Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao answered Ning Tian’s truth question without revealing whom he liked, then drank the Flame Sea Nectar as his punishment. Ning Tian and the others left to plan their next move, and when they returned to restart the game, Wu Feng bristled at Huo Yuhao as he accepted her tea.

• Ning Tian drew the Emperor card and asked the holder of number six whether he liked someone; Huo Yuhao answered yes but declined to describe her, treating that as a separate question.
• Wu Feng urged Ning Tian to punish Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao drank the Flame Sea Nectar and suggested that the previous Emperor shuffle the next round’s cards.
• Ning Tian led Wu Feng, Zhu Lu, and Cui Yajie out to discuss a strategy, leaving Huo Yuhao with Wang Dong’er and Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao asked Huo Yuhao about the medicinal wine and whether the girls had gone out to plan against them, while Wang Dong’er worried about the game’s punishments.
• Ning Tian and the others returned with cakes and tea, and Ning Tian began reshuffling the cards; Wu Feng handed Huo Yuhao a cup of tea and clenched her fists again.

Huo Yuhao endured an increasingly intimate series of dares before Ning Tian confronted Wu Feng about her feelings and pushed her toward him. Wu Feng kissed Huo Yuhao, leaving Ning Tian conflicted as the others returned and the group prepared to wash up.

• Ning Tian and the others escalated the dares with maid outfits and intimate teasing, while Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao fell asleep after drinking Flame Sea Nectar.
• After Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie left to change, Ning Tian gave Wu Feng a biscuit stick and urged her to complete a dare, but Wu Feng broke down in tears.
• Ning Tian suggested Wu Feng's jealousy showed that her feelings had shifted from Ning Tian to Huo Yuhao, then asked Huo Yuhao whether he would like her with long hair.
• Wu Feng stopped Huo Yuhao from ending the game, took another biscuit stick, and kissed him deeply.
• Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie returned, interrupting the kiss; Wu Feng asked Huo Yuhao why he was so practiced, then followed a subdued Ning Tian out to wash up.

Nanmen Yun'er discovers Huo Yuhao in a compromising scene with the girls, while Dai Huabin is expelled after his failed attempt to kill Huo Yuhao. Xian Lin'er offers to avenge her disciple, but Huo Yuhao says he will deal with the White Tiger Duke Mansion himself and is left held tightly in her embrace.

• Nanmen Yun'er opens Ning Tian's bedroom door, sees Huo Yuhao and the girls in disarray, and quickly shuts it again.
• Dai Huabin learns that his Soul Emperor and five Soul Kings failed to kill Huo Yuhao, then collapses in terror when an Academic Affairs Office teacher announces his expulsion.
• Wu Feng asks Ning Tian whether they should use the family's power to kill Dai Huabin, but Ning Tian says Huo Yuhao told them not to interfere.
• Xian Lin'er summons Huo Yuhao, comforts him, and offers to accompany him to the White Tiger Duke Mansion to seek justice.
• Huo Yuhao thanks Xian Lin'er but says he has his own plans for Dai Huabin, and Xian Lin'er hugs him tightly.

Huo Yuhao broke through to Level 30 and awakened a golden Soul Ring-like power from the first seal of the Golden Dragon King Divine Core before receiving the Ice Empress’s third Soul Ring. He then met Zhang Lexuan on the way to the Martial Practice Field and considered joining Wu Ming’s approved Soul Hunting team to obtain a third Spirit Eye Soul Ring.

• Huo Yuhao broke through to Level 30 as the first seal of the Golden Dragon King Divine Core released a golden Soul Ring-like power and transformed his body.
• The Ice Empress sent Tian Meng out of the cultivation chamber, then gave Huo Yuhao his third Soul Ring; Huo Yuhao later told Tian Meng that the Ice Empress had returned to his Spiritual Sea to rest.
• Huo Yuhao headed for the Martial Practice Field and considered seeking a roughly thirty-thousand-year Silver Hero Beast as his third Spirit Eye Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao met Zhang Lexuan, who told him that Wu Ming’s Soul Hunting team had been approved and was going to notify her.
• Huo Yuhao considered joining Wu Ming’s Soul Hunting Operation as he and Zhang Lexuan approached the Martial Practice Field, where a woman complained that she did not want to spar with Sister Ruoruo anymore.

