Chapter Summaries

Luo Hao healed Gu Yuena, returned to Spirit Hall, and revealed his identity as its Pope to Xiao Wu and the Blue Tyrant Academy team. After reuniting with them, he offered Tailong and the other three the tournament’s three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, but they refused.

• Luo Hao healed Gu Yuena’s injuries and noticed that she had grown more intimate with him.
• Luo Hao returned to the human world with Gu Yuena and the Ice Empress after Blue Tyrant Academy won the Continental Elite Tournament.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Tailong, and the others entered Spirit Hall to receive their rewards, wary of the Pope.
• Luo Hao removed his mask and revealed himself to Xiao Wu and the team, who greeted him with shock and joy.
• Luo Hao gave Tailong three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to divide among his group, but Tailong and the others refused the valuable rewards.

Luo Hao gave Tailong and his companions spirit herbs after they declined his soul bones, then introduced Bibi Dong, the Ice Empress, and Gu Yuena to the women gathered in the hall. Gu Yuena’s aura frightened Xiao Wu, and after revealing Xiao Wu was also a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, Luo Hao arranged for everyone to settle in Spirit City, leaving him to manage the tension between them.

• Luo Hao gave Tailong and the others four jade boxes of ten-thousand-year spirit herbs when they refused his soul bones.
• Luo Hao introduced Bibi Dong and the Ice Empress to the women in the hall, and the Ice Empress released a display of her power.
• Luo Hao introduced Gu Yuena, whose aura overwhelmed the Ice Empress’s and caused Xiao Wu to fall from her chair.
• Luo Hao comforted Xiao Wu, revealed she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and arranged accommodations and cultivation resources for everyone in Spirit City.
• The Ice Empress teased Luo Hao about becoming a common enemy to the women, and he asked her to be more tolerant of them.

Luo Hao teased Ice Empress before visiting Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, who confronted him for neglecting them and hiding his appointment as Pope. He promised to take them with him on his next journey, while Ning Fengzhi received a letter about Xiao Hao and fell silent.

• Luo Hao teased Ice Empress, then headed to Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong's courtyard for the night.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong pulled Luo Hao into their room and scolded him for failing to visit them and for secretly becoming Pope.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong asked Luo Hao to stay longer, and he promised to take them with him on his next journey.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi read a letter and told Sword Douluo that something had happened to Xiao Hao.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo learned that Luo Hao had become Spirit Hall’s Pope, while Luo Hao took Zhu Zhuqing to Star Luo City to settle matters with her family. As he prepared to help her seize power from the Zhu Family, Zhu Zhuqing hesitated over her original desire to earn her family’s recognition.

• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo that Luo Hao had seized power and become Spirit Hall’s Pope, and showed him Ning Rongrong’s letter.
• Ning Fengzhi worried that Luo Hao had targeted Xue Qinghe, while Sword Douluo offered to bring Ning Rongrong back from Spirit Hall.
• Luo Hao toured Star Luo City with the girls and explained that Spirit Hall’s expansion and new academies were producing many gifted cultivators.
• Luo Hao sent Xiao Wu and the others back to the hotel before taking Zhu Zhuqing to visit her family and seize power.
• Zhu Zhuqing hesitated, recalling that she had once desperately cultivated to gain her family’s and sister’s recognition.

Luo Hao comforted Zhu Zhuqing and decided to confront the Zhu Family after they rejected Spirit Hall’s ultimatum. As his group set out, Zhu Zhuqing reflected on Luo Hao’s influence and watched the Ice Empress act unexpectedly childlike around him.

• Luo Hao told Zhu Zhuqing they would correct the Zhu and Dai Families’ wrongdoings, and she agreed to go with him.
• Luo Hao brought Zhu Zhuqing and the Ice Empress to the Spirit Hall Holy Temple in Star Luo City, where Raimon reported that the Zhu Family had rejected their ultimatum.
• Raimon warned Luo Hao about the Zhu Family’s power, but the Ice Empress blasted him aside, revealing her terrifying strength as a Soul Beast.
• Luo Hao ordered Raimon to prepare a procession and carriage, then traveled toward the Zhu Family with Zhu Zhuqing and the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress pried gemstones from the carriage, and Luo Hao promised to take her shopping while Zhu Zhuqing reflected on how she had fallen for him.

Zhu Zhuqing returned to the Zhu Family estate with Luo Hao and Spirit Hall representatives, declaring that she wanted to save the family by bringing it to heel. After Zhu Ling and Dai Xiabin rejected her, Luo Hao subdued the family leaders and guards, and Zhu Zhuqing called for a family council.

• Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the Zhu Family estate and told Zhu Yuan she had come to negotiate on Spirit Hall's behalf.
• Zhu Yuan accused Zhu Zhuqing of betraying the family, while Zhu Ling and Dai Xiabin confronted her and demanded she return.
• Zhu Zhuqing argued that strength ruled the world, and Luo Hao's overwhelming pressure forced Zhu Ling, Dai Xiabin, and their guards to the ground.
• Zhu Zhuqing ordered Zhu Yuan to gather the family elders for a council, and Luo Hao had the Holy Knights detain the Zhu Family members.

Luo Hao helped Zhu Zhuqing take control of the Zhu Family, beating and restraining relatives who opposed her while leaving Zhu Ling and Dai Xiabin alive. Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi were also subdued, and three more elders arrived with Zhu Yuan as the chapter ended.

• Luo Hao struck Zhu Ling and knocked Dai Xiabin unconscious when they attacked him, then walked with Zhu Zhuqing into the Zhu Family compound.
• Zhu Zhuqing took the seat of honor in the main hall while Spirit Hall members restrained disobedient clansmen and sealed their Soul Power.
• Ice Empress smashed an elderly Zhu Family man into a pillar, and Spirit Hall members tied him up.
• Luo Hao asked Zhu Zhuqing about the remaining elders, and she explained that the Zhu Family's favoritism toward Zhu Zhuyun had driven her away.
• Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi challenged Zhu Zhuqing, but she ordered Holy Hall Knights to seal their Soul Power and escort them aside.
• Three old men and Zhu Yuan entered and saw the restrained elders, then angrily confronted Zhu Zhuqing.

Zhu Zhuqing seized control of the Zhu Family with the Holy Temple Knights and Ice Empress, forcing the family’s leaders to accept her rule. The chapter ended with the remaining relatives cowed into silence and Zhu Ling realizing that Zhu Zhuqing had allied with Spirit Hall.

• Ice Empress defeated and captured the Zhu Family’s three strongest elders, leaving the gathered higher-ups unable to resist.
• Zhu Zhuqing declared herself family head, and Zhu Yuan and other collateral-branch leaders pledged their support.
• A defiant elder threatened Zhu Zhuqing and claimed he had alerted the Dai Family, so Ice Empress froze and smashed him with her hammer.
• The Holy Temple Knights suppressed the panicked crowd, and Zhu Zhuqing told the survivors that her actions served the Zhu Family’s future.
• Zhu Ling and Dai Xiabin huddled in fear as Zhu Ling realized Zhu Zhuqing had changed and become involved with Spirit Hall.

Zhu Zhuqing secured the Zhu Family by forcing its leaders to submit, while Luo Hao arranged for Spirit Hall to help restore the family’s businesses. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion hatched, and Luo Hao entered the Time Tower to see it.

• Zhu Mo and the injured elders pledged loyalty to Zhu Zhuqing, prompting the Zhu Family’s other leaders to submit.
• Luo Hao ordered Raimon to help Zhu Zhuqing take control of the Zhu Family’s businesses, and Raimon’s people removed the Soul Power-sealing shackles before leaving.
• Zhu Zhuqing declined further help from Luo Hao and asked Xiao Yu to arrange lodging for him and his companions.
• Ice Empress sought Luo Hao’s praise for her role in the hall, and he told her to cultivate instead of being lazy.
• Luo Hao sensed that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had hatched and entered the Time Tower.

Luo Hao watched the Three-Eyed Golden Lion hatch in the Time Tower and discovered its fate was strongly tied to the Star Dou Great Forest but only weakly connected to the tower. He coaxed the cub into following him with ice cream and brought it out, where the Ice Empress eagerly welcomed it before blushing at Luo Hao’s question about beast milk.

• Luo Hao watched the Three-Eyed Golden Lion hatch and used True Sight to see its threads of fate.
• Luo Hao tugged the cub’s weak Time Tower fate thread, causing a mountain inside the tower to collapse, then quickly let go.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion finished eating its eggshell, accepted ice cream from Luo Hao, and followed him out of the Time Tower.
• The Ice Empress spotted the cub and excitedly called it cute, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion hid in Luo Hao’s arms.
• Luo Hao asked whether Soul Beast cubs drank beast milk, and the Ice Empress blushed and scolded him.

Tang San visited the Strength Clan residence in Spirit City and told Titan that Luo Hao, Spirit Hall’s new Pope, had killed Tang Hao. Titan refused to help Tang San build the Tang Sect or oppose Spirit Hall, leaving Tang San without the Strength Clan’s support.

