Chapter Summaries

Luo Hao killed the last of the men who had sought him over the Sam Family’s Third Young Master and returned to Suoluo City. He found the courtyard he had once stayed in kept immaculate by Lilian, who arrived there as part of her daily routine.

• Luo Hao questioned Sean about why the men had come and learned they were looking for the token of the Sam Family’s Third Young Master.
• Sean told Luo Hao everything he knew and feared the Sam Family would provoke a powerful enemy.
• Luo Hao drained Sean’s vitality, then decided the matter was settled unless Lilian still held a grudge against the Sam Family.
• Luo Hao teleported into his old courtyard in Suoluo City and found it clean and well kept.
• Lilian arrived with two maidservants, who wondered why she came each day to clean the courtyard and read there.

Luo Hao returned to Lilian, who had spent months fearing he might never come back, and she confessed that she no longer wanted to be apart from him. The reunion ended with Lilian pushing him onto the bed and asking if that was enough to prove she believed him.

• Lilian dismissed her maids and ran to embrace Luo Hao as soon as they were alone.
• Lilian cried and explained through her thoughts how she had regretted not leaving with Luo Hao and feared he had forgotten her.
• Luo Hao reassured Lilian that he had returned, while she clung to him and told him she did not want them to be apart again.
• Lilian questioned whether Luo Hao truly meant his reassurance, then pushed him onto the bed and asked if that would convince her.

Luo Hao and Lilian shared a tender moment, and Lilian asked to stay with him forever despite knowing he had a girlfriend. When powerful spirit power fluctuations drew Luo Hao away, he gave Lilian a set of six soul bones and left to investigate.

• Luo Hao tried to explain that he already had a girlfriend, but Lilian said she knew and wanted to stay with him forever.
• Luo Hao fed Lilian, and she asked when he would leave while admitting she did not want to make things difficult for him.
• Luo Hao sensed powerful spirit power fluctuations nearby and told Lilian he needed to investigate.
• Luo Hao gave Lilian a set of six soul bones before leaving her at the City Lord's Manor.

Luo Hao gave Lilian six rare Soul Bones and the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud before teleporting to Bolton City, where Ice Empress had defeated a group of attackers. He scolded Xiao Wu and the others for failing to handle the ambush.

• Luo Hao insisted that Lilian accept six connected Soul Bones and told her to absorb them somewhere quiet.
• Luo Hao gave Lilian the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and she thanked him and asked him for one more kiss.
• Luo Hao teleported to Bolton City and found Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Gu Yuena watching Xiao Wu and the others after a battle.
• Hu Liena explained that two Soul Saints and three Soul Emperors had attacked them, and Ice Empress had defeated the attackers.
• Luo Hao apologized to Ice Empress, then criticized Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Qing, and Hu Liena for being unable to defend themselves despite reaching Soul Saint level.

After the Ice Empress froze the attackers who ambushed Xiao Wu's group, Luo Hao discovered that they belonged to the Soul Palace. He sensed powerful experts gathering in nearby cities as news of the visitors spread.

• Luo Hao reassured Xiao Wu's group after they admitted they had been caught off guard, then sent them back with a one-day ban on going out.
• The Ice Empress happily boasted to Luo Hao that she had known about the ambush but had not warned Xiao Wu's group.
• Luo Hao asked the Ice Empress to release an attacker so he could question him, but she revealed her ultimate ice power had killed the frozen attackers.
• Luo Hao shattered an attacker’s ice-covered remains and retrieved a black token identifying the ambushers as members of the Soul Palace.
• Luo Hao sensed powerful experts arriving in more than a dozen nearby cities as news of the fleet and its visitors spread.

Luo Hao questioned Ghost Douluo about Soul Palace after learning the organization wanted to trade martial souls for Spirit Hall Empire support. He agreed to cooperate on the condition that he could witness a martial-soul extraction, then stopped Ghost Douluo before he left to add something else.

