Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao organized the rescued souls into the beginnings of the Sun God Cult, sending them with his followers to reunite other souls with their families. He then staged a frightening explosion in Mingdu to draw the attention of the Holy Spirit Church and other factions, and left with Ye Guyi as the city’s forces mobilized.

• Ye Guyi asked Huo Yuhao to help her find the God of Angels’ Place of Inheritance, and Black Water suggested the Medicine Immortal Douluo might know about it through the Healing Angel Clan.
• Nana and the other eight Saints pledged themselves to Huo Yuhao, who taught them the Mysterious Heaven Skill, placed Sun Imprints on them, and tasked them with reuniting souls with their families.
• Huo Yuhao divided roughly four hundred and five souls among the nine followers, while the souls reunited with their families departed peacefully.
• Huo Yuhao sent Nana and the others to travel beyond Mingdu, then instructed Black Water to infiltrate the Holy Spirit Church Main Altar.
• Huo Yuhao detonated the Soul Tool Bombs, creating a huge blood-red skull and eerie cries that sparked panic and prompted Mingdu’s defense forces to respond.
• Huo Yuhao and Ye Guyi left the area as rumors of an Evil Soul Master attack spread through Mingdu.

After Huo Yuhao and Ye Guyi returned to the academy, the Soul Engineer Patrol Team uncovered a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold beneath the ruins, and Xu Tianming used the discovery to persuade the Sun Moon Emperor to authorize action against the cult in Mingdu. The chapter left Xu Tianming preparing to build support among the nobles while anticipating a struggle with the Crown Prince, who might gain the Holy Spirit Cult’s backing.

• Li Caiyuan led the Soul Engineer Patrol Team into the ruined building, where they found an underground passage and rooms filled with corpses and red crystal fragments.
• Xu Tianming arrived with the Royal Inspection Team, heard Li Caiyuan’s report, and ordered the site sealed before heading to the Imperial Palace.
• The Demon Empress resisted Gui Wujing’s warnings about attacking Mingde Hall, then agreed to wait for the Holy Spirit Cult’s next cooperation with Mingde Hall to search for Lan Fuzi.
• Xu Tianming proposed that the Sun Moon Emperor use the discovery to stir public outrage and target Holy Spirit Cult strongholds in Mingdu, and the emperor approved the plan while arranging protection from the Hall of Worship.
• The Sun Moon Emperor urged Xu Tianming to win over court factions and assist the Crown Prince, while privately judging Xu Tianming the safest choice to preserve the Empire.
• Xu Tianming left the palace resolved to compete with his brother, whom he suspected the Holy Spirit Cult might support.

Huo Yuhao reflected on the protests against Evil Soul Masters while Xu Tianming recruited nobles to target the Holy Spirit Church. In the Eastern Palace, Ju Zi explained that the emperor was manipulating the conflict to weaken both sides, just as Zhongli Wu arrived to meet Xu Tianran.

• Ye Xiaosheng told Huo Yuhao and the others that protests had erupted across Mingdu after Evil Soul Masters massacred civilians.
• Huo Yuhao considered how the unrest could undermine the Holy Spirit Church and reviewed the work he had accomplished in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianming promised noble members of the Royal Inspection Team a share of the Holy Spirit Church's resources and organized investigations into its strongholds and industries.
• Xu Tianran and Ju Zi discussed the protests, and Ju Zi concluded that the emperor meant to pit Xu Tianming's nobles against the Holy Spirit Church for the imperial family's benefit.
• Xu Tianran received word that Holy Spirit Church Master Zhongli Wu had requested an audience and welcomed him into the hall.

Xu Tianran persuaded Zhongli Wu to make the Holy Spirit Cult yield to public pressure for now, while both men planned to use each other. In the Extreme North, the Snow Empress accepted a doubled Ice God examination to protect her people, and divine barriers shielded the region from the Sea God Family's hunters.

• Xu Tianran advised Zhongli Wu to yield until public unrest passed and promised to help the Holy Spirit Cult gain legal status if he became emperor.
• Zhongli Wu secretly played a Recording Soul Tool of their conversation to the Holy Spirit Cult elders and threatened to spread it if Xu Tianran betrayed them.
• The Snow Empress asked the Ice God to help protect the Extreme North, accepted a doubled examination, and triggered five divine Light Pillars and barriers across the region.
• A Sea God Family Hunting Team attacked Ice Wolves, but the Light Pillars strengthened the wolves and sealed the hunters out behind a barrier.
• The Sea God Family recalled its hunting teams, while the Snow Empress began climbing the Ice God Palace steps to complete her examinations.

