Chapter Summaries

After realizing Wang Dong'er was a girl, Huo Yuhao apologized and the two confessed their feelings, beginning a date together. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm won his bet and took Ice Empress on a date, ending by presenting her with candied hawthorn he had obtained from Zhuge Lan.

• After hearing that the Light Goddess Butterfly appeared only in women, Huo Yuhao realized Wang Dong'er was a girl and searched for her with his Mental Power.
• Huo Yuhao found Wang Dong'er by a fountain, embraced her, and apologized for being too slow to understand her feelings.
• Wang Dong'er accepted Huo Yuhao's apology, revealed her disguise, and walked hand in hand with him as their Hao Dong Power flowed between them.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm celebrated winning his bet and persuaded Ice Empress to go on a date with him.
• Ice Empress told Wang Dong'er that Zhuge Lan had placed bets on her, and Wang Dong'er demanded a share of the winnings.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm returned with candied hawthorn from Zhuge Lan for Ice Empress, saying it could increase Mental Power.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er confirmed their relationship, and Wang Yan confessed to Han Ruoruo at the Star Emperor Grand Hotel. Zhuge Lan welcomed the new couple into the Holy Fire Meow Meow Sect and ordered the others to make up their initiation ceremonies.

• Ice Empress enjoyed Zhuge Lan's candied hawthorn, while Huo Yuhao got one for Wang Dong'er and the pair shared a happy moment.
• At the Shrek suite, the group reacted to learning that Wang Dong was Wang Dong'er and teased Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er about their relationship.
• The group noticed Wang Yan's feelings for Han Ruoruo, and Wang Yan confessed that he loved her.
• Han Ruoruo accepted Wang Yan's feelings, and they promised to support each other's cultivation.
• Han Ruoruo joined the Holy Fire Meow Meow Sect, and Zhuge Lan ordered Beibei, Tang Ya, Wang Yan, and the other competition members to hold their initiation ceremonies.

Shrek’s team completed Ma Xiaotao’s humiliating sect initiation and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er spent their first night as a couple embracing nervously. The Soul Master Competition was about to begin, with Shrek arriving at Star Luo Plaza equipped with Huo Yuhao’s powerful custom Soul Tools.

• Ma Xiaotao made the Shrek members recite the Holy Fire Meow Meow Sect’s initiation chant, and Wang Yan helped Han Ruoruo get through it.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er tried dual cultivation by embracing, then stayed awake together until Xiao Xiao interrupted them at dawn.
• Wang Dong’er and Xiao Xiao teased each other, while Ma Xiaotao repeatedly provoked Zhuge Lan until he disguised himself and left for the Sun Moon Empire’s side.
• Wang Yan explained that the competition’s ticket revenue could reach sixty million Gold Soul Coins, and the team acknowledged their free Soul Pills and custom Soul Tools.
• A staff member summoned the contestants to prepare for entry, and the academies lined up at Star Luo Plaza.

At the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament opening, Huo Yuhao defied the emperor’s ceremony and prepared to face Tian Ling Academy alone. He revealed five extraordinary Soul Rings as the first match began, leaving the venue stunned.

• Shrek and several other teams refused to bow fully to Emperor Xu Jiawei, while Zhuge Lan anticipated the tournament’s opening matches.
• Xu Jiawei officially opened the tournament, and the host announced that Shrek would face Tian Ling Academy in the first elimination match.
• Huo Yuhao stepped onto the platform alone and declared that Tian Ling would win if they could make him take even one step.
• The host explained the team-battle rules, and Tian Ling’s seven members released their Martial Souls and Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Water Dragon King, revealing four blood-red Soul Rings and a fifth blue-gold ring that stunned the audience.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy, then provoked the other teams with a wager that earned him a massive amount of Luck Value. The next elimination match began with the Hall of Light God facing Sky Dome Academy, whose team objected when the Hall’s fighters activated their powers before the start.

