Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao gave Zhang Lexuan his Silver Moon Pendant and defended her after she fainted, summoning Bai Xiuxiu when Zhang Peng attacked. The Ice Empress appeared with her newly awakened Zanpakuto, Ice Jade, and severed Zhang Peng’s scorpion tail.

• Zhang Lexuan fastened her Silver Moon Pendant around Huo Yuhao’s neck, then fainted from exhaustion, and he carried her in his arms.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a purple attack approaching and summoned Bai Xiuxiu, who destroyed the purple leopard-shaped strike with a wave of water.
• Bai Xiuxiu told Huo Yuhao she had confirmed the Demon Empress’s presence in the forbidden sea and wanted to stay with him to learn the truth.
• Zhang Peng revealed himself as a Level 96 Super Douluo and attacked Bai Xiuxiu with his scorpion tail.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Ice Empress, who blocked Zhang Peng’s attack and cut off his scorpion tail with her newly awakened Zanpakuto, Ice Jade.

Zhang Peng unleashed his Twelve Beast Envoys against Huo Yuhao, but the Ice Empress froze and destroyed most of them with her Zanpakuto. As she moved to finish the survivors, Zhang Peng used a concealed spirit bone skill to reappear beside Huo Yuhao and attack him from behind.

• Zhang Peng recognized the Ice Empress's Zanpakuto as a weapon capable of destroying soul origins and decided Huo Yuhao could not be allowed to live.
• Zhang Peng transformed into a giant tiger, summoned the Twelve Beast Envoys, and empowered them until they reached Titled Douluo strength.
• Bai Xiuxiu panicked and offered to take Huo Yuhao back to Sea God Island, but he ignored her and ordered the Ice Empress to fight.
• The Ice Empress used Domain of Eternal Freeze: Ice Emperor Slash to freeze all twelve beast spirits, then shattered eight of them and annihilated their soul origins.
• Zhang Peng used his Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell spirit bone skill to reappear beside Huo Yuhao and thrust a tiger claw toward his nape.

Huo Yuhao defeated Zhang Peng with Bibi Dong’s help, reached Soul King, and prepared to absorb Snow Empress’s origin. After a God Rank presence secretly intervened, he fled with Bai Xiuxiu and Zhang Lexuan, while Gu Yuena revealed that she planned to outwit him to obtain the key to Dragon Valley.

• Bibi Dong appeared and bound Zhang Peng, then killed him with her Rakshasa Demon Scythe, leaving three Spirit Bones behind.
• Huo Yuhao sent Bai Xiuxiu to the Undead Demi-plane with Bibi Dong and broke through to level 50, reaching Soul King.
• Zhang Peng’s four beast souls disappeared, and Bibi Dong sensed a God Rank presence watching them.
• Huo Yuhao used Flying Thunder God and Kamui to escape with Bai Xiuxiu and Zhang Lexuan.
• Gu Yuena purified Zhang Peng’s four beast souls and told Zi JI that two God Rank divine senses protected Huo Yuhao, so they would need to outwit him to obtain the Dragon Valley key.

Gu Yuena ordered Zi Ji to infiltrate Shrek Academy while Huo Yuhao prepared to absorb the Snow Empress and sent a Wood Clone to aid Akatsuki. At the border, five Body Sect elders confronted Jing Hongchen and demanded the item in his Storage Ring.

• Gu Yuena dismissed Zi Ji’s concerns about sensing the Dragon God’s aura and ordered her to infiltrate Shrek Academy with the Auspicious Beast.
• Bibi Dong told Huo Yuhao that the spying divine sense belonged to no one she recognized, and Huo Yuhao suspected Gu Yuena had come for the Dragon Valley key.
• Huo Yuhao released the Snow Empress from the Box of Ultimate Bliss, learned that Thunder-Roaring had awakened the Zanpakuto Inazuma, and began absorbing the Snow Empress’s origin.
• Huo Yuhao sent a Wood Clone toward Tang Ya’s battle with the Body Sect after learning that Jing Hongchen’s escort had been ambushed.
• Golden Body Douluo and four other Body Sect elders blocked Jing Hongchen’s group at the Sun Moon Empire–Star Luo Empire border and demanded the item in his Storage Ring.

