Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and the others endured months of brutal training at Surging Waves Cliff, which strengthened their bodies and awakened the ability to deflect force. Huo Yuhao developed the strongest version of this flowing-water physique and worried that Tang San might possess the same defense.

• He Caitou gradually grew stronger as he endured the waves, while Du Busi and Xuan Zi continued supervising the group’s training.
• After a month, Huo Yuhao’s body became much stronger and began deflecting Wang Dong’er’s touch like flowing water, earning the name Innate Blade Deflecting Saint Body.
• The group discovered that the waves had also granted all of them enhanced strength and some ability to deflect force, though Huo Yuhao’s changes were far greater.
• Huo Yuhao worried that Tang San’s body might have the same flowing-water defense, which could blunt Huo Yuhao’s strongest attacks.
• In their second month at Surging Waves Cliff, Huo Yuhao felt his body merge with the waves and reduce their impact, leading him to fear how difficult such a body would be to defeat.

While enduring the Raging Wave Cliff, Huo Yuhao awakened an immature form of Heaven and Earth Power and collapsed from exhaustion. Meanwhile, Xu Tianran learned that the Spirit Pagoda was nearing completion, and Zhongli Wu said the Holy Sect had infiltrated the Douluo Three Kingdoms to gather intelligence.

• Huo Yuhao reached Level 69 and, amid the waves, entered an enlightened state in which he sensed the sea and its forces as part of himself.
• Huo Yuhao froze the seawater across Raging Wave Cliff, revealing Heaven and Earth Power to Elder Xuan and Du Busi, then fainted as his Soul Power and Mental Power ran out.
• Du Busi scolded the onlookers while Elder Xuan reeled Huo Yuhao in and took him away.
• A minister told Xu Tianran that public opinion opposed the Holy Sect and that the Spirit Pagoda outside Shrek Academy was nearly finished, with leaders and young talents expected to attend its Spirit Transference Experiment.
• Xu Tianran dismissed the other officials and asked Zhongli Wu about the Spirit Pagoda; Zhongli Wu revealed that the Holy Maiden and Sixth Offering had infiltrated the Douluo Three Kingdoms to gather intelligence.

Xu Tianran weighed Zhongli Wu’s plan to trigger a Beast Tide and attack the Spirit Pagoda, fearing that Shrek Academy might abandon its defense and retaliate against the Sun Moon Empire. After the ministers left, he asked Ju Zi for her view, but she avoided openly challenging Zhongli Wu.

• Xu Tianran worried that provoking a Beast Tide could drive Shrek Academy to abandon Shrek City and unleash its Titled Douluo against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Zhongli Wu privately welcomed the possibility of Shrek’s destruction, but urged Xu Tianran to seize the chance to weaken Shrek and launch the empire’s war.
• Zhongli Wu argued that Shrek’s strongest fighters would be tied down by the Beast Tide while the Sun Moon Empire advanced against the other kingdoms.
• Xu Tianran dismissed the ministers and asked Ju Zi what she thought of the plan.
• Ju Zi respectfully called herself unqualified to advise on matters of state and did not openly oppose Zhongli Wu.

Xu Tianran approved a plan to exploit the Beast Tide against Shrek and the Three Great Empires, while unrest threatened the Sun Moon Empire. In the Great Ominous Land, Bear Lord and Scarlet King arrived at the Lake of Life as an unknown variable began to take shape in the Star Dou Forest.

• Xu Tianran weighed the risks of using a Beast Tide and Shrek’s distraction to attack the Three Great Empires.
• Zhongli Wu anticipated that Xu Tianran would seize the opportunity and noted that the Soul Hall concealed a power comparable to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Tianran considered Zhao Yang’s raids and the restlessness of his royal brothers, then ordered a complete war proposal within seven days.
• Bear Lord arrived at the Lake of Life in the Great Ominous Land and transformed into human form.
• Scarlet King descended beside the lake.

Di Tian gathered the Great Beasts and revealed that the Crystal Caterpillar Intestine had eased the sleeping Lord’s injuries, though Shura divine power still threatened her. Fearing that Huo Yuhao knew of Lord’s existence and could eventually become a god, Di Tian decided the human must be killed.

• Bi Ji arrived at the Lake of Life, where Ten Thousand Demons King and the other Great Beasts gathered with Di Tian.
• Di Tian explained that the treasure the Auspicious Beast brought back had helped Lord, but could not heal the damage caused by Shura divine power.
• Di Tian said the Auspicious Beast’s memories and actions showed that Huo Yuhao knew about Lord and possessed the potential to become a god.
• Di Tian argued that Huo Yuhao could expose Lord’s existence and bring the Soul Beast race to destruction, so he must die.
• Ten Thousand Demons King revealed that the Auspicious Beast had asked him to study attribute transformation for Huo Yuhao, who wielded multiple Ultimate Attributes.

