Chapter Summaries

Voldemort offered Yu Xiaogang power and revenge in exchange for his soul, and Yu Xiaogang accepted despite Liu Erlong’s pleas. The transformation restored Yu Xiaogang’s youth and manhood and gave him the Sacred Giant Dragon and the strength of a level seventy Soul Saint, leaving him eager to take revenge.

• Yu Xiaogang recoiled from Liu Erlong’s concern and tried to leave, then lashed out at her when she stopped him.
• Voldemort entered the room and offered Yu Xiaogang power, restored health, youth, and manhood in exchange for his soul.
• Liu Erlong warned Yu Xiaogang not to accept, but he shoved her aside and signed the blood contract.
• The contract transformed Yu Xiaogang into a young level seventy Soul Saint with the Sacred Giant Dragon martial soul.
• Yu Xiaogang vowed revenge against Tang San and Bibi Dong as Liu Erlong watched him in tears.

Voldemort gave Yu Xiaogang the Holy Dragon Martial Soul and level seventy Soul Power, and Yu Xiaogang dismissed Liu Erlong’s fears about the contract before turning on her. Zhuang Ming burst in, attacked Yu Xiaogang, and claimed that he and Liu Erlong had been lovers, leaving Yu Xiaogang raging over her supposed betrayal.

• Voldemort vanished after telling Yu Xiaogang the contract had taken effect, and Yu Xiaogang approached Liu Erlong with a predatory gaze.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Liu Erlong that Voldemort did not want his soul, then carried her toward the bed as she tearfully accepted his choice.
• Zhuang Ming kicked down the guest-room door and struck Yu Xiaogang with his Mighty Rending Claw, sending him through a wall.
• Zhuang Ming held Liu Erlong back and told Yu Xiaogang that he had cared for her for twenty years and had become her lover three months earlier.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Liu Erlong of cheating, while Liu Erlong denied Zhuang Ming’s claims and Zhuang Ming recounted her drunken confession.

Zhuang Ming overwhelmed Yu Xiaogang by using his Dragon-Eating Ant Martial Soul to suppress Yu Xiaogang’s Sacred Giant Dragon and beat him into submission. Yu Xiaogang was left humiliated in the rubble, while Voldemort watched from the shadows and considered how he might use him.

• Yu Xiaogang erupted with Soul Sage power and attacked Zhuang Ming and Liu Erlong in a rage.
• Zhuang Ming revealed his Dragon-Eating Ant Martial Soul, causing Yu Xiaogang’s Sacred Giant Dragon to tremble and weakening his Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to use Sacred Dragon Breath, but Zhuang Ming broke his arm, forced him to his knees, and stomped him into the floor.
• Zhuang Ming mocked Yu Xiaogang’s lack of combat skill, warned him not to touch Teacher again, and kicked him into the rubble.
• Voldemort watched from the shadows, judged Yu Xiaogang worthless, and decided he could still be useful before disappearing.

The Continental Young Soul Master Tournament opened as Pope Qian Xunji explained the dangers of the secret realm and its rules. After the contestants heard warnings and encouragement from the representatives, Qian Xunji declared the tournament begun and ordered the secret-realm entrance opened.

• Hundreds of soul masters gathered for the tournament as representatives of the major powers took their seats.
• Qian Xunji warned that the secret realm held rival contestants, dangerous soul beasts, lethal terrain, and traps, and explained that contestants could use their wristwatches to withdraw or destroy them to forfeit rescue.
• Seven teams withdrew after hearing the risks, while Ning Fengzhi, Dai Tianling, and the Clear Sky Sect representative urged the contestants to survive and stay cautious.
• Qian Xunji invited sponsor Locke to speak, and Locke encouraged the contestants to stand by their choices and keep trying after defeat.
• Qian Xunji declared the tournament officially begun and ordered the entrance to the secret realm opened.

The Soul Masters entered the secret realm, where teams chose landing sites and the tournament’s real-time broadcasts began revealing deaths. Lazy Goat napped while his teammates guarded him, but the chapter ended with an announcement that Yunxiao, a Title Douluo from the Shrek Team, had died.

