Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao reorganized the Mingdu Branch Altar, rewarding promising disciples and moving the First Branch Altar to a hidden residence. With his position secured and Nangong Wan still unaware of the change, Huo Yuhao turned his attention to the Ao Du Merchant Guild.

• Huo Yuhao learned the disciples’ martial souls, Innate Soul Power, and strengths, then promoted the three who had cultivated the longest to True Disciples, including Na Na.
• Huo Yuhao appointed seven Soul King disciples as hall masters of the Second through Eighth Branch Altars and selected attendants to carry his orders.
• Huo Yuhao concealed and relocated the First Branch Altar to a secluded residence, where he reunited the original branch altar elder’s family and tightened security.
• Two contacts came to investigate their missing companion, but Huo Yuhao hosted them for tea and gained new corpse-refining materials.
• Huo Yuhao settled into Mingdu and, while Nangong Wan remained unaware, planned to target the Ao Du Merchant Guild.

Huo Yuhao learned how the three underground forces operated and followed a White Lotus Holy Altar disciple to an Ao Du Merchant Guild entrance in a mercenary tavern. After passing the Blue Enchantress review, he left the disciple eager to earn his relatives’ souls through good performance.

• Huo Yuhao gathered intelligence about the Ao Du Merchant Guild’s aboveground mercenary contacts and how to find An Litong.
• A White Lotus Holy Altar disciple led Huo Yuhao to an ordinary tavern that served as an Ao Du Merchant Guild entrance.
• The disciple ordered two Blue Enchantresses as the tavern’s review step, and Huo Yuhao drank his in one gulp.
• Huo Yuhao told the disciple that his relatives’ souls depended on his performance, prompting the disciple to promise he would spare no effort.

Huo Yuhao passed the tavern’s verification and followed a disciple through the underground passages to Ghost Street, the Ao Du Merchant Guild’s hidden marketplace. He headed toward the guild’s auspicious clouds of influence to search for his target, while the disciple nervously followed.

• Huo Yuhao and the disciple passed the tavern’s verification by drinking Blue Enchantress and entered a hidden passage behind the counter.
• As they walked through Mingdu’s underground passages, Huo Yuhao recalled that the route led to the Ao Du Merchant Guild’s illegal activities below the tavern.
• Huo Yuhao and the disciple emerged onto Ghost Street, a concealed underground commercial street filled with disguised customers, shops, and stalls.
• Huo Yuhao used the Qi Observation Technique to spot people hiding in unlit alleys and recognized that the darkness held dangers beyond the guild’s rules.
• Huo Yuhao followed the guild’s auspicious clouds of influence into Ghost Street, and the disciple swallowed nervously before following him.

Huo Yuhao used the Death God Messenger to control An Litong and two elders of the Ao Du Merchant Guild, then learned that the guild's true backers came from the Sun Moon Empire's military. He considered the empire's elite Soul Engineer legions as the chapter ended.

• Huo Yuhao entered the Ao Du Merchant Guild's headquarters after sending An Litong a slip marked “Sun Moon.”
• Huo Yuhao used Life-Reaping Sanskrit to control An Litong and two Soul Douluo elders without a fight.
• Huo Yuhao questioned An Litong and learned that the military secretly backed the guild, whose leaders had ties to several Soul Engineer legions.
• An Litong's revelations led Huo Yuhao to consider the Sun Moon Empire's four Beast King-level Soul Engineer legions and the Royal Soul Engineer Legion.

Huo Yuhao enslaved the Ao Du Merchant Guild's leaders and ordered them to gather corpses, blood, and materials for him within three days. After he left, An Litong and the two elders reluctantly planned to obey while keeping the operation secret.

• Huo Yuhao used the Sanskrit Chant and Spirit Slave Seals to make An Litong and the two elders obey him.
• When the elders tried to attack, Huo Yuhao paralyzed them with pain and promised to help all three reach Titled Douluo within the year.
• Huo Yuhao ordered them to collect five hundred corpses and their blood in three days, hinting that they should target people whose disappearances would go unnoticed.
• Before leaving with his disciple, Huo Yuhao imposed a gag order, took a map of the underground passages, and demanded special materials.
• An Litong told the elders to target beggars, vagrants, outsiders, and slum residents, and warned them to keep the plan secret.

Huo Yuhao visited An Litong’s warehouse and accepted five hundred corpses, preserved blood, and two captured elders. He brought the five Ao Du Merchant Guild elders under his control as protectors of the White Lotus Holy Altar.

