Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao forced Xu Tianji underwater to trigger a second awakening, and Xu Tianji survived through sheer will, awakening his martial soul at the gold level. After helping him recover, Huo Yuhao gave Du Busi and Kong Deming pills that could help them reach their respective breakthroughs.

• Huo Yuhao suppressed Xu Tianji's soul power and pushed him underwater to provoke a second awakening.
• Xu Tianji summoned Star God's Blessing and fought back, but Huo Yuhao's strength overwhelmed him.
• Huo Yuhao released Xu Tianji, who struggled toward the surface and nearly sank again before breaking through the water.
• Golden starlight covered Xu Tianji, confirming his gold-level second awakening, and Huo Yuhao treated him with medicinal smoke.
• Huo Yuhao gave Du Busi and Kong Deming Primordial One Qi Pills, saying they could help Du Busi become a Limit Douluo and Kong Deming reach Level 10 as a Soul Engineer.

Huo Yuhao explained how he had refined two pills capable of helping Du Busi and Kong Deming advance, then listened as Du Busi described methods for constructing a second soul core. The chapter ended with Du Busi revealing that Huo Yuhao’s only viable method was Yin-Yang Complementarity.

• Huo Yuhao showed Du Busi and Kong Deming the Tang Sect Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, Medicine Chapter, and explained how he had refined two pills from immortal herbs.
• Du Busi confirmed that Huo Yuhao had condensed a soul core and explained that advancing to higher realms required constructing additional soul cores.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he might need a second soul core before reaching the Titled Douluo realm so he could absorb the Dragon Cores of the Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King.
• Du Busi warned Huo Yuhao that rushing the process could detonate his first soul core, then explained how the Isotopic Resonance method worked.
• Huo Yuhao said that Isotopic Resonance could not support the number of soul cores he needed, and Du Busi told him to use Yin-Yang Complementarity.

Huo Yuhao explained yin-yang complementary soul cores to Du Busi and gave him a body-refining method, then set out to retrieve something Mu En had left behind. He reached Seajoy City and unexpectedly reunited with Bei Bei and Lexuan, who were discussing Sea God Island.

• Huo Yuhao gave Du Busi the Diamond Body method and explained the risks and process of forming yin-yang complementary soul cores.
• Huo Yuhao promised Du Busi and Kong Deming that they could reach new heights, then said he would leave for several months to retrieve something Mu En had left him.
• Huo Yuhao traveled across the sea toward Seajoy City, observing the sunset and avoiding the dangers of the ocean.
• As Huo Yuhao approached Seajoy City, he heard Bei Bei and Lexuan discussing Sea God Island and its possible help for Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao revealed himself to Bei Bei and Lexuan and greeted them.

Huo Yuhao met Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan near Seajoy City and took them along to hunt the Holy Spirit Cult’s evil soul masters. The group confronted Abomination Douluo on an island, where Zhang Lexuan attacked him with Moonfall.

• Huo Yuhao stopped Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan from leaving, demonstrated his overwhelming spiritual power, and learned they were heading to Sea God Island for reinforcements.
• Huo Yuhao told Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan he had come to eliminate evil soul masters slaughtering sea creatures, and they joined him.
• Huo Yuhao flew with Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan to an island where Myriad Souls Douluo refined the souls of slaughtered sea soul beasts while Abomination Douluo stood guard.
• Abomination Douluo dodged a surprise strike and transformed into a giant monster before Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Zhang Lexuan revealed themselves.
• Zhang Lexuan summoned her hundred-thousand-year soul ring and used Moonfall to cut through Abomination Douluo’s bone hook and strike toward his neck.

Zhang Lexuan fought Myriad Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo, revealing power that threatened both evil soul masters. As Myriad Souls Douluo unleashed his Ten Thousand Souls Domain, Huo Yuhao finally stepped forward.

