Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xuan returned from meeting the Dai Family's Great Ancestor without explaining what they had discussed, then advised Dai Mubai to quietly leave Star Luo and avoid becoming Crown Prince. Elder Dai arrived and challenged Zhao Xuan to a sparring match.

• Zhao Xuan wondered about the Divine Sense attached to the White Tiger statue and its possible connection to the Dai family, but kept his suspicions to himself.
• Zhao Xuan told Hermione, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing that he had exchanged only a few simple words with the Dai Family's Great Ancestor.
• Dai Mubai complained that he wanted to quit being Crown Prince, and Zhao Xuan suggested he sneak away to Heaven Dou or Shrek.
• Zhao Xuan sensed Elder Dai approaching, and the previous Star Luo Emperor entered and fixed his attention on Zhao Xuan.
• Elder Dai dismissed Dai Mubai and asked Zhao Xuan whether he wanted to spar.

Zhao Xuan agreed to spar with Dai Mubai’s grandfather, the former Star Luo Emperor, and followed him into the wilderness outside Star Luo City. After Elder Dai attacked with his White Tiger power, Zhao Xuan easily countered him and urged him to fight seriously.

• Dai Mubai’s grandfather challenged Zhao Xuan to spar, and Zhao Xuan accepted despite Dai Mubai’s warning to be careful not to hurt the old man.
• The former emperor led Zhao Xuan out of Star Luo City to a wilderness where they could fight without endangering anyone.
• Elder Dai revealed his White Tiger possession and nine soul rings before rushing at Zhao Xuan.
• Zhao Xuan blocked Elder Dai’s attacks, kicked him back, and destroyed his white tiger head attack with a lightning spear and a punch.
• Zhao Xuan told Elder Dai not to use such weak attacks, and Elder Dai solemnly agreed.

Zhao Xuan fought Dai Feng, who used his Martial Soul Avatar to transform into a giant white tiger, and overwhelmed him with Immobilize, his Life Domain, and Purple Heaven Divine Lightning. When the lightning faded, Zhao Xuan stood before the defeated Dai Feng and told him he had lost.

• Dai Feng activated his Seventh Spirit Skill and transformed into a giant white tiger.
• Zhao Xuan immobilized Dai Feng and kicked him across the ground, then clashed with the tiger's golden Soul Power using Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• Dai Feng realized Zhao Xuan's Life Domain drained Soul Power and plant life while he stood on the ground, so he leaped toward him.
• Zhao Xuan avoided Dai Feng's paw and unleashed his Thunder Domain as Dai Feng used his Ninth Soul Ring to fire Sharp Gold Qi at him.
• Zhao Xuan's Purple Heaven Divine Lightning shattered Dai Feng's golden attacks and overwhelmed the white tiger.
• Dai Feng opened his eyes to find Zhao Xuan standing before him, and Zhao Xuan declared that Dai Feng had lost.

After Zhao Xuan defeated Elder Dai in a spar, the Dai Family's Great Ancestor decided to leave Dai Weisi's cultivation intact for now and wait to see what Dai Mubai would do. A month later, Zhao Xuan and Hermione left the Star Luo Imperial Palace to travel around Star Luo, while Dai Mubai stayed behind to handle state affairs as Crown Prince.

• Zhao Xuan returned to the palace after defeating Elder Dai, and the group questioned him about the spar.
• Elder Dai told the Dai Family's Great Ancestor that he had lost, and the Great Ancestor chose to spare Dai Weisi's cultivation for now while watching Dai Mubai's actions.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione spent over a month in Star Luo, where Zhu Zhuqing showed them around her family.
• Dai Mubai gave Zhao Xuan a royal token as Zhao Xuan and Hermione prepared to leave.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Hermione said goodbye, and Zhao Xuan and Hermione departed to travel around Star Luo while Dai Mubai remained to manage state affairs.

Hermione and Zhao Xuan took a passenger ship out to sea, where Hermione suffered from seasickness and the first mate offered her medicine. Zhao Xuan discovered the pills contained a potent sleeping drug and revealed that the first mate was a Soul King, warning that something would happen that night.