• Qian Xunji opened the teleportation passage, and participants chose secret-realm landing sites, including Tang San’s group, Yunxiao, Lazy Goat, and Tom and Jerry.
• Spectators across the continent watched the tournament through projection Soul Tools as the first contestants were announced dead and others surrendered or set out to attack rivals.
• Lazy Goat chose a sunny rock for a nap, leaving his three teammates to nervously guard him while audiences laughed and bookmakers raised his odds.
• The public channel announced that contestant 987, Shrek Team member Yunxiao, a Title Douluo, was dead.

The secret realm announced that Yunxiao, a Title Douluo and god's representative, had died within minutes, shocking the audience and contestants. Tang San refused to surrender and kept his group together, while the scattered transmigrators treated the news as a sign that the competition was opening their path to victory.

• The broadcast announced Yunxiao's death, causing panic among spectators and alarm among the faction representatives.
• The contestants realized that a Title Douluo had died quickly, and Tang San recognized Yunxiao as a god's representative.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tang Dieyi considered surrendering, but Tang San insisted that they stay.
• Tang Dieyi, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun each remained with Tang San for their own reasons.
• The transmigrators across the secret realm dismissed Yunxiao's death and continued their preparations, confident that the opportunity now belonged to them.

After the replay revealed how Chen Yu killed Yunxiao with a single attack, the continent’s leaders and spectators were left shaken by the hidden threat in the tournament. Chen Yu remained exhausted and exposed in the secret realm as gamblers rushed to make him the favorite.

• Dai Yutian, Ning Fengzhi, and other leaders demanded to see the footage of Yunxiao’s death, and Qian Xunji agreed to show it.
• The replay showed Yunxiao dismissing Chen Yu, who pointed his staff and sent out a faint wave of light that instantly dissolved the level ninety-three Titled Douluo.
• Chen Yu collapsed from exhaustion after killing Yunxiao, while the pillar of light from his wristwatch revealed his location to everyone in the secret realm.
• Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi voiced their alarm at Chen Yu’s decisive attack and the danger facing even Titled Douluo in the tournament.
• Gamblers across the continent removed Yunxiao from their betting boards and made Chen Yu the overwhelming favorite, though some predicted he would be ambushed while weakened.

Ordinary teams struggled to survive the secret realm as they fought Soul Beasts, raided one another, and avoided drawing attention. At night, hidden competitors emerged from their daytime refuges, using the darkness as cover.

• A small sect’s five-person team was ambushed by four black-clad Soul Masters, who killed them and looted their storage Soul Tools.
• Two rival teams joined forces to defeat a pack of Jade Phosphorous Serpents, then nearly fought over the snake gallbladder before fleeing from approaching footsteps.
• Across the secret realm, Soul Masters continued killing, bargaining, and escaping threats while the Shrek group guarded its camp and conserved its strength.
• As night fell, many teams left their concealed daytime shelters, ready to use the darkness to hunt and hide.

Nightfall brought deadly ambushes and counterattacks to the secret realm as exhausted Soul Masters struggled to survive. The faction leaders watched the carnage as a test of strength, while even trained sect disciples proved vulnerable to a moment of carelessness.

• Three attackers silently killed all five members of a sleeping camp, stole their storage Soul Tools, and disappeared into the darkness.
• Across the continent, viewers watched the nighttime battles, while spectators and faction leaders defended the ruthless trials as necessary training and selection.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's First Elder, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Qian Xunji discussed how survival without protection would reveal the strongest candidates.
• A three-man squad from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan lured three attackers into an ambush and killed them with their third soul skill, Thunderous Myriad Jun.
• An exhausted Clear Sky Sect genius fell asleep while on watch and was killed by a solo participant with a poisoned dagger.

After the first day of the secret realm survival match, the announcement revealed that 267 contestants had been eliminated, including 163 deaths. Tang San’s group prepared to move toward the safe zone before it shrank at noon, while faction leaders assessed the survivors and Ning Rongrong’s team remained comfortably camped near the zone’s center.

• The tournament announcer reported that 267 contestants had been eliminated, 163 of them killed and 104 withdrawn.
• At Shrek’s camp, Tang San urged everyone to stay alert and set out early for the safe zone as Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tang Dieyi reacted to the toll.
• Transmigrators across the secret realm treated the announcement casually, while faction representatives judged the elimination rate reasonable and predicted fiercer fights after the area shrank.
• Ning Fengzhi viewed Ning Rongrong’s livestream, where Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Wolf, and Xiao Wu rested and roasted a rabbit near the center of the safe zone.
• The livestream plazas turned to discussing the upcoming area shrink and adjusting betting odds.

