Recaps

Thranduil met Dai Ruoheng in a Star Luo Empire hotel as the empire struggled with refugees and the loss of its homeland. Dai Ruoheng asked Thranduil’s organization to help her fake her death so she could leave the empire and join the organization being assessed by.

• Thranduil saw Star Luo refugees living in poverty as profiteers charged exorbitant prices for passage from Douluo Continent.
• Dai Ruoheng invited Thranduil to dinner and asked her people to investigate nobles and military officials exploiting the national disaster.
• Dai Ruoheng revealed that she planned to fake her death amid the emperor’s illness and the Crown Princes’ factional conflict.
• Dai Ruoheng explained that she had lost faith in the empire, which had failed to reform and had allowed a small group to hoard vast resources.
• Dai Ruoheng asked Thranduil and the organization assessing her to help her leave the Star Luo Empire, and Thranduil agreed to submit the request.

Dai Ruoheng joined Rus Wang’s God-Slaying Organization after discussing the blocked paths to godhood and settled into a chicken-farm manager job in the Elf Kingdom. Rus Wang then chose the Firmly Moving Forward policy and began consulting Ulysses and the sages on national development.

• Dai Ruoheng explained to Rus Wang why the known paths to godhood were blocked and asked how they could slay the gods.
• Rus Wang outlined plans to create a new Divine Realm and prepare for a possible divine war while the existing Divine Realm could not act.
• Dai Ruoheng accepted a chicken-farm manager position in the Elf Kingdom after losing her home and being placed on the Star Luo Empire’s most-wanted list.
• Rus Wang reviewed government documents, assigned Barus to investigate godhood research, and selected the Firmly Moving Forward policy.
• Rus Wang called Ulysses to discuss the kingdom’s development, including applying the internal-combustion-engine project to cars and airplanes.

At the Council of Sages’ midterm review, King Rus and the officials weighed the kingdom’s water, military, railway, and population needs. They cut the army’s stated budget, paused railway expansion, and left the kingdom planning for the employment pressures of future population growth.

• Ulysses proposed cutting military spending, and King Rus approved reducing the army’s budget while prioritizing the North-to-South Water Diversion.
• Panyan and Zichen reported on the water project, which relied on Dragon Clan techniques and Mountain Dragon blood to transform the savanna climate.
• The Railway Bureau director warned that sparse populations made remote railways too costly to maintain, so King Rus suspended further expansion.
• The minister of health estimated that the population could exceed twenty million within fifty years under ideal conditions, and King Rus called for plans to provide jobs for future generations.
• The Council of Sages met for ten days, finalized Levant’s plans for 306, and King Rus adjourned the meeting.

Rus Wang enjoyed a family picnic with Thalassa and their extended family before reflecting on decades of the Elf Kingdom’s growth and the lives of those around him. On the final day of Levant Year 599, he woke and suggested gathering everyone again for the start of the seventh century.

• Rus Wang and Thalassa joined their family and friends for a picnic near Herundis Manor, where everyone ate, relaxed, and caught up.
• The chapter recounted the Elf Kingdom’s development, including new energy technology, education reforms, infrastructure projects, population growth, and changes in leadership.
• Rus Wang’s descendants and companions reached major milestones, including marriages, careers, cultivation breakthroughs, and the expansion of the Saier Dragon Clan.
• On the final day of Levant Year 599, Rus Wang woke beside Thalassa and suggested inviting everyone to gather the next day.

The Elves spread across southern Zheer Continent as a gold rush grew into permanent settlements. Meanwhile, Rus Wang survived a million-year Heavenly Tribulation, collected its lightning energy, and prepared to use the power to develop a pocket dimension and plan future ascensions to godhood.

• Elves discovered gold in southern Zheer Continent, and the government offered an equal weight of Lobe for gold turned in, launching a mass rush south.
• Rus Wang and the prime minister enacted the Southern Land Act to encourage Elves to remain in the south, and the Elves later established a research station at Zheer Continent's southernmost tip.
• Di Tian sensed an immense Heavenly Tribulation, while Gu Yuena concluded that Rus Wang had fused with the Dragon God Core.
• Rus Wang watched the ten-day tribulation on the Antarctic Continent and used an Electric Energy Collector to capture its lightning, while the system suppressed the danger to him.
• Rus Wang moved the Light Dragon King's relics and other treasures into a new pocket dimension, gathered elemental stones for Tingxiao, and flew away.

