Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian and He Caitou that he planned to found a sect, then revealed Snow Empress and explained that Soul Spirits would be its defining foundation. Ning Tian agreed to join, while Huo Yuhao said preparations were still needed before the sect could be founded.

• Huo Yuhao recounted his year at Mingde Hall and told Ning Tian and He Caitou that he wanted to found a sect.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he needed companions to face powerful enemies, and Ning Tian listed the funding, members, and distinctive qualities a sect required.
• Huo Yuhao brought Ning Tian and He Caitou to his villa and used his Spiritual Power to prevent others from spying on them.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Snow Empress and described her as a Soul Spirit that could fight, replace a Spirit Ring, and grow alongside a Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao said Soul Spirits would be the foundation of his sect and invited Ning Tian and He Caitou to join; Ning Tian eagerly agreed.

Huo Yuhao recruited Ning Tian and He Caitou into his planned sect, Spirit Pagoda, and revealed Soul Tool designs that ordinary people could use with Milk Bottles. He left Ning Tian to explore a business partnership with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School as the sect’s initial administrator.

• Ning Tian and He Caitou agreed to join Huo Yuhao’s sect.
• Huo Yuhao gave He Caitou blueprints for Soul Tools he had designed, and He Caitou praised their potential to be powered by Milk Bottles for ordinary people.
• Huo Yuhao offered He Caitou responsibility for the sect’s Soul Tools and promised to secure the rare metals needed to make them.
• Huo Yuhao asked He Caitou to make one of each design for Ning Tian to send to her father, and requested a business meeting in Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao named Ning Tian as the planned sect’s initial administrator and asked her to build a cooperative relationship with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that the new sect would be called Spirit Pagoda.

Huo Yuhao named his new sect the Spirit Pagoda and planned to use the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu branch as a hidden base. When Electrolux explained the Soul Replacement Technique’s demanding requirements, Ilyas brought Huo Yuhao to the Undead Demiplane to seek high-level Wraiths.

• Ning Tian and He Caitou approved of the Spirit Pagoda name and left Huo Yuhao’s villa eager to help build the sect.
• Huo Yuhao copied Soul Tool designs and decided the Spirit Pagoda would follow a high-tech path.
• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux for a way to secretly read and control members of the Holy Spirit Cult, and Electrolux described the Soul Replacement Technique.
• Electrolux warned that the technique required precise control and a masterless Wraith at least as powerful as a Soul Douluo for each target.
• Ilyas offered to take Huo Yuhao somewhere with high-level Wraiths and transported him to the Undead Demiplane.

Huo Yuhao and Ilyas entered the Undead Demiplane, where Ilyas explained how he created the realm and the undead creatures he left there. The chapter ended with hundreds of skeletons kneeling before Ilyas’s aura as he taught Huo Yuhao about undead creatures and their attraction to life energy.

• Ilyas revealed that he had created the Undead Demiplane and explained that it held undead creatures that had survived and multiplied for over a thousand years.
• Ilyas explained the difference between demiplanes and complete worlds, and said he had created the realm to research Undead Magic and its life-force cost.
• Ilyas led Huo Yuhao over a hill, where hundreds of skeletons turned toward them.
• Ilyas shielded Huo Yuhao with a membrane bearing his Divine Sense, and the skeletons stopped and knelt.
• Ilyas explained that undead creatures sought life energy, that Huo Yuhao’s Gold of Life was especially tempting to them, and that ordinary skeletons were the weakest undead creatures in the demiplane.

Ilyas showed Huo Yuhao the Undead Demiplane and summoned its vast undead forces, providing him with enough Wraiths for his plan against the Holy Spirit Cult. The next day, Huo Yuhao spotted Ghost Nana in the academy cafeteria and approached her.

• Ilyas explained that he could summon undead from his demiplane, then called forth a huge tide of creatures under his command.
• Ilyas estimated that his plane held a few hundred thousand undead and showed Huo Yuhao that it contained more than enough Wraiths for his plan.
• After returning to the villa, Ilyas taught Huo Yuhao the incantation for opening the Undead Demiplane and resumed recovering his Divine Sense.
• The next day, Huo Yuhao searched the academy cafeteria with Mental Detection and spotted Ghost Nana, an outstanding student and reserve tournament contestant.
• Huo Yuhao picked up his food and headed toward Na Na as she ate alone in a secluded corner.

Huo Yuhao approached Na Na and claimed he could help save her parents, but she used her Wraith soul skill to control him and led him to a secluded alley. After he absorbed the Wraith and restrained her with Undead Magic, Na Na was left unable to move, and Huo Yuhao confronted her for trying to kill him.

