Chapter Summaries

Yao Lao recounted his life on the Dou Qi Continent, from his exile from the Yao Clan and love for Han Shanshan to his betrayal and death at the hands of Han Feng. He told Huo Yuhao that he shared the story to help him let go, while Huo Yuhao promised to avenge him if they ever reached that continent.

• Yao Lao described how the Yao Clan expelled him after Yao Wangui sabotaged his pill-making and framed him, and how Hu Jiujiu saved him from the clan's assassins.
• Yao Lao told Huo Yuhao how he grew close to Han Shanshan, then sacrificed his body to save her from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame before she restored him and vanished into the river of time.
• Yao Lao recounted founding the Starfall Pavilion with Feng Xian, becoming a celebrated alchemist, and later raising Han Feng as his disciple.
• Han Feng betrayed Yao Lao for the Flame Mantra, poisoned and killed him, and took part of the technique while Yao Lao's soul survived within the Bone Flame Ring.
• Huo Yuhao promised to kill Han Feng if he ever reached the Dou Qi Continent, and Yao Lao explained that he had told the story to help Huo Yuhao let go.

Huo Yuhao explained a parallel Huo Yuhao’s life, from his escape from the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion through his rise at Shrek, to show why he lived under constant pressure and relied on schemes. He ended by hinting that someone had secretly shaped the events, and Yao Lao identified that figure as Sea God Tang San.

• Yao Lao urged Huo Yuhao to stop carrying everyone’s fate alone, and Huo Yuhao began recounting the life of another Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao described the other Huo Yuhao’s abused childhood, his escape from the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, and his meeting with Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Huo Yuhao recounted how the other Huo Yuhao gained the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, became a Shrek Seven Devils member, and developed ties with Wang Dong'er, Ju Zi, and Wang Qiu'er.
• Huo Yuhao told how the other Huo Yuhao survived the Snow Empress’s power crisis, inherited Elder Yi’s undead magic, and later traveled to obtain the Lovesick Heartbreak Red for Wang Dong'er.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that an unseen person had influenced the story, and Yao Lao named Sea God Tang San.

Huo Yuhao’s struggles against the Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult continued as he helped develop Soul Spirits, fought alongside Shrek and the Tang Sect, and became entangled with Ju Zi and Tang Wutong. The chapter ended with Du Busi’s assassination attempt on Xu Tianran failing despite his sacrifice.

• Huo Yuhao and the Tang Sect plundered the Sun Moon Empire’s underground warehouses, and Huo Yuhao’s bombs destroyed a third of Mingdu.
• After Huo Yuhao endured repeated deaths in the Qiankun Asking Love Valley, Wang Qiu’er sacrificed herself to save him, and he later negotiated with Di Tian to develop Soul Spirits.
• Huo Yuhao founded the Spirit Pagoda, helped Shrek and the Tang Sect prepare for war, and fought against the Sun Moon Empire’s forces alongside Tang Wutong.
• Ju Zi extracted Huo Yuhao’s Seed of Life and later used it to conceive a child, while Tang Wutong recovered her memories as Wang Dong’er and reunited with Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao and Shrek’s forces rescued Tang Ya, and Huo Yuhao later received divine guidance and helped forge powerful Soul Tools and pills.
• Du Busi led Huo Yuhao and other experts into the Sun Moon Empire to assassinate Xu Tianran, but Du Busi’s soul-core detonation failed to kill him.

Huo Yuhao recounted the original Huo Yuhao’s life, arguing that Tang San’s schemes and the White Tiger Duke’s neglect robbed him of the chance to live for himself. He revealed that he had come from another world and had taken over Huo Yuhao’s life to avenge Huo Yun’er, destroy the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, and resist Tang San’s control.

• Huo Yuhao described how the original Huo Yuhao helped Ju Zi kill Xu Tianran, only for her to break her promise and conquer the Dou Ling Empire and most of the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao said he emerged from seclusion, revealed that Dai Hao was his father, and confronted Ju Zi over her son, Xu Yunhan.
• Sea God Tang San took Tang Wutong to the Divine Realm and ordered Ju Zi to rename the Sun Moon Empire and withdraw its troops; Huo Yuhao later defeated Beast God Di Tian and ascended as the God of Emotion.
• Huo Yuhao recounted how Tang San resurrected Huo Yun’er and how the original Huo Yuhao ultimately submitted to the Tang Family and took the surname Dai.
• Huo Yuhao told Yao Lao that he came from another world and intended to avenge Huo Yun’er, destroy the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion, and thwart Tang San.
• Huo Yuhao condemned the original Huo Yuhao’s choices, blaming Tang San’s manipulation and the White Tiger Duke’s neglect for turning his life into a wasted struggle for approval.

Huo Yuhao condemned Tang San for mistreating him and interfering in his marriage, then reflected on how he had repeated Tang San’s favoritism toward daughters. With Yao Lao, Elder Yi, Snow Empress, and Electrolux supporting his anger, Huo Yuhao vowed to destroy the Tang Sect and Shrek and kill Tang San.

• Huo Yuhao denounced Tang San for treating him as a servant despite his loyalty to the Tang Family and the sacrifices he had made for them.
• Huo Yuhao accused Tang San of obsessively controlling Tang Wutong and criticized his own tendency to spoil Dai Ying while expecting sons to endure hardship.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Tang San’s distorted values had damaged his relationships and shaped his behavior as a father.
• Yao Lao, Elder Yi, Snow Empress, and Electrolux grew angry as they recalled Tang San’s attempts to enter Huo Yuhao’s body and manipulate his life.
• Huo Yuhao told his teachers and companions that he would destroy the Tang Sect and Shrek and kill Sea God Tang San.

A future Huo Yuhao arrived in the Far North, where he confronted the younger Huo Yuhao and discovered that the supposed anomaly was his counterpart from another world. As the two clashed and raced toward the Sea Within the Sea, the younger Huo Yuhao attacked Tang San’s character, leaving Tang San furious inside.

• The visiting Huo Yuhao emerged above the Far North Ice Sea, weakened to Soul Saint level after the spacetime gateway malfunctioned.
• The visiting Huo Yuhao found Huo Yuhao and Liya on the seabed, and the two Huo Yuhaos exchanged Soul Shock attacks.
• Huo Yuhao accused Tang San of hypocrisy and mistreatment of others, provoking the visiting Huo Yuhao into a fight.
• A Sea Within the Sea appeared beneath the Far North Ice Sea, and Huo Yuhao raced toward it with Liya while the visiting Huo Yuhao pursued them.
• Tang San sensed two presences of the Child of Destiny, then overheard Huo Yuhao denouncing him and grew furious.

Huo Yuhao condemned Tang San for his selfishness and the harm he had caused, while another Huo Yuhao defended him and recalled saving the Tang Sect. Their confrontation ended when Tang San appeared in the Sea Within the Sea.

• Huo Yuhao accused Tang San of exploiting Dugu Bo, slaughtering soul beasts, destroying Spirit Hall, and neglecting his friends and the people of the continent.
• Huo Yuhao admitted that Tang San's neglect had nearly caused the Tang Sect's collapse and recalled how he had helped rebuild it.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Tang San's destruction of Spirit Hall and Slaughter City had allowed evil soul masters to spread and left ordinary people without support.
• Huo Yuhao challenged the other Huo Yuhao to judge whether Tang San deserved to die, prompting a furious roar from the depths of the Sea Within the Sea.
• Tang San appeared with his golden Sea God Trident and stilled the waters of the Far North Ice Sea, and both Huo Yuhaos recognized him.

Huo Yuhao and his older counterpart were forced by Tang San to fight in the Sea Within the Sea, where the younger Huo Yuhao revealed his powerful battle armor and ice-and-fire abilities. The older Huo Yuhao unveiled the Eternal Eye but could not fully use it, and the younger Huo Yuhao gained the upper hand by absorbing his opponent’s ice domain.

• Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena sensed that a spacetime traveler had been sent to target Huo Yuhao, while the God of Destruction noticed a disturbance in the Douluo Plane.
• The older Huo Yuhao knelt before Tang San and claimed he had come from another spacetime to eliminate an anomaly and protect the Tang Family.
• Tang San doubted the older Huo Yuhao and ordered the two Huo Yuhaos to fight on an arena he created beneath the sea.
• The younger Huo Yuhao summoned red-and-blue battle armor and challenged the older Huo Yuhao’s Ice-Extreme War God Armor.
• The older Huo Yuhao revealed his Eternal Eye, a super divine artifact, but the younger Huo Yuhao recognized that he could not safely unleash its power.
• The two Huo Yuhaos clashed with Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, and the younger Huo Yuhao absorbed the older Huo Yuhao’s domain and struck him with ice blades and arrows.

Huo Yuhao and his counterpart traded powerful elemental and divine attacks, with each side countering the other's techniques. The counterpart unleashed Annihilation: Awakening of the Seven Luminaries, and Huo Yuhao answered with Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus as their clash continued.

• Huo Yuhao summoned an Ice Phoenix and countless ice birds, but his counterpart countered them with Incinerating Silence and the two attacks ended in an even match.
• The counterpart attacked with Dark Gold Dreadclaw, but Huo Yuhao answered with Dragon King Claw and forced him to defend with two powerful ice skills.
• Huo Yuhao broke through his opponent's ice defenses with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, while the opponent stopped the attack with Seven Prohibitions Seven Extinctions Curse.
• Huo Yuhao used Light and Shadow Follow to create two clones, and the three fighters overwhelmed the opponent, wounding him and shattering the Sword of Life.
• The opponent unleashed Annihilation: Awakening of the Seven Luminaries through the Sword of Life's fragments, and Huo Yuhao formed a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus to counter it.

Huo Yuhao fought his older self with Gu Yuena’s Twilight of the Gods, the Four-Colored Fire Lotus, and the backlash of Sorrow of Destiny, while the younger Huo Yuhao used Spacetime Turbulence to turn the battle. Tang San refused to help the older Huo Yuhao and summoned the Power of the Four Gods, revealing his interest in claiming the Eternal Eye and the Fire Lotus technique.

• Huo Yuhao fused four heavenly flames into a Fire Lotus that destroyed the older Huo Yuhao’s seven-colored attack, then Gu Yuena took control and struck with Twilight of the Gods.
• Huo Yuhao used Sorrow of Destiny against his older self, while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion recovered memories of Wang Qiu’er’s future and rejected the fate awaiting her.
• The older Huo Yuhao’s Sorrow of Destiny rebounded, and the younger Huo Yuhao challenged him over Wang Qiu’er’s sacrifice and the origin of his Eternal Eye.
• The younger Huo Yuhao struck his older self with Soul Shock and Spacetime Turbulence, disrupting the older Huo Yuhao’s recovering power.
• Tang San refused the older Huo Yuhao’s request for help, then called forth the Power of the Four Gods while coveting the Eternal Eye and Fire Lotus technique.

Huo Yuhao, possessed by Yao Lao, fought four divine phantoms summoned as a heavenly tribulation and destroyed them with a combined sun-and-moon attack. The lightning from the defeated phantoms triggered ten-colored guiding light, revealing a God King-level inheritance connected to the God of Destruction and provoking Tang San.

• Tang San summoned the Angel God, Sea God, Asura God, and Rakshasa God phantoms to test Huo Yuhao, and Yao Lao took control of Huo Yuhao’s body.
• Yao Lao created a Fire Element Clone, while Huo Yuhao and his Water Element Clone battled the four phantoms alongside it.
• The four divine phantoms unleashed their strongest attacks, but Yao Lao awakened Huo Yuhao’s Dragon God’s Blood and used the sun-and-moon technique to destroy them.
• Four-colored lightning pearls entered Huo Yuhao, and ten-colored guiding light appeared, signaling a God King-level inheritance.
• Tang San sensed the guiding light coming from the Destruction Temple and accused the God of Destruction of sabotaging his plan.

Huo Yuhao arrived in Slaughter City, destroyed the town above its entrance, and forced his way past Terror Knight Scott. After learning Tang San was inside, he entered the city and began asking how it was created, suspecting the God of Destruction had sent him there.

• Huo Yuhao recognized the town as Slaughter City’s entrance and annihilated its inhabitants with Ice and Fire Annihilation before sealing the molten ground.
• The King of Slaughter ordered Scott to investigate the earthquake that had destroyed the town above Slaughter City.
• Huo Yuhao entered the underground passage and defeated Terror Knight Scott by destroying his warhorse with a punch.
• Scott gave Huo Yuhao the entry token numbered 9529 and said Tang San had recently entered Slaughter City with a younger boy after cutting off his arm.
• Huo Yuhao regrew Scott’s arm and entered Slaughter City, where his guide explained its rules and origins.

Huo Yuhao entered Slaughter City, learned that he had to survive the Hell Slaughter Arena to leave, and revealed that his powers still worked despite the city’s suppression. The King of Slaughter recognized him as a formidable threat and ordered his followers not to interfere with the newcomers’ eventual final battle.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that his companions and storage ring were gone, then questioned his guide about Slaughter City’s rules and learned that only a Hell Slaughter Arena champion who survived Hell Road could leave.
• The guide led Huo Yuhao into the Inner City, where a short man attacked him; Huo Yuhao killed the attacker with a breath and discussed harvesting blood from future victims for supplies.
• The King of Slaughter learned that Huo Yuhao had razed the town above and rejected a proposal to recruit or manipulate him, warning his subordinate not to arrange an early fight among Numbers 9527, 9528, and 9529.
• The guide explained the Hell Slaughter Arena’s matches and champion requirements, and Huo Yuhao cleansed her of the poison in Slaughter City before admitting that his powers still worked and entering the arena.

Huo Yuhao defeated Xie Yan in the Hell Slaughter Arena, then secured the King of Slaughter’s alliance against Tang San. They arranged a match bringing both Huo Yuhaos and Tang San together, while Huo Yuhao returned to wait for it.

• Huo Yuhao killed Xie Yan by turning his own evil flames against him after eight other combatants had mysteriously died near Huo Yuhao.
• The King of Slaughter offered Huo Yuhao the title of Slaughter God and a position in Slaughter City, but Huo Yuhao declined and explained that he wanted to discuss Tang San.
• Huo Yuhao persuaded the King of Slaughter to cooperate against Tang San, and they sealed their alliance by drinking Bloody Mary.
• Huo Yuhao proposed using Slaughter City’s rules to arrange a fight involving himself, the other Huo Yuhao, and Tang San, and the King of Slaughter agreed.
• The King of Slaughter ordered his subordinates to gather the three men and seven other combatants in the Hell Slaughter Arena, where spectators placed bets mostly on the two Huo Yuhaos.

At a Divine Banquet, the God of Destruction confronted Tang San and revealed a recording in which Huo Yuhao denounced Dai Mubai and exposed Tang San’s secret resurrection of Huo Yun’er. The God of Destruction demanded that Tang San hand Huo Yun’er over because Huo Yuhao had become his successor.

• Tang San complained to the gods about the God of Destruction, but they avoided taking sides until the God of Destruction arrived and questioned Zhou Weiqing.
• The God of Destruction displayed a recording of Huo Yuhao criticizing Dai Mubai’s cowardice, womanizing, reliance on Tang San, and lack of descendants.
• Dai Mubai tried to destroy the screen, but Tang San ordered him to stop, prompting the gods to laugh at how obedient he was.
• Huo Yuhao accused Tang San of resurrecting Huo Yun’er while refusing to save his former benefactors, shocking Ning Rongrong and angering Ma Hongjun.
• The God of Destruction told Tang San that Huo Yuhao was his Godhood successor and demanded that Tang San hand over Huo Yun’er.

The God of Destruction challenged Tang San over the Divine Realm’s rules and expansion, and the two began a battle of God Kings. Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun agreed to help an unknown powerful figure in exchange for a chance to resurrect Bai Chenxiang, leaving Tang San unaware that many gods he had sent to the lower realm were no longer under his control.

• Ning Rongrong and Oscar recalled Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo and exchanged a knowing glance over Tang San’s refusal to resurrect them.
• The God of Destruction confronted Tang San about his violations of Divine Realm rules and challenged him to a fight.
• Tang San attacked with Unfixed Wind Wave, but the God of Destruction shattered it with Annihilation Divine Thunder and drew the Destruction Scepter.
• Ma Hongjun mourned Bai Chenxiang and told a mysterious voice that he regretted becoming a god without her.
• The mysterious voice offered Ma Hongjun a chance to resurrect Bai Chenxiang if he swore to help someone in the lower realm, and Ma Hongjun accepted.
• Tang San remained unaware that more than half of the gods he had sent to the lower realm were beyond his control.

