Chapter Summaries

Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong negotiated with Binhai City’s Cang family and city lord for Soul Engineer manuals and help hunting soul rings. Zhang Chenghuan offered a map of Devil Forest, revealing a mysterious butterfly-filled valley and a giant butterfly that once carried him out.

• Ning Tianchen killed a Cang Mansion servant who threatened Ning Rongrong, then used Divine Slaughter's Domain to frighten the remaining guards.
• Cang Tianyou and City Lord Zhang Chenghuan arrived, and Ning Rongrong revealed her seven-ring Soul Saint strength before Ning Tianchen negotiated with Cang Tianyou for copied Soul Engineer manuals.
• Cang Tianyou agreed to discuss cooperation after Ning Tianchen asked about his rank and promised to visit his residence.
• Zhang Chenghuan led Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong to the City Lord's Mansion and asked them to help his son hunt a soul ring in Devil Forest.
• Zhang Chenghuan offered his Devil Forest map and explained that a phosphorescent powder once paralyzed him in a valley inhabited only by butterfly-type soul beasts, where a giant butterfly carried him out.

Ning Tianchen’s group secured a map to Butterfly Valley, traded a thousand-year soul bone for Soul Tool blueprints, and set out toward Devil Forest with Zhang Heng and Cang Jinghong. Near Hedu Village, they sensed bloodshed and confirmed that Evil Spirit Masters were active nearby.

• Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong examined Zhang Chenghuan’s scale-powder-stained garment, and Yu Die confirmed that the residue came from an old butterfly Spirit Beast.
• Ning Tianchen traded a thousand-year soul bone to Cang Tianyou for Soul Tool blueprints, a handbook, and research notes, then verified the copies against the originals.
• Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong accepted Zhang Chenghuan’s map to Butterfly Valley, and Zhang Heng joined their journey with Cang Jinghong.
• The group left Binhai City by carriage, detoured around the Hamil Tribe, and learned that Zhang Heng was nearing Soul Emperor level.
• Near Hedu Village, Feng Xiaotian sensed blood in the air, Ning Rongrong detected an evil aura, and Cang Jinghong identified Evil Spirit Masters ahead.

Ning Tianchen and his companions defeated the Evil Spirit Masters who had devastated Hedu Village, rescued six survivors, and arranged for their transfer to Wangjiang City. They continued toward Devil Forest, where Cang Jinghong explained that they would need to hire a guide before entering.

• Ning Rongrong urged the group to confront the Evil Spirit Masters, and Ning Tianchen led the others into Hedu Village while Cang Jinghong followed after seeing their strength.
• Ning Tianchen found the Evil Spirit Masters outside the burning village and held their leader, Helimu, at bay until Feng Xiaotian, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others joined the fight and killed them.
• Ning Tianchen ordered Cang Jinghong to search for survivors and notify the nearest city; the group found six survivors and handed them over to soldiers from Wangjiang City.
• Chen Huayu doubted that the city officials would care properly for the refugees, while Ning Tianchen said they could do only what was within their power.
• Ning Tianchen's group traveled to Devil Town, where Cang Jinghong explained that they needed to hire a guide to enter Devil Forest, and the Cang Family agreed to cover the cost.

Ning Tianchen hired guides to lead his group through Devil Forest toward Butterfly Valley, accepting the risk of passing near the forest’s forbidden Core Area. After entering the forest, the group saw unfamiliar spirit beasts and Ning Tianchen warned them to keep their origins secret.

• Ning Tianchen’s group hired Huang Mengyu to guide Zhang Heng and Cang Jinghong to spirit beasts for their rings, then recruited the Soul Saint Lone Wolf for the dangerous route toward Butterfly Valley.
• Lone Wolf revised their outdated map, warned that their route passed near Devil Forest’s Core Area, and agreed to guide them for five thousand gold coins.
• At noon, Huang Mengyu and Lone Wolf led the group into Devil Forest, where the first leg of their journey was expected to take six days.
• Ning Rongrong and Feng Xiaotian noticed a unicorn, and Ning Tianchen used Sound Transmission into a Line to warn everyone not to reveal their origins.

Ning Tianchen’s group crossed the Red Tree Forest, helped Zhang Heng obtain a soul ring, and prepared to hunt Mang Tianyings for Chen Huayu and Cang Jinghong. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi learned that Spirit Hall was stirring up border kingdoms and duchies to escalate the war, while Ning Tianchen’s group began drawing the Mang Tianying colony into battle.

