Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao learned that Kong Deming and Wang Changming had arranged decoys and false Soul Hunting reports to test whether either crown prince was cooperating with the Holy Spirit Cult. Xu Tianran recognized the trap, but decided to use the crisis to strike at Xu He, leaving his next move focused on the Mingdou Mountain Range.

• Wang Yiheng brought Huo Yuhao to the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps headquarters and explained that two lookalike Death Soldiers had been sent to separate Soul Hunting sites with misleading reports given to the crown princes.
• Huo Yuhao rejected Tian Meng’s suggestion to trap Kong Deming and Wang Changming in an illusion, saying he would give them a dignified end if they met as enemies.
• Wang Yiheng told Huo Yuhao they would leave in two days and that Wang Changming would capture a Devouring Dragon for his Soul Ring.
• Xu Tianran discovered that a palace maid was a Holy Spirit Cult mole and agreed to cooperate with the cult only if Lin Yi remained unharmed.
• After Ju Zi reported that Lin Yi had gone to the Jingyang Mountain Range, Xu Tianran concluded the report was bait and suspected Xu He had been told Lin Yi went to the Evil Demon Forest.
• Xu Tianran chose to exploit the trap and planned to make Xu He bear the consequences, marking the Mingdou Mountain Range on his map.

The Zhongli Brothers followed Xu Tianran’s information to the Jingyang Mountain Range, hoping to abduct Lin Yi, but Kong Deming revealed that the report had been a trap. After Qian Duoduo detonated his Soul Core and the Zhongli Brothers were killed in the ensuing battle, Kong Deming prepared to end the struggle between the two crown princes.

• Zhongli Tian led Zhongli Di and Zhongli Ren out of Mingdu with the brainwashed Qian Duoduo to intercept Lin Yi in the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao sent Tian Meng toward the Mingdou Mountain Range while he planned to steal Soul Tool research and disrupt Mingdu’s arsenals without harming civilians.
• Kong Deming confronted the Zhongli Brothers in the Central Mountain Range alongside a Death Soldier disguised as Lin Yi, revealing that their information had been used to give the Offering Hall a pretext to intervene.
• The Zhongli Brothers attacked with controlled beast souls, but Kong Deming’s Silver Moon Divine Light Shield dissolved them and trapped the attackers.
• Qian Duoduo detonated his Soul Core, and the Zhongli Brothers tried to escape before Xia Xuanchen’s forces surrounded them with Soul Cannons.
• Zhongli Tian used the Rakshasa Phoenix Feather to call down part of Ye Xishui’s power, but the cannon barrage destroyed the brothers; Kong Deming then turned to Xia Xuanchen to suppress the princes’ factions.

Huo Yuhao searched the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy for useful soul guidance knowledge and discovered a vast arsenal hidden beneath Mingdu. After learning how heavily it was stocked and guarded, he planned to seize it during the upheaval expected the next day.

• Huo Yuhao gathered and imprinted soul guidance materials from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, prioritizing knowledge useful to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Electrolux detected powerful guards around a courtyard near the arsenal, and Huo Yuhao waited nearby for a chance to learn what it contained.
• Electrolux possessed Li Chong and discovered that the courtyard concealed a three-level underground warehouse stocked with rare metals, equipment for four elite soul engineer corps, and Fixed Soul Cannon Shells.
• Huo Yuhao decided to take the warehouse during the expected purge, put Li Chong in the Undead Demiplane, and entered the courtyard disguised as him.

As Kong Deming launched a purge against Xu He’s supporters in Mingdu, Huo Yuhao and Electrolux unleashed an undead army to attack the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and implicate Xu Tianran. Kong Deming rushed to confront the undead, while Jing Hongchen and the others were left wondering whether Xu Tianran had stopped hiding his involvement.

• Wang Yiheng and Tian Meng left Mingdu in disguise as Kong Deming arrived and declared Xu He guilty of treason.
• Xia Xuanchen led the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps and the empire’s offerings in a violent assault on princes who supported Xu He.
• Xu Guozhong attacked Liao Mengkai, while eight powerhouses from a small courtyard flew toward the battle.
• Electrolux opened the Undead Demiplane above Mingdu, unleashing undead creatures against military strongholds and noble residences, especially Xu He’s location.
• Kong Deming flew toward the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where undead dragons attacked Xu He’s residence and Jing Hongchen questioned Xu Tianran’s actions.

Huo Yuhao broke into the Sun Moon Empire’s Underground Warehouse during the chaos in Mingdu and began stealing its rare metals. After Electrolux helped him breach the deeper levels, Huo Yuhao found a vast arsenal and ordered the Undead to take its most valuable supplies while leaving the rest behind for a destructive surprise.

• Huo Yuhao used Li Chong’s memories and keys to enter the Underground Warehouse while the Soul Saints left to reinforce Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao killed two Level 6 Soul Engineers with Soul Shock and began transferring rare metals from the first level into the Undead Demiplane.
• Electrolux used the Gold of Life to break open the second-level doors, and Huo Yuhao killed the guarding Soul Saint before he could sound the alarm.
• As fighting spread toward the warehouse, Electrolux began moving the first two levels’ contents while Huo Yuhao descended to the third level.
• Huo Yuhao found rows of Soul Cannons and ordered the Undead to take sealed Milk Bottles and Fixed Soul Cannon Shells above Class 5, leaving the rest behind.

Huo Yuhao entered Mingdu amid an undead attack, planted explosives that triggered a catastrophic blast, and abducted Ye Guyi into the Undead Demiplane. The explosion devastated much of the capital and destroyed the Sun Moon Empire’s research facilities, leaving Xu Tianran scrambling to rescue survivors and protect his position.

• Liao Mengkai killed Xu Guozhong, while the offerings and academy personnel joined the fight against the undead and the rescue of Mingdu’s residents.
• Huo Yuhao secretly steered Xuan Ziwen away from the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and noticed the undead were herding civilians toward the Imperial Palace.
• Ye Guyi appeared with a holy angel martial soul, but found that her holy power could not stop the undead from reviving.
• Huo Yuhao knocked Ye Guyi unconscious with Soul Shock and took her into the Undead Demiplane just before his planted explosives detonated.
• Sixteen Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells exploded beneath the academy, destroying both soul engineer academies and devastating a third of Mingdu.
• Xu Tianran ordered the Royal Guard to rescue survivors and demanded that Lin Yi return to treat the injured, while the offerings stood silent.

Huo Yuhao revealed his identity and the truth about the Undead Demiplane to Ye Guyi, then explained his actions against the Sun Moon Empire and his plans to oppose the Holy Spirit Cult. Ye Guyi chose to trust him and agreed to join the struggle against the cult.

• Huo Yuhao showed Ye Guyi that the undead could bear light and sacred power, while Electrolux introduced himself as a demigod and explained the Undead Demiplane.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his necromancy, his cooperation with the Demon Empress, the Holy Spirit Cult's infiltration of the Sun Moon Empire, and his reasons for bringing Ye Guyi there.
• Ye Guyi challenged Huo Yuhao over the casualties caused by the undead scourge in Mingdu, and he defended his actions as necessary to protect the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ye Guyi asked whether Huo Yuhao would kill her if she refused, and he said he would instead erase her memories of the events.
• Ye Guyi chose to believe Huo Yuhao because she sensed light in his heart and agreed to help fight the Holy Spirit Cult.

After the Mingdu explosion devastated the city and killed Xu He, Huo Yuhao returned under his Lin Yi identity to help treat the injured while gathering information about the Sun Moon Empire’s upheaval. Xuan Ziwen told him the Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy would be renamed Creation Hall and that Lin Yi was expected to become its hall master after reaching Soul Saint rank.

• Ye Guyi chose to remain in the Undead Demiplane to study its light-attribute undead, while Huo Yuhao returned to Mingdu and found the city devastated by a massive explosion.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Xu He had died, Xu Tianran faced public outrage, and Commander Xu Tianyuan was poised to take control amid the chaos.
• Huo Yuhao met Tian Meng and switched identities before returning to Mingdu with Wang Yiheng’s convoy, pretending to hear about the explosion for the first time.
• Kong Deming assigned Lin Yi to refine pills for the injured, and Huo Yuhao began producing them at the Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xuan Ziwen told Huo Yuhao that the academy would become Creation Hall and that Lin Yi would be promoted to hall master after becoming a Soul Saint.

Huo Yuhao tested Xuan Ziwen’s loyalties by discussing Soul Tool research and leading him through academic war simulations, then decided to keep cultivating his trust before revealing his plans. The chapter ended with the dormant Ice Empress’s Egg trembling in the Far North.

• Huo Yuhao discussed politics, technological progress, and the Heaven Dou Empire with Xuan Ziwen, learning that Xuan was weary of political conflict and still valued his homeland.
• Huo Yuhao invited Xuan Ziwen to simulate a Soul Guidance War, and their early scenarios showed Heaven Dou’s Hidden Weapon-inspired Soul Tools losing to Sun Moon designs.
• Huo Yuhao presented a Split-Type Coordinated Soul Tool based on the Mother-and-Child Soul-Chasing Gallbladder, and Xuan Ziwen suggested ways to improve it.
• Huo Yuhao and Xuan Ziwen concluded that Heaven Dou would need a revolution in Soul Guidance to rival the Sun Moon Empire, and Xuan admitted he would study in Heaven Dou if it offered such opportunities.
• After Xuan Ziwen left, Huo Yuhao told Tian Meng he would wait about two months, until Creation Hall’s aboveground buildings were mostly complete, before revealing his plans.
• In the Far North, the Snow Empress sensed the dormant Ice Empress’s Egg tremble.

Huo Yuhao, disguised as Lin Yi, helped Mingdu recover and became the Sun Moon Empire’s celebrated hope while studying a Devouring Dragon Soul Ring. He began planning Lin Yi’s public death as a way to end his undercover mission and leave the empire with a plausible legacy.

• After five days of treating Mingdu’s injured residents, Huo Yuhao was released from relief work, while the Offering Hall installed Xu Tianyuan as emperor and secretly kept Xu Tianran alive with his powers sealed.
• Wang Changming and Ye Yulin returned with a live Devouring Dragon, which Huo Yuhao killed and refined in the Life Creation Qi Refining Furnace to study its Soul Ring qi.
• Huo Yuhao claimed he had gained the Devouring Vortex Soul Skill and told Wang Changming that it might help the furnace develop dual ultimates; Wang gave him the Eternal Imprisonment Wall of Sighs blueprints and spoke of his limited remaining lifespan.
• Wang Changming showed Huo Yuhao the Creation Hall, where workers built a grand structure and a furnace-shaped Soul Tool statue to present Lin Yi as a symbol of the empire’s recovery.
• Back at the laboratory, Huo Yuhao observed Meng Hongchen, Ju Zi, and Xuan Ziwen, then decided to reveal his plans to Xuan Ziwen after the Creation Hall was complete.
• Huo Yuhao planned to stage Lin Yi’s death as the result of an uncontrollable ultimate ice-and-fire dragon backlash during artifact refining, and considered bringing his undercover mission to an end.

On the eve of Creation Hall’s opening and Xu Tianyuan’s coronation, Huo Yuhao revealed his identity as Lin Yi to Xuan Ziwen and showed him a vast vision for soul guidance technology beyond the Sun Moon Empire. Xuan Ziwen accepted Huo Yuhao’s invitation to join the Heaven Dou Empire and pursue that future.

• Huo Yuhao asked Xuan Ziwen to run a war game simulation and used it to demonstrate tactics that could overwhelm the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he was Huo Yuhao, not Lin Yi, and explained that the supposed Icefire Creation Furnace was the divine Life Creation Qi Refining Furnace.
• Xuan Ziwen accused Huo Yuhao of betraying the Sun Moon Empire and doubted that the Heaven Dou Empire could provide the resources needed for Huo Yuhao’s plans.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xuan Ziwen a star map and explained that the Douluo Planet, its unexplored continents, the oceans, and the wider universe could provide resources for soul guidance technology.
• Electrolux and Huo Yuhao demonstrated alchemy and Talisman Master Artifact Refining in the Undead Demiplane, then invited Xuan Ziwen to join them.
• Xuan Ziwen clasped Huo Yuhao’s hand and accepted his invitation.

During Xu Tianyuan’s coronation, Huo Yuhao, posing as Lin Yi, demonstrated the Talisman Puppet before the people of the Sun Moon Empire. When his ultimate ice and fire powers collided, the resulting explosion appeared to kill him and Xuan Ziwen, leaving the empire in mourning.

• Xu Tianyuan began his coronation and proclaimed Creation Hall the future of the Sun Moon Empire’s soul guidance technology.
• Huo Yuhao presented the Talisman Puppet and began refining it with Xuan Ziwen before the assembled crowd.
• As Huo Yuhao raised the Life Creation Qi Refining Furnace, his ice and fire powers erupted and the two dragon phantoms collided.
• Kong Deming rushed toward the explosion, but the energy storm swallowed Huo Yuhao and Xuan Ziwen.
• Kong Deming found Lin Yi’s bracelet among the charred remains, and Wang Changming discovered that it had preserved Lin Yi’s research papers and blueprints.
• The witnesses grieved as Lin Yi was declared dead from the explosion.

After escaping Mingdu, Huo Yuhao returned safely to Heaven Dou City with Xuan Ziwen and Ye Guyi, bringing vital research materials and news of his success. He learned that Ice Empress had transformed into a Demon Spirit and discussed Azure Dragon City’s future council and the need to secure Soul Rings and Immortal Spirit Qi.

• Huo Yuhao crossed into Heaven Dou with Xuan Ziwen and Ye Guyi, where Hong Yue, Xue Yang, Zhao Xuan, and two other Titled Douluos welcomed them.
• Huo Yuhao reached Heaven Dou City, and Xue Heng secretly held a welcoming banquet attended by Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Di Tian.
• Ice Empress told Huo Yuhao through Heartstring Resonance that she had successfully transformed into a Demon Spirit.
• Di Tian and Snow Empress urged Huo Yuhao to rest and postpone the Dragon City expedition until he became a Soul King and obtained Zi JI’s Soul Ring.
• Snow Empress described plans for a human-and-Soul-Beast council in Azure Dragon City, and Di Tian confirmed that Star Dou supported the idea.
• Huo Yuhao and Di Tian discussed finding Immortal Spirit Qi through the Dragon City Plane or a passage associated with Clear Sky Castle to create God-Given Soul Rings.

After returning to Azure Dragon City, Huo Yuhao reunited with Gu Mingxi and brought supplies from the Undead Demiplane to the Mind-Soul Forging Research Institute. Ye Guyi and Yu Mengdi discovered a possible path toward an angel Martial Soul Fusion, while Huo Yuhao led Xuan Ziwen to see the institute’s groundbreaking work.

• Gu Mingxi embraced Huo Yuhao and told him not to take such dangerous risks again, while Su Tong reassured Nan Qiuqiu that affection did not have to be one or the other.
• Huo Yuhao opened the Undead Demiplane at Azure Dragon Manor, and Du Busi and the others moved its rare metals and War Soul Tools into storage.
• Ye Guyi and Yu Mengdi fought to a draw, and Electrolux suggested that their Holy Angel Martial Souls might develop a fusion by tracing their powers to their source.
• Du Busi decided to return to the Body Sect so the two angels could consult the Blue Family sisters about fusing identical Martial Souls.
• Huo Yuhao showed Xuan Ziwen the research institute’s production system and core research team, then led him through a heavy metal door into a blazing-hot room.

Huo Yuhao and Jin Peng showed Xuan Ziwen how Mind-Soul Forging awakened metal’s spirituality and introduced crimson blood spirit gold. Inspired by the Spirit Forger path, Xuan Ziwen asked where he could begin, and Huo Yuhao told him to start there.

• Huo Yuhao explained to Xuan Ziwen how forgers used combat techniques and resonance to awaken metal’s innate spirituality.
• Jin Peng showed them crimson blood spirit gold, the first mind-soul metal, forged by Wang Yanfeng.
• Jin Peng described the metal’s spirit heart response and the empire’s plans to develop mind-soul metals into intelligent, life-like materials.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized the potential of combining Mind-Soul Forging with soul tools and asked how to become a spirit forger.
• Huo Yuhao told Xuan Ziwen to start right there.

Huo Yuhao and Su Tong reviewed evidence of the Xuanming Sect’s secret dealings with the Dou Ling Empire as Heaven Dou prepared to use an attack on the sect to spark a wider conflict. The plan awaited Huo Yuhao’s breakthrough to Soul King, after which he intended to cultivate beside the Lake of Life and travel to the New Continent.

• Huo Yuhao helped the Azure Dragon Guard and the Body Sect’s younger generation advance, while Yu Tianlong and Xingyan underwent major martial soul transformations.
• Su Tong gave Huo Yuhao evidence that the Xuanming Sect had secretly aided the Dou Ling Empire, and they discussed how attacking it could test the Star Luo Empire’s intentions.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Hao’s White Tiger Guards were stationed on Dou Ling’s southern border and that Heaven Dou planned to use the conflict to weaken Dou Ling’s radicals and prevent a Star Luo–Sun Moon alliance.
• Xue Heng formed the Heavenly River Dustless Recruit Corps under Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng, drawing young fighters and soul beasts into a new army equipped with advanced soul tools.
• Huo Yuhao read the order to begin the plan once he became a Soul King and resolved to cultivate at the Lake of Life, where Zi JI and the Silver Dragon King awaited him.

Huo Yuhao faced the Heaven Dou Empire and Body Sect’s test, defeating ten Soul Saints in a single battle. Du Busi granted him freedom to travel, and Huo Yuhao left for the Star Dou Great Forest.

• After more than half a year of cultivation, Huo Yuhao reached rank forty-eight and accepted a test to defeat ten Soul Saints supported by Ning Zaichuan.
• Huo Yuhao fought the ten Soul Saints, using his abilities and martial skills to overpower and injure them while holding back his deadliest attacks.
• Huo Yuhao defeated Yunting in a halberd duel, disarming him and leaving his weapon at his throat.
• Huo Yuhao used the Life Creation Talisman Array to subdue the remaining Soul Saints, who conceded.
• Du Busi told Huo Yuhao that the Heaven Dou Empire and Body Sect would no longer restrict his movements, and Huo Yuhao flew toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Dou Ling emperor ordered his forces to retreat as Heavenly River Dustless seized border territory, while Xu Sanshi and his companions considered a coup and an alliance with the Star Dou Great Forest. Xu Sanshi resolved to seek another path for the Xuanming Sect, and Huo Yuhao's fourth Soul Ring began turning scarlet beside the Lake of Life.

• The Dou Ling emperor ordered his border forces to abandon nonstrategic positions and defend from fortified strongholds, allowing Heavenly River Dustless to capture three defensive lines in seven days.
• Xu Jiawei decided Star Luo would help Dou Ling only after negotiating a price, while questioning why Heaven Dou had chosen to expand now.
• Xu Sanshi condemned his cousin's retreat and proposed ambushing Heavenly River Dustless at three mutually supporting fortress cities, but Zhang Lexuan warned him about the Three Limit Douluos.
• Bei Bei proposed contacting the Star Dou Great Forest and suggested that removing the Three Limit Douluos could require a coup in Dou Ling.
• Xu Sanshi concluded that the Xuanming Sect needed another way to preserve its status and resolved to devise an ambush for the Three Limit Douluos.
• Huo Yuhao sat beside the Lake of Life as his fourth Soul Ring began to turn scarlet.

Huo Yuhao cultivated at the Lake of Life until his Soul Power stabilized at level 49, while the beasts discussed his future and Zi JI’s planned sacrifice. Di Tian led him through a gate to meet the awakened Silver Dragon King, as Xu Sanshi and his companions entered the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed resources at the Lake of Life for seven days and stabilized at level 49, nearing the Soul King breakthrough.
• Di Tian and the beasts discussed Huo Yuhao’s cultivation, the Azure Dragon City’s plans, and Zi JI’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone Skills for her future sacrifice.
• Di Tian showed Huo Yuhao the incomplete ring of Gold of Life and asked him to help locate the missing piece after absorbing Zi JI’s Soul Ring.
• Di Tian opened a gate to the Silver Dragon King’s Plane Space, and Huo Yuhao entered to meet her.
• Xu Sanshi and his party quietly entered the Star Dou Great Forest from outside Azure Dragon City.

Huo Yuhao met the Silver Dragon King, who offered her Reverse Scale and help with his Dragon Clan evolution, but he chose to tell her a story about the Tianxuan Continent. Meanwhile, Xu Sanshi’s party sought Star Dou’s cooperation until Xiong Jun intercepted them and declared himself acting Beast God.

• The Silver Dragon King gave Huo Yuhao her Reverse Scale and invited him to return at later cultivation stages so she could help him evolve into a Dragon King.
• Huo Yuhao looked past the offer and began telling the Silver Dragon King about the Tianxuan Continent.
• Xu Xuanming, Yan Shaozhe, Xu Sanshi, and Bei Bei traveled into the Star Dou Great Forest to seek cooperation with Di Tian for the Dou Ling Empire’s political plans.
• Yan Shaozhe carried a Supreme Evil Feather from Ye Xishui, intending to use its Godhood aura as leverage to win Di Tian’s cooperation.
• Xiong Jun attacked the group, but Xu Xuanming warned that Heaven Dou had cooperated with the Far North; Xiong Jun then stopped his strike and said he was Star Dou’s acting Beast God while Di Tian was in seclusion.