Yu Mengdi used Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags to kill White Bone Douluo, and Kakuzu and Tang Ya joined the battle against the Body Sect. Huo Yuhao appeared to confront the remaining attackers as Xutong Douluo's spiritual assault was stopped.

• Yu Mengdi revealed herself as Akatsuki and killed White Bone Douluo with multiplying Explosive Tags.
• Kakuzu attacked the Body Sect elders with Earth Grudge Fear, while Golden Body Douluo survived behind a shield.
• Tang Ya used Eternal Wound to kill Xuansi Douluo and declared herself Bibi Dong.
• Xutong Douluo's Phantom Demon Hell was interrupted when Zhu Li's surroundings appeared to him as a gigantic nine-eyed wooden statue.
• Huo Yuhao appeared before Zhu Li and declared that the fighting was over.

Huo Yuhao and Akatsuki wiped out most of the Body Sect’s interception team, leaving Golden Body Douluo to beg for mercy before Du Busi arrived in a rage. As Huo Yuhao prepared to kill Golden Body Douluo, his Eternal Mangekyou unlock progress reached 80% and Du Busi attacked him from behind.

• Huo Yuhao used Wither Technique to drain Xutong Douluo while Zhu Li revealed her Zanpakuto and killed him with Two-Strike Kill.
• Huo Yuhao sent Ice Empress and Leiming to attack Moquan Douluo, while Kakuzu blasted Golden Body Douluo and left him badly wounded.
• Huo Yuhao demanded the Body Sect’s secret manual for the second awakening of the Body Martial Soul, but Golden Body Douluo refused and pleaded for his life.
• Huo Yuhao formed a blue greatsword and prepared to kill Golden Body Douluo as the system announced that his Eternal Mangekyou unlock progress had reached 80%.
• Du Busi arrived in dark-green flames and struck at Huo Yuhao from behind with a powerful fist.

Huo Yuhao’s Wood Clone escaped Du Busi’s rampage, while his true body completed his fusion with the Snow Empress’s source and gained new elemental powers. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena arrived at Shrek Academy, where Du Weilun mistook her invented Elementalist Martial Soul for a connection to Huo Yuhao’s supposed Five Spirits Clan.

• Huo Yuhao used Kamui to evade Du Busi, then had Zhu Li trap Du Busi in the Dark Arena while the Akatsuki and Sun Moon Empire forces retreated.
• Huo Yuhao’s clone ended the escort mission with Jing Hongchen and revealed itself to be dead wood, astonishing Jing Hongchen.
• Huo Yuhao finished fusing with the Snow Empress’s source, gained ultimate wind, and began forming Scorch Release and a Gold Sand-based Magnet Release.
• Huo Yuhao returned toward Star Luo City with Zhang Lexuan, rescued Ma Xiaotao and Nan Shuishui with Nan Qiuqiu, and later reunited with Xuan Zi.
• Gu Yuena arrived at Shrek Academy and introduced herself as Gu Yue, a level-55 Elementalist; Du Weilun asked whether she belonged to the Five Spirits Clan, leaving her confused.

Gu Yuena and Di Qiulin claimed to be descendants of Huo Yuhao’s fictional Five Spirits Clan, then drew Yan Shaozhe’s eager attention with their unusual martial souls. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao’s soul began forming a Soul Core in the Kamui Dimension as the Ice Empress watched in alarm.

• Gu Yuena pretended that she and Di Qiulin were surviving descendants of the Five Spirits Clan so they could meet Huo Yuhao.
• Yan Shaozhe entered Du Weilun’s office and recognized Gu Yuena’s five-element control as resembling Huo Yuhao’s martial soul.
• Di Qiulin revealed her Sharingan and Golden Dragon Twin Martial Souls, prompting Yan Shaozhe to invite both girls to become his disciples.
• Gu Yuena rejected Yan Shaozhe’s offer, and Zi Ji warned him that her two daughters had no intention of taking a master.
• In the Kamui Dimension, the Ice Empress saw a compressed Soul Power vortex forming in Huo Yuhao’s chest and realized he was condensing a Soul Core.