• Huo Yuhao froze all seven members of Tian Ling Advanced Soul Master Academy with Frostmourne and secured Shrek Academy’s elimination-match victory.
• At Zhuge Lan’s urging, Huo Yuhao challenged the other academies to make him move one step, offering a 100,000-year Soul Ring as a reward and gaining 350,000 Luck Value from the crowd’s reaction.
• Zhuge Lan and Huo Yuhao celebrated their Luck Value gains while Ma Xiaotao mistook their goal for collecting Gold Soul Coins.
• Sky Dome Academy captain Ling Yi instructed his team to reveal the Hall of Light God’s abilities and surrender if they faced danger.
• Light led Xu Xin, Ye Guyi, Ji Juechen, Jing Ziyan, Wu Hongchen, and Wang Yuguo in a declaration of devotion to the Goddess of Light as their match against Sky Dome Academy began.
• Yan Dun pointed out that the Hall of Light God’s team had activated their Martial Souls before the host called the match to start.

The Hall of Light God team defeated Sky Dome Academy and used the match to recruit followers by healing spectators and promoting their faith. The chapter ended as the Spirit Transfer Tower Academy, led by Ning Tian and fielding seven support-type Soul Masters, faced the Cannon Destruction Soul Engineer Academy.

• Yan Dun attacked the Hall of Light God team, but Guang repelled him and Ji Juechen nearly killed him with a light sword before Cheng Gang intervened and rescued him.
• Guang, Ye Guyi, Ji Juechen, and Wu Hongchen overwhelmed Sky Dome Academy, forcing its remaining members to surrender, while Xu Xin and Jing Ziyan healed them.
• Guang addressed the crowd and invited people to join the Hall of Light God, then his team healed spectators and drew many interested recruits.
• Zhuge Lan calculated that the Hall of Light God had gained 750,000, most of it through Guang, while Huo Yuhao gained over 30,000.
• The host introduced the Spirit Transfer Tower Academy and the Cannon Destruction Soul Engineer Academy; Ning Tian led a team of seven Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Masters, puzzling spectators with their unusual lineup.

Ning Tian showcased how Soul Spirits let support-type Soul Masters fight alongside their summoned Soul Beasts, overwhelming Cannon Destruction Soul Engineer Academy and promoting the Spirit Pagoda. Emperor Xu Jiawei of Star Luo then invited her to discuss it.

• Thunder Shadow protested the equipment Spirit Transfer Tower Academy set up, and Ning Tian explained that the black boxes were harmless amplifying Soul Tools.
• Ning Tian and her teammates revealed extraordinary Soul Ring configurations, including Ning Tian’s Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and four 100,000-year Soul Rings.
• The Cannon Destruction Soul Engineer Academy team assembled a combined Soul Tool shield, while Spirit Transfer Tower Academy summoned enormous Soul Spirits.
• Ning Tian ordered the Emperor Ice Penguin to break through the shield and freeze a cannon blast, demonstrating that Soul Spirits could fight independently.
• Ning Tian promoted Soul Spirits as reliable combat partners and said the Spirit Pagoda provided them for free, then invited the Four Great Empires to discuss expansion.
• Xu Jiawei, Emperor of Star Luo, expressed interest in the Spirit Pagoda and asked Ning Tian to join him on the platform.

Ning Tian turned the Cannon Destruction Soul Engineer Academy match into a showcase for Soul Spirits, demonstrating how they used Extreme Ice to stop a powerful Soul Tool cannon. She then brought Vina and Light into talks about expanding the Spirit Pagoda, while Huo Yuhao quietly watched the negotiations unfold.

• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian to accept Vina’s offer, and Ning Tian invited the Heaven Dou princess to join the discussion.
• Ning Tian had Thunder Shadow’s team attack the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirits with their long-range Soul Tools as a product demonstration.
• Thunder Shadow assembled the Source of Destruction Soul Tool Cannon and fired it, but Emperor and the other Soul Spirits redirected its blast with an Extreme Ice wall.
• Ning Tian praised Emperor’s independent thinking and promoted Soul Spirits’ usefulness, then took Vina with her to the elevated platform.
• Light stepped forward to represent the Sun Moon Empire in the talks, earning Luck Value as the empire’s academies welcomed his decision.
• Ning Tian suspected the girl beside Huo Yuhao was close to him and resolved to encourage Vina to dedicate herself to the empire.

Zhuge Lan learned how Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan grew close again while their Ice God Temple team prepared to face Heavenly Soul Ice Water Academy. After Ling Luochen won the match instantly, the opposing teacher protested the team’s name, prompting Zhang Lexuan to reveal her Titled Douluo-level strength.

