Chapter Summaries

Kong Deming concealed the Cosmos Creation Pill by claiming that he, Xuan Ziwen, and Jing Hongchen had advanced after absorbing a Dragon Core, and Xu Tianran prepared the empire for war against the Star Luo Empire. Ju Zi planned to seek command of the campaign so she could kill Dai Hao, while Huo Yuhao insisted he would join her, leaving them at odds over who should take revenge.

• Kong Deming told Xu Tianran that Xuan Ziwen and Jing Hongchen had become Super Douluo and falsely attributed their advances to a Dragon Core.
• Xu Tianran accepted Kong Deming’s explanation and ordered the empire to prepare for war, assigning Kong Deming to guard the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Ju Zi told Huo Yuhao she would ask Xu Tianran for command of the war so she could kill Dai Hao.
• Huo Yuhao said he would go to the battlefield and kill Dai Hao alongside Ju Zi.
• Ju Zi argued that Huo Yuhao could not risk being seen as a son who killed his father and urged him to leave Dai Hao to her.

Ju Zi apologized for trying to deny Huo Yuhao his chance to avenge his mother, and they agreed to keep Dai Hao’s death from tarnishing Huo Yuhao’s reputation. Huo Yuhao then asked Di Qiuer to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest to meet Di Tian, revealing that he had known she was a soul beast all along.

• Huo Yuhao promised Ju Zi that he would join her in taking revenge on Dai Hao, and Ju Zi apologized and offered to plan a way for them both to act while keeping Huo Yuhao’s role secret.
• Huo Yuhao planned to have Huo Yun'er confront Dai Hao before his eventual death, and recalled that Elder Yi had retrieved her soul from the Underworld.
• Huo Yuhao asked Di Qiuer to accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest so he could discuss Spirit Souls with Di Tian.
• Di Qiuer realized Huo Yuhao knew her identity as a soul beast, and he told her he had recognized her when they first met.
• Di Qiuer asked why Huo Yuhao had kept her secret, wondering whether he could have made her a Spirit Soul and obtained a soul bone instead.

Huo Yuhao explained that he had spared Di Qiuer partly to promote peace between humans and Soul Beasts, while Qiuer pressed him for a personal reason. As they prepared to visit the Star Dou Great Forest, Qiuer proposed pretending to be his lover to protect him from Di Tian, and Huo Yuhao agreed.

• Huo Yuhao told Di Qiuer he hoped to promote Spirit Souls and reduce conflict between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Di Qiuer asked whether Huo Yuhao had another reason for sparing her, and he teased her instead of answering directly.
• Di Qiuer warned Huo Yuhao that Di Tian might target him during their visit to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Qiuer proposed that she and Huo Yuhao pretend to be lovers so Di Tian would avoid harming him.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to Qiuer's plan and decided not to bring Old Kong along.

Di Qiuer explained how she had used the Power of Fate to hide her absence from the Star Dou Great Forest. She and Huo Yuhao agreed to travel there at a normal pace and build up their experience pretending to be lovers before facing Di Tian.

• At the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian worried about the Auspicious Beast’s years-long seclusion, and Bi Ji suggested she was cultivating after being captured by humans.
• Di Tian told Bi Ji to monitor the Auspicious Beast’s life signs and interrupt her seclusion if anything went wrong.
• Huo Yuhao asked Di Qiuer how she had reached the human world without Di Tian noticing, and she explained that she had left a false body in seclusion using the Star Dou Power of Fate.
• Huo Yuhao offered to take Di Qiuer back quickly, but she insisted they travel normally and practice acting like lovers so Di Tian would not suspect them.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to Di Qiuer’s plan, while the three-headed Scarlet King lounged in the sun in an open area of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Di Qiuer revealed to Scarlet King and Di Tian that she had secretly taken human form and traveled to the human world instead of cultivating in seclusion. She then explained that she had brought Huo Yuhao back because he was her lover.

• Scarlet King spotted two hooded humans near Star Dou's core region and prepared to attack them.
• Di Qiuer revealed herself and showed Scarlet King the Golden Dragon Spear, convincing him she was the Auspicious Beast.
• Di Qiuer admitted that she had arranged a fake body to impersonate her while she secretly traveled to the human world.
• Scarlet King brought Di Qiuer to Di Tian, who questioned why she had left the forest and brought Huo Yuhao with her.
• Di Qiuer linked arms with Huo Yuhao and told Di Tian that Yuhao was her lover.

