Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao tested the Body Double against Du Busi, discovering its abilities before revealing that it could wield Ultimate Poison. The two unleashed their strongest attacks as the Body Sect elders arrived, and the chapter ended with their collision shaking the mountain forest.

• Du Busi recognized that Huo Yuhao's Body Double could suppress his martial soul and use World Domination, so he fought it more fiercely.
• Huo Yuhao used the Yin Yang Eyes to control the Body Double and studied its combat abilities while considering ways to strengthen his Ultimate Ice and physique.
• Huo Yuhao sensed other Body Sect elders approaching and decided to end the battle quickly.
• The Body Double transformed its Ultimate Ice into Ultimate Poison, severely suppressing Du Busi's Poison Attribute and weakening Myriad Poisons Return to Origin.
• Du Busi activated Main Body Avatar and Yellow Springs Jade Starfall, while Huo Yuhao amplified the Body Double and sent it to counter with Ultimate Poison—Demon Suppression Kill.
• The two attacks collided, shaking the forest and knocking back the arriving elders.

Huo Yuhao defeated Du Busi and then used his eye martial souls and spiritual abilities to attack the Body Sect elders. He left four elders incapacitated as Du Busi, still badly injured, charged at him in a desperate collision.

• Huo Yuhao’s Body Double struck Du Busi down, leaving him injured and ending his Martial Soul Possession.
• When the Body Sect elders arrived, Huo Yuhao revealed his soul rings and challenged them to test his cultivation.
• Du Busi ordered the nine elders to capture Huo Yuhao alive, and Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection and Mental Sharing to overwhelm their minds.
• Huo Yuhao used the Ice and Snow Eye, Eyes of Annihilation, and Evil God's Eye to disable four elders within two breaths.
• Du Busi regained enough strength to fly at Huo Yuhao in a Self-Sacrificing collision.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Du Busi and the nine Titled Elders with his powerful soul skills, culminating in a blast that erased a neighboring mountain peak. The next morning, Long Aotian and the Body Sect disciples discovered the destruction and began to fear for their sect, while the sect master and elders remained missing.

• Huo Yuhao used Evil Eye, Enhancement Eye to kick Du Busi into a mountain, where Du Busi disappeared from view.
• The five remaining elders attacked Huo Yuhao, but he used Heavenly Demon Reversal to turn their attacks back on them and injure them.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed Divine Might Ice Fire Transformation, engulfing the mountaintop, Du Busi, and the nine Titled Elders in blinding light.
• Long Aotian woke refreshed, assumed the sect master had covered him with a blanket, and resolved to keep working for the Body Sect.
• Long Aotian and Gu Tong saw that a nearby mountain peak had vanished, and Gu Tong feared the sect could have been destroyed without anyone noticing.
• Long Aotian realized the sect master and the other elders had not appeared to explain the destruction, prompting a bad premonition.

Huo Yuhao healed Du Busi and the nine elders after subduing them, while his Body Double assimilated their powerful Body Martial Souls and gained new abilities. When Du Busi woke, Huo Yuhao revealed that he controlled the Body Sect and declared it his Dao Field, with its members as his slaves.

• Huo Yuhao spent most of the night healing Du Busi and the nine elders with the Golden Eye while his Body Double assimilated their Body Martial Souls.
• The Body Double grew stronger, gained Frost Centipede Armor, and displayed the Poison Spiritual Body, Demon Head, Golden Body, and Dragon Foot phenomena.
• Huo Yuhao transformed the Body Double into a fearsome form he called Demonization, then recalled it before the elders woke.
• Du Busi woke and discovered that Huo Yuhao had left him unable to control his Martial Soul or body.
• Huo Yuhao told Du Busi that he controlled everyone in the Body Sect who was present, declared the sect his Dao Field, and claimed its members as his slaves.

Du Busi concealed Huo Yuhao’s enslavement of the Body Sect from its disciples and promised them new combat techniques, while he and the elders accepted their helpless situation. Huo Yuhao left after consolidating his control of the sect and planning his next steps toward the Far North Land.

• Du Busi told the disciples that a senior had caused the damage to the neighboring peak and announced he would teach them new combat techniques.
• Du Busi apologized to the elders, and Demon Head voiced hope that Huo Yuhao would keep his promises as they accepted they could not resist him.
• Huo Yuhao planned to strengthen the Body Sect’s disciples and capture the absent elder with the ape-tail martial soul when he returned.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed the Ice Fire Dragon King soul ring’s abilities, including the attack that destroyed the mountain peak.
• Huo Yuhao left the Body Sect, which had become his farmland, with its auspicious clouds of Fortune bound to him.

