Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao opened the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament by defeating Tianling Academy alone with overwhelming power. His display stunned the Star Luo Empire and the rival teams, while Meng Hongchen proposed using her connection to him to benefit her family.

• Xu Jiawei welcomed the participating academies and declared the tournament open.
• The tournament officials announced that Huo Yuhao would face Tianling Academy alone in the opening match, saying Xu Jiawei had requested a special warm-up.
• Huo Yuhao revealed seven blood-red Soul Rings and transformed into a Frost Dragon, freezing all seven Tianling Academy contestants and the arena barrier.
• Huo Yuhao melted the ice around the unconscious contestants, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Xiao Hongchen despaired over Huo Yuhao's strength, while Meng Hongchen suggested marrying him into the Hongchen Family and joining him to Mingde Hall.
• Xiao Hongchen rejected Meng Hongchen's plan and argued with her about approaching Huo Yuhao.

After Huo Yuhao’s strength alarmed observers and Dai Hao, Xuanji Douluo urged Dai Hao to flee and pursue a future bid for the Star Luo throne. The next morning, Xu Jiujiu told Huo Yuhao that Dai Hao had already escaped to the Western Army Group, leaving his family behind.

• Lang Ya and Yu Tao suspected Huo Yuhao’s seven Soul Rings came from a second, spiritual-attribute martial soul and decided to summon their sect master.
• Xu Jiawei questioned Dai Hao’s departure from the tournament, and Dai Hao hurried away from the city wall.
• Xuanji Douluo warned Dai Hao that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice could make him a threat and advised him to leave for the Western Army Group.
• Xuanji Douluo revealed that the master of the Imperial Offering Hall had died in secluded cultivation and proposed helping Dai Hao become a Title Douluo so he could seek the throne.
• Dai Hao agreed to leave his wife and son behind and depart for the Western Army Group immediately.
• Xu Jiujiu visited Huo Yuhao at the Star Emperor Hotel and reported that Dai Hao had fled under the pretext of trouble with Evil Soul Masters in the Mingdou Mountain Range.

Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Hao at Mingdou Bridge, rejecting his attempts to reconcile and demanding that he kneel and apologize to Huo Yuhao’s mother. Dai Hao attacked after realizing Huo Yuhao would not relent, and the chapter ended as he unleashed his White Tiger Avatar and White Tiger Meteor Shower.

• Huo Yuhao learned from Xu Jiujiu that the Imperial Offering Hall Master had been dead for several months, and Xu Jiujiu hurried back to verify the news with Xu Jiawei.
• Huo Yuhao sent Xu Jiujiu a warning for Xu Jiawei, saying he would restore order if someone refused to keep things decent.
• Dai Hao’s guards reported that Huo Yuhao was waiting alone at Mingdou Bridge, and Dai Hao rode ahead to meet him while ordering the guards to protect the carriage carrying the Eldest Young Master.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Dai Hao’s apology and demanded that he get off his horse; his Dragon Might frightened Dai Hao’s steed and threw Dai Hao to the ground.
• Dai Hao pretended to repent and asked Huo Yuhao to spare Yueheng, but Huo Yuhao saw through the act, and Dai Hao revealed his eight Soul Rings and charged.
• Huo Yuhao met Dai Hao’s tiger-claw attack with the Golden Dragon Spear and forced him back, so Dai Hao unleashed White Tiger Meteor Shower and White Tiger Avatar.

Huo Yuhao defeated Dai Hao and exposed his ambitions through his memories, but fully unleashing his Golden Dragon King bloodline destabilized his Spiritual Sea. Gu Yuena took him away and began helping contain the danger as Tian Meng and the others worked to stabilize him.

• Huo Yuhao endured Dai Hao's attacks with Golden Dragon Tyrant Body, then pierced and pinned him with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Dai Hao begged for his life, but Huo Yuhao rejected him and used Mirror Flower, Water Moon to read his fragmented memories, discovering Dai Hao's ambitions of rebellion.
• Zhang Lexuan comforted Huo Yuhao, but Gu Yuena pulled him away and teleported with him to the Star Emperor Hotel.
• Gu Yuena scolded Huo Yuhao for risking himself, and the two kissed before she warned him she would settle accounts with him after dealing with his Spiritual Sea.
• The Golden Dragon King Divine Core's chains began to break inside Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea, until Gu Yuena's multicolored chain restrained the blood-red dragon.
• At the Ice Empress's urging, Tian Meng merged his spiritual origin into the Spiritual Sea, and its raging blood-red waters began to calm.

