Chapter Summaries

Hua Yao suspected Zhu Lu’s Hell Spirit Cat martial soul had evolved, while Cai Meier assigned Huo Yuhao to approach the Zhu Family as Shrek Academy sought an ally. Huo Yuhao brought Hua Yao and Wu Ming to meet the Zhu Family, where Dai Huabin was already waiting for Zhu Lu.

• Hua Yao said Zhu Lu’s strength and dense darkness attribute suggested her Hell Spirit Cat martial soul had mutated into a top-tier martial soul.
• Hua Yao privately wondered whether Huo Yuhao could cause martial souls to evolve and thought of seeking that help to strengthen her Lotus Martial Soul and avenge Gu Fan.
• Huo Yuhao pointed out that the Dai Family’s rift with the Zhu Family might give Shrek Academy a chance to gain the Zhu Family’s support.
• Cai Meier tasked Huo Yuhao with approaching the Zhu Family and authorized him to use dean-level resources, with Hua Yao and Wu Ming assisting.
• Huo Yuhao took Hua Yao and Wu Ming to meet the Zhu Family after their match, but found Dai Huabin already there, telling Zhu Lu, “I’m back!”

The Zhu Family prepared to break away from the Dai Family, and Zhu Lu rejected Dai Huabin when he came to see her. Huo Yuhao realized Zhu Lu had secretly given him a location, while Xu Jiujiu followed her to exploit the split.

• The Zhu Family’s leaders decided to end their alliance with the Dai Family, trusting their growing strength and Huo Yuhao’s support.
• Zhu Lu sensed Huo Yuhao nearby as Dai Huabin approached her and tried to take her arm, but she dodged and apologized as if she had been forced to reject him.
• Dai Huabin ordered Zhu Family members blocking him to move, then used Martial Soul Possession, but Zhu Lu swiftly pinned him to the ground and left with her clansmen.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Zhu Lu had whispered a location to him before leaving, and he told Sister Yao and Sister Ming they would have to meet the Zhu Family another time.
• Xu Jiujiu recognized that the Zhu Family’s break with the Dai Family would weaken the Dai Family and followed Zhu Lu.

Zhu Lu received Xu Jiujiu at a Zhu Family safe house after the princess deliberately came to influence the Zhu Family’s relations with the Dai Family. Zhu Lu saw Xu Jiujiu’s arrival as a chance to scheme against the imperial family, while remaining loyal to Huo Yuhao.

• Zhu Lu arrived at a hidden Zhu Family courtyard in Mingdu, where Zhu Min and a concealed Titled Douluo protected her.
• Xu Jiujiu came to the courtyard, intending to make her presence beside Zhu Lu fuel suspicion between the Zhu Family and Dai Family.
• Man Yi agreed to protect Xu Jiujiu as she pursued her plan to drive the Zhu Family and Dai Family further apart.
• Zhu Lu learned that the Titled Douluo had noticed Xu Jiujiu’s approach and recognized an opportunity for the Zhu Family to scheme against the imperial family.
• Zhu Lu invited Xu Jiujiu inside and greeted her coldly, leaving the princess unsure how to begin her prepared appeal.

Huo Yuhao entered a meeting between Zhu Lu and Xu Jiujiu, prompting Xu Jiujiu to suspect that Shrek Academy had drawn the Zhu Family into its camp. As she connected Shrek’s past conflicts and Huo Yuhao’s potential to become a god, she realized she might have walked into a trap.

• Huo Yuhao followed the traces to Zhu Lu’s courtyard, where he sensed Zhu Min, Xu Jiujiu, and two hidden Titled Douluo.
• Zhu Lu kept Xu Jiujiu chatting over tea, while Xu Jiujiu stayed wary and avoided drinking.
• Huo Yuhao entered the reception room, and Xu Jiujiu asked whether the Zhu Family had pledged allegiance to Shrek Academy.
• Zhu Lu said the Zhu Family and Shrek Academy had long been closely connected, while Xu Jiujiu accused Shrek of splitting the Zhu Family from the Dai Family to retaliate for the Soul Master Competition five years earlier.
• Huo Yuhao answered Xu Jiujiu with a question, and she connected Shrek to past disappearances and concluded it might be preparing for Huo Yuhao to become a god.
• Xu Jiujiu realized that she had walked into a trap.

