Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao awakened in a Spirit Pagoda facility and escaped his Soul Tool chamber before discovering reports about a drug that suppressed emotions. The reports hinted at the Spirit Pagoda’s disturbing current business, and a scream led Huo Yuhao to a scene on the floor above that enraged him.

• Huo Yuhao examined the glass chamber with his Spiritual Power and opened it normally by manipulating its Soul Tool mechanisms.
• Huo Yuhao covered his left eye and read reports explaining that locals had found him after he drifted ashore encased in ice, then brought him to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao deduced that a drug described in the reports strongly suppressed emotional fluctuations.
• Huo Yuhao read fragmentary reports that made him suspect the Spirit Pagoda’s main business was troubling, and he grew angry.
• Huo Yuhao heard a scream, spread his Spiritual Power through the facility, and found a scene on the floor above that he did not want to see.

Tang Ziran faced execution by Spirit Pagoda Soul Masters after their research produced a successful experimental formula, while Lang Yue and the other researchers hid nearby. A voice warned Tang Ziran to step back, and a spear struck the attacker into the wall, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Tang Ziran recalled how he and Lang Yue had accepted the Spirit Pagoda job to pay for Tang Wulin's cultivation, then discovered they were being confined and made to research drugs.
• After the researchers obtained the first successful experimental formula, Spirit Pagoda guards began killing them to silence them.
• Tang Ziran raised a chair to resist a five-ring Soul Master while Lang Yue and the other women hid behind a door.
• A voice in Tang Ziran's mind told him to step back and hide.
• Tang Ziran stepped back, and a spear slammed the attacker into the wall, leaving only the spear and scraps of flesh visible.

Huo Yuhao discovered Evil Soul Masters slaughtering ordinary people and killed all four before they could escape. He saved five victims from dying, but left no attacker alive to question about the Soul Spirit reports that had alarmed him.

• Huo Yuhao connected references to Soul Spirit inventory and sales assessments in a report with an ominous suspicion.
• Huo Yuhao sensed Evil Soul Masters attacking ordinary people upstairs and rushed to intervene.
• Huo Yuhao killed the four attackers, including a Soul Saint, while Tang Ziran watched in shock.
• Huo Yuhao regretted killing the Evil Soul Masters because he could no longer question them or search their souls for answers.
• Huo Yuhao used Blue Silver Grass and Spiritual Power to stabilize the five wounded men until they were out of mortal danger.

Huo Yuhao rescued Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, and the other researchers from the Spirit Pagoda facility, then learned how the organization had betrayed them. He opened the Undead Demiplane and waited for someone inside to come help them leave.

• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power to calm Tang Ziran, then brought Lang Yue and the others out of hiding.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue reunited, while Huo Yuhao retrieved his Ice Spirit Spear and preserved nine fading Soul Spirits as Soul Seeds.
• Tang Ziran and the other researchers told Huo Yuhao that the Spirit Pagoda had tried to kill them after completing an experiment at its Lingbo City branch.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether they wanted to leave, and they all agreed.
• Huo Yuhao opened the gate to the Undead Demiplane and contacted someone inside to come over, while Tang Ziran and the others watched.

After escaping the ice, Huo Yuhao learned that two and a half years had passed and sent Tang Ziran and the others to the Undead Demiplane for safety. He entered the Spirit Pagoda alone to confront what it had become, leaving the reception staff unharmed as he headed for its upper floors.

• Leng Xiao told Huo Yuhao that the Undead Demiplane's cities and roads were nearly complete and that two and a half years had passed there.
• Huo Yuhao asked Leng Xiao to shelter Tang Ziran and the others, then said he had to continue alone because his next task was too dangerous.
• Leng Xiao led Tang Ziran and the others into the Undead Demiplane while Huo Yuhao took the Ice Spirit Spear and went upward.
• Huo Yuhao found the Spirit Pagoda's four underground floors empty and dispersed impure power of faith that entered his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao used his spiritual power to send the ordinary receptionists home, then headed toward the Spirit Pagoda's upper floors.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit storage room and attacked its guards after they refused to leave. He spared the surviving Soul Masters to spread fear and information, then continued deeper into the pagoda while struggling to control his fury.

• Ni Zhen, a Tang Sect spy inside the Spirit Pagoda, was knocked unconscious by Huo Yuhao, who recognized his Mysterious Jade Hand training.
• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power to disable the pagoda’s Soul Tools and entered the room where Soul Spirits were stored.
• Huo Yuhao offered the guards a chance to leave, but their Titled Douluo leader activated his battle armor domain and tried to call for reinforcements.
• Huo Yuhao shattered the Titled Douluo’s domain, pierced his armor and body with the Ice Spirit Spear, and killed him.
• Huo Yuhao stripped the surviving guards of their Soul Rings and Soul Spirits, then smashed them into the walls while leaving them alive.
• Huo Yuhao steadied his anger and walked farther into the Spirit Pagoda.