Rus Wang survived the million-year Heavenly Tribulation, became the Dragon Race’s first true god in a million years, and created a small plane where dragons and Soul Beasts could safely prepare for godhood. Years passed without anyone from Star Dou Forest responding to his breakthrough, leaving him baffled.

• Rus Wang showed Thalassa the small plane he had created and explained that his new power let it exist permanently.
• Rus Wang ordered Riven to have the Dragon Race and Soul Beasts undergo their breakthroughs in the plane, where he had weakened and reduced the Heavenly Tribulations.
• Rus Wang gave Barus a small plane for his laboratory and the Light Dragon King’s treasures, and planned to use his evolved bloodline to build a Dragon Ascension Pillar.
• Thalassa suggested turning the plane into a private sanctuary, but Rus Wang said it lacked enough energy and would only serve as a place to evade the Dragon God’s Heavenly Tribulation rules.
• Rus Wang contacted Gu Yuena after learning that no one from Star Dou Forest had visited, but Dragon Valley Forest reported no activity at the teleportation array through 685.

Rus Wang continued leading the Elves toward space exploration while the Spirit Pagoda searched for a powerful Soul Beast to turn into a Soul Spirit. The chapter left Rus Wang backing a failed rocket program and aiming for a distant replica of the Solar System.

• Rus Wang noted that Star Dou Forest had shown no sign of investigating the Heavenly Tribulation and resolved to lead the Elves, Dragon Race, and Soul Beasts into space.
• Seven Shrek Academy students in Battle Armor defeated seven Soul Saints in a tournament, showing the Spirit Pagoda that its armor was less effective than Shrek Academy’s and the Blacksmith Association’s.
• A masked messenger told Councilor Qiangu that the Titan Snow Demon King and several other Extreme North clans had disappeared, forcing the Spirit Pagoda to consider hunting in Douling Continent instead.
• Councilor Qiangu believed Lingbing Douluo’s legacy might reveal a path to godhood.
• An Elf elder explained that the Elves’ simulated rocket test had failed, and Rus Wang promised to increase the space program’s funding.
• Rus Wang told the Elf researchers that reaching a replica of the Solar System 4.24 light-years away was necessary to establish a permanent settlement on Mars and unlock Starlight Rus Wang.

Barus revealed that he had used Rus Wang’s blood and an artificial Soul Ring to help Dai Ruoheng become a Third-Level God, raising concerns that the method resembled the Shrek energy field threatening their world. When Star Dou Forest requested aid against a large-scale Sun-Moon People attack, Rus Wang ordered an expeditionary army and prepared to lead the first reinforcements.

• Rus Wang reviewed the kingdom’s rapid development and population growth while Barus and Dai Ruoheng entered the Throne Hall.
• Barus explained that his artificial Soul Ring experiment had helped Dai Ruoheng claim a small plane and reach Third-Level Godhood, though he feared the method might have dangerous flaws.
• Dai Ruoheng described her divine power and the world’s suppression of her, while Rus Wang recognized similarities between the experiment and the spreading Shrek energy field.
• A Heavenly Sun Dragon reported that Star Dou Forest was under a large-scale attack by the Sun-Moon People and requested aid.
• Rus Wang ordered the Dragon Race, Elven military, and Soul Beasts to form an Expeditionary Army, appointed Barus to coordinate it, and prepared to lead the first reinforcements.
• Dai Ruoheng asked to accompany Rus Wang, but he refused because he feared the Soul Beasts might mistake her for a Sun-Moon combatant.

Rus Wang rescued Di Tian and Bi Ji from Huo Yuhao’s trap in Shrek City, then confronted Silver Dragon King in the Star Dou Forest. The Dragon God Core revealed that Rus Wang was the Second Generation Dragon God, and Gu Yuena struggled to accept the truth.

