Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao stayed to confront Tang San and attempted to fuse his flames into a Buddha Furious Fire Lotus with help from Xie Huanyue, Cui Yajie, and Xiao Huohuo. He hurled the lotus at Tang San, and its explosion destroyed Sea God Island.

• Huo Yuhao sent Snow Empress and Mermaid Princess Liya into the Dragon Realm and left Jia Lin to hold off Tang San.
• Huo Yuhao summoned Xie Huanyue and Cui Yajie, then began forcing his golden Purifying Fire and crimson flame together despite the backlash.
• Xiao Huohuo guided Huo Yuhao to add the Seven-Colored Lotus Flame and shape the fused flames into a nine-colored lotus pedestal.
• Huo Yuhao threw the Buddha Furious Fire Lotus at Tang San, who countered with his remaining Buddha Furious Tang Lotus.
• The two weapons collided and the resulting explosion destroyed the Seven Sacred Pillars and erased Sea God Island.

Huo Yuhao escaped Tang San’s devastating firestorm with Qian Renxue and the others, while Tang San retaliated by ordering the merfolk exterminated. In the Dragon Realm, Huo Yuhao searched for a way to restore Qian Renxue and discovered Yu Mengdi’s angel bloodline might help.

• Tang San and the God of Destruction survived the firestorm, and Tang San found his unconscious daughter and Xu Sanshi before ordering the sea’s major clans to eradicate the merfolk.
• Huo Yuhao brought Qian Renxue, Xie Huanyue, Cui Yajie, and Jia Lin into the Dragon Realm, but he was injured and exhausted from covering their retreat.
• Huo Yuhao used the Blade of Life’s Vigil to preserve Qian Renxue, then determined she needed sacred energy to restore her damaged divine soul.
• Huo Yuhao asked Yu Mengdi to compare her angel bloodline with Qian Renxue’s, hoping to access a sacred cultivation chamber.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that the shriveled woman was Qian Renxue, the Six-Winged Angel and former Angel God who had opposed Tang San.

Huo Yuhao failed to find a way to use Yu Mengdi’s angel bloodline to heal Qian Renxue, then organized a Tang Sect team for the tournament in Mingdu. Before leaving, he planned to help the Snow Empress face her nine-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.

• Yu Mengdi tested her bloodline and Martial Soul but lacked Qian Renxue’s perfect Six-Winged Angel lineage, so Huo Yuhao considered seeking a Sacred Angel beneath Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Mermaid Princess Liya had awakened and let the Snow Empress explain their situation to her.
• Huo Yuhao gathered his companions and announced that he would go to Mingdu to oversee the Tang Sect’s tournament team.
• Huo Yuhao chose Zhongli Yu to lead the team and selected eligible young companions, while Yu Mengdi insisted she had just turned eighteen and was allowed to follow.
• Before departing for Mingdu, Huo Yuhao decided to help the Snow Empress undergo her nine-hundred-thousand-year tribulation and ordered Xie Huanyue to get to work.

After returning Mermaid Princess Liya to the Ice Sea, Huo Yuhao discovered that the Sea God had ordered the mermaid race eradicated. The injured Mermaid Queen Lijing and Liya offered themselves to persuade him to help their people.

• Xie Huanyue helped Snow Empress withstand her tribulation, and she entered seclusion to recover and absorb her enlightenment.
• Huo Yuhao used the Spatial Dragon Bone to take his companions to the undersea palace and return Liya to her sister, Lijing.
• Lijing told Liya that the Sea God had ordered the mermaid lineage eradicated and that their mother had died.
• Huo Yuhao waited for the sisters to ask for his help, then questioned what benefit he would receive.
• Lijing offered herself to Huo Yuhao, and Liya followed, offering herself as well.

Huo Yuhao persuaded the Mermaid Princesses Lijing and Liya to sign Soul Spirit Contracts with Ye Qiu, then Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong arrived in Radiant Capital to compete for the Tang Sect. They reunited with Beibei and were shocked to see the pallid, numb-looking Xiao Ya with him.

• Huo Yuhao explained the Soul Spirit Ritual to Lijing and Liya and invited Ye Qiu to contract with them.
• Lijing and Liya agreed to become Ye Qiu’s Soul Spirits, and Huo Yuhao began the ritual.
• Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong arrived in Radiant Capital to register for the tournament under the Tang Sect’s name.
• At Mingyue Hotel, Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong met the haggard Beibei and noticed his weakened aura.
• Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong saw Xiao Ya following Beibei, looking pale and numb.

Beibei reunited Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong with Tang Ya, whose mutated martial soul had made her an Evil Soul Master, and brought them to meet the Tang Sect team for the tournament. The chapter ended with Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong astonished by the new competitors’ concealed auras.

• Beibei explained that Tang Ya had rescued him and defended her, while Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong struggled to accept that she was an Evil Soul Master.
• Beibei led Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong through Mingyue Hotel, where they encountered Princess Xu Jiujiu and told her that they represented the Tang Sect rather than Shrek Academy.
• Xu Jiujiu wished the Tang Sect good luck and departed with her Star Luo National Academy team.
• Beibei brought Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong to the Tang Sect’s private suite and introduced Lu Genggeng, Jili, Wang Xiaolei, Tang Dai, Yan Feng, and Gu Yu as their fellow competitors.
• Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong sensed the new members’ concealed auras and reacted with shock.

Huo Yuhao arranged for the Earth Dragon Sect to enter the tournament as part of his plan to help another team rise before defeating them. He gave Nan Qiūqiū and Nan Shuishui the powerful Extreme Ice War God Armor, then stayed with Nan Shuishui while the tournament preparations continued.

• Huo Yuhao watched the Tang Sect register and reassured Zhang Lexuan that his controlled contestants would not be exposed.
• Huo Yuhao redirected the Hongchen Siblings toward Mingdu’s underground competition and agreed to take them to see Jing Hongchen after finding a sect for Qiu’er and the others.
• Huo Yuhao teleported the Earth Dragon Sect party to a wilderness, then persuaded Nan Shuishui to let his companions join the sect’s reserve team to help another team advance.
• Huo Yuhao gave Nan Qiūqiū the Extreme Ice War God Armor, which boosted her power toward the Soul Sage level, and warned her that it was difficult to control.
• Huo Yuhao gave Nan Shuishui the second armor set in a Storage Ring and sealed their room with Spiritual Power while they became intimate.

Huo Yuhao reunited the Hongchen Siblings with Jing Hongchen, learned that the Sun Moon Empire and Star Luo Empire were preparing to crush their northern rivals, and began investigating Mingdu ahead of the tournament. He brought Yu Mengdi to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and waited in Nana’s dormitory, intending to recruit her as a scout.

• Huo Yuhao brought Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to visit Jing Hongchen, who was relieved to see them and learned how strong they had become.
• Huo Yuhao asked Jing Hongchen about the Sun Moon Empire’s movements and learned that Star Luo was cooperating with it against Heaven Soul and Dou Ling.
• Huo Yuhao investigated Mingdu with Zhongli Yu, then returned to the hotel and fell asleep in Zhang Lexuan’s bed while Zhongli Yu kept Zhang Lexuan awake through the night.
• Huo Yuhao took Yu Mengdi to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and searched students’ memories to find Nana.
• Huo Yuhao and Yu Mengdi entered Nana’s dormitory and waited for her to return.

Huo Yuhao recruited Nana by promising to rescue her parents from the Holy Spirit Cult, then brought her to a Mingdu branch to confront its leaders. He killed the Second Holy Spirit and left Yu Mengdi to fight the other leader while he followed Nana deeper into the hideout.

• Huo Yuhao told Yu Mengdi about his past before Nana entered the dormitory and reacted warily to his sudden appearance.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he knew Nana’s history and offered to rescue her parents if she helped him; Nana agreed to cooperate for now.
• Huo Yuhao, Yu Mengdi, and Nana traveled to the Holy Spirit Cult branch in Mingdu, where Nana used her token and the hidden entrance to lead them inside.
• The Second Holy Spirit sensed a stranger, so Huo Yuhao dropped his concealment and attacked the two leaders and their skeletons.
• Huo Yuhao killed the Second Holy Spirit with his eye ability, assigned Yu Mengdi to fight the Great Holy Spirit, and followed Nana farther into the branch.

