Chapter Summaries

Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan came to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy after Wang Shaojie hired Ji Juechen to beat up Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao turned the confrontation into a wager and led Ji Juechen to the Soul Tool Training Ground, where he prepared to test whether the Sword Fanatic was worth recruiting.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan when they arrived, and Ji Juechen said Wang Shaojie had paid him to fight Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao refused to fight for nothing, and Ji Juechen offered to give him the money Wang Shaojie had paid if Huo Yuhao won.
• Huo Yuhao wagered his own Rare Metal Quota against Ji Juechen's monthly quota, then deterred Jing Ziyan from forcing a fight by showing Level 6 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells.
• Ji Juechen accepted Huo Yuhao's wager, saying that fighting a strong opponent would help temper him.
• Huo Yuhao, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan went to the Soul Tool Training Ground, where Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen took opposite sides of the arena.

Huo Yuhao faced Ji Juechen in the Soul Tool Training Ground and discovered that Ji’s sword intent could help him understand his own path. As Ji’s challenge sparked another moment of enlightenment, Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea began expanding again.

• Ji Juechen challenged Huo Yuhao with his Heavenly Meteorite Iron Sword, merging his martial soul and sword into one.
• Huo Yuhao released his own powerful sword intent after drinking from a wine flask, astonishing Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan.
• Ji Juechen adjusted his stance and sword intent to withstand Huo Yuhao’s pressure, then forced himself back into his original position despite coughing blood.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the unique personal intent in Ji Juechen’s swordsmanship and resolved to pursue his own unrestrained path of freedom.
• Huo Yuhao entered a sudden enlightenment, causing his Spiritual Sea to surge and expand as the Snow Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reacted with surprise and excitement.

Huo Yuhao’s sudden sword strike tore through several walls in the Soul Tool Training Ground, and he entered Deep Meditation. After three months, he awakened with golden eyes and greatly increased Spiritual Power, advancing further within the realm of Boundless Sea.

• Huo Yuhao’s uncontrolled sword strike narrowly missed Ji Juechen and cleaved through several metal doors, triggering alarms.
• Jing Hongchen arrived, heard Jing Ziyan’s account, and ordered Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan to keep the incident secret.
• Jing Hongchen recognized Huo Yuhao’s Enlightened Deep Meditation, sealed off the Training Ground, and sent Meng Hongchen to inform Ning Tian and He Caitou.
• Huo Yuhao remained in Deep Meditation for three months as Jing Hongchen and the others left him undisturbed.
• Huo Yuhao awakened with radiant golden eyes after his Spiritual Power surged further within the realm of Boundless Sea.

After awakening from a three-month Deep Meditation, Huo Yuhao planned to visit the New Sect with Ning Tian during the academy break. Ji Juechen confronted him for a spar, but Huo Yuhao turned him down and left him determined to keep pursuing him.

• Ning Tian told Huo Yuhao that he had meditated for over three months and that the New Sect's basic construction was nearly complete.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to visit the New Sect with Ning Tian during the break and teach suitable Spiritual Attribute soul masters to form Soul Spirit Contracts.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Meng Hongchen had often visited him during his meditation, then informed Jing Hongchen that he had awakened and asked him to pass a message to Meng.
• Ji Juechen thanked Huo Yuhao for inspiring his sword comprehension and asked to test Huo Yuhao's progress, but Huo Yuhao demanded the promised Rare Metal Quota and refused to spar.
• Huo Yuhao told Ji Juechen he was far too weak to be worth fighting, and Ji Juechen vowed to pursue him and demanded to know what would make Huo Yuhao spar with him.

After emerging from three months of Deep Meditation, Huo Yuhao joined Ju Zi and Ke Ke to field-test Xuan Ziwen's All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool in the Jingyang Mountain Range. The three set out from the academy with Huo Yuhao equipped with an upgraded Class 7 Flight Soul Tool.

• Huo Yuhao left Ji Juechen after displaying his sword intent, confident Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan would eventually join him.
• Huo Yuhao visited Xuan Ziwen's laboratory, where Xuan Ziwen assigned him, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke to test the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool outside the academy.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian and He Caitou about his plans, then studied in Mingde Hall and discovered that his Spiritual Power had greatly improved.
• Huo Yuhao met Ju Zi and Ke Ke at the academy gates the next morning, and they agreed to travel to the Jingyang Mountain Range and try cooking Soul Beast meat.
• Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke took flight toward the Jingyang Mountain Range, with Huo Yuhao using a Class 7 Flight Soul Tool upgraded by Jing Hongchen.

Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Huo Yuhao traveled toward the Jingyang Mountain Range, where Huo Yuhao hoped to find a suitable soul beast. After Ju Zi’s cooking reminded him of a lost friend, she explained the range’s dangers and why the Sun Moon Empire protected it instead of fully mining it.

• Ju Zi and Ke Ke told Huo Yuhao that the Jingyang Mountain Range held metal- and spiritual-type soul beasts, though suitable spirit rings might be difficult to find.
• After flying for over two hours, Ju Zi prepared a meal; her cooking reminded Huo Yuhao of a woman he had lost, and Ju Zi gently assumed he meant his mother.
• The three resumed their journey, and Ju Zi described the mountain range’s spider-like shape, its powerful soul beasts, and the dangers of Jingyang Peak.
• Ju Zi explained that the Sun Moon Empire limited mining to the tributary ranges because developing the central range could provoke catastrophic soul-beast attacks.

Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke camped near the Jingyang Mountain Range, where Huo Yuhao prepared a grilled-meat and hot-pot feast from a Silly Roe Deer. The meal delighted the women, and Ke Ke teased Ju Zi about Huo Yuhao being her dream chef.

• Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao agreed to rest outside the Jingyang Mountain Range and search for suitable soul beasts the next day.
• Ke Ke suggested hot pot for dinner, and Huo Yuhao used True Sight to find and catch a Silly Roe Deer.
• Huo Yuhao prepared a Shuankao Integrated Pot with hot pot broth and an outer grilling ring, then cooked the deer meat for Ju Zi and Ke Ke.
• Ju Zi and Ke Ke relished the grilled meat, and Ke Ke teased Ju Zi that Huo Yuhao might be the chef fate had chosen for her.
• Ju Zi blushed and scolded Ke Ke for talking nonsense.

Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke traveled through Soul Beast territory to field-test Xuan’s newly developed All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool. After studying its manual and features, Huo Yuhao watched Ju Zi begin operating the spherical machine.

• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi and Ke Ke finished their hotpot dinner, cultivated through the night, and ate Huo Yuhao’s breakfast the next morning.
• Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke continued their journey on foot because flying through Soul Beast territory was too dangerous.
• Ju Zi showed Huo Yuhao the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool and explained its armor, shield, concealment, terrain mobility, and ejection system.
• Huo Yuhao quickly memorized the manual and inspected the Soul Tool’s cabin and controls.
• Ju Zi sealed the sphere and began operating it, raising it on its six legs as Huo Yuhao observed with True Sight.

Ju Zi and Ke Ke operated the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool through the Jingyang Mountain Range, and Huo Yuhao took over to test its controls. He sensed an Evil Soul Master encounter in the nearby woods and discovered that a rare Nightmare Dog was trapped there.

• Ju Zi started the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool, and Huo Yuhao studied its mechanisms as they traveled toward the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Ju Zi let Huo Yuhao take control, and he quickly mastered the machine's movements using True Sight and the Ice God Eyes.
• Huo Yuhao heard a canine cry, extended Mental Detection toward the nearby Small Woods, and sensed a sinister aura.
• Huo Yuhao detected Evil Soul Masters trapping a wounded Nightmare Dog, a rare soul beast compatible with his Ice God Eyes Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Ten Thousand Souls Douluo had trapped and wounded a rare Nightmare Dog, which he wanted as a Spirit Ring. He left Ju Zi and Ke Ke behind and secretly approached the battle, where Ten Thousand Souls Douluo prepared to weaken the beast with an Eighth Level Soul Tool.

• Huo Yuhao identified the nearly two-meter Nightmare Dog as a Soul Beast with at least ninety thousand years of cultivation and dangerous spiritual and dark abilities.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the old man as Rank 91 Ten Thousand Souls Douluo, a powerful Evil Soul Master carrying the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Huo Yuhao decided the Nightmare Dog would make a good Spirit Ring and told Ju Zi and Ke Ke to stay behind.
• Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill to reach the battlefield without being noticed.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo planned to use the Nightmare Dog to strengthen a flawed Wraith in his banner, and Huo Yuhao quietly drank from a wine flask nearby.

Huo Yuhao unleashed his new spirit-targeting sword skill against Ten Thousand Souls Douluo, whose Wraiths and domain failed to stop him. The chapter ended as Huo Yuhao's flaming black greatsword descended on the Evil Soul Master.

