Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao used his Heartbreaking Soul-Desolating Sword to wound Tang Hao and force him to detonate two Soul Rings, while his sword intent stirred powerful emotions in the spectators. Tang Hao prepared to kill him for Xiao San, but Huo Yuhao remained confident that he could still win.

• Tang Hao struck Huo Yuhao with the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, and Huo Yuhao unveiled his Heartbreaking Soul-Desolating Sword.
• Huo Yuhao evaded Tang Hao’s attacks and wounded him with three sword strikes, impressing Chen Xin and moving the spectators with his sword intent.
• Tang Hao’s attack faltered as he glimpsed Ah Yin, and Huo Yuhao unleashed a powerful Heartbreaking Soul-Desolating Slash.
• Tang Hao detonated his first two Soul Rings and used the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to disperse the slash, but Huo Yuhao drove him back and drew blood.
• Tang Hao declared that he would kill Huo Yuhao to protect Xiao San, while Huo Yuhao claimed he could still make Tang Hao suffer a crushing defeat.

Huo Yuhao borrowed Electrolux’s Light Magic, transformed his Black Dragon Martial Soul into a Radiant Sacred Dragon, and overwhelmed Tang Hao in Spirit City. He ended the battle with a devastating light attack, but Tang Hao escaped with Tang San and Xiao Wu before it struck.

• Huo Yuhao asked Electrolux to lend him Light Magic so he could face Tang Hao himself, with Electrolux ready to intervene if needed.
• Huo Yuhao transformed into a radiant form, stunning Tang Hao and the watching fighters with his sacred power and strength.
• Tang Hao detonated his Soul Rings and attacked with the Great Sumeru Hammer, but Huo Yuhao restrained him with Light Chains and drove back his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Huo Yuhao used Uncrowned, Unforgiven, Time Reversal to reduce the power of Tang Hao’s attack, then unleashed Sacred Dragon: Light Judgment.
• Tang Hao escaped with Tang San and Xiao Wu before the beam struck, while Huo Yuhao’s transformed appearance faded and Spirit City fell silent.

After Huo Yuhao’s battle with Tang Hao, Bibi Dong cared for him and named him Spirit Hall’s Holy Son. As they spoke about love, the past, and betrayal, Huo Yuhao left their relationship unresolved while Bibi Dong resolved to wait for him.

• Bibi Dong embraced Huo Yuhao, whose Sea of Consciousness received her unspoken confession, and he told her he had heard her feelings.
• After Tang Hao fled with Tang San and Xiao Wu, Bibi Dong sealed Spirit City and formally named Huo Lai the Holy Son, equal in status to Hu Liena.
• Hu Liena congratulated Huo Lai, while rumors spread about Bibi Dong’s visits to his recovery chamber; Hu Liena defended their bond to gossiping deacons.
• Bibi Dong admitted to Huo Yuhao that meeting him had changed her and that she wanted to hear his voice and be heard by him.
• Huo Yuhao told Bibi Dong that love should not mean one-sided dependence and warned that he would show no mercy if she betrayed him; Bibi Dong promised she never would.
• Huo Yuhao privately regarded Bibi Dong as a piece in his plans, while Bibi Dong accepted the distance between them and chose to wait for him to open his heart.

Huo Yuhao delayed his trip to Slaughter City to recover at Spirit Hall, then traveled there with Hu Liena. After arriving, he slaughtered the tavern’s ruffians and forced the waiter to reveal the entrance beneath the counter.

• Huo Yuhao asked Bibi Dong for Slaughter City’s location, and she urged him to recover first and take Hu Liena with him.
• Huo Yuhao spent a month using Spirit Hall’s medicines, raising his cultivation to level forty-eight before setting out with Hu Liena.
• Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena reached the town concealing Slaughter City’s entrance, where the Asura God watched them and anticipated Huo Yuhao’s arrival.
• At the tavern, Huo Yuhao rejected the demand to prove his qualification by drinking a Bloody Mary or killing one person and dismissed the patrons as ants.
• When the tavern’s ruffians threatened Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena, Huo Yuhao killed them with one sword strike and made the waiter lead them to the entrance beneath the counter.

Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena entered Slaughter City, where Huo Yuhao defeated Terror Knight Scott and obtained their identification tokens. After learning that escaping required winning one hundred consecutive matches in the Hell Slaughter Arena, Huo Yuhao made it their goal.

• Huo Yuhao challenged the armed group blocking the passage and defeated Terror Knight Scott with the Demon Slaying Sword.
• Huo Yuhao spared Scott, who gave him and Hu Liena tokens numbered 9511 and 9512 to enter Slaughter City.
• Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena entered the city and met a black-veiled woman who became their guide.
• The black-veiled woman explained that Soul Skills could not be used, skulls served as currency, and the only way out was to win one hundred consecutive Hell Slaughter Arena matches and earn the title of Slaughter God.
• Huo Yuhao declared that the Hell Slaughter Arena was their goal despite its low survival rate.

