Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao confronted Dai Hao over disobeying his military orders during the Beast Tide and used his authority to strip him of command for a year. Dai Hao accepted the punishment outwardly but remained confident that his loyal generals would preserve his control of the Western Army Group.

• Huo Yuhao pressured Dai Hao to acknowledge his strength and merits as Grand Marshal, then blamed him for the deaths of nearly all the Holy Church members during the Beast Tide.
• Dai Hao defended his decision to invade the Sun Moon Empire instead of sending troops to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Huo Yuhao accused him of plotting rebellion.
• Huo Yuhao dropped the treason charge but made Dai Hao admit to disobeying orders and surrender his military authority for one year.
• Dai Hao reluctantly accepted the punishment while believing his trusted generals would keep the Western Frontier under his influence.

Huo Yuhao forced the Western Army Group’s generals to submit by threatening their captured families, while Dai Hao was powerless to stop him. In Mingdu, Zhang Peng received a sign that the cult leader had arrived, as Ye Guyi’s appearance drew near.

• Huo Yuhao stripped Dai Hao of his marshal’s authority and demanded that the twenty-three senior generals pledge allegiance to him.
• When the generals refused, Huo Yuhao brought their captured relatives through Vortex Gates and threatened to have the soldiers kill them.
• Dai Hao denounced Huo Yuhao and threatened to report him to Xu Jiawei, but Huo Yuhao ordered the Golden-Armored Warriors to attack the captives.
• The generals knelt and declared themselves Huo Yuhao’s subordinates to save their families.
• In Mingdu, Zhang Peng prepared for bed as the Rule Mask Huo Yuhao had given him floated up, signaling the cult leader’s arrival.

Huo Yuhao met with Zhang Peng, who reported the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans for the tournament and the powerful figures hidden in its forbidden grounds. As Huo Yuhao prepared to leave for the Far North, he recognized someone connected to the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and decided to attend the Underground Soul Engineer Finals to kill them.

• Huo Yuhao met Zhang Peng, who reported that Ye Xishui planned to cause trouble at the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament and that three formidable ancestors lived in the Holy Spirit Cult’s forbidden grounds.
• Huo Yuhao dismissed the threat to the tournament and said he intended to wipe out the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to teleport toward the Far North but sensed a familiar face and stopped.
• Huo Yuhao asked Zhang Peng about the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and learned that the Underground Soul Engineer Finals would take place at eight that evening.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Peng he would attend the finals because he was going to kill someone.

Huo Yuhao unleashed an enormous undead army on the Soul Engineer tournament, trapping and overwhelming the factions gathered there. He stopped the slaughter long enough to confront Huo Tian, asking whether he had been looking for him to silence him.

• Huo Yuhao attended the tournament, where the factions presented a Level 9 Soul Tool as the grand prize and the Xishui Alliance ultimately won.
• Shangguan Wei'er told Ye Guyi to stay with the Ordinary Alliance and prepare to become its future weapon against the Holy Spirit Cult.
• An Litong ordered a scar-faced subordinate to send more assassins for an important mission, while Huo Tian concealed his disdain for An Litong.
• An undead army appeared after the tournament, and the gathered factions accused Zhang Peng and the Xishui Alliance before joining the battle.
• Huo Yuhao stopped the undead army after it had nearly wiped out the gathered forces, then confronted Huo Tian about trying to silence him.

Huo Yuhao confronted Huo Tian, the man responsible for Luoyun Village’s massacre, and killed An Litong when he attacked Huo Tian. Huo Tian’s attempts to buy his life failed, so he offered his niece, whom he claimed had triple martial souls, through a contract of servitude.

• Huo Tian knelt under Huo Yuhao’s killing intent and asked why Huo Yuhao had come for him.
• Huo Tian’s subordinate recognized Huo Yuhao as the man they had been hunting, and Huo Tian realized he had found his target.
• Huo Tian offered Huo Yuhao the Aodu Chamber of Commerce, but An Litong revealed that Huo Tian had seized control of it and attacked him.
• Huo Yuhao killed An Litong with a slap, subdued everyone in the arena, and declared himself president of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Huo Tian’s other bargaining chips, and Huo Tian offered his niece, claiming she had triple martial souls and could be bound to Huo Yuhao by a contract of servitude.

Huo Yuhao killed Huo Tian, accepted the contract selling Xu Xingling, and let the undead wipe out the Sun Moon Empire’s underworld gathering. He captured Ye Guyi for her angel martial soul, and she awoke in the Undead Demiplane believing he intended to defile her.