• Myriad Souls Douluo interrupted his soul absorption and used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to suppress Zhang Lexuan and summon twelve sea soul beast spirits against her.
• Bei Bei urged Huo Yuhao to help Zhang Lexuan, but Huo Yuhao trusted her strength and held back.
• Zhang Lexuan unleashed her hundred-thousand-year soul skill, Moonlight, and forced Abomination Douluo to devour nearby soul beasts to heal his melting body.
• Myriad Souls Douluo transformed into the banner’s principal vengeful spirit and released his Ten Thousand Souls Domain, intending to capture Zhang Lexuan, Huo Yuhao, and Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao stepped forward and said he would refine Myriad Souls Douluo instead.

Huo Yuhao defeated Myriad Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo, purified the vengeful spirits, and learned that Tang Ya had become the Holy Spirit Cult’s Blue Silver Saintess. He gave Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan a pass to reach Sea God Island and sent them off with advice about rescuing Tang Ya.

• Huo Yuhao summoned the Demon Soul Abomination King, who overpowered and devoured Abomination Douluo while preserving his Soul Bone.
• Huo Yuhao purified many of Myriad Souls Douluo’s vengeful spirits, knocked him unconscious with Soul Shock, and bound him.
• Huo Yuhao purified the mermaid spirit, promised to return her to the Mermaid Clan, and watched her soul depart after singing.
• Huo Yuhao gave Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan a travel pass for their journey to Sea God Island and revealed that Tang Ya was in the Holy Spirit Cult’s hands as its Blue Silver Saintess.
• Huo Yuhao told Bei Bei that he could help undo the Cult’s mental control over Tang Ya, gave him a possible way to seek protection from Long Xiaoyao, and parted from the pair.

Huo Yuhao traveled north across the ice sea to seek the Sea Princess and make a deal with her clan. After freezing the sea demon elephants that attacked him, he demanded that their leaders guide him deeper into the ice sea.

• Zhang Lexuan decided to return to Sea God Island alone while Bei Bei searched for traces of the Holy Spirit Cult, and Huo Yuhao departed across the sea on a reed.
• The Snow Empress explained that the Sea Princess ruled the ice sea and that her clan possessed formidable spiritual abilities.
• Huo Yuhao continued north, concealed by his spiritual Simulation, and the Snow Empress confirmed that the Sea Princess lived deep beneath the ice sea.
• Huo Yuhao found a group of sea demon elephants and asked them to lead him to the Sea Princess, but they used golden conches to disrupt the air and attacked him.
• Huo Yuhao froze hundreds of sea demon elephants in a block of ice and demanded that their leaders guide him deeper into the ice sea.

Huo Yuhao encountered the Sea Princess clan while seeking a trade, but the merfolk attacked him over past human crimes and the loss of a princess. He overpowered the clan’s spiritual assault and turned the sea against them, leaving the Sea Princess and her people imprisoned as he threatened to slaughter every Sea Soul Beast nearby.

• Huo Yuhao shattered the Conch Horn’s flight restriction, then froze and destroyed a deep-blue whale and its saber-shaped fish when they attacked him.
• Huo Yuhao dove underwater and faced the merfolk, whose combined Spiritual Force net he absorbed before seizing the crowned Mermaid Princess.
• The Sea Princess rescued her daughter and confronted Huo Yuhao, who explained that he had come as an envoy of the Ice and Snow Emperors to discuss a trade.
• After her daughter accused humans of killing their people and taking her younger sister, the Sea Princess attacked Huo Yuhao with the sea and her Spiritual Force.
• Huo Yuhao’s silver flames devoured the Sea Princess’s Spiritual Force, and his Water Dragon King Tattoo broke her control of the seawater and imprisoned the merfolk.
• Huo Yuhao threatened to slaughter every Sea Soul Beast within ten thousand li if the Sea Princess continued blaming him for other humans’ crimes.

Huo Yuhao subdued the Sea Princess and her people, revealed the Water Dragon King's power, and heard how human Soul Masters had deceived the Sea Soul Beasts. He summoned the Myriad Souls Douluo before the Sea Princess, leaving the humans’ crimes ready to be confronted.

