Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao joined a powerful coalition to rescue the captives held by the Holy Spirit Cult in the Sun Moon Empire and planned to destroy the cult. After using advanced Spirit Pagoda Soul Tools to evade detection and enter the Evil Demon Forest, the group encountered the cult’s elders and a Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer commander.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu that the captives were imprisoned in the Evil Demon Forest and promised the Spirit Pagoda’s help with the rescue.
• Three days later, Huo Yuhao gathered experts from the Three Douluo Kingdoms and Shrek Academy in Tianxing City for the operation.
• Huo Yuhao gave the team wristbands that concealed them from the Sun Moon Empire’s aerial detection Soul Tools, allowing them to cross the border undetected.
• The coalition traveled through the Evil Demon Forest toward the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters while Huo Yuhao sensed powerful enemies nearby.
• Du Busi halted the group when the Nightmare Douluo and Abomination Douluo emerged, and Wang Yiheng, commander of the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Legion, appeared above them.

The Three Douluo Kingdoms’ forces clashed with the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire in the Evil Demon Forest. Yan Shaozhe confronted his former lover Feng Ling, was badly wounded by her, and received healing while the battle continued.

• The Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire forces revealed themselves, and Du Busi attacked Zhongli Wu to start the battle.
• Xuan Zi struck several Holy Spirit Cult Spirit Douluos and sent Tang Ya crashing through trees.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Feng Ling and asked why she had joined the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Feng Ling attacked Yan Shaozhe, knocking him from the air and leaving him with a severe chest wound.
• Zhuang Yusen sent healing Light of Recovery to Yan Shaozhe, while Xian Lin'er continued fighting Crow Douluo Wu Yun and Xuan Zi looked on with scorn.

Huo Yuhao waited for the Holy Spirit Cult’s Limit Douluo while the Three Douluo Kingdoms’ rescue team struggled in battle. Yun Ming then revealed his allegiance to the Spirit Pagoda and turned the tide, but Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao arrived, bringing the fighting to a halt.

• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Zi that the black-robed fighter opposing him was from the Spirit Pagoda, and Xuan Zi realized the man had held back.
• Yun Ming summoned twelve Death Knights, who attacked the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters instead of the Three Douluo Kingdoms’ fighters.
• Huo Yuhao announced that Yun Ming was a Spirit Pagoda elder who had infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Three Douluo Kingdoms’ forces rallied.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the approaching Limit Douluo as the battle shifted in favor of the Three Douluo Kingdoms.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao appeared above the battlefield, and the Holy Spirit Cult members welcomed them as the Supreme Cult Master and Chief Worship.

Huo Yuhao confronted Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, then summoned Di Tian to fight Long Xiaoyao while the battle resumed below. Ye Xishui unleashed the Death God Pagoda’s strongest strike, and Huo Yuhao donned his Four-Word Battle Armor, Spirit Ice Annihilation, to face it.

• Huo Yuhao appeared before Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao and challenged Long Xiaoyao’s involvement with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao opened a spatial rift and brought out Di Tian, whom he identified as a patron elder of the Spirit Pagoda.
• Di Tian attacked Long Xiaoyao, drawing him into a battle in the air as the forces below resumed fighting.
• Ye Xishui summoned her Blood Soul Demon Puppet and Death God Pagoda and fired its strongest attack at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao manifested his Four-Word Battle Armor, Spirit Ice Annihilation, to meet Ye Xishui’s strike.

Huo Yuhao countered Ye Xishui’s Death God Pagoda and blood-sea attacks, then overwhelmed her with the Scepter of Destruction. As his destructive lightning closed in and left Ye Xishui with no chance of victory, she called out to Evil Monarch for help.

• Huo Yuhao blocked Ye Xishui’s Beam of Death with Ultimate Ice and used golden runes to neutralize the wraiths’ curse power.
• Ye Xishui stopped feeding Soul Power into the Death God Pagoda, and Huo Yuhao dismissed his ice wall.
• Ye Xishui summoned her Blood Soul Demon Puppet and unleashed the Boundless Blood Sea, threatening the Title Douluo fighting below.
• Huo Yuhao raised the Scepter of Destruction and engulfed Ye Xishui’s Martial Soul Avatar and blood sea in destructive lightning.
• Ye Xishui’s attacks and defenses crumbled before the lightning, and she shouted for Evil Monarch to intervene.