Huo Yuhao slaughtered his way through Slaughter City for half a year, using the bloodshed to hone and control his killing aura. The King of Slaughter recognized that Huo Yuhao could no longer be controlled and warned that a calamity was coming.

• Huo Yuhao entered the inner city and began killing its depraved residents with the Demon Slaying Sword, sparing neither perpetrators nor those who celebrated the violence.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and cut down his opponents as the gamblers’ cheers turned to fearful silence.
• For half a year, Huo Yuhao continued winning bloody battles while Hu Liena watched with growing concern as his eyes grew colder.
• A black-veiled woman told the King of Slaughter that Huo Yuhao had killed half the inner city and defeated even powerful experts instantly.
• The King of Slaughter concluded that Huo Yuhao was honing his killing aura and warned that Slaughter City faced a coming calamity.

Huo Yuhao rejected the King of Slaughter’s offer of freedom and demanded another challenge to Hell Road, with Hu Liena standing beside him. Impressed by Huo Yuhao’s resolve, the King of Slaughter opened the entrance and allowed them to proceed.

• Huo Yuhao’s killing aura took shape as a blood-red dagger after days of slaughter in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• The King of Slaughter praised Huo Yuhao’s killing aura and offered him and Hu Liena the title of Slaughter God and freedom to leave Slaughter City.
• Huo Yuhao refused the offer and challenged the King of Slaughter to let him face Hell Road again.
• Hu Liena backed Huo Yuhao and said they would earn their rewards through their own strength.
• Huo Yuhao declared his resolve to pursue strength even at the cost of his life, moving the King of Slaughter to open Hell Road.

The King of Slaughter sacrificed the arena’s fallen spectators to open a blood-red passage, sending Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena into an abyss beneath Slaughter City. As they crossed a narrow bridge over a vast pool of blood, a swarm of Blood Bats attacked, and Huo Yuhao fought them off with the Fire and Ice Dragon Kings’ power before a sudden rumble interrupted the battle.

• The King of Slaughter triggered a blood array that made the fallen spectators mutilate themselves and pulled Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena into the ground.
• Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena found themselves on a small platform above a blood pool and began crossing a narrow stone bridge.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a swarm of more than a thousand Blood Bats approaching through the darkness.
• Huo Yuhao used the Fire Dragon King's might to frighten the bats and burned dozens with Black Dragon Breath.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed the Ice Dragon King's might alongside his dragon power, bursting Blood Bats in midair as Hu Liena stayed close to him.
• A rumble sounded just as the swarm was about to be routed.

Huo Yuhao defeated the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and led Hu Liena safely through Hell Road. After they emerged from Slaughter City, Yue Guan and Gui Mei greeted them, and Huo Yuhao ordered everyone back to Spirit Hall while privately reckoning with his imminent departure from this spacetime.

• Huo Yuhao used dragon might, Ultimate Fire, and Ultimate Ice to kill the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and scatter the Blood Bats.
• Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena crossed the remaining stretch of Hell Road without further trouble and reached its exit.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei welcomed Huo Yuhao and Hu Liena outside Slaughter City after their six months of slaughter.
• Hu Liena proudly recounted Huo Yuhao's accomplishments, then admitted that she liked him when Gui Mei teased her.
• Huo Yuhao reflected that only two days remained before he left this spacetime and told the others to return to Spirit Hall.

During a moonlit farewell, Bibi Dong confessed that Huo Yuhao had rescued her from loneliness and hatred, while he wrestled with guilt over having first approached her as part of a plan. They embraced and kissed, and Hu Liena witnessed them before quietly leaving.

• Bibi Dong found Huo Yuhao awake, and they walked together through Spirit Hall as she asked whether he was really leaving.
• Bibi Dong told Huo Yuhao that meeting him had given her someone to care about and freed her from the darkness of her past.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Bibi Dong for protecting him, and she said he had saved her and taught her what love meant.
• Bibi Dong recognized Huo Yuhao's true appearance and held him, telling him that she accepted him as he was.
• Huo Yuhao felt guilty that he had initially approached Bibi Dong as part of a scheme, but then kissed her and she returned the kiss.
• Hu Liena saw the kiss, dropped the rose she was holding, and left the corridor.

Huo Yuhao said farewell to Bibi Dong before returning to his original timeline, where nearly a year had passed and Mu En was dying. He refused Mu En’s requests to protect Shrek Academy and restore the Tang Sect, but offered to take on the Dragon Core’s baleful Qi and try to extend Mu En’s life.

