Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao learned that the Holy Spirit Church was refining the Bloodthirsty Holy Spirit Banner and launched a surprise attack on its underground stronghold. He killed the Branch Leader Elder, but the battle left him exhausted.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that the Holy Spirit Church planned to use blood and Beast Souls to complete a Rank 9 Bloodthirsty Holy Spirit Banner, while the Third Elder was away hunting soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao entered the stronghold’s central area and opened the Life Devouring Domain, alerting the twelve Evil Soul Masters gathered around the Blood Pool and banner.
• The Branch Leader Elder charged Huo Yuhao, who countered with Ice Claw and introduced himself as Cihang.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the illusory argali head and forced the Evil Soul Masters to hold their ground to protect the Blood Pool and unfinished banner.
• Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm struck the Branch Leader Elder with Mental Freeze and Soul Impact, allowing the argali attack to knock the defenders aside.
• Huo Yuhao pierced the stunned Branch Leader Elder through the heart with the Ghost Banner, then collapsed from exhaustion.

Huo Yuhao survived the Bloodthirsty Holy Spirit Banner’s defenses, then used the Branch Leader Elder’s soul and his own abilities to kill the remaining Holy Spirit Disciples. After absorbing nutrients from the corpses, he recovered his strength and broke through to level 60.

• The ram's-head phantom weakened in the Blood Pool and failed to destroy the Bloodthirsty Holy Spirit Banner, leaving Huo Yuhao nearly drained and surrounded by hostile Holy Spirit Disciples.
• A Soul Saint disciple attacked Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao used Ghost Possession with the Branch Leader Elder’s soul, revealed his eight soul rings, and killed him with Blood Blade Slash and King Snake Life Snatching.
• Huo Yuhao charged at the remaining Holy Spirit Disciples and killed them, while roots drained nutrients from their corpses and the Branch Leader Elder’s body.
• Huo Yuhao recovered by absorbing the corpses’ nutrients and the Life Devouring Domain’s feedback, then broke through to level 60.

Huo Yuhao accelerated the Bloodthirsty Holy Spirit Banner’s refinement with Blood Qi, while Electrolux warned that its transformation could make it too powerful for Yuhao to suppress. The Holy Spirit Cult Third Elder returned and attacked Yuhao, but Auspicious Protection made him dodge the strike.

• Huo Yuhao used Blood Qi from the Blood Pool to speed up the Bloodthirsty Holy Spirit Banner’s refinement because he wanted the Evil Ghosts it could produce.
• Electrolux warned that the transforming banner might become too powerful for Huo Yuhao to suppress, then said he would intervene if necessary.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detected a Titled Douluo entering the stronghold, and Golden Hawksbill pointed out that they were the newcomers.
• The Holy Spirit Cult Third Elder returned, saw Huo Yuhao refining the banner, and attacked him with a Nether Lightning Strike.
• Auspicious Protection caused Huo Yuhao to dodge the Third Elder’s attack.

Huo Yuhao completed the refinement of the Bloodthirsty Holy Spirit Banner, transforming it into the Sacred Blood Banner of the Holy Spirit, whose soul-draining power forced the Third Elder to flee. The stronghold collapsed under the Third Elder’s attack, but the Golden Hawksbill and Electrolux protected Huo Yuhao and concealed their presence underground.

• Electrolux strengthened the Skeleton Hawksbill with Death Lash, and it battered the Third Elder while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux helped land further attacks.
• Huo Yuhao finished refining the banner into the Sacred Blood Banner of the Holy Spirit, which unleashed powerful suction that threatened to pull in nearby souls.
• Huo Yuhao and the Visualization White Tiger and Black Tortoise stabilized his Spiritual Sea, while the banner absorbed the souls of two arriving Soul Emperors.
• The Third Elder fled, destroyed the stronghold’s passages, and fired Standard Soul Cannon Shells at it to bury Huo Yuhao and cover his escape.
• The Golden Hawksbill held up the collapsed underground space, and Electrolux concealed the group’s auras and fluctuations.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Sacred Blood Banner of the Holy Spirit into his Ghost Banner Martial Soul, gaining Blood Evil Power and a new domain. As he prepared to use the pool of Beast Corpse Water, he discovered Nan Shuishui unconscious inside a soul tool sack.

