Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao confronted the injured Shrek Academy group while Dugu Bo protected Ye Yutang from their demands. Yu Xiaogang mistook Huo Yuhao for a Spirit Hall member, but Huo Yuhao corrected him and urged Dugu Bo to intensify the conflict as Tang Hao waited in hiding.

• Huo Yuhao mocked the Shrek Academy group for threatening the Ye Family physician, while Tang San defended their actions.
• Dugu Bo escorted Ye Yutang away from Flender, and Yu Xiaogang demanded that she finish healing everyone before they left.
• Dugu Bo forced Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to their knees after Yu Xiaogang threatened him with Spirit Hall's Elder Token.
• Yu Xiaogang assumed Huo Yuhao belonged to Spirit Hall and offered to speak well of him to the Pope, but Huo Yuhao revealed the assumption was wrong.
• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Bo to add more fuel to the fire while monitoring Tang Hao, who remained hidden and prepared to attack.

Huo Yuhao exposed Yu Xiaogang’s use of the Spirit Hall token and further undermined Zhang Le Xuan’s regard for Shrek Academy’s founders. He then baited Tang San into explaining how to cure Dugu Bo, while Tang Hao watched his son with growing suspicion instead of rescuing him.

• Yu Xiaogang threatened Huo Yuhao with the Spirit Hall Elder Token and Tang Hao’s retaliation, but Huo Yuhao mocked him and told Zhang Le Xuan that Yu Xiaogang had copied the Martial Soul Ten Theories.
• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Bo to leave Tang Hao an opening, while Zhang Le Xuan grew more disappointed in Shrek Academy’s founders.
• Tang San insulted Dugu Bo’s poison arts and described symptoms that Huo Yuhao had already revealed to Dugu Bo, hoping to gain time for Tang Hao to rescue him.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Tang San to explain how he would break Dugu Bo’s poison arts and swore with Dugu Bo not to kill Tang San, his friends, or his teacher if the method worked.
• Tang San began explaining his method while stalling for rescue, unaware that Tang Hao was watching him with suspicion and delaying his intervention.

Huo Yuhao exposed the traps in Tang San’s advice to Dugu Bo, then manipulated doubts between Tang San and Tang Hao before Tang Hao confronted their group. Huo Yuhao and Zhang Le Xuan fused their Martial Souls and revealed a powerful conscious form that fought Tang Hao, drawing attention across Heaven Dou City.

• Huo Yuhao used spiritual transmission to warn Dugu Bo about the deliberate flaws in Tang San’s poison-breaking instructions and tell him what to do next.
• Dugu Bo revealed that Tang Hao had asked him to test Tang San, prompting Tang San to hide his killing intent while pretending to trust his father.
• Tang Hao reassured Tang San, then advanced on Huo Yuhao’s group with his Clear Sky Hammer and a blood-red Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao joined Zhang Le Xuan in a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and their fused figure caught and swung away Tang Hao’s hammer before challenging him.
• Tang Hao and the fused figure began fighting, alarming Heaven Dou City; Xue Ye sent someone to investigate, Qian Renxue called for Snake Uncle, and a black-clad figure arrived outside the city following a Nine-Colored Crystal.

Huo Yuhao challenged Tang Hao in Heaven Dou City to expose him to rival factions, then overwhelmed him with the Moon Blade formed through his Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Zhang Le Xuan. Just as Huo Yuhao offered to spare Tang Hao if he abandoned his cultivation, Tang Hao unleashed Asura God Power and surged with killing intent.

• Huo Yuhao struck Tang Hao back and invited him to fight in the sky, but Tang Hao refused and charged on the ground.
• Huo Yuhao used the Moon Blade against Tang Hao, and their clash destroyed nearby houses despite Dugu Bo trying to contain the shockwaves.
• Tang Hao detonated his first six Soul Rings, but Huo Yuhao's Moon Blade struck him back and left him gravely weakened.
• Scouts from Spirit Hall, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Qian Renxue's subordinates, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect watched the battle.
• Huo Yuhao offered to spare Tang Hao if he crippled his cultivation, but Tang Hao detonated his remaining Soul Rings and then erupted with Asura God Power.

