Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao extracted the nine profound golden lightning’s destructive power and began the final stage of the Extreme Refinement Dou Technique. After a year of enlightenment nearly killed him, he severed heaven, the Dao, and himself, then emerged transformed with ice and fire fused within him.

• Huo Yuhao drew the nine profound golden lightning’s power into Xiao Han, then gave the weakened dragon spiritual energy so it could awaken its intelligence.
• Huo Yuhao left the Lightning Pool and decided to keep refining the dangerous lightning power inside Xiao Han with heavenly flames.
• Huo Yuhao began Heavenly Flames Divine Refinement in the Heavenly Tribulation Space, using the materials he had gathered at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huo Yuhao spent a year in deep enlightenment as Elder Yi and Yao Lao watched his vitality fade and feared he was dying.
• After his life aura vanished, Huo Yuhao shouted that he would sever heaven, the Dao, and himself, then remade his body with ice and fire fused seamlessly within him.

The Body Sect arrived in Mingdu to register for the tournament, where Xu Tianji scanned the assembled teams and reunited with his sister, Xu Jiujiu. She explained the new competition format and questioned their six-person lineup, and Ning Tian revealed that Huo Yuhao was returning.

• The Body Sect checked in at the Mingyue Hotel, and Xu Tianji used his Spiritual Force to assess the powerful teams gathered there.
• Xu Jiujiu arrived with the Star Luo National Academy team and greeted her younger brother, Xu Tianji.
• Ning Tian explained that she and the others had joined the Body Sect after settling in the Sun Moon Empire, and Xu Jiujiu told them the previous top-eight teams received priority check-in.
• Xu Jiujiu described the new knockout, group, individual, and team-battle format, emphasizing the importance of individual combat strength.
• Xu Jiujiu asked why the Body Sect had only six participants, and Ning Tian said Huo Yuhao was coming back.

Huo Yuhao and his allies defeated the Demon Empress and the Abyssal forces, while Huo Yuhao seized the Heaven-Saint Rift-Splitting Halberd after the Blaze Emperor fell. As Huo Yuhao prepared to finish the Demon Empress, a figure rushed in and begged him to spare her.

• The Demon Empress and the Blaze Emperor attacked Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao's Mental Interference Domain turned the Blaze Emperor's strike against the Demon Empress and let him injure the two Abyssal Kings.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the Blaze Emperor's Heaven-Saint Rift-Splitting Halberd as a Super Divine Artifact, then faced the Blaze Emperor and the Abyssal Sage King's combined attack.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment struck and killed the Blaze Emperor, and Huo Yuhao took the Heaven-Saint Rift-Splitting Halberd and Sea God Trident.
• Huo Yuhao used Light of Time and Space to seal the Abyssal Sage King away, then joined Huo Yuhao in confronting the Demon Empress.
• The Demon Empress recalled her past and accepted death, but a figure arrived crying and begged Huo Yuhao to spare her.

Huo Yuhao spared the Demon Empress after Lan Fozi begged for her life, then recruited Sea God Island to join him in judging Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion. Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit Cult's presence at the tournament alarmed the Body Sect and Star Luo Empire, until Huo Yuhao returned before Xu Jiujiu and the others.

• Lan Fozi shielded the Demon Empress and pleaded with Huo Yuhao to spare her mother, offering her own life in exchange.
• Huo Yuhao decided not to kill Lan Fozi, spared the Demon Empress, and took both women into his Demiplane as witnesses for a future judgment.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Chen Guanhai to lead Sea God Island's Titled Douluo to Mingdu and join him in judging Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion.
• Ma Xiaotao told the Body Sect's conference room that the Holy Spirit Cult had entered the tournament, and Ning Tian warned that the Sun Moon Empire might be allied with them.
• Ning Tian told Xu Jiujiu about the Holy Spirit Cult and Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao, and Xu Tianji tried to use his Star Pupil Martial Soul to predict a way forward.
• Huo Yuhao descended upon a river of stars, and Xu Jiujiu exclaimed that he had returned.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Ning Tian and Xu Jiujiu, demonstrated his power by revealing Zhongli Wu and a giant Mecha, and offered the Star Luo Empire Mechas and Battle Armor under strict terms. As he left, Xu Jiujiu realized the significance of the Mecha’s Soul Guidance Battery and rushed to stop him.

• Huo Yuhao reunited with Ning Tian, Xu Jiujiu, Xu Tianji, and Long Aotian, then revealed that he had captured the Holy Spirit Cult’s leader, Zhongli Wu.
• The Red-Dressed Old Woman tried to subdue Huo Yuhao, but he overwhelmed her with a glance and demanded mutual trust before cooperation.
• Huo Yuhao took the group to a desert and showed them a giant Mecha, offering the Star Luo Empire Mechas and Battle Armor in exchange for two out of every three they produced.
• Xu Jiujiu balked at Huo Yuhao’s price, but he explained the value of priority supply rights and warned that the Sun Moon Empire would start a war if it could not sustain production.
• As Huo Yuhao left, Xu Jiujiu realized that the Mecha’s Soul Guidance Battery did not require a Soul Master to operate it and hurried out to stop him.

Huo Yuhao revealed that his new Soul Guidance Mecha used an intelligent combat system and required neither Soul Masters nor people to operate, then gave Xu Jiujiu a test unit. After Nebula Douluo tested it, Xu Jiujiu returned to negotiate mass production, but Huo Yuhao demanded three of every four mecha and warned that the price might rise.

• Huo Yuhao explained to Xu Jiujiu that his new mecha used a Soul Guidance Battery and First-Generation Intelligent Combat System to fight without a pilot, and offered her priority purchasing rights if she decided within three days.
• Huo Yuhao gave Xu Jiujiu a white test mecha, and the tournament organizers announced rules that removed altitude limits and awarded points for remaining competitors.
• Nebula Douluo returned with excellent test results, prompting Xu Jiujiu to hurry to Huo Yuhao and ask about purchasing intelligent mecha in bulk.
• Huo Yuhao refused a discount, said his people would need to assist with production, and demanded three mecha for every four manufactured for Xu Jiujiu.
• Xu Jiujiu sprang up in anger at Huo Yuhao's sudden change in terms, while he protested that he still needed to find a wife.

Huo Yuhao negotiated a joint intelligent mecha partnership with the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires, keeping the technology for himself while agreeing to prioritize both nations. The contract also obligated them to send troops when he needed help fighting Xu Tianran.

• Huo Yuhao refused Xu Jiujiu's demand for the previously agreed share, explaining that scarce raw materials and the value of his technology justified the terms.
• Vina and Long Aotian arrived to discuss Heaven Dou's cooperation, and Xu Jiujiu and Vina clashed over priority and their competing offers.
• Nebula Douluo Manyi released her pressure against Heaven Dou's group, but a cloaked Super Douluo countered her, and Huo Yuhao's power drove both powerful fighters back and made them bleed.
• Huo Yuhao proposed giving both the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires priority without raising the mecha price, and both princesses accepted while he refused to sell the manufacturing blueprints.
• After more than four hours of negotiations, Huo Yuhao and the two empires signed the Purple Radiance Eradication Plan, requiring them to jointly send troops when he needed help fighting Xu Tianran.

Huo Yuhao prepared for the All-Continent Youth Soul Master Elite Tournament, revealed to Ning Tian and Wu Feng that he had become a god, and anticipated a coming God War. At the tournament grounds, he recognized the Holy Spirit Cult and the Tang Sect among the competitors and detected abyssal energy in Xu Tianran’s golden-armored guards.

• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian and Wu Feng that war was inevitable and that the coming conflict would be a God War, then admitted he had reached god-level strength.
• The tournament organizers gave Shrek Academy a first-round bye, while Long Aotian’s team drew a match in the opening round.
• Huo Yuhao led the Body Sect team into the tournament grounds, where officials assigned them a remote seating area.
• Huo Yuhao rewarded the Abyssal Destruction Tiger with a pill and instructed his companions to absorb the medicinal power of their pills.
• Huo Yuhao spotted Feng Ling leading the Holy Spirit Cult team and recognized Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan with the Tang Sect team.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the aura of abyssal creatures in the Battle Armor worn by Xu Tianran’s golden-armored guards.