After returning safely from the Body Sect, Huo Yuhao reassured his companions and resumed traveling north, while secretly preparing to find Tang Ya and join the Tang Sect. In Mingdu, the Blue Silver Saintess and Blue Silver Knight appeared as Holy Spirit Cult disciples struggled to infiltrate the city.

• Huo Yuhao returned to Heaven Dou City, where the Tianhun Emperor arranged an examination that confirmed he was unharmed and stronger than before.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen that Du Busi had invited him to the Body Sect for instruction and made him promise to fight its disciples after becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Wei Na kept quiet about the truth of the Body Sect and Heaven Dou Empire's schemes, while she and Huo Yuhao silently acknowledged their shared understanding.
• After a few days of rest, Huo Yuhao and the others continued north, and Huo Yuhao resolved to find Tang Ya and formally join the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao shifted his attention toward the Sun Moon Empire and continued using Xu Tiancheng and Death God Messenger to advance his plans.
• Two Holy Spirit Disciples reported that Mingdu's tightened inspections made infiltration difficult to the Blue Silver Saintess and Blue Silver Knight, who were Tang Ya and Bei Bei.

The Holy Spirit Cult sent Tang Ya to Mingdu to take over the branch altar and find Death God Messenger, but tightened security blocked her group from entering. As Nightmare Demon went to arrange another way in, Tang Ya and Bei Bei’s different views on rebuilding the Tang Sect left their estrangement clear.

• Zhongli Wu approved Tang Ya’s mission to Mingdu, accompanied by the Blue Silver Knight, an offering, an elder, and her team.
• Tang Ya’s group found their route into Mingdu unusable after their contacts vanished and the city imposed strict inspections.
• Tang Ya revealed that she had lured Nangong Wan to the branch altar and needed to find Death God Messenger’s body before she could feel at ease.
• Tang Ya asked Nightmare Demon for help entering Mingdu, and he left to make arrangements through his connections.
• Tang Ya proposed that she and Bei Bei rebuild the sect at the branch altar, but Bei Bei said he would only carry on the Tang Sect’s legacy.

As the princes searched for the mastermind behind Mingdu’s terrorist attack, Xu Tiancheng stayed secluded in his mansion, hiding Huo Yuhao’s takeover. Huo Yuhao used the three days to strengthen Xu Tiancheng’s body and combat skills, leaving him with a dangerous mix of sun visualization and Yin Claw cultivation.

• The princes investigated the bombing and watched Xu Tiancheng after he made no public moves and his mansion’s unusual behavior drew suspicion.
• Xu Tianran sent someone to check on Xu Tiancheng and learned that he was supposedly in seclusion.
• Huo Yuhao ended three days of cultivation, raising Xu Tiancheng from level 82 to level 85 by consuming pills, resources, and the souls of bombing victims.
• Huo Yuhao tested Xu Tiancheng’s newly cultivated Yin Claw Hand, which had reached minor accomplishment.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had paired a sun-focused Visualization Method with the sinister Yin Claw Hand, creating a lethal imbalance suited to his controlled avatar.

Huo Yuhao applied to take the Eighth Level Soul Engineer assessment, puzzling the imperial factions and drawing Xu Tianran’s attention. When Xu Tianran arranged for the test to be held publicly at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Huo Yuhao welcomed the chance to put on a show and said the assessment would help create an alibi.

• The Third Prince applied to Mingde Hall for the Eighth Level Soul Engineer assessment, surprising both rival princes and his own supporters.
• Xu Tianran ordered the assessment held at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and said he would attend in person.
• Huo Yuhao learned where the assessment would take place and looked forward to impressing the audience and gaining Fortune.
• Celadon Douluo and Ink Shadow Douluo warned Huo Yuhao that failing could damage his reputation, but he insisted he would pass.
• Huo Yuhao told the two Titled Douluo that he was taking the assessment to create an alibi.

Huo Yuhao prepared for the Eighth Level Soul Engineer assessment while monitoring the Blue Silver Saintess and Xu Tianran. When Prince Xu Guosheng came to question him, Huo Yuhao used his golden-light transformation to turn him into another companion and planned to enjoy his new access to the prince’s identity.

