Chapter Summaries

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao persuaded Xu Shenkai to surrender his imperial-prince identity in exchange for a new life at Canghui Academy. Xu Jie copied Xu Shenkai’s memories and examined his Sun Martial Soul and soul skills.

• Xu Shenkai agreed to cooperate after Huo Yuhao confirmed they represented Canghui Academy, not the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Shenkai explained that he feared for his life in the palace, where most of his brothers had disappeared.
• Xu Jie copied Xu Shenkai’s memories while Huo Yuhao used his spiritual power to calm him.
• Huo Yuhao gave Xu Shenkai a Silver Pearl to replenish his spiritual power, and Xu Shenkai accepted it.
• Xu Shenkai summoned his Sun Martial Soul, and Xu Jie copied its appearance before asking to see his soul skills.

Xu Tianran traveled to the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer camp to inspect the troops while Huo Yuhao prepared to support Shrek Academy’s attack on Bright City. Huo Yuhao located Tianyang Douluo’s group and began linking them through Spiritual Detection Sharing, but withdrew the connection from He Caitou and the Shrek Titled Douluo after they questioned Tianyang’s choice of helper.

• Xu Jie urged Huo Yuhao to find Tianyang Douluo and warn him to avoid the death row prison during the attack, and Huo Yuhao followed Xu Tianran’s carriage before heading to Bright City’s outskirts.
• Long Xiaoyao spotted Huo Yuhao outside the carriage, recognized him, and relaxed without telling Xu Tianran what he had noticed.
• Xu Tianyuan welcomed Xu Tianran and the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion as Xu Tianran arrived at the camp to inspect the troops.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection located Tianyang Douluo, ten Titled Douluo, and He Caitou, and he connected with Tianyang Douluo to coordinate the attack.
• He Caitou recognized Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Fluctuation and challenged Tianyang Douluo for choosing him as a helper, so Huo Yuhao withdrew the connection from He Caitou and the two Shrek Titled Douluo.

Huo Yuhao helped Tianyang Douluo’s forces attack Bright City, while Xuan Zi confronted Xu Tianran and Ye Xishui turned against the emperor. As the attackers prepared to withdraw, a silver-armored old man trapped them in a barrier wielding the Power of Space, and Xu Jie urged Huo Yuhao to swap places with him.

• Tianyang Douluo’s Titled Douluo accepted Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing, then attacked Bright City and shattered its Soul Guidance Shield with Huo Yuhao’s guidance.
• Tianyang Douluo’s forces destroyed much of the imperial city while He Caitou fired missiles, and Xu Tianran ordered the Yellow Dragon Soul Engineer Legion to return and defend Bright City.
• Xuan Zi attacked Xu Tianran, but Ye Xishui unleashed her Blood Soul Demonic Puppet against the emperor before darkness engulfed Xu Tianran, Ye Xishui, and the legion.
• Zhongli Wu escaped the darkness and signaled a retreat, while Xuan Zi and the other Super Douluo withdrew and Huo Yuhao stopped retreating Evil Soul Masters from harming civilians.
• Tianyang Douluo ordered his forces to retreat, but a silver-armored old man trapped them in a barrier; Xu Jie warned Huo Yuhao that the old man wielded the Power of Space and told him to swap places with him.

Xu Jie intervened in the battle at Sun Moon Imperial City, using spatial power to stop Kong Deming’s devastating attack and reveal his identity. He told Kong Deming he had come only to rescue someone, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xu Jie used the Gate of the Undead to reach Huo Yuhao and told him to continue the plan by throwing Xu Shenkai to Xu Jie’s original position.
• Huo Yuhao sent the unconscious Xu Shenkai to Xu Jie, then followed the Evil Soul Masters toward the Evil Demon Forest.
• Xu Jie broke through Kong Deming’s silver barrier and discovered that Kong Deming had mastered spatial confinement despite not being a Super Douluo.
• Kong Deming gathered the power of nearly a hundred Soul Engineers and unleashed a devastating beam at Xu Jie.
• Xu Jie stopped the beam with a miniature Black Hole, revealed his identity to Kong Deming, and said he had come only to save someone.

