Chapter Summaries

Huo Lei, Shui Bing'er, and Jin Shan attacked the Condensed Ice Willow Emperor to obtain its soul ring. After destroying it with their combined skills, they found an icy-green light at the bottom of the crater beside its red soul ring.

• Huo Lei, Shui Bing'er, and Jin Shan followed the Snow Soul Bear King's directions to find the Condensed Ice Willow Emperor and prepared to attack it.
• Huo Lei struck the tree with Thunder Domain while Jin Shan severed its branches, but the Condensed Ice Willow Emperor regenerated them.
• Huo Lei used Demon-Breaking Divine Light twice to blast off the tree's crown as Jin Shan held back its attacks.
• Shui Bing'er hit the Condensed Ice Willow Emperor with Ice Explosion, destroying its body and leaving a red soul ring and an icy-green light in the crater.

Shui Bing'er absorbed the Frost Condensing Willow Emperor's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Right Leg Bone, reaching level 86 before returning to the cave with Huo Lei and Jin Shan. After the group began cultivating with the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, seven days later Shui Bing'er had reached level 87, Yunxiang level 66, and An Jun level 95 peak, while Xue Wu consolidated her Soul Sage Realm.

• Shui Bing'er absorbed the Frost Condensing Willow Emperor's Soul Ring and reached level 84, then absorbed its Right Leg Bone and rose to level 86.
• Huo Lei, Shui Bing'er, and Jin Shan returned to the cave, where Shui Bing'er told An Jun, Xue Wu, and Yunxiang about the hunt and her gains.
• Shui Bing'er and Yunxiang agreed that Shui Bing'er would filter the icy attribute from the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and transfer the purified Soul Power to Yunxiang.
• The next morning, Shui Bing'er, Yunxiang, An Jun, and Xue Wu cultivated in the cave while Huo Lei trained separately and Jin Shan stayed with the Snow Soul Bear King.
• Seven days later, An Jun emerged at level 95 peak and Shui Bing'er at level 87, while Yunxiang had risen to level 66 and Xue Wu had consolidated her Soul Sage Realm.

Huo Lei and his companions shared the remaining ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow with the Snow Soul Bear King and An Beichen, then returned safely to Iceforest City. While selling their Soul Beast spoils, Huo Lei encountered Ye Zhiqiu, who remembered him from the tournament.

• Huo Lei offered the Snow Soul Bear King two of the six remaining stalks of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and asked him to reserve four for An Beichen and Shui Bing'er's teacher, Shui Wanrou.
• An Jun returned with his son, An Beichen, who absorbed the marrow, reached level eighty, and obtained an eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring to advance to Soul Douluo.
• Huo Lei and his companions said farewell to the Snow Soul Bear King, left the Far North, and returned to the Northern Conquest Marquis Estate.
• Huo Lei sold the group's Soul Beast bodies around Iceforest City while the others rested and consolidated their gains.
• Huo Lei recognized Ye Zhiqiu on the street and introduced himself; Ye Zhiqiu recalled him as the Blazing Fire Academy genius who had defeated a Shrek Academy member in one move.

Huo Lei met Canghui Academy dean Han Song and Director Ye Zhiqiu in Iceforest City, where they discussed their Soul Ring hunt and Canghui Academy’s lasting feud with Shrek Academy. After hearing how Shrek’s strength had prevented retaliation and damaged Canghui’s enrollment, Huo Lei predicted that Shrek would soon face disaster and promised Blazing Fire Academy would eventually strike.

• Huo Lei recognized Ye Zhiqiu, who introduced Han Song as Canghui Academy’s dean and explained that they had come to Iceforest City to obtain Soul Rings.
• At a private hotel, Han Song said that he needed a Soul Ring at Level 80 and Ye Zhiqiu needed one at Level 60, while Huo Lei said he was accompanying a friend.
• Huo Lei asked about the seven Canghui students injured by Tang San, and Han Song angrily declared his hatred of Shrek Academy.
• Ye Zhiqiu explained that the injured students had not recovered, Shrek had escaped punishment, and Canghui’s enrollment had collapsed amid fear of retaliation.
• Han Song said Canghui could not challenge Shrek because Tang Hao and Shrek’s powerful teachers made retaliation too dangerous, while Ye Zhiqiu recalled Zhao Wuji beating him.
• Huo Lei predicted that Shrek Academy would soon suffer a great disaster and said Blazing Fire Academy would strike when the time was right.