• Ghost Douluo arrived late and apologized for failing to secure Bolton City before Luo Hao's companions were attacked.
• Luo Hao asked Ghost Douluo about Soul Palace, and Ghost Douluo said its leaders had proposed trading high-quality martial souls for resources and support.
• Luo Hao agreed to cooperate with Soul Palace and pay a high price for its martial souls, provided he could witness the extraction process.
• Ghost Douluo explained that the Soul Palace members he had met were dead, so he would need to make contact again.
• Luo Hao told Ghost Douluo to inform him once the arrangements were made, then stopped him as he prepared to leave.

Luo Hao learned that Ghost Douluo had found no leads on Qiankun Asking Love Valley and reflected on the place’s cruel trials and the Love Goddess’s obsession. Days later, Ghost Douluo openly took control of Bolton City and drove away an arrogant envoy from the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ghost Douluo reported that he had found no leads on Qiankun Asking Love Valley, and Luo Hao told him to seek contact with the imperial family.
• Luo Hao recalled Qiankun Asking Love Valley’s origins and condemned the Love Goddess for imposing her beliefs about love on others.
• Luo Hao embraced Ice Empress while Snow Empress looked away and Gu Yuena watched enviously.
• Ghost Douluo took control of Bolton City, and he expelled the Sun Moon Empire’s envoy after the envoy acted arrogantly.

Ghost Douluo suppressed a riot over fishing taxes in Bolton City, then declared the waters safe from Soul Beasts in exchange for half of each catch. The prospect of profitable fishing sent merchants scrambling for boats, and Pete tried to prevent a fight by offering to build smaller vessels.

• Ghost Douluo crushed the fishermen’s riot, killing its participants and leaving Bolton City with over sixty percent of its population gone.
• Ghost Douluo announced that the ferocious Soul Beasts had been cleared from the waters and demanded half of every voyage’s catch as protection money.
• Perov and Norsang argued over a fishing boat at Pete’s shipyard as merchants and fishermen rushed to buy vessels.
• Pete explained that Norsang had forced him to sell the boat, then offered to build small fishing boats if the two merchants supplied workers.
• Perov and Norsang brightened at Pete’s proposal, which would tie his shipyard to their merchant caravans.

Pete agreed to build ships for Perov and Norsang, while the Spirit Hall Empire’s fishing taxes and merchants’ price-gouging shaped the booming seafood trade. Luo Hao, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and the others arrived in Mingdu, where the city’s bustling streets and advanced Soul Tools amazed them.

• Perov offered Pete a large ship and promised workers, but required the first ten small boats for his fleet; Norsang accepted the deal.
• Pete recalled how fights between Soul Masters had once shut down his shipyard, while shipyards and merchants across the region competed for fishing boats.
• Ghost Douluo’s fifty-percent tax forced returning fishing boats to surrender half their catch, and people who resisted were killed.
• As fishing boats became scarce, merchant associations exploited fishers without connections by lowering seafood prices before reselling the catch at a profit.
• Luo Hao led Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and the others through Mingdu, where they marveled at the Soul Guidance Vehicles, towering buildings, and busy streets.

Luo Hao left Xiao Wu and the others to enjoy themselves in Mingdu while he and the Ice Empress headed to the Soul Palace to rob its headquarters. The chapter ended by revealing that the infamous Soul Palace operated openly in the Sun Moon Empire’s capital under the leadership of a youthful-looking Hall Master who was over eighty years old.

• Luo Hao arranged a hotel and tour guides for Xiao Wu and the others, then suggested they visit Mingdetang during their stay.
• Luo Hao considered how the Spirit Hall Empire could gain influence in the Sun Moon Empire by offering Soul Tools and soul bones, and he went to Mingdu to investigate the Soul Palace.
• Luo Hao left with the Ice Empress, planning to rob the Soul Palace while Xiao Wu and the others stayed behind.
• The Ice Empress asked where they were going, and Luo Hao said they were heading to the Soul Palace to rob it.
• The Soul Palace’s headquarters was revealed to be a luxurious castle in Mingdu, where its over-eighty-year-old Hall Master met with kneeling red-robed subordinates.

Soul Palace learned that the Spirit Hall Empire had abundant soul bones and agreed to trade with them, while its Hall Master heard that one of his hall masters had been killed in Bolton City. After the others left, he revealed his unusual Martial Soul and hoped the soul bones would not disappoint him.

