Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao located a captured Jia Nan Academy student inside a secret chamber protected by a powerful Soul Barrier while Wu Tian and the academy elders battled the Eight Gates and its allies above Black Mark City. After uncovering and disabling a trap, Huo Yuhao used Heart Force to cut through the barrier and entered the chamber to rescue the student.

• Huo Yuhao searched the Black Mark Auction House, found a secret chamber, and sensed a powerful Soul Barrier reinforced with spatial power.
• Wu Tian confronted Yuan Yi over the captured students, and the Eight Gates, Blood Sect, Crazy Lion Gang, and Earth Flame Sect forces clashed with Wu Tian and Elder Huo's group.
• Huo Yuhao used simulated spiritual power to inspect the chamber and discovered a captured Jia Nan Academy student lying on an altar surrounded by a soul-powered trap.
• Huo Yuhao memorized and erased the trap's runes, then infused a fourth-grade Spirit Artifact dagger with Dou Qi and Heart Force.
• Huo Yuhao slashed open the Soul Barrier and entered the secret chamber.

The three Canaan Academy elders defeated a Dou Emperor with their Spirit Artifacts, while Wu Tian and his allies fought Yuan Yi and Fan Lao amid Black Mark City’s destruction. Huo Yuhao killed Yuan Yi with a Heart Force-infused dagger, and after Fan Lao self-destructed, the battered survivors regrouped to recover as Yan Shi escaped.

• The three Dou Wang elders coordinated their Spirit Artifacts to kill their Dou Emperor opponent and went to assist Wu Tian.
• Wu Tian, Yuan Yi, and Fan Lao unleashed powerful attacks that destroyed the Black Mark Auction House and much of Black Mark City.
• Huo Yuhao protected an unconscious Canaan Academy student from the shockwave, recovered his Dou Qi, and hid among the ruins to watch the battle.
• Huo Yuhao used a Heart Force-infused Spirit Artifact dagger to stab Yuan Yi, killing him and briefly halting the battle.
• Wu Tian exploited Fan Lao’s distraction to pierce his heart, and Fan Lao triggered a self-destruction that wounded Wu Tian.
• Elder Huo gave Wu Tian a healing pill, Yan Shi fled, and the survivors sat down to recover.

Huo Yuhao returned to Jia Nan Academy after killing Yuan Yi and Fan Lao, then grew suspicious after an eruption at the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower. He discovered that Lin Xiuya and the other familiar students from Profound Class One had gone missing.

• Huo Yuhao and the elders returned to Jia Nan Academy with the unconscious student, and he asked three Dou Wang elders to take the student to Elder Hao.
• Huo Yuhao reported the battle in Black Mark City to Hu Gan, who offered him another entry into the Library Pavilion.
• An explosion shook the academy from the direction of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, but Hu Gan dismissed it as a commonplace accident.
• Huo Yuhao contacted Yao Chen, who suspected he had encountered the Soul Hall, while Xiao Yan agreed to help Hai Bodong refine pills before searching for Heavenly Flames.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ling Ying about the Soul Clan and learned that the clan was unlikely to retaliate over events in the Northwestern Continent.
• Huo Yuhao visited Profound Class One and learned that Lin Xiuya and the other familiar classmates had gone missing.

Huo Yuhao discovered that students had gone missing and confronted Vice Principal Hu Gan and Wu Tian, who attacked him. As Huo Yuhao accused them of betraying the academy, Elder Huo stabbed him through the chest and revealed his own betrayal.

• Huo Yuhao learned that Yan Hao, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian had gone missing, then found that Xiao Yu was also absent from class.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the vice principal's office held answers and rushed there after Elder Huo called him to prepare medicinal ingredients.
• Hu Gan and Wu Tian ambushed Huo Yuhao, struck him through the office wall, and launched a devastating follow-up attack.
• Elder Huo arrived and stopped Hu Gan and Wu Tian from continuing their assault.
• As Huo Yuhao accused Hu Gan and Wu Tian of betraying the academy, Elder Huo pierced his chest with a flame-covered hand and revealed his betrayal.

Huo Yuhao revealed that Elder Huo, Wu Tian, and Hu Gan had become puppets controlled by Xue Lin, then froze Elder Huo and used Startle Dream to stop the other two. As Huo Yuhao weakened, Xue Lin arrived and trapped him under the pressure of a six-star Dou Zong.

• Xue Lin revealed that he had taken over Elder Huo, Wu Tian, and Hu Gan using Soul Ash Attraction and tried to recruit Huo Yuhao into the Soul Hall.
• Huo Yuhao exposed the wounded figure as an avatar and froze Elder Huo with Emperor Palm—Great Cold Without Snow · Heartforce Fusion.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had never taken Elder Huo's pill and used Startle Dream to stop Xue Lin's control of Wu Tian and Hu Gan.
• Xue Lin descended and immobilized Huo Yuhao with his six-star Dou Zong pressure, threatening to take his body.

