Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and his companions encountered Heaven Dou Empire soldiers while flying near the capital, and he used Kingly Authority to make their commander, Muxue, obey him. The group left with Muxue guiding them toward their destination, while Huo Yuhao demonstrated his ability on Zhongli Yu.

• Huo Yuhao explained that Heaven Dou City’s airspace was monitored to guard against attacks from Flying Soul Tools.
• Ten Heaven Dou Empire Soul Engineers surrounded Huo Yuhao, Snow Empress, Zhongli Yu, and Ye Qiu, and their commander Muxue ordered them to come along.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Muxue and told her to accompany the group, but she ordered her soldiers to take them down.
• Huo Yuhao used Kingly Authority to command Muxue to personally guide them anywhere they wished to go in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Huo Yuhao explained Kingly Authority’s limits to Zhongli Yu and used it to make her turn toward him for a smack.

Huo Yuhao flew toward an impending battle with Muxue while the rest of their group lagged behind. At Xie Long’s command tent, Zhang Lexuan urged the rebel army to relocate before the Body Sect’s threat grew, as she waited for reinforcements from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Huo Yuhao recognized the Soul Tools carried by Muxue and the others as enhanced paralysis rays, then flew ahead with Muxue to reach the coming battle.
• Xie Long’s officers reported that Du Busi had attacked one of their legions and that the Body Sect had declared itself protector of the Heavenly Soul Royal Family.
• Zhang Lexuan asked when the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s reinforcements would arrive, and Wu Feng said they were expected in three days.
• Zhang Lexuan advised Xie Long to split the army into smaller units and relocate rather than wait three days for reinforcements.
• Wu Feng reflected that she wished Huo Yuhao were there and wondered where he had gone into seclusion.

Zhang Lexuan agreed to stay behind and face the Body Sect, while the Heavenly Soul Royal Family’s sudden assault forced Marshal Xie Long’s rebel army to retreat. Xie Huanyue emerged from seclusion and unleashed a kingly aura that overwhelmed the battlefield.

• Zhang Lexuan volunteered to remain behind to delay the Body Sect’s reinforcements, despite Marshal Xie Long’s concerns.
• A report arrived that the Heavenly Soul Royal Family’s hundred-thousand-strong Imperial Forest Army had broken through the rebel army’s first line, and Xie Long ordered a retreat.
• Xie Huanyue came out of seclusion and charged onto the battlefield with Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan.
• Zhang Lexuan and Wu Feng rushed out to check on their companions as Xie Huanyue approached the enemy army alone.
• Xie Huanyue released a terrifying aura that made weaker fighters collapse and reminded Zhang Lexuan of Elder Mu’s Monarch’s Descent.

Xie Huanyue led the Straw Hat Brigade into battle against the Heavenly Soul Royal Family's army, overwhelming its soldiers with powerful attacks. As Heavenly Soul Royal Family experts approached, Zhang Lexuan rose to confront them.

• Xie Huanyue's Monarch's Descent incapacitated more than fifty thousand enemy soldiers, and the Straw Hat Brigade joined him on the battlefield.
• Zi Mu, Jing Ziyan, Ye Wuqing, Ling Luochen, the Lan sisters, and the others praised Xie Huanyue and discussed the enemy's outdated Soul Tools.
• Xie Huanyue charged into the enemy ranks and used Bone Balloon, Barrage Cannon to shatter their defensive formation.
• Ji Juechen rushed the Ironclad Unit and used Three-Sword Style—Sword Qi Tornado to sweep its soldiers into the air and shred them.
• The rest of the Straw Hat Brigade attacked the enemy troops as several black figures flew toward them from the horizon.
• Zhang Lexuan rose into the air and summoned a silver moon as the Heavenly Soul Royal Family's experts approached.

Reinforcements gave the Heavenly Soul Royal Family an overwhelming advantage over the Xie Long Army, and Xie Huanyue joined the aerial battle to protect his allies. He surprised the Golden Body Douluo by using his Flowing Splendor soul skill to drive compressed momentum into the Super Douluo’s body.

• Eight Titled Douluo from the Heavenly Soul Royal Family arrived and confronted Zhang Lexuan and the Xie Long Army’s two other Titled Douluo.
• Xie Huanyue flew up to join the battle despite the two generals urging him to leave with the main force.
• The Golden Body Douluo attacked Xie Huanyue, while three Titled Douluo surrounded Zhang Lexuan and Body Sect experts engaged the other defenders.
• Xie Huanyue used Great Serpent Form and Flowing Splendor to strike the Golden Body Douluo, whose defenses failed to stop the compressed momentum from injuring him internally.

Xie Huanyue battled the Golden Body Douluo, using his unusual martial soul, soul skills, and an Invincible Shield to withstand the Body Sect expert’s attacks. He launched a rapid barrage of punches against the Douluo’s Golden Level Secondary Awakening, but the chapter ended before revealing whether they could hurt him.

• The Golden Body Douluo dodged Xie Huanyue’s attacks and struck his arm, while Xie Huanyue used Mind’s Eye to lessen the blow.
• Xie Huanyue used Tank Form to rebound the Douluo’s golden airwave, but the Douluo’s body charge sent him tumbling through the air.
• Xie Huanyue unleashed Fist Cannon—Great Ape King, but the Golden Body Douluo evaded it with Mind’s Eye and punched him into a crater.
• Xie Huanyue rose again, activated his sixth soul skill and an Invincible Shield, then attacked the Douluo with a rapid rain of punches.
• The Golden Body Douluo braced himself, relying on his Golden Level Secondary Awakening and Half-step Flawless Golden Body as Xie Huanyue’s punches landed.

Xie Huanyue began to comprehend the Body Sect’s Mind’s Eye while fighting the Golden Body Douluo, allowing him to evade the Super Douluo’s attacks. The battle remained far from settled, as Zhang Lexuan and the Xie Long Army faced mounting pressure from the advancing Imperial Forest Army and Body Sect experts.

• The Golden Body Douluo activated his Body Martial Soul True Body and drove Xie Huanyue back with a powerful attack.
• Xie Huanyue sensed the Golden Body Douluo’s attack trajectory in advance and narrowly dodged, then was blasted away by a follow-up kick.
• As the Golden Body Douluo charged again, Xie Huanyue entered a profound state and effortlessly evaded his attacks, revealing that he had begun to master the Mind’s Eye.
• The Golden Body Douluo and the Body Sect’s Titled Douluo were shocked by Xie Huanyue’s sudden combat insight.
• The Imperial Forest Army and other troops advanced against the Xie Long Army, while the Straw Hat Brigade began to falter under the pressure.
• Zhang Lexuan struggled to hold off three stronger Titled Douluo, while the Xie Long Army’s other Titled Douluo also fell into disadvantage.

Zhang Lexuan and the Straw Hat Brigade faced defeat as the Heavenly Soul Royal Family’s forces overwhelmed their rear guard. Just as Zhang Lexuan began to detonate her Soul Core, Huo Yuhao arrived and rescued her and the others with powerful immortal arts.

• The Body Sect’s fighters and the Heavenly Soul Royal Family’s army overwhelmed the Straw Hat Brigade while Marshal Xie Long’s forces tried to retreat.
• Ling Luochen, Ji Juechen, Zi Mu, Ye Wuqing, and the other defenders were badly injured or exhausted as they fought off the encirclement.
• A Titled Douluo struck Zhang Lexuan from the sky, and she decided to detonate her Soul Core to take her attackers with her.
• Huo Yuhao’s Mental Impact interrupted Zhang Lexuan’s self-destruction, and his immortal arts raised a forest, shielded the Brigade, caught the falling fighters, and scattered the enemy army.

