Chapter Summaries

Bei Bei mourned Tang Ya until Huo Yuhao detected that she was alive, but Regulus Corneas emerged carrying her and declared his intention to make her his seventy-ninth wife. After Regulus gravely wounded Zhang Peng with a kicked pebble, Xu Tianran ordered everyone to stop as armed Soul Engineers surrounded the arena.

• Zheng Zhan stopped Zhang Peng from attacking while the Tang Sect gathered around the grieving Bei Bei.
• Huo Yuhao detected Tang Ya's life force, and Regulus Corneas emerged from the crater holding her and introduced himself as the Witch Cult's Sin Archbishop of Greed.
• Bei Bei tried to attack Regulus, but the Tang Sect restrained him while Huo Yuhao apologized and asked for Tang Ya's return.
• Zhang Peng tried to seize Tang Ya and then attacked Regulus with Scorpion Tail Needles, but the needles could not harm him.
• Regulus kicked a pebble that pierced Zhang Peng's defenses and tore a hole in his abdomen.
• Xu Tianran ordered everyone to stop as Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers surrounded the arena.

Nan Fusheng's puppet "Greed" used the Lion's Heart Authority to attack Sun Moon Empire soldiers who demanded the Holy Spirit Cult participant, Xiao Ya, be handed over. Huo Yuhao's group stayed restrained, but the massacre triggered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Legion to prepare a full response.

• Huo Yuhao asked Zhang Lexuan where Elder Xuan was, and she said she did not know why he had not appeared.
• Huo Yuhao urged the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy members not to resist the soldiers surrounding them, and they complied.
• Ju Zi recognized the surrounding soldiers as members of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Legion and felt relieved when Huo Yuhao's group stayed calm.
• Several soldiers demanded that "Greed" hand over the Holy Spirit Sect participant, but he refused and attacked them with sand and pebbles empowered by Lion's Heart.
• "Greed" pierced the soldiers' Invincible Barriers and killed several of them, prompting the legion commander to order defensive formations and aim Soul Tools at him.

Nan Fusheng, controlling “Greed,” survived the Sun Moon Empire’s attacks and devastated its forces before deciding to leave the tournament. Elder Xuan arrived to rescue Tang Ya, but “Greed” kicked him flying, leaving the Shrek and Tang Sect members stunned.

• Xu Tianran ordered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Legion to arrest the Witch Cult members and kill “Greed.”
• The legion’s linked soul tools failed to harm “Greed,” who turned sand and dirt into weapons and killed or wounded many soldiers.
• “Sloth” twisted Imperial Dragon Soul Master Legion soldiers to death, while “Greed’s” flying debris killed Xu Tianyuan and more soldiers.
• Nan Fusheng decided to abandon the tournament and fly west toward the Evil Demon Forest.
• Elder Xuan arrived and charged at “Greed” to rescue Tang Ya, but “Greed” kicked him into the sky.

Nan Fusheng escaped the Sun Moon Empire with Tang Ya and prepared a Pseudo-Auspicious Beast using the Evil Demon Forest’s resources. After observing Huo Yuhao enter the Valley of Asking Love and Fate, Nan Fusheng waited for Wang Qiu’er’s sacrifice and the Power of Luck he hoped to steal.

• Nan Fusheng escaped the Sun Moon Empire’s pursuit with Tang Ya, while Xu Tianran learned the other Witch Cult members had vanished.
• Nan Fusheng took Tang Ya to the Evil Demon Forest, where he and the Evil Emperor nurtured a pink Flesh Ball and Nan Fusheng purified and collected twenty-six Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Crystals.
• Nan Fusheng witnessed a massive explosion destroy more than a third of Ming Capital and identified it as the attack by Huo Yuhao and his companions.
• Nan Fusheng observed Huo Yuhao and the others undergo the Valley of Asking Love and Fate’s trials, which left Wang Dong’er unconscious and Wang Qiu’er dejected.
• Nan Fusheng told the Evil Emperor to protect the Pseudo-Auspicious Beast and planned to steal the Power of Luck when Wang Qiu’er sacrificed herself.