Huo Lei agreed to help Han Song and Ye Zhiqiu hunt Soul Rings, then helped Ye Zhiqiu obtain a ten-thousand-year ring before leading the group into the Far North. They found a herd of Snow-Crying Deer led by a seventy-thousand-year deer king.

• Ye Zhiqiu and Han Song learned that Huo Lei had reached Soul Power Level seventy-eight, then Han Song asked him to join a Soul Ring hunt.
• Huo Lei agreed to meet Han Song and Ye Zhiqiu at Iceforest City's north gate the next morning and learned about their Martial Souls and Soul Ring Configurations.
• Huo Lei met the two at the north gate, and they traveled into the Frozen Forest together.
• Huo Lei helped Ye Zhiqiu hunt a twenty-thousand-year Ice Armor Turtle, allowing Ye Zhiqiu to obtain a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Huo Lei, Han Song, and Ye Zhiqiu continued north into the Far North and found a herd of Snow-Crying Deer led by a seventy-thousand-year deer king.

After returning from the Far North, Huo Lei arranged for his companions to return to their academies and learned that Spirit Hall was tightening pressure on the elemental academies. He returned to Blazing Fire Academy and began discussing how to prepare for the coming changes and counter the pressure.

• With Huo Lei and Ye Zhiqiu's help, Han Song killed the Snow-Crying Deer King and obtained his eighth Soul Ring before returning to Iceforest City with them.
• After half a month, Huo Lei learned that Shui Wanrou could not meet them and that Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu had to return to Skywater Academy, so the group set out for Heaven Dou City.
• In Heaven Dou City, Huo Lei sent Yunxiang and An Jun to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu to Skywater Academy, and returned south with Jin Shan and An Jun.
• Huo Lei's group returned to Blazing Fire Academy, where he learned from Huo Feng that Spirit Hall's suppression had made relations tense but had not caused an outright split.
• Huo Lei gathered Huo Feng and Xie Chong to discuss countermeasures, but neither had a solution to the elemental academies' scattered forces.

Huo Lei arranged for the four elemental academies to merge and planned a new campus beside Shrek Academy in Heaven Dou City. After sending Xie Chong to secure the site, Huo Lei and Jin Shan set out for Sunset Forest to hunt for Soul Bones, including one suited to Jin Shan.

• Huo Lei convinced Huo Feng and Xie Chong that the academies should merge when Spirit Hall threatened them, with Blazing Fire Academy leading and a new site chosen beside Shrek Academy.
• Huo Feng and Xie Chong approved the plan, and Huo Lei tasked Xie Chong with overseeing construction using funds Huo Lei would provide.
• Huo Lei, Jin Shan, and Xie Chong rode to Heaven Dou City, where Huo Lei gave Xie Chong Emperor Xue Ye's letter to help him obtain land.
• Huo Lei told Xie Chong he and Jin Shan would go to Sunset Forest to search for Soul Bones, claiming they could assist if Xie Chong encountered trouble.
• Huo Lei secretly planned to hunt the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King for its Right Arm Bone for Jin Shan and to find fire-attribute Soul Bones for Huo Feng.

Huo Lei and Jin Shan traveled to Holy Soul Village after Huo Lei revealed that he planned to take Soul Bones from Tang Hao. Huo Lei remained confident in his plan and waited for Lin Yin to bring back information about Tang Hao’s whereabouts.

