Chapter Summaries

Xu Jie forced Ye Xishui to agree to destroy her God of Death Tower and help assassinate Xu Tianran by threatening to reveal her hidden feelings for Long Xiaoyao. As Ye Xishui detonated the tower, Xu Jie secretly prepared the assembled powerhouses to attack and cripple her.

• Di Tian suppressed Long Xiaoyao while Xu Jie confronted Ye Xishui and demanded that she destroy her Natal Soul Guidance Device and cooperate in an assassination of Xu Tianran.
• Xu Jie used Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing to reveal Ye Xishui’s secret past and pressure her into agreeing.
• Xu Jie secretly told Huo Yuhao to connect the powerhouses through Spiritual Detection Sharing so they could attack Ye Xishui after the tower exploded.
• Huo Yuhao and the powerhouses prepared to counter Ye Xishui as she detonated the God of Death Tower, scattering crimson fragments across the sky.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao subdued Ye Xishui and began binding her with a modified Life Conversion Array after Xu Jie destroyed her Blood Soul Demonic Puppet. Long Xiaoyao accepted that Ye Xishui had deceived him, while the chapter ended with a gray Blood Soul Demonic Puppet forming above her as her Resentful Spirits were purified.

• Ye Xishui merged with her Blood Soul Demonic Puppet and fought the gathered powerhouses until Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao used a magic array to make her unconscious.
• Xu Jie summoned Yan Shaozhe, and Du Busi took him to verify his bloodline while the group restrained Ye Xishui.
• Xu Jie began preparing a modified Life Conversion Array, and Long Xiaoyao arrived and asked what he intended to do to Ye Xishui.
• Xu Jie revealed Ye Xishui's Radiant Phoenix Martial Soul Mark, and Long Xiaoyao realized that his guilt over their past had rested on a false assumption and agreed not to stop Xu Jie.
• Xu Jie used the Rakshasa Demonic Scythe and Butterfly God Flower Basket to enhance Huo Yuhao's array, shatter Ye Xishui's Blood Soul Demonic Puppet, and purify the Resentful Spirits inside it.
• Huo Yuhao's array gathered the purified spirits into a new ancient-gray Blood Soul Demonic Puppet marked with purple and pink-blue light.

Xu Jie bound Ye Xishui to a life sustained by hunting Evil Soul Masters, then investigated the Golden Ancient Tree and its lingering souls in the Undead Demigod Plane. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi presented a plan to establish the Canghui Empire, leaving the academy's experts to prepare for a covert takeover of the Dou Spirit Empire.

• Xu Jie sent Ye Xishui away with Long Xiaoyao, warning that the safeguards would kill her if she harmed an innocent person.
• Di Tian returned to the Star Dou Great Forest with Bear Lord, while Xu Jie went to return Yan Shaozhe and study the Golden Ancient Tree in the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Xu Jie entered the Golden Ancient Tree's memories, purified several lingering souls, imprisoned Tang Hao and Ah Yin, and collected inheritance marks from Gu Rong and Chen Xin.
• Xu Jie stored another soul in a Soul Storage Stone, placed Tang Hao and Ah Yin's souls into undead skeletons, and began planting the Golden Ancient Tree at the plane's center.
• Ju Zi shared her plan to establish the Canghui Empire with Huo Yuhao and the assembled experts.
• Huo Yuhao outlined a four-stage strategy to remove the Dou Spirit Imperial Family through outside forces and then absorb its remaining power.

Xu Jie planted the Golden Ancient Tree in the Undead Demigod Plane, where it began resonating with the plane and helping it become more complete. He and Huo Yuhao then planned to seize control of the Sun Moon Empire indirectly, but a sword inheritance unexpectedly chose Ji Juechen.

• Xu Jie planted the Golden Ancient Tree and used Tang Hao and Ah Yin's skeletons to bury its roots while Huo Yuhao returned the soul beasts to their proper places.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the Golden Ancient Tree's heartbeat and its resonance with the Undead Demigod Plane, and Xu Jie explained that he had removed souls from the tree.
• Xu Jie asked Huo Yuhao to teach him the Oviparous Incarnation Method and revealed their plan to kill Xu Tianran and install a Sun Moon Imperial Family member in his place.
• Xu Jie discussed the Canghui Empire's proposal and the Gu Rong and Chen Xin inheritances with Wu Yan, who agreed to contact the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ji Juechen entered to challenge Xu Jie, and Chen Xin's sword inheritance left Xu Jie's hand mark and entered Ji Juechen's glabella.

Xiao Yun'er awakened a mutated martial soul with a death-bearing left eye and a life-bearing right eye, and her life aura gave Du Busi a thick head of hair. Meanwhile, Ju Zi learned that Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao had flattened Shrek Academy, and the chapter ended as Du Busi took over testing Xiao Yun'er's Innate Soul Power.