Huo Yuhao arrived on the battlefield and healed the Straw Hat Brigade after Golden Body Douluo wounded them. He overwhelmed the Heavenly Soul Royal Family’s army with his Spiritual Power and began beating Golden Body Douluo, leaving the soldiers terrified.

• Huo Yuhao reached the Straw Hat Brigade, stabilized Zhang Lexuan’s injuries, and sent Life Energy into Wu Feng and the others.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Xie Huanyue and learned that he had held off Golden Body Douluo, a Super Douluo from the Body Sect.
• Golden Body Douluo accused Huo Yuhao of relying on crooked means to gain power and threatened to avenge his sect’s inheritor.
• Huo Yuhao used Kingly Authority to force the Heavenly Soul Royal Family’s forces to their knees.
• Huo Yuhao struck Golden Body Douluo with Bane of Destiny and Soul Stripping, then repeatedly attacked him with Soul Shock while stomping on his head.

Huo Yuhao defeated the Body Sect’s Titled Douluo and, with Zhongli Yu and the Snow Empress, overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Empire’s defenders. Du Busi arrived and tried to negotiate, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Huo Yuhao froze four Body Sect Titled Douluo with Ice Emperor’s Wrath, shattering their bodies when they fell.
• Huo Yuhao kicked Golden Body Douluo, while Zhongli Yu killed two royal Titled Douluo and trapped the last one in a golden demon puppet.
• Huo Yuhao prepared to kill Golden Body Douluo, but Du Busi arrived and pleaded to talk.
• The Snow Empress appeared before Du Busi and suppressed his aura with her chilling presence, forcing him to swallow his anger.

Huo Yuhao confronted Du Busi over the Body Sect’s role in the Heaven Dou Empire and declared his intention to overthrow imperial rule for the common people. Du Busi returned the sect’s inheritance, offered to submit in exchange for sparing the royal family, then charged Huo Yuhao in a suspected self-destruction attack.

• Du Busi asked Huo Yuhao for the Body Sect’s Seed of Inheritance, and Huo Yuhao returned it without asking for anything in exchange.
• Du Busi offered to place the Body Sect under Huo Yuhao’s command if Huo Yuhao spared the Heaven Dou Empire’s royal family.
• Several Heavenly Soul generals urged Du Busi to fight, and Huo Yuhao killed them with Soul Shocks.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Du Busi’s claim to represent the nation and condemned the imperial nobles for exploiting the common people.
• Huo Yuhao declared that he would abolish imperial authority and bring revolution, prompting Du Busi to expand and charge at him in a suspected self-destruction attack.

Huo Yuhao defeated Du Busi, seized control of the Body Sect, and helped the rebellion prepare to overthrow the Heavenly Soul Royal Family. After Zhang Lexuan revealed Shrek’s betrayal and asked for Tang Ya, she offered herself to Huo Yuhao in exchange, leaving him stunned.

• Huo Yuhao used Light of Time and Space to weaken Du Busi, then used Kotoamatsukami to twist his will and bring the Body Sect under his control.
• Huo Yuhao had Xie Huanyue tell Grand Marshal Xie Long to overthrow the Heavenly Soul Royal Family and then reunited with Wu Feng.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Huo Yuhao and explained how Mu En and Shrek had manipulated her after the Tang Sect was involved in her family’s death.
• Zhang Lexuan asked whether Tang Ya had joined the Holy Spirit Cult, and Huo Yuhao confirmed that Tang Ya was its Blue Silver Holy Maiden.
• Zhang Lexuan knelt and asked Huo Yuhao to hand over Tang Ya, offering to become his woman and serve him in return.

Huo Yuhao explained that he would have Tang Ya represent the Tang Sect in the upcoming youth tournament to expose the sect and challenge the influence of its divine patron, Tang San. As Zhang Lexuan joined his group and the team discussed tournament preparations, a guard announced that Vina had requested an audience.

• Zhang Lexuan demanded that Huo Yuhao hand Tang Ya over to her, but he said he had reasons to wait.
• Huo Yuhao explained that sects would be allowed to compete in the renamed All-Continent Youth Soul Master Tournament, greatly increasing the number of teams.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that Tang Ya would lead Evil Soul Masters under the Tang Sect's name so he could destroy the sect's reputation and oppose Tang San's influence.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Huo Yuhao and pledged herself to him, while he reminded the group not to discuss or insult a deity without strong Spiritual Power defenses.
• The Straw Hat Brigade discussed who could compete and who would handle support duties before a guard reported that Vina had requested an audience.

Huo Yuhao left Xie Huanyue to meet Princess Vina, who begged him to spare the Heavenly Soul Royal Family. Xie Huanyue refused to interfere in the royal family’s fate, and Vina offered herself to him in exchange for his help.

• Huo Yuhao vanished with Zhongli Yu, the Snow Empress, and Ye Qiu, leaving Xie Huanyue to meet Princess Vina.
• Vina knelt before Xie Huanyue and begged him to ask Xie Long to spare her father and the Heavenly Soul Royal Family.
• Xie Huanyue refused, saying the people should decide the royal family’s fate, and advised Vina to divide the family and seek refuge with the sects.
• Vina offered Xie Huanyue anything he wanted, including herself, if he would save the royal family.
• The Straw Hat Brigade reacted with shock to Vina’s offer, while Zhang Lexuan and Wu Feng noted Xie Huanyue’s luck with princesses.

Huo Yuhao brought Vina and the others to the Heavenly Soul Royal Family's underground martial soul inheritance site, where they discovered a vast lava lake. As Snow Empress flew out to scout it, a huge fireball erupted from the lava and struck toward her.

• Huo Yuhao pressured Vina into leading the group to the royal family's inheritance site, then frightened her with a Tsukuyomi illusion.
• Huo Yuhao, Zhongli Yu, Snow Empress, and the others entered the passage beneath the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and endured its extreme cold and rising heat.
• The group reached a fiery cavern containing a vast lava lake, and Vina explained that a race lived within it whose leader's natal flame could purify bloodlines.
• Snow Empress flew over the lava to investigate while Huo Yuhao watched, ready to support her.
• The lava churned, and a fireball more than five meters wide shot toward Snow Empress.

Huo Yuhao and his companions encountered the Fire-Li Tribe beneath Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where its leader Huo Tian asked for help returning to their lost homeland in Falan World. Huo Yuhao learned that a Space-Time Turbulence had displaced the tribe, leaving him to consider how the altered Worldline might affect the disaster’s timing.

• Snow Empress fought off the fire creatures rising from the magma, while Huo Yuhao recognized them as the Fire-Li Tribe.
• Huo Tian sensed divine auras from Huo Yuhao and asked him to help the tribe find its original world after he reached the God Realm.
• Huo Tian introduced himself and explained that the Fire-Li Tribe came from Falan World, where humans lived under the rule of the Monster Race and Spirit Race.
• Huo Tian said a Space-Time Turbulence had torn open spatial fissures and transported his branch of the tribe to Douluo Continent.
• Huo Tian explained that the tribe survived in the magma beneath Heaven Dou Imperial Palace through an agreement with the human empire, but the refuge could not support its growth.
• Huo Yuhao considered helping the Fire-Li Tribe return home and questioned how changes to the Worldline might have altered the timing of the Space-Time Turbulence.

Huo Yuhao promised Huo Tian he would seek the Fire Host Clan’s homeland and received their token and Seven-Colored Lotus Flame. After consulting Xiao Huohuo’s Pill Formula, he learned the three ingredients needed to create a body capable of housing a god’s soul.

• Huo Yuhao agreed to contact the Fire Host Clan if he found Falan World, and Huo Tian gave him a gemstone token for the clan.
• Huo Tian gifted Huo Yuhao a portion of the clan’s royal Natal True Flame, the Seven-Colored Lotus Flame, which branded itself onto his palm.
• Huo Tian said the Fire Host Clan would remain secluded because of its promise to the Plane Core, then led his people back into the magma.
• Snow Empress examined the flame on Huo Yuhao’s palm, and Huo Yuhao asked Xiao Huohuo’s Pill Formula about it.
• Xiao Huohuo’s message explained that the flame could aid alchemy and named the three ingredients for refining a body to house a god’s soul: a Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill, a Divine Beast’s essence bloodline, and a powerful god’s skeletal remains.

After Huo Yuhao’s involvement in the Heaven Dou upheaval became known, Xu Tianran and Gou Luanshi prepared a trap for him and other empires’ young talents at a Sun Moon Empire matchmaking event. Gou Luanshi privately planned to seize power, while Xu Tianran’s resentment over his injuries and fixation on a girl deepened.

• Huo Yuhao kept his promise and had Marshal Xie Long release the Heavenly Soul Royal Family and their entourage, and Vina left with the former emperor and nobles.
• News of Huo Yuhao’s role in the Heaven Dou Empire spread, alarming royal families and prompting the major empires to discuss how to deal with him.
• Xu Tianran heard Gou Luanshi’s plan to use the Sea God's Fate Blind Date Event to lure young talents to Sunrise City and trap them there.
• Gou Luanshi told Xu Tianran that the Hands of the Nation's Protection and a Linked Soul Guidance Defense Array with several hundred Level Nine Fixed Soul Guidance Shells were ready for Huo Yuhao.
• Gou Luanshi submitted to Xu Tianran while secretly mocking him and resolving to take everything for himself when Xu Tianran neared world unification.
• Xu Tianran recalled a girl he had seen at Mingde Hall and, blaming his brothers for his injuries and lost chance with her, resolved to destroy everything.

Huo Yuhao struggled to keep the newly founded Heavenly Soul People's Republic afloat as nobles and merchants resisted its democratic government and the treasury ran low. While assessing his options, he heard Xian Lin'er's advice on how democratic ideas might take root and began to see her as a valuable political adviser.

• After the People's Republic was established, nobles withdrew their assets, merchants closed their businesses, and shortages and rising prices plunged the nation into chaos.
• On the government's third day, Marshal Xie Long learned that the treasury was nearly empty, and Huo Yuhao worried that the army would mismanage the funds he had taken from the Star Luo treasury.
• Huo Yuhao sent Zhongli Yu to fetch Zhang Lexuan for advice on managing his assets, refusing Zhongli Yu's suggestion to kill the troublesome nobles.
• Inside the Pocket Dimension, Xian Lin'er mocked Huo Yuhao and recalled how Yan Shaozhe's betrayal had made her afraid to return to Shrek Academy.
• Xian Lin'er told Huo Yuhao that democracy could not succeed without first awakening political thought among ordinary people and encouraging wise, brave people to spread the idea.
• Huo Yuhao asked Xian Lin'er what he should do and recognized her as a potential political talent.

Huo Yuhao negotiated with Xian Lin'er, who offered herself to secure her freedom, but he refused to take advantage of her and agreed to release her if she left his companions alone. They emerged from Divine Might Space and encountered Zhang Lexuan, who was surprised to see Xian Lin'er.

• Xian Lin'er demanded that Huo Yuhao avoid using mind-control skills on her, keep her out of the conflict with Shrek Academy, and restore her freedom after she helped him.
• Huo Yuhao accepted her first two conditions but hesitated over granting her freedom because he feared she might target his companions.
• Xian Lin'er promised not to harm Huo Yuhao's companions and offered to become his woman to prove her sincerity.
• Huo Yuhao covered Xian Lin'er with her clothes, agreed to restore her freedom if she did not plot against his companions, and said he would not take advantage of her vulnerable position.
• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er left Divine Might Space and encountered Zhang Lexuan, who was surprised to see Xian Lin'er.