Chapter Summaries

Ju Zi learned that Xu Tianran planned to make her bear an heir through another man, deepening her resentment toward him. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao unleashed a devastating Mental Shock that wiped out nearly everyone in a Sun Moon Empire Soul Tool Position, leaving one Evil Soul Master alive.

• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to conceive a child with a distant royal cousin and then kill him, insisting he would raise the child as his own heir.
• Ju Zi reluctantly agreed, but after leaving Xu Tianran she felt colder and more resentful toward him.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed his full Mental Power across the Soul Tool Position, overwhelming its soldiers, soul engineers, and Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao's Mental Shock killed everyone in the position except one Evil Soul Master Soul Saint, who survived with the aid of a powerful defensive soul tool.

Huo Yuhao continued raiding Holy Spirit Cult positions across the Sun Moon Empire, effortlessly wiping out their forces and stripping their camps of supplies. After learning that two Evil Soul Master Titled Douluos, Wan Hun and Abomination, were in Dongyang City, he silently tunneled beneath the city’s defenses to reach them.

• Huo Yuhao summoned Liches to collect the spoils from a Soul Engineer position and killed an Evil Soul Saint with Dragon Flash.
• Over more than ten days, Huo Yuhao used captured Evil Soul Masters’ memories to locate and destroy Holy Spirit Cult strongholds and a Soul Tool production den.
• Huo Yuhao followed intelligence to Dongyang City, where Wan Hun and Abomination were stationed.
• Huo Yuhao used the Life Dark Gold Engraving Knife as a shovel and silently dug a tunnel beneath Dongyang City’s defenses.

Huo Yuhao attacked Dongyang City, using a precise Mental Shock to knock down the Soul Engineers and Evil Soul Masters on its walls while sparing civilians. The two Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo confronted him, and Huo Yuhao pretended to be weakened as he fled north with them in pursuit.

• Huo Yuhao spread Mental Detection across Dongyang City and struck down the Soul Engineers and Evil Soul Masters on the city walls with a citywide Mental Shock.
• The two Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo, Ten Thousand Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo, realized a Spirit System Titled Douluo had entered the city.
• Huo Yuhao crossed to the city walls as alarms sounded from the Soul Tool Position, which detected him but could not respond effectively.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo attacked Huo Yuhao together, believing his Mental Power had been depleted.
• Huo Yuhao pretended to flee slowly, and Ten Thousand Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo chased him north.

Huo Yuhao lured Ten Thousand Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo away from Dongyang City and trapped them with his undead squads. As the squads restrained Abomination Douluo, Ten Thousand Souls Douluo fled and summoned twelve powerful sea-creature wraiths.

• Huo Yuhao led the two Evil Soul Master Titled Douluo to the edge of the Ice Sea, then stopped and blocked their retreat with Ground Shrinking to an Inch.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Lich Squad and the Banshee Squad, surrounding Ten Thousand Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo.
• Abomination Douluo recognized Huo Yuhao as the killer of his offspring and attacked him, but the banshees disrupted him while the liches bound him with bone chains.
• Abomination Douluo broke the chains and attacked the undead squads, but the banshees phased through his strike and a lich used its Invincible Golden Body to withstand his chain.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo abandoned Abomination Douluo and fled, releasing twelve blue wraiths transformed from sea creatures through the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

Huo Yuhao defeated Ten Thousand Souls Douluo’s wraiths and pursued him after the Evil Soul Master fled. Ten Thousand Souls Douluo’s attempt to steal the God Striking Whip failed, leaving him injured and begging for his life.

• Huo Yuhao drove off the attacking wraiths with the God Striking Whip while the Undead Squads dealt with Abomination Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao caught up with Ten Thousand Souls Douluo, who begged for mercy and offered to serve him in exchange for information about the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo pretended to surrender, then ambushed Huo Yuhao and reached for the God Striking Whip.
• Huo Yuhao’s Sacred Golden Flame purified the wraiths and badly burned Ten Thousand Souls Douluo’s right hand.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo begged Huo Yuhao to spare him, terrified that he was about to die.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Ten Thousand Souls Douluo, who transformed himself and unleashed his Ten Thousand Souls Domain to fight back. After Huo Yuhao purified swaths of wraiths and resisted their self-destruction, Ten Thousand Souls Douluo used his Ninth Soul Skill to merge wraiths into his body.

• Huo Yuhao's Emperor Sword: Great Cold, No Snow nearly shattered Ten Thousand Souls Douluo's martial soul, forcing him to transform into a primary soul on the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and Ten Thousand Souls Domain, concealing himself and his banner in darkness.
• Huo Yuhao hid within the domain and used the God Striking Whip and Holy Flame Sword Blade to purify large numbers of wraiths.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo made the remaining wraiths self-destruct, but their mental shock waves could not penetrate Huo Yuhao's Mental Power.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo activated his Ninth Soul Skill, Soul Fusion, and began merging ten wraiths into his body.

Huo Yuhao killed the Ten Thousand Souls Douluo, purified the surviving Wraiths, and sent them toward reincarnation. The grateful souls offered him Power of Faith, while a Mermaid Soul remained behind to sing a final song and give him a blue light.

• The Ten Thousand Souls Douluo fused with ten Wraiths and unleashed a desperate attack, but Huo Yuhao evaded it and set him ablaze with the Holy Flame Sword Blade.
• Huo Yuhao confined the surviving Wraiths with his Mental Interference Domain and used Electrolux's Purification Incantation to cleanse them.
• Huo Yuhao sent the purified Wraiths toward the Spirit Realm for reincarnation, and they offered him Power of Faith in gratitude.
• A Mermaid Soul stayed behind, sang a mournful final song, bowed to Huo Yuhao, and sent a faint blue glow toward him.
• Huo Yuhao caught the blue light from the Mermaid Soul.

Huo Yuhao took the Mermaid Soul into his Sea of Spirit, captured Abomination Douluo for his undead experiments, and stripped Dongyang City of its resources. He then reached the Ice Sea and waited for Beast Meridian to arrive.

• Huo Yuhao let the Mermaid Soul enter his Sea of Spirit, where she explored and disturbed Bear Lord and the other spirits.
• The Undead Squad captured Abomination Douluo, and Huo Yuhao ordered Lich Xiao Zhi to turn him into an Abomination while preserving his cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao sent the Undead Army to dismantle Dongyang City and carry away its Soul Tools and usable Rare Metal, fueling public anger against the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao flew to the Ice Sea, scanned its waters with his Mental Power, and activated Beast Meridian as he awaited his driver.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Bai traveled through the frigid Ice Sea to find the Sea Princess Clan, while a school of sardines tempted Xiao Bai to ask about grilled fish. Their journey stalled when several hundred tusked marine soul beasts spotted them from an iceberg and watched them with hostility.

• Xiao Bai arrived to take Huo Yuhao to the Mermaid Clan settlement, and he persuaded her that the trip honored their agreement.
• Huo Yuhao rode on Xiao Bai as she swam deeper into the Ice Sea, explaining little when she asked how he breathed underwater.
• Xiao Bai led Huo Yuhao farther north toward the Sea Princess Clan, assuring him she could help them escape if danger arose.
• Huo Yuhao detected a vast Sardine School, and Xiao Bai asked how quickly he could grill fish for her.
• Huo Yuhao noticed several hundred black, tusked soul beasts watching them from a distant iceberg, and Xiao Bai rose to identify them.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Bai encountered a large herd of Sea Demon Elephants in the Ice Sea, where the elephants attacked them with magical conches. After Xiao Bai revealed her fierce beast aura, Huo Yuhao learned that the Sea Princess had forbidden humans from entering the Ice Sea and that its sea beasts considered them enemies.

• Huo Yuhao identified the gathered Sea Demon Elephants and assessed their strength and weaknesses.
• Twelve Sea Demon Elephants blew Light Gold Giant Sea Conches to drain the surrounding air, but Huo Yuhao used Wind Manipulation to protect himself and Xiao Bai.
• The herd charged at Huo Yuhao and Xiao Bai, but Xiao Bai released her fierce beast aura, frightening the elephants and driving other Sea Soul Beasts away.
• Huo Yuhao questioned the Sea Demon Elephant Leader, who accused humans of deserving death and revealed the Sea Princess's ban on humans entering the Ice Sea.
• Huo Yuhao took the leader's conch and offered to release the herd if it answered his questions.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Sea Demon Elephant Leader’s magic conch could force flying objects out of the sky and recognized its potential against the Sun Moon Empire. He let the Sea Demon Elephants go with a reward and continued toward the Sea Princess’s clan, warned that humans who harmed her were angry.

