Chapter Summaries

Wang Dong collected Soul Power data, absorbed a Rose Eagle’s Soul Ring, and stopped a villager from stealing her Storage Ring before returning to Mingdu. Huo Yuhao practiced controlling the Undead Semi-Plane with Chi Qiu, and they began preparing to set out.

• Wang Dong used Huo Yuhao’s instruments to record the Rose Eagle’s Soul Power, then absorbed its Soul Ring while the villagers stood guard.
• Wang Dong caught a middle-aged man reaching for her Storage Ring, wounded him, and urged him to help the village’s young people train as Soul Masters and Soul Engineers.
• Wang Dong left the Rose Eagle’s remains with the villagers and flew back to Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao practiced opening and closing the Undead Semi-Plane with Chi Qiu, then suggested using it to deploy Soul Tool Turrets against Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu discussed the threatening notes left for He Caitou and agreed that the group should make final preparations to set out.

Huo Yuhao analyzed the Evil Soul Master's corrosive, devouring Soul Power and prepared a Soul Tool ambush with his companions. The plan left six Evil Soul Masters facing more than a hundred weapons, with their leader trapped in the firing line.

• Wang Dong reported that her fourth Soul Skill, Flowing Light Flying Rainbow, let her become a fast, damage-resistant streak of light that could combine with her third skill.
• Huo Yuhao's Soul Power Analyzer revealed that the Evil Soul Master's power corroded and dissolved what it touched, then replenished him by devouring it, especially souls.
• Huo Yuhao and the others left school under the pretense of taking a break, then secretly followed the Evil Soul Masters leaving Mingdu with captive sacks.
• The companions trapped the ninth-ring leader in an electric net while Wang Dong's streak of light killed or wounded many of his followers, reducing the group to six.
• The leader tried to attack Wang Dong, but she vanished, and the six Evil Soul Masters turned to face more than a hundred Soul Tools poised to fire.

Huo Yuhao and his companions continued rescuing captives from the Eighth Elder, a Titled Douluo of the Holy Spirit Cult, using the Undead Semi-Plane and a coordinated Soul Tool attack. Wang Dong escaped with the captives, but the Eighth Elder reached for her, forcing Huo Yuhao to launch a risky mental attack.

• Huo Yuhao and his companions used the Undead Semi-Plane to ambush the Eighth Elder and rescue two captives, but the Titled Douluo devoured the souls of his fallen subordinates and engulfed the area in Erosion Mist.
• Huo Yuhao refused Chi Qiu's offer to reveal her identity and agreed to Xiao Hongchen's plan to use Wang Dong's Light Dispel power through a Soul Tool Cannon.
• The Eighth Elder began leading his remaining Soul Kings away with the captives, but Huo Yuhao's group reopened the Demi-plane door and attacked with Purification Light and the Level Eight Soul Tool Cannon.
• Wang Dong tied up the remaining captives and flew toward the door while Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu supported Xiao Hongchen's attack with Necromancy.
• The Eighth Elder reached for Wang Dong as the cannon's dispersal weakened, so Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu opened their Eyes of Destiny and Huo Yuhao used Spirit Conversion and the Golden Dragon Green Spirit Sword.

Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu were exposed to the Eighth Elder when his spiritual power disrupted their disguise, so Snow Empress killed him with the Emperor Sword. Huo Yuhao returned to the Undead Semi-Plane after checking on Snow Empress, whose attack had slightly destabilized her seal.

• Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu attacked the Eighth Elder with a spiritual sword while Wang Dong rescued the captives into the Undead Semi-Plane.
• The Eighth Elder resisted Huo Yuhao's spiritual attack and briefly disrupted the Simulation Soul Skill, recognizing Huo Yuhao from Mingde Hall.
• Chi Qiu reopened the Golden Dragon Domain and restored their disguise, but the Eighth Elder had already identified Huo Yuhao.
• Snow Empress unleashed the Emperor Sword, freezing the surrounding area and erasing the Eighth Elder and the other Evil Soul Master corpses.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed Snow Empress was all right, learned the attack had destabilized her seal somewhat, and hurried into the Undead Semi-Plane.
• Electrolux advised Huo Yuhao to find a stronger spiritual Soul Skill for his fourth Soul Ring, and Huo Yuhao agreed to review Teacher Wang Yan's handbook.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Snow Empress could form an Advanced Contract with him if she gained a new body, and he planned to seek an ice-element treasure in the Heaven Dou Empire. After returning to the academy, the group reported their battle with the Evil Soul Masters to Jing Hongchen, who demanded to hear the full story.

• Electrolux explained that the Snow Empress needed a new body before she could complete an Advanced Contract with Huo Yuhao.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that an unexplored ice-element treasure lay beneath Earth Dragon Sect territory, and Huo Yuhao decided to retrieve it.
• Electrolux proposed that the treasure might let him give the Snow Empress a human body if the conditions were right.
• Huo Yuhao and the others stayed in the Undead Semi-Plane for a week, where the rescued captives woke in fear before Chi Qiu, Wang Dong, Xiao Hongchen, and Huo Yuhao reassured them.
• Xiao Hongchen submitted a report to Jing Hongchen, who scolded him for risking his life and then called in the other three to hear the full account.

After recovering from the rescue mission, Huo Yuhao arranged to hunt for a Soul Ring and travel to the Heaven Dou Empire to cultivate his Second Martial Soul. The chapter left him setting out with Zheng Zhan as his teacher, while the Evil Demon Forest remained under military search.

• Jing Hongchen questioned Huo Yuhao about the rescue operation and arranged compensation and follow-up for the people they had saved.
• Zheng Zhan told Huo Yuhao that troops were searching the Evil Demon Forest after the Crown Prince learned of the Evil Soul Masters’ experiments there.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he wanted to visit an underground cultivation site in the Heaven Dou Empire and asked to borrow the Burrowing Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to let Huo Yuhao rest for three days and hunt for a Soul Ring with Zheng Zhan before traveling.
• After resting, Huo Yuhao invited Zheng Zhan to accompany him and said they should head straight for the Heaven Dou Empire.

Meng Hongchen discovered that the Golden Ancient Tree held life energy and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was filled with deadly poison, then sent Huo Yuhao a letter about what she had learned. Huo Yuhao, Chi Qiu, and Zheng Zhan reached the Earth Dragon Sect, where Huo Yuhao prepared to investigate an underground passage.

• Meng Hongchen studied documents about the Golden Ancient Tree and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, considering how the poison might help her advance.
• Meng Hongchen wrote a letter to Mingdu and arranged for Elder Ma to deliver it.
• Huo Yuhao chose to bring Chi Qiu with him to investigate the Earth Dragon Sect, relying on her presence and good fortune.
• Huo Yuhao, Chi Qiu, and Zheng Zhan flew to the Earth Dragon Sect and landed nearby to avoid drawing attention.
• Huo Yuhao brought out a Drilling Machine and asked Zheng Zhan to keep watch while he and Chi Qiu went underground.

Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu used the Burrowing Soul Tool to reach an underground cave of Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, where Snow Empress and Ice Empress recognized signs of a nearby Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave. After learning it could help beings with ice attributes overcome bottlenecks, Huo Yuhao realized it might give Snow Empress a new body.

• Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu drilled about thirty meters underground before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress told them to stop.
• Huo Yuhao used Ice Explosion Technique to break through the ice, and he and Chi Qiu entered the cave as Snow Empress sealed the opening behind them.
• Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu explored the deep-blue crystal cave while Snow Empress surveyed it.
• Snow Empress identified the crystals as Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and said a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave must be nearby.
• Ice Empress explained that a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave could help Snow Empress and Ice Empress overcome their former bottleneck and challenge Di Tian.
• Huo Yuhao said the cave might help Snow Empress obtain a new body.