• Titan joyfully welcomed Tang San, who was pleased to find the Strength Clan still seemed loyal to his father.
• Tang San told Titan that Luo Hao had murdered Tang Hao, and Titan reacted with fury before realizing why Luo Hao had once made him join Spirit Hall.
• Tang San asked Titan to support the Tang Sect, but Titan dismissed him and lamented that he could not avenge Tang Hao while protecting his clan.
• Titan warned Tang San not to oppose Spirit Hall and explained that he could not risk his clansmen’s lives.
• Tang San tried to persuade Titan with a bet, but Titan refused, recalling that he had lost badly after gambling with Luo Hao.

Tang San left Titan after failing to recruit him, while Titan and the other clan leaders discussed Tang San’s resolve and their new allegiance to Spirit Hall. At the Zhu Family, Luo Hao learned that the Star Luo royal family had arrived and that Zhu Zhuqing was fighting them.

• Tang San told Titan he would make him regret refusing, then left with renewed determination to restore the Tang Sect.
• Titan explained that he had not revealed Luo Hao’s strength and said his family now belonged to Spirit Hall.
• Bai He asked Titan what he thought of Tang San, and Yang Wudi and Niu Gao criticized the Clear Sky Sect before ending the discussion.
• Luo Hao rested with Hu Liena while the Ice Empress cultivated, having discovered that her technique increased her cultivation speed more than ten thousandfold.
• Bibi Dong rushed into the courtyard with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion cub and warned Luo Hao that royal soldiers had arrived and Zhu Zhuqing had begun fighting them.
• Luo Hao went to the Zhu Family entrance, where royal soldiers had surrounded the estate.

General Long led Star Luo Empire soldiers to the Zhu Family estate and demanded that Zhu Zhuqing surrender the family and Spirit Hall members. Luo Hao killed him with a single blow, then turned his attention to the Dai Family.

• General Long arrived at the Zhu Family estate and used his Soul Power to pressure Zhu Zhuqing and the elders.
• General Long accused the Zhu Family of colluding with Spirit Hall and demanded its surrender.
• Luo Hao emerged, blocked General Long’s pressure, and checked on Zhu Zhuqing.
• When General Long challenged him, Luo Hao struck him with a giant hand of nanoparticles, killing him and his horse.
• Luo Hao declared that the Dai Family had brought its fate upon itself.

Luo Hao subdued General Long and sent Zhu Zhuqing to summon Spirit Hall’s forces as he moved to take the Star Luo Imperial Palace. Dai Xiahu sensed trouble just before Luo Hao and Ice Empress breached the palace gates and faced its guards.

• Luo Hao used his Divine Slaughter’s Domain to frighten General Long’s soldiers into fleeing, then spared them to carry news of the general’s defeat.
• Ice Empress joined Luo Hao, and he ordered Zhu Zhuqing to have Bishop Raimon prepare Spirit Hall’s elite forces to surround the Imperial Palace.
• Dai Xiahu grew uneasy when General Long failed to return, then saw a gigantic hand crush the Imperial Palace gates and ordered the palace onto high alert.
• Luo Hao and Ice Empress stood atop the bronze gates as a Soul Saint and two Soul Emperors charged them; the Soul Saint unleashed a storm of feathers.
• Ice Empress admired the feathers as they shot toward her and Luo Hao, and a soft hum sounded.

Luo Hao and the Ice Empress fought their way through the Star Luo Imperial Guards and reached the palace, where Luo Hao announced he intended to wipe out the Dai Family. The emperor, empress, and their allies revealed their martial souls, including the Hell White Tiger and Purple Lightning Golden Dragon, and the confrontation began.

• Luo Hao shielded himself and the Ice Empress from the Soul Saint’s feather attack, then used overwhelming gravity to crush the attackers to the ground.
• A loyal soldier crawled forward to block their path, but Luo Hao crushed his skull and continued toward the palace with the Ice Empress.
• Luo Hao and the Ice Empress defeated successive groups of Imperial Guards, killing those who resisted fiercely.
• Luo Hao reached the central palace and explained that he meant to wipe out the Dai Family, not oppose the entire Star Luo Empire.
• The Star Luo emperor, empress, and five others released their martial souls, revealing the Hell White Tiger and Purple Lightning Golden Dragon; Luo Hao recognized the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s involvement.