• Huo Yuhao formed a massive black sword and used Peerless Sword Skill: Slaying Ghosts and Gods against Ten Thousand Souls Douluo.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo summoned twelve Sea Soul Beast Wraiths, including a Mermaid Wraith whose song briefly slowed Huo Yuhao.
• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo activated Ten Thousand Souls True Body and unleashed a domain filled with Wraiths.
• Huo Yuhao spread freezing wind and snow across the domain, concealed himself with Snow Concealment, and sent gray-flamed swords through the Wraiths.
• Huo Yuhao's greatsword blazed with gray flames and cleaved down toward Ten Thousand Souls Douluo.

Huo Yuhao killed Ten Thousand Souls Douluo and captured the damaged Ten Thousand Souls Banner, then subdued the wounded Nightmare Dog. He returned to Ju Zi and Ke Ke, who were still waiting inside the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool.

• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo fled after Huo Yuhao destroyed most of his wraiths, but Huo Yuhao used Archangel's Sword to pierce his defenses and split the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Huo Yuhao killed Ten Thousand Souls Douluo with an icy blue sword strike, collected his corpse, and took the damaged banner containing the injured Mermaid Wraith.
• Huo Yuhao trapped himself and the Nightmare Dog in an ice prison, froze the area with his Eternal Freeze Domain, and struck the beast until it could no longer resist.
• Huo Yuhao froze the nearly defeated Nightmare Dog and carried it back toward the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao reunited with Ju Zi and Ke Ke, who had stayed inside the vehicle and discussed how powerful the Nightmare Dog might be.

Huo Yuhao returned with an injured Nightmare Dog and absorbed its ninety-thousand-year Spirit Ring while Ju Zi and Ke Ke kept watch. As Huo Yuhao continued the fusion, Ke Ke wandered back to the battlefield and found a damaged banner that she suspected was a Soul Tool.

• Ju Zi warned Ke Ke that the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool could not defend against the Nightmare Dog’s Soul-Devouring Touch.
• Huo Yuhao returned with a frozen Nightmare Dog, explaining that a passing powerful soul master had subdued it and given it to him.
• Huo Yuhao killed the Nightmare Dog with Ultimate Ice and began absorbing its black Spirit Ring as Ju Zi and Ke Ke stood guard.
• Ke Ke grew bored and left Ju Zi to explore the area where Huo Yuhao had fought earlier.
• Ke Ke found a damaged half-banner and decided it might be an advanced Soul Tool worth studying.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Nightmare Dog’s Soul-Devouring Touch and purified the Mermaid Wraith, who thanked him before dissolving. Ju Zi suspected that Huo Yuhao had killed a Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Master, while the Mermaid’s departing blue light left him feeling refreshed.

• Ke Ke showed Ju Zi a damaged half flag, and Ju Zi recognized its aura as similar to that of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters.
• Ju Zi concluded that Huo Yuhao had likely killed the Evil Soul Master he encountered and taken the Nightmare Dog, while ruling out the possibility that Huo Yuhao was an Evil Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao finished absorbing the Nightmare Dog’s Spirit Skill, Soul-Devouring Touch, and agreed to continue testing Soul Tools after one more task.
• Huo Yuhao released the Mermaid Wraith and used Ilyas’s Purification Spell to cleanse her resentment.
• The purified Mermaid Soul sang of her suffering, bowed to Huo Yuhao, and dispersed into white light after blue radiance entered his body and refreshed him.

After freeing the Mermaid Soul, Huo Yuhao headed north to fulfill her request to find the Sea Princess clan. He entered the Ice Sea and encountered a hostile group of Sea Demon Elephants.

• The Mermaid Soul asked Huo Yuhao to tell her mother in the Sea Princess clan that she had been freed, then dissipated.
• Huo Yuhao finished testing the Soul Tool with Ju Zi and Ke Ke, then waited until they had returned to Mingdu before flying north.
• Huo Yuhao reached Ok City and crossed the coastline into the Ice Sea, telling Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that a prophecy had led him there.
• Huo Yuhao flew farther north across the icy sea, using Simulation to conceal his strength from Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao spotted several hundred hostile Sea Demon Elephants gathered on a massive iceberg below him.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Sea Demon Elephant herd had attacked him because they considered humans and Soul Beasts evil, then used his Snow Empress Spirit Bone skill to overwhelm the herd. He left the elephants unharmed but terrified, demonstrating the vast difference in strength between them.

