Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao refined an Azure Nether Longevity Pill and offered it to Kong Deming, who recognized the gift as an attempt to win him over. Kong Deming remained wary of betraying his country despite the pill’s promise of nearly ten extra years of life.

• Huo Yuhao began refining the Azure Nether Longevity Pill by extracting the essence from its ingredients with the Crimson Gold Profound Flame.
• Huo Yuhao spent nearly a day and night refining the ingredients while Kong Deming watched his unusual technique in amazement.
• Huo Yuhao formed the pill, caught it when it burst from the Alchemy Furnace, and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Huo Yuhao offered the pill to Kong Deming as thanks for his guidance and explained that it could extend a person's lifespan by nearly ten years.
• Kong Deming understood that Huo Yuhao hoped to win him over but did not consider one pill enough reason to betray his country.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Kong Deming to join him by explaining the hidden history of the Douluo Plane and rejecting godhood in favor of mortal freedom. A year later, Huo Yuhao and his companions had advanced their studies and cultivation in the Dragon Realm, while the Dragon Burial project neared one-quarter completion.

• Huo Yuhao gave Kong Deming a pill as thanks for his guidance and explained that he would not use mind control to win people's support.
• Huo Yuhao told Kong Deming that gods were imprisoned by the Cosmic Will and recounted how deities had manipulated history and caused suffering across the Douluo Plane.
• Kong Deming accepted Huo Yuhao's account and agreed to follow him after Huo Yuhao offered a prescription to eliminate the drawbacks of forcibly raising Soul Engineer cultivation.
• Over the next half year, Huo Yuhao studied alchemy and Soul Tools, fused the Dragon King Soul Bone with Gu Yuena's guidance, and his companions joined in Soul Tool research.
• After a year in the Dragon Realm, the Dragon Burial project was nearly one-quarter complete, the companions had reached at least Rank 69, and several had gained dragon soul spirits.

Huo Yuhao refined a Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill in the Dragon Realm, using his God King-level Spiritual Power to complete the lengthy process. After the pill emerged and summoned a Seven-Element Lightning Tribulation, he called on Xie Huanyue for help.

• Huo Yuhao began refining the Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill after two previous attempts had failed.
• Huo Yuhao successfully refined and fused the herbs, spending more than fifteen days completing the pill’s preparation.
• Huo Yuhao drew a thumb-sized dark red pill from the Alchemy Furnace, triggering a Seven-Element Lightning Tribulation.
• Gu Yuena warned Huo Yuhao that he could not withstand the tribulation, while Bibi Dong watched with concern.
• Huo Yuhao smiled at the thunderclouds and called to Xie Huanyue for help.

Huo Yuhao completed the Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill in the Dragon Realm while Xie Huanyue and the Thunderclap Hell Vine endured its powerful lightning tribulation. The tribulation strengthened Huo Yuhao, transformed the vine, and ended with him fulfilling his promise to Bibi Dong as the group prepared to leave.

• Xie Huanyue intercepted the pill's seven-element lightning tribulation, throwing bolts back at the clouds while the Thunderclap Hell Vine absorbed the excess.
• The thunderclouds gathered more clouds from the Dragon Realm and redirected a torrent of lightning toward the Thunderclap Hell Vine.
• Huo Yuhao used the World Tree and his Whale Swallowing All Things and Judgment, Paradise Lost abilities to help the vine absorb the lightning and survive.
• The lightning's energy flowed through the World Tree, strengthening the Dragon Realm and tempering Huo Yuhao's body.
• After an hour of lightning, the Thunderclap Hell Vine and its soul rings turned purple-gold, and Huo Yuhao's Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill was completed.
• Huo Yuhao told the tearful Bibi Dong that he had fulfilled his promise, bringing the group's journey to the Dragon Realm to an end.

Huo Yuhao began refining Aphrodite’s skeletal remains into a body for Bibi Dong using Dragon God Blood Essence and three flames. After nearly a day of tempering, the essence had fused with the bones, leaving the process ready for its next step.

• After refining the Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill, Huo Yuhao collapsed from exhausting his Spiritual Power, and Gu Yuena caught him and took charge of caring for him.
• The next morning, Huo Yuhao prepared Aphrodite’s skeletal remains in a cave residence and told Ju Zi and the others to keep anyone from disturbing the ritual.
• Huo Yuhao drove Bibi Dong’s strand of divine sense into the bones and instructed her to enter the refined body once it was ready.
• Huo Yuhao poured Dragon God Blood Essence over the bones and roasted them with three flames for nearly a day, while Ning Tian, Ye Linlin, and Ju Zi supported him.
• After the blood essence had fused with the skeletal remains, Huo Yuhao stared at them and said, “Now!”