Huo Yuhao received the eighth Trial of Destruction to kill Evil Monarch and pursued him after the beast tried to retreat. Evil Monarch’s Light of Space-Time failed against the Kunlun Mirror’s power, leaving Huo Yuhao ready to continue the fight.

• God of Destruction gave Huo Yuhao the eighth trial, ordering him to kill Evil Monarch.
• Evil Monarch awoke and recognized Huo Yuhao as Di Tian, then tried to withdraw rather than fight him.
• Huo Yuhao pursued Evil Monarch and attacked him with a giant sword of Destruction.
• Evil Monarch fired his Light of Space-Time at Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao opened his third eye and used the Kunlun Mirror to dispel it.

Huo Yuhao killed Evil Monarch and transferred the beast’s 790,000 years of source power into Xiao Yin, greatly strengthening his Spirit Soul. As Huo Yuhao moved to finish Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao charged through the Destruction Thunder toward her.

• Huo Yuhao split Evil Monarch in two with the Greatsword of Destruction, killing him and ending the battle below.
• Huo Yuhao used Magic to absorb Evil Monarch’s Soul Ring source power into Xiao Yin, transforming and strengthening the Spirit Soul.
• Xiao Yin thanked Huo Yuhao as the Soul Ring vanished and its source power finished flowing into him.
• Huo Yuhao tightened the Destruction Thunder around Ye Xishui, whose blood sea began to evaporate as she accepted her apparent death.
• Long Xiaoyao broke away from Di Tian and rushed through the Destruction Thunder toward Ye Xishui.

Huo Yuhao destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters, rescued its hostages, and learned that Yun Ming would hunt down the cult’s remaining members. A year later, Huo Yuhao had become an accepted and effective Spirit Pagoda Tower Master, but he was still waiting for the ninth Trial of Destruction.

• Long Xiaoyao died with Ye Xishui when Huo Yuhao’s Destruction Thunder consumed them, and the surviving Evil Soul Masters fled.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Three Douluo Kingdoms’ forces to pursue the Evil Soul Masters, while the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers withdrew.
• Huo Yuhao’s forces killed the remaining Evil Soul Masters and found the kidnapped hostages alive in the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground lair.
• Yun Ming told Huo Yuhao he would destroy the cult’s remaining branches, and Xu Jiujiu thanked Huo Yuhao for making the operation succeed.
• A year later, Huo Yuhao had improved the Spirit Pagoda’s operations, reached the Divine Origin Realm and Level 99 Soul Power, and continued waiting for the ninth trial.
• Huo Yuhao decided to contact the God of Destruction with the Scepter of Destruction the next time he traveled ten thousand years into the past.

Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu discussed Shrek Academy’s plan to announce its reconstruction in seven days and the attention it would draw. Beneath the ruins, Long Yeyue prepared Na'er and Yuanen Yehui to publicly break through to Title Douluo, leaving Shrek’s revival poised to begin.

• Leng Yaozhu told Huo Yuhao that Shrek Academy would announce its reconstruction in seven days and resume admissions the following year.
• Huo Yuhao and Leng Yaozhu discussed the likely opposition to Shrek’s return and agreed to wait for Long Yeyue’s plans to unfold.
• Long Yeyue gathered the surviving Shrek members and told Na'er and Yuanen Yehui that they would take the lead in seven days.
• Long Yeyue recognized that both Na'er and Yuanen Yehui had reached rank ninety in Soul Power.
• Long Yeyue planned for Na'er and Yuanen Yehui to publicly become Title Douluo during the reconstruction announcement and urged the other students to cultivate diligently.

At Shrek Academy’s reconstruction ceremony, Long Yeyue revealed the survivors who had been hidden beneath Sea God Lake and announced that the academy would reopen in a year. Cai Yue'er then introduced Na'er and Yuanen Yehui, who were about to break through to Title Douluo.

• Onlookers gathered at the Shrek ruins as survivors emerged from Sea God Lake, including more than two hundred members, most of them young Soul Kings.
• Long Yeyue welcomed the crowd, recalled how the Holy Spirit Cult had destroyed Shrek Academy five years earlier, and praised the students who had survived and grown stronger.
• Long Yeyue announced that Shrek Academy would be rebuilt over the next year and resume admissions afterward.
• Cai Yue'er revealed that two students were about to break through to Title Douluo, and Na'er and Yuanen Yehui stepped forward.

Na'er and Yuanen Yehui both broke through to Title Douluo at the ruins of Shrek Academy, but Yuanen Yehui’s Fallen Angel Martial Soul emerged and alarmed the crowd. As Yuanen Yehui lost control and opened a huge purple-black portal, Long Yeyue feared that the demons connected to Yuanen Yehui’s past would appear.