Wang Qiu'er sacrificed herself to Huo Yuhao, giving him her head Spirit Bone and the power of fate, while Nan Fusheng stole part of the Star Dou Great Forest’s luck to create a Pseudo-Auspicious Beast. Di Tian discovered the Auspicious Beast’s sacrifice and ordered a Beast Tide against humanity, targeting Shrek City first.

• Wang Qiu'er merged with Huo Yuhao, giving him two Spirit Skills and a golden head Spirit Bone before he lost consciousness amid changing beams of light.
• Nan Fusheng used his power to steal luck and feed it into the Flesh Ball, helping the Pseudo-Auspicious Beast prepare to be born.
• Zhongli Wu and Long Xiaoyao witnessed golden auspicious clouds over the Evil Demon Forest, and Long Xiaoyao warned Zhongli Wu not to enter the Core Zone.
• Nan Fusheng said Huo Yuhao would soon arrive at the Evil Demon Forest, and the Evil Emperor agreed to prepare for him.
• Di Tian learned that the Auspicious Beast was sacrificing herself to a human and ordered the Soul Beast army to attack human cities, beginning with Shrek City.

After reaching level seventy, Huo Yuhao entered Evil Demon Forest to obtain his Seventh Spirit Ring and encountered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant. He killed it and captured its spirit ring, but its father, Evil Emperor, immediately found him and attacked as Huo Yuhao tried to escape.

• Huo Yuhao entered Evil Demon Forest and used Ice Empress's aura to keep lesser soul beasts away while he searched for a Seventh Spirit Ring.
• A spiritual illusion trapped Huo Yuhao, but he shattered it and confronted a Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant.
• Huo Yuhao used his spiritual abilities and Wang Qiu'er's Spirit Bone skills to kill the Evil Eye Tyrant, then burned its Soul Crystal until its blood-red spirit ring appeared.
• Evil Emperor sensed his son's death, unleashed his Spiritual Power across the forest, and located Huo Yuhao as he fled.
• Evil Emperor pierced Huo Yuhao's concealment and sent a hundred-meter Blood-Colored Beam down toward him.

Huo Yuhao survived Evil Emperor’s attack and its mental pressure through the Imperial Divine Beast Skull’s Mental Immunity, then followed Snow Empress’s advice and entered the Evil Demon Forest’s Core Zone. Evil Emperor revealed that it wanted compensation for Huo Yuhao killing its son, but had not yet stated what price it demanded.

• Huo Yuhao survived Evil Emperor’s devastating strike because Wang Qiu’er’s Spirit Bone activated Mental Immunity, then struggled to flee while his Spiritual Power was depleted.
• Evil Emperor used Mental Pressure to immobilize Huo Yuhao, but the Spirit Bone’s third daily use of Mental Immunity let him escape its hold before Evil Emperor summoned him to the Core Zone.
• Huo Yuhao considered fleeing or obeying Evil Emperor, and Snow Empress advised him to go because fleeing would likely provoke Evil Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress reached the Core Zone, where Evil Emperor recognized Snow Empress and accused Huo Yuhao of killing its son and seeking the Evil Eye Clan’s Soul Crystal.
• Evil Emperor identified the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s power in Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Bone and said Huo Yuhao would have to pay a price for killing its son.

Huo Yuhao survived Evil Emperor’s devastating attack with the Imperial Divine Beast Skull’s Mental Immunity, but after using it for the third time, he was left nearly powerless. He followed Snow Empress’s advice to enter the Evil Demon Forest’s Core Zone, where Evil Emperor revealed that it wanted him to pay a price for killing its son.

• Huo Yuhao survived Evil Emperor’s attack by using Mental Immunity, then discovered that Evil Emperor was still watching him and suppressing him with Mental Pressure.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Immunity a third time to break free, and Evil Emperor ordered him to come to the Core Zone of the Evil Demon Forest.
• Huo Yuhao debated whether to flee or obey, and Snow Empress advised him to meet Evil Emperor because fleeing could provoke it.
• Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress reached the Core Zone, where Evil Emperor recognized Snow Empress and accused Huo Yuhao of killing its son and taking the son’s Soul Crystal.
• Evil Emperor identified the Imperial Divine Beast’s power as the reason Huo Yuhao survived and told him he had to pay a price for killing its son.