Huo Yuhao began an Advanced Contract with Snow Empress to help her remake her body, using the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and Chi Qiu’s Power of Destiny. As the contract and transformation gathered strength, Snow Empress entrusted Electrolux to shape her new body as it had been before.

• Snow Empress offered Huo Yuhao most of the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress offered to help him store their power.
• Huo Yuhao, Chi Qiu, and Electrolux prepared to begin the Advanced Contract, with Chi Qiu guarding them through her Power of Destiny.
• Huo Yuhao summoned a complex golden array and linked his soul origin with Snow Empress’s, while Chi Qiu kept the array stable.
• Chi Qiu’s Golden Dragon Domain gathered the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals into the array, and Snow Empress absorbed their energy to remake her body.
• Electrolux asked Snow Empress what kind of body she wanted, and she requested one like her former body.

Huo Yuhao gathered Ice Extreme Divine Crystals while the Snow Empress completed her transformation into a human through Electrolux’s contract. He gained her powerful Soul Rings and Soul Bone, then prepared to explore a nearby cold spring with Ice Empress and Chi Qiu.

• Huo Yuhao collected the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and learned from Ice Empress that the nearby cold spring would eventually dry up.
• Huo Yuhao returned to find the Snow Empress emerging from her cocoon, completing the contract and becoming human.
• The Snow Empress gained seven orange-gold Soul Rings, while Huo Yuhao received two more powerful Soul Rings and a right arm Soul Bone.
• Huo Yuhao discovered new Soul Skills, including Snow Waterfall, Snow Lotus, and enhancements to his ice-type abilities.
• Huo Yuhao, Ice Empress, and Chi Qiu prepared to explore the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave beneath the Earth Dragon Sect.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Snow Empress to remain in the human world and join his academy, then he, Chi Qiu, and Snow Empress entered the Ice Spring to retrieve Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. As Huo Yuhao and his companions absorbed the marrow, Electrolux explained the Advanced Contract system, leaving Huo Yuhao wondering how it handled a hired killer.

• Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu convinced Snow Empress to stay in the human world, and she chose to attend the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Chi Qiu melted an opening in the Ice Spring’s wall, and Huo Yuhao, Chi Qiu, and Snow Empress descended as Earth Dragon Sect disciples investigated the disturbance.
• Snow Empress froze the spring to hide their passage, and the group reached a cavern containing Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Huo Yuhao, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Ice Empress began absorbing the marrow, while Snow Empress accepted the human name Yin Shuang.
• Electrolux described the benefits and restrictions of Advanced Contracts, and Huo Yuhao asked what would happen if someone hired another person to kill a contracted Soul Beast.

Huo Yuhao and his companions finished their expedition after Yin Shuang absorbed the remaining Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, then returned to the surface with her. They reunited with Zheng Zhan, and Huo Yuhao began introducing Yin Shuang as a new friend.

• Electrolux encouraged Huo Yuhao to think through how humans and Soul Beasts might resolve their problems together.
• Yin Shuang sealed part of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow’s cold energy for Huo Yuhao, then absorbed what remained and strengthened his Ultimate Ice abilities.
• Chi Qiu discussed the sleeping Co-Lord beneath the Lake of Life with Yin Shuang and promised to tell Huo Yuhao more after they returned.
• Huo Yuhao arranged to explain Yin Shuang’s presence to Zheng Zhan as part of the treasure they had explored, and Yin Shuang agreed to act clueless.
• Yin Shuang carried Huo Yuhao and Chi Qiu out of the cave while Huo Yuhao sealed the entrance behind them.
• Zheng Zhan met them at the entrance, and Huo Yuhao reassured him before introducing Yin Shuang as their new friend.

Huo Yuhao brought Silver Frost to the Star Dou Great Forest and asked Di Tian to help him test his Equal Contract theory with a fourth Soul Ring. After hearing their account and inspecting Huo Yuhao’s orange-gold Soul Rings, Di Tian agreed to recommend a Soul Beast for the experiment.

