Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao brought Lingyin to the fortified mountains where Green Skull was based and questioned why she had accepted a suicide mission. Lingyin admitted that she only wanted to live long enough to see tomorrow’s sun and hear the wind again, and Huo Yuhao led her onward with a new suspicion in mind.

• Huo Yuhao and Lingyin reached the Star Luo Empire’s encirclement of Green Skull’s mountain base, where Soul Cannons fired into the distant mountains.
• Huo Yuhao asked Lingyin why she had hidden a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell inside her body and risked her life for Green Skull.
• Lingyin mechanically recited her vow to kill the Star Luo Empire’s people, but Huo Yuhao recognized that she was curious about what she truly wanted from life.
• Lingyin admitted that she wanted to see tomorrow’s sun and hear the wind in the days to come.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on how people trapped between the two groups were driven to kill one another, then told Lingyin it was time to move.

Huo Yuhao brought Lingyin to a concealed entrance to the Green Skull Organization, confronted her with the harm she had intended to cause, and had A Bao take her away unconscious. He then killed the mecha commander guarding the exit and prepared to walk out.

• Huo Yuhao followed Lingyin through the woods to a narrow, concealed entrance to the Green Skull Organization.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Lingyin over her fear for her parents and acquaintances and the civilians she had nearly endangered, then knocked her unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao summoned A Bao, who carried Lingyin into the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao killed the pilots of thirty Black-Grade Mechas and stripped four Soul Spirits from the Red-Rank Mecha commander.
• Huo Yuhao used the Black-Grade Mechas to intercept the commander's shells, opened his cockpit, and killed him with a spear and a decapitation.
• Huo Yuhao looked toward the exit and prepared to walk out.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated Green Skull’s hidden valley stronghold and saw the poverty of its residents alongside the organization’s abundant supplies. He opened the doors at its core, revealing its leader’s severed head to the assembled defenders.

• Huo Yuhao walked through the hidden valley town, where adults looked worried and young people showed blind fanaticism for Green Skull.
• Huo Yuhao visited the small house from Lingyin’s memories and saw an old woman working beside a small tree.
• Huo Yuhao found Green Skull members producing weapons and followed the operation deeper into the stronghold.
• Huo Yuhao broke into a secure storage room and discovered rare metals, treasures, and large stores of grain.
• Huo Yuhao opened the metal doors before dozens of mechas and armed defenders, holding their leader’s head in his hand.

Huo Yuhao killed the Green Skull Organization’s leader and exposed the organization’s corrupt leadership, then wiped out its senior members when they tried to turn the crowd against him. The survivors lowered their weapons and dared not resist, leaving Huo Yuhao in control.

• Huo Yuhao showed the crowd their leader’s severed head and declared that their rules made him the new leader.
• Senior members tried to provoke the crowd into attacking Huo Yuhao, hoping to exploit his apparent weakness and seize power.
• Huo Yuhao considered how the Star Luo Empire and the Green Skull Organization had kept ordinary people trapped in oppression and hatred.
• Several high-ranking Soul Masters and mechas moved to attack, while the instigators urged the crowd on.
• Huo Yuhao used the Ice Spirit Spear to kill the attackers and wipe out the Green Skull Organization’s upper echelon.
• The survivors lowered their weapons and did not dare oppose Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao oversaw the distribution of food and medicine to the Green Skull Organization’s residents and considered how generations of fear and conflict had trapped them. When Yue Ye warned that the remaining food would last only two months, Huo Yuhao faced the difficulty of finding a future for people the Star Luo Empire would not accept.

• Huo Yuhao had Human-Demon Hybrids and Tang Ziran’s group distribute supplies to the town’s residents while the former Green Skull members waited aside.
• Tang Ziran felt fear around the residents, while Lingyin tearfully reunited with her elderly parents, who had feared her return would be discovered.
• Huo Yuhao observed that the Green Skull Organization’s rule and the Star Luo Empire’s exclusion had shaped the residents’ fear and deepened their conflict.
• Yue Ye told Huo Yuhao that the food remaining after distribution would last about two months.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that purging the Green Skull’s leadership would not undo the Star Luo Empire’s hostility or make the residents easy to integrate.