Huo Yuhao gave Evil Emperor two liters of blood and accepted a ten-year cultivation wager that could make Evil Emperor his Soul Spirit. After Huo Yuhao left, Evil Emperor gave the blood to Nan Fusheng, whose Pseudo-Auspicious Beast used it to be born as a powerful pink Evil Eye.

• Evil Emperor demanded two liters of Huo Yuhao's blood to study his chances of surviving the Eighth Heavenly Tribulation, and Huo Yuhao reluctantly gave it to him.
• Evil Emperor asked about Snow Empress's existence as a Soul Spirit, then proposed that Huo Yuhao reach level 98 within ten years without adding a Ninth Soul Ring to his spiritual martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the wager, and Evil Emperor gave him an Evil Eye Tyrant Head Spirit Bone that replenished his depleted Sea of Consciousness.
• Evil Emperor sent Huo Yuhao out of the Evil Demon Forest and brought his blood to Nan Fusheng in the valley.
• Nan Fusheng poured Huo Yuhao's blood onto the Pseudo-Auspicious Beast, which absorbed it and emerged as a pink Evil Eye with a double pupil.

Nan Fusheng watched the Pink Evil Eye awaken, severed its connection to the Evil Demon Forest, and left it in Evil Emperor’s care before heading toward Shrek City. He reached the Beast Tide battlefield in a Wind Baboon puppet and saw Shrek’s Soul Cannons slaughtering the Soul Beast vanguard.

• The newly born Pink Evil Eye recognized Nan Fusheng as its Original Body but could not piece together its memories, while its birth began restoring the Evil Demon Forest’s luck.
• Nan Fusheng severed the Pink Evil Eye’s connection to the forest and entrusted it to Evil Emperor to teach until the agreed time with Huo Yuhao.
• Nan Fusheng entered a discarded Wind Baboon puppet, used Reorganization to restore its decaying body, and headed toward the Beast Tide.
• At the battlefield, Nan Fusheng saw the Shrek Garrison bombard the Soul Beast army with high-explosive shells, killing huge numbers of beasts while Shrek City suffered no casualties.

Bi Ji and the Ferocious Beasts planned a full assault on Shrek City after another night of fighting. Disguised as Ape Demon, Nan Fusheng harvested the fallen Soul Beasts’ energy and looked forward to the next attack.

• Ape Demon told Bi Ji that her husband had vanished while seeking revenge for their slain child, and Bi Ji comforted her by promising he would return.
• Xiong Jun’s pressure reopened the injured Soul Beasts’ wounds, so Bi Ji shielded them and ordered him to withdraw his aura.
• King of Ten Thousand Demons, Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, and Bi Ji decided to launch another Beast Tide that night and attack Shrek City from four directions at noon the next day.
• The Soul Beasts attacked Shrek City through the night, inflicting more than five hundred casualties while losing at least twenty thousand beasts.
• Disguised as Ape Demon, Nan Fusheng secretly collected energy from the fallen Soul Beasts and gathered enough to create a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• When another roar signaled a third harassment attack, Nan Fusheng welcomed the chance to collect more energy.

The four Ferocious Beasts led a full-scale assault on Shrek City, where Fixed Soul Guidance Shells inflicted devastating losses on the soul beast army. As the battle raged and Nan Fusheng gathered energy from the dead, he realized the strongest soul beast he had nurtured was about to be born.

• After the third harassment attack killed the Six-Winged Demon Tiger, Bi Ji and the other Ferocious Beasts abandoned further raids and prepared to attack Shrek City together.
• After a three-hour pause, the four Ferocious Beasts surrounded Shrek City and ordered a full assault from all sides.
• Shrek City's defenders fired more than five hundred Fixed Soul Guidance Shells, killing over fifteen thousand soul beasts in the opening bombardment.
• Bi Ji summoned the Jade Swan Clan to heal the wounded as the soul beast vanguard reached the walls and the fighting became fierce.
• Over one hundred thousand soul beasts died during the hours-long battle, and Nan Fusheng absorbed their Soul Rings and gathered enough energy for his plans.
• Nan Fusheng realized the strongest soul beast he had nurtured was about to emerge.