• Ning Tianchen’s group escaped a Winged Spider attack by using Oscar’s Flying Mushroom Sausages and Ning Rongrong’s speed boost, then Huang Mengyu admitted that his route through the forest had been a mistake.
• Chen Huayu broke through Rank Seventy, and Ning Tianchen told the group to look for suitable soul rings as they continued their journey.
• Ning Fengzhi learned from Gu Rong that Spirit Hall had been meeting with kingdoms and duchies that were massing troops along the borders, and he discussed using the threat of a wider war to bring the Star Luo Empire to negotiations.
• Ning Tianchen’s group helped Zhang Heng obtain his sixth soul ring, while Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing broke through Rank Seventy and chose God-Bestowed Spirit Rings for their seventh rings.
• Ning Tianchen assigned roles for the Mang Tianying hunt, and he and Feng Xiaotian attacked the colony to lure out stronger soul beasts.
• Ning Tianchen released the pressure of his eight soul rings, driving back the weaker Mang Tianyings as the colony swarmed toward him and Feng Xiaotian.

Ning Tianchen and his allies hunted Mang Tianying in Devil Forest, secured spirit rings and a rare soul bone, and prepared to leave. On Sea God Island, the Shrek Five Monsters completed their First Trial and learned Dai Mubai had been healed; Lone Wolf then shared a clue about a past disturbance that might relate to Yu Die’s mother.

• Ning Tianchen used his domains and sword skills to wound the Mang Tianying, while Feng Xiaotian crippled two and Chen Huayu and Cang Jinghong finished them off.
• The Shrek Five Monsters completed Sea God’s First Trial, and Sea God’s Light healed Dai Mubai’s injuries, restoring his ability to have children.
• Tang San cautioned Dai Mubai to keep their plan to challenge Dai Weisi secret until they had won officials over, then led the group to ask Seahorse Douluo about the Second Trial.
• Ning Tianchen ended the fight with the remaining Mang Tianying leader and led his group to a cave, where Cang Jinghong and Chen Huayu began absorbing their spirit rings.
• Feng Xiaotian found a soul bone in one Mang Tianying’s corpse, and Ning Tianchen assigned it to Feng Xiaotian while driving off Huang Mengyu when he reached for it.
• Lone Wolf denied knowing whether Yu Die’s mother had entered Devil Forest, but told her about a pillar of light and a beast tide that had struck Spirit Beast Town over ten years earlier.

Ning Tianchen and his group crossed Devil Forest while avoiding the Evil Eye Tyrants, but one Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant attacked them and pursued them after Ning Tianchen severed its tentacles. After two days of flight, the exhausted group became lost and reached a vast valley.

• Lone Wolf guided the group around Devil Forest's Core Area and warned them not to provoke the Evil Eye Tyrants.
• Zhu Zhuqing spotted several Evil Eye Tyrants surrounding the group, including one with tentacles up to a hundred meters long.
• Ning Tianchen led the group away, but the Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant detected them and slowed them with spiritual attacks.
• Ning Tianchen used the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to boost the group, while Ning Rongrong linked their Mental Power to resist the attacks.
• Ning Tianchen invoked the Asura Demon Sword and severed the Evil Eye Tyrant's tentacles before leading everyone into flight.
• After two days of pursuit, Feng Xiaotian stopped the group before a sprawling valley.

Ning Tianchen's group entered Butterfly Valley, where a giant revealed that Yu Die and Cai Die were descendants of the Butterfly God and that their mother had once received a divine trial there. The sisters went into the temple to seek their inheritance and learn their mother's fate, while Ning Tianchen and the others stayed outside to cultivate.

• Ning Tianchen led the group into Butterfly Valley after Lone Wolf confirmed the map's nearby landmarks, and Lone Wolf fell asleep after being affected by butterfly scale powder.
• Ning Tianchen completed his Asura Sixth Trial, Oscar received the Food God's Nine Trials, and Ning Tianchen learned that his Seventh Trial required a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Zhu Zhuqing noticed that a boulder had moved, and the boulder rose into a giant stone creature that spoke to the group.
• The stone giant recognized Yu Die and Cai Die as descendants of the Butterfly God and said their mother had received a trial but never returned; it also said Chen Haobai's father had once come with her.
• Yu Die and Cai Die chose to enter the Butterfly God's temple to receive their trials, while Ning Tianchen and the others remained outside to cultivate.

