Chapter Summaries

Ye Guyi killed Huang Zheng with her Holy Angel martial soul and drew the Holy Spirit Cult’s hostility. Huo Yuhao challenged her, secretly explained that he controlled the Ordinary Alliance, and began their fight with a teleporting Mecha attack.

• Ye Guyi used her Holy Sword to obliterate Huang Zheng, prompting the Holy Spirit Cult to threaten her while Ye Yulin prepared to protect her.
• Ye Guyi challenged Huo Yuhao, who accepted and told Qian Renxue he would give her golden Angel Holy Sword to Ye Guyi if she resonated with it.
• Huo Yuhao entered the arena and warned Ye Guyi telepathically that the Holy Spirit Cult intended to kill her and that the Ordinary Alliance belonged to him.
• Ye Guyi agreed to cooperate if Huo Yuhao defeated her, and he promised not to hurt her and to give her a gift.
• Huo Yuhao retreated as his golden Mecha teleported in front of Ye Guyi and punched at her, astonishing Ye Yulin.

Ye Guyi attacked Huo Yuhao after mistaking his necromancer aura for proof that he was an evil soul master, but he revealed that he could wield light and command the dead. He summoned the god-level Hell Underworld Dragon, which blocked Ye Guyi’s strongest strike and breathed dragon flame at her.

• Ye Guyi blocked the golden Mecha’s punch, then saw Huo Yuhao reveal a gray soul ring and accused him of being an evil soul master.
• Huo Yuhao said he planned to rob the other crooks, while Ye Guyi attacked him with sacred sword light.
• Huo Yuhao’s gray ring turned gold, and he summoned Huang Zheng’s soul to shield him from Ye Guyi’s sword light.
• Ye Guyi unleashed her Holy Spirit Slash, but the Hell Underworld Dragon emerged from a rift and shattered the attack against its skull.
• The Hell Underworld Dragon breathed black-green dragon flame at Ye Guyi, then withdrew into the rift, grumbling that the opponent was too weak to warrant its involvement.

Huo Yuhao empowered Ye Guyi’s Angel Holy Sword to help her withstand the Hell Underworld Dragon’s attack, then summoned the Gate of the Undead and overwhelmed her with an army of light-attribute undead wielding soul tools. Ye Xishui and Nangong Wan became convinced that Gao Qiqiang was the Holy Spirit Cult’s descended Holy Son as Ye Guyi struggled to fight the endless waves.

• Huo Yuhao sent power from Qian Renxue into Ye Guyi’s holy sword, allowing her to split the Hell Underworld Dragon’s flame but leaving her shaken.
• Ye Xishui praised Ye Guyi’s Angel Martial Soul and, with Nangong Wan, concluded that Gao Qiqiang was likely the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Gate of the Undead, stepped through it, and sent golden-sheened skeleton soldiers armed with Class 5 melee soul tools after Ye Guyi.
• Ye Yulin ruled that Huo Yuhao’s summoned creatures and their soul tools did not violate the competition’s restrictions.
• Ye Guyi’s sacred attacks failed to replenish her soul power or stop the undead army, which expanded to include liches, cavalry, and troops using soul guidance weapons.
• Ye Xishui welcomed Huo Yuhao’s display and hoped he would win the competition so the Holy Spirit Cult could avoid conflict with the nobles and military.

Huo Yuhao trapped Ye Guyi in a staged battle that forced her to unleash the Angel Holy Sword, then killed her with the Gate of the Undead. He asked the judge to declare him the winner.

• Huo Yuhao told Ye Guyi that he had tested her ability to awaken the Angel Holy Sword and promised her a chance to become a god if she cooperated.
• Huo Yuhao summoned three armored Death Knights, who commanded the Undead Creatures and steadily drained Ye Guyi's strength.
• Nangong Wan ordered Little Gao to kill Ye Guyi, but she unleashed Angel's Dance and destroyed the Undead Creatures and Death Knights with the Angel Holy Sword.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ye Guyi if she was ready, and she agreed as he altered the space around her and the Gate of the Undead.
• The Gate of the Undead ensnared Ye Guyi with scythe-tipped chains, dragged her inside, and closed before Huo Yuhao asked the judge to announce the result.

Huo Yuhao won the Mingdu Soul Engineer Elite Tournament as Gao Qiqiang, securing the Xishui Alliance’s victory and its wager against the other underground powers. Meanwhile, Xu Guozhong discovered that the Sun Moon imperial family’s secret warehouse had been raided, with the treasures on its second level missing.

• Huo Yuhao reappeared on the Competition Platform after defeating his opponent, and Ye Xishui and the Holy Spirit Cult elders applauded him.
• Ye Yulin declared Gao Qiqiang the tournament champion, and An Litong and Shangguan Wei'er accepted the wager’s outcome without protest.
• Huo Yuhao received rare metals and the Level 9 Soul Tool Sun Moon Divine Needle from Ye Yulin.
• Xu Guozhong inspected the imperial warehouse and learned that all the Soul Tools on its eleventh level had been stolen.
• Xu Guozhong entered the second level and found that all its rare metals were gone.

Xu Guozhong discovered that Li Zhong had looted the second and third levels of his warehouse, while Huo Yuhao claimed his tournament rewards and was urged by Ye Xishui to join her church. Du Busi challenged Long Xiaoyao and Xuan Zi to battle in the sky, leaving Huo Yuhao's fate at the venue unresolved.

• Xu Guozhong found that the third level of his warehouse had been opened and its valuable Soul Tool Energy Storage Devices, high-class soul cannon shells, and rare metals were missing.
• Xu Guozhong saw a mocking message signed by the Chicken Leg Hero and Shrek Academy on the third level's wall.
• Huo Yuhao collected his tournament rewards, but Ye Xishui stopped him and tried to recruit him as the church's Holy Son.
• Long Xiaoyao confronted Du Busi, who invoked the rule that Titled Douluos must settle worldly conflicts in the sky.
• Xuan Zi joined Long Xiaoyao in the air, and Du Busi declared that he would fight both men.

Xuan Zi revealed his transformed Taotie true body and joined the Holy Spirit Cult, but Kong Deming trapped him with the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield. The Abyssal Emperors then arrived to support Ye Xishui, and an unknown voice interrupted Xuan Zi’s boast as the battle teetered on the brink.

• Xuan Zi appeared as a Taotie true body with nine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and prepared to attack Du Busi.
• Kong Deming trapped Xuan Zi inside a silver dome using the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, which Ye Yulin identified as a Life-Bound Soul Tool.
• Kong Deming arrived with more than thirty Level 9 Soul Engineers and warned Ye Xishui that she could no longer use the Death God Tower.
• Ye Xishui called on the Abyss for aid, and five Abyssal Emperors appeared to support the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xuan Zi celebrated the apparent advantage and declared that devouring Kong Deming and Du Busi would let him reach Quasi-God level.
• An unknown voice addressed Xuan Zi, saying he was still weak and full of himself.

Huo Yuhao was revealed beneath the golden Mecha, and Ye Xishui began using her power to capture him. Before she could act, Huo Yuhao confronted her about her past with Mu En, prompting her to confess the truth to Long Xiaoyao.

• Huo Yuhao’s face returned to normal, and Du Busi revealed that he and Old Kong had brought him to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ye Xishui stopped Xuan Zi from attacking Huo Yuhao and said she would capture and brainwash him, while Long Xiaoyao gazed at her tenderly.
• Huo Yuhao accused Ye Xishui of arranging her encounter with Long Xiaoyao, and she admitted that the affair had been her scheme.
• Ye Xishui confessed that she had loved Long Xiaoyao, not Mu En, and had seduced Long Xiaoyao to drive the two men apart for the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Xiaoyao learned that his lifelong guilt and estrangement from Mu En had been built on Ye Xishui’s deception, and he began bleeding from the mouth.

Ye Xishui explained why she left Long Xiaoyao and revealed that she had secretly borne his son, Yan Shaozhe, who became Mu En's disciple and Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department Dean. Long Xiaoyao reeled at the revelation as Ye Xishui explained why she had kept their son's parentage secret.

• The Sage Emperor sensed Huo Yuhao had used his divine sense to influence Ye Xishui, and Huo Yuhao silently warned him to watch.
• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao she had left to protect him and Mu En from Old Ghost Zhongli and the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ye Xishui said she had borne Long Xiaoyao a son, who took her former surname, Yan.
• Ye Xishui revealed their son was Yan Shaozhe, Mu En's disciple and the Martial Soul Department Dean, shocking Xuan Zi and Long Xiaoyao.
• Ye Xishui explained she had hidden the truth because her position and atrocities as a Holy Spirit Cult leader could have drawn Long Xiaoyao and their descendants into her life.

Ye Xishui revealed her hidden second martial soul to Long Xiaoyao, who learned that both he and Mu En had been deceived by the Holy Spirit Cult. Tang San then used a golden-and-silver force to transport Huo Yuhao and the others to a strange lake, where they were sealed inside separate barriers.

• Tang San rebuked Xuan Zi for underestimating Huo Yuhao and gave him something to activate so Tang San could deal with Huo Yuhao himself.
• Ye Xishui revealed that she had concealed a second martial soul for two hundred years, and Long Xiaoyao realized that the Holy Spirit Cult had deceived him and Mu En.
• Long Xiaoyao vowed to protect Huo Yuhao and repay his debt to Mu En through Mu En's disciple.
• A golden-and-silver light erupted near Xuan Zi and pulled Huo Yuhao and the others through mist toward a vast lake surrounded by mountains.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the lake as a spectacle connected to Tang San, and golden-and-silver barriers appeared around everyone above the lake's center.

Huo Yuhao and the others were drawn into the Qiankun Asking Love Valley, where a trial began questioning their feelings and testing whether their love was true. Zhang Lexuan was selected first, and she revealed how her feelings for Bei Bei had grown from a promise to Mu En; the trial’s questioning continued.

• Huo Yuhao recognized the Qiankun Asking Love Valley from Tang San's Tang Sect Poison Chapter and recalled its deadly test of love.
• A voice announced the trial, and a sweeping golden beam selected Zhang Lexuan from the gathered people.
• The trial asked Zhang Lexuan whether she had a lover and whom she loved, and she named Bei Bei.
• Zhang Lexuan admitted that Bei Bei did not love her and explained that Mu En had asked her to become Bei Bei's wife after saving her life.
• Zhang Lexuan described how she first stayed by Bei Bei out of duty, then began to feel something deeper as he grew up.

Zhang Lexuan revealed how she had fallen in love with Bei Bei while raising him, and Bei Bei realized the depth of her feelings. When asked whether she would die for him, Zhang Lexuan said she would, passing the sincerity trial and earning exemption from the second round.

• In Huo Yuhao's spiritual sea, Qian Renxue, Yao Lao, and Electrolux speculated that Tang San had moved the divine region to test Yuhao and sensed an aura connected to the Dragon Clan.
• Zhang Lexuan recounted how she had watched over Bei Bei since childhood, fallen in love with him, and kept her promise to remain his fiancée despite his relationship with Tang Ya.
• Zhang Lexuan described silently enduring her love and risking herself to protect Bei Bei, while Bei Bei listened and wept as he understood what she had sacrificed.
• A voice asked Zhang Lexuan whether she would still give herself for Bei Bei even if he did not love her and it meant her death; she resolutely said yes.
• The voice declared Zhang Lexuan had passed the sincerity trial and exempted her from the second round, while Bei Bei collapsed in shock.

Huo Yuhao received a message that someone was trapped in the Qiankun Asking Love Valley, while the valley tested Bei Bei, Jiang Nannan, and Xu Sanshi on their love and willingness to sacrifice. Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan passed the first trial, Xu Sanshi was punished for being unfilial, and the test moved on to Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao recalled his past with Wang Dong'er and Qiu'er, then received a message that someone was trapped in the Qiankun Asking Love Valley.
• Bei Bei said he loved Tang Ya and agreed to die to save Zhang Lexuan, then passed the first trial after the apparent blade proved to be an illusion.
• Jiang Nannan said she would choose to live for her mother if forced to choose between herself and Xu Sanshi, and passed the first trial.
• Xu Sanshi chose to die for Jiang Nannan and explained that his siblings could care for his parents, so the voice sentenced him to ten lashes for being unfilial.
• The golden light settled over Huo Yuhao, and the voice asked whether he had someone he loved.