Nan Fusheng’s long-nurtured Soul Beast emerged from the Purple-white Crystal as a powerful girl who named herself Kiana Kaslana. After demonstrating her ability to conceal her divine aura and describing her elemental powers, Power of Finality, and two innate Divine Artifacts, she left Nan Fusheng eager to learn more about her abilities.

• Nan Fusheng and the gathered Soul Beasts watched the Purple-white Crystal crack as the Soul Beast inside took the form of a white-haired girl.
• The girl awakened, shattered the crystal, named herself Kiana Kaslana, and appeared in purple-and-white battle armor.
• Kiana moved beside Nan Fusheng at startling speed and scolded him for scanning her with Spiritual Power.
• Kiana asked to leave Dragon Valley Minor World, then lowered her divine aura to nearly that of an ordinary person using the Gate’s sealing ability.
• Kiana showed Nan Fusheng the Power of Origin, explained that she also possessed the Power of Finality, and began to mention her two innate Divine Artifacts.

Kiana revealed her companion divine artifacts and joined Nan Fusheng at the Governor's Mansion in Skysea City, where Xu Xiaoyan reluctantly agreed to let her stay. Nan Fusheng then planned an auction and a staged attack to create an opportunity to grow closer to Ye Xinglan.

• Kiana showed Nan Fusheng the Sword of Origin and Lance of Finality, and he gave her the Dragon God Core containing the Power of Destruction.
• Nan Fusheng agreed that Kiana could leave and let her choose a carefree stay at the Governor's Mansion instead of working for a faction.
• Nan Fusheng introduced Kiana to Xu Xiaoyan as Sirin's half-sister, and Xu Xiaoyan agreed to arrange a room and food for her.
• Nan Fusheng decided to hold an auction so Ye Xinglan could encounter the Lovesick Heartbreak Red in a more believable way.
• Nan Fusheng planned to use puppets as Evil Soul Masters to stage an attack after the auction and create a chance to build trust with Ye Xinglan.

Nan Fusheng and Kiana made a rock-paper-scissors bet over whether she could attend his party, with Kiana wagering that she would remove one piece of equipment each time she lost. Nan Fusheng kept winning, leaving Kiana to surrender a growing pile of accessories while she accused him of cheating.

• Kiana begged Nan Fusheng to take her to the party, and he refused until she proposed a bet.
• Nan Fusheng offered rock-paper-scissors: Kiana would remove one piece of equipment for each loss, but one win would earn her an invitation.
• Kiana transformed into battle armor and began playing, but she repeatedly threw scissors while Nan Fusheng kept winning with rock.
• Kiana removed her weapons, gloves, crown, hair tie, thigh ring, shoes, and sock as she lost round after round.
• Nan Fusheng changed his throw to paper when Kiana finally threw paper, winning again and prompting her to throw a decorated white eye mask at him.

Kiana tricked Nan Fusheng into agreeing to take her to the party, then escaped after revealing she had used catnip to injure him. In the Star Dou Great Forest after the Beast Tide, Nan Fusheng, acting through Ape Demon, prepared to interfere with the Soul Spirit Contract and antagonize Huo Yuhao and Di Tian.

• Kiana persuaded Nan Fusheng to take her to the party by using an intimate stunt, then stopped when catnip caused him stinging pain.
• Nan Fusheng confronted Kiana about the catnip and rushed to the bathroom, while Kiana escaped through a Space Gate.
• Bi Ji invited Ape Demon to observe Di Tian's coming Soul Spirit Contract and explain the killer who had murdered her child.
• Bi Ji treated the injured Soul Beasts and explained that the contract could help the survivors and ease relations with humans.
• After Bi Ji left, Nan Fusheng used Ape Demon to reveal four Energy Spheres collected from the Beast Tides and planned to use the puppet to provoke Huo Yuhao and Di Tian.

Huo Yuhao prepared for the Soul Spirit Contract while Di Tian questioned him about Qingque, whose identity and importance to the Star Dou Great Forest remained mysterious. At the forest’s edge, humans and soul beasts faced off tensely before Huo Yuhao mediated and both sides brought forward injured and dying volunteers for the experiment.

