Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao reached Xilu City and discovered that it was a lawless haven for nobles, Soul Masters, and criminals under Shrek City's protection. After learning how the city operated, he encountered several bizarre street crimes and left the Shadow Cat frightened but safe.

• Huo Yuhao entered Xilu City and observed that its guards barely checked anyone, fearing powerful Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao gathered information at a restaurant and learned that Xilu City offered tributes to Shrek City's Treasure Gathering Pavilion and enjoyed protection from Shrek's upper ranks.
• Huo Yuhao learned that nobles used slaves and ran casinos, brothels, and bloody arenas because the Heaven Dou Empire would not interfere and Shrek tolerated the arrangement.
• Huo Yuhao used Telekinesis to knock out five pickpockets who had started fighting and tossed them into a ditch.
• Huo Yuhao watched robbers attack a jewelry store before the Soul Elder shop owner drove them off, then knocked out a bizarre barber who was shearing stray animals with his scissors Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao comforted the Shadow Cat and wondered how he had ended up in such a chaotic city.

Huo Yuhao uncovered and destroyed the human-trafficking network in Xilu City, then took control of its underworld and founded Passion Sect. After reaching Rank 20, he animated a marquis’s mansion and killed the noble inside, leaving City Lord Lu Xinjin stunned by the sight of the mansion standing up.

• Huo Yuhao settled into an inn in Xilu City and spent a month taking pills and meditating.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that Sui, a starving girl abandoned to him, had Taotie bloodline and had been trafficked after bandits slaughtered her village.
• Huo Yuhao used illusions to expose the traffickers, destroy all four dens in Xilu City, and identify two marquises of the Heaven Dou Empire as their backers.
• Huo Yuhao unified Xilu City’s underworld as Passion Sect, banned crimes including human trafficking, established an orphanage, and left Sui and the other children in its care.
• Huo Yuhao took a Mysterious Turtle Divine Pill, reached Rank 20 Soul Power, and used his Spiritual Endowment Soul Skill to animate the remaining marquis’s mansion, killing the noble inside.
• City Lord Lu Xinjin’s advisor told him that the neighboring Marquis Mansion had stood up.

Huo Yuhao watched Lu Xinjin destroy the Spiritual Endowment giant, then killed him with Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu for his brutal exploitation of Xilu City’s residents. He planned to visit the city’s other three Soul Saints and decide whether to let them rule or bring them the same fiery fate.

• Lu Xinjin used Gravity Crush and Meteor Fall to smash the jade giant apart, destroying his observation deck and much of Xilu City’s core district.
• The headless giant kept moving on its remaining hand and leg, crashed into the City Lord’s Mansion, and exhausted the Spiritual Power sustaining it.
• Huo Yuhao used Kamui to appear behind Lu Xinjin, then inflicted Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu on him until he died.
• Huo Yuhao left Lu Xinjin’s remains as a warning, having learned that Lu Xinjin imposed outrageous taxes and brutally crushed resistance.
• Huo Yuhao planned to confront Xilu City’s other three Soul Saints and offer them the chance to become city lord.

Huo Yuhao took control of Xilu City, organized Passion Sect’s plans for the city and its orphanage, then traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain the Golden Tortoise as his Spiritual Eye’s second Soul Ring. The Golden Tortoise sacrificed itself and left Huo Yuhao with a powerful Soul Ring, a Soul Bone, and a vast piece of Life Gold.

• Huo Yuhao killed one Soul Saint, made Kong Yang the city lord under a Spiritual Imprint, and forced Ma Fengjun to serve him.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Passion Sect to establish schools, awaken children’s Martial Souls, care for orphans, and reform Xilu City; he awakened Sui’s Taotie Spirit Sheep Martial Soul and guided the children’s development.
• Huo Yuhao used Kamui to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized the Golden Tortoise as the Soul Beast that had absorbed its life force.
• The dying Golden Tortoise sacrificed itself to Huo Yuhao, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm helped seal its Spiritual Origin in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.
• The Golden Tortoise became Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Eye second Soul Ring, bearing two golden patterns, and left behind a Soul Bone and an enormous piece of Life Gold.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Soul Ring granted Golden Armor and Sun Wheel Spear, while the Golden Tortoise entered his Sea of Consciousness to rest.

Huo Yuhao fused the Golden Tortoise’s skull and gained two Destiny Soul Skills, then left the Star Dou Great Forest using Kamui. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Destiny drawing her toward a hazy figure, while the Plane Consciousness again urged Huo Yuhao to go beyond the Dream Doorway.

