Chapter Summaries

After the Third Prince absorbed a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone, Huo Yuhao assessed his new power and prepared to return to Mingdu to move against the Imperial Clan and Xu Tianran. Before leaving Mingdu Forest, Huo Yuhao sensed a pull of qi connected to someone close to him and stayed to investigate.

• Huo Yuhao examined how the Third Prince's Sun Martial Soul, bloodline, and inner balance had changed after absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Fire Attribute soul ring and Purgatory Demon Dragon soul bone.
• Huo Yuhao identified the Third Prince's two ninth-ring soul skills and the soul bone's Demonization and Purgatory Detonation skills, which greatly increased his combat strength.
• Huo Yuhao planned to return to Mingdu and begin acting against the Imperial Clan, while personally helping Xu Tianran grow stronger before dealing with him.
• Huo Yuhao used the Qi Observation Technique and noticed an unusual surge of fortune deep within Mingdu Forest, indicating that a powerful, connected person was about to act.
• Huo Yuhao decided to remain in the forest and find out who had caused the pull of qi.

Huo Yuhao spotted Long Xiaoyao and Bei Bei entering Mingdu Forest and secretly followed them. Bei Bei, now bearing an ultimate evil martial soul, prepared to absorb a fifty-thousand-year soul ring while believing he could never return to Shrek or see Huo Yuhao again.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Long Xiaoyao and Bei Bei in a Fortune projection, then approached Mingdu Forest to investigate them.
• After awakening with his martial soul corrupted into an evil one, Bei Bei tried to kill himself, but Long Xiaoyao stopped him and urged him to choose his own path.
• Bei Bei resolved to find Death God Messenger and seek revenge and a way to restore his martial soul, while avoiding Tang Ya out of shame and guilt.
• Long Xiaoyao trained Bei Bei for nearly a month and judged that his transformed martial soul had an ultimate evil attribute that could suppress other evil powers.
• Long Xiaoyao subdued a fifty-thousand-year Dark Cloud Evil Dragon for Bei Bei's sixth soul ring, and Bei Bei thought he could never return to Shrek or see Huo Yuhao again.

Bei Bei absorbed the Dark Cloud Evil Dragon’s soul ring and broke through to Soul Emperor, but his Evil Dragon Martial Soul seized control and made him devour nearby life force. Long Xiaoyao subdued him and brought him toward the Holy Spirit Cult after Ye Xishui assured him they could help, while she and Long Xiaoyao left together, aware that Huo Yuhao was watching.

• Bei Bei killed the Dark Cloud Evil Dragon, absorbed its fifty-thousand-year soul ring, and broke through to become a six-ring Soul Emperor.
• The Evil Dragon Martial Soul influenced Bei Bei’s mind, and he unleashed an ultimate evil domain that drained the vitality of the surrounding plants and the dragon’s corpse.
• Long Xiaoyao knocked Bei Bei unconscious, discovered that his Soul Power Level had risen to Rank 65, and worried that the martial soul could eventually control him.
• Ye Xishui arrived and urged Long Xiaoyao to take Bei Bei to the Holy Spirit Cult, where Zhongli Wu could help him master the Evil Attribute.
• Long Xiaoyao agreed to go with Ye Xishui for a walk, and Huo Yuhao noticed that she glanced toward him as they left.

Huo Yuhao returned to Mingdu with the Third Prince and revealed his hundred-thousand-year Seventh Soul Ring at the Earth Dragon Gate, drawing Sky Dragon Douluo’s attention and invitation. After visiting the Sky Dragon Gate and learning about its strength, Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan’s group left Dragon City to continue training in the Dou Ling Empire.

