Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao entered the White Tiger Duke's Mansion to take revenge on the Duchess and the servants who had helped harm him and his mother. He destroyed the Duchess's remains, but her suspicious death and the unexplained disappearance of her soul left him wondering who had intervened.

• Dai Yue Heng realized Huo Yuhao's revenge was restrained compared with what he could have done, while Dai Hao regretted failing to return home sooner.
• Huo Yuhao entered the mansion and used the White Tiger Dagger to kill the servants who had persecuted him and his mother, including Dai Shiliu.
• Huo Yuhao went to the Duchess's grave, destroyed the gravestone, and pulled her coffin from the earth.
• Huo Yuhao found the Duchess's body decayed and her soul gone, and suspected her death and the soul's disappearance were unnatural.
• Huo Yuhao whipped the Duchess's remains into powder, placed a Seventh Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell in her coffin, and watched it explode.

After settling his vengeance at the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, Huo Yuhao reached the Spirit Domain Realm and achieved a flawless state of heart and body. He rejected Dai Hao as his father, leaving Dai Hao collapsed in the Back Mountain.

• Huo Yuhao's spiritual power erupted into a domain, forming a small world and reaching the realm of Tangible and Substantial Mental Power.
• Huo Yuhao's settled grudges and flawless heart let him control Divine Slaughter's Domain and become a fitting heir to Rong Nianbing's Divine Position.
• Wang Dong'er noticed that Huo Yuhao's eyes had changed and asked what he would do about the White Tiger Duke.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er that Dai Hao had never raised him and that he would not acknowledge him as his father.
• Dai Hao heard Huo Yuhao's rejection, fainted, and fell to the ground.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er left Dai Hao behind and wondered whether their preparations could overcome the Sun Moon Empire's plans. Huo Yuhao then led Soul Hall to Rising Sun City for a meeting with the Holy Spirit Cult, where he discovered the city's formidable defenses.

• Wang Dong'er kissed Huo Yuhao, and the two left Back Mountain without helping the unconscious Dai Hao.
• Wang Dong'er asked whether they could win, while Huo Yuhao and Xuan Zi considered the odds against the Sun Moon Empire's military power and long-term plans.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er reached Xilu Town with Na Na and the others, but found a letter directing them to meet Zhang Peng of the Holy Spirit Cult in Rising Sun City.
• Huo Yuhao scanned Rising Sun City and found two five-hundred-man Soul Engineer Troupes positioned around it, along with a Soul Tool Position built into the city wall.

Huo Yuhao led Soul Hall into Rising Sun City by tunneling beneath its advanced defenses, intending to investigate the captured Soul Masters. The group entered the city safely, but Huo Yuhao had no information about the prisoners’ location or their guards.

• Huo Yuhao surveyed Rising Sun City's extensive detection network and learned that the tournament captives had been transferred there as hostages, pressuring the Three Great Empires and smaller sects to favor peace.
• Huo Yuhao used Earth Ant Emperor Slash to tunnel beneath the city's defenses and surfaced in an empty residence disguised as Soul Heavenly Cripple; the other Soul Hall members followed him.
• Jing Ziyan questioned whether Soul Hall's methods could restore Spirit Hall's glory, and Huo Yuhao defended their unconventional tactics as necessary during the sect's founding.
• After resting overnight, Huo Yuhao and the others left the residence and walked through Rising Sun City, where he found no powerful experts among the visible defenders.
• Huo Yuhao considered searching for the captives, but he lacked information about their location and guards and would not risk himself if he could not rescue them.

Huo Yuhao surveyed Rising Sun City and found it heavily guarded by high-level soul devices, while he and Ji Juechen considered whether rescuing the hostages would endanger Soul Hall’s plans. He learned that the Earth Dragon Gate’s captured leaders could lead them to a valuable Ice Attribute ore vein, giving him a strong reason to consider a rescue.

• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to survey Rising Sun City’s central area and discovered a citywide detection net and numerous concealed high-level soul devices.
• Huo Yuhao told Ji Juechen that the hostages were likely being held underground, where his Mental Detection could not easily find them.
• Ji Juechen warned that rescuing the hostages could expose Soul Hall’s position and disrupt its plans, and Huo Yuhao agreed that the timing was risky.
• Huo Yuhao recalled that the Earth Dragon Gate had offered Shrek Academy control of a potentially precious Ice Attribute ore vein in exchange for rescuing its captured sect master and Young Sect Master.
• Huo Yuhao considered the sample’s possible value as material for a Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell or as a means of increasing his strength.

Huo Yuhao sent Zhao Yang to lead a carefully limited rebellion against the Sun Moon Empire, hoping to draw troops away from Rising Sun City and weaken Xu Tianran’s alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult. After investigating the city, Huo Yuhao found no hostages inside and began searching for their underground location.

