Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao faced Soul Engineer Number Ninety-Eight, Mo Ke, in the final match of the round, with the gamblers heavily favoring Mo Ke. After Mo Ke fired his Corrosive Decomposition Cannon, Huo Yuhao blocked it with gray mist and a summoned skeleton, shocking the Nether Thunder Douluo.

• Huo Yuhao and Number Ninety-Eight exchanged taunts before taking their places on the competition platform.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had crafted an antimatter bomb, then waited as the protective shield rose and the match began.
• Number Ninety-Eight activated his soul tools and fired his Corrosive Decomposition Cannon at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao conjured gray mist and a pitch-black skeleton that intercepted the blast, leaving the skeleton cracking under its corrosive force.
• The Nether Thunder Douluo reacted in shock and wondered whether Huo Yuhao was an Evil Soul Master from their sect.

Huo Yuhao used undead magic and summoned a Headless Iron Corpse to battle Number Ninety-Eight in the tournament. Number Ninety-Eight rushed through Huo Yuhao’s defenses to interrupt his incantation and caught the soul tool bomb Huo Yuhao threw at him.

• Huo Yuhao opened a dark door to absorb Number Ninety-Eight’s Corrosive Decomposition Cannon, then sent a Headless Iron Corpse charging at him.
• Huo Yuhao struck the Headless Iron Corpse with Death Lash and slowed Number Ninety-Eight with Blood Curse while beginning a powerful incantation.
• Number Ninety-Eight repelled the corpse, then used a Soul Tool Thruster, an Invincible Shield, and a Corrosive Decomposition Dagger to rush toward Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao threw a finger-sized soul tool bomb, and Number Ninety-Eight caught it with a mocking smile.

Huo Yuhao defeated Number Ninety-Eight in the Xishui Alliance division by using the Withering Spell and forcing the Nether Thunder Douluo to intervene. The alliance declared Huo Yuhao a winner, and Nangong Wan invited him to represent the alliance in the grand finals, promising Mo Ke and an additional reward if he won the championship.

• Huo Yuhao used the Withering Spell to melt Number Ninety-Eight's defenses, then stopped the spell after the Nether Thunder Douluo ordered him to concede.
• Number Ninety-Eight's soul bomb exploded, and the Nether Thunder Douluo shielded his disciple but was badly wounded and passed out.
• Nangong Wan declared that the Xishui Alliance honored its wagers, and the referees announced Huo Yuhao among the division's top three contestants.
• Number Ninety-Eight denied losing, but Number Ninety-Six struck him and carried the Nether Thunder Douluo away from the stage.
• Nangong Wan offered Huo Yuhao a chance to discuss matters after the grand finals and promised to hand over Mo Ke and give him an additional reward if he won; Huo Yuhao agreed and left.

Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian followed Chen An to uncover his secret deal, while the Xishui Alliance Leader planned to recruit Huo Yuhao after learning about his abilities. They found that Chen An was arranging a rare-metals theft with Deputy Supervisor Li, and Huo Yuhao entered the compound with Ning Tian after Chen An left.

• The Nether Thunder Douluo identified Huo Yuhao as a gifted evil soul master, and Nangong Wan ordered his people to investigate him after their agents lost track of him.
• Chen An told Nangong Wan a mostly truthful account of Huo Yuhao, concealing their connection and his request to buy rare metals; Nangong Wan decided to approach Huo Yuhao during the tournament finals.
• Chen An evaded his followers and met Deputy Supervisor Li in a guarded compound near the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Chen An gave Deputy Supervisor Li a five-million-gold-soul-coin deposit for rare metals that Li planned to steal from his warehouse, agreeing to return the following night with the balance.
• Huo Yuhao and Ning Tian watched the deal, then abandoned their pursuit of Chen An and followed Deputy Supervisor Li inside.

Xu Jiujiu told Huo Yuhao that Mingdu had been sealed off and that the Sun Moon Empire might be preparing to attack the other kingdoms. After they inferred that the open western route was a trap for their strongest fighters, Huo Yuhao said he had a plan and would draw their enemies out.

• Xu Jiujiu explained that her scouts and Granny Manyi had disappeared, suggesting that a Heavenly Net prevented people from leaving Mingdu.
• Xu Jiujiu proposed joining forces with Shrek Academy and the Body Sect to break out while striking the Sun Moon Empire and delaying the war.
• Ning Tian reported that Soul Engineer legions had sealed three sides of Mingdu but left the western route open.
• Huo Yuhao and the others examined the map and concluded that the Sun Moon Mountain Range was likely a trap intended to gather and kill their strongest fighters.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu to wait for him to act, saying he planned to lure the enemy out.

Huo Yuhao arrived at the Green Hotel in time to represent the Xishui Alliance in the Mingdu Soul Engineer Elite Tournament finals. Chen An explained the demanding finals format, and the contestants prepared to compete for lavish prizes.

• The Continental Youth tournament continued as Huo Yuhao stayed out of the matches, while the underground soul engineer finals drew attention with their valuable rewards.
• At the Green Hotel, the Nether Thunder Douluo threatened Chen An over Gao Qiqiang's absence, and Nangong Wan urged him to wait.
• Huo Yuhao arrived under the name Young Master Gao, exchanged a signal with Chen An, and agreed to compete for the Xishui Alliance.
• Nangong Wan welcomed Huo Yuhao and suggested they talk after the tournament, while Huo Yuhao pretended he wanted no ties to underground powers.
• Chen An explained that each of the nine contestants would craft one soul tool in six hours before a skills test eliminated one contestant and combat matches determined the winner.

Nangong Wan explained the Finals’ rules to Xishui Alliance’s contestants and revealed a Super-Level Nine Soul Cannon Shell as the championship reward. The contestants were left facing the immense power of the prize as the competition approached.

• Chen An explained that each contestant could craft and use one Soul Tool, and that conserving energy and earning a high skills score would affect their chances in the quarterfinals.
• Nangong Wan warned the Xishui Alliance contestants that the Ordinary Alliance and Aodu Chamber of Commerce might coordinate against them, then promised an extra reward to the champion.
• Nangong Wan opened a high-explosive password box while the Nether Thunder Douluo protected everyone with a barrier.
• Huang Zheng recognized the object inside as a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, and the contestants recoiled from its murderous aura.
• Huo Yuhao identified the shell as a Super-Level Nine Soul Cannon Shell made from soul-forged metal, and Nangong Wan said it could severely injure even a Limit Douluo.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Xishui Alliance offered a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell as the prize for the final competition, then traveled with its delegation to the Western Suburbs venue. As the rival powers gathered, an unseen figure slipped away toward the Sun Moon Imperial Family’s rare-metal warehouse.

• Nangong Wan revealed the Destruction Storm and promised it to the competition’s champion, while Huo Yuhao pretended interest in meeting a Soul Forging expert.
• Huo Yuhao reminded Mo Ke that he was his slave and ordered him to polish his shoes before the group departed the Green Hotel.
• The Xishui Alliance convoy carried Huo Yuhao and the other competitors to the Western Suburbs, where thousands from the three underground powers had gathered.
• Chen An explained the rival factions, spectators, and competition arrangements as Huo Yuhao’s group entered the Xishui Alliance’s rest area.
• Nangong Wan told the Nether Thunder Douluo that the Supreme Cult Leader and several elders would arrive, and said the Alliance might bend the rules.
• An unnoticed figure walked away from the convoy in the direction of the Sun Moon Imperial Family’s rare-metal warehouse.

The three leaders opened the Mingdu Soul Engineer Elite Tournament, which was secretly arranged to decide who would control rare metal smuggling and underground territory. While the organizers gathered at the venue, Huo Yuhao broke into a rare metal warehouse, took its entire stock, and left a message on the wall.

• Wang Tao welcomed the audience and introduced the tournament’s nine contestants before inviting the three organizers’ leaders to speak.
• Nangong Wan and the Nether Thunder Douluo became angry when the host announced the Xishui Alliance last, and Nangong Wan went up to the stage.
• An Litong, Shangguan Wei'er, and Nangong Wan appeared as the leaders of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce, the Ordinary Alliance, and the Xishui Alliance.
• The chapter revealed that the tournament would decide which faction gained exclusive control of rare metal smuggling, as Crown Prince Xu Tianran sought to strengthen his hold over the underground powers through the Xishui Alliance and Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao entered a warehouse after Deputy Supervisor Li fell asleep, removed more than a hundred tons of rare metal ore, and left the words “Call me Chicken Leg Hero!” on the wall.

At the tournament’s opening, the leaders of the Xishui Alliance, Aodu Chamber of Commerce, and Ordinary Alliance tried to outdo one another with their confidence and rewards. Nangong Wan urged Huo Yuhao to kill his opponents, while the seven judges and nine crafting platforms were prepared for the final.

• Wang Tao invited Nangong Wan, An Litong, and Shangguan Wei'er to address the tournament, and each leader proclaimed confidence in their side.
• An Litong wagered one hundred million Gold Soul Coins on his competitors, while Shangguan Wei'er offered the winner beauties and three rare dragon maidens.
• Nangong Wan ordered Huo Yuhao to kill as many opponents as he could and promised him rewards, including a dragon maiden.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Shangguan Wei'er herself was among the beauties, and she turned icy before trembling when she met his eyes.
• Seven high-ranking Soul Engineer judges took the stage as workers prepared the nine crafting platforms and rare materials.