• Huo Yuhao returned to Mingdu with the Third Prince and sensed that the prince had gained more Fortune and Dragon Qi from his rivals.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Earth Dragon Gate and impressed everyone with his hundred-thousand-year Seventh Soul Ring.
• Sky Dragon Douluo invited Huo Yuhao to visit the Sky Dragon Gate, where Yu Tianlong challenged him and was easily defeated.
• Sky Dragon Douluo encouraged the Sky Dragon Gate’s female disciples to court Huo Yuhao, provoking Nan Qiuqiu’s jealousy.
• Huo Yuhao learned about the Sky Dragon Gate’s True Dragon Martial Souls before leaving Dragon City with Zhang Lexuan’s group.
• Zhang Lexuan chose to take the group east into the Dou Ling Empire, ending their training in the Heaven Dou Empire.

While Ma Xiaotao and the others entered a spirit-dueling venue, Zhu Lu secretly met Huo Yuhao and told him that her family planned to spread his cultivation art more widely and end her engagement to Dai Huabin. Huo Yuhao promised to visit the Zhu family, leaving Zhu Lu relieved and his plans for the clan growing clearer.

• Ma Xiaotao and the other girls followed Zhang Lexuan to take part in spirit-dueling challenges while Huo Yuhao stayed at the hotel.
• Zhu Lu secretly met Huo Yuhao, who had become her source of the aura she needed to support female members of the Zhu family cultivating his art.
• Zhu Lu reflected that the art had helped her rise to the position of young Clan Leader, but its hidden bottleneck had made her responsible for supplying her clan.
• Zhu Lu told Huo Yuhao that her father intended to spread the art further and planned to have her break off her engagement to Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao promised to visit the Zhu family when the time came, and Zhu Lu relaxed in his arms.

Huo Yuhao and his companions traveled through the Dou Ling Empire, where young soul masters repeatedly challenged him and Wei Na. After gathering information on the empire’s sects and resources, they arrived at Nine Treasures City, stronghold of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.

• Huo Yuhao’s group entered the Dou Ling Empire, and officials arranged covert protection for them.
• The Dragon Slaying Sect’s Young Sect Leader and other five-ring disciples challenged Huo Yuhao, who won them over after their encounter.
• Huo Yuhao befriended challengers across the empire and recorded the locations of their sects and families, while Wei Na answered two-on-two provocations with increasing force.
• Huo Yuhao noted the Dou Ling Empire’s notable sects, talented bloodlines, medicinal herbs, and water-attribute soul beast resources.
• Huo Yuhao’s group reached Nine Treasures City, a wealthy commercial center directly governed by the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.

Huo Yuhao and his companions toured Nine Treasures City as Zhang Lexuan explained the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School’s wealth, alliances, and political influence. She left them with a warning that the school’s friendly reputation concealed its expanding economic control and ambitions toward Shrek.

• Zhang Lexuan described how the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School had grown powerful through its divine ancestors, influential allies, and position in the Dou Ling Empire.
• Ma Xiaotao, Wei Na, Ling Luochen, and Huo Yuhao each considered how the school’s strength and resources might affect them.
• Huo Yuhao wondered whether destroying the school would destabilize the Dou Ling Empire, then concluded that the empire would likely recover and other forces would seize the school’s assets.
• Zhang Lexuan told the group to be wary of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, citing Old Song’s warning that it had used its economic influence to control other powers and reach into Shrek City.

Huo Yuhao’s group attended Nine Treasures City’s Top Auction after the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School quietly extended them special treatment. Just before the auction began, Ning Tian and Wu Feng arrived at their box, surprising the group.

• Zhang Lexuan warned the group that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School might be suspicious, and Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen became wary of the sect.
• Huo Yuhao’s group checked into the Nine Treasures Hotel and received an invitation to the Top Auction.
• The group entered the auction house’s exclusive Box Number Zero and learned about the rare goods offered during the midnight auction.
• As the auction was about to begin, Ning Tian and Wu Feng visited the box, and Wei Na recognized them.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng joined Huo Yuhao’s group at the Auction House, where Ning Tian pursued a closer connection with him on behalf of herself and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School. Huo Yuhao noticed that both women had advanced beyond their original strength and recognized that they had cultivated the Jade Nurturing Art.

