Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao absorbed a ten-thousand-year Purple Spirit Bei soul ring and advanced to level thirty-five while Gu Yuena hinted that he might help secure a bright future for soul beasts. At Shrek Academy, Jing Hongchen arrived to demand the return of the Mingde Hall’s Judgment Sword, leaving Mu En and the elders to answer his claim.

• Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao that Di Tian had brought him a suitable soul beast as a favor he would owe her, and she urged him to gamble on a bright future for soul beasts.
• Di Tian presented a dying ten-thousand-year Purple Spirit Bei, and Huo Yuhao killed it and absorbed its soul ring to gain spiritual control as his third soul skill.
• Huo Yuhao reached level thirty-five and began condensing the wood elemental circulation of his second Heavenly Cycle.
• Jing Hongchen arrived at Shrek Academy, where Xuan Zi confronted him and the two compared their strength.
• Mu En received Jing Hongchen in Sea God Pavilion, and Jing Hongchen asked Shrek to return the Mingde Hall’s level-eight Judgment Sword.

Jing Hongchen failed to reverse Ma Xiaotao’s transformation and discovered that Shrek had seized his advanced Soul Tool cannons. At Life Lake, Huo Yuhao completed another stage of his cultivation and met the Emperor Auspicious Beast in human form, now named Gu Qiu’er.

• Mu En let Jing Hongchen examine Ma Xiaotao and the Judgment Sword, but Jing Hongchen’s light energy had no effect on her evolved Dark Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Jing Hongchen learned that Huo Yuhao had been taken by the Body Sect, then found Shrek had seized the ninth-grade Soul Tool cannons at his hidden formation.
• Huo Yuhao completed the third element’s circulation in his second Heavenly Cycle at Life Lake.
• Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao playfully pinned down the Emperor Auspicious Beast after it teased them.
• The Emperor Auspicious Beast transformed into human form, and Gu Yuena named her Gu Qiu’er.

Huo Yuhao returned from the Star Dou Forest with Gu Qiu'er and joined Du Bushi on the journey to the Body Sect, where the elders welcomed him as their future Young Sect Master. As Huo Yuhao meditated in his room, Du Bushi and the elders discussed the changed plans for the attack on Mingde Hall.

• Gu Qiu'er insisted on accompanying Huo Yuhao to the human world, and Gu Yuena approved so she could monitor the investor’s condition.
• After Zhu Lu and Vina absorbed their new Soul Rings and advanced in rank, Di Tian returned Huo Yuhao and Gu Qiu'er to Du Bushi and the others.
• Du Bushi sent Zhu Lu and Xiao Xiao back to Shrek Academy, then brought Huo Yuhao toward the Body Sect while arranging for Vina and the others to return to the Heavenly Soul Empire.
• Du Bushi introduced Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect’s elders and announced that he would become the sect’s Young Sect Master the next day; none of the elders objected.
• Huo Yuhao meditated in his room and felt himself nearing rank thirty-six, while Du Bushi discussed the changed plans for attacking Mingde Hall with the elders.

Huo Yuhao accepted the position of Young Sect Master of the Body Sect after demonstrating his extraordinary Soul Rings, then underwent the beginning of his Body Martial Soul’s second awakening. The awakening reached its golden-grade stage as the sect watched.

• Du Bushi and the elders agreed to send Huo Yuhao to the Sun Moon Empire to study Soul Tools and seek a hundred-thousand-year soul beast embryo, and Gu Qiu'er asked to accompany him.
• Huo Yuhao reached Level 36 and agreed to travel with Gu Qiu'er to see the Soul Tools developed by humans.
• Du Bushi announced Huo Yuhao as the Body Sect’s Young Sect Master, and Huo Yuhao quieted the doubters by revealing his powerful Soul Rings, including a genuine hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Du Bushi began awakening Huo Yuhao’s Body Martial Soul by subjecting him to increasing Soul Power pressure, which drove his vitality into his eyes and brain.
• Huo Yuhao’s eyes shone gold as the Body Sect disciples and elders recognized that he had achieved a Golden-Grade Second Awakening.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated his improved spiritual abilities and earned the Body Sect disciples’ respect, then faced Long Aotian in a match. He used his spiritual power and sword techniques to overwhelm Long Aotian, while Du Bushi recognized Mu En’s Heavenly Dominion technique in Yuhao’s attack.