• Huo Yuhao and Bibi Dong exchanged farewells, and both watched the same moon after he left.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his original timeline and learned that almost a year had passed and Mu En’s final moments had arrived.
• Mu En asked Huo Yuhao to protect Shrek Academy and restore the Tang Sect, offering him a Dragon Core.
• Huo Yuhao refused Mu En’s requests and said he cared only about protecting the people close to him.
• Mu En accepted Huo Yuhao’s refusal and gave him the Dragon Core as a parting gift.
• Huo Yuhao told Mu En he could bear the Dragon Core’s baleful Qi and might extend his life by more than ten years.

Huo Yuhao used the Dragon Core to disperse Mu En’s vicious Qi and give him a chance to live longer, then rejected the academy’s expectations and received Zhang Lexuan’s apology. He later gathered rare materials and began preparing to refine an artifact.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed Mu En’s vicious Qi with his own, using the Dragon Core and his dragon Martial Soul to clear Mu En’s body and leave his lifespan in the Golden Ancient Tree’s hands.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhang Lexuan that he would not shoulder responsibilities for Shrek or the Tang Sect, then walked away from her.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Ma Xiaotao and Jiang Nannan what Huo Yuhao liked to eat, then left a food box and apology note outside his dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao went to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the Ice Empress, removed two dragon skeletons, and protected the Plant-type Soul Beasts with a formation.
• Huo Yuhao studied the artifact-refining methods Third Prince Nezha had given him and gathered dragon Soul Bones, immortal lotus materials, and heavenly spears in the Soul Tool Department’s laboratory.

Huo Yuhao forged a vicious, master-bound Fire-Tipped Spear, then departed with Shrek Academy’s group for a two-year exchange at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. The chapter ended with his friends and classmates bidding him farewell as Jing Hongchen welcomed him to the academy.

• Huo Yuhao spent forty-nine days using Samadhi True Fire to forge the Fire-Tipped Spear from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' Soul Bones, immortal lotus root, and the heavenly soldier's spear.
• Nezha praised the finished weapon as a top-tier divine weapon, and Huo Yuhao sensed that it had acknowledged him as its master.
• Huo Yuhao continued making Soul Tools for Qiu'er and Xue'er before setting out for the Sun Moon Empire.
• At Maple Leaf Square, Jing Hongchen greeted Yan Shaozhe and remarked on Huo Yuhao's Level 3 Soul Engineer badge, while Huo Yuhao asked to learn at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Huo Yuhao a storage ring and urged him to be careful as Jiang Nannan, Ma Xiaotao, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Ling Luochе said goodbye.
• Meng Hongchen reacted jealously to Huo Yuhao's farewell kisses, while Wang Dong watched him and wondered why he felt so attached to him.

Huo Yuhao arrived in Sun Moon City as a Shrek exchange student and impressed Xuan Ziwen with his Soul Tool designs. After Xuan Ziwen recognized the ingenuity of Huo Yuhao’s work, Huo Yuhao faced an eager demand to sell his research.

• The Ice Empress promised to wait for Huo Yuhao, who set off with Jing Hongchen and the other students for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jing Hongchen brought the students to Sun Moon City and enrolled them at the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Jing Hongchen reviewed Huo Yuhao’s test results with Lin Jiayi and decided to treat him normally despite signs that he was concealing his abilities.
• Huo Yuhao met Xuan Ziwen in Laboratory Three and considered his unresolved feelings for Ju Zi.
• Huo Yuhao quickly made a Level 4 Core Array and then demonstrated a Level 5 Stationary Soul Tool that could be fired without the user injecting Soul Power.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized the device’s unusual design and urged Huo Yuhao to sell him the research results.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Ju Zi in Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory and discussed whether lasting peace could be achieved through war and unification. Ju Zi remained unsettled by Huo Yuhao’s warning as she returned to the table.

• Ju Zi arrived sleepy at the laboratory, and Huo Yuhao struggled to hide his familiar tenderness toward her.
• Xuan Ziwen introduced Ju Zi as one of his students and explained that she had stayed up late working on a Soul Tool experiment.
• Xuan Ziwen asked Huo Yuhao what a world without war would look like, and Huo Yuhao said only temporary peace was possible.
• Ju Zi argued that unifying the continent under absolute order could bring true peace, while Huo Yuhao warned that war harmed common people and could lead to more conflict.
• Ju Zi returned to the table in silence, troubled by Huo Yuhao’s warning not to do anything she would regret.

Huo Yuhao and Xuan Ziwen teased Ju Zi in the laboratory, where Huo Yuhao caught her as she slipped and stirred an unexplained sense of familiarity in her. After Ju Zi left, Huo Yuhao finished his Soul Tool assignment with ease and entered the Lotus Sea of Divine Soul.