Yu Die and Cai Die learned their clan’s history and began receiving the Butterfly God’s inheritance while Ning Tianchen and the others prepared to protect them from a Holy Spirit Cult squad. Ning Tianchen confronted the intruders outside Butterfly Valley, killed Pete, and faced Cooper, whose power revealed the strength of Evil Spirit Master cultivation.

• Yu Die and Cai Die saw how their ancestors escaped the Sun Moon Continent, and learned that Butterfly Forest had been created to preserve their bloodline and the Butterfly God’s legacy.
• The Butterfly God began the sisters’ inheritance trial, while the stone man warned Ning Tianchen and the others that hostile outsiders had breached the valley’s disguise.
• Oscar revealed that his First Trial required him to find the Holy Spirit Cult’s lair in Devil Forest and deal it a devastating blow, so Ning Tianchen agreed to confront the intruders.
• Cooper led ten Holy Spirit Cult elites toward Butterfly Valley, hoping to seize its divine power for their lord Kashus and hasten his revival.
• Ning Tianchen ambushed the squad with a firearm, then killed Pete with sword qi after Pete attacked him.
• Cooper revealed his Blood Oath Bat martial soul and level 94 power, and challenged Ning Tianchen to show his spirit rings.

Ning Tianchen and his companions defeated Cooper and his Holy Spirit Cult squad, then interrogated the sole survivor about the cult and its god, Kashus. Hunter revealed little about the headquarters, so Ning Tianchen tried to convince him that the group might join Kashus instead.

• Cooper attacked Ning Tianchen while Feng Xiaotian and the others ambushed the squad on the ground.
• Feng Xiaotian, Zhu Zhuqing, Hua Yu, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong overcame the remaining Evil Spirit Masters, while Ning Tianchen grievously wounded Cooper.
• Ning Tianchen killed Cooper with his Seven Kill Domain evolution skill, Ten Thousand Blades, Thousand Mountains.
• Ning Tianchen's group captured Hunter, who identified the squad's mission and described the Holy Spirit Cult's sacrifices but claimed he did not know its headquarters.
• Ning Tianchen threatened Hunter for information, then claimed Cooper had acted arrogantly and asked whether Hunter might consider joining them under Kashus.

Ning Tianchen’s group extracted intelligence about the Holy Spirit Cult, then stayed in Butterfly Valley to cultivate while Feng Xiaotian prepared for his eighth spirit ring. The Yu Die Sisters chose to remain on the Sun Moon Continent to complete their Butterfly God trials and search for their mother, leaving the group to part ways with them.

• Hunter revealed the Holy Spirit Cult’s hierarchy, its hidden headquarters, and the Sunfire Empire’s powerful secret protector before Feng Xiaotian killed him.
• Ning Tianchen showed the stone man the cult’s bread-shaped divine artifact, and the stone man said it could help locate the cult’s lair but might release destructive energy if broken.
• The group cultivated in Butterfly Valley for five months, during which Ning Tianchen reached Rank 88 and Feng Xiaotian broke through Rank 80.
• Chen Huayu gave Feng Xiaotian his God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, and Feng Xiaotian began absorbing it as his eighth spirit ring.
• The Yu Die Sisters emerged with nine trials each for the Left Wing Butterfly God and Right Wing Butterfly God positions, and they decided to remain on the continent to complete their trials and find their mother.
• Ning Tianchen advised the sisters to recruit Lone Wolf as their guide and warned them about the Sunfire imperial family, while they promised to focus on their trials and avoid unrelated conflicts.

Ning Tianchen and his companions used the Holy Spirit Cult’s teleportation array to infiltrate its headquarters, where they persuaded Grand Priest Hu Erhan that they wanted to join. Hu Erhan led them to meet the cult’s god, Kashus, leaving their fate dependent on the god’s response.

• Feng Xiaotian absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and the group left letters and a portrait for the sisters before heading toward the teleportation array.
• Ning Tianchen activated the array, and the group arrived at the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters, where Hu Erhan confronted them.
• Ning Tianchen claimed that he had killed Priest Cooper and showed Hu Erhan Cooper’s Soul Tool as proof of his strength.
• Hu Erhan offered them membership and Cooper’s position as priest if they massacred a border town, then promised to teach them the Blood Sacrifice Technique with Kashus’s approval.
• Ning Tianchen contacted the Asura God, who promised to pressure Kashus, and the group followed Hu Erhan to Kashus’s hall.
• Ning Tianchen and his companions pretended to pledge themselves to Kashus as Hu Erhan presented them before the statue.

Ning Tianchen and his companions infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult, learned its secrets, and waited until its leaders and forces gathered. He then revealed their deception and launched a surprise attack, leaving Hu Erhan and the surviving priests to face the destruction of much of the cult’s elite forces.

• Ning Tianchen persuaded Kashus to accept the group into the Holy Spirit Cult, and Hu Erhan arranged for them to learn the Blood Sacrifice Technique.
• Ning Tianchen learned that the headquarters lay in the southern Devil Forest and that its teleportation arrays were protected by the Evil God’s power.
• Bertie and Bo Te returned after discovering Cooper’s squad had been killed, but Hu Erhan ordered them to welcome Ning Tianchen’s group and teach them the Blood Sacrifice Technique.
• Ning Tianchen persuaded Hu Erhan to gather the thirty-six Soul Saint experts under the three priests so they could meet the new members.
• Ning Tianchen and his companions unleashed a sudden attack in the main hall, killing or severely injuring more than half of the gathered Evil Spirit Masters.
• Ning Tianchen declared that they never associated with Evil Spirit Masters, while Bo Te threatened that Kashus would punish them.

Ning Tianchen and his allies attacked the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, killing its priests and forcing Kashus to reveal himself. After Kashus killed Hu Erhan to claim he had ended the cult, the Asura God authorized Ning Tianchen to execute him, and Ning Tianchen unleashed Asura Judgment.

• Ning Tianchen, his clone, Feng Xiaotian, and Ning Rongrong's group divided their targets and attacked the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters.
• Ning Tianchen used his sword shadows to kill Bo Te, then his clone and Feng Xiaotian killed Bertie while Feng Xiaotian helped Ning Rongrong's group defeat the remaining Evil Spirit Masters.
• Kashus emerged from Hu Erhan's body and asked whether the Asura God demanded the Holy Spirit Cult's destruction.
• The Asura God granted Ning Tianchen temporary authority to execute Kashus, and Kashus killed Hu Erhan while offering to abandon the cult.
• Ning Tianchen refused to spare Kashus, drew the Asura Demon Sword, and used the Asura God's power to prepare Asura Judgment.

Ning Tianchen killed Kashus, destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult, and recruited Lone Wolf to guide the Yu Die Sisters. He then learned that Chen Haobai and the sailors were being threatened in Binhai City over valuables they had sold, and rode there with his companions to rescue them.

• Ning Tianchen killed Kashus with the Asura Demon Sword, and Feng Xiaotian and the others wiped out the Holy Spirit Cult's remaining members before they razed its headquarters.
• Ning Tianchen found Lone Wolf in Devil Town and recruited him to wait for the Yu Die Sisters and guide them across the Sun Moon Continent.
• Ning Tianchen learned that Chen Haobai and his sailors were being held in the City Lord's Mansion while a nobleman's son accused them of stealing his family's ancestral treasures.
• Chen Haobai and the sailors offered to confess or sacrifice themselves, but Zhang Chenghuan promised to protect them and said the Cang Family had sent for help.
• Ning Tianchen and his companions rode toward Binhai City, where he vowed to destroy anyone who prevented them from returning home or harmed Chen Haobai.

Mori led Lai Duke's forces to arrest Chen Haobai and the others, but Zhang Chenghuan and the Cang Family stood in his way. Ning Tianchen returned, killed two Soul Saints, and confronted Mori and Wang Zhong, leaving them trapped as he revealed his eight blood-red spirit rings.

• Mori surrounded the City Lord's Mansion with an edict accusing Zhang Chenghuan of treason, but Zhang and the Cang Family refused to surrender the people under their protection.
• Mori brought Wang Zhong and two Soul Saints to force their way into the mansion, while Cang Tianyou and Zhang Chenghuan prepared to fight despite being outmatched.
• Ning Tianchen arrived and killed Mori's two Soul Saint subordinates with a single sword technique.
• Ning Tianchen pursued Wang Zhong while Zhu Zhuqing appeared beside Mori and held a claw to his throat.
• When Wang Zhong hesitated to sacrifice himself for Mori, Ning Tianchen revealed eight blood-red Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings and continued pressing the attack.