• Huo Yuhao studied Eighth Level Soul Engineer knowledge ahead of his assessment, which required him to engrave and assemble a Rank 8 Soul Tool on-site.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Blue Silver Saintess had appeared in the Xi Shui Alliance and that Xu Tianran had left his residence to meet someone.
• Huo Yuhao ordered operations through the Death God Messenger’s avatar and decided to find trouble for Xu Tianran while gathering souls for his Yin Claw Hand.
• Prince Xu Guosheng visited Huo Yuhao to ask about the Eighth Level Soul Engineer assessment, and Huo Yuhao led him into a sealed secret chamber.
• Huo Yuhao transformed Xu Guosheng into a new companion, then returned to his study and called for music and performances.

Huo Yuhao spent the week before the assessment indulging himself at the Third Prince’s Mansion instead of studying, then set off for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Xu Tianran heard about the weeklong revelry, suspected the Third Prince was hiding a plan, and decided to attend the assessment.

• Huo Yuhao used a special dual-cultivation technique with the Third Prince’s concubines and maids while repeatedly neglecting his Soul Tool studies as the assessment approached.
• On the assessment day, Huo Yuhao emerged from the mansion, asked Celadon Douluo and Ink Shadow Douluo about the venue, and prepared to leave after eating.
• A scout told Xu Tianran that the Third Prince had indulged himself in his mansion for an entire week.
• Xu Tianran suspected the Third Prince’s apparent decadence concealed a scheme and ordered a carriage so he could watch the assessment.

Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy prepared for the Third Prince's public Eighth Level Soul Engineer assessment as Shrek visitors and imperial figures considered its political stakes. The Third Prince arrived just as the gathered audience had begun to wait impatiently.

• Students, nobles, and Shrek exchange students gathered to watch the Third Prince's public assessment.
• Fan Yu doubted that the Third Prince could pass, while Xian Lin'er suspected the assessment was tied to the throne and warned the Shrek group to be careful.
• Lin Jiayi joined Fan Yu and exchanged polite but probing remarks about the academy and soul tool technology.
• Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen arrived, and Lin Jiayi explained that Jing Hongchen and two veteran Eighth Level Soul Engineers would judge the assessment.
• Xu Tianran apologized for his younger brother's delay, and the Third Prince finally arrived.

Huo Yuhao arrived at his Soul Engineer assessment to cheers, then insisted that the concealment be removed so everyone could watch him work. The public assessment began with him carving a prepared Rank 8 Soul Guidance Core embryo, while Xu Tianran watched with suspicion.

• Huo Yuhao paraded through the venue as Celadon Douluo and Ink Shadow Douluo followed him, and he quietly used Qi Observation Technique to inspect the spectators' Fortune.
• Huo Yuhao greeted Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen, rejected Xu Tianran's offer to call him elder brother, and agreed to begin the assessment.
• Huo Yuhao demanded that the assessment platform's concealment be removed so he could demonstrate his work in public, and Jing Hongchen approved.
• Staff dismantled the concealment, and Huo Yuhao began the live-broadcast assessment by taking out a prepared core embryo and carving it with his ranked carving knife.

The Third Prince inscribed an unfamiliar eighth-level Core Array during the assessment, drawing the attention of the Soul Engineers and alarming Xu Tianran. Xian Lin'er could not fully memorize the array because one part never appeared on the screen, and Xu Tianran left convinced that his brother posed a threat.

• The Third Prince steadily inscribed a complex Core Array while Fan Yu tried to memorize it.
• Lin Jiayi distracted Fan Yu to keep Shrek Academy from learning the array, unaware that Xian Lin'er was secretly studying the screen.
• Xian Lin'er noticed that the full Core Array never appeared, leaving the version she memorized incomplete.
• Jing Hongchen identified the array as a new eighth-level Core Array and explained its potential significance to Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran crushed the armrest of his wheelchair and decided that the Third Prince must not be allowed to live.

Huo Yuhao completed a Rank 8 Soul Guidance Core under public scrutiny, then assembled it into a new Soul Tool, the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon. He revealed its name and wondered how the Former Douluo Three Kingdoms and Shrek Academy would react when it appeared on the battlefield.

• Jing Hongchen stopped the broadcast from showing Huo Yuhao engraving the Core Array, though the audience could still see his face.
• After two hours, Huo Yuhao finished engraving the Core Array, and Jing Hongchen confirmed it was a genuine Rank 8 Soul Guidance Core.
• Huo Yuhao traded barbs with Xu Tianran, who grew angry and placed the Third Prince on his must-kill list.
• Huo Yuhao assembled the Core Array with parts from his Storage Soul Tool and revealed an arm-length, crossbow-shaped Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao named the Rank 8 Soul Tool the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon and thought about its future use against the Former Douluo Three Kingdoms.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon during his Eighth Level Soul Engineer assessment, impressing Jing Hongchen with its advance-charging technology and rapid attacks. The test showed the cannon’s power, while Jing Hongchen became eager to acquire its technology.