Huo Yuhao learned that the tournament offered advanced equipment and rare metals, then watched Grandmaster Ye Yulin unveil the Sun Moon Divine Needle as the championship prize. As the nine finalists took the stage to begin the six-hour round, Huo Yuhao recognized the Ordinary Alliance contestant in yellow as Ye Guyi.

• Huo Yuhao examined the superb Soul Tool equipment and rare metals supplied by the Three Great Underground Forces and considered the rewards for winning.
• Grandmaster Ye Yulin unveiled the Sun Moon Divine Needle and described it as the tournament's championship prize.
• The Nether Thunder Douluo and Nangong Wan explained the Needle's limitations and warned the contestants not to dismantle it.
• Wang Tao announced the nine finalists and the six-hour Soul Tool creation round under the judges' supervision.
• Nangong Wan intimidated Wang Tao as the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and Ordinary Alliance contestants mounted the Competition Platform.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Ye Guyi among the Ordinary Alliance's three female Soul Engineers and smiled at her.

Huo Yuhao began the soul-tool crafting competition by forging nine rare metals into spirit alloy, revealing that he planned to build a God-Level Mecha. He completed the thousand refinement of all nine pieces while Ye Yulin watched with concealed unease.

• Ye Yulin explained the six-hour crafting rules and warned that the contestants would immediately face a difficult skills assessment.
• Huo Yuhao set out nine enormous pieces of rare metal, leading the judges to suspect he was making a Soul Guidance Mecha from spirit alloy.
• Huo Yuhao announced through his actions that he intended to build a God-Level Mecha using nine fused alloys.
• Huo Yuhao punched the first piece of metal with a crimson dragon of force and achieved superlative thousand refinement without a forging hammer.
• Huo Yuhao forged the remaining eight pieces to the same thousand-refinement level in moments.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated an extraordinary forging method, Spirit Forging nine pieces of rare metal and then beginning to Soul Forge one of them. As an elemental tribulation formed, he redirected its nine-colored lightning onto himself.

• Huo Yuhao used his twin forging hammers to Spirit Forge nine pieces of rare metal in barely a minute, astonishing the judges and Soul Engineers.
• Huo Yuhao used his spiritual will and delicate hammerwork to begin Soul Forging the metal, while Ye Yulin praised his skill and Nangong Wan and Nether Thunder Douluo realized he could perform Soul Forging.
• Nangong Wan said the Holy Spirit Cult should bring Huo Yuhao under its control to gain the initiative in its cooperation with the Abyss.
• As an elemental tribulation gathered, Huo Yuhao drew the descending nine-colored lightning onto his own body with his hammer.

Huo Yuhao used his body to channel nine-colored tribulation lightning and completed supreme heavenly forging on a piece of rare metal. Meanwhile, Xu Tianran explained to Ju Zi why he was cooperating with the Holy Spirit Cult and the Abyss Plane, leaving his ambitions for conquest clear.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the excess power of the nine-colored tribulation lightning and infused its laws into the metal, completing supreme heavenly forging.
• The Forging Emperor recognized Huo Yuhao’s technique, while Nangong Wan resolved to bring him under control with help from Ye Xishui and several Abyssal sovereigns.
• Huo Yuhao caught the transformed soul tool casing and turned his attention to forging the remaining eight pieces of rare metal.
• Xu Tianran invited Ju Zi to watch the Soul Tool Crafting Tournament and explained that the Imperial Family needed the profits from rare-metal smuggling.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that he was cooperating with the Holy Spirit Cult and the Abyss Plane to gain the power to conquer the Douluo Continent and other worlds.

Xu Tianran explained to Ju Zi how he intended to use the Holy Spirit Cult, while Ju Zi worried that Huo Yuhao would return and face him. At the Mingdu Soul Engineer Elite Tournament, Huo Yuhao used Heavenly Forging and a clone to rapidly assemble a Soul Guidance Mecha, astonishing the judges.

• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that the Holy Spirit Cult was an asset whose leaders wanted the cult recognized as the empire’s state religion and true Soul Master orthodoxy.
• Ju Zi silently feared for Huo Yuhao and hoped he would stay away rather than risk being killed by Xu Tianran.
• Huo Yuhao continued forging intricate mecha parts at the tournament as the judges and audience watched, while Ye Xishui arrived with powerful figures from the Abyss.
• Huo Yuhao’s clone began engraving Core Arrays as his original body assembled the finished parts into a mecha.
• Ye Yulin and the other judges admired Huo Yuhao’s skill, and an elderly judge named Wang exclaimed that he had returned.

As Huo Yuhao carved a Soul Guidance Array into heavenly-forged diamond fine gold, the judges realized his methods could transform Soul Tools and debated protecting and learning from him. Ye Yulin claimed the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Hall had secured the venue, while Xuan Zi set his sights on Huo Yuhao’s emerald-green Carving Knife.

• Ye Yulin told Elder Wang and the other judges that Huo Yuhao’s heavenly-forged metal could usher in a new era for Soul Tools, and they agreed to observe and study his methods together.
• Ye Yulin warned the judges not to compete with him for the chance to take Huo Yuhao as a disciple and said his people had surrounded the venue to protect him.
• Huo Yuhao carved diamond fine gold at extraordinary speed with an unfamiliar emerald-green Carving Knife, leaving the Level 8 Soul Engineer judges unable to understand his Core Array.
• Nether Thunder Douluo recognized that Huo Yuhao’s Carving Knife was unranked and powerful enough to cut diamond fine gold easily.
• Xuan Zi declared that he wanted Huo Yuhao’s Carving Knife, and Ye Xishui told him he could have it if he obtained it.

Huo Yuhao entered a state of mind and body as one and completed a golden Soul Guidance Mecha during the Soul Engineer competition. The hourglass ran out just after he finished, leaving the other competitors dismayed and the contest ready to move on to the skills assessment.

• Huo Yuhao crafted a golden Soul Guidance Mecha while the other Soul Engineers finished their Soul Tools and watched him in disbelief.
• Ye Xishui told Nangong Wan to try to win Huo Yuhao over rather than brainwash him, and ordered that he be kept under watch after the competition.
• Huo Yuhao continued assembling a complex Nine-Nine Return to One Core Array as the hourglass nearly ran out.
• Ye Yulin instructed the other competitors not to disturb Huo Yuhao and allowed him extra time to finish.
• Huo Yuhao installed all nine Core Arrays, and the completed Soul Guidance Mecha rumbled with powerful energy as Ye Yulin called time.

After completing a living Soul Guidance Mecha, Huo Yuhao entered the technique test as the contestants faced nine difficult carving tasks. As the test began, Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Hall prepared to attack the evil soul masters gathered at the competition.

• Ye Yulin inspected the contestants' soul tools and gave Huo Yuhao time to recover before checking his finished Soul Guidance Mecha.
• Huo Yuhao's Soul Guidance Mecha nodded along with him, shocking the judges and onlookers because it appeared to possess life.
• Nangong Wan, Nether Thunder Douluo, and the Third Elder discussed Huo Yuhao's abilities, while Ye Xishui told them to postpone the discussion and prepare for battle.
• Ye Yulin began the technique test, requiring the nine contestants to perform difficult core array techniques on rare metals with ordinary carving knives within fifteen minutes.
• Jing Hongchen sealed off the Western Suburbs and ordered the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Tool Hall to burn the evil soul masters to ashes.

Huo Yuhao finished first in the Soul Tool crafting assessment, and three members of his group advanced to the knockout rounds. He defeated Zhao Shouze in the first match, demonstrating the strength of his Soul Guidance Mecha and heavenly forged metal.

• Huo Yuhao completed the carving assessment first, and the judges eliminated an Aodu Chamber of Commerce contestant whose work was the least complete.
• The contestants took a five-minute break before the knockout tournament began.
• Huo Yuhao, competing as Gao Qiqiang, faced Zhao Shouze of the Aodu Chamber of Commerce, who charged with a blazing great blade.
• Huo Yuhao dodged Zhao Shouze's strike and knocked him back with the Soul Guidance Mecha.
• Zhao Shouze's blade shattered when he tried to block Huo Yuhao, and he surrendered; Ye Yulin declared Gao Qiqiang the winner.

Huo Yuhao advanced to the finals after Number Eighty-Eight forfeited their semifinal, while Huang Zheng and Ye Guyi fought for the other spot. Ye Guyi’s holy power exposed her potential as a successor to Qian Renxue’s Angel Godhood, and Qian Renxue recognized the surviving bloodline of the Qian Family.

• Number Eighty-Eight defeated the Blue-Dressed Girl, the Yellow-Dressed Girl beat the Aodu Chamber of Commerce’s remaining soul engineer, and Huang Zheng forced the Red-Dressed Girl to concede after severing her arm.
• Number Eighty-Eight forfeited his semifinal against Huo Yuhao, sending Huo Yuhao to the finals.
• Ye Guyi confronted Huang Zheng and demanded that he fight to the end rather than concede.
• Ye Guyi deflected Huang Zheng’s Soul-Chasing Claw attacks with her longsword and evaded their explosions with a sudden burst of speed.
• Huo Yuhao awakened Qian Renxue and told her Ye Guyi might be suited to inherit her Angel Godhood.
• Ye Guyi unleashed holy golden-white light that drove purplish-black energy from Huang Zheng, and Qian Renxue recognized Ye Guyi as a descendant of the Qian Family.