• Xuan Ziwen offered to help Huo Yuhao find a Soul Ring, but Huo Yuhao said he preferred to act alone.
• Xuan Ziwen tricked the hungry Ju Zi into rushing out for food, and she returned to pelt him with oranges.
• Huo Yuhao caught the oranges Ju Zi threw, then caught her when she slipped on one and felt a mysterious familiarity between them.
• Ju Zi introduced herself to Huo Yuhao and left the laboratory to find something to eat, while Xuan Ziwen took his leave.
• Huo Yuhao ate an orange, completed Xuan Ziwen's Soul Tool assignment with ease, and sank his consciousness into the Lotus Sea of Divine Soul.

Huo Yuhao trained with Nezha in the Sea of Divine Soul, learning the limits of his spear skill and beginning to refine how he balanced ice and fire. He woke in the laboratory to find Ju Zi worried over him, and the two fell into an awkwardly intimate position.

• Nezha overwhelmed Huo Yuhao with precise, rapid spear attacks and taught him to balance speed, precision, and the flow between ice and fire.
• Huo Yuhao grasped a new insight into his improved Fire-Tipped Spear and asked Nezha to continue teaching him.
• Ju Zi entered the laboratory with shrimp and stir-fried eel noodles, touched Huo Yuhao, and felt both frost and heat from his body.
• Nezha warned Huo Yuhao not to lose focus, then ended the lesson after Huo Yuhao barely passed and told him to return to Ju Zi.
• Huo Yuhao woke as Ju Zi checked his temperature, and they fell together onto the laboratory floor; Ju Zi blushed and ordered him to get up.

Huo Yuhao trained with Third Prince Nezha for three days and mastered a balanced way to switch between ice and fire with his spear. After Ju Zi spent the night asleep in his arms, her friends arrived and mistook the situation for misconduct, leaving Huo Yuhao accused and unable to explain.

• Huo Yuhao struggled against Third Prince Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear, then gradually improved his control of its ice and fire attributes over three days.
• Huo Yuhao impressed Nezha by balancing the spear's ice and fire effects, and they celebrated with a feast in the Lotus Sea of Divine Soul.
• Ju Zi grew distracted during Huo Yuhao's training and brought him meals, then found him pretending to be drunk and was pulled into his embrace for the night.
• Wang Shaojie, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu arrived at the laboratory and found Ju Zi asleep in Huo Yuhao's arms.
• Ke Ke, Wang Shaojie, and Zi Mu accused Huo Yuhao of bullying Ju Zi, while he insisted they wait for her to wake up.

Huo Yuhao intimidated Wang Shaojie, Zi Mu, and Ke Ke with his killing aura after they confronted him about Ju Zi, then explained that he had only hugged her while drunk and apologized. The misunderstanding was smoothed over when Xuan Ziwen arrived, though the others remained wary of Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi grew embarrassed around him.

• Huo Yuhao shielded sleeping Ju Zi from the confrontation and released a terrifying killing aura that left Wang Shaojie, Zi Mu, and Ke Ke sprawled in fear.
• Ju Zi woke and explained that Huo Yuhao had been drunk, hugged her, and slept beside her after she came to check on his cultivation.
• Huo Yuhao apologized sincerely to Ju Zi, and she accepted, while Zi Mu and the others acknowledged that they had misunderstood.
• Huo Yuhao said his killing aura had been a defensive reaction after the three surrounded him.
• Xuan Ziwen entered the damaged laboratory, and Wang Shaojie, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu insisted that their confrontation had only been a misunderstanding.
• Huo Yuhao thanked his seniors for looking after him and singled out Ju Zi, making her blush.

Huo Yuhao confronted Wang Shaojie over repeatedly calling him a little beast and used Ultimate Ice to freeze his hand, warning that it would be ruined unless he reversed the effect within three days. When Wang Shaojie continued insulting him, Huo Yuhao froze nearly his entire body, leaving Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu horrified.

• After Xuan Ziwen left, Zi Mu and Ke Ke apologized to Huo Yuhao, while Wang Shaojie hid his resentment.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Wang Shaojie over calling him a little beast and rejected his apology, explaining that he had no father or mother.
• Huo Yuhao considered Wang Shaojie's royal connections and used the confrontation as a chance to leave the academy and spend time with Ju Zi.
• Huo Yuhao froze Wang Shaojie's right hand with Ultimate Ice and warned that it would be ruined if he did not undo the technique within three days.
• Wang Shaojie kept insulting Huo Yuhao, and Huo Yuhao froze his body up to his face despite Ke Ke and Zi Mu pleading for mercy.