Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao questioned A Bao about changing the Soul Beasts’ traditions, then investigated the weak, trembling egg he had kept in his Sea of Consciousness. The egg hatched into a frail baby who could not speak, leaving Huo Yuhao to carry him downstairs and introduce him to the Demon Race leaders.

• Huo Yuhao told A Bao that harmful traditions should be changed, and said he needed to learn about current Soul Tool technology.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his room, examined the egg, and fed it a faint wisp of life force when it began trembling.
• The egg cracked open at night, and a baby emerged and choked while trying to eat its shell.
• Huo Yuhao patted the baby’s back until he stopped choking, then wrapped him in a sheet and carried him downstairs.
• Leng Xiao recognized the baby as the one from the egg, and the baby cried briefly before falling asleep from exhaustion.

Tang Ziran and Lang Yue settled into life in Demon City, where Huo Yuhao asked them to teach the demons about modern soul tools. As Huo Yuhao cared for the rapidly growing but weakened infant, Lang Yue thought of her missing son Tang Wulin and hoped their family would reunite.

• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue grew comfortable living among the demons and considered settling in the Undead Demiplane after finding Tang Wulin and learning Na'er’s situation.
• Huo Yuhao visited Tang Ziran and Lang Yue and asked them to explain current soul tool technology, beginning with Tang Ziran’s specialty, mecha design.
• Huo Yuhao asked Tang Ziran and Lang Yue to teach soul tool technology to the demons, and they agreed to share their knowledge.
• Lang Yue asked about the infant Huo Yuhao was caring for, and he explained that the unnamed child was only days old, unusually fast-growing, and still weak.
• Lang Yue remembered finding Tang Wulin in the Far North and hoped their family could reunite, while Huo Yuhao decided to keep raising the infant and wait for his memories to return.

Huo Yuhao cared for Xiao An as the rapidly growing child remained weak and without his memories, and he reflected on the life of the man whose biography he was reading. As the freighter’s unusually peaceful voyage continued, Huo Yuhao waited by the railing for someone to approach.

• Leng Xiao told Huo Yuhao that Xiao An was growing quickly, eating a great deal, and still weak despite the blood Huo Yuhao added to his meals.
• Huo Yuhao recalled refusing to let Xiao An call him “mama” and teaching him to say “Senior,” then calling the boy his junior.
• Huo Yuhao told Leng Xiao he was reading a biography because he owed its subject so much and had never understood what kind of person he was.
• Leng Xiao and Huo Yuhao observed that the freighter had sailed for more than half a month without any Sea Soul Beast attacks, though the crew had no idea why.
• After Leng Xiao left, Huo Yuhao remained at the railing, waiting for some fellows to come over.

Huo Yuhao waited at the coast for A Zhang, a Deep Sea Octopus King he had recruited to help gather Sea Soul Beasts for the Undead Demiplane. He left A Zhang to contact more Soul Beasts and waited at their agreed meeting place for news.

• Austin Griffin urged Huo Yuhao to destroy the Spirit Pagoda, but Huo Yuhao explained that the Soul Beasts needed a broader plan to gain strength and change their standing with humanity.
• Huo Yuhao encountered a Deep Sea Octopus King and revealed the power of fate, leading the sea beast to mistake him for an Auspicious Beast and eagerly agree to join him.
• Huo Yuhao explained his plans for the Undead Demiplane and clarified that his target was the Spirit Pagoda, not humanity as a whole.
• A Zhang agreed to go with Huo Yuhao, who asked him to contact more Soul Beasts and meet him again after making progress.
• At the agreed location, Huo Yuhao waited and saw A Zhang arrive.

Huo Yuhao met with powerful sea soul beasts and told them about his new soul spirit contract, which would let them partner with Soul Masters without giving up their bodies or fearing heavenly tribulation. He called for a war against the Spirit Pagoda to win soul beasts their rights, leaving the gathered beasts to consider his plan.

• The Deep Sea Octopus King told Huo Yuhao that powerful sea soul beasts were waiting nearby.
• Huo Yuhao and the Deep Sea Octopus King swam to meet the sea soul beasts, many of whom had over eighty thousand years of cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao used the power of fate to convince the sea soul beasts that he was connected to an Auspicious Beast.
• Huo Yuhao explained that humans’ technological advantage endangered soul beasts and introduced a new contract that let them become soul spirits without abandoning their physical bodies.
• Huo Yuhao said he had not come to ask the sea soul beasts to accept peace as things stood, but to lead a war against the Spirit Pagoda and demand rights for soul beasts.

Huo Yuhao persuaded the Sea Soul Beasts to unite and learn human Soul Guidance Technology, offering them refuge and training in the Undead Demiplane. As the beasts went to gather their kin, Huo Yuhao reflected on how Soul Beasts needed collective bargaining power, while Austin Griffin urged him to slaughter humanity instead.