Huo Yuhao condensed a mysterious Soul Core that proved to be the embryonic life core and planar authority of the Kamui Dimension and Undead Demi-plane, which he named Hogyoku. After rushing back to his body, he found Zhang Lexuan awake and kissing him, only for Han Ruoruo and Beibei to walk in.

• Huo Yuhao compressed the Soul Power vortex in his chest into a solid Soul Core, astonishing the Ice Empress and Bibi Dong.
• Huo Yuhao pulled the Soul Core from his chest and discovered that it contained the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's life core and authority over his dimensions, so he named it Hogyoku.
• The Thunder-Roaring Hell Vine warned Huo Yuhao that Zhang Lexuan was plotting something, and he returned to his body.
• Zhang Lexuan embraced and kissed Huo Yuhao after waking, while he sat stunned at her bedside.
• Han Ruoruo and Beibei entered the bedroom, saw the pair together, and Han Ruoruo teased Zhang Lexuan about interrupting them.

Zhang Lexuan’s awkward closeness with Huo Yuhao stirred Beibei’s jealousy, while Yu Xiaogang urged Beibei to build a new Golden Iron Triangle to rival him. At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Huo Yuhao sensed a hostile presence within Wang Dong’er and kept his distance as Mu En opened the meeting.

• Han Ruoruo caught Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao together, teased Zhang Lexuan, and threatened to turn the incident into a novel.
• Zhang Lexuan rebuffed Beibei and urged him to focus on cultivating and finding Tang Ya, deepening his jealousy of Huo Yuhao.
• Yu Xiaogang told Beibei to find two compatible dragon-type soul masters so they could form a three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Beibei considered Wu Feng and two talented students with Golden Dragon and Seven-Colored Dragon martial souls as candidates for his own Golden Iron Triangle.
• At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Huo Yuhao sensed a malicious presence within Wang Dong’er’s brow and responded coldly to her greeting.
• Mu En opened his eyes and announced the start of the Sea God Pavilion meeting.

Mu En canceled the students’ promised rewards and ordered them to qualify for the Inner Court through a selection tournament, then summoned Zhang Lexuan to question her. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao hurried to the tournament after learning that Gu Yue and Di Qiulin had arrived at Shrek, as new and visiting students assembled for the selection.

• Mu En reprimanded Xuan Zi for the casualties at Mingdou Mountain Range, canceled the students’ rewards because of their poor teamwork, and told them to earn Inner Court places in the selection tournament.
• Mu En called Zhang Lexuan aside because he remained suspicious of how she and Huo Yuhao had escaped the Holy Spirit Cult after the tournament.
• Xiao Xiao told Huo Yuhao that Gu Yue and Di Qiulin were asking for him, so he rushed to the Soul Fighting Zone and Wang Dong'er followed, jealous and determined to investigate.
• At the tournament venue, Bai Xiuxiu spoke with Su Tong about her goal of defeating Huo Yuhao, while Di Qiulin questioned Bai Xiuxiu about her relationship with him.
• Xu Jiujiu, Xu Yun, and Dai Luoli appeared as exchange students, and Dai Luoli vowed to uncover the truth behind his family’s destruction and take revenge on Akatsuki.
• Yan Shaozhe admired the incoming students’ talent and prepared to recruit promising girls as disciples before announcing that the Inner Court selection tournament was beginning.

Di Qiulin rejected Wu Feng and Ning Tian’s offer to team up, declaring that only Huo Yuhao could stand beside her. After effortlessly defeating Wu Feng, she faced Ning Tian and her teammates, then unveiled a new attack modeled after Huo Yuhao’s kunai.

• Wu Feng invited Di Qiulin and Gu Yue to join Ning Tian’s team, hoping to defeat Huo Yuhao’s group, but Di Qiulin refused and praised Huo Yuhao.
• Wu Feng attacked Di Qiulin with her fourth soul skill, but Di Qiulin’s Golden Dragon martial soul suppressed Wu Feng’s Red Dragon and threw her out of the arena.
• Gu Yuena worried that Di Qiulin’s devotion to Huo Yuhao was distracting her from their mission to restore the soul beast race.
• Ning Tian summoned her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, enhanced Cao Jinxuan, Zhou Sichen, and Xie Huanyue, and sent them to attack Di Qiulin.
• Di Qiulin snapped her Golden Dragon Spear in two, reshaped the pieces into golden kunai modeled after Huo Yuhao’s weapons, and launched them with her newly named attack.