• Rus Wang brought Riven, Rongjiang, and Yanjin to the Star Dou Forest after Zi JI’s distress call and learned that Huo Yuhao had captured Soul Beasts and trapped Di Tian and Bi Ji.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Di Tian in their bet, but Rus Wang attacked him, rescued Di Tian and Bi Ji, and returned them to the Star Dou Forest.
• Silver Dragon King confronted Rus Wang and questioned the source of his power, prompting him to reveal the Dragon God Core.
• Rus Wang’s bloodline and the Dragon God Core made clear to Silver Dragon King, Di Tian, Zi JI, and the gathered dragons that he was the Second Generation Dragon God.

Rus Wang revealed himself as the new Dragon God and prepared the Dragon Race for war against humanity and the Divine Realm. After Rus Wang planned to strengthen Star Dou Forest’s defenses, Huo Yuhao recovered from his defeat and decided to advance Soul Spirit inheritance to protect Soul Beasts.

• Rus Wang ordered the dragons of Star Dou Forest and the Ferocious Beasts to prepare for a break with humanity, then confronted the Silver Dragon King about whether she had killed Gu Yuena’s consciousness.
• The Silver Dragon King warned Rus Wang that the Divine Realm still had powerful God Kings, but Rus Wang explained that only two original God Kings remained and that the Golden Dragon King might escape his seal.
• Rus Wang said he would reinforce Star Dou Forest and make humanity pay dearly for every 100,000-year Soul Ring, anticipating that Huo Yuhao would use Soul Spirits to strengthen humans.
• Huo Yuhao recovered with Tian Meng, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress beside him, then resolved to complete Soul Spirit inheritance before the conflict escalated.

Rus Wang organized the Star Dou Forest’s dragons and Ferocious Beasts for a defensive war while Huo Yuhao assessed the devastation in Shrek City and ordered its institutions rebuilt. The Silver Dragon King secretly placed a newly created dragon egg in Life Lake, intending it to become an asset against the Divine Realm.

• Rus Wang appointed the Silver Dragon King, Di Tian, and Zi Ji to command the Star Dou Field Army, then inscribed a permanent Soul Protection Rune on the Silver Dragon King’s arm.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the attack on Shrek City had killed mostly Soul Masters and that nearly all Shrek Academy’s teachers had died.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the surviving councilor and teacher to rebuild the Spirit Pagoda and Shrek Academy while he pursued funding and addressed Soul Spirit relations and human-Soul Beast coexistence.
• Riven reported that few dragons in Star Dou Forest knew Dragon Script, so Rus Wang arranged for teachers from the Dragon Clan Committee to help and ordered defenses and a curriculum prepared.
• The Silver Dragon King secretly placed a silver dragon egg in Life Lake, having created a new life from Gu Yuena’s soul fragment and part of her own Origin Power.

Rus Wang and his allies reinforced Star Dou Forest, evacuated vulnerable dragons, and discovered a dragon egg in Life Lake that might have ties to the Divine Realm. After Di Tian swore to destroy the egg if necessary, Rus Wang spotted a Dark Dragon King Core inside him and confronted the Silver Dragon King, leaving her thirty seconds to submit to being taken to Zheer Continent.

• Rain fell over Star Dou Forest as reinforcements arrived through teleportation arrays, including sixty powerful dragons and three rainforest combined arms battalions of elf soldiers.
• Rongjiang ordered low-combat-power dragons and other vulnerable Soul Beasts evacuated to Zheer Continent while the Ferocious Beasts watched the organized army assemble.
• Elven engineers detected a dragon egg in Life Lake and reported it to the Dragon Clan Committee, prompting Yanjin and Chijin to suspect the Silver Dragon King had laid it.
• Rus Wang ordered the Silver Dragon King taken to Zheer Continent under guard and warned Di Tian that the egg would be killed if it had any connection to the Divine Realm.
• Di Tian pledged with a soul oath to destroy the egg if it was connected to the Divine Realm, and Rus Wang's system revealed a Dark Dragon King Core deep within him.
• Rus Wang found the Silver Dragon King recovering beneath Life Lake and gave her thirty seconds to seal away her power and take the egg to Zheer Continent or be crippled and escorted there.

The author explained that Rus Wang could not have noticed the Silver Dragon King's egg and that the original outline would have used Di Tian to reveal it. The author described the abandoned plot direction, in which Di Tian chose Rus Wang's side and Rus Wang imprisoned the Silver Dragon King.