Xu Jie escaped after removing the attackers, while Kong Deming rushed to the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion and found Xu Tianran poisoned by Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao. The physicians declared Xu Tianran beyond saving, and two youths in ceremonial robes arrived as the court prepared for his final words.

• Xu Jie vanished, then returned beneath the imperial city ruins and disguised himself as Xu Shenkai.
• Kong Deming saw a blood-red beam rise from the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion’s camp and flew there.
• Xu Tianyuan escaped the darkened camp carrying the unconscious Xu Tianran, while Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui withdrew after declaring the Holy Spirit Cult finished.
• Kong Deming learned that Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui had betrayed the empire and brought Xu Tianran back to the imperial city.
• The physicians determined that Ye Xishui’s Blood Demon Poison had no cure, so Kong Deming ordered Heart Strengthening Pills for Xu Tianran’s final moments.
• A eunuch arrived with writing materials, followed by a dust-covered man escorting two youths in ceremonial robes.

Xu Tianran briefly recovered after receiving the Heart Strengthening Pill, issued urgent orders, and named Xu Shenkai as his successor. As his borrowed vitality faded, he left the Sun Moon Empire's throne to his younger brother.

• Kong Deming learned that Xu Shenkai had survived unharmed because he had been imprisoned in the less-damaged death row cells.
• Physicians injected Xu Tianran with two doses of the Heart Strengthening Pill, briefly restoring his appearance and waking him.
• Xu Tianran ordered the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion to destroy the Dou Spirit Imperial Family and urged Kong Deming to continue the Hall of Reverence's research.
• Xu Tianran learned that Princess Tianzhen was safe, then called Xu Shenkai to his side and declared that he would inherit the empire.
• Xu Tianran dictated a final decree naming Xu Shenkai emperor and instructing the officials to support him.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Evil Demon Forest as the Holy Spirit Cult evacuated its Main Altar, and he prepared to destroy the cult’s underground stronghold with seventeen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Missiles. He planned to rescue Jian Ren and Wang Xin before detonating the missiles, while Zhang Peng headed to Canghui Academy with a Consecration Token.

• Feng Ling asked Zhongli Wu why the Holy Spirit Cult was suddenly evacuating, but he said he did not know because Mother and Elder Long had made the decision.
• Huo Yuhao met Zhang Peng outside the Main Altar and gave him a Canghui Academy Consecration Token, saying Jian Ren and Wang Xin had tokens too.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his immense Spiritual Power, convincing Zhang Peng that he could face the Holy Spirit Cult alone, and warned him to avoid Bright City.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the luxurious underground stronghold and its thousands of occupants, supplies, and treasures beneath the clearing.
• Huo Yuhao linked his Spiritual Power to seventeen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Missiles and decided to save Jian Ren and Wang Xin before blowing up the stronghold.

Huo Yuhao attacked the Holy Spirit Cult’s Main Altar with the Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Missile Storm of Destruction, then descended with three soul beasts to confront the surviving Evil Soul Masters. After rescuing Jian Ren and Wang Xin, he began fighting Feng Ling as Zhongli Wu summoned a strange black shadow.

• Huo Yuhao threw Storm of Destruction into the clearing, and the missile’s Metal Bombs detonated among the Holy Spirit Cult’s Soul Tools, killing nearly all the Evil Soul Masters there.
• Zhongli Wu and the other higher-ups fled the blast, while Huo Yuhao appeared in the sky with three soul beasts and sealed the altar clearing behind a towering ice wall.
• Huo Yuhao threw a token to Jian Ren and Wang Xin, then used a white halo to hinder the surviving Evil Soul Masters as the token’s gray light transported the two away.
• Huo Yuhao amplified his power with the Sea Princess’s soul ring and Octagonal’s Ultimate Ice Amplification before diving toward the Holy Spirit Cult’s higher-ups.
• Feng Ling attacked Huo Yuhao with Dark Phoenix flames, but he froze the flames and overwhelmed her with Spiritual Power; Zhongli Wu then summoned a bandaged black shadow by feeding it Resentful Spirits.