• Huo Yuhao entered a warehouse with An Litong and found shelves filled with five hundred preserved corpses.
• An Litong’s group presented Huo Yuhao with preserved blood and two captured elders, then explained how they had gathered the bodies and subdued the elders.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the corpses came from Mingdu’s poor and from people secretly purchased through underground alliances.
• An Litong and the other elders explained that the two captives had discovered their operation, but a planted concubine exposed them and a sneak attack with drugging secured their capture.
• Huo Yuhao took control of the five elders and named them the Five Protectors of his White Lotus Holy Altar, giving them its teachings and cultivation methods.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Sun Moon Empire's military planned to provoke Shrek Academy and gather supplies, and he ordered the Ao Du Merchant Guild to cooperate while he delayed any war. Back at the White Lotus Holy Altar, he summoned Na Na and prepared to shock Mingdu with the Evil Cultivator faction.

• An Litong received a coded message from the military, and Huo Yuhao read its letter ordering an attack on Shrek Academy's exchange students, a supply shipment, and the interception of the Ordinary Alliance's goods.
• An Litong and Murong Qianjun explained that the military might be preparing a probing war, so Huo Yuhao ordered the Ao Du Merchant Guild to provide even more supplies and let him inspect the intercepted goods.
• Huo Yuhao told An Litong and the others to cooperate with the operation and gave them a new quota of five hundred living human materials, including soul masters, to gather within a month.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the First Branch Altar of the White Lotus Holy Altar and ordered an attendant disciple to bring Na Na from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Huo Yuhao decided to give the people of Mingdu a shock from the Evil Cultivator faction.

Huo Yuhao assigned Na Na a mission and considered sending Eunuch Gao to support her, while his main body left the hotel and traveled into Sunset Forest. He reached a hidden valley on the forest’s outskirts after avoiding the poisonous fog near its central region.

• Na Na showed Huo Yuhao that she had begun mastering the Soul Seizing Great Art, and he promised to reward her with a new cultivation method and return her parents' souls if she completed his mission.
• Huo Yuhao considered how Na Na, Eunuch Gao, and the Ao Du Merchant Guild's materials could help his plans against the Holy Spirit Cult and the Xi Shui Alliance.
• After checking the area with Mental Detection, Huo Yuhao left the hotel and traveled alone toward Sunset Forest.
• Huo Yuhao observed the forest's sparse vegetation and few soul beasts, then avoided the poisonous fog near its central region and landed in a hidden valley.

Huo Yuhao used a secret underground tunnel and the Five Elements Escape Technique to bypass the ward around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and descend to its hidden depths. He found an independent space containing the Ice Fire Dragon King's remains and two intertwined Dragon Shadows.

• Huo Yuhao entered a tunnel he had arranged to be dug beneath the Sunset Forest, planning to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well unseen.
• Huo Yuhao passed through the rock wall at the tunnel's end using the Five Elements Escape Technique, spending much of his power in the process.
• Huo Yuhao descended tens of thousands of meters through the pool while concealing himself and resisting its pressure and elemental corrosion.
• Huo Yuhao discovered an independent space at the pool's bottom, where two Dragon Shadows were intertwined.
• Huo Yuhao entered the space and found the Ice Fire Dragon King's remains, whose power flowed into and blessed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Huo Yuhao summoned the Ice Fire Dragon King's Dragon Souls from their skeletons, but their awakening threatened to draw a powerful being's attention. After Huo Yuhao and the dragon-blooded souls around him called to them, the Dragon Souls rushed into his Evil Eye Martial Soul instead of entering the Ghost Banner.

• At the lake bottom, Huo Yuhao entered the space around the intertwined Dragon King skeletons while Electrolux and Mu En shielded him from the pressure and elemental forces.
• Huo Yuhao and his allies used the Ghost Banner Martial Soul and Soul Summoning Spell to draw the two Dragon Souls out of their bones.
• The Dragon Souls resisted the Ghost Banner and began to awaken, so Huo Yuhao prepared to strike with the Evil Eye Martial Soul.
• Mu En's Light Holy Dragon Martial Soul and the dragon-blooded spirits called to the Dragon Souls, and Huo Yuhao joined them after concealing the space with more fortune.
• Huo Yuhao activated his Frost Centipede Martial Soul and Dragon Clan Bloodline, and the Dragon Souls rushed into his eyes, drawn to the Evil Eye Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao drove the Ice and Fire Dragon Souls out of his Spiritual Sea, gained divine eyes and a third soul ring, and reached demigod-level spiritual power. With the underground space calm again, he turned to the remaining Dragon King skeletons and prepared to use Palm Bottle Heaven.