Xu Tianming’s purge dismantled most of the Holy Spirit Church’s strongholds in Mingdu, while Black Water rescued Tang Dai and gained a chance to infiltrate the Church’s Main Altar. Huo Yuhao learned of Black Water’s opportunity and urged him to stay safe as the threat of a major battle in Mingdu approached.

• Xu Tianming led the campaign against the Holy Spirit Church, but grew uneasy about how little resistance the purge had met.
• Tang Dai and five other Evil Soul Masters were trapped by City Defense Army Soul Engineers until Black Water used Corpse Explosion to help them escape.
• Black Water introduced himself as a Light Attribute Evil Soul Master, and Tang Dai offered to take him to the Main Altar because Tang Dai’s teacher was the Sixth Enshrined, Scorpion Tiger.
• Huo Yuhao instructed Nana to gather families whose souls had been reunited and quietly spread the Sun God Cult’s teachings among them.
• Black Water contacted Huo Yuhao while traveling toward the Main Altar, and Huo Yuhao cautioned him to prioritize his safety.

Huo Yuhao reached level fifty and survived the Body Sect’s assault on Mingde Hall, disguising himself as Du Busi to steal the Deity Confinement Platform containing the Deep Sea Demon Whale’s embryo. After the battle, he reunited with Qian Duoduo and helped with the rescue efforts while a concealed woman searched the damaged facility.

• Huo Yuhao told Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu that he had reached level fifty, and Qian Duoduo arranged for him to leave the next day to obtain a soul ring.
• Gui Wujing delivered Xu Tianran’s letter to Jing Hongchen and used a fabricated recording threat to pressure him into rejecting the Second Prince’s invitation.
• The Body Sect blasted into Mingde Hall, killing and injuring many Soul Tool Masters before the defenders activated the facility’s automated weapons and fought back.
• Huo Yuhao escaped through the tunnels, collected the Starlight Sapphire, and disguised himself as Du Busi to take the Deity Confinement Platform from a Body Sect Soul Douluo.
• Du Busi withdrew the Body Sect after learning the Soul Beast Embryo was missing, while Jing Hongchen led the rescue efforts and Huo Yuhao reunited with Qian Duoduo.
• Huo Yuhao helped with the aftermath as a concealed woman slipped through the crowd and headed toward Jing Hongchen.

After the Body Sect’s raid devastated Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao secretly brought Lan Fuzi to the Undead Demigod Plane and offered to help her avenge her father. He discovered that the Power of the Sun strengthened undead, then left without noticing Lan Fuzi’s aura clinging to him.

• Du Busi learned that an impostor had stolen the Soul Beast Embryo and suspected the Holy Spirit Cult, then ordered the Body Sect to head for the Extreme North.
• Gui Wujing persuaded Jing Hongchen to consider joining the Crown Prince and blaming the Body Sect for the Holy Spirit Cult’s crimes; Jing Hongchen returned to find Mingde Hall in ruins and learned that 231 people had died.
• After helping injured students, Huo Yuhao was teleported to the Undead Demigod Plane, where he asked Electrolux to seal Lan Fuzi’s cultivation and released her from the Deity Confinement Platform.
• Huo Yuhao told Lan Fuzi that he knew her identity and her father’s death, and offered to help her take revenge on Tang San; she learned he was not from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Huo Yuhao noticed that the Power of the Sun intensified the Skeletons’ Soul Fires and strengthened their bones, then confined Lan Fuzi and left through a Teleportation Gate, unaware that her aura had clung to him.

After the attack on Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao cooperated with an inspection, learned that the academy would restrict access to the hall, and chose to remain as an exchange student. The next morning, he and Qian Duoduo left for Evil Spirit Forest to hunt a pure Spiritual Attribute Evil Eye, while the Demon Empress struggled to find her missing daughter, Lan Fuzi.

• Huo Yuhao told Electrolux that the Power of the Sun had strengthened Skeletons, and they planned to test whether the effect persisted after he obtained his Fifth Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao let a Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy teacher inspect his Storage Ring, then shared grilled fish with him and the Shrek students; the teacher revealed that Mingde Hall would be closed for at least a year.
• Jing Hongchen ordered four students who had looted the dead publicly executed, while Qian Duoduo asked the Shrek students whether they would leave or remain at the academy, and they chose to stay.
• Qian Duoduo told Huo Yuhao he had secured permission for them to leave the next day, and Huo Yuhao chose to hunt an Evil Eye with at least forty thousand years of cultivation.
• The Demon Empress asked Gui Wujing to locate the Body Sect's headquarters so she could rescue Lan Fuzi, but Gui Wujing could only promise to seek help from the Cult Master and Supreme Sect Master.
• Qian Duoduo and Huo Yuhao left Mingdu and traveled to Evil Spirit Forest, where Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection as they entered the dangerous woods.

Huo Yuhao and Qian Duoduo tracked a Time Attribute Soul Beast through Evil Spirit Forest and watched it battle an eighty-thousand-year-old Evil Eye. After the Time Deer escaped, Electrolux proposed that Huo Yuhao absorb its Time Attribute Soul Ring, leaving Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm doubtful.

• Electrolux detected Time Attribute blood, and Huo Yuhao followed its trace northwest with Qian Duoduo.
• Huo Yuhao and Qian Duoduo found an injured Time Deer in a wetland and watched it repel the Evil Eye’s attacks before escaping with Time Rewind.
• The Evil Eye pursued the weakened Time Deer, and Huo Yuhao and Qian Duoduo followed them in hopes of taking advantage of the fight.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao he could absorb the Evil Eye with his Spirit Eye Martial Soul and the Time Deer with his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm questioned whether an Ice Attribute Martial Soul could absorb a Time Attribute Soul Ring, but Huo Yuhao said he trusted Electrolux.

Huo Yuhao and Qian Duoduo witnessed Time Deer sacrifice himself to force Evil Eye into a Heavenly Tribulation, then Huo Yuhao absorbed both soul rings. The chapter ended with the Demon Empress discovering her daughter was in the Evil Spirit Forest and setting out to destroy the Body Sect.

• Evil Eye pursued Time Deer to a mountaintop while Huo Yuhao and Qian Duoduo followed under Huo Yuhao's Simulation Soul Skill.
• Time Deer scattered his Origin Bloodline, then used Huo Yuhao's appearance to trap Evil Eye and force his cultivation to the hundred-thousand-year level.
• The Heavenly Tribulation struck Evil Eye, leaving him near death, and Huo Yuhao killed him and obtained a blood-red soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao used Necromancy to preserve Time Deer's soul, absorbed Time Deer's soul ring, and gained the Time Control soul skill.
• Huo Yuhao began absorbing Evil Eye's hundred-thousand-year soul ring as the Demon Empress learned her daughter was in the Evil Spirit Forest and vowed to kill the Body Sect.

Huo Yuhao completed absorbing the Evil Eye Soul Ring and reached Soul King level fifty-four, but the Demon Empress and Evil Emperor threatened him over their missing daughter and slain Clan Descendants. Niu Tian and Mu En arrived to protect him, leaving four Limit Douluo-level powerhouses facing off.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the Evil Eye Soul Ring while Qian Duoduo guarded him against the approaching Demon Empress.
• The Demon Empress confronted Qian Duoduo and Huo Yuhao, demanded her daughter, and attacked when they denied knowing her.
• Huo Yuhao completed his absorption, reached Soul King level fifty-four, and recognized the Demon Empress as Lan Fuzi's mother.
• The Evil Emperor attacked Huo Yuhao over his slain Clan Descendants, but Niu Tian intercepted the spiritual assault and defended him.
• The Evil Emperor revealed his true body and urged the Demon Empress to join forces against Huo Yuhao and Niu Tian.
• Mu En arrived, and he and Niu Tian stood against the Evil Emperor and Demon Empress as the four powerhouses faced each other.

Huo Yuhao returned Lan Fuzi to the Demon Empress and hoped to gain her as an ally against Tang San. In Mingdu, Niu Tian discussed Huo Yuhao’s plans and agreed to seek out the God of Destruction, while news of the attack on Mingde Hall began spreading across the continent.

• The Evil Emperor withdrew, and Huo Yuhao released Lan Fuzi so she could reunite with the Demon Empress.
• Lan Fuzi told the Demon Empress that Huo Yuhao opposed Tang San and might be a useful ally, leaving the Demon Empress considering contact with him.
• Huo Yuhao told Niu Tian he was certain he could create an Artificial Soul Ring with the Planar Consciousness, and Niu Tian promised to help if needed.
• Huo Yuhao urged Niu Tian to secretly pledge allegiance to the God of Destruction, claiming the God of Destruction was one of Tang San’s people; Niu Tian decided to seek him out.
• Niu Tian returned to the Clear Sky Sect, and Huo Yuhao resolved to grow stronger and activate the Second Star Ring.
• Mu En gave Huo Yuhao a letter and returned to the Extreme North, while news of the attack on Mingde Hall began to spread.

