Chapter Summaries

After the Star Luo Empire’s army suffered heavy losses while Dai Hao lay unconscious, he awoke and returned to command, slowing the Sun Moon Empire’s advance. He ordered Dai Yueheng to escort Dai Luoli and Luoxin to Canghui Academy, and Dai Yueheng went to fetch them.

• Huo Yuhao gave Golden Body Douluo firearms and Soul Guidance Bullets to demonstrate them to the Heaven Soul Empire and secure Canghui Academy’s first major customer.
• News spread that Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie had attacked Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, and the Sun Moon Empire launched an assault after confirming Dai Hao was gravely wounded.
• Dai Hao remained unconscious for three days despite treatment, while the Star Luo Empire lost several cities to the advancing Sun Moon Empire.
• Dai Hao woke, ordered Dai Yueheng to escort Dai Luoli and Luoxin to Canghui Academy, and then went to resume command of the army.
• Dai Hao returned as marshal, boosting Star Luo morale and curbing the Sun Moon Empire’s offensive, while Dai Yueheng found Dai Luoli and Luoxin and told them he would escort them to Canghui Academy.

Dai Yueheng brought the convoy toward Shandou City while Du Busi arrived at Canghui Academy and confirmed that Ju Zi’s unborn child was Huo Yuhao’s. Du Busi promised to protect Ju Zi, and Muxue and Vina then presented Xu Jie with an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone as a gift for the academy.

• Dai Yueheng learned that Huo Yuhao was the Body Sect’s Young Sect Master and headed for Shandou City, while the Sea God Pavilion elders regretted losing Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie.
• Du Busi arrived at Canghui Academy, scolded Huo Yuhao for acting without him, and accompanied him and Xu Jie to meet Ju Zi.
• Du Busi tested Ju Zi’s blood and confirmed that her unborn child was Huo Yuhao’s, then promised to protect her and took over as Canghui Academy’s chief of security.
• Muxue and Vina visited Xu Jie and presented an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone to the academy.

Xu Jie explained that Muxue could not absorb the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone without help from an Ultimate Ice soul master, while Vina negotiated with Canghui Academy over firearm-type Soul Tools. Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi arrived, leaving the discussions to continue with them.

• Xu Jie told Muxue and Vina that the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone required Ultimate Ice to absorb, and Muxue asked whether Huo Yuhao could help her.
• Xu Jie refused to promise Huo Yuhao's help and asked Vina to explain her purpose for visiting.
• Vina represented the Heaven Dou Empire and proposed discussing firearm-type Soul Tools, including adapting them for civilians, but Xu Jie rejected that idea.
• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi returned to the dean's office after showing Du Busi around the academy, and Xu Jie directed Vina to discuss the matter with them.
• Huo Yuhao noticed the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone and soothed the enraged Ice Empress in his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

Vina agreed to buy Canghui Academy’s firearm-type Soul Tools for the Heaven Soul Empire after negotiating a discounted price with Ju Zi. After Huo Yuhao rejected Vina’s marriage overture by revealing his relationship with Ju Zi, the academy turned to expanding production, while Xu Jie unexpectedly found Dugu Lu looking at Qian Ran with a maternal glow.

• Vina accepted the academy’s offer and signed a prepared contract at a price lower than the one she and Xu Qiu'er had discussed.
• Vina asked whether Huo Yuhao had someone he loved, and Huo Yuhao kissed Ju Zi on the forehead to show that they were together.
• Xu Jie called for Xiao Xiao and left, while Vina and Muxue departed with Ju Zi.
• Ju Zi took Huo Yuhao to the Dugu Family to recruit low-level Soul Engineers through its merchant networks.
• Xu Jie searched the training grounds for Xiao Xiao, then noticed Dugu Lu looking at Qian Ran with a maternal glow.

