Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao rescued Ye Guyi from the interrogation chamber and explained to Xu Tianran why the empire should conserve its strength as the world’s laws changed. At the academy, he learned that Snow Girl could recultivate her Soul Rings and instructed her to refine them into Blood Essence Soul Rings while he dealt with their curses.

• Huo Yuhao warned Xu Tianran that the Body Sect would grow stronger and that low-ranking Soul Masters were breaking through without Soul Rings, while arguing that Shrek’s Soul Hunting Operation offered little benefit to the empire.
• Xu Tianran learned of Wang Shaojie’s abuses and sentenced him to die on the Dragon-Peeling Pillar, then questioned Huo Yuhao about whether to continue fighting the Heaven Dou Empire.
• After Xu Tianran left, Huo Yuhao covered Ye Guyi with a camouflage soul-tool coat and carried her back to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Snow Girl told Huo Yuhao that she could recultivate her first four Soul Rings, and he confirmed that the barrier slowing her cultivation had disappeared.
• Huo Yuhao instructed Snow Girl to refine her current Soul Rings into Blood Essence Soul Rings and promised to put the curses and vengeful spirits within them to rest.

Huo Yuhao took charge of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s Martial Soul Department and taught its idle students a set of techniques that rapidly increased their power. His method drew Xu Tianran’s attention, while Huo Yuhao revealed that teaching it might help him resolve his inner demon tied to his past at Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao explained to Snow Girl that human body cultivation would become important as Soul Hunting declined, but said he had a plan that did not involve stealing the Body Sect’s methods.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded Xu Tianran to put him in charge of the academy’s Martial Soul Department and challenged its idle students to find a new excuse for slacking now that Soul Rings were no longer necessary for cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao taught the students the Turtle Fist, Nian Dong Sword, and Haodong Palm, along with their mantras, and the students’ bloodline power increased as they practiced.
• Xu Tianran noticed the students’ stronger primordial power, praised Huo Yuhao’s unconventional cultivation method, and revealed that the Sun Moon Old Emperor had died.
• Huo Yuhao told Electrolux that teaching the method could help him settle the inner demon connected to the day he entered Shrek Academy’s dormitory.

Huo Yuhao reflected on the pain behind the Haodong Three Wonders as the method spread and transformed cultivation across the continent. After learning more about Ye Guyi’s rescue and the clash at West Mountain, he realized Shrek’s hunt for the Auspicious Beast faced a race against changing laws that could make the hunt bring heavenly punishment.

• Huo Yuhao told Tian Meng that the divine skills stirred both resentment and the pain of an old wound, then went to sleep after watching the Peerless Tang Sect Animation.
• The little angel asked Huo Yuhao to teach her the Haodong Three Wonders and reported that Ye Guyi was out of danger but still unconscious.
• Ye Guyi woke and thanked Huo Yuhao for saving her, then explained that Mu En’s appearance had led Ye Xishui to withdraw from the clash at West Mountain.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that Mu En and Ye Xishui had lied to him in his previous life, then returned to his dormitory to modify the Eye of Destiny.
• Soul masters and sects discovered that changing planar laws were making soul hunting useless and preventing lower-level soul masters from obtaining Soul Rings.
• Shrek’s hunters realized they had to kill the Auspicious Beast before the changes reached higher-level soul beasts, or face heavenly punishment for killing it.

Shrek Academy and the Holy Spirit Cult gathered forces in the Star Dou Great Forest while Qiu'er began transforming into human form and the Silver Dragon King drew the Golden Dragon King's Divine Seat into the Golden Dragon Spear. In the Divine Forbidden Land, Tang San confronted the Golden Dragon King, who begged him to stop the Silver Dragon King from taking his Divine Seat.

• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao he could leave, but Long Xiaoyao refused to abandon Mu En despite Di Tian's overwhelming strength.
• Xuan Zi told Shrek's assembled allies that an evil creature in the Star Dou Great Forest had caused soul beasts to stop producing soul rings, and Shrek's forces prepared to purge it.
• Qiu'er began transforming beside the Lake of Life as purple qi swept across the eastern sky.
• The Silver Dragon King circled above the lake and summoned a dragon-shaped vortex that drew the Golden Dragon King's Divine Seat into the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the spear's appearance from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and recognized the Silver Dragon King's aim.
• Tang San faced the Golden Dragon King in the Divine Forbidden Land, and the Golden Dragon King urged him to prevent the Silver Dragon from taking his Divine Seat.