• Huo Yuhao reflected on his soul rings and the risks of the Soul Spirit Contract as Di Tian warned him that the contract’s failure would have serious consequences.
• Di Tian asked Huo Yuhao about Qingque, and Huo Yuhao truthfully said she had disappeared after leaving Shrek City; Di Tian revealed she was a soul beast important to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Bi Ji told Di Tian that Shrek’s people had arrived, and Di Tian took her and Huo Yuhao to the forest’s Outer Zone, where thousands of soul beasts confronted Shrek’s assembled forces.
• Di Tian and Xuan Zi exchanged threats, but Huo Yuhao intervened and asked them to let him conduct the Soul Spirit experiment before negotiations.
• Bi Ji and the soul beasts brought forward injured, weakened, and dying candidates, while Xuan Zi signaled for the human volunteers to step forward.

Huo Yuhao’s first Soul Spirit experiment was disrupted when the tiger Soul Beast tried to self-destruct, prompting Di Tian to reveal the Dragon God Claw and punish Xiong Jun, who had arranged the attack. As Huo Yuhao prepared to continue, a Wind Baboon named Ape Demon rushed at him, and a mysterious white light helped it resist Di Tian’s pressure.

• Huo Yuhao began the fusion ritual with Dai Huabin and a wounded ten-thousand-year tiger Soul Beast, but the beast suddenly lunged at him and tried to self-destruct.
• Huo Yuhao subdued the tiger with the Snow Empress’s Three Absolutes’ Emperor’s Palm: Great Cold No Snow, and Xiong Jun attacked him in anger.
• Di Tian revealed the Dragon God Claw, reached Quasi-God strength, and wounded Xiong Jun after learning he had arranged the tiger’s attack.
• Di Tian warned the Soul Beasts, then allowed Huo Yuhao to choose another partner for the experiment.
• Ape Demon charged Huo Yuhao, but Di Tian pinned it down; after Bi Ji pleaded for mercy, a white light around Ape Demon’s neck helped it rise and press toward Huo Yuhao, who dodged without retaliating.

Ape Demon accused Huo Yuhao of killing her child seven years earlier and tried to disrupt the Soul Spirit Contract, while Huo Yuhao argued that the contract could prevent future deaths. After Di Tian struck her down, Ape Demon unexpectedly stood again, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ape Demon recognized Huo Yuhao as the human who killed her ten-year Wind Baboon child with a dagger and attacked him, but Di Tian stopped her.
• Huo Yuhao admitted he did not regret killing her child in self-defense and urged her to support the Soul Spirit Contract, but his appeal did not persuade her.
• Ape Demon criticized the contract as a way for humans to strengthen themselves and reduce hunting casualties without ending their greed for powerful Soul Rings.
• Ape Demon attacked Huo Yuhao again with Storm Nebula Crack, and Di Tian struck her after her jade pendant briefly shielded her.
• Ape Demon crashed through a tree with severe injuries, but she rose again despite her fading strength.

Ape Demon cursed Di Tian and humanity before sacrificing herself, and the Soul Spirit Contract proceeded despite her death. Ten thousand years later, Di Tian struggled with the failures her curse seemed to foretell and learned that Fors was obstructing the Soul Beast Clan’s plans to establish the Myriad Beast Platform.

• Ape Demon insulted Di Tian and the Dragon Clan, cursed Huo Yuhao, humanity, and the Soul Beast Clan, then burned her soul and exploded.
• Di Tian resumed the Soul Spirit Contract, which succeeded in over ninety percent of cases, while Bi Ji found and kept Ape Demon's broken pendant as a relic.
• Ten thousand years later, Di Tian woke from a nightmare about Ape Demon's curse and reaffirmed that the Soul Beast Clan would rise under Master's leadership.
• Bi Ji told Di Tian that preparations for the Myriad Beast Platform were difficult and that Master’s efforts to promote Artificial Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits had been obstructed on the other continents.
• Di Tian learned that Fors had won the support of the other continents’ Branch Pagoda Masters and remained a major obstacle to Master’s plans.