Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and his companions left the Far North after gaining new Soul Rings and bringing the newly human Xu Bing'er into their group. He tested his new Simulation skill, then traveled alone to Lingdou City in the Dou Ling Empire.

• Huo Yuhao, Xu Bing'er, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan reached a border town after completing their Soul Ring search in the Far North.
• At a restaurant, Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan to take Xu Bing'er to Shadow Garden headquarters, then secretly left them.
• Huo Yuhao tested his Simulation skill, which concealed him from passersby and a passing carriage.
• Huo Yuhao traveled at great speed into the Dou Ling Empire and approached Lingdou City on foot.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection as he passed through Lingdou City's gates.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao celebrated the Dou Ling Festival in Lingdou City, where they learned that contestants could climb a mysterious staircase to win a noble title and a gift from the king. Huo Yuhao agreed to take part in the challenge.

• Xiao Xiao woke Huo Yuhao, and an accidental tumble into his arms embarrassed them in front of the maid.
• Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao left her home and wandered through the crowded festival streets, where Xiao Xiao sampled food while Huo Yuhao carried it.
• They reached the city center and saw contestants battling on a towering staircase that appeared only during the festival.
• Xiao Xiao explained the staircase's rules and the prize for reaching its top, then asked Huo Yuhao whether he wanted to try.
• Huo Yuhao agreed that they should participate.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao attended the Dou Ling Festival, where Soul Masters challenged the ancient steps for a chance to gain noble status. After meeting Xu Sanshi and his fiancée Xue Qingling, they entered the arena, and Huo Yuhao sensed something familiar about the steps.

• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao joined the line of Soul Masters waiting to challenge the festival steps.
• Xu Sanshi recognized Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao, introduced himself as a Dou Ling Empire prince, and escorted them past the guards with his token.
• Xue Qingling appeared, twisted Xu Sanshi's ear, and was introduced as his fiancée and a member of a collateral branch of the imperial family.
• Xu Sanshi led Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao inside, where Xiao Xiao eagerly admired the ancient steps and Huo Yuhao sensed something familiar about them.

Huo Yuhao entered the Dou Ling Festival’s mysterious steps after learning their rules, then pretended to be thrown out so he could conceal his identity. Meanwhile, Xue Haotian learned that the Dou Ling Empire could not withstand Shadow Garden and was advised to seek friendly relations.

• Xiao Xiao explained that participants on the same step had to defeat one another, endure increasing pressure, and that reaching the hundredth step might grant a god’s inheritance.
• Electrolux recognized a divine presence in the steps that resonated with the Angel Holy Sword, and Huo Yuhao decided he would need to change identities.
• A burly man shoved Huo Yuhao down, and Huo Yuhao entered the steps only to be flung out moments later.
• Huo Yuhao acted frightened and left the arena after the guard captain told him to recuperate, while nearby Soul Masters laughed at him.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo warned Xue Haotian that Shadow could defeat him in three breaths and urged the king to seek friendly relations with Shadow Garden.

Xiao Xiao climbed the steps and yielded the tenth level to a mysterious five-ring girl, then resumed her ascent. Huo Yuhao, who had been watching from a clock tower instead of climbing, plunged into the arena and startled the crowd and Heavenly Sun Douluo.

• Xiao Xiao entered the steps, found a strange sky above them, and climbed quickly to the tenth level.
• A mysterious girl attacked Xiao Xiao with ice, but Xiao Xiao chose to yield and let her advance first.
• The mysterious girl wondered how far her brother had climbed, then went up to the eleventh step while Xiao Xiao returned to the tenth.
• Xiao Xiao continued climbing under the pressure and heat, expecting to reach only the twentieth step before exhausting herself.
• Huo Yuhao watched the steps from a clock tower, then dived into the arena and sent a shock wave through the crowd.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo sensed Huo Yuhao’s arrival and recognized him.

Huo Yuhao arrived at the Dou Ling Festival under the identity of Shadow, prompting Heavenly Sun Douluo to suspend the event and clear the arena. After Xiao Xiao emerged, Huo Yuhao entered the Long Stairway to Godhood, while Xiao Xiao feared he would meet Shadow inside.

