Chapter Summaries

After Shrek Academy advanced when Sun Moon Academy forfeited the team battle, Xu Jiujiu led Star Luo to defeat Di'ao and secure a place in the finals. The next day, Huo Yuhao faced Xiao Lixuan in the individual match, where Xiao exposed Huo Yuhao’s Simulation and recognized his Sword of Life as the Life Engraving Knife.

• Huang Jinxu announced Shrek’s victory after Xiao Lixuan forfeited the team battle, and Huo Yuhao inferred that Xiao was likely below Titled Douluo strength.
• Gu Yue Na offered to fight first in the individual match, but Huo Yuhao insisted he could handle Xiao Lixuan himself.
• Xu Jiujiu used Star’s Protection and her team’s assault to defeat Di'ao Academy, securing Star Luo a place in the finals.
• Xu Jiujiu warned Huo Yuhao that Sun Moon Academy still intended to compete in the individual matches and promised Star Luo would forfeit if it met Shrek in the final.
• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Lixuan opened the individual match, and Xiao revealed his unusual Soul Guidance Armor and eye-related martial soul.
• Xiao Lixuan saw through Huo Yuhao’s Simulation, and after Huo Yuhao cut apart his Soul Guidance Cannon shell with the Sword of Life, Xiao identified it as the Life Engraving Knife.

Huo Yuhao fought Xiao Lixuan, overcame his powerful armor with a mental skill combination, and killed him with the Sword of Life. He left the arena with Xiao Lixuan’s dropped items while asking the stunned Heavenly Fiend Douluo whether defending himself would cause trouble.

• Xiao Lixuan awakened his Body Martial Soul a second time and attacked Huo Yuhao, who countered by activating the Pride Origin and revealing his own second awakening.
• Xiao Lixuan realized Huo Yuhao had visited the Icefire Yin Yang Well and became enraged that Huo Yuhao had obtained its immortal herbs.
• Xiao Lixuan amplified his soul power and charged again, while Huo Yuhao retreated under Simulation and prepared a hidden counterattack.
• Huo Yuhao used Soul Stripping, Soul Impact, and Sensory Amplification to overwhelm Xiao Lixuan before extracting his memories with necromancy.
• Huo Yuhao dislocated Xiao Lixuan’s jaw and killed him with the Sword of Life, then pocketed two blue beads and a black cube.
• Huo Yuhao dropped Simulation and told the dazed Heavenly Fiend Douluo that he had killed Xiao Lixuan because he was scared.

After Huo Yuhao defeated Xiao Lixuan, Jing Hongchen arrived and Sun Moon Academy forfeited the remaining individual matches. Back at the hotel, Huo Yuhao showed Gu Yue Na and Qiu'er the items he had taken, explaining that Xiao Lixuan’s Martial Soul had been stripped away because it came from outside his bloodline.

• Huo Yuhao was declared the winner after Xiao Lixuan vanished, and a voice announced that Sun Moon Academy forfeited its remaining one-on-one matches.
• Jing Hongchen appeared, accepted Xiao Lixuan’s defeat, and asked to reclaim his Soul Guidance Armor; Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Jing Hongchen offered half ownership of the armor in exchange for Huo Yuhao’s humanoid soul guidance device technology, but Huo Yuhao refused.
• Ma Lao confirmed Sun Moon Academy’s forfeiture, and the Tianhun Academy captain also surrendered, ending the competition early.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the hotel and showed Gu Yue Na and Qiu'er two beads and a black cube he had obtained from Xiao Lixuan.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Xiao Lixuan’s Martial Soul had come from outside his bloodline and was stripped away upon his death.