• Xiao Yun'er awoke with mismatched eyes, and her right eye blocked Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection.
• Du Busi examined Xiao Yun'er, whose left eye released death aura that withered his beard.
• Xu Jie told Xiao Yun'er to use her right eye's life power, and she accidentally caused dark green hair to grow on Du Busi's bald head.
• Ju Zi told Xu Jie that he and Huo Yuhao had destroyed all of Shrek Academy, and Xu Jie said the destruction would help advance the Soul Beast Alliance's plans.
• Du Busi snatched the crystal ball from Xu Jie to test Xiao Yun'er's Innate Soul Power as Xiao Yun'er rushed into the office asking to see Xiao Yunhan.

Huo Yuhao and the others tested Xiao Yun'er's Innate Soul Power after Luoxin mistook her for Huo Yuhao's daughter. The test revealed that Xiao Yun'er had Innate Soul Power Level 20, and Xu Jie named her mutated Spiritual Eye the Eye of Life and Death.

• Luoxin saw Xiao Yun'er, who resembled Huo Yun'er, and tearfully mistook her for Huo Yuhao's daughter before he explained that she was Huo Yun'er's reincarnation.
• Du Busi tested Xiao Yun'er's Innate Soul Power, and the first crystal ball lit up brightly before cracking and exploding.
• Huo Yuhao fetched a larger testing crystal ball, and Du Busi found that Xiao Yun'er had Innate Soul Power Level 20.
• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao examined Xiao Yun'er's martial soul and concluded that the Golden Ancient Tree's power and Old Yi's Death Aura had caused it to mutate.
• Xu Jie named Xiao Yun'er's martial soul the Eye of Life and Death, and the group recognized that her transformation had greatly improved her talent.

Snow Maiden, the Sea Princess, Di Tian, and other soul beast leaders began a continent-wide migration, while A'Xie arranged to attack the Holy Spirit Cult's Main Altar with hidden missiles. As soul beasts vanished from forests across the continent, Xu Jie remained focused on Xiao Yun'er.

• Snow Maiden asked A'Tai to carry out the Soul Beast Alliance's command, and soul beasts across the Extreme North Land began migrating deeper into the region.
• The Sea Princess ordered the races of the near seas to act, and merfolk spread her command.
• Di Tian summoned soul beasts across the continent to migrate deeper into their forests and moved those from weaker forests into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A'Xie gave Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Missiles to earth-element Evil Eye Tyrants, who buried them beneath the Holy Spirit Cult's Main Altar, then sent a token into the sealed cavern.
• A Soul Hunter team noticed that soul beasts had disappeared from the Star Luo Forest as migrations spread across the empires.
• Xu Jie continued celebrating Xiao Yun'er's talent while the continent faced a new upheaval.

After Shrek Academy was destroyed, Vina secured Heavenly Soul's cooperation with Canghui Academy, while Xu Jie and Ju Zi planned how Dai Hao could use the Star Luo Emperor's summons to expose his opponents and strengthen their position. Dai Hao received a photograph of Huo Yuhao’s child and was left grieving for Yun'er.

• Wei Tian questioned Vina about the reports of soul contracts, then gave her a list to deliver to Canghui Academy in exchange for an in-person negotiation.
• Dai Luoli brought Xu Jiawei's decree to Dai Hao, who learned that the emperor wanted him to obtain Huo Yuhao's Soul Contract System.
• Ju Zi questioned Dai Luoli about Xu Yun and advised Dai Hao to travel to Canghui Academy with Dai Luoli, surrender his military authority, and use the trip to reveal his political rivals.
• Xu Jie and Ju Zi vanished from the tent as Dai Yueheng arrived, and Dai Hao listened to his military report without sending Dai Luoli away.
• Dai Hao used the gray stone Xu Jie had given him to reveal a photograph of Huo Yuhao holding his child, and he wept as he thought of Yun'er.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao dealt with threats near Canghui Academy while the academy faced growing attention after the bombing of Shrek Academy. At the Holy Spirit Cult’s Main Altar, Ye Xishui tried to explain herself to Long Xiaoyao, who confronted her over concealing the truth, and she said she would listen to him.

• Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection guided Xu Jie to an Evil Soul Master, whom Xu Jie killed and sent to the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jie that Ye Xishui had not appeared for a month and that two powerful figures were in seclusion beneath the Holy Spirit Cult’s Main Altar.
• Xu Jie learned that Canghui Academy had no Fixed Soul Guidance Missiles ready and headed back to Xiao Yun’er after Huo Yuhao reported no other Evil Soul Masters nearby.
• At the Holy Spirit Cult’s Main Altar, Ye Xishui crushed an Evil Soul Master’s heart and absorbed his life force through the Blood Soul Demonic Puppet.
• Ye Xishui asked Long Xiaoyao to talk, but he challenged her for hiding the truth after Zhongli Old Ghost’s death; she lowered her head and said she would listen to him.