• Huo Yuhao took Huo Tian’s contract for Xu Xingling, then killed Huo Tian with his psychic power.
• Huo Yuhao resumed the undead’s attack, and they slaughtered everyone at the gathering.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Ye Guyi’s angel martial soul and decided to control her so she could inherit the Angel God’s divinity.
• The massacre killed nearly ten thousand people, including leaders of the Xishui Alliance, the Aodu Chamber of Commerce, the Ordinary Alliance, and Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin.
• Ye Guyi woke in the Undead Demiplane, grabbed her golden sword, and prepared to kill herself rather than be defiled by Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao tried to recruit Ye Guyi into his faction, explaining that he wanted her holy angel martial soul and hoped she could become a partner who would stand beside him. Ye Guyi refused, and Huo Yuhao challenged her view of the world, leaving her with his claim that she must learn to see it with her eyes closed.

• Huo Yuhao restrained Ye Guyi and told her he had brought her to the Undead Demiplane for her holy angel martial soul, not to defile her.
• Huo Yuhao invited Ye Guyi to join his faction as a companion, but she rejected him and vowed never to serve an Evil Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao said that enslaving Ye Guyi would destroy her chance to surpass a Limit Douluo, and that he wanted a partner who could reach greater heights with him.
• Ye Guyi defended the world's beauty and her duty to protect it, while Huo Yuhao argued that she did not understand the suffering and injustice hidden beneath its peaceful surface.
• Huo Yuhao told Ye Guyi that to see the world as it truly was, she had to learn to look at it with her eyes closed.

Huo Yuhao challenged Ye Guyi to spend a month secretly observing the world, and she chose to investigate Shrek City’s Inspection Corps. In the Far North, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm persuaded a powerful woman to support a plan involving the captive emerald figure and a young twin-Martial-Soul genius.

• Huo Yuhao freed Ye Guyi and offered her a Rule Mask so she could secretly witness how people across the continent truly lived.
• Ye Guyi accepted the wager, confident that the world was righteous, and chose to spend a month observing Shrek City’s Inspection Corps.
• Huo Yuhao believed Ye Guyi’s choice would expose her to the continent’s hidden cruelty and hoped she would eventually seek him out.
• In the Far North, a black-haired youth with a Three-Eyed Radiant Dragon Martial Soul and a Sun Martial Soul hovered near the bound emerald figure and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• A mature woman declared that Tian Meng had won her over and agreed that the emerald figure had a strong chance of success with their support.

The Ice Empress explained the deadly risks of merging her power into Huo Xingling, which would create a third ultimate martial soul along with a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. Huo Xingling accepted the gamble, determined to gain the strength she needed for revenge.

• The Ice Empress questioned Tian Meng about Huo Xingling’s rare talent, and Tian Meng claimed credit for his plan before the Ice Empress silenced him.
• The Ice Empress warned Huo Xingling that the dangerous fusion could kill all three of them or grant her extraordinary power.
• Huo Xingling recalled how Shrek Academy and the Star Luo Marshal had changed her understanding of the strength needed to oppose an empire.
• Huo Xingling agreed to proceed, betting that she could survive the Ice Empress’s power and gain the strength to become invincible.

Huo Xingling agreed to undergo the Ice Empress's plan to absorb her power and transform her martial souls. Meanwhile, news that the Starlight Auction House would sell the Snow Empress's embryo spread across Douluo Star, igniting a furious search in the Far North and a bidding frenzy.

• Huo Xingling accepted the Ice Empress's plan to fuse a torso bone with her and pour in the Ice Empress's power, transforming her body and martial souls before sealing any remainder.
• The Icefield Bear King and the Heavenly Snow Women searched the Far North for the missing Snow Empress.
• The Icefield Bear King read a newspaper claiming that humans had captured the Snow Empress and planned to auction her, and vowed to rescue his mother.
• News and evidence identifying the Starlight Auction House's soul beast embryo as the Snow Empress spread across Douluo Star, drawing the major factions into a frenzy.
• Jing Hongchen secretly sold restricted soul tools to raise funds and planned to bid one billion Gold Soul Coins for the Snow Empress Embryo.

The Ice Empress transferred her cultivation into Huo Xingling, raising her soul power and helping her form a Blood-Red Soul Ring before the Icefield Great White Bear arrived. Xiao Bai found the Ice Empress and learned that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was still alive, while Huo Xingling’s fusion remained unfinished.