Huo Yuhao explained Xiao Lixuan’s abilities and examined the Source of Fire, which could store rare-metal energy and recreate metals with customized properties. After discussing its value, he prepared to absorb the martial soul while Gu Yue Na and Qiu'er kept watch.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Xiao Lixuan’s Revelation could expose falsehoods and Truth Domination could analyze what he saw, helping him master soul guidance devices.
• Gu Yue Na and Huo Yuhao concluded that Xiao Lixuan’s analytical ability could complement Predestined Death by reducing its Spiritual Power cost against understood attacks.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Xiao Lixuan’s eye-type martial soul had fused with an external object and said it could not function as a martial soul on its own.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated that the Source of Fire absorbed rare metals, converted them into stored energy, and recreated them with customized properties; Qiu’er tested the altered Starfall Iron.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Xiao Lixuan had accumulated energy from nearly a year of the Sun Moon Empire’s reserves by recycling scraps and failed products from Bright Virtue Hall.
• Huo Yuhao picked up the two blue beads and prepared to absorb the martial soul, asking Gu Yue Na and Qiu'er to keep watch.

Huo Yuhao rejected the Body Sect’s invitation after accepting the reward for killing Xiao Lixuan, then spoke privately with Meng Hongchen before the teams departed. Two days later, as the Soul Master Competition final was about to begin, an unidentified speaker asked to address the crowd on behalf of the Duke’s Mansion.

• Lang Ya and Yu Tao offered Huo Yuhao a forty-thousand-year-old Shadow Lynx Right Leg Bone as the reward for killing Xiao Lixuan and invited him to join the Body Sect.
• Huo Yuhao refused the invitation, and Xian Lin'er warned Lang Ya and Yu Tao against pressuring him; Lang Ya said the Sect Master would visit Shrek.
• Meng Hongchen approached Huo Yuhao to talk before returning to the Sun Moon Empire, and Huo Yuhao told her he would be happy to be her friend.
• Two days later, Huo Yuhao and Shrek entered the rain-soaked arena for the Soul Master Competition final, where a voice asked Xu Jiawei to let it speak on behalf of the Duke’s Mansion.

Dai Hao publicly apologized to Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao demanded that he kneel and apologize to his mother, revealing their parentage and exposing Dai Hao’s hypocrisy. After Gu Yue Na killed Xuanji Douluo, Huo Yuhao summoned Dai Hao’s wife and son and forced him to choose between kneeling and watching Dai Huabin die.

• Dai Hao introduced himself to the crowd and apologized for Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin’s attempt to kill Huo Yuhao, offering compensation and asking to reconcile.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Dai Hao about his wives, then demanded that he come down and kneel as he apologized.
• Xian Lin'er challenged Dai Hao for blaming his sons while concealing his own responsibility, and Xu Jiawei revealed that Huo Yuhao was Dai Hao’s son with Huo Yun'er.
• Huo Yuhao showed Dai Hao the White Tiger Dagger, and Xu Jiawei confronted him about claiming to have only one wife and preaching restraint.
• Gu Yue Na killed Xuanji Douluo with a silver beam, and Huo Yuhao again demanded that Dai Hao kneel and apologize to his mother.
• Huo Yuhao summoned A Ying and Dai Huabin, then held the White Tiger Dagger to Dai Huabin’s neck and demanded that Dai Hao kneel toward Heaven Dou City or watch his son die.

Huo Yuhao forced Dai Hao to kneel and apologize before revealing that Dai Huabin was not Dai Hao’s biological son, then fought Dai Hao alone after the Duke attacked him. The chapter ended as Huo Yuhao detonated the wounds he had inflicted on Dai Hao.

• Dai Hao knelt before Huo Yuhao, apologized publicly, and asked him to spare the Duchess and Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Dai Huabin was not Dai Hao’s biological son, and the Duchess admitted it while suggesting Dai Yueheng might be Dai Hao’s son.
• Dai Hao attacked Huo Yuhao, but his strike passed through an illusion before Huo Yuhao wounded him with the Sword of Life.
• Huo Yuhao activated Wrath and faced Dai Hao alone, enduring his repeated attacks while marking him with dark pink energy.
• Huo Yuhao froze Dai Hao with Ice Emperor’s Wrath and triggered the frost-covered wounds across his body to erupt.

Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Hao, killed the Duchess, and crippled Dai Hao before Xu Jiawei ordered the Duke's Mansion surrounded and the tournament finals to begin. Huo Yuhao rested with Gu Yue Na, who secretly helped him recover and then began teasing him beneath his Simulation Soul Skill just as Zhang Lexuan called to them.

• Huo Yuhao survived his close-range Ice Burst Technique and defeated Dai Hao, who lost his right arm.
• Huo Yuhao said he was settling the debt for Dai Hao sending Cheng Gang to assassinate him, then smashed Dai Hao into the ground and crippled his lower abdomen.
• Dai Huabin's Sea of Consciousness shattered, killing him, and Huo Yuhao killed the Duchess before leaving Dai Hao alive but unconscious.
• Xu Jiawei ordered Dai Hao imprisoned, the Duke's Mansion surrounded, and the Duchess's faction eliminated, then declared the tournament finals underway.
• Gu Yue Na supported Huo Yuhao as he rested, used an intimate kiss to ease his weakness, and began teasing him under his Simulation Soul Skill before Zhang Lexuan called out.

Huo Yuhao endured Gu Yue Na’s advances while Zhang Lexuan briefly checked on him, then Shrek won the Soul Master Competition without him competing. That evening, Xu Jiujiu visited Huo Yuhao at the Star Emperor Hotel and found him weak in bed with Gu Yue Na nearby.

• Gu Yue Na concealed her actions from Zhang Lexuan while she continued to toy with Huo Yuhao in the Rest Area.
• Zhang Lexuan heard a strange sound, but Gu Yue Na quieted it and convinced her to leave.
• Qiu'er noticed Huo Yuhao sleeping in the Rest Area and felt an inexplicable unease as the competition neared its end.
• Shrek won the championship after defeating Star Luo Royal Academy in the team battle and individual matches.
• Xu Jiujiu visited Huo Yuhao's room and found him weak in bed with Gu Yue Na, then wondered why he seemed weaker after resting.

Xu Jiujiu discussed the Duke's vacant title with Huo Yuhao, who declined it and recommended his younger half-brother Dai Loli as heir. After sharing a possessive kiss with Gu Yue Na, Huo Yuhao left Xingluo City to visit the Far North Land and check on Snow Empress.

• Xu Jiujiu relayed Xu Jiawei's arrangements and asked Huo Yuhao whether he would inherit the White Tiger Duke title.
• Huo Yuhao refused the title and proposed Dai Loli as a candidate, asking Xu Jiujiu to ensure his younger brother was treated well.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yue Na that he planned to master his new abilities and visit Snow Empress in the Far North Land.
• Gu Yue Na described Huo Yuhao as protective and kissed him possessively before he left.
• The next day, Huo Yuhao warned Ma Xiaotao not to obtain her Soul Ring before he returned, then flew north as his friends bade him farewell.

Huo Yun'er learned that Huo Yuhao had defeated the White Tiger Duke and made a name for himself, while Huo Yuhao traveled to the Far North Land to reunite with Snow Empress. Snow Empress arrived with the Ice Bear King and greeted him warmly.

• Huo Yun'er heard market vendors praise Huo Yuhao for defeating the White Tiger Duke and avenging his mother, and she wept with happiness.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Far North Land with Ice Empress and Skydream Iceworm on his shoulders.
• Huo Yuhao released his Ice Emperor Martial Soul, stunning Ice Empress with the overwhelming quality of his Ultimate Ice.
• Snow Empress arrived atop the Ice Bear King, and Ice Empress greeted her and Xiao Bai after their two-year separation.
• Snow Empress looked at Huo Yuhao and told him, "You came."

Huo Yuhao reunited with Snow Empress, and they discussed the Abyssal Dragon that had returned to the Far North Land's Core Region. Snow Empress planned to deal with it and considered letting Huo Yuhao absorb its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, while she would stay in his Demiplane and Xiao Bai would leave with him as a soul spirit.

