Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao gained insight into the nature of energy and used it to attempt a new form of refinement with the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. She continued shaping it under a seven-element Heavenly Tribulation, straining her Spiritual Power despite Qiu'er's support.

• Huo Yuhao stopped forging and recalled the figure in Long Haochen's Eternal Domain creating and destroying planets, noticing how energy gathered and changed form.
• Huo Yuhao compressed the Heavenly Refinement metal with her Spiritual Power until it became liquid.
• Huo Yuhao took the ruined Ice Extreme God of War Armor from her Bracelet and refined its Ice Extreme Divine Crystal with Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and six elements.
• Agares stopped the Demon Gods from intervening, while Qiu'er prepared to support Huo Yuhao with her Power of Fate.
• Huo Yuhao enveloped the descending seven-element Heavenly Tribulation with the liquid crystal and controlled its energies, continuing despite severe strain.

Huo Yuhao forged a new suit of Battle Armor from the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, embedding countless Magic Arrays and a thread of the laws of heaven and earth. When a Heavenly Tribulation struck the completed armor, he used its Stillness of All Things Domain to freeze and redirect the lightning, scattering the thunderclouds before descending.

• Huo Yuhao poured Heavenly Refinement metals into the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal as it absorbed the Heavenly Tribulation, exhausting his Spiritual Power but discovering a thread of the laws of heaven and earth within it.
• Huo Yuhao shaped the crystal into Battle Armor and formed millions of interconnected Magic Arrays that could activate the armor without his Soul Power.
• The completed armor released a pressure that overwhelmed many Demon Gods, and Yun Ming realized its might surpassed any Four-Word Battle Armor he had seen.
• Huo Yuhao faced a new Heavenly Tribulation and activated the armor's Stillness of All Things Domain, halting the lightning and the energy around him.
• Huo Yuhao gathered the frozen bolts into a ball of lightning and hurled it into the thunderclouds, scattering them before descending.

Tang Hao and Ah Yin discussed Douluo Star’s decline and the Ten-Thousand-Year Plan while Huo Yuhao recovered after forging the Ice-Extreme God of War. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao putting the Battle Armor away and beginning to consider what the Heavenly Refinement metals’ reaction might mean, but his exhaustion forced him to rest.

• Tang Hao told Ah Yin that Douluo Star’s power was declining, limiting his control as Plane Master, and said he hoped Tang San’s Ten-Thousand-Year Plan would succeed.
• Ah Yin explained that Tang Wulin had planted the Seed of Life in Sea God Lake and was gathering Life Energy so it could grow and let her consciousness spread across Douluo Star.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin discussed a surge of Life Energy from another plane and the Silver Dragon King, and Tang Hao assured her that Tang San had made preparations.
• After dealing with the Heavenly Tribulation, Huo Yuhao staggered from the strain, and Xiao An cleaned the blood from his face while Qiu’er and the others gathered around him.
• Huo Yuhao said he needed several days to recover and named his new Four-Word Battle Armor the Ice-Extreme God of War, though it had not transcended its limits.
• Huo Yuhao put away the Battle Armor and began thinking about the energy produced when the two liquid Heavenly Refinement metals touched, but his depleted Spiritual Power left him too dizzy to continue.

Huo Yuhao explained why he would not rush into a campaign against the Spirit Pagoda, saying he needed to prepare for the consequences and other threats as well. Later that night, he went to a warehouse instead of resting or cultivating.

• Na'er told Huo Yuhao that her cultivation was weak and her remaining space-element power was unstable after she returned her share of power to Gu Yuena.
• Huo Yuhao showed Na'er an improved Sun Moon Divine Needle designed to function like a satellite while retaining its original purpose.
• Na'er asked when Huo Yuhao planned to move against the Spirit Pagoda, and he explained that its widespread network and the aftermath of the plan required careful preparation.
• Huo Yuhao considered the Plane Consciousness and the people in the Undead Demiplane, then went to a warehouse late that night.

Huo Yuhao tested a cockpitless, spiritually controlled mecha and successfully merged it with his Ice-Extreme God of War Armor. He also developed a new energy-containment method for a construction plan against the Abyss Plane, then took a break when Qiu'er arrived.

• Huo Yuhao controlled the gray mecha through a spiritual connection and made it perform complex movements and transform into other machines.
• Huo Yuhao merged the mecha with his Ice-Extreme God of War Armor, confirmed the combination worked, and began adjusting the mecha further.
• Huo Yuhao experimented with containing high-intensity liquid energy using forged metal, Soul Guidance Arrays, and Alchemy Magic Arrays.
• Huo Yuhao explained to Qiu'er that the construction plan was intended to counter the Abyss Plane if it threatened Douluo Star.