Huo Yuhao defeated the Holy Spirit Cult branch and helped Nana’s parents’ souls find peace, gaining Nana and eight other survivors as followers. As the Continental Youth Soul Master Elite Tournament began in Mingdu, he assessed the competing teams and prepared the Tang Sect to preserve its undefeated record.

• Huo Yuhao caught Nana after the branch elder injured her, then killed the elder with Thunder Prison and watched Yu Mengdi battle the Great Holy Spirit.
• The Great Holy Spirit empowered his Resentful Spirits, but Huo Yuhao used the Purification Charm to cleanse them and destroy the Great Holy Spirit, then claimed the Holy Spirit Banner.
• Huo Yuhao freed the Holy Servants and purified the souls of Nana’s parents, who said farewell to Nana before dispersing.
• Nana and eight other survivors pledged themselves to Huo Yuhao, who assigned them to follow Nana and buried the courtyard with his Earth Dragon King soul bone.
• The Sun Moon Empire began the tournament under rules allowing unrestricted combat altitude, granted its own academy a first-round bye, and Huo Yuhao surveyed the teams while preparing the Tang Sect for its matches.

Huo Yuhao and the Hongchen Siblings entered the Mingdu Soul Engineer Elite Competition under false names and passed its qualification round at Qingse Hotel. After they collected their rewards, Meng Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao a dowry from Jing Hongchen, and Nana reported that Ye Guyi was competing for the Ordinary Alliance.

• Huo Yuhao chose the Xi Shui Alliance's Qingse Hotel as the place for his group to enter the competition and had Nana push him in a wheelchair while the Hongchen Siblings used disguises.
• Huo Yuhao registered as Chen Honghao, with the siblings as Chen Hongxiao and Chen Hongmeng, and used Spiritual Barrier to pass the soul engineer identity check.
• Huo Yuhao made a Rank 3 soul tool in three minutes, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen also passed the qualification round with restrained performances.
• Huo Yuhao asked Nana to sell the soul tools for money, and Meng Hongchen gave him a storage ring containing rare metals and Rank 9 Soul Tools from Jing Hongchen, who called them her dowry.
• Nana told Huo Yuhao that Ye Guyi was an Ordinary Alliance contestant, and Meng Hongchen asked who Ye Guyi was before Huo Yuhao teased her.

Huo Yuhao brought his companions to the Dragon Realm and arranged soul spirits for those who needed soul rings, then celebrated with them before preparing to leave. After Meng Hongchen bonded with Ice Bear King Little White, she collapsed from the Vermilion Ice Toad’s cold poison as the group returned to Mingyue Hotel.

• Huo Yuhao gathered his companions in the Dragon Realm, planned to disrupt Tang San’s power of faith, and arranged soul spirits for those who needed them.
• Huo Yuhao traveled with his companions to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ditian and Bear Lord helped match them with suitable soul beasts for Soul Spirit Symbiosis Contracts.
• Huo Yuhao took Ling Luochen to the Extreme North, where the Titan Snow Demon King gave her an orange-gold eighth soul ring, then the companions held a banquet in Dragon Valley.
• The morning after the banquet, Huo Yuhao prepared to help Ice Bear King Little White survive its heavenly tribulation and performed a Soul Spirit Ritual that gave Meng Hongchen an orange-gold soul ring.
• Meng Hongchen collapsed in Huo Yuhao’s arms after returning to Mingyue Hotel, and Xiao Hongchen identified the cause as the Vermilion Ice Toad’s cold poison flaring up now that she had become a Soul Sage.

Huo Yuhao discovered a way to save Meng Hongchen from the Vermilion Ice Toad's cold poison and gathered the required World Tree sap. After Meng Hongchen confessed her long-held feelings, Huo Yuhao prepared to treat her, leaving her poised to release the poison.