Huo Yuhao captured Ma Xiaotao and used gray light to make her vanish, then provoked Zhongli Wu while Feng Ling sacrificed herself to empower him. Huo Yuhao detonated the seventeen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Missiles beneath the Holy Spirit Cult's Main Altar and protected himself and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as the blast devastated the Evil Demon Forest.

• Huo Yuhao broke through Ma Xiaotao's fire wall, seized her, and made her vanish with a gray six-pointed star after she begged him to kill her.
• Feng Ling sacrificed her body and soul to empower Zhongli Wu, who merged with the God of Death Puppet and reached power comparable to a Limit Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao mocked Zhongli Wu and announced his ultimate art before piercing the seventeen buried Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Missiles with his Spiritual Power.
• As the missiles activated and the Ultimate Ice wall cracked, Huo Yuhao pulled Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass close and formed an emerald-green ice cocoon around them.
• The missiles exploded, destroying most of the Evil Demon Forest and leaving only an area shielded by a silver-gray spiritual barrier intact.

Xu Jie became the Sun Moon Empire’s heir as explosions struck Bright City and the Holy Spirit Cult’s Main Altar. After detonating the Main Altar, Huo Yuhao survived the blast with Snow Maiden and Little White, but a furious presence tracked him through his Spiritual Detection.

• Kong Deming gave Xu Jie a Flying Soul Guidance Device and identified the explosion site as the Evil Demon Forest, where the Holy Spirit Cult’s Main Altar stood.
• Xuan Zi confronted the Golden Body Douluo about Canghui Academy’s role in the attack, and the Douluo said Huo Yuhao was in Bright City to meet Tian Yang and the others.
• Huo Yuhao crawled out of the blast crater with Octagonal and confirmed that Snow Maiden and Little White had survived, though Snow Maiden was injured.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection reached a silver-gray barrier, which contracted and unleashed a furious Spiritual Fluctuation that locked onto him.

Huo Yuhao sent Snow Maiden, Little White, and Octagonal away before confronting the Evil Emperor in a battle of Spiritual Power. As he endured the Evil Emperor’s attacks, Huo Yuhao secretly sent his Spiritual Origin into a spatial crack and revealed that he had begun to wield the Power of Space.

• Huo Yuhao told the Evil Emperor to wait while he sent Snow Maiden, Little White, and Octagonal to the Undead Demigod Plane.
• The Evil Emperor attacked Huo Yuhao with a dark-red beam, and the two clashed in a spiritual storm above the Evil Demon Forest.
• Huo Yuhao flew into the sky to draw the battle away as his Spiritual Origin secretly entered a spatial crack in the crater.
• The Evil Emperor struck Huo Yuhao with his tentacles, but Huo Yuhao endured the blows and grabbed one while canceling its spatial intent.
• Huo Yuhao revealed a faint Power of Space and announced that the battle was only beginning.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao arranged for Xiao Yun'er to purify Ma Xiaotao’s evil aura in the Undead Demigod Plane. After Ma Xiaotao accepted the purification, Xu Jie and Du Busi gave her a token and tasked her with killing every Evil Soul Master on the continent.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao brought Ma Xiaotao into the Undead Demigod Plane, where Xiao Yun'er began purifying her evil aura.
• Du Busi restrained Ma Xiaotao when she awoke and begged to be killed.
• Xu Jie told Ma Xiaotao she had to repay her sins, and she stopped resisting and began cooperating with Xiao Yun'er’s purification.
• Xu Jie offered Ma Xiaotao golden-red paste, while Du Busi gave her a token and ordered her to kill every Evil Soul Master on the continent.

