Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao proposed combining blacksmithing with soul tool production to create new, stronger materials and potentially spiritual soul tools. Linghu embraced the idea, and Huo Yuhao began assembling Jiang Yixi and Wang Yanfeng to test it.

• After completing lessons with Linghu, Gu Tong went to fetch Jiang Yixi while Huo Yuhao considered how their martial souls suited soul tool work.
• Linghu praised Huo Yuhao for making three soul tools in one day, including a Level 2 Soul Guidance Ray.
• Huo Yuhao suggested applying traditional forging techniques to soul tool materials, and Linghu recognized the idea could help Heaven Dou surpass the Sun Moon Empire.
• Huo Yuhao planned to seek forging knowledge from Clear Sky Castle and the Tang Sect's old site, and proposed using Spiritual Detection and the Body Sect's Heaven-Man Unity Realm in place of a Divine Craftsman.
• Gu Tong returned with Jiang Yixi, and Huo Yuhao told him to fetch Wang Yanfeng to serve as a human-shaped forging hammer.

Huo Yuhao and Linghu tested a method for improving Soul Tool materials by having Wang Yanfeng forge spirit silver iron with his fists. The first attempt showed promise but cracked the metal, and the chapter ended with Jin Peng and the Elders catching the group and punishing them.

• Gu Tong brought Wang Yanfeng, Chen Yu, and Chen Lü to see Huo Yuhao, who explained that Wang Yanfeng could help forge spirit silver iron without needing to understand Soul Tool principles.
• Huo Yuhao and Jiang Yixi explained that specially forged metal might strengthen Soul Tools and help the Body Sect become a holy land for Soul Engineers, persuading Wang Yanfeng to try.
• Wang Yanfeng used the Tiger Roaring Fist method to strike the spirit silver iron while Huo Yuhao guided his power and Jiang Yixi and Gu Tong helped control the forging conditions.
• The spirit silver iron began to glow but cracked, and Huo Yuhao and Jiang Yixi reassured Wang Yanfeng that the experiment had still shown promise.
• Chen Yu and Chen Lü argued over which of them could help the forge, before Jin Peng and several Elders arrived and beat Wang Yanfeng and the two Chen brothers for disobeying orders.
• Jin Peng ordered Jiang Yixi to serve as a target at the training grounds.

Huo Yuhao explained the Mind-Soul Forging Method to Jin Peng and the Body Sect elders, who recognized its promise but found that crude forging skills and low-quality metal blocked progress. Jin Peng assigned the sect several ways to investigate the method and prepared to take Huo Yuhao to Heaven Dou City to inform His Majesty.

• Huo Yuhao told Jin Peng and the elders that Wang Yanfeng's experiment had made Spirit Silver Iron resonate with Martial Soul, Soul Power, and Spiritual Power.
• Huo Yuhao proposed learning advanced forging techniques and developing Spiritual Power amplification soul tools, while warning that the tools would need to preserve the spiritual connection during forging.
• Bai Ming tried mind-soul forging Spirit Silver Iron but shattered it, concluding that its internal structure needed to be strengthened through Hundred Refinement or Thousand Refinement.
• Jin Peng assigned himself and Huo Yuhao to contact the palace and visit the Tang Sect's former site, sent Ao Tian to investigate Shrek's records, and ordered the elders to seek out blacksmiths and investigate metals in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jin Peng told Huo Yuhao to prepare to travel with him to Heaven Dou City and report mind-soul forging to His Majesty.

Huo Yuhao prepared to present his Mind-Soul Forging insights to the Heaven Dou Empire while continuing to strengthen himself. After breaking through to rank twenty-six, he planned to use the Soul Shock from a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring to attempt the Talisman Seal Transformation of his Spirit Eyes, provided he first mastered the Second Awakening.

• Jin Peng told Huo Yuhao to prepare an account of Mind-Soul Forging and accompany him to the imperial palace the next day.
• Huo Yuhao organized his ideas, reflected on how to innovate upon the Martial Ancestor’s inheritance, and focused on improving his strength.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed the remaining energy of the ice marrow and broke through to Soul Power rank twenty-six.
• Electrolux and the Ice Empress discussed how Huo Yuhao’s physical conditioning could reduce the cultivation restrictions caused by his Ultimate Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao proposed attempting his Spirit Eyes’ Talisman Seal Transformation during the Soul Shock from a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Electrolux told him to master the Second Awakening first.

Huo Yuhao went to Di'ao Academy to meet Su Tong, who told him that ultimate martial souls caused cultivation to slow after reaching Soul Elder. The chapter ended with her puzzled that Huo Yuhao was only rank twenty-six despite the support of the Body Sect and Heaven Dou Empire.

• Xue Heng established the Mind-Soul Research Institute, classified the forging method as a top secret, and sent envoys to search for Clear Sky Castle and Strength Clan descendants.
• Huo Yuhao left for Di'ao Academy after learning that Su Tong had been waiting for him on Star-Watching Island.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Ma Xiaotao had behaved herself under strict supervision at the academy.
• Su Tong told Huo Yuhao that her ultimate martial soul had slowed her cultivation after she became a Soul Elder, and that an old text said this affected all ultimate martial souls.
• Su Tong asked Huo Yuhao's current rank and questioned why he was only rank twenty-six despite his backing from the Body Sect and Heaven Dou Empire.

Huo Yuhao and Su Tong discovered that their ultimate ice martial souls could form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Su Tong agreed to join Di'ao Academy's Azure Dragon Guard. Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe secretly met Ma Xiaotao in Heaven Dou City and told her about Shrek Academy's worsening situation and her growing responsibilities.

• Huo Yuhao explained that he had used resources to strengthen his body and shared his ultimate ice insights with Su Tong, who offered her cultivation method in return.
• Su Tong and Huo Yuhao tested their martial souls and found that their ultimate ice could resonate into different Martial Soul Fusion Skills depending on who took the lead.
• Su Tong told Huo Yuhao that her uncontrolled power had caused her parents' deaths, and Huo Yuhao persuaded her to join Di'ao Academy and the Azure Dragon Guard.
• Jin Peng and Hong Yue stopped Xue Xin from interrupting Huo Yuhao and Su Tong, then offered him Body Sect support for Di'ao's special training in exchange for his silence.
• Yan Shaozhe secretly met Ma Xiaotao and explained Shrek Academy's recent troubles, telling her that her responsibilities and Evil Fire problem could no longer wait.

Huo Yuhao and Su Tong unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Dragon Hunt Across the Eight Desolations, to defeat Ma Xiaotao after she tried to force Su Tong to return to Shrek. As Huo Yuhao rested and prepared to practice Second Awakening, Du Busi brought a captured sea dragon to the Body Sect for him.

• Huo Yuhao told Xue Xin that Su Tong had joined Di'ao Academy, and Xue Xin briefed him on the imperial family's plans for the Tang Sect's former grounds and the Mind-Soul Research Institute.
• Ma Xiaotao fought Jiang Peng and demanded that Su Tong return to Shrek, but Su Tong refused and reaffirmed that she had joined Di'ao Academy.
• Huo Yuhao struck Ma Xiaotao with the Azure Sky Soul-Shattering Chant, then joined hands with Su Tong to perform Dragon Hunt Across the Eight Desolations.
• Huo Yuhao's fusion attack shattered Ma Xiaotao's Phoenix Meteor Shower, froze her Phoenix Martial Soul, and knocked her unconscious against the Dean's Tower.
• Su Tong helped Huo Yuhao recover after the battle, while Xue Xin watched his tower collapse again.
• Du Busi brought a sealed ten-thousand-year sea dragon to the Body Sect and called out for Huo Yuhao.

After using Dragon Hunt Across the Eight Desolations to cripple Ma Xiaotao, Huo Yuhao tried to trigger the Second Awakening of his Spirit Eyes while recovering in the Dean's Lounge. He achieved a silver-level Second Awakening, leaving him with a major increase in combat strength and a path toward completing his Spirit Eyes' Talisman Seal Transformation through Soul Shock.

• Su Tong brought Huo Yuhao to the Dean's Lounge, where he recovered from the enormous drain of Dragon Hunt Across the Eight Desolations and began cultivating his Spirit Eyes.
• With Electrolux guiding him, Huo Yuhao merged his spiritual origin with his Spirit Eyes and absorbed a mental-attribute herb and soul power from a Milk Bottle to force a Second Awakening.
• Huo Yuhao endured the violent pain as golden vortices collided with his Spirit Eyes, and an indistinct radiance began to spread through his martial soul.
• At Di'ao Academy, Du Busi praised Huo Yuhao's decisive attack while Xue Xin explained that Ma Xiaotao would remain bedridden for a month or two and discussed why she had not yet been sent back to Shrek.
• A powerful fluctuation appeared over the lounge, and Du Busi and Xue Xin saw the phantom of enormous eyes as Huo Yuhao completed a silver-level Second Awakening and felt his combat strength double.

After his second awakening, Huo Yuhao discovered that he could control objects with his thoughts and unleash powerful palm strikes, but his testing destroyed the Dean's Lounge. Su Tong became the acting deputy captain of the Azure Dragon Guard, and Du Busi ordered Huo Yuhao to return with him to absorb his soul ring.

• Huo Yuhao discovered that his second awakening enhanced his combat strength and perception, and let him manipulate objects with his thoughts.
• Huo Yuhao tested the Eight Desolations Palm and accidentally brought down the Dean's Lounge; Du Busi said Shrek could rebuild it with the Dean's Tower.
• Du Busi met Su Tong and proposed that she become deputy captain of the Azure Dragon Guard, but she refused the permanent position because she had not earned merit.
• After learning that the Azure Dragon Guard had only two members, Su Tong agreed to serve as its acting deputy captain and handle Huo Yuhao's duties.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Du Busi had caught Sea Dragon, and Du Busi ordered him to return immediately to absorb his soul ring.

Du Busi brought Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect, where Huo Yuhao prepared to absorb a captured Sea Dragon by mastering his Second Awakening and enduring its Soul Shock. The chapter ended with Du Busi freeing the weakened Sea Dragon so Huo Yuhao could face it in battle.

• Xue Xin arranged for Jiang Peng and the Di'ao team to assist Su Tong and the Azure Dragon Guard with patrols, training, and preparation for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Xue Xin warned Su Tong that Evil Soul Masters had appeared near Heaven Dou Auxiliary City, and she agreed to confront the danger.
• Du Busi brought Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect, where disciples restrained the hundred-meter Sea Dragon and Du Busi explained that Huo Yuhao would need to withstand its Soul Shock himself.
• Huo Yuhao trained his Second Awakening with Du Busi, Hong Yue, and others until he could switch states quickly in combat.
• Huo Yuhao approached the restrained Sea Dragon, and Du Busi snapped its chains so Huo Yuhao could fight it.

Huo Yuhao fought Sea Dragon with ultimate ice and overwhelming strength, then used the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd to defeat the sea soul beast. Sea Dragon died in the Body Sect Square, and his black soul ring rose from his corpse.

• Sea Dragon unleashed a torrent of water, but Huo Yuhao froze it into a towering pillar of ice and shattered it into a storm of shards.
• Huo Yuhao flew upward to meet Sea Dragon’s diving attack, using Heavenly Dragon’s Wrath and Ice Dragon Sky-Tearing Hand to wound him and drive him back.
• Huo Yuhao battered the weakened Sea Dragon with a flurry of attacks until Sea Dragon unleashed his powerful deep-blue beam.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd and cleaved through Sea Dragon’s beam with his new Ice Dragon Heaven-Breaking Halberd move.
• Huo Yuhao struck Sea Dragon’s head, killing him as a black soul ring rose from his corpse.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the Sea Dragon’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, opened his Niwan Palace, and gained a powerful transformation skill. After explaining the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd to the Body Sect, he returned to his room and began trying to refine his Spirit Eyes into a talisman seal.

• Huo Yuhao endured the Sea Dragon Remnant Soul’s Soul Shock and used it to open his Niwan Palace, taking his first step on the Talisman Master path.
• Huo Yuhao reached Soul Power Level twenty-eight and a half and revealed that Azure Sky Sea Dragon Transformation let him become flowing ice slurry, resist physical attacks, and reshape his body.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd had appeared after his Ice Dragon Martial Soul awakened, and Du Busi found that the weapon rejected him and sensed a powerful dragon aura in Huo Yuhao’s right arm bone.
• Du Busi speculated that the halberd came from an Ice Dragon god and considered the dangers of obtaining a Titan Snow Demon Soul Ring for Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his room, prepared himself, and began using the Seal Condensation Method to refine his Spirit Eyes into a talisman seal.

Huo Yuhao attempted to transform his Spirit Eyes into a talisman seal, but a hidden power disrupted the process and injured him. With Electrolux’s help, he discovered the power was the White Tiger Family’s double pupils, which filled him with hatred.

• Huo Yuhao began condensing a Spirit Eyes talisman seal with Electrolux protecting his soul.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes resisted the spiritual vortex, causing blood to flow from his eyes and forcing him to stop the attempt.
• Huo Yuhao recovered with pills and let Electrolux examine his Spirit Eyes using Soul Magic.
• Huo Yuhao discovered a pair of double-pupiled eyes hidden within his Spirit Eyes martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the White Tiger Family’s power and reacted with intense hatred.

Electrolux identified the dormant White Tiger Double Pupils in Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes as a consequence of his damaged innate foundation and warned him not to destroy them. Huo Yuhao used the Sea Dragon Remnant Soul to awaken their power and began dissolving them with the Great Desolation Scripture, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Electrolux explained that Huo Yuhao’s damaged innate foundation had kept the White Tiger Double Pupils dormant within his Spirit Eyes.
• Huo Yuhao insisted that he wanted to dissolve the pupils, and Electrolux, the Ice Empress, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned him that the attempt could destroy his soul.
• Huo Yuhao sacrificed his flesh and blood to activate the Great Desolation Scripture, and Electrolux gave him the Sea Dragon Remnant Soul.
• Huo Yuhao refined the Sea Dragon Remnant Soul into his Spirit Eyes with the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, awakening the tiger’s roar within them.
• Huo Yuhao stopped the art and combined the Great Desolation Scripture, his Sea Dragon Second Soul Ring, and Ultimate Ice to dissolve the White Tiger Double Pupils.

Huo Yuhao used the Great Desolation Scripture and Ultimate Ice to dissolve the White Tiger Double Pupils, then transformed his Spirit Eyes into a Natal Spirit Seal. He gained innate spiritual abilities and freedom from the Soul Ring system, while his Spirit Eyes’ future growth became dependent on Spiritual Power.

• Huo Yuhao used the Great Desolation Scripture, Ultimate Ice, and his other powers to keep himself alive while dissolving the White Tiger Double Pupils.
• The Ice Empress recognized that Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice contained vitality, while Electrolux gained insight from his state between life and death.
• Huo Yuhao dissolved the White Tiger Double Pupils and felt exhilarated as his Spirit Eyes became a Martial Soul that truly belonged to him.
• Huo Yuhao condensed two talisman seals in his eyes, making Spiritual Detection, Soul Shock, Spiritual Sharing, Mental Interference, and Simulation innate abilities.
• Huo Yuhao completed the Spirit Eyes’ Natal Spirit Seal transformation, freed them from the Soul Ring system, and levitated with his transformed Spiritual Power.

Huo Yuhao condensed his Spirit Eyes into a Natal Spirit Talisman and learned that his Soul Ring growth could still advance through the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art. After receiving royal resources and warnings about Sun Moon Empire troop movements, he reached level thirty and was sent to the Far North to hunt for a Soul Ring.

• Huo Yuhao condensed the Spirit Eyes into a dim Natal Spirit Talisman, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered him its vast Spiritual Origin to refine.
• Huo Yuhao told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art had stabilized and raised Sea Dragon's Soul Ring to twenty thousand years.
• Bai Ming delivered resources from the Heavenly Soul Royal Family, reported the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's interest in cooperation, and said Xue Xin wanted the Di'ao team to join the Azure Dragon Guard as auxiliary members.
• Bai Ming warned Huo Yuhao that Sun Moon Empire troop movements might signal a threat and urged him to be careful on patrol missions.
• Huo Yuhao took the Dragon Heart Pill and refined it, eventually reaching level thirty.
• Du Busi instructed Bai Ming and Hong Yue to take Huo Yuhao to the Far North to hunt for a Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao and his protectors discovered a Star Luo Empire force meeting a Sun Moon Empire soul engineer to obtain a Sealing God Platform in the Far North. When Xuanji Douluo betrayed and attacked the engineer, Huo Yuhao recognized him as a guardian of the White Tiger Duke's line and vowed to kill him himself someday.

• The Ice Empress told Huo Yuhao about the Far North's Titan Snow Demons and advised him to summon the Snow Empress in the core region.
• Hong Yue and Bai Ming spotted fifteen suspicious, powerful soul masters and secretly observed them.
• The group revealed a Sealing God Platform, which Huo Yuhao and Hong Yue recognized as a Level 9 soul tool from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xuanji Douluo accepted the platform, then ordered the Star Luo Empire First Soul Master Corps to attack and kill the Sun Moon Empire's soul engineer.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Xuanji Douluo as the White Tiger Duke's guardian and said he would kill him himself someday, while Bai Ming and Hong Yue moved to attack.

Bai Ming and Hong Yue ambushed the Star Luo Empire First Soul Master Corps and defeated Xuanji Douluo and Cheng Gang, but three Evil Soul Titled Douluo appeared and moved to capture Huo Yuhao. The chapter ends with four Titled Douluo attacking Bai Ming and Hong Yue while Nightmare Douluo tries to seize Huo Yuhao.

• Hong Yue used Soul-Shattering Roar to stun the Star Luo Empire First Soul Master Corps as Bai Ming attacked Xuanji Douluo and Cheng Gang with their Soul Skill Combination Technique, Soul-Shattering Dragon Fist.
• Hong Yue knocked Xuanji Douluo and Cheng Gang unconscious, and she and Huo Yuhao examined the Sealing God Platform while Bai Ming prepared to dispose of the defeated soldiers.
• Huo Yuhao realized the supposedly killed Soul Engineer was missing, and three black-robed Evil Soul Titled Douluo appeared and attacked the group.
• The Soul Engineer revealed himself as Nightmare Douluo, devoured the Spiritual Power of the Soul Saints, and identified Huo Yuhao as an unexpected prize.
• Abomination Douluo and Myriad Souls Douluo joined Nightmare Douluo in attacking Bai Ming and Hong Yue, while Nightmare Douluo used illusions to make Xuanji Douluo and Cheng Gang attack them too.
• Bai Ming and Hong Yue activated their Second Awakenings as Nightmare Douluo ordered Huo Yuhao to come with him.

Nightmare Douluo pursued Huo Yuhao to capture him for the Holy Church while Bai Ming and Hong Yue fought the other Evil Soul Titled Douluos. Trapped in Nightmare Douluo’s illusion, Huo Yuhao unleashed the Life Creation Talisman Array’s powerful spiritual techniques and began burning the array to break free.

• Bai Ming and Hong Yue activated their second awakenings and Martial Soul Avatars, and Bai Ming killed Cheng Gang with one punch.
• Huo Yuhao fled the battlefield to draw Nightmare Douluo away and buy time for the Body Sect Elders.
• Nightmare Douluo pursued Huo Yuhao and trapped him in Nightmare Illusion, transforming the snowfield into a sea of blood.
• Huo Yuhao summoned the Life Creation Talisman Array and used Creation Light to blast a hole in Nightmare Douluo’s illusion, but Nightmare Douluo repaired it.
• Huo Yuhao used Creation Azure Wave to clash with the illusion, then ignited his Talisman Seals and array with Myriad Transformation Flame as he vowed to resist capture.

Huo Yuhao broke Nightmare Douluo’s illusion and held him off with spiritual techniques until the Snow Empress arrived and froze him. The Snow Empress then turned toward the battlefield, where the other Far North beast kings joined the fight against the Evil Soul Masters.

• Huo Yuhao shattered Nightmare Douluo’s illusion with the Life Creation Talisman Array and fled across the snowy plain while calling for the Snow Empress.
• Nightmare Douluo pursued Huo Yuhao, broke his Immovable Ice Dragon Bell, and trapped him in black mist.
• Huo Yuhao used the Essence Devouring Skull and Yin Demon Howl to catch Nightmare Douluo off guard.
• The Snow Empress arrived and struck Nightmare Douluo with Ice Extreme Peerless, freezing him solid before catching the exhausted Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao told the Snow Empress that two other Evil Soul Master Titled Douluos were fighting Body Sect elders, and she headed toward the battlefield.
• The Ice Bear King, Titan Snow Demon King, Ice Jade Scorpion Ice King, and other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast kings arrived and unleashed their domains and a blizzard.