• Zhuge Lan asked Zhang Lexuan about Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan and learned that Xu Sanshi had taken a fatal blow for Jiang Nannan, who cared for him while he recovered.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that she had severed nine emotions and desires through the Ice Heart Canon.
• Ling Luochen overwhelmed Heavenly Soul Ice Water Academy’s ice abilities and froze all seven opponents with Ice Prison, winning the match instantly.
• Wang Gang protested Ice God Temple’s team name and demanded the team be disqualified.
• Zhang Lexuan appeared on the platform and revealed nine Soul Rings, including a red one, marking her as a Titled Douluo.

Mu En publicly revealed the Ice God Temple’s power and recruitment offer, prompting the empires to compete for its favor. The chapter ended with Ning Tian asking Xu Jiawei to keep the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek, the Hall of Light God, and the Ice God Temple from facing one another before the quarterfinals.

• Wang Gang watched Mu En and Zhang Lexuan reveal their Titled Douluo strength before Mu En manifested the Ice God’s power and declared the Far North off-limits to Soul Masters hunting there.
• Mu En announced that believers with no innate Soul Power could regain the ability to cultivate, and Huo Yuhao completed his second Ice God trial as Zhuge Lan gained a surge of Luck Value.
• Xu Sanshi promoted the Ice God Temple’s recruitment drive and its cultivation benefits, including the chance to earn a 100,000-year Soul Spirit.
• Xu Jiawei offered the Ice God Temple tax exemptions and support in the Star Luo Empire, while Vina offered to make it the Heaven Dou Empire’s state religion.
• Vina went to meet Mu En, and Ning Tian told Xu Jiawei that the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek, the Hall of Light God, and the Ice God Temple must not face one another before the quarterfinals.

Shrek’s tournament lineup was revealed to be missing its strongest students, while news of the Ice God Temple and Shrek spread across the empires. Desperate to secure an alliance, Tian Yang offered Huo Yuhao valuable treasures for an introduction to his demigod teacher, and Huo Yuhao agreed to hear his proposal after consulting Zhuge Lan about a plan for the Dou Ling Empire.

• Han Ruoruo told Shrek’s students that Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong’er, Xiao Xiao, Beibei, and Tang Ya would not compete against the Hall of Light God, the Ice God Temple, or the Spirit Pagoda, leaving Ma Xiaotao to lead the team.
• News spread that Huo Yuhao was a five-ring Soul King with four 100,000-year Soul Rings and a Blue Gold Soul Ring, and that Shrek’s Master of the Sea God Pavilion had become the Ice God Temple’s chief consecrator.
• Huo Yuhao swept away Yun Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy with Frostmourne, and Tian Yang appeared to ask for an introduction to Huo Yuhao’s demigod teacher.
• Tian Yang offered Huo Yuhao a valuable Storage Ring, and Huo Yuhao consulted Zhuge Lan, who judged that cooperating with the Dou Ling Empire could yield Luck Value and a profit.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Zhuge Lan’s reasoning about the consequences of their plan and told Tian Yang that he had authority to handle the matter.

Tian Yang invited Huo Yuhao to help the Dou Ling Empire, but Huo Yuhao rejected the request to make his teacher Imperial Preceptor and left the possibility of other cooperation open. Later, Brother Lan summoned Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er to the Starry Light Grand Auction House, where Wang Yan said an auction item was perfect for them.

• Tian Yang brought Huo Yuhao into a conference room while Gongyang Mo waited outside, and asked him to invite his demigod teacher to become the Dou Ling Empire's Imperial Preceptor.
• Huo Yuhao refused on his teacher's behalf, then said he would consider allowing the Sacred Fire Cult to establish itself in the empire and left to cultivate.
• Wang Dong'er joined Huo Yuhao in cultivating until Brother Lan summoned him for a matter involving the divine trial.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er followed Brother Lan's location to an auction house, where Wang Yan gave them number plates and welcomed them to the Starry Light Grand Auction House.
• Wang Yan told Huo Yuhao that one of the day's auction items was perfect for him and asked what had happened to Gongyang Mo.

Huo Yuhao and his companions attended the Starlight Auction, where Zhuge Lan promised them a ten percent discount and encouraged Huo Yuhao to buy an Ice Scorpion soul bone. When the auction began, Electrolux recognized the first item as Life Gold, and Zhuge Lan ordered Huo Yuhao to bid without limit.