• The Icefield Great White Bear tried to persuade the Titan Snow Demon King to join a search for the Ice Empress and a rescue of the Snow Empress, but he agreed only if they found the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress fused her four-hundred-thousand-year Torso Bone with Huo Xingling and infused her with soul power, raising her cultivation from rank twenty-nine to rank thirty and toward rank thirty-nine.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned the Ice Empress and Huo Xingling that a super ferocious beast was approaching, but the Ice Empress recognized the approaching aura as Xiao Bai’s.
• The Icefield Great White Bear arrived, saw Huo Xingling floating in midair with the Ice Empress, and mistakenly asked whether the Ice Empress was sacrificing herself.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared, and Xiao Bai recognized him as Big Supplement before he told her to call him brother-in-law.

Huo Xingling completed her transformation into an ultimate ice Martial Soul and began absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. The Ice Empress learned that the Snow Empress had been captured for auction and planned to rescue her using Huo Xingling’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

• Huo Xingling gained the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul, bringing her Soul Power close to level sixty.
• The Icefield Great White Bear gave Huo Xingling an unconscious hundred-thousand-year Ice Toad, and Huo Xingling killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• The Icefield Great White Bear told the Ice Empress that the Snow Empress had been captured by humans and was about to be auctioned.
• The furious Ice Empress blamed Tian Meng and vowed to save the Snow Empress.
• Tian Meng proposed gathering powerful hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts inside Huo Xingling’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness and releasing them at the Starlight Auction House.

Shrek Academy finalized its tournament teams and sent them to fight the Death God Bandits, but a Soul King’s corpse explosions devastated the students. Xuan Zi failed to protect Huo Xingling, who was captured by the masked Huo Yuhao, as he mocked the Taotie Douluo.

• Zhang Lexuan and the Sea God Pavilion elders finalized Shrek Academy’s tournament teams, with Xuan Zi adding Zhang Toushu and Zhang Toumu to the first team.
• Xuan Zi led the students to attack the Death God Bandits, where Huo Xingling warned them that the corpses were about to explode.
• The Corpse Explosions killed Yao Haoxuan and severely injured the other inner court disciples, while Xuan Zi rushed into the cavern.
• Xuan Zi pulled the robed Soul King from the cavern, but the enemy turned to smoke and seized Huo Xingling as Yao Haoxuan’s corpse exploded again.
• Huo Yuhao appeared holding Huo Xingling and taunted Xuan Zi for letting his drinking cause trouble again.

Huo Yuhao rescued Huo Xingling from the Mingdou Mountains and arranged for Wang Xian'er to save two badly injured Shrek students. Meanwhile, his research with Electrolux produced a method for mass-producing Soul Bones, and he turned his attention to the upcoming Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament.

• Huo Yuhao rescued Huo Xingling, and Xuan Zi accepted responsibility for the disastrous mission and ordered the students to return to Star Luo City.
• Huo Yuhao explained that he had fueled unrest in the Far North by exposing the Snow Empress's identity, then helped Electrolux develop a way to produce Soul Bones at a fifty-percent drop rate.
• Huo Yuhao realized Xuan Zi's team in the Mingdou Mountains faced the same danger as in the original story and intervened to keep Huo Xingling from being killed.
• Xuan Zi ended the mission and prepared to return to Shrek Academy with the critically injured Chen Zifeng and Gongyang Mo.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Wang Xian'er and ordered her to keep Chen Zifeng and Gongyang Mo alive, and she agreed.

Wang Xian'er saved Chen Zifeng and Gongyang Mo, though their injuries left them with permanent disabilities, and Xuan Zi took them back to Shrek Academy. In Star Luo City, Xu Changsheng warned Xu Jiawei that the Snow Empress Embryo auction could draw powerful fighters capable of destroying the city, while suspecting Huo Yuhao was behind the affair.

• Wang Xian'er treated Chen Zifeng’s leg and purified the corpse poison around his wound.
• Wang Xian'er used three healing skills on Gongyang Mo, saving his life but leaving him bedridden for the rest of his life.
• Xuan Zi thanked Huo Yuhao and left with Chen Zifeng and Gongyang Mo, while Huo Yuhao asked him to tell Zhang Lexuan she owed him another favor.
• Xu Changsheng told Xu Jiawei that at least ten presences in Star Luo City were as powerful as he was and predicted a fight over the Snow Empress Embryo could destroy the city.
• Xu Jiawei trusted Huo Yuhao to keep the auction and tournament safe, but Xu Changsheng said Huo Yuhao was his chief suspect in the Snow Empress Embryo affair.

Wang Yan devised a plan for Shrek Academy’s opening match to disguise its weakened roster and frighten rival teams into believing it had an all-Soul Emperor lineup led by a Soul Saint. The chapter ended with Wang Dong and Xu Sanshi learning they would have to sit out the tournament, at least until the injured main team recovered.

