Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi presented their young child before introducing the Soul Beast Alliance at a gathering attended by the continent’s powers. As powerful representatives from the Star Dou Great Forest, Evil Demon Forest, Extreme North Land, and Sea Soul Beasts arrived, the factions realized how formidable Canghui had become.

• Ju Zi, Huo Yuhao, and Xiao Yunhan appeared together on the broadcast, prompting Tang Wutong to mistake Xian Lin'er for her father and question whether Xiao Yunhan was Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi's child; Xian Lin'er knocked her unconscious.
• Xu Jie brought numerous Titled Douluo onto the stage, and the delegations noticed the strength Canghui had gathered while Xu Jie planned to build a hidden Martial Alliance alongside the Soul Beast Alliance.
• Huo Yuhao announced the arrival of the Star Dou Great Forest, Evil Demon Forest, Extreme North Land, and Sea Soul Beasts, shocking the gathered factions.
• Di Tian emerged through a fissure and confronted the Evil Lord, who appeared after briefly interfering with the portal; the two exchanged words before taking their places.
• Snow Maiden and Ice Empress arrived through a snowy doorway, while the Sea Princess brought Lijing, Liya, and Vina onto the stage.
• Snow Maiden and the Sea Princess displayed their power, convincing the empire delegations and Shrek Academy that Canghui's Soul Beast allies were exceptionally strong.

The Soul Beast Alliance ceremony displayed the strength and cooperation of soul beasts and humans, while Xu Jie and Ju Zi planned to provoke Star Luo Empire into a conflict. Di Tian addressed the gathered crowd, expressing his dream of humans and soul beasts living together in peace.

• Xu Tianzhen concluded that Canghui Empire intended to unify the continent, while Xu Jiujiu considered seeking an alliance with it.
• Xu Jie and Ju Zi explained to Huo Yuhao and Dugu Lu that they planned to reject Star Luo Empire’s overtures and frighten it into starting trouble.
• Soul beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest, Evil Demon Forest, Extreme North Land, and sea entered the venue and took their places behind a barrier.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated the Soul Contract System, and five humans and soul beasts formed Soul Contracts before the cheering crowd.
• Huo Yuhao announced that aspiring Soul Contract Masters needed Spiritual Power at the Soul King level to learn the ceremony.
• Di Tian delivered a speech about his dream of humans and soul beasts living together as trusted partners.

At the Soul Beast Alliance’s founding ceremony, Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao laid out strict rules for Soul Contract applicants and revealed their power, forcing the gathered factions to reconsider their stance. Ju Zi finalized the Sun Moon Empire’s preliminary list, assigning Xiao Hongchen to the Star Dou Great Forest and Meng Hongchen to the Extreme North Land, where a compatible contract could help her control her martial soul’s cold poison.

• Xiao Xiao presented the Sun Moon Empire’s candidate list, and Ju Zi began screening it with Di Tian and the other leaders.
• Xu Jie rebuked Xu Jiujiu for attending uninvited, revealed himself as a young Limit Douluo, and explained the Soul Beast Alliance’s contract rules and screening requirements.
• Huo Yuhao shared the rules through a spiritual connection, prompting Xuan Zi and the other Soul Masters to break the connection before Huo Yuhao apologized and revealed his own Limit Douluo aura.
• The factions softened their approach to Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao, while Ju Zi and the savage beasts approved the Sun Moon Empire’s screened candidate list.
• Ju Zi confirmed Xiao Hongchen’s assignment to the Star Dou Great Forest and Meng Hongchen’s to the Extreme North Land; Huo Yuhao explained that a matching Vermillion Ice Toad contract could help Meng Hongchen control her cold poison, and Meng accepted the arrangement.

Ju Zi and the factions settled the Soul Contract slot allocations, while Xu Jiujiu hesitated over the isolation the process required. Over the next three months, Canghui’s influence grew as unrest and a refugee movement destabilized Star Luo Empire, leaving Xu Jiawei’s rule increasingly fragile.