Di Qiuer declared her love for Huo Yuhao, prompting Di Tian to warn her about the dangers of human-Soul Beast relationships and demand she return to his protection. Huo Yuhao defended his intentions, and the Snow Empress and Ice Empress appeared as his Spirit Souls, leaving Di Tian asking what Spirit Souls were.

• Di Qiuer introduced Huo Yuhao as her lover and revealed that she had taken the human name Di Qiuer.
• Di Tian warned Di Qiuer that humans had betrayed and exploited Soul Beasts, then invited her to return to his protection.
• Di Qiuer refused to leave Huo Yuhao and said she trusted him.
• Huo Yuhao told Di Tian he wanted to reduce the conflict and killing between humans and Soul Beasts.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress appeared and said they were Huo Yuhao's Spirit Souls, prompting Di Tian to ask what Spirit Souls were.

The Ice Empress revealed that Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit method could reduce the slaughter of soul beasts, shocking Di Tian and prompting him to keep Huo Yuhao in the Star Dou Great Forest. When Di Tian tried to seize him, Huo Yuhao revealed an overwhelming ice-blue presence that made Di Tian recognize someone he called Aunt Shui.

• The Ice Empress explained the Soul Spirit method to Di Tian and criticized him for relying on Tides of Beasts instead of reducing conflict between humans and soul beasts.
• Di Tian acknowledged the method’s value but demanded that Huo Yuhao remain in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Di Qiuer objected to restricting his freedom.
• Huo Yuhao refused Di Tian’s demand, but Di Tian insisted he had no choice and sent a purple-gold claw shadow to seize him.
• Huo Yuhao’s eyes turned ice-blue, luminous wings appeared, and frost spread across the trees as Di Tian recoiled and asked whether Aunt Shui had reincarnated as a human.

Huo Yuhao revealed that he had inherited the Water Dragon King's legacy, then used his knowledge of the Silver Dragon King's hiding place to deter Di Tian from opposing his rise to godhood. Di Tian abandoned his plans and asked what Huo Yuhao wanted in exchange for the truth about Dragon God's fall.

• Di Tian sensed the Water Dragon King Godhood in Huo Yuhao and mistook him for the Water Dragon King's reincarnation.
• Huo Yuhao clarified that he was her successor and intended to recondense her godhood, disappointing Di Tian and making him wary of another human becoming a God King.
• Huo Yuhao warned Di Tian that he could reveal the Silver Dragon King's whereabouts to the Divine Realm's Five Great God Kings.
• Di Tian suspected Di Qiuer had leaked the secret, but she denied it and scolded him for thinking so.
• Huo Yuhao claimed to know the hidden truth behind Dragon God's fall and said he would share it only if Di Tian showed sincerity.
• Di Tian gave up trying to stop Huo Yuhao and asked what he wanted.

Huo Yuhao negotiated with Di Tian for soul bones as compensation, arguing that they could support research into artificial soul bones and reduce the slaughter of soul beasts. Di Tian agreed to collect the bones, but Xiong Jun angrily warned that cooperating with humans would endanger their clansmen.

• Huo Yuhao proposed cooperating to promote the Spirit Soul method and demanded compensation from Di Tian for the pressure he had caused.
• Huo Yuhao asked for soul bones left behind by dead soul beasts and deceased Soul Masters, and Di Tian initially resisted the demand.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the soul bones could help develop true Artificial Soul Bones and reduce the need to kill soul beasts.
• Di Qiuer questioned why Di Tian would refuse to give away soul bones that were useless to soul beasts.
• Di Tian accepted Huo Yuhao's proposal and ordered Bi Ji to gather the soul bones, which soul beasts soon began bringing to the lake.
• Xiong Jun condemned Di Tian for giving soul bones to humans, and Di Tian answered that he was the Beast God.

Di Tian silenced Xiong Jun and negotiated with Huo Yuhao, who accepted the soul bones but refused to reveal the Dragon God's fall until the Silver Dragon King awakened. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Ju Zi planned to use undercover agents to bring talented people past the border restrictions, and Su Tong discovered that she loved Huo Yuhao's donuts.

• Xiong Jun challenged Di Tian's cooperation with Huo Yuhao, but Di Tian threatened him with the Dragon King Claw and forced him to back down.
• Huo Yuhao stored the soul bones Di Tian offered and asked about the Dragon God's fall.
• Huo Yuhao said he would discuss the truth with the Silver Dragon King after she awakened, and Di Tian agreed to wait.
• Ju Zi, Su Tong, and Meng Hongchen discussed how Star Luo's border measures had reduced the number of talented people reaching the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ju Zi said she would use undercover agents to escort talented people through loopholes in the restrictions.
• Su Tong tasted a donut Huo Yuhao had invented and exclaimed that donuts were so good.