Huo Yuhao freed nearly ten thousand Soul Spirits from the Spirit Pagoda’s warehouse, turning them into Soul Seeds and storing them in his Sea of Consciousness. As Spirit Pagoda forces gathered to confront him, he appeared before branch master Hua Tao, who found himself unable to contact anyone or see through Huo Yuhao’s Cultivation.

• Huo Yuhao released the Soul Spirits from their containers with the Power of Fate and the Power of Nature, then transformed them into Soul Seeds and took them into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to confront the Spirit Pagoda’s branch master without slaughtering indiscriminately, while remaining alert to the Evil Soul Master organization he suspected existed.
• Huo Yuhao left the warehouse and encountered a Purple-Grade Mecha and Spirit Pagoda forces responding to the disturbance.
• Hua Tao sensed that the warehouse was compromised, dispatched Soul Masters and mechas, and gathered the Spirit Pagoda’s Titled Douluos.
• Huo Yuhao appeared in Hua Tao’s top-floor office, where Hua Tao could not see through his Cultivation or contact anyone.

Huo Yuhao stormed the Spirit Pagoda branch, using his Spiritual Power and Ice Spirit Spear to defeat its defenders before confronting branch master Hua Tao about the Evil Soul Masters in the basement. Hua Tao accused him of serving the Tang Sect, and Huo Yuhao revealed his face as he denied the charge.

• Huo Yuhao seized control of the Purple-Grade and Yellow-Grade Mecha, turning them against the Soul Masters surrounding him.
• Huo Yuhao used the Ice Spirit Spear to incapacitate two Titled Douluo, then shattered the other four's Battle Armor domains and knocked out the remaining defenders.
• Huo Yuhao swept the area with a powerful strike, wrecking the mecha and rendering the Soul Masters and Titled Douluo unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao went to the top floor and questioned Hua Tao about the Evil Soul Masters in the basement.
• Hua Tao accused Huo Yuhao of being sent by the Tang Sect and attacking the Spirit Pagoda, so Huo Yuhao revealed his appearance and denied working for the Tang Sect.

Huo Yuhao defeated Hua Tao at the Spirit Pagoda and discovered that its headquarters had sent Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters, as well as that Shrek Academy and much of Shrek City had been destroyed. While Huo Yuhao struggled with the revelation, Ni Zhen searched the secret basement and gathered information to send to the Tang Sect.

• Hua Tao attacked Huo Yuhao by drawing the air out of his office, but Huo Yuhao emerged unharmed and immobilized him with spiritual power.
• Huo Yuhao crushed Hua Tao's Three-Word Battle Armor, took his Soul Spirits as soul seeds, and read his memories before killing him.
• Huo Yuhao learned from Hua Tao's memories that the Spirit Pagoda headquarters had sent Holy Spirit Cult Evil Soul Masters and that Shrek Academy and most of Shrek City had been destroyed.
• Ni Zhen woke amid unconscious Soul Masters, disguised himself, and descended into the Spirit Pagoda's secret basement.
• Ni Zhen found corpses, damaged reports, and a personnel list absent from the Spirit Pagoda's records, then returned near his office to wait for a chance to send the information to the Tang Sect.

Huo Yuhao freed the Soul Spirits trapped in a Spirit Ascension Platform, then encountered a business exploiting pregnant women and selling their babies in Lingbo City. After killing the two men running it, Huo Yuhao left, shaken by how little human exploitation had changed across the ages.

• Huo Yuhao used the Power of Fate to release the Soul Spirits inside the Spirit Ascension Platform and sent their Soul Seeds into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao left the Spirit Pagoda and walked through Lingbo City while searching for a way to change the era.
• A man lured Huo Yuhao to a building where pregnant women were exploited and their babies were taken away for money.
• Huo Yuhao killed the man and the boss, then used Spiritual Power to open a safe for a woman who had recently given birth.
• Huo Yuhao left Lingbo City and reflected on how people, like Soul Spirits, were still being treated as commodities.

Huo Yuhao reflected on the injustices and unresolved dangers he had found on Douluo Star, then returned to the Undead Demiplane and reviewed the Demon Race’s progress. The chapter left him entering the completed Demon City with Yue Ye, while questions about Qiangu Dongfeng and the Spirit Pagoda remained unanswered.