Huo Yuhao helped Bibi Dong’s new body take shape, then left the Dragon Realm with Zhang Lexuan and Ye Qiu to attend the tournament in Mingdu. As teams gathered for the expanded competition, the three arrived in the Heaven Soul Republic, ready to return to the world.

• Bibi Dong swallowed the Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill and began merging with the skeleton as Huo Yuhao used flames to temper her regenerating body for nearly twenty hours.
• After recovering from his efforts, Huo Yuhao left Bibi Dong with Ju Zi, Ning Tian, and Ye Linlin to support her fusion while he prepared to leave the Dragon Realm.
• Huo Yuhao chose Zhang Lexuan and Ye Qiu to accompany him to the tournament, while the others continued cultivating and carrying out Dragon Burial.
• The Sun Moon Empire reopened the tournament to sects, drawing 257 teams with high-grade soul tools offered as prizes.
• Huo Yuhao, Zhang Lexuan, and Ye Qiu emerged from a spatial rift in the Heaven Soul Republic, and Huo Yuhao announced their return.

In Heaven Dou City, a Sun Moon Empire envoy demanded coastal cities in exchange for flood relief and threatened Xian Lin'er, until a youth suddenly seized him. In the God Realm, Tang San recovered from his injuries while Xiao Wu and the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils guarded him, unaware that events in Douluo might still threaten his plans.

• The Sun Moon Empire delegation demanded several coastal cities from Marshal Xie Long in exchange for supplies to help the Heaven Soul Republic’s flood victims, and Xian Lin'er rejected the terms.
• The Rank 9 Soul Engineer insulted Xian Lin'er and implied that she had complicated ties to Marshal Xie Long, provoking the council as he threatened retaliation from his Soul Engineer Legion.
• A youth appeared in the hall, grabbed the Rank 9 Soul Engineer by the throat, and asked, "Do you want to dance too?"
• In the God Realm, Dai Mubai and the other First Generation Shrek Seven Devils guarded Tang San as he recovered from his injuries.
• Xiao Wu said Da Ming and Er Ming had died in Douluo, while Tang San’s flood had been intended to destroy Huo Yuhao’s people-first nation and protect the faith centered on Sea God Tang San.

The God of Destruction ordered his First Rank Gods to prepare to seize control of the God Realm Core, despite Tang San proposing to return to Douluo and eliminate the Golden Dragon King. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao returned to Heaven Dou City, took control of Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers, and reunited with Xian Lin'er.

• The God of Destruction told eight First Rank Gods to prepare for his plan to punish Tang San and take control of the God Realm Core.
• Tang San contacted the God of Destruction and asked to return to Douluo once his injuries healed to stop the Golden Dragon King from becoming the Dragon God.
• The God of Destruction dismissed the proposal as he ordered his allies to continue their preparations while Tang San was injured.
• Huo Yuhao seized a Rank 9 Soul Engineer and used his spiritual power to turn the Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers into puppets serving Heaven Soul.
• Huo Yuhao took control of the Soul Engineer Legion outside Heaven Dou City and announced his return to the people in the palace.
• Xian Lin'er grabbed Huo Yuhao by the ear, then embraced him and cried.

After returning to the Heaven Soul Republic, Huo Yuhao organized flood relief and prepared to investigate the Sun Moon Empire’s growing influence in Star Luo. Before leaving, he understood Ye Qiu’s feelings and promised to love and protect her.

• Huo Yuhao ordered Marshal Xie Long to deploy the Soul Engineer Legion for flood relief, begin river projects, and keep his return secret.
• Huo Yuhao asked Zhang Lexuan to investigate the human sovereignty propaganda teams and heard Xian Lin'er describe the Sun Moon Empire’s alliance with Star Luo.
• Huo Yuhao decided to travel to Star Luo, then agreed to spend a week addressing the floods with Xian Lin'er before leaving.
• Ye Qiu confessed that she wanted Huo Yuhao to love her, and he promised to protect and love her.

After spending the night with Ye Qiu, Huo Yuhao left her a way to summon him if she was in danger and went to meet Xian Lin'er. He prepared a meal of grilled fish and soup for her by a river in the flooded Heaven Soul Realm, but urgent hoofbeats interrupted them as they rested.

• Huo Yuhao spent the night with Ye Qiu, then left a drop of his blood in her skin so he could sense danger and reach her across space.
• Huo Yuhao met Xian Lin'er at Heaven Dou City's gate and suggested they stop for lunch because he had not eaten in a year.
• Huo Yuhao caught and prepared fish by a river, showing Xian Lin'er how to remove their odor tendons.
• Huo Yuhao grilled fish and cooked wild vegetable soup, and Xian Lin'er praised the meal.
• Urgent hoofbeats sounded nearby as Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er finished lunch and rested.

Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er met the disciplined Heavenly Armor Sect team while picnicking and invited them to share their fish soup. After learning that the team was traveling from the Dou Ling Empire to compete in the tournament, Huo Yuhao assessed their strength and the high level of competition ahead.

• Xian Lin'er used her evolved Spiritual Detection Sharing to spot fourteen riders on expensive Horned Scale Horses approaching their picnic.
• Huo Yuhao welcomed the riders, and Xian Lin'er blushed and pinched him when he called her his girlfriend.
• Han Zhanhu introduced himself as the Heavenly Armor Sect's tournament leader and asked to rest; Huo Yuhao offered the group fish soup.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as Huo Yuanjia and Xian Lin'er as his wife, while learning that Han Zhanhu's team came from the Dou Ling Empire.
• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er discussed the sect's discipline and strength, and Huo Yuhao judged that the tournament competition would be intense.

Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er’s peaceful rest was interrupted by Feng Ling of Heavy Sky Gate, so Huo Yuhao used a spiritual skill to make Feng Ling see every man as Tang San and fall in love with them. The prank ended with Feng Ling kissing a fellow gate member and Tang San dry-heaving in the God Realm.

• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er rested beside the Heavenly Armor Sect until Heavy Sky Gate arrived noisily by Flying Soul Tools.
• Feng Ling demanded food from Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er, then lustfully approached Xian Lin'er and boasted about being Heavy Sky Gate’s Young Gate Master.
• Huo Yuyao used Spiritual Barrier—Forgetfulness, Reversal, Chaos on Feng Ling, then left with Xian Lin'er using a spatial ability.
• Feng Ling saw the men of Heavy Sky Gate as Tang San and pounced on one of the middle-aged leaders, kissing him as the Heavenly Armor Sect fled in disgust.
• Tang San felt the strange spiritual power reach him in the God Realm and dry-heaved, leaving Xiao Wu bewildered.

Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er traveled to flood-stricken Nuoding City, where Huo Yuhao exposed Sea God Tang San's role in the unnatural rainfall and used his powers to control flooding. After helping at more than a dozen flood sites, they reached Suotuo City and chose the Rose Hotel for the night.

• Huo Yuhao spotted a trident pattern in the rain clouds and told Xian Lin'er that Sea God Tang San had deliberately caused the abnormal rainfall.
• Huo Yuhao used giant trees, dams, and Ice Emperor's Wrath to limit erosion and flooding near Nuoding City.
• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er dealt with more than a dozen flood sources before nightfall.
• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er reached Suotuo City, saw the damage and refugees, and looked for lodging after eating.
• Xian Lin'er chose the rose-shaped Rose Hotel, while Huo Yuhao reacted strangely to its name and appearance.

Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er stayed together in the Rose Hotel’s couples’ suite and spent the night together. The next morning, Xian Lin'er’s Soul Power rose to level ninety-seven and her appearance returned to her twenties.

• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er booked the Rose Hotel’s last room after the attendant claimed only one was available.
• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er discovered their room, Red Ocean, was decorated as a romantic couples’ suite.
• Xian Lin'er tried to leave, but Huo Yuhao pulled her close and kissed her.
• Huo Yuhao carried Xian Lin'er to the heart-shaped bed, and they spent the night together.
• The next morning, Xian Lin'er discovered that her Soul Power had reached level ninety-seven and her youthful appearance had returned.

Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er traveled through the Heaven Soul Realm to control the flooding, narrowly avoiding a calamity at Shrek Academy’s former site. After returning to Heaven Dou City, Huo Yuhao reunited with Ye Qiu, while memories of Yezhi stirred his grief and resentment.

• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er strolled through Suotuo City and avoided visiting Shrek Academy’s former site, where local families later burned the ruins over generations of mistreatment.
• Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er spent half a month controlling the floods, and his life essence healed her old injuries and restored her vitality.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Heaven Dou City with Xian Lin'er and heard Ye Qiu singing while she waited on the city wall.
• Huo Yuhao remembered Yezhi and the women who had helped him love and live again, while hatred and resentment stirred within him.
• Ye Qiu saw Huo Yuhao approaching, flew into his embrace, and welcomed him home.