Huo Yuhao and Zhu Lu received Xu Jiujiu, who tried to flee after realizing the danger, but Zhu Di appeared and revealed that she had become a rank 92 Titled Douluo. Zhu Di left Man Yi helpless and showed off her newly gained strength, while Xu Jiujiu confronted her about what she had done.

• Huo Yuhao silently used his head divine gear while Xu Jiujiu imagined troubling possibilities and suddenly called for Man Yi to take her away.
• Man Yi appeared behind Xu Jiujiu but was immobilized by Zhu Di, who emerged from the darkness.
• Xu Jiujiu recognized Zhu Di as the Zhu Family's Ninth Elder, and Zhu Di revealed her rank 92 Titled Douluo strength and red ninth soul ring.
• Man Yi struggled to break free, but Zhu Di used her Sixth Soul Skill, Cat Soul Possession, to take control of her body.
• Xu Jiujiu caught Man Yi as she collapsed, then demanded to know what Zhu Di had done to her.
• Zhu Di explained her soul skill and showed off, while the chapter revealed that Huo Yuhao's cultivation method and help had enabled her breakthrough and martial soul transformation.

Huo Yuhao and the Zhu sisters cornered Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi, and Xu Jiujiu offered an alliance to save the Xu Family’s inheritance. Huo Yuhao rejected her assumption that he wanted peace between the empires and revealed that he wanted to dissolve Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao’s transformed Soul Seizing Demon Cat Martial Soul let Zhu Di seize souls, and she reached rank 92 after he helped her break through.
• With Zhu Lu and Zhu Di backing him, Huo Yuhao left Man Yi unable to fight, while Xu Jiujiu warned that Shrek Academy could face the Four Great Empires.
• Xu Jiujiu offered to ally the Star Luo Imperial Family with Shrek Academy and the Zhu Family, and Man Yi condemned her for betraying the empire.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that she wanted to preserve the Xu Family’s inheritance, and Huo Yuhao asked how to make the empires besiege Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu that he wanted to dissolve Shrek Academy, but the academy would not agree.

Xu Jiujiu offered her allegiance and herself to Huo Yuhao, hoping to secure the Star Luo Empire’s backing for him. Huo Yuhao used Zhu Lu and Zhu Di’s Netherworld Qi to make Jiujiu cooperate with his cultivation, while Man Yi cursed helplessly; Zhu Lu’s transformed Nine Nether Abyss Demon Cat abilities were also described.

• Xu Jiujiu swore that the Star Luo Empire would support Huo Yuhao, but he rejected her oath as insufficient.
• Xu Jiujiu offered to become Huo Yuhao’s woman as proof of her sincerity, and he said he wanted her to aid his cultivation.
• Zhu Di sent Xu Jiujiu onto the cultivation platform, and Zhu Lu and Zhu Di used Netherworld Qi to bewitch her into cooperating.
• Man Yi cursed Huo Yuhao and the others, demanding that they release Jiujiu or come at her instead.
• The narration described Zhu Lu’s Nine Nether Abyss Demon Cat, its innate domain, and its ability to weaken enemies through killing tribulations.

Huo Yuhao considered how Xu Jiujiu might help him undermine Shrek Academy, then used Zhu Lu to deceive Dai Huabin into believing she still loved him and that the royal family and Shrek were conspiring against his family. Dai Huabin left vowing revenge, while Zhu Lu continued cultivating with Huo Yuhao behind the gate.

• Huo Yuhao judged Xu Jiujiu’s Fate Configurations and considered helping her rise to power if Xu Jiawei refused to cooperate.
• Huo Yuhao ended a cultivation session with Xu Jiujiu, and Zhu Lu took her place while Zhu Di joined in.
• Zhu Min reported that Dai Huabin had arrived alone, and Zhu Lu asked Huo Yuhao to carry her outside to meet him through the closed gate.
• Dai Huabin told Zhu Lu he would marry her, and Zhu Lu suggested that the royal family and Shrek Academy were pressuring her family to separate them.
• Dai Huabin left vowing to defeat Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao, and the royal family, while Zhu Lu and Zhu Min continued cultivating with Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao bound Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi to his control, using Man Yi to cultivate his Attribute-less Divine Power and planning to exploit her granddaughter’s Star Light Power. After waking, Xu Jiujiu decided to conceal what had happened until she could consult her brother and the Star Luo Empire, while accepting that Huo Yuhao’s fate would determine her own.