Huo Yuhao observed the Sun Moon Empire’s powerful forces as the All-Continent Advanced Youth Soul Master Elite Tournament began under Regent Xu Tianran and Ju Zi. The opening match started between the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and the Dragon Slaying Sect, and Meng Hongchen revealed that she was a Soul Saint.

• Huo Yuhao learned from Vina that the Royal Soul Engineer Corps had a thousand elite members and that half its strength guarded the tournament.
• Crown Prince Xu Tianran arrived in the Dragon Carriage with Ju Zi and Jing Hongchen, while the officials hailed him as Regent.
• Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao silenced the crowd with his overwhelming pressure, and Ju Zi declared the tournament open on Xu Tianran’s behalf.
• The first preliminary knockout match paired the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy against the Dragon Slaying Sect, and both teams sent seven competitors to the Waiting Area.
• Meng Hongchen and a Five-Ring Dragon Slaying Sect Soul King entered the opening individual match, and Meng Hongchen revealed seven Soul Rings, showing she was a Soul Saint.

Meng Hongchen used her poison and soul tools to defeat two Dragon Slaying Sect competitors in the individual tournament. After Feng Shen’s powerful strike failed, she revealed her Battle Armor, leaving the match’s outcome unresolved.

• Meng Hongchen defeated the Dragon Slaying Sect’s bronze bull soul master with Ice Refraction and poison, then agreed to detoxify him after the captain ruled him out of the team match.
• Feng Shen entered the second match and took to the air, preparing a high-speed attack against Meng Hongchen.
• Meng Hongchen locked onto Feng Shen with a soul tool and fired as he charged at her at near-sonic speed.
• Feng Shen’s attack engulfed Meng Hongchen, but he was left charred and collapsed while she remained standing.
• Meng Hongchen revealed her ice-blue Battle Armor and short sword as the crowd watched in surprise.

Meng Hongchen’s Battle Armor helped her defeat all seven Dragon Slaying Sect competitors, and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy advanced with eleven points. On the second day, Huo Yuhao entered the Body Sect’s match alone and quickly defeated the Earth Dragon Sect’s first two competitors, leaving the match ongoing.

• Meng Hongchen used her Two-Word Battle Armor and poison to defeat all seven Dragon Slaying Sect competitors, qualifying the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy for the next round.
• The tournament’s first day concluded with twenty-six matches, and the Body Sect prepared for its second-day appearance.
• Huo Yuhao entered the arena alone to face the Earth Dragon Sect, drawing the attention of Xu Tianran and Ju Zi.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Xu Shenshu with a single palm push, dispelling his Martial Soul Possession and knocking him unconscious.
• Feng Jue charged at Huo Yuhao, then collapsed after seeing something terrifying in Huo Yuhao’s gaze.

Huo Yuhao swept the Earth Dragon Sect team without revealing his martial soul, then watched a Holy Spirit Sect competitor kill a Heavenly Capital Academy fighter by devouring his soul. The match exposed the Holy Spirit Sect’s brutal power and left Huo Yuhao focused on its connection to the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Nan Qiuqiu and the Earth Dragon Sect’s remaining competitors, earning the Body Sect all twelve points.
• Xu Tianran exchanged whispers with the black-clad man and kept his gaze on Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the Holy Spirit Sect’s youth as carrying an aura connected to the Abyss Plane and watched him closely.
• The Holy Spirit Sect youth evaded the Heavenly Capital Academy competitor’s attacks and swallowed him in a cloud of purple mist.
• The Holy Spirit Sect youth devoured the Heavenly Capital Academy competitor’s soul, and the referee announced that the competitor had died.

The Holy Spirit Sect killed its first opponent and drove the Heavenly Capital Academy to withdraw, while Huo Yuhao sensed abyssal creatures among them. After the Body Sect returned to the hotel, Nan Shuishui arranged for her daughter Nan Qiuqiu to join the Body Sect for up to five years, convinced Huo Yuhao was extraordinary.

• The Holy Spirit Sect killed the Heavenly Capital Academy's captain, prompting the academy's teacher to withdraw the team from the tournament.
• Xu Tianran warned the Black-Clothed Man to restrain the Holy Spirit Sect, and Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian he sensed abyssal creatures among its members.
• Nan Shuishui scolded Nan Qiuqiu for the Earth Dragon Sect's tournament defeat, then learned that a young man from the Body Sect had displayed terrifying draconic might.
• Nan Shuishui offered Nan Qiuqiu to the Body Sect for three years, extendable to five if her cultivation rose by more than eight ranks; Huo Yuhao accepted.
• Nan Shuishui explained that her secret art had revealed the Body Sect members' righteous character, while Huo Yuhao's aura convinced her that entrusting Nan Qiuqiu to him was wise.

The second knockout round began with Shrek Academy facing the Heavenly Armor Sect, and Zhou Sichen fought Han Yu in the opening individual match. Zhou Sichen trapped Han Yu, but Fan Yu unexpectedly ordered him to kill his opponent.

• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian that Ji Juechen had been injured by a strange devouring energy and abyssal corruption, and vowed to find those responsible.
• The tournament’s second round began, and Shrek Academy faced the Heavenly Armor Sect in the first match.
• Zhou Sichen and Han Yu opened the individual knockout match, each releasing a five-ring martial soul.
• Zhou Sichen summoned an Earth Bear, a Flame Demon Tiger, a Forest of Thorns, and a Netherworld Python as Han Yu countered with his Heavenly Armor Shield and Meteor Flame Armor.
• The Netherworld Python bound Han Yu and his shield, and Zhou Sichen began covering him with thorns.
• Fan Yu gave Zhou Sichen a cold look and ordered him to kill Han Yu.

Shrek Academy defeated the Heavenly Armor Sect after the Blue Sisters’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill broke the sect’s seven-person Martial Soul Combination Skill. The story then shifted to the Body Sect’s second-round match against the Iron Sword Sect, where Wu Feng took the stage for the opening individual bout.

• Zhou Sichen defeated Han Yu but withdrew before facing the Heavenly Armor Sect’s third competitor, and Xie Huanyue won that match with his fourth and fifth Soul Skills.
• The Heavenly Armor Sect conceded the Individual Knockout Tournament, giving Shrek Academy six points and six remaining competitors.
• In the team match, the Heavenly Armor Sect combined its seven shields into a Martial Soul Combination Skill, but Xie Huanyue and the Blue Sisters answered with their skills and destroyed the formation.
• Shrek Academy defeated the Heavenly Armor Sect, while Huo Yuyao and Ning Tian judged the team weaker than expected despite Fan Yu’s calm demeanor.
• After the Body Sect rested before its afternoon match, Wu Feng entered the Competition Platform to represent it in the first individual bout against the Iron Sword Sect.

Wu Feng revealed her ultimate-fire Red Dragon martial soul and defeated the Iron Sword Sect’s team, sending the Body Sect into the third round. Huo Yuhao then took Ning Tian toward a black-market soul-tool competition, hoping to obtain rare metals and make use of an old contact.

• Wu Feng exposed her six-ring Soul Emperor strength and used her ultimate fire to overcome Wang Chengxi’s sword, snake-hair, and Medusa attacks.
• Wu Feng defeated all seven Iron Sword Sect contestants, and the sect forfeited the team battle, giving the Body Sect twelve points and advancing them to the third round.
• Huo Yuhao invited Ning Tian to visit an underground soul-tool crafting competition, explaining its rare-metal prizes, entry rules, and betting scheme.
• Huo Yuhao described Mingdu’s three major underworld powers and said he planned to use a contact he had placed years earlier.

Huo Yuhao entered the Xishui Alliance’s Mingdu Soul Engineer Elite Tournament under the alias Gao Qiqiang and wagered a million gold soul coins that he would qualify. With little time and no materials provided, he struck a piece of refined steel with a hammer and appeared to achieve Thousand Refinement, Spirit Ascension.