Huo Yuhao established a Sun God Light system in the Undead Demigod Plane, strengthening its undead army, while news spread of a mysterious seal around the Extreme North. Six months later, political tensions rose in the Sun Moon Empire as Xu Tianming’s faction challenged Xu Tianran, and the Holy Spirit Cult prepared to strike back.

• Mingde Hall’s attack became public, Jing Hongchen was demoted to a count, and the Body Sect condemned the assassination campaign against it.
• Electrolux converted the undead army’s Soul Fire to Light Attribute, and Huo Yuhao commanded more than two million undead to carry out his will.
• Huo Yuhao and Electrolux used a Sun Shadow linked to the Sun God Pillar to let Sun God Light strengthen the undead.
• Huo Yuhao read Mu En’s letter and learned that a mysterious force had sealed the Extreme North against human entry.
• Over the next six months, Huo Yuhao strengthened more than one million undead, while the Sun God Cult grew and the Extreme North remained sealed.
• Xu Tianming’s noble allies began attacking Crown Prince Xu Tianran, while the Holy Spirit Cult prepared its counterattack.

Xu Tianran and Zhongli Wu plotted to blame the Body Sect for the destruction of Mingdu, while Huo Yuhao joined Ju Zi and Keke on a Soul Tool test mission and discovered that Evil Soul Masters were tracking him. Dai Huabin learned Huo Yuhao had appeared in the Sun Moon Empire and was offered a chance to earn a reward by killing an enemy.

• Xu Tianran gave Zhongli Wu a list of nobles to eliminate and assigned Ju Zi to stir up public opinion against the Body Sect.
• Huo Yuhao heard students blaming the Body Sect for Mingdu's destruction and sensed that Ju Zi was hiding the reason for her recent absence.
• Xuan Ziwen sent Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Keke to test an All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool in the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao detected four Evil Soul Masters watching him, and they identified him from a portrait and reported their discovery to Dai Huabin.
• Huo Yuhao's wings let him fly without tiring, astonishing Ju Zi and Keke before they stopped by a river to camp.
• Dai Huabin learned Huo Yuhao had been found, and Gui Wujing told him a successful mission could earn him the chance to kill an enemy.

Huo Yuhao cooked for Ju Zi and Keke, prompting Ju Zi to remember her father, then noticed the moonlight being swallowed over the Jingyang Mountain Range. Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit Church dispatched four teams of Evil Soul Masters to assassinate Moonlight Count in Mingdu, where Xu Tianran awaited the coming storm.

• Huo Yuhao prepared mushroom beef chowder, grilled fish, and musk deer meat for Ju Zi and Keke, and they praised his cooking.
• Ju Zi mistook Huo Yuhao for her father while he mixed barbecue sauce, then grew tearful when its flavor reminded her of home.
• Huo Yuhao saw moonlight distort and disappear over the Jingyang Mountain Range, but Ju Zi and Keke said they had never noticed anything unusual.
• Zhongli Wu sent four teams of Evil Soul Masters, led by elders and including Dai Huabin and Black Water, to kill Moonlight Count in Mingdu.
• Xu Tianran watched the darkening sky from the Eastern Palace as the teams headed toward Mingdu.

Holy Spirit Church Evil Soul Masters attacked the Hayate Earl Mansion, but the Hayate Clan held them off with linked defensive Soul Tools until Nether Thunder Douluo intervened. The City Defense Army arrived and drove the attackers away, though the raid left most of the Hayate Clan’s capable fighters dead.

• A Soul Douluo leader ordered the Evil Soul Masters to kill Hayate Earl and his family, while Tang Dai asked Black Water to yield him the mission reward.
• Black Water secretly sent an undead Puppet carrying a corpse into the kitchen, where the discovery alerted the mansion and forced the attackers to rush the main building.
• Hayate Earl’s family escaped through a secret passage as Hayate Earl and Zhang Yiguo led the remaining fighters in defending the hall with linked defensive Soul Tools.
• The Evil Soul Masters broke through the barrier after Nether Thunder Douluo attacked, but Zhang Yiguo’s Rank 8 Soul Cannon killed several attackers before Nether Thunder Douluo struck back.
• The City Defense Army arrived, prompting Nether Thunder Douluo to order a retreat and unleash a devastating lightning attack that killed many Hayate Clan members.