Huo Yuhao defended his choices in Qiankun Asking Love Valley by delivering a long speech about pursuing strength and following one’s own path. The Love God and Tang San were left speechless, and the Love God ultimately declared that Huo Yuhao passed.

• The voice in Qiankun Asking Love Valley asked Huo Yuhao how he defined love, and he described it as unwavering devotion and pursuit.
• Huo Yuhao argued that people should follow their own roads without fearing failure, disapproval, or death.
• Tang San rejected Huo Yuhao’s definition of great love as selfishness and argued that people had to rely on themselves and become strong.
• Huo Yuhao continued defending struggle, ambition, and the right to change one’s destiny, leaving Tang San and the Love God unable to answer.
• The Love God declared that Huo Yuhao passed.

The second adventure trial began, and Xu Sanshi had to French kiss whoever the wheel selected for three minutes or face a dangerous deep adventure. After Huo Yuhao interfered with the selection, the wheel chose Xuan Zi, leaving Xu Sanshi to persuade him before time ran out.

• The trial’s wheel selected French kissing as Xu Sanshi’s challenge, requiring him to kiss a chosen person for three minutes within ten minutes.
• The wheel first stopped on Huo Yuhao, but he used his divine sense to force the golden light to move on.
• The wheel selected Xuan Zi, and Xu Sanshi and Xuan Zi appeared together on the central platform as the countdown began.
• Xuan Zi rejected Xu Sanshi’s request, but Xu Sanshi argued that kissing was better than risking death in a deep adventure.
• The voice announced that the participants who passed all three trials could leave and receive rewards, and Xu Sanshi urged Xuan Zi to close his eyes.

Xu Sanshi and Xuan Zi both vomited during their trial and were sent into Deep Adventure. Zhang Lexuan faced Nether Thunder Douluo and Nangong Wan, killed Nether Thunder Douluo, and discovered Nangong Wan would betray the Holy Spirit Cult to save his life and Soul Power.

• Xu Sanshi leaned in to complete his trial with Xuan Zi, but Xuan Zi vomited on him, causing both men to vomit and be swept into Deep Adventure.
• The wheel selected Zhang Lexuan to fight two opponents, and it chose Nether Thunder Douluo and Nangong Wan.
• Zhang Lexuan used Blood Moon Eclipse to destroy Nether Thunder Douluo.
• Nangong Wan begged Zhang Lexuan to spare his life and Soul Power, offering to attack the Holy Spirit Cult if she demanded it.
• Zhang Lexuan was surprised that Nangong Wan, an elder of the Holy Spirit Cult, was so spineless.

Huo Yuhao entered a rescue trial with his cultivation sealed and found the Three-Eyed Golden Lion under attack by a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. He helped destroy the tiger’s barrier, but all three were pulled into a black hole and left in a strange space.

• Huo Yuhao was assigned to rescue a friend and transported into a forest with his soul power sealed.
• Huo Yuhao found the Three-Eyed Golden Lion fleeing from a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger that wanted to devour her power of destiny.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger created a black hole that began pulling Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion inside.
• Huo Yuhao told the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to use Sorrow of Destiny to nullify the tiger’s barrier, then pierced the tiger with Tang San’s Sea God Trident.
• Huo Yuhao, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger were swept into the black hole, where Huo Yuhao’s body began shrinking and his soul power fell.

Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion faced the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Life and Death Arena, where all three had been reduced to six years old. Huo Yuhao used a Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell, Metal Storm, against the tiger, and the chapter ended as its devastating attack erupted.

• Huo Yuhao found himself and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the Life and Death Arena with the shrunken Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• The arena announced that the battle would end only when one participant died, and the tiger retreated while Huo Yuhao and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion prepared to fight.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger pretended to plead for mercy, then lunged at Huo Yuhao, hoping to kill him and escape the arena.
• Huo Yuhao took out Metal Storm, pinned on a badge from Star Dream Night Sky, and activated a magnetic field around himself and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Huo Yuhao fired Metal Storm, unleashing a powerful explosion and a storm of metal fragments at the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.