• Huo Yuhao used his Ghost Banner Martial Soul to overpower and absorb the Sacred Blood Banner of the Holy Spirit, destroying its flag while preserving its artifact spirit.
• The Ghost Banner Martial Soul gained Blood Evil Power, three thousand Evil Ghosts, and the Blood Evil Domain, which weakened foes and amplified its attacks.
• Huo Yuhao inspected the pool and identified its water as Beast Corpse Divine Water, which could strengthen his spirit treasure, including his spiritual power and physique.
• The Skeleton Hawksbill brought Huo Yuhao a soul tool sack that the Third Elder had left behind.
• Huo Yuhao opened the sack and found Nan Shuishui, the sect master of Earth Dragon Gate, unconscious inside.

Huo Yuhao used the unconscious Nan Shuishui to cultivate with the power of her Annihilation Attribute while both were in Beast Corpse Water. After enduring the pain of tempering his eyes, he broke one of the potential marks in his Fortune and unleashed dangerous beams from his eyes.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Nan Shuishui as the former object of the Third Elder’s affection and decided to use her Annihilation Attribute for cultivation rather than harvest her Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao carried Nan Shuishui into Beast Corpse Water and refined its power while protecting himself from its effects.
• Huo Yuhao stimulated Nan Shuishui’s Annihilation Attribute and guided it into his Spirit Eye Martial Soul, enduring severe pain as it tempered his eyes.
• Huo Yuhao entered Nan Shuishui’s Spiritual Sea, where he used Pseudo-Buddha’s Light and Sanskrit chants to make her accept a Golden Lotus Mark.
• After half an hour of cultivation, one white potential mark in Huo Yuhao’s Fortune shattered, and he opened his eyes with two dangerous colored beams.

Huo Yuhao awakened the Eyes of Annihilation after tempering his Evil Eye Martial Soul in Beast Corpse Water, then discovered the water had also strengthened his physique and spiritual power. He left with a transformed Rank 9 Soul Tool flagpole and resolved to find a way to raise his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul’s first soul ring to one hundred thousand years.

• Huo Yuhao unleashed the Annihilation Profound Light, and Electrolux canceled its lingering power before praising its destructive force.
• Huo Yuhao discovered that tempering his Evil Eye Martial Soul had created the Eyes of Annihilation and infused his spiritual power with the Annihilation Attribute.
• Huo Yuhao recovered the blood-red flagpole of the Sacred Blood Banner and put it away as a promising tool embryo.
• Huo Yuhao found that Beast Corpse Water had raised his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul’s first Natal Soul Ring to seventy thousand years.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to seek more resources, including those at the Earth Dragon Gate, to advance the soul ring toward one hundred thousand years as Nan Shuishui began to wake.

Huo Yuhao altered Nan Shuishui’s mind and mark, then escaped the collapsing underground space with her and his spoils. Nan Shuishui later woke in the snow with her memories changed and headed back toward the front line.

• Huo Yuhao made Nan Shuishui submit to him as Ming King’s Mingfei and changed her Golden Lotus Mark into a hidden Golden Centipede Mark.
• Nan Shuishui fainted before the conversion was complete, and Huo Yuhao’s companions reacted to what they had witnessed before he silenced them and prepared to leave.
• Huo Yuhao put Nan Shuishui in the Soul Tool sack, used Earth Escape Technique to flee, and collected the Mirage Lizard ghost and a Thousand-Year Ice Rabbit Left Leg Bone.
• Huo Yuhao considered using the strengthened Ghost Banner Martial Soul to target the crystal containing the Dragon Soul.
• Nan Shuishui woke in the snow, remembered an escape from an Evil Soul Master called Cihang Demon, and staggered toward the front line.