• Ju Zi granted the factions additional Soul Contract slots, and Jing Hongchen offered ninth-grade Soul Tools if Meng Hongchen’s martial soul defect could be cured.
• Huo Yuhao explained that candidates would need to live with Soul Beasts for half a year without outside contact, causing Xu Jiujiu to hesitate; after the meeting, Ju Zi stayed to deal with her while Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao left.
• News of the Soul Contracts and Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao’s Limit Douluo cultivation spread, and Canghui exposed unqualified candidates and arranged a second round for factions whose slots had been taken.
• Xu Jie intensified economic pressure on Star Luo Empire while Ju Zi left its alliance overtures unanswered, and unrest erupted in Liuma City and other cities as officials urged Xu Jiawei to seize Sun Moon Empire factories and technology.
• A refugee movement disguised as a peasant uprising began along Star Luo Empire’s border with Canghui, as commoners fled toward Canghui and Star Luo’s worsening conditions threatened the stability of Xu Jiawei’s rule.

The Star Luo Empire’s attack on the Sun Moon Empire escalated into war, while Dai Hao received orders to command the Northeast Army Group and arranged to advance his fake-death plan. After Star Luo’s forces won a small victory and suffered a setback under Xu Jiujiu, Xu Jie and Ju Zi saw the empire’s corruption and military failures as an opportunity to bring it down sooner.

• The Star Luo Empire attacked Tingfeng City and entered Canghui territory, but Canghui’s defenses and the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer Legion repelled its forces.
• Xu Jie mobilized the Sun Moon Empire after Star Luo officials seized its factories, while Ju Zi condemned the attack and assured the empire that Canghui did not seek war.
• Dai Hao received orders to join the Northeast Army Group, suspected Xu Jiawei was testing him, and secretly asked a contact to move up his fake-death plan for himself and Dai Yueheng.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to discover Dai Hao’s plans, then returned to Pale City to protect Ju Zi and the others as Xu Jie handled matters in Bright City.
• Xu Jie proposed compensation terms after Star Luo requested peace talks, but Star Luo stalled and Dai Hao soon led the Northeast Army Group to capture and loot a small city before withdrawing.
• Xu Jiujiu’s forces suffered a minor setback at Mingdou Mountain Range, while Star Luo’s court praised her and Dai Hao and demanded increased military spending; Xu Jie and Ju Zi concluded Star Luo could fall sooner than expected.

Xu Tianzhen and Xiao Hongchen discussed why Wang Wang supported Canghui’s vision for commoners, as he described how better treatment had won over people in the former Heaven Soul Empire. Xu Tianzhen began to connect those policies to Xu Shenkai, while the settlement’s residents headed to receive news from outside.

• Xu Tianzhen played with A-Yang and her cubs, then met Xiao Hongchen and Wang Wang as they set out to check for news.
• Wang Wang said he no longer felt loyal to the Star Luo Empire because he hoped his children could live in the society promoted by Canghui’s ideological classes.
• Wang Wang explained that commoners in the former Heaven Soul Empire welcomed the Sun Moon Empire because it improved their lives and treated them as people.
• Xu Tianzhen recalled Xu Shenkai’s policies and wondered whether he had adopted similar ideas to protect commoners.
• Wang Wang told Xiao Hongchen that going hungry for two or three days would help him understand why having enough to eat mattered; Xu Tianzhen considered his words.

Wang Wang analyzed the Star Luo Empire’s political and economic decline, revealing how much he had learned in Canghui’s ideological classes, while Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao discussed preparations for Xu Jie to leave the Douluo Plane. At Dai Hao’s camp, his officers urged rebellion against Xu Jiawei, and Huo Yuhao appeared as the old eunuch was being intimidated.

• Wang Wang explained that Xu Jiawei tore up the Soul Guidance Patent System agreement to seize patent fees, worsening the Star Luo Empire’s internal disorder.
• Xu Jie ordered Huo Yuhao to send Wang Wang and Wang Dongdong to the Extreme North Land, then explained that Bloodline Stripping and Blood Bone Reshaping would prepare him to leave the Douluo Plane.
• Dai Hao’s officers blamed Xu Jiujiu and Xu Jiawei for Old Huang’s death and urged Dai Hao to rebel.
• Dai Hao described how his son died protecting supplies that never arrived and suggested that his comrades’ anger at Xu Jiawei was justified.
• Huo Yuhao appeared in Dai Hao’s tent and told the officers to release the frightened old eunuch.

Huo Yuhao healed Dai Hao and recruited an imperial eunuch as an informant, while Canghui refused to save the failing Star Luo Empire. Canghui declared war, Dai Hao rebelled, and Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie confronted Xu Jiawei amid the burning imperial palace before summoning a man through the Gate of the Undead.