Di Qiulin defeated Ning Tian’s team with her Golden Dragon Spear, teleportation, and clone, then clashed with Bai Xiuxiu, whose Samehada absorbed Di Qiulin’s fire attack. Bai Xiuxiu flooded the arena and called on Su Tong to freeze the submerged opponents.

• Di Qiulin used her speed and Golden Dragon Fist to knock Xie Huanyue, Zhou Sichen, and Cao Jinxuan out of the arena before forcing Ning Tian to surrender.
• Xu Jiujiu praised Di Qiulin’s strength and suggested the name “Golden Flash,” but Bai Xiuxiu mocked her as “Golden Hajimi,” reigniting their rivalry.
• Di Qiulin activated her Sharingan and launched a Fire Style: Light Dragon Flame Bomb at Bai Xiuxiu.
• Bai Xiuxiu used Samehada to absorb the fireball, then submerged the arena with Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave.
• Bai Xiuxiu called on Su Tong, who began using her sixth Soul Skill, Ice Age.

Bai Xiuxiu and Su Tong froze most of the arena, but Di Qiulin broke through their defenses and nearly defeated them before Yan Shaozhe declared the match over. Huo Yuhao arrived at Star Luo Plaza and exchanged a distant glance with Di Qiulin, whom he suspected was the Auspicious Beast.

• Su Tong and Bai Xiuxiu unleashed a combination attack that froze nearly everyone in the arena, while Gu Yuena shattered the ice surrounding her.
• Di Qiulin hurled her Golden Dragon Spear at Su Tong and Bai Xiuxiu, pierced Su Tong's seven ice shields, and had her spear swallowed by Samehada.
• Di Qiulin teleported beside her spear and struck at Bai Xiuxiu, who escaped by transforming into water and lost most of her Soul Power.
• Yan Shaozhe announced Di Qiulin, Gu Yue, Bai Xiuxiu, Su Tong, Xu Jiujiu, Xu Yun, and Dai Luoli as the winners.
• Huo Yuhao arrived atop a great blade embedded in a stone pillar, and he and Di Qiulin silently met each other's gaze.

Zhang Lexuan told Mu En about Akatsuki, the Holy Spirit Cult, and the strange mark that had given her a second martial soul, while Mu En secretly worried about Shrek’s future and Huo Yuhao’s loyalty. At the Inner Court selection’s final free-for-all, Di Qiulin confronted Huo Yuhao, and he answered Su Tong’s challenge by summoning a freezing blade.

• Zhang Lexuan told Mu En that a black mark had appeared on her hand and awakened a second martial soul after the events at the Star Luo City auction.
• Mu En failed to detect anything in the mark and resolved to advance his plans to bind Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao to Shrek.
• At the final Inner Court selection, Di Qiulin declared that she had waited for Huo Yuhao, but he told her he would find her later.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Gu Yuena, while Wang Dong’er grew jealous as she watched him interact with Di Qiulin and Gu Yuena.
• Yan Shaozhe began the free-for-all, and Su Tong challenged Huo Yuhao with her Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao summoned White Fang and formed the icy blade Sode no Shirayuki using the Snow Empress’s power.

Huo Yuhao defeated Su Tong with the Snow Empress’s Ultimate Ice, and Gu Yuena prepared to test him before Beibei challenged her instead. Gu Yuena suppressed Beibei’s dragon Martial Soul and blasted him from the arena, then sensed divine power in Wang Dong’er during her fight with Di Qiulin.

• Su Tong attacked Huo Yuhao with a fused soul skill, but he invoked the Snow Empress’s power and shattered her ice sword, knocking her unconscious.
• Gu Yuena recognized the Snow Empress’s presence and the mysterious power in Huo Yuhao’s blade, then decided to test his limits.
• Beibei blocked Gu Yuena and proclaimed himself the successor of the Dragon God Douluo, but she mocked his claim and unleashed her dragon-clan might.
• Gu Yuena’s pressure forced Beibei’s Holy Dragon of Light back into his body, and her Great Fireball Technique blasted him off the arena.
• Gu Yuena noticed Di Qiulin fighting Wang Dong’er and sensed divine power hidden in Wang Dong’er’s Sea of Consciousness.