Xu Jie investigated the strange bond between Dugu Lu and Qian Ran after examining a broken tombstone and Qian Ran’s Angel Godly Armor soul bone. He discovered Rakshasa divine power in the bone, survived its attempt to corrupt him, and concluded that Dugu Lu might be affected by Bibi Dong as he pressed to inspect Dugu Lu’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

• Xu Jie and Ye Guyi discussed Dugu Lu’s unusual behavior and Qian Ran’s growing dependence on him, then took them to the teachers’ office to assemble the broken stone slab.
• The slab showed an angel holding a sickle, and Xu Jie inferred that the tomb might contain something connected to Bibi Dong; Dugu Lu insisted that the tomb had held only Qian Ran’s soul bone.
• Xu Jie sensed Rakshasa divine power in the soul bone, but it struck his Sun Imprint and briefly released evil power before a ring of flame destroyed the corruption.
• Xu Jie pointed out that Dugu Lu treated Qian Ran like a daughter and himself like her mother, prompting both of them to protest the idea of Dugu Lu becoming Qian Ran’s male mom.
• Xu Jie suspected that Bibi Dong might possess Dugu Lu and demanded to inspect his Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

Xu Jie entered Dugu Lu’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness and encountered the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe, which left Dugu Lu and attached itself to Xu Jie. The scythe marked Xu Jie’s hand and granted him the ability to summon it, while the Rakshasa God Temple’s sudden activation alarmed the God Realm.

• Xu Jie overcame the resentment around Dugu Lu’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness and entered it with his Spiritual Power.
• Xu Jie approached the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe, withdrew when it corrupted the magic circles, and offered to help it take revenge and see Qian Renxue.
• The Rakshasa Demonic Scythe left Dugu Lu’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness and attempted to enter Xu Jie’s, but the Sun Imprint turned it away.
• The scythe settled on the back of Xu Jie’s left hand as a mark, giving him the ability to summon it while conveying Bibi Dong’s faint resentment.
• The Rakshasa God Temple emitted dark-purple light toward the Douluo Plane, and Tang could only rage helplessly as the God Realm noticed.

Xu Jie revealed the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe, but Dugu Lu refused to take it after learning it had secretly altered his memories, then recounted what had happened during his search for soul bones. Meanwhile, Tang Hao brought Xuan Zi and Mu En’s Dragon Egg to the Golden Tree, where the egg’s leaking life energy stopped.

• Xu Jie summoned the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe, and Dugu Lu recovered his memories and realized it had altered them without his knowledge.
• Xu Jie explained that the scythe was the Rakshasa God’s inheritance artifact and offered it to Dugu Lu, who refused to accept it.
• Xu Jie put the scythe away, and Dugu Lu began recounting his and Qian Ran’s search for soul bones.
• Xuan Zi asked Tang Hao for help because Mu En’s Dragon Egg was losing life energy, and Tang Hao said it needed the right environment to hatch.
• Tang Hao took Xuan Zi and the Dragon Egg to the underground cavern beneath Shrek Academy, where the egg stopped losing life energy upon reaching the Blue Silver Grass.

Tang Hao warned Xuan Zi that the gray mark on the cocoon would draw someone seeking it within a year, and asked the Sea God Pavilion to protect the Golden Tree. In Shandou City, Huo Yuhao tested a formation linked to buried Soul Energy Stones, then faced an enraged Xuan Ziwen.

• Tang Hao showed Xuan Zi the growing gray mark and explained that the Golden Tree could suppress it for at most another year, while its fusion needed three years to finish.
• Xuan Zi promised the Sea God Pavilion would protect the Golden Tree and its growth.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao buried a Soul Energy Stone beneath a dilapidated building in Shandou City.
• Huo Yuhao activated a gray hexagram that connected six Soul Energy Stones around the city, causing a brief tremor and confirming the formation worked.
• Huo Yuhao discovered Xu Jie had disappeared and saw Xuan Ziwen fly toward him from the Soul Guidance Laboratory, furious and holding a carving knife.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao explained their plan to protect Shandou City by transferring it into the Undead Demigod Plane if danger arose, then reunited with Dai Luoli and Luoxin at Canghui Academy. The chapter ended with Luoxin asking whether they had ever blamed her, and both said they had not.