• The author argued that Rus Wang had little reason or information to suspect the Silver Dragon King was hiding an egg.
• The author said the original outline had Bi Ji remove the egg from Life Lake and hatch it, bringing Di Tian into contact with it.
• Di Tian was meant to struggle between serving the Silver Dragon King and pledging loyalty to Rus Wang, then choose Rus Wang after witnessing his leadership.
• Di Tian was meant to tell Rus Wang about the egg, after which Rus Wang would defeat the Silver Dragon King and imprison her at Herundis Manor.
• The author said rushed later chapters had discarded this outline and asked readers not to treat the story as wish fulfillment.

Alexei became the first life-form from Douluo Planet to reach space, while Rus Wang celebrated the achievement and secretly sent a recording to Star Dou Forest. After watching it, Di Tian envied Alexei and vowed to explore the universe himself.

• On July 16, 571, Alexei was chosen to pilot Deep Space One as Douluo Planet’s first astronaut.
• Alexei’s spacecraft launched successfully and entered orbit nine minutes later.
• Alexei reported his arrival in space and said he saw no gods, only the planet’s mountains, rivers, and life.
• Rus Wang celebrated the milestone with his family and sent a secret copy of the recording to Star Dou Forest.
• Di Tian gathered Star Dou Forest’s Dragon Clan members to watch Alexei’s journey, then vowed that he would explore the universe someday.

Rus Wang fought the Silver Dragon King to stop her from keeping an egg whose soul had been influenced by Tang San, then forced her to watch evidence of the danger it posed. She accepted Barus's proposed soul surgery for the egg and Rus Wang's imprisonment, while Rus Wang arranged for Toriya to guard her.

• Rus Wang demanded that the Silver Dragon King hand over her egg, and their argument escalated into a battle inside a small plane.
• Di Tian arrived with an Image Recording Stone, but the Silver Dragon King attacked him; Rus Wang protected him and ordered him to hold her off while he prepared a secret technique.
• Rus Wang created a pocket universe and sent a clone to fight the Silver Dragon King while he prepared a time-and-space-stopping technique.
• Rus Wang immobilized the Silver Dragon King, and Di Tian showed her the recording of the Soul Beasts' views of the Auspicious Beast, breaking her resistance.
• The Silver Dragon King accepted Barus's plan to remove the egg's existing soul and hatch the empty shell, and Rus Wang agreed to imprison her while Toriya guarded her.

The Soul Scholars examined a corrupted soul inside a dragon egg, while Toriya and Dai Ruoheng discussed Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit Completion Plan and the elves’ long-term strategy against the Divine Realm. The chapter ended with Rus Wang summoning Dai Ruoheng to try to upgrade her newly acquired divine position.

• The Soul Scholars studied the bizarre soul removed from the dragon egg, then decided to kill it for everyone’s safety.
• The Silver Dragon King thanked Dai Ruoheng and acknowledged that Tang San had victimized them both.
• Toriya read Barus’s Soul Spirit Completion Plan and showed it to Dai Ruoheng and the Silver Dragon King, who condemned Huo Yuhao’s proposal as eternal enslavement.
• Toriya explained that the elves planned to wait until the Divine Realm was occupied by Space-Time Turbulence before unifying Douluo Planet.
• Toriya relayed Rus Wang’s request for Dai Ruoheng to use the Rocky Asteroid Mini-Plane to comprehend the Law of Creation and attempt to upgrade her divine position.

Dai Ruoheng rejected human survivors’ attempts to recruit her against Star Dou Forest after reflecting on how the gods had betrayed her while the elves and Dragon Race had saved her. She reported to Rus Wang, openly aligning herself with the Kingdom Army as the gathered beasts and Dragon Race watched.

• An elven artilleryman learned that human teenagers captured in Star Dou Forest had become bargaining chips in negotiations over Soul Beasts held by the Spirit Pagoda.
• Dai Ruoheng approached Rus Wang while human voices tried to persuade her to defect, but she dismissed them as clowns.
• Dai Ruoheng recalled how the gods had concealed history and damaged her meridians, while Thranduil, the elves, and the Dragon Race had helped her survive and rise to godhood.
• Dai Ruoheng concluded that conflicts were driven by resource distribution and that selfish gods deserved to be treated as evil gods and killed.
• Dai Ruoheng saluted Rus Wang as the Ferocious Beasts watched and the Dragon Race welcomed her as an old comrade.