• Huo Yuhao restored part of the old eunuch’s body, gave him a communication stone, and sent him back to the palace to report for Canghui.
• Huo Yuhao healed Dai Hao’s wound and told him to continue the original plan; Dai Hao then declared that his army would serve Canghui.
• The Star Luo Empire’s defeats mounted, Canghui refused its requests for aid, and Shrek Academy recalled its students while giving Star Luo several hundred Zhuge Soul Guidance Cannons.
• After a Star Luo Soul Guidance Legion attacked Canghui soldiers, Canghui declared war; its thirty-man Titled Douluo squad entered Star Luo territory as Dai Hao rebelled with the Northwest Army Group.
• Canghui forces occupied Star Luo City, and Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie confronted Xu Jiawei in the burning imperial palace before Huo Yuhao opened a Gate of the Undead and a middle-aged man stepped through.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao subdued Star Luo City while offering its leaders a chance to live under Canghui's terms. Xu Jie restored Dark Star's life force and left him with Wang Xian'er, while Xu Jiawei agreed to surrender but demanded a place for Xu Jiujiu, a request Xu Jie rejected before sending the Star Luo imperial family through a Gate of the Undead for training.

• Xu Jie sent Wei Tian to persuade Xu Jiawei to live, offering to spare members of the imperial family and let Wei Tian visit his daughter.
• Xu Jie confronted Dark Star at the Star Luo Worship Hall, froze his black-hole martial soul, and restored his body with life force; Wang Xian'er took Dark Star to eat.
• Huo Yuhao secretly looted the homes of Star Luo nobles and officials while Xu Jie dealt with the Worship Hall.
• Wei Tian persuaded Xu Jiawei to give up on dying, but Xu Jiawei demanded that Xu Jiujiu receive the same status as Vina, and Xu Jie refused.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiawei that the Star Luo imperial family would undergo training before returning, then opened a Gate of the Undead for them.

After the Star Luo Empire fell, the Canghui Empire took control of its eastern territories and imposed sweeping reforms on Shrek Academy. In Mingdu, Xu Jie prepared to remove the soul bones and bloodline from his body, beginning the process in the Undead Demigod Plane.

• Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie cleared the Star Luo Imperial Family of the capital, while Dai Hao led the Northwest Army Group east and Huo Yuhao stayed behind to keep order.
• The Sun Moon Empire occupied Star Luo City, and the Canghui Empire and Sun Moon Empire divided the fallen Star Luo Empire between them.
• Shrek Academy submitted to the Canghui Empire, which took over Shrek City, reformed the Outer Court, and reopened it as primary and middle schools.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao tested a Clone Puppet powered by the Sun God Spear, then entered the Undead Demigod Plane so Xu Jie could remove his soul bones and bloodline.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Xu Jie activated the power in his Sun Imprint, which began rejecting the soul bones fused into his body, while Huo Yuhao caught the expelled Dark Gold Spirit Staff.

Xu Jie separated the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Dragon King soul bones into their bloodlines and bones, then used them and his life force to create a duplicate body. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Empire declared war on the Canghui Empire after the Soul Contract System and Basic Internal Cultivation threatened its power.

• Xu Jie endured the painful removal of his Dragon King skeleton and gave Huo Yuhao the stripped soul bones.
• Xu Jie used his Bone-Blood Separation Art to extract the Infernal Delicate Apricot's bloodline and the Dragon King's bloodline and bones.
• Xu Jie combined bone powder, blood, and his life force to reshape a body, which he planned to inhabit with his Spiritual Clone.
• The Soul Contract System and Basic Internal Cultivation spread across the continent, while restrictions on soul beast hunting and Soul Contracts alarmed the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Shenkai declared war on the Canghui Empire after Sun Moon Empire officials urged him to seize its methods and resources.

Xu Jie’s war council revealed how badly the Sun Moon Empire had been weakened by Canghui’s supply raids, superior tactics, and growing military strength. He abandoned his plan to lead the coming campaign, while the empire remained trapped in a deteriorating position beneath the threat of Canghui’s power.