• Huo Yuhao tested his improved Spiritual Detection, thanked Du Bushi, and silenced the Body Sect disciples’ objections to his position as Young Sect Master.
• Huo Yuhao defeated a Body Sect disciple in a sparring match and showed mercy by giving him only light injuries.
• Long Aotian challenged Huo Yuhao and introduced himself as a rank fifty-three Battle Soul King with a Silver-grade Second Awakening.
• Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian exchanged attacks, and Long Aotian resisted Huo Yuhao’s sword aura with his body and fifth soul skill.
• Huo Yuhao struck Long Aotian with a powerful sword aura after a spiritual attack disrupted his attempt to dodge.
• Du Bushi recognized the attack as Mu En’s signature Heavenly Dominion technique.

Huo Yuhao defeated Long Aotian with the third form of the Human Emperor Sword Technique, Emperor Starfall, and Du Bushi ordered the display of his strength kept secret. Three days later, Huo Yuhao left for the Sun Moon Empire with Gu Qiu'er and two Body Sect elders, passing through the Star Luo Empire while vowing to settle old scores.

• Long Aotian broke through Huo Yuhao's sword aura with several soul skills, but Huo Yuhao then used Emperor Starfall, drawing Stellar Power onto the Human Emperor Sword.
• Du Bushi shielded Long Aotian from the attack and ordered the Body Sect to keep Huo Yuhao's strength secret; he arranged for Divine Arm Douluo to accompany Huo Yuhao on his journey.
• Three days later, Huo Yuhao departed for the Sun Moon Empire with Gu Qiu'er, Spirit Voice Douluo, and Divine Arm Douluo.
• As the group crossed the Star Luo Empire, Huo Yuhao remembered his enemies Xu Xingling and Dai Huabin and vowed to settle his debts after reaching Soul Emperor cultivation.
• After several days of travel, Huo Yuhao and his companions entered the Sun Moon Empire.

Huo Yuhao and the Body Sect elders traveled to the Sun Moon Empire’s capital so he could study its advanced Soul Tool technology. At the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, he reunited with Meng Hongchen and revealed his identity as the Body Sect’s Young Sect Master to Jing Hongchen.

• Huo Yuhao judged from the expanded mining operations that the Sun Moon Empire would attack the Three Douluo Kingdoms in a few years.
• Huo Yuhao, Gu Qiu’er, Divine Arm Douluo, and Spirit Voice Douluo reached Bright Capital and marveled at its advanced Soul Tool defenses.
• Huo Yuhao contacted Meng Hongchen with their communication Soul Tool after arriving at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
• Meng Hongchen hurried to the academy gates and greeted Huo Yuhao, then learned he had reached the three-ring Soul Elder rank.
• Jing Hongchen recognized Divine Arm Douluo and Spirit Voice Douluo, and Huo Yuhao introduced himself as the Body Sect’s Young Sect Master.

Huo Yuhao entered the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, impressed Jing Hongchen with a second-level Soul Tool infused with Ultimate Ice, and became his disciple. After rapidly advancing his Soul Engineer studies, Huo Yuhao went to learn from Jing Hongchen’s fellow disciple while Jing Hongchen met with the royal family.

• Huo Yuhao asked Jing Hongchen to let him study Soul Tools at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, and Jing Hongchen agreed to test his skills.
• Huo Yuhao crafted a peak-quality second-level dagger with Ultimate Ice, prompting Jing Hongchen to ask him to become his disciple.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Jing Hongchen as his teacher, joined Meng Hongchen’s class, and arranged for Gu Qiu’er to study with them.
• Huo Yuhao studied Soul Tools with Meng Hongchen and Gu Qiu’er, attending classes by day and learning from Jing Hongchen at night.
• Jing Hongchen sent Huo Yuhao to study at his fellow disciple’s research institute while he went to meet the old king and discuss upcoming matters.

