Chapter Summaries

Ju Zi, Xu Tianzhen, and the Xi Shui Alliance watched Huo Yuhao enter his tenth deathmatch, each considering whether to recruit him. The chapter left Bei Bei watching Huo Yuhao from the shadows as Tang Ya hinted that she had prepared a surprise for him.

• Xian Lin'er told Zhang Lexuan that Ju Zi had once become the focus of a dispute between the crown prince and the Third Prince, but was no longer worth pursuing.
• Ju Zi attended the match to assess Huo Yuhao and consider recruiting him for her efforts against the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao entered the arena for his tenth deathmatch as spectators and factions gathered to watch his performance.
• Xu Tianzhen, accompanied by two imperial Soul Douluo, admired Huo Yuhao and said she might recruit him.
• Tang Ya told Bei Bei that Huo Yuhao had won ten matches in a row and that she had prepared a surprise for him.

Huo Yuhao faced the Soul Douluo Poison Scorpion in a deathmatch and endured his powerful soul cannon attacks before defeating him with two point-blank Fixed Soul Cannon Shells. He emerged unharmed, while the spectators and faction representatives were stunned by his strength and tactics.

• Poison Scorpion entered the arena as Huo Yuhao’s opponent, and Xian Lin'er and Zhang Lexuan suspected the Xi Shui Alliance was testing or targeting him.
• Poison Scorpion fired a Sixth-Tier Fixed Soul Cannon Shell at Huo Yuhao, who charged through the explosion without injury.
• Poison Scorpion unleashed a barrage of powerful soul cannon attacks, but Huo Yuhao’s Frost Centipede Armor blocked them as he closed the distance.
• Poison Scorpion attacked Huo Yuhao with his battle blade, but Huo Yuhao accelerated past him and attached two Fixed Soul Cannon Shells to his body.
• The shells detonated at point-blank range and killed Poison Scorpion, while Huo Yuhao survived inside an ice lotus and took his soul and Storage Soul Tool.

After Huo Yuhao won his tenth match, factions competed to recruit him, and Xu Tianzhen ordered a discreet approach on behalf of the imperial family. At the Xi Shui Alliance’s invitation, Huo Yuhao met its leader, NanGong XiShui, and discovered Tang Ya and Bei Bei were secretly watching; he sensed that Bei Bei’s mind had been affected by the ritual.

• Huo Yuhao won his tenth consecutive match by surviving an Eighth Level Soul Engineer’s bombardment, attracting the attention of numerous factions.
• Xu Tianzhen ordered two Soul Douluo to secretly invite Frost Sky Armor King and monitor him if he refused, while she returned to the imperial palace for support.
• Long She led Huo Yuhao to a private box to meet the person seeking him, and Huo Yuhao expected Tang Ya to be there.
• Huo Yuhao met NanGong XiShui, the disguised leader of the Xi Shui Alliance, and used Mental Detection to identify him as a Soul Douluo whose appearance resembled Nangong Wan.
• Huo Yuhao discovered a hidden room where Tang Ya and Bei Bei were watching the meeting and sensed that Bei Bei’s mind had been affected by the ritual.

Huo Yuhao negotiated his entry into the Xi Shui Alliance and revealed his face to NanGong XiShui, who offered him generous resources and guidance. Hidden nearby, Tang Ya recognized Huo Yuhao and realized Shrek Academy had found them, while she decided to keep her recognition secret and turn the encounter to her advantage.

• NanGong XiShui offered Huo Yuhao a Rank 9 Soul Tool, cultivation resources, and guidance from a Titled Douluo or Super Douluo to join the Xi Shui Alliance.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to join on the condition that each task bring sufficient benefits, and NanGong XiShui promised to provide whatever he needed.
• NanGong XiShui asked Huo Yuhao to reveal his face, and Huo Yuhao removed his Frost Mask while thinking that Bei Bei and Tang Ya were listening next door.
• Tang Ya recognized Huo Yuhao and concluded that Shrek Academy had found her and Bei Bei, but she hid her recognition from Bei Bei.
• Tang Ya resolved to keep pretending and considered making Huo Yuhao an Evil Soul Master like Bei Bei.

After winning ten consecutive arena matches, Huo Yuhao met Shangguan Wei'er, leader of the Ordinary Alliance, and used dual cultivation to subdue her and improve her strength. By daybreak, Shangguan Wei'er’s view of him had changed, and Huo Yuhao postponed his planned visit to the imperial harem.