• Huo Yuhao received the Golden Tortoise’s Light Spear Soul Skill and considered how it complemented his other abilities.
• The Shadow Cat brought Huo Yuhao the Golden Tortoise Skull, and he fused it without pain.
• Huo Yuhao gained Epitaph, which let him see and alter the next ten seconds of Destiny, and Black Dice, which inflicted misfortune on an enemy.
• Huo Yuhao left the Star Dou Great Forest with Kamui, intending to fuse the Life Gold later at Passione Headquarters.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Destiny drawing her toward something and saw a hazy human figure in her mind.
• Huo Yuhao emerged from the Kamui Dimension and heard the Plane Consciousness urge him to go beyond the Dream Doorway.

Huo Yuhao consulted his companions about the mysterious voice and agreed to enter the Dream Doorway, trusting Electrolux to protect him. He used Life Gold to open the Eye of Life and reached the Spirit Abyss Realm, while the Dream Doorway journey remained ahead.

• Huo Yuhao entered his Sea of Consciousness, where Tian Meng and the Golden Tortoise argued about their past and their forms.
• Huo Yuhao asked Tian Meng, the Golden Tortoise, and Electrolux about the voice that had guided them; they agreed it was likely the Plane Consciousness calling him to the Dream Doorway.
• Electrolux urged Huo Yuhao to go, promising to use Life Gold and his remaining soul fragment to protect him if danger arose.
• Huo Yuhao returned to reality and pressed the Life Gold to his forehead, causing it to transform into liquid and enter his head as an azure-gold Eye of Life appeared.
• The Life Gold expanded Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, and his spiritual power reached the Spirit Abyss Realm at level twenty-five.

Huo Yuhao entered the Dream through a space-splitting door and followed the Remnant Dream Blade through its chaotic, impossible landscape. He reached a Pure White Ocean and learned from Electrolux that it contained the memories of every living being.

• Huo Yuhao checked his growing spiritual power and elemental perception, then sent the Shadow Cat out of the secret chamber.
• Huo Yuhao used the Remnant Dream Blade to cut open space and stepped into the Dream, protected by telekinesis, Kamui, and Golden Armor.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao not to absorb the Dream's vast, chaotic spiritual power, while Tian Meng asked whether it contained Bingbing's spiritual power.
• Huo Yuhao followed the Remnant Dream Blade through the Dream's shifting paths and bizarre inhabitants until he found a Pure White Ocean.
• Electrolux helped Huo Yuhao see that the Ocean's spray consisted of living beings' memories and that the Ocean contained the sum of all memories.

Huo Yuhao and his companions crossed a dangerous sea of memories after the Remnant Dream Blade turned it into a safe glassy road. They reached the source of the mysterious voice and found a red-clad little girl who seemed to be the Plane Consciousness.

• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao that his Divine Sense could not penetrate the memory-filled sea or protect them if they entered it.
• The Remnant Dream Blade touched the sea and solidified its memories into a safe glassy road.
• Huo Yuhao rode Golden Tortoise's source Tortoise Shell like a skateboard, using his Alchemical Creations to speed along the road.
• The Remnant Dream Blade silenced Golden Tortoise and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm when they complained about Huo Yuhao's use of the shell.
• Huo Yuhao followed the Remnant Dream Blade to a red-clad little girl whose gentle presence stirred an inexplicable warmth in him.

Huo Yuhao met Douluo Star’s Planet Will, who accepted him and revealed that Tang San’s forces were eroding her to seize her Life Essence. She showed him the threatened locations and explained that she cared for him because he had given her form and consciousness.

• Huo Yuhao called the Red-clad Little Girl “Mom,” and she gently examined him, the soul beasts, and Electrolux before accepting Electrolux as safe.
• The Planet Will’s dress bore ominous black spots, and Huo Yuhao, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Golden Tortoise grew furious at the erosion.
• Huo Yuhao asked who was harming her, and she showed him Sea God Island and Clear Sky Fortress as the two threatened locations.
• The Planet Will said one person was currently eroding her and another was preparing to act, both seeking her Life Essence.
• The Planet Will told Huo Yuhao she cared for him because he had given her form and consciousness.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Dream Space was his Divine Kingdom, Night Veil Court, formed from Entropy Power and the dreams of life. He left knowing that he needed to use his Alchemy and the Remnant Dream Blade to build a kingdom there and gain control over his Dream Authority.

• Huo Yuhao asked the Red-clad Little Girl why the Dream Space existed and why she had urged him to enter it.
• The Red-clad Little Girl guided Huo Yuhao to see that the Dream Space rested on dense Entropy Power.
• The Red-clad Little Girl explained that dreams reflected life and revealed that Huo Yuhao's birth had given the space meaning, making it his Divine Kingdom, Night Veil Court.
• Huo Yuhao learned that he held the status of Night Veil Court's master but lacked control because he had not established a kingdom to symbolize his authority.
• The Red-clad Little Girl told Huo Yuhao to use his Alchemy to calm the chaotic space and the Remnant Dream Blade as the kingdom's core.

