Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao explained to Xuan Ziwen how soul tools could enhance each soul master’s strengths and outlined future technologies that could transform humanity’s relationship with soul beasts. He proposed artificial soul rings and soul bones, and suggested that bloodline modification might eventually let everyone become a powerful soul master.

• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Ziwen that soul tools should amplify each soul master’s strengths rather than merely compensate for weaknesses, and that teams could combine different abilities.
• Huo Yuhao warned that stronger humans would further deplete soul beast populations and argued that artificial soul rings and soul bones were the solution.
• Huo Yuhao explained that artificial soul rings could be made using energy and soul beast bloodline power, while artificial soul bones could be produced from bloodline power and compressed soul power.
• Huo Yuhao said future artificial soul bones might let soul masters choose their skills and that soul guidance technology could alter bloodlines to grant weak martial souls greater power.

Huo Yuhao entrusted Xuan Ziwen with secret soul-tool research, then learned that Crown Prince Xu Tianran had agreed to his deal and sent him a secret letter. At Mingshui Auction House, Huo Yuhao followed a guard who was trafficking a little girl and attacked him and Madam Zhao, but several soul masters confronted him.

• Huo Yuhao asked Xuan Ziwen to lead secret research into rare-metal refining and new engineering disciplines, and Xuan Ziwen agreed.
• Ju Zi told Huo Yuhao that Crown Prince Xu Tianran had accepted his deal and gave him the Crown Prince’s secret letter.
• Huo Yuhao read the letter and found that Xu Tianran was offering an empire deputy chancellor as a pledge of allegiance.
• Huo Yuhao followed a disguised city guard from Mingshui Auction House as he carried a lost little girl to a secluded courtyard.
• The guard handed the girl to Madam Zhao, who revealed that she planned to train her for customers, and Huo Yuhao knocked them both unconscious.
• Several burly soul masters rushed from the courtyard and threatened to kill Huo Yuhao for disrupting Dream Pavilion’s business.

Huo Yuhao rescued Xiaoxiao from men trafficking lost children and tortured the guard and Madam Zhao for information about the Dream Pavilion. Before Madam Zhao could name the mastermind, a Soul Saint attacked, and Huo Yuhao prepared to fight him.

• Huo Yuhao killed the burly men who tried to take Xiaoxiao and refined their souls into soul origin power.
• Huo Yuhao sent Xiaoxiao to wait in a room, then forced the guard to reveal that Captain Jialun directed him to deliver lost children to the Dream Pavilion's secret base in Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao cut off Madam Zhao's left arm and demanded to know who controlled the Dream Pavilion.
• Madam Zhao began to identify the mastermind, but a black energy sphere killed the guard before she could finish.
• A black-haired Soul Saint with a tiger martial soul appeared and threatened Huo Yuhao, who smiled and prepared to retaliate.

Huo Yuhao stormed the Dream Pavilion to rescue abducted children and confronted Xu Ying, the Heir of King Qingping. As Xu Ying ordered his guards to stop him, Huo Yuhao flew toward the Pavilion’s wine pool, where he expected to find evidence.

• Xu Tianran learned Huo Yuhao had gone to the Dream Pavilion and hoped he could expose its powerful backers.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the Dream Pavilion carrying the severed head of its top enforcer and declared that he had come to kill.
• Huo Yuhao threatened the attendant and demanded to know where the children were, then cut the attendant’s neck when he tried to evade him.
• Xu Ying confronted Huo Yuhao and accused him of breaking the law, but Huo Yuhao accused the Dream Pavilion of abducting children with help from Mingdu’s guards.
• Huo Yuhao flew toward the Pavilion’s wine pool to reveal evidence, and Xu Ying ordered his three guards to stop him.

Huo Yuhao exposed the Dream Pavilion’s cellar of murdered children and killed Xu Ying and the guards who attacked him. As the nobles fled, he confronted the hidden Evil Soul Master Soltut, who intended to kill everyone in the hall.