Huo Yuhao lured Xue Protector into formations that drained his power, then used the help of Canaan Academy’s elders to subdue him. With Xue Protector’s soul weakened, Huo Yuhao attempted to control him.

• Xue Protector attacked Huo Yuhao after Dreamshock, but the apparent target shattered as a clone.
• Huo Yuhao activated the Illusory Space and Eternal Slumber formations, draining Xue Protector’s Dou Qi and soul force until he escaped with his cultivation and soul badly damaged.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that his true body had never entered the academy and explained that he had concealed himself and the three Dou Wang elders while preparing the formations.
• Bai Lao and Qian Lao appeared, and Qian Lao restrained Xue Protector while Bai Lao left to assist Su Qian in the Inner Academy.
• Huo Yuhao struck Xue Protector with Soul Shock and Dreamshock, then told Qian Lao that he wanted to try controlling him.

Huo Yuhao seized control of Xue Protector and learned that another Soul Hall Protector had led the attack, but that enemy escaped before the academy elders could stop him. After checking that the students were safe, Huo Yuhao confronted the guardian elders over their failure to notice the mass soul control and insisted that the unconscious teachers and students be treated.

• Huo Yuhao used Soul Control and Mental Control to subdue Xue Protector and searched his memories for intelligence.
• Huo Yuhao warned Qian Lao that a three-star Dou Zong Soul Hall Protector had commanded the attack and might escape.
• Bai Lao and Su Qian returned after the attackers fled, reporting that they had killed several Dou Emperors but the leading Protector escaped.
• Huo Yuhao scanned the Outer Academy, confirmed Xiao Yi Xian, Han Yue, Lin Xiuya, and the students were safe, then angrily blamed Bai Lao and Qian Lao for overlooking the controlled souls.
• Ling Ying shielded Huo Yuhao and warned the elders against harming him, but Huo Yuhao stopped him and urged everyone to focus on treating the unconscious teachers and students.

Huo Yuhao saved the souls of thousands of Jia Nan Academy teachers and students by sacrificing fragments of his own Soul Origin. After they awakened, he collapsed from exhaustion but managed to stand again, relieved that he had saved them.

• Lin Xiuya told the elders that the controlled teachers and students were alive but their souls were severely damaged, and Huo Yuhao promised he could save them.
• Huo Yuhao asked Bai Lao and Qian Lao to gather soul-restoring herbs and had the unconscious victims brought to the square.
• Huo Yuhao severed fragments of his own Soul Origin, stripped away his imprint, and used the fragments to repair the victims' souls.
• Huo Yuhao repeatedly refined soul herbs to sustain himself as he treated the thousands of teachers and students, while Xiao Yi Xian and the others watched.
• After the final soul fragment was delivered, Huo Yuhao collapsed, and Bai Lao and Qian Lao used medicinal power to stabilize him as the victims began to awaken.
• Supported by Xiao Yi Xian, Huo Yuhao stood and murmured that he had finally done it, while the rescued teachers and students looked on gratefully.

After Soul Hall’s infiltration nearly devastated Canaan Academy, Huo Yuhao introduced a soul-warning device to prevent future attacks. Hu Gan then proposed appointing Huo Yuhao as Canaan Academy’s Chief Elder, and several elders immediately supported the motion.

• Elders accused Bai Lao and Qian Lao of failing to protect the academy, but Hu Gan stopped the argument and called for practical solutions.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated Communication Soul Tools that could detect abnormal soul fluctuations and send warnings across ten thousand li.
• Hu Gan recalled Huo Yuhao’s sacrifices to save the academy and proposed making him Canaan Academy’s Chief Elder.
• Huo Yuhao was stunned by the proposal, while Wu Tian, Elder Huo, and other elders voiced their support.

After becoming Jia Nan Academy’s Chief Elder, Huo Yuhao opened the Library Pavilion to compensate the students and led a retaliation against forces that attacked the academy. He revealed a much larger ambition: purging the Black-Corner Region’s forces and possibly unifying the region.

• The elders unanimously accepted Huo Yuhao as Chief Elder, and he ordered every Outer Academy student to choose a treasure from the Library Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao and the elders agreed to retaliate against the Black-Corner Region forces involved in the siege, while Qian Lao and the remaining elders stayed to guard the academy.
• The next morning, Jia Nan Academy students chose treasures, easing some of their resentment toward the academy.
• Huo Yuhao departed with Xue Protector, Bai Lao, and Wu Tian to strike selected Dou Emperor forces that had participated in the assault.
• Huo Yuhao told Bai Lao and Wu Tian that he intended to purge the Black-Corner Region’s forces and perhaps unify the region.