• NanGong XiShui escorted Huo Yuhao from the arena and promised to prepare the Rank 9 Soul Tool, publicly signaling that Huo Yuhao had joined the Xi Shui Alliance.
• An imperial representative left to report Huo Yuhao’s apparent alliance with NanGong XiShui to Xu Tianzhen.
• Shangguan Wei'er invited Huo Yuhao to a private meal and tried to seduce him, but he saw through her concealed Titled Douluo strength and Fate Configurations.
• Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Shangguan Wei'er with Buddha light and began dual cultivation with her, while she eventually chose to cooperate.
• By daybreak, Shangguan Wei'er had grown stronger and felt newly satisfied with Huo Yuhao, who decided to postpone his visit to the harem.

Huo Yuhao secured Shangguan Wei'er’s loyalty and cultivated with her before returning to the stronghold, where he reported that he had joined the Xi Shui Alliance. Later, he helped the four maids break through to rank 70, while Zhang Lexuan secretly watched him.

• Huo Yuhao placed Shangguan Wei'er under his control, gave her cultivation methods, and left her eager to earn his favor.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the stronghold and told Xian Lin'er and Zhang Lexuan that he had joined the Xi Shui Alliance but had met only NanGong XiShui, who seemed to be a Soul Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao said the Ordinary Alliance had invited him and that he had established a friendly cooperative relationship with them.
• After Xian Lin'er and Zhang Lexuan left, Zhang Lexuan secretly watched Huo Yuhao as he reunited with the four maids.
• The four maids broke through to rank 70 during their encounter with Huo Yuhao, then urged him to help them stabilize their cultivation.

Huo Yuhao collected a Rank 9 Guardian Pearl from the Xi Shui Alliance and spent the night searching Ghost Street for valuable overlooked items. When Tang Ya tried to draw him into a staged encounter, he recognized her disguise and walked away.

• NanGong XiShui gave Huo Yuhao a Rank 9 auxiliary soul tool called the Guardian Pearl and offered to arrange women from the Xi Shui Alliance for him.
• Huo Yuhao told NanGong XiShui he would leave for a while, then declined his offer of help and wandered the streets.
• Huo Yuhao recalled finding valuable mispriced items on Ghost Street, including a damaged Rank 9 soul tool core that he hoped to repair and integrate into his Beauty Bone.
• Huo Yuhao caught an unfinished Rank 3 soul tool core that Tang Ya dropped from a window, recognized her disguised identity, and walked away without engaging.
• Tang Ya dropped her worried expression and watched Huo Yuhao leave, concluding that he had come prepared.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan led the four maids into the Jingyang Mountain Range to find powerful soul beasts for their Seventh Soul Rings. Jin Er successfully absorbed a forty-thousand-year Amethyst Crystal Spider Empress ring, strengthening her Golden Scale Python martial soul.

• Huo Yuhao's group left Mingdu and entered the Jingyang Mountain Range with a map and soul beast intelligence he had picked up.
• Huo Yuhao selected suitable soul beasts for the four maids and gathered rare herbs and ores as they traveled into the mountain range.
• The group found an Amethyst Crystal Spider swarm and learned that a forty-thousand-year Spider Empress would suit Jin Er's Golden Scale Python martial soul.
• Zhang Lexuan weakened the spider swarm, then Huo Yuhao froze the Spider Empress after Zhang Lexuan beat it nearly unconscious.
• Jin Er absorbed the Spider Empress's soul ring, gaining purple patterns on her scales and stronger metal attributes, but no External Soul Bone.

Xu Tianran discovered that the Ming King Divine Artifact could grant him cultivation methods and blood pills, then chose to hunt Soul Beasts in the Jingyang Mountain Range until he could restore his body and become a Titled Douluo. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao’s group reached their next soul-ring target and encountered a clan of goblins.

• Xu Tianran used the Ming King Divine Artifact’s blood sacrifices to learn corpse arts and the Third Prince’s Yin Claw Hand, and found that its blood pills greatly aided cultivation.
• Xu Tianran chose to remain in the Jingyang Mountain Range, hoping to repair his disability and break through to Titled Douluo before returning to seek revenge on the Third Prince.
• Xu Tianran slaughtered a Soul Beast clan, sacrificed its blood, and swallowed the resulting blood pills; by sunrise, his Soul Power had reached rank 90 Quasi-Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao’s group hurried to a fire-attribute mineral vein where a dragon-type Soul Beast could provide Huo Er with a soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao’s group encountered a clan of goblin Soul Beasts, which were small, group-dwelling creatures skilled at mining.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan lured a fire dragon out of its mine by attacking the Goblin Tribe, while four maids slaughtered the goblins with their martial souls and Soul Tools. Zhang Lexuan ambushed the dragon as soon as it appeared, knocking it unconscious.

• Huo Yuhao explained that the Goblin Tribe lived in symbiosis with a fire dragon and proposed using the goblins to lure it out for Zhang Lexuan to ambush.
• Zhang Lexuan agreed to the plan, and Jin Er, Mu Er, Huo Er, and Shui Er joined the attack.
• Jin Er tested her strengthened Golden Scale Python Martial Soul, while Mu Er used plants and a sniper-like Soul Tool to kill goblins.
• Huo Er burned goblins with her flamethrower as Shui Er supported her with water and cannon fire.
• The Goblin Tribe called for the fire dragon, which emerged from the mine and was immediately knocked unconscious by Zhang Lexuan.