Tang San manipulated the God of Destruction into leaving the committee, then launched an attack on the Silver Dragon King in the Star Dou Great Forest. Di Tian shielded her as Mu En and Shrek’s Elders began a soul hunt and thousands of Soul Masters charged the Lake of Life.

• Tang San told the Golden Dragon King he would leave, then went to the God Realm Committee as a chief god arrived and nodded to the Golden Dragon King.
• Tang San told the God of Destruction that the seal on the Golden Dragon King had gone wrong and sent him to the Divine Forbidden Land.
• Tang San turned his attention toward the Star Dou Great Forest, making the Silver Dragon King feel pressure from above.
• Di Tian used Dragon God Claw to seize the plane’s laws and shield the Silver Dragon King.
• Mu En ordered the soul hunt, and Shrek’s Elders and thousands of Soul Masters charged toward the Lake of Life.

Huo Yuhao shared a story about his mother to explain the Haodong Three Wonders, then rejected the Tang Family’s control and resolved to become his own god. Meanwhile, Rong Nianbing challenged Tang San, and Di Tian regained the advantage in the Star Dou Great Forest as Qiu'er’s transformation continued.

• Huo Yuhao told Ke Ke and his classmates that his cultivation techniques came from memories of the winter his mother died, and invited them to practice the Haodong Three Wonders.
• Huo Yuhao’s previous-life divine sense dissipated, and he decided he would no longer be the Tang Family’s god but his own.
• Rong Nianbing confronted Tang San at the Divine Realm Center, disrupting Tang San’s ability to project divine power into the mortal world.
• The blood rain freed the Silver Dragon King from Tang San’s restraint, and Di Tian caught her as she fell.
• Mu En ordered the three Peerless Douluo to seize Qiu'er, but Di Tian repelled Long Xiaoyao with his Dragonkind bloodline pressure.
• As blood fell around Qiu'er, she felt sorrow and heard the rain ask what a Divine Seat was worth compared with her.

Huo Yuhao gained a new ability, traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, and hunted Holy Spirit Cult members while searching for news of Ye Xishui and Qiu'er. At the Lake of Life, Di Tian overwhelmed Mu En, Ye Xishui, and Long Xiaoyao, while Qiu'er had been sent north to escape the fighting.

• Huo Yuhao completed the Eye of Destiny pendant’s modifications, then used it to travel to the southern Star Dou Great Forest.
• Huo Yuhao questioned and killed a wounded Evil Soul Master, then headed north while searching for Holy Spirit Cult members to eliminate.
• Mu En summoned the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, whose divine protection blocked Di Tian’s attack.
• Di Tian suppressed Long Xiaoyao and turned his attention to Ye Xishui as Mu En urged them to seek shelter.
• Huo Yuhao heard a Peerless Douluo-level self-detonation and realized it could endanger Qiu'er, whom Di Tian had already sent north.

The Silver Dragon Empress saved Qiu'er by tearing Tang Wutong's parasitic divine consciousness from her Sea of Consciousness and destroying it. After Di Tian erased Qiu'er's memories of the attack and sent her to the forest's northern border, Huo Yuhao arrived there and spotted Niu Tian and Tai Tan.

• Long Xiaoyao detonated himself, and Di Tian carried the unconscious Silver Dragon and Qiu'er through a spatial passage to the bottom of the Lake of Life.
• Tang Wutong's divine consciousness broke free of its seal and began devouring Qiu'er's soul core, so the Silver Dragon Empress seized it and pulled it out of Qiu'er's Sea of Consciousness.
• Tang Wutong threatened the Silver Dragon Empress and revealed that Tang San had chosen her as the future wife of his younger brother, but the Silver Dragon Empress tore apart and annihilated her consciousness.
• The Silver Dragon Empress healed Qiu'er and told Di Tian to take her to the forest's northern border; Di Tian erased Qiu'er's traumatic memories and sent her there after Long Xiaoyao's death.
• Huo Yuhao reached the Star Dou Great Forest Northern Border after killing hundreds of Holy Spirit Cult members and recognized Niu Tian and Tai Tan, whom he blamed for contributing to Elder Yi's death in his previous life.

Huo Yuhao disrupted Tai Tan and Niu Tian’s attempt to manipulate Qiu’er with Xiao Xiao and He Caitou, then exposed the ape and serpent’s deception. He Caitou was wounded and transported away before reappearing, and Xiong Jun ordered the hidden sub-dragons to seize him.

• Tai Tan and Niu Tian’s plan to make Qiu’er witness Xiao Xiao’s apparent death failed when Xiao Xiao vanished.
• Huo Yuhao appeared, and Qiu’er stopped Tai Tan from attacking him by blocking his palm strike with a Dark-Gold Claw Mark.
• Niu Tian tried to kill He Caitou, but Huo Yuhao’s spatial ability made He Caitou vanish after losing an arm to the thunder attack.
• He Caitou reappeared and accused Tai Tan and Niu Tian of deceiving him after hearing their exchange with Huo Yuhao.
• Xiong Jun ordered the Storm Demon Dragon and other hidden sub-dragons to seize He Caitou.

Huo Yuhao rescued Xiao Xiao from the Soul Beasts’ questioning and refused Qiu’er’s request to leave the Star Dou Great Forest until she was strong enough to stay safe. Back at Sun Moon, he learned that his Haodong Three Wonders had inspired Soul Masters worldwide to create new cultivation methods, and Snow Girl began describing how the path of Soul Masters had changed.

• Niu Tian and Tai Tan tried to persuade Qiu’er that the Soul Beasts were her family, then left with their reputation intact.
• Qiu’er sent Xiong Jun to take He Caitou to the Lake of Life for questioning, and Huo Yuhao revealed the hidden Xiao Xiao.
• Huo Yuhao refused to take Qiu’er outside the Star Dou Great Forest yet, while Xiao Xiao chose to go with him instead of returning to Shrek Academy.
• Blue Silver Grass withered across the Heaven Dou Empire as Huo Yuhao traveled back to Sun Moon, and he asked his companions whether they would stay with him against the Tang Family.
• Snow Girl told Huo Yuhao that the Haodong Three Wonders had spread worldwide and inspired new cultivation methods, while Soul Masters had begun breaking through bottlenecks without hunting souls for Soul Rings.
• Snow Girl said she had refined all her Soul Rings into Blood Essence Soul Rings and began explaining the new path of Soul Masters.

Huo Yuhao learned that Vina had created the Heartbreak Palm after her fiancé Long Aotian died, then went searching for Ye Guyi when he discovered she had left the infirmary. He encountered Tang Wutong, who tried to capture him and cleanse him of what she believed was an evil lich’s influence, but he escaped with Snow Girl as Tang Wutong turned her attention toward Shrek.

• Snow Girl told Huo Yuhao that Vina had derived the Heartbreak Palm from his Haodong Three Wonders after Long Aotian died protecting her, and that the technique had killed a stronger Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Ye Guyi had left the infirmary and, unable to find her with his spatial abilities, went looking for her with Snow Girl.
• Huo Yuhao met Tang Wutong on a Mingdu street, where she urged him to come with her and claimed he was destined to save the world and become her husband.
• Tang Wutong used Qiu'er's voice to distract Huo Yuhao, then ordered twenty-four Nine-Ring Titled Douluos to attack while the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud sealed the area.
• Huo Yuhao took Snow Girl's hand and vanished before Tang Wutong's group could capture him or bind him to the Icy Jade Marrow Bed.
• Tang Wutong said she would save Huo Yuhao and ordered her followers to go with her to Shrek to visit Mu En.

Huo Yuhao guided Ju Zi through her first battle against Zhao Yang, helping the Sun Moon army defeat Duke Huihuang’s forces. Later, Ji Juechen told Huo Yuhao that Ye Guyi had likely returned to Star Luo because the Eastern Star Luo Empire was in trouble.