Di Tian decided that the Soul Beasts had to destroy the human world before the human threatened the Lord, even though the only way Ten Thousand Demons King could see to control the human’s powers was to use the Silver Dragon King’s Soul Ring. The preparations were uneven: Bi Ji’s forces were ready, while the others faced organizational and food shortages.

• Ten Thousand Demons King explained that killing the Lord and using the Silver Dragon King’s Soul Ring as the human’s Tenth Soul Ring was the only way he could imagine to fuse the human’s powers.
• Di Tian resolved to attack humanity to protect the Lord and said he would bear all the blame for the betrayal.
• Bear Lord supported the attack, while Bi Ji said her Soul Beast guards were ready to depart.
• Bear Lord and Scarlet King reported that assembling their forces was only about halfway complete, and Di Tian urged them to finish before the human empires went to war.
• Ten Thousand Demons King reported that few Plant-type Soul Beasts could join the army and that gathered fruit would feed the forces for only about a month.

Di Tian and Ten Thousand Demons King discussed the food shortage threatening the planned Beast Tide against Shrek City. Di Tian ordered the Soul Beasts to stockpile enough supplies for a prolonged war, leaving Ten Thousand Demons King struggling to meet the demand.

• Ten Thousand Demons King reported that the Soul Beasts had gathered far too little food for a large-scale attack on Shrek City.
• Ten Thousand Demons King considered seeking help from the Far North Land, Devil Forest, and ocean, but their rivalries and lack of a leader made cooperation unlikely.
• Di Tian told Ten Thousand Demons King that food was the foundation of the Beast Tide and demanded provisions for half a year.
• Bi Ji offered to have her clansmen and guards help gather supplies, though Ten Thousand Demons King doubted they could contribute much.
• Di Tian ordered everyone to finish preparations within the year and said they must launch the Beast Tide even if it required sacrificing some Soul Beasts.

Di Tian explained why he believed the Soul Beast race faced imminent extinction and committed himself to a decisive Beast Tide, while Bi Ji and the other beasts pledged to prepare. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao remained stuck just below Soul Saint despite having accumulated far more Soul Power than an ordinary Soul Saint, and he considered whether to follow Xuan Zi's conjecture.

• Di Tian warned that humanity’s growth and Soul Tool development were driving Soul Beasts toward extinction, and Bear Lord, Ten Thousand Demons King, and Scarlet King initially doubted his pessimism.
• Bi Ji agreed with Di Tian after witnessing human Soul Tools and explained that he was willing to die if the Beast Tide could halt the Soul Beast race’s destruction.
• Ten Thousand Demons King pledged to stockpile supplies, the Three-Headed Red Demon Mastiff offered to capture human military advisers, and Bear Lord joked that he wanted to eat them.
• Di Tian sent the beasts to prepare for war, saying they had to seize every opportunity because they did not know when conflict in the human world would begin.
• Huo Yuhao continued failing to break through to Level 70 despite his immense Soul Power and wondered whether he had to follow Xuan Zi's conjecture.

Huo Yuhao learned how Soul Cores shaped modern cultivation and worried that absorbing them too early could block his path to Level 99. He decided to attempt forming a Soul Core by his own method, with Xuan Zi and Du Busi guarding him.

• Huo Yuhao reviewed the dangers of absorbing a First Soul Core at Soul Saint and a second at Level 90, since that could leave him unable to advance at Level 99.
• Huo Yuhao learned from Du Busi and Xuan Zi that Soul Cores and dual Soul Core methods could support advancement, while Qian Daoliu described an older cultivation era that had no Soul Core system.
• Huo Yuhao realized that the Soul Core system had emerged within the past ten thousand years and had helped more Soul Masters reach the Titled Douluo rank.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xuan Zi and Du Busi to help him attempt a Soul Core cultivation method of his own.
• Xuan Zi advised Huo Yuhao to solidify one-tenth of his Soul Power first and increase it gradually while he and Du Busi guarded him.

Huo Yuhao attempted to form a Soul Core by condensing his Soul Power into Solid Soul Power in the Body Sect’s Secret Chamber. As the growing vortex drained his reserves and gathered Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, his Solid Soul Power became attribute-aligned, and Xuan Zi urged him to hold on.

