Chapter Summaries

After Snow Empress kissed Lu Jun on the cheek during the fireworks, she hid her embarrassment while he praised her and asked about her Spirit Soul Contract. The fireworks ended, and Lu Jun, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress headed back to the villa together.

• Snow Empress briefly kissed Lu Jun on the cheek, then pretended nothing had happened.
• Lu Jun teased Snow Empress and told her she was more beautiful than the fireworks, making her blush.
• Snow Empress reflected on her feelings and the sadness of the evening ending while Ice Empress urged her to say more.
• Lu Jun asked Snow Empress whether the Soul Spirit Contract caused any discomfort, and she said becoming his Spirit Soul was a precious honor.
• Lu Jun asked Snow Empress to speak to him more casually, and she agreed.
• Lu Jun, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress left the lakeside and walked back toward the villa.

Lu Jun noticed Snow Empress was troubled and bought her favorite spicy fruit candy on the way home. He revealed that he knew she had secretly kissed him, then kissed her cheek in return, leaving her reassured and content as she entered the warmly lit villa.

• Lu Jun stopped at a shop and secretly bought something while Snow Empress and Ice Empress waited outside.
• At the villa, Lu Jun gave Snow Empress her favorite spicy fruit candy and explained that he had noticed her mood.
• Snow Empress tasted the candy, and Lu Jun took her hand and kissed her cheek, saying he was returning the favor for her secret kiss.
• Snow Empress realized Lu Jun knew about her feelings and did not reject them, and she entered the villa feeling warm and at peace.

Lu Jun began teaching at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and publicly released a broadly applicable cultivation method, drawing enormous crowds and accelerating reforms across the Soul Master world. As he grew busier with lectures and official work, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Tang Wutong supported and protected him, while enemies launched repeated attacks.

• Snow Empress carefully straightened Lu Jun's clothes before he left for the academy.
• Lu Jun delivered a packed lecture on Soul Power cultivation and martial soul comprehension at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Lu Jun released a universal cultivation method through recordings and materials made available to Soul Masters across the continent.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress managed Lu Jun's schedule and daily needs, while Tang Wutong served as his bodyguard.
• Lu Jun faced repeated assassination attempts, including attacks from disguised audience members, long-range ambushes, and a Soul Guide explosion trap.

Lu Jun and his allies thwart Abyss-influenced assassins while Douluo Star spends a year rapidly preparing for war. The chapter leaves the planet’s forces transformed, with many new gods and powerful leaders ready for the coming conflict.

• Lu Jun reviewed reports showing that the failed attackers had been corrupted by the Abyss and fanatically driven to hate him, then kept his public itinerary under heightened security with Tang Wutong beside him.
• Over the following year, Lu Jun, the Spirit Pagoda, and the Federation accelerated technological and military development, more than doubling Douluo Star’s overall combat power.
• Lu Jun crossed Level 100 and became a Divine Official through the Faith Power gathered by his public teaching and reforms, while the Ice and Snow Two Emperors rose to power comparable to Second-Level Deities.
• Wu Sidu, Yue Zhengyu, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Yuanen Yehui, Long Chen, and Tang Wulin attained divine positions, with Tang Wulin progressing rapidly toward inheriting the Sea God position.
• Federation commanders and Spirit Pagoda and Dark Department powerhouses advanced into the Divine Realm, while Gu Chenyu unexpectedly reached god-tier through forging.
• Di Tian became a First-Level God and pursued the God King realm, while Plane Master Di Yue reached Half-step God King, leaving Douluo Star with a vast new host of high-level combatants.

Lu Jun learned that the Federation had eradicated the Abyss creatures, destroyed the Demon Empress and the Holy Spirit Cult, and repaired the plane cracks before turning its attention to the coming war with the Crimson Realm. Meanwhile, the Thousand Ancient Family revealed its secret plan: it had resurrected Huo Yuhao in a specially created body using a chip containing his records and memories.

• Lu Jun received a briefing that Di Yue and the Federation had purged the Abyss creatures and pollution sources across Douluo Star.
• Lu Jun learned that the Demon Empress and the Holy Spirit Cult had enabled the Abyss infiltration through hidden cracks in the plane barrier, and that Federation god-level powerhouses had annihilated them.
• Lu Jun concluded that Douluo Star was ready to face the Crimson Realm after its internal threat had been eliminated.
• Qiangu Dongfeng and Qiangu Dieting watched a complete body of Huo Yuhao float inside the Thousand Ancient Family's underground cultivation tank.
• Qiangu Dongfeng and Qiangu Dieting revealed that their family had built Huo Yuhao's body with forbidden technology and a preserved Soul Tool Chip containing his records and memory fragments.

