Chapter Summaries

As the Snow Empress merged with Huo Yuhao’s Ice God Martial Soul, her sealed origin power began transforming from ultimate ice into ultimate fire, threatening to explode. Huo Yuhao absorbed the transformed energy with the Flame Mantra, and the Snow Empress became a powerful new life-form called a soul spirit; he then sent some of the released energy and spiritual power into Ling Luochе.

• The Snow Empress’s merging with Huo Yuhao’s Ice God Martial Soul caused her sealed origin power to absorb energy and begin reversing from ultimate ice into ultimate fire.
• Electrolux and Yao Lao explained that the transformation could become dangerously powerful, but Huo Yuhao’s Flame Mantra could devour the resulting ultimate fire.
• Huo Yuhao circulated the transformed energy through his meridians and used his heavenly flames to consume it, preventing the bead in his dantian from exploding.
• Electrolux explained that the Snow Empress had become a special life-form called a soul spirit, able to grant Huo Yuhao power independently of soul rings and soul bones.
• Huo Yuhao sent the Snow Empress’s escaped energy and spiritual power from Cheng Gang’s soul into the sleeping Ling Luochе, warning that he could take away her ultimate ice if she opposed him.

Ling Luochеn woke from her unconsciousness while Huo Yuhao used his Heavenly Flames to cultivate and transfer energy to her. After Xu Sanshi mistakenly assumed they had been intimate, Huo Yuhao urged Ling Luochеn to test her newly strengthened Ultimate Ice power.

• Ling Luochеn woke in Huo Yuhao's room and saw him naked, surrounded by silvery-white flames as he cultivated and helped her absorb energy.
• Huo Yuhao told Ling Luochеn not to move and explained that his clothes had burned away during his Secret Technique.
• Xu Sanshi knocked at the door, and Huo Yuhao asked Ling Luochеn to tell him that he was fine.
• Ling Luochеn told Xu Sanshi that Huo Yuhao had awakened her, but Xu Sanshi glimpsed Huo Yuhao's naked body and misunderstood their relationship.
• Xu Sanshi fled to his room, insisting that Nannan remained the only one in his heart, while Ling Luochеn shut the door in embarrassment.
• Huo Yuhao laughed and encouraged Ling Luochеn to test the power of her Ultimate Ice Martial Soul.

Huo Yuhao completed the Snow Empress’s soul-spirit fusion at great cost to his strength, then gave Ling Luochеn an Ultimate Ice martial soul and demonstrated that he could take it away. Ling accepted his offer to become his trusted companion, while Huo Yuhao concealed his rank and prepared to test his power in the next match.

• Ling Luochеn discovered that Huo Yuhao had transformed her ice martial soul into an Ultimate Ice martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao explained that completing the Snow Empress’s soul-spirit fusion had exhausted him and left Yao Lao and Electrolux asleep.
• Huo Yuhao temporarily removed Ling Luochеn’s Ultimate Ice power and showed that his Ice God martial soul could control her ice element.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ling Luochеn to become his trusted companion, and he restored her Ultimate Ice power after she agreed.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had reached rank thirty-nine, asked Ling Luochеn to keep it secret, and said he would test his strength in the next match.

Huo Yuhao arrived at the tournament venue alarmingly thin after a night of treating Ling Luochеn, while Shrek Academy prepared to face the Dou Ling Royal Academy. The chapter ended as both teams were called to the waiting area for their Round of 16 match.

• The chapter revealed that Huo Yuhao had received compensation from the Star Luo Empire for the stolen Fixed Soul Cannon Shell and had been given the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade.
• Ling Luochеn arrived with Huo Yuhao, whose gaunt appearance shocked Shrek Academy, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and the spectators.
• Meng Hongchen praised Huo Yuhao's weight loss, while Xiao Hongchen feared his sister would imitate him.
• Elder Ma sensed that Huo Yuhao's aura and spiritual fluctuations were weak and chaotic, and Ma Rulong thought the Sun Moon team could now defeat Shrek.
• Xu Sanshi suspected that Ling Luochеn had exhausted Huo Yuhao while gaining Ultimate Ice, and felt relieved he had not entered Huo Yuhao's room.
• The announcer called Shrek Academy and the Dou Ling Royal Academy to prepare for their Round of 16 match.

Huo Yuhao and Shrek Academy exploited Dou Ling Academy's Thunder Cannon strategy to seize its Core Array and overwhelm the team with an ice domain. The referee declared Shrek the winner, leaving Dou Ling Academy's carefully prepared plan in ruins.

• Lone Bamboo Sword challenged Huo Yuhao, who brushed off the introduction and said he wanted to hurry to a doctor.
• Huo Yuhao whispered a plan to Xu Sanshi while Shrek's team stayed in a single line.
• Xu Sanshi used Xuanming Displacement to switch places with Lone Bamboo Sword as he took out the Thunder Cannon's Core Array.
• Huo Yuhao froze Lone Bamboo Sword with Great Cold Without Snow and took the Core Array, disabling Dou Ling Academy's planned weapon.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, and the referee announced Shrek Academy had won the seven-on-seven battle.

Huo Yuhao used the Snow Empress’s Ultimate Ice to defeat and freeze the Dou Ling Royal Academy team, demonstrating the overwhelming power of his fused Soul Bone. After the team’s supervising teacher asked him to release the frozen students, Huo Yuhao demanded that the academy withdraw from the tournament.

• Huo Yuhao’s blizzard shattered the Dou Ling Royal Academy team’s Invincible Shields and froze every team member, along with the referee.
• Huo Yuhao released the referee from the ice, while Ling Luochеn reconsidered her future after witnessing his power and recalling her growing dissatisfaction with Shrek Academy.
• The Dou Ling Royal Academy’s supervising teacher asked Huo Yuhao to free his team members from the Ice Seal.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to release them only if the Dou Ling Royal Academy withdrew from the tournament.

Huo Yuhao forced Dou Ling Royal Academy to withdraw, then helped Shrek defeat Zhengtian Academy and reach the semifinals. On the rest day, he prepared to attend the Star Luo Emperor’s banquet and planned to give the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade to White Tiger Duke Dai Hao.

• Huo Yuhao explained that breaking his ultimate ice could injure Dou Ling Royal Academy’s frozen students, and the academy’s teacher forfeited to protect them.
• Ma Rulong advised Xiao Hongchen to learn from Huo Yuhao’s tactics and grow less impetuous, leaving Xiao Hongchen thoughtful.
• Shrek Academy defeated Zhengtian Academy after Xu Sanshi displaced Tang Xiaolei into their formation and Huo Yuhao froze him, prompting Zhengtian to concede.
• Wang Yan warned Huo Yuhao that the Star Luo Emperor might have an agenda at the court banquet, and Huo Yuhao guessed the emperor wanted to assess his strength and court Shrek’s members.
• Huo Yuhao brought out the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade and said he intended to gift it to White Tiger Duke Dai Hao.

At the Star Luo court banquet, Xu Jiawei comforted Dai Hao over his sons’ injuries and urged him not to target Huo Yuhao, who had saved Dai Yueheng and was protected by powerful allies. Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong arrived at the banquet, leaving their meeting with the emperor and White Tiger Duke about to begin.

• Xu Jiawei asked Dai Hao why he seemed troubled, and Dai Hao explained that his sons’ injuries had left the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion without a suitable heir.
• Xu Jiawei promised to honor Dai Yueheng by publishing an account of his heroic deeds and praised the empire’s willingness to fight evil.
• Xu Jiawei warned Dai Hao not to target Huo Yuhao, noting that Huabin’s attack had been wrong and Huo Yuhao had saved Dai Yueheng’s life.
• Dai Hao agreed not to provoke Huo Yuhao or the Body Sect, recognizing the danger of their retaliation.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong arrived and paid their respects to Xu Jiawei and the White Tiger Duke.