• Huo Yuhao steadied himself and began compressing and rotating his Soul Power under his Mental Power control.
• Huo Yuhao formed Solid Soul Power, which drew in Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and began absorbing Soul Power from him and the nearby Du Busi and Xuan Zi.
• Huo Yuhao’s Solid Soul Power grew rapidly, while the Body Sect’s Secret Chamber glowed and an Essence Qi Cloud formed above the sect.
• Huo Yuhao struggled as the Solid Soul Power consumed most of his reserves, but he kept the vortex stable.
• Huo Yuhao’s remaining Soul Power from his Soul Rings and Martial Soul flowed into the vortex, changing the Solid Soul Power into an attribute-aligned state.
• Xuan Zi encouraged Huo Yuhao to endure, explaining that success could help him reach the level 89 bottleneck sooner.

Huo Yuhao struggled to condense a Soul Core infused with six elemental powers, exhausting his Soul Power as Xuan Zi and Du Busi watched. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm intervened with its precious Origin Soul Power, leaving Huo Yuhao’s attempt still underway and revealing its hope of attaining immortality alongside Bingbing.

• Huo Yuhao’s Wind, Fire, Light, Lightning, Earth, and Wood powers entered the forming Soul Core, with Earth and Wood stabilizing its volatile rotation.
• Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power dwindled as the Soul Core absorbed his power and Mental Power, and Xuan Zi prepared to intervene.
• Du Busi stopped Xuan Zi, judging that Huo Yuhao had passed the most dangerous stage of forming the Soul Core.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared behind Huo Yuhao and poured its pure, attribute-less Origin Soul Power into him to steady his body.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sacrificed its fundamental power because it believed Huo Yuhao was its best chance at immortality, though immortality meant little without Bingbing.

Huo Yuhao compressed his Solid Soul Power while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm supplied its Origin Power, using the surrounding Space Cracks to observe the formation process. After the Solid Soul Power collapsed into a Black Hole Vortex, Huo Yuhao formed a true Soul Core capable of tearing apart space.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that his Solid Soul Power was absorbing the Space Power in the surrounding Space Cracks as well as his Soul Power and Mental Power.
• Huo Yuhao endured the strain and used Mental Detection to study the sustained Space Fluctuations around the forming Soul Core.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Origin Power steadily entered the Solid Soul Power, leaving Huo Yuhao increasingly exhausted as Xuan Zi watched anxiously and Du Busi trusted his body's resilience.
• Huo Yuhao poured his remaining Mental Power into the Solid Soul Power as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm released all its Origin Power and returned to his body.
• The Solid Soul Power stopped spinning, collapsed into a Black Hole Vortex, and became a true Soul Core linked to Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao formed an unusually stable, multi-element Soul Core and swallowed it whole despite Xuan Zi and Du Busi’s warnings. He absorbed it without harm and discovered that his Soul Power recovered at an extraordinary rate.

• Huo Yuhao saw that his Soul Core had formed a strange eye shape, while Xuan Zi and Du Busi warned him to absorb it cautiously.
• Xuan Zi advised Huo Yuhao to recover first, and Du Busi explained that the Soul Core’s balance among multiple elements made it exceptionally stable.
• Huo Yuhao recovered his Soul Power and Mental Power, then swallowed the Soul Core directly into his stomach.
• Huo Yuhao stood up unharmed and felt his Soul Power surge, claiming he could cast more than ten One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skills in a row.
• Du Busi was stunned by Huo Yuhao’s recovery, and Xuan Zi pointed out that Du Busi had only three One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.

After Huo Yuhao survived swallowing a Soul Core, he entered a strange realm connected to the souls of the Douluo Continent. He discovered a Spirit Realm under siege and received an unexpected Soul Beast soul before returning to Xuan Zi and Du Busi.

• Xuan Zi and Du Busi worried about whether Huo Yuhao could form a Second Soul Core after he had formed his First Soul Core at the Seven-Ring Soul Saint level.
• Huo Yuhao's consciousness traveled through a star-filled darkness and brought him to the gate of the Spirit Realm.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Spirit Realm with Electrolux and found its souls and Soul Beasts absent from view.
• Huo Yuhao saw Spirit Attribute Soul Beasts holding a barrier against Scarlet Murderous Aura and a wounded giant hand beyond it.
• The Spirit Realm presented Huo Yuhao with the soul of a Ten Thousand-Year Soul Beast, which he stored away before waking before Xuan Zi and Du Busi.

After breaking through Level 70 and stabilizing his Soul Core, Huo Yuhao learned that the rescued hostages had returned to Heaven Dou Empire territory and set out with Ma Xiao Tao for Dragon City to visit the Earth Dragon Gate. He planned to seek their information about an Ice Attribute mineral vein before traveling north to recruit help from the Far North Land for a fake Beast Tide.