Wu Ming sparred with Huo Yuhao after the academy approved her application to obtain a seventh Soul Ring, and his three black Soul Rings and Ultimate Ice startled the onlookers. The duel began with Huo Yuhao freezing Wu Ming’s fourth soul skill, and Wu Ming responded with a powerful fire attack.

• Wu Ming lost another sparring match against Han Ruoruo, then teased her until Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao arrived.
• Zhang Lexuan told Wu Ming that the academy had approved her application to obtain a seventh Soul Ring, and Huo Yuhao asked to spar with her at full strength.
• Huo Yuhao revealed three black Soul Rings and icy dragon scales, shocking Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming with his Ultimate Ice.
• Wu Ming opened the duel by launching her Golden Crow True Fire Ring at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao activated Domain of Eternal Freeze and froze Wu Ming’s incoming soul skill before it could unleash its power.
• Wu Ming followed with a concentrated pillar of Golden Crow True Fire aimed at Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao defeated Wu Ming by overwhelming her Golden Crow flames with Ultimate Ice, then began testing the strength awakened by the Golden Dragon King Divine Core. Han Ruoruo bound him with her enhanced Gold-Shaking Rope, and the chapter ended as Huo Yuhao tested whether he could break free.

• Huo Yuhao strengthened his ice abilities with Ice Dragon Soul and defeated Wu Ming by freezing her Soul Power, catching her when she fell.
• Wu Ming leaned on Huo Yuhao after the duel, while Han Ruoruo teased her about an old promise to pursue him.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan that the sword technique he had used came from a friend and asked Han Ruoruo to help test his strength.
• Han Ruoruo used Mind Lock and bound Huo Yuhao with the Gold-Shaking Rope, enhanced by Golden Toughness and Sharp Gold.
• Huo Yuhao strained against the rope, but it remained tight around him.

Huo Yuhao awakened the Golden Dragon King's power during a strength test, transforming his Ice Dragon scales while realizing he could not safely combine the two forces. After the Sea God Pavilion approved his place in a Star Dou Great Forest expedition, he returned to find Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen in a tense dispute over his many admirers, and tried to break the silence by suggesting dinner.

• Huo Yuhao broke Han Ruoruo's Gold-Shaking Rope as his Golden Dragon King's power awakened, altering his dragon scales and suppressing his Ultimate Ice.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that he could not safely combine the Golden Dragon King's power with his Ice Dragon King martial soul without a mediator.
• Wu Ming offered to help Huo Yuhao find a spiritual-attributed Soul Beast, while Zhang Lexuan worried about his romantic entanglements with Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Sea God Pavilion had approved his place in a Star Dou Great Forest expedition led by Zhang Lexuan, with Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe overseeing it.
• Ma Xiaotao told Ling Luochen that eight Outer Court girls and Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming had shown interest in Huo Yuhao, persuading Ling Luochen to worry about her place in his life.
• Huo Yuhao entered his loft during Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen's silent confrontation and suggested that they eat before talking.

Huo Yuhao endured Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen’s competing advances during dinner, until Ma Xiaotao kissed him and Ling Luochen suppressed her Evil Fire. After Ma Xiaotao left, Ling Luochen comforted Huo Yuhao and joined him in the bathroom, offering to scrub his back.

• Huo Yuhao cooked dinner while Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen competed for his attention under the table.
• Ling Luochen suggested Ma Xiaotao leave so she and Huo Yuhao could cultivate, but Ma Xiaotao pulled Huo Yuhao into her arms and kissed him.
• Ling Luochen stopped Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire by touching her shoulder, then argued with her over her treatment of Huo Yuhao.
• Ma Xiaotao left after teasing Ling Luochen, who embraced Huo Yuhao and told him to take a bath and rest.
• Ling Luochen entered the bathroom while Huo Yuhao was soaking in the tub and offered to scrub his back.

