Chapter Summaries

Nan Fusheng warned Zhang Geyang about Tang Wulin’s Soul Spirit in the Five Gods Duel, then planned to test whether the Time Worm could alter Huo Yuhao’s history by parasitizing a Soul Spirit. He sent a Marionette into Evil Demon Forest to seek the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, leaving the experiment about to begin.

• Nan Fusheng learned that Tang Wulin’s team had landed on the Star Luo Continent and that the negotiations had led to a Five Gods Duel.
• Nan Fusheng warned Zhang Geyang that Tang Wulin’s Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit would appear in the Soul Spirit match.
• Nan Fusheng recalled that the Time Worm could parasitize ordinary beings but was repelled when he tried to replace Huo Yuhao, and he decided to target one of Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirits instead.
• Nahida bound Nan Fusheng with vines and teased him while they spent time alone.
• Nan Fusheng transferred his consciousness into a Marionette and entered Evil Demon Forest to find the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord and test the Time Worm’s effect on Huo Yuhao’s timeline.

Nan Fusheng wandered into the Evil Demon Forest and encountered a wounded Devouring Dragon fleeing a Fire Evil Tyrant. After identifying the pursuing Evil Eye as a female Fire Evil Tyrant, he prepared to observe the fight.

• Nan Fusheng chose to explore the Evil Demon Forest before seeking out the Evil Emperor, intending to find Evil Eyes for his experiment.
• After two hours without meeting any Evil Eyes, Nan Fusheng heard a battle approaching and waited for the creatures to arrive.
• A wounded ten-thousand-year Devouring Dragon charged past Nan Fusheng while fleeing a powerful attacker.
• The Devouring Dragon used its innate Spirit Skill, Devour Heaven and Earth, and prepared to fight when escape seemed impossible.
• Nan Fusheng recognized the attacker as a Fire Evil Tyrant with spiritual, fire, and corrosion attributes, and concluded that it was female.

Nan Fusheng killed the Fire Evil Tyrant and the Devouring Dragon, then traveled to the Evil Demon Forest’s Core Zone and confronted a Water Evil Tyrant. After killing her, he entered her Soul Crystal to subdue her surviving soul, which welcomed his consciousness as a chance to attack.

• The Fire Evil Tyrant and the Devouring Dragon attacked Nan Fusheng together, but his Mental Shock killed the Devouring Dragon and destroyed the Fire Evil Tyrant’s body.
• Nan Fusheng found the Fire Evil Tyrant’s Soul Crystal and destroyed its soul while reading its memories, then headed into the Evil Demon Forest’s Core Zone.
• The Water Evil Tyrant begged Nan Fusheng to spare her and offered to lead him to her younger brother, a pure mental-type Evil Eye Tyrant.
• The Water Evil Tyrant tried to influence Nan Fusheng with her spiritual power and flirtatious advances, but he killed her and took her Soul Crystal.
• Nan Fusheng sent his consciousness into the Water Evil Tyrant’s Soul Crystal, where her surviving soul appeared and laughed that he had walked into a trap.

Nan Fusheng used the Time Worm to parasitize the Evil Emperor, which then blasted Zhongli Wu and the Holy Spirit Cult elders who approached its territory. Zhongli Wu withdrew while planning to exploit the Evil Emperor’s coming tribulation, and Nan Fusheng examined the Evil Emperor’s gruesome lair.

• The Evil Emperor sensed Nan Fusheng and cautiously asked who he was after failing to detect him with its Spiritual Power.
• Nan Fusheng activated the Time Worm and parasitized the Evil Emperor, which then ordered intruders in the forest’s Outer Zone to leave and fired a devastating blast at them.
• Zhongli Wu survived the attack with Centipede Douluo, while Ten Thousand Souls Douluo and Abomination Douluo were knocked unconscious and the others suffered serious injuries.
• Zhongli Wu ordered the survivors to retreat and privately planned to seize the Evil Demon Forest if the Evil Emperor died or was weakened by its Eighth Heavenly Tribulation.
• Nan Fusheng explored the Core Zone and saw the basin, the red Blood Lake, and piles of human and Soul Beast bones around the Evil Emperor’s dwelling.