• The Ice and Fire Dragon Souls entered Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea, but he used the Demon Buddha Method and his three visualizations to drive them out while absorbing their Dragon Qi.
• Huo Yuhao's Evil Eye Martial Soul developed its ninth and tenth potentials, giving him red-and-blue divine eyes and expanding his Spiritual Sea to the demigod realm.
• Huo Yuhao bound the departing Dragon Souls, refined them, and turned them into the Evil Eye Martial Soul's third soul ring.
• Mu En and Electrolux helped Huo Yuhao withstand the elemental damage, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged from the Spiritual Sea and admitted he had been afraid.
• Huo Yuhao warned that Fortune was burning away and raised his left hand toward the remaining Dragon King skeletons to use Palm Bottle Heaven.

Huo Yuhao escaped Sunset Forest after disturbing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and discovered new powers in his Palm Bottle Heaven ability. Back at the hotel, he concealed his expedition from Zhang Lexuan, who learned about his supposed special constitution after catching him with the three women.

• Huo Yuhao fled Sunset Forest as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well erupted, devastating many plants and endangering its plant soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the hotel in the guise of a Hundred-Year Poison Centipede and later examined the Ice Fire Dragon King bones contained in his palm, naming the ability Palm Bottle Heaven and its living-target effect deliverance.
• Huo Yuhao waited until morning, undid the methods he had placed on the sleeping women, and resumed his usual routine while Zhang Lexuan overheard them outside the room.
• Huo Yuhao brought Wei Na, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen to meet Zhang Lexuan and claimed they had been late because Wei Na broke through to rank 56.
• Zhang Lexuan warned them against excessive indulgence, but Ma Xiaotao explained Huo Yuhao's special constitution, leaving Zhang Lexuan astonished.

Huo Yuhao and the others learned more about his unusual physique and the dangers surrounding Dragon Girls, then Zhang Lexuan led them to Sunset Forest for training. Huo Yuhao sensed that the forest was secretly in disarray and prepared for possible danger.

• Wei Na's breakthrough was revealed to have benefited from the residual ice and fire power Huo Yuhao had shared with the three women.
• Zhang Lexuan warned everyone to keep Huo Yuhao's physique secret and explained the tragic fate and dangerous allure of Dragon Girls.
• Zhang Lexuan announced that their next training destination was Sunset Forest.
• Huo Yuhao used the Qi Observation Technique and saw that Sunset Forest was a complete shambles beneath its calm exterior.
• Huo Yuhao told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to prepare the backup hidden energy source in case danger arose.

Zhang Lexuan led Huo Yuhao and the others into Sunset Forest’s poison fog area so Huo Yuhao could investigate its Poison Attribute resources. After discovering a rich supply of poisonous herbs, they continued toward the deeper area, where potentially more valuable herbs and soul beasts awaited.

• The group reached the edge of Sunset Forest’s poison fog, and Wei Na explained that the forest had become a forbidden zone after its vitality withered and a Titled Douluo never returned from investigating its depths.
• Zhang Lexuan suggested that the poison essence of Poison Attribute soul beasts could help Huo Yuhao cultivate, and Huo Yuhao agreed to explore the area before nightfall.
• Zhang Lexuan distributed poison-prevention pills and Soul Tools, then led the group into the fog, which their equipment kept away from them.
• Huo Yuhao discovered many poisonous herbs and eagerly harvested them, claiming they were valuable cultivation resources and free to collect.
• Zhang Lexuan stopped Huo Yuhao from lingering and told the group to continue onward, noting that better herbs and poisonous soul beasts might lie deeper inside.

Huo Yuhao and the others fled as a poisonous fog swept through Sunset Forest, while he recognized that a newly born Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had caused it. The Azure Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flower Old Ancestor, weakened and facing heavenly punishment, sensed a power near the fog’s edge that might save its life and set out to claim it.

• Huo Yuhao noticed a sudden shift in fortune before a massive wave of poisonous fog surged from deep within Sunset Forest.
• Zhang Lexuan warned the group, and Huo Yuhao used his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul and Ultimate Ice to shield them as they escaped.
• Zhang Lexuan identified the distant presence as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, while Huo Yuhao recognized it as the Azure Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flower Old Ancestor.
• Huo Yuhao understood that the flower had reached a hundred thousand years after enduring the ice-and-fire elemental riot caused by the Ice Fire Dragon King’s remains.
• The Azure Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flower Old Ancestor sensed heavenly punishment approaching and, desperate to survive, controlled the poisonous fog toward an aura that could save it.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan's group were attacked by the newly ascended Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower, whose Ice Fire Poison Mist threatened to overwhelm them. As Zhang Lexuan prepared to fight at full strength, Huo Yuhao kept up his act and watched the soul beast with curiosity.