Di Tian intervened when Tang Hao attacked Huo Yuhao, forcing Tang Hao to flee with Tang San and Xiao Wu. After the Asura God secretly transferred his remaining power into Tang San, Di Tian confronted Huo Yuhao about a reverse scale and the Water Fire Dragon King’s aura.

• The Asura God saw Tang San’s destiny draining away and activated the divine power hidden in Tang Hao’s body.
• Di Tian attacked Tang Hao with a black dragon claw, and Tang Hao countered with the Great Sumeru Hammer before fleeing with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• The Asura God sent the remaining Asura God Power in Tang Hao into Tang San to stabilize his destiny and began considering other plans.
• Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill shocked the watching factions, while Snake Lance Douluo recognized Di Tian’s attack as stronger than the Great Enshrinement’s.
• Di Tian appeared before Huo Yuhao, drew out two matching reverse scales, and asked where Huo Yuhao had obtained one, noting its future origin and the Water Fire Dragon King’s aura.

Di Tian brought Huo Yuhao to the Star Dou Great Forest to meet Gu Yuena, where a pendant revealed that another Gu Yuena had left a strand of Divine Sense inside it. The Divine Sense warned Huo Yuhao not to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with this Gu Yuena.

• Huo Yuhao agreed to go with Di Tian to the Star Dou Great Forest and asked Zhang Le Xuan to wait with the others.
• At the Great Evil Land, Huo Yuhao encountered Tian Meng and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who felt inexplicably close to him.
• Di Tian led Huo Yuhao to Gu Yuena, who examined the Silver Dragon Scale Pendant and asked whether he knew her.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he knew a Gu Yuena from another world ten thousand years in the future.
• Gu Yuena revealed that the pendant held another Gu Yuena's Divine Sense, whose memories had synchronized with hers.
• The Divine Sense explained that the original Gu Yuena had left it in the pendant to protect Huo Yuhao and warned him not to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with this Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena restrained Divine Sense Gu Yuena and persuaded Huo Yuhao to fuse with her, revealing their daughter, who healed Gu Yuena’s injuries before the fusion ended. Both Gu Yuenas retained only hazy memories of the encounter but resolved to make sure their future first daughter received the Dragon God Inheritance.

• Gu Yuena immobilized Divine Sense Gu Yuena and urged Huo Yuhao to embrace her, while he questioned her motives and the purpose of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Gu Yuena asked Divine Sense Gu Yuena to watch as she embraced Huo Yuhao and began their Martial Soul Fusion.
• The fusion opened the Gate of Time and Space and brought forth a silver-haired maiden who recognized the two Gu Yuenas as her mothers.
• The maiden teased Divine Sense Gu Yuena about sending her to receive the Dragon God Inheritance, then healed Gu Yuena’s injuries with nine-colored radiance.
• The fusion ended, Huo Yuhao remembered nothing, and both Gu Yuenas resolved to discipline their future first daughter and make her receive the Dragon God Inheritance.

Huo Yuhao left the Great Evil Land with Gu Yuena, who placed her Divine Sense inside a Dragon Scale Necklace and joined him on his journey. At Shrek Academy, Gu Yuena demonstrated her strength to gain entry while seeking Huo Yuhao.

• Gu Yuena gave Huo Yuhao a Dragon Scale Necklace and bargained for a future favor in exchange for taking back the other pendant.
• Gu Yuena sealed Divine Sense Gu Yuena inside her necklace, then accompanied Huo Yuhao to the human world.
• Gu Yuena assigned Di Tian to command the Star Dou Great Forest, warned the soul beasts not to absorb the giant bug, and departed with Huo Yuhao.
• Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao that the ice silkworm from the other world could become his seventh Soul Ring.
• Gu Yuena arrived at Shrek Academy, learned Huo Yuhao was away, and asked to enroll.
• Gu Yuena displayed six elemental lights to prove her strength, and the students on duty promised to report her enrollment to the dean of studies.

Gu Yuena enrolled at Shrek Academy, then traveled with Huo Yuhao to Dugu Bo’s residence in Heaven Dou City. There, Ye Yutang agreed to have the Ye Family join the Spirit Pagoda in exchange for Huo Yuhao resolving the flaw in their Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul, and he prepared to begin that day.