Rus Wang planned to use Dai Ruoheng’s divine domain to study creation and destruction, while also preparing her to inherit humanity’s fortune and rule. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao and the human armies prepared for war against Star Dou Forest and the elves of Zheer Continent.

• Rus Wang realized that his [Creation Freedom Heaven] had revealed a glimpse of the laws of creation and destruction, and he planned to create a universe in Dai Ruoheng’s small plane to study them.
• Rus Wang summoned Dai Ruoheng and planned for her to inherit humanity’s fortune, noting that her eventual meeting with Huo Yuhao would decide the path to kingship.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin discussed Zheer Continent’s return, the dragons’ hostility, and the growing conflict between humanity and the Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao told Qiangu that his new Three-Word Battle Armor gave Titled Douluo a 540% boost to all attributes.
• Huo Yuhao ordered an emergency meeting with the Star Luo commanders and warned that the elves, as well as the Soul Beasts, were enemies in the coming war.

Huo Yuhao’s warning about the elves led human forces to prepare for war, while Di Tian concluded that a god had exposed the elves’ concealment. The conflict escalated into a decisive battle in Star Dou Forest, and Rus Wang formally contracted with Dai Ruoheng.

• After microwave satellite surveillance failed, elf commanders regrouped their forces, while two human Titled Douluo arrived and withdrew when they sensed approaching dragons and human reinforcements.
• Di Tian told the elf staff officers that a god had broken their concealment runes, ordered defensive imprints prepared, and resolved to confront Huo Yuhao.
• Elves and humans clashed in Star Dou Forest, escalating from a skirmish to a battle involving Turquoise Dragons, armored human Soul Masters, and a Crimson Fire Dragon against a human Titled Douluo.
• Rus Wang signed a Mental Contract with Dai Ruoheng and wished for him to become the king of humanity.

Humans, Elves, and Dragons fought a devastating war after the Star Dou Forest turned against humanity, while Bi Ji treated the wounded near Life Lake. As Di Tian and Huo Yuhao clashed in the sky, Dai Ruoheng arrived and asked Bi Ji which figure was Huo Yuhao.

• A Sun Moon Empire Soul Douluo survived an ambush that wiped out his unit and called for any surviving comrades.
• A wounded Heavenly Sun Dragon learned its Elf comrade had died, then was restrained and sent to a field hospital.
• The Dragon forces had grown to more than seven hundred Mental Contract-bound Dragons over fifty thousand years old, united under Rus Wang as New Dragon God.
• Sun Moon Empire commanders discussed abandoning the front, but King of Ten Thousand Demons and Xiong Jun confronted them and battled several human Super Douluos.
• Bi Ji treated wounded Elves and Dragons near Life Lake as Di Tian and Huo Yuhao fought in the sky.
• Dai Ruoheng emerged from Life Lake and asked Bi Ji which of the two fighters was Huo Yuhao.

Di Tian, empowered by the Dark Dragon King's core and divine weapons, fought Huo Yuhao and accused him of betraying the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and pursuing peace hypocritically. With Iyuda stripping Huo Yuhao of his ice powers, Di Tian defeated him and left him battered on the battlefield.

• Di Tian confronted Huo Yuhao over the captured Soul Beasts, the wager, and the attack on Shrek, while Huo Yuhao defended his actions and demanded that the Dragon Race predecessor be punished.
• Di Tian rejected further discussion, drew the Black Dragon clan's divine shield and sword, and unleashed a powerful Black Dragon phantom against Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao transformed into the Ice Goddess, but Di Tian's phantom tore through her form and swallowed him.
• Iyuda arrived and used her Ultimate Ice to take control of the ice power supporting Huo Yuhao.
• Di Tian's attack and Iyuda's support overwhelmed Huo Yuhao, leaving him battered on the ground as Di Tian looked down at him mockingly.

Huo Yuhao fought Di Tian while Iyuda contested his control of ice, and his attempt to stop them with the power of time and space failed against her dragon lineage and ice. As Di Tian protected Iyuda, creation fused her ice memes with his darkness into the Dark Claw Ice Demon Dragon, halting Huo Yuhao’s powers and the surrounding battlefield.