• A red-robed hall master reported that the Spirit Hall Empire had agreed to trade with Soul Palace and possessed surplus soul bones for auction.
• The Soul Palace Hall Master learned that one of his hall masters had been killed in Bolton City.
• The Hall Master dismissed the red-robed hall masters without showing his anger.
• Alone, the Hall Master said he hoped the soul bones would not disappoint him and revealed his bottle-shaped Martial Soul containing a writhing mixture of other Martial Souls.

The Soul Palace leader explained how his bottle Martial Soul let him fuse many Martial Souls, gaining immense power and numerous Soul Skills, but the strain on his frail body made Soul Bones essential. With the Spirit Hall Empire's rise offering hope of finding them, he continued building the Soul Palace and raising powerful fused-Martial-Soul subordinates.

• The Soul Palace leader revealed that he had successfully fused acquired Martial Souls into his bottle Martial Soul, gaining their Soul Skills and sharply increasing his cultivation.
• He described founding the Soul Palace, recruiting orphaned children without Martial Souls, granting them powerful Martial Souls, and sending them to gather more for his research.
• After the Sun Moon Empire sent ten Soul Saints to destroy the Soul Palace, he killed them and ordered the organization to hide and grow in secret.
• His many fused Martial Souls overloaded his frail body, limiting how long he could fight despite Soul Power comparable to a level 97 Titled Douluo.
• He relied on an accidentally acquired Torso Bone to keep his body from failing and hoped the conflict between the Spirit Hall Empire and the Sun Moon Empire would help him obtain more Soul Bones.
• The Soul Palace continued collecting high-quality Martial Souls and training its Thirty-Six Hall masters, each of whom had fused around ten Martial Souls.

Luo Hao and Ice Empress attacked the Wang Family Castle in Mingdu, where Luo Hao obtained what he had come for and let the Wang Family head escape. After they vanished, the city guard commander arrived to find the castle destroyed and the family head missing.

• The young man reflected on the Soul Palace’s strength, its black-market trade in high-quality martial souls, and his plans to obtain soul bones from the Imperial Palace.
• Ice Empress struck the young man, who unleashed his martial soul and split the castle apart before fleeing.
• Luo Hao said he had already found what he needed, then used his right eye to draw something from a patch of space into it.
• Luo Hao took Ice Empress’s hand and vanished, leaving the wounded young man behind.
• The city guard commander arrived at the Wang Family Castle and learned that it had been destroyed, the family had suffered heavy casualties, and the Wang Family head was missing.

After inspecting the Wang Family ruins, the city guard commander realized the attack had likely been carried out by a powerful Titled Douluo and decided the guard could not handle the matter. He ordered his men to preserve the scene, then left, abandoning the Wang Family survivors’ demands for justice.

• The commander entered the Wang Family estate and was confronted by nobles demanding that the guards find their missing family head within three days.
• The commander inspected the frozen corpses and ruined buildings, then saw that an eighth-tier Defensive Spirit Tool and its formation core had been destroyed.
• The commander concluded that the Wang Family had likely angered an exceptionally powerful Titled Douluo and that pursuing the culprit would be too dangerous.
• The commander ordered some guards to gather evidence and protect the scene, then vanished without starting an investigation.
• The remaining guards left a few men behind and departed, ignoring the Wang Family survivors’ threats to file a complaint.

Luo Hao and the Ice Empress explored a research facility he had isolated from the main world and discovered a machine that extracted and preserved martial souls. After inspecting how it used its victims’ life force as a vessel, Luo Hao left the facility with the Ice Empress.

• Luo Hao and the Ice Empress entered the isolated research facility and found its staff and guards dead.
• Luo Hao examined the still-running machine and recognized that it used a living person’s martial soul skill to extract other people’s martial souls.
• Luo Hao and the Ice Empress watched the machine place a newly extracted white bear martial soul into a crystal jar.
• Luo Hao deduced that the machine preserved martial souls in their owners’ life force, which could also help with transplantation.
• Luo Hao finished touring the facility and left with the Ice Empress.

Luo Hao took the Ice Empress to Qiankun Asking Love Valley after leaving Time World, having stolen a Soul Tool from Soul Palace and left the Sun Moon Empire to handle the organization. He sacrificed a recently separated couple to open the valley, confirming his suspicion that the place was an evil land.