Huo Yuhao passed Xuan Ziwen’s test by creating a Level Five shield that absorbed Soul Power from the air, then entered the laboratory and met Orange. When other students accused him of bullying her and insulted him, Huo Yuhao’s anger erupted and a fight began.

• Xuan Ziwen tested Huo Yuhao by asking him to make a Level Five Soul Tool, and Huo Yuhao crafted a self-charging defensive shield using his Heavenly Cycle carving method.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized the shield’s significance, asked to keep it, and hurried away with it while Huo Yuhao explored the laboratory.
• Huo Yuhao helped Orange finish assembling a Soul Tool, and she accidentally screamed when she noticed him beside her.
• A petite young woman accused Huo Yuhao of bullying Orange, and two boys attacked him before he could explain.
• After one boy insulted him, Huo Yuhao summoned the Human Emperor Sword and released his Soul Elder cultivation; the students answered with a barrage of Soul Tool attacks.

Huo Yuhao fought off Wang Shaojie’s attack after Orange and her companions mistook him for an intruder, while Xuan Ziwen showed Kong Deming the Soul Tool Huo Yuhao had developed. The troublemakers were punished, and Kong Deming finally met Huo Yuhao.

• Wang Shaojie and his companions attacked Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao deflected their barrage with the Human Emperor Sword.
• Xiao Hongchen arrived and blocked Wang Shaojie’s cannon blast, then Huo Yuhao knocked Wang Shaojie unconscious with a Mental Shock.
• Orange explained the misunderstanding, and she, Keke, and the boy apologized to Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Ziwen showed Huo Yuhao’s Soul Tool to Kong Deming, who recognized its ability to convert spiritual energy into Soul Power and hurried to meet its creator.
• Xuan Ziwen punished Wang Shaojie, Keke, and the boy by cutting their rare metal quotas and increasing their examination difficulty, while Orange was ordered to write a self-reflection essay.
• Kong Deming entered the laboratory and greeted Huo Yuhao.

Kong Deming took Huo Yuhao as his disciple and gave him the Class 9 Soul Tool Silver Moon Radiance, while Jing Hongchen supported the decision. Later, Huo Yuhao joined Orange and Keke at Jingfeng Mountain to test a Soul Tool robot, but sensed danger as they prepared to leave.

• Kong Deming asked Huo Yuhao to become his disciple, and Jing Hongchen gave his approval.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Kong Deming as his master and received the Class 9 Soul Tool Silver Moon Radiance.
• Kong Deming told Jing Hongchen about Orange and the others’ encounter with Wang Shaojie, and Jing Hongchen agreed to follow Kong Deming’s plan.
• Huo Yuhao traveled with Orange and Keke to Jingfeng Mountain to test a semi-automated Soul Tool robot, and revealed that he was already a Class 5 Soul Engineer.
• After the robot passed its mobility test and night fell, Huo Yuhao sensed something was wrong and warned Orange and Keke not to go outside.

Huo Yuhao confronted a wolf pack led by three Golden Wolf Kings and a powerful Silver Moon Wolf King after Ju Zi and Keke’s Soul Tool test attracted them. He fought to reach the Silver Moon Wolf King, but even after badly injuring it, he found it still alive and prepared to go all out.

• Ju Zi identified the approaching Golden Wolves and warned that their Silver Moon Wolf King was a powerful spiritual-attribute soul beast.
• Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi and Keke to leave, then drew the pack away from the robot while flying and dodging their attacks.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to fight alongside him, but the three Golden Wolf Kings split them apart.
• Huo Yuhao used Fate: Soul's Gaze against the Silver Moon Wolf King, destroying its eyes but failing to defeat it.
• Huo Yuhao advanced through the pack with his sword and Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion skills, badly injuring the Silver Moon Wolf King and many Golden Wolves.
• The Silver Moon Wolf King rose again, and Huo Yuhao decided he had to go all out.