• A hundred-thousand-year Rock Armor Turtle asked Huo Yuhao what would happen to the Sea God, and Huo Yuhao urged the beasts to act for themselves rather than wait for divine help.
• A Devil Emperor Crab called on Huo Yuhao to explain what the Sea Soul Beasts should do, and Huo Yuhao proposed that they learn to make and use Soul Tools.
• Huo Yuhao offered to bring the Sea Soul Beasts into the Undead Demiplane to live and study, and they agreed to gather their kin at an arranged time and place.
• The Deep Sea Octopus King departed to bring the Sea Soul Beasts from its territory, while Huo Yuhao considered uniting the Sea Soul Beasts with Soul Beasts on land.
• Austin Griffin urged Huo Yuhao to slaughter humanity, but Huo Yuhao rejected that as peace and then returned from the seabed to the freighter's deck.

Huo Yuhao cared for Xiao An as an ordinary child while helping him study and reassuring him about his appetite. He then reviewed the growing Sea Soul Beast population in the Undead Demiplane and considered how cautiously to proceed, before turning his attention to A Bao.

• Xiao An asked Huo Yuhao to explain an offensive Soul Guidance Array, and Huo Yuhao taught him while reflecting on Xiao An’s unknown past and his own memories of a buried figure.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Xiao An worried about eating more than the other children and told him to eat enough as long as he stayed healthy and did not waste food.
• Huo Yuhao read a report that about two hundred thousand Sea Soul Beasts had entered the Undead Demiplane, including eight with a hundred thousand years of cultivation, and noted that their arrival was accelerating his plans.
• Huo Yuhao considered the possible influence of the Sea God and the Plane Consciousness, and kept his recruitment of Sea Soul Beasts quiet while he consolidated the Soul Beasts’ strength.
• After finishing the report, Huo Yuhao turned his gaze toward A Bao.

Huo Yuhao discovered that A Bao’s lingering injuries and stalled cultivation could be addressed by condensing a Soul Core, then guided him through the process. A Bao recovered and advanced to Ninth Step, Level Four, while Huo Yuhao set out to document the method for the Demon Race.

• Huo Yuhao offered to examine A Bao and found that his body was recovering slowly without special treatment.
• Huo Yuhao realized A Bao could benefit from a Soul Core because the demons had never developed that method in place of Spirit Furnaces.
• Huo Yuhao gave A Bao life force and guided him in condensing an improved Soul Core while Yue Ye and Leng Xiao watched.
• A Bao’s injuries healed, his cultivation rose from Ninth Order, Level Three to Ninth Step, Level Four, and he looked toward Yue Ye with renewed hope.
• Leng Xiao asked Huo Yuhao to make a Soul Core for her, and he promised to document the process for the entire Demon Race before going upstairs to write it down.

Huo Yuhao recorded and prepared to distribute the soul core condensation methods throughout the Undead Demiplane, then left to meet a group of sea soul beasts. Xiao An fell asleep after Huo Yuhao sang to him, but his dream stirred with hints of a forgotten past.

• Huo Yuhao wrote down the soul core and yin-yang reversal soul core methods, intending to share them with demons and soul beasts so others could study and improve them.
• Huo Yuhao found Xiao An awake, explained what he was writing, and sang him a nursery rhyme while using spiritual power to help him sleep.
• Xiao An dreamed of someone calling him the Crown Prince and saw a blurry, familiar face amid angry roars.
• Huo Yuhao gave the bound instructions to Yue Ye and told her to print copies and explain the method to soul beasts with over ten thousand years of cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao left the Undead Demiplane, jumped from the cargo ship into the Ocean, and revealed his identity to the waiting sea soul beasts.

Huo Yuhao secretly relocated more Sea Soul Beast tribes into the Undead Demiplane and laid out rules for their cooperation and study of human technology. After settling the latest arrivals, he returned to the freighter and wondered when his larger operation could begin.

• Huo Yuhao used Sea Soul Beast messengers and a nautical chart to recruit tribes secretly while concealing himself from Douluo Star's current Plane Consciousness.
• The Evil Orca King questioned Huo Yuhao about the Demon Soul Great White Sharks' loyalty to the Sea God and the possibility of recruiting the Demon Empress.
• Huo Yuhao declined to force reluctant tribes to join and required Soul Beasts with more than a thousand years of cultivation to stop hunting other Sea Soul Beasts and learn human technology.
• Huo Yuhao sent the recruits into the Undead Demiplane, where the Evil Orca King found other Soul Beasts receiving instruction and the Deep Sea Octopus King struggled to engrave a Soul Guidance Array.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue enjoyed improved health, paid work teaching Mecha knowledge to the Demon Race, and leisure time in the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the freighter's deck and considered how long he would have to wait before beginning his operation.

News of the Spirit Pagoda branch attack reshaped political attitudes across the continents as Xue Yuntian committed the Heaven Dou Empire to the Tang Sect and the Federation launched a purge of the Holy Spirit Cult. Tang Wulin and his companions left for the Heaven Dou Empire aboard the Thousand Spirits, while Tang Wulin felt that his parents were not waiting there.

• Xue Yuntian learned the Spirit Pagoda branch in Lingbo City had suffered devastating losses and decided the Heaven Dou Empire had to commit fully to the Tang Sect.
• Li Yun Zhe confirmed the branch's losses were real but worried the attack would deepen suspicion of the Tang Sect, now seen as a beneficiary.
• Qiangu Dongfeng promised to replenish the branch's soul spirits, while the Federation parliament largely blamed the Holy Spirit Cult for the attack.
• Chen Xinjie declared war on the Holy Spirit Cult, began a purge starting in Skysea City, and the Federation temporarily called off the war.
• Tang Wulin and his companions left Skysea City aboard the submarine Thousand Spirits to reach the Heaven Dou Empire and try to stop the coming war.
• Tang Wulin sensed a concealed connection while meditating and felt that his parents were not in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Huo Yuhao brought Tang Ziran and Lang Yue to Demon City's Soul Tool factory to assess its production methods and discuss how Tang Ziran could help improve civilian Soul Tools and mecha. Tang Ziran agreed to help, while Huo Yuhao planned to address the factory’s limitations in materials and design.

• Huo Yuhao distributed Soul Core instructions, prompting demons and Soul Beasts to begin condensing Soul Cores or preparing to do so, while several demons advanced in cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao led Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, A Bao, and the others through the factory, where Tang Ziran observed its metalworking and Soul Tool production processes.
• Tang Ziran noticed that the factory’s metal was too low-grade for higher-level mecha, and Huo Yuhao considered whether alchemy might complement or replace forging.
• Yue Ye explained that six-eyed warlocks had recently begun enchanting completed Soul Tools, and A Bao showed Tang Ziran how an enchantment could reduce a tool’s weight.
• Huo Yuhao asked Tang Ziran to help design mecha and civilian Soul Tools, and Tang Ziran agreed to do everything he could.

Huo Yuhao reviewed the first mecha blueprint from Tang Ziran and his team while planning how the Undead Demiplane could develop its own Soul Tool industry. A faint connection briefly stirred in Xiao An, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yuena, but went unnoticed before Huo Yuhao took Xiao An back to cook fish, where watching him eat brought back memories of Huo Yuhao’s mother.

• Huo Yuhao examined Tang Ziran and the others’ Purple-Grade Mecha blueprint and planned to have the Demon Race study and improve it while civilian Soul Tool production began.
• Austin Griffin mocked Huo Yuhao for being cautious, then told him Xiao An had come looking for him.
• Xiao An briefly sensed a faint attraction aboard the cargo ship as a glimmer appeared on Tang Wulin’s bracelet and the Dragon God Core on Gu Yuena also sensed a connection; none of them recognized it.
• Xiao An asked for fish, so Huo Yuhao caught several with a line, took him back to the Undead Demiplane, and cooked fish soup and grilled fish.
• Xiao An offered Huo Yuhao some grilled fish, and watching Xiao An eat reminded Huo Yuhao of his mother watching him in the woodshed.

Huo Yuhao and the others neared the Star Luo Empire, where he sensed a troubling force of faith and asked Tang Ziran why he disliked the empire. Tang Ziran recounted his family’s tragedy and exile, leaving Huo Yuhao to consider what he had learned about the Star Luo Empire’s past.

• Huo Yuhao saw the Star Luo Continent approaching and sensed both Douluo Star’s pressure and a possible crisis.
• Huo Yuhao noticed Tang Ziran’s strained reaction to the Star Luo Empire and asked him about it.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue discussed how Xiao An reminded her of her missing son, Tang Wulin.
• Tang Ziran’s colleagues praised Huo Yuhao’s Mecha designs, while Huo Yuhao acknowledged their work on production plans and Soul Tool education in the Undead Demiplane.
• Tang Ziran told Huo Yuhao and the others that his mother had been murdered when he was young, forcing him into exile in the Sun Moon Federation.
• Tang Ziran described the Star Luo Empire’s customs and its past attacks by the Green Skull organization as Huo Yuhao listened and pondered.

Huo Yuhao and his companions arrived in the Star Luo Empire, where he confronted the awkward sight of a statue of his former self and learned that worsening tensions had halted ships to the Sun Moon Federation. As Tang Ziran and the others explored the city, Huo Yuhao considered the Demon Race’s future integration with Douluo Star and the strained lives of its people.

• Huo Yuhao arrived in the Star Luo Empire and saw a statue depicting his former self as Spirit Ice Douluo, while Yue Ye, A Bao, and Leng Xiao teased him about his fame.
• Yue Ye, A Bao, and Leng Xiao set out to inspect the city, while Huo Yuhao stayed with Xiao An and Tang Ziran and the others asked about ships to the Sun Moon Federation.
• Tang Ziran and the others learned that deteriorating relations and rumors of war had stopped ships bound for the Sun Moon Federation, leaving their departure uncertain.
• Huo Yuhao paid Tang Ziran and the others in Star Luo currency for their work teaching Mecha design and manufacturing to the Demon Race.
• Huo Yuhao walked through the city with Xiao An and noticed that the people seemed exhausted, unlike the future he had imagined.

Huo Yuhao discovered Tang Wulin in tournament footage and reassured Tang Ziran and Lang Yue that he was safe. As they watched the footage in a shop, a soul cannon shell struck the building and explosions followed.

• Huo Yuhao took Yue Ye and the others around the city, then sent Leng Xiao and Xiao An back to the Undead Demiplane with A Bao.
• Huo Yuhao saw Tang Wulin wielding the Golden Dragon Spear in footage of a tournament and recognized clues to his identity.
• Tang Ziran called Mang Tian to say he and Lang Yue were safe, but their brief call ended before Mang Tian could tell him Tang Wulin had gone to find them.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue watched footage of Tang Wulin with Shrek Academy and learned the academy had been destroyed, leaving them distraught.
• Huo Yuhao assured Tang Ziran and Lang Yue that Tang Wulin was safe.
• A soul cannon shell struck the shop, and more explosions followed.

Huo Yuhao protected civilians from an explosion, rescued the shopkeeper, and directed Soul Masters to evacuate the street. Elsewhere, he stopped a disguised girl from detonating a bomb and left her unconscious.

• Huo Yuhao shielded Tang Ziran, the shopkeeper, and people in the street from an explosion, then sent Tang Ziran and the others to the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao rescued the shopkeeper, bought the recording of Tang Wulin's match, and left while concealing his appearance with the Power of Fate.
• Huo Yuhao lifted people from the rubble and told nearby Soul Masters to evacuate the crowd to a safe zone before vanishing.
• A disguised girl followed a panicking crowd, hesitating as she prepared to detonate a bomb and die for her mission.
• Huo Yuhao embraced the girl from behind, stopped her finger from pressing the button, and made her lose consciousness.

Huo Yuhao rescued an injured girl who had carried a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell inside her body, removed it, and healed her. Her memories revealed the concealed history of the Star Luo Empire’s arrival on the continent and the survival of its indigenous people, leaving Huo Yuhao to consider the hatred still driving conflict.

• The Star Luo Empire and Tang Sect contained the city attack, while an unknown white-haired person protected civilians from the explosion.
• Huo Yuhao carried the unconscious girl into a mountain range and found a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell embedded in her abdomen.
• Huo Yuhao removed the shell, treated the girl’s wound with his life force, and examined her memories.
• Austin Griffin urged Huo Yuhao to destroy both sides, but Huo Yuhao dismissed him and dismantled the shell.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the Star Luo Empire’s public history concealed the survival of the continent’s indigenous people and that descendants such as the girl still lived there.

Huo Yuhao questioned Lingyin, an indigenous girl who had tried to take her own life after waking, about her hatred of the Star Luo people and the history of the land. He left her facing the fact that neither side could clearly untangle the old grievances, and asked how she would answer him.

• Lingyin woke in the woods, believed she had been captured, and tried to kill herself before Huo Yuhao stopped her.
• Lingyin refused to reveal anything, cursed the Star Luo people, and spat at Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao asked Lingyin what the land and its people had originally been called, and she could not answer.
• Huo Yuhao considered how the Star Luo Empire had conquered the land and how generations of conflict had blurred right and wrong.
• Huo Yuhao reminded Lingyin that she had attacked civilians she had never met, then asked how she would answer his question.

Huo Yuhao questioned Lingyin about the Green Skull organization and learned from her memories that she was only an auxiliary member who knew little about it. After healing her and removing the Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, he made her lead him to the organization as his prisoner.

• Huo Yuhao used Lingyin's memories to learn her name and asked her about the Green Skull organization, but she insulted him and refused to answer.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on Lingyin's youth and the people who had shaped her into someone willing to attack civilians, and he grew disgusted with Green Skull's disregard for life.
• Huo Yuhao realized Lingyin knew little about Green Skull because she was only an auxiliary member, and he decided to investigate the organization himself.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Lingyin's wound had healed and the Fixed Soul Cannon Shell was gone, then pulled her to her feet.
• Huo Yuhao released his rank ninety-five Soul Power, declared Lingyin his prisoner, and ordered her to lead the way.