• Huo Yuhao destroyed the wine pool, revealing a cellar filled with the remains of more than a thousand children.
• A courtesan recognized her murdered little sister Niuniu, and Huo Yuhao accused Xu Ying of protecting the Dream Pavilion.
• Xu Ying dismissed the children as lowborn trash and sent three Earth Demon Bear Soul Kings to attack Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed Soul Shock, killing the three Soul Kings, several hired thugs, and Xu Ying.
• The nobles denounced Huo Yuhao while he discovered a hidden room and forced Soltut, an Evil Soul Master, to emerge.
• Soltut threatened to kill everyone, but Huo Yuhao said he wanted to refine Soltut’s soul for his Soul Crystal Liquid.

Huo Yuhao killed Soltut and collected the soul origin needed to awaken his teachers after defeating the Evil Soul Master's attacks. The Imperial Family Inspection Team arrested Huo Yuhao on suspicion of murdering a member of the imperial family, and Tan Yutou led him away for torture.

• Soltut used soul curses and spiritual attacks against the people in the Dream Pavilion, but Huo Yuhao's holy spirit soul-eating flame burned through them and struck Soltut.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had killed Sleeping Nightmare Douluo, then killed Soltut and formed a Soul Pearl from the gathered soul origin.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Dream Pavilion served the Ordinary Alliance, which supplied young girls' flesh, blood, and souls to the Holy Spirit Cult in exchange for protection.
• Tan Yutou arrived with the Imperial Family Inspection Team, whose members accused Huo Yuhao of murdering a member of the imperial family and clamped Golden Handcuffs around his wrists.
• Tan Yutou punched Huo Yuhao, threatened him with the Sun Moon Ten Great Tortures, and led him away with the inspection team.

Ju Zi and Jing Hongchen reacted to Huo Yuhao’s arrest, while Xu Tianran decided to investigate the Dream Pavilion rather than rescue him. At the Imperial Family Inspection Team’s headquarters, Shangguan Wei'er offered Huo Yuhao a chance to live if he submitted to the Third Prince.

• Ju Zi presented her Eight-Clawed Fire Dragon Token, but the guard captain ordered her seized until Xu Tianran’s attendant struck him down.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that Huo Yuhao had been taken by the Imperial Family Inspection Team, and Xu Tianran concluded Huo Yuhao had his own objective and chose to visit the Dream Pavilion.
• Lin Jiayi informed Jing Hongchen of Huo Yuhao’s arrest, and Jing Hongchen set out to prevent the Inspection Team from harming him.
• Xu Kong ordered his subordinates to take Huo Yuhao to the Interrogation Room, where Huo Yuhao waited without resisting.
• Shangguan Wei'er introduced herself as the Ordinary Alliance leader and offered Huo Yuhao his life if he became the Third Prince’s Battle Servant.

Huo Yuhao faced interrogation by Third Prince Xu Tianyu and the nobles involved in the Dream Pavilion, then exposed Xu Tianyu’s role while secretly recording his confession. After Huang Huifeng and the others defeated the Imperial Family Inspection Team, Huo Yuhao declared that the Sun Moon Empire would have to beg him to leave.

• Huo Yuhao mocked Shangguan Wei'er’s flirtation, and she left the Interrogation Room.
• Tan Yutou interrogated Huo Yuhao before Third Prince Xu Tianyu, but Huo Yuhao refused to kneel and condemned the nobles for ignoring the Dream Pavilion’s abduction of children.
• Xu Tianyu ordered Huo Yuhao bound to the Dragon-Stripping Pillar and admitted that he was behind the Dream Pavilion.
• Huo Yuhao revealed a Recording Soul Tool, escaped the Dragon-Binding Rope, and melted the Dragon-Stripping Pillar.
• Shangguan Wei'er was thrown back into the room, and Huang Huifeng, Yu Tao, and Lang Ya defeated the Imperial Family Inspection Team’s Soul Saints and Soul Douluos.
• Huo Yuhao declined to seek an explanation from the emperor, saying the Sun Moon Empire would soon beg him to leave.