• Wang Yan warned Huo Yuhao that an Ice Scorpion soul bone with the Ice Blast Technique would be auctioned, and Huo Yuhao planned to turn it into an External Soul Bone.
• Qing Ya explained the private-room bidding rules and confirmed that Princess Jiujiu had granted the group a ten percent discount.
• Zhuge Lan proposed a betting game to the soul spirits, but they refused, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm abandoned his attempt to persuade the Ice Empress.
• Xu Jiujiu opened the auction and presented the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife, which Electrolux identified as a large piece of Life Gold.
• Zhuge Lan told Qing Ya to use the sky lantern service, committing Huo Yuhao to raise every bid by at least 5,000 Gold Soul Coins without limit, but no rival bid appeared during the first minute.

Huo Yuhao spent lavishly at the Starlight Auction House, using his new Light the Sky Lantern bidding method to secure Soul Tools, cannonballs, and Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones. As the auction for the Heaven and Earth Breaking Cannon intensified, he prepared to keep bidding and asked Qing Ya about adding an item to the auction.

• Huo Yuhao bought the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife for 105,000 Gold Soul Coins and inspected the Overlord Tiger Soul Refining Blade, noting its ordinary Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.
• Huo Yuhao Lit the Sky Lantern for twelve Level 6 fixed Soul Tool Cannonballs, winning them for 970,000 Gold Soul Coins after He Caitou came to urge him to secure them.
• Huo Yuhao used the same bidding strategy to buy five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones for 34 million Gold Soul Coins.
• Wang Yan and He Caitou joined Huo Yuhao and urged him to win the Level 8 Heaven and Earth Breaking Cannon, while Qing Ya reported that he had spent 41.35 million Gold Soul Coins so far.
• Xu Jiujiu publicized Huo Yuhao's Light the Sky Lantern method and offered a 15% discount, prompting other bidders to adopt the tactic as the cannon's price climbed.
• Huo Yuhao told Qing Ya to leave the room and asked whether he could add an item to the auction, then decided to keep bidding on the cannon.

Huo Yuhao bought the Heaven and Earth Breaking Cannon, then earned a large profit auctioning his engraved core modules as the Spirit Pagoda presented Soul Spirits. The chapter ended as Xu Jiujiu introduced Soul Pills and announced special auction rules.

• Huo Yuhao won the Level 8 Heaven and Earth Breaking Cannon for 10.01 million Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Jiujiu auctioned Huo Yuhao’s thirty core modules, which sold for a total of fifty-two million Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong'er he would let her manage his money, and she playfully scolded him.
• Xu Jiujiu presented a fifty-thousand-year Ice Scorpion Soul Spirit, which sold for 50.01 million Gold Soul Coins, followed by six other Soul Spirits.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced Soul Ascension Pills from Second Order to Eighth Order and began explaining their special auction rules.

Huo Yuhao and Zhuge Lan profited from a huge Soul Pill auction before Huo Yuhao identified a dangerous flaw in the Ice Scorpion soul bone and insisted on buying it. Xu Jiujiu visited their private room as the bidding began, while the story left her looking toward the apparently sleeping Zhuge Lan.

• Huo Yuhao learned that Zhuge Lan had prepared hundreds of most Soul Pill grades, and the bidding brought in 153.12 million Gold Soul Coins.
• The Hall of Light God auctioned a Bright Magic Scroll, which sold for 12.33 million Gold Soul Coins after Huo Yuhao declined to bid on an item he already had in his Storage Ring.
• Huo Yuhao spotted an Ice Scorpion left arm soul bone and told Qing Ya that only someone with Extreme Ice could safely absorb it, then insisted that he wanted it.
• Xu Jiujiu announced the soul bone's Extreme Ice requirement and offered the previous auction item at half price to whoever won the bone.
• The Ice God Temple and Spirit Transfer Tower Academy refrained from bidding, and Qing Ya brought Xu Jiujiu into the private room, where she glanced at Zhuge Lan pretending to nap.

