Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao followed Jiang Nannan while trying to locate the spiritual-type Soul Master targeting her. He realized the enemy had already ensnared Jiang Nannan in a Dream, while Yu Hongzhi’s perspective revealed that he had accepted Chen Wen’s commission in hopes of obtaining a Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill.

• Huo Yuhao secretly followed Jiang Nannan and concealed himself from the spiritual-type Soul Master monitoring her.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Jiang Nannan’s unnaturally coordinated walk and realized the enemy had already struck with a spiritual ability.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Blue Silver Grass bending unnaturally behind Jiang Nannan and prepared to pursue the exposed hunter.
• Yu Hongzhi recalled that Chen Wen had offered him a Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill to control a Shrek Academy student and erase her memories of the incident.
• Yu Hongzhi accepted the dangerous commission because he hoped the pill would help him break through the Soul Emperor rank.

Yu Hongzhi tried to lead Jiang Nannan into a trap so he could steal the Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill, but Huo Yuhao intercepted him. After Huo Yuhao countered Yu Hongzhi’s Soul Skills, Jiang Nannan escaped the dream, and Yu Hongzhi prepared to fight.

• Yu Hongzhi used his Soul Skills to conceal himself and guide Jiang Nannan toward Chen Wen’s secret chamber, hoping to obtain the Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill.
• Huo Yuhao appeared behind Yu Hongzhi, forcing him to reveal himself and attack with Dream Clone and a shadow-binding Soul Bone skill.
• Yu Hongzhi’s clones struck Huo Yuhao, but their attacks passed through him when he used Kamui.
• Yu Hongzhi used Clone Swap to escape Huo Yuhao’s grasp, but Huo Yuhao twisted the clone’s body and inferred that its destruction caused Yu Hongzhi backlash.
• Jiang Nannan left Yu Hongzhi’s spiritual perception range and broke free from the dream, prompting Yu Hongzhi to accept that the mission had failed and prepare to fight.

Huo Yuhao fought Yu Hongzhi, who used clones and his Remnant Dream Blade to threaten him, but Huo Yuhao killed him with Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi. As Huo Yuhao prepared to leave, he noticed the blade had survived Yu Hongzhi’s death.

• Yu Hongzhi sent his two clones to attack Huo Yuhao while searching for a way to overcome his phasing ability.
• Huo Yuhao charged Yu Hongzhi, and Yu Hongzhi’s Spiritual Power attack failed against Huo Yuhao’s stronger Spiritual Power.
• Yu Hongzhi used his Fourth Soul Skill, Remnant Dream Blade, and began transforming into a dream as the blade erased whatever it touched.
• Huo Yuhao struck Yu Hongzhi with Amaterasu and trapped him in Tsukuyomi, leaving his body burned to charcoal.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on Yu Hongzhi’s courage and realized the Remnant Dream Blade remained in the flames.

Huo Yuhao used Entropy Power to approach and bond with the strange blade that had survived Yu Hongzhi’s death. The self-aware blade entered his hand as a tattoo, leaving him able to summon it whenever he wanted.

• Huo Yuhao realized the blade erased Amaterasu’s flames and suspected it was connected to the Dream Authority.
• He tried Spiritual Power and Soul Power on the blade, but it erased both and continued sinking into the ground.
• Huo Yuhao used Reversal Technique to create Entropy Power and cautiously brought it near the blade’s hilt.
• The blade eagerly absorbed his Entropy Power, stopped when his Soul Power ran out, and sent him the messages “Gray. Tasty.” and “Human. Blade likes.”
• Huo Yuhao took the blade, asked it to become less conspicuous, and watched it turn into bubbles that formed a multicolored tattoo on his right hand.

After killing Yu Hongzhi, Huo Yuhao recovered a cracked Shadow Leopard Left Arm Bone and used the Remnant Dream Blade to uncover the location of Yu Hongzhi’s hidden Storage Soul Tool. He left the scorched battlefield, while a staggering woman arrived and picked up his slashed bag.

• Huo Yuhao found Yu Hongzhi’s Left Arm Bone intact beneath the ashes, tied it around his waist, and decided to sell it for money.
• The Remnant Dream Blade opened a colorful doorway and showed Huo Yuhao Yu Hongzhi’s recorded life in a bubble.
• Huo Yuhao learned from the recording that Yu Hongzhi’s Storage Soul Tool was hidden in a flowerpot beside the entrance to Ruyi Brothel in the East District.
• Huo Yuhao closed the doorway, put away the Remnant Dream Blade, and left the scorched battlefield.
• A staggering woman arrived later and picked up a small slashed bag.