• Huo Yuhao wandered through a coastal city and felt disillusioned by its exploitation, the continued existence of Evil Soul Masters and the Holy Spirit Cult, and the attack on Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao wondered whether Douluo Star’s current state was what its will had wanted, and suspected Qiangu Dongfeng and the Holy Spirit Cult were involved in the attack on Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Undead Demiplane, found its environment balanced despite the Demon Race’s presence, and sensed a small amount of pure power of faith.
• Yue Ye greeted Huo Yuhao, asked about his mission and left eye, and told him Austin Griffin’s soul was disturbing to look at.
• Yue Ye reported that the Demon Race had completed ten cities, nearly a hundred towns and villages, connecting roads, and stable supplies and services.
• Huo Yuhao reviewed the documents, asked why Demon City had kept its name, and entered the city with Yue Ye.

Huo Yuhao reviewed how the Demon Race had developed during his absence and discussed its technology, military, and newly rescued captives with Yue Ye, Leng Xiao, and A Bao. Afterward, he checked the soul seeds and other presences in his Sea of Consciousness before meditating.

• Huo Yuhao entered Demon City with Yue Ye and reviewed documents describing the Demon Race’s progress in education, welfare, and Soul Tool production.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the battered legions had been disbanded and the twelve newer legions reorganized into six, then reassured A Bao that Douluo Star’s laws were not suppressing the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao urged the others to catch up on Douluo Star’s Soul Tool technology and asked Yue Ye how the people they had brought back were faring.
• Yue Ye explained that the rescued people remained frightened and wary despite efforts to comfort them.
• Huo Yuhao examined the soul seeds, the original Douluo consciousness, and the egg in his Sea of Consciousness, then meditated.

Huo Yuhao reassured Tang Ziran and the others that he would let them return home, then spoke with them over breakfast to learn about life in the current era. Their account of Soul Spirit prices and ordinary families' finances deepened his concerns about the Spirit Pagoda, and they gave him the drug formula they had been researching before he arranged to take them home.

• Tang Ziran asked Huo Yuhao to let him and the others go home, and Huo Yuhao agreed.
• Huo Yuhao invited Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, and the others to breakfast so he could discuss the current era with them.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue explained their son's failed Soul Spirit purchase and described the high prices compared with ordinary wages, troubling Huo Yuhao and prompting concern from A Bao and Yue Ye.
• Tang Ziran and the others gave Huo Yuhao their drug formula, and Huo Yuhao identified its emotion-suppressing purpose and asked who it was meant for.

Qiangu Dongfeng learned that an attacker had devastated the Spirit Pagoda's Lingbo City branch, stealing its soul spirits and destroying its Spirit Ascension Platform. He concealed the attacker's soul-spirit-stealing ability and planned to use the disaster to boost the Spirit Pagoda's political standing, while Huo Yuhao appeared aboard a freighter at sea.

• Qiangu Dongfeng read a report that the Lingbo City branch had suffered deaths, severe injuries, wrecked mecha, the loss of its soul spirits, and the destruction of its Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Qiangu Dongfeng realized the attacker had forcibly taken soul spirits and could control mecha and destroy battle armor, posing a threat to the Spirit Pagoda's business.
• Qiangu Dongfeng decided to conceal the soul-spirit theft, publicize and exaggerate the branch's losses, and present the Spirit Pagoda as another victim to gain sympathy and influence in the Sun Moon Federation.
• Qiangu Dongfeng asked the Ghost Emperor to have the Holy Spirit Cult claim responsibility, but the Ghost Emperor refused and grew suspicious about the branch and the Blood Demon.
• Qiangu Dongfeng proceeded with his plans regardless, while a pale-faced Huo Yuhao stood aboard a freighter and gazed at the sea.

Huo Yuhao followed Tang Ziran and the others to a ship bound for the Star Luo Empire, while grappling with the damage done to Douluo Star and how to restore the Soul Beasts. After he paid their fares and boarded with them, a new situation arose aboard the cargo ship.

• Huo Yuhao left the Undead Demiplane with Tang Ziran and the others and accompanied them through a seaside city, uneasy about the state of Douluo Star and uncertain how to address the Spirit Pagoda’s abuses.
• Huo Yuhao considered using the Soul Seeds in his Sea of Consciousness to forge new bodies for the Soul Beasts, while avoiding the Sun Moon Federation and the people and promises he feared facing there.
• Tang Ziran and the others searched the docks for a ship and chose one bound for the Star Luo Empire, since no ship was leaving for the Sun Moon Federation.
• Tang Ziran and the others discovered they lacked enough money for passage, so Huo Yuhao exchanged gold for money and paid their fares as well as his own.
• Huo Yuhao boarded the cargo ship with Tang Ziran and the others, and they settled into hammocks in an empty cargo hold before a new situation arose.