• Luo Hao left Time World with the Ice Empress and decided the Sun Moon Empire could deal with Soul Palace itself.
• Luo Hao told the Ice Empress they were going to Qiankun Asking Love Valley, and she grew shy when he described it as a sacred place for couples.
• Luo Hao brought the Ice Empress to the lake at Qiankun Asking Love Valley and explained that he had captured a man and a woman who had broken up.
• Luo Hao killed the couple and cast their blood into the lake as a sacrifice, causing the valley to begin moving.
• Luo Hao concluded that Qiankun Asking Love Valley was an evil land that turned Soul Power into resentment.

Luo Hao and the Ice Empress were drawn into the Golden Sun Silver Moon’s trial, where a voice questioned them about love and sacrifice. The Ice Empress affirmed her devotion to Luo Hao, while his long list of lovers left the trial’s voice stunned before it asked whether he loved her.

• Luo Hao let the formation pull him and the Ice Empress into the mist-covered valley’s trial.
• The Ice Empress found herself in a bubble and answered that she had a lover: Luo Hao.
• The Ice Empress said she would be willing to die for Luo Hao, though she believed they would either both survive or both die in a real crisis.
• Luo Hao told the voice that he had many lovers and listed the Ice Empress, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, Gu Yuena, Liu Erlong, and Ye Lingling.
• The trial’s voice questioned the Ice Empress about her devotion after hearing Luo Hao’s list, then showed her to Luo Hao and asked whether he loved her.

Luo Hao and Ice Empress resisted the Love Goddess's obsession in Qiankun Asking Love Valley, then Luo Hao took control of the domain and silenced her power. He began acting against the dead goddess's lingering presence, but the chapter ended as something happened at the center of the lake.

• Luo Hao refused to die for Ice Empress, while she said she loved him because she would not die.
• Ice Empress shattered the dagger at her neck, and the Love Goddess's consciousness attacked them with lightning.
• Luo Hao dismissed the Love Goddess as a dead obsession and provoked her into unleashing an earthquake and towering waves.
• Luo Hao spread his domain, overpowered the Love Goddess's rules, and calmed the valley.
• Luo Hao told the dead goddess to stop causing trouble and waved his hand, triggering a splash at the center of the lake.

Luo Hao destroyed the Love Goddess’s remnant soul and erased Qiankun Asking Love Valley, then absorbed its remaining divine power and moved the valley into Time World. As he and Ice Empress flew toward Mingdu, she asked him to spend more time with her.

• Luo Hao mocked the Love Goddess’s remnant soul and destroyed it when it refused to accept its death.
• Luo Hao used spatial power to swallow Qiankun Asking Love Valley, leaving behind a pit as the world repaired the space.
• Ice Empress told Luo Hao not to die for her, and he reassured her that he would keep growing stronger to protect those he cared about.
• Luo Hao absorbed the Love Goddess’s remaining divine and spiritual power into Time World and moved Qiankun Asking Love Valley there as a cultivation treasure land.
• Luo Hao and Ice Empress flew toward Mingdu, and Ice Empress asked him to spend more time with her.

After spending a month traveling with Ice Empress, Luo Hao decided to return as Ghost Douluo prepared to send envoys to the Sun Moon Empire’s capital. He learned that Spirit Hall was expanding its influence while the Sun Moon Empire’s princes competed for the throne, and its court remained too divided to confront Spirit Hall openly.

• Luo Hao spent a month visiting nearby cities with Ice Empress, then decided it was time to return.
• Ghost Douluo expanded Spirit Hall’s presence by acquiring nearby cities, buying Soul Tools and rare materials, and recruiting Soul Engineers from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Luo Hao received news that the Sun Moon Empire’s aging emperor had four princes with differing attitudes toward Spirit Hall.
• The First Prince threatened Ghost Douluo, while the Second Prince asked Spirit Hall to stay out of the succession struggle and the Third Prince sought its support with empty promises.
• The Fourth Prince withdrew from the contest despite his talent as a Soul Engineer, and the succession crisis kept the Sun Moon Empire from openly challenging Spirit Hall.