• Na'er completed her breakthrough first, formed a red Soul Ring, and was recognized by the crowd as the hero who had repelled the Abyss invasion.
• Yuanen Yehui also reached Title Douluo, but her Fallen Angel Martial Soul manifested with black wings and horns, causing the crowd to accuse her of being an Evil Soul Master.
• Long Yeyue recalled Yun Ming’s decision to admit Yuanen Yehui and the demons connected to Yuanen Yehui’s mother, then feared Yuanen Yehui was summoning those creatures.
• Yuanen Yehui lost control, flew into the sky, and used her ninth Soul Ring to create a massive purple-black Magic Circle and portal.

Yuanen Yehui opened a portal to the Demon World, unleashing a vast invasion that overwhelmed Shrek Academy and its allies. Huo Yuhao and the Spirit Pagoda experts arrived and began turning the battle around, but a more terrifying presence stirred inside the expanding portal.

• Yuanen Yehui transformed and opened a passage to the Demon World, whose sovereign granted her an Imperial Purple Gold Bloodline and ordered her to lead the invasion.
• Nine Demon Gates appeared, and thousands of Hellhounds and other Demon Creatures poured out to attack the people gathered at Shrek Academy.
• Long Yeyue ordered Shrek’s students and teachers to defend the civilians, while experts from other factions joined them against the growing horde.
• The Spirit Pagoda experts arrived above the ruins, and Huo Yuhao used his Spirit Domain to freeze the Demon Creatures across the battlefield.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Spirit Pagoda experts to kill the immobilized creatures, and they slew more than a thousand as the defense line recovered briefly.

Huo Yuhao confronted Demon Lord Alba after Alba’s demon army suffered a heavy defeat on the Douluo Plane. When Alba tried to flee through the Demon Gate, Huo Yuhao killed him with the Scepter of Destruction.

• Demon Lord Alba emerged from the gate of light and discovered that most of his more than twenty thousand subordinates had been killed by Spirit Pagoda members.
• Huo Yuhao approached Alba, identified himself as the one responsible, and learned from Electrolux that the gate led to another plane.
• Alba offered to stop the fighting, then threatened that hundreds of thousands of demons remained behind the gate; Huo Yuhao summoned the Scepter of Destruction.
• Alba tried to escape through the gate, but Huo Yuhao struck him with the scepter’s destructive divine power and shattered his body into purple light.

After the Demon Gate closed, Huo Yuhao ensured a surviving Greater Demon escaped so he could track the Demon Plane later, while the battle left Shrek Academy devastated and its reputation in ruins. Overcome by guilt for triggering the catastrophe, Yuanen Yehui killed herself, and Long Yeyue ordered the wounded treated.

• Huo Yuhao revealed that Electrolux had marked the escaping Greater Demon, allowing them to locate the Demon Plane after Huo Yuhao became a god.
• The Spirit Pagoda experts departed to treat the wounded as survivors from other factions accused Shrek Academy of colluding with another plane.
• Yuanen Yehui remembered her role in the disaster, formed a dark longsword, and cut her own throat.
• Cai Yue'er asked Long Yeyue what they should do, and Long Yeyue ordered them to treat the wounded first.

Huo Yuhao learned that Shrek Academy had stopped rebuilding as public outrage and grieving parents surrounded it. In the underground base, Long Yeyue gave instructions to the survivors and died, leaving the academy's future uncertain.

• Du Xuan reported to Huo Yuhao that Shrek's surviving students had gone home and that angry parents were demanding answers from the academy.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Federation was investigating but had not yet taken a firm position, and concluded Shrek Academy would not recover.
• Long Yeyue told Wu Changkong to lead willing survivors to the Tang Sect and said the academy's remaining students should be taken in because of the Vast Sea Cosmic Crystal.
• Long Yeyue gave Cai Yue'er a recording Soul Tool and instructed her to take it to Chen Xinjie if the survivors faced a problem they could not solve.
• Long Yeyue spoke her final words to the academy's ancestors and died as the survivors watched in silence.

After learning of Long Yeyue’s death, Huo Yuhao visited Gu Yue and asked about Na’er’s future. In his office, he revealed that he knew Gu Yue and Na’er were one being, the Silver Dragon King, and explained how he had figured it out.