• Huo Yuhao appeared at the arena, and Heavenly Sun Douluo bowed to him in fear.
• Heavenly Sun Douluo suspended the Dou Ling Festival and ordered everyone away from the arena.
• Xue Haotian arrived as Huo Yuhao waited by the stairway for Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao emerged, and Huo Yuhao entered the stairway; she learned he was inside and feared he would encounter Shadow.
• The Angel Holy Sword reacted with joy, revealing the stairway's name to Huo Yuhao: the Long Stairway to Godhood.

Huo Yuhao raced up the Long Stairway to Godhood to obtain the Angel's Heart and restore Qian Renxue's shattered divine seat. After reaching the fifty-first step, he encountered a woman in white who attacked him.

• Qian Renxue awoke to the Angel Holy Sword's reaction and realized the Long Stairway to Godhood could give her a chance to restore her divine seat.
• Huo Yuhao promised to help Qian Renxue obtain the Angel's Heart, then ran up the stairs with ease as the spectators watched in astonishment.
• Huo Yuhao seized the brute who had shoved him, took his storage pouch, and threw him down the stairs.
• Huo Yuhao charged past contestants and collected their storage pouches while Heavenly Sun Douluo watched defeated participants appear on the arena.
• Huo Yuhao reached the fiftieth step, warmed up, and entered the fifty-first, where a woman in white fired an icicle at him.
• Huo Yuhao dodged the icicle and looked at the woman, who was the first person on the stairs to attack him directly.

Huo Yuhao defeated Meng Hongchen on the Long Stairway to Godhood and revealed that his true Martial Soul was his eyes. Meng Hongchen vanished after his gaze overwhelmed her Sea of Consciousness, leaving Hongchen in his hands.

• Huo Yuhao recognized the cold poison surrounding Meng Hongchen and faced her attack with a black sword.
• Meng Hongchen introduced herself and tried to make Huo Yuhao reveal who he was, but he called himself Shadow and stayed still.
• Meng Hongchen launched a barrage of poisonous ice spikes, and Huo Yuhao calmly deflected every one with precise sword movements.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his dark purple eyes, and Meng Hongchen dropped Hongchen before collapsing as his gaze overwhelmed her Sea of Consciousness.
• Meng Hongchen vanished in scattered starlight, and Huo Yuhao picked up Hongchen and put it in his storage ring.

Huo Yuhao reached the ninety-ninth step, where Qian Renxue reclaimed the Angel Holy Sword and awakened the Angel statues, sending light feathers across Lingdou City. After the city’s Soul Masters gathered the feathers, Qian Renxue opened the barrier to the hundredth step, revealing the Angel’s Heart as Huo Yuhao stepped forward.

• Huo Yuhao reached the ninety-ninth step and saw two Angel Statues appear before him.
• Qian Renxue emerged behind Huo Yuhao, took the Angel Holy Sword from his Sea of Consciousness, and raised it as the Angel God’s presence peaked.
• The Angel Holy Sword sent a pillar of light over Lingdou City, and its falling feathers increased the Soul Power of those who absorbed them.
• Soul Masters fought over the feathers until Heavenly Sun Douluo intimidated them into stopping and cultivating where they stood.
• Meng Hongchen woke in an inn, remembered Huo Yuhao, and joined Xiao Hongchen in absorbing the feathers.
• Qian Renxue cut open the golden barrier, revealed the Angel’s Heart on the hundredth step, and watched as Huo Yuhao stepped onto it.

Huo Yuhao absorbed the forming Angel Godhood, then used the Angel's Heart, trapped divinity, and a life-filled jade flute to restore Qian Renxue. Qian Renxue awakened as the Angel God and looked toward the Divine Realm with hatred.

• Qian Renxue sent a drop from the Angel's Heart into Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, causing the Angel Godhood to begin forming within him.
• Huo Yuhao halted the godhood's formation, transformed it into a holy sword, and brought Qian Renxue's body to the Long Stairway to Godhood inside an ice coffin.
• Huo Yuhao trapped the attracted strands of divinity inside the coffin and placed an emerald jade flute on Qian Renxue's chest to send life into her body.
• The renewed vitality drew the divinity into Qian Renxue, and the Angel's Heart returned to her chest.
• Huo Yuhao sent the Angel Godhood into Qian Renxue, completing its final connection and restoring her divine soul to her body.
• Qian Renxue opened her eyes and looked toward the Divine Realm with boundless hatred.

The Angel God's presence alarmed the Divine Realm, where Tang San dismissed it as a brief activation of Qian Renxue's inheritance site. After Huo Yuhao helped Qian Renxue suppress her power, she departed to seek what she needed to revive Bibi Dong, leaving Huo Yuhao with a way to summon her.

• The God of Destruction challenged Tang San over the Angel God's presence, and Tang San promised to investigate its brief appearance.
• Tang San hid his anger after Xiao Wu left and went to see Hongjun.
• Huo Yuhao sealed Qian Renxue's power at the strength of a rank 99 Limit Douluo and gave her Bibi Dong's Rakshasa Demon Scythe.
• Qian Renxue gave Huo Yuhao a golden Angel Holy Sword necklace and received a gold Slime Bodysuit as a farewell gift.
• Electrolux gave Qian Renxue a compass to preserve Bibi Dong's divine soul, and she departed to seek a way to revive her mother.

After Huo Yuhao vanished from the Dou Ling Festival, the Long Stairway to Godhood disappeared and Heavenly Sun Douluo concluded the festival could never be held again. Huo Yuhao reunited with the worried Xiao Xiao, who hoped they would stay together forever.

• Heavenly Sun Douluo told Xue Haotian that the stairway’s connection had vanished and the Dou Ling Festival could not happen again.
• Huo Yuhao disappeared from the sky, leaving the stairway and its coordinates gone as the crowd discussed the festival’s end.
• Xiao Xiao cried because she could not find Huo Yuhao, and Xue Qingling comforted her while Xu Sanshi went to search.
• Xu Sanshi spotted Huo Yuhao and brought him to Xiao Xiao, who ran into his arms in relief.
• Xue Qingling and Xu Sanshi shared an affectionate moment, and Xiao Xiao told Huo Yuhao she hoped they would stay together forever.

Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao traveled to Shrek Academy, where they reunited with Wang Dong'er and walked in on Zhou Yi arguing with Fan Yu. The chapter ended with Wang Dong'er insisting she would share Huo Yuhao's room until Zhou Yi suppressed her with her Soul Emperor power.

• Xiao Xiao left home with Huo Yuhao, and he gave her a protective sword-shaped pendant.
• Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao reached Shrek Academy on the last day of registration and went to Zhou Yi's office.
• Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao overheard Zhou Yi arguing with Fan Yu, then stumbled into the office and interrupted them.
• Fan Yu left after Zhou Yi dismissed him, and Zhou Yi told Xiao Xiao to take Wang Dong'er to share her dormitory room.
• Wang Dong'er refused to move and declared she would sleep with Huo Yuhao, so Zhou Yi suppressed her Soul Power.

Xiao Xiao dragged Wang Dong'er away from Huo Yuhao, leaving Zhou Yi alone with her grief. The next morning, Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er competed for Huo Yuhao's attention until Zhou Sichen approached Wang Dong'er to introduce himself.

• Xiao Xiao used Devour Heaven and Earth to drain Wang Dong'er's Soul Power, then carried her away from Huo Yuhao.
• After Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er left, Zhou Yi broke down crying, and Huo Yuhao left her a handkerchief before slipping away.
• Huo Yuhao slept in his dormitory and went to class the next morning, where Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er were already arguing over him.
• Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er sat on either side of Huo Yuhao and fought for his attention, while Wang Dong'er snatched his breakfast bun.
• Zhou Sichen approached Wang Dong'er, struck a pose, and asked if he could get to know her.

Wang Dong'er revealed herself as a girl to her classmates before Shrek Academy's advancement assessment began. Zhou Yi sent her to fight first, and Wang Dong'er confidently promised Huo Yuhao she would not lose.

• Wang Dong'er claimed Huo Yuhao as her man and drove off Zhou Sichen, who had tried to flirt with her.
• Cao Jinxuan dragged the embarrassed Zhou Sichen away as the class gossiped about Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er.
• Zhou Yi arrived, reminded the class that failing the advancement assessment meant expulsion, and asked Wang Dong'er to introduce herself again.
• The class realized that Wang Dong, their former male classmate, was actually Wang Dong'er, leaving Zhou Sichen mortified.
• At the Beast Dueling Area, Xiao Xiao greeted Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Ma Xiaotao, Xu, and Zhang Lexuan as the assessment gathered its audience.
• Zhou Yi assigned Wang Dong'er to take the first assessment, and Wang Dong'er told Huo Yuhao she was sure to win.