• Gu Yuena told Du Weilun she was twelve and had Soul Power Level sixty-four, broke a test crystal ball, then demonstrated Level sixty-five and disguised her six blood-red Soul Rings as black ones.
• Du Weilun admitted Gu Yuena to Shrek Academy, and she used Divine Sense to locate women connected to Huo Yuhao before heading toward the nearest one.
• Huo Yuhao brought Gu Yuena to Dugu Bo’s residence, where Dugu Yan saw them holding hands and Dugu Bo silently regretted encouraging Huo Yuhao’s relationship with his granddaughter.
• Huo Yuhao asked Dugu Bo about his former companions and learned that the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the others had returned there safely.
• Ye Yutang offered to pledge the Ye Family to Huo Yuhao if he could resolve the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul’s flaw, and he asked them to join the Spirit Pagoda instead.
• Ye Yutang agreed to join the Spirit Pagoda, and Huo Yuhao decided to resolve the flaw that day, first turning to Gu Yuena for advice.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena agreed to help the Ye Family overcome the destiny restrictions on their Martial Souls, while Ye Lingling revealed she wanted to join Huo Yuhao’s sect and follow him. That night, Dugu Yan confronted Ye Lingling about her choice, and Gu Yuena invited Huo Yuhao to dual cultivate with her.

• Gu Yuena said the Ye Family’s Martial Souls had no defects and promised to remove their destiny restrictions after preparing a few things.
• Ye Yutang thanked Huo Yuhao and entrusted Ye Lingling to his care after learning that Ling Ling wanted to follow him.
• Gu Yuena privately told Huo Yuhao he had to agree to one more thing, and he accepted before retreating to his room with her.
• Dugu Yan asked Ye Lingling why she had offered herself to Huo Yuhao, and Ye Lingling explained she had acted to repay Dugu Yan’s sacrifice for her.
• Dugu Yan comforted Ye Lingling and accepted that they would keep each other company while Huo Yuhao took advantage of them.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao if he wanted to dual cultivate with her, and he stared at her in surprise.

Huo Yuhao cultivated with Gu Yuena, whose teasing affection left him feeling manipulated but delighted. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena learned he was safe, and the Heaven Dou Empire’s rulers moved to contain Prince Xue Xing’s Slave Hunter Group and secure Huo Yuhao’s cooperation on a new academy.

• Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao began cultivating together, and Gu Yuena kissed him while stopping him from taking things further.
• Gu Yuena visited Xian Lin'er, learned Huo Yuhao was safe and might return to the academy in five months, then reread a booklet warning her to hold on to him.
• Xue Ye read a report about Huo Yuhao’s battle with Tang Hao and ordered Prince Xue Xing to shut down the Slave Hunter Group.
• Prince Xue Xing promised to apologize to Huo Yuhao and proposed that the empire lead the academy project for people harmed by the Slave Hunter Group.
• Xue Ye approved the plan and told Prince Xue Xing to make Huo Yuhao and his allies feel the empire’s sincerity.

Qian Renxue learned that Huo Yuhao had defeated Tang Hao with a young Soul Douluo and had an Unrivaled Douluo backing him, so she planned to approach him cautiously and recruit him into Spirit Hall. The next morning, Huo Yuhao woke beside Gu Yuena, who changed clothes behind a veil of nine-colored light.

• Snake Lance Douluo reported to Qian Renxue that Tang Hao had fought Huo Yuhao, whose group included a young high-level Soul Douluo and an Unrivaled Douluo.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo to inform her grandfather and Bibi Dong, and warned that she would handle the matter herself.
• Qian Renxue sent a letter to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and planned to approach Huo Yuhao with her nominal teacher before meeting him as Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue recalled sensing a possible Martial Soul Fusion connection with Huo Yuhao and resolved to recruit him and his companions.
• The next morning, Huo Yuhao woke beside Gu Yuena, who washed with water elements and changed behind a veil of nine-colored light.