• Huo Yuhao donned his Ice-Extreme War God Armor and killed the attacking Devil Blades with Emperor Sword, Ice-Extreme Peerless.
• Huo Yuhao struck the Sea Princess with Emperor's Palm, Great Cold Without Snow, but she blocked it with the Ocean's Heart and launched the Curse of the Ocean's Heart.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Water Dragon King, causing the Sea Princess to submit as the dragon consumed the Ocean's Heart.
• The Snow Empress emerged from Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness and spoke with the Sea Princess about why she had attacked the humans.
• The Sea Princess explained that human Soul Masters had deceived her people with false promises about Soul Spirits, killed her younger daughter, and tried to turn powerful Sea Soul Beasts into puppets.
• Huo Yuhao opened a teleportation array and summoned the Myriad Souls Douluo before the Sea Princess.

Huo Yuhao stopped the Sea Princess from attacking Myriad Souls Douluo and revealed that he had preserved her youngest daughter Liya’s remnant soul. He brought the Mermaid Clan ruler to Liya and had Yao Lao examine her, then demanded that the clan guide him to the Sea Within the Sea in exchange for saving her.

• The Sea Princess attacked Myriad Souls Douluo, but Huo Yuhao stopped her and explained that he had created the soul spirit system.
• The Snow Empress tried to convince the Sea Princess that Huo Yuhao was trustworthy, but the Sea Princess rejected her explanation and remained hostile.
• Huo Yuhao seized a merman who challenged him, then released him when Liya’s remnant soul appeared and pleaded for mercy.
• Huo Yuhao told the Sea Princess that he had preserved Liya’s remnant soul and offered to save her in exchange for the Mermaid Clan guiding him once.
• The Sea Princess led Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress to the undersea Coral Palace, where Yao Lao examined the dying Liya and said he could repair her split soul.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Sea Princess to agree to his price before Yao Lao began treatment, and she recognized his map’s destination as the Sea Within the Sea.

Huo Yuhao accepted the Sea Princess’s offer to guide him to the Sea Within the Sea after she infused him with her spiritual origin, then agreed to risk treating her dying daughter. Meanwhile, Zhang Lexuan captured a pirate ship and arranged to travel to Sea God Island, knowing its trials could keep her there forever.

• The Sea Princess gave Huo Yuhao forty-nine golden pearl tears, raising his spiritual force to the late stage of the Spirit Domain Realm.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to try to save the Mermaid Princess, and the Sea Princess told him the Mermaid Clan would give anything in return.
• Zhang Lexuan defeated the Purple Pearl Pirates who had overturned her boat and demanded that their leader take her safely to her destination.
• The pirate leader explained that the Purple Pearl Pirates served a legacy tied to Sea God Tang San and agreed to take Zhang Lexuan toward Sea God Island.
• Zhang Lexuan learned that visitors must undergo a dangerous trial and cannot leave Sea God Island if they pass, but she insisted on going.
• The pirate leader agreed to bring Zhang Lexuan to waters twenty li from Sea God Island and provide her with a small boat to reach it.

Zhang Lexuan reached Sea God Island to deliver an important report to its Great Enshrined, while Huo Yuhao used Liya’s memories to confirm the Myriad Souls Douluo had torn out her spirit and began torturing him for information. Zhang Lexuan introduced herself to a group of yellow-robed islanders, leaving her waiting to be received.

• Zhang Lexuan left the pirate ship near Sea God Island and crossed the waters while avoiding Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Huo Yuhao used Time Reversal to view Liya’s memories and discovered that the Myriad Souls Douluo had extracted her vengeful spirit.
• Huo Yuhao said Liya could be healed with Soul-Nourishing Dew and sent Yao Lao with the Sea Princess to find medicinal ingredients.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Myriad Souls Douluo to the Mermaid Clan’s palace and demanded a list of his spies in the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Hall.
• Princess Lijing poured Huo Yuhao’s Ecstasy Potion over the Myriad Souls Douluo, and Huo Yuhao used spells to keep him conscious and immobilized.
• Zhang Lexuan reached Sea God Island and told the yellow-robed islanders she had come from Shrek Academy on Mu En’s orders to report to the Great Enshrined.