At a banquet in Star Luo City, Huo Yuhao exposed Xuan Zi’s failures surrounding Dai Yueheng’s injuries and offered a way to restore his legs. He proposed transplanting Dai Huabin’s legs, leaving Dai Yueheng and the gathered nobles shocked by the cost of the treatment.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong greeted Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao at the banquet, where Dai Hao praised Wang Dong’s supposed Clear Sky Sect heritage.
• Huo Yuhao greeted the legless Dai Yueheng and recounted how Xuan Zi had failed to rescue him from the Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao grew suspicious that Shrek Academy’s actions against Dai Yueheng might have concealed a larger scheme.
• Huo Yuhao said he had a possible treatment for Dai Yueheng and explained that a transplant between full brothers might avoid rejection.
• Huo Yuhao proposed that Dai Huabin sacrifice his legs so Dai Yueheng could walk again.

Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao that Shrek Academy was in danger of losing the tournament, while presenting himself as an exhausted Soul Elder who needed Dai Yueheng’s help. He left Dai Hao a prescription for recovering from transplanted limbs, placing Dai Yueheng’s treatment in the duke’s hands.

• Dai Hao crushed his goblet and accused Huo Yuhao of trying to turn the White Tiger Duke’s brothers against one another, but Xu Jiawei calmed him and urged the performance to continue.
• Huo Yuhao claimed Shrek Academy was heading for defeat and said his cultivation was only at the Soul Elder level, despite having used trump cards to win earlier matches.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Shrek had struggled against capable teams and said he was too depleted to carry the team against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy without Dai Yueheng’s return.
• Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao recognized the political consequences of Shrek losing to the Sun Moon team, including damage to confidence in the original Douluo Continent.
• Huo Yuhao left Dai Hao a prescription intended to help someone with transplanted limbs recover, leaving the decision to use it to the White Tiger Duke household.

Huo Yuhao used Shrek Academy’s danger and Dai Yueheng’s fallen comrades to persuade Dai Hao and Xu Jiawei to support the academy, then presented Dai Hao with the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade. His gift and pointed remarks sowed suspicion between the Star Luo Emperor, the White Tiger Duke, and Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao reminded Dai Yueheng that his former teammates had died young and urged him to recover and lead Shrek Academy to victory.
• Dai Hao accepted the prescription Huo Yuhao had presented, while Xu Jiawei considered the alarming information Huo Yuhao had shared.
• Huo Yuhao gave Dai Hao the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, and Dai Hao tested its power before the ministers congratulated him.
• Huo Yuhao explained the blade’s abilities and hinted that Xu Jiawei had kept it from Dai Hao, stirring Dai Hao’s dissatisfaction with the emperor.
• Huo Yuhao invoked Shrek Academy’s respect for the White Tiger lineage and urged Dai Hao to strive onward, prompting Xu Jiawei to suspect that the academy might support the duke’s family against him.
• Xu Jiawei privately resolved to remember Huo Yuhao’s words, while the prospect of pressure on Dai Hao to sacrifice Dai Huabin threatened to deepen the rift among the emperor, the duke, and Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiawei that a powerful Holy Spirit Cult insider might be hiding in Star Luo City, while steering suspicion away from himself and the Body Sect. He and Wang Dong then headed to approach the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team, with Wang Dong agreeing to charm information out of the female students in exchange for learning Huo Yuhao’s Black Dragon Eighteen Hands.

• Huo Yuhao urged Xu Jiawei and Dai Hao to consider sacrificing Dai Huabin so Dai Yueheng could return to Shrek Academy’s team.
• Huo Yuhao suggested secretly capturing Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to obtain soul tool blueprints, but Xu Jiawei rejected the idea to avoid provoking the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao reasoned that the Starlight Auction House attackers needed a powerful insider in Star Luo City with ties to the Holy Spirit Cult, warning Xu Jiawei of a possible threat to his rule.
• Huo Yuhao left with Wang Dong to visit the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team and gather information about their hidden abilities.
• Wang Dong objected to Huo Yuhao’s plan to have her charm Meng Hongchen, then agreed after he offered to teach her the Black Dragon Eighteen Hands.