Huo Yuhao shared breakfast with the women before Gu Yuena took Ye Yutang and Ye Lingling to resolve their Martial Soul defects. As Huo Yuhao prepared to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Dugu Bo revealed Ning Fengzhi was coming to see him and Prince Xue Xing was waiting outside; Huo Yuhao refused to meet the prince and explained why he despised him.

• Gu Yuena offered to resolve Ye Yutang and Ye Lingling's Martial Soul defects, then fed Huo Yuhao her half-eaten roasted fish, prompting the women to tease him over breakfast.
• After breakfast, Gu Yuena took Ye Yutang and Ye Lingling away, with Dugu Yan following, while Huo Yuhao invited Zhang Le Xuan and Tang Ya to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Zhang Le Xuan and Tang Ya discussed the Shrek founders, and Zhang Le Xuan thanked Huo Yuhao for letting her witness truths hidden by history.
• Dugu Bo told Huo Yuhao that Ning Fengzhi had entered the city and that Prince Xue Xing was waiting outside; Huo Yuhao declined to meet Prince Xue Xing.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Le Xuan and Tang Ya about Prince Xue Xing, then acknowledged that the prince had saved the Heaven Dou Empire despite committing many evil deeds.

Prince Xue Xing tried to win Huo Yuhao over with a dukedom and an offer of imperial cooperation, but Huo Yuhao rejected him and exposed his hostility. Qian Renxue challenged Xue Xing’s authority and threatened to report him to Xue Ye, leaving him fearing that his plan would ruin his standing.

• Dugu Bo arrived with Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Xue Qinghe, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Prince Xue Xing, and Huo Yuhao warmly greeted his friends while pointedly ignoring Xue Xing.
• Prince Xue Xing offered Huo Yuhao a dukedom and claimed he had come to thank him, but Huo Yuhao accused him of hiring Dugu Bo to kill him and refused the title.
• Huo Yuhao sensed Xue Xing’s killing intent and mocked his apology before warning him to leave.
• Prince Xue Xing said Xue Ye had sent him to cooperate on Huo Yuhao’s academy, but Qian Renxue insisted she was responsible and questioned why Xue Xing was not confined.
• Qian Renxue threatened to report Xue Xing to Xue Ye, and Xue Xing feared the Crown Prince’s intervention would cost him the emperor’s favor.

Huo Yuhao used the Heaven Dou Empire’s threatened cooperation to pressure Prince Xue Xing, then privately revealed that he had seen through Qian Renxue’s disguise. He offered to keep her secret and help conceal her identity, leaving Qian Renxue unsettled as she abruptly departed.

• Huo Yuhao told Qian Renxue he would work with a Spirit Hall friend instead of the Heaven Dou Empire, alarming Prince Xue Xing.
• Qian Renxue asked Huo Yuhao to give her time to secure a satisfactory answer from the emperor, and he agreed.
• Huo Yuhao clasped Qian Renxue’s hand, recognized her identity, and privately called her Xue'er Jie.
• Huo Yuhao sympathized with Qian Renxue’s lonely undercover life and promised not to expose her, while offering his Simulation Soul Skill to hide her identity.
• Qian Renxue denied being threatened, pulled away, and left without saying goodbye, while Ning Fengzhi noticed her unusual behavior.

Huo Yuhao secured Ning Fengzhi’s agreement to include Spirit Hall in their Soul Tool Academy, then introduced Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to Zhang Le Xuan as their cultivation teacher. The group left the academy’s future and the women’s training plans to take shape.

• After Qian Renxue left, Ning Fengzhi warned Huo Yuhao that pressuring Prince Xue Xing could strain relations with the Heaven Dou Empire, but Huo Yuhao said he would answer any hostile move with force.
• Ning Fengzhi suggested choosing the Heaven Dou Empire over Spirit Hall as the academy’s partner, and Huo Yuhao used a tea metaphor to explain that students would choose which faction to follow based on what each taught them.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted cooperation with Spirit Hall, and Huo Yuhao welcomed the agreement while planning for the factions to compete by investing in the academy.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Rongrong that she and Zhu Qing would compete in the Soul Master Competition and introduced Zhang Le Xuan as their cultivation teacher.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing admired Zhang Le Xuan’s rank eighty-six cultivation at age twenty-five, while Tang Ya silently resented Zhang Le Xuan’s modest description of her achievement.