Huo Yuhao devised an Alchemy Foundation for [Night Veil Court], using the Remnant Dream Blade to organize dream Spiritual Power and make Alchemy accessible to more people. He planned a dream-based network with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as its server and left himself in control of its permissions.

• The Plane Consciousness told Huo Yuhao that the Remnant Dream Blade was the ideal core for an Alchemy system built on High Dimension Rules and Runes.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed his Rune research and concluded that Runes had an underlying periodic structure, while ordinary people could not perceive their detailed construction without sufficient Spiritual Power.
• Huo Yuhao realized an Alchemy Foundation could purify chaotic dream Spiritual Power, remove Spiritual Imprints, and use the Remnant Dream Blade to build Symbols for [Night Veil Court].
• Huo Yuhao planned to place Alchemy knowledge and access permissions in the Foundation, letting connected Lives learn and use Alchemy through dreams.
• Huo Yuhao decided Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could serve as the Foundation's server and imagined users paying fees or borrowing Spiritual Power to use the system.

Huo Yuhao explained his plan to use an Alchemy Foundation to stabilize the Divine Kingdom and spread Alchemy, with Electrolux pledging to help. Little Planet Spirit gave him three final gifts and departed, leaving him to pursue the Foundation and continue toward the Extreme North.

• Huo Yuhao told Little Planet Spirit, Electrolux, and the others how he planned to build an Alchemy Foundation and use it to stabilize Spiritual Power.
• Electrolux praised the plan and promised to help Huo Yuhao realize it, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm panicked after learning he would serve as its core processor.
• Little Planet Spirit announced that the space was rejecting her and that she had to return to the planet's inner side.
• Little Planet Spirit kissed Huo Yuhao on the forehead and activated Martial Soul Furnace, Preliminary Fantasy Construction, and Dream Travel through his three Authorities.
• Little Planet Spirit warned Huo Yuhao about the limits and dangers of Understanding, Fantasy, and Dream, then vanished from the white world.

The Planet Will left gifts that restored Electrolux’s soul, evolved Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Golden Tortoise, and gave Huo Yuhao new powers. Huo Yuhao gained the Infinite Void Spiritual Domain and merged the Golden Tortoise’s destiny pearl with his Eye of Life, transforming it into the Eye of Destiny.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found three golden spheres left behind by the Planet Will, and one sphere repaired Electrolux’s soul while the others entered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Golden Tortoise.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm evolved into the Sky Dream Golden Moth and transferred its newly awakened Spiritual Domain, Infinite Void, to Huo Yuhao’s first Soul Ring.
• The Golden Tortoise evolved with Xuanwu bloodline traits and formed a rose-gold destiny pearl from its forehead.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao to open the Eye of Life, and Huo Yuhao merged the pearl with it despite ten minutes of intense pain.
• Huo Yuhao’s Eye of Life became the Eye of Destiny, granting him a second Sea of Consciousness and a rose-gold mark on his forehead.

Huo Yuhao returned from the Dream Space with a new follower, Little Blackie, and stronger control over Spiritual Power. Back in Xilu City, he maintained Passion Sect’s hold over the city while Shrek Academy’s interests protected its rule.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that the Eye of Destiny greatly strengthened his Spiritual Power abilities and improved his fine control.
• After confirming the Golden Tortoise had only fainted, Huo Yuhao returned through the Dream Space and named the Overalls Chick Little Blackie, making it his follower.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Passione Headquarters, where the Shadow Cat greeted him and the Remnant Dream Blade settled back into his hand as a Colored Blade Pattern.
• Passion Sect drove out nobles who ignored its bans by turning them into a Fortune Feast, prompting the remaining offenders to abandon their properties and leave Xilu City.
• Kong Yang sent the former city lord’s treasures to Shrek Academy’s Treasure Gathering Pavilion to affirm Xilu City’s loyalty, and Lin Huiqun planned to visit the city.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Xilu City’s fertile Emerald Soil coexisted with widespread famine because nobles imposed crushing taxes on farmers. He ordered grain relief, the abolition of illegal taxes, and the return of farmers to their land, leaving Zhang Heng to carry out the reforms in exchange for a Wind God Fruit.

• Huo Yuhao reviewed Xilu City’s agricultural records and learned that Emerald Soil could produce a thousand kilograms of rice per mu in half a month.
• Huo Yuhao read the famine report and discovered that nobles controlled the Emerald Soil and charged farmers an eighty-percent land tax along with numerous additional taxes.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Zhang Heng and learned that fleeing nobles had been reported to Shrek Academy as Evil Soul Masters so Inner Court Disciples would eliminate them.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Zhang Heng to release grain for famine relief, abolish the extra taxes, restore farmers to their land, and enforce the Heaven Dou Empire’s tax laws.
• Huo Yuhao promised Zhang Heng a Wind God Fruit for completing the task, and Zhang Heng flew to the City Lord’s Mansion to carry out the orders.