Ye Chen, a late-arriving transmigrator, encountered the Snow Empress and tried to recruit her, but she saw through his identity and condemned his lustful attitude. As she unleashed a terrifying chill, Ye Chen recognized her overwhelming strength but suppressed his urge to retreat.

• Ye Chen complained that other transmigrators had likely claimed the women he knew from the original story.
• Ye Chen spotted the Snow Empress by a stream and approached her, claiming they should form a team so he could protect her.
• The Snow Empress recognized Ye Chen as an outsider and criticized the transmigrators she had met for their greed, violence, and lust.
• Ye Chen defended his lustful thoughts and stepped closer, prompting the Snow Empress to freeze the stream and threaten that people like him deserved to die.
• Ye Chen realized the Snow Empress might be a Title Douluo but suppressed his urge to flee.

Ye Chen tried to approach Snow Empress despite her warning, but she killed him when he mistook her restraint for interest. She then confronted a handsome man in moon-white robes who had been watching from the shadows and dismissed his sacred aura as an imitation.

• Ye Chen admitted Snow Empress was powerful but insisted he would not turn away from someone who attracted him.
• Snow Empress’s ice spike shattered Ye Chen’s defensive Soul Tool and froze his left arm, but he convinced himself she might be interested in his resolve.
• Ye Chen’s left arm exploded from within, and the spreading ice froze him before he could forfeit; Snow Empress shattered his body into ice crystals.
• Snow Empress noticed a hidden observer and called him out, and the handsome man in moon-white robes emerged from the forest.
• The man admitted he was attracted to Snow Empress’s beauty, but she said he was unworthy and called his sacred light aura a shoddy imitation.

Snow Empress and Di Yang faced off in the secret realm, drawing the attention of the continent as observers struggled to explain their extraordinary armor martial souls and powers. The chapter left Spirit Hall preparing to study their impending clash while the public placed bets on its outcome.

• The two auras collided in the secret realm, and live projections across the continent switched to Snow Empress and Di Yang.
• The faction leaders mistook Di Yang's sacred light aura for proof that he belonged to Spirit Hall's Angel Lineage, but Bibi Dong identified him as an unaffiliated cultivator with the Emperor Armor martial soul.
• The projection revealed Snow Empress's Ice Snow Armor and Di Yang's Emperor Armor, astonishing the spectators with their ultimate ice and sacred light attributes.
• Betting houses opened a separate pool for Snow Empress versus Di Yang, and crowds rushed to wager on the duel.
• Qian Xunji ordered an elder to record both fighters' soul skills and fighting methods.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress revealed their ice armor and fought Di Yang, whose Emperor Armor proved unable to overwhelm them. Di Yang was driven back and realized their life-bound armor could rival his Heavenly Dao Armor.

• Di Yang summoned his golden Emperor Armor while Snow Empress called his armor fake.
• Snow Empress summoned ice armor powered by Ice Empress and challenged Di Yang.
• Di Yang's first strike was repelled, and the cold venom and force of Snow Empress's counterattack drove him back.
• Di Yang drew the Aurora Sword and exchanged rapid attacks with Snow Empress, struggling against her armor and ultimate ice.
• Snow Empress blocked Di Yang's wind spikes with ice walls and nearly struck his throat with a scorpion-tail attack.
• Di Yang abandoned his contempt and realized the armor, powered by the two Extreme North rulers, could rival his Heavenly Dao Armor.

Di Yang and Snow Empress fought with power strong enough to shake the secret realm, while spectators and competing teams reacted to their clash. After their first exchange ended in a draw, Snow Empress provoked Di Yang into transforming the Emperor Armor into its ultimate form.

• Di Yang unleashed a powerful five-element sword strike, and Snow Empress countered with the phantom of an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, creating a destructive shockwave.
• The Shrek group and other teams felt the clash from afar and avoided approaching the battlefield.
• The tournament audience and faction leaders watched the fight, and Bibi Dong identified the fighters' techniques as Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Di Yang and Snow Empress emerged from the collision with minor damage, and Snow Empress called his armor fake.
• Di Yang's anger surged, and he transformed the Emperor Armor into its ultimate form with the Aurora Shield integrated into it.