• The Azure Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flower Old Ancestor flooded the area with poison mist, and Huo Yuhao helped the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul push it back with Ultimate Ice.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered the group to flee the poison mist, but the Azure Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flower Old Ancestor erupted from underground and blocked their escape with its roots.
• The Azure Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flower Old Ancestor revealed its mutated Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower form and attacked with Ice Fire Poison Mist.
• Zhang Lexuan's silver moonlight was suppressed by the Ice Fire Poison Mist, so she used her Seventh Soul Skill, Silver Moon True Body.
• Huo Yuhao stepped on the distracted Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul and urged it to keep acting.

Zhang Lexuan and the others fought the Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower, using their combined strength to exploit its weakened foundation and hold it back. After Ling Luochen broke its main stem and Ma Xiaotao rescued her, Zhang Lexuan unleashed her hundred-thousand-year Eighth Soul Skill, Blood Moon Eclipse.

• Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, Ling Luochen, and Huo Yuhao attacked the Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower while Huo Yuhao shielded the group from its poison mist.
• Zhang Lexuan struck the flower with her Sixth Soul Skill, leaving a deep wound in its main stem.
• The Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower burned its origin and surged in power as it prepared to fight to the death.
• Huo Yuhao protected Wei Na and sent the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul to coil around and restrain the flower.
• Ma Xiaotao struck Zhang Lexuan's wound, and Ling Luochen followed with a powerful punch that broke the flower's main stem.
• Ma Xiaotao carried the exhausted Ling Luochen to Wei Na for treatment as Zhang Lexuan released her Eighth Soul Skill, Blood Moon Eclipse.

Zhang Lexuan’s Blood Moon Eclipse nearly destroyed the Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower, but the wounded soul beast chose to self-destruct as the Heavenly Tribulation approached. Huo Yuhao and the others survived the blast, and the Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower’s soul was secretly captured in a flag artifact.

• Zhang Lexuan unleashed Blood Moon Eclipse, burning away the Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower’s leaves and flowers while the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul escaped with its two small blossoms.
• Zhang Lexuan and the others saw that the Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower was near death, but Huo Yuhao realized the Heavenly Tribulation was about to descend and could not absorb its soul ring.
• Zhang Lexuan warned that the Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower was self-destructing, and the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul carried the group away.
• The Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower’s self-destruction blasted Huo Yuhao and the four girls into Sunset Forest and left a deep pit where the poisonous fog and herbs had been.
• The Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul captured the Ice Fire Nine Absolutes Flower’s soul in a special flag artifact, while the immortal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well grew wary.
• Huo Yuhao woke after the blast and immediately checked his surroundings.

Huo Yuhao found a poison-resistant Mystic Jade Soft Armor containing a letter and the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, which offered him a path into the Tang Sect. He then reunited with Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen and learned that Wei Na was trapped among the poisonous flowers.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that the poison had corroded a burial ground full of human and soul beast remains, then found a surviving Mystic Jade Soft Armor marked Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao opened the armor's hidden compartment and read Tang Yin's letter, which offered the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record to whoever would inherit the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao sensed familiar Soul Power, put away the armor and letter, and ran toward Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen told Huo Yuhao that Wei Na was trapped by the remaining Biphosphorus Seven Wonders Flowers.
• Huo Yuhao saw Wei Na lying unconscious deep among the poisonous flowers.

Huo Yuhao rescued Wei Na from the Biphosphorus Seven Wonders Flowers and used Ultimate Ice to destroy the deadly cluster. After collapsing from the effort, he learned that Wei Na’s vitality was falling.

• Huo Yuhao shattered the poisonous fog with Frost Centipede Demon-Slaying Strike and carried Wei Na to safety.
• Ma Xiaotao gave Wei Na an antidote pill while Huo Yuhao prepared to attack the flowers again.
• Huo Yuhao used Extreme Ice—Demon Suppression Kill to freeze and kill the remaining Biphosphorus Seven Wonders Flowers and Azure Phosphorous Nine Absolutes Flowers.
• Huo Yuhao collapsed from the strain, and Ling Luochen caught him.
• Ma Xiaotao cried out that Wei Na’s vitality was dropping, shocking Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen.