Recaps

The Ghost Emperor dismissed Ha Luosa and Leng Yulai, then prepared to trade Yun Ming’s remaining soul fragment for the Spacetime Shuttle to support the Blood River Great Array. A week later, Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er watched news of Shrek Academy’s reconstruction and Yun Ming’s reappearance, while Yun Ming spoke from Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.

• Ha Luosa told the Ghost Emperor that an unknown expert had defeated him, and the Ghost Emperor let his return pass without punishment.
• Leng Yulai asked for the other half of Yun Ming’s soul, but the Ghost Emperor demanded the Spacetime Shuttle or a similar divine artifact and sent her away.
• Na Nali watched Leng Yulai’s distress with amusement, while Ha Luosa briefly urged Leng Yulai to cultivate before returning to meditate.
• The Ghost Emperor chose the Far North as the site for the Blood River Great Array and began arranging an exchange with the Tang Sect for the Spacetime Shuttle.
• A week later, disguised as black-haired travelers, Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er watched news of Shrek Academy’s reconstruction and Yun Ming’s appearance aboard a Soul Guidance Train.
• Austin Griffin mocked Yun Ming for becoming the fake, but Yun Ming worried about Ya Li and asked to speak with the senior in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.

Huo Yuhao settled the Far North Soul Beasts in the Undead Demiplane and nurtured a damaged soul until Yun Ming regained consciousness. Yun Ming learned that Shrek Academy had been destroyed, recognized Huo Yuhao as Spirit Ice Douluo, and remained with the fate of the survivors on his mind.

• Huo Yuhao settled the Far North Soul Beasts in the Undead Demiplane and considered the links between the Holy Spirit Cult, the Abyss Plane, and the changes to Douluo Star's Plane Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Na'er about the Silver Dragon King's plans and the Abyss Plane, while Na'er joined Tang Ziran and his family in the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao continued nurturing a damaged soul with his Spiritual Power until it awakened, while Austin Griffin introduced himself as the God of Calamity.
• Yun Ming told Huo Yuhao that he had faced two God-Killing-Class Soul Cannon Shells to protect Shrek Academy and identified himself as its Sea God Pavilion Master.
• Austin Griffin told Yun Ming that Shrek Academy had been blasted into a lake, and Huo Yuhao stabilized Yun Ming's soul as he struggled with the news.
• Yun Ming asked whether Huo Yuhao was Spirit Ice Douluo, and Huo Yuhao confirmed it.

Huo Yuhao revealed that the Spirit Pagoda had colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult in the bombing of Shrek City, while telling Yun Ming he would make them pay later. He then brought Yun Ming to meet Na'er, leaving Yun Ming stunned when she called him “Godfather.”

• Yun Ming asked Huo Yuhao to reveal himself and help rebuild Shrek Academy, explaining that its allies could not manage alone.
• Huo Yuhao told Yun Ming that the Spirit Pagoda had worked with the Holy Spirit Cult to bomb Shrek City, but said he would make them pay when the time was right.
• Huo Yuhao left Yun Ming in his Sea of Consciousness to recover and planned to bring him to see someone.
• Yun Ming watched Huo Yuyao's surroundings and saw a city filled with nonhuman races and Soul Beasts, then saw a girl who resembled Na'er.
• Huo Yuhao took the girl's hand, and the vision ended as two figures appeared before Yun Ming; one called him “Godfather.”

Na’er reunited with Yun Ming’s soul and told him about her past, while he repeatedly asked Huo Yuhao to help rebuild Shrek Academy. Huo Yuhao refused for now and left with Qiu’er for Heaven Dou City.

• Na’er revealed her identity and history to Yun Ming, who accepted her and urged her not to leave without saying goodbye again.
• Na’er left Yun Ming to recover, and she told Lang Yue that her godfather was still alive.
• Tang Ziran, his wife, and the rescued researchers stayed with Huo Yuhao’s group because they feared retaliation from the Spirit Pagoda.
• Yun Ming repeatedly asked Huo Yuhao to help rebuild Shrek Academy, but Huo Yuhao declined because he could not reveal his identity or safely take Yun Ming outside.
• Yun Ming watched Ya Li and others announce Shrek Academy’s reconstruction on the Soul Guidance Screen and trusted them to continue without him.
• Huo Yuhao withdrew from the Sea of Consciousness and boarded a Soul Guidance Train with Qiu’er for Heaven Dou City.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er arrived in Heaven Dou City and discussed the Federation Parliament’s factions and the political circumstances surrounding Shrek Academy. After assessing the system’s underlying problems, Huo Yuhao listened as Yun Ming and Austin Griffin argued over whether the parliament was more rational than imperial rule.

• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er arrived in Heaven Dou City after finding almost no Soul Beasts in the wild along their journey.
• Huo Yuhao told Qiu'er that a faction in the Federation Parliament supporting Shrek Academy had likely acted in Heaven Dou City.
• Yun Ming explained the Federation Parliament’s Hawk, Dove, and Neutral factions, as well as Shrek Academy’s former autonomy and influence.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on Shrek Academy’s relationship with the Federation and concluded that the current parliament had a serious problem.
• Austin Griffin dismissed political struggles as self-destructive, while Yun Ming defended the parliament as more rational than imperial systems; Huo Yuhao judged that both had a point and both were mistaken.

Huo Yuhao explained how the Federation Parliament preserved the power of noble families and sects while leaving ordinary people with little influence. He and Qiu'er arrived in Heaven Dou City to meet Divine Blacksmith Zhen Hua, but stopped when they saw a shop selling Yuhao's Grilled Fish.

• Huo Yuhao told Qiu'er and the others that Council Member seats were largely controlled by families and factions, with public participation and concerns mostly ignored.
• A Bao, Yue Ye, and the others compared the Federation Parliament's entrenched power structure with the Demon Race's former hierarchy, which had been dismantled after its move to the Undead Demiplane.
• After learning which faction represented Heaven Dou City, Qiu'er was unsurprised by the Soul Tool transport vehicles heading toward Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er entered the still-recovering Heaven Dou City to visit the Blacksmith Association and seek Divine Blacksmith Zhen Hua's help with Heavenly Refinement.
• Qiu'er pointed out a shop sign reading Yuhao's Grilled Fish, and Huo Yuhao stopped to look at it with helpless curiosity.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er sampled modern grilled fish before visiting the Blacksmith Association to meet Divine Blacksmith Zhen Hua. Mu Ye came down to assess them, while Huo Yuhao still worried about an unresolved matter from her past.

• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er ate grilled fish, and Huo Yuhao offered to cook it for Qiu'er another time.
• Huo Yuhao reflected that her former love for Tang Wutong had been an illusion and remained uneasy about something she would soon face.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er, disguised and without an appointment, asked the Blacksmith Association receptionist to tell Zhen Hua that they had something that might interest him.
• Zhen Hua continued experimenting with Soul Forging after Tang Wulin told him about unusual Soul Forging in the Star Luo Empire.
• Mu Ye went to meet Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er first to guard against another assassination attempt, and recognized no powerful aura from them.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er offered Divine Blacksmith Zhen Hua a Universe Creation Pill in exchange for witnessing Heavenly Refinement. After they insisted on starting immediately, Zhen Hua agreed to prepare for a forging session in two hours.

• Huo Yuhao presented a Universe Creation Pill, and Mu Ye judged the payment worthy of bringing the visitors to Zhen Hua.
• Qiu'er gave their cover names as Rui Qiu and Yu Qing while Mu Ye escorted them upstairs.
• Zhen Hua asked whether they wanted anything beyond Heavenly Refinement, and Huo Yuhao confirmed that it was their sole request.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er rejected the suggested wait of one or two weeks and asked to begin at once.
• Zhen Hua agreed to start in two hours, warned that the result might not be perfect, and asked what rare metal and effects they wanted.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er watched Zhen Hua complete a Heavenly Refinement, then exchanged the Universe Creation Pill for the successfully refined metal. After they left, Zhen Hua and Mu Ye decided to save the pill for Tang Wulin and wondered where their visitors came from.

• Mu Ye escorted Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er to the rooftop, where Zhen Hua began forging rare metals into an alloy and advanced it through Soul Forging.
• Zhen Hua infused the metal with four kinds of elements, then used his power to protect it as it endured four bolts of Heavenly Tribulation and completed Heavenly Refinement.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the principles behind the process, while Austin Griffin reacted with disgust to an aura and vanished from Yun Ming's Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao gave Zhen Hua the Universe Creation Pill, and Qiu'er took the Heavenly Refined metal before the two left.
• Zhen Hua and Mu Ye chose to save the pill for Tang Wulin, then wondered which faction or family Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er belonged to.

Huo Yuhao spent a week repeatedly performing heavenly refinement in the Undead Demiplane, trying to understand a strange feeling he had experienced while watching the process. He forged enough heavenly-refined metal for the Demon Gods’ four-word battle armor, but still could not identify what he was searching for, and entered meditation after completing another piece.

• Huo Yuhao returned to the Undead Demiplane with Qiu'er and began repeatedly performing heavenly refinement, using alchemy arrays to assist the forging while investigating a lingering impression.
• Huo Yuhao gradually learned to incorporate more elements into the metal and gave his heavenly-refined metal to Agares and the others to make their own four-word battle armor.
• Agares, A Bao, Yue Ye, Leng Xiao, and Qiu'er received named sets of four-word battle armor, then helped weaken the heavenly tribulations during Huo Yuhao's forging.
• After a week of nonstop work, Huo Yuhao completed another piece of heavenly-refined metal, prompting the Demon Gods to relax as he set down his hammer.
• Yun Ming noticed that Austin Griffin had not appeared in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness since the heavenly refinement began, while Huo Yuhao entered meditation instead of resting.

Huo Yuhao gained insight into the nature of energy and used it to attempt a new form of refinement with the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. She continued shaping it under a seven-element Heavenly Tribulation, straining her Spiritual Power despite Qiu'er's support.

• Huo Yuhao stopped forging and recalled the figure in Long Haochen's Eternal Domain creating and destroying planets, noticing how energy gathered and changed form.
• Huo Yuhao compressed the Heavenly Refinement metal with her Spiritual Power until it became liquid.
• Huo Yuhao took the ruined Ice Extreme God of War Armor from her Bracelet and refined its Ice Extreme Divine Crystal with Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and six elements.
• Agares stopped the Demon Gods from intervening, while Qiu'er prepared to support Huo Yuhao with her Power of Fate.
• Huo Yuhao enveloped the descending seven-element Heavenly Tribulation with the liquid crystal and controlled its energies, continuing despite severe strain.

Huo Yuhao forged a new suit of Battle Armor from the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, embedding countless Magic Arrays and a thread of the laws of heaven and earth. When a Heavenly Tribulation struck the completed armor, he used its Stillness of All Things Domain to freeze and redirect the lightning, scattering the thunderclouds before descending.

• Huo Yuhao poured Heavenly Refinement metals into the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal as it absorbed the Heavenly Tribulation, exhausting his Spiritual Power but discovering a thread of the laws of heaven and earth within it.
• Huo Yuhao shaped the crystal into Battle Armor and formed millions of interconnected Magic Arrays that could activate the armor without his Soul Power.
• The completed armor released a pressure that overwhelmed many Demon Gods, and Yun Ming realized its might surpassed any Four-Word Battle Armor he had seen.
• Huo Yuhao faced a new Heavenly Tribulation and activated the armor's Stillness of All Things Domain, halting the lightning and the energy around him.
• Huo Yuhao gathered the frozen bolts into a ball of lightning and hurled it into the thunderclouds, scattering them before descending.

Tang Hao and Ah Yin discussed Douluo Star’s decline and the Ten-Thousand-Year Plan while Huo Yuhao recovered after forging the Ice-Extreme God of War. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao putting the Battle Armor away and beginning to consider what the Heavenly Refinement metals’ reaction might mean, but his exhaustion forced him to rest.

• Tang Hao told Ah Yin that Douluo Star’s power was declining, limiting his control as Plane Master, and said he hoped Tang San’s Ten-Thousand-Year Plan would succeed.
• Ah Yin explained that Tang Wulin had planted the Seed of Life in Sea God Lake and was gathering Life Energy so it could grow and let her consciousness spread across Douluo Star.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin discussed a surge of Life Energy from another plane and the Silver Dragon King, and Tang Hao assured her that Tang San had made preparations.
• After dealing with the Heavenly Tribulation, Huo Yuhao staggered from the strain, and Xiao An cleaned the blood from his face while Qiu’er and the others gathered around him.
• Huo Yuhao said he needed several days to recover and named his new Four-Word Battle Armor the Ice-Extreme God of War, though it had not transcended its limits.
• Huo Yuhao put away the Battle Armor and began thinking about the energy produced when the two liquid Heavenly Refinement metals touched, but his depleted Spiritual Power left him too dizzy to continue.

Huo Yuhao explained why he would not rush into a campaign against the Spirit Pagoda, saying he needed to prepare for the consequences and other threats as well. Later that night, he went to a warehouse instead of resting or cultivating.

• Na'er told Huo Yuhao that her cultivation was weak and her remaining space-element power was unstable after she returned her share of power to Gu Yuena.
• Huo Yuhao showed Na'er an improved Sun Moon Divine Needle designed to function like a satellite while retaining its original purpose.
• Na'er asked when Huo Yuhao planned to move against the Spirit Pagoda, and he explained that its widespread network and the aftermath of the plan required careful preparation.
• Huo Yuhao considered the Plane Consciousness and the people in the Undead Demiplane, then went to a warehouse late that night.

Huo Yuhao tested a cockpitless, spiritually controlled mecha and successfully merged it with his Ice-Extreme God of War Armor. He also developed a new energy-containment method for a construction plan against the Abyss Plane, then took a break when Qiu'er arrived.

• Huo Yuhao controlled the gray mecha through a spiritual connection and made it perform complex movements and transform into other machines.
• Huo Yuhao merged the mecha with his Ice-Extreme God of War Armor, confirmed the combination worked, and began adjusting the mecha further.
• Huo Yuhao experimented with containing high-intensity liquid energy using forged metal, Soul Guidance Arrays, and Alchemy Magic Arrays.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Qiu'er that the construction plan was intended to counter the Abyss Plane if it threatened Douluo Star.

Huo Yuhao traveled with Qiu'er to Mingdu, grieving over the person she had never been able to face and the memories tied to the city's destruction. She entered the Royal Cemetery alone and stood before an unadorned grave, finally gathering the courage to approach it.

• Qiu'er comforted Huo Yuhao as she wept over her unresolved feelings and guilt.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er took a Soul Guidance Train to Mingdu, where they remembered the devastation that had once struck the city.
• Qiu'er let Huo Yuhao continue alone toward the Royal Cemetery while she went elsewhere.
• Huo Yuhao passed through the public cemetery and entered the secluded grounds where former monarchs were buried.
• Huo Yuhao stood before an unadorned grave, then took a deep breath and stepped toward it.

Huo Yuhao visited the grave of the Sun Moon Federation’s last powerful emperor, bringing offerings and quietly confronting his grief and regret over how little he had known him. After finding a measure of peace, he left an apology, visited Ju Zi’s grave, and looked toward Mingdu.

• Huo Yuhao cleaned the emperor’s gravestone and arranged offerings, reflecting on their few encounters and the life he knew only through books.
• Huo Yuhao sat beside the grave, murmured his mother’s nursery rhyme, and fell asleep; when he woke, birds and small animals had eaten the offerings.
• Huo Yuhao felt less anxious, apologized to the man at the grave, and left to finish what he had left undone.
• Huo Yuhao cleaned Ju Zi’s grave, left her a fish he had grilled, and then looked toward Mingdu.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er traveled to the western desert of the Sun Moon Federation to find surviving soul beasts. After subduing Sand Demon Worms, they agreed to follow them beneath the sand and discovered the desert held more than they had expected.

• Austin Griffin complained that Huo Yuhao had stayed silent in his Sea of Consciousness, while Yun Ming again asked whether he would return to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er decided to travel west to the Blazing Fire Basin desert, where they hoped to find surviving soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao used his soul power to subdue five Sand Demon Worms, and Qiu'er asked the ten-thousand-year worm to gather the soul beasts in the area.
• The ten-thousand-year Sand Demon Worm made a request, and Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er agreed to ride with the worms beneath the desert.
• As they traveled underground, Huo Yuhao explained to Qiu'er that every soul beast played a role in nature, and they sensed a vast region ahead.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er found a hidden cavern housing about a thousand weakened Soul Beasts and met the dragon girl who led them. She accepted their offer to relocate the group and explained that the Soul Beasts had hidden in the desert to escape capture by human Soul Masters.

• The Sand Demon Worm carried Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er to a cavern beneath the desert, where a vampire bat sounded an alarm before Qiu'er frightened it unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er encountered roughly a thousand hostile, weakened Soul Beasts, including desert and cave-dwelling species.
• A dragon girl emerged with two Thousand Ton Ants and asked which of them was the Auspicious Beast.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Qiu'er as the Emperor Auspicious Beast and identified himself, while Qiu'er explained that they had come to take the Soul Beasts away.
• The dragon girl agreed to their offer and explained that scarce resources and human Soul Masters' hunts had driven the Soul Beasts into hiding.

The Dragon Girl showed Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er how the Soul Beasts beneath the desert survived by scavenging from a human sewage pipe. After hearing how desperate their lives had become, Huo Yuhao promised to take them away, and Qiu'er resolved to help him.

• The Dragon Girl explained that displaced Soul Beasts had nowhere safe to go and were struggling to survive beneath the desert.
• The Dragon Girl led Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er to a sewage pipe where she collected scraps of food for the group.
• The Dragon Girl told Qiu'er that she was the last Dragon Girl she knew of and that Soul Beasts had accepted Huo Yuhao's offer because they could no longer endure their conditions.
• Huo Yuhao ate a piece of the rotten food, then told the Dragon Girl to gather the Soul Beasts so they could leave.
• Qiu'er told Huo Yuhao she now understood what she needed to shoulder, and the two agreed to face it together.

Wu Jie persuaded Alba to invade Douluo Star, but secretly planned to use the expedition to eliminate him and seize the life force of a weaker, damaged plane. Wu Jie opened a passage toward that plane using a Magic Array and the blood of nearly one hundred demons.

• Wu Jie offered Alba a red crystal containing an aura that could open a passage to Douluo Star and asked for forty percent of its life force in return.
• Alba absorbed the aura, then used his Quasi-God-level pressure to force Wu Jie to accept only ten percent.
• After Alba left, Wu Jie revealed that he intended to send Alba and his legion to their deaths, then claim the life force of a damaged plane for himself.
• Wu Jie sacrificed nearly one hundred demons to power a Magic Array and sent a drop of his Essence Blood into the passage to open it.

Tang Wulin returned from the Golden Trident’s Sea God trial after it protected him from Di Tian, then hurried back to Shrek Academy, where he learned how precarious its rebuilding and Yun Ming’s recovery remained. He was relieved to hear Xie Xie and the others were alive, but their hesitant response hinted that something else had gone wrong.

• Shrek Academy resumed rebuilding with supplies from Lan Mo and covert support from the Federation, while Ya Li continued trying to awaken Yun Ming’s dormant soul.
• Tang Wulin returned and found the academy’s remaining staff and students resentful of him for sending them to Devil Island for special training.
• Tang Wulin and his companions went to the Star Dou Great Forest seeking life-energy treasures, where Di Tian attacked them and the ferocious beasts fought the others.
• Unable to control Tang San’s remaining Unfixed Storm uses, Tang Wulin used the Golden Trident against Di Tian, but the weapon enveloped him and brought him inside it.
• Tang Wulin completed the Sea God’s First Trial and returned to the real world, then contacted Xie Xie and hurried back to Shrek Academy after hearing his companions’ hesitant voices.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Tang Wulin learned that Gu Yuena would headline the Spirit Pagoda’s martial matchmaking tournament and decided to enter with his friends to bring her back and expose the Spirit Pagoda’s scheme. Meanwhile, Yuanen Yehui sensed an unexplained urge to cultivate faster, and Huo Yuhao faced trouble in the Undead Demiplane.

• Tang Wulin reported his encounter with Di Tian to the four Limit Douluos, who told him that Xie Xie and the others had been safely teleported back to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin wondered whether Gu Yuena had been responsible for the silver light that rescued his companions, then went to meet them.
• Yue Zhengyu showed Tang Wulin a report on the Spirit Pagoda’s martial matchmaking tournament and revealed that Gu Yuena would be its central figure.
• After hearing Gu Yuena announce the tournament date, Tang Wulin signed up, and his companions agreed to join him to bring her back and foil the Spirit Pagoda’s plan.
• Yuanen Yehui noticed her cultivation was advancing unusually quickly after her breakthrough to Eight-Ring Soul Douluo, while Huo Yuhao struggled in the Undead Demiplane.

Huo Yuhao and the others assessed the mysterious power that had entered Na'er and prepared to investigate its source. They also concluded that Gu Yuena might be using the Spirit Pagoda's Tournament to Find a Spouse to secretly influence soul masters, and planned for Huo Yuhao to enter the event in disguise.

• Huo Yuhao reassured Na'er that the power inside her had caused no immediate discomfort, while Vasak's divination suggested there would be no great danger.
• Huo Yuhao told Yue Ye to strengthen the First Legion's training and surveillance of the Undead Demiplane, but not to mobilize the other standing legions.
• After Na'er voiced concern about Gu Yuena, Huo Yuhao showed the group the Spirit Pagoda's tournament video and explained his suspicion that Gu Yuena intended to use its small world to influence soul masters.
• Na'er agreed that Gu Yuena could use the tournament to spread her aura among participants, and the others concluded that Huo Yuhao should enter in disguise to investigate.
• Huo Yuhao stayed in the Undead Demiplane to rest and cultivate while waiting for the tournament to begin on July 18.

Huo Yuhao planned to stop Gu Yuena’s scheme, purge the Spirit Pagoda, and prepare for threats from the Abyss Plane while designing soul tools. Meanwhile, a mysterious power entered Na’er, transforming her abilities just as Huo Yuhao arrived to examine her.

• Huo Yuhao checked Xiao An’s rapidly growing soul power and told him to rest and slow his cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao considered the threats posed by Gu Yuena’s plans, the Spirit Pagoda, the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Abyss Creatures as he worked on soul tools.
• Na’er went outside Demon City to cultivate, frustrated by her slow progress but wanting to help the soul beasts.
• A blood-red drop emerged through a spatial rift and entered Na’er, causing a new power to merge with her Space Elements Control ability.
• Huo Yuhao sensed an unauthorized entry into the Undead Demiplane, found Na’er, and used his spiritual power to examine her after her abilities changed.