Wang Dong'er fought Di Qiulin and grew jealous of her closeness to Huo Yuhao, while Tang Wutong tried to use her Divine Sense to alter Di Qiulin's personality. Gu Yuena's hidden power stopped the intrusion, and Huo Yuhao prepared to face her elemental challenge as a strange wooden phantom appeared behind him.

• Wang Dong'er attacked Di Qiulin with the Clear Sky Hammer and declared that only she could stand beside Huo Yuhao.
• Di Qiulin easily deflected Wang Dong'er's strike and questioned her intense attachment to Yu Hao.
• Tang Wutong split off half of her Divine Sense and sent it to invade Di Qiulin's Sea of Consciousness, hoping to make her feel guilty toward Wang Dong'er.
• Gu Yuena's silver divine power captured Tang Wutong's fragment, while Huo Yuhao recognized the intervention and told Electrolux and Bibi Dong to prepare the Limited Tsukuyomi plan.
• Gu Yuena unleashed her elemental pressure against Huo Yuhao, but he summoned the same five elemental flames, and a wooden phantom began appearing behind him.

Huo Yuhao challenged Gu Yuena’s elemental control by matching her fire attack and criticizing her fusion of fire and ice. He unveiled Scorch Release, which vaporized her attack and continued toward her.

• Gu Yuena sensed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path within Huo Yuhao and wondered if he was a powerful expert cultivating anew.
• Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao launched matching Great Fireball Techniques, which collided and canceled each other out.
• Gu Yuena summoned her Elemental Staff and fused a fireball with an ice cone into a flaming ice cone aimed at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao called Gu Yuena’s fusion crude and used Scorch Release to vaporize the flaming ice cone.
• Gu Yuena was shocked that Huo Yuhao’s elemental fusion overpowered hers as his Scorch Release fireballs kept flying toward her.

Gu Yuena tried to overpower Huo Yuhao with a four-element attack and prepare a five-element fusion, but Huo Yuhao broke her assault with Scorch Release and trapped her before she could finish chanting. Meanwhile, Xu Jiujiu sent Xu Yun and Dai Luoli against the Shrek team, whose members prepared to fight.

• Gu Yuena realized Huo Yuhao had beaten her ice-and-fire fusion and challenged him with a four-element attack while beginning to chant a five-element fusion spell.
• Xu Jiujiu dismissed the Shrek members as insignificant, prompting Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, Jiang Nannan, and Xiao Xiao to form up against her group.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered Xu Yun and Dai Luoli to fight the Shrek team, and Dai Luoli obeyed after Xu Yun rebuked his doubts.
• Gu Yuena's four-element beam pushed back Huo Yuhao's Scorch Release fireballs as she prepared a stronger attack.
• Huo Yuhao detonated the fireballs, then used Storm Release: Laser Circus and Yin-Yang Release to send curving beams around Gu Yuena's earthen wall.
• Black Receivers split from the laser beams and formed a cage around Gu Yuena before she could finish her chant.

Huo Yuhao used Black Receivers to suppress and restrain Gu Yuena, while Di Qiulin fought Wang Dong'er in the arena. Di Qiulin activated Golden Lion Sage Mode and launched a powerful attack that Wang Dong'er could not evade.

• Gu Yuena discovered that the Black Receivers suppressed her Soul Power, and touching one left her too weak to stand.
• Huo Yuhao reinforced the seal with yin and yang Chakra as Gu Yuena struggled against the Black Receivers.
• Wang Dong'er attacked Di Qiulin with the eighteenth strike of Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but Di Qiulin stopped the Clear Sky Hammer with one finger.
• Wang Dong'er broke through her limits and unleashed the nineteenth strike, raising her attack power to the threshold of a Soul Saint.
• Di Qiulin activated Golden Lion Sage Mode, redirected Wang Dong'er's charge with Sage Art: Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists, and sent two lion-shaped projectiles at her.