• The Sea Demon Elephant Leader confirmed that the magic conch had anti-air power, and Huo Yuhao realized it could ground the Sun Moon Empire’s aerial Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether the Sea Demon Elephant Leader knew Xiao Bai or A Tai, then offered to arrange a safe place for the clan and warned that humans might exterminate them for the conch.
• The Sea Demon Elephant Leader insisted that its clan had to protect the Sea Princess and warned Huo Yuhao that her enemies were angry.
• Huo Yuhao gave the Sea Demon Elephant Leader a piece of Ten Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow as payment for the conch and promised to heed its warning.

Huo Yuhao traded Ten Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow for a Magic Conch and continued toward the Sea Princess Clan with Xiao Bai. After Knife-Shaped Strange Fish attacked them and Xiao Bai dispersed a powerful vortex, Huo Yuhao sensed that another creature was behind the assault.

• Huo Yuhao gave the Sea Demon Elephant Leader a small piece of Ten Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow in exchange for its Magic Conch.
• Xiao Bai carried Huo Yuhao onward as he considered the Sea Princess Clan’s hostility toward humans.
• A Knife-Shaped Strange Fish launched a sudden attack from beneath the sea, but Xiao Bai dodged it.
• A vortex appeared ahead and dozens of Knife-Shaped Strange Fish attacked Huo Yuhao and Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Bai canceled the vortex with a spinning water sphere, and Huo Yuhao’s Mental Shock scattered the fish.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to search for the creature that had created the vortex.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Bai encountered the Mermaid Clan’s defenses in the Ice Sea, where a mermaid Mental Power formation had concealed hundreds of Sea Soul Beasts. Xiao Bai subdued the whale Da Tou, and the mermaids explained that their defenses were meant to protect them from humans.

• Huo Yuhao detected a giant whale called Da Tou and a school of Blade Fish, but the Mermaid Clan’s illusion had hidden the larger group approaching them.
• Xiao Bai grew angry at Da Tou’s attack and dragged the whale toward her with her Devour power.
• A mermaid leader pleaded for Da Tou’s life, and Huo Yuhao saw that more than a hundred mermaids had combined their Mental Power in a Martial Soul Combination Technique.
• Xiao Bai demanded to know why the mermaids had dared to provoke a Sea Beast King, while the mermaid leader apologized and said their defenses were meant to guard against humans who had persecuted her clan.

Huo Yuhao sought to meet the Sea Princess Clan, return one of its kin for a final visit, and propose a friendly treaty. After the Sea Princess questioned his intentions, he summoned the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, leaving the mermaids stunned by their appearance.

• Huo Yuhao explained his peaceful intentions to the Crown Mermaid, but she rejected him and insisted the Sea Princess Clan would never welcome humans.
• The Sea Princess arrived and accused Huo Yuhao of polluting the sea and persecuting her people; Huo Yuhao threatened that the Taotie Douluo and Body Douluo would arrive in three days if the clan stopped him.
• After hearing the Crown Mermaid's account, the Sea Princess apologized to Huo Yuhao and asked him for proof of his purpose.
• The Crown Mermaid wept for her younger sister, and her tears turned into glowing pearls as the Sea Princess warned that crying drained her life force.
• Huo Yuhao used his vertical eye to summon the Snow Empress's Emperor Cold Heaven, then the Snow Empress and Ice Empress appeared before the Sea Princess.

Sea Princess explained that humans had tricked her people with false promises of Soul Spirits and turned Sea Soul Beasts into Wraiths and puppets. Huo Yuhao recognized the deception, and Sea Princess recounted the disastrous rescue attempt.

• Ice Empress told Huo Yuhao that Old I's safeguards had knocked the little girl unconscious while she explored his Sea of Spirit.
• Snow Empress met Sea Princess and asked why she had attacked Huo Yuhao before hearing him out.
• Sea Princess said humans had approached her two years earlier, claiming Soul Spirits could let dying Sea Soul Beasts live on without harming them.
• Sea Princess sent more than a thousand dying clansmen ashore for the promised ritual, believing they would become Soul Spirits.
• Sea Princess learned from her daughter that the humans had instead turned the first group into Wraiths and planned to make puppets from powerful Sea Soul Beasts.
• Sea Princess led a rescue, but the humans were prepared, and many of her people were killed while most captives remained unsaved.

The Sea Princess distrusted Huo Yuhao and his companions because Evil Soul Masters had deceived and harmed her clan, but Snow Empress explained that she and Icey were Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirits. After the Sea Princess recognized Huo Yuhao’s Shrek connection and Di Tian’s reverse scale, she accepted his identity and begged him to save her daughter, offering her precious golden tears in return.