• Hermione eagerly dragged Zhao Xuan onto a passenger ship, but soon became seasick.
• The first mate brought Hermione a bottle of medicine, which Zhao Xuan accepted and inspected.
• Zhao Xuan identified Calming Flower in the pills and explained that a high dose could act as a powerful sleeping drug.
• Hermione thought the crew intended to drug her for an assault, but Zhao Xuan told her that was not what was happening.
• Zhao Xuan revealed the first mate was a Soul King and warned Hermione that the ship's strange crew would cause trouble that night.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione discovered that the passenger ship’s crew planned to take its passengers to Ghost Island as sacrifices. After the crew fought off a group of giant octopuses, the ship reached the island at dusk.

• Zhao Xuan and Hermione noticed the ship had changed course, then heard a visitor and learned the crew had drugged the passengers.
• The captain ordered the ship toward Ghost Island, saying more than two hundred passengers would serve as sacrifices.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione observed a group of giant octopuses attack the ship, but the Soul Masters aboard defeated them.
• The crew found holes in the ship’s hull and struggled to keep it moving toward Ghost Island.
• A sailor announced that Ghost Island had come into view at dusk.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione discovered that Ghost Island was surrounded by violent traces of Spiritual Power, then hid aboard the ship as its captain searched for them. The captain took the passengers ashore and ordered them into the island, while Zhao Xuan decided to learn the pirates’ purpose before rescuing anyone.

• Zhao Xuan sensed Ghost Island and found that chaotic Spiritual Power around it resisted his divine sense.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione used the Computer Spirit’s environmental simulation to hide when sailors entered their cabin.
• The captain searched the ship, suspected Zhao Xuan and Hermione had gone to Ghost Island, and ordered the crew to take the passengers there.
• The captain led the bound passengers onto Ghost Island, where the sailors forced them to obey.
• Hermione asked Zhao Xuan to save the passengers, but Zhao Xuan refused until they understood the group’s purpose.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione followed the pirates into Ghost Island’s rainforest, where violent Spiritual Power and mysterious entities filled the air. As the entities attacked and one devoured a traveler’s soul, Zhao Xuan spotted a streak of Purple Gold lightning high above the island.

• Zhao Xuan and Hermione followed the procession toward the island’s central mountain while Zhao Xuan sensed the increasingly dense Spiritual Power.
• The pirates lit fires as night fell, and Zhao Xuan warned Hermione that the things they feared would appear soon.
• Illusory spiritual entities emerged from the forest, prompting the captain and the pirates capable of Spiritual Power or elemental attacks to fight them.
• A lion-like soul entity invaded a traveler, killed him, and grew stronger after devouring his soul.
• Zhao Xuan looked up and saw Purple Gold lightning flash a thousand meters above the island as strange ripples spread around it.

Zhao Xuan followed the pirates and kidnapped travelers to a cave on the island, where he sensed a vast remnant Divine Sense. After entering alone, he found himself in a lifelike illusory realm and began to question who had created it.

• Zhao Xuan sensed the island-wide remnant Divine Sense and followed the pirates with Hermione as they led their captives toward the central peak.
• The captain ordered the travelers into a dark cave, and Zhao Xuan asked Hermione to wait outside while he went in alone.
• Zhao Xuan discovered that the cave walls were formed from dense Divine Sense and carefully advanced deeper inside.
• The cave transformed around Zhao Xuan into a mountain peak above grasslands, a forest, and a gloomy castle.
• Zhao Xuan used his Divine Sense to recognize the landscape as an illusory realm and saw a crimson Spirit Beast resembling an ancient Crimson Flame Crane.

Zhao Xuan followed the pirates to a castle, where they offered kidnapped passengers as sacrifices to the God of Souls. The God of Souls appeared and exposed Zhao Xuan’s concealment, leaving the two facing off in the hall.

• Zhao Xuan killed two pirate guards with Purple Heaven Divine Lightning and continued after the group.
• The pirates forced the passengers into the forest and beat them until they stopped resisting.
• The captain and pirates brought the passengers to the castle’s hall and prayed to the God of Souls for power.
• The God of Souls appeared on the throne and sensed that someone was hidden behind the captain.
• The God of Souls’ divine sense attack broke Zhao Xuan’s Environmental Simulation, and Zhao Xuan resisted it with Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• The God of Souls asked Zhao Xuan whether he was a newly ascended deity, while Zhao Xuan realized the situation was troublesome.

Zhao Xuan confronted the God of Souls, who tried to strengthen himself by devouring the people in the hall and summoned powerful Spirit Beast souls to fight. Zhao Xuan destroyed the summoned beasts, but the God of Souls remained composed and asked whether Zhao Xuan’s lightning was tribulation lightning.