• Ning Tian introduced herself and Wu Feng as disciples of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School and asked to accompany Huo Yuhao’s group at the Auction House.
• Wei Na welcomed Ning Tian into the private room, and the two nobles helped the group settle into conversation.
• Ning Tian privately considered drawing Huo Yuhao into a relationship, an aim encouraged by her sect as a possible marriage alliance.
• Wu Feng watched Huo Yuhao with suspicion while Zhang Lexuan, Ma Xiaotao, and Ling Luochen noticed Ning Tian’s interest in him.
• Huo Yuhao assessed Ning Tian and Wu Feng’s cultivation, found that both had reached five rings, and recognized their Jade Nurturing Art aura.

Huo Yuhao reflected on the Fan Club’s growth and examined Ning Tian’s unusual Fate Configurations, especially her rare Jade Maiden fate. He considered choosing her first, believing that joining with her could greatly enhance his own fortune.

• The Fan Club’s talented members rose to prominence in Shrek’s outer court, and the academy considered recognizing the group officially.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng kept the Jade Nurturing Art secret from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.
• Huo Yuhao examined Ning Tian’s Glass Fate, Treasure Gathering, and Jade Maiden Fate Configurations.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Ning Tian’s Jade Maiden fate as one of the Six Instruments Fates, which could grant fortune to a man who joined with her but could shatter under betrayal or great suffering.
• Huo Yuhao recalled that the Wall Woman could bring men good fortune and considered choosing Ning Tian first.

Huo Yuhao and the others attended the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School’s lavish Top Auction, where Ning Tian introduced the venue and its auctioneer, Ning Zhirou. The final item—a ninety-thousand-year Blood Thorn Pufferfish Poison Sac—made Huo Yuhao suspect the auction had been arranged with him in mind.

• The Top Auction venue transformed into a dazzling gemstone stage, impressing Ma Xiaotao and the other girls as Ning Tian explained the school had spent ten years building it.
• Ning Tian introduced her elder clan sister Ning Zhirou, a Soul Saint and the Top Auction’s dedicated auctioneer; Huo Yuhao detected an External Soul Bone in her throat and examined her Fate Configurations.
• Ning Zhirou opened the auction with a fifty-thousand-year Blazing Fire Bull Torso Bone, which sold for thirty-five million Gold Soul Coins after Ma Xiaotao declined to bid.
• The auction proceeded with a seventh-level Soul Tool Milk Bottle and Lion Heart Grass before Ning Zhirou presented a ninety-thousand-year Blood Thorn Pufferfish Poison Sac.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the final auction item had been chosen for him.

Zhang Lexuan bought the ninety-thousand-year poison sac for Huo Yuhao with Shrek’s funds, and Ning Tian later brought it to his hotel room. Huo Yuhao beguiled Ning Tian into admitting her feelings, while Wu Feng waited outside, distressed and unaware of why she was crying.

• Huo Yuhao explained the poison sac’s value, and Zhang Lexuan decided Shrek would bid for it despite Ning Tian offering to help.
• Zhang Lexuan won the poison sac for twenty-two million Gold Soul Coins, and Huo Yuhao thanked her for using the academy’s resources.
• After the auction, the girls went out to explore Nine Treasures City while Huo Yuhao stayed at the hotel to await Ning Tian’s delivery.
• Ning Tian brought Wu Feng to the hotel but entered Huo Yuhao’s room alone, while Wu Feng kept watch outside.
• Huo Yuhao beguiled Ning Tian into confessing that she saw him as a suitable lover and began to touch her as her coat slipped off.
• A thunderclap and downpour came over Nine Treasures City, and Wu Feng stood outside in tears before wiping them away in confusion.