Huo Yuhao suspected the Holy Spirit Cult wanted a coming war to cause mass casualties, while recognizing that the Star Luo Empire had helped create the Green Skull Organization through its treatment of its people. He decided not to kill them and considered what he could do as Tang Ziran confronted his own assumptions while handing out supplies.

• Huo Yuhao linked the Holy Spirit Cult’s attacks and the looming war to a possible scheme to gather souls, and decided he needed to investigate.
• Huo Yuhao refused to eliminate the Green Skull members, reasoning that the Star Luo Empire’s oppression had helped sustain the organization and its conflict.
• A Bao noticed Huo Yuhao considering a plan and trusted that his approach could help change the Green Skull’s circumstances.
• Tang Ziran distributed grain to the elderly, children, and other residents, noticing their exhaustion and vacant expressions.
• Tang Ziran recalled Lingyin awakening in fear, cursing the Star Luo people and grieving for her parents before A Bao took her away.
• Tang Ziran realized the Green Skull members were ordinary people rather than the devils he had imagined, and Lang Yue quietly comforted him.

Aboard the Thousand Spirits, Tang Wulin reflected on his unresolved feelings for Gu Yuena and hoped to find his missing parents in the Heaven Dou Empire. As the submarine neared shore, he remained anxious about the mission and the questions surrounding his family and Gu Yuena.

• The Thousand Spirits reached the waters near the Heaven Dou Empire after an unusually calm voyage that Tang Wulin, Yali, and the captain could not explain.
• Tang Wulin sensed that his strength had improved, his spiritual power had reached the Spirit Domain Realm, and he could attempt to break the twelfth Golden Dragon King seal.
• Tang Wulin suspected his parents were in Lingbo City and connected their possible whereabouts to the reported attack on the Heaven Dou Empire's Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang Wulin recalled his losses, his complicated history with Gu Yue, Na'er, and Gu Yuena, and his fear that happiness would disappear again.
• Xie Xie asked Tang Wulin what he was doing, and Tang Wulin dismissed the question while imagining reuniting with his parents.
• Youyou suspected Gu Yuena's identity but chose not to tell Tang Wulin, believing he should understand things for himself.

Gu Yuena investigated the attack on the Spirit Pagoda branch in Lingbo City and found evidence of a strange, unexplained assault, while also wondering why Sea Soul Beasts had vanished from the route. Tang Wulin and the others arrived in the Heaven Dou Empire, where he searched for his parents but found no trace of them.

• Gu Yuena arrived in the Heaven Dou Empire, delivered Soul Spirits to the damaged Spirit Pagoda branch, and investigated the branch’s losses at Qiangu Dongfeng’s request.
• Gu Yuena noticed that Sea Soul Beasts had disappeared from the waters along the ship’s route and suspected the migration might be connected to the attack on the branch.
• Gu Yuena found that stored Soul Spirits had been taken without their containers, the Spirit Ascension Platform had lost its energy without visible damage, and stripped Soul Spirits had not resisted.
• Li Yun Zhe welcomed Tang Wulin and his party, learned that Tang Wulin was the Tang Sect Master and Sea God Pavilion Master, and brought them to Lingbo City to explain the situation.
• Li Yun Zhe told Ya Li that the Spirit Pagoda’s account of the attack was mostly accurate, making her reconsider her suspicions of the organization.
• Tang Wulin used his Spirit Domain Realm Spiritual Power to search for his parents, then stopped with disappointment after finding no trace of them.

Tang Wulin learned that his parents’ names appeared on a list of people missing after a bloody incident at the Spirit Pagoda’s underground laboratory in Lingbo City. He restrained his grief and prepared to meet Heaven Dou Emperor Xue Yuntian, then left alone to walk.

• Tang Wulin asked Li Yun Zhe about concealed locations in the Lingbo City Spirit Pagoda branch, and Li Yun Zhe shared photographs and a list gathered by an informant.
• Tang Wulin recognized Tang Ziran and Lang Yue on the list and feared they had been caught up in the massacre; he suppressed his emotions as the twelfth seal in his Sea of Consciousness trembled.
• Li Yun Zhe explained that the Spirit Pagoda had hidden details about an underground laboratory and that those listed had vanished, but warned that the Tang Sect could not investigate openly without risking suspicion over the attack.
• Tang Wulin agreed that the Tang Sect must avoid being linked to the attack, despite his personal suspicions and worry about his parents.
• Li Yun Zhe said the Tang Sect would meet Emperor Xue Yuntian in two days at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, and Tang Wulin arranged for the others to rest before declining Ya Li’s offer to accompany him.
• Tang Wulin left alone to walk.

After failing to find his parents, Tang Wulin broke down under the weight of his losses, and his grief shattered the Golden Dragon King’s Twelfth Seal. As the power threatened to break through the Thirteenth Seal, Tang San entered his consciousness and Gu Yuena arrived to confront him.

• Tang Wulin searched for Tang Ziran and Lang Yue but found no trace of them, and he chose not to investigate the Spirit Pagoda because it could harm the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy.
• Alone in the forest, Tang Wulin mourned his parents, Gu Yue, Na'er, and the people he had lost, then began to cry.
• Tang Wulin's grief cracked the Twelfth Seal, releasing the Golden Dragon King's power and transforming his Sea of Consciousness and body.
• Tang Wulin unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, but the rampaging power surged toward the Thirteenth Seal and threatened to overwhelm him.
• A trident mark appeared in Tang Wulin's Sea of Consciousness, and Tang San reinforced the Thirteenth Seal before entering Tang Wulin's consciousness.
• Gu Yuena sensed the disturbance, crossed through a spatial rift, transformed into the Silver Dragon King, and pounced on Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King form.

Tang Wulin learned from Tang San that his adoptive parents’ souls could be preserved, then woke after Gu Yuena suppressed the Golden Dragon King’s power. He spoke with Na'er about her merging with Gu Yue and resolved to grow stronger, while Gu Yuena revealed that Gu Yue had rushed to save him.

• Tang San revealed that he was Tang Wulin’s biological father, explained the Divine Realm’s disappearance, and promised to preserve Tang Ziran and Lang Yue’s souls if they remained on Douluo Star.
• Tang Wulin woke in an icy forest and saw Gu Yuena, who had helped suppress the Golden Dragon King’s power and warned him to control his emotions.
• Gu Yuena gave Tang Wulin the Ice God Pearl to help stabilize him, and he asked whether Na'er or Gu Yue was in control.
• Na'er told Tang Wulin that she and Gu Yue were merging, and he apologized and asked whether he could help before she pulled away and vanished.
• Tang Wulin accepted that he needed greater strength for his parents, Na'er, Shrek, the Tang Sect, and reaching the Divine Realm.
• By the sea, Gu Yuena said that Gu Yue had rushed to save Tang Wulin before letting Na'er take control again, then Gu Yuena’s primary personality returned.

Tang Wulin secured the Heaven Dou Empire’s agreement and prepared to travel to the Star Luo Empire, while Gu Yuena sensed that Douluo Star’s laws were suppressing her and that new variables were emerging. In disguise, Huo Yuhao posted a forging commission in New Star Luo City after relocating Green Skull’s people to the Undead Demiplane, and considered how social exclusion had helped organizations like Green Skull and the Holy Spirit Cult take root.

• Tang Wulin met Xue Yuntian, demonstrated his spiritual domain, and gained the Heaven Dou emperor’s agreement to his terms.
• Tang Wulin stored the Soul Weapons in the palace warehouse, and his party prepared to leave for the Star Luo Empire as Ya Li worried about his emotional state.
• Gu Yuena reflected on the recent attacks and missing Sea Soul Beasts, then sensed Douluo Star’s laws suppressing her power.
• Huo Yuhao disguised himself in New Star Luo City and asked the Blacksmith Association to post a forging commission that let him watch the work.
• Huo Yuhao moved fewer than fifty thousand Green Skull people into the Undead Demiplane and settled them among the Demon Race by household.
• Huo Yuhao considered how social exclusion and persecution had provided people with a refuge in Green Skull and the Holy Spirit Cult.