Huo Yuhao killed the Silver Moon Wolf King, survived a surprise attack from a Golden Wolf King, and absorbed the beast's ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, gaining Mental Chaos. After returning to the academy with Orange and Keke, he was confronted by someone mocking him.

• Huo Yuhao killed the Silver Moon Wolf King with the Human Emperor Sword, then blocked the wounded Golden Wolf King's attack until Huo Qubing and Wei Qing arrived and pinned it with a thunder spear.
• Huo Yuhao healed his wounds and absorbed the Silver Moon Wolf King's ten-thousand-year Soul Ring while Huo Qubing and Wei Qing kept watch; Elex easily resolved the soul shock.
• Orange and Keke returned in their robots and watched as Huo Yuhao completed the absorption, only to find that his fourth soul skill was Mental Chaos.
• Keke scolded Huo Yuhao for luring the wolf pack away alone, and Orange led the three of them back to the academy.
• As Huo Yuhao prepared to return to his dormitory, a mocking voice said that the prince had arrived at just the right time.

Huo Yuhao fought off Wang Shaojie and the Imperial Inspection Squad, while the Divine Arm Douluo attacked members of the Sun Moon Imperial House. After Xu Tianran learned of Huo Yuhao’s talent and connection to the academy, he set out to meet him, while Meng Hongchen and Gu Qiu’er pulled Huo Yuhao away from the laboratory for an outing.

• Wang Shaojie summoned the Imperial Inspection Squad to arrest Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao knocked the squad members aside, punched Wang Shaojie into a wall, and left the captain frozen.
• The Divine Arm Douluo killed a man and broke the limbs of royal guards and the emperor’s younger sister before leaving the courtyard.
• Shadow Douluo Xue Chen reported to Crown Prince Xu Tianran that a Titled Douluo had attacked the Imperial House, and Xu Tianran ordered him to investigate his younger brother’s recent trouble at the academy.
• Xue Chen’s investigation revealed that Huo Yuhao had fought Wang Shaojie and had reached fifth-rank Soul Engineer level after one month of study, prompting Xu Tianran to visit the academy.
• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen paused their work on the sixth-rank Heavenly Cycle Soul Tool Array because they could not yet resolve its cultivation and design limitations.
• Meng Hongchen and Gu Qiu’er dragged Huo Yuhao out of the laboratory to spend time in the city, leaving Xiao Hongchen complaining behind.

Huo Yuhao explored Bright Capital with Meng Hongchen and Gu Qiu'er, but their outing turned into a confrontation when Crown Prince Xu Tianran and Xue Chen appeared. Kong Deming intervened to protect his student and forced them to leave, while revealing that Xu Tianran had allied with the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Meng Hongchen took Huo Yuhao and Gu Qiu'er to a hamburger shop, where the three ate snacks before continuing through Bright Capital.
• Huo Yuhao sensed an ambush in a quiet area and stepped in front of the two girls as Xu Tianran and Xue Chen emerged from the shadows.
• Xu Tianran asked Meng Hongchen and Gu Qiu'er to leave so he could speak with Huo Yuhao, while Xue Chen tested Huo Yuhao's strength with his pressure.
• Huo Yuhao remained unfazed by Xue Chen's pressure and warned Xu Tianran that the test should end.
• Kong Deming appeared, declared Huo Yuhao to be his student, exposed Xu Tianran's alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult, and ordered Xu Tianran and Xue Chen to leave.

After Xu Tianran threatened Huo Yuhao, Kong Deming helped him prepare for his sixth-rank Soul Engineer assessment, where Huo Yuhao created an umbrella-shaped Soul Tool. The assessment was interrupted when Du Bushi arrived at the academy to confront Xu Tianran over his treatment of the Body Sect’s young sect master.

• Xu Tianran and the others left after Kong Deming intervened, and Kong Deming apologized to Huo Yuhao for the imperial family’s behavior.
• Kong Deming guided Huo Yuhao through the Heavenly Cycle formation problem, then Meng Hongchen and Gu Qiu'er welcomed Huo Yuhao back at the academy.
• Huo Yuhao took the sixth-rank Soul Engineer assessment and carved a core that autonomously absorbed surrounding Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao completed the Primordial Pearl Umbrella and prepared to explain its abilities to the examiners.
• Du Bushi arrived above the academy and demanded that Xu Tianran come out to answer for threatening Huo Yuhao.