• Wang Yan gathered Shrek Academy’s team and noted that Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochеn, and Xixi remained injured, while no reinforcements had arrived.
• Wang Yan explained that Shrek Academy’s opening match was its traditional showcase and said the team needed to win impressively.
• Wang Yan assigned Zhang Toushu and Zhang Toumu as the vanguard, with the injured Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng taking the field to display their Martial Souls and Soul Rings.
• Wang Yan told Huo Xingling to use Simulation to make Xu Sanshi appear to be a Seven-Ring Soul Sage and Wang Dong and herself appear to be Soul Emperors, while supporting the brothers with her other Soul Skills.
• Wang Yan revealed that Xu Sanshi and Wang Dong would be unable to compete while maintaining their aloof disguises, and Xu Sanshi joked with the others after Wang Yan explained why he had been chosen.

Ye Xishui led the Holy Spirit Cult team to the tournament with orders to kill every opponent, while Du Busi brought the Body Sect to pursue the Snow Empress’s Embryo. At the opening match, Shrek Academy revealed a Soul Saint among its lineup, but the Holy Light Team’s leader welcomed the challenge before his team released their Martial Souls and terrified the arena.

• Ye Xishui, under the alias Shui Xiye, ordered the Holy Spirit Cult team to kill every opponent and win the championship.
• Du Busi told the Heaven Dou Imperial Soul Master Academy that the Body Sect had come for the Snow Empress’s Embryo and to stand above Shrek Academy.
• The tournament opened in Star Luo City, and Xu Jiawei changed Shrek Academy’s draw so it would face the weaker Holy Light Advanced Soul Master Academy Team.
• Huo Yuhao and Xu Changsheng recognized one another and exchanged jibes as the teams gathered at the venue.
• Shrek Academy took the stage against the motionless Holy Light Team, and its members released their Martial Souls, revealing four Soul Emperors and a Soul Saint.
• The Holy Light Team’s captain declared that killing Shrek Academy’s strong contestants would be fun, and his team released their Martial Souls, shocking the crowd.

Shrek Academy’s overwhelming lineup stunned the tournament crowd, but the Holy Spirit Cult revealed a team with five Soul Emperors and a Soul Saint of its own. The two teams faced off with the match’s outcome suddenly uncertain.

• Shrek Academy displayed its powerful soul rings and martial souls, including Huo Xingling’s simulation of Xu Sanshi’s Divine Beast Black Tortoise.
• Zhong Lichen revealed that the Holy Light Team belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult and released his martial soul alongside Youlang and the other members.
• The crowd learned that the Holy Spirit Team had one Soul King and five Soul Emperors, while Shrek Academy’s injured members feared they could not win.
• Tang Mo revealed his demonic sword martial soul and seven soul rings, then fixed his attention on Xu Sanshi, the opposing Soul Saint.

Huo Xingling and Wang Dong revealed a powerful sealing Martial Soul Fusion Skill during Shrek Academy’s match against the Holy Light Team. Shrek Academy seized the advantage, knocking four opponents off the platform and leaving the match in its favor.

• Wang Yan despaired over Shrek Academy’s chances, while Huo Yuhao realized he might need to interfere with the officiating to keep Shrek in the tournament.
• Huo Xingling withdrew Simulation, revealed Shrek Academy’s true strength, and spiritually shared a battle plan with her teammates.
• Tang Mo and the Holy Light Team charged, but Huo Xingling and Wang Dong unleashed Withering Amid Splendor, the Golden Road, sealing four opponents in golden statues.
• Zhang Toushu and Zhang Toumu performed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, transforming into a Heaven-Swallowing Rat King.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Rat knocked the four sealed Soul Emperors off the platform, giving Shrek Academy a decisive advantage.

Shrek Academy battled the Holy Light Team after Huo Xingling and Wang Dong’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill restrained four opponents. Huo Xingling protected her teammates and took command of the battlefield while Tang Mo pressed the Zhang brothers, leaving the match still underway.

• Wang Dong and Huo Xingling ended their Martial Soul Fusion, and Wang Dong sat down to recover while Xu Sanshi guarded her.
• Youlang attacked Zhang Toushu and Zhang Toumu, then unleashed vengeful wolf spirits against Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng as Tang Mo engaged the brothers.
• Huo Xingling froze Youlang’s vengeful spirits with Frost Radiant Dragon Break and used ice armor to repel his ambush.
• Huo Xingling formed dragon wings and moved toward the other fight, while Tang Mo wounded Zhang Toushu and Zhang Toumu with his self-created sword techniques.
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