Chapter Summaries

Luo Hao traveled with the Ice Empress while the Spirit Hall Empire expanded into the Sun Moon Empire and drew attention with an upcoming auction. In Mingdu, the Snow Empress grew furious at Luo Hao’s teasing message, then comforted herself with Bibi Dong and Gu Yuena as they waited for him to return.

• The Spirit Hall Empire annexed remote cities in the Sun Moon Empire, while factions reacted with caution, vanished after protesting, or began trading with it.
• News spread that an auction in Bolton City would offer three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, attracting interest from major factions.
• Luo Hao told the Ice Empress that Xiao Wu and the others were enjoying Mingdu and could stay there for another month.
• The Snow Empress messaged Luo Hao to come back, but he teased her about being unable to leave the Ice Empress, prompting her to crush her Communication Soul Tool in anger.
• Gu Yuena calmed the Snow Empress, and Bibi Dong brought them ice cream with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Bibi Dong asked when Luo Hao would return, and the Snow Empress said he might be busy comprehending the mysteries of life.

Snow Empress, Gu Yuena, Bibi Dong, and Three-Eyed Golden Lion encountered three noble youths in Mingdu who wanted to capture them and learn how to tame Soul Beasts. Snow Empress hesitated to fight because Luo Hao had told her to avoid causing trouble, and she could not contact him after crushing her Communication Soul Tool.

• Gu Yuena questioned Snow Empress’s attempt to fool Bibi Dong, who admitted she preferred staying with Luo Hao.
• Three noble youths arrived on flying Soul Tools and greedily planned to capture the women and force them to reveal how they kept a Soul Beast as a pet.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion spoke, exciting the nobles and their approaching lackeys because they had never seen a Soul Beast that could speak human language.
• Snow Empress considered how to deal with the nobles without disrupting Luo Hao’s plans, but could not ask him for advice because she had crushed her Communication Soul Tool.
• One noble youth ordered Snow Empress and the others to come with them and explain where Three-Eyed Golden Lion came from.

Bibi Dong urged Snow Empress to kill a group of young men who harassed them, and Snow Empress unleashed a blizzard that wiped them out. As they left, Bibi Dong admired Snow Empress’s beautiful ability and revealed her insecurity about her own spider Martial Soul.

• Bibi Dong told Snow Empress that they should kill the young men, and reminded her that Luo Hao had said the strong did not need to hold back.
• Snow Empress lowered the temperature and summoned snow, freezing one young man and destroying his Soul Tool.
• Snow Empress’s blizzard buried the group, nearby buildings, and passersby beneath a mound of snow.
• Snow Empress took Bibi Dong’s hand and said the group was dead as they left the scene.
• Bibi Dong praised Snow Empress’s Soul Skill and admitted she envied beautiful Martial Souls because people disliked her spider Martial Soul.
• Snow Empress explained that her new ability, Snow Profound Meaning: Assimilation, assimilated anything touched by a snowflake.

Snow Empress encouraged Bibi Dong to keep cultivating Luo Hao’s technique, while Bibi Dong and the others withdrew after learning Snow Empress had killed several nobles. Mingdu erupted into a manhunt for Snow Empress and her companions, but the search found nothing and the portraits remained displayed at the city gates.

• Snow Empress told Bibi Dong that mastering Luo Hao’s cultivation technique might transform her martial soul and grant her soul skills.
• Bibi Dong warned Zhu Zhuqing and the others that Snow Empress had killed nobles and they might face trouble, so Zhu Zhuqing led the group back.
• Xiao Wu objected to needing Snow Empress’s protection, but the others agreed it was safer to leave the Sun Moon Empire’s capital.
• Mingdu learned that several high-ranking young nobles and more than twenty family disciples had been killed, and the imperial family sealed the city and ordered a search.
• Witnesses described Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and the little girl, and their portraits were posted around Mingdu as soldiers searched for them.
• The search continued for several days without finding the women, and the uproar faded while their portraits remained at the city gates.

Bibi Dong, Snow Empress, and Gu Yuena were enraged by badly drawn wanted portraits, while worrying the incident might affect Luo Hao’s upcoming diplomatic mission. Days later, Luo Hao attended the Spirit Hall Empire’s first auction in Bolton City, where a Ten Thousand Year Snow Wolf soul bone was revealed to a packed crowd.