Huo Yuhao left the Star Dou Great Forest after arranging Spirit Soul experiments, while Qiu'er stayed behind to help the Spirit Transfer Masters work with the ferocious beasts. Back at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, he gave Electrolux soul bones to study and began absorbing the Water Dragon King Godhead to strengthen his bloodline and possibly form a Blood Essence Soul Ring.

• Huo Yuhao arranged for Qiu'er to remain in the Star Dou Great Forest for a month and help Spirit Transfer Masters establish cooperation with the ferocious beasts.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with Electrolux through spatial teleportation.
• Huo Yuhao gave Electrolux soul bones to research as potential materials for developing Artificial Soul Bones.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he planned to eventually move soul beasts to other planets and establish laws protecting them from human hunters.
• Huo Yuhao took out the Water Dragon King Godhead and prepared to absorb some of its power to strengthen his bloodline and possibly create a Blood Essence Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao used the Water Dragon King Godhead to strengthen his body and Bloodline, then formed a Blood Essence Soul Ring instead of replacing his eighth ring. He stopped before absorbing too much divine power and began considering whether he could create God-given Soul Spirits.

• Huo Yuhao connected the Water Dragon King Head Soul Bone to the Water Dragon King Godhead and absorbed its divine power, increasing his Water Dragon King Bloodline.
• Huo Yuhao drew on the Ice God Divine Fire to absorb more power, but stopped when the divine power began causing pain in his bones, meridians, and organs.
• Huo Yuhao severed his connection to the Godhead and estimated that his physical constitution had reached roughly that of a rank ninety-five Super Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao shaped his Bloodline and Soul Power into an icy blue Blood Essence Soul Ring, but failed to replace his eighth soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao considered using a God-given Soul Ring for his eighth ring and wondered whether God-given Soul Spirits could also be created.

Huo Yuhao tested the Blood Essence Soul Ring’s dragon abilities before learning that Ju Zi had become Sun Moon Marshal and was preparing to lead the army. He met her at the front lines to ask when the attack on the Star Luo Empire would begin.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that the Blood Essence Soul Ring granted bloodline-powered dragon scales and claws, and lowered his Ultimate Ice to minus two hundred and forty degrees.
• Meng Hongchen and a group of Soul Engineers rushed into the Spirit Pagoda loft after hearing a dragon’s roar, then recognized Huo Yuhao and learned he had returned without Qiu'er.
• Meng Hongchen told Huo Yuhao that Old Kong was heading to the front lines and that his chance for revenge had arrived.
• Several days later, Huo Yuhao entered Ju Zi’s command tent at the Mingdou Mountain Range and asked when she would attack the Star Luo Empire.
• Ju Zi teased Huo Yuhao about addressing her by her military rank, and he called her Marshal.

Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi that he had brought his mother’s soul back from the Underworld and promised to search for Ju Zi’s parents. At the Holy Church headquarters, Ye Xishui advised Zhong Liwu to wait for the Sun Moon Empire’s war effort to falter, while Dai Hao stood awake at the Star Luo military camp.

• Ju Zi asked Huo Yuhao about the Underworld after learning his mother’s soul had returned, and he promised to try to find Ju Zi’s parents.
• Zhong Liwu told Ye Xishui that Sun Moon Empire forces were heading to the front and complained that Xu Tianran had ignored the Holy Church.
• Ye Xishui warned Zhong Liwu not to betray the Sun Moon Empire and said they should wait for Xu Tianran to seek their help.
• Zhong Liwu asked about the Holy Emperor’s strange missions, and Ye Xishui cautioned him against devoutly believing in the Holy Emperor.
• Dai Yueheng urged Dai Hao to return to the command tent and rest as Dai Hao stood silently beneath the stars.

Dai Hao and Dai Yueheng discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s threat and Huo Yuhao’s possible return to the Dai family, until a sudden artillery attack shattered their confidence. The Star Luo camp suffered devastating casualties as Dai Hao ordered the troops to defend themselves.

• Dai Hao told Dai Yueheng he expected the Star Luo Empire and Shrek Academy to defeat the Sun Moon Empire and force Huo Yuhao to acknowledge his Dai ancestry.
• Dai Yueheng hid his fear that Huo Yuhao would threaten his claim to inherit the White Tiger Duke title.
• Dai Hao and Dai Yueheng spotted white shells streaking toward the Star Luo camp, and Dai Hao identified them as possible Rank 9 Soul Cannon Shells.
• Dai Hao ordered the camp to activate its Soul Guidance Defense Barrier and retaliate while he and Xuanji Douluo tried to intercept the shells.
• The shells overwhelmed the Star Luo defenses and devastated the camp, leaving Dai Hao furious and wondering why the bombardment had avoided him.