• Snow Empress picked up Huo Yuhao and asked whether he had missed her and remembered his promise from their last parting.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress explained that an Abyssal Dragon had returned to the Core Region after reaching the Hundred Thousand Year level, despite Snow Empress having driven it out ten thousand years earlier.
• Snow Empress asked whether Huo Yuhao could absorb the Abyssal Dragon's Soul Ring, and he concluded that his improved physique and the Gold of Life might let him survive it.
• Huo Yuhao explained his Undead Plane, and Snow Empress decided Xiao Bai would become his soul spirit while she stayed in his Demiplane to protect him.
• Snow Empress sensed their destination ahead and announced that they had arrived.

Huo Yuhao killed a Hundred Thousand Year Abyssal Dragon with Snow Empress’s help and received its Right Leg Bone, then offered Snow Empress a golden Soul Ring containing what she wanted to see. At Shrek Academy, Tang San woke after more than a month unconscious and concealed his resentment toward Xuan Zi while a teacher praised the academy’s efforts to save him.

• Huo Yuhao drove the Sword of Life into the dying Abyssal Dragon, and Ice Empress explained its concealment ability and the danger it had posed in the Far North Land.
• Snow Empress retrieved the Abyssal Dragon’s Right Leg Bone and gave it to Huo Yuhao, who stored it for possible future use.
• Huo Yuhao’s golden Soul Ring appeared, and he told Snow Empress that what she wanted to see was inside it.
• Tang San woke in a Shrek Academy infirmary after more than a month unconscious and remembered his resentment toward Xuan Zi.
• A teacher told Tang San that Shrek had won the championship and praised Xuan Zi and the academy for saving him, while Tang San hid his anger and agreed to rest.

Tai Tan demanded that Tang San leave Shrek Academy for the Clear Sky Sect, while Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi tried to delay him because Tang San was unconscious. After Tang San woke, he eagerly agreed to leave with Tai Tan, though he privately vowed to kill Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi once he became a Titled Douluo.

• Tai Tan confronted Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi, demanding they hand Tang San over and threatening to tear Shrek apart if they refused.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Tang San was severely injured and unconscious, persuading Tai Tan to wait until he woke.
• A teacher announced that Tang San had regained consciousness, and Tai Tan went to see him.
• Tang San immediately agreed to return to the Clear Sky Sect and asked Tai Tan to let him undergo the sect's trials after recovering.
• Yan Shaozhe told Tang San that Shrek would always be his home, and Tang San promised to visit while secretly plotting revenge against Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi.

After Huo Yuhao recovered from absorbing the Abyssal Dragon’s soul ring, Snow Empress thanked him for changing her fate and entered into a contract with him. The contract remade his body and healed his injuries, leaving him with white hair as Snow Empress held him close.

• Huo Yuhao woke with severe injuries from absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, while the Gold of Life slowly healed him.
• Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao she would stand by him and said he had saved her by giving her the choice to avoid becoming a human embryo.
• Snow Empress declared a contract with Huo Yuhao and used her essence of heaven and earth to remake his body.
• Huo Yuhao’s hidden injuries healed, his hair turned snowy white, and his appearance grew somewhat similar to Snow Empress’s.
• Snow Empress guided Huo Yuhao’s hand to her waist and told him not to be afraid to hold her.

Huo Yuhao learned that his contract with Snow Empress linked their lives and made him her acknowledged partner, while Snow Empress introduced him to Xiao Bai as her future Empress Consort. As Huo Yuhao prepared Xiao Bai for the Soul Spirit Ritual, Snow Empress revealed that a memory she had seen showed Huo Yuhao wielding a golden sun that burned everything to ashes.

• Huo Yuhao asked Snow Empress to let him clean himself, and they teased each other before he asked whether their contract affected her.
• Snow Empress explained that their symbiotic contract let her sense Huo Yuhao’s location and condition, connect their thoughts nearby, and lend him power if his life was in danger, though using that power could badly harm him.
• Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao that the contract marked him as her partner, then introduced him to Xiao Bai as her future Empress Consort.
• Xiao Bai agreed to undergo the Soul Spirit Ritual with Huo Yuhao and eagerly bowed to greet him as Empress Consort.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Skydream Iceworm to explain how Xiao Bai could seal away his power, while Ice Empress asked Snow Empress why she had chosen Huo Yuhao.
• Snow Empress said Huo Yuhao’s memory had shown her a golden sun that burned more than a dozen figures to ashes.

Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy, showed Zhang Lexuan his evolved Ice Emperor Martial Soul, and gave her a Hundred Thousand Year Abyssal Dragon Soul Bone. After the two reunited intimately in her office, Wang Dong'er arrived with registration forms and nearly discovered what had happened.

• Huo Yuhao showed Zhang Lexuan his four-ring Ice Emperor Martial Soul and explained that his Spirit Eye Martial Soul still had only three rings.
• Huo Yuhao gave Zhang Lexuan the Hundred Thousand Year Abyssal Dragon Right Leg Bone, and she accepted it after he urged her to use it to strengthen her cultivation.
• Zhang Lexuan kissed Huo Yuhao and invited him to lock the office door, and they spent three hours together there.
• Wang Dong'er brought registration forms for herself and Xiao Xiao to join the next Soul Hunting Team and obtain their third Soul Rings.
• Wang Dong'er told Zhang Lexuan she had heard noises in the office earlier, and Zhang Lexuan claimed a stray cat had gotten inside.

Huo Yuhao arranged for Ma Xiaotao to absorb the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower as a Soul Spirit to purify her evil fire, and she agreed after revealing she wanted to keep their intimate connection. As he began the ritual in the Sea God Pavilion, Huo Yuhao used True Sight and discovered Tang San's mother battling within the Golden Tree.

• Huo Yuhao explained that the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower could purify Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Evil Fire and become her Soul Spirit, and the plant agreed to bond with her.
• Ma Xiaotao admitted she wanted to preserve their evil-fire body tempering, then accepted the ritual after Huo Yuhao embraced her.
• Huo Yuhao began the Soul Spirit Ritual and monitored Ma Xiaotao as she endured the strain of absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao activated True Sight and saw a hidden battle inside the Golden Tree, where Tang San's mother wielded blue-gold vines amid golden mist.

Huo Yuhao discovered that A Yin was fighting the Douluo Plane’s likely Will inside the Golden Tree and asked Gu Yue Na and Qiu'er for help. Gu Yue Na rejected his plan to break into the space directly and proposed that he first fuse with Qiu'er, then perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her.

• Huo Yuhao used the Eye of Destiny and Mental Detection to observe A Yin battling a green-haired woman within the Golden Tree.
• Huo Yuhao met Gu Yue Na and Snow Empress in the corridor, and Gu Yue Na agreed to help after hearing that he had found something unexpected.
• Qiu'er arrived, and Huo Yuhao used Mental Sharing to show the others what he had witnessed inside the Golden Tree.
• Gu Yue Na warned that Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er could be severely injured if they tried to break open the Golden Tree’s internal space themselves.
• Gu Yue Na suggested that Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er fuse first, allowing their combined power to qualify for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her.

Huo Yuhao returned to the Golden Tree in a transformed, overwhelming state while the Snow Empress held Shrek’s experts at bay. He entered the space within the tree and attacked A Yin, sealing her after she had been grievously wounded.

• Elder Xuan saw a multicolored pillar of light rise near Sea God Pavilion and rushed toward the Golden Tree, while Du Busi led Body Sect members there to seize Huo Yuhao.
• Du Busi recognized the girl guarding the Golden Tree as the Snow Empress, and she carved a vast ravine into the ground as a boundary and warned that anyone who crossed it would die.
• Huo Yuyao appeared before the Golden Tree in radiant armor, and Mu En ordered Shrek personnel not to interfere with his actions.
• Huo Yuhao used the Sword of Life to sever the Golden Tree’s connection to its internal space and open a rift, then entered it.
• Huo Yuhao attacked A Yin with his weapons and sealed her with the Asura Three-Eyed God Sealing Curse.