• Bibi Dong fumed over portraits that made her and the others look nothing like themselves, and Snow Empress and Gu Yuena also disliked the drawings.
• Snow Empress and the others worried the wanted portraits could affect Luo Hao’s planned visit to the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family and Mingdetang.
• Ghost Douluo expanded Bolton City’s auction house and developed the city as a Spirit Hall Empire base, paying residents who moved away.
• Luo Hao sat in the VIP section as the packed auction began, with most attendees there to watch rather than buy soul bones.
• The auctioneer displayed a Ten Thousand Year Snow Wolf right leg soul bone, prompting the crowd to erupt in surprise.

The auction house’s first item, a soul bone, sparked fierce bidding as the price climbed from 5.23 million gold coins. After the auctioneer announced that Soul Tools could also be used as payment, the final bidding round began and the price surged past 12 million before the countdown reached its last seconds.

• The first bidding round ended with Gentleman Number 333 holding the highest bid at 5.23 million gold coins.
• The auctioneer announced that the auction house would accept Soul Tools at discounted valuations, prompting attendees to trade them among their groups.
• The auction house posted Soul Tool valuations by grade and valued them at eighty percent of their worth.
• The auctioneer opened the final bidding round with a one-minute limit, and bids quickly rose from three million to twelve million gold coins.
• As the countdown reached its final two seconds, the price on the giant screen had begun to slow.

A veiled woman won the first auction item for 21 million, and the auctioneer introduced a Golden Lion Martial Soul taken from a destroyed Soul Palace branch and modified by the Spirit Hall Empire. The auction house claimed the Martial Soul could be absorbed to devour a person’s original Martial Soul and potentially grant Rank 10 innate soul power, leaving the crowd tempted despite the controversy.

• Miss Number 0018 won the first auction item with a final bid of 21 million, drawing the anger of rival bidders.
• The auctioneer presented a golden sphere containing a Martial Soul and revealed that it was a Golden Lion taken from a Soul Palace branch.
• The crowd accused the Spirit Hall Empire of cooperating with Soul Palace, but the auctioneer denied any alliance and said the branch had been destroyed.
• The auctioneer explained that the Golden Lion’s original owner had Rank 9 Innate Soul Power and that the Spirit Hall Empire had modified the Martial Soul.
• The auctioneer said absorbing it could devour someone’s original Martial Soul and might raise them directly to Rank 10, stirring the bidders’ interest.

An auctioneer offered a confiscated Martial Soul said to belong to a Rank 10 Innate Soul Power genius, while warning buyers that legal troubles would cost extra to resolve. As the auction continued with rare Spirit Hall Empire goods, Luo Hao watched the bidders and wondered how wealthy they were.

• The crowd recognized the displayed Martial Soul as possibly belonging to the Mu Family of Moluo City and speculated that Soul Palace had taken their missing genius.
• The auctioneer announced that buyers would have to pay an additional 10% for protection against trouble caused by using the Martial Soul, provoking angry complaints.
• The auctioneer began a thirty-second bidding round, and the price rose rapidly as families pursued the chance to acquire a Rank 10 genius.
• The auction continued with rare goods from the Spirit Hall Empire, including gems and ocean treasures unavailable in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Luo Hao ignored the auction items and watched the bidders, briefly imagining robbing them before dismissing the thought.

Luo Hao and Ice Empress prepared to leave the auction house when the Blood Demon Bandit Group attacked it with high-level Soul Guidance Cannons. The defenses stopped the intruders from entering, but the panicked bidders were left relying on the auction house’s calm auctioneer.

• Luo Hao told Ice Empress that they would visit Mingdetang in a couple of days before a thunderous explosion interrupted them.
• The Blood Demon Bandit Group blasted a hole through the auction house’s roof with Soul Guidance Cannons, but its layered defensive formations blocked the falling rubble.
• Dozens of red-robed bandits entered through the opening and were stopped by another defensive formation, which their Soul Douluo leader could not break through completely.
• The bidders recognized the Blood Demon Bandit Group and panicked, fearing the notorious bandits would rob or harm them.
• The auctioneer urged everyone to stay calm and remain seated, assuring them that the auction house could protect them.

The Blood Demon Bandit Group’s attack on the auction house stalled when its Level 7 defensive formation withstood their bombardment. As the bidders realized they were safe, they stopped fleeing and mocked the frustrated bandits.