• Huo Yuhao placed restrictions on Xu Jiujiu and Man Yi, then implanted a seed of Attribute-less Divine Power in Man Yi to cultivate it.
• Man Yi cared for Xu Jiujiu as she slept, and discovered that the power inside her was changing both her Soul Power and her Martial Soul.
• After Xu Jiujiu woke, she and Man Yi discussed Huo Yuhao’s strength, the Zhu Family, and the possibility that he had already gained control of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Man Yi told Xu Jiujiu that Huo Yuhao’s restrictions prevented them from resisting or betraying him.
• Xu Jiujiu chose to keep the incident secret and speak to her brother after returning to the empire, resolving to await Huo Yuhao’s eventual victory or death.

Huo Yuhao and his companions watched the seeded teams compete, witnessing the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School’s powerful young fighters and discussing the threat they posed. They then turned to the Dou Ling Hai Family’s match, whose members were Sea Soul Masters and followers of the Sea God despite lacking any Sea God blessing.

• Wu Ming questioned Huo Yuhao about where he had spent the night, and he brushed off her suspicions by saying he had been chatting with friends.
• Wu Feng used the Red Dragon King’s Dragon Might to make two opponents collapse without attacking, then spotted Huo Yuhao in the stands and reacted provocatively.
• Nanmen Yun’er’s Jade Green Luan Martial Soul suppressed Wu Ming’s Golden Crow, and Nanmen Yun’er defeated her opponents with a whirlwind.
• Zhang Lexuan warned that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School’s three young Soul Saints and Ning Tian’s awakened Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda made the school a power to watch.
• Huo Yuhao and his companions headed to the Dou Ling Hai Family’s match and noted that the family’s Sea Soul Masters believed in the Sea God but had received no Sea God blessing.

The chapter explained the Dou Ling Hai Family’s Sea Soul Master heritage and how Huo Yuhao brought the family under his control. The family entered the Soul Master Competition as the only Sea Soul Master team, drawing attention for its all-female lineup and earning the nickname “Mermaids of the Sea.”

• Huo Yuhao learned that the Dou Ling Hai Family descended from Sea God Island Sea Soul Masters and preserved three martial souls once carried by the Seven Sacred Pillars.
• The Dou Ling Hai Family sent disciples to Shrek Academy each generation to seek the Sea God’s blessing, and its current representative joined the Huo Alliance.
• Huo Yuhao easily brought the family under his control and planned to use its reputation and a future leader to unite Sea Soul Masters.
• The Dou Ling Hai Family entered the competition as the only Sea Soul Master team, with one Soul Saint, three Soul Emperors, and three Soul Kings.
• The team’s seven women attracted attention for their beauty and became known as the “Mermaids of the Sea.”

Hai Bingning showcased the Dou Ling Hai Family’s battle technique by defeating seven opponents in succession, while Huo Yuhao left the venue after declining Wu Ming’s teasing about his interest in her. That night, he met with the seven women of the Dou Ling Hai Family team in their private room.

• Hai Bingning swiftly cut the opposing captain’s cheek with her Sea Spear, forcing him to concede after realizing she could have killed him.
• Hua Yao and Wu Ming recognized Hai Bingning’s attack as an inherited battle technique that Huo Yuhao had taught the Dou Ling Hai Family.
• Hai Bingning defeated six more opponents despite exhausting nearly all her Soul Power, earning the venue’s cheers for her one-versus-seven victory.
• Wu Ming teased Huo Yuhao about pursuing Hai Bingning, but he said he only admired her battle technique and valued the women already by his side.
• Huo Yuhao left to meet friends, while Wu Ming, Hua Yao, Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and Zhang Lexuan went shopping together.
• That night, Huo Yuhao met the seven female members of the Dou Ling Hai Family team in their private room.