• Huo Yuhao persuaded Zheng Zhan to let Silver Frost travel with them to the Sun Moon Empire and to make a detour to the Star Dou Great Forest for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao, Chi Qiu, and Silver Frost entered the forest and reached the Lake of Life without encountering any Soul Beasts.
• Di Tian appeared and recognized Silver Frost as the Snow Empress, while Silver Frost confirmed that Huo Yuhao had succeeded in his experiment.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Equal Contract, his experience with Silver Frost, and the benefits he had gained, while Silver Frost added her impressions.
• Di Tian inspected Huo Yuhao’s Soul Rings and Emperor Sword, then called on the King of Ten Thousand Demons to bring a clan member as a candidate for the experiment.

Huo Yuhao met an 80,000-year-old Demon Eye Demon Tree whose poison attribute had mutated into ice, and completed an Advanced Contract with it. After the new Soul Ring appeared, a silver vertical pupil manifested behind Huo Yuhao, startling King of Ten Thousand Demons.

• King of Ten Thousand Demons arrived and agreed to bring Huo Yuhao to meet a potential contract partner, while Di Tian kept Chi Qiu and Snow Empress behind to speak with them.
• King of Ten Thousand Demons explained that the 80,000-year-old Demon Eye Demon Tree's poison attribute had mutated into ice, making it a fitting match for Huo Yuhao.
• King of Ten Thousand Demons protected Huo Yuhao from a poisonous tree in the grove and introduced him to the white Ice Spirit Tree.
• Huo Yuhao used Electrolux's incantations to complete the Advanced Contract with the Ice Spirit Tree, and a black Soul Ring marked with emerald green appeared beside him.
• A silver vertical-pupil phantom appeared behind Huo Yuhao, and King of Ten Thousand Demons reacted with surprise.

Huo Yuhao entered a mysterious white space during Deep Meditation and realized he was facing a test. After choosing to save Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Wang Dong despite warnings that doing so would cost him the chance to save others, he continued toward an orange figure, determined to save everyone.

• King of Ten Thousand Demons contained Huo Yuhao's power in a protective domain while he remained in Deep Meditation.
• Huo Yuhao awoke in a white space, discovered his Spirit Eye Soul Rings had changed, and found that his Ice Empress Martial Soul would not respond.
• Huo Yuhao used the Blade of Life to heal the apparent Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, then lost the ability to summon it.
• Huo Yuhao used the Power of Destiny to stop Wang Dong's bleeding, refusing to leave her unsaved even when she warned him about Sister Qiu.
• Huo Yuhao passed Wang Dong and headed toward an orange figure, resolved to save everyone in the test.

Huo Yuhao overcame the illusion by unleashing the Life Storm, healing Chi Qiu and filling the void with life. After waking from a three-month slumber surrounded by the Ferocious Beasts, he learned that he had succeeded in forming an Equal Contract.

• Huo Yuhao realized Chi Qiu's wounds came from a possible future and vowed to save her.
• Huo Yuhao fused his spiritual power and Soul Power through his Spirit Eye, creating the Life Storm.
• The Life Storm healed Chi Qiu and transformed the empty void into a living world.
• Xiao Zi and Xiao Lu discussed Huo Yuhao's trial, while Electrolux questioned the Nameless Seal about the possible futures it had shown him.
• Huo Yuhao woke after three months and learned Chi Qiu had kept Uncle Zheng informed of his whereabouts.
• Di Tian congratulated Huo Yuhao on succeeding in his Equal Contract.

After completing a Silver-Grade Second Awakening of his Spirit Eye, Huo Yuhao recovered by the Lake of Life and prepared to test his Fourth Soul Skill. The skill briefly froze Di Tian’s golden eyes, leaving its full effect unclear.