Nan Fusheng used the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord’s tentacle, Three-Eyed Golden Lion blood, and a Time Worm to create a new Soul Beast that began stealing the Evil Demon Forest’s fortune. He left it to grow and headed toward Ming Capital, planning to form a Witch Cult and join the upcoming tournament.

• Evil Emperor explained that the Holy Spirit Cult supplied corpses as offerings, which the Evil Eye Clan used for cultivation and to feed young Evil Eyes.
• Nan Fusheng fused Evil Emperor’s tentacle with blood from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion using Reorganization, forming a sphere of living flesh.
• Nan Fusheng implanted his last Time Worm into the sphere, giving the newborn Soul Beast consciousness and allowing Error to siphon the Evil Demon Forest’s fortune.
• Nan Fusheng left the valley and considered the approaching tournament, the coming war, and his dislike of the Sun Moon Empire’s Black Skin nobility.
• Nan Fusheng decided to form a Witch Cult and turned toward Ming Capital.

As sect teams gathered to register for the expanded tournament in Ming Capital, Sloth of the Witch Cult frightened Nan Qiuqiu and drew Nan Shuishui into a tense confrontation. Nan Shuishui led the Earth Dragon Sect away after warning them to surrender if they faced Sloth’s team, which she suspected was tied to Evil Soul Masters.

• The Sun Moon Empire opened tournament registration to sects and offered Soul Tools as prizes, prompting a large increase in participating teams.
• Sloth introduced his Witch Cult team at Mingyue Hotel, then bit his own finger while preaching about love and the Witch.
• Nan Qiuqiu panicked at Sloth’s bloody behavior, released her Rouge Dragon Martial Soul, and drew the Earth Dragon Sect into a defensive formation.
• Nan Shuishui stepped between Sloth and the Earth Dragon Sect, but Sloth checked his Gospel and withdrew when it gave no revelation to fight her.
• Nan Shuishui told Nan Qiuqiu to concede if they encountered Sloth’s team and suspected its members were Evil Soul Masters or vile criminals.

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament opened in Ming Capital, where Huo Yuhao detected a second possible Evil Soul Master team and Nan Fusheng planned to make the Witch Cult notorious. The Witch Cult’s first match began against Proud Sword Sect, drawing Zhongli Wu’s attention to Real Person.

• Nan Fusheng’s Witch Cult completed registration and received basic tournament accommodations.
• The teams marched to the competition grounds, where Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection was repelled by a mental Soul Master whose aura resembled the Holy Spirit Cult’s.
• Xu Tianran and Ju Zi arrived to cheers, and Xu Tianran officially opened the tournament.
• The preliminary elimination matches began, and Shrek Academy received a bye as the previous champions.
• The Witch Cult was matched against Proud Sword Sect, and Real Person and Wu Yifan entered the field.
• Huo Yuhao warned his companions to watch the match, while Zhongli Wu took notice of Real Person.

Real Person defeated Wu Yifan of the Proud Sword Sect with his grotesque summons, and the referee declared Wu Yifan killed in battle. Huo Yuhao identified the aura of wraiths around Real Person, leaving the Tang Sect suspicious that he was an Evil Soul Master despite his concealed aura.

• Zhongli Wu told Xu Tianran that Real Person seemed destined to join the Holy Church, prompting the emperor to suspect he might be an Evil Soul Master.
• Wu Yifan and Real Person began their match as Spirit Emperors, and Real Person overwhelmed Wu Yifan with waves of Modified Humans.
• Wu Yifan charged Real Person with his fifth soul skill, but Real Person swallowed them both inside a giant flesh-and-blood mouth that soon burst apart.
• Real Person claimed victory, and the referee declared Wu Yifan killed in battle; the Proud Sword Sect demanded his body, but Real Person denied knowing what happened to him.
• Huo Yuhao told the Tang Sect that he had sensed wraiths around Real Person and concluded that the aura of Wraith Entanglement could not be faked.

Huo Yuhao suspected Real Person’s summons were suffering beings, while Real Person concealed his true abilities behind summoning and body transformation. Wu Di battled Real Person and a Purple Platypus, only to hear the wounded summon speak in his cousin Wu Yifan’s voice.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and sensed the summons were alive, in pain, and begging to be killed, but kept his suspicions from the Tang Sect.
• Real Person revealed his Idle Transfiguration abilities as Wu Di, captain of the Proud Sword Sect, challenged him and vowed to avenge Wu Yifan.
• Wu Di attacked Real Person, who transformed his arms into weapons and summoned a powerful Purple Platypus that knocked Wu Di back.
• Xu Tianran, Ju Zi, and Zhongli Wu discussed Real Person’s abilities, while Zhongli Wu suspected the Witch Cult members were Evil Soul Masters.
• Wu Di fought the Purple Platypus, cut it in half, and heard it cry out in Wu Yifan’s voice that it was in pain.

Wu Di realized the Purple Platypus he had killed was his cousin Wu Yifan, transformed into a Modified Human by Real Person, and charged at the Witch Cult leader in rage. Real Person used civilians as human shields, forcing Wu Di to abandon his attack and leaving the tournament exposed to a shocking atrocity.

• The dying Purple Platypus spoke of Wu Di and Wu Yifan’s shared dream, and Wu Di recognized it as his cousin before it died in his arms.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that the supposed summoned creatures were living people transformed into monsters, and the teams turned their anger toward Real Person.
• Wu Di attacked Real Person, who sent weapon-shaped Modified Humans against him and then flew out of reach.
• Real Person threw five ordinary civilians between himself and Wu Di, and Wu Di stopped his attack to catch one woman while the other four fell and were injured.
• The civilians’ injuries shocked the arena and officials, and Regent Xu Tianran realized the Witch Cult had caused the tournament’s first major scandal.

At the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament, Real Person used ordinary people as human shields and transformed them into weapons and monsters, enraging the referee and the crowd. Wu Di resumed their duel, with the Sun Moon Empire citizens cheering him on against Real Person.

• Real Person fired bone bullets at Wu Di, who shielded a girl and told her to escape.
• Real Person targeted the fleeing girl, but the referee protected her and challenged Real Person for bringing unrelated people onto the arena.
• Real Person claimed the commoners were his summons, then used Idle Transfiguration to turn them into a sword and malformed monsters.
• The referee became furious, but Wu Di stood back up and asked for their match to continue.
• The referee resumed the match, and the Sun Moon Empire crowd shouted support for Wu Di and called for Real Person to be killed.

Wu Di appeared to kill Real Person with a devastating sword strike, but Real Person survived and killed him moments later. The Proud Sword Sect withdrew from the tournament, while Xu Tianran worried the Witch Cult’s brutality would increase opposition to making the Holy Spirit Cult the state religion.

• Wu Di used his fifth and sixth soul skills together and destroyed the Modified Humans and Real Person in a powerful sword strike.
• The Audience celebrated Wu Di’s apparent victory, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discussed his skill and Xiao Hongchen’s desire to challenge him.
• After the referee began announcing Wu Di’s win, Real Person emerged behind him and killed him with Idle Transfiguration.
• The Proud Sword Sect elder attacked Real Person, but chief referee Zheng Zhan intervened; the elder then forfeited the tournament and carried away Wu Di’s remains.
• Real Person’s Witch Cult received all twelve points and left amid boos, while Xu Tianran warned Zhongli Wu that the public’s anger could complicate making the Holy Spirit Cult the state religion.

Nan Fusheng found that the Witch Cult had slightly accelerated his Potion’s digestion, then studied the Evil Demon Forest’s decline and formed a plan for the Pseudo-Imperial Divine Beast. Ten thousand years in the past, the Evil Emperor killed his son and fed the corpse to a pink ball of flesh meant to become the forest’s auspicious beast.

• Nan Fusheng concluded that the Witch Cult’s small impact on history had slightly accelerated his Potion’s digestion.
• The first elimination round ended, and the tournament organizers banned contestants from bringing civilians onto the arena; the Witch Cult’s next opponents surrendered rather than face it.
• Nan Fusheng accessed Federation records about the Evil Demon Forest and learned how humanity had reduced it to a managed breeding ground for Soul Beasts.
• Nan Fusheng devised a plan to help the Pseudo-Imperial Divine Beast survive until the era of Dragon King Legend, and noticed his Potion’s digestion speed increase again.
• In the Evil Demon Forest ten thousand years earlier, the Evil Emperor killed his three-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year-old son and fed his remains to the pink ball of flesh.

The Witch Cult entered the Round-Robin Tournament and drew the Bright Jade Sect for its first match in Group Two. Sharu and You Chen began their individual elimination match as the other major teams watched.

• The Witch Cult avoided the remaining elimination rounds after its opponent conceded, and it advanced to the final thirty-two.
• The tournament organizers divided the thirty-two teams into four groups, placing the Witch Cult in Group Two and the Tang Sect, Shrek Academy, and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy in Group One.
• Qingque attended the tournament as a spectator, where an elderly woman tried to introduce her to her nineteen-year-old grandson.
• Nan Fusheng entered the VIP resting area with the Witch Cult, whose members received hostile stares from the other teams.
• The Witch Cult faced the Bright Jade Sect in the opening match of Group Two, and Nan Fusheng sent Sharu to fight You Chen.
• Zheng Zhan warned Sharu and You Chen against killing, then started their match as the major teams watched.

Sharu fought Bright Jade Sect’s You Chen in the tournament and revealed his monstrous first form after surviving You Chen’s strongest attack. He shattered You Chen’s Invincible Barrier, pierced him with his spiked tail, and killed him, leaving the arena in stunned silence.

• Zheng Zhan started the match, and Sharu and You Chen summoned their Martial Souls as You Chen rushed in with his paired Soul Tools.
• Sharu blocked You Chen’s first strike with his unusually hard skin, while You Chen evaded Sharu’s attempted grab and circled him with afterimages.
• You Chen activated an Invincible Barrier and launched his fifth Soul Skill, combining with his afterimages to deliver a high-speed attack with his High-Frequency Vibration Blades.
• Sharu’s body stopped the blades, and the attack tore away his robe, revealing his grotesque, insect-like appearance.
• Sharu compressed You Chen’s barrier until his spiked tail shattered it, then pierced You Chen’s chest despite Zheng Zhan’s command to stop.
• You Chen’s body melted away, leaving only his Bright Jade Sect clothing on the arena floor.

Sharu defeated Bright Jade Sect’s Ade in the Individual Elimination Tournament after overcoming Ade’s blood-draining Soul Skills with a blinding Solar Flare and swallowing him. The match ended with Zheng Zhan arriving too late to save Ade.

• After Sharu killed Bright Jade Sect’s previous fighter, Zheng Zhan declared Sharu the winner and Ade entered the arena for the next match.
• Ade revealed his Vampire Bat Martial Soul and battled Sharu in midair, using Fear Scream, Blood Shadow Puppet, and Vampirism to weaken and drain him.
• Sharu flew above Ade and unleashed Solar Flare, blinding the audience, Zheng Zhan, and Ade while suppressing Spiritual Detection.
• Ade activated his Invincible Barrier, but Sharu swallowed him through his transformed tail after the barrier expired.
• Zheng Zhan rushed to stop Sharu, but Ade had already been swallowed and absorbed.

Sharu regenerated his severed tail, then forfeited the third match and sent Tomie Kawakami to face Cain of the Bright Jade Sect. Cain revealed her Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King Martial Soul Avatar and launched a deadly attack, leaving Tomie bleeding and apparently unable to resist.

• Cain ambushed Sharu after his match, but Zheng Zhan stopped her and ruled the match a Bright Jade Sect forfeit.
• Sharu regrew his severed tail and asked Zheng Zhan to let Cain continue competing, then forfeited the next match and requested a Witch Cult substitution.
• Tomie Kawakami entered the arena to face Cain, and both women released six Soul Rings.
• Cain wounded Tomie with dark golden beams, transformed into the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, and attacked her with a Blood Shadow Puppet and sonic shrieks.
• Cain absorbed the Blood Shadow Puppet and slashed at the bleeding, trembling Tomie as the watching teams waited to see how she would respond.

Cain killed Tomie Kawakami and won the fourth match for Bright Jade Sect, but the Witch Cult leader, “Sloth,” insisted Tomie was still on the arena. Zheng Zhan found no sign of life and demanded that Tomie show herself, leaving the result unsettled.

• Cain detected no life from Tomie’s shattered body, then used Blood Thorn Dance to tear it into fragments.
• Cain absorbed Tomie’s Essence Blood, which rapidly raised her Soul Power to level sixty-nine and brought her close to becoming a Soul Saint.
• Zheng Zhan declared Bright Jade Sect the winner, and the Sun Moon Empire audience cheered while the Tang Sect members discussed Tomie’s death.
• “Sloth” claimed Tomie was still on the arena, so Zheng Zhan warned the Witch Cult leader to produce her or face punishment.

After Cain attacked Sharu over her younger brother’s death, Sharu regenerated his severed tail and manipulated the referee into letting her continue before conceding and requesting a substitution. Tomie Kawakami entered the match against Cain, who transformed into a Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and prepared a powerful strike as Tomie appeared unable to defend herself.

• Cain ignored the rules and attacked Sharu, severing his tail, but Zheng Zhan stopped her and ruled the match against her.
• Cain revealed that Sharu had killed her younger brother, Ade, while Sharu regenerated his tail and asked Zheng Zhan to withdraw Cain’s penalty.
• Sharu said the Witch Cult intended to eliminate the Bright Jade Sect during the individual matches, then conceded and requested a substitution.
• Tomie Kawakami entered the arena to face Cain, and both women released six Soul Rings.
• Cain pierced Tomie with her claws, transformed into a Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, and struck her with a Blood Shadow Puppet and sonic attack.
• Cain absorbed the Blood Shadow Puppet’s blood and sent a dark golden slash toward Tomie, who appeared unable to resist.

Xu Tianran secretly hoped the Witch Cult could cure his hidden affliction, while Nan Fusheng considered his Doppelgangers and sent Qiangu Dongfeng a misleading letter to provoke a confrontation with Yun Ming. Nan Fusheng then prepared a modified Lovesick Heartbreak Red that could make someone develop affection for him and narrowed his potential test subjects to Na Nali and Ye Xinglan.

• Xu Tianran concealed his desire to restore his third limb and watched the Witch Cult depart, unsure whether they could help him.
• The Witch Cult's opponents in Group Two surrendered rather than risk fighting them, while Nan Fusheng learned that Zhang Geyang had lost the Soul Spirit Battle to Tang Wulin.
• Nan Fusheng decided to move Yun Ming from the Spirit Pagoda to the Dragon Valley Minor World and sent Qiangu Dongfeng a letter and blurred photographs intended to make him investigate Leng Yaozhu.
• Nan Fusheng produced a modified Lovesick Heartbreak Red that would make its consumer feel an initial fondness for him.
• Nan Fusheng ruled out several possible test subjects and narrowed the candidates to Na Nali and Ye Xinglan.