Nan Qiuqiu won an individual match for Earth Dragon Gate after cultivating the Glacial Ice Art mutated her Rouge Dragon into a powerful Rouge Frost Dragon. Nan Shuishui warned her about Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice, but Nan Qiuqiu resolved to fight him and looked ahead to reaching Titled Douluo.

• Nan Qiuqiu defeated her opponents without using Martial Soul Possession, displaying her Rouge Frost Dragon and the Nine Forms of Glacial Ice.
• Nan Shuishui cautioned Earth Dragon Gate’s team against overconfidence and urged them to grow strong enough to support Nan Qiuqiu.
• Nan Shuishui warned Nan Qiuqiu that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice would suppress her Ice Attribute, though a fight against him could teach her much.
• Nan Qiuqiu recalled Huo Yuhao saving her during the Beast Tide and vowed to fight him, hoping to stand beside him.
• Nan Qiuqiu predicted she would reach Titled Douluo within ten years, and Nan Shuishui promised her a surprise when she did.

Wu Ming and the Shrek Academy teams questioned their own talent after seeing powerful young clan and sect competitors, while Huo Yuhao assured them he would win the competition. Xuan Zi then announced that Evil Soul Masters had attacked the academy, forcing him to return and defend it.

• Wu Ming reflected on how much younger clan and sect geniuses surpassed her, and others began questioning Shrek Academy’s training and reputation.
• After returning to the hotel, Wu Ming shared her concerns with Shrek Academy’s teams, and Huo Yuhao encouraged them to face the problem and promised victory in the competition.
• Xian Lin'er proposed asking Rouge Douluo about Earth Dragon Gate’s training methods, while Huo Yuhao privately planned a surprise for Shrek Academy.
• Xuan Zi arrived and announced that Evil Soul Masters had attacked the academy, so he needed to return and hold down the fort.

Xuan Zi told the group that the academy had been attacked and that Qian Duoduo and Yan Shaozhe had been badly hurt, then returned to Shrek to take charge. The others stayed behind to protect their allies and prepare to face the Holy Spirit Cult, while the group’s serious resolve soon gave way to playful antics.

• Xuan Zi reported that the Death God Messenger had attacked the academy with zombies, leaving Qian Duoduo unconscious and Yan Shaozhe severely injured.
• Cai Meier and Xian Lin'er wanted to return, but Xuan Zi ordered them to stay and protect the children while he went back to the academy.
• Huo Yuhao and the others promised to defend Shrek Academy, and Xuan Zi departed after praising their unity.
• Wu Ming released Huo Yuhao after Xuan Zi pointed out that she was smothering him, and she hurried away with Hua Yao in embarrassment.
• Jiang Nannan shut Xu San Shi out of her room, while Wang Dong sent Xiao Xiao back to her own room.
• Zhang Lexuan went to gather intelligence, and Huo Yuhao returned to his room with Wei Na as Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, and the Reserve Team followed; Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier remained alone in the meeting room.

After Xuan Zi left, Shrek Academy’s team continued winning under Huo Yuhao’s guidance while rival teams adopted soul tools and other weapons. The Body Sect and the Sun Moon Royal Family’s Xu family team revealed powerful weapon techniques, ending with a hidden-weapon attack that displayed Tang Sect Hidden Weapons Hundred Solutions, Flower Rain Across the Sky.

• Long Xiaoyao told Tang Ya and Bei Bei that Xuan Zi had left, easing Tang Ya’s fear of being seized by Shrek Academy.
• Shrek Academy’s team kept winning as Xu San Shi led the matches, Wang Dong assisted him, and the others gathered intelligence and cultivated.
• Teams from the Douluo Three Kingdoms bought soul tools in Mingdu, and many began using them to strengthen their competition lineups.
• Luo Feng of the Body Sect used a magical bow and arrows to shoot down every opponent who tried to wear his team down from the air.
• The Sun Moon Royal Family’s Xu family team broke through a defensive lineup with rank-seven Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons, then eliminated all seven opponents with Tang Sect Hidden Weapons Hundred Solutions, Flower Rain Across the Sky.

Huo Yuhao recognized the Sun Moon Xu Family Team’s weapons as Tang Sect Hidden Weapons modified with Soul Tool technology, raising fears that the Sun Moon Empire had gained the Tang Sect’s lost inheritance. After the team returned to the imperial palace, Xu Tianzhen celebrated their victory and rushed to check on Third Imperial Brother after seeing Tang Ya leave the palace.