• Huo Lei and Jin Shan found two high-level Soul Bones in Sunset Forest, and Jin Shan absorbed the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King’s Right Arm Bone to reach level 97.
• Huo Lei helped Xie Chong begin construction of a new academy in Heaven Dou City, then gave his father Huo Feng the Lie Yan Demon Bat King’s Head Soul Bone, which raised Huo Feng to level 89.
• After nearly five years passed, Huo Lei took Jin Shan to Holy Soul Village, where Tang Hao had once lived in seclusion.
• Jin Shan warned that Tang Hao might have grown stronger and that fighting him for Soul Bones was too risky, but Huo Lei said he was confident and would explain after Lin Yin returned with news.

Huo Lei, Jin Shan, and Lin Yin traveled to the secluded waterfall where Lin Yin had seen Tang Hao and Tang San, intending to attack them. Huo Lei revealed that the pair were hiding behind the waterfall and ordered Lin Yin to conceal himself as they prepared to strike.

• Huo Lei and Jin Shan stayed two nights with a farmer near Holy Soul Village and learned about Tang Hao's time there.
• Lin Yin arrived and reported that Tang Hao had lost an arm and a leg, then guided Huo Lei and Jin Shan toward his hideout.
• Lin Yin explained that Tang San's appearance had changed and that he had followed him to a waterfall where Tang Hao was waiting.
• The three crossed the mountains and reached a secluded pool and waterfall after nearly half a day.
• When Jin Shan could not detect anyone nearby, Huo Lei used his Fiery Golden Eyes to reveal that Tang Hao and Tang San were hiding behind the waterfall and told Lin Yin to conceal himself.

Huo Lei and Jin Shan attacked Tang Hao at the waterfall cave, where Tang San remained asleep. Tang Hao fought Jin Shan despite his injuries, and the chapter ended with Jin Shan unleashing a Right Arm Soul Bone Skill against Tang Hao’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

• Huo Lei struck the waterfall to draw Tang Hao out while leaving the cave and its Soul Bone undamaged, and he saw that Tang San was still asleep inside.
• Jin Shan challenged Tang Hao, who used Clear Sky Body Protection and detonated his two purple Soul Rings before striking Jin Shan’s shield with his hammer.
• Jin Shan revealed himself as the Golden Tiger Douluo and agreed to stop after three moves if Tang Hao survived them.
• Tang Hao began his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, while Jin Shan summoned clones that Tang Hao destroyed.
• Jin Shan attacked Tang Hao with his Right Arm Soul Bone Skill, Tiger Roars in the Mountain Forest.

Jin Shan defeated and killed Tang Hao, and Huo Lei collected the four Soul Bones left behind. Huo Lei and Jin Shan entered the cave to deal with Tang San, finding him asleep beside a black box and a Blue Silver Grass stalk.

• Jin Shan interrupted Tang Hao's attack with the White-Eyed Demon Tiger King and challenged him to trade blows.
• Tang Hao used Clear Sky True Body, but Jin Shan met his hammer with Golden Tiger True Body and struck him with Vajra Dream-Shattering Claw.
• Tang Hao was killed, and Huo Lei collected the four Soul Bones that fell from his body.
• Huo Lei told Lin Yin to guard the area while he and Jin Shan went to the cave behind the waterfall.
• Huo Lei and Jin Shan found Tang San asleep in the stone chamber beside a black box and a Blue Silver Grass stalk.

Huo Lei killed the Blue Silver Emperor and Tang San, then took Tang San’s Soul Bones and opened the lead box containing Tang Hao’s inherited Soul Bones. Jin Shan found two more Soul Bones on Tang San, bringing their haul to nine, and Huo Lei offered to share them with Jin Shan and Lin Yin.

• The Blue Silver Emperor stopped Huo Lei from stabbing Tang San, but Huo Lei destroyed her with electricity and then killed Tang San.
• Huo Lei took the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moonlit Night and extracted the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone from Tang San.
• Huo Lei asked Jin Shan to remove Tang San’s External Soul Bone and inspect his head while he opened the black lead box.
• Huo Lei found Tang Hao’s Right Arm Bone and Left Leg Bone in the box and stored them in his Storage Ring.
• Jin Shan reported that he had found two more Soul Bones on Tang San, and Huo Lei proposed that they share the nine Soul Bones with Lin Yin.
• Huo Lei asked Jin Shan what kind of Soul Bone Tang San had besides the External Soul Bone.