Ice Empress revealed her true form and used a newly learned Ice Profound Meaning to defeat Dai Xiahu and the six others, then explained that she had mastered the technique through Luo Hao’s cultivation method. After Raimon arrived with Soul Masters and sealed off the palace, Luo Hao left the scene in his hands.

• Ice Empress pushed Luo Hao aside, revealed her Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion form, and unleashed Extreme Freeze to turn Dai Xiahu and the other six into shattered ice sculptures.
• Luo Hao scolded Ice Empress for using her powerful technique, but she apologized and cuddled up to him until he forgave her.
• Ice Empress told Luo Hao that she had recently learned the move from the cultivation technique he gave her, and Luo Hao wondered how Snow Empress was progressing.
• Raimon arrived with Golden Armored Temple Knights, reported that one thousand Soul Masters had sealed off the Imperial Palace, and said Spirit Hall members were keeping news from spreading.
• Luo Hao praised Raimon’s work and asked him to handle the scene.

Luo Hao left Raimon to oversee Spirit Hall’s takeover of the Star Luo Empire, then encountered Dai Mubai trying to enter the palace and learned the Dai emperor had been killed. Three days later, eight-year-old Dai Mucheng was proclaimed emperor while Spirit Hall temporarily took charge of the empire.

• Luo Hao told Raimon to complete the takeover of the Star Luo Empire within two days, then left the palace with Ice Empress.
• Dai Mubai broke through Spirit Hall’s guards and was captured by a Golden Armored Temple Knight, who brought him before Luo Hao.
• Luo Hao ordered the knight to guard the palace more carefully and left without acknowledging Dai Mubai.
• The Golden Armored Temple Knight told Dai Mubai that the emperor was dead and the Dai Family was nearly wiped out, then crippled Dai Mubai’s cultivation and sent him to Black Water Prison.
• Three days later, the Star Luo Empire announced that eight-year-old Dai Mucheng had become emperor and that Spirit Hall would temporarily oversee state affairs.
• Families and sects allied with the Dai Family initially protested, but they soon submitted.

Over three months, Luo Hao brought the Star Luo Empire under Spirit Hall’s control and expanded the organization’s influence among commoners. He focused on building a loyal student base and opening a route west, while Ice Empress revealed that she was nearing her 500,000-year tribulation.

• Spirit Hall installed new leaders in the Star Luo families and promoted Luo Hao’s reputation among commoners through the Spirit Reset Instrument.
• Luo Hao received reports that the Star Luo Empire had been subdued, including the Antas Duchy’s allegiance and the Rexas Duchy’s forced submission.
• Luo Hao ordered Spirit Hall Second Academy to screen students carefully and build a loyal force using cultivation techniques from the Transmission Tower.
• Luo Hao ordered more manpower and subsidies for the Western Development project so Spirit Hall could open a route west toward the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ice Empress told Luo Hao that she was nearing her 500,000-year tribulation, and he encouraged her to keep cultivating.

Ning Rongrong returned from vacation and confronted Luo Hao for neglecting her, then delivered him a letter reporting that the Heaven Dou emperor was dying. Luo Hao realized the letter came from Dugu Bo through Ning Fengzhi and decided not to save the emperor, suspecting Qian Renxue had accelerated the poisoning.

• Ning Rongrong came to the main hall and complained that Luo Hao had not visited her since she and the others returned from vacation.
• Luo Hao pulled Ning Rongrong into his arms, and she cried that Ice Empress’s intimidating presence made her feel overshadowed.
• Ning Rongrong gave Luo Hao a letter, which revealed that the old emperor was dying and had been written by Dugu Bo.
• Luo Hao wondered how Dugu Bo and Ning Fengzhi had joined forces, then decided to let the emperor die because Qian Renxue had likely accelerated the poisoning.

Ning Rongrong asked Luo Hao to save Emperor Xue Ye, forcing him to adjust his plans for the Heaven Dou Empire. Before leaving for the empire, Luo Hao visited Zhu Zhuqing, reassured her about managing the Zhu Family, and stayed the night with her.

• Ning Rongrong told Luo Hao that Emperor Xue Ye had been poisoned and asked him to save the emperor, whom she remembered as kind to her.
• Luo Hao agreed to Ning Rongrong's request and decided to alter his plans for taking control of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Luo Hao visited Zhu Zhuqing at the Zhu Family and invited her to return to the Heaven Dou Empire with him.
• Zhu Zhuqing worried about leaving her family duties, so Luo Hao advised her to delegate and promised she could join him later.
• Luo Hao told Zhu Zhuqing he would leave the next day, and she asked him to stay with her that night.