Zhang Lexuan found a Sun Moon Empire wanted notice for Death God Messenger and learned that major events had shaken Mingdu, connecting the target to Bei Bei’s disappearance. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao’s encounters with Ning Tian and Wu Feng raised their Soul Power and caused their martial souls to begin changing.

• Zhang Lexuan failed to find information about Bei Bei, then noticed the Sun Moon Empire’s enormous bounty for Death God Messenger.
• Zhang Lexuan paid an underground informant to tell her about Evil Dragon's Advent and the Sun Moon Massacre in Mingdu.
• Ling Luochen defeated her opponent in the Soul Arena while Ma Xiaotao and Wei Na discussed Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian.
• Wu Feng entered Huo Yuhao’s room after hearing Ning Tian call for help and was shocked by what she saw.
• Huo Yuhao watched his Fortune rise as Ning Tian and Wu Feng cultivated after breaking through, and their martial souls began to change.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng’s martial souls transformed after they dual cultivated with Huo Yuhao, and both women realized their strength had increased. Their attempt to question him was interrupted when Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Wei Na returned and joined them in the locked room.

• Ning Tian’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda gained dragon patterns, while Wu Feng’s Red Dragon Martial Soul grew more powerful under the influence of Huo Yuhao’s bloodline.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng discovered that their Soul Power Levels had each risen by one rank, and Ning Tian sensed a possibility of martial soul evolution.
• Huo Yuhao teased the two women, and they reacted to him despite protesting before he resumed dual cultivation with them.
• Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Wei Na returned, saw Ning Tian and Wu Feng in distress, then entered the room and locked the door.

Zhang Lexuan learned that Bei Bei might be connected to the Death God Messenger and left for the Sun Moon Empire to find him; Huo Yuhao followed after realizing where she had gone. Meanwhile, the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School discovered Huo Yuhao’s influence on Ning Tian and Wu Feng’s Martial Souls and decided to help secure his safety and bring more women from the sect to him.

• Zhang Lexuan combined intelligence from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School and underground forces, concluded that Bei Bei might be in the Sun Moon Empire, and left before dawn to search for him.
• Huo Yuhao received Zhang Lexuan’s letter, realized she had gone to find Bei Bei, and left Nine Treasures City to follow her.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng woke at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School and learned that their Martial Souls had changed and each had risen two ranks after their time with Huo Yuhao.
• Ning Tian told the sect leaders that Huo Yuhao’s dragon bloodline might have caused the changes, prompting them to prioritize his safety and encourage eligible women in the sect to approach him.
• The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School appointed Ning Tian as Young Sect Leader, while Wu Feng’s parents also urged her to pursue Huo Yuhao for the sake of her Red Dragon Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao secretly traveled to Xuanwu City to investigate the Xuanming Sect and strengthen his Xuanwu Bloodline. After scouting the sect and learning about its Martial Soul ritual, he ended the chapter wondering why its disciples lacked proper guidance.

• Huo Yuhao abandoned his announced pursuit of Zhang Lexuan and headed for the eastern coast to target the Xuanming Sect.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the sect controlled much of Xuanwu City and traded its scarce Profound Water Pills, which could increase Innate Soul Power and heal injuries.
• Huo Yuhao used the Qi Observation Technique to discover that four Soul Douluo guarded the sect, including two with Xuanming Turtle Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Xuanming Turtle Martial Souls could evolve into Xuanwu through a secret ritual involving a fifteen-year-old disciple and a woman.
• Huo Yuhao criticized the sect's ritual and its lack of technical guidance, joking that better instruction might have helped Xu San Shi awaken his Martial Soul sooner.

Huo Yuhao discovered the Xuanming Sect’s hidden Xu Clan Residence and openly attacked it at noon, seeking the Xuanwu Bloodline. The chapter left him trading blows with the clan’s two Rank 96 Super Douluo brothers as their attack struck him.