Huo Yuhao subdued the Crazy Lion Gang and bound its members to Jia Nan Academy with a Soul Oath that preserved their consciousness while forbidding betrayal. After searching Yan Shi’s soul and dealing with those who resisted, Huo Yuhao ordered the gang to remain at its headquarters for now.

• Wu Tian attacked the Crazy Lion Gang, and Yan Shi begged for mercy while offering the gang’s valuables.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Yan Shi’s offer of submission and required the gang to accept Soul Control, then offered a Soul Oath instead.
• After seeing Xue Protector under Huo Yuhao’s control, Yan Shi signed the Soul Oath, and Huo Yuhao searched his soul.
• Huo Yuhao made the Crazy Lion Gang members sign the oath, while Wu Tian killed those who resisted or tried to flee.
• Yan Shi asked whether the gang should go to Jia Nan Academy, but Huo Yuhao told them to stay at their headquarters until their destination was arranged.

Huo Yuhao spared the defeated gangs and used their soul contracts to secure control of the Black-Corner Region, then traveled with Bai Lao and Wu Tian to a Soul Hall branch. There, he resurrected fragments of the souls consumed to create the branch’s soul essence and absorbed its purified energy, recovering his spiritual power.

• Huo Yuhao persuaded Elder Wu to use soul contracts to control the defeated forces, and the last participating sect leader submitted, bringing the Dou Emperor forces under their control.
• Huo Yuhao revealed the location of Xue Protector’s Soul Hall branch, and Bai Lao tore open a spatial rift to take Huo Yuhao, Wu Tian, and Xue Protector there.
• Bai Lao found the branch’s treasures, while Huo Yuhao searched Xue Protector’s memories and learned he did not know the location of Protector Tie’s lair.
• Wu Tian killed the Soul Hall envoys and deacons, and Huo Yuhao purified the branch’s soul essence and used Wraith Resurrection to briefly restore fragments of its victims’ souls.
• After the fragments faded and their negative emotions dissipated, Huo Yuhao absorbed the remaining soul essence, restoring and strengthening his soul.

Huo Yuhao broke through to Dou Ling and learned more about the higher cultivation stages before returning to Jia Nan Academy. After sensing the strange energy in the newly formed lake, he designed a formation-based plan to rebuild and nourish the academy.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the energy from his soul origin, broke through to Dou Ling, and inspected his new Dou Crystal.
• Bai Lao explained the progression from Dou Ling to Dou Zun, while Huo Yuhao said he could contend with a Dou Emperor but was still far below a Dou Zong.
• Huo Yuhao, Wu Tian, Bai Lao, and the elders returned through a spatial rift to the enormous pit at Jia Nan Academy, where the elders discussed rebuilding.
• Huo Yuhao dismissed the elders and sensed residual formation energy circulating in the water that had filled the pit.
• Huo Yuhao recreated Jia Nan Academy in his spiritual world and designed a new layout with lake-based formations, floating buildings, rainbow bridges, and a formation to guide cold air.

Huo Yuhao presented a reconstruction and formation plan for Jia Nan Academy, using the lake at its center to support cultivation-enhancing arrays and extensive defenses. After the elders approved the plan, he transferred formation knowledge to Hu Gan, who remembered it but could not yet apply it.

• Huo Yuhao proposed rebuilding the academy as islands connected by bridges across a lake, with arrays drawing on its remaining ice-attributed energy to accelerate cultivation.
• The elders unanimously approved the reconstruction plan, and Wu Tian said compensation from the Black-Corner Region forces would cover the resources.
• Huo Yuhao presented plans for numerous defensive and utility formations, including a Gathering Spirit Formation that would increase the concentration of natural energy.
• After the meeting, Huo Yuhao assigned tasks and used Mental Sharing to transmit formation knowledge into Hu Gan’s soul.
• Hu Gan said he could only memorize the transferred knowledge without understanding it, and Huo Yuhao began considering another method.

Huo Yuhao oversaw Jia Nan Academy’s reconstruction through numerous spiritual clones, guiding the elders as they installed arrays and reinforced the teaching buildings. The academy’s first defensive grand array was completed, and the rebuilt teaching district neared completion.

• Students at Jia Nan Academy traded confused rumors about seeing Elder Huo in several places at once.
• Huo Yuhao guided Vice Principal Hu Gan as he installed the academy’s sixteenth grand array and completed the first defensive barrier.
• Huo Yuhao sent spiritual clones to guide the elders’ reconstruction work throughout the academy.
• The Elder of Civil Engineering reported that Huo Yuhao’s spirit-rune techniques had made the new teaching buildings exceptionally sturdy.