• Huo Yuhao told Na Na he could help save her parents, causing her to break her chopsticks and question who he was.
• Na Na used her Wraith soul skill to control Huo Yuhao, then followed him to a secluded alley.
• Na Na attacked Huo Yuhao with a small blade and her Class 6 Blink Sword, but he dodged both attacks.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed Na Na's Wraith and used Undead Magic to restrain her.
• Huo Yuhao confronted Na Na for trying to kill him before learning who he was.

Huo Yuhao stopped Na Na from destroying her martial soul and promised to help rescue her parents. After Na Na visited him that night, she agreed to become his master if he could free their souls.

• Na Na believed Huo Yuhao was an enemy and tried to destroy her martial soul, but he knocked her unconscious with a Mental Spike.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the academy, spent the afternoon studying in Mingde Hall, and went home to cultivate.
• Na Na found Huo Yuhao's villa and asked him to explain how he had gained control over part of her soul.
• Huo Yuhao pressed Na Na about whether she wanted to save her parents, and she admitted that she did.
• Na Na vowed to become Huo Yuhao's master and obey him if he could free her parents' souls.

Na Na offered herself to Huo Yuhao in exchange for help rescuing her parents, and he accepted her as his Deathsworn after placing a personality inside her. After spending the night together, Huo Yuhao asked her about the Holy Spirit Cult's Mingdu branch, learning that its former leaders and protectors had died in the attack on Shrek.

• Na Na learned Huo Yuhao's identity and decided he could not be allied with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Na Na offered to become Huo Yuhao's Deathsworn if he helped save her parents, and Huo Yuhao accepted her offer and gave her a complete personality.
• Na Na called Huo Yuhao “Young Master,” and the two spent the night together.
• Huo Yuhao asked Na Na about the Holy Spirit Cult's Mingdu branch after she cleaned the room and washed up.
• Na Na explained that the branch was led by the Great Holy Spirit and the Second Holy Spirit, both Soul Emperors, and that its Branch Elder and protectors had died in the attack on Shrek.

Na Na explained the Mingdu branch of the Holy Spirit Cult and its Holy Spirit Flag to Huo Yuhao, who agreed to infiltrate the branch and help rescue her parents’ souls. That night, they reached the Black Thorns Security Company, where Huo Yuhao used Electrolux’s death aura to pose as an Evil Soul Master and prove himself to the guard.

• Na Na told Huo Yuhao that Great Holy Spirit possessed a Holy Spirit Flag that controlled hundreds of Wraiths, but Huo Yuhao said he could handle him.
• Huo Yuhao asked Na Na to take him to the branch that night as a newly recruited member and promised to help free her parents’ souls.
• After checking in at Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao met Na Na outside his villa and used his Simulation Soul Skill to travel with her undetected.
• Na Na led Huo Yuhao to the Holy Spirit Cult’s hidden Mingdu branch, which operated out of the Black Thorns Security Company.
• When the guard demanded proof of Huo Yuhao’s identity, Huo Yuhao summoned Electrolux and displayed a powerful aura of death.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult's Mingdu branch with Na Na and confronted its Great Holy Spirit and Second Holy Spirit. He incapacitated both Soul Emperors and left Na Na to guard them while he went after the other cult members.

• Huo Yuhao used his martial soul, which he called Death Bringers, to convince the masked gatekeeper to let him and Na Na enter the branch.
• Na Na introduced Huo Yuhao, posing as Tang Er, to the Great Holy Spirit and Second Holy Spirit, who summoned him into their hall.
• Huo Yuhao transformed into Jing Hongchen and announced that he had been ordered to exterminate the Holy Spirit Cult, prompting the two leaders to flee.
• Huo Yuhao used Lost Illusion to knock out the Great Holy Spirit and Second Holy Spirit, then struck them with Mental Spikes to keep them unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao told Na Na to watch the two leaders while he went to deal with the other cult members.

Huo Yuhao turned the Mingdu branch of the Holy Spirit Cult into a secret base by replacing its members’ souls with Wraiths under Ilyas’s guidance. After helping Na Na’s parents find peace, he revealed his plan to establish the Spirit Pagoda and use the branch to infiltrate the cult.

• Huo Yuhao transported the Great Holy Spirit and the other branch members to the Undead Demiplane, where Ilyas replaced their souls with Wraiths that retained their memories and appearances.
• Huo Yuhao returned with the obedient puppets and ordered the Great Holy Spirit to release Na Na’s parents’ souls.
• Huo Yuhao eased the suffering of Na Na’s parents, and their souls smiled and faded away as Na Na said goodbye.
• Na Na vowed to devote herself to Huo Yuhao, who asked her to find the branch’s five other Spirit Servants so he could free their relatives’ souls.
• Huo Yuhao told Na Na he planned to establish the Spirit Pagoda and secretly use the Mingdu branch to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Cult, offering the relatives a choice between leaving in silence or joining the sect under a soul-binding technique.