Huo Lei and Jin Shan divided the Soul Bones recovered from Tang San, and Jin Shan absorbed three of them, reaching the peak of level ninety-seven. Huo Lei began absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, which opened his extraordinary meridians and strengthened his Soul Power circulation.

• Jin Shan gave Huo Lei the white fifty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone and kept Tang San's Eight Spider Lances in his Storage Ring.
• Huo Lei offered Jin Shan three Soul Bones, then left the cave to tell Lin Yin that Tang San had been eliminated and that they had obtained five Soul Bones.
• Huo Lei gave Lin Yin two intact Soul Bones over sixty thousand years old, and Lin Yin gratefully accepted them.
• Jin Shan finished absorbing three Soul Bones, reached the peak of level ninety-seven, and advanced his External Right Palm Bone to the hundred-thousand-year level.
• Huo Lei entered the cave and used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud before absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Huo Lei felt the Soul Bone expand and toughen his meridians, and all eight of his extraordinary meridians opened.

After reaching Level 80 and gaining the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone’s flight and healing skills, Huo Lei returned to Blazing Fire Academy with Jin Shan and Lin Yin. There, he distributed Soul Bones to his family and Feng Xiaotian, and the chapter ended by listing how Huo Lei and his companions had changed five years after the Soul Master Tournament.

• Huo Lei woke after absorbing the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, broke through to Level 80, and gained flight and healing skills.
• Huo Lei gave Lin Yin the Clear Sky Sect’s inherited Soul Bones, and Lin Yin absorbed both, advancing from Level 75 to Level 77.
• Huo Lei, Jin Shan, and Lin Yin left the valley, returned to Holy Soul Village, and continued on to Blazing Fire Academy.
• Huo Lei arrived at the academy and gave Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu Soul Bones from Tang Hao and Tang San, helping Huo Wushuang reach Level 60 and Huo Wu reach Level 64.
• Huo Lei gave Feng Xiaotian two wind-attribute Soul Bones, which raised Feng Xiaotian’s Soul Power by just over one level.
• The chapter listed the group’s ages and levels five years after the Soul Master Tournament, including Huo Lei at age twenty-two and Level 80 and Lin Yin at age thirty-nine and Level 77.

Huo Lei reviewed the timeline of Tang San’s journey and hoped his father would reach Level 90 before the search for Xiao Wu began. In Spirit City, Bibi Dong named Hu Liena her successor and ordered a major expedition to capture the transformed Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving a third decision still to come.

• Huo Lei woke after a restful night and considered how the events of the original timeline might give his father time to reach Level 90.
• Bibi Dong convened Spirit Hall’s senior leaders and named Hu Liena Holy Maiden and first in line to succeed the Pope.
• Bibi Dong confirmed that Hu Liena had emerged from Slaughter City with Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and twenty Red-Clothed Cardinals to find and capture the transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The leaders realized that Bibi Dong’s third decision was the real reason for the meeting, but she had not yet announced it.

Bibi Dong announced that Spirit Hall would begin the Soul Hunting Operation in one month, targeting those who defied it and moving to reorganize the Seven Great Sects. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu remained separated from her human friends and resolved to avenge her mother while Da Ming and Er Ming asked about her life in the human world.

• Bibi Dong declared that the Soul Hunting Operation would begin in one month, with Spirit Hall’s forces acting under her orders.
• Bibi Dong said she would personally join the operation and vowed to avenge her teacher by confronting the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Great Sects.
• Five years after returning to the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu sat beside the lake as Er Ming watched over her.
• Da Ming emerged from the lake and asked Xiao Wu whether she missed the human world; she said she missed her friends and wondered how her brother was doing.
• Er Ming warned Xiao Wu to stay near Star Lake because some humans who had entered the forest had escaped, and Da Ming regretted mentioning Xiao Wu’s mother.
• Xiao Wu said she had found her mother’s killer and would avenge her, then Da Ming and Er Ming asked her to describe her experiences in the human world.