Huo Yuhao reached Seven-Star Dou Ling after refining the Luo Yue Pills and then discovered that the ancient Spatial Gate held a damaged artifact spirit. He used a fragment of his soul power to awaken it, and it asked what continent it was on and why there was no spiritual energy.

• Huo Yuhao removed the foreign energy from a Luo Yue Pill and absorbed its purified power to strengthen his Dou Qi.
• Huo Yuhao spent two months refining the pills, reaching Seven-Star Dou Ling.
• Huo Yuhao examined the Spatial Gate and discovered its damaged frame and sleeping artifact spirit.
• Huo Yuhao sent a small mass of soul power into the artifact spirit, awakening it.
• The Spatial Gate's artifact spirit asked which continent it was on and why there was no spiritual energy.

Huo Yuhao awakened the Guardian Mirror, a damaged artifact from the Great Thousand World, and learned that it needed spatial materials to repair itself. After the mirror claimed Huo Yuhao as its master, he used Absorption Stones, a Spirit Core, and Nine Li Ice Flame to begin restoring its energy pathways.

• The Guardian Mirror awakened in Huo Yuhao's sea of spirit and explained that it came from the higher plane called the Great Thousand World.
• The mirror realized it had instinctively recognized Huo Yuhao as its master and complained that he had taken advantage of it while it slept.
• Huo Yuhao produced several Absorption Stones and a piece of Spirit Core, which the mirror identified as materials for its repair.
• The Guardian Mirror doubted Huo Yuhao could repair it because he was the only artifact refiner in his world.
• Huo Yuhao ignored the mirror's instructions and used Nine Li Ice Flame to refine the materials and guide spatial energy into the mirror's damaged pathways.

Huo Yuhao completed a preliminary repair of the Guardian Mirror, which shrank and became a talking hair ornament. As they toured Jia Nan Academy, the mirror criticized its facilities and noticed that the Qian-Bai Elders lacked only a small space within their seas of qi to advance.

• Huo Yuhao repaired the Guardian Mirror with spatial power, and the mirror praised his talent for artifact refining.
• The Guardian Mirror listed its remaining abilities, then shrank to a palm-sized mirror that could be tied to Huo Yuhao's hair.
• The ice-flame phoenix fought the mirror over Huo Yuhao's shoulder before Huo Yuhao calmed them and attached the mirror beside his ear.
• Huo Yuhao walked through Jia Nan Academy as the Guardian Mirror criticized its facilities and Spirit Gathering Formation.
• In the bamboo grove, the Guardian Mirror assessed the Qian-Bai Elders and said they needed to construct small spaces within their seas of qi.

Huo Yuhao introduced Bai Lao and Qian Lao to the Guardian Mirror, which revealed its origins in the Great Thousand World and offered to help them construct inner spaces. He then transmitted the mirror’s detailed spatial techniques into both elders’ souls.

• The Guardian Mirror awakened and corrected Bai Lao and Qian Lao when they mistook it for the Spatial Gate from the Library Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao told Bai Lao and Qian Lao that the Guardian Mirror came from the Great Thousand World, a realm above the Battle Qi Continent.
• Bai Lao sealed off the back mountain and asked whether people from the higher realm could easily reach the Battle Qi Continent, and the Guardian Mirror said they could not.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Guardian Mirror to help Bai Lao and Qian Lao develop inner spaces, and Bai Lao volunteered to go first.
• The Guardian Mirror explained spatial construction methods, and Huo Yuhao simplified its knowledge before imprinting clear instructions into both elders’ souls.

Huo Yuhao and the Guardian Mirror prepared to cross into the Great Thousand World, using Xue Protector’s spatial power to open a passage. Huo Yuhao agreed only to visit, intending to return to the Battle Qi Continent and bring his family and friends with him later.

• Bai Lao and Qian Lao recognized Huo Yuhao and the Guardian Mirror’s breakthrough method and hurried off to attempt it.
• Huo Yuhao used Soul Control to have Xue Protector channel his battle qi into the Guardian Mirror, opening a stable spatial rift outside Jia Nan Academy.
• The Guardian Mirror located the Great Thousand World’s coordinates and urged Huo Yuhao to cross over, explaining the energy conversion and strength reduction awaiting them there.
• Huo Yuhao refused to leave the Battle Qi Continent behind, but agreed to make a brief visit after the Guardian Mirror offered to protect them and allow them to return.
• Huo Yuhao left a message for Xiao Yi Xian and the others, then Xue Protector and the Guardian Mirror opened a passage toward the Great Thousand World.