Qiangu Dongfeng awakened Huo Yuhao in a newly forged body, expecting to command the artificial god and use him to rule Douluo Star. Huo Yuhao revealed that he was truly alive, condemned Qiangu Dongfeng’s ambitions, and began killing him with an invisible force.

• Qiangu Dongfeng celebrated the body’s fusion with Huo Yuhao’s soul imprint and the faith power gathered over ten thousand years, declaring that the Qiangu Family would rule the world.
• Qiangu Dongfeng drained the cultivation tank and watched Huo Yuhao step out, then ordered him to raise his right hand; Huo Yuhao did not respond.
• Huo Yuhao raised his head, revealing a clear, profound gaze that showed he had awakened as a living being rather than a programmed artificial body.
• Huo Yuhao told Qiangu Dongfeng that he had heard his ambitions and decided that leaving him alive would endanger Douluo Star.
• Huo Yuhao said he would personally knock sense into Qiangu Dongfeng, and an invisible force tore open wounds across Qiangu Dongfeng’s body as blood and viscera sprayed out.

Huo Yuhao killed Qiangu Dongfeng and forced Qiangu Dieting to submit the Thousand Ancient Family to his judgment. After returning to Douluo Star, he sensed the Faith Power that had gathered around his legacy and spread his Spiritual Power across the entire planet.

• Huo Yuhao crushed Qiangu Dongfeng's body and soul with a thought.
• Qiangu Dieting knelt and pledged the remnants of the Thousand Ancient Family to submit to Spirit Ice Douluo's judgment.
• Huo Yuhao erased the blood and stench from the laboratory, then vanished and reappeared above the Thousand Ancient Family Headquarters.
• Huo Yuhao welcomed his return to Douluo Star and vowed to take control of the Super Divine Artifact before defeating the Crimson Realm and Tang San.
• Huo Yuhao resonated with the Plane Origin and spread his Spiritual Power across all of Douluo Star.

During a peaceful reunion at Lu Jun’s villa, Di Yue sensed a mysterious being awakening and draining Douluo Star’s energy. Lu Jun and Gu Yue Na identified the returned figure as Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao, leaving everyone uncertain whether he was a friend or foe.

• Lu Jun celebrated the end of the campaign with Di Yue, Wu Sidu, Gu Yue Na, Leng Yaozhu, Leng Yulai, and the others at his villa.
• Di Yue sensed an ancient, overwhelmingly powerful presence awakening on Douluo Star and absorbing its Heaven and Earth energy.
• A vast aura descended over the villa, and Lu Jun recognized its qualities as Ultimate Ice and Spiritual Power.
• The Snow Empress recalled an opponent from ten thousand years ago and suspected that the Thousand Ancient Family’s artificial god project had succeeded.
• Lu Jun and Gu Yue Na identified the returned figure as Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao, and the gathered group wondered whether he would be friend or foe.

Huo Yuhao summoned Asura's Eye from the Spirit Pagoda and used planetary Origin Power to elevate it into a Super Divine Artifact. He then called a golden longsword from the West Continent, while the Crimson Mother feared his recovery and prepared to watch his movements.

• Across Douluo Continent and the Crimson Realm, powerful figures sensed Huo Yuhao's return, and the Crimson Mother grew wary of his power.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Asura's Eye from the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to his outstretched hand.
• Huo Yuhao drew in Heaven and Earth energy and planetary Origin Power, causing Asura's Eye to become a Super Divine Artifact.
• The Crimson Mother ordered a secret infiltration of Douluo Star to observe Huo Yuhao and considered launching an early final offensive if he mastered the artifact.
• Huo Yuhao summoned a golden longsword from an ancient ruin on the West Continent and held it in his right hand.

Huo Yuhao challenged Lu Jun to a duel at the ruins of Shrek City one month later, then settled there to stabilize his awakened state. At Lu Jun's villa, Snow Empress recalled how she once drove Huo Yuhao and two other powerful opponents from the Far North, but suspected Huo Yuhao had hidden his full strength and later ambushed the wounded Evil Emperor.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao that his fused divine body and Spiritual Imprint remained unstable, and Huo Yuhao said he would end matters quickly.
• Huo Yuhao gave Lu Jun one month to prepare for a fight at the former site of Shrek City, threatening to rule Douluo Star if Lu Jun refused.
• Huo Yuhao went to the ruins of Shrek City, placed Asura's Eye and the Radiant Gold Emperor Sword before him, and meditated to stabilize his power.
• Ice Empress questioned why Huo Yuhao had called Lu Jun out while the Crimson Realm threatened Douluo Star, and Snow Empress explained Huo Yuhao's ruthless resolve.
• Snow Empress recounted how she had fought Huo Yuhao, Di Tian, and Evil Emperor when they tried to seize the Ice Abyss Sword, and drove them back from the Far North.
• Snow Empress said she suspected Huo Yuhao had held back during their battle and later ambushed and killed the wounded Evil Emperor, taking his soul ring and soul bone.

