Chapter Summaries

After Xu Tianran's death, Huo Yuhao ensured the Soul Master Competition continued while the teams chose to remain. In a private meeting, Kong Deming revealed the history of the Sun Moon Empire's ruling clans and recognized Zhang Le Xuan as a descendant of the Yin Clan.

• Huo Yuhao asked Kong Deming whether the competition would continue, and Kong Deming promised safe passage and offered Soul Tools as compensation to teams that withdrew.
• Xu Jiujiu declared that the Star Luo Empire's team would stay and compete, and the other teams from the former Douluo Three Kingdoms followed.
• Huo Yuhao secretly arranged for the Holy Spirit Cult's team to face Ye Guyi's team early, then invited Kong Deming to talk privately.
• Meng Hongchen defeated a Dragon Slaying Sect Soul King with her Zhu Qing Ice Toad's poison, but Huo Yuhao concealed his presence while meeting Kong Deming.
• Zhang Le Xuan revealed her Moon Martial Soul, and Kong Deming explained that she descended from the Yin Clan, one of the three clans that founded the Sun Moon Empire.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Le Xuan learned that the Zhang Family’s destruction may have been tied to the Sun Moon Empire’s current emperor, and they resolved to investigate him. Meanwhile, Ye Guyi began Spirit Transfer Academy’s match against the Holy Spirit Cult, and Meng Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen for medicine to help her become a Soul Saint.

• Zhang Le Xuan told Kong Deming that the Zhang Family descended from the Yin Clan and that she alone survived its massacre eighteen years earlier.
• Kong Deming linked the events to a Rank 9 Soul Engineer close to the emperor, while Huo Yuhao decided to question the emperor by reading his memories.
• Zhang Le Xuan worried that Mu En might have been connected to her family’s destruction, and Huo Yuhao comforted her as they prepared to seek the truth.
• Ye Guyi faced Yan Feng of the Holy Spirit Cult, and both combatants revealed that they were Soul Saints.
• Meng Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen for the family’s secret medicine so she could become a Soul Saint, despite its risk to her foundation.

Ye Guyi defeated and killed the Holy Spirit Battle Team, while Huo Yuhao announced a campaign against Evil Soul Masters and offered leniency to coerced cult members. After learning the Holy Spirit Cult’s locations from Zhongli Wu, Huo Yuhao sent Xian Lin'er to lead an assault before the cult could relocate.

• Ye Guyi used her Angel Martial Soul to kill Yan Feng, the Holy Spirit Battle Team’s captain, with Angel's Dance.
• The remaining team members were forced to fight, and Ye Guyi killed them all as Huo Yuhao used Soul Sky Lanterns on their souls.
• Huo Yuhao announced that coerced Holy Spirit Cult members could report themselves to the Spirit Pagoda and called for volunteers to join the purge through the Dream God Realm.
• Xian Lin'er arrived, and Huo Yuhao told her he had learned the cult’s headquarters and branch locations from Zhongli Wu.
• Huo Yuhao gave Xian Lin'er the locations and instructed her to lead the Elders and Spirit Hall Federation experts in attacking the cult, while sending coerced members to the Dream God Realm for judgment.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Le Xuan secretly visited the dying emperor of the Sun Moon Empire to uncover the truth behind the Zhang Family's extermination. The emperor revealed Shrek Academy's complicity, and Huo Yuhao confirmed that his account was true.

• Xian Lin'er agreed to organize an attack on the Holy Spirit Cult, and Huo Yuhao explained that Sun Moon Empire spectators could help avenge its victims.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Le Xuan evaded the Imperial Palace's defenses and confronted the dying emperor, who said Kong Lao had told him they were coming.
• The emperor confessed that he had helped exterminate the Zhang Family while searching for a family heirloom connected to living beings.
• The emperor claimed Shrek Academy had secretly revealed the Zhang Family's location and that Mu En had saved Zhang Le Xuan to investigate the heirloom's secret.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed to Zhang Le Xuan that the emperor had told the truth and that Mu En had played a role in her family's tragedy.