Jiang Nannan escaped a dream attack and found Huo Yuhao’s damaged bag after someone defeated her attacker. Huo Yuhao recovered Yu Hongzhi’s hidden equipment, confronted Chen Wen at the Ruyi Brothel, and killed him, leaving with another Storage Soul Tool.

• Jiang Nannan recognized that her peaceful life in Xuanfeng City was a dream, but her attempts to escape failed until the dream shattered and she woke beneath the moonlight.
• Jiang Nannan found Huo Yuhao’s damaged bag near the battle site and took it home after realizing someone had saved her.
• Huo Yuhao traveled to the East District, retrieved Yu Hongzhi’s necklace Storage Soul Tool and its weapons, herbs, and Mysterious Water Pill from a flowerpot at the Ruyi Brothel.
• Huo Yuhao reached the brothel’s top floor and held Chen Wen at knifepoint while demanding to know why he had followed Jiang Nannan.
• Chen Wen explained his scheme, but Huo Yuhao cut off his head anyway and took the larger Storage Soul Tool ring from a cabinet.

Huo Yuhao looted Chen Wen’s treasures after killing him, then used a Mysterious Water Pill to improve his body and cultivation potential. He prepared to return to work, with his Soul Power at a bottleneck and the Star Dou Great Forest on his mind.

• Huo Yuhao discovered Chen Wen’s Storage Ring held valuable pills, medicinal ingredients, and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao stitched Chen Wen’s head back onto his corpse, apologized, and left the brothel unnoticed.
• The Ruyi Brothel discovered Chen Wen’s murder after Huo Yuhao had returned to the Medical Hall.
• Huo Yuhao swallowed a Mysterious Water Pill and spent the night cleansing his body and meridians.
• Huo Yuhao woke with improved physique and widened meridians, found his Soul Power at a bottleneck, and looked toward the Star Dou Great Forest before starting work.

Huo Yuhao treated an injured Soul Master and studied a medical text that revealed how the Dou Ling Empire had destroyed an early scholar of meridians. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao cursing the empire as Jiang Nannan arrived at the Medical Hall.

• Huo Yuhao healed a young Soul Master's fractured wrist with a localized Reversal Technique, but advised him to rest instead of returning to the Battle Arena.
• Huo Yuhao reflected that the boy's mismatched Soul Ring and lingering injuries made advancement to Soul Elder unlikely, a common hardship among Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao studied a book describing the three main meridians and learned that the Dou Ling Empire's imperial family had executed the Grandmaster who researched them.
• Huo Yuhao read how Yi Hongchen had attacked Lingdou City, recovered the Grandmaster's remains and manuscripts, and arranged to preserve his work in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao cursed the Dou Ling Empire's imperial family for destroying the scholar's research, and Jiang Nannan entered the Medical Hall carrying a repaired bag.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Xuan Ming Sect had targeted Jiang Nannan and reassured her before their impending separation. After collecting a drop of her blood, he unlocked the second part of Special Information and raised his Authority of [Understanding] to 5%.

• Jiang Nannan returned Huo Yuhao’s discarded bag, which she had carefully mended, and thanked him for saving her.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Xuan Ming Sect’s Second Young Master wanted Jiang Nannan for a Martial Soul Evolution Ceremony.
• Jiang Nannan urged Huo Yuhao to flee, but he said he would leave when she went to Shrek Academy and told her to bring her mother.
• Huo Yuhao comforted Jiang Nannan and asked her for a drop of blood.
• Huo Yuhao’s system reported that human genetic information collection was complete, unlocked Special Information (Part Two), and raised his Authority of [Understanding] to 5%.

Huo Yuhao unlocked the Record ability under [Understanding], learned that its Furnace could eventually forge Martial Souls, and identified the ice demon worm as a possible Soul Carrier. He planned to visit the Far North, then gave Jiang Nannan a Storage Soul Tool and cultivation resources as a parting gift.