Huo Yuhao’s consciousness remained trapped in his Spiritual Sea after he suppressed the Golden Dragon King’s rampage, leaving Gu Yuena worried that someone had stolen him. Meanwhile, Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu weighed the shifting balance of power across the continent, and Huo Yuhao faced another sleepless night with Gu Yuena.

• Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea calmed, the Blood-Red Giant Dragon shattered, and the Eye of Destiny lifted his unconscious body from the sea.
• Ice Empress and Tian Meng realized Gu Yuena could not enter Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea, while Gu Yuena wondered whether someone had stolen her man when he failed to wake.
• Xu Jiawei told Xu Jiujiu that Dai Hao’s treason would be exposed and discussed Shrek Academy’s remarkable students and Spirit Pagoda’s influence.
• Xu Jiawei revealed that Wei Na had joined the Body Sect and wanted it to become the Heaven Dou Empire’s guardian sect, prompting concern about a coming continental war.
• Xu Jiawei arranged for Xu Jiujiu to visit Spirit Pagoda after the tournament to preserve Star Luo’s relationship with it.
• Huo Yuhao worked on a Soul Tool Core Array blueprint while Gu Yuena insisted he come to bed, warning that she planned to claim him for the night.

Huo Yuhao helped Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire until her flames temporarily showed traits of Ultimate Fire, then brought her to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to choose a Soul Spirit. The Infernal Delicate Apricot and Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower both offered themselves, leaving Ma Xiaotao to decide between them.

• Huo Yuhao used his Ultimate Ice to suppress Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire, and she said she had reached the rank-seventy bottleneck and gained a golden-red flame.
• Huo Yuhao explained his plans for Ma Xiaotao to contract either the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower or the Infernal Delicate Apricot, and she asked which choice would preserve her Evil Fire.
• Huo Yuhao brought Ma Xiaotao to the Undead Semi-Plane and introduced her to the Infernal Delicate Apricot as a potential Soul Spirit partner.
• The Infernal Delicate Apricot questioned whether Ma Xiaotao could bear her power, but Ma Xiaotao displayed her temporarily pure golden-red flames.
• The Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower appeared and urged Ma Xiaotao to choose her, warning that the Infernal Delicate Apricot's Fire Poison could trigger Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire and kill her.

Ma Xiaotao chose to keep her Evil Fire and let the Infernal Delicate Apricot help transform it, accepting the risks in exchange for a stronger Blazing Phoenix martial soul. Huo Yuhao brought several Immortal Herbs to the Spirit Pagoda, where Tang Ya welcomed them before they went inside.

• The Infernal Delicate Apricot proposed controlling Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire inner core and warned that the transformation could burden her spiritual power and turn the Evil Fire into Fire Poison.
• Ma Xiaotao decided to retain the Evil Fire and pursue the Blazing Phoenix transformation, while the Infernal Delicate Apricot agreed to become her Soul Spirit.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty offered to help Ma Xiaotao’s fusion, and Huo Yuhao promised the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower he would find suitable fire-attributed Soul Masters for it.
• Huo Yuhao and Ma Xiaotao arrived at the nine-story Spirit Pagoda carrying jade boxes containing the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Tang Ya greeted them at the entrance, exchanged teasing remarks with the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and Huo Yuhao asked her to show them inside.

Huo Yuhao guided Ma Xiaotao through a Soul Spirit fusion ritual at the Spirit Pagoda, then encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who sensed a strange connection between them. Their Destiny Eyes touched and triggered a powerful change in the fortune of the Star Dou Great Forest, prompting Di Tian and Electrolux to go investigate.