Du Bushi confronted Xu Tianran over his treatment of Huo Yuhao, then stayed to watch Huo Yuhao complete his sixth-grade Soul Engineer assessment. Huo Yuhao demonstrated the Primordial Pearl Umbrella’s remarkable defenses, while Du Bushi and Jing Hongchen ended the chapter by fighting in the sky.

• Du Bushi confronted Xu Tianran, discovered that he was a hidden Titled Douluo, and accepted Soul Tools as compensation for Huo Yuhao.
• Du Bushi stayed at the examination grounds while Huo Yuhao explained that he was taking the sixth-grade Soul Engineer assessment.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated that the Primordial Pearl Umbrella could shield him from powerful attacks and absorb attacks to strengthen its barrier.
• The examiners approved Huo Yuhao’s skill, and he received a sixth-grade Soul Tool Array before rejoining Meng Hongchen and Gu Qiu'er.
• Du Bushi bragged about Huo Yuhao to Jing Hongchen, then dragged him into the sky for a duel after Jing Hongchen teased him about a honey trap.

Huo Yuhao received a water-and-darkness-attribute hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast embryo from Jing Hongchen and learned about Electrolux’s unfinished method for peaceful Soul Beast contracts. After considering how to end Soul Masters’ dependence on hunting Soul Beasts, Huo Yuhao devised an idea and asked Electrolux for help.

• Jing Hongchen brought Huo Yuhao and Du Busi to the Mingde Hall underground base and showed them the Divine Sealing Platform containing the Soul Beast embryo.
• Ice Empress explained to Huo Yuhao how transformed Soul Beasts could condense Soul Rings, prompting him and the others to question the Soul Master system.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen urged Huo Yuhao to accept the embryo because its attributes suited him, and Jing Hongchen called it a dowry for Meng.
• Electrolux described his unfinished formation array for peaceful human–Soul Beast contracts, while noting that Soul Bones remained a problem.
• Huo Yuhao looked at the Divine Sealing Platform, formed an idea for changing how Soul Masters obtained Soul Rings, and asked Electrolux for help.

Huo Yuhao persuaded the transformed soul beast Lan Fuzi to help him test his idea for a Self-Condensed Soul Ring. After Lan Fuzi agreed to cooperate, they began discussing how to carry out the experiment.

• Huo Yuhao released the girl from the Divine Sealing Platform, and Elex immobilized her when she attacked.
• Huo Yuhao told the girl he wanted to make a deal, but she distrusted humans because they had killed her father.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Ice Empress and Tian Meng, and the Ice Empress vouched for him and explained his plan.
• The girl agreed to cooperate after learning about the Self-Condensed Soul Ring and Huo Yuhao's abilities, and she introduced herself as Lan Fuzi, a hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale.
• Huo Yuhao and Lan Fuzi discussed how he could observe her ring-condensation process and use it to develop his own method.

Huo Yuhao studied how Lan Fuzi condensed Soul Rings, then engraved an empty ring of his own and filled it with the aura of her two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. As he began absorbing its immense power, he was pulled into a strange space where a stern middle-aged man offered to help him.

• Huo Yuhao watched Lan Fuzi condense four Soul Rings and learned that her rings drew on energy and soul power from her cultivation as a soul beast.
• Lan Fuzi explained that she had been a two-hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whale protected by her mother, and Ice Empress and Huo Yuhao reflected on what they had learned.
• Huo Yuhao engraved a transparent Soul Ring around himself, then asked Lan Fuzi for a drop of blood and infused the ring until it carried the aura of her Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao began absorbing the two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, alarming Ice Empress, Tian Meng, and Lan Fuzi as its power strained his body.
• Huo Yuhao's consciousness entered a strange space, where a stern middle-aged man praised his daring and offered to lend him a hand.