• Huo Yuhao identified the Sun Moon Xu Family Team’s weapons as Tang Sect Hidden Weapons and explained that their new Soul Tool designs combined hidden weapons with Soul Tool craftsmanship.
• Cai Meier suspected Tang Ya had given the weapons to the Sun Moon Empire, while Huo Yuhao lamented that the Tang Sect’s secret techniques had reached a former enemy.
• Cai Meier decided to report the weapons to the academy after the Sun Moon Xu Family Team won its match.
• Xu Tianzhen returned to the imperial palace with her teammates, celebrated their performance, and imagined winning the championship and receiving a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone from Third Imperial Brother.
• Xu Tianzhen encountered Tang Ya at the palace gates, then hurried off to see Third Imperial Brother because she feared Tang Ya might seduce him.

Xu Tianzhen confronted the Third Prince about Tang Ya’s proposal to eliminate the other nations’ young competitors, and learned he had agreed to let the Holy Spirit Cult carry it out. Meanwhile, Xu Tianzhen’s disguised team gathered at their palace and revealed the strength and training behind their competition lineup.

• Xu Tianzhen barged into the palace and warned the Third Prince not to let Tang Ya seduce him, then learned Tang Ya had proposed killing the other nations’ competitors while Xuan Zi was away.
• Xu Tianzhen approved of the proposal, but the Third Prince explained that killing young contestants alone would not cripple the other nations and that the Sun Moon Empire was not ready for war.
• The Third Prince revealed he had agreed because the Holy Spirit Cult could eliminate the competitors on the empire’s behalf, and Xu Tianzhen praised his decision.
• Xu Tianzhen’s six teammates returned to their palace, removed their disguises, and revealed themselves as Na Na, Ye Guyi, Luan Fei, and the Heavenly Dragon Dragon Girls Desire, Thought, and Joy.
• The chapter revealed that Huo Yuhao had developed the Heavenly Demon Codex, a cultivation manual derived from his studies, and that its hidden-weapon techniques would be used by Xu Tianzhen’s team.

Huo Yuhao created the unorthodox Heavenly Demon Codex from the incomplete Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and Pudu Cihang’s hidden-weapon techniques. The chapter ended with the women cultivating using human pills, unaware that Third Prince had refined people into them.

• Huo Yuhao found that the Mysterious Heaven Skill had been deliberately weakened and tried to derive techniques that could counter it.
• Huo Yuhao completed the Heavenly Demon Codex with cultivation methods, Soul Tool hidden weapons, hidden-weapon instructions, and poison arts.
• Xu Tianzhen, Na Na, Ye Guyi, and Luan Fei cultivated the Heavenly Demon Codex and received Artificial Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Shangguan Wei'er and Ye Su arrived to lead the women’s cultivation, while the three Heavenly Dragon Dragon Girls trained separately in a room filled with Dragon Bones.
• Ye Su gave the women blood-red pills, and they entered a medicinal bath to cultivate.
• Shangguan Wei'er knew the pills were Human Pills made by Third Prince from people, while the other women swallowed them without knowing their origin.

The Sun Moon Empire announced a Top Ten Factions List based on the Soul Master Competition’s top ten teams, prompting Shrek Academy and other factions to challenge its criteria. The Third Prince ended their planned debate by revealing his Limit Douluo power and declaring that his rules would stand.

• The Advancement Tournament concluded with the ten teams that had revealed Soul Saint members taking first place in their groups, while the Dou Ling Xie Family advanced in second place.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s Prime Minister announced that the Third Prince would establish a Top Ten Factions List, ranked by the Soul Master Competition’s top ten teams and updated every five years.
• Representatives from many factions objected to the list’s focus on young contestants, and the Third Prince invited them to debate him at the Sun Moon Imperial Palace.
• Xian Lin'er and Cai Meier led representatives of numerous factions into the palace, while the Body Sect stayed away as its members cultivated under Huo Yuhao’s guidance.
• The Third Prince unleashed his Limit Douluo aura, forced representatives below Titled Douluo to kneel, and declared that his rankings and rules were reasonable.