Xu Tianran’s faction used evidence from Dream Pavilion to expose King Qingping, Xu Cheng, and King Yongqing, Xu Lin, while the court debated Huo Yuhao’s punishment. The emperor ordered the two kings imprisoned, but news that Huo Yuhao had seized the Third Prince, Tan Jingguo, and other nobles abruptly shifted the confrontation to the Imperial Family Inspection Team’s offices.

• Xu Yutian heard ministers argue over Dream Pavilion and Huo Yuhao’s role in Xu Ying’s death, while Xu Cheng demanded Huo Yuhao’s execution.
• Xu Tianran mocked Xu Cheng’s demand, and the court recognized that Tan Jingguo and the Third Prince’s faction had backed Dream Pavilion.
• Xu Qian announced that his investigation had uncovered evidence implicating Xu Cheng and Xu Lin in Dream Pavilion’s crimes.
• Xu Cheng and Xu Lin confessed, and Xu Yutian ordered them sent to the imperial dungeon while handing the remaining investigation to the Imperial Family Inspection Team.
• An attendant reported that Huo Yuhao had imprisoned the Third Prince, Tan Jingguo, and many nobles at the Inspection Team’s offices and demanded that Xu Yutian meet him there.

Huo Yuhao confronted Xu Yutian and Tan Jingguo at the Imperial Family Inspection Team’s offices, using a speech about peonies and foxtail grass to argue for the strength of ordinary people and the need to unite the continent. He presented plans for a soul-powered automobile and formally accused Xu Tianyu, Tan Jingguo, and others of crimes involving the Dream Pavilion, leaving Xu Yutian to decide their fate.

• Xu Yutian and his officials arrived at the Imperial Family Inspection Team’s offices and witnessed two Soul Douluo beating a woman in red.
• Huo Yuhao greeted Xu Yutian, rebuked Tan Jingguo for interrupting, and used a crushed peony and resilient foxtail grass to challenge Tan’s views.
• Huo Yuhao discussed the continent’s wars and argued that unity would bring peace and win the people’s support for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xu Yutian blueprints for a soul-powered automobile and described a future transformed by soul tools.
• Huo Yuhao charged Xu Tianyu, Tan Jingguo, the Tan Family, and other accomplices with establishing the Dream Pavilion and exploiting children; Xu Yutian accepted the charges and departed.

Huo Yuhao secured Xu Tianran’s support and a military command while discussing how the Sun Moon Empire could unite the continent. After visiting the children’s graves, he vowed to exact vengeance on the nobles responsible for their suffering.

• Huo Yuhao and Xu Tianran discussed the weakness of the former Douluo kingdoms and how Shrek Academy might obstruct a unified empire.
• Ju Zi delivered the ruling on the Dream Pavilion affair: Xu Tianyu was confined, Tan Jingguo retired, and the Tan Family’s members and property were granted to Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao offered the Body Sect’s support for Xu Tianran’s succession in exchange for soul tools and an academy for body martial souls.
• Xu Tianran recommended Huo Yuhao as commander of the Hidden Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment, whose noble recruits would be difficult to control.
• Huo Yuhao visited the children’s burial mounds, planted a pinwheel, and vowed to collect the blood debts owed by the nobles.

Huo Yuhao refined Soul Crystal Liquid from rare medicinal ingredients and a Soul Pearl, then offered it to the ancient black ring in hopes of awakening his teacher. The ring began to brighten, but the chapter ended before the teacher responded.