• Huo Yuhao used his Qi Observation Technique to pierce the Xuanwu projection concealing the Xu Clan Residence and saw that the clan had multiple Titled Douluo.
• Xu Tianyi and Xu Diyi sensed the attack, while the Xu Clan Patriarch activated the Soul Guidance Barrier to protect the residence.
• Huo Yuhao appeared above the residence, called himself Cihang Demon, and declared that he had come for the Xuanwu Bloodline.
• Xu Tianyi and Xu Diyi attacked Huo Yuhao together with their Xuanwu Shields, using water and earth Soul Power to restrain and strike him.
• Huo Yuhao shattered Xu Tianyi’s defenses with a punch, and Xu Diyi slammed his shield into Huo Yuhao as an explosive roar filled the sky.

Huo Yuhao easily endured Xu Diyi’s strike, then resisted the Xuanwu brothers’ combined control and domain attacks with his Devouring Domain. He used their own soul-ring power to unleash Demonic Object Shift, which began pulling Xu Tianyi and Xu Diyi into his dark domain.

• Xu Diyi struck Huo Yuhao with the Xuanwu Shield, but Huo Yuhao caught the attack and Demonic World Domination filled Xu Tianyi with fear.
• Xu Tianyi awakened his Xuanwu will and joined Xu Diyi in using Xuanwu Avatar and their combined Xuanwu Roar to control Huo Yuhao.
• The brothers activated their Xuanwu Domain fusion skill, but Huo Yuhao’s Devouring Domain absorbed its power and kept their attacks from reaching him.
• Huo Yuhao used Devouring Ring to draw power from the brothers’ active soul rings and domains into his palm.
• Huo Yuhao released Demonic Object Shift, forming a dark domain that pulled Xu Tianyi and Xu Diyi toward its center.

Huo Yuhao overwhelmed the Xu Family, whose members fell into madness under the influence of his Demonic World Domination will. The Xu Family Old Ancestor sacrificed himself to unleash Xuanwu Descent, but Huo Yuhao welcomed the attack and tried to absorb it into his bloodline evolution.

• The Xu Family Old Ancestor appeared and saved Xu Tianyi and Xu Diyi from Huo Yuhao’s black domain, while their Ninth Soul Rings were drained of power.
• Huo Yuhao explained that his attack had fused Demonic World Domination will into the brothers’ Xuanwu Power, and the Xu Family Old Ancestor ordered them to evacuate the family.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that the Xu Family’s lower-ranked disciples were descending into madness, with the affliction beginning to spread among stronger soul masters.
• The Xu Family Old Ancestor blasted Xu Tianyi and Xu Diyi aside and sacrificed himself to unleash Xuanwu Descent, forming a giant blood-colored Xuanwu.
• Xu Tianyi and Xu Diyi fled to lead the family’s elites away as Huo Yuhao opened his chest like a maw and sent Snow Lotus Roots toward the Xuanwu, using his Soul-Seizing Eyes to seize the Old Ancestor’s soul.

Huo Yuhao devoured the Xu Family Old Ancestor’s Xuanwu bloodline and power, then erased his soul and absorbed his memories. As ghosts overwhelmed the town, reinforcements from Xuanwu City and the Xuanming Sect arrived, unaware of the danger ahead.

• Huo Yuhao drained the blood-colored Xuanwu, evolving his Visualization Black Tortoise and Golden Hawksbill and gaining the Xuanwu Transformation Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao captured and devoured the Xu Family Old Ancestor’s soul, absorbing his memories and knowledge of the Xuanwu Martial Soul.
• Xu Tianyi and Xu Diyi transformed themselves into blood-colored Xuanwu and tried to lead the Xu family elites through the ghost horde.
• Zi Ji, Xiao Bai, the Ice Empress, and dozens of powerful Beast Souls blocked the brothers as the ghosts devoured the town.
• Huo Yuhao saw reinforcements from Xuanwu City and the Xuanming Sect flying toward him.