• Xu Jie explained that he and Huo Yuhao had placed six Soul Energy Stone pillars around Shandou City to teleport it to the Undead Demigod Plane if Ye Xishui threatened the city.
• Xuan Ziwen ordered Huo Yuhao to spend three days studying with him after Huo Yuhao apologized for interrupting his research.
• Du Busi told Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao that people from Duke White Tiger's Mansion had arrived, and they hurried to meet Dai Luoli, Dai Yueheng, and Luoxin.
• Luoxin recognized Huo Yuhao as Huo Yun'er's child and Xu Jie as the Little Bookboy, then entered Canghui Academy with them and Dai Luoli.
• Dai Yueheng hesitated before joining the others, and Luoxin asked Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao whether they had ever blamed her; both said no.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao welcomed Luoxin, Dai Luoli, and later Ji Juechen to Canghui Academy as the school and Shandou City expanded under Ju Zi’s management. Huo Yuhao demonstrated Spiritual Detection to the newly recruited Soul Engineers, who were astonished by how clearly it let them see their work.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao thanked Luoxin for secretly helping Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao in the past, and Luoxin admitted she had felt guilty about Huo Yun'er's death.
• Ju Zi arranged accommodations for Luoxin and Dai Luoli, while Dai Yueheng took a list of Soul Guidance Firearms and returned to the Star Luo Empire.
• Ji Juechen returned to Shandou City with fewer than thirty low-ranking Soul Engineers, and Jing Ziyan eagerly took him away after learning he was back.
• Ju Zi expanded Canghui Academy and Shandou City, while Wang Bing joined the Soul Guidance Hall and gradually handed Ju Zi control of the city’s affairs.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection on the recruited Soul Engineers, and those who connected to it were amazed by the clarity it gave them while crafting Soul Tools.

Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi established the Soul Guidance Hall, using Spiritual Detection Sharing to train Soul Engineers and recruit more talent. Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao organized three sect-run production lines in the Undead Demigod Plane, and mass production of firearms and bullets began.

• Huo Yuhao offered Soul Engineers daily Spiritual Detection Sharing, while Canghui Academy set production duties, lectures, and recruitment rewards.
• Xu Jie sent Ji Juechen to the Proud Sword Sect and visited the Earth Dragon Sect and Heaven Dragon Sect to secure their participation in Soul Guidance Assembly Lines.
• Xu Jie won over the Earth Dragon Sect and Heaven Dragon Sect and gave Nan Qiuqiu a Dragon Claw Hand manual; the Clear Sky Sect agreed to join Huo Yuhao's plan.
• Ji Juechen became the Proud Sword Sect's sect master after three sword strikes, then returned the token to Wu Jian, while Xu Jie gave the sect five basic sword techniques.
• Ju Zi assigned leaders to the three production lines, and over half a month Soul Guidance Metal was made into firearms and bullets as the Soul Engineers met their quotas.

Half a year after Shandou City began developing under Ju Zi’s leadership, Huo Yuhao reached Rank 80 while helping defend the city and support its Soul Guidance Hall. After Xu Jie checked Ju Zi’s pregnancy, Huo Yuhao revealed plans to travel with Xu Jie to the Ice Sea to seek a soul ring and recruit the Sea Soul Beasts into the Soul Beast Alliance.