After learning that Mu En had exposed the Zhang Family, Zhang Le Xuan struggled with mixed gratitude and resentment before killing the Sun Moon Emperor, while Huo Yuhao destroyed his soul and found another Divine Artifact. Zhang Le Xuan was then approached to become Empress, as the Soul Master Tournament continued amid rumors about the Emperor’s death.

• Huo Yuhao comforted Zhang Le Xuan after the Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire revealed Mu En’s role in the Zhang Family’s destruction, and Zhang Le Xuan killed the Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao pulled out and burned the Emperor’s soul, then found the Xu Family’s inherited Sun Corona and confirmed it held a divine inheritance suited to Ye Guyi.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Le Xuan left the Imperial Palace, and the Sun Moon Empire spread a rumor that the Emperor had died of grief over the Crown Prince’s death.
• Kong Deming supported selecting a new ruler and asked Zhang Le Xuan to return to the Sun Moon Empire as Empress.
• The Soul Master Tournament’s first elimination round continued, and Han Ruoruo teased Zhang Le Xuan about becoming Empress.

Zhang Le Xuan agreed to become the Sun Moon Empire’s next Emperor as Huo Yuhao planned to unify the continent, while he destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult and arranged the Body Sect’s future dissolution. At Mingde Hall, Meng Hongchen chose to take her family’s secret medicine to fight alongside her brother, but Huo Yuhao arrived as she and Jing Hongchen were leaving.

• Han Ruoruo teased Zhang Le Xuan about becoming Emperor, and Huo Yuhao supported the idea as a step toward unifying the continent.
• With Kong Deming’s support, Zhang Le Xuan was designated the Sun Moon Empire’s next Emperor as the Elimination Round neared its end.
• Huo Yuhao destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters, turned the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord into a Soul Spirit, and helped the wronged souls captured by the cult find peace.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Du Busi to dissolve the Body Sect after unification and have its members teach at the Federal Academy.
• Meng Hongchen told Jing Hongchen she would take the family’s secret medicine so she could fight beside her brother, and Jing Hongchen agreed to help her prepare it.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the laboratory and asked Meng Hongchen why she had not come to him for help raising her cultivation.

Huo Yuhao visited the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, examined Meng Hongchen’s cultivation, and gave her and Xiao Hongchen pills to repair their foundations. As Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen toured the academy, Ju Zi emerged from Mingde Hall relieved that Xu Tianran was dead and ready to enjoy a quiet life.

• Huo Yuhao surprised Meng Hongchen and Jing Hongchen, then examined Meng Hongchen’s meridians and learned that medicinal cultivation had weakened her foundation.
• Huo Yuhao gave Meng Hongchen a pill he had refined himself, and she eagerly accepted it before taking him on a tour of the academy.
• Huo Yuhao asked about Xiao Hongchen and gave him a pill to repair the damage to his foundation; Jing Hongchen later had Xiao Hongchen take it.
• Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen walked through the academy together, drawing curious and reverent attention from students.
• Ju Zi emerged from Mingde Hall, felt relieved that Xu Tianran was dead, and headed toward the cafeteria while planning to return to her dormitory and sleep.

Ju Zi and Ke Ke learned that Huo Yuhao had come to the academy, and their curiosity led them to meet him alongside Meng Hongchen. After Huo Yuhao offered to cook for the group, Ju Zi asked to speak with him alone, leaving their conversation to come.

• Ke Ke told Ju Zi that Huo Yuhao had arrived, and Ju Zi agreed to go see him with her.
• Ju Zi and Ke Ke watched Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen from a distance before Meng Hongchen greeted them and made introductions.
• Huo Yuhao considered Ju Zi's past connection with Xu Tianran, then invited the group to eat and offered to cook.
• Ju Zi sensed that Huo Yuhao seemed to know more about her than he should and asked to speak with him alone.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to talk with Ju Zi privately.

