Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sealed inside a white cocoon. Elder Yi determined that the cocoon held immense energy and that Sky Dream was likely evolving after absorbing the Cold Spring’s energy, so Huo Yuhao waited and hoped he would be all right.

• Huo Yuhao spent the morning with Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, who gave him a written proof to help him enter Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Huo Yuhao left Heaven Dou City and returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he found Sky Dream inside a white cocoon.
• A-Tai recounted how Tian Meng had plunged into the Cold Spring to prove he could swim, then lost consciousness and transformed into the cocoon.
• Elder Yi examined the cocoon and told Huo Yuhao that Sky Dream was likely evolving and was not in immediate danger.
• Huo Yuhao remained worried and quietly wished Sky Dream well.

Huo Yuhao visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan showed him around and introduced him to Ye Lingling and Yu Tianheng. After the three friends walked him to the neglected library, Huo Yuhao went inside to borrow books while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling returned to training.

• Huo Yuhao left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for Heaven Dou City after giving Snow Empress Dugu Bo's Black Card to spend.
• Dugu Yan welcomed Huo Yuhao to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and showed him the campus and her dormitory.
• Ye Lingling arrived, and Dugu Yan introduced her to Huo Yuhao, who revealed that his Martial Soul was his Spirit Eyes.
• Yu Tianheng approached Dugu Yan, but she declined to spend time with him because she was accompanying Huo Yuhao.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling teased each other about Yu Tianheng as they escorted Huo Yuhao to the quiet library.
• Huo Yuhao entered the library alone while Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling went back to train.

Huo Yuhao spent his days reading at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, until Fourth Prince Xue Beng tried to take him away and Dugu Bo intervened. Dugu Bo gave Huo Yuhao nine million Gold Soul Coins from the Mystic Water Pills, and the group began making plans to spend some of it.

• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling brought Huo Yuhao from the library to eat with Yu Feng, Yu Tianheng, Shi Mo, and Osler, who learned that his Martial Soul was Spirit Eyes.
• For a week, Huo Yuhao kept reading at the academy library and discussing knowledge with Elder Yi while the Snow Empress and the others visited Heaven Dou City.
• At the academy gates, Fourth Prince Xue Beng insulted Huo Yuhao and ordered him to come along, but Dugu Bo appeared and made Xue Beng leave.
• Dugu Bo told Huo Yuhao that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall had bought the Mystic Water Pills, then gave him nine million Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yuhao shared the money with everyone, and Li Ya and A Ling planned to go shopping the next day.

Huo Yuhao and Elder Yi began refining Huo Yuhao’s left arm bone with his armor and the Ice Explosion Technique. The refinement succeeded, but Elder Yi needed to sleep for more than a month, and Huo Yuhao collapsed from exhaustion.

• Huo Yuhao questioned the contents of Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls and discussed the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts with Elder Yi.
• Elder Yi proposed refining Huo Yuhao’s bones with his armor, and Huo Yuhao chose his left arm bone and Ice Explosion Technique for the first attempt.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, removed the left arm armor, and asked Li Ya to have Octagonal care for the White Cocoon.
• Elder Yi inscribed runes on Huo Yuhao’s left arm bone, fused the armor with it, and restored the flesh around the bone.
• Elder Yi confirmed the refinement had succeeded and went to sleep; Ice Empress caught the exhausted Huo Yuhao and laid him down to rest.

Tian Meng resisted a dream that promised endless happiness and broke free from the sealed space by clinging to his wish to become the person the white-haired girl believed he could be. After refining the Left Arm Bone, Huo Yuhao dreamed of painful memories and the destruction of a city before waking to find a smiling, pale-yellow-haired girl beside his bed.

• Tian Meng rejected the dream’s offer of peaceful oblivion and fought as the liquid dissolved his body and weakened his soul.
• Remembering the white-haired girl’s words, Tian Meng cried out that he had not yet cultivated for a million years or become the person she said he could be.
• Tian Meng’s resolve made the liquid boil and shattered the walls of the sealed space, revealing the starry night sky.
• After refining the Left Arm Bone, Huo Yuhao fell asleep and dreamed of his childhood home, Winter’er’s death, Qiu’er’s sacrifice, and the people from Shrek and Ju Zi with Yun Han disappearing.
• Huo Yuhao dreamed that a city was destroyed in a tremendous explosion and that its victims blamed him before the flames swallowed him.
• Huo Yuhao woke and saw a smiling, pale-yellow-haired girl standing beside his bed.

Huo Yuhao woke after seven days and learned that Tian Meng had emerged from her cocoon in human form as a million-year Snow Moth. After recovering, he spoke with Ice Empress about her uncertain feelings for Tian Meng and the past relationships neither of them remembered, then lay awake beneath the stars.

• Tian Meng told Huo Yuhao she had emerged four days earlier, and Snow Empress had confirmed she was fine.
• Huo Yuhao tested his restored left arm, found his Soul Power had reached level twenty-eight, and learned Dugu Bo had visited to gather herbs and check on him.
• Huo Yuhao discovered Tian Meng had become a winged Snow Moth and a million-year Soul Beast who was waiting for him to reach level thirty.
• Tian Meng explained what she remembered from inside the cocoon, and Huo Yuhao reassured her that he was glad she was safe.
• Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao to recount how she had fallen in love with Tian Meng and admitted she was unsure how to approach those feelings now.
• Huo Yuhao advised Ice Empress not to be trapped by a past neither she nor Tian Meng remembered, but Ice Empress questioned whether he could follow his own advice.

Huo Yuhao reached level thirty and formed a contract with Xiao Bai, gaining his third Soul Ring and two Ice-based Soul Skills. After the contract raised his Soul Power to level thirty-one, he briefly felt dizzy but dismissed it, while Xiao Bai celebrated avoiding the Heavenly Tribulation.

• Huo Yuhao noticed people from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Spirit Hall searching Heaven Dou City for the maker of the Mystic Water Pills, and Dugu Bo warned him that they might discover his connection to them.
• Huo Yuhao spent a month cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well until he reached level thirty, while Tian Meng and the others were away.
• Xiao Bai asked Huo Yuhao to form a contract with her, and he agreed when she called him Yuhao instead of Grandma.
• Huo Yuhao gained a third red Soul Ring on his Snow Maiden Martial Soul, with the skills Ice Meteor and Ice Bear Blizzard, and his Soul Power rose to level thirty-one.
• Huo Yuhao felt briefly dizzy after the Soul Ring appeared but dismissed it, while Xiao Bai celebrated that she had avoided the Heavenly Tribulation and bickered with A-Tai.

After forming a contract with Big Sister Tian Meng, Huo Yuhao gained a new platinum Soul Ring but collapsed as the strain disrupted the balance between her Soul Power and Chaos Power. Elder Yi awakened her from a disturbing dream, and she recovered, leaving with instructions to avoid Soul Power cultivation while resting and training her mental power.

• Huo Yuhao wandered through the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, reflected on the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and her past understanding of love, then welcomed Tian Meng and the others back from the city.
• After dinner, Huo Yuhao signed a Soul Spirit Contract with Big Sister Tian Meng and gained a platinum Soul Ring with Spiritual Detection, Spiritual Sharing, Simulation, and Tian Meng's Domain.
• Huo Yuhao began bleeding green-flecked blood and collapsed, while Tian Meng caught her and blamed herself.
• Huo Yuhao fell into a dark dream accompanied by an unfamiliar woman's wails, and Elder Yi awakened her in the Sea of Consciousness after identifying a minor imbalance between her Soul Power and Chaos Power.
• Huo Yuhao awoke, reassured Big Sister Tian Meng by demonstrating Simulation, and reached level thirty-three in Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao explained to A Ling why cooking for others mattered to him, sharing memories of his difficult childhood with his mother. As he returned to the Library, the people investigating Dugu Bo’s source of Mystic Water Pills began suspecting the white-haired girl with the Library pass, while the academy leaders chose not to get involved.

• Huo Yuhao and A Ling prepared breakfast together, and A Ling explained how soul beasts in the Far North depended on ecological balance rather than indiscriminate predation.
• Huo Yuhao told A Ling about his childhood hunger, his mother’s sacrifices, and his wish to cook her a filling meal; he said he cooked because he wanted others to eat their fill.
• After breakfast, Huo Yuhao returned to the Library while spies and other interested parties continued investigating Dugu Bo’s Mystic Water Pills.
• Ning Fengzhi learned from Chen Xin that Dugu Bo had broken through in cultivation, while Prince Xue Xing and Ning Fengzhi were both turned away by Dugu Bo.
• Xue Qinghe rejected Porcupinefish Douluo’s suggestion to seize Dugu Bo and ordered the investigation redirected toward visitors to Dugu Bo’s residence and his granddaughter.
• Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan suspected that the white-haired girl with the Library pass was connected to the search, but decided to avoid involvement and keep quiet.

Huo Yuhao showed Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling his Spirit Eyes support ability and revealed that he was already a three-ring Soul Elder, though he said his Soul Power would not advance for a long time. He joined them for a trip to Heaven Dou City's opera house, where the performance was just beginning.

• Huo Yuhao told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he was a support Soul Master, then used Spiritual Detection Sharing and Simulation to show them his ability and three Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao said his Soul Power would not advance for a long time and declined Ye Lingling's invitation to join the Heaven Dou Team.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling invited Huo Yuhao to an opera, and he accepted their ticket.
• The next afternoon, Huo Yuhao went with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to the opera house, where they ran into Li Ya and A Ling.
• Huo Yuhao asked what the opera was about, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling said it concerned knights and was a new production; the theater darkened and the performance began.

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.