Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xiao confessed her love to Wang Dong, who rejected her and revealed that she was a girl. The test declared their love false and sent them into a dangerous punishment, where they began climbing a pillar under repeated lightning strikes.

• Xiao Xiao confessed that she loved Wang Dong, and Wang Dong apologized and rejected her.
• Wang Dong revealed that she was a girl, stunning Xiao Xiao and the gathered Shrek Academy members.
• The questioning voice condemned their love as false and bound Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao together before dropping them into darkness.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao found a pillar on a desolate platform and began climbing it without Soul Power.
• Lightning struck Xiao Xiao at the hundred-meter mark, and Wang Dong pulled her back onto the pillar before another bolt targeted Wang Dong.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao repeatedly failed to cross the orange zone, leaving them trapped in despair. To enter their space and save them, Huo Yuhao chose to surrender his lovers’ shared memories, while promising to find them again.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao endured the red zone together, but Wang Dong’s fear in the orange zone caused them to fall repeatedly and be healed by the mysterious power.
• After Wang Dong fell unconscious, Xiao Xiao broke down, and Huo Yuhao demanded to know how he could save them.
• The rules of the assessment told Huo Yuhao that he had to abandon love and lose his memories with his lovers to enter Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao’s space.
• Xian Lin'er and the other women agreed to let Huo Yuhao save Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, despite the memories they would lose.
• Huo Yuhao engraved the women’s names on an Ultimate Ice ring, promised to find them again, and fell from his bubble as their memories of each other faded.

Huo Yuhao let God King Tang alter the Little Mutated Frost Centipede’s memories, then took control of it and reached Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao inside Qiankun Wenqing Valley. After helping them recover, he led them up the pillar, and the trio reached the orange region.

• Huo Yuhao realized the Little Mutated Frost Centipede’s memories had been erased and replaced, but kept watch on it and the events in Qiankun Wenqing Valley.
• Huo Yuhao took control of the Little Mutated Frost Centipede, examined its new memories, and sealed its consciousness in the deepest part of the Spiritual Sea.
• Huo Yuhao found Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, checked Wang Dong, and woke her with two slaps.
• Huo Yuhao helped Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao get ready to climb the pillar again, and the three climbed together past the red region.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao reached the orange region.

Huo Yuhao resisted the orange zone’s trial and freed Wang Dong from an illusion about her missing parents by posing as her father. The three reached the yellow zone, where vengeful souls immediately attacked Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao realized the orange zone drew out people’s buried sorrow and saw the Little Mutated Frost Centipede experience fabricated memories of a tragic childhood.
• Huo Yuhao resisted the trial and entered Wang Dong’s Spiritual Sea, where he pretended to be her father and provoked her into anger.
• Wang Dong woke from the illusion and punched Huo Yuhao, then thanked him and continued climbing with him and Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao led the group out of the orange zone and into the yellow zone, where vengeful human and soul-beast spirits surrounded him.

Huo Yuhao led Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao through the yellow pillar’s resentful-soul trial by using light power at the cost of badly damaging his left arm. In the green pillar, they faced illusions of enemies, and Huo Yuhao realized the pillars were testing their emotions.

• Huo Yuhao used his Radiant Will to shield Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao from the resentful souls, but the light power cracked and bloodied his left arm.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao urged Huo Yuhao to stop, but he continued until they climbed out of the yellow pillar’s range.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that the injury to his left arm did not heal after they left the yellow area, then led the others toward the green pillar.
• Illusions of Bei Bei and Tang Ya attacked the group, but Huo Yuhao recognized them as illusions and convinced Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao not to fear them.
• After further enemy illusions appeared, Huo Yuhao concluded that the pillars’ challenges were a Seven Emotions Trial.

Huo Yuhao found Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong in the Mask of Love Assessment and helped them escape its illusion. The three of them reached the edge of the cyan pillar and faced the Blue Pillar.

• Huo Yuhao entered the city illusion, recognized that he needed to find Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, and searched the masked crowd without using his spiritual power.
• Huo Yuhao found Xiao Xiao and reassured her that their bond let him recognize and reach her, then took her to search for Wang Dong.
• Wang Dong remained trapped in a dark room until Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao broke down the door and reached her.
• Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong used their keys to open the hidden gate, escape the illusion, and arrive before the Blue Pillar.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao faced the Blue Pillar’s Trial of Desire, rejected the false God of Love inheritance, and received divine power and God-given Soul Rings. They escaped Qiankun Wenqing Valley, while Huo Yuhao concluded God King Tang had run out of tricks and planned to slip away before facing his next schemes.

• Huo Yuhao recognized the God of Love’s inheritance offer as a false temptation and refused it, then fought the monstrous illusion.
• Wang Dong refused the inheritance because she believed Huo Yuhao deserved it more, and fought the transformed God of Love.
• Xiao Xiao hesitated over whether the inheritance could help her save her companions, then asked for Huo Yuhao to be given a chance; her sincerity stirred the God of Love’s Power.
• The God of Love’s Power split among Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao, shattering their illusions and strengthening them; Huo Yuhao concealed his increase in power while the girls absorbed God-given Soul Rings.
• Wang Dong’s Soul Ring reached eighty thousand years and Xiao Xiao’s reached seventy thousand years before the three left Qiankun Wenqing Valley together.
• Huo Yuhao mocked God King Tang for running out of tricks and planned to sneak away, while anticipating further challenges at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and Clear Sky Sect.

Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao emerged from Qiankun Wenqing Valley, but Huo Yuhao and several women no longer recognized one another or remembered their love. Jiang Nannan gained the God of Love's inheritance, and as Shrek's group prepared to leave, the Blood Slaughter Red Dragon attacked.

• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao returned to the shore, where Huo Yuhao did not recognize Xian Lin'er and the other women.
• Jiang Nannan answered that she had no one she liked, then received the God of Love's Divine Power as Xu San Shi watched in despair.
• Qiankun Wenqing Valley vanished, and Jiang Nannan awoke with a golden-and-silver mark and announced that she had obtained the God of Love's Godhood Position Assessment.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Zhou Yi, who led Holy Spirit Cult elders into the mountains, while Cai Meier learned that Huo Yuhao and the women had lost their memories and love for one another.
• Cai Meier urged everyone to leave, but dark clouds gathered and the Blood Slaughter Red Dragon attacked Shrek Academy's group.

Shrek Academy fought Zhou Yi and the Holy Spirit Cult’s evil soul masters while retreating, as Huo Yuhao’s clone and Bei Bei joined the battle. Xian Lin’er’s new soul bone shared her injuries with Huo Yuhao, and the chapter ended as evil reinforcements led by an Evil Phoenix approached.

• Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei joined the fight, helping Shrek Academy hold back Zhou Yi and the evil soul master elders as Zhang Lexuan led the others in retreat.
• Xian Lin’er used her newly strengthened Ninth Soul Skill, but Zhou Yi countered it with her Exploding Flame Dragon’s Blazing Flame.
• Zhou Yi charged through Xian Lin’er’s spear strike and attacked her chest, but the dragon-tail External Soul Bone shared the damage with Huo Yuhao.
• Xian Lin’er recovered and resumed fighting Zhou Yi, gradually nearing level 95 while Huo Yuhao’s clone struggled against the three elders.
• Huo Yuhao noticed a new group approaching, led by a phoenix radiating Evil Aura, and recognized it as an Evil Phoenix.

As God King Tang withdrew, Huo Yuhao’s side gained room to act while Shrek Academy’s team fought the Holy Spirit Cult. Feng Ling arrived with reinforcements and planned to wait for both sides to weaken, but unexpected cannon fire struck the battlefield as Xian Lin'er broke through to Super Douluo and killed Zhou Yi.

• God King Tang left after interfering with the Love God inheritance, unaware that its soul bones linked their bearers to Huo Yuhao.
• Xian Lin'er and Zhou Yi fought fiercely as Zhang Lexuan led the others in a retreat, while the Little Mutated Frost Centipede clone and Cai Meier held off their opponents.
• Feng Ling arrived with Netherworld Elder, the Zhongli Three Brothers, and other Holy Spirit Cult elites, then stopped Netherworld Elder from attacking so the two sides could wear each other down.
• Seven Standard Soul Cannon Shells struck the Ghost Shadows pursuing Shrek Academy, surprising Feng Ling and the embattled team.
• Xian Lin'er broke through to Super Douluo during her fight with Zhou Yi, then killed Zhou Yi with her dragon spear and Azure Flame.

Xian Lin'er and the Shrek Academy group escaped the Holy Spirit Cult with help from Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, who sought to get Meng to safety at Shrek Academy. The group learned that Tang Ya was being appointed Left Prime Minister and that the Hongchen Family feared upheaval in the Sun Moon Empire, but their flight was blocked again.

• Xian Lin'er returned to the group after defeating Zhou Yi, and Cai Meier ordered everyone to retreat while the remaining Holy Spirit Cult elders pursued them.
• Eunuch Gao recovered Zhou Yi into the Blood Slaughter Orb, then followed Huo Yuhao to monitor the plan.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen gave the fleeing Shrek Academy group fifty Flying Soul Tools and promised to escort them out of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed that he wanted Meng Hongchen to take refuge at Shrek Academy, while Meng explained that Tang Ya would become Left Prime Minister and Xiao warned that the Hongchen Family feared the empire might undergo upheaval.
• A phoenix cry blocked the group's path, and an enemy declared that the Hongchen siblings and Shrek Academy would stay behind.