• Huo Yuhao explained how he had gained some understanding of converting ice and fire, and said his cultivation had reached the rank-fifty bottleneck.
• Huo Yuhao refined tianling fruit, heaven mending mushroom, and illusionheart grass into a clear medicinal liquid using his azure-green heavenly flames.
• Huo Yuhao used the Holy Spirit Soul-Eating Flame to refine his Soul Pearl and mix it into the liquid, creating fourth-grade Soul Crystal Liquid.
• Huo Yuhao brought the Soul Crystal Liquid to the ancient black ring and called for his teacher to wake up as the ring began to brighten.

Huo Yuhao awakened Yao Lao with Soul Crystal Liquid, and the two reunited after Yao Lao recovered some of his strength. Yao Lao explained the rare materials needed to refine a body for his soul, while Huo Yuhao planned to awaken Elder Yi and proceed with his plans.

• Huo Yuhao waited eight hours as the Soul Crystal Liquid awakened the soul inside the Black Ancient Ring.
• Yao Lao emerged, praised Huo Yuhao's growth, and learned that he had absorbed the sentient Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Huo Yuhao showed Yao Lao how he could separate and recombine his three heavenly flames, then asked whether they could refine a body for Yao Lao.
• Yao Lao said they would need a peak seventh-tier Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, powerful Soul Beast bloodline essence, and a Limit Douluo's skeleton.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to seek the materials over time, and he and Yao Lao planned to awaken Elder Yi next.

Huo Yuhao took control of the Tan Family of Mingdu after the Sun Moon Emperor handed them over to settle their debt, then used the Dragonbone Lich to bind the family to him and erase their memories of the Imperial Family. The chapter left the Tan Family under Huo Yuhao’s command as Electrolux and Yao Lao anticipated that he would use them to stir up the Sun Moon Empire.

• Kong Deming told Huo Yuhao that the Tan Family had been handed over to him and allowed him to control their souls as long as he did not erase their minds or turn them into puppets.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the Tan Family and discussed his upcoming command of the Hidden Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment and the soul-powered automobile project with Kong Deming.
• Jing Hongchen spoke with Kong Deming about the Imperial Family’s decision and planned to pursue rare metal refining technology in Gengxin City.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Dragonbone Lich in the Undead Demiplane and ordered it to bind the Tan Family’s souls to him and erase their memories of the Sun Moon Imperial Family.
• The Dragonbone Lich controlled the Tan Family members in groups, consuming the memories and soul origin connected to the Imperial Family while Electrolux and Yao Lao watched.

Huo Yuhao taught Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Hall researchers and academy teachers about how soul guidance technology could transform Mingdu and the Sun Moon Empire. He left them with the task of spreading their new knowledge to future students.

• Huo Yuhao described a future Mingdu with smart technologies, intelligent transportation, and hundreds of thousands of affordable soul-powered cars.
• Huo Yuhao explained how greenhouse gases could harm the Far North, prompting the listeners to consider their potential impact on soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao outlined future applications of soul guidance technology in healthcare, logistics, education, and work for ordinary people.
• Huo Yuhao urged his students to teach what they had learned and said they would help change the Sun Moon Empire and the wider world.

Huo Yuhao finished preparing soul tool theory for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and was ordered to report to the Hidden Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment. He then began explaining to Xu Tianran how to undermine Shrek Academy through public opinion, pointing to its history as evidence that it was not impartial.

• Huo Yuhao taught his students about shock fronts and sonic booms until Lin Jiayi arrived with orders for him to report to the Hidden Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment.
• Huo Yuhao gave Lin Jiayi his compiled theoretical materials and asked the academy to prioritize sharing soul tool knowledge, support his friends, and preserve and reproduce Wang Yan's texts.
• Xu Tianran told Huo Yuhao that the court's unrest made it prudent to send him to the Purple Victory Army to lie low.
• Huo Yuhao explained that public opinion and information warfare could weaken an enemy, then proposed exposing Shrek Academy's supposed fairness and impartiality.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xu Tianran an ancient map and revealed that Shrek City had once been Suotuo City, where Shrek Academy was founded.