Zhang Lexuan arrived on Sea God Island seeking an audience with the Great Enshrined and insisted on taking the Sea God's trials despite warnings that land Soul Masters could not pass them. Her trial at the Sea Moon Sacred Pillar revealed a Top-Tier Seven Trials, drawing the attention of the island's other sacred-pillar experts.

• A yellow-clad middle-aged Sea Soul Master warned Zhang Lexuan to leave Sea God Island, but she refused because she carried an important responsibility from Shrek Academy.
• The middle-aged man brought Zhang Lexuan to the Sea Moon Sacred Pillar, where Sea Moon Douluo required her to cross the Sea Within the Sea before taking the trials.
• Zhang Lexuan revealed her eight soul rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, and crossed the waves to reach Sea Moon Douluo.
• Sea Moon Douluo activated the Sea God's trial, and the pillar's markings rose past the Black Level Six threshold before turning crystalline red.
• Six black-clad experts at other sacred pillars saw the red beam and exclaimed that Zhang Lexuan had received the Top-Tier Seven Trials.

Zhang Lexuan learned that her red top-tier assessment would make her Sea God Island’s future Great Enshrined, while Chen Guanhai agreed to help Shrek after she completed its sixth trial and revealed the Sea God family’s legacy and the divine artifact Boundless Sea. Meanwhile, Liya chose to become Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit, gave him the mermaid’s blessing, and transferred her golden bloodline to her sister Lijing.

• Sea Moon Douluo explained the assessment tiers and revealed that Zhang Lexuan’s top-tier seven trials marked her as the future leader of Sea God Island.
• Chen Guanhai appeared, agreed to help Shrek eliminate its rebels after Zhang Lexuan completed the sixth trial, and told her she could begin her trials at her own pace while completing at least one each year.
• Chen Guanhai explained his clan’s ancient duty to guard the sea and promised Zhang Lexuan the divine artifact Boundless Sea to help resolve Shrek Academy’s crisis.
• Liya insisted on joining Huo Yuhao as his Soul Spirit, and the Sea Princess explained that Liya’s mermaid’s blessing had bound their destinies.
• Liya transferred her golden bloodline to Lijing, who became the next Sea Princess, and Liya left the Sea Folk to become Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit.

Zhang Lexuan settled into Sea Moon City and learned that her first top-tier trial required her to climb 333 steps beneath Sea God's Light. In the Divine Realm, Tang San revealed that he had hidden a strand of Divine Sense in the Sea God Trident so he could observe the Child of the Plane.

• Sea Moon Douluo brought Zhang Lexuan into Sea Moon City and explained its residents, guardians, and supply trade with the mainland.
• Sea Moon Douluo gave Zhang Lexuan her room in the city lord's residence, then left to inform the other Sacred Pillar guardians about the celestial phenomenon.
• Zhang Lexuan examined her first trial and learned she had one year to ascend the first 333 steps at Sea God Island's central forbidden ground.
• Sea Moon Douluo explained that the Sea God Lineage could unleash Sea God's Light through the divine artifact Boundless Sea, and Zhang Lexuan said she knew someone else who could do it.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that he had sent a strand of Divine Sense to observe the Child of the Plane and concealed it in the Sea God Trident.

Ye Xishui, Zhongli Wu, and the Demon Empress prepared to open a passage to the Abyss Plane and target Huo Yuhao, while Tang San faced accusations in the God Realm over interfering with the lower realm. Tang San defended his actions by warning the gods that the Dragon Clan's return could cost them their inherited divine positions, then returned to his temple claiming his authority as God King of Law Enforcement.

• Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu met the awakened Demon Empress in an underground pit, where she declared her intent to avenge her husband and people.
• The Demon Empress activated a blood-fueled array to connect to the Abyss Plane, and Ye Xishui celebrated the chance to attack Huo Yuhao with their combined forces.
• In the God Realm, the God of Destruction confronted Tang San over divine-sense transmissions to the lower realm, and their clash forced Tang San back.
• The Goddess of Life intervened and urged Tang San to explain his interference, while the God of Destruction questioned his plan to destroy the Dragon Clan.
• Tang San claimed the Silver Dragon King’s return threatened the gods’ inherited positions, swaying some observers before he returned to his temple and asserted that only he could judge himself.