• Huo Yuhao confirmed that his Soul Core was stable and that he had broken through Level 70.
• Ma Xiao Tao arrived with news that the escaped hostages, including the Earth Dragon Gate members, had returned to Heaven Dou Empire territory.
• Huo Yuhao decided to visit the Earth Dragon Gate in Dragon City, and Ma Xiao Tao joined him while continuing her intelligence work for the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao planned to seek troops from the Far North Land to stage a fake Beast Tide near Shrek City and trap Holy Spirit Cult agents.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiao Tao left the Body Sect the next morning and flew north toward Dragon City.
• After flying for more than half an hour, Ma Xiao Tao complained that Huo Yuhao had been silent, and he asked what they should talk about.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Earth Dragon Gate planned to seek his protection and realized that accepting them could bring him valuable manpower and support. After reaching Dragon City with Ma Xiao Tao, he reflected on how sects weakened the Heaven Dou Empire’s ability to enforce imperial authority, leaving the story with his belief that they had to be uprooted.

• Ma Xiao Tao told Huo Yuhao that Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu of the Earth Dragon Gate intended to seek his protection.
• Huo Yuhao realized the Earth Dragon Gate had offered its mineral vein to gain his support and that their people could help him develop it.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiao Tao arrived in Dragon City, where the city lord welcomed them and directed them to the Earth Dragon Gate.
• Huo Yuhao observed that a Six Rings Soul Emperor could rule Dragon City but lacked the strength to command respect from powerful sects.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that sects shackled the Three Great Empires and lamented that Spirit Hall’s Soul Hunting Operation had been stopped before it could remove them.

Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiao Tao visited the Earth Dragon Gate and met Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu, who recognized Ma Xiao Tao as the Holy Maiden who had helped rescue them. Huo Yuhao sparred with Nan Qiuqiu and overwhelmed her, leaving her upset by his blunt assessment.

• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiao Tao entered the Earth Dragon Gate's residence and found only a few dozen low-ranked disciples remaining as the empire conscripted sect Soul Masters for war.
• Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu arrived, recognized Ma Xiao Tao as the Holy Maiden who had helped rescue them, and Nan Shuishui thanked Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiao Tao.
• Nan Qiuqiu challenged Huo Yuhao to a spar, and he accepted to test her Rouge Dragon Martial Soul's annihilation ability.
• Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Nan Qiuqiu by repeatedly outmatching her annihilation with his greater Soul Power, then criticized the result and left her upset.

Huo Yuhao learned that Earth Dragon Gate’s Cold Spring concealed a rare ice-attributed metal vein and descended to investigate it. He opened the hidden cave entrance and slipped inside, leaving the vein unexplored.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Nan Qiuqiu’s Power of Annihilation was not enough to help him contend with Tang San, and Nan Shuishui led them to the Cold Spring.
• Nan Shuishui revealed that a sealed cave beneath the spring contained a vein of ice-attributed rare metal and offered its yield to Huo Yuhao as Shrek Academy’s reward.
• Huo Yuhao dove into the spring while Ma Xiao Tao guarded the well, and he sensed a powerful cold current and a deep blue spring eye below.
• Huo Yuhao activated the mechanisms at the cave entrance and entered as a strange force kept the spring water from following him inside.

Huo Yuhao and the others discovered a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave filled with Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, a rare treasure that could have transformed the Ice Empress and Snow Empress had they found it earlier. The Ice Empress accepted that the past could not be changed and urged Huo Yuhao to make full use of their good fortune.

• Huo Yuhao entered a freezing crystal cave, where the Ice Empress recognized it as a legendary Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm mistook the cave for a dream and tried to bite a crystal before the Snow Empress slapped him and the Ice Empress into behaving.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress identified the cave’s crystals as Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, rare and exceptionally strong Ice Attribute metal.
• The Ice Empress explained that a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave could have helped her and the Snow Empress break through their old bottlenecks.
• The Ice Empress reflected that events might have turned out worse if she had found the cave earlier, then told Huo Yuhao to make effective use of its resources.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Ice Extreme Divine Crystals responded to his Ultimate Ice Soul Power and could be harvested through affinity rather than force. After learning that one crystal contained a rare Metal Spirit, he began collecting every crystal in the declining Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave.

• Huo Yuhao infused an Ice Extreme Divine Crystal with Soul Power, felt its affinity, and pulled a softened chunk free.
• Ice Empress explained that some crystals contained Ice Spirits and that Huo Yuhao could harvest them through his Ice Attribute affinity.
• Snow Empress said the Ice Spirit could eventually become a Soul Beast, though gaining true consciousness would take an exceptionally long time.
• Ice Empress warned that the Ice Spring was declining and urged Huo Yuhao to take all the crystals before the cave deteriorated.
• Huo Yuhao considered using the Metal Spirit in his Energy Supply Pillar, then spread his radiance through the cave and began mining the crystals.