• Huo Yuhao questioned Ju Zi’s plan to lure Zhao Yang and gave her an Eighth-Rank Defensive Soul Tool before the battle.
• Ju Zi’s troops drew Zhao Yang and his force of over ten thousand to the hill, where Huo Yuhao’s Sun Moon army surrounded and defeated them.
• Huo Yuhao told Ju Zi to keep her wits about her, and she returned to report while privately interpreting his concern as affection.
• Huo Yuhao visited the rebuilt Mingyue Hotel with Snow Girl and encountered Ji Juechen, who recognized him as Spirit Ice.
• Ji Juechen said Ye Guyi had likely returned to Star Luo and revealed that the Eastern Star Luo Empire was in trouble.

Huo Yuhao learned how the Star Luo Empire’s ruling families had exploited the Soul Beast migration, sparred with Ji Juechen, and traveled to the Western Star Luo Empire. There, he witnessed Dai Huabin raping Anna after his guards killed her brother, and the chapter ended as a crow cried from a rooftop.

• Ji Juechen told Huo Yuhao about the Soul Beast migration and the trouble in the Eastern Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen sparred with their swords, and Ji Juechen revealed his Formless, Nine Swords art.
• Huo Yuhao left for the Star Luo Empire with Snow Girl staying in Electrolux's Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao saw the suffering caused by the Dai and Zhu Families as he traveled through the Western Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Huabin raped Anna while his guards had killed her mute younger brother, and a crow cried from the rooftop.

Huo Yuhao killed Dai Huabin after rescuing a young textile worker from him, but she feared the divine descendants’ power and begged Huo Yuhao to kill her. She explained that her father could be punished for her actions under the continent’s corrupt hierarchy.

• Huo Yuhao killed Dai Huabin’s guards, revealed his identity, and seized Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao crushed Dai Huabin’s leg, while Dai Huabin threatened him with divine curses against Huo Yuhao’s mother.
• Huo Yuhao tore Dai Huabin in two, killing him despite his threats.
• The textile worker trembled and prayed before the Sea God Temple, then explained that she feared her father would be punished and lose his chance at reincarnation.
• The textile worker begged Huo Yuhao to kill her and told him why she had come to the Sea God Temple on pilgrimage.

Huo Yuhao interrogated and destroyed Dai Huabin's soul, learning that Dai Hao had sent troops to support the Xu Family during the beast tide. He then entered Star Luo City, where Dai Family soldiers were looting and abusing civilians, and seized a commander to question him about the empire's recent history.

• Huo Yuhao spared Wangchuan, collected Dai Huabin's remains, and went to his Undead Demiplane with the soul.
• Huo Yuhao tortured Dai Huabin until he revealed that Dai Hao had led troops to aid the Xu Family and eradicate Spirit Hall remnants during the beast tide.
• Huo Yuhao annihilated Dai Huabin's soul and vowed to take revenge on Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Huo Yuhao left the demiplane for Star Luo City, killing Wind Spirit Wolves as he passed the massacre outside the city.
• Huo Yuhao entered Star Luo City in disguise and found Dai Family soldiers looting and abusing residents.
• Huo Yuhao seized a Dai Family commander and demanded to know what had happened since Star Luo split apart.

Huo Yuhao killed Dai Family soldiers who were abusing Star Luo City’s residents and warned the women that he planned an extermination operation. As Dai Hao maneuvered against the Xu Family, Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu that the Dai Family had a larger plan and urged her and Xu Jiawei not to participate.