• The Blood Demon Bandit Group discovered that the auction house still had a Level 7 defensive formation after their earlier attacks failed to break through.
• The bandits recalled that the royal family had hired them to damage the Spirit Hall Empire’s reputation and promised them the loot and immunity from pursuit.
• The bandits’ leader and underlings debated what to do as the bidders fled beneath the unbroken barrier.
• Bidders noticed that the bandits were still outside the defensive formation and began returning to watch.
• The crowd’s fear turned to confusion and ridicule as they laughed at the Blood Demon Bandit Group’s failed attack.

The Blood Demon Bandit Group tried to retreat after failing to break through the auction house’s defenses, but a mysterious voice made the bandits vanish. The auctioneer reassured the bidders, and the auction ended with the group’s fate unexplained.

• The red-robed leader ordered the Blood Demon Bandit Group to retreat after they broke through another defensive layer, only to find another barrier beneath it.
• A strange voice mocked the bandits, and a flash of white light made the Soul Douluo leader and the other bandits disappear.
• The auctioneer apologized to the bidders and assured them that the auction house had kept them safe.
• The auctioneer reflected on his allegiance to the Spirit Hall Empire and the power he had witnessed there.
• Bidders returned to the auction house, and the auctioneer ended the event and directed successful bidders to pay.

After the auction, the auction house dismissed angry bidders and forced them to leave under the guns of nearly a thousand Spirit Hall Empire soldiers. Luo Hao continued studying the laws of time and space as preparations for trade between the continents progressed.

• The auctioneer refused to compensate or apologize to the bidders, blamed them for leaving their seats, and walked away.
• Nearly a thousand silver-robed soldiers arrived on flying Soul Tools and ordered the bidders to leave in an orderly fashion at gunpoint.
• Successful bidders completed their purchases after passing asset checks, and the auction brought in roughly two hundred million gold coins.
• The Spirit Hall Empire prepared to acquire Soul Tool technology and materials from the Sun Moon Empire while large transport ships were built at Sunset Port.
• Luo Hao used his spare time to comprehend the laws of time and space.

Luo Hao arrived in Mingdu with Ice Empress for a public diplomatic mission and discovered that Snow Empress, Gu Yuena, and Bibi Dong had been placed on the Sun Moon Empire’s wanted list. After learning they were wanted for killing nobles, he sent messages to Xiao Wu and Snow Empress, unsure where they were hiding.

• Luo Hao and Ice Empress arrived at Mingdu’s gates and encountered a crowd of arrogant onlookers.
• Ice Empress tore down three wanted posters and brought them to Luo Hao.
• Luo Hao recognized Snow Empress, Gu Yuena, and Bibi Dong on the posters and wondered why they had not contacted him.
• Luo Hao and Ice Empress read that the women were wanted for killing nobles, and Luo Hao noted the victims were no ordinary nobles.
• Luo Hao sent messages to Xiao Wu and Snow Empress, suspecting they were in hiding.

Luo Hao led the Spirit Hall Empire delegation into Mingdu and met Zhong Meng, Mingdetang’s vice hall master, who hoped to display the Sun Moon Empire’s technology and learn about the Spirit Hall Empire. Zhong Meng escorted the delegation into the city while probing Luo Hao for information.

• Luo Hao contacted Xiao Wu and told her group to gather at a designated location.
• Zhong Meng greeted Luo Hao at the city gate and introduced himself as the person in charge of the exchange.
• Luo Hao assessed Zhong Meng and considered Mingdetang a place where Xiao Wu and the others could study Soul Tools.
• Zhong Meng led Luo Hao and the delegation into Mingdu and arranged their accommodations as nearby nobles watched from a distance.
• During the ride in Soul Guidance Vehicles, Zhong Meng praised Mingdetang and asked questions, and Luo Hao said the Spirit Hall Empire had nearly lost its Soul Tool crafting methods.

Luo Hao boasted to Zhong Meng about the Spirit Hall Empire’s abundance of Soul Beasts and Soul Rings, while knowing that prosperity was still in the future. When the carriage stopped for his friends, a Mingdetang youth recognized Bibi Dong and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion from a wanted poster.

• Luo Hao praised the Spirit Hall Empire’s vast Soul Beast population and predicted its Soul Masters would thrive as a new generation came of age.
• Luo Hao asked Zhong Meng to stop the carriage at a corner so his friends could join them on a visit to Mingdetang.
• Zhong Meng agreed and considered using clever people at Mingdetang to learn more from Luo Hao’s young friends.
• Bibi Dong and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared with the others as the carriage passed the corner.
• A young man with Zhong Meng recognized Bibi Dong and called the Three-Eyed Golden Lion her dog, leaving everyone silent.