• The God of Souls granted the people in the hall power by sending spiritual bodies into them, killing them and turning them into stronger souls.
• The God of Souls ordered the spiritual bodies to devour the pirates, but Zhao Xuan unleashed his domain and reduced the souls and pirates to ashes.
• The God of Souls absorbed the crushed Spiritual Power and summoned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and the Nether Sparrow to attack Zhao Xuan.
• Zhao Xuan destroyed the Nether Sparrow with Thunder God's Hammer and defeated the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon by absorbing its lightning with Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• The God of Souls asked Zhao Xuan whether his lightning was tribulation lightning.

Zhao Xuan faced the God of Souls’ seven divine-consciousness incarnations in a fierce battle and discovered they could only use the signature traits of their former selves. He continued fighting the remaining six opponents, having found a way to understand their limitations.

• The God of Souls summoned the incarnations of the Titan Giant Ape, Shadow Ghost Tiger, Rhombus Armor Mystic Turtle, Dragon Sparrow, and emperors Ying, Yuan, and Ce.
• Zhao Xuan manifested his Demon God True Body and met the seven attackers with his Thunder Domain.
• The Rhombus Armor Mystic Turtle endured his lightning, while Zhao Xuan immobilized the Dragon Sparrow and tore it apart with thunder and strength.
• Ying, Yuan, and Ce joined the remaining Spirit Beasts in attacking Zhao Xuan, and the Shadow Ghost Tiger wounded his Demon God True Body from behind.
• The Computer Spirit deduced that each incarnation retained only its strongest trait or weapon, and Zhao Xuan realized their abilities were limited.

Zhao Xuan fought the God of Souls’ divine-sense incarnations in the castle, but their growing numbers overwhelmed him. An unknown newcomer froze the attackers and told Zhao Xuan to leave, giving him a chance to flee.

• Zhao Xuan destroyed the three human sages’ incarnations and battled the Titan Giant Ape, Shadow Ghost Tiger, and Rhombus Armor Mystic Turtle.
• Zhao Xuan shattered the Rhombus Armor Mystic Turtle’s shell with a powerful punch, and the God of Souls realized the seal was loosening.
• The God of Souls turned violent and summoned more than twenty divine-sense incarnations to attack Zhao Xuan.
• Zhao Xuan tried to escape, but the incarnations pursued and overwhelmed his Demon God True Body.
• An immense pressure froze the incarnations, and a gentle voice told Zhao Xuan to come out.
• Zhao Xuan ran toward the nearby doors while the God of Souls reacted in alarm.

Zhao Xuan escaped the God of Souls with help from the master of the illusory realm, who introduced herself as the Lord of Illusory Annihilation. As she revealed that the God of Souls was once gentle and kind, Zhao Xuan accidentally guessed that she was a Beast God, startling her.

• Zhao Xuan fled the castle while the God of Souls roared after him, and the illusory realm’s master guided him away from danger.
• Zhao Xuan followed the living plants across a vast grassland to a lake, where he met the woman who had summoned him.
• The woman introduced herself as the Lord of Illusory Annihilation and said she had saved Zhao Xuan because she wanted to ask him for something.
• The Lord of Illusory Annihilation confirmed that the God of Souls was a Righteous God and recalled that he had once been gentle and kind.
• When the woman asked Zhao Xuan what he thought she was, he murmured “Beast God,” and she reacted with surprise.

The Lord of Illusory Annihilation told Zhao Xuan how she and the God of Souls had abandoned their Divine Bodies to live together, and how a Fallen God corrupted the God of Souls with help from the living Rakshasa God. She asked Zhao Xuan to find the God of Slaughter’s inheritance in the City of Slaughter to break the seal, offering to teach him their Divine Sense techniques in return.

• The Lord of Illusory Annihilation reassured Zhao Xuan that she meant him no harm and began recounting her past with the God of Souls.
• She explained that she and the God of Souls had created a Divine Sense world on the island and abandoned their Divine Bodies to escape the war between human and Beast Deities.
• The Lord of Illusory Annihilation revealed that a remnant soul of the Fallen God had invaded the island and that the living Rakshasa God had helped him corrupt the God of Souls.
• She told Zhao Xuan that the God of Slaughter was the Rakshasa God’s natural nemesis and that an item bearing his aura from the City of Slaughter could dispel the seal.
• The Lord of Illusory Annihilation offered to teach Zhao Xuan and the God of Souls’ Divine Sense control methods if he helped resolve the crisis.