Ma Xiaotao used the Blazing Gel and the power of purification to purge the evil energy from her body, then attacked Zhang Peng and the other Evil Soul Masters. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao met the Roaring King Whale clan and welcomed its patriarch Hoho’s interest in joining the Soul Beast Alliance.

• Ma Xiaotao ate the Blazing Gel and meditated while Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao moved her away from the Ancient Tree of Life and Death.
• Ma Xiaotao transformed her dark-red phoenix flames into golden-red flames and returned to normal.
• Ma Xiaotao recognized Zhang Peng, Blood Sword Douluo, and Wang Xin’s group, then attacked them while Du Busi took Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao farther away.
• Huo Yuhao and the Evil Sovereign searched the Sun Moon Empire’s eastern beaches, and Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Fluctuations to summon the sea creatures.
• Hoho, patriarch of the Roaring King Whale clan, arrived with the Sea Princess, Liya, and Vina and told Huo Yuhao that the clan was interested in a soul contract.
• Huo Yuhao welcomed Hoho and the Roaring King Whale clan to the Soul Beast Alliance.

Huo Yuhao introduced the Soul Contract System and the Soul Beast Alliance to the experts he had brought to the eastern coast of the Sun Moon Empire, then arranged for them to travel toward the Star Luo Empire aboard Hoho. He left the chapter confronting He Caitou after the latter questioned why the system was not public.

• The Sea Princess, Vina, and Liya arrived, and Evil Lord Youyou asked the Sea Princess whether she had a partner; she said she did not.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Gate of the Undead and brought Tianyang Douluo, Lionheart Douluo, Shadowthorn Douluo, He Caitou, and other experts to the beach.
• Evil Lord threatened the two Shrek Academy Titled Douluo after sensing their killing intent toward Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao told him to withdraw his power.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his nine soul rings and confirmed that the Soul Contract System was real, then invited the experts to join the Soul Beast Alliance and explained their route to the Star Luo Empire.
• Hoho carried the experts across the sea while Huo Yuhao promoted the system; when He Caitou asked why it was not made public, Huo Yuhao pointed out Shrek Academy's captive soul beasts, and terrifying auras pressed He Caitou to the ground.

Xu Jie, Huo Yuhao, Ji Juechen, and Du Busi attacked the Sun Moon Empire forces ravaging Spirit Douluo City and captured their rear Soul Guidance position. After the battle spread through the city, Huo Yuhao and the Proud Sword Sect’s disciples arrived to help.

• Huo Yuhao detected a fortified Soul Guidance position south of Spirit Douluo City, and Ji Juechen and Du Busi broke in and slaughtered its defenders while Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao stored the position in the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao saw the crater left by a Class 9 Soul Guidance Cannonball, while Ji Juechen and Du Busi attacked the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion’s forces in the city.
• Ji Juechen and Du Busi killed more than two hundred Soul Engineers before confronting Xia Xuanchen, who used a crystal and linked Soul Tools to resist them.
• Ji Juechen killed a thug who was attacking a woman, and Huo Yuhao arrived on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion with disciples of the Proud Sword Sect emerging behind him.

Huo Yuhao and the Proud Sword Sect restored order in Spirit Douluo City, while Canghui Academy sent Xue Qing to claim the Dou Spirit throne as a puppet emperor. Ju Zi watched the academy’s commoner students embrace a future opened by their education and cultivation.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to direct the Proud Sword Sect in suppressing crime and helped the city's officials restore order in Spirit Douluo City.
• Du Busi returned to Canghui Academy with Xiao Yun'er and Xu Jie, where Ju Zi prepared Xue Qing and his Soul Contract Soul Beast Cole for their mission.
• Ju Zi ordered Xue Qing to become the new emperor of the Dou Spirit Imperial Family, with Xu Jie accompanying him through the Gate of the Undead.
• Ju Zi reflected on how Canghui Academy had given commoner students access to Soul Power cultivation and new possibilities for their futures.

