Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao brought the rescued children to Nuoding City's Spirit Hall and entrusted them to Ma Xiunuo, then set out alone to eliminate the bandits. He reached their hidden stronghold in the border mountains and waited until nightfall to plan his attack.

• Huo Yuhao arrived in Nuoding City with the quiet, rescued children and asked Spirit Hall for help.
• Su Yuntao took Huo Yuhao to Ma Xiunuo, who agreed to arrange care and possible education for the children.
• Huo Yuhao gave Ma Xiunuo an envelope marking the bandits' location and left by using Simulation and his Ice Feather Wings.
• Huo Yuhao flew for four days to the border mountains, where the bandits' stronghold was hidden.
• Huo Yuhao learned from the bandits' memories that the stronghold had many sentries and exits and was led by a likely six-ring Demon Lion Soul Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao concealed himself in a tree to restore his soul power and waited for midnight before attacking.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated a bandit stronghold and silently eliminated its sentries and guards. He entered the lair’s cave, where bandits were reveling and abusing slaves, and followed one of them into a compartment.

• Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill and the memories of a captured bandit to locate and kill the hidden sentries in the mountain forest.
• Huo Yuhao cleared the remaining sentries and approached the bandits’ lair, while Elder Yi worried about Huo Yuhao’s lack of emotional response to killing.
• Huo Yuhao surveyed the stockade and cave with Spiritual Detection and found roughly three hundred people inside, including bandits, Soul Masters, and slaves.
• Huo Yuhao killed the guards at the gate and the patrolling bandits, then eliminated those sleeping in the stockade.
• Huo Yuhao entered the lively cave and followed a bandit who was leading a slave into a compartment.

Huo Yuhao used his invisibility, speed, and Tian Meng's Domain to slaughter the bandits in the cave and protect the enslaved girls. With only the Soul Ring-bearing bandits and their Six-Ring leader left, he wounded the leader and sought to exploit the fear spreading through the cave.

• Huo Yuhao killed the bandit in the alcove and told the enslaved girl to hide.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to warn the slaves, then activated Tian Meng's Domain and Ice Feather Wings.
• Huo Yuhao moved invisibly through the cave, killing the bandits as panic and chaos spread.
• Huo Yuhao killed a two-ring bandit, froze his head, and hurled it at the leader.
• Huo Yuhao used Ice Explosion Technique on the frozen head, injuring the Six-Ring leader and killing nearby bandits.

Huo Yuhao wore down the Demon Lion Soul Emperor’s resolve and forced him to flee deeper into the cave. He pursued the wounded Soul Emperor while conserving his strength, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao killed the bandits around the Demon Lion Soul Emperor, but the prolonged battle left him low on Soul Power.
• The Demon Lion Soul Emperor mistook a bird call for an attack and unleashed a wide Soul Skill; Huo Yuhao blocked it with the Ice Extreme God of War Armor to protect the hidden slaves.
• The Demon Lion Soul Emperor attacked Huo Yuhao wildly at close range, and Huo Yuhao revealed his seven Soul Rings, including five scarlet Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• The Demon Lion Soul Emperor’s mental defenses collapsed, and he fled deeper into the cave; Huo Yuhao chased him and struck him with Withering Art, Death Entanglement, and Dark Night Judgment.
• Huo Yuhao held back from using more Soul Skills to recover Soul Power as he followed the sobbing, wounded Soul Emperor.

Huo Yuhao killed the Demon Lion Soul Emperor, freed Cat Girl and the other captives, and helped them recover in the mountain stronghold. While searching the cave for supplies, he found a map to Slaughter City, marked as a paradise for the Fallen, and considered how the era’s definition of the Fallen differed from that of Evil Soul Masters ten thousand years later.

• Huo Yuhao killed the Demon Lion Soul Emperor and freed Cat Girl from a golden cage.
• Huo Yuhao found the other slaves hiding in the cave and led them to the stronghold, where he cleared a place for them to rest.
• Cat Girl thanked Huo Yuhao, and he asked everyone to call him Yuhao instead of “my lord.”
• Huo Yuhao checked the captives’ poor health and secretly added his life-giving blood to their food, which they ate after Cat Girl tried it first.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the cave for supplies and found a map marked “Slaughter City, paradise of the Fallen.”
• Huo Yuhao considered how the era’s definition of the Fallen differed from the later definition of Evil Soul Masters and wondered whether that later intolerance had helped the Holy Spirit Cult grow powerful.

Huo Yuhao helped the freed slaves recover, then left them in Spirit Hall’s care after spotting its force approaching. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong connected Huo Yuhao to the mysterious creator of the Mystic Water Pills and sent Hu Liena and others to gain experience while Ghost Douluo investigated him.