• Di Tian and Iyuda attacked Huo Yuhao, while the ice-attribute Soul Spirits fought Iyuda for control of ice in Huo Yuhao’s spiritual space.
• Huo Yuhao used his three Soul Cores to withstand Di Tian’s elemental Dragon God Claw, then unleashed the Light of Time and Space against him and Iyuda.
• Iyuda’s ice and the phantom of her father’s dragon broke the Light of Time and Space, so Huo Yuhao attacked her soul with powers from his Soul Bones and the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign.
• Di Tian shielded Iyuda from Huo Yuhao’s attack, and Iyuda urged him to counter with Ultimate Darkness instead of taking it head-on.
• Rus Wang joined the battle in Dai Ruoheng’s spiritual space with the meme of creation, while Bazel and Bakus led Dragons and Elves toward the rear of the battlefield.
• Creation fused the memes of ice and darkness into the Dark Claw Ice Demon Dragon, forming a vacuum that stopped time and halted Huo Yuhao’s fate and time-space powers.

Huo Yuhao was defeated by Di Tian and Iyuda’s Ultimate Ice fusion skill, while Rus Wang and Dai Ruoheng contained the golden chain and prepared to confront him. After Di Tian and Iyuda withdrew to face another threat, Dai Ruoheng blocked Huo Yuhao’s escape and challenged him, beginning their battle.

• Huo Yuhao was frozen and badly injured by the Dark Claw Ice Demon Dragon, then suffered a severe spiritual attack in his Mental World.
• Rus Wang warned Dai Ruoheng that the golden chain was moving, and she pulled it into her small universe and subdued it with his help.
• Dai Ruoheng scattered cinnabar to form a Dragon Clan Rune and flew toward Huo Yuhao as the fusion skill ended and Iyuda was left exhausted.
• Rus Wang ordered Di Tian and Iyuda to leave the battlefield; Iyuda explained that they had to confront the Sun-Moon People, and the two dragons withdrew.
• Huo Yuhao woke and tried to pursue Di Tian, but Dai Ruoheng stopped him with a giant sword and challenged him to a fight.

Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Ruoheng, a human allied with the Dragon Race, and the two clashed in the Star Dou Forest. Their battle ended with Rus Wang’s apparition breaking Huo Yuhao’s attacks, while Dai Ruoheng urged him to recognize the changes already underway and the need to end the age of Soul Masters.

• Huo Yuhao tried to persuade Dai Ruoheng to stop supporting the Dragon Race, but she said she had joined the Soul Beasts to fight the gods for those who could never reach level 100.
• Dai Ruoheng and Huo Yuhao fought with Ultimate Water and Ultimate Ice as Bi Ji protected the wounded and other powerful fighters watched.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that Dai Ruoheng’s greatsword contained solar essence and had been forged using the sun’s extreme heat.
• Huo Yuhao’s domain and King Descends Upon the World collapsed when Rus Wang’s phantom appeared behind Dai Ruoheng and challenged Huo Yuhao’s sense of kingship.
• Dai Ruoheng denied that Rus Wang was her Soul Spirit and told Huo Yuhao that change had begun in the south, the age of Soul Masters must end, and Contractors were the future.

Dai Ruoheng challenged Huo Yuhao over his betrayals and fought him with Rus Wang’s power, while Huo Yuhao realized a Dragon of Sin was hiding inside her. As Huo Yuhao’s emotional attack threatened Dai Ruoheng, Zhang Cheng appeared to protect his daughter and face the danger himself.

• Dai Ruoheng accused Huo Yuhao of betraying humanity and attacked him with her White Tiger domain, combining spiritual, spatial, light, darkness, and physical power.
• Huo Yuhao countered with his Soul Cores, Soul Spirits, and Asura Three-Eyed God-Sealing Curse, shattering the domain and sensing a powerful dragon within Dai Ruoheng.
• Dai Ruoheng consulted Rus Wang, who urged her to rely on physical strength and spatial abilities as a plane god.
• Huo Yuhao began using the Haodong Three Ultimates and struck Dai Ruoheng with an emotional attack that questioned his promises and loves.
• Zhang Cheng appeared as a Memory Body, told Rus Wang that Dai Ruoheng’s safety mattered more to him than his survival, and stood beside his daughter as Huo Yuhao charged.