• Huo Yuhao summoned Zhao Yang and ordered him to raise an uprising, reclaim his father’s fief, and draw troops out of Rising Sun City without revealing his full strength.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhao Yang to use the slogan “Empress Dowager's Usurpation of Power, Bewitchment in the Emperor's Heart, Evil and Wicked Become Teachers, The Emperor's Entourage Should Be Purged” and wait for other feudal lords to rebel.
• Soul Hall members gathered intelligence in Rising Sun City while Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to survey the city and discovered a Ninth Level Soul Tool but no Evil Soul Masters or hostages.
• Huo Yuhao reasoned that the hostages were likely held underground and identified the South City wall as the most heavily defended section.
• Huo Yuhao probed beneath the South City wall into the moat but found only water and silt before soldiers noticed him and he slipped out of their sight.

Huo Yuhao discovered a newly replaced iron grille in Rising Sun City's moat and waited as the Holy Spirit Cult's secret Water Dungeon held its prisoners in brutal conditions. The chapter left Ma Xiao Tao warning the Third Elder and Fourth Elder that the Soul Hall's people might already be inside the city.

• Huo Yuhao found a suspicious iron grille beneath the riverbank east of his position and decided to wait for Rising Sun City to fall into chaos.
• Three days later, the Water Dungeon revealed rows of prisoners suffering in filthy, cramped cages while black-cloaked Evil Soul Masters patrolled nearby.
• The Third Elder, Fourth Elder, and Zhang Peng arrived, confirming that Evil Soul Masters controlled the Ninth Level Soul Tool guarding Rising Sun City.
• Zhang Peng recalled his suspicions about Zhongli Wu's dangerous assignments and explained why he had insisted on moving the Soul Hall negotiations to Rising Sun City.
• Ma Xiao Tao arrived and suggested that the Soul Hall's people had entered the city, citing a sudden wave of orders for restricted Rare Metals.

Huo Yuhao and his companions used the Holy Spirit Cult’s name to coerce Rising Sun City merchants into handing over controlled Rare Metals, drawing the attention of the real cult members. When a powerful Mental Attribute Evil Soul Master attacked, Huo Yuhao led her on a winding chase through the city.

• Na Na frightened a merchant into supplying Rare Metals by threatening him with two Abominations and promising to pay above market price.
• Huo Yuhao’s group extorted two thousand jin of controlled Rare Metals across Rising Sun City using the Holy Spirit Cult’s name.
• Huo Yuhao considered repeating the scheme elsewhere before a Black-Clad woman accused him of impersonating the Holy Spirit Cult and attacked.
• Huo Yuhao repelled the woman’s mental assault, notified his companions through Soul Link, and fled through streets and alleys while she pursued him.

Huo Yuhao evaded an Evil Soul Master’s pursuit through Rising Sun City, then used his earth-controlling abilities to trap and bury her underground. As she faced suffocation, she unleashed her Martial Soul and revealed that it was the Soul of Vengeance, born from her boundless hatred.

• Huo Yuhao used his Mental Power and Grappling Hook to stay ahead of the Evil Soul Master as they raced through Rising Sun City.
• The Evil Soul Master unleashed a sound-based Battle Skill that disrupted Huo Yuhao’s senses, but he pretended to be badly hurt and slipped into a residence.
• The Evil Soul Master pursued Huo Yuhao into the residence, where he vanished and then grabbed her from beneath the earth, dragging her underground.
• Huo Yuhao kept the Evil Soul Master trapped in dense soil as she struggled and feared suffocating.
• The Evil Soul Master used her Wraith Martial Soul’s Curse Grudge and told Huo Yuhao that her Martial Soul was the Soul of Vengeance.

Huo Yuhao confronted an Evil Soul Master whose hatred had awakened her Soul of Vengeance and whose memories revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had brainwashed her. As her power locked onto him, Huo Yuhao summoned a pure Killing Intent to strike back.

• The Evil Soul Master explained that hatred had awakened her Soul of Vengeance and unleashed her overwhelming Mental Power against Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao questioned why she continued inflicting pain on others after taking revenge, briefly restoring her clarity.
• The Evil Soul Master recalled that the Holy Spirit Cult had taken her for brainwashing and training, then resumed her attack while blaming her suffering on the world.
• Huo Yuhao rejected hatred and resentment as a source of power and chose to merge his Mental Power with pure Killing Intent.
• Huo Yuhao formed a gray giant hand of slaughter, disrupting three High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools before striking at the Evil Soul Master.

Huo Yuhao killed the Evil Soul Master with the Palm of Slaughter and received his first Power of Faith from her True Spirit. After two days in the city, the Holy Spirit Cult's elders approached him, but their meeting was interrupted when the Lone Wolf Soul Engineer Legion deployed in haste.