• The Sea Princess recounted how humans had tortured her daughter and said she no longer trusted humans.
• Snow Empress explained that Evil Soul Masters had deceived the Sea Princess and revealed that she and Icey were Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirits.
• The Sea Princess rejected Snow Empress’s story and warned Xiao Bai that Huo Yuhao would eventually devour her as a Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao ate a Golden Ancient Tree fruit, and Xiao Bai said that Huo Yuhao already had Bear Lord as his Seventh Soul Ring.
• The Sea Princess and Li Jing saw Di Tian’s reverse scale around Huo Yuhao’s neck and accepted that he was genuine.
• The Sea Princess apologized and offered her golden pearl tears to Huo Yuhao, pleading with him to save Li Jing.

Huo Yuhao accepted the Sea Princess’s invitation and traveled with her, her daughter, and Xiao Bai to the mermaid palace beneath the sea. There, he found the Sea Princess’s dying daughter and examined her condition after the Sea Princess begged him to save her.

• Huo Yuhao returned the Sea Princess’s Golden Pearl and said he might have met her other daughter, then asked to talk somewhere safe.
• The Sea Princess carried Huo Yuhao and Xiao Bai in a Blue Bubble to her underwater realm, where mermaids bowed to her and her daughter.
• Huo Yuhao shattered the bubble and calmly endured the pressure thousands of meters beneath the sea, surprising the Sea Princess.
• The Sea Princess and her daughter led Huo Yuhao to a coral room, where a mermaid girl lay close to death on a Cold Jade Bed.
• The Sea Princess begged Huo Yuhao to save her child and promised to agree to any request; Huo Yuhao examined the girl and felt relieved.

Huo Yuhao explained that the Little Princess’s soul had been badly damaged and separated from her body, but revealed that he had purified her wraith and was keeping her soul safe in his Sea of Spirit. He began clearing the resentment from her body, and the process showed how Ten Thousand Souls Douluo had tortured her and extracted her soul.

• Huo Yuhao diagnosed the Little Princess’s condition as severe soul damage and explained that her soul had separated from her body.
• Huo Yuhao reassured the Sea Princess and her eldest daughter that the Little Princess’s soul was alive and temporarily residing in his Sea of Spirit.
• The Sea Princess declined to risk bringing her daughter’s soul out and offered Huo Yuhao treasures in exchange for treating her.
• Huo Yuhao began a ritual to remove the resentment from the Little Princess’s body, forming a gray, face-shaped Rune with his Mental Power.
• The Rune revealed a memory of Ten Thousand Souls Douluo chaining and torturing the Mermaid Princess as wraiths circled her.
• A phantom shaped like the Mermaid Princess’s head emerged, confirming that the Mermaid Wraith in Ten Thousand Souls Douluo’s banner had come from her.

Huo Yuhao began a Soul Guiding Ritual to return the Mermaid Princess's soul to her body after Ten Thousand Souls Douluo had turned it into a wraith. She awakened in terror and fought the ritual, so Huo Yuhao pressed his Black Dragon Reverse Scale to her forehead to force her to stop resisting.

• Huo Yuhao healed the Mermaid Princess's body and warned the Sea Princess not to interrupt the Soul Guiding Ritual.
• Huo Yuhao chanted and guided the Mermaid Princess's residual Mental Power into a golden path leading back to her shell.
• The Mermaid Princess's soul returned to her shell, and she opened her eyes as intense fear and memories of pain overwhelmed her.
• The Mermaid Princess fought to escape, shaking the Magic Array and cracking the six-pointed star beneath Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao pressed his Black Dragon Reverse Scale against the Mermaid Princess's forehead to force her to submit.

Huo Yuhao calmed the Mermaid Princess when she bestowed Mermaid’s Blessing on him, then refused her offer to become his Soul Spirit. The princess woke, saw her family’s disapproving faces, and fainted again.

• Huo Yuhao stabilized the Mermaid Princess’s soul, and her Mermaid’s Blessing calmed her hysterical emotions.
• The Sea Princess explained that the blessing brought good fortune and made its recipient a friend of the Mermaid Clan.
• The Mermaid Princess offered to become Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit, but he refused and asked to discuss it after she reunited with her family.
• The Sea Princess realized her daughter also wanted to use her tears to strengthen Huo Yuhao’s Mental Power and grew angry.
• The Mermaid Princess woke, saw her mother and sister’s disapproving looks, and fainted again.