After Spirit Hall’s Soul Hunting Operation destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and crippled the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Huo Feng gathered representatives of four academies at Blazing Fire Academy to discuss protecting themselves. The meeting began with the revelation that Blazing Fire Academy had two powerful Super Douluo allies.

• Xiao Wu laughed at Er Ming and Da Ming, then reminisced about her time with Tang San as the two soul beasts listened.
• News spread that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been wiped out and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been crippled, and suspicion fell on Spirit Hall.
• Xue Ye summoned Huo Lei and An Jun to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, while Huo Lei sent messages to nearby academies and asked An Jun to recruit Thunderclap Academy’s teachers and students.
• Representatives of Blazing Fire, Godwind, Skywater, Canghui, and Thunderclap academies gathered at Blazing Fire Academy for an emergency meeting.
• Huo Feng identified Spirit Hall’s attack as the Soul Hunting Operation and warned that other groups could be targeted next.
• Huo Feng introduced An Jun, a Level 95 Super Douluo, and Jin Shan, a Level 97 Super Douluo, leaving several academy representatives shocked.

An Jun described Spirit Hall’s devastating attacks on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, warning the deans that their academies could also be targeted. Huo Lei proposed uniting the five academies as a new Four Elements Academy, and revealed that Blazing Fire Academy had a completed campus in Heaven Dou City ready for them to use.

• An Jun reported that Spirit Hall’s attack killed more than two-thirds of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s disciples and gravely injured Bone Douluo Gu Rong and Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• An Jun said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been exterminated and looted, and explained that the Heaven Dou Empire lacked the Soul Masters and powerful leaders needed to confront Spirit Hall.
• Shui Wanrou and Feng Yuanhang urged the deans to find a way to protect their academies from Spirit Hall.
• Huo Lei proposed merging the five academies into a new Four Elements Academy.
• Huo Lei told the deans that Blazing Fire Academy had completed a new campus in Heaven Dou City that could house the united academy.

Huo Lei secured the four academies’ agreement to merge with Blazing Fire Academy as Four Elements Academy, with himself serving as dean. After arranging their move to Heaven Dou City, he prepared to travel to Star Dou Great Forest with Huo Feng, Jin Shan, and An Jun to hunt two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for Soul Rings.

• Huo Lei proposed that the other four academies join Blazing Fire Academy at its new campus in Heaven Dou City and explained how positions would be assigned by strength.
• Huo Lei named Xie Chong and himself as candidates for dean, and Lei En, Feng Yuanhang, Shui Wanrou, and Han Song agreed to the merger.
• The deans approved the name Four Elements Academy, chose Huo Lei as its temporary dean, and accepted his governance and decision-making arrangements.
• Huo Lei instructed the representatives to prepare their academies for relocation to the new campus beside Shrek Academy.
• Huo Lei told Jin Shan and An Jun that he and Huo Feng planned to hunt the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python for their eighth and ninth Soul Rings.

Huo Lei prepared his companions for a hunt in the Star Dou Great Forest and passed Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances to Lin Yin. After inspecting Tang San’s storage treasures, Huo Lei went to sleep uneasy about the dangers awaiting their group.

• An Jun agreed to join Huo Lei and Jin Shan in hunting the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, and Huo Lei said their group of five would leave the next morning.
• Jin Shan offered Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances, but both he and An Jun declined to absorb the poison-based external Soul Bone.
• Huo Lei gave the Eight Spider Lances to Lin Yin, who gladly accepted it, and urged him to master its abilities soon.
• Huo Lei searched the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moonlit Night, found Tang San’s hidden weapons and a Gold Soul Card holding 4,995,500 Gold Soul Coins, and moved several weapons into his Storage Ring.
• Huo Lei prepared for the Star Dou Great Forest expedition, worried that Spirit Hall’s search teams could expose their identities or cause casualties, then went to sleep.