Huo Yuhao befriended the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team at the Imperial Banquet, drinking Xiao Hongchen under the table and learning that Xiao resented losing the tournament’s spotlight to him. Huo Yuhao promised to help Xiao shine and gave him a grand opening line.

• Huo Yuhao joined the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s table and toasted Elder Ma, Ma Rulong, and the other students.
• Huo Yuhao used flattery and drinking-table jokes to get the soul engineers to drink with him.
• Huo Yuhao taunted Xiao Hongchen about his drinking, and Xiao accepted a challenge to drink without using soul power.
• Huo Yuhao drank Xiao Hongchen under the table, while secretly using heavenly flames to burn away the alcohol.
• Xiao Hongchen drunkenly confessed that he wanted the tournament’s attention and felt Huo Yuhao had taken his chance to shine.
• Huo Yuhao offered to help Xiao Hongchen stand out and suggested the line, “Had Heaven not brought forth me, Xiao Hongchen, Sun Moon would know eternal night.”

Huo Yuhao charmed Xiao Hongchen with boastful slogans and received valuable soul tools while secretly sending a letter to Hall Master Hongchen through Elder Ma. As Shrek Academy prepared for the semifinals, Dai Yueheng returned to the team.

• Huo Yuhao praised Xiao Hongchen with grand slogans, and Xiao Hongchen gave him a Level 5 Milk Bottle and a Level 5 Invincible Shield.
• Elder Ma stopped Huo Yuhao from offering more slogans and agreed to deliver his letter to Hall Master Hongchen.
• Wang Yan briefed Shrek Academy on the four semifinal teams and discussed their opponents’ strengths.
• Dai Yueheng entered the conference room and announced that he had returned to the team.

Dai Yueheng tried to kill Dai Huabin, but Dai Huabin’s planted guard poisoned him before Dai Hao intervened. Dai Huabin died after his memories returned, while Huo Yuhao prepared to continue his revenge against the White Tiger Duke’s family.

• Dai Yueheng visited Dai Huabin and shared poisoned wine with him, but Huzi revealed himself as Dai Huabin’s spy and prepared to kill Dai Yueheng.
• Dai Hao killed Huzi and declared that he would sacrifice Dai Huabin for the sake of the empire and Shrek Academy.
• Dai Huabin’s erased memories of Huo Yuhao, Huo Yun’er, and the White Tiger bloodline returned, and he killed himself while keeping his warning from Dai Hao and Dai Yueheng.
• Dai Hao ordered Dai Huabin’s remains buried, while Dai Yueheng celebrated his escape and hoped to regain a normal body.
• Huo Yuhao saw the recovered Dai Yueheng at Shrek Academy and resolved to kill Dai Hao and his wife and destroy the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.

Wang Yan warned Shrek Academy’s team about the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s strength and explained the finals’ three-part format. Bei Bei tried to rally the team by claiming Shrek’s naturally earned strength surpassed opponents who relied on medicine, but Huo Yuhao challenged that argument and urged the team to prepare honestly for the matches.

• Wang Yan explained that the finals would consist of a team battle, individual knockouts, and the Two-Two-Three Battle Formation, with the winner of two matches taking the championship.
• Wang Yan reassured the team that they had already exceeded expectations, while Bei Bei insisted Shrek could still win through its cultivation and fighting spirit.
• Bei Bei argued that rival academies relied on pills and treasures to raise their students’ cultivation, unlike Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao pointed out that Shrek’s own founders and students had benefited from medicinal herbs and pills, and warned against building confidence by belittling opponents.
• Huo Yuhao said Shrek’s strongest chances lay in the individual matches and team battle, and urged everyone to study their abilities and coordinate for the finals.