Ju Zi told Huo Yuhao about her family’s destruction and Xu Tianran’s order to seduce him, then admitted she had revealed the mission partly to protect herself. Huo Yuhao forgave her and recognized her intelligence experience as useful to Zhang Le Xuan’s coming rule of the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ju Zi thanked Huo Yuhao for killing Dai Hao, who had destroyed her family and driven her from the Star Luo Empire.
• Ju Zi revealed that Xu Tianran had ordered her to seduce Huo Yuhao, but said she had never wanted to harm him and had repaid Xu Tianran by taking a fatal blow for him.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Ju Zi had used her gratitude and personal history to protect herself and draw closer to him.
• Ju Zi apologized, and Huo Yuhao forgave her, saying her cleverness and self-preservation were not crimes.
• Ju Zi explained that she had controlled half of Xu Tianran’s intelligence organization, and Huo Yuhao saw that she could help Zhang Le Xuan govern the Sun Moon Empire.

Huo Yuhao arranged for Ju Zi to advise Zhang Le Xuan, helped Meng Hongchen and Na Na, and gained a new card-based ability that copied Zhen Hua’s God Craftsman skill. After settling the God Realm, he ordered the mortal empires to prepare for unification, leaving the newly determined coordinates of the Douluo III World as his next destination.

• Huo Yuhao persuaded Ju Zi to assist Zhang Le Xuan and promised to help her destroy the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao helped Meng Hongchen absorb an Immortal Herb, reach Rank 70, and contract an Immortal Herb Soul Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao purified Na Na’s Martial Soul, summoned her parents’ souls for a final reunion, and arranged for her to enter the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao gained the Better to Play Cards ability, copied Zhen Hua’s God Craftsman ability, and mastered its forging techniques.
• Huo Yuhao discussed the surviving gods’ duties with Gu Yue and Na'er, then established a Dream God Realm monitoring mechanism.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the rulers of the major empires to prepare for unification after determining the coordinates of the Douluo III World.

Huo Yuhao witnessed Gu Yuena’s transformation and followed her to Aolai City, where he watched Tang Wulin protect her child form from a group of delinquents. He remained hidden, wondering whether Na'er would be drawn to Tang Wulin without the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.

• Gu Yuena sealed her memories and turned into a little girl, but Tang Hao’s energy upheaval swept her through a spatial rift.
• Di Tian and the woman in green realized their lord had been carried away, while Huo Yuhao observed and recognized what had happened.
• Huo Yuhao traced Gu Yuena to Aolai City and found Na'er after she had been separated from the others by spatial turbulence.
• Several delinquents tried to lure Na'er away, but Tang Wulin stepped in and was kicked aside.
• Tang Wulin summoned Blue Silver Grass, prompting the delinquents to retreat, while Huo Yuhao watched without intervening.

Huo Yuhao confronted Tang Hao as he refined the Douluo Plane’s Will, while Ah Yin claimed a crisis required Shrek’s experts to sacrifice themselves. The chapter ended with Yun Ming agreeing to fight Leng Yaozhu and the other resisters so Ah Yin would spare Ya Li and some of Shrek’s Titled Douluo.

• Tang Wulin offered to take Na'er home, but she ran away until Huo Yuhao appeared and persuaded her to come with him.
• Tang Hao urged Huo Yuhao to help refine the Plane Will and protect Tang Wulin, but Huo Yuhao instead used the plane laws to suppress him.
• The Golden Ancient Tree told Yun Ming that an outside demon was attacking the Plane Will, and Yun Ming gathered Shrek’s strongest fighters.
• Ah Yin demanded that the gathered experts sacrifice themselves for energy, then attacked them and killed Cai Yue'er.
• Yun Ming asked Ah Yin to spare Ya Li and some Titled Douluo, then agreed to attack Leng Yaozhu and the other resisters.

Yun Ming fought Qian Gu Dongfeng under the Golden Ancient Tree’s power, but Ah Yin revealed herself and turned against Shrek Academy. Yun Ming burned his incomplete godhood to restrain her branches and save the survivors, while Long Yeyue and Chen Xinjie chose to remain behind.