• Huo Yuhao's Palm of Slaughter destroyed the Evil Soul Master, whose dying plea asked him to destroy the Holy Spirit Cult before her True Spirit entered his Sea of Spirit.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that he had gained his first, exceptionally pure Power of Faith from a fanatic.
• Troops investigated the battle site but found only churned earth and reports of people experiencing intense fear.
• Huo Yuhao spent two days studying a map of Devil Forest instead of sending anyone to gather Rare Metal.
• The Holy Spirit Cult's Third Elder, Nether Lightning Douluo, and another elder confronted Huo Yuhao at breakfast, but the Lone Wolf Soul Engineer Legion's sudden departure drew their attention.

Huo Yuhao met with the Holy Spirit Cult elders and revealed that Zhao Yang had returned, explaining why the Lone Wolf Soul Engineer Legion had rushed out of the city. The elders recognized that Zhao Yang was gathering forces in his former fief.

• Huo Yuhao rebuked Third Elder for changing the meeting place without informing him and ignored a Soul Saint who challenged him.
• Third Elder slapped the Soul Saint and offered Huo Yuhao a piece of Rare Metal to calm the confrontation.
• Huo Yuhao said he had killed a Spirit System Soul Douluo who threatened him, frightening the Evil Soul Masters present.
• Huo Yuhao told the elders that Tyrant Gold Duke's son, Zhao Yang, had returned and was assembling an elite force.
• Nether Lightning Douluo realized Zhao Yang's return explained why the Lone Wolf Soul Engineer Legion had left in a hurry.

Third Elder, Fourth Elder, and Ma Xiao Tao weighed Huo Yuhao’s proposal for the Holy Spirit Cult to cooperate with Soul Hall and exploit a Beast Tide to strike the Three Great Empires. They chose to consider the alliance while keeping the hostages alive and asking the Cult Leader to decide.

• Third Elder and Fourth Elder discussed whether Huo Yuhao’s proposed cooperation was credible, recognizing the opportunity to cripple the younger generation of the Three Great Empires and Shrek Academy.
• Third Elder considered how the alliance could help the Holy Spirit Cult and Soul Hall seize power across Douluo Continent, though he remained wary of the risks.
• Fourth Elder asked Ma Xiao Tao for her view, and she urged the cult to act before Xu Tianran could use and discard them.
• Third Elder agreed that Xu Tianran should not control the cult but decided to send the proposal to the Cult Leader for a decision.
• Fourth Elder confirmed that the Water Dungeon’s captives were being weakened with Soul Extinguishing Powder and ordered that they continue to be fed because the Cult Leader still needed them.

Huo Yuhao investigated the Water Dungeon and the prisoners’ poisoning but struggled to find a way to rescue them without exposing his plans. As Ma Xiao Tao left the dungeon, an attack struck Rising Sun City, and the guards realized the execution grounds were being raided.

• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to study the Water Dungeon, learned how its conditions trapped and poisoned the prisoners, and concluded he could not safely obtain antidote ingredients in Rising Sun City.
• Huo Yuhao weighed the obstacles to rescuing several hundred poisoned hostages amid the city’s Evil Soul Masters and Soul Engineer Regiments, but found no workable plan.
• Two days later, Ma Xiao Tao confirmed that Soul Extinguishing Powder had been scattered and the prisoners had been fed, then left the Water Dungeon after judging the guards’ arrangements satisfactory.
• After Ma Xiao Tao left, an Evil Soul Master raised his whip against the prisoners, but explosions and tremors sounded through the dungeon.
• Rising Sun City’s defenses intercepted over a hundred incoming shells, and an Evil Soul Master shouted that the Three Great Empires had attacked the execution grounds.

He Caitou launched a massive Soul Tool attack against the northern Soul Engineer Regiment position, drawing its defenses away from a possible rescue at the Water Dungeon. As an Evil Soul Master confronted an elderly prisoner, he saw eight Soul Rings shining beneath the old man's feet.

• He Caitou fired a golden-red blast from the egg-shaped Soul Tool, and the northern Soul Engineer Regiment intercepted nearly all of the Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shells sent toward its position.
• The Soul Engineer Regiment's Vice Commander ordered defenses strengthened, then realized the Lone Wolf Soul Engineer Legion's departure might have been a diversion.
• Evil Soul Masters guarded the Water Dungeon passages, fearing a rescue attempt while the Holy Maiden was away.
• An Evil Soul Master grabbed an elderly prisoner by the throat, but the old man directed his gaze to the eight Soul Rings glowing beneath his feet.

The Soul Extinguishing Powder stopped suppressing the prisoners’ cultivation after Huo Yuhao used Aromatic Silk Beauty to counter its effects, and the Water Dungeon’s captives launched their planned escape. As they fought their way out, the Soul Guidance Legion’s soldiers were overwhelmed by their desperate, fearless assault.