• Huo Yuhao used the Spirit Hall and the Aromatic Silk Beauty to help Ma Xiaotao begin fusing with the Infernal Delicate Apricot as her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit and Soul Bone.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion rushed into the Spirit Hall with Scarlet King and mistook Huo Yuhao’s familiar aura for a possible blood connection, asking if he was her biological father.
• Huo Yuhao’s Golden Dragon scales and Dragon Might appeared, while Scarlet King recognized him as the Matriarch and begged him not to blame the Auspicious Beast.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion pounced on Huo Yuhao and pressed her vertical eye against his Eye of Destiny, enveloping them both in a massive golden sphere.
• Di Tian sensed a violent change in the Star Dou Great Forest’s fortune, and Electrolux agreed to accompany him to check on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Qiu'er after the Fate Guidance, while Ma Xiaotao completed her transformation into a phoenix. Electrolux explained that Qiu'er's existence crossed different time and space, and a mysterious voice revealed what Huo Yuhao's new Soul Ring lacked.

• Qiu'er emerged from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and teased Huo Yuhao before proposing that Di Tian help overthrow Gu Yuena's rule.
• Ma Xiaotao absorbed her golden-red cocoon, awakened her Blazing Phoenix True Body, and returned to human form.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion woke, argued with Qiu'er about Huo Yuhao, and insisted she had no interest in him.
• Electrolux led Huo Yuhao, Qiu'er, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Di Tian to the conference room to discuss Qiu'er's condition.
• Huo Yuhao revealed a new Soul Ring without a Soul Skill, and an unseen voice said it lacked the Power of Destiny from his original time and space.

Gu Yuena explained that Qiu'er and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion might help Huo Yuhao find a path back to their original spacetime, then took them to the Star Dou Great Forest for observation. Back at the Spirit Pagoda, Huo Yuhao discussed Soul Spirit cultivation with Tang Ya and the others, while Ma Xiaotao questioned him about a spatial coordinate in Star Luo City; the chapter ended with Yu Mengdi thinking about Huo Yuhao.

• Gu Yuena said Qiu'er needed the Power of Destiny from her original spacetime and that having both Children of Destiny nearby could make returning there possible.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya that Gu Yuena had taken Qiu'er and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to the Star Dou Great Forest for observation.
• The Aromatic Silk Beauty urged Tang Ya to reach Soul Saint level so she could become a Soul Spirit, and Huo Yuhao explained the risks of contracting a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit too early.
• Ma Xiaotao asked how the group would return to Star Luo City, and Huo Yuhao said he had a spatial coordinate there, making her suspicious.
• Yu Mengdi woke in her Star Emperor Hotel suite, drank imperial family tea, and blushed as she remembered Huo Yuhao and Yan'er's whispered words.

Huo Yuhao opened an Undead Gate beside Yu Mengdi, whose contract symbol triggered a strange, overwhelming reaction that left her weak and clinging to him. After she confronted him about the contract, Huo Yuhao appeared genuinely confused, leaving the cause of her reaction unresolved.

• Yu Mengdi agreed through their contract to let Huo Yuhao open an Undead Gate beside her.
• As Huo Yuhao came through the gate, Yu Mengdi's contract symbol reappeared and her body grew hot and weak.
• Huo Yuhao caught Yu Mengdi when she collapsed, and she struck at him before clinging to him and asking him to carry her to the bathroom.
• After bathing, Yu Mengdi returned to confront Huo Yuhao and pressed his hand against her abdomen, demanding to know whether the contract caused her symptoms.
• Huo Yuhao seemed sincerely confused about why opening the Undead Gate affected Yu Mengdi when it had not affected Xiao Ya.

Huo Yuhao discovered that his contract with Yu Mengdi had connected her to the Undead Semi-Plane and could transform her Angel Martial Soul, leaving her to reckon with the change after he left. The chapter ended with Ling Luochen knocking on Huo Yuhao's hotel-room door and growing uneasy when he did not answer.

• Yu Mengdi lost control while Huo Yuhao examined her, then snapped out of her daze and ordered him to change clothes while she bathed again.
• Huo Yuhao told Yu Mengdi that the contract had attached the Undead Semi-Plane's origin to her, which might mutate her Angel Martial Soul into a Death Angel or Death Herald Angel.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the semi-plane's evolution and his use of Yu Mengdi as a spatial coordinate could deepen the assimilation, while he tried to reassure her that her martial soul would remain rooted in light.
• Yu Mengdi imagined herself becoming Huo Yuhao's obedient little dog, then embraced the idea of gaining power to punish him and manifested a deep blue flame.
• Huo Yuhao left the room, and Yu Mengdi secretly stored his clothes instead of burning them.
• Ling Luochen knocked on Huo Yuhao's room on the seventh floor of the Star Emperor Hotel and grew uneasy when he did not answer.