Zhang Lexuan helped Huo Er obtain a Hell Wyrm soul ring, evolving Huo Er’s flames into Hellfire, while Huo Yuhao secretly used a surviving mutated goblin to refine the Soul of Arcana External Soul Bone. The group then secured a forty-thousand-year treant soul ring for Mu Er and found a valuable soul bone, leaving its ownership undecided.

• Zhang Lexuan knocked out the Hell Wyrm and brought it back for Huo Er, while Huo Yuhao and the others wiped out the Goblin Tribe and collected its resources.
• Huo Yuhao deliberately spared a young fire-mutated goblin, then used it and the goblins’ soul rings to begin refining the Soul of Arcana External Soul Bone.
• Huo Er finished absorbing the Hell Wyrm’s soul ring and evolved her martial soul’s flames into black-cored Hellfire.
• Huo Yuhao led the group to a Forest Sea, where Zhang Lexuan captured a forty-thousand-year treant for Mu Er to absorb.
• Huo Yuhao found a Forty Thousand Year Treant Left Arm Bone inside the treant’s remains, and the three other maids looked to Zhang Lexuan to decide who would receive it.

Mu Er absorbed the tree spirit’s soul ring and soul bone while Xu Tianran began hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Rat. After Xu Tianran’s attack wounded the beast, it fled, and he pursued it with another soul cannon shell.

• Zhang Lexuan gave Mu Er the tree spirit’s soul bone, and Mu Er absorbed it after finishing the soul ring.
• At night, Xu Tianran went to a valley to claim the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast he had chosen for his ninth soul ring.
• Xu Tianran fired an eighth-grade Standard Soul Cannon Shell into the valley, startling Huo Yuhao and the others from afar.
• Zhang Lexuan went to investigate the explosion while Huo Yuhao stayed behind to guard the four maids.
• The wounded Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Rat fled instead of fighting, and Xu Tianran chased it in his wheelchair with another soul cannon shell.

Xu Tianran captured the Ten Thousand Year Fire Rat with a God Sealing Platform, then pursued Zhang Lexuan after discovering her nearby. His pursuit led him to Huo Yuhao’s group, where Huo Yuhao launched the first strike as Zhang Lexuan rushed back to help.

• Xu Tianran defeated the Ten Thousand Year Fire Rat with two Rank 8 Standard Soul Cannon Shells and sealed it inside a God Sealing Platform.
• Xu Tianran sensed Zhang Lexuan hiding nearby, identified her as connected to the White Lotus Sect, and chased after her.
• Zhang Lexuan fled using her Silver-Pattern External Soul Bone and deliberately led Xu Tianran away from Huo Yuhao’s group.
• Xu Tianran sensed another target near Huo Yuhao’s group, changed direction, and headed toward them while vowing to confront his Third Brother.
• Huo Yuhao detected Xu Tianran’s approach, completed his armor possession, and struck him with Light Frost Centipede Fist as Zhang Lexuan hurried back to help.

Huo Yuhao ambushed Xu Tianran and nearly killed him, but Xu Tianran escaped with the help of his Invincible Shield and Wheelchair soul tool. Huo Yuhao let him go after confirming that Xu Tianran was growing stronger with the Qi and Blood Seeds Huo Yuhao had planted for his eventual harvest.

• Huo Yuhao blinded Xu Tianran with a flashbang and attacked him, cracking his Rank 9 Soul Guidance Barrier with the Ice Extremity Peerless Sword.
• Xu Tianran tried to flee, but Huo Yuhao pierced his barrier before the Invincible Shield stopped the sword from reaching him.
• Huo Yuhao and Xu Tianran exchanged attacks as Xu Tianran fired Soul Guidance Cannons and replenished his Soul Power from a Milk Bottle.
• Zhang Lexuan attacked Xu Tianran from behind, but Xu Tianran dodged so Huo Yuhao's sword energy and her Moonlight Essence collided.
• Xu Tianran used his Wheelchair's acceleration and a camouflage soul tool to escape, while Huo Yuhao chose not to pursue him.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed Xu Tianran was growing through Qi and Blood Seeds he had stored in the Ming King Divine Artifact, intending to harvest him later.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan returned to the camp after driving Xu Tianran away, then relocated with the others to avoid another attack. That night, Zhang Lexuan removed the Silver-Pattern External Soul Bone and, overwhelmed by its side effects, began “assaulting” Huo Yuhao, while Xu Tianran seethed at his stronghold.