• Yun Ming defeated Qian Gu Dongfeng, but Qian Gu Dongfeng persuaded Leng Yaozhu to join him and threatened Yun Ming with a godly iron plaque.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng discovered Chen Xinjie exchanging looks with Long Yeyue and realized he could not rely on him.
• Ah Yin revealed herself as the Golden Ancient Tree, attacked Shrek’s teachers and students, and began devouring their life force.
• Yun Ming burned his divine seat, restrained the Golden Ancient Tree’s branches with a barrier, and gave the Sky Piercing Spear to Ya Li as he faded away.
• Long Yeyue urged Chen Xinjie to leave and protect himself, but Chen Xinjie refused to abandon her.

Long Yeyue left Shrek Academy with surviving students and teachers while Chen Xinjie stayed behind. Huo Yuhao erased Tang Hao, arrived at the Golden Ancient Tree, suppressed Ah Yin, and revealed himself to the survivors as the founder of the Spirit Pagoda, leaving Qian Gu Dongfeng scrambling to protect his family.

• Chen Xinjie persuaded Long Yeyue to leave Shrek Academy, and she gathered surviving students and teachers before departing.
• Huo Yuhao helped the Plane Will erase Tang Hao's soul and went to the Golden Ancient Tree after sensing Ah Yin's energy.
• Ah Yin accused Huo Yuhao of betraying her, but he condemned her possession of the Golden Ancient Tree and sealed her with divine chains.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng recognized Huo Yuhao as the Spirit Pagoda's founder and worried about the Qian Gu Family's future.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng offered to withdraw his family from Spirit Pagoda management, but Huo Yuhao rejected his claim that he was their ancestor.
• Huo Yuhao immobilized Yun Ming and asked the survivors who they were, while the gathered Shrek, Tang Sect, and Spirit Pagoda figures greeted him.

Huo Yuhao met the gathered Soul Masters and ordered the Spirit Pagoda to prepare its Soul Tool and Dou Kai knowledge. He offered to resurrect Yun Ming only if he dismantled Shrek Academy, destroyed Sea God Island and the Sea God Family, and worked with the Spirit Pagoda to destroy the Tang Sect, but Yun Ming refused and Huo Yuhao departed.

• Qian Gu Dongfeng identified Long Yeyue and Chen Xinjie as the two demigods who had fled, and Huo Yuhao reflected on their history.
• Huo Yuhao told Qian Gu Dongfeng and Leng Yaozhu to arrange Spirit Pagoda teachers and gather its Soul Tool technical materials.
• Ya Li pleaded with Huo Yuhao to save Yun Ming, and Huo Yuhao agreed on the condition that Yun Ming carry out three tasks against Shrek, Sea God Island, and the Tang Sect.
• Yun Ming refused Huo Yuhao's conditions, while Ya Li broke down in tears and Zang Xin asked what the Tang Sect had done wrong.
• Huo Yuhao told Zang Xin to dismiss the Tang Sect if it truly wanted to change, then left through a spatial gate.

Huo Yuhao returned to Gu Yue with little Na'er, and Gu Yue mistook the child for her and Na'er's daughter before learning the truth. Gu Yue and Na'er reinforced the seal on little Na'er's memories, and Huo Yuhao said he needed their world's Golden Ancient Tree to separate Ah Yin's consciousness from the core of Life.

• Yun Ming concluded that the Golden Ancient Tree's cry linked Tang Hao and Ah Yin to the destruction of Shrek Academy, and entrusted Ya Li with his final affairs as he began to dissipate.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Spirit Pagoda and introduced little Na'er to Gu Yue, who mistook her for their child and stormed into the Douluo I World to confront Na'er.
• After Huo Yuhao explained little Na'er's origins, Gu Yue and Na'er strengthened the seal on her memories and cultivation so she would remain a child until their own child reached her age.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yue and Na'er that he needed the Golden Ancient Tree to strip Ah Yin's consciousness from the core of Life, and that he wanted them to meet their other selves.