Ling Luochen helped Huo Yuhao bathe after Ma Xiaotao had kissed him, and the next morning both women saw him off before his Soul Hunting Operation. Yan Shaozhe gathered the team, explained Elder Xuan had gone ahead, and Zhang Lexuan began assigning the group’s formation for entering the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Ling Luochen entered the bath and carefully washed Huo Yuhao while asking whether Ma Xiaotao had hurt him.
• The next morning, Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen accompanied Huo Yuhao to the academy gates and exchanged barbs as they said goodbye.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived and told Ma Xiaotao that Cai Mei'er wanted to speak with her, then explained that Elder Xuan had gone ahead to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhang Lexuan, Wu Ming, Li Yongyue, Ye Liu, and Huo Yuhao introduced themselves and stated their roles and Soul Ring needs.
• Yan Shaozhe told the team to follow Zhang Lexuan’s command, then departed; Zhang Lexuan stopped Wu Ming from getting too familiar with Huo Yuhao and began arranging the formation.

Zhang Lexuan led the team into the Star Dou Great Forest to find Soul Rings, while Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection impressed the Inner Court students. Near the Mixed Zone and Core Zone boundary, the team encountered a ten-thousand-year Purple Shadow Lion suited to Li Yongyue, and Huo Yuhao offered to control it if they obtained several thousand-year Soul Beast corpses.

• Zhang Lexuan assigned the team’s formation and led them toward the Star Dou Great Forest with Yan Shaozhe watching from behind.
• Wu Ming vented her frustration by burning attacking Soul Beasts, while Huo Yuhao thanked her and left her flustered by his closeness.
• As the team approached the target area, Huo Yuhao shared Spiritual Detection across a thousand-meter radius and explained its greater range and limits.
• The team encountered a ten-thousand-year Purple Shadow Lion, and Zhang Lexuan identified it as a potential fifth Soul Ring for Li Yongyue.
• Huo Yuhao said he might be able to control the lion if the team obtained several thousand-year Soul Beast corpses.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated Extreme Ice Bloom by trapping a Purple Shadow Lion in a devastating ice explosion, allowing Li Yongyue to obtain its Soul Ring. Afterward, the group camped for the night in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Yan Shaozhe brought Huo Yuhao several Cyan Wind Wolves, and Huo Yuhao prepared them as bait for the Purple Shadow Lion.
• Huo Yuhao detonated a frozen wolf when the Purple Shadow Lion approached, badly injuring it and revealing that the resulting ice crystals could be detonated again.
• Li Yongyue killed the Purple Shadow Lion, absorbed its Soul Ring, and thanked Huo Yuhao for helping him obtain it.
• Huo Yuhao warmed Wu Ming after she felt the lingering cold, and she teased him while holding his arm.
• Zhang Lexuan called off the group's journey for the night, and Huo Yuhao found a suitable campsite with Spiritual Detection.

Elder Xuan left to find a Silver Hero Beast for Huo Yuhao, while Zhongli Wu prepared to search the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Zone for the Emperor Auspicious Beast. At dawn, Huo Yuhao’s group was attacked by a Flame Demon Lion pack, and Zhang Lexuan confronted its powerful Flame Griffin as the battle began.

• Yan Shaozhe told Elder Xuan that Huo Yuhao wanted a twenty-thousand-year Silver Hero Beast, and Elder Xuan left to catch one for him.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the Zhongli Brothers to enter the Core Zone and continue searching for the Emperor Auspicious Beast.
• Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan noticed a Flame Demon Lion pack approaching their camp and alerted the team through Spiritual Detection.
• Zhang Lexuan identified the pack’s weaknesses and directed the team to prepare for battle while she engaged the Flame Griffin in the air.
• The Flame Griffin fired a golden flame beam at Zhang Lexuan’s barrage of moonlight, and the attacks collided in a violent explosion.