Huo Yuhao helped Heaven Soul Republic develop early hydroelectric technology, then continued north with Zhang Lexuan and Ye Qiu to find the Snow Empress and help her face her tribulation. In the Extreme North, the Ice Empress and Myriad Demon King reflected on their bond with Huo Yuhao and their growing respect for humanity.

• Huo Yuhao worked with Soul Engineers to adapt his generator designs to Douluo Continent and demonstrated how rare metals could produce electricity.
• Zhang Lexuan returned and told Huo Yuhao that the teams spreading their ideas across the three empires had been wiped out.
• Huo Yuhao traveled with Zhang Lexuan and Ye Qiu into the Extreme North Core Circle to seek the Snow Empress and explore Soul Spirit Symbiosis Contracts for his companions.
• The Ice Empress projected herself outside Huo Yuhao's Sea of Spirit and told him she no longer viewed being confined within him as entirely unfortunate.
• Myriad Demon King agreed that humans possessed wisdom and creativity beyond that of soul beasts.

Huo Yuhao and his companions traveled into the Extreme North Core Circle, where Snow Empress performed the Heavenly Snow Woman Dance after breaking through. As tens of thousands of soul beasts gathered in response, Snow Empress watched them approach with a smile.

• Ice Empress told Huo Yuhao that he had changed her view of humans, and he jokingly asked her to become his little sister.
• Huo Yuhao led Zhang Lexuan and Ye Qiu deeper into the Extreme North, where Ice Empress's aura kept the local soul beasts away.
• Huo Yuhao found Snow Empress dancing in the sky, and her Heavenly Snow Woman Dance transformed the surrounding ice and snow blue and gave him an insight.
• Snow Empress landed beside Huo Yuhao and confirmed that she had broken through.
• Tens of thousands of Extreme North soul beasts rushed toward Snow Empress, who watched their approach with a smile.

Huo Yuhao watched the Extreme North soul beasts gather to honor the Snow Empress, whose reunion with Little White and Ah Tai revealed their long-standing bonds and rivalries. The chapter left Little White and Ah Tai squeezing against each other beside the Snow Empress, cracking the ice beneath them.

• The Extreme North soul beasts gathered in a vast circle and prostrated themselves before the Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• Ice Bear King Little White arrived, crawled up to the Snow Empress, and happily accepted her affectionate caress.
• The Titan Snow Demon King, Ah Tai, arrived with a hundred Titan Snow Demons and respectfully greeted the Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• The Snow Empress invited Ah Tai to sit beside her, and Little White watched him with disdain.
• Little White and Ah Tai squeezed against each other as they sat, making the ice beneath them crack.

Snow Empress gathered the soul beasts of the Extreme North to announce that Ah Tai would succeed her as their lord, then revealed that she wanted to hold a grand wedding with Huo Yuhao. The chapter ended with Snow Empress meeting Huo Yuhao’s eyes, jealous of his bond with Ye Qiu and determined to marry him.

• Snow Empress told the gathered soul beasts that she would leave the Extreme North for a long time and announce her successor.
• Snow Empress named Ah Tai the new lord of the Extreme North, explaining that she trusted his loyalty and ability to unite its clans.
• Ah Tai grieved over Snow Empress’s departure, knelt before her, and promised to guard the Extreme North until she returned.
• Snow Empress clarified that she was not leaving to face her lifespan limit and announced that she wanted a grand wedding.
• Snow Empress turned to Huo Yuhao, revealing her jealousy over his contract with Ye Qiu and her determination to marry him.

Snow Empress publicly declared Huo Yuhao her husband, and he vowed to stand by her despite the Extreme North’s doubts. When Titan Snow Demon King challenged their relationship, Huo Yuhao offered to prove his strength and crushed it with his Spiritual Power, leaving the other soul beasts stunned.

• Snow Empress announced to the soul beasts of the Extreme North that Huo Yuhao was her husband, and Huo Yuhao took her hand in support.
• Titan Snow Demon King accused Huo Yuhao of invading the Extreme North and harming Ice Empress, but Snow Empress stopped it from attacking.
• Huo Yuhao offered to leave the Extreme North and sever his ties with Snow Empress if Titan Snow Demon King could withstand ten seconds of his Spiritual Pressure.
• Huo Yuhao released his unusual soul rings and unleashed his Spiritual Power, slamming Titan Snow Demon King into the ice.