• Xu Jie urged the Sun Moon Empire to reclaim the Mingdou Mountain Range and declared that its alleged three-hundred-thousand-strong army held the advantage over Canghui’s hundred thousand soldiers.
• The generals recognized that Canghui’s Titled Douluo squad had repeatedly robbed Sun Moon supplies, while Canghui’s flying troops and standardized artillery had driven the Sun Moon armies into retreat.
• Xu Jie announced that he would personally lead the campaign, alarming generals who had watched his military micromanagement worsen the frontline situation.
• The chapter revealed that Xu Jie had helped create the thirty-man Titled Douluo transport squad, whose access to the Undead Demigod Plane let it evade capture and rob even Bright City’s warehouses.
• Canghui’s Limit Douluo and its ability to strike through the Undead Demigod Plane left Sun Moon leaders, including Kong Deming, afraid that Bright City could be destroyed without warning.
• The generals persuaded Xu Jie not to lead the campaign, and he ended the meeting before staring at the cracked sun-and-moon emblem in the war room.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao revealed their identities to Kong Deming and demanded the Sun Moon Empire surrender to Canghui, arguing that surrender would save its Soul Engineers from dying in war. Kong Deming heard their terms in the Hall of Reverence’s secret chamber, where Xu Jie defended Canghui’s laws and its planned treatment of the Sun Moon Empire’s nobles.

• Xu Jie gave Xiao Xiao a Dragon King Bloodline bead for their unborn child, then discussed the surrender plan with Huo Yuhao on his way to see Kong Deming.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao restrained Kong Deming outside the Hall of Reverence and led him into its secret chamber.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao dropped their disguises, revealed that Xu Shenkai and Edison were alive, and explained their identities to Kong Deming.
• Xu Jie demanded the Sun Moon Empire surrender and offered to preserve its Soul Engineers, reorganize its Soul Guidance academies, and spare Xu Shenkai and Xu Tianzhen from political persecution.
• Kong Deming challenged Canghui’s treatment of nobles, and Xu Jie argued that lawbreaking nobles obstructed the spread of Basic Internal Cultivation and deserved punishment.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao persuaded Kong Deming to support their plans by revealing their divine power and explaining the future of Soul Engineers. Kong Deming agreed to take Xuan Ziwen as a student and entered the Undead Demigod Plane with the brothers to see Xu Shenkai.

• Xu Jie urged Kong Deming to support the spread of Basic Internal Cultivation and the Natal Soul Guidance Device method, arguing that Soul Engineers could lead the commoners forward.
• Huo Yuhao and Xu Jie revealed their divine auras, convincing Kong Deming that they had the power to pursue godhood and prompting him to agree to their plans.
• Kong Deming accepted Xu Jie as his Imperial Grandfather and agreed to become Huo Yuhao's master during an emotional disciple-acceptance ceremony.
• Xu Jie offered Kong Deming shelter in the Undead Demigod Plane, while Huo Yuhao asked him to teach Xuan Ziwen; Kong Deming agreed after recognizing Xuan Ziwen's past work for Mingde Hall.
• Kong Deming asked to see Xu Shenkai, and Xu Jie reopened the Gate of the Undead so he and Huo Yuhao could escort Kong Deming into the Undead Demigod Plane.

Xu Jie released his suppressed power on the Douluo Plane and ascended as the Sun God, while Tang San sent five gods to interfere. Xu Jie then emerged into the God Realm and vowed to kill Tang San, fulfilling his father’s promise.

• Xu Jie told Huo Yuhao he would release his power, then rose above the Sun Moon Imperial Palace as golden light covered the Douluo Plane.
• Xu Jie’s cultivation surged beyond Limit Douluo, and a godhood began to form within him.
• The God-Seeking Instrument exploded as Xu Jie ascended, and the God of Destruction learned that five gods had gone to the Douluo Plane.
• Tang San watched the five streams of light enter the Douluo Plane and hoped the fading mist would reveal the Child of Destiny’s fate.
• Xu Jie appeared in the God Realm as a Sun God on the level of a God King and declared that he had come to kill Tang San.

Five meteors sent powerful intruders to different places, and Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing seized Ju Zi and Xiao Yunhan in Pale City. Huo Yuhao arrived just as Dai Mubai threatened his family, and the chapter ended with Huo Yuhao confronting him amid a terrible chill.

• Huo Yuhao sent Dugu Lu and Ye Guyi toward the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, then entered the Undead Demigod Plane and found his route to Pale City blocked before reaching the city by another Gate of the Undead.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing entered Ju Zi’s office, restrained her, and took Xiao Yunhan, while Dugu Busi and Qian Ran broke through the office barrier and attacked Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai defeated Dugu Busi and Qian Ran, then knocked Dai Hao unconscious when he tried to save Xiao Yunhan.
• Dai Mubai forced Xiao Yunhan to claim the Dai surname and call him Ancestor, while Zhu Zhuqing agreed that Dai descendants should not take a lowly maid’s surname.
• Huo Yuhao arrived in Pale City, saw Dai Mubai holding Xiao Yunhan, and faced him with killing intent as a golden mark appeared on his forehead.