Wang Dong'er began her advancement assessment by choosing a thousand-year Soul Beast and facing a Flame Demon Tiger. As she fought, Bei Bei left the Beast Dueling Area after glaring resentfully at Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao.

• Yan Shaozhe announced that Class One and Class Two would take turns sending students for their assessments.
• Wang Dong'er identified herself as a Power Attack System student and insisted on facing a thousand-year Soul Beast.
• A Flame Demon Tiger charged out of the iron gate and attacked Wang Dong'er with a fireball.
• Wang Dong'er revealed her three Soul Rings and attacked the Flame Demon Tiger with her butterfly wings.
• Yan Shaozhe praised Wang Dong'er's talent, while Zhang Lexuan said the academy had to respect the student's choice.
• Bei Bei glared at Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao, then left the Beast Dueling Area while attention was focused on the assessment.

Wang Dong'er defeated a thousand-year Flame Demon Tiger in her advancement assessment while Huo Yuhao secretly arranged for Bei Bei to enter Sea God Island’s dungeon. Bei Bei killed the guards at the entrance and went inside.

• Wang Dong'er used a hundred and eight Slashes of Light to overwhelm the Flame Demon Tiger, which cowered inside Du Weilun’s barrier.
• Du Weilun ended Wang Dong'er's assessment, and the crowd applauded her performance.
• A girl whispered to Huo Yuhao, who recognized the matter as interesting and sent her away before returning to his class.
• Bei Bei reached Sea God Island’s dungeon while two black figures watched him from a distance.
• Bei Bei’s mutated Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul released dark red lightning that killed the two guards, and he destroyed their bodies.
• Bei Bei entered the dungeon.

Bei Bei freed Dai Huabin from the dungeon after recruiting him to help take revenge on Huo Yuhao. At the Soul Fighting Zone, Xiao Xiao completed her assessment, while Huo Yuhao considered how to pass his own without drawing attention.

• Dai Huabin woke in the dungeon, struggled against his restraints, and learned from Bei Bei that his Soul Power had been sealed.
• Bei Bei asked Dai Huabin whether he wanted revenge, and Dai Huabin agreed to take revenge on Huo Yuhao.
• Bei Bei melted the lock and tore apart Dai Huabin’s chains, then led him out of the dungeon and into Sea God Island.
• Xiao Xiao defeated a Thousand-Year Soul Beast with little effort and earned full marks in her assessment.
• Huo Yuhao watched the Soul Fighting Zone and planned how to pass his assessment without attracting attention.

Huo Yuhao passed the advancement assessment after a lucky fall let him defeat a Wind Wolf, while Shrek’s leaders discussed Evil Soul Masters and the academy’s burdens. The chapter ended with Yan Shaoshe learning that Dai Huabin had killed two inner court students and escaped, prompting a search for him.

• Huo Yuhao accidentally tripped during the Wind Wolf’s attack, kicked the beast into the barrier, and earned sixty-nine points from Du Weilun.
• Du Weilun announced that students who failed the assessment would receive one more chance next month, and the students left to cultivate.
• Zhang Lexuan and Yan Shaoshe discussed Xuan Zi’s recovery and Shrek’s investigation into Evil Soul Masters, including Dai Huabin and the Shadow Garden.
• Dai Yueheng told Yan Shaoshe that Dai Huabin had killed two inner court students and escaped from the dungeon.
• Yan Shaoshe ordered Dai Yueheng to find Dai Huabin and bring him back, preferably alive.

Dai Yueheng and the Shrek Inspection Corps searched Shrek City for the escaped Dai Huabin, while Huo Yuhao arrived at Sea God Pavilion to guard Zhang Lexuan as she prepared to absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. Ma Xiaotao, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan joined them to keep watch as Zhang Lexuan began the absorption.

• Dai Yueheng told Chen Zifeng to intensify the search for Dai Huabin, and Chen Zifeng warned that the escape likely involved help.
• Jiang Nannan agreed to give Tang Ya photographs of Lord Shadow, and the two sensed Huo Yuhao's arrival and left their dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao entered Zhang Lexuan's room and offered to guard her while she absorbed the Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone.
• Zhang Lexuan prepared the Soul Ring and Soul Bone, but Ma Xiaotao, Tang Ya, and Jiang Nannan arrived and helped stand guard.
• Huo Yuhao sealed the room, and Zhang Lexuan began pouring Soul Power into the Soul Ring Storage Device, releasing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beast's presence.