Dai Hao led a small group of elites to draw the Sun Moon Empire's forces away from the retreating army, but they were soon surrounded and on the brink of defeat. Ye Yulin offered him a chance to win their release by answering questions honestly and fighting a young opponent, while Dai Luoli worried about his father in nearby Yu Ming City.

• After the Sun Moon Empire's bombardment devastated the Northwest Army Group, Dai Hao ordered the main army to retreat and gathered elites to cover it.
• In Yu Ming City, Dai Luoli rushed to check on Dai Hao, but Xu Yun stopped him and promised to gather intelligence.
• Dai Hao realized that his group of just over nine hundred was surrounded and that he had prioritized his own escape over the ordinary soldiers and wounded.
• Ye Yulin halted the attack and offered Dai Hao a one-on-one fight against a young man under twenty if he answered questions honestly; Dai Hao agreed after asking for the assault to stop.
• Ye Yulin warned that he would kill Dai Hao's subordinates one by one if Dai Hao lied, leaving Dai Hao visibly angered.

Huo Yuhao prepared to begin his revenge by questioning Dai Hao in front of Huo Yun'er, hoping to expose the truth about him and end her illusions. Huo Yun'er watched from the Undead Demiplane, still believing Dai Hao was a good man.

• Dai Hao swore by Ancestor Dai Mubai to answer Huo Yuhao's questions truthfully and used the delay to let his people recover.
• Ye Yulin revealed that the questioner was a black-robed figure, and Huo Yuhao flew forward to confront Dai Hao.
• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux to show Huo Yun'er the scene so she could learn Dai Hao's true nature.
• Electrolux formed a mirror for Huo Yun'er, who recognized Dai Hao and begged him to save her injured Hao Ge.
• Electrolux refused to rescue Dai Hao and told Huo Yun'er to watch his answers, while she remained confused about why she should doubt him.

Huo Yuhao questioned Dai Hao about his relationship with Huo Yun'er, forcing him to admit he had never loved her and had only pretended to be devoted. Dai Hao's revelations shook his soldiers and devastated Huo Yun'er, while Huo Yuhao continued exposing his true motives.

• Huo Yuhao asked Dai Hao whether he had ever loved Huo Yun'er, and Ye Yulin killed a White Tiger Guard after Huo Yuhao exposed Dai Hao's lie.
• Dai Hao admitted he had never loved Huo Yun'er and had pretended to care for her to protect the Dai Clan's interests and build his public image.
• Dai Hao explained that he had treated Huo Yun'er as a maid and had given her the White Tiger Dagger while drunk, then left her to suffer in the Duke's Mansion.
• The Star Luo Army and White Tiger Guards began to doubt Dai Hao's public devotion and concern for his soldiers.
• Huo Yun'er trembled as she heard Dai Hao's words through the mirror, her belief that they had loved each other shattered.

Huo Yun'er learned that Dai Hao had deceived her and confronted him with Huo Yuhao's help. Huo Yuhao revealed himself as the black-robed man who had exposed Dai Hao's lies and declared that he would kill him.

• Electrolux comforted Huo Yun'er and told her that Dai Hao was responsible for betraying her.
• After hearing Huo Yuhao's strategy, Electrolux sent Huo Yun'er through the Undead Gate to confront Dai Hao.
• Dai Hao mistook Huo Yun'er for a soul captured by the Sun Moon people and tried to convince her that he had always loved her.
• Huo Yun'er rejected Dai Hao's excuses and said that Huo Yuhao was her son and only family.
• Huo Yuhao shed his black disguise, revealed himself to Dai Hao, and told him to prepare to die.

Dai Hao tried to use his apparent surrender to draw Huo Yuhao close and take him hostage, while Xuanji Douluo helped disguise the plan. Huo Yuhao overwhelmed Dai Hao with his divine sense and killed him, leaving the Star Luo forces stunned.

• Dai Hao pretended to accept death and asked Huo Yuhao to spare the Star Luo soldiers, hoping to seize Huo Yuhao as a hostage.
• Xuanji Douluo enclosed Dai Yueheng and the others in a Soundproof Soul Guidance Barrier, then urged them to let Dai Hao sacrifice himself and escape later.
• Huo Yuhao used divine sense to incapacitate Dai Hao and pulled him close with Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao froze Dai Hao, released him, and shouted for him to explode, killing him in a burst of blood and shattered ice.