After the Holy Spirit Cult ordered an ambush on Huo Yuhao, he traveled with Ju Zi and Keke into the Jingyang Mountain Range to test an All-Terrain Soul Tool and planned to visit the dangerous Jingyang Peak alone. When a pack of Golden Wolves surrounded them, Huo Yuhao revealed his powerful Soul Rings and drove them off with a single command.

• Zhongli Wu punished the failed mission team, rewarded Yan Feng and Lu Genggeng, and agreed to Dai Huabin's request to kill Huo Yuhao, ordering the Third and Fourth Elders to capture him if possible.
• The Sun Moon Empire's nobles learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had destroyed several noble families, while Xu Tianming questioned Xu Tianran about whether a snake keeper would be bitten by his snakes.
• Ju Zi explained the Jingyang Mountain Range to Huo Yuhao, and she, Keke, and Huo Yuhao took turns testing their All-Terrain Soul Tool as they traveled through the forest.
• After Ju Zi said they would finish testing the Soul Tool the next day, Huo Yuhao announced that he planned to go alone to Jingyang Peak, but Ju Zi and Keke objected.
• More than two hundred Golden Wolves surrounded the group, and Huo Yuhao revealed five Soul Rings, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, before ordering the wolves to flee.
• Ju Zi and Keke watched the wolves retreat and agreed to let Huo Yuhao go alone.

Huo Yuhao followed the moonlight being drawn into Jingyang Peak and discovered a secret realm where Soul Beasts consumed silver fruits. He was expelled before he could explore further, after finding a Light Barrier with a crescent-shaped gap that appeared to require a missing key.

• After helping Ju Zi and Keke test the All-Terrain Soul Tool, Huo Yuhao left their camp to investigate the moonlight phenomenon in the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao reached Jingyang Peak and saw Soul Beasts gather before a Silver White Light Ring that appeared in the cliff, then entered the ring himself.
• Huo Yuhao found a moonlit secret realm where Soul Beasts ate silver fruits that released radiance through their bodies.
• After Electrolux warned that the realm would soon expel them, Huo Yuhao rushed across the plain and struck an invisible barrier that revealed a Light Barrier.
• Huo Yuhao recognized a crescent-shaped gap in the full-moon pattern as the barrier's key, but he and the Soul Beasts were expelled before he could find it.

Huo Yuhao learned that Dai Huabin and two Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo planned to ambush him on his return to Mingdu, and he sent Black Water to alert Xuan Zi. When the attackers targeted him in the trading district, Huo Yuhao left Ju Zi and Keke behind and continued alone toward the ambush.

• Huo Yuhao escaped the Jingyang Mountain Range and learned from Black Water that Dai Huabin had arranged an ambush with two Rank 93 Titled Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao sent Black Water to the Owl Hotel, where Black Water warned Xuan Zi about the planned attack and its location near Mingdu.
• Ju Zi and Keke waited for Huo Yuhao outside the Jingyang Mountain Range, and the three set off for Mingdu together.
• Nether Thunder Douluo and Netherworld Douluo received word that Huo Yuhao had appeared in the trading district and prepared to attack.
• Huo Yuhao detected Dai Huabin and the hidden attackers, dismissed the carriage driver, and told Ju Zi and Keke to leave him behind.
• Ju Zi and Keke hid as Huo Yuhao drove the carriage out of the trading district toward the ambush.

Huo Yuhao was ambushed by Dai Huabin and a group of Evil Soul Masters, but he resisted their attacks until Zhu Lu, Ma Xiaotao, and Xuan Zi arrived to help. Zhongli Wu then appeared and withdrew with the surviving attackers, while Xuan Zi took Huo Yuhao and the others away before Mingdu’s Soul Engineers could reach them.

• Huo Yuhao detected the Evil Soul Masters surrounding his carriage, and Dai Huabin revealed himself and ordered the attack.
• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Force Field and Domain of Eternal Freeze to weaken and freeze the attackers before Netherworld Douluo struck him with a powerful sword attack.
• Dai Huabin lunged at the flying Huo Yuhao, but Zhu Lu appeared and intercepted him with a Moon Blade.
• Ma Xiaotao arrived in Flame Phoenix form and burned the remaining Evil Soul Masters, while Xuan Zi forced Nether Thunder Douluo and Netherworld Douluo to retreat.
• Zhongli Wu confronted Xuan Zi in a contest of Spiritual Power, then vanished with the surviving Evil Soul Masters as Soul Engineers approached Mingdu.
• Xuan Zi carried Huo Yuhao, Ma Xiaotao, and Zhu Lu away underground to avoid being discovered.