• Huo Yuhao recognized that the unusually large Sea Demon Elephant herd had little threat to him and did not initially guard against it.
• Twelve leader Sea Demon Elephants blew golden conches, removing the air currents and sending Huo Yuhao plummeting toward the sea.
• Huo Yuhao used an exploding piece of floating ice to create an updraft, slowed his fall, and landed on an iceberg.
• Huo Yuhao asked the elephants why they had attacked, and one leader accused evil humans and Soul Beasts of deserving death before ordering the herd to charge.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed Snow Dance Shining Sunlight, swept the elephants into the air, then eased the blizzard and lowered them safely beside their leaders.
• The Sea Demon Elephant leaders realized Huo Yuhao had crushed them through overwhelming strength.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated precise control over the Sea Demon Elephants, but a powerful sea energy transported him from the glacier to the ocean depths. Surrounded by hostile Sea Princesses and other Sea Soul Beasts, he tried to explain that he had come to deliver a message, but their crowned leader threatened to kill him.

• Huo Yuhao safely lowered the Sea Demon Elephants, convincing their leaders that they could not resist him.
• Deep-blue energy enveloped Huo Yuhao and transported him from the glacier into the ocean depths.
• Huo Yuhao found himself surrounded by hundreds of Sea Soul Beasts and a group of mermaids whose linked mental power blocked his detection.
• A crowned mermaid identified the ocean's power as the Sea God's and warned Huo Yuhao not to resist.
• Huo Yuhao said another mermaid had sent him to deliver a message, but the crowned mermaid rejected his explanation and threatened him.

The Sea Princess learned that Huo Yuhao had delivered Li Ya’s final message and asked him to try to awaken the other half of her daughter’s soul. Huo Yuhao agreed to examine Li Ya, and the Sea Princess brought him to the mermaid kingdom’s Coral Palace.

• The Sea Princess arrived with the Sea Demon Elephant Leader and confronted Huo Yuhao about his claim that Li Ya had entrusted him with a message.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had rescued and purified Li Ya’s soul, and that her remnant soul had dissipated after she asked him to tell her mother not to search for her.
• Li Jing revealed that half of Li Ya’s soul remained in her body, and the Sea Princess begged Huo Yuhao to help save her daughter.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to examine Li Ya but warned that he could not promise to solve her condition.
• The Sea Princess carried Huo Yuhao in a protective bubble through the underwater mermaid city to the Coral Palace.

Huo Yuhao examined Li Ya and discovered that half of her soul was missing, leaving her close to death. Ilyas revealed the Soul Fusion Technique as a possible way to save her, but Huo Yuhao lacked the cultivation and Spiritual Power needed to perform it.

• The Sea Princess and her daughter brought Huo Yuhao to Li Ya, who lay unconscious on a Cold Jade Bed.
• Huo Yuhao used True Sight and found that half of Li Ya's soul was missing, so he initially said he could not help her.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ilyas to examine Li Ya, and Ilyas confirmed that conventional methods could not save her.
• Ilyas described the Soul Fusion Technique, which could replenish Li Ya's damaged soul by fusing it with a portion of another person's soul.
• Ilyas told Huo Yuhao that the technique required a Second Soul Core, Titled Douluo cultivation, and Tangible and Formed Spiritual Power, leaving Huo Yuhao uncertain how soon he could meet those requirements.

Huo Yuhao explained that he might save Li Ya by restoring her soul and making her a Soul Spirit, but his cultivation and Spiritual Power were not yet strong enough to perform the technique. The Sea Princess agreed to the possibility and was stunned to learn how advanced Huo Yuhao already was.

• Huo Yuhao told the Sea Princess that he could not save Li Ya with his current cultivation, though he described a secret technique that could restore her soul.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Li Ya's damaged body could not be saved, but her soul might survive as a Soul Spirit.
• The Snow Empress appeared before the Sea Princess and explained that a Soul Spirit was a symbiotic form of life like herself.
• The Sea Princess agreed to let Huo Yuhao try to save Li Ya and asked what cultivation the technique required.
• Huo Yuhao said he needed to reach Titled Douluo, condense a second Soul Core, and advance his Spiritual Power to Tangible and Formed.
• The Sea Princess was shocked to learn that Huo Yuhao was an eighty-fourth-rank Soul Douluo with Tangible but Formless Spiritual Power and a Soul Core.