Ling Luochen searched Huo Yuhao’s room and confronted him after noticing an unfamiliar scent, while Ma Xiaotao, Ling Luochen, Ice Empress, and Tian Meng kept him busy through the night. Huo Yuhao arrived at Shrek Academy’s second round-robin match with swollen lips, and Xu Jiujiu asked whether he was still fit to compete.

• Ling Luochen entered Huo Yuhao’s empty room with a copied key, then found him returning and embraced him while questioning the unfamiliar scent on him.
• Ling Luochen became upset at the thought that another woman might have taken advantage of Huo Yuhao, and Ma Xiaotao later provoked her with her Ultimate Fire and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen competed for Huo Yuhao’s attention, and Ice Empress and Tian Meng later took their turns with him, leaving the bathtub shattered.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at Star Luo Square for Shrek Academy’s second round-robin match as spectators flocked to see him after the Star Luo Imperial Family promoted his appearance and sold costly tickets.
• Xu Jiujiu noticed Huo Yuhao’s swollen lips and asked if he could compete, and he complained that she was only concerned about his ability to participate.

Huo Yuhao questioned Xu Jiujiu about the Starlight Auction House’s final auction item and learned it was a Dragon Soul attached to an Extraterrestrial Meteorite. As the next match began, Shrek Academy drew Qianling Academy for a team battle.

• Huo Yuhao pretended to feel unwell to provoke Xu Jiujiu, then asked her about the upcoming auction’s final item.
• Xu Jiujiu revealed that the item was a Dragon Soul believed to belong to a True Dragon, attached to an Extraterrestrial Meteorite, and said the auction would accept high-end Soul Tools or heavenly treasures in exchange.
• Huo Yuhao recalled how difficult Dragon Souls were to absorb and suspected the auction item carried a serious risk, but agreed to attend after Xu Jiujiu promised to send Shrek Academy an invitation.
• Ma Xiaotao and Qianling Academy’s captain went onstage to draw lots for the second round of the tournament.
• The referee announced that Shrek Academy would face Qianling Academy in a team battle.

Qianling Academy faced Shrek Academy as Xiao Hongchen regained hope after Meng Hongchen revealed Huo Yuhao’s true cultivation. The match began with Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen’s opposing domains overwhelming Qianling’s defenses, while Shen Ce still aimed to test Huo Yuhao; the chapter ended with Ling Luochen embracing him and provoking Ma Xiaotao.

• An Lengye and Fei Yuyan trembled with fear as Qianling Academy prepared to face Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy.
• Meng Hongchen explained that Shrek’s Humanoid Soul Tools threatened Mingde Hall’s lead, then told Xiao Hongchen that Huo Yuhao was only a Soul Elder whose Soul Rings were an illusion.
• Xiao Hongchen regained his confidence at the thought of surpassing Huo Yuhao, then grew upset when Meng Hongchen mentioned their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• At the match’s start, Qianling Academy formed a reinforced Spirit Rhino Shield Wall, which An Lengye strengthened with Frost Shield.
• Ma Xiaotao released her hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring as Ling Luochen spread an icy domain, trapping Qianling Academy between extreme heat and cold.
• Shen Ce insisted that Qianling still had a chance to test Huo Yuhao, while Huo Yuhao questioned Ling Luochen after she embraced him and provoked Ma Xiaotao.

Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao turned Shrek Academy’s match against Qianling Academy into a staged duel meant to demonstrate Soul Spirits, with Huo Yuhao amplifying Ling Luochen’s Ultimate Ice. Ling Luochen suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s flames, but a voice announcing help for Xiaotao left the fight’s next turn unresolved.