Huo Yuhao, Wu Ming, Li Yongyue, and Ye Liu fought off the Flame Demon Lions while Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao defeated a powerful Flame Griffin. After the Griffin yielded a rare External Soul Bone, Wu Ming chose to risk absorbing its Soul Ring too, and Huo Yuhao proposed using a Secret Soul Bone to make the fusion safer before she began.

• Ye Liu enhanced Huo Yuhao, Wu Ming, and Li Yongyue as Li Yongyue killed a Flame Demon Lion and Wu Ming scattered the pack with precise pillars of fire.
• Huo Yuhao released his ultimate cold, frightening the remaining Flame Demon Lions into fleeing, while Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao froze the Flame Griffin and Wu Ming killed it.
• Huo Yuhao extracted a rare External Soul Bone from the Flame Griffin, and Wu Ming decided to attempt absorbing its exceptionally powerful Soul Ring as well.
• Huo Yuhao suggested Wu Ming fuse with the External Soul Bone before absorbing the Soul Ring and revealed a Secret Soul Bone that could reduce the fusion's difficulty and improve her chances.

Wu Ming fused the Griffin Feather External Soul Bone with Huo Yuhao’s help, gaining flaming Golden Crow wings and a strengthening domain, then began absorbing the Flame Griffin’s Soul Ring. Zhongli Wu sent the Zhongli Brothers to seize the bone, and they confronted the Shrek group while Wu Ming was still occupied.

• Huo Yuhao used the Secret Soul Bone to ease Wu Ming’s pain as she fused the Griffin Feather Soul Bone, which transformed her Golden Crow wings and strengthened the group nearby.
• Wu Ming embraced Huo Yuhao, teased him about repaying his kindness, and then began absorbing the Flame Griffin’s nearly sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Zhongli Tian reported the rare External Soul Bone to Zhongli Wu, who ordered the Zhongli Brothers to attack the Shrek students and take it.
• Huo Yuhao sensed approaching enemies, and the three Zhongli Brothers appeared before the Shrek group while Wu Ming continued absorbing her Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan joined forces to purify and kill three Holy Spirit Cult Soul Douluos, but the Zhongli Brothers’ beast souls revived them into a powerful Underworld Domain Snake. The chapter left Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan facing a new threat while Yan Shaozhe continued battling Zhongli Wu in the sky.

• Huo Yuhao used Judgment of Destiny to weaken the Zhongli Brothers and purify their collected beast souls, while Zhang Lexuan prepared to attack.
• Zhang Lexuan unleashed Blood Moon Eclipse, destroying the Zhongli Brothers and leaving their three Life-Bound Beast Souls behind.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Huo Yuhao’s power and rushed away from Scarlet King, who followed after defeating the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Huo Yuhao sensed danger and urged Zhang Lexuan to destroy the surviving beast souls, but the Zhongli Brothers’ remains absorbed them into a blood cocoon.
• The cocoon burst open and revealed an Underworld Domain Snake with an aura approaching that of a Super Douluo.

Yan Shaozhe fought Zhongli Wu while an Underworld Domain Snake appeared, and Xuan Zi clashed with Scarlet King in the Star Dou Great Forest. As the snake threatened Huo Yuhao’s group, Wu Ming launched an attack to hold it back, leaving Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan facing a desperate choice.

• Yan Shaozhe fought Zhongli Wu, who realized that the Blood Puppet Secret Technique had transformed the dead Zhongli Brothers into an Underworld Domain Snake.
• Xuan Zi confronted Scarlet King after nearly capturing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and the Auspicious Beast escaped while Scarlet King held Xuan Zi off.
• The Underworld Domain Snake overwhelmed Li Yongyue and Ye Liu, while Zhang Lexuan prepared to create an escape route for Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao’s golden Soul Ring appeared and drew the Underworld Domain Snake’s attention, but Zhang Lexuan and Wu Ming insisted that he escape without them.
• Wu Ming activated her Golden Crow True Body and gathered immense heat into a crimson sun to attack the Underworld Domain Snake.

Huo Yuhao loosened the Second Seal of the Golden Dragon King and used the resulting power to wound the Underworld Domain Snake and draw it away from Zhang Lexuan and the others. Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe fought Zhongli Wu in the sky, and Di Tian learned that the awakened Lord had sensed an aura belonging to someone still in the God Realm.