Huo Yuhao used Electrolux’s Divine Sense to investigate the Emerald Soil and discovered three enormous Dragon Clan god corpses buried beneath it. He recognized them as likely Dragon Kings and began considering how they could help him locate the Dragon Tomb.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Golden Tortoise suspected that the Emerald Soil resembled the Life Gold-rich soil around the Lake of Life, but neither could explain its presence.
• Huo Yuhao lent his Spiritual Power to Electrolux, who scanned Xilu City and the Star Dou Great Forest’s Outer Circle before focusing on the Emerald Soil.
• Electrolux discovered three enormous skeletons whose bones contained residual energy and revealed that they had been god-level beings.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux identified the skeletons as Dragon Clan Divine Beasts, with wind, earth, and space energy signatures.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that the corpses could be the Emerald Dragon King, Earth Dragon King, and Wind Dragon King, and considered using them to find the Dragon Tomb.

Electrolux discovered that the Space Dragon King still had a dying fragment of spiritual sense, which rejected help and begged to be left to die. Huo Yuhao decided to wait a year before excavating the Dragon Corpses, then continued researching the Limitless Technique while Tian Meng handled documents and calculations.

• Electrolux sensed a fragment of spiritual sense inside the Space Dragon King's skull and used Life Power to try to stabilize it.
• The Space Dragon King rejected the Life Power, declared himself guilty, warned of a universe trap, and demanded to be allowed to die.
• Electrolux explained that the fragment would disappear within a year and told Huo Yuhao to avoid the Dragon Corpses until then.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his office, sent his documents and Alchemy notes to Tian Meng, and began researching the Limitless Technique.
• Huo Yuhao calculated Rune arrangements with Tian Meng's help while Tian Meng struggled to process the documents and Alchemy notes.

Huo Yuhao designed the Limitless Technique’s structure, but Tian Meng’s calculations exposed serious flaws in its core matrix, so he worked through the night to revise it. As dawn broke over Xilu City, Tian Meng asked whether Huo Yuhao really needed Ice Empress.

• Huo Yuhao tested a Reversal Technique without its Void Element Inscription, and it turned into a plundering bomb that killed the D-level personnel and exploded.
• Huo Yuhao added Void Element Inscriptions as the outer framework of his Alchemy techniques and sent the Limitless Technique’s configuration to Tian Meng for testing.
• Tian Meng rejected the core matrix, identifying five unreasonable points and warning that it would compress Huo Yuhao into a thin sheet.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed Tian Meng’s calculations, rebuilt the core matrix, and continued working until dawn while Xilu City woke to improved conditions under the new city lord and Passion Sect.
• Tian Meng stopped calculating and asked Huo Yuhao whether he really needed Ice Empress.

Huo Yuhao explained that his [Fantasy] Authority had created Sukuna and Phainon as real people with histories recorded by the Planet Will, then revealed why he needed to travel to the Far North. He planned to use Phainon and other imagined retainers to influence major factions, beginning with Shrek, which he hoped would one day bear his family name.

• Huo Yuhao showed Tian Meng the records for Sukuna and Phainon and explained that the Planet Will had given the imagined humans real histories and a way to keep existing.
• Huo Yuhao said the imagined humans lacked Martial Souls, so he needed to visit the Far North and use the Ice demon worm as a vessel for the Martial Soul Furnace.
• Tian Meng pledged to support Huo Yuhao on the journey and said he could persuade Ice Empress or Snow Empress to become Huo Yuhao's Second Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao described Shrek's succession problems and said he would send Phainon, whom he had chosen as Mu En's future successor, to the school.
• Huo Yuhao planned to send Sukuna to the Body Sect and gradually place other imagined people within different factions.

Mu En worried that Shrek lacked successors and resisted change, while Huo Yuhao finished the first draft of the Limitless Technique and prepared Phainon as a candidate to attract the God of Destruction. Huo Yuhao planned to let his Imagined Kin ascend to godhood and eventually fill the God Realm.

• Mu En questioned Yan Shaozhe about promising freshmen and learned that the Light Goddess Butterfly student had a recommendation from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that he had increased the Soul Tool department's funding because Shrek needed to change, then sent him away.
• Lin Huiqun pushed Mu En along Sea God Lake as he lamented Shrek's lack of successors and discussed her upcoming inspection of Xilu City.
• Huo Yuhao completed the first draft of the Limitless Technique and invited Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to see Phainon and the other Imagined Humans.
• Huo Yuhao designed Phainon's Martial Soul to combine Ultimate Light with Destruction, hoping to draw the God of Destruction into helping him ascend.
• Huo Yuhao planned to give his Imagined Kin chances to ascend to godhood so they could eventually fill the God Realm.