• Huo Yuhao heard that Long Yeyue had died and went to see Gu Yue at the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao asked about Na’er and suggested that she join the Spirit Pagoda, but Gu Yue said she did not know what Na’er wanted.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yue that she and Na’er were one entity, prompting Gu Yue to take him to his office to talk privately.
• Huo Yuhao identified Gu Yue as Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King, and explained that their identical appearance, prolonged fusion, and unusual understanding had raised his suspicions.
• Huo Yuhao said his meeting with another Silver Dragon King in Star Dou ten thousand years earlier had confirmed his conclusion, and Gu Yue quietly considered how much he knew.

Huo Yuhao confronted Gu Yue about her plans for the Ten Thousand Beast Platform and the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts. Their relationship remained at risk as he questioned whether her plan could solve anything after the God Realm returned.

• Huo Yuhao reassured Gu Yue that he accepted her as both his girlfriend and the Silver Dragon King, then asked whether Na'er would come to the Spirit Pagoda and merge with her.
• Gu Yue said Na'er might refuse and confirmed that she was the dominant half, but Huo Yuhao asked whether she hated humans.
• Gu Yue argued that humanity had driven Soul Beasts toward extinction, and Huo Yuhao concluded that she still held hatred toward humans.
• Huo Yuhao accused Gu Yue of using the Ten Thousand Beast Platform to bring Soul Masters under her control, and she asked when he had discovered it.
• Huo Yuhao said he would not report her, but challenged her plan to reverse the balance of power by asking what would happen when the God Realm returned.
• Gu Yue stayed silent and decided to use the conversation to test whether Huo Yuhao would choose humanity or her.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue tested each other’s intentions before agreeing to work together to ease the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts. Gu Yue warned that Tang San’s arrangements on the continent could still threaten their plans, and Huo Yuhao asked whether Niu Tian and Tai Tan were connected to the Ten Thousand Beast Platform.

• Huo Yuhao warned Gu Yue that Tang San might return and offered to undo her actions in the Ten Thousand Beast Platform.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his plan to use the Kunlun Mirror to travel ten thousand years into the past if Gu Yue attacked him.
• Gu Yue and Huo Yuhao realized they shared a goal and agreed to work together to resolve the conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao promised to help Gu Yue and proposed that his future power could find another continent or plane for the Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yue raised the threat of Tang San’s lingering arrangements and asked Huo Yuhao whether he knew Niu Tian and Tai Tan.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Niu Tian and Tai Tan were connected to the Ten Thousand Beast Platform.

Huo Yuhao explained how Tang San’s hidden arrangements still affected the Douluo Continent, while the Sun Moon Empire struggled after the Holy Spirit Cult’s destruction. In the God Realm, the God of Destruction confronted Zhou Weiqing over his secret cooperation with Tang San, and Zhou admitted that he had repaid a greater debt to the Sea God.

• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yue that Ah Yin was barely alive beneath Shrek Academy’s Sea God Lake after the Golden Tree was destroyed, and that Tang Wulin carried Tang San’s divine sense.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue discussed Tang San’s hidden plans, and Huo Yuhao joked that Tang San might even have placed his father somewhere on the Douluo Continent.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s war effort faltered after the Holy Spirit Cult was wiped out, as its forces lost powerful allies, territories were retaken, and protests grew over taxes and the prolonged war.
• Huo Yuhao contacted the God of Destruction through the Scepter of Destruction to ask when the ninth Trial of Destruction would arrive.
• The God of Destruction confronted Zhou Weiqing over secretly passing information to Tang San, and Zhou admitted that Tang San had saved him and his family and had once offered him the Asura Godhood.

Zhou Weiqing accepted responsibility for betraying the God of Destruction and was sentenced to surrender his divine position and spend a millennium in the God Realm’s Heavenly Prison. In Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Sea, the God of Destruction told him that he had already passed the Ninth Divine Examination.

• The God of Destruction accused Zhou Weiqing of being manipulated by Tang San and explained why he believed Tang San’s apparent kindness had been calculated.
• Zhou Weiqing admitted his fault, knelt before the God of Destruction, and accepted whatever punishment he received.
• The God of Destruction sentenced Zhou Weiqing to pass down his divine position and serve a millennium in the Heavenly Prison, and Zhou Weiqing agreed to go there himself.
• The God of Destruction sensed Huo Yuhao’s summons, returned to Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Sea, and asked why he had called.
• Huo Yuhao asked when his Ninth Divine Examination would begin, and the God of Destruction revealed that he had already passed it.