After learning how powerful Huo Yuhao had become, Lu Jun refused to avoid the duel he had publicly accepted. Huo Yuhao’s resurrection and challenge prompted the Federation to summon the planet’s leaders, leaving the factions to assess the threat during the month before the battle.

• The Snow Empress warned Lu Jun that Huo Yuhao had grown vastly stronger after ten thousand years of slumber and absorbing Faith Power.
• Lu Jun resolved to face Huo Yuhao, while Di Yue, Leng Yulai, and Gu Yue Na voiced concern and proposed confronting him together.
• The communicators received an emergency summons from Federation Speaker Xu Tiandi to discuss Huo Yuhao’s resurrection and challenge.
• The Snow Empress said the one-month deadline gave Lu Jun and Douluo Star’s factions time to prepare and judge Huo Yuhao’s intentions.
• Lu Jun and the others left for Federation Headquarters.

The Federation's leaders debated the threat posed by Huo Yuhao's immense energy absorption and the possibility that he would challenge Lu Jun. Lu Jun warned that exhausting their strongest fighters against Huo Yuhao would leave Douluo Star vulnerable to the Crimson Realm.

• Lu Jun and his companions arrived at the Federation headquarters, where Xu Tiandi presented data on Huo Yuhao's energy absorption and the Asura's Eye's collection of Faith Power.
• Xu Tiandi reported that Huo Yuhao's Divine Power could affect most of Douluo Star within half a month.
• Yue Zhengen condemned Huo Yuhao's energy drain, while Leng Yaozhu suggested his resurrection might explain it and pledged the Spirit Pagoda's support for Lu Jun.
• Yu Guanzhi reported that the Crimson Realm had slowed and might be waiting for the Federation to fall into internal conflict.
• Gu Yue Na proposed gathering Douluo Star's Deities to wear Huo Yuhao down, but Lu Jun warned that doing so would leave them too weak to face the Crimson Mother and her army.

Lu Jun and the Federation discussed Huo Yuhao’s challenge and agreed to maintain defenses against the Abyss while investigating his intentions. After the meeting, Lu Jun asked Tang Wutong to tell him everything she knew about Huo Yuhao and what had made him so extreme.

• Lu Jun told Gu Yue Na that Huo Yuhao seemed focused on the Super Divine Artifact rather than on killing him, and asked Xu Tiandi what the Federation planned to do.
• Xu Tiandi proposed global surveillance and full defensive readiness, arguing that Huo Yuhao’s challenge was likely meant to establish leadership rather than cause a fight to the death.
• The Federation and Plane Master Di Yue agreed to defend against the Abyss, send Di Tian to contact Huo Yuhao, and respect the duel if Huo Yuhao promised to protect Douluo Star and help face the Abyss.
• After the meeting, Lu Jun stopped Tang Wutong and demanded everything she knew about Huo Yuhao, including what might have made him so extreme.

Tang Wutong accepted Lu Jun’s warning that Huo Yuhao might hate her because she was Tang San’s daughter, and offered to tell Lu Jun everything she knew about Huo Yuhao. At the ruins of Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao told Di Tian he wanted Lu Jun’s Ice Abyss Sword and defended himself by recalling how he had protected Douluo Star for ten thousand years.

• Tang Wutong suggested speaking to Huo Yuhao, but Lu Jun warned that their family history could make the encounter dangerous.
• Tang Wutong conceded that Huo Yuhao might not forgive her and promised to share everything she remembered about him with Lu Jun.
• Di Tian found Huo Yuhao meditating in the ruins of Shrek Academy and confronted him for provoking Lu Jun while the Abyss threatened them.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted Lu Jun’s Ice Abyss Sword and would accept it voluntarily to avoid further trouble.
• When Di Tian accused him of changing, Huo Yuhao erupted, insisting that he had protected Douluo Star for ten thousand years.

Huo Yuhao defended his demand for the Ice Abyss Sword by recounting the sacrifice he made to protect Douluo Star from the Crimson Realm. Di Tian challenged his ambition, and Huo Yuhao ended by admitting that after ten thousand years of service, he was tired and unsure whether the planet was still worth protecting.

• Huo Yuhao told Di Tian that he had endured ten thousand years of corrosion while holding back the Crimson Realm and demanded help obtaining the Ice Abyss Sword to reach the Supreme God King realm.
• Di Tian accused Huo Yuhao of seeking the Ice Abyss Sword for his own ambition rather than for the planet.
• Huo Yuhao showed Di Tian scenes of the Crimson Realm's invasion and argued that absolute power was necessary to protect Douluo Star and prevent another catastrophe.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to see what Douluo Star had become before deciding whether it was still worth protecting, and admitted that he was tired of being its hero.

Huo Yuhao rejected Di Tian’s attempt to change his mind and set a meeting with Lu Jun at the Shrek City ruins one month later. He found comfort in the survival of his and Ju Zi’s bloodline within the Body Sect, while Lu Jun began piecing together Huo Yuhao’s history and hidden plans from Tang Wutong’s account.

• Huo Yuhao told Di Tian that his decision was final and said he would wait for Lu Jun at the former site of Shrek City in one month.
• Di Tian left to report Huo Yuhao’s words to the Silver Dragon King, Lu Jun, and the others.
• Huo Yuhao’s spiritual body visited the Body Sect and discovered that his and Ju Zi’s bloodline had endured through its current sect master.
• Huo Yuhao returned his spiritual body to his main body at the Shrek City ruins and resumed meditating to prepare for the battle in one month.
• Tang Wutong finished recounting Huo Yuhao’s past to Lu Jun, who considered how Huo Yuhao’s losses shaped his quest for power and his concealed contingencies.

Lu Jun learned how Huo Yuhao had survived for ten thousand years, protected Douluo Star, and prepared to return at full strength to seek revenge against Tang San. After assessing Huo Yuhao’s formidable powers and weapons, Lu Jun asked Tang Wutong what Huo Yuhao wanted now.

• Huo Yuhao returned during the Abyss invasion, defeated its first full-scale assault, and sacrificed his body and soul to build a barrier protecting Douluo Star.
• Huo Yuhao endured six thousand years of erosion while waiting for the Thousand Ancient Family’s artificial god project to provide him with a new body and accumulated Faith Power.
• Lu Jun learned that Huo Yuhao possessed three godhoods, the Super Divine Artifact Asura's Eye, and a King's Sword forged from a Level 10 Soul Guidance Device.
• Lu Jun teased Tang Wutong about switching to the sword and creating a sword technique to attract Huo Yuhao’s attention, and she blushed and protested.
• Lu Jun considered the scale of Huo Yuhao’s strength, felt his fighting spirit rise, and asked Tang Wutong what Huo Yuhao wanted now.

Lu Jun explained to Tang Wutong that Huo Yuhao wanted an end to his ten-thousand-year struggle, then declared he would accept Huo Yuhao’s challenge and defeat him. Tang Wutong chose to stay with Lu Jun and began reflecting on how to follow her own path.

• Lu Jun said Huo Yuhao’s desire for an end made him dangerous, though his clear goal also made his actions predictable.
• Lu Jun said he would meet Huo Yuhao in a month, examine Asura’s Eye and the King’s Sword, and defeat him after accepting the challenge.
• Tang Wutong chose to stay with Lu Jun and witness the ending, while Lu Jun prepared to enter seclusion.
• Lu Jun urged Tang Wutong to stop imitating others and pursuing Huo Yuhao blindly, and to become herself.
• Tang Wutong remembered Huo Yuhao’s past words, summoned the Goddess of Beauty’s Sword, and returned to her room.

Tang Wutong wrote a confession to Huo Yuhao about her guilt and their lost past, then burned it without sending it. A month later, Lu Jun arrived at the ruins of Shrek City to confront Huo Yuhao, who remained determined never to forgive Tang Wutong.

• Tang Wutong recalled her past with Huo Yuhao and wrote that she regretted believing Tang San and arriving too late to stand by Huo Yuhao.
• Tang Wutong tore up her letter and burned it, resolving to leave her old self behind.
• Huo Yuhao sensed Tang Wutong's unsent letter, reflected that he could not forgive her, and continued meditating as the calm before the coming conflict began to break.
• One month later, Lu Jun reached the ruins of Shrek City and prepared to confront Huo Yuhao, who sat meditating at their center.

Lu Jun confronted Huo Yuhao in the ruins, where their duel began with Lu Jun’s seven-colored sword strike and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power and Ultimate Ice defense. Huo Yuhao froze the attack but suffered a wound when Lu Jun shattered the ice and returned his sword to its sheath, leaving Huo Yuhao to acknowledge him as a worthy opponent.

• Lu Jun approached Huo Yuhao while Tang Wutong, Di Tian, Gu Yue Na, Di Yue, and Xu Tiandi watched from outside the battlefield.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the power restricting Lu Jun’s cultivation and connected it to the force that had intervened during his battle with the Crimson Realm.
• Lu Jun said he had come to witness Huo Yuhao’s ending, then unleashed a seven-colored sword strike that became Azure Blue Sword Light.
• Huo Yuhao opened his eyes and used golden Spiritual Power and Ultimate Ice to freeze Lu Jun’s sword light above his head.
• Lu Jun shattered the ice with a gesture and returned the sword to its sheath after leaving a wound on Huo Yuhao’s palm.
• Huo Yuhao admitted that Lu Jun had surprised him and called him a strong, worthy opponent.