Shrek Academy prepared for the final four of the tournament as Emperor Xu Jiawei opened the last stage and presided over the draw. Huo Yuhao drew a golden ball with Xiao Han’s help, while Wang Yan warned that Xu Jiujiu’s appearance could make Star Luo Royal Academy dangerous.

• Wang Yan spent nearly six hours briefing Shrek Academy on opponents and tactics before the semifinals.
• Huo Yuhao’s cultivation rose to just below Level 40 after absorbing several sources of life force and soul power.
• Xu Jiawei arrived at Star Luo Plaza, opened the tournament’s final stage, and appointed Huang Jinxu to oversee the matches.
• Huo Yuhao and the other team captains came forward to draw lots, while Wang Yan recognized Xu Jiujiu and warned that she could threaten Yuhao and Luochen.
• Xiao Han snatched a golden ball and brought it to Huo Yuhao, who dismissed the crowd’s claim that the white fox was a monster.

Huo Yuhao and the other captains drew the semifinal matchups, setting Shrek Academy against Star Luo Royal Academy. Wang Yan warned Shrek that Xu Jiujiu’s star crown martial soul and its ability to repel elemental attacks could counter Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochеn.

• Xu Jiujiu asked to pet Xiao Han, and Huo Yuhao misunderstood her request before Ning Tian stroked the little fox.
• Xu Jiawei had the captains announce their draw results, pairing Shrek Academy with Star Luo Royal Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with Di'ao Academy.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Yan that a defense around Xu Jiujiu had blocked his spiritual detection and that she was likely at least a Soul King.
• Wang Yan explained the star crown martial soul’s combat-focused abilities, and Ning Tian warned that Star’s Guardian could isolate attributes and repel elemental attacks.

Huo Yuhao learned that Xu Jiujiu’s brother had arranged the semifinal as a test, with a secret ally’s help promised if Shrek won and the Mingdou Mountain Range story to be publicized if they lost. Shrek and Star Luo Royal Academy took the stage, and the team battle began.

• Wang Yan named Huo Yuhao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochеn, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Ning Tian, and Wang Dong for Shrek’s team battle lineup.
• Xu Jiujiu told Huo Yuhao that her brother had manipulated the draw and arranged the match to test Shrek, promising help against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy if Shrek won.
• Xu Jiujiu said Star Luo would reveal Shrek’s actions in the Mingdou Mountain Range if Shrek lost, and Huo Yuhao vowed that Star Luo Royal Academy would lose.
• Emperor Xu Jiawei watched as both teams mounted the stage and formed their battle formations.
• The Heavenly Fiend Douluo signaled the start of the team battle.

Shrek Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy revealed their Soul Masters and began the tournament match, with Huo Yuhao’s real Soul Rings mistaken for another disguise. The teams’ opening skills concealed their formations, and Huo Yuhao moved through the frost mist toward Xu Jiujiu.

• Xu Jiujiu and Star Luo Royal Academy’s six other members revealed that all seven were Soul Kings, while Dai Yueheng returned to Shrek Academy’s lineup as a Soul Emperor.
• Ling Luochе revealed her ultimate ice Martial Soul, and Huo Yuhao displayed one red and two orange-gold Soul Rings that the spectators dismissed as a ruse.
• Xu Jiujiu used her Star Crown’s Star Radiance Technique to strengthen her teammates, while Ling Luochеn covered Shrek Academy in frost mist with her fourth Soul Skill.
• Dai Yueheng attacked Huang Heyun, but Huang Heyun used his Dark Demon Tiger’s first Soul Skill, enhanced by the Star Crown, to block the White Tiger Fierce Light Wave.
• Dai Yueheng said Huo Yuhao was Shrek Academy’s main attacker, as Huo Yuhao moved through the frost mist toward Xu Jiujiu.