Xu Tianran prepared to restart the Sun Moon Empire’s war while Xu Tianzhen escaped the palace to seek her husband. In Tingfeng City, Dugu Lu delivered Canghui Academy’s demand to the Heavenly Soul Empire: withdraw immediately.

• Xu Tianran learned that Ye Xishui remained in seclusion and that Canghui Academy had repelled the Holy Spirit Cult’s attempts to contact Xu Jie, then decided to visit the academy himself.
• Xu Shenkai tried to keep Xu Tianzhen from leaving the palace, but she threatened him with her martial soul and escaped through a side gate.
• After learning that Xu Tianzhen had left, Xu Tianran ordered Xu Shenkai imprisoned, assigned the Blazing Phoenix Douluo to protect Tianzhen secretly, and allowed her to go.
• Xu Tianran summoned his generals and Jing Hongchen, then issued military orders to resume the Sun Moon Empire’s campaign.
• Dugu Lu arrived in Tingfeng City, where Vina welcomed him, and demanded that the Heavenly Soul Empire withdraw immediately.

Dugu Lu secured the Heaven Soul Emperor’s agreement to surrender military authority and quietly relocate the imperial family as the empire’s territory dwindled. At Canghui New City, the Gate of the Undead opened and members of three sects began returning, including Nan Shuishui and Wu Yifan.

• Dugu Lu demanded that Wei Tian retreat into Dou Ling territory and hand Heaven Soul’s military authority to Canghui Academy, and Vina warned that the Sun Moon Empire was preparing to attack.
• Wei Tian accepted the situation, and Dugu Lu gave him a teleportation formation core and instructions to house the listed imperial family members together for screening.
• Dugu Lu left for the Body Sect’s base while Canghui Academy sealed off Canghui New City and Dou Mountain ahead of the returning sects.
• The Gate of the Undead opened, and Nan Shuishui reunited with her daughter Nan Qiuqiu before Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi welcomed her.
• Wu Yifan emerged next and was greeted by Proud Sword Douluo, followed by a black-robed Clear Sky Sect member whom Tang Hui welcomed.

After the Heaven and Earth Dragon Gate, Proud Sword Sect, and Clear Sky Sect emerged from the Undead Demigod Plane, Xu Jie welcomed them into the Martial Alliance and announced a tournament. He then left for the Heaven Soul Empire, while Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao learned that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was sending Chen Xu and Gu Feng and that Ning Tian’s group had completed their contracts.

• Xu Jie closed the Gate of the Undead after the three sects emerged, then declared that they had joined his Martial Alliance and announced a martial tournament.
• The disciples cheered at the tournament announcement and, under Huo Yuhao’s arrangements, moved into their new residences.
• Xu Jie left with Xiao Jin for Tingfeng City, saying he wanted to address matters in the Heaven Soul Empire before the Sun Moon Empire could make a surprise attack.
• Ju Zi returned with a letter from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and asked how to handle Chen Xu’s Seven Kill Sword inheritance mark; Huo Yuhao suggested Ji Juechen teach him sword techniques.
• Huo Yuhao received a message that Ning Tian and the others had completed their contracts and said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s arriving people could help pick them up.

Xu Jie arrived in Tingfeng City with Xiao Jin and presented Wei Tian with a plan for Heaven Soul's surrender to the Sun Moon Empire, including relocating the imperial family and resources. Wei Tian initially erupted in anger but began reading the plan, leaving his response undecided.

• Xu Jie and Xiao Jin reached Tingfeng City and revealed themselves at the temporary imperial palace gates.
• Vina welcomed Xu Jie and led him to meet the Heaven Soul Emperor, Wei Tian.
• Xu Jie presented the "Heavenly Soul Annihilation Package Plan" and outlined its provisions for relocating the imperial family and resources and surrendering to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Wei Tian angrily objected, but Xu Jie clarified that Canghui Academy would not take the resources for nothing and pressured him to examine the plan.
• Wei Tian and Vina read the plan, and Wei Tian grew increasingly shocked and horrified.

Xu Jie forced Wei Tian to accept Canghui Academy’s plan for Heaven Soul’s surrender and military withdrawal, then arranged the transfer of nobles and Body Sect forces. He traveled with Dugu Lu to the Star Dou Great Forest, where they arrived at the crowded Lake of Life and saw two dark-golden Soul Beasts.

• Xu Jie presented Wei Tian with a surrender and withdrawal plan, then demonstrated his ability to assume the emperor’s appearance and made Wei Tian submit.
• Xu Jie joined Xiao Jