Recaps

After watching an opera, Huo Yuhao met Princess Xue Ke in the library and learned how political rivalries among the Heaven Dou Empire, nobles, sects, and Spirit Hall shaped the continent. He left Xue Ke with a Mystic Water Pill and decided to broaden his horizons beyond the library.

• Huo Yuhao watched a heroic opera with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Li Ya and A Ling.
• Huo Yuhao met Xue Ke in the library, recognized her as a princess, and used his spiritual power to speak with her privately.
• Xue Ke explained how Heaven Dou's imperial family balanced nobles and sects, how Spirit Hall acted as a counterweight, and how wars helped both empires manage internal forces.
• Xue Ke revealed that she had come for her own amusement and described how her role as a princess left her with little control over her future.
• Huo Yuhao gave Xue Ke a Mystic Water Pill and left the library to see more of the world.

Huo Yuhao said goodbye to his friends at the academy and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before setting out to travel the continent. Snow Empress and the others accompanied him toward the Far North, then parted ways with him as he continued west alone.

• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling he was leaving to see the world and promised to return for the next All-Continent Soul Master Tournament.
• Huo Yuhao asked Dugu Bo to seek help at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well if he encountered trouble, and asked its residents to look after Dugu Bo and Octagonal.
• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, A-Tai, Xiao Bai, and Tian Meng decided to return to the Far North, while Li Ya gathered herbs for her mother.
• A Ling gave Huo Yuhao a Peacock Plume that transformed into the Ice Plume Sword, and Huo Yuhao left Octagonal in Evil Lord's care.
• After two days of travel, Snow Empress and the others reached the Far North with Huo Yuhao, gave him ways to contact them, and then continued north as he headed west alone.

Huo Yuhao discovered a cave occupied by hundreds of Wolf Bandits and used her undead army to destroy them. She buried the abducted women and other victims, but could not identify them or write their names on the gravestones.

• Huo Yuhao followed a distant scent of blood to a cave and discovered human remains outside it.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection to find roughly five hundred Wolf Bandits inside the cave.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Gate of the Undead and sent her army to attack the Wolf Bandits while she weakened them with Withering Art.
• Huo Yuhao's undead army killed the Wolf Bandits throughout the cave, including their powerful leader.
• Huo Yuhao found nearly a hundred imprisoned women, all dead, and ordered the victims and scattered remains buried in unmarked graves.

Huo Yuhao traveled north to the coast after wiping out Wolf Bandits, then entered the Undead Demiplane with Electrolux to refine another Soul Bone. He planned to use soul avatars to control all three of his Martial Souls at once, and began condensing two avatars before refining his right arm bone.

• Huo Yuhao found a roughly fifty-thousand-year right leg Soul Bone among the Wolf Bandits’ remains, stored it, and sealed their cave with ice and an explosion.
• Huo Yuhao spent half a month traveling to the West Coast, killing the Wolf Bandits he encountered and finding no living people along the way.
• Electrolux awoke in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, approved of his Necromancy, and offered to help refine another bone in the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao chose to refine his right arm and proposed using the Oviparous Incarnation Method to control his Spirit Eyes, Snow Maiden, and Holy Necromancer Martial Souls simultaneously.
• Electrolux agreed to try the plan, and Huo Yuhao began condensing two soul avatars in his Sea of Consciousness.

Huo Yuhao used the Oviparous Incarnation Method to create two soul avatars, then worked with Elder Yi to refine his Right Arm Bone and link the avatars to its skill. He successfully activated his Spirit Eyes, Snow Maiden, and Holy Necromancer Martial Souls at the same time, then prepared to rest.

• Huo Yuhao spent six days condensing two soul avatars in his Sea of Consciousness while Elder Yi guided him.
• After two days of rest and preparation, Huo Yuhao and Elder Yi refined his Right Arm Bone and linked one avatar to its skill.
• Huo Yuhao tested the modified Mermaid Control, using his avatars to control his Spirit Eyes and Snow Maiden Martial Souls while he controlled his Holy Necromancer Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao activated all three Martial Souls together, displaying their Soul Rings and reaching rank thirty-five Soul Power.
• Elder Yi confirmed the method worked, then returned to Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness to rest.

After recovering from a four-day sleep, Huo Yuhao tested using all three Martial Souls simultaneously in combat and found that their abilities worked together without problems. Elder Yi advised him to keep refining his bones and practicing his spiritual power before resuming Soul Power cultivation, and to spend a few more days adjusting to the Undead Demiplane before traveling.

• Huo Yuhao woke from his familiar dream in the Undead Demiplane and learned from Elder Yi that he had slept for four days.
• Elder Yi summoned undead creatures so Huo Yuhao could test using his three Martial Souls at once.
• Huo Yuhao combined his Martial Soul skills to defeat groups of undead creatures, then attacked a Bone Dragon and left fine cracks in its skull.
• Huo Yuhao told Elder Yi the test had gone well, though repeated skill use depleted his Soul Power.
• Elder Yi advised Huo Yuhao to refine another bone, focus on spiritual power and combined-skill practice, and wait a few days before traveling.

After adapting to using three Martial Souls at once, Huo Yuhao traveled south along the coast and crossed inland toward the Star Luo Empire. On a secluded border road, he heard children inside two unusually heavy carriages and decided to investigate.

• Huo Yuhao finished training in the Undead Demiplane, spoke with Elder Yi, and left through the Gate of the Undead.
• Huo Yuhao traveled south for a month, reached Vast Sea City, bought supplies, and continued along the coast.
• Huo Yuhao reached the border between the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires and headed inland toward a place he wanted to revisit.
• Huo Yuhao hid from two carriages on a secluded road and used Simulation and Spiritual Detection to examine them.
• Huo Yuhao heard children cry out inside the jolting front carriage and decided to verify his suspicions about the travelers.

Huo Yuhao discovered chained children in two carriages and pursued the men transporting them into the woods. After defeating them and reading their memories, he learned they belonged to a bandit hideout holding other captives, and set out to protect the children before wiping out the hideout.

• Huo Yuhao inspected both carriages and found children bound in chains.
• Huo Yuhao stopped the carriages and chased the two drivers into the woods.
• Huo Yuhao restrained the black bear man with Death Entanglement and froze the vine man with Frost Fury.
• Huo Yuhao read both men’s memories, destroyed their souls, and burned their bodies.
• Huo Yuhao learned the men were bandits who held other captives and planned to take the children somewhere safe before attacking the hideout.

Huo Yuhao rescued twenty captive girls and patiently coaxed them into eating porridge infused with Gold of Life to help heal their weakened bodies. After the girls finished eating, one timid child asked where they would be sold, leaving Huo Yuhao to face their fear of what came next.

• Huo Yuhao freed the girls from their chains, but they remained terrified and recoiled when Huo Yuhao tried to touch them.
• Huo Yuhao cooked rice porridge and added blood containing Gold of Life to nourish and heal the girls.
• Huo Yuhao waited outside the carriage until a little girl ventured out and accepted a bowl of porridge.
• The other girls emerged after seeing the little girl was not punished, and Huo Yuhao served all twenty of them.
• A six-year-old girl asked Huo Yuhao where they were going to be sold.

Huo Yuhao cared for the rescued children and learned that their families and village had been destroyed. Unable to return them home, he chose to take them to Spirit Hall in Nuoding City, hoping it could protect and support them.

• Huo Yuhao reassured the children that they were safe, but learned from a little girl that their parents were dead and their village had burned down.
• Huo Yuhao treated the children's injuries and questioned Elder Yi about whether people without power could escape oppression; Elder Yi said strength often ruled and urged him to help where he could.
• Huo Yuhao considered where to take the children and decided Spirit Hall was their best option because it could shelter orphans and was preferable to the empires or nearby villages.
• Huo Yuhao prepared breakfast, and the children were surprised to be given a morning meal after their captivity had deprived them of one.
• Huo Yuhao combined the carriages and set out north with the children toward Nuoding City.

Huo Yuhao brought the rescued children to Nuoding City's Spirit Hall and entrusted them to Ma Xiunuo, then set out alone to eliminate the bandits. He reached their hidden stronghold in the border mountains and waited until nightfall to plan his attack.

• Huo Yuhao arrived in Nuoding City with the quiet, rescued children and asked Spirit Hall for help.
• Su Yuntao took Huo Yuhao to Ma Xiunuo, who agreed to arrange care and possible education for the children.
• Huo Yuhao gave Ma Xiunuo an envelope marking the bandits' location and left by using Simulation and his Ice Feather Wings.
• Huo Yuhao flew for four days to the border mountains, where the bandits' stronghold was hidden.
• Huo Yuhao learned from the bandits' memories that the stronghold had many sentries and exits and was led by a likely six-ring Demon Lion Soul Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao concealed himself in a tree to restore his soul power and waited for midnight before attacking.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated a bandit stronghold and silently eliminated its sentries and guards. He entered the lair’s cave, where bandits were reveling and abusing slaves, and followed one of them into a compartment.

• Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill and the memories of a captured bandit to locate and kill the hidden sentries in the mountain forest.
• Huo Yuhao cleared the remaining sentries and approached the bandits’ lair, while Elder Yi worried about Huo Yuhao’s lack of emotional response to killing.
• Huo Yuhao surveyed the stockade and cave with Spiritual Detection and found roughly three hundred people inside, including bandits, Soul Masters, and slaves.
• Huo Yuhao killed the guards at the gate and the patrolling bandits, then eliminated those sleeping in the stockade.
• Huo Yuhao entered the lively cave and followed a bandit who was leading a slave into a compartment.

Huo Yuhao used his invisibility, speed, and Tian Meng's Domain to slaughter the bandits in the cave and protect the enslaved girls. With only the Soul Ring-bearing bandits and their Six-Ring leader left, he wounded the leader and sought to exploit the fear spreading through the cave.

• Huo Yuhao killed the bandit in the alcove and told the enslaved girl to hide.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to warn the slaves, then activated Tian Meng's Domain and Ice Feather Wings.
• Huo Yuhao moved invisibly through the cave, killing the bandits as panic and chaos spread.
• Huo Yuhao killed a two-ring bandit, froze his head, and hurled it at the leader.
• Huo Yuhao used Ice Explosion Technique on the frozen head, injuring the Six-Ring leader and killing nearby bandits.

Huo Yuhao wore down the Demon Lion Soul Emperor’s resolve and forced him to flee deeper into the cave. He pursued the wounded Soul Emperor while conserving his strength, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao killed the bandits around the Demon Lion Soul Emperor, but the prolonged battle left him low on Soul Power.
• The Demon Lion Soul Emperor mistook a bird call for an attack and unleashed a wide Soul Skill; Huo Yuhao blocked it with the Ice Extreme God of War Armor to protect the hidden slaves.
• The Demon Lion Soul Emperor attacked Huo Yuhao wildly at close range, and Huo Yuhao revealed his seven Soul Rings, including five scarlet Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• The Demon Lion Soul Emperor’s mental defenses collapsed, and he fled deeper into the cave; Huo Yuhao chased him and struck him with Withering Art, Death Entanglement, and Dark Night Judgment.
• Huo Yuhao held back from using more Soul Skills to recover Soul Power as he followed the sobbing, wounded Soul Emperor.

Huo Yuhao killed the Demon Lion Soul Emperor, freed Cat Girl and the other captives, and helped them recover in the mountain stronghold. While searching the cave for supplies, he found a map to Slaughter City, marked as a paradise for the Fallen, and considered how the era’s definition of the Fallen differed from that of Evil Soul Masters ten thousand years later.

• Huo Yuhao killed the Demon Lion Soul Emperor and freed Cat Girl from a golden cage.
• Huo Yuhao found the other slaves hiding in the cave and led them to the stronghold, where he cleared a place for them to rest.
• Cat Girl thanked Huo Yuhao, and he asked everyone to call him Yuhao instead of “my lord.”
• Huo Yuhao checked the captives’ poor health and secretly added his life-giving blood to their food, which they ate after Cat Girl tried it first.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the cave for supplies and found a map marked “Slaughter City, paradise of the Fallen.”
• Huo Yuhao considered how the era’s definition of the Fallen differed from the later definition of Evil Soul Masters and wondered whether that later intolerance had helped the Holy Spirit Cult grow powerful.

Huo Yuhao helped the freed slaves recover, then left them in Spirit Hall’s care after spotting its force approaching. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong connected Huo Yuhao to the mysterious creator of the Mystic Water Pills and sent Hu Liena and others to gain experience while Ghost Douluo investigated him.

• Huo Yuhao shared supplies and dinner with Cat Girl and the others, then reflected on inequality and his own past as Cat Girl spoke about being enslaved because of her cat ears and tail.
• Elder Yi advised Huo Yuhao to accept that growth took time and not become trapped in self-doubt.
• While patrolling, Huo Yuhao spotted about a hundred Spirit Hall members approaching and told the freed slaves to follow their arrangements before leaving the stronghold.
• Ma Xiunuo had sent Huo Yuhao’s letter about the bandits to Spirit Hall, where it reached Supreme Pontiff Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong recognized Huo Yuhao’s description as matching the person behind the Mystic Water Pills and ordered Ghost Douluo to protect Hu Liena’s group and look for clues about him.

Spirit Hall investigated Huo Yuhao’s massacre of a bandit stronghold, and Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo to prioritize finding and recruiting him. Huo Yuhao continued south, but the Auspicious Beast found him in Star Dou Forest and persuaded the Scarlet King to bring him to the Core Area for food.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan accompanied Spirit Hall’s party to the bandit stronghold, where they found the bandits dead and the rescued women said Huo Yuhao had killed them before leaving.
• Ghost Douluo inspected the bloodied caves and later reported the operation to Bibi Dong, who ordered him to report future traces of Huo Yuhao and try to win him over peacefully.
• Huo Yuhao watched the rescued women depart, then continued south with Elder Yi concealing his presence.
• A week later, the Auspicious Beast found Huo Yuhao in Star Dou Forest and demanded that he make her food.
• The Scarlet King tried to take the Auspicious Beast back, but relented when she threatened to leave the forest and allowed Huo Yuhao to accompany them to the Core Area.

Huo Yuhao spent a month cooking for the Auspicious Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest before preparing to leave again. He departed after promising to return, while the Auspicious Beast watched him go and agreed to stay under the Scarlet King's and Di Tian's protection.

• Huo Yuhao followed the Auspicious Beast and the Scarlet King to their dens, where the Auspicious Beast eagerly ate the food he had brought.
• The Scarlet King gathered ingredients and helped Huo Yuhao cook, while the Auspicious Beast ate dish after dish.
• For the next month, Huo Yuhao cooked a wide variety of food for the Auspicious Beast and stored the finished dishes in her Necklace.
• The Auspicious Beast asked Huo Yuhao whether the outside world was good, and he told her it could be both cruel and rewarding before admitting he did not know.
• Huo Yuhao promised to return and asked the Auspicious Beast to stay in the forest, remain with the Scarlet King, and stay within Di Tian's sight; she reluctantly agreed.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Scarlet King to keep the Auspicious Beast safe, then left the forest as she watched him disappear.

Huo Yuhao returned to Fu'an Village to tend the graves of the people who had raised him, then set out for Slaughter City. Months later, after making Soul Guidance weapons along the way, he prepared to refine the bones in his torso.

• Huo Yuhao left the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled south through the Star Luo Empire, binding his growing breasts to make traveling easier.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Fu'an Village, cleared weeds from the villagers' graves, and replaced their wooden markers with stone ones.
• Huo Yuhao left the village after deciding to visit Slaughter City, which a map described as a paradise for the Fallen.
• Over the next several months, Huo Yuhao traveled west, gathered rare metals, and made fifteen Fixed Soul Cannon Shells.
• Huo Yuhao asked Elder Yi to help refine his next bone, and Elder Yi prepared to refine the bones in his torso.

After Elder Yi completed the refinement of Huo Yuhao’s torso bones, Huo Yuhao endured a disturbing dream and recovered in the Undead Demiplane. He then reached a remote town in the Star Luo Empire, where he sensed an unusually pure killing intent and entered cautiously under cover of his Simulation Soul Skill.

• Elder Yi refined Huo Yuhao’s torso bones, inscribed skills on them, fused in the Ice Extreme God of War Armor’s breastplate, and restored the bones to his body.
• Huo Yuhao dreamed of walking through darkness toward crying, then woke with blood flowing from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.
• Huo Yuhao told Elder Yi that he was healthy and had reached rank thirty-six Soul Power; Elder Yi said fifteen days had passed during the refinement.
• Huo Yuhao rested for two days in the Undead Demiplane and tested Ice Emperor's Wrath on a Bone Dragon, damaging its skull.
• Huo Yuhao traveled for a month to a remote town in the western Star Luo Empire and sensed its pure killing intent.
• After Elder Yi warned him that some parts of the town were beyond his perception, Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill to enter unseen.

Huo Yuhao followed a patron from a strange tavern into Slaughter City, where his Soul Ring skills stopped working and the Dread Knight, Kost, challenged him to a fight. After defeating Kost, Huo Yuhao cautiously accepted a black entry token numbered 8994.

• Huo Yuhao waited invisibly in the tavern overnight after Elder Yi sensed something strange beneath its counter.
• A burly patron ordered a Bloody Mary, then opened a passage beneath the counter and went down; Huo Yuhao followed him through the tunnel.
• At the entrance to Slaughter City, Huo Yuhao lost access to his Soul Ring skills, and the Dread Knight, Kost, charged at him for breaking the rules.
• Huo Yuhao used his armor, Ice Plume Sword, and Ice Explosion Technique to bring down Kost’s warhorse and defeat the knight.
• Kost declared Huo Yuhao the winner and offered him a token, which Huo Yuhao picked up only after Kost lowered his weapon and made no further move.

Huo Yuhao entered Slaughter City, learned its brutal rules, and began fighting for survival while trying to understand the killing intent that pervaded it. After a week of daily arena matches and attacks, he remained free of the murderous aura that gathered around the city’s other inhabitants, but still questioned what all the killing meant.

• Huo Yuhao entered Slaughter City with the Veiled Woman, who explained its inner and outer districts and the path to becoming the God of Slaughter.
• When his protection ended, Huo Yuhao killed an attacker and discussed Slaughter City’s mysterious power with Elder Yi, who warned that it restricted everyone’s abilities.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and killed all nine opponents, becoming the sole survivor of his first match.
• Over the following week, Huo Yuhao fought one arena match each day and killed fifty-four opponents inside the arena and thirty-nine attackers outside it.
• Huo Yuhao examined the Bloody Mary and wondered whether the city’s killing came from self-preservation or the desire to vent, while noticing that he had not developed the others’ murderous aura.

While Raven and A Ling's encounters with Ning Fengzhi made them increasingly wary, Ning tried to recruit them for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After Raven stopped going into the city, Evil Lord decided to confront Ning, and led Raven, A Ling, and Wolf King toward the sect.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong met Raven and A Ling in Heaven Dou City, and Ning paid for their meal to introduce himself and offer them a connection to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Gu Rong sensed that Raven and A Ling were at least Titled Douluo-level, and Ning suspected they were linked to the Mystic Water Pill and the missing Huo Yuhao.
• Ning ordered his subordinates to watch for the women and repeatedly tried to befriend them, but Raven and A Ling grew irritated by the attention.
• A Ling stopped Raven from attacking Ning in the street, and Raven stayed at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to avoid the people watching her.
• After A Ling told Evil Lord about the harassment, Evil Lord gathered Raven, A Ling, and Wolf King and flew with them toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving Octagonal to guard their home.

The Evil Lord confronted Ning Fengzhi at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and warned him to stop bothering Raven and A Ling. After estimating the Evil Lord’s overwhelming strength, Ning Fengzhi withdrew his people from Heaven Dou City, where Raven and A Ling later found him gone.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin whether he recognized Raven and A Ling, but Chen Xin had never heard of them.
• The Evil Lord arrived with Raven and the others, effortlessly immobilized Gu Rong and Chen Xin, and revealed four simulated Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• The Evil Lord returned Ning Fengzhi’s invitation card and warned him that constantly bothering ladies was not gentlemanly.
• Ning Fengzhi promised to mend his ways, and the Evil Lord left with Raven and the others.
• Chen Xin judged the Evil Lord’s cultivation to be level 98 or 99, so Ning Fengzhi ordered his people to withdraw from Heaven Dou City.
• A few days later, Raven and A Ling returned to Heaven Dou City and did not encounter Ning Fengzhi.

After returning to the Far North, the Snow Empress reunited with the Ice Empress, Tian Meng, Xiao Bai, and A-Tai, and they spent time together over a meal. Hoping to bring Huo Yuhao a gift, they decided to search the Far North for the hundred-thousand-year snow lotus, though none of them knew where it was.

• The Snow Empress returned to cultivating alone until the Ice Empress, Tian Meng, Xiao Bai, and A-Tai came to visit because they were bored.
• The Snow Empress grilled fish for everyone, but the meal tasted poor; the Ice Empress and the others finished theirs and praised her to comfort her.
• The Snow Empress suggested finding the snow lotus Huo Yuhao had mentioned so they could bring it to him as a gift.
• Xiao Bai admitted she had been asleep and did not know where the snow lotus was, prompting the Ice Empress to scold her.
• The Snow Empress urged everyone to search the Far North for the snow lotus, and they agreed.