• Huo Yuhao learned from a captured Dai Family Army officer that the Dai Family had abandoned Star Luo City as its base, then killed him and warned nearby women to hide.
• Huo Yuhao disguised himself and killed Dai Family soldiers who were looting, murdering, and abusing people throughout the city, restoring order.
• Outside Star Luo City, Dai Hao praised his sons and proposed that Dai Huabin marry Princess Xu Jiujiu, but Xu Jiawei avoided the proposal and called for a withdrawal.
• Xu Jiujiu visited Huo Yuhao at a hotel after returning to the city, and he questioned whether the Beast Tide’s attack had been a coincidence.
• Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiujiu that the Dai Family intended an extermination operation and urged her and Xu Jiawei not to take part.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated his cultivation and blade technique to Xu Jiujiu by preparing a Winter Melon Bowl, hoping to help the Star Luo Empire grow stronger. Meanwhile, the Angel Clan remained unaware that a bloody assault was approaching, as Huo Yuhao’s choices had changed the course of their fate.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu he could help the Star Luo Empire catch up in cultivation and demonstrated his method while preparing a Winter Melon Bowl.
• Xu Jiujiu watched Huo Yuhao carve and freeze the melon with the Dragon Rain Gathering Dance Blade Technique, then ate the finished dish, which he named Pearl Jadeite White Jade Congee.
• Huo Yuhao watched Xu Jiujiu leave and reflected on the girl Wangchuan and a figure observing him from the Divine Realm.
• Angel Clan patrols guarded their dilapidated temple carelessly, believing their years of repentance would spare them from clan extermination.

Lingjing was murdered during an attack on the Angel Temple, while Ye Chen’s family came under assault from Nangong Wan and the Angel Holy Sword. Ye Chen defended Siyu and Ye Guyi against the sword’s spreading darkness as Nangong Wan withdrew.

• Lingjing sensed an evil Soul-Master approaching, but the Death Messenger stabbed her and Vengeful Spirits devoured her body.
• The Death Messenger’s forces gathered in the woods and prepared a vanguard assault while their leader pursued another task.
• Ye Chen questioned Ye Guyi about the Child of Destiny, and she denied having encouraged anyone to endanger the world.
• Nangong Wan appeared at the damaged temple with the Angel Holy Sword and challenged Ye Chen’s power as a birdfolk Martial Soul Master.
• Ye Chen urged Siyu to flee with Ye Guyi, then used his Divine Guard Soul Skill to repel the darkness pouring from the Angel Holy Sword.

Huo Yuhao intercepted Nangong Wan during a Holy Spirit Cult operation against the Angel Clan and learned that the cult’s Holy Emperor had ordered the Angel’s wings destroyed. He killed Nangong Wan, captured two hidden strands of divine sense, and found Shrek’s Inspection Corps questioning the captured Death Messenger.

• Huo Yuhao discovered Nangong Wan and roughly three hundred Holy Spirit Cult members near the Angel Clan’s home as Dai Hao and Shrek’s Inspection Corps arrived to confront them.
• Nangong Wan escaped the confrontation but became trapped by Huo Yuhao, who bound him with invisible chains and suppressed his cultivation using the Undead Catastrophe Staff.
• Nangong Wan revealed that the strange poisonous and evil powers came from the holy sword bestowed by the Holy Emperor, who had ordered the Angel’s wings destroyed.
• Huo Yuhao killed Nangong Wan and captured two strands of divine sense hidden within him, one taking the shape of a hammer and the other of a blue-haired woman.
• Huo Yuhao saw that Shrek’s Inspection Corps had captured the Death Messenger, who said the cult sought the Angel Holy Sword and threatened Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao broke the formation imprisoning Siyu and Ye Guyi at the ruined Angel Temple, uncovering a sinister plot involving angelic power and an overwhelming source of poisonous and evil energy. He rescued Ye Guyi, who explained that she had fled to keep him from being implicated in a false accusation against her.

• Huo Yuhao found the Angel Temple and used Spiritual Detection to discover that a Divine Realm formation trapped Siyu and Ye Guyi.
• Huo Yuhao cut through the formation with his carving knife, destroying the Angel Holy Sword and Formation Disc, then absorbed their unleashed poisonous and evil powers into a purple lotus.
• Electrolux warned Huo Yuhao that the powers exceeded the source of his Necromancy inheritance and came from an entity beyond even a God of Death.
• Huo Yuhao found hundreds of corpses among the Temple's ruins and appeared before Ye Guyi and Siyu.
• Ye Guyi told Huo Yuhao that the Shrek Inspection Corps had accused her of inciting the legendary child of destiny against the Sea God King, so she had left to protect him from the consequences.