• Huo Yuhao recognized the silver phantom behind him as the sign of a Silver-Grade Second Awakening and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Chi Qiu fed Huo Yuhao grilled fish while the Scarlet King carried him to the Lake of Life to recuperate.
• Huo Yuhao rested for three days as Chi Qiu, Yin Shuang, and Di Tian checked on him.
• Huo Yuhao asked Chi Qiu about the Body Sect’s Gold-Grade Awakening and learned that Di Tian had taught her combat training.
• Huo Yuhao activated his Fourth Soul Skill on Di Tian, whose golden dragon eyes suddenly froze.

Huo Yuhao discovered that his new Spirit Skill, Spirit Deprivation, could remove a target’s confidence, then returned with Chi Qiu and Yin Shuang to the Sun Moon Empire. At Mingde Hall, Chi Qiu realized Wang Dong was hiding the truth about Xiao Hongchen and urged her to explain what had happened.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Spirit Deprivation had removed Di Tian’s confidence, apologized, and revealed that his cultivation had reached about level forty-five.
• Huo Yuhao, Chi Qiu, and Yin Shuang left the Star Dou Great Forest for the Sun Moon Empire after treating the Ferocious Beasts to Xiao Huo’s Grilled Fish.
• Zheng Zhan told Huo Yuhao that a Shrek spy named Ye Xiaosheng had been caught stealing soul tool blueprints, and Huo Yuhao asked Chi Qiu to find Wang Dong and Xiao Hongchen.
• Chi Qiu found Wang Dong at Mingde Hall, where Wang Dong claimed Xiao Hongchen was in seclusion because he was close to becoming a Soul Emperor.
• Chi Qiu noticed Wang Dong was lying and promised that she and Huo Yuhao would help, urging Wang Dong to tell them the truth.

Huo Yuhao returned to the academy, explained his new Body Martial Soul awakening to Jing Hongchen, and caught up with Wang Dong and Chi Qiu on recent events. Their report about a silver-haired Evil Soul Master with a black toad Martial Soul left Huo Yuhao troubled by what Xiao Hongchen had recognized.

• Huo Yuhao gave Yin Shuang a school uniform, identification card, and stipend, then told Jing Hongchen that his Body Martial Soul had undergone a Second Awakening.
• Huo Yuhao met Wang Dong and Chi Qiu, who told him Ye Xiaosheng had been caught passing blueprints to Fan Yu and that Ma Rulong suspected the imperial court of staging explosives near Mingde Hall.
• Wang Dong reported that Xiao Hongchen was close to becoming a Soul Emperor and that rescued captives had described Holy Spirit Cult rituals in the Evil Demon Forest and an Eighth Elder whose followers' memories may have been altered.
• Wang Dong described a silver-haired, blue-eyed ritual leader with a black toad Martial Soul, and Huo Yuhao realized Xiao Hongchen had been distressed by the description and had warned her not to tell Meng Hongchen.
• Wang Dong added that a female Soul Emperor with an Evil Fire Phoenix and a person with Dark Blue Silver Grass had appeared at the tournament, leaving Huo Yuhao with troubling suspicions.

Huo Yuhao organized investigations into Ma Xiaotao and arranged a meeting with He Caitou before reporting to Kong Deming. After demonstrating his newly awakened power to restore life, he asked Kong Deming to take him to the emperor so he could try to heal him.

• Huo Yuhao doubted that Ma Xiaotao had joined the Holy Spirit Cult, then assigned Wang Dong and Nana to summon He Caitou and asked Chi Qiu to investigate Ma Xiaotao.
• Chi Qiu reassured Huo Yuhao that things would improve, and he returned to Kong Deming two days later to report on his journey.
• Kong Deming compared his struggling flowers to crooked growths that might no longer be guided back, and Huo Yuhao offered to help save the withering ones.
• Huo Yuhao used the Pupil of Ten Thousand Spirits to restore the flowers that still had life, revealing his refined Life Attribute ability to Kong Deming.
• Huo Yuhao asked Kong Deming to take him to see His Majesty so he could try to heal the emperor.