Ning Tianchen resolved the conflict between Lai Duke's Mansion and Chen Haobai's group, then warned the Cang Family and Zhang Chenghuan about the Sunfire Empire's possible ambitions before preparing to leave Binhai City. On Sea God Island, Tang San and his companions planned to recruit the Dragon Serpent Family to help establish the Tang Sect.

• Ning Tianchen and Feng Xiaotian defeated Wang Zhong, and Ning Tianchen spared Mori after learning Lai Duke's Mansion had traced ancestral treasures to Chen Haobai's crew.
• Ning Tianchen thanked Zhang Chenghuan and the Cang Family for protecting the crew, then warned them that the Sunfire Empire might have a powerful hidden expert and long-term plans for the continent.
• Ning Tianchen offered the two families permission to use his name as a deterrent and said his group would leave Binhai City that night or the following night.
• Ning Tianchen told Chen Haobai that his father had visited Binhai City more than ten years earlier but remained missing, and Chen Haobai agreed to prepare to leave.
• Tang San and the Shrek Five Monsters discussed the Tang Sect's fifth divine trial, and Dai Mubai proposed recruiting the Dragon Serpent Family to build the sect's strength and reputation.
• Tang San welcomed Dai Mubai's idea but worried the Heaven Sword Sect might also approach the Dragon Serpent Family.

Tang San and the Shrek Five Monsters returned from Sea God Island and set out to learn about the continent’s changing political situation, while Dai Mubai’s indiscretion exposed their plans to Bai He. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi considered the intelligence and chose to wait as tensions with Spirit Hall grew.

• Tang San and the Shrek Five Monsters departed Sea God Island on Demon Soul Great White Sharks, while Ning Tianchen and his companions sailed away from the Sun Moon Continent aboard the Devil Ray.
• The Demon Soul Great White Sharks delivered the Shrek Five Monsters to Vast Sea City, where the group rested before traveling toward Barack City.
• Dai Mubai visited a brothel and revealed details about the group’s overseas training, allowing Bai He to follow them and overhear their discussion of Dai Mubai’s possible claim to the Star Luo throne.
• Bai He sent intelligence to the Heaven Sword Sect, including his suspicions about the Tang Sect, Tang Xiao, and the Star Luo succession.
• Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elders discussed the Dragon Serpent Family, Tang Sect, and the missing Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong, then decided to wait and see.

The Shrek Five Monsters found a way into tightly guarded Barack City by joining a grain convoy, while Ning Tianchen planned to seek out the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for a spirit-ring sacrifice. The Shrek Five Monsters entered the city, and Ning Tianchen’s voyage toward the Devil Whale Sea Area was set in motion.

• Ning Tianchen reached Soul Power Level eighty-nine and decided to seek the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King as his next spirit-ring sacrifice.
• Ning Tianchen persuaded Chen Haobai to take the Devil Ray to the outskirts of the Devil Whale Sea Area, despite the danger.
• After nearly half a month of scouting, Tang San and the Shrek Five Monsters discovered that grain convoys offered a way into Barack City.
• Tang San negotiated with Hilton, the Hilton Merchant Guild’s Guild Master, and used Ning Fengzhi’s name to secure entry without paying.
• Hilton led the Shrek Five Monsters into the grain convoy, and the city guards let them pass through the grain transport entrance.

Tang San and the Shrek Five Monsters visited the Dragon Serpent Family to recruit them into the Tang Sect, only to learn that Spirit Hall's influence over the Balak Kingdom had left the family under threat. Meng Shu offered the family’s unconditional support if Tang San married Meng Yiran, and Tang San postponed his answer until the next morning.

• Tang San asked Hilton for the Dragon Serpent Family’s location and led the Shrek Five Monsters to their manor.
• Meng Yiran revealed that Kun Dela had secretly defected to Spirit Hall and that her family had secretly moved younger clansmen away while facing pressure from Spirit Hall.
• Tang San met Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang and offered to recruit the Dragon Serpent Family into the Tang Sect, citing support from Tang Xiao and Tang Hao.
• Meng Shu agreed to bring the family into the Tang Sect unconditionally if Tang San married Meng Yiran.
• Tang San asked for until morning to decide, then discussed the marriage proposal with the Shrek Five Monsters in their room.