Snow Empress reached Ultimate Ascension and clashed with Di Yang, whose Emperor Armor let him unleash god-level power. Their battle devastated the secret realm as neither gained the upper hand.

• Snow Empress transformed her Ice Snow Armor through Ultimate Ascension, and the resulting aura shocked the Title Douluo watching the tournament.
• Di Yang and Snow Empress exchanged attacks, with his sacred fire and her Absolute Zero cold ravaging the ground without either gaining an advantage.
• Snow Empress and Di Yang took their battle into the clouds, where she froze the pillars of Di Yang's Emperor Ultimate Five Elements Demon-Slaying Array.
• The fight's shock waves devastated the secret realm and left the other teams, the spectators, and the Title Douluo watching from a distance in awe.

Snow Empress and Di Yang’s battle continued as observers judged his use of the Emperor Armor and admired her Ice Snow Armor. After Snow Empress called his armor fake and him a failure, Di Yang lost control and unleashed a strike that threatened to damage the armor’s origin; she prepared to meet it with absolute-zero power.

• Transmigrators watching the fight criticized Di Yang’s poor use of the Emperor Armor and praised Snow Empress’s Ice Snow Armor.
• After two and a half hours of fighting, Di Yang grew increasingly reckless while Snow Empress dodged his attacks and told him his armor was fake.
• Snow Empress called Di Yang a failure for relying on a fake armor, provoking him into a rage.
• Di Yang drove the Emperor Armor’s origin power beyond its limits and brought down a massive golden sword strike against Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress condensed an absolute-zero crystal core and collided it with Di Yang’s descending sword light.

Di Yang and Snow Empress’s devastating clash left both of their armors badly damaged, but Di Yang’s pride broke when he realized he could not defeat the “fake” armor. His Emperor Armor then transformed into a dark form, and he confronted Snow Empress with renewed power and killing intent.

• Di Yang and Snow Empress survived their life-or-death strike, but both were left severely wounded and their armors nearly shattered.
• Di Yang could not accept that his Emperor Armor had only tied with Snow Empress’s Ice Snow Armor, and his Dao heart collapsed.
• Black qi spread through Di Yang’s armor and sword, turning their sacred light into a dark, corrosive power.
• The transmigrators watching the battle recognized that Di Yang was transforming into a Dark Shadow Emperor and warned that his power had surged.
• Di Yang rose in his shadow form and demanded that Snow Empress say again who was fake, while she prepared to face his stronger attack.

The Snow Empress recovered from Di Yang’s shadow attack with a purple crystal and revealed her Ice Extreme Double-Bladed Bow. She resumed fighting Di Yang, leaving their renewed clash unresolved as the transmigrators waited nearby for them to weaken each other.

• Di Yang’s Shadow Slash badly wounded the Snow Empress, and spectators believed she was about to lose.
• The Snow Empress crushed a purple crystal that healed her injuries and restored her strength, causing the would-be intervenor to stand down.
• The transmigrators recognized the crystal as an Energy Purple Crystal from RoboWarriors and decided to wait for both fighters to exhaust themselves.
• The Snow Empress summoned her Ice Extreme Double-Bladed Bow and challenged Di Yang to continue fighting.
• The Snow Empress fired three ice arrows, then transformed the bow into twin curved blades to block Di Yang’s close-range attack.

Snow Empress defeated Di Yang by exploiting his weakened armor and wearing down his dark origin with ice attacks. Di Yang refused to accept his loss, and his unstable shadow power erupted as Snow Empress watched from the crater's edge.

• Snow Empress struck Di Yang with her scorpion stinger and followed with ice arrows that slowed his dark origin.
• Di Yang unleashed Shadow Purgatory, but Snow Empress countered with Frozen Domain and fired Ice Extreme Meteor.
• The collision cracked Di Yang's core crystal and left him kneeling in a crater as his corruption began to backfire.
• Snow Empress declared that Di Yang had lost, but he raged, claimed the Emperor Armor made him invincible, and tried to attack her.
• Di Yang's shadow power exploded and worsened Snow Empress's wounds, while she lowered her bow and watched him with indifference.