• Ling Luochen and Ma Xiaotao revealed that they had planned a performance and duel, while Ning Tian led the reserve contestants off the stage.
• Ling Luochen sealed Qianling Academy inside an Ultimate Ice prison to protect them and prevent them from forfeiting.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Ling Luochen, who used her fifth soul skill and Huo Yuhao’s support to cover the platform in an ice domain that suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s flames.
• A female voice rang across Star Luo Square, calling out, “Xiaotao, don't be afraid! I'm coming to help you!”

Ma Xiaotao unleashed Ah Jiao’s overwhelming Ultimate Fire and defeated Ling Luochen, while Huo Yuhao explained Soul Spirits to the stunned spectators. The match ended with Soul Spirits’ potential drawing widespread attention, and Ling Luochen provoked Ma Xiaotao by asking Huo Yuhao to cultivate with her.

• Ma Xiaotao summoned Ah Jiao, whose fire suppressed Ling Luochen’s ice and transformed the arena into a blazing hell.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ma Xiaotao and Ah Jiao to stop, and the freed Qianling Academy team saw the damage to the arena.
• Ah Jiao punished Fei Yuyan for calling her a talking cabbage, then returned to Ma Xiaotao.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Soul Spirits could retain their intelligence, assist Soul Masters, and provide multiple Soul Rings, shocking the spectators with the prospect of several Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Ling Luochen pretended to wake after the match and asked Huo Yuhao to spend more time cultivating with her, irritating Ma Xiaotao.

Xu Jiawei considered the impact of Soul Spirits and ordered Heavenly Fiend Douluo to referee Shrek Academy’s matches. In the Undead Semi-Plane, Yu Mengdi tested her mutated Death Herald Angel against Huo Yuhao, but after he used his Golden Dragon King bloodline, she claimed the win under their rules.

• Xu Jiawei recognized that Soul Spirits and the Spirit Pagoda could reshape the Soul Master world, then summoned Princess Jiujiu and appointed Heavenly Fiend Douluo to referee Shrek Academy’s matches.
• Yu Mengdi challenged Huo Yuhao in the Undead Semi-Plane to study her Death Herald Angel and restricted him from using Soul Tools, his bloodline, and other abilities.
• Yu Mengdi attacked with her transformed soul skills, but Huo Yuhao’s Ice Extreme Unparalleled overwhelmed her Wither Cross Slash.
• Yu Mengdi combined her powers into a descending strike, and Huo Yuhao countered with Ice Dragon Soul and Ice Dragon Claw.
• Huo Yuhao used his Golden Dragon King bloodline to overpower Yu Mengdi and catch her, after which she declared that she had won according to their agreement.

Huo Yuhao tested Yu Mengdi’s instant-death soul skill, then reluctantly let her punish him after she threatened to tell his academy’s leaders. Yu Mengdi left for the Starlight Auction House, but Ling Luochen arrived and mistook their encounter for a seduction.

• Huo Yuhao and Yu Mengdi argued over their test, and he realized her soul skill could kill by ignoring defenses, though his Golden Dragon King bloodline had resisted it.
• Yu Mengdi insisted on punishing Huo Yuhao, threatened to report him, and eventually touched him while he was forbidden to fight back.
• Huo Yuhao invited Yu Mengdi to the Starlight Auction House, but she said Zhengtian Academy had received no invitation and then hurried away.
• Ling Luochen entered Huo Yuhao’s room, saw his exhausted state, and vowed to confront Yu Mengdi after mistaking her for a shameless seducer.

Zhang Lexuan explained Shrek Academy’s knockout-stage lineup and led the team to the Starlight Auction House, where Huo Yuhao agreed to meet Princess Xu Jiujiu. The chapter ended as Qing Ya guided them to a private room before the auction began.

• Zhang Lexuan announced that Shrek Academy would face Dou Ling Royal Academy and outlined the knockout-stage rules and lineup.
• The Infernal Delicate Apricot protested being left out, but Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan persuaded it to wait for a later round.
• Zhang Lexuan gave the team invitations to the Starlight Auction House’s top-tier auction and led them there after dinner.
• Qing Ya told Huo Yuhao that Xu Jiujiu wanted to speak with him alone about the final auction item, and Huo Yuhao agreed to go.
• Qing Ya led the Shrek team underground through the auction house and stopped at room seven.