Feng Ling intercepted Shrek Academy’s fleeing group and waited for Netherworld Elder and other Holy Spirit Cult reinforcements to complete the encirclement. The battle began, and Huo Yuhao faced Netherworld Elder’s deadly sword technique as a pink power emerged from his body.

• Feng Ling recognized Cai Meier as Yan Shaozhe’s wife and confronted Shrek Academy, while Xian Lin'er warned the group that Feng Ling was a powerful Super Douluo.
• Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, and Huo Yuhao prepared to stay behind so Zhang Lexuan could lead the others to safety, but Feng Ling waited without attacking.
• Netherworld Elder and more than a dozen Evil Soul Masters, including the Zhongli Three Brothers, arrived and surrounded Shrek Academy.
• Netherworld Elder ordered Bei Bei to kill Shrek Academy’s members and return to the Holy Spirit Cult, but Bei Bei refused, and Feng Ling ordered the attack.
• Netherworld Elder unleashed his Netherworld Sword technique, and Huo Yuhao charged into the black mist but was driven back by a solid sword shadow.
• As sword shadows closed in on Huo Yuhao, a pink power bloomed from his body and he invoked Divine Skill: First Encounter in Life.

Huo Yuhao exposed and defeated the Netherworld Elder, then killed the Zhongli Three Brothers after Feng Ling sent them to intercept him. He returned to help Cai Meier and Xian Lin'er fight Feng Ling, while his main body secretly finished off the fleeing Netherworld Elder.

• Huo Yuhao used First Encounter in Life to identify the real Netherworld Elder and grievously wounded him with Frost Centipede Demon-Banning Domain.
• Feng Ling ordered the Zhongli Three Brothers to hold Huo Yuhao back, and they surrounded him after abandoning their fight with Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, Hua Yao, and Wu Ming.
• Huo Yuhao froze Zhongli Tian with Mental Freeze, killed him with a spear strike, and quickly killed Zhongli Di and Zhongli Ren as well.
• Huo Yuhao returned to join Cai Meier and Xian Lin'er against Feng Ling, while the injured Netherworld Elder fled the battlefield.
• Huo Yuhao's main body caught the fleeing Netherworld Elder, killed him, and extracted and devoured his remains.

Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy’s team repelled the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack and continued north through the Sun Moon Empire. At the Far North Land’s border, Meng Hongchen left with the team while Xiao Hongchen stayed behind, hoping to protect his family and eventually save her.

• Huo Yuhao, Xian Lin'er, and Cai Meier fought Feng Ling until she forced them back and fled, while Shrek Academy killed six Evil Soul Masters, including the Zhongli Three Brothers.
• Huo Yuhao collected the Evil Soul Masters’ corpses to take back to Sea God Island for purification, and Shrek Academy’s team continued north with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• White Lotus Sect Evil Soul Masters attacked other fleeing teams as Ju Zi’s forces escorted Shrek Academy north toward the Far North Land.
• Huo Yuhao invited Xiao Hongchen to join Shrek Academy, but Xiao refused to return to Mingdu to protect his grandfather and clan.
• Meng Hongchen crossed into the Far North Land with Shrek Academy’s team, while Xiao Hongchen stayed behind and resolved to earn merit and seek the Sun Moon Emperor’s help to save her.

In Mingdu, Huo Yuhao finalized the Sun Moon Empire’s arrangements and attempted to help Xu Tiancheng cultivate the fourth layer of the Nine Deaths Divine Skill. The Third Prince’s soul shattered without revealing a True Spirit, leaving Huo Yuhao to consider using a substitute.

• Huo Yuhao and Xu Tiancheng discussed granting the Holy Spirit Cult resources and legal status, appointing Tang Ya as Left Prime Minister, and placing Ju Zi over the Beast King Legion.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to return to Shrek Academy, then began helping Xu Tiancheng cultivate the fourth layer to address the conflicting powers in his body.
• Xu Tiancheng drew out the Third Prince’s soul, and Huo Yuhao shattered it as the first step of the cultivation method.
• Huo Yuhao searched the dissipating soul fragments but found no True Spirit, so his first plan failed.
• Huo Yuhao examined Xu Tiancheng’s remaining body and wondered whether something else could replace the missing True Spirit.

Huo Yuhao helped Xu Tiancheng complete the fourth level of the Nine Deaths Divine Skill by giving him a True Spirit, but the Sun Shooting Divine Crossbow Cannon also pulled Huo Yuhao’s Lower Corpse out and fused it into Xu Tiancheng. Xu Tiancheng emerged transformed and announced his breakthrough to the people of Mingdu.