Huo Yuhao arranged to establish his own sect and developed Soul Tools for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School. He met its master, Ning Xiuyuan, and proposed that the school manufacture the designs in a dedicated factory.

• Huo Yuhao told Na Na he planned to establish a sect and asked her to warn the Holy Spirit Cult members that he would take their Soul Imprints as a precaution.
• He Caitou produced samples of Huo Yuhao's Soul Tools, and Ning Tian tested them before sending the samples and a letter to her sect.
• Ning Tian told Huo Yuhao that her father had arrived, and she brought him to meet Ning Xiuyuan at the Spirit Pagoda's Mingdu base.
• Ning Xiuyuan praised the Soul Tools and offered to pay for a sufficient supply, while Huo Yuhao proposed that the school build a factory and learn to manufacture them.

Huo Yuhao negotiated a Soul Tool manufacturing partnership with Ning Xiuyuan, who agreed to provide the factory, staff, and materials in exchange for the technology and a share of external sales. The chapter ended with Ning Xiuyuan entrusting Ning Tian to Huo Yuhao’s care and quietly considering their growing closeness.

• Huo Yuhao offered to teach the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School Soul Tool manufacturing, including Core Arrays, in exchange for strict secrecy, half the profits from external sales, decision-making authority, and help sourcing rare metals.
• Ning Xiuyuan accepted the terms and promised to personally oversee the factory’s personnel screening.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Xiuyuan to prepare the factory and said he would send the blueprints through Ning Tian once everything was ready.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Ning Xiuyuan that the sect would not risk losing someone like him, and Ning Xiuyuan praised his talent and offered future help.
• Ning Xiuyuan asked Huo Yuhao to look after Ning Tian in the Sun Moon Empire, making Ning Tian blush and protest.
• Ning Xiuyuan noticed Ning Tian might be developing feelings for Huo Yuhao and privately found the prospect less troubling than he had expected.

Huo Yuhao introduced Snow Empress and the Spirit Pagoda to Ning Xiuyuan, proposing a major partnership with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School. He began demonstrating Snow Empress’s independent combat ability, leaving Ning Xiuyuan ready to see her strength.

• Ning Xiuyuan praised Huo Yuhao’s maturity and prepared to return to his school after discussing a Soul Tool factory partnership.
• Huo Yuhao called their discussion trivial and summoned Snow Empress to demonstrate his Soul Spirit to Ning Xiuyuan and Ning Tian.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Soul Spirits could think independently and assist in battle, then proposed a deep partnership between the Spirit Pagoda and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ning Xiuyuan to help establish the Spirit Pagoda’s headquarters in the Dou Ling Empire and recruit trustworthy soul masters with the Spiritual Attribute.
• Ning Xiuyuan agreed to witness Snow Empress’s combat ability, and Snow Empress moved to begin the demonstration.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated the Snow Empress’s power to Ning Xiuyuan and won the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School’s support for founding his sect. After explaining the requirements for Soul Spirits, he prepared to reveal how he could provide soul beasts, having first made Ning Xiuyuan swear to keep the secret.

• The Snow Empress froze Ning Xiuyuan with Great Cold No Snow, then demonstrated how the Ice Burst Technique could destroy a frozen chair from within.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Snow Empress could use his ice abilities and offered the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School a chance to give its disciples Soul Spirits.
• Ning Xiuyuan agreed to support Huo Yuhao’s sect and establish a close cooperative relationship between their sides.
• Huo Yuhao explained the three requirements for forming Soul Spirits, including an empty Spirit Ring slot, a Soul Spirit Contract, and a willing soul beast for those over a thousand years old.
• Huo Yuhao promised to provide a stable supply of soul beasts but required Ning Xiuyuan to swear a poisonous oath before revealing his secret, and Ning Xiuyuan swore it.

Huo Yuhao revealed Snow Empress’s identity and promoted Soul Spirits to Ning Xiuyuan as the basis for a new sect and cooperation with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School. Ning Xiuyuan agreed to help build the sect, and Huo Yuhao asked him to find a mountain location near the school.