• Huo Yuhao shared supplies and dinner with Cat Girl and the others, then reflected on inequality and his own past as Cat Girl spoke about being enslaved because of her cat ears and tail.
• Elder Yi advised Huo Yuhao to accept that growth took time and not become trapped in self-doubt.
• While patrolling, Huo Yuhao spotted about a hundred Spirit Hall members approaching and told the freed slaves to follow their arrangements before leaving the stronghold.
• Ma Xiunuo had sent Huo Yuhao’s letter about the bandits to Spirit Hall, where it reached Supreme Pontiff Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong recognized Huo Yuhao’s description as matching the person behind the Mystic Water Pills and ordered Ghost Douluo to protect Hu Liena’s group and look for clues about him.

Spirit Hall investigated Huo Yuhao’s massacre of a bandit stronghold, and Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo to prioritize finding and recruiting him. Huo Yuhao continued south, but the Auspicious Beast found him in Star Dou Forest and persuaded the Scarlet King to bring him to the Core Area for food.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan accompanied Spirit Hall’s party to the bandit stronghold, where they found the bandits dead and the rescued women said Huo Yuhao had killed them before leaving.
• Ghost Douluo inspected the bloodied caves and later reported the operation to Bibi Dong, who ordered him to report future traces of Huo Yuhao and try to win him over peacefully.
• Huo Yuhao watched the rescued women depart, then continued south with Elder Yi concealing his presence.
• A week later, the Auspicious Beast found Huo Yuhao in Star Dou Forest and demanded that he make her food.
• The Scarlet King tried to take the Auspicious Beast back, but relented when she threatened to leave the forest and allowed Huo Yuhao to accompany them to the Core Area.

Huo Yuhao spent a month cooking for the Auspicious Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest before preparing to leave again. He departed after promising to return, while the Auspicious Beast watched him go and agreed to stay under the Scarlet King's and Di Tian's protection.

• Huo Yuhao followed the Auspicious Beast and the Scarlet King to their dens, where the Auspicious Beast eagerly ate the food he had brought.
• The Scarlet King gathered ingredients and helped Huo Yuhao cook, while the Auspicious Beast ate dish after dish.
• For the next month, Huo Yuhao cooked a wide variety of food for the Auspicious Beast and stored the finished dishes in her Necklace.
• The Auspicious Beast asked Huo Yuhao whether the outside world was good, and he told her it could be both cruel and rewarding before admitting he did not know.
• Huo Yuhao promised to return and asked the Auspicious Beast to stay in the forest, remain with the Scarlet King, and stay within Di Tian's sight; she reluctantly agreed.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Scarlet King to keep the Auspicious Beast safe, then left the forest as she watched him disappear.

Huo Yuhao returned to Fu'an Village to tend the graves of the people who had raised him, then set out for Slaughter City. Months later, after making Soul Guidance weapons along the way, he prepared to refine the bones in his torso.

• Huo Yuhao left the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled south through the Star Luo Empire, binding his growing breasts to make traveling easier.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Fu'an Village, cleared weeds from the villagers' graves, and replaced their wooden markers with stone ones.
• Huo Yuhao left the village after deciding to visit Slaughter City, which a map described as a paradise for the Fallen.
• Over the next several months, Huo Yuhao traveled west, gathered rare metals, and made fifteen Fixed Soul Cannon Shells.
• Huo Yuhao asked Elder Yi to help refine his next bone, and Elder Yi prepared to refine the bones in his torso.

After Elder Yi completed the refinement of Huo Yuhao’s torso bones, Huo Yuhao endured a disturbing dream and recovered in the Undead Demiplane. He then reached a remote town in the Star Luo Empire, where he sensed an unusually pure killing intent and entered cautiously under cover of his Simulation Soul Skill.

• Elder Yi refined Huo Yuhao’s torso bones, inscribed skills on them, fused in the Ice Extreme God of War Armor’s breastplate, and restored the bones to his body.
• Huo Yuhao dreamed of walking through darkness toward crying, then woke with blood flowing from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.
• Huo Yuhao told Elder Yi that he was healthy and had reached rank thirty-six Soul Power; Elder Yi said fifteen days had passed during the refinement.
• Huo Yuhao rested for two days in the Undead Demiplane and tested Ice Emperor's Wrath on a Bone Dragon, damaging its skull.
• Huo Yuhao traveled for a month to a remote town in the western Star Luo Empire and sensed its pure killing intent.
• After Elder Yi warned him that some parts of the town were beyond his perception, Huo Yuhao used his Simulation Soul Skill to enter unseen.

Huo Yuhao followed a patron from a strange tavern into Slaughter City, where his Soul Ring skills stopped working and the Dread Knight, Kost, challenged him to a fight. After defeating Kost, Huo Yuhao cautiously accepted a black entry token numbered 8994.

• Huo Yuhao waited invisibly in the tavern overnight after Elder Yi sensed something strange beneath its counter.
• A burly patron ordered a Bloody Mary, then opened a passage beneath the counter and went down; Huo Yuhao followed him through the tunnel.
• At the entrance to Slaughter City, Huo Yuhao lost access to his Soul Ring skills, and the Dread Knight, Kost, charged at him for breaking the rules.
• Huo Yuhao used his armor, Ice Plume Sword, and Ice Explosion Technique to bring down Kost’s warhorse and defeat the knight.
• Kost declared Huo Yuhao the winner and offered him a token, which Huo Yuhao picked up only after Kost lowered his weapon and made no further move.

Huo Yuhao entered Slaughter City, learned its brutal rules, and began fighting for survival while trying to understand the killing intent that pervaded it. After a week of daily arena matches and attacks, he remained free of the murderous aura that gathered around the city’s other inhabitants, but still questioned what all the killing meant.

• Huo Yuhao entered Slaughter City with the Veiled Woman, who explained its inner and outer districts and the path to becoming the God of Slaughter.
• When his protection ended, Huo Yuhao killed an attacker and discussed Slaughter City’s mysterious power with Elder Yi, who warned that it restricted everyone’s abilities.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and killed all nine opponents, becoming the sole survivor of his first match.
• Over the following week, Huo Yuhao fought one arena match each day and killed fifty-four opponents inside the arena and thirty-nine attackers outside it.
• Huo Yuhao examined the Bloody Mary and wondered whether the city’s killing came from self-preservation or the desire to vent, while noticing that he had not developed the others’ murderous aura.

While Raven and A Ling's encounters with Ning Fengzhi made them increasingly wary, Ning tried to recruit them for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After Raven stopped going into the city, Evil Lord decided to confront Ning, and led Raven, A Ling, and Wolf King toward the sect.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong met Raven and A Ling in Heaven Dou City, and Ning paid for their meal to introduce himself and offer them a connection to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Gu Rong sensed that Raven and A Ling were at least Titled Douluo-level, and Ning suspected they were linked to the Mystic Water Pill and the missing Huo Yuhao.
• Ning ordered his subordinates to watch for the women and repeatedly tried to befriend them, but Raven and A Ling grew irritated by the attention.
• A Ling stopped Raven from attacking Ning in the street, and Raven stayed at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to avoid the people watching her.
• After A Ling told Evil Lord about the harassment, Evil Lord gathered Raven, A Ling, and Wolf King and flew with them toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving Octagonal to guard their home.

The Evil Lord confronted Ning Fengzhi at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and warned him to stop bothering Raven and A Ling. After estimating the Evil Lord’s overwhelming strength, Ning Fengzhi withdrew his people from Heaven Dou City, where Raven and A Ling later found him gone.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin whether he recognized Raven and A Ling, but Chen Xin had never heard of them.
• The Evil Lord arrived with Raven and the others, effortlessly immobilized Gu Rong and Chen Xin, and revealed four simulated Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• The Evil Lord returned Ning Fengzhi’s invitation card and warned him that constantly bothering ladies was not gentlemanly.
• Ning Fengzhi promised to mend his ways, and the Evil Lord left with Raven and the others.
• Chen Xin judged the Evil Lord’s cultivation to be level 98 or 99, so Ning Fengzhi ordered his people to withdraw from Heaven Dou City.
• A few days later, Raven and A Ling returned to Heaven Dou City and did not encounter Ning Fengzhi.

After returning to the Far North, the Snow Empress reunited with the Ice Empress, Tian Meng, Xiao Bai, and A-Tai, and they spent time together over a meal. Hoping to bring Huo Yuhao a gift, they decided to search the Far North for the hundred-thousand-year snow lotus, though none of them knew where it was.

• The Snow Empress returned to cultivating alone until the Ice Empress, Tian Meng, Xiao Bai, and A-Tai came to visit because they were bored.
• The Snow Empress grilled fish for everyone, but the meal tasted poor; the Ice Empress and the others finished theirs and praised her to comfort her.
• The Snow Empress suggested finding the snow lotus Huo Yuhao had mentioned so they could bring it to him as a gift.
• Xiao Bai admitted she had been asleep and did not know where the snow lotus was, prompting the Ice Empress to scold her.
• The Snow Empress urged everyone to search the Far North for the snow lotus, and they agreed.

The Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Tian Meng, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai searched the Far North for a snow lotus while reflecting on how their lives had changed since meeting Huo Yuhao. After finding the flower, they took it with them and flew back toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• The five searched the Far North for the snow lotus, initially taking their time as the Snow Empress and Ice Empress walked hand in hand.
• After five days of searching and reflecting around a campfire, A-Tai suggested they find the lotus quickly and return to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tian Meng found the snow lotus the next morning, and the Ice Empress scolded Tian Meng for shouting instead of using spiritual power to contact them.
• The Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai returned after leaving instructions with their clans, and the Snow Empress lifted the snow lotus with its roots and soil.
• The five cheered and flew away from the Far North toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the snow lotus.

Li Ya returned to the Mermaid Clan after four days of travel and reunited with her mother and older sister, Li Na. When she showed them medicinal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, they assumed she had brought home a potential romantic interest and began interrogating her about the “friend,” leaving Li Ya trying to correct their misunderstanding.

• Li Ya reached the Mermaid Clan's seabed territory and swam to the Sea Princess's palace.
• The Sea Princess barely noticed Li Ya had been away, offered her seaweed, and watched her struggle to eat it.
• Li Ya showed the Sea Princess the medicinal herbs she had brought from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Sea Princess questioned Li Ya about the friend who had given her the herbs, while Li Na guessed what their mother meant and joined in.
• Li Ya interrupted them and said they were not talking about the same thing.

Li Ya returned home and told the Sea Princess and Li Na about Huo Yuhao, her increased cultivation, and the future she remembered, but they dismissed her account as muddled nonsense. The Sea Princess decided to accompany Li Ya if she went out again, while privately admitting she also wanted a break from home.

• The Sea Princess discovered Li Ya’s cultivation had nearly reached two hundred thousand years, and Li Ya explained that Huo Yuhao had given her Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and herbs.
• The Sea Princess and Li Na mistook Huo Yuhao for Li Ya’s partner until Li Ya clarified that Huo Yuhao was a human woman and only her friend.
• Li Ya recounted how Huo Yuhao had saved her and described Soul Spirit Contracts, but the Sea Princess and Li Na believed her memories had become confused and sent her to rest.
• Li Na asked the Sea Princess what to do if Li Ya went out again, and the Sea Princess decided she would follow her rather than leave her unprotected.
• The Sea Princess explained to Li Na how ocean clans balanced their relations with Poseidon and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, then admitted she wanted to go out and clear her head.

Li Ya escaped the Mermaid Clan’s seaweed-only meals and brought her mother, the Sea Princess, to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. There, the Sea Princess met the gathering of powerful soul beasts and learned that Tian Meng had reached a million years of cultivation.

• Li Ya complained about eating seaweed for fifteen days and left the Mermaid Clan, prompting the Sea Princess to follow her while Li Na temporarily managed the clan.
• Li Ya reached shore and headed for a human town, but the Sea Princess caught up and insisted on accompanying her; Li Ya gave her a soul tool Yuhao had made to conceal her soul beast identity.
• Li Ya and the Sea Princess flew for three days toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, with Li Ya rushing to eat a fruit after arriving and the Sea Princess marveling at the place.
• Li Ya introduced her mother to the Snow Empress, the Evil Lord, and the other soul beasts gathered at the well.
• Li Ya introduced Tian Meng as a million-year soul beast, and the Sea Princess bowed to her before the Ice Empress explained that Tian Meng had no fighting ability.

The Sea Princess learned that Heavenly Tribulations and the ban on Soul Beasts becoming gods came from the Divine Realm, and she grieved over the fate of her kind and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. She chose to stay at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to meet Huo Yuhao, then joined Li Ya and the others for a feast in Heaven Dou City.

• The Sea Princess asked the Snow Empress and the Evil Lord about the Divine Realm, and the Evil Lord confirmed that Soul Beasts had been cursed with Heavenly Tribulations and barred from godhood.
• The Sea Princess mocked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s dream of godhood, then asked why the Dragon God had cursed Soul Beasts; the Evil Lord admitted they did not know the reason.
• The Evil Lord said he trusted Huo Yuhao because she had kept her promises, and the Sea Princess decided to stay until Huo Yuhao returned so she could meet her daughter Li Ya’s human ally.
• The Sea Princess reflected on her daughters’ Heavenly Tribulations and mourned that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and other Soul Beasts had been denied the chance to become gods.
• The Sea Princess ate enthusiastically at a Heaven Dou City restaurant, while Li Ya praised Huo Yuhao’s cooking and asked about her sister; the Sea Princess pretended not to hear.