Huo Yuhao explained the Spirit Pagoda’s entrenched family hierarchy to Xian Lin'er and assigned her to build influence and reorganize it. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy, Tang Sect, and the Spirit Pagoda dealt with the fallout of Huo Yuhao’s return while keeping his identity secret.

• Huo Yuhao told Xian Lin'er how the Spirit Pagoda’s connected families controlled its resources and instructed her to build a faction and reform its order rather than destroy it.
• Xian Lin'er accepted the plan to join the Spirit Pagoda and use Huo Yuhao’s list of promising people to help reorganize it.
• Ya Li tore down the statues of the first-generation Shrek Seven Devils and revealed to Shrek’s remaining staff and students that Tang San and Ah Yin had caused the disaster.
• Chen Xinjie and Long Yeyue opposed Ya Li’s actions, and the two sides parted on bad terms.
• Zang Xin met Cao Dezhi at the Blood God Legion to discuss how Tang Sect should respond to Huo Yuhao.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng hid evidence and continued plotting against Shrek and Tang Sect, while Leng Yaozhu investigated and imprisoned corrupt members of her family; the factions kept Huo Yuhao’s return secret.

Ha Luosa attacked Shrek Academy while the city grieved Yun Ming’s death, and Long Yeyue and Ya Li confronted him to protect the school. Ha Luosa overwhelmed them, leaving Long Yeyue gravely wounded and unable to continue fighting.

• Ha Luosa led undead into Shrek Academy and demanded that Yun Ming come out, while Qian Gu Dongfeng chose to rescue civilians and let the attack on the academy proceed.
• Ya Li protected Shrek Academy with life energy as she and Long Yeyue confronted Ha Luosa.
• Long Yeyue and Ha Luosa clashed, but his Underworld King Descent and power over death forced her back despite Ya Li’s support.
• Ha Luosa struck Long Yeyue with a death-filled attack that brought her down and left her unable to fight.
• Ha Luosa taunted Long Yeyue about her having joined her green-hatted husband against him, shocking and enraging her.

Huo Yuhao arrived at Shrek Academy, killed Ha Luosa, and purified the city’s undead before confronting Long Yeyue over her past actions. He sent Long Yeyue and Chen Xinjie into the Abyss Plane, leaving them to face ten Abyss Emperors if they wanted to return.

• Ha Luosa exposed Long Yeyue’s affair with Chen Xinjie, and Long Yeyue fainted while Qian Gu Dongfeng and Qian Gu Dieting discussed who had revealed the secret.
• Ya Li ordered Shrek’s people to flee to the Spirit Pagoda and burned her life force to fight Ha Luosa.
• Huo Yuhao arrived on Sea God Island, killed Ha Luosa with a glance, seized his fleeing soul, and purified the undead across Shrek City.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng led the city in hailing Huo Yuhao as Ling Bing Mianxia, and Huo Yuhao addressed Long Yeyue about her past.
• Huo Yuhao sent Long Yeyue and Chen Xinjie into the Abyss Plane, promising to retrieve them if they killed ten Abyss Emperors.
• Long Yeyue and Chen Xinjie appeared before Spirit Emperor on the Abyss Plane’s second level.

Huo Yuhao revealed Tang San’s role in bringing the Abyss Plane to Douluo Continent, then seized Ah Yin’s soul from the Golden Ancient Tree and transformed it into a Soul Spirit. As Ya Li asked him to protect the remaining Shrek students after her death, Huo Yuhao offered to let her protect them herself if they did not rebuild Shrek.

• Huo Yuhao told Ya Li that Tang San had brought the Abyss Plane to Douluo Continent to advance his plans to seize the Plane Will and devour the abyss.
• Huo Yuhao used his own Golden Ancient Tree to take control of the life core and remove Ah Yin’s soul from the tree.
• Huo Yuhao erased Ah Yin’s memories and true spirit, transformed her soul into a Soul Spirit, and stored it in the Dream God Realm.
• Ya Li, relieved to see Ah Yin gone, asked Huo Yuhao to protect the remaining Shrek students after she died.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ya Li to protect the students herself, promising not to target them as long as they did not rebuild Shrek.