Tang San and the God of Destruction fought in the Divine Forbidden Land, weakening the seal on the Golden Dragon King, while Huo Yuhao faced his counterpart and Tang San in Slaughter City. After Tang San killed Huo Yuhao in the arena, a Seven-Story Pagoda resurrected him and brought Elder Yi into the arena, where Elder Yi reunited with the other Huo Yuhao.

• Tang San and the God of Destruction weakened the Divine Forbidden Land’s seal, allowing the Golden Dragon King to begin climbing free.
• The Golden Dragon King endured Tang San’s attack and threatened to reunite with the Silver Dragon King and restore the Dragon God, while the God of Destruction struck him with purple lightning.
• Huo Yuhao, his counterpart, and Tang San entered the Slaughter City arena with their powers largely intact and quickly killed the other Hell Slaughterers.
• Tang San stabbed Huo Yuhao in the back with the Sea God Trident, but a Seven-Story Pagoda gathered Huo Yuhao’s soul and resurrected him.
• Elder Yi appeared beside Huo Yuhao, and the other Huo Yuhao tearfully recognized his teacher as Elder Yi comforted him.

Huo Yuhao withdrew from the slaughter and watched the transformed King of Slaughter reveal Tang San’s role in destroying Slaughter City, then accepted the slain residents’ hope for revenge and entered Hell Road. In the Divine Realm, Tang San and the other gods forced the injured Golden Dragon King back beneath the seal, but his escape remained imminent.

• Huo Yuhao refused to take sides between Electrolux and Tang San, withdrew from the slaughter, and vanished into the arena floor.
• The King of Slaughter transformed into the Dark-Gold Nine-Headed Bat King, accused Tang San of destroying Slaughter City for his own advantage, and killed him through the arena’s blood-red pattern.
• The wronged souls of Slaughter City entrusted their revenge to Huo Yuhao, who took Tang San’s Sea God Trident and was transported to the narrow path above the blood pool on Hell Road.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the blood pool as Slaughter City’s source of power and wondered whether the Dark-Gold Nine-Headed Bat King was connected to the Rakshasa God.
• Tang San, the God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, and the other gods combined their attacks to force the Golden Dragon King back beneath the Divine Forbidden Land’s seal, though his escape remained only a matter of time.

Huo Yuhao defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent in the Sea Within the Sea and began secluding himself to absorb the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Sea Heart Flame. Three years later, the tournament expanded to include sects, and Du Busi asked the young Soul Masters to compete under the Body Sect’s name as Huo Yuhao remained absent.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s attacks, seized its Inner Core, and watched its body fall into the Blood Pool as blood-colored flames rose.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Sea Within the Sea, where Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Sea Heart Flame appeared, and agreed to enter seclusion to absorb them.
• Du Busi told Long Aotian, Vina, Xu Tianji, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao that the tournament would likely expand to include sects.
• Du Busi proposed that the six young Soul Masters represent the Body Sect, with Long Aotian as Acting Captain, and gave them three days to decide.
• The tournament organizers approved the expanded format, and 167 teams registered as people remembered Huo Yuhao’s past victories.

As Mingdu prepared to host the All-Continent Youth Soul Master Tournament, Xu Tianran planned his succession and ordered Huo Yuhao’s influence erased while Ju Zi concealed her true feelings. Meanwhile, five deities from Shrek Academy traveled to Mingdu, where they encountered a red mecha and were classified as a threat by the city’s automated defenses.

• Mingdu expanded for the tournament, whose top prizes were powerful soul tools rather than soul bones.
• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that much of the army and the Sun Moon Royal Military Academy’s graduates supported him as his father’s health failed.
• Xu Tianran said Ju Zi would become empress and ordered her to eliminate opposition after his ascension, while Ju Zi privately remained cautious of him.
• Xu Tianran ordered Huo Yuhao’s positions and connections in the Sun Moon Empire stripped away within three days.
• Ning Rongrong drove Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing toward Mingdu as the five deities marveled at the modern continent and saw a fast red mecha leading four black ones.
• Mingdu’s automated system called the unresponsive travelers a threat and requested a precision strike with the Destruction Eye Ray Tower.