• Huo Yuhao introduced Snow Empress as the former Heavenly Snow Woman and foremost of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the North Pole, shocking Ning Xiuyuan and Ning Tian.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Xiuyuan a fabricated story about meeting Snow Empress in the North Pole and helping her become the first Soul Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Soul Spirits could grant multiple Spirit Skills, help soul masters advance without hunting Spirit Rings, and ease conflict between humans and soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao claimed Snow Empress could help arrange Soul Spirit contracts with soul beasts in the North Pole and the Star Dou Great Forest, concealing Qiu'er’s real connection to its rulers.
• Ning Xiuyuan accepted Huo Yuhao’s proposal and promised to help build the sect, then asked what cooperation between the two sects would involve.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ning Xiuyuan to find a large mountain range near the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School in the Dou Ling Empire for his sect’s headquarters.

Huo Yuhao negotiated with Ning Xiuyuan to build his new sect with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School’s help, offering Soul Tool blueprints and Soul Spirit benefits in return. He left Ning Tian slated to manage the sect’s early development and serve as a link between the two groups.

• Huo Yuhao told Ning Xiuyuan he wanted to build a large sect and asked him to help with its construction, manpower, and materials.
• Huo Yuhao offered Ning Xiuyuan Soul Tool blueprints, including research from Mingde Hall, and Ning Xiuyuan accepted the arrangement as worthwhile.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ning Xiuyuan to recruit loyal Spiritual Attribute Soul Masters, promising them Soul Spirit contracts and free Soul Spirits while warning that betrayal would be punished.
• Huo Yuhao offered to help Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School direct-line disciples find Soul Spirits for free in exchange for recruiting its Spiritual Attribute Soul Engineers into his sect.
• Huo Yuhao chose Ning Tian to manage the sect during its early development and act as a link between it and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.

Huo Yuhao and Ning Xiuyuan agreed that Ning Tian would help oversee the New Sect while continuing her soul master cultivation, and Ning Xiuyuan returned home to prepare. Huo Yuhao settled into life at Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, where rumors about him spread until three students approached him in the cafeteria.

• Huo Yuhao told Ning Xiuyuan that Ning Tian should focus on cultivation and New Sect construction, while the blueprints could support her future Soul Tool studies.
• Ning Xiuyuan approved the plan and asked Huo Yuhao to look after Ning Tian before departing to make preparations.
• Ning Tian studied plans for the New Sect with Huo Yuhao, while he referenced Soul Tools and continued his lessons at the academy.
• Students grew jealous of Huo Yuhao and spread rumors after learning he had once led Shrek's team to defeat Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy.
• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi ate lunch together, and a brawny student, a petite girl, and a handsome blond student approached their table.
• Huo Yuhao looked at the newcomers and asked, "Something wrong?"

Huo Yuhao provoked Wang Shaojie in the cafeteria and knocked him unconscious when Wang tried to grab him. He later stood with Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu before Xuan Ziwen and Lin Jiayi as Ju Zi explained what happened.

• Wang Shaojie confronted Huo Yuhao over eating with Ju Zi and mocked him for supposedly being expelled from Shrek.
• Huo Yuhao insulted Wang Shaojie, who angrily reached to grab him.
• Huo Yuhao seized Wang Shaojie's arm and slammed him through a dining table, shielding himself and Ju Zi from the splashing food.
• Huo Yuhao asked the cafeteria witnesses to testify that Wang Shaojie had tried to bully him and that he had acted in self-defense.
• Ju Zi recounted the incident to Xuan Ziwen and Lin Jiayi, while Zi Mu and Ke Ke were present as witnesses.

Lin Jiayi ruled that Huo Yuhao had acted in self-defense when Wang Shaojie attacked him, while Xuan Ziwen warned Wang Shaojie not to seek trouble with the powerful new Mingde Hall member. Wang Shaojie vowed to get revenge by enlisting Ji Juechen, and the next day an unfamiliar young man came to meet Huo Yuhao.

• Zi Mu confirmed that Wang Shaojie had provoked and attacked Huo Yuhao first, so Lin Jiayi cleared Huo Yuhao and gave Wang Shaojie a formal warning.
• Xuan Ziwen sent Huo Yuhao back to Mingde Hall and warned Zi Mu, Ke Ke, and Ju Zi that the Hongchen Hall Master had personally recruited him.
• Ju Zi told Zi Mu and Ke Ke that Huo Yuhao had fought for Shrek in the previous tournament and was a Sixth-Rank Soul Tool Master recruited into Mingde Hall.
• Wang Shaojie rejected Zi Mu's advice to let the matter go and vowed to hire Ji Juechen to take revenge on Huo Yuhao.
• The next day, a staff member summoned Huo Yuhao from Mingde Hall, where he met an unfamiliar, strikingly handsome young man.