Medicine Immortal Douluo, and Huo Yuhao proposed offering her Life Force to build ties with the Star Luo Empire’s Royal Family.
• Long Xiaoyao questioned Ye Xishui about who had saved him, and Ye Xishui confirmed that she had found someone.
• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao to inform Zhongli Wu that the Holy Spirit Cult accepted Xu Tianran’s request on the condition that he start a war against the Star Luo Empire, and to investigate the unstable space in the Dou Ling Empire.
• Huo Yuhao said goodbye to Wang Dong'er and left Shrek Academy for Heaven Dou City with Zhang Lexuan, Elder Song, Elder Jing, and Yan Shaozhe.

The Shrek group met the Body Sect in Heaven Dou City to negotiate cooperation, and Huo Yuhao clashed spiritually with the sect’s chief disciple, Long Aotian. They agreed Huo Yuhao would undergo the Body Sect’s inheritance test, but he postponed traveling to the sect until after helping at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect Competition.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan rented a carriage to take the Shrek group to the Snow Lotus Hotel, and he offered Zhang Lexuan candy as memories of her past stirred sorrow.
• Lang Ya and Yu Tao welcomed the group at the hotel and led them to meet Du Busi, Long Aotian, and Vina.
• Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian clashed with their Spiritual Power, and Huo Yuhao gained the advantage before introducing himself.
• Du Busi said Huo Yuhao must undergo a test connected to the Body Sect’s Seed of Inheritance, and Elder Song agreed on Shrek’s behalf.
• The two factions finalized cooperation agreements, but Huo Yuhao delayed his trip to the Body Sect so he could help at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect Competition.

Du Busi revealed that the Body Sect’s Seed of Inheritance held a portion of a god’s power, but Long Aotian lacked the talent to locate its secret realm, so he planned to compete against Huo Yuhao in the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s competition. After learning about Zhang Lexuan’s family’s murder and her unresolved search for the killer, Huo Yuhao promised to help her, then noticed that her ancestral necklace seemed connected to a key from the Moon Secret Realm.

• Du Busi explained that the Seed of Inheritance came from a divine temple and that an Immortal Herb might raise Long Aotian’s talent enough to inherit it; Long Aotian chose to compete against Huo Yuhao instead.
• The Fourth Elder reported that one Seal Ring at the Extreme North had vanished beneath blue-gold light, and Du Busi decided to investigate it the next morning.
• At dinner, Huo Yuhao told Long Aotian and Vina that the next Soul Fighting Competition would allow sects to participate, prompting Vina to warn that the Sun Moon Empire might use it to target rival powers.
• Huo Yuhao found Zhang Lexuan alone on a balcony and listened as she described her family’s slaughter, her sleeplessness, and her plan to leave the academy to hunt for the surviving killer.
• Huo Yuhao promised to help Zhang Lexuan find her family’s killer, then noticed that her hand briefly showed something resembling the key to the Light Barrier in the Moon Secret Realm.
• Zhang Lexuan returned her ancestral Crescent Moon Gem necklace to her Storage Ring and ate Huo Yuhao’s strawberry-flavored candy, which eased her sadness.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Zhang Lexuan’s crescent-moon necklace matched the key to a secret realm and linked it to the massacre of her family, while the Sea God Family began invading the Extreme North. As Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan traveled to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Zhang Lexuan carried a file from Vina that revealed the truth about her clan’s history.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Zhang Lexuan’s necklace as the Crescent Moon Gem that fit the missing part of the moon in the secret realm, then showed her his memories of it.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that the necklace had been the target of the massacre of Zhang Lexuan’s family and that the Sun Moon Empire might have been involved; Zhang Lexuan asked him to take her to the realm and help find her family’s killer.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan that he knew of an invisible Titled Douluo in the Sun Moon Empire, and she agreed to his help.
• Huo Yuhao asked Vina to investigate the Zhang clan, and Vina promised to search the imperial records.
• Chen Tianhai used a crystal to devour the outermost halo protecting the Extreme North, while the Ice Bear King and other powerful Soul Beasts prepared to respond to the invasion.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan set out for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, unaware that Zhang Lexuan had already read Vina’s file and learned the truth about her clan.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan arrived at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Tian explained the Sect Competition’s resource-sharing rules and its tradition of blind dates. When Ning Tian learned her arranged marriage partner, Yu Tianlong, would attend, Huo Yuhao realized he possessed the Aromatic Silk Beauty that could help her Martial Soul evolve and escape the arrangement.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan entered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, where Elder Xiao Kuangdao welcomed them and approved Huo Yuhao as outside support for the Sect Leader’s Line.
• Ning Tian guided Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan through the sect and explained that the Sect Competition divided resources among succession lines and had become a blind-date gathering.
• Ning Tian told them that her family expected her to marry a powerful Battle Soul Master, while she hoped to delay the decision by remaining in Shrek Academy’s Inner Court.
• Wu Feng arrived and warned Ning Tian that her arranged partner, Yu Tianlong of the Heavenly Dragon Sect, would compete in the Grand Competition.
• Ning Tian said she could escape the marriage only if her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Huo Yuhao remembered he had an Aromatic Silk Beauty in his Storage Ring.