Huo Yuhao argued that Shrek Academy exploited poor applicants with steep fees and meager provisions, undermining its revered image with evidence from its history. Xu Tianran challenged his claims by suggesting Shrek’s powerful teachers and harsh living conditions might have justified its costs, and Huo Yuhao began to explain how the academy taught its students.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Tianran that Shrek Academy had charged poor applicants ten Gold Soul Coins for entrance exams without refunds and demanded a hundred Gold Soul Coins in tuition.
• Huo Yuhao described how students paid for their own food and often ate only steamed buns and vegetables despite the high tuition.
• Xu Tianran questioned whether exposing events from ten thousand years earlier could damage Shrek Academy, and Huo Yuhao said historical records could strip away its revered reputation.
• Huo Yuhao invited Xu Tianran to argue in Shrek Academy’s defense, and Xu Tianran cited its three Soul Saint and two Soul Emperor teachers and its possible philosophy of hardship.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Xu Tianran’s defenses and began to explain how Shrek Academy taught its students.

Huo Yuhao condemned Shrek Academy and its famous students before Xu Tianran, using the old conflict between Shrek and Canghui Academy to argue that Shrek bullied the weak and feared the strong. He presented Canghui’s academy chronicle as evidence and left Tang San’s conduct under attack.

• Huo Yuhao criticized Shrek Academy’s motto and teaching methods, claiming they produced bullies rather than honorable soul masters.
• Huo Yuhao reminded Xu Tianran that Canghui Academy’s Seven Asura Illusion Realm had crippled its seven users after their match against Shrek.
• Huo Yuhao recounted how Shrek students had harassed Canghui students and injured their teacher, Zhao Wuji, and said Canghui had saved its fusion skill for revenge.
• Huo Yuhao placed Canghui Academy’s chronicle on the table as evidence of the incident and denounced Shrek’s students and the Shrek Seven Devils.
• Huo Yuhao accused Xiao Wu of helping kill soul beasts and Tang San of hypocrisy, blaming him for destroying Slaughter City and contributing to the rise of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Huo Yuhao used historical records to argue to Xu Tianran that Shrek Academy had lied about its past and failed its gifted students. He concluded by denouncing Shrek as a trash academy, leaving Xu Tianran entertained by the allegations.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Sin City had once been Spirit Hall’s headquarters and described how its descendants had been persecuted there for generations.
• Huo Yuhao identified City Lord Jin Wuyi as a descendant of Golden Crocodile Douluo and argued that Shrek Academy’s claim about a former student becoming Spirit Hall’s youngest elder was impossible.
• Huo Yuhao criticized Shrek Academy’s basic training methods, saying its students’ indulgence and inadequate instruction wasted their talent.
• After Xu Tianran questioned Shrek’s motto about useless martial souls, Huo Yuhao challenged its selective admissions and graduation standards.
• Huo Yuhao declared Shrek Academy a trash academy and called it utterly shameless.

Huo Yuhao criticized Shrek Academy’s elitist education system and proposed forming an elite special operations unit for the Sun Moon Empire. Xu Tianran approved the plan, and Huo Yuhao named the squad the Dragon Group.

• Huo Yuhao argued that Shrek Academy’s admissions rules favored aristocrats and shut commoners out, while Xu Tianran recognized the academy as a threat to imperial power.
• Huo Yuhao contrasted Shrek’s policies with the Sun Moon Empire’s free martial soul awakenings and cited Ji Juechen as proof that talented soul masters could rise despite humble beginnings.
• Huo Yuhao asked to bring Ling Luochеn, Ning Tian, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan to the Hidden Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment.
• Huo Yuhao proposed a small, elite squad trained for infiltration, reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, and targeted strikes behind enemy lines.
• Xu Tianran agreed to arrange the squad before Huo Yuhao left Mingdu, and Huo Yuhao named it the Dragon Group.