• Huo Yuhao learned that Meng Hongchen's cold poison was embedded in her martial soul and found Xiao Huohuo's Poison Pill Method as a possible cure.
• The Ice Empress told Huo Yuhao that his blood essence and the World Tree could supply two ingredients needed for the method.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Dragon Realm and collected red sap from the World Tree, feeling its wound as though it were his own.
• Meng Hongchen recalled falling for Huo Yuhao and revealed that she had persuaded Jing Hongchen to let her and Xiao Hongchen help him at the Matchmaking Convention.
• Huo Yuhao assured Meng Hongchen he could save her, asked her to become his woman, and told her to release the cold poison so he could begin treatment.

Huo Yuhao used fused flames, Dragon Scorpion Essence, and World Tree Sap to neutralize Meng Hongchen’s cold poison and help her condense it into a Soul Core. After she recovered, he declared that he would marry her and ask for her hand openly once matters in Douluo were settled.

• Huo Yuhao drove Meng Hongchen’s cold poison into a vortex in her lower abdomen using fused flames and began the Poison Pill Method.
• Huo Yuhao refined World Tree Sap and combined it with Dragon Scorpion Essence to restore Meng Hongchen’s vitality and dissolve the poison’s deathly aura.
• Meng Hongchen followed Huo Yuhao’s instructions and compressed the poison into a Soul Core, bringing the treatment to a successful end.
• Xiao Hongchen and the others returned to the hotel, where Ye Qiu stopped Xiao Hongchen from entering while Huo Yuhao treated Meng Hongchen.
• Meng Hongchen awoke, and Huo Yuhao told her that Xiao Hongchen was outside; she hurried to get dressed while Huo Yuhao faced the waiting group.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Meng Hongchen was cured and declared that he would marry her and seek her family’s approval in Mingde Hall.

Huo Yuhao watched the tournament’s opening from afar while caring for Meng Hongchen, then recognized Duke White Tiger Dai Hao as his father. As the first match began, Huo Yuhao left the competition to the Tang Sect and stayed with Meng Hongchen.

• Huo Yuhao postponed rescuing Ye Guyi while Nana and the Holy Servants continued searching for information, and he cared for Meng Hongchen as she recovered from the cold poison.
• Huo Yuhao sent Zhongli Yu and Zhang Lexuan to the tournament and used his Spiritual Power to monitor Mingdu and the venue.
• The Tang Sect team arrived at the tournament and was assigned an obscure bench, prompting Tang Wutong and Beibei to resent the slight and resolve to prove themselves.
• Xu Tianhe opened the tournament, and Huo Yuhao recognized Dai Hao as his father, recalling his mother Huo Yun'er and reacting with grief and anger.
• Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy and the Dragon Slaying Sect were called to compete in the first match, with Xu Tianzhen taking the field for Mingdu.
• Huo Yuhao lost interest in the match and embraced Meng Hongchen, who also found the competition unexciting, before kissing her.

Huo Yuhao tracked down the leaders of three underground factions and forced two of them to give him control of a share of the rare-metal smuggling profits. He then confronted Shangguan Wei'er and revealed that he had come to borrow the Ordinary Alliance’s Sacred Angel, Ye Guyi.

• Huo Yuhao and the Earth Dragon Sect reviewed the competition’s first-day matches, and Ye Qiu and the Lan Sisters assured him of their strength.
• Nana reported that Shangguan Wei'er was meeting Nangong Wan and An Litong at the Qingse Hotel, so Huo Yuhao infiltrated the meeting with her.
• Huo Yuhao demanded a share of the profits from An Litong, who agreed to give up half after Huo Yuhao displayed his divine artifacts; Nangong Wan also submitted and left with Nana to arrange the transfer.
• Huo Yuhao told Shangguan Wei'er that he had come for someone in the Ordinary Alliance, and she tried to seduce him with Myriad People's Drunkenness.
• Huo Yuhao resisted the drug and told Shangguan Wei'er that he wanted to borrow Ye Guyi, the Sacred Angel who countered Evil Soul Masters.