Three days after Xu Tianran’s death and the Dou Spirit Imperial Family’s fall, the war subsided while Xue Qing and Xu Jie struggled with their new imperial duties. At sea, Huo Yuhao learned from Hoho about other continents and their inhabitants, leaving him with information to preserve for the academy.

• News of Xu Tianran’s death and the Dou Spirit Imperial Family’s fall spread, and the Sun Moon Empire withdrew its forces as the war settled down.
• Xue Qing secured his throne in Spirit Douluo City with help from a white-robed swordsman, then faced a pile of memorials beside the resting Huo Yuhao and the swimming Cole.
• Xu Jie ordered eunuchs to send memorials both demanding and opposing war to the imperial kitchen as firewood, then read the few that remained.
• On the sea, Huo Yuhao listened as He Caitou urged cooperation between Canghui Academy and Shrek Academy on the Soul Contract System, while Titled Douluo showed interest in it.
• Huo Yuhao privately asked Hoho about other continents, and Hoho described distant lands, their humans, and methods similar to Soul Tools.

Huo Yuhao returned from the sea to the Undead Demigod Plane and arranged for Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Peng’s group to work together against Evil Soul Masters. He left Ma Xiaotao with a warning to return after visiting Shrek Academy and continue the mission.

• Huo Yuhao told Hoho to travel with the Sea Princess and wait in the Ice Sea, while Vina returned to receive the Heaven Dou Empire’s legions.
• Huo Yuhao left Hoho a Positioning Stone and took Evil Lord and A'Xie through the Gate of the Undead, ending their sea journey.
• Huo Yuhao found Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Peng’s group facing off after three days of fighting in the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Huo Yuhao extinguished Ma Xiaotao’s flames and explained that Zhang Peng, Jian Ren, and Wang Xin had been wrongly branded as Evil Soul Masters and were seeking atonement.
• Huo Yuhao warned Ma Xiaotao to return after visiting Shrek Academy and assigned her and Zhang Peng’s group to target Evil Soul Masters from the shadows.

Dugu Lu condensed a Divine Power Seed by merging his power with Rakshasa divine power, while Xu Jie gave him Pure Dragon King Blood. When Dugu Lu began absorbing the seed, Ye Guyi awakened and helped stabilize him, gaining a new pure-white Angel Mark.

• Dugu Lu condensed a dark purple Divine Power Seed fused with his Jade Phosphorus Dragon Emperor power despite the Angel God’s holy intent filling the room.
• Xu Jie praised Dugu Lu’s achievement and gave him three drops of Pure Dragon King Blood made with Xiao Jin’s help.
• Dugu Lu began absorbing the Divine Power Seed, but its resentment and killing intent made him tremble and grow unstable.
• Ye Guyi awakened and spread her Holy Radiance over Dugu Lu, causing the Rakshasa light and holy light to merge and enter her body.
• Ye Guyi’s brow transformed to bear a new pure-white Angel Mark with three pairs of wings.

Dugu Lu comprehended the Rakshasa divine power while sharing its burden with his Soul Contract Soul Beasts, as Ye Guyi’s angelic power reached her companions. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao entered Bright City in disguise and began enrolling at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to infiltrate its ranks and learn its secrets.

• Ye Guyi’s angelic power helped clear Dugu Lu’s consciousness, and he sat down to comprehend the Rakshasa divine power.
• Xu Jie brought Ye Guyi’s young dragon and the Holy Swan to her, and her golden-white light spread over them.
• Xu Jie brought Biling to Dugu Lu, and she shared the Rakshasa divine power’s burden as he resumed his meditation.
• Huo Yuhao entered Bright City in disguise and went to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy during its recruitment period.
• Huo Yuhao told a student he was a self-taught Soul Engineer seeking admission to the consultant class, and the student led him to registration.