Huo Yuhao traveled with Qiu'er to Mingdu, grieving over the person she had never been able to face and the memories tied to the city's destruction. She entered the Royal Cemetery alone and stood before an unadorned grave, finally gathering the courage to approach it.

• Qiu'er comforted Huo Yuhao as she wept over her unresolved feelings and guilt.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er took a Soul Guidance Train to Mingdu, where they remembered the devastation that had once struck the city.
• Qiu'er let Huo Yuhao continue alone toward the Royal Cemetery while she went elsewhere.
• Huo Yuhao passed through the public cemetery and entered the secluded grounds where former monarchs were buried.
• Huo Yuhao stood before an unadorned grave, then took a deep breath and stepped toward it.

Huo Yuhao visited the grave of the Sun Moon Federation’s last powerful emperor, bringing offerings and quietly confronting his grief and regret over how little he had known him. After finding a measure of peace, he left an apology, visited Ju Zi’s grave, and looked toward Mingdu.

• Huo Yuhao cleaned the emperor’s gravestone and arranged offerings, reflecting on their few encounters and the life he knew only through books.
• Huo Yuhao sat beside the grave, murmured his mother’s nursery rhyme, and fell asleep; when he woke, birds and small animals had eaten the offerings.
• Huo Yuhao felt less anxious, apologized to the man at the grave, and left to finish what he had left undone.
• Huo Yuhao cleaned Ju Zi’s grave, left her a fish he had grilled, and then looked toward Mingdu.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er traveled to the western desert of the Sun Moon Federation to find surviving soul beasts. After subduing Sand Demon Worms, they agreed to follow them beneath the sand and discovered the desert held more than they had expected.

• Austin Griffin complained that Huo Yuhao had stayed silent in his Sea of Consciousness, while Yun Ming again asked whether he would return to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er decided to travel west to the Blazing Fire Basin desert, where they hoped to find surviving soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao used his soul power to subdue five Sand Demon Worms, and Qiu'er asked the ten-thousand-year worm to gather the soul beasts in the area.
• The ten-thousand-year Sand Demon Worm made a request, and Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er agreed to ride with the worms beneath the desert.
• As they traveled underground, Huo Yuhao explained to Qiu'er that every soul beast played a role in nature, and they sensed a vast region ahead.

Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er found a hidden cavern housing about a thousand weakened Soul Beasts and met the dragon girl who led them. She accepted their offer to relocate the group and explained that the Soul Beasts had hidden in the desert to escape capture by human Soul Masters.

• The Sand Demon Worm carried Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er to a cavern beneath the desert, where a vampire bat sounded an alarm before Qiu'er frightened it unconscious.
• Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er encountered roughly a thousand hostile, weakened Soul Beasts, including desert and cave-dwelling species.
• A dragon girl emerged with two Thousand Ton Ants and asked which of them was the Auspicious Beast.
• Huo Yuhao introduced Qiu'er as the Emperor Auspicious Beast and identified himself, while Qiu'er explained that they had come to take the Soul Beasts away.
• The dragon girl agreed to their offer and explained that scarce resources and human Soul Masters' hunts had driven the Soul Beasts into hiding.

The Dragon Girl showed Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er how the Soul Beasts beneath the desert survived by scavenging from a human sewage pipe. After hearing how desperate their lives had become, Huo Yuhao promised to take them away, and Qiu'er resolved to help him.

• The Dragon Girl explained that displaced Soul Beasts had nowhere safe to go and were struggling to survive beneath the desert.
• The Dragon Girl led Huo Yuhao and Qiu'er to a sewage pipe where she collected scraps of food for the group.
• The Dragon Girl told Qiu'er that she was the last Dragon Girl she knew of and that Soul Beasts had accepted Huo Yuhao's offer because they could no longer endure their conditions.
• Huo Yuhao ate a piece of the rotten food, then told the Dragon Girl to gather the Soul Beasts so they could leave.
• Qiu'er told Huo Yuhao she now understood what she needed to shoulder, and the two agreed to face it together.

Wu Jie persuaded Alba to invade Douluo Star, but secretly planned to use the expedition to eliminate him and seize the life force of a weaker, damaged plane. Wu Jie opened a passage toward that plane using a Magic Array and the blood of nearly one hundred demons.

• Wu Jie offered Alba a red crystal containing an aura that could open a passage to Douluo Star and asked for forty percent of its life force in return.
• Alba absorbed the aura, then used his Quasi-God-level pressure to force Wu Jie to accept only ten percent.
• After Alba left, Wu Jie revealed that he intended to send Alba and his legion to their deaths, then claim the life force of a damaged plane for himself.
• Wu Jie sacrificed nearly one hundred demons to power a Magic Array and sent a drop of his Essence Blood into the passage to open it.

Tang Wulin returned from the Golden Trident’s Sea God trial after it protected him from Di Tian, then hurried back to Shrek Academy, where he learned how precarious its rebuilding and Yun Ming’s recovery remained. He was relieved to hear Xie Xie and the others were alive, but their hesitant response hinted that something else had gone wrong.

• Shrek Academy resumed rebuilding with supplies from Lan Mo and covert support from the Federation, while Ya Li continued trying to awaken Yun Ming’s dormant soul.
• Tang Wulin returned and found the academy’s remaining staff and students resentful of him for sending them to Devil Island for special training.
• Tang Wulin and his companions went to the Star Dou Great Forest seeking life-energy treasures, where Di Tian attacked them and the ferocious beasts fought the others.
• Unable to control Tang San’s remaining Unfixed Storm uses, Tang Wulin used the Golden Trident against Di Tian, but the weapon enveloped him and brought him inside it.
• Tang Wulin completed the Sea God’s First Trial and returned to the real world, then contacted Xie Xie and hurried back to Shrek Academy after hearing his companions’ hesitant voices.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Tang Wulin learned that Gu Yuena would headline the Spirit Pagoda’s martial matchmaking tournament and decided to enter with his friends to bring her back and expose the Spirit Pagoda’s scheme. Meanwhile, Yuanen Yehui sensed an unexplained urge to cultivate faster, and Huo Yuhao faced trouble in the Undead Demiplane.

• Tang Wulin reported his encounter with Di Tian to the four Limit Douluos, who told him that Xie Xie and the others had been safely teleported back to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin wondered whether Gu Yuena had been responsible for the silver light that rescued his companions, then went to meet them.
• Yue Zhengyu showed Tang Wulin a report on the Spirit Pagoda’s martial matchmaking tournament and revealed that Gu Yuena would be its central figure.
• After hearing Gu Yuena announce the tournament date, Tang Wulin signed up, and his companions agreed to join him to bring her back and foil the Spirit Pagoda’s plan.
• Yuanen Yehui noticed her cultivation was advancing unusually quickly after her breakthrough to Eight-Ring Soul Douluo, while Huo Yuhao struggled in the Undead Demiplane.

Huo Yuhao and the others assessed the mysterious power that had entered Na'er and prepared to investigate its source. They also concluded that Gu Yuena might be using the Spirit Pagoda's Tournament to Find a Spouse to secretly influence soul masters, and planned for Huo Yuhao to enter the event in disguise.

• Huo Yuhao reassured Na'er that the power inside her had caused no immediate discomfort, while Vasak's divination suggested there would be no great danger.
• Huo Yuhao told Yue Ye to strengthen the First Legion's training and surveillance of the Undead Demiplane, but not to mobilize the other standing legions.
• After Na'er voiced concern about Gu Yuena, Huo Yuhao showed the group the Spirit Pagoda's tournament video and explained his suspicion that Gu Yuena intended to use its small world to influence soul masters.
• Na'er agreed that Gu Yuena could use the tournament to spread her aura among participants, and the others concluded that Huo Yuhao should enter in disguise to investigate.
• Huo Yuhao stayed in the Undead Demiplane to rest and cultivate while waiting for the tournament to begin on July 18.

Huo Yuhao planned to stop Gu Yuena’s scheme, purge the Spirit Pagoda, and prepare for threats from the Abyss Plane while designing soul tools. Meanwhile, a mysterious power entered Na’er, transforming her abilities just as Huo Yuhao arrived to examine her.

• Huo Yuhao checked Xiao An’s rapidly growing soul power and told him to rest and slow his cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao considered the threats posed by Gu Yuena’s plans, the Spirit Pagoda, the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Abyss Creatures as he worked on soul tools.
• Na’er went outside Demon City to cultivate, frustrated by her slow progress but wanting to help the soul beasts.
• A blood-red drop emerged through a spatial rift and entered Na’er, causing a new power to merge with her Space Elements Control ability.
• Huo Yuhao sensed an unauthorized entry into the Undead Demiplane, found Na’er, and used his spiritual power to examine her after her abilities changed.

Huo Yuhao discovered that a strange power from the Demon Plane was transforming Na'er, and Yun Ming warned that it could open a passage for demons when she became a Titled Douluo. Huo Yuhao heard Yun Ming's account of a past invasion but left without deciding to seal Na'er's power.

• Huo Yuhao examined Na'er and found a new power restoring and enhancing her weakened body.
• Yun Ming identified the power as coming from the Demon Plane and urged Huo Yuhao to seal it before Na'er reached Titled Douluo.
• Yun Ming recounted how a Fallen Angel Soul Master's ninth Soul Ring had opened a passage that let demons invade Douluo Star, and how she later took her own life.
• Austin Griffin mocked Yun Ming for stopping the invasion instead of attacking the Demon Plane, but Yun Ming did not answer.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Yun Ming, said they should not reach a conclusion too hastily, and returned to the real world without deciding Na'er's fate.

Na'er’s mysterious power transformed her Martial Soul into a Purgatory Messenger, and Huo Yuhao decided to use it to trace the Demon Plane that threatened the Undead Demiplane. After seven days of exhausting work, he and the others found the Demon Plane’s location.

• Na'er displayed her transformed Martial Soul and explained that the new power had restored her talent, though its origin made her uneasy.
• After Huo Yuhao explained the power’s connection to the Demon Plane, Na'er sealed it, but Huo Yuhao urged her to cultivate and proposed tracing the power back to its source.
• Yue Ye and Moon Demon God Agares supported investigating the Demon Plane before it could open a passage to the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao, the Demon Gods, powerful Soul Beasts, and spiritual cultivators worked together, enduring more than a thousand failures to trace the power’s path.
• After seven days, Huo Yuhao and the others obtained the Demon Plane’s coordinates, while Tang Ziran and his wife helped care for those exhausted by the effort.

Huo Yuhao assigned A Bao to investigate the Spirit Pagoda's Tournament to Find a Spouse, where Gu Yuena’s plan might unfold, while he prepared to travel to the Demon Plane himself. A Bao reluctantly agreed after Yue Ye encouraged him, and Huo Yuhao began preparing a convincing identity and equipment for his mission to Douluo Star.

• Huo Yuhao concluded that A Bao was the best candidate to infiltrate the Tournament to Find a Spouse, despite A Bao’s protests and Leng Xiao’s amusement.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Leng Xiao lacked the necessary disguise skills and Qiu'er risked being recognized, while A Bao’s condition made the disguise easier.
• A Bao tried to refuse because he feared the mission would affect his relationship with Yue Ye, but Yue Ye told him she trusted him, and he agreed.
• Huo Yuhao prepared for his own journey to the Demon Plane and gave Qiu'er and Yue Ye permission to open the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao invented a background for A Bao as a member of an obscure Reclusive Family and fabricated a personal history in a remote Sun Moon Federation city.
• Huo Yuhao prepared aura-concealing and Soul Ring-simulating Soul Tools for A Bao, along with backup Three-Word Battle Armor to avoid drawing attention with his rare four-word armor.

Huo Yuhao traveled to the Demon Plane to scout its situation, leaving Qiu'er in charge of preparations in the Undead Demiplane. A Bao and Huang Shuo went to Mingdu ahead of the Spirit Pagoda’s Tournament to Find a Spouse, where they arrived amid a crush of travelers.

• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Na'er felt well after receiving the Demon Plane’s power and reassured her that it should cause no major problems once the plane’s threat was resolved.
• Huo Yuhao said goodbye to Xiao An and the others, then used the prepared Magic Array to teleport to the Demon Plane while leaving Soul Tools behind to stabilize the Undead Demiplane’s connection to Douluo Star.
• Qiu'er told everyone to stay alert for action against the Demon Plane, while A Bao and Huang Shuo prepared to travel to the Sun Moon Federation and gather information for Yue Ye.
• A Bao and Huang Shuo arrived in Mingdu aboard a packed ordinary Soul Guidance Train carriage, having entered openly under their real names and with only minor changes to their appearances.
• A Bao and Huang Shuo emerged into the crowded station just before several people stepped out of a high-class carriage.

A Bao and Huang Shuo watched Tang Wulin and Sima Jinchi stage a public dispute while disguised, then left to prepare for the Tournament to Find a Spouse. Tang Wulin explained his plans for the tournament and went to the Mingdu Blacksmith Association to meet Zhen Hua.

• A Bao and Huang Shuo overheard the disguised Tang Wulin and Sima Jinchi claim that the Spirit Pagoda had refused the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan a meeting with Gu Yuena.
• A Bao and Huang Shuo left the station to prepare for the Tournament to Find a Spouse.
• Tang Wulin told Sima Jinchi that they had staged the exchange to conceal their identities and draw attention to Shrek Academy's return, disrupt the Spirit Pagoda's plans, and recruit Soul Masters.
• Tang Wulin rested at a concealed Tang Sect property, then disguised himself again and went to the Mingdu Blacksmith Association to meet Zhen Hua.