Huo Yuhao exposed Shangguan Wei'er’s attempt to deceive and attack him, then demanded that she take him to Ye Guyi. Meanwhile, Nana chose to follow Huo Yuhao, Xu Sanshi spotted Jiang Nannan with Yu Tianlong, and the God of Destruction confronted Tang San over his schemes.

• Huo Yuhao read Shangguan Wei'er’s thoughts, overcame her attempted seduction and attack with an illusion, and demanded that she lead him to Ye Guyi.
• Nana told Huo Yuhao she wanted to remain with him, and he gave her a set of soul bones to absorb before the tournament ended.
• Huo Yuhao forced Shangguan Wei'er to take him to Ye Guyi after his pressure made her collapse.
• Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong discussed the tournament’s dangers at Mingyue Hotel, where Xu Sanshi recognized Jiang Nannan and saw Yu Tianlong sit across from her.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of setting up an elaborate game after they returned to the God Realm Committee.

Tang San dismissed the God of Destruction, unaware that the God King had received a message from Huo Yuhao and was waiting for his chance to strike. In Mingdu, Huo Yuhao accompanied Shangguan Wei'er to her residence, learned about Ye Guyi’s origins and a village of Angel and Fox Martial Soul users, and left Shangguan Wei'er exhausted but apparently strengthened.

• Tang San dismissed the God of Destruction and believed his authority and control of the God Realm Core left him beyond challenge.
• The God of Destruction recalled Huo Yuhao’s message through the God of Lust’s imprint in Ma Xiaotao and anticipated Tang San’s weakest moment.
• Shangguan Wei'er took disguised Huo Yuhao from Qingse Hotel in her carriage, and Huo Yuhao secretly told Yu Mengdi to follow them.
• Shangguan Wei'er explained that she had rescued Ye Guyi from a village with Angel Martial Soul users and Fox Martial Soul users, including a Nine-tailed Fox who had gone to Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao learned about the village, then seduced Shangguan Wei'er during the carriage ride and planted a Mental Imprint in her.
• The carriage reached Shangguan Wei'er's temporary residence at sunset, and Huo Yuhao carried the exhausted Shangguan Wei'er out.

Huo Yuhao brought Yu Mengdi to the Ordinary Alliance, where she and Ye Guyi clashed over their angelic bloodlines. After revealing himself, Huo Yuhao was attacked by Ye Guyi and transported everyone in the room to the Dragon Realm.

• Lan Ruoruo helped the weakened Shangguan Wei'er inside, and Shangguan Wei'er warned her people not to act against Huo Yuhao or the arriving Yu Mengdi.
• Yu Mengdi and Ye Guyi met and displayed hostility toward each other, while Yu Mengdi returned to Huo Yuhao's side when he told her not to cause trouble.
• Shangguan Wei'er entered a private room with Ye Guyi, and Huo Yuhao removed his disguise and identified himself as Demon King Huo Yuhao.
• Ye Guyi drew her sword and attacked Huo Yuhao, who used his Space-Time Dragon Bone skill to take everyone into the Dragon Realm.

Huo Yuhao tested Ye Guyi’s sacred power by making her fight Gou Luanshi, then defeated her with the Angel Holy Sword and left her unconscious. Shangguan Wei’er sought Kong Deming’s help to escape, but he chose to support Huo Yuhao and said Huo Yuhao would surpass the gods.

• Ye Guyi attacked Huo Yuhao, who blocked her sacred strikes and summoned Gou Luanshi as a puppet to fight her.
• Ye Guyi unleashed Angel’s Dance and nearly destroyed Gou Luanshi, but Huo Yuhao pulled the creature back before she could finish it.
• Huo Yuhao countered Ye Guyi’s final attack with the Angel Holy Sword, causing her to collapse unconscious into his arms.
• Ju Zi took Ye Guyi away with Yu Mengdi, while Huo Yuhao questioned Cui Yajie about the angel soul masters in her village.
• Shangguan Wei’er asked Kong Deming to help her escape, but he refused and explained that he had chosen to follow Huo Yuhao.
• Kong Deming told Shangguan Wei’er that Huo Yuhao had already won several rounds against Sea God Tang San and would surpass the gods.