Recaps

Huo Yuhao and the others reunited with the rescued Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, while Di Tian reluctantly let them stay in Star Dou Forest for a few days. Huo Yuhao gave Sky Dream Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and Raven’s attempt to collect his discarded crumbs ended in Wolf King dragging her away.

• Huo Yuhao reassured Sky Dream that he was free, and Sky Dream broke down in tears as the others watched.
• Ice Empress punched Sky Dream to stop his sobbing and scolded him for acting timid despite his Cultivation.
• The Evil Lord told Di Tian that the group would stay for a few days, and Di Tian left after warning them to depart when they were done.
• Di Tian took out his frustration on Xiong Jun, while the Snow Empress and the Evil Lord joked about how he had held back.
• Huo Yuhao gave Sky Dream a pillar of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and Raven rushed to gather the crumbs he dropped.
• Wolf King pulled Raven away from the crumbs, and Sky Dream resumed eating while looking at the discarded pieces differently.

Huo Yuhao prepared dinner with Tian Meng and Raven, then secretly brought food to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who had been sneaking around hoping to eat Tian Meng. The Auspicious Beast enjoyed his cooking without recognizing him, while Huo Yuhao resolved to let her choose her own name and live freely in the Star Dou Forest.

• Tian Meng gave Huo Yuhao ice shards for Raven, but Raven declined them and told Huo Yuhao to keep them.
• Huo Yuhao cooked dinner beside the Lake of Life, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion secretly stole a handful of food.
• After dinner, Huo Yuhao found the Auspicious Beast hiding in the bushes and offered her food he had prepared especially for her.
• The Auspicious Beast ate plate after plate while Huo Yuhao watched over her, keeping his identity and feelings to himself.
• Huo Yuhao accepted that the Auspicious Beast did not remember him and decided she should choose her own name and live happily without owing him anything.

Huo Yuhao refused the Auspicious Beast’s offer to eat Tian Meng and returned her Power of Fate and the Golden Dragon Spear, accepting that she no longer remembered their past. After the Auspicious Beast returned to Di Tian, Huo Yuhao settled by the Lake of Life, where Tian Meng slept peacefully.

• The Auspicious Beast asked Huo Yuhao when he planned to eat Tian Meng, but Huo Yuhao told her that Tian Meng was family and he would never harm him.
• Huo Yuhao offered to cook for the Auspicious Beast instead, then returned her Power of Fate and the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Snow Empress and Evil Lord questioned Huo Yuhao about giving up the power and joked about his past with the Auspicious Beast; Huo Yuhao said he was glad she could live happily without remembering him.
• Di Tian sent Scarlet King to find the missing Auspicious Beast, and Scarlet King brought her back after she admitted she had gone for a stroll.
• Di Tian noticed the Auspicious Beast had eaten unusually much but let her return to rest, while Huo Yuhao went to the Lake of Life and meditated as Tian Meng slept peacefully.

Huo Yuhao cooked for the Auspicious Beast while secretly meeting her, prompting Di Tian to demand that Evil Lord’s group leave the Star Dou Forest. After they agreed to leave, Huo Yuhao gave the Auspicious Beast a Necklace filled with food and said farewell.

• Ice Empress dragged Tian Meng away to cultivate after he asked for more time to recover.
• Huo Yuhao brought food to the Auspicious Beast, while Di Tian secretly watched and became convinced Evil Lord was trying to lure her away.
• Di Tian confronted Evil Lord and demanded that his group leave the Star Dou Forest, then agreed to let them stay for half a month after Bi Ji intervened.
• Huo Yuhao helped Tian Meng form a Soul Core, and Tian Meng happily agreed to lend him his power when needed.
• Huo Yuhao gave the Auspicious Beast a Necklace containing food, told her he had to leave, and watched her depart.

Huo Yuhao restored Electrolux’s remnant soul and confessed his guilt over the civilians killed in a past war. Electrolux comforted him and shared how his own revenge had devastated a continent, leaving them to face the need to prevent such suffering from happening again.

• Huo Yuhao led the others to a wooded area outside the Star Dou Forest and used Brother Sky Dream’s spiritual power to recreate the conditions that could restore the Undead Demiplane.
• A crack opened in the sky, and Huo Yuhao guided a gray current into his Eye of Life, bringing back Electrolux’s remnant soul.
• Huo Yuhao welcomed Electrolux as his teacher, and Electrolux looked through his memories with permission.
• Huo Yuhao confessed that he caused the deaths of countless civilians and described the remorse that had haunted him.
• Electrolux reassured Huo Yuhao that his remorse did not disappoint him, then recounted how his own revenge had ravaged half a continent.

Huo Yuhao learned how Elder Yi regretted his past and then led his companions to Sunset Forest to retrieve Octagonal from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo mistaking Huo Yuhao for a girl and attacking him with poisonous miasma.

• Elder Yi told Huo Yuhao about his past mistakes and urged him to learn from them, then asked to be called Elder Yi.
• Huo Yuhao rejoined his companions and announced that they were heading to Sunset Forest to retrieve Octagonal.
• Di Tian sensed that the spiritual fluctuation had ended and felt relieved as Huo Yuhao's group flew toward Sunset Forest.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well alone to avoid alarming Dugu Bo and exposing his companions.
• Huo Yuhao found the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, but Dugu Bo arrived and attacked him with poisonous miasma.

Huo Yuhao fought Dugu Bo while the poison in Dugu Bo's body made him lose control, until Elder Yi subdued him. After Dugu Bo woke, Huo Yuhao tried to explain why she had come to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and began examining him.

• Huo Yuhao used Frost Fury and Ice Feather Wings to evade Dugu Bo's poisoned attacks and countered with Ultimate Ice.
• Dugu Bo unleashed poison in every direction, but Elder Yi stopped and purified it before knocking him unconscious.
• Elder Yi warned Huo Yuhao not to overestimate her strength, and Huo Yuhao accepted the reprimand.
• Huo Yuhao and Evil Lord tied up Dugu Bo, who woke and offered her the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to protect his granddaughter Yanzi.
• Huo Yuhao said she had come for the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then pressed a finger to Dugu Bo's forehead and asked him not to resist.

Huo Yuhao temporarily suppressed the poison in Dugu Bo’s body with her Ultimate Ice, giving him hope and a reason to negotiate with her. After reflecting on the losses caused by his family’s poisonous bloodline and his fear for his granddaughter Yanzi, Dugu Bo asked Huo Yuhao who she was and what she wanted.

• Huo Yuhao used her Ultimate Ice to drive the toxins in Dugu Bo’s meridians into his Poison Core and seal them there temporarily.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the treatment only delayed the poison’s return, and she hoped to win Dugu Bo’s cooperation while remaining prepared to kill him if necessary.
• Dugu Bo wept as the treatment eased his suffering and stirred hope, grief, and fear within him.
• Dugu Bo recalled how the Jade Phosphorous Serpent bloodline had poisoned his family and how his Martial Soul’s rare evolution had only postponed his own decline.
• Dugu Bo continued to protect and train his granddaughter Yanzi despite fearing that his death would leave her vulnerable.
• Dugu Bo asked Huo Yuhao her name and what she really wanted.

Huo Yuhao offered Dugu Bo three ways to deal with the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison and proved his Detoxification Pill worked. Dugu Bo left to bring his granddaughter Yanzi to Huo Yuhao, hoping she could undergo Martial Soul Evolution and escape the poison.

• Huo Yuhao asked to use the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, keep his friends' presence secret, and reserve one future request in exchange for helping Dugu Bo.
• Huo Yuhao described three solutions for the poison, including a risky Martial Soul Evolution with a forty percent success rate for Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo asked Huo Yuhao to make a Detoxification Pill, and Huo Yuhao prepared one and gave it to him.
• After the pill relieved his symptoms, Dugu Bo asked to be untied so he could bring his granddaughter Yanzi to Huo Yuhao for help.
• Huo Yuhao let Dugu Bo leave, then went to inspect the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Huo Yuhao treated Dugu Yan’s poison by evolving her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul into a Jade Phosphorous Flood Dragon Emperor, then gave Dugu Bo medicine and instructions to manage his own poisoning. After Dugu Bo left, Huo Yuhao examined the Wishful Treasure Bag he had received and discovered a small green snake inside.

• Huo Yuhao reconnected with Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, who had lost most of its cultivation but agreed to keep living.
• Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to Huo Yuhao, who examined her and recommended Martial Soul Evolution to cure her inherited snake poison.
• Huo Yuhao gave Dugu Yan a Detoxification Pill, his life-infused blood, and an Earth Dragon Golden Melon, then guided the melon’s power into her bloodline.
• Dugu Yan awakened with a Jade Phosphorous Flood Dragon Emperor Martial Soul, five more levels of Soul Power, and poison she could control without being harmed by it.
• Huo Yuhao gave Dugu Bo Detoxification Pills and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Dugu Bo gave him a Wishful Treasure Bag before taking Dugu Yan home.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Wishful Treasure Bag, found a small green snake inside, put it back, and went to call in his waiting companions.

Huo Yuhao brought everyone into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they explored the herbs and settled in while he investigated the Chaos Energy sealed within his bones. He also made Soul Tools to hide the Soul Beasts’ identities, then spent the next two days tending to Octagonal and refining pills.

• Huo Yuhao led everyone through the Poison Miasma into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and explained how to gather its herbs without uprooting them.
• Raven, Xiao Bai, A-Tai, and the others rushed to enjoy the spring and its treasures, while Snow Empress comforted Ice Empress about adjusting to the group.
• Elder Yi told Huo Yuhao that the Gold of Life had fused with his bones and was sealing immense Chaos Energy, which could be dangerous to control; he accepted herbs to stabilize his Divine Soul and granted Huo Yuhao access to the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao made Soul Tools that concealed the Soul Beasts’ auras and simulated human Martial Souls and Soul Rings, but Tian Meng could not use his until he learned to transform into human form.
• For the next two days, Huo Yuhao fertilized Octagonal with Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and refined pills from herbs he picked at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Huo Yuhao searched Heaven Dou City for old books but found no bookstore, then ran into Dugu Yan, who offered to take him shopping. Meanwhile, Evil Lord reflected on feeling trapped by his fate before joining Ice Empress and Snow Empress in exploring the city.

• Huo Yuhao, Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Evil Lord entered Heaven Dou City and split up to explore.
• Evil Lord helped a servant child who bumped into him, then told Snow Empress and Ice Empress that he saw himself as a failure trapped in a cage.
• Evil Lord cheered up and went to the market, while Snow Empress and Ice Empress headed to a clothing store hand in hand.
• Huo Yuhao wandered half the city looking for books and learned from Dugu Yan that Heaven Dou City had no bookstores.
• Dugu Yan told Huo Yuhao that her grandfather's Soul Power had risen and his hair was no longer green, then offered to buy Huo Yuhao some clothes.
• Elder Yi finished absorbing the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and medicinal herbs, stabilizing his Divine Soul somewhat.

Dugu Yan took Huo Yuhao to a clothing store, where the manager dressed her in a blue-and-white outfit and Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Evil Lord joined them. After Dugu Yan covered the bill and invited Huo Yuhao to visit her grandfather, Huo Yuhao agreed while the others headed back separately.

• Dugu Yan brought Huo Yuhao to a clothing store and asked the manager to give her a makeover.
• The manager dressed Huo Yuhao in a blue-and-white dress, and Snow Empress and Ice Empress approved of the outfit.
• Evil Lord arrived, teased Huo Yuhao about wearing a dress, and Snow Empress introduced him and the others to Dugu Yan under human-friendly names.
• Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao for four hundred Gold Soul Coins, so Huo Yuhao asked Dugu Yan to lend her the money and Dugu Yan put the bill on her tab.
• Dugu Yan invited Huo Yuhao to visit her grandfather, and Huo Yuhao accepted before the two groups went their separate ways.

Huo Yuhao visited Dugu Bo’s manor with Dugu Yan, returned the Nine-Section Jade, and offered Dugu Bo Mystic Water Pills to sell. After Dugu Yan tried one, Dugu Bo agreed to help Huo Yuhao sell the remaining pills and arrange a pass to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy library.

• Dugu Yan brought Huo Yuhao to Dugu Bo’s manor, where Dugu Bo thanked him for the Detoxification Pill and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• Huo Yuhao returned Dugu Bo’s Nine-Section Jade and showed him the Mystic Water Pills he wanted to sell.
• Dugu Yan took a Mystic Water Pill, absorbed it, and complained about the foul-smelling impurities it expelled.
• Dugu Bo accepted Huo Yuhao’s two remaining pills for sale and gave him a Black Card as thanks.
• Dugu Bo offered to arrange a library pass for Huo Yuhao, and Dugu Yan later invited him to meet her friends at the academy.

Unable to sleep, Huo Yuhao wandered into the garden and found the maids working late, which reminded him of his mother. After calming the frightened maids and treating one’s wound, he returned to his room troubled by their hardship and his inability to help.

• Huo Yuhao asked Elder Yi about the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and went for a nighttime stroll when he could not sleep.
• He watched the maids mending clothes and remembered how his mother had worked late to care for him.
• The maids saw Huo Yuhao outside their window, feared he would report them, and knelt to beg his forgiveness.
• Huo Yuhao promised not to tell anyone, helped the injured younger maid, and learned that the maids worked extra hours to support their families.
• The maids refused Huo Yuhao’s offer of money, and he returned to his bedroom without telling anyone what had happened.

Huo Yuhao returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sealed inside a white cocoon. Elder Yi determined that the cocoon held immense energy and that Sky Dream was likely evolving after absorbing the Cold Spring’s energy, so Huo Yuhao waited and hoped he would be all right.

• Huo Yuhao spent the morning with Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, who gave him a written proof to help him enter Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Huo Yuhao left Heaven Dou City and returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he found Sky Dream inside a white cocoon.
• A-Tai recounted how Tian Meng had plunged into the Cold Spring to prove he could swim, then lost consciousness and transformed into the cocoon.
• Elder Yi examined the cocoon and told Huo Yuhao that Sky Dream was likely evolving and was not in immediate danger.
• Huo Yuhao remained worried and quietly wished Sky Dream well.

Huo Yuhao visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan showed him around and introduced him to Ye Lingling and Yu Tianheng. After the three friends walked him to the neglected library, Huo Yuhao went inside to borrow books while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling returned to training.

• Huo Yuhao left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for Heaven Dou City after giving Snow Empress Dugu Bo's Black Card to spend.
• Dugu Yan welcomed Huo Yuhao to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and showed him the campus and her dormitory.
• Ye Lingling arrived, and Dugu Yan introduced her to Huo Yuhao, who revealed that his Martial Soul was his Spirit Eyes.
• Yu Tianheng approached Dugu Yan, but she declined to spend time with him because she was accompanying Huo Yuhao.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling teased each other about Yu Tianheng as they escorted Huo Yuhao to the quiet library.
• Huo Yuhao entered the library alone while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling went back to train.

Huo Yuhao spent his days reading at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, until Fourth Prince Xue Beng tried to take him away and Dugu Bo intervened. Dugu Bo gave Huo Yuhao nine million Gold Soul Coins from the Mystic Water Pills, and the group began making plans to spend some of it.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling brought Huo Yuhao from the library to eat with Yu Feng, Yu Tianheng, Shi Mo, and Osler, who learned that his Martial Soul was Spirit Eyes.
• For a week, Huo Yuhao kept reading at the academy library and discussing knowledge with Elder Yi while the Snow Empress and the others visited Heaven Dou City.
• At the academy gates, Fourth Prince Xue Beng insulted Huo Yuhao and ordered him to come along, but Dugu Bo appeared and made Xue Beng leave.
• Dugu Bo told Huo Yuhao that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall had bought the Mystic Water Pills, then gave him nine million Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao shared the money with everyone, and Li Ya and A Ling planned to go shopping the next day.

Huo Yuhao and Elder Yi began refining Huo Yuhao’s left arm bone with his armor and the Ice Explosion Technique. The refinement succeeded, but Elder Yi needed to sleep for more than a month, and Huo Yuhao collapsed from exhaustion.

• Huo Yuhao questioned the contents of Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls and discussed the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts with Elder Yi.
• Elder Yi proposed refining Huo Yuhao’s bones with his armor, and Huo Yuhao chose his left arm bone and Ice Explosion Technique for the first attempt.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, removed the left arm armor, and asked Li Ya to have Octagonal care for the White Cocoon.
• Elder Yi inscribed runes on Huo Yuhao’s left arm bone, fused the armor with it, and restored the flesh around the bone.
• Elder Yi confirmed the refinement had succeeded and went to sleep; Ice Empress caught the exhausted Huo Yuhao and laid him down to rest.

Tian Meng resisted a dream that promised endless happiness and broke free from the sealed space by clinging to his wish to become the person the white-haired girl believed he could be. After refining the Left Arm Bone, Huo Yuhao dreamed of painful memories and the destruction of a city before waking to find a smiling, pale-yellow-haired girl beside his bed.

• Tian Meng rejected the dream’s offer of peaceful oblivion and fought as the liquid dissolved his body and weakened his soul.
• Remembering the white-haired girl’s words, Tian Meng cried out that he had not yet cultivated for a million years or become the person she said he could be.
• Tian Meng’s resolve made the liquid boil and shattered the walls of the sealed space, revealing the starry night sky.
• After refining the Left Arm Bone, Huo Yuhao fell asleep and dreamed of his childhood home, Winter’er’s death, Qiu’er’s sacrifice, and the people from Shrek and Ju Zi with Yun Han disappearing.
• Huo Yuhao dreamed that a city was destroyed in a tremendous explosion and that its victims blamed him before the flames swallowed him.
• Huo Yuhao woke and saw a smiling, pale-yellow-haired girl standing beside his bed.

Huo Yuhao woke after seven days and learned that Tian Meng had emerged from her cocoon in human form as a million-year Snow Moth. After recovering, he spoke with Ice Empress about her uncertain feelings for Tian Meng and the past relationships neither of them remembered, then lay awake beneath the stars.

• Tian Meng told Huo Yuhao she had emerged four days earlier, and Snow Empress had confirmed she was fine.
• Huo Yuhao tested his restored left arm, found his Soul Power had reached level twenty-eight, and learned Dugu Bo had visited to gather herbs and check on him.
• Huo Yuhao discovered Tian Meng had become a winged Snow Moth and a million-year Soul Beast who was waiting for him to reach level thirty.
• Tian Meng explained what she remembered from inside the cocoon, and Huo Yuhao reassured her that he was glad she was safe.
• Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao to recount how she had fallen in love with Tian Meng and admitted she was unsure how to approach those feelings now.
• Huo Yuhao advised Ice Empress not to be trapped by a past neither she nor Tian Meng remembered, but Ice Empress questioned whether he could follow his own advice.

Huo Yuhao reached level thirty and formed a contract with Xiao Bai, gaining his third Soul Ring and two Ice-based Soul Skills. After the contract raised his Soul Power to level thirty-one, he briefly felt dizzy but dismissed it, while Xiao Bai celebrated avoiding the Heavenly Tribulation.

• Huo Yuhao noticed people from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall searching Heaven Dou City for the maker of the Mystic Water Pills, and Dugu Bo warned him that they might discover his connection to them.
• Huo Yuhao spent a month cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well until he reached level thirty, while Tian Meng and the others were away.
• Xiao Bai asked Huo Yuhao to form a contract with her, and he agreed when she called him Yuhao instead of Grandma.
• Huo Yuhao gained a third red Soul Ring on his Snow Maiden Martial Soul, with the skills Ice Meteor and Ice Bear Blizzard, and his Soul Power rose to level thirty-one.
• Huo Yuhao felt briefly dizzy after the Soul Ring appeared but dismissed it, while Xiao Bai celebrated that she had avoided the Heavenly Tribulation and bickered with A-Tai.

After forming a contract with Big Sister Tian Meng, Huo Yuhao gained a new platinum Soul Ring but collapsed as the strain disrupted the balance between her Soul Power and Chaos Power. Elder Yi awakened her from a disturbing dream, and she recovered, leaving with instructions to avoid Soul Power cultivation while resting and training her mental power.

• Huo Yuhao wandered through the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, reflected on the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and her past understanding of love, then welcomed Tian Meng and the others back from the city.
• After dinner, Huo Yuhao signed a Soul Spirit Contract with Big Sister Tian Meng and gained a platinum Soul Ring with Spiritual Detection, Spiritual Sharing, Simulation, and Tian Meng's Domain.
• Huo Yuhao began bleeding green-flecked blood and collapsed, while Tian Meng caught her and blamed herself.
• Huo Yuhao fell into a dark dream accompanied by an unfamiliar woman's wails, and Elder Yi awakened her in the Sea of Consciousness after identifying a minor imbalance between her Soul Power and Chaos Power.
• Huo Yuhao awoke, reassured Big Sister Tian Meng by demonstrating Simulation, and reached level thirty-three in Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao explained to A Ling why cooking for others mattered to him, sharing memories of his difficult childhood with his mother. As he returned to the Library, the people investigating Dugu Bo’s source of Mystic Water Pills began suspecting the white-haired girl with the Library pass, while the academy leaders chose not to get involved.

• Huo Yuhao and A Ling prepared breakfast together, and A Ling explained how soul beasts in the Far North depended on ecological balance rather than indiscriminate predation.
• Huo Yuhao told A Ling about his childhood hunger, his mother’s sacrifices, and his wish to cook her a filling meal; he said he cooked because he wanted others to eat their fill.
• After breakfast, Huo Yuhao returned to the Library while spies and other interested parties continued investigating Dugu Bo’s Mystic Water Pills.
• Ning Fengzhi learned from Chen Xin that Dugu Bo had broken through in cultivation, while Prince Xue Xing and Ning Fengzhi were both turned away by Dugu Bo.
• Xue Qinghe rejected Porcupinefish Douluo’s suggestion to seize Dugu Bo and ordered the investigation redirected toward visitors to Dugu Bo’s residence and his granddaughter.
• Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan suspected that the white-haired girl with the Library pass was connected to the search, but decided to avoid involvement and keep quiet.

Huo Yuhao showed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling his Spirit Eyes support ability and revealed that he was already a three-ring Soul Elder, though he said his Soul Power would not advance for a long time. He joined them for a trip to Heaven Dou City's opera house, where the performance was just beginning.

• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he was a support Soul Master, then used Spiritual Detection Sharing and Simulation to show them his ability and three Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao said his Soul Power would not advance for a long time and declined Ye Lingling's invitation to join the Heaven Dou Team.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling invited Huo Yuhao to an opera, and he accepted their ticket.
• The next afternoon, Huo Yuhao went with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to the opera house, where they ran into Li Ya and A Ling.
• Huo Yuhao asked what the opera was about, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling said it concerned knights and was a new production; the theater darkened and the performance began.