• Huo Yuhao examined the newly unlocked Record ability, which cataloged the Martial Souls, Soul Beasts, and materials he had encountered, and learned that reaching 20% would unlock Reproduction.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that the Furnace could combine recorded Martial Souls or materials once [Understanding] reached 10%, and read that the ice demon worm's Virus might carry Martial Soul information by grafting it onto chromosomes.
• Huo Yuhao decided that the Far North was a valuable destination because of the ice demon worm, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress.
• Huo Yuhao used his Lottery Draw from killing Yu Hongzhi and received Sister Yu's Photo Album, which startled him when Jiang Nannan walked in.
• Huo Yuhao gave Jiang Nannan a Storage Soul Tool filled with medical books, Spiritual Power insights, an improved Meditation Method, and restorative pills, and she recognized it as a parting gift.

Huo Yuhao studied runes and Soul Tools while teaching Jiang Nannan medicine, and he discovered that his rune system could become a new discipline he named Alchemy. He left the chapter determined to develop Alchemy and elevate the Spiritual Attribute.

• Huo Yuhao passed his medical knowledge to Jiang Nannan and compiled a Medical Compendium adapted to Douluo Continent.
• Huo Yuhao deciphered rune patterns and found that their effects depended on their arrangements and on the mixture of Soul Power and mental strength.
• Huo Yuhao studied Soul Tool Core Arrays and replicated a fourth-grade Soul Guiding Ray Gun, then found he could make fifth-grade Soul Tools as well.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that White Magnetite was an ambient-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor, though a Lightning Dragon Soul Master told him it was plentiful and worthless.
• Huo Yuhao understood the τ rune's material-conversion property and named the rune system Alchemy, resolving to advance the Spiritual Attribute through his research.

Huo Yuhao finished a limited version of the Reversal Technique and inscribed it on Jiang Nannan so she could protect herself at Shrek Academy. Jiang Nannan left with the convoy, promising to grow stronger before they met again.

• Huo Yuhao completed a bootleg Reversal Technique that could reverse Spiritual Power and basic elements but would collapse after three uses.
• Huo Yuhao inscribed the technique on Jiang Nannan's arm, and she discovered it had granted her a new Soul Skill.
• Jiang Nannan resolved to keep the skill secret and use it only to save her life so she would not endanger Huo Yuhao.
• Jiang Nannan left with the convoy for Shrek Academy, promising to carry forward Huo Yuhao's medical skills and become stronger.

After leaving Xuanfeng City, Huo Yuhao entered the Star Dou Great Forest to record Soul Beasts and search for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Ten days later, his miserable fishing trip ended with his Shadow Cat catching fish, while a mysterious creature surfaced nearby, drawn by the smell of grilled fish.

• Jiang Nannan left for Shrek City with her mother, and Huo Yuhao packed up his Medical Hall.
• Huo Yuhao posted a notice under the name Huo Qiqiang and secretly left Xuanfeng City at night.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Star Dou Great Forest and began recording Soul Beasts while searching for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• After ten days of fruitless fishing and mosquito attacks, Huo Yuhao caught only a tiny fish and threw it back.
• The Shadow Cat caught several large fish for Huo Yuhao, who began grilling them by the river.
• A dark golden, triangular pyramidal head surfaced in the river, attracted by the smell of grilled fish.

Huo Yuhao shared grilled fish with the Shadow Cat, his Remnant Dream Blade, and a Golden Tortoise, which then offered to sacrifice itself to him. He hoped to accept the Golden Tortoise as his second Soul Ring instead, since he was waiting for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux to become his first.

• Huo Yuhao grilled fish for the Shadow Cat, then fed half a fish to the Remnant Dream Blade, which delightedly ate it.
• A Golden Tortoise approached Huo Yuhao, and he identified it as an auspicious Hundred-Thousand-Year Beast King through his Illustrated Record.
• Huo Yuhao gave the Golden Tortoise a grilled fish, and it enjoyed the meal so much that it flipped onto its shell.
• The Golden Tortoise offered to sacrifice itself, explaining that its fortune told it to follow Huo Yuhao and that a mysterious voice urged it to sacrifice itself.
• Huo Yuhao decided he wanted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux for his first Soul Ring and hoped the Golden Tortoise could become his second.

Huo Yuhao agreed to return in a month for Golden Tortoise's Soul Ring, and received its rare Tortoise Shell as a token of protection. He then continued through the forest with Shadow Cat while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fled toward him.

• Huo Yuhao learned that an unknown Ethereal Voice had urged Golden Tortoise to sacrifice itself, and arranged to return after reaching level twenty in a month.
• Golden Tortoise gave Huo Yuhao its clan's precious Tortoise Shell, but the Remnant Dream Blade rejected it until it settled as a tattoo on his left hand.
• Golden Tortoise returned to the riverbed after reminding Huo Yuhao not to choose another turtle for his Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao continued wandering the Outer Circle with Shadow Cat as he waited for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm escaped the Mixed Zone and was drawn toward Huo Yuhao while hoping to find a Spiritual Attribute Soul Master.