The Abyssal Sage King’s Corpse Soul Bridge neared completion, while the Demon Empress prepared to become a god and help bring about the continent’s destruction. In the deep sea, Electrolux began recounting his past to Huo Yuhao and revealed that the Great Tortoise Shell Technique was tied to the tragedy that made him the Holy Necromancer.

• The Abyssal Sage King used millions of corpses and souls to build the Corpse Soul Bridge, which was designed to connect the Abyss Plane and the Douluo Plane while concealing the abyssal invasion.
• Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu watched the Demon Empress draw on the gathered death energy, believing her success would let the Holy Spirit Cult’s powerhouses become gods.
• The Demon Empress declared that the bridge would be complete in three years and that she would reach godhood, after which the continent would face destruction.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao that he had a powerful spell to teach him and began describing his early life as a noble and gifted light mage on the Saint-Demon Continent.
• Electrolux recounted winning the Genius Tournament, meeting Princess Fuluo, and falling in love with her before explaining that the Great Tortoise Shell Technique lay at the root of his later sins.

Electrolux recounted how the Great Tortoise Shell Technique and Fuluo’s betrayal led to the tragedy that made him the Holy Necromancer. In the Douluo God Realm, Tang San called on deities who had ascended from Douluo Star to secretly reinforce Shrek Academy, and awaited their answer.

• Electrolux explained that he refused the Glorious Holy See’s offer and left to gain experience so he could reach the ninth rank and marry Fuluo.
• Electrolux described the Great Tortoise Shell Technique as an unpredictable divination whose absolute validity affected every living being, including gods, and warned that its caster also bore the danger.
• Fuluo accused Electrolux of hoarding the technique, then concealed her resentment after he assumed she had cooled down.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Electrolux’s tale as the origin of the Holy Necromancer.
• Tang San told the gathered deities that Shrek Academy needed help and proposed secretly sending powerful former residents of Douluo Star to the Douluo Continent.
• Tang San asked the selected deities whether they would go, explaining that they needed to avoid Destruction and that their strength would be suppressed to Third-Class Deity level.

Tang San gathered gods to descend to the Douluo Plane, while Electrolux recounted how Princess Fuluo betrayed him and framed him for treason. His story left him discovering Fuluo with Pero, the pope's son, in her bedchamber.

• Tang San secured the Star God’s agreement to descend with the other gods to the Douluo Plane in three days.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress asked Electrolux to continue his story, and he described returning to the Imperial Capital after two years of training.
• Fuluo invited Electrolux on an outing, then stabbed him with a poisoned dagger and helped black-clad attackers try to kill him.
• Electrolux escaped with a magic scroll and recovered in a hollow tree, while the empire and the Glorious Holy See publicly accused him of treason and heresy.
• Electrolux returned to the Imperial Capital in disguise and found Pero, the pope’s son, in Fuluo’s bedchamber.

Electrolux recounted how Fuluo, Pero, and the Pombo Empire betrayed him, slaughtered his family, and drove him to become the Holy Necromancer and destroy his enemies. He told Huo Yuhao that his legacies were only tools and urged him to keep light in his heart so he could use the Great Tortoise Shell Technique.

• Electrolux explained that Fuluo and Pero conspired with the empire to kill him and take his cultivation method, but he discovered their betrayal and escaped after Pero gravely wounded him.
• Electrolux recounted how the emperor ordered his family executed and how a Black Token froze him in place as 367 members of his household were killed.
• Electrolux used the Black Token's Ancient Necromancer legacy, raised an Undead Army, destroyed the Pombo Empire, and went to war against the Glorious Holy See and its allies.
• Electrolux described losing the final battle, killing Pero, Fuluo, and the other people who had harmed him, then choosing eternal slumber after vengeance left his heart empty.
• Huo Yuhao answered that Electrolux's enemies had destroyed his world, and Electrolux urged him to retain light in his heart to activate the Great Tortoise Shell Technique.