• Huo Yuhao crushed souls from an ordinary Small Banner until he found a True Spirit, then placed it in Xu Tiancheng to restart the fourth level of the Nine Deaths Divine Skill.
• The Sun Shooting Divine Crossbow Cannon reacted to Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power and pulled his Lower Corpse from his lower dantian.
• The Lower Corpse was drawn into the Sun Shooting Divine Crossbow Cannon, which fused with Xu Tiancheng and completed his cultivation breakthrough.
• Xu Tiancheng’s transformation caused a great sun, a Dragon Shadow, and a sudden fall of snow over the imperial palace, alarming people across Mingdu.
• Xu Tiancheng told Kong Deming that he had made a breakthrough and would soon reach Rank 100, while worshipers reassured Mingdu’s people.

Huo Yuhao examined Xu Tiancheng’s new Demigod strength and four Martial Souls after the Lower Corpse separated from him. He considered separating his Upper and Middle Corpses too, then headed to the Queen’s Bedroom to cultivate.

• Xu Tiancheng showed off his Demigod strength and went to enjoy himself in the harem while Huo Yuhao studied his changes.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Xu Tiancheng had gained a second Soul Core, two additional Martial Souls, and stronger Sun and Purple Emperor Annihilation Heavenly Dragon Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao found Cain’s soul among the souls in the Small Banner and decided to nurture it in thanks for her brother Ade’s sacrifice.
• After severing sensory sharing when Xu Tiancheng began his debauchery, Huo Yuhao considered possible hosts for his Upper and Middle Corpses.
• Huo Yuhao decided to wait and see how his cultivation changed, then went to the Queen’s Bedroom to cultivate.

After the massacre at the Soul Master Competition pushed the continent toward war, Zhongli Wu returned to the Holy Spirit Cult and prepared to cultivate toward becoming a Limit Douluo. A week later, Huo Yuhao ended his own long cultivation session in Mingdu.

• News of the teams’ slaughter spread, and Shrek Academy called on the Sun Moon Empire to eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult, prompting the other three nations to unite against the looming threat.
• Xu Tiancheng gave the Holy Spirit Cult resources, death-row prisoners, and three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and Zhongli Wu accepted the blame for the massacre in return.
• Zhongli Wu brought Feng Ling and the Evil Soul Masters back to Fiend Forest and explained that his Bone Dragon King would devour the soul bones to help him break through.
• Zhongli Wu ordered Feng Ling to manage the cult, collect the promised prisoners, and watch for the Angel Martial Soul user from the Sun Moon Xu Clan, whom he wanted killed if possible.
• Zhongli Wu entered seclusion, while one week later Huo Yuhao finished his long cultivation session in Mingdu.

Huo Yuhao planted attribute seeds in his cauldrons and arranged for them and the Lotus Heart Demons to leave Mingdu for further cultivation. As tensions between the Sun Moon Empire and the other nations continued without open war, Xu Tiancheng appointed Tang Ya and Ju Zi as the empire’s Left and Right Prime Ministers.

• Huo Yuhao spent seven days planting attribute seeds in his cauldrons, including Ju Zi and numerous women and Lotus Heart Demons.
• Huo Yuhao sent the cauldrons to the ocean to temper themselves and tasked the Main Body Clone with escorting them, while Eunuch Gao took charge of tracking the Lotus Heart Demons.
• The Sun Moon Empire and the other three nations remained locked in a tense standoff as border forces gathered and infiltrating soul masters sought revenge on the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xu Tiancheng announced that Tang Ya would become Left Prime Minister and Ju Zi would become Right Prime Minister, and the officials accepted the appointments.

Tang Ya and Ju Zi were appointed Left and Right Prime Ministers of the Sun Moon Empire, while Xiao Hongchen received command of a soul engineer legion. Huo Yuhao later revealed himself in Xu Tiancheng’s bedchamber and placed an attribute seed in Tang Ya, intending to keep both women from becoming Xu Tiancheng’s cauldrons.

• Tang Ya’s appointment as Left Prime Minister and Ju Zi’s appointment as Right Prime Minister stirred suspicion, but Ju Zi displayed her eight-ring cultivation and impressed the officials.
• The empire recruited outstanding competition participants, appointed Xiao Hongchen commander of a soul engineer legion, and left Meng Hongchen’s absence unexplained.
• Xu Tiancheng relaxed in the harem and considered holding a selection for vacant consort positions and using more kinds of soul beasts to cultivate cauldrons.
• Tang Ya came to the harem on the night of her appointment, where she encountered Ju Zi, who had arrived to discuss business with Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he was the Xu Tiancheng on the dragon bed and planted an attribute seed in Tang Ya, deciding to keep restrictions on her and Ju Zi.