• Zhang Lexuan told Huo Yuhao she had only briefly broken through her emotional blockade, and he promised to help her resolve it.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan returned to the camp, where Mu Er and the other women had stayed alert; Zhang Lexuan ordered everyone to move.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan led the group through the night to a new mountain range, with the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul keeping watch.
• Zhang Lexuan called Huo Yuhao into her tent at midnight and removed the Silver-Pattern External Soul Bone, leaving him to suppress the sounds as its side effects overwhelmed her.
• Zhang Lexuan clung to Huo Yuhao and clumsily initiated intimate contact, but she did not progress further, while the Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul watched from outside.
• Xu Tianran returned to his stronghold, where he was furious over the failed encounter and reconsidered the usefulness of the fleeing Fire Rat.

Zhang Lexuan realized that her intimacy with Huo Yuhao had weakened the White Lotus Sect's control over her and strengthened her, though she remained conflicted about Bei Bei. The group continued seeking a soul ring for Shui Er, and Zhang Lexuan discovered a mutated white Water Demon among the lake's swarm.

• Zhang Lexuan woke, confirmed Huo Yuhao had not taken her virginity, and realized the whispers had stopped, her emotional suppression had weakened, and her strength had grown.
• Zhang Lexuan reasoned that contact with Huo Yuhao could counter the White Lotus Sect's control, but she still could not decide how to face Bei Bei.
• The group moved farther from the mountain range where they had fought and continued hunting a soul ring for Shui Er, while Huo Yuhao sensed Xu Tianran heading deeper into Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Shui Er chose a Water Demon for her seventh soul ring, and Zhang Lexuan drew dozens of the clan out of their lake and fought them while searching for a suitable specimen.
• Huo Yuhao pointed out a white Water Demon guarded by two forty-thousand-year members, and Zhang Lexuan identified it as a mutated soul beast.

Zhang Lexuan killed the Water Demon tribe and helped Shui Er obtain a domain from the mutant Water Demon’s soul ring. After the group returned to Mingdu, Huo Yuhao reflected that the Shrek Academy exchange student event was only a few months away.

• Zhang Lexuan noticed the white mutant Water Demon supporting its tribe with a domain, then killed nearly all the Water Demons and saved the mutant and a forty-thousand-year specimen.
• Huo Yuhao advised Shui Er to choose the mutant Water Demon, and she began absorbing its soul ring after killing it.
• Shui Er gained the Azure Wave Domain, which boosted allies’ attack speed, Soul Power recovery, and soul-skill cooldowns at the cost of rapidly consuming her Soul Power.
• The group returned to Mingdu after completing the soul hunt, and the four maids went to rest.
• Huo Yuhao considered the approaching Shrek Academy exchange student event and the little time remaining for him, Zhang Lexuan, and Tang Ya.

Huo Yuhao explored the Xi Shui Alliance’s hidden Elegant Pavilion and discovered that Tang Ya was its Pavilion Master. After buying general intelligence about Shrek Academy, he continued deeper into the Pavilion.

• Huo Yuhao returned to Ghost Street, bought supplies, and headed to the Xi Shui Alliance’s hidden Elegant Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao learned about the Pavilion’s five underground levels and realized Tang Ya was its Pavilion Master.
• Huo Yuhao entered the intelligence floor and requested general information about Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao paid ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, received several sheets of intelligence, and read them as he walked toward the next level.

Huo Yuhao examined intelligence about Shrek Academy and discovered that his Fan Club had become a powerful force among its students. After noticing the intelligence center was gathering information about him, he went to the commission floor and chose to accept a mission.

• Huo Yuhao read a detailed intelligence report on Shrek City, Shrek Academy, and the Sea God Pavilion, and suspected Tang Ya had sold the information.
• Huo Yuhao found members of his Fan Club prominent among Shrek Academy's outstanding students and learned that many of its former members had reached Soul Saint.
• Huo Yuhao realized the Fan Club had become a major student force that Shrek Academy could not openly disband or challenge.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to notice that the intelligence trader had sent information about him to the rear.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the commission floor and told an attendant that he wanted to accept a commission.

Huo Yuhao accepted a high-paying assassination mission through the Elegant Pavilion, killed Steel Alliance leader Wang Dagang, and examined his Steel Tyrannosaurus martial soul. Afterward, Shangguan Wei'er presented him with three rare Dragon Girls.

• Huo Yuhao registered as Frost Sky Armor King and chose a mission to assassinate Wang Dagang, the leader of the Steel Alliance.
• Huo Yuhao found Wang Dagang at an Ordinary Alliance entertainment venue and abducted him.
• Huo Yuhao killed Wang Dagang, studied his Steel Tyrannosaurus martial soul, and took his head as proof of the mission.
• Shangguan Wei'er arrived at Huo Yuhao's safe house with three Dragon Girls in an iron cage.