• Huo Yuhao ignored Tian Meng and Ice Empress's warnings and partially loosened the Second Seal of the Golden Dragon King, covering himself in Golden Glazed Armor.
• Huo Yuhao caught the unconscious Wu Ming, handed her to Zhang Lexuan, and formed the Golden Dragon Spear from his armor's energy.
• Huo Yuhao's Golden Dragon Spear pierced the Underworld Domain Snake and devoured its blood-red energy, so he lured the weakened beast away from the others.
• Zhang Lexuan watched the death domain fade and grieved over Wu Ming, Li Yongyue, and Ye Liu as they lay unconscious.
• Yan Shaozhe met Zhongli Wu's azure wind attack with Phoenix Descent, then seized an opening to purify the sky with his eighth soul skill.
• Di Tian met the awakened Lord, who said she had sensed His aura but could still feel Him in the God Realm.

Gu Yuena awakened and sent Di Tian to kill the human who had desecrated dragon remains, while Huo Yuhao crippled the Underworld Domain Snake and escaped downstream in a golden cocoon. Gu Yuena erased the wounded serpent and grew more suspicious of the power she sensed from Huo Yuhao.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion told Di Tian about a kindred in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Gu Yuena emerged from beneath the Lake of Life and ordered Di Tian to handle the matter.
• Gu Yuena sensed Huo Yuhao and ordered Di Tian to kill him for desecrating dragon remains; Di Tian set out with Bi Ji and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Huo Yuhao fled the Underworld Domain Snake, then used the Golden Dragon Spear and Golden Dragon King power to devastate it before falling into a river.
• Tian Meng provoked nearby Soul Beasts while the Golden Dragon Spear returned life force to Huo Yuhao, healing him and forming a golden cocoon that sank beneath the river.
• Gu Yuena sensed the lingering aura, annihilated the Underworld Domain Snake, and wondered about the power she had detected.

Huo Yuhao soothed the jealous Ice Empress in the Spiritual Sea while Di Tian rescued Yan Shaozhe and killed Zhongli Wu. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Bi Ji then reached a clearing filled with the aura of death, searching for the nearby being the Auspicious Beast had sensed.

• The Ice Empress scolded Tian Meng, then kneaded Huo Yuhao's waist as he apologized for unsealing the Golden Dragon King without warning her.
• Zhongli Wu told the wounded Yan Shaozhe that his students had escaped, then attacked him with a deathly beam.
• Di Tian appeared, intercepted Zhongli Wu's escape, and killed him with a dragon claw despite Zhongli Wu's threats and resistance.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion urged Bi Ji to hurry toward the nearby member of her kind, but Bi Ji cautioned her against flying.
• Bi Ji and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion entered a clearing where Bi Ji sensed a dense aura of death.

Bi Ji healed Zhang Lexuan and the other injured students while Mu En arrived and ordered Xuan Zi removed from the academy’s affairs. After learning that Xuan Zi had attacked the Auspicious Beast and that Huo Yuhao was missing, Di Tian prepared to punish Xuan Zi with one claw strike and help search for Yuhao.

• Bi Ji stopped Three-Eyed Golden Lion from attacking the humans, then used life-giving rain to heal the unconscious students after Mu En arrived.
• Yan Shaozhe reached the clearing, and Di Tian appeared as Three-Eyed Golden Lion accused the humans of taking her kin.
• Xuan Zi arrived with Scarlet King, and Zhang Lexuan confronted him over leaving the students in danger and demanded accountability from the academy.
• Mu En stripped Xuan Zi of his authority, promised compensation, and asked Zhang Lexuan where Huo Yuhao had gone.
• After Scarlet King recounted Xuan Zi’s attack on the Auspicious Beast, Di Tian threatened the humans, then offered to spare them if Xuan Zi took one claw strike.
• Xuan Zi transformed into the Godly Taotie Bull and volunteered to take Di Tian’s claw strike in Mu En’s place.