• The Evil Soul Masters in the Water Dungeon tried to attack the prisoners, but the prisoners had recovered their cultivation and killed them.
• On the South City Wall, a Soul Power Detection Soul Tool revealed vast fluctuations beneath the city despite detecting no people.
• The Water Dungeon’s cages shattered, and hundreds of recovered Soul Masters attacked the Evil Soul Masters and rushed toward the collapsing walls.
• Huo Yuhao’s use of Aromatic Silk Beauty had suppressed the poison while Ma Xiao Tao cultivated, allowing the prisoners to regain most of their strength and wait for his signal.
• The two Evil Soul Master Elders retreated as the furious prisoners killed several enemies and fought their way into the city.
• Soul Guidance Legion soldiers faltered as the escaping Soul Masters charged through gunfire and cannon blasts without fearing death.

Huo Yuhao led the rescued hostages out of the Water Dungeon and toward the southern position, but explosions at Rising Sun City's northern wall revealed that powerful reinforcements had arrived. He identified the newcomers as one of the Sun Moon Empire's Guardian Hand Soul Engineer Troupes as the hostages continued their breakout.

• The hostages routed the Soul Engineer Legion soldiers, killed their battalion commander, and escaped the Water Dungeon as distress fireworks appeared above Rising Sun City.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the hostages to charge south before reinforcements from Ming Capital could arrive.
• Explosions at the northern wall made Huo Yuhao realize the reinforcements had reached the city much sooner than expected.
• Huo Yuhao told the hostages to break through the enemy position and join their allies while he flew toward Rising Sun City.
• Huo Yuhao saw several hundred dark-blue figures descending near North City and recognized them as a Guardian Hand Soul Engineer Troupe.

Huo Yuhao and He Caitou coordinated the escape of the freed hostages while a Beast King-level Soul Engineer Troupe pursued them. Zhang Peng, Ma Xiao Tao, and the elders discovered the escape and took to the air, where they spotted Huo Yuhao and began pursuing him.

• Huo Yuhao met He Caitou near the city gate and confirmed that the hostages were escaping while He Caitou withdrew the disguised Lich Legion.
• He Caitou flew ahead, and Huo Yuhao continued onward before Zhang Peng and Ma Xiao Tao returned to find the hostages gone.
• Ma Xiao Tao questioned the Evil Soul Masters about how the hostages had overcome the Soul Extinguishing Powder, while the Third Elder urged an immediate pursuit.
• Zhang Peng, the Third Elder, the Fourth Elder, and Ma Xiao Tao flew after the hostages, who had split into small teams wearing Huo Yuhao's Flying Soul Tools.
• Ma Xiao Tao spotted Huo Yuhao, and Zhang Peng and the elders eagerly pursued him, hoping to capture him alive.

Huo Yuhao lured the Holy Spirit Cult pursuers to a trapped tree, where a hidden Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell killed Third Elder and Fourth Elder and badly wounded Zhang Peng. Ma Xiao Tao treated Zhang Peng and left with him, while Huo Yuhao remained hidden nearby.

• Third Elder and Fourth Elder discovered that the Huo Yuhao before them was a Mental Power construct and found his taunting message carved into a tree.
• Third Elder struck the tree despite Zhang Peng's warning, triggering a hidden Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell that killed Third Elder and Fourth Elder.
• Zhang Peng fled the blast's core but suffered severe injuries, while Ma Xiao Tao was only lightly hurt.
• Ma Xiao Tao treated Zhang Peng and noticed his concealed Scorpion Tail Hook as he pretended to be dazed.
• Zhang Peng recovered enough to urge a retreat, then flew toward Rising Sun City with Ma Xiao Tao following.

After Huo Yuhao’s trap killed two Holy Spirit Cult elders, Zhang Peng and Ma Xiao Tao encountered the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Troupe outside South City. The troupe pursued the escaped hostages while Ma Xiao Tao and Zhang Peng prepared to return to Ming Capital.

• Zhang Peng explained that Huo Yuhao had lured the Third and Fourth Elders into an explosive trap and said the Holy Spirit Cult needed to report the attack to its leader.
• The Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Troupe surrounded Zhang Peng and Ma Xiao Tao as they tried to return to the city.
• Ma Xiao Tao released her Martial Soul and threatened the Soul Engineers until a Holy Spirit Cult member identified her and Zhang Peng as the Holy Maiden and Sixth Offering.
• Regiment Commander Wang ordered the Soul Engineers to pursue the escaped hostages south and alert nearby cities.
• Ma Xiao Tao told Zhang Peng to accompany her to the dungeon to collect samples before they returned to Ming Capital.