• Jing Hongchen asked Huo Yuhao to demonstrate the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon against a specially made metal plate.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the cannon had Cluster Attack and Scatter Continuous Attack modes and could store Soul Power by charging in advance.
• Jing Hongchen examined the charged cannon and realized its storage technology could advance the soul tool system, then returned it to Huo Yuhao with great care.
• Huo Yuhao fired three bursts in Scatter Continuous Attack Mode, sending thirty-six Soul Power missiles into the metal plate and leaving marks across it.
• Jing Hongchen recognized the cannon’s potential as mass-produced military equipment, while the other soul engineers admired its power.

Huo Yuhao passed the Sun Moon Empire’s Eighth Level Soul Engineer assessment with the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon, alarming Xu Tianran and impressing Jing Hongchen. News of the weapon reached Tang Ya and Bei Bei, who began investigating whether it carried Tang Sect inheritance.

• Huo Yuhao demonstrated the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon’s clustered attack, which cracked the assessment’s metal plate, and Jing Hongchen declared him an Eighth Level Soul Engineer.
• Jing Hongchen invited Huo Yuhao to Mingde Hall to discuss soul tools and provide his certification, while Xu Tianran resolved to eliminate him and watched them leave together.
• News of Huo Yuhao’s invention spread through Mingdu and beyond, promoted by the prince supporting him.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei discussed whether the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon was connected to the Tang Sect, and Bei Bei decided to investigate with help from an offering.
• Tang Ya stayed behind to continue gaining control of the Xi Shui Alliance so she could eventually rebuild the Tang Sect and take down the Mingdu Branch Altar.

Huo Yuhao entered Mingde Hall with Jing Hongchen, where he planned to eventually claim the institution’s Fortune for himself. In a sealed room, Jing Hongchen eagerly asked to see the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon.

• Jing Hongchen escorted Huo Yuhao through Mingde Hall’s checkpoints and into its underground complex.
• Huo Yuhao saw Mingde Hall’s elevators and reflected that its Fortune was another resource he intended to claim.
• Huo Yuhao considered his plans for his clone and main body during the three years before the next Soul Master Competition.
• Jing Hongchen led Huo Yuhao to a sealed guest room and eagerly asked to examine the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon.

Huo Yuhao gave Jing Hongchen complete blueprints for the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon, including several lower-level versions and ideas for a Class 9 model. Jing Hongchen recognized the designs’ revolutionary potential, but Huo Yuhao refused to introduce him to the Grandmaster behind them.

• Jing Hongchen promised that Mingde Hall would reward Huo Yuhao for his contributions while remaining loyal to the empire and its emperor.
• Huo Yuhao handed Jing Hongchen blueprints for the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon, its related formation patterns, Class 4 through Class 7 versions, and a Class 9 concept.
• While Jing Hongchen studied the blueprints, Huo Yuhao reflected on how he had combined Soul Tool knowledge and formation principles to develop them.
• Jing Hongchen recognized the new sealing and mechanical trigger technologies as a major advance for Soul Tools and asked whether Huo Yuhao had developed them himself.
• Huo Yuhao claimed the technology as his own but refused to introduce Jing Hongchen to the Grandmaster, who disliked Mingde Hall.
• Huo Yuhao considered what other Tang Sect hidden weapons to develop and joked about making a Sun Moon Seven Freaks with the Third Prince as the third member.

Huo Yuhao secured Jing Hongchen’s support for the Third Prince, then focused on strengthening his clone and scouting the watchers outside his mansion. He discovered that one watcher was Bei Bei and sent Eunuch Gao to deal with him.

• Jing Hongchen promised the Third Prince rare materials, Soul Tool blueprints, access to Mingde Hall, and an independent laboratory, and said he would report the matter to the emperor.
• Huo Yuhao shut the mansion’s doors to visitors and used the dancers and concubines to improve the Third Prince’s aptitude, deciding he needed more cauldrons.
• Celadon Douluo and Ink Shadow Douluo reported that nobles, princes, and unidentified underground forces were watching the mansion.
• Huo Yuhao used the Qi Observation Technique to identify a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon among the watchers and recognized Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao contacted Eunuch Gao, who possessed the Death God Messenger and set out to carry out his task while Bei Bei watched the mansion in disguise.