• Xu Jie killed an Evil Soul Master near Shandou City after Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection confirmed the area was clear.
• Shandou City expanded under Ju Zi’s leadership, while Huo Yuhao’s cultivation rose seven ranks to Rank 80 and the Soul Guidance Hall’s engineers improved.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao visited Ju Zi, and Xu Jie examined her and confirmed that she and the fetus were healthy.
• Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi and Xiao Xiao that he and Xu Jie planned to travel to the Ice Sea to seek his eighth soul ring and contact the Sea Princesses about joining the Soul Beast Alliance.
• Xu Jie continued inspecting academy students and testing whether his internal cultivation method could help children with awakened martial souls but no Innate Soul Power cultivate Soul Power.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao traveled through Sun Moon Empire territory toward Dongyang City, where they encountered Beibei and learned that Tang Ya was there. They passed the city and continued toward the Ice Sea, while Xuan Zi, Xian Lin'er, and Beibei entered Dongyang City to retrieve her.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao left Canghui Academy and crossed into the Sun Moon Empire, observing its efforts to awaken civilians' martial souls and its retreat from the war fronts.
• Huo Yuhao detected Beibei pursuing three Evil Soul Masters, but Xian Lin'er arrived and killed them before Xu Jie could test the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe.
• Xian Lin'er told Beibei that Tang Ya was in Dongyang City, and she and Beibei brought the captive Evil Soul Master to Xuan Zi before the three set out to find her.
• Ju Zi dismissed Shrek Academy's cooperation with the Tang Sect and criticized the value of adapting its hidden weapons into Soul Tools.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao reached Dongyang City, continued toward the Ice Sea, and flew there after confirming no High-Altitude Detection Soul Guidance Devices were overhead.
• Xuan Zi, Xian Lin'er, and Beibei entered Dongyang City in disguise while Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao traveled onward into the frigid coastal region.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao followed the Snow Maiden into the Ice Sea to investigate, where hostile Sea Soul Beasts attacked them and Xu Jie used his soul skills to stop a massive vortex. After a deep-blue whale surfaced, the Snow Maiden sensed that the Sea Princess had arrived.

• Huo Yuhao asked Xu Jie when they would go to Shrek Academy to find Xiao Yun'er, and Xu Jie said they would go after Ju Zi gave birth to Xiao Yunhan.
• The Snow Maiden located their target, and Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao followed her north through the Ice Sea.
• The Snow Maiden warned them that the hostile Sea Soul Beasts likely blamed humans for an attack by Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Jie caught two saber-shaped fish with Universal Pull as they attacked Huo Yuhao.
• Dozens of saberfish burst from a vortex beneath a shattered iceberg, and Xu Jie blasted them away and dispersed the vortex with Almighty Push.
• A wounded, sixty-meter deep-blue whale surfaced, and the Snow Maiden announced that the Sea Princess was coming.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao were teleported into the Ice Sea, where merfolk surrounded them and suppressed their Spiritual Detection with a linked power. Snow Maiden went to negotiate with the Mermaid Leader, and a golden-crowned mermaid appeared after the merfolk parted.

• A cold voice teleported Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao into the ocean, where Xu Jie repelled the water pressure and Huo Yuhao endured it with his physical strength.
• Xu Jie lit a golden fireball and revealed hundreds of Sea Soul Beasts and merfolk surrounding them.
• The Mermaid Leader told Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao that the ocean's power suppressed their Spiritual Power, while Huo Yuhao realized the merfolk had linked their Spiritual Fluctuations into a net.
• Snow Maiden arrived and used Spiritual Detection Sharing to tell Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao she would negotiate with the merfolk.
• After Snow Maiden spoke with the merfolk, they parted to reveal a golden-crowned mermaid with golden tail scales.

Xu Jie refused to accept the Sea Princess’s threats and fought back, while Huo Yuhao was trapped under her spiritual suppression. Remembering the teachings about Body Martial Souls, Huo Yuhao awakened his power by confronting a vision of Tang San and Tang Wutong, and broke free of the Sea Princess’s restraints.