Huo Yuhao secured the Ice Blast Technique Soul Bone at auction, then learned the final item was a 100,000-year Soul Beast embryo that Zhuge Lan believed contained the Snow Empress. Xu Jiawei failed to recruit Huo Yuhao into Star Luo service but offered lasting concessions and proposed a bulk purchase of his core modules and Soul Pills.

• Xu Jiujiu granted Huo Yuhao’s group half price on the Ice Blast Technique Soul Bone and a 20% discount on the other items in their box.
• Huo Yuhao’s group won the Ice Blast Technique Soul Bone for 17.11 million, earning him 5,000 Luck Value.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed a sealed 100,000-year transformed Soul Beast embryo, and Zhuge Lan told Little White and the Ice Empress that it was likely the Snow Empress.
• Xu Jiawei offered Huo Yuhao military authority and the White Tiger Duke title if he returned to Star Luo, but Huo Yuhao refused and insisted on pursuing his own revenge.
• Xu Jiawei offered to recognize the Sacred Fire Cult as Star Luo’s state religion, shared information about the White Tiger family, and proposed buying Huo Yuhao’s core modules and Soul Pills in bulk.

Huo Yuhao finalized a resource-and-Soul Pill trade with Xu Jiawei before bidding began on a 100,000-year Soul Beast embryo. Xiao Hongchen tried to win the embryo for Bright Hall, but Huo Yuhao’s side outbid him, leaving Bright Hall to sell a huge cache of Soul Tools.

• Huo Yuhao traded Soul Pills for resources from Xu Jiawei and gave him formulas for Soul Pills ranked second through ninth, naming Wang Yan as the contact for future transactions.
• Huo Yuhao and his Soul Spirits discussed the bidding and the unequal balances of Luck Value and Little Treasury.
• Huo Yuhao’s side opened the bidding at 200 million Gold Soul Coins, and Xiao Hongchen ordered Bright Hall to sell Soul Tools to keep competing.
• Xiao Hongchen raised his bids from 230 million to 300 million, but the price climbed to 320 million before he could win the embryo.
• Xu Jiujiu announced the embryo’s record-breaking 320-million sale and noted that Bright Hall had sold a Level 8 Defense Soul Tool and many other Soul Tools without acquiring it.

Huo Yuhao collected the Platform of Conferring Gods and brought Wang Dong’er to the Undead Demi-plane to process his gains. There, Zhuge Lan transformed Huo Yuhao’s Soul Bone and began using the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife in a procedure he said would benefit Wang Dong’er.

• Huo Yuhao learned that Xu Jiujiu had arranged to deduct his auction bill from future transactions and accepted the Platform of Conferring Gods and other items.
• Zhuge Lan teleported Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er from the auction house to Huo Yuhao’s hotel room, where Huo Yuhao revealed that the embryo contained the 690,000-year-old Snow Empress.
• Huo Yuhao took Wang Dong’er through a spatial rift to the Undead Demi-plane, where the Soul Spirits welcomed her and teased her about her secret affection for him.
• Zhuge Lan transformed Huo Yuhao’s Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone into an External Soul Bone for his right foot while retaining its Ice Blast Technique.
• Electrolux struck the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife with holy power, causing it to emit shrill screams as Zhuge Lan told Huo Yuhao to trust him and watch.

Electrolux purified the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife and used its life energy to create a second spiritual world for Huo Yuhao, while Wang Dong'er benefited from their dual cultivation. Zhuge Lan restored the Snow Empress to her peak, leaving his second avatar temporarily drained as the Snow Empress learned about recent events.

• Electrolux cleansed the Spirit Devouring Engraving Knife and inserted it into Huo Yuhao, releasing vast life energy that also helped Wang Dong'er expel her pill toxins and strengthen her body.
• The engraving knife merged into Huo Yuhao's brow and formed the Eye of Life, whose inner world contained a Lake of Life that would nourish his spiritual growth and physique.
• Electrolux explained the Eye of Life and chose not to turn his remnant soul into Huo Yuhao's third Martial Soul, advising him to study the mysteries of Life Gold.
• Zhuge Lan freed the Snow Empress from the Platform of Conferring Gods, then used his Eternal Mangekyo and Create permission to restore her to her peak form.
• Zhuge Lan's second avatar collapsed after its Eternal Mangekyo was drained, while the Ice Empress and Little White told the Snow Empress about recent events.