Zhao Xuan accepted the Lord of Illusory Annihilation’s offer to seek something related to the Asura God and learned her Starry Sky Construction Method. After mastering its basics with help from the Computer Spirit, he was returned from the illusory world and reunited with Hermione.

• The Lord of Illusory Annihilation warned Zhao Xuan about the dangers of the City of Slaughter and explained that killing there would be his choice, though he might be forced into it.
• The Lord of Illusory Annihilation promised to teach Zhao Xuan her Divine Sense control method in advance and offered further instruction if he helped the soul escape its predicament.
• The Lord of Illusory Annihilation gave Zhao Xuan the Starry Sky Construction Method, and he drew its knowledge motes into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Zhao Xuan relied on the Computer Spirit to process the motes and quickly formed an illusory longsword, impressing the Lord of Illusory Annihilation.
• The Lord of Illusory Annihilation sent Zhao Xuan out of the illusory world, where Hermione asked when he had appeared.

After returning to Cape City, Zhao Xuan rested while Hermione faced guards investigating the disappearance of their Young City Lord. Hermione fought off their attack and revealed the power of her soul skills, while Zhao Xuan watched from his room.

• Zhao Xuan and Hermione arrived in Cape City, where Zhao Xuan collapsed into bed after carrying Hermione hundreds of kilometers.
• The next morning, guards confronted Hermione at the hotel, claiming she had traveled on the same cruise ship as their missing Young City Lord.
• Hermione refused to cooperate, and the guards tried to capture her after she revealed her four soul rings.
• Hermione used Phoenix Rocket to interrupt one guard’s martial soul possession and raised the Gate of Burning Heaven against the others.
• The guards damaged the Gate of Burning Heaven, but its collapse unleashed blazing magma; the captain pulled two guards out of danger, and Hermione challenged them to continue.

Zhao Xuan and Hermione left Cape City to avoid further conflict and returned to Star Luo City. After entering the imperial palace with Dai Mubai’s token, Zhao Xuan met Dai Mubai and asked him to investigate a place.

• Hermione confronted Zhao Xuan about pretending to be asleep, then ate breakfast with him.
• Zhao Xuan decided to return to Star Luo City and seek Dai Mubai’s help finding the City of Slaughter.
• The Lord of Cape City learned Zhao Xuan and Hermione were involved and ordered his guards to find everyone else connected to his son’s death.
• Zhao Xuan and Hermione traveled by carriage to Star Luo City and entered the imperial palace using Dai Mubai’s gold token.
• Dai Mubai explained that he had been helping his father handle government affairs, and Zhao Xuan asked him to investigate a place.

Zhao Xuan sought information about the City of Slaughter and learned its location from Dai Feng. Dai Feng revealed that the Dai family helped guard the city and supplied it with criminals, while wondering whether Zhao Xuan knew its secrets.

• Dai Mubai told Zhao Xuan that Dai Feng knew where the City of Slaughter was and was waiting for him at the palace.
• Zhao Xuan met Dai Feng in the Manifestation Hall and explained that he needed to find something related to slaughter for a friend.
• Dai Feng gave Zhao Xuan a map marking the City of Slaughter and described it as a lawless place of endless killing.
• Dai Feng revealed that the Dai family, the Heaven Dou Xue family, and Spirit Hall had agreed with a supreme existence to send criminals to the city and prevent its inhabitants from leaving.
• After Zhao Xuan departed, Dai Feng wondered whether he knew something about the City of Slaughter.

Zhao Xuan reached the City of Slaughter and reunited with Tang San and Tang Hao after interrupting a violent scene in the town’s tavern. Tang San had come to train under his father’s direction, while Zhao Xuan promised not to interfere.

• Zhao Xuan left Hermione in Star Luo City and traveled alone toward the City of Slaughter.
• Zhao Xuan entered the barren town guarding the City of Slaughter and sensed a familiar aura amid fighting in its tavern.
• Zhao Xuan found Tang Hao and Tang San standing unharmed among the tavern’s corpses and recognized Tang San.
• Zhao Xuan and Tang San embraced and exchanged greetings, while Tang Hao lamented that their reunion disrupted the moment he had created.
• Tang San explained that Tang Hao had brought him to the City of Slaughter for training, and Zhao Xuan promised not to interfere.