Huo Yuhao followed the Shadow Cat through the Star Dou Great Forest, where they raided a Wind Baboon nest and gained Wind God Fruits. Guided south by the Plane Consciousness, he found the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, which prepared to enter his body.

• The Shadow Cat led Huo Yuhao to a Wind Baboon nest, where he controlled the troop and let it ransack their home.
• Huo Yuhao found four Wind God Fruits and gave two to the Shadow Cat, which ate them and gained wind powers and the strength of a hundred-year Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao left the devastated Wind Baboons behind and followed the Plane Consciousness's voice south through the forest.
• Huo Yuhao encountered the seven-meter Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, which announced it would enter him and explain its urgent mission afterward.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fused with Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Eye seized the silkworm’s million-year Spiritual Origin. After discovering Huo Yuhao’s extraordinary spiritual power, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm learned that Huo Yuhao could read his embarrassing memories.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began fusing with Huo Yuhao as a mysterious Gray Airflow entered Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.
• The Spiritual Eye captured Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s ten Spiritual Origins, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gave up trying to reclaim them.
• Huo Yuhao awakened with a million-year Soul Ring, then entered his Sea of Consciousness and learned the Spiritual Eye could use the captured origins to replenish its power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered to explain the fusion, but Huo Yuhao showed him a recording of his past behavior toward the Ice Empress, leaving him mortified.

Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng discussed Tian Meng’s past and his plan to become a god, then chose four Soul Skills for Huo Yuhao. A mysterious Gray Sphere declared that Huo Yuhao was already close to godhood despite not yet being fully human.

• Huo Yuhao teased Tian Meng after revealing that he had seen Tian Meng’s memories, including his plan to create a god and stay with Ice Empress.
• Tian Meng introduced himself to Huo Yuhao, explained that his Million-Year Spiritual Origin could grant four Soul Skills, and offered him an ice Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao asked for Telekinesis and Spiritual Endowment, along with Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing, and Tian Meng agreed to grant them.
• Huo Yuhao received the golden Soul Ring and the four Soul Skills while the Shadow Cat guarded him outside.
• The Gray Sphere said Huo Yuhao was close to being a god and was a naturally high-level existence.

Huo Yuhao learned from Electrolux that three intertwined Rules were branded with Soul Imprints within him, giving him a path toward fully controlling them. After accepting Electrolux’s guidance and laying out his plans, Huo Yuhao set off for a nearby city with Shadow Cat and heard the Plane Consciousness summon him beyond the Dream Doorway once he reached level twenty.

• Electrolux revealed that Huo Yuhao possessed the Rules of Comprehension, Fantasy, and Dream, and explained that Huo Yuhao could seek to fully control them.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to let Electrolux remain in his body and teach him Necromancy, while Tian Meng excitedly vowed to help him.
• Huo Yuhao planned to reach level twenty in about a month, obtain a hundred-thousand-year Golden Tortoise Soul Ring, and then travel to the Far North to find the Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao returned to reality, praised Shadow Cat for guarding him, and set off with it toward a nearby city.
• The Plane Consciousness told Huo Yuhao to go beyond the Dream Doorway after reaching level twenty and said it would wait for him in the sea.

Huo Yuhao tested the extraordinary range and versatility of Tian Meng's Soul Skills, then observed Beibei and Tang Ya hunting in the Star Dou Great Forest. After Tang Ya absorbed a Mandala Snake Soul Ring and gained a weak Soul Skill, Huo Yuhao mocked the Tang Sect's lack of guidance and left for a nearby city.

• Huo Yuhao tested Spiritual Detection, Telekinesis, and Spiritual Endowment, discovering he could animate earth, shadows, and wind within powerful ranges.
• Electrolux praised Tian Meng's Spiritual Endowment, and Huo Yuhao promised to avenge Tian Meng before teasing him for getting emotional.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Beibei and Tang Ya killing a Mandala Snake but chose to watch them from a distance rather than approach.
• Tang Ya absorbed the Snake Soul Ring and gained Shaluo Snake Net, whose weak effects made Huo Yuhao laugh at the Tang Sect's poor guidance for Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters.
• After watching Tang Ya's new Soul Skill, Huo Yuhao left for the city on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.