Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao prepared his Soul Tools and met He Caitou, who secretly disguised himself to visit the Imperial City and grapple with his desire to avenge his murdered family. Huo Yuhao then accompanied Jing Hongchen toward the Evil Demon Forest to obtain his sixth Soul Ring, while noticing a possible key to deciphering the Illustrious Virtue Hall's secret Plan One documents.

• Huo Yuhao reviewed his Soul Tools, including his Soul Guidance Smoke, defensive goggles, and Huo Yun'er's White Tiger Dagger, before He Caitou asked him to go out in Mingdu.
• After Huo Yuhao declined, He Caitou disguised himself and went to a rooftop overlooking the Imperial City, where he vented his rage over his family's deaths and his inability to kill the ailing Sun Moon Emperor in time.
• He Caitou returned toward the Sun Moon Academy, while Huo Yuhao went to Jing Hongchen's office to prepare for a nighttime trip to the Evil Demon Forest for a mental-attribute Soul Beast.
• Huo Yuhao considered how He Caitou might inherit the throne and become an ally of Jing Hongchen, then used Spiritual Detection and recognized a book that could help him decipher documents about Plan One.
• Jing Hongchen invited Huo Yuhao to leave with him and test his strength, and Huo Yuhao agreed.

Huo Yuhao traveled with Jing Hongchen to the Evil Demon Forest and killed a fifty-three-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant. After absorbing its soul ring, he gained the Mental Illusion skill and prepared to combine it with his other abilities.

• Jing Hongchen flew Huo Yuhao to the Evil Demon Forest and said he would find a suitable Evil Eye Tyrant for him to hunt.
• Myriad Souls Elder and Jing Hongchen drove a fifty-three-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant toward Huo Yuhao, then watched as Huo Yuhao fought it alone.
• Huo Yuhao overcame the Evil Eye Tyrant's Spiritual Force Field and Evil Eye Gaze, then saw through its Mental Illusion and killed it.
• Huo Yuhao collected the Evil Eye Tyrant's soul-origin crystal but refrained from absorbing its power while Jing Hongchen and Myriad Souls Elder watched.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the soul ring and gained Mental Illusion as his sixth soul skill.

Huo Yuhao acquired the Mental Illusion soul skill and learned of the Holy Spirit Cult’s ominous plans for the upcoming tournament in Mingdu. After reflecting on his own intent, he visited Jing Hongchen to propose a deal.

• Huo Yuhao concealed his Mental Illusion skill from Jing Hongchen and listened as Myriad Souls Douluo discussed the Evil Eye Tyrant’s bloodline and the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans for the tournament.
• Several months later, Lin Jiayi announced a new tournament format with sect teams, individual elimination matches, and seven-on-seven battles, while the Hongchen Siblings were named as two of Sun Moon Academy’s reserved team members.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the Holy Spirit Cult would benefit from chaos at the tournament and wondered whether it planned to attack the gathered teams in Mingdu.
• Ji Juechen challenged Huo Yuhao, endured his Soul Shock but was injured, and asked about Huo Yuhao’s intent; Huo Yuhao decided to pursue his own intent.
• Huo Yuhao visited Jing Hongchen in the Illustrious Virtue Hall and proposed that they make a deal.

Huo Yuhao negotiated his withdrawal from the Sun Moon Academy team by promising Jing Hongchen that the Northern Land Family would support the Hongchen Family during the emperor’s succession. After the exchange students departed, Huo Yuhao revealed that he planned to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Imperial Family, hunt evil soul masters, and enter the tournament as a sect of his own.

• Huo Yuhao told Jing Hongchen he would represent the Northern Land Family instead of the Sun Moon Academy in the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao promised the Hongchen Family support from the Northern Land Family and the Northern Douluo during the new emperor’s succession, and Jing Hongchen agreed to let him leave.
• Jing Hongchen changed the main-team selection to five slots and invited Huo Yuhao to visit the Hongchen Family residence after the tournament.
• Huo Yuhao said he would investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Imperial Family while hunting evil soul masters.
• After bidding farewell to He Caitou and the other exchange students, Huo Yuhao declared that he would enter the tournament representing himself as a sect of one.

Huo Yuhao suspected the Sun Moon Empire planned to make a move during the Youth Soul Master Tournament, so he sought information about the Xishui Alliance in Mingdu. After finding one of its underground black markets, he used an Illustrious Virtue Hall Level 6 Soul Engineer badge to gain entry and began making contact with the alliance.

• Huo Yuhao considered the Sun Moon Empire’s growing military strength and the possibility that it would use the tournament to attack the continent’s other powers.
• Huo Yuhao searched Mingdu for information about the Xishui Alliance, but ordinary residents and vendors refused to discuss it.
• Huo Yuhao investigated Mingdu’s black markets and learned that the Xishui Alliance was the largest of the city’s three major underground powers.
• Huo Yuhao discovered a Xishui Alliance black market beneath an ordinary building, where Soul Kings guarded the entrance and dangerous figures operated below.
• Huo Yuhao showed a guard his Illustrious Virtue Hall Level 6 Soul Engineer badge and entered the underground market.

Huo Yuhao explored the Underground Black Market, learned that the Sun Moon Imperial Family planned to tighten rare-metal controls, and used an illusion to stop a young Soul Engineer from being cheated. He sensed a familiar Evil Soul Master aura and headed toward it.

• Huo Yuhao observed a buyer pay more than five times the official price for a small piece of mithril and learned that the Royal Family planned to tighten rare-metal controls.
• Huo Yuhao noticed a stallholder preparing to cheat a young Level 2 Soul Engineer by disguising coarse cold iron beneath a layer of adamantine.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Sensitivity and Mental Illusion to make the boy experience the scam before it happened, prompting him to reject the purchase and flee.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on the soul power needed to maintain several Soul Skills at once.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a familiar Evil Soul Master aura at the far end of the black market and walked toward it.

Huo Yuhao tracked the Holy Spirit Cult’s aura to an underground fighting arena in the Xishui Alliance Black Market, where evil soul masters killed challengers while gamblers wagered. After Huo Yuhao challenged the ring holder, he swiftly crippled the Evil Soul Master youth, and the Nether Thunder Douluo rushed in as Huo Yuhao invoked a gray flame.

• Huo Yuhao traced an evil soul master’s aura to the Black Market’s underground fighting arena and identified a powerful presence in a nearby room.
• A blond-haired youth explained that challengers fought Xishui Alliance ring holders for rare metals, while losers could be killed; Huo Yuhao then entered the arena and issued a challenge.
• The Nether Thunder Douluo sent his disciple, an Evil Soul Master Soul Emperor and Level 6 Soul Engineer, to fight Huo Yuhao, but ordered him to keep the challenger alive for possible recruitment.
• Huo Yuhao evaded the youth’s Energy-Gathering Destruction Cannon, seized him, and shattered his left knee before he could use his soul skills.
• The Nether Thunder Douluo rushed from his room when Huo Yuhao’s gray flame threatened to consume the youth’s head, and Huo Yuhao asked whether the Xishui Alliance would interfere with the match.

Huo Yuhao defeated and killed the Xishui Alliance’s champion, then let Nether Thunder Douluo mistake his soul-destroying power for proof that he was the Holy Spirit Cult’s prophesied Holy Son. He arrived at a meeting with the cult’s Deputy Cult Leader and discovered that its Holy Maiden was his acquaintance, Ma Xiaotao.

• Huo Yuhao used gray Undead Magic flames to destroy the evil soul master youth, and Nether Thunder Douluo declared him the winner.
• Nether Thunder Douluo offered Huo Yuhao rare metals and urged him to reveal his power, then identified him as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao claimed he had come to cooperate with the Xishui Alliance and revealed a gray soul ring, prompting Nether Thunder Douluo to welcome him as the Holy Son.
• The Holy Spirit Cult’s Deputy Cult Leader and elders gathered in a hotel VIP room to meet the supposed Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao entered the room and recognized the Holy Maiden, Ma Xiaotao, as an acquaintance.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult by presenting himself as its prophesied Holy Son and demonstrating his ability to summon undead. He secretly spared the two commoners the cult forced him to use, then learned the cult was preparing a major conspiracy to carry out after the tournament.

• Huo Yuhao met Deputy Cult Leader, Ma Xiaotao, and the Holy Spirit Cult elders, who scrutinized him as a possible counterfeit Holy Son.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his gray soul ring and claimed his martial soul was the Holy Necromancer, convincing Deputy Cult Leader that he was the Holy Son.
• Ma Xiaotao brought two commoners to the VIP room, and Huo Yuhao summoned skeletons that dragged them through a spatial gate.
• Deputy Cult Leader praised Huo Yuhao's power and announced that Holy Spirit Cult elders would gather at the Main Altar for his ceremonies.
• Huo Yuhao secretly returned the two men alive near the hotel and told them not to walk down dark alleys at night.
• Huo Yuhao, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress discussed the cult's temporary suspension of activity and its conspiracy, which would emerge after the tournament.

Ye Xishui tortured a man to strengthen the Death God Tower while the Holy Spirit Cult prepared a Spirit Ascension Ceremony for Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao watched the ceremony expose the cult’s soul-binding method, then walked toward the altar as its newly welcomed Holy Son.

• Ye Xishui killed a man and fed his resentful soul into the Death God Tower, then heard that the Deputy Cult Leader had found a Holy Son with soul-controlling and summoning powers.
• Ye Xishui told Long Xiaoyao that the Holy Spirit Cult aimed to clear evil soul masters’ names by helping the Sun Moon Empire unify the continent.
• Huo Yuhao arrived at the ceremony among more than four hundred evil soul masters and sensed Long Xiaoyao and another Limit Douluo watching from the darkness.
• Feng Ling subjected the Holy Servants to the Spirit Ascension Ceremony, and Huo Yuhao recognized that a powerful figure had placed a restriction on their souls.
• Feng Ling announced Huo Yuhao as the Holy Son, and he walked toward the altar while another youth watched with jealousy.

Huo Yuhao evaded the Holy Spirit Cult’s curse and faced Yan Feng in a public duel, using undead magic to defeat the Bone Dragon Soul Saint and cement his status as Holy Son. The cult embraced him, while Huo Yuhao secretly remained intent on destroying it.

• At the Spirit Ascension Ceremony, Huo Yuhao used Soul Freeze to avoid the Curse Stele’s attack, while Electrolux removed the curse and concealed the change from the mysterious powerhouse.
• Yan Feng challenged Huo Yuhao at the Spirit Welcoming Ceremony, and cult leader Zhongli Wu approved the duel so the assembly could witness the Holy Son’s power.
• Huo Yuhao used Death Lash against Yan Feng, then summoned the Frost Bone Dragon through the Gate of the Undead and left Yan Feng badly injured.
• Zhongli Wu and the Evil Soul Masters praised Huo Yuhao as their Holy Son, and Huo Yuhao declared that he would lead them to the summit while privately planning their destruction.

Huo Yuhao impressed the Holy Spirit Cult with his undead-summoning abilities and arranged to travel with three Evil Soul Masters to the Star Dou Great Forest. After secretly rescuing a man condemned for Ye Xishui’s daily execution, Huo Yuhao resolved to accelerate his hunt against the cult.

• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao recognized Huo Yuhao’s unusual abilities, while Zhongli Wu grew eager to see what his undead army could become.
• Zhongli Wu tested Huo Yuhao’s age and learned that consuming souls accelerated his cultivation; Huo Yuhao agreed to travel with Zhongli Tian, Zhongli Di, and Zhongli Ren to seek powerful beast spirits.
• Zhongli Wu explained that the cult’s daily execution supplied vengeful spirits for Ye Xishui’s soul tool, which he hoped would become a level 10 soul tool.
• When Zhongli Tian brought a farmer to Ye Xishui, Huo Yuhao secretly pulled the man through a Gate of the Undead and gave him a peaceful dream before he died.
• After Ye Xishui noticed the man had died smiling, Huo Yuhao told the Ice Empress and Snow Empress that he was running out of patience and wanted to speed up the hunt.

Huo Yuhao planned to hunt the Holy Spirit Cult’s members from the lower ranks upward while attending a meeting about the cult’s tournament schemes. He left the meeting determined to exploit the cult’s scattered strongholds, then killed two members at an isolated outpost.

• Huo Yuhao decided that targeting lower-ranking Evil Soul Masters would attract less attention than killing the cult’s elders, while still allowing him to pursue both plans.
• Feng Ling announced the Holy Spirit Cult’s plan to support the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the Youth Soul Master Tournament, and Huo Yuhao agreed to compete only from the semifinals onward.
• The elders discussed an Underground Soul Engineer Tournament intended to profit from gambling and gain control of rare metal mines, and Huo Yuhao called Mingdu a “human mine.”
• Huo Yuhao visited a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold and learned that its two members were preparing to leave for the Star Luo Empire.
• Huo Yuhao killed the branch altar elder and the holy servant, then told the Ice Empress that he would eliminate the cult’s inconspicuous strongholds one by one.

Huo Yuhao lured the Zhongli Three Brothers into the Undead Demiplane, intending to kill them and absorb their souls. After hunting several Evil Soul Masters around Mingdu, he left the brothers trapped inside with the Ice and Snow Empresses closing in.

• Huo Yuhao killed his fifth Evil Soul Master of the week, burned the victim’s collection of human bones, and decided to target higher-ranking members of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• At the Green Hotel, Huo Yuhao intimidated Jili when the young Evil Soul Master questioned his nightly trips, while Zhang Peng stopped him from attacking Jili.
• The Zhongli Three Brothers offered to escort Huo Yuhao to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Huo Yuhao told them to wait at a branch altar on Mingdu’s eastern outskirts.
• At the destroyed altar, the Zhongli brothers encountered Huo Yuhao, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress, then fled after their beast souls were frozen and destroyed.
• Huo Yuhao met the injured brothers in their path and persuaded them to enter his Undead Demiplane, where the Ice and Snow Empresses joined him and he revealed his intent to claim their souls.

Huo Yuhao lured the Zhongli Three Brothers into the Undead Demiplane and killed them, absorbing their soul power while reflecting on whether evil was truly innate. Ye Xishui discovered that the brothers and many other Evil Soul Masters had died and suspected someone was targeting the Holy Spirit Cult, so she and Long Xiaoyao went to Mingdu.

• Huo Yuhao trapped the Zhongli Three Brothers in the Undead Demiplane, where the Frost Bone Dragon and the Ice and Snow Empresses attacked them.
• The Frost Bone Dragon killed Zhongli Di, the Ice Empress froze Zhongli Ren, and Zhongli Tian detonated himself before the blast injured the dragon.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the brothers' soul power, reached level sixty-three, and discussed bloodlines and the origins of evil with Electrolux and the others.
• Huo Yuhao left for the Star Luo Empire to warn Jiujiu and the others about the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult's plans.
• Ye Xishui noticed that the Zhongli Three Brothers and many other Evil Soul Masters had died, concluded that someone was targeting the Holy Spirit Cult, and left for Mingdu with Long Xiaoyao.

The Tianyu Sect contestants were ambushed on their way home by Holy Spirit Cult soul masters, but Du Busi and a Body Sect elder rescued them. Du Busi killed the Sleep Nightmare Douluo after taking his defensive soul tools, leaving the Tianyu Sect party safe under his protection.

• Fourth Uncle led the defeated Tianyu Sect team out of Yueyang City and urged the dispirited youths to return to their sect without delay.
• The Sleep Nightmare Douluo used an illusion to incapacitate Fourth Uncle, while Holy Spirit Cult soul masters moved to capture the rest of the team alive.
• An unknown Titled Douluo killed the attacking Evil Soul Masters, then identified himself as a subordinate of Du Busi.
• Du Busi confronted the Sleep Nightmare Douluo and said the Body Sect protected the Heaven Dou Empire, so the Tianyu Sect was under his protection.
• The Sleep Nightmare Douluo surrendered three defensive soul tools, but Du Busi killed him anyway and gave one stolen soul tool to his subordinate.

Huo Yuhao swept Jingming Academy with a mental illusion and advanced to the round-robin stage, while Du Busi considered using an old tunnel to escape Mingdu. At the Xishui Alliance, Huo Yuhao learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had lost three Titled Douluo to unknown attackers.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Jingming Academy’s final contestant with Mental Illusion, completing his third seven-person sweep and qualifying for the round-robin tournament.
• Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Tian Meng reacted to Huo Yuhao’s explanation of his illusion, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discussed the prospect of facing him.
• Long Xiaoyao wondered whether Huo Yuhao was descended from the Northern Douluo, and Du Busi discussed the stolen Level 9 soul tool and a tunnel that could help the Body Sect evacuate Mingdu.
• The elimination tournament ended with thirty-two teams advancing, and Huo Yuhao went to the Green Hotel for the Underground Soul Engineer Tournament.
• Feng Ling and Nangong Wan told Huo Yuhao that the Eighth Elder and two Offering Hall venerables had been killed by unknown attackers.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had identified his fabricated Northern Land Family and planned to use a Holy Maiden to ensnare him. He remained confident in his bluff and noticed a familiar aura among the Soul Tool tournament contestants.

• Feng Ling said the Holy Spirit Cult would suspend its plan to capture three nations’ young Soul Masters and keep its members inside Mingdu under guard.
• Feng Ling revealed that the Cult suspected Huo Yuhao was the Northern Land Family’s successor and would send a Holy Maiden to control him rather than risk provoking the supposed Northern Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao privately concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult’s honey trap would fail because he had old accounts to settle with its current Holy Maiden.
• Huo Yuhao discussed how genuine love could ensnare powerful people with Tian Meng, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress, while judging Long Xiaoyao’s devotion to the Holy Spirit Cult’s Supreme Cult Leader.
• Huo Yuhao spotted a contestant in the arena whose aura seemed unusually familiar.

Huo Yuhao watched He Caitou disguise himself as a young soul engineer and qualify for the tournament after crafting a Level 5 milk bottle. After discovering He Caitou had lied about betting for money, Huo Yuhao realized he was likely pursuing the championship’s Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell for his own use.

• He Caitou, disguised as a young contestant, crafted a flawless Level 5 milk bottle and earned exemption from the next round.
• Feng Ling ordered the Xishui Alliance to let He Caitou keep the milk bottle and assess his attitude, while Huo Yuhao left the arena separately.
• He Caitou removed his disguise in a secluded alley, where Huo Yuhao recognized him and walked back to the Mingyue Hotel with him.
• Huo Yuhao noticed He Caitou had lied about betting on himself because individual bets were no longer permitted in the main tournament.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that He Caitou had entered the tournament to win the Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell and intended to use it himself.

Huo Yuhao reviewed the tournament draw, planned around the Holy Spirit Team and his Dragon Tiger Sect, and grew concerned that He Caitou’s revenge had become uncontrollable. As the round-robin matches began, Xu Tianran discussed the competition and the imprisoned sect teams with Jing Hongchen and Zhongli Wu, while He Caitou remained distracted before Shrek’s first match.

• Huo Qiu'er passed the first main-competition assessment, and Shangguan Wei'er ordered her subordinates to test her strength in the Soul Tool Combat Tournament.
• Huo Yuhao learned the group assignments, told the Holy Spirit Team to keep a low profile, and noted that his Dragon Tiger Sect had drawn a relatively weak group.
• Huo Yuhao identified Xu Tianzhen as someone he needed to watch because her inherited martial soul was the sun, and he considered preparing a second plan amid concerns about He Caitou’s intense desire for revenge.
• The Snow Demon Sect narrowly defeated the Star Luo Team, and Xu Tianran ordered Jing Hongchen to lead the Sun Moon Team to victory while Zhongli Wu falsely claimed the eliminated sect teams were imprisoned.
• Tang Ya urged the Tang Sect Team to give its best, Bei Bei assigned Xu Sanshi to compete first, and He Caitou appeared distracted.