• Xu Jie stopped Huo Yuhao from showing the Soul Contract and challenged the Sea Princess after sensing the mermaids’ killing intent.
• The Sea Princess attacked Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao with crushing ocean pressure and spiritual suppression, while Xu Jie urged Huo Yuhao to awaken his Body Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao recalled Du Busi’s teachings and saw a vision in which Tang San threatened Ju Zi and her child, while another Huo Yuhao showed no concern for them.
• Huo Yuhao comforted Ju Zi, slapped the other Huo Yuhao, and cursed Tang San and Tang Wutong before charging at them.
• Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power erupted, shattered the vision, and broke the Sea Princess’s restraints.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao fought the Sea Princess and her mermaids, then Xu Jie defeated and wounded the Sea Princess. He forced her to choose between death and becoming Huo Yuhao’s soul beast, and Xiao Jin prepared a Completely Unequal Soul Contract.

• Xu Jie used his Sun Martial Soul to repel the mermaids’ mental attack and heat the surrounding sea, but the Sea Princess countered with the Heart of the Ocean.
• The Sea Princess attacked Xu Jie with a pillar of ocean energy, and he struck the golden Trident Mark with the Golden Dragon Spear before Huo Yuhao shielded him from the blast.
• Huo Yuhao’s companions disrupted the mermaids’ formation while Xu Jie used the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe to drive the Sea Princess mad and shatter the Trident Mark.
• Xu Jie killed two mermaids despite the Mermaid Leader’s pleas, then pierced the Sea Princess with the Golden Dragon Spear and explained the Soul Contract System.
• The Sea Princess agreed under threat, and Xiao Jin revealed the Completely Unequal Soul Contract, which gave one side absolute control over the other.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao completed the unequal soul contract with the Sea Princess, using the Evil Emperor's attack to subdue her. Huo Yuhao absorbed the Heart of the Ocean and the Sea Princess's soul ring, reaching level eighty-three as she emerged from the cocoon much smaller.

• Xu Jie removed the Golden Dragon Spear, but the Sea Princess realized the magic ring was draining her power and accused Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao of tricking her.
• Huo Yuhao called on the Evil Eye Tyrant, and the Evil Emperor knocked the Sea Princess unconscious with a mental attack.
• Xiao Jin guided the Soul Contract Array into the Sea Princess's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, forming a blue-gold cocoon around her.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Heart of the Ocean, which transformed his heart and left a blue hexagonal crystal phantom within it.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the blue-gold soul ring and broke through to level eighty-three.
• The cocoon shattered, revealing the Sea Princess's smaller form, and a strand of blue-gold light turned one of Xiao Jin's golden neck hairs blue-gold.

The Sea Princess explained that humans had deceived her clan with promises of a Soul Spirit system, turning most of the Sea Soul Beasts she sent ashore into Resentful Spirits. Xu Jie recognized the scheme and, sensing a connection to his own chilling aura, demanded to know whether the humans responsible had felt like him.

• The Sea Princess realized Xu Jie’s Soul Contract System had restored her life and argued with him about who had started the fight.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether humans had harmed the Sea Princesses, and the Sea Princess described humans who had approached her with a new cultivation method.
• Xu Jie suspected the method was the Soul Spirit System, and the Sea Princess confirmed that the humans had demonstrated a real Soul Spirit.
• The Sea Princess sent dying clansmen ashore for the ritual, then trusted the humans when they claimed Sea Soul Beasts could split off Soul Spirits and gain another life.
• The Sea Princess’s youngest daughter warned her that most of the clansmen had been turned into Resentful Spirits, and Xu Jie asked whether the humans’ auras had resembled his current aura.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao agreed to help the Sea Princess deal with the Evil Soul Masters and followed her to the mermaid palace to see her dying younger daughter. The chapter ended with them looking upon the young mermaid, whose life force was nearly gone.

• Xu Jie offered to kill the Evil Soul Masters and suggested they first try to save the Sea Princess’s younger daughter.
• The Sea Princess led Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao through the ocean in a protective bubble to the mermaid settlement.
• The mermaids welcomed the Sea Princess and her daughter back as they entered the Coral Palace.
• The Sea Princess and the Mermaid Leader brought Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao to the room where the younger daughter lay near death.