Huo Yuhao used the Ring Enhancement Secret Method to raise his third soul ring to twenty thousand years, then followed a divination toward romantic luck. He rescued Nan Qiuqiu from an Ice Dust Demon Dog, and she was immediately captivated by him.

• Huo Yuhao fused a thirty-thousand-year Icefield Lizard soul ring into his third soul ring, raising it to twenty thousand years and strengthening Bone Piercing Cold Qi.
• Huo Yuhao destroyed the Icefield Lizard's remains and divined that romantic luck lay in a particular direction.
• Nan Qiuqiu fled a six-thousand-year Ice Dust Demon Dog after her group was scattered while she searched for her captured mother.
• Nan Qiuqiu collapsed from exhaustion, and Huo Yuhao rescued her just before the Ice Dust Demon Dog could bite her.
• Nan Qiuqiu blurted out that Huo Yuhao was handsome, and Huo Yuhao kicked the Ice Dust Demon Dog to death.

After the Beast Tide ended, Huo Yuhao returned to camp with Nan Qiuqiu and encountered Wei Na, Bei Bei, Wang Dong, and the Clear Sky Sect group. Once Nan Qiuqiu left to see her mother, Huo Yuhao counted his Ghost Banner gains and prepared to attempt capturing the Dragon Soul.

• Huo Yuhao carried Nan Qiuqiu back to the frontline camp after the Beast Tide had subsided.
• Wei Na and Bei Bei greeted Huo Yuhao, while Wang Dong saw him with Nan Qiuqiu, called him a playboy, and left with the Clear Sky Sect group.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had found Nan Qiuqiu on the way back, and Nan Qiuqiu asked him to call her Qiuqiu.
• Wei Na told Nan Qiuqiu that Nan Shuishui had returned in poor condition, prompting Nan Qiuqiu to hurry off to see her mother.
• Huo Yuhao counted more than fifty qualified ghosts and confirmed that his Ghost Banner Martial Soul had been strengthened.
• Huo Yuhao decided he could finally try to make a move on the Dragon Soul.

Huo Yuhao captured the hundred-thousand-year Dragon Soul hidden in the crystal and discovered that the crystal had become an unformed Soul Bone. The Dragon Soul was left under Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s control, while Huo Yuhao learned he could shape the Soul Bone, possibly into an External Soul Bone.

• Huo Yuhao suspected the Dragon Soul had hidden inside its Soul Core to lure someone into taking the crystal and seize their body, and he realized Bei Bei would have been in danger without his intervention.
• Huo Yuhao used the Ghost Banner Martial Soul to draw out the Dragon Soul, and he and his allies beat it before trapping it inside the banner.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Dragon Soul again and ordered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to discipline it while he examined the changed crystal.
• The Golden Hawksbill identified the softened crystal as an unformed Soul Bone that Huo Yuhao could customize, potentially as an External Soul Bone.

Huo Yuhao postponed absorbing the Unformed Soul Bone and investigated whether he could create Soul of Arcana External Soul Bones. After A Hui revealed its origins and reincarnation technique, Huo Yuhao stored the Dragon Soul and began studying the refining method.

• Huo Yuhao considered using the Unformed Soul Bone to research how to mass-produce Soul of Arcana External Soul Bones.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm returned with A Hui subdued, and Huo Yuhao let the Dragon Soul speak after realizing its mouth was still sealed.
• A Hui explained that it was a mutated Ice Radiance Dragon that had developed a soul-core method to preserve its soul and seize a new body.
• Huo Yuhao verified A Hui's account, learned its Soul Core Reincarnation Method with the Myriad Laws Eye, and considered finding a Light Attribute dragon-type soul beast for his Mutated Frost Centipede Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao stored A Hui without making it a main soul, put away the Unformed Soul Bone, and began researching Soul of Arcana External Soul Bone refinement.