Huo Yuhao and Ning Fengzhi arranged the academy’s location, facilities, curriculum, and supplies, while Zhang Le Xuan agreed to oversee its construction and help Ning Rongrong. After Ning Fengzhi left, Huo Yuhao considered whose wishes he could fulfill to gather the wish power needed for the Dream God Realm’s Solidification Task.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Zhang Le Xuan to take Ning Rongrong as her disciple, but Zhang declined and promised to help her with cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao, Ning Fengzhi, and Zhang Le Xuan planned the academy near Heaven Dou City, with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect providing land and construction and Zhang supervising the work.
• Huo Yuhao gave Ning Fengzhi forty sets of Fifth Level Soul Tools and requested rare metals for crafting and study; Ning Fengzhi promised the sect’s full support.
• Ning Fengzhi left Ning Rongrong with Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao decided he still needed to discuss the academy with Qian Renxue before handing it over to Zhang Le Xuan.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed his wish power and considered fulfilling the wishes of Tang San, Tang Hao, Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi, and Bo Saixi.

After Huo Yuhao saw through Qian Renxue’s identity, she chose to conceal the revelation and maneuvered the Heaven Dou court into turning against him. Prince Xue Xing secured approval to establish an academy and recruit Shrek Academy, while Qian Renxue quietly welcomed the growing rift between Huo Yuhao and the empire.

• Qian Renxue told Snake Lance Douluo that Huo Yuhao had exposed her identity through their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and ordered him to inform her grandfather and bring more Spirit Hall elders and Soul Masters to Heaven Dou.
• Qian Renxue reported the incident at Dugu Bo’s residence to Xue Ye and argued that Prince Xue Xing’s actions had pushed Huo Yuhao and his allies toward Spirit Hall.
• Prince Xue Xing claimed Huo Yuhao had never respected the Heaven Dou Empire, and Qian Renxue unexpectedly supported his account.
• Xue Ye concluded that the empire need not befriend Huo Yuhao, then approved Prince Xue Xing’s plan to establish an academy and recruit Shrek Academy.
• Qian Renxue was pleased that Prince Xue Xing’s plan would deepen the rift between Huo Yuhao and Heaven Dou while also bringing Tang Hao’s son into the academy.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, checked their cultivation and physiques, and gave them pills made from Immortal Herbs. Ning Rongrong tried to bargain for her pill with a suggestive offer, while Zhu Zhuqing promised to thank him properly later.

• Huo Yuhao welcomed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to their guest room and pulled them both into his arms.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she had reached Rank 30 and Ning Rongrong Rank 29 after they consumed Whale Rubber bought by Ning Fengzhi.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection Sharing to assess them and found that Zhu Zhuqing could withstand a roughly four-thousand-five-hundred-year Soul Ring and Ning Rongrong a roughly four-thousand-year one.
• Huo Yuhao gave Zhu Zhuqing a Pill made from Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, along with a Soul Power pill for her to take after Rank 60.
• Huo Yuhao teased Zhu Zhuqing about thanking him, and she blushed and promised to do so properly in the future.
• Ning Rongrong asked Huo Yuhao for her pill and offered to do more than say thanks, even suggesting that Zhu Zhuqing could join them.

Huo Yuhao gave Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing pills that transformed their cultivation and abilities while he cultivated nearby. Gu Yuena gave him her essence blood to improve his affinity with all nine elements, then declared that he was hers; afterward, Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved, and she kissed Huo Yuhao.

• Ning Rongrong teased Huo Yuhao about Zhu Zhuqing before negotiating with him for pills, and he gave her pills refined from the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Eight Petal Immortal Orchid.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong took their pills and meditated while Huo Yuhao watched over them and cultivated.
• Gu Yuena sent a drop of her essence blood into Huo Yuhao, strengthening his affinity with the nine elements, and told him, “You're mine” before leaving.
• Ning Rongrong awakened and discovered that her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda had evolved to nine levels.
• Ning Rongrong kissed Huo Yuhao briefly, while Zhu Zhuqing watched with envy and other conflicted feelings.