Tang Ziran and the others were struck by the Blood Demon Curse Kill aboard the cargo ship, but Huo Yuhao intervened and broke the curse. Blood Demon Douluo escaped after Huo Yuhao’s power nearly destroyed him, while the victims survived and began recovering.

• Tang Ziran and the others developed dark-red markings and weakened as the Blood Demon Curse Kill took hold aboard the ship.
• Huo Yuhao arrived, sealed off the area, and used Angel Divine Power to ease their suffering.
• Blood Demon Douluo revealed himself through the curse and tried to drain the victims’ life force while attacking Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao’s Twelve-Winged Angel power overwhelmed the curse and threatened Blood Demon Douluo, who severed part of his consciousness to escape.
• Huo Yuhao destroyed the ghostly face and cleansed the curse, causing Tang Ziran and the others to expel black blood and feel better.
• Blood Demon Douluo woke at the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters with damage to his Sea of Consciousness and gaps in his memory.

Huo Yuhao arranged for Tang Ziran and the others to recover in the Undead Demiplane while considering why oppressive systems kept producing Evil Soul Masters and organizations like the Holy Spirit Cult. He shared a new plan with Star Demon God Vasak and began preparing to settle the more than ten thousand Soul Beast Soul Seeds in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Leng Xiao told Huo Yuhao that Tang Ziran and the others were weak but would recover with quiet rest, and Huo Yuhao left them to recuperate in the Undead Demiplane.
• Tang Ziran accepted that he could not contact Mang Tian until reaching the Star Luo Empire because his soul communicator had been ruined, and prioritized his family's safety.
• Huo Yuhao reflected that the Holy Spirit Cult and other exploitative institutions would return unless the conditions that produced them changed.
• Star Demon God Vasak discussed Huo Yuhao's eyepatch, which confined Austin Griffin's soul, and asked what Huo Yuhao wanted.
• Huo Yuhao told Vasak his plan, and Vasak agreed to notify the others as Huo Yuhao prepared to find a place for his Soul Beast Soul Seeds.

Huo Yuhao planned a new society for soul beasts in the Undead Demiplane, with education, work, and a path toward cooperation with soul masters. He then prepared to reforge bodies for more than ten thousand soul beast soul seeds.

• Huo Yuhao reshaped a vast region of the Undead Demiplane into varied habitats for soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao divided the habitat into zones where soul beasts would live, learn, and gain greater freedom according to their cultivation and ability to communicate.
• Huo Yuhao decided that soul beasts needed to learn new ways of life and production to survive alongside humans, while preserving a mutually recognized bond with soul masters through contracts.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Star Demon God Vasak, Moon Demon God Agares, the other Demon Gods, and skilled Demon Race members to help reforge bodies for the soul beast soul seeds in his Sea of Consciousness.

Huo Yuhao used the Power of Faith and his life force to restore the Soul Spirits’ Soul Seeds to physical bodies, succeeding in bringing back the Soul Beasts. After five days, the Magic Array became self-sustaining, and the two hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts awakened and recognized him as the Lord Auspicious Beast.

• Huo Yuhao added the Power of Faith to the Magic Array and used his life force to begin reforging bodies for the Soul Seeds.
• Huo Yuhao and the Demon Gods and Demon Race members worked together to place the Soul Seeds into green spheres, which formed into Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao sustained the process for five days until every Soul Seed in his Sea of Consciousness had been used and the Magic Array’s life-force cycle became self-sustaining.
• The two hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts emerged from the final spheres and awakened.
• One Soul Beast recognized Huo Yuhao as the Lord Auspicious Beast and said he had brought them home, while Huo Yuhao told them to rest.

After recovering from blood loss, Huo Yuhao visited the soul beasts gathered in the Undead Demiplane and urged them to learn and organize themselves rather than wait for someone to save them. He promised to bring back more soul beasts and make the Spirit Pagoda pay.

• Huo Yuhao woke after sleeping for three days, and A Bao told him the soul beasts had been waiting without causing trouble.
• While eating breakfast, Huo Yuhao noticed a trembling egg in his Sea of Consciousness; Leng Xiao joked about cooking it, and it stopped moving.
• Yue Ye told Huo Yuhao that the younger soul beasts were wary of humans, while the older ones wanted to see him.
• Huo Yuhao met the soul beasts, explained that he opposed the Spirit Pagoda's treatment of living beings, and urged them to change their approach instead of waiting for a savior.
• The soul beasts agreed to follow Huo Yuhao's arrangements, and he promised to bring back more soul beasts and make the Spirit Pagoda pay.