Huo Yuhao rescued his family and allies, then awakened the God of Destiny’s power and confronted Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing. After overpowering them, he revealed that he intended to strip away their god positions.

• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power to free Xiao Yunhan and Ju Zi, healed Dai Hao, Du Busi, and Qian Ran, and sent them to the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Huo Yuhao’s Destiny River appeared as Evil Lord, A'Xie, and the Sea Princess also gained golden marks, and he drew the Destiny Scepter to face Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Huo Yuhao fought Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, striking Zhu Zhuqing aside and clashing with their Hell White Tiger fusion.
• Huo Yuhao seized both gods after their fusion attack and told Dai Mubai that he was the God of Destiny and planned to strip away their god positions.

Huo Yuhao stripped Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing of their divine power, allowing the Douluo Plane to age and kill them for carrying its stolen origin. At Shrek City, he arranged for Ma Hongjun to return more of the plane’s origin in exchange for a chance to revive Bai Chenxiang, while Ji Juechen challenged Ma Hongjun to fight.

• Huo Yuhao exposed Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s divine marks and removed their divine power, after which the Douluo Plane’s laws rapidly aged them to death and their bodies crumbled to dust.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Tang San had extracted the Douluo Plane’s origin for ten thousand years and had used its sea consciousness to hinder human voyages; he released Ju Zi, Qian Ran, Du Busi, and the others, then headed for Shrek City.
• Ji Juechen fought Ma Hongjun above Shrek City while Xuan Zi and the students watched behind an invisible barrier, and Huo Yuhao sent Ji Juechen Bai Chenxiang’s Soul Storage Stone.
• Ma Hongjun accepted Huo Yuhao’s offer to revive Bai Chenxiang and returned a sphere of the Douluo Plane’s origin, then asked to take Tang Wutong with him.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to let Ma Hongjun take Tang Wutong and opened the Gate of the Undead, but Ji Juechen demanded a fight before Ma Hongjun entered; Ma Hongjun accepted and transformed into his fire phoenix form.

Huo Yuhao forced Oscar and Ning Rongrong to surrender the Douluo Plane’s Origin Power, then went to the Extreme North Land and revived Ice Empress by replacing her soul bone with the Dragon King Bone. He shared Ice God power with four soul beasts, while Dugu Lu and Ye Guyi ascended as Rakshasa and Angel above the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

• Huo Yuhao exposed Oscar and Ning Rongrong after they infiltrated the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and they surrendered the Douluo Origin Power when they learned he and Ji Juechen were God King-level beings.
• Huo Yuhao flew to the Extreme North Land and replaced the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion soul bone in his body with the Dragon King Bone so he could use the soul bone to revive Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao restored Ice Empress’s body, then revealed that he had given up his second martial soul and was using the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm martial soul instead.
• Huo Yuhao divided his Ice God power among himself, Ice Empress, Snow Maiden, Octagonal, and Little White, allowing the four soul beasts to become Second-Rank Gods.
• Dugu Lu and Ye Guyi ascended as Rakshasa and Angel above the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, while Oscar and Ning Rongrong watched in horror and Ji Juechen looked on with battle intent.

Xu Jie defeated Tang San and destroyed the God Realm, freeing the worlds it had drained and causing the Douluo Plane to begin advancing. Huo Yuhao entered the Undead Demigod Plane, found Electrolux, and returned to the Douluo Plane with Xu Jie.

• Xu Jie confronted Tang San over his crimes, but Tang San destroyed the summoned remains of Tang Hao and blamed Xu Jie when Tang Hao's soul was revealed.
• Xu Jie chased down and beat Tang San while the other gods refused to intervene, then unleashed his power against the God Realm's one hundred and eight pillars of thought power.
• The God Realm exploded, and its fragments fell across nearby planes as the Douluo Plane began to recover and rise to a higher level.
• Huo Yuhao found that Ning Rongrong and Oscar had turned to ash, then explained that inherited gods had lost the God Realm's power sustaining their lives.
• A white gate took Huo Yuhao to the Undead Demigod Plane, where he found Electrolux and learned the plane fusion would proceed safely.
• Xu Jie asked Huo Yuhao to take him home, and the two returned to the Douluo Plane.