• Huo Yuhao and his companions arrived at the Green Hotel to enter the Xishui Alliance’s tournament, and he offered to wager a million gold soul coins on qualifying.
• A white-robed official admitted Huo Yuhao after he demonstrated his battle armor, and Huo Yuhao entered under the name Gao Qiqiang while Ning Tian placed his bet.
• The official escorted Huo Yuhao to the underground competition hall, where he learned that contestants had to craft a Level 3 Soul Tool or purify rare metal through Hundred Refinement before time ran out.
• Because Huo Yuhao had arrived late, the organizers gave him no materials, so he cut a piece from the refined-steel crafting table.
• Huo Yuhao struck the steel with a forging hammer, and spectators exclaimed that he had reached Thousand Refinement, Spirit Ascension.

Huo Yuhao passed the Xishui Alliance’s qualifying assessment with extraordinary forging skill, then killed Wan Wang after exposing his attempt to cheat him. By exploiting Chen An’s belief that he served the Abyss Plane, Huo Yuhao confirmed Xu Tianran’s connection to Abyssal Creatures and prepared to act against the Sun Moon Empire.

• Huo Yuhao forged ordinary refined steel into a spiritually imbued short sword with one hammer strike, passed the assessment, and gave the sword to the judge as compensation for the damaged table.
• Wan Wang accused Huo Yuhao of cheating, but Huo Yuhao revealed that Wan Wang had tampered with the crafting table and threatened him before burning him to ashes.
• Huo Yuhao knocked out the people who surrounded him, and Chen An arrived, learned what had happened, and treated Huo Yuhao with deference after recognizing his forging ability.
• Huo Yuhao used Little Tiger’s abyssal aura to convince Chen An that he came from the Abyss Plane, demanded secrecy and rare-metal rewards, and secured Chen An’s cooperation.
• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian that Xu Tianran’s Imperial Guard used armor forged with help from Abyssal Creatures, then told her to notify the Tan Family that it was time to change the Sun Moon Empire.

Huo Yuhao explained why the Xishui Alliance competition posed little danger and continued competing to win rare metals, while secretly preparing to challenge Xu Tianran’s plans. At the underground soul engineer tournament, he began crafting a milk bottle and stunned the audience by shaping its casing with his fingers.

• Huo Yuhao told Ning Tian that the Holy Spirit Cult was focused on the Continental Advanced Young Soul Master Elite Tournament, while he planned to disrupt Xu Tianran’s ambitions and forfeit the Body Sect’s next match to mislead him.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen reacted to the Body Sect’s withdrawal, and Meng Hongchen openly admitted that she liked Huo Yuhao.
• The third knockout round left five competitors dead and more than twenty seriously injured, while the Body Sect qualified for the round-robin tournament through its earlier points.
• Chen An briefed Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian on the underground tournament’s rules, prizes, and assigned task: crafting a Level 3 milk bottle within six hours.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Golden Hall’s crafting contest and shaped a black star iron casing into form with his fingers in three seconds, astonishing the audience.

Huo Yuhao crafted a miniature Single Source Core during the soul engineer assessment and gave it to Chen An, then returned to the tournament as the round-robin stage began. The Body Sect faced the Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy, whose first competitor met Long Aotian on the platform.

• Huo Yuhao made a miniature Single Source Core from Tianling silver, passed the assessment, and gave the device to Chen An for study.
• Huo Yuhao asked Chen An to gather rare metals, gave him further instructions, and returned to the Mingshui Hotel with Ning Tian.
• Meng Hongchen urged Xiao Hongchen to consider conceding a later match against the Body Sect, but Xiao insisted they could not give up the first round; Meng revealed that conceding had been their grandfather's instruction.
• Xu Tianran and Ju Zi watched as the round-robin tournament began, and the referee called the Body Sect and Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy to compete.
• Lu Jun entered the platform for Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy, while the Body Sect sent Long Aotian, whose growing pressure left Lu Jun visibly shaken.