Huo Yuhao moved Green Skull’s people and endangered Soul Beasts into the Undead Demiplane, hoping a more humane society and new relationships between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts would weaken the roots of evil organizations. He continued gathering survivors and preparing the demiplane for his future plans, while the Mermaid Clan’s lost members remained beyond his reach until Douluo Star’s plane consciousness awakened.

• Huo Yuhao settled roughly fifty thousand people from Green Skull territory among the Demon Race, arranging schooling, work, and care while incorporating their mecha-making experience into production.
• Huo Yuhao removed the Soul Spirits from the relocated Soul Masters and resurrected them in the Soul Beast Area, then began supervised introductions between Soul Beasts and Soul Masters without signing contracts.
• Huo Yuhao gathered the remaining land Soul Beasts from the Star Luo Continent and brought them into the Undead Demiplane as their habitats and numbers dwindled.
• Huo Yuhao found the Mermaid Clan among the Sea Soul Beasts and learned it had only five thousand members, with its leader possessing eighty-thousand-year cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao hoped to resurrect the Sea Princess and his other lost companions using their stored Soul Seeds once Douluo Star’s original plane consciousness awakened.

Huo Yuhao waited at the Blacksmith Association to study the era’s rare-metal forging and watched Lin Yuhan Spirit Forge mithril. He concluded he could reproduce the process and began considering how to deduce higher forging levels, just as Lin Yuhan’s teacher appeared at the door.

• Huo Yuhao waited in New Star Luo City’s Blacksmith Association, hoping to observe rare-metal forging despite the shortage of blacksmiths.
• The receptionist told Huo Yuhao that Lin Yuhan had accepted his commission and directed him to the forging room.
• Lin Yuhan warned Huo Yuhao that he was too old to learn blacksmithing, then began Spirit Forging his mithril while he watched.
• Huo Yuhao studied how Lin Yuhan used hammer strikes, lightning, and spiritual power to alter the mithril and give it faint life force.
• Lin Yuhan handed Huo Yuhao the finished Spirit Forged mithril, and he concluded that he could reproduce Spirit Forging and deduce higher levels.
• Huo Yuhao noticed someone watching from the doorway, and Lin Yuhan addressed the visitor as her teacher.

Chang Gongyan suspected that the disguised Huo Yuhao possessed a blacksmith’s presence comparable to Zhen Hua’s and invited him to try forging. Huo Yuhao asked Chang Gongyan to demonstrate first, and the chapter ended after Chang Gongyan successfully fusion-forged a piece of rare metal and asked for Huo Yuhao’s opinion.

• Chang Gongyan questioned Huo Yuhao about Lin Yuhan’s forging, and Huo Yuhao said her work was good for her age.
• Chang Gongyan invited Huo Yuhao to forge, but Huo Yuhao asked him to demonstrate first in exchange for a negotiable price.
• Chang Gongyan heated several kinds of rare metal and forged them together while Huo Yuhao watched their transformation.
• Chang Gongyan activated the metal’s vitality with a final hammer strike, completing a soul-forged piece on his first attempt.
• Chang Gongyan asked Huo Yuhao what he thought of the finished piece.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated an experimental method of Soul Forging, combining hammer-generated vibrations with Spiritual Power to purify and reshape rare metals. Chang Gongyan watched in shock as Huo Yuhao produced Soul Forging without using a Martial Soul or imprinting an elemental attribute, leaving the method’s potential under investigation.

• Huo Yuhao examined Chang Gongyan's Soul Forging and praised its awakened vitality and fused metals.
• Huo Yuhao selected several rare metals and used a hammer made of Ultimate Ice to begin his forging demonstration.
• Huo Yuhao's precise hammer strikes rapidly purified the metals through Hundred Refinement and Thousand Refinement, while Chang Gongyan recognized his extraordinary control.
• Huo Yuhao guided Heaven and Earth Vital Energy into the metal with his Spiritual Power and completed Soul Forging without activating his Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Power and the hammer's vibrations to alter the metal's internal structure, testing a method that did not restrict Soul Forging to the blacksmith's own attributes.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated a soul forging alloy that could absorb and retain a Soul Master's power, adapting its innate gift to that person's Martial Soul. Chang Gongyan verified its lasting compatibility and recognized its potential to strengthen Soul Masters on a wide scale.

• Huo Yuhao explained that his alloy used Heaven and Earth Vital Energy to create an attribute-neutral metal whose innate gift could be shaped by a Soul Master's power.
• Huo Yuhao infused the finished alloy with Ultimate Ice, causing it to display an ice-attribute gift.
• At Huo Yuhao's invitation, Chang Gongyan poured in his own Soul Power, and the alloy rapidly changed from ice to the fire attribute of his Martial Soul.
• Chang Gongyan studied the alloy for more than three hours and confirmed that his power remained within it and had become highly compatible with his Martial Soul.
• Chang Gongyan realized the alloy could become a first choice for most Soul Masters and potentially raise their overall strength.

Huo Yuhao demonstrated a soul-forging method that produced alloy able to adapt to a user’s martial soul, impressing Chang Gongyan. After refusing to commit to the Star Luo Empire Blacksmith Association, Huo Yuhao reflected on the empire’s rule and decided to keep watching rather than intervene for now.

• Chang Gongyan admitted defeat, and Huo Yuhao said he had only wanted to learn from Chang Gongyan’s soul-forging techniques.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the alloy could keep changing, and Lin Yuhan tested it by channeling her soul power into it.
• Chang Gongyan asked what the technique was called, and Huo Yuhao proposed “adaptive soul forging” before withdrawing the name and settling on calling it soul forging for now.
• Chang Gongyan invited Huo Yuhao to join the Star Luo Empire Blacksmith Association and offered to secure the emperor’s support.
• Huo Yuhao considered the Star Luo Empire’s use of his legacy to support imperial rule, along with the risks of exposing his identity or acting before his plans were ready.
• Huo Yuhao chose to remain silent and observe the Star Luo Empire, despite knowing that war was approaching.

Huo Yuhao rejected Chang Gongyan’s invitation after demonstrating a new soul-forged alloy, then examined the Tang Sect’s role in the Star Luo Empire and questioned what its weapons trade and fragile peace truly protected.

• Huo Yuhao questioned Chang Gongyan about Heavenly Refinement, gave him the experimental alloy, and vanished after paying for the materials and demonstration.
• Chang Gongyan admitted he could not reproduce or decipher the alloy and decided to inform the Star Luo Emperor, while Lin Yuhan recognized its potential as a new direction in forging.
• Huo Yuhao disguised himself in New Star Luo City and waited while Yue Ye’s group investigated the empire.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on Tang Ya’s Tang Sect and saw that the modern Tang Sect maintained underground Soul Tool factories and relied on weapons orders from the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires.
• Huo Yuhao questioned whether the Tang Sect’s policy of selling weapons but withholding technology preserved peace for ordinary people or mainly protected rulers and the demand for continued production.

Huo Yuhao rejected Austin Griffin’s attempt to justify indiscriminate destruction, explaining why the Mingdu Explosion had only worsened the war and needlessly killed civilians. After Yue Ye returned with information about the society’s technological development, they went back to the Undead Demiplane.

• Austin Griffin urged Huo Yuhao to stop feeling guilty about the Mingdu Explosion and to cause more destruction.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Mingdu Explosion had not stopped the war, had killed ordinary citizens, and had helped the conflict spread across the continent.
• Huo Yuhao asked Austin Griffin what he sought, and Austin Griffin said he wanted to destroy and annihilate everything for destruction’s sake.
• Huo Yuhao reflected that few people he knew might remain on Douluo Star, including Youyou and the others in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Yue Ye returned with information about the society, and she and Huo Yuhao went to a secluded spot and returned to the Undead Demiplane.