Huo Yuhao hunted soul beasts to obtain two soul rings for He Caitou, gaining a speed-boosting ice cigar and a poisonous bitter cigar. After testing the new cigar’s effects, he discovered it could strengthen poison and help Poison Attribute Soul Masters cultivate.

• Huo Yuhao learned that the Holy Spirit Cult’s captured followers had been exposed, while Third Elder remained at large and investigators suspected the Cihang Demon was a powerful Evil Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao found a ten-thousand-year Swift Ice Falcon and had He Caitou absorb its soul ring, creating a cigar that amplified speed by thirty percent.
• Huo Yuhao fed He Caitou souls to strengthen him, then defeated a twenty-thousand-year Snow Ibis and had He Caitou absorb its poisonous soul ring.
• He Caitou gained the fifth soul skill, Transform Soul into Poisonous Bitter Cigar, which made Soul Power poisonous and boosted Poison Attribute Soul Masters’ toxicity.
• Huo Yuhao tested the bitter cigar and concluded that it could gradually strengthen Poison Attribute Soul Masters’ toxicity and assist their cultivation.

Huo Yuhao destroyed a field of Far North Blood Roses and used their remains, death energy, resentment, and his own blood to refine a Blood Rose External Soul Bone. He absorbed it into his left little finger, successfully creating a new external soul bone.

• Huo Yuhao tested He Caitou’s improved cigar soul skills and found that his first-skill cigars now gave a thirty percent amplification effect and could be stored for more than two days.
• Huo Yuhao decided not to strengthen He Caitou further because doing so required Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast-level dog food, then kicked him back into the Ghost Banner Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao reached a snowy field of Far North Blood Roses, and A Hui explained that the flowers fed on fresh blood and had grown around the remains of dead soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao used Ice Haze Fist to destroy more than a thousand roses, preserved the oldest one, and killed it to obtain its remains.
• Huo Yuhao refined the dead rose with his blood, fortune, soul rings, death energy, and resentment, forming a crystal-clear Far North Blood Rose.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the refined rose into his left little finger and gained the Blood Rose External Soul Bone.

Huo Yuhao returned to the front line with a new Soul Bone, then left with Old Song and the others for Shrek Academy. There, he learned that He Caitou was still missing, Zhou Yi had resigned, and Xuan Zi had returned.

• Huo Yuhao examined his Soul Bone, discovered it could summon bloodsucking Far North Blood Rose resentful souls, and tested its power before returning to camp.
• Huo Yuhao brought back a Ten Thousand Year Ice Thorn Hog, greeted Old Song, and showed her his more complete Frost Centipede Armor.
• Old Song told Huo Yuhao the Beast Tide had ended and brought the group back to Shrek Academy without attending the celebration banquet.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Fan Yu had posted a missing-person notice for He Caitou and that Zhou Yi had resigned after Mu Jin's class isolated her.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Xuan Zi had returned from the Sun Moon Empire and watched the others celebrate with a sympathetic gaze.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Mu En, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe at Shrek Academy, where he revealed his rapid cultivation progress and received guidance about his future soul rings. Yan Shaozhe then privately took Huo Yuhao away to help Ma Xiaotao, while Bei Bei suspected the reason and left resentful over Shrek’s treatment of Tang Ya.

• Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei visited Mu En, where Xuan Zi apologized for his past mistake and welcomed Huo Yuhao as his junior brother.
• Huo Yuhao told Mu En that he had reached rank forty-five after obtaining a forty-thousand-year Vermillion Sunny Ice Toad soul ring, and Mu En warned him that future soul rings should come from dragon-type soul beasts.
• Yan Shaozhe privately summoned Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao realized that he was likely being asked to help Ma Xiaotao.
• Xuan Zi urged Bei Bei to put Shrek’s interests first, and Bei Bei inferred that Yan Shaozhe wanted Huo Yuhao to save Ma Xiaotao.
• Bei Bei angrily questioned Shrek’s fairness toward Tang Ya and vowed not to forgive Ma Xiaotao if she hurt Huo Yuhao again.

Yan Shaozhe brought Huo Yuhao to Ma Xiaotao’s ice coffin and asked him to use his Ultimate Ice to suppress her dangerous evil fire. Huo Yuhao succeeded, pretended to exhaust himself before curing her completely, and secretly sent a strand of golden Pseudo-Buddha’s Light into her Spiritual Sea.

• Yan Shaozhe told Huo Yuhao that Ma Xiaotao, his junior niece and a descendant of Ma Hongjun, was frozen to contain her worsening evil fire.
• Yan Shaozhe led Huo Yuhao to Ma Xiaotao’s ice coffin and asked him to suppress the fire with his Ultimate Ice Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao sensed that Ma Xiaotao was close to becoming an Evil Soul Master and found that his power could suppress her evil fire.
• Huo Yuhao spent an hour treating Ma Xiaotao, then pretended his Soul Power was depleted and said he could not resolve her condition all at once.
• Yan Shaozhe praised Huo Yuhao’s help, unaware that Huo Yuhao had secretly sent golden Pseudo-Buddha’s Light into Ma Xiaotao’s Spiritual Sea.

Ma Xiaotao woke in the black-red Evil Fire and was restrained as her training began, while Huo Yuhao spent the holiday cultivating at Shrek Academy and began studying poison arts. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao meeting Ouyang Zhen, the Poison Attribute master appointed to teach him.

• Ma Xiaotao awoke with blurred memories, but golden chains restrained her as golden tentacles approached and her training began.
• Huo Yuhao cultivated daily on Sea God Island, using the Golden Ancient Tree's amplification while secretly draining his Soul Power with the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus.
• Huo Yuhao practiced combat techniques with Xuan Zi as Mu En watched and considered teaching him World Domination.
• Mu En arranged for Huo Yuhao to study poison arts with Ouyang Zhen, a rank seventy-three Soul Saint and Poison Spirit Pearl user.
• Huo Yuhao met Ouyang Zhen and asked him to guide his study of poison arts.

Ouyang Zhen taught Huo Yuhao poison arts, then took away the pills Huo Yuhao made to study them. Huo Yuhao later awakened Ma Xiaotao and guided her into a special cultivation state that began transforming her martial soul, while Mu En secretly helped them.

• Ouyang Zhen taught Huo Yuhao about poison arts and Douluo Continent herbs, then asked him to demonstrate how he prepared medicine.
• Huo Yuhao made Eastern Heretic Kidney Qi Pills, and Ouyang Zhen tested them on two dogs before taking the remaining pills away to study.
• Huo Yuhao prepared himself and sealed off his Spiritual Sea before waking Ma Xiaotao from the Ice Coffin.
• Ma Xiaotao's evil fire erupted, and she pressed Huo Yuhao to the ground as their ice and fire entered a special cultivation state.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao began Evil Qi Ice and Fire Tempering, strengthening their bodies and Soul Power as Ma Xiaotao's flames shifted toward peach-red.
• Mu En sensed their cultivation, directed the Golden Ancient Tree to send Heaven and Earth Origin Power into the room, and anticipated that Shrek Academy would gain two heavenly prodigies.

After spending the night cultivating with Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao formed a Golden Core and discovered that his abilities had grown. He later saw a pillar of Fortune and an overwhelming list of Fate Configurations, while Ma Xiaotao woke and fled in embarrassment.

• Huo Yuhao realized his Soul Power had transformed into a Golden Core, strengthening his cultivation and granting him a connection to Ma Xiaotao.
• Ma Xiaotao woke in Huo Yuhao’s arms, remembered what had happened, and rushed out after throwing on clothes.
• Huo Yuhao left the Golden Ancient Tree and sat by the lake while Mu En stopped Xuan Zi and Bei Bei from disturbing him.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived excitedly to report that Ma Xiaotao had woken, delighting Xuan Zi and leaving Bei Bei with mixed feelings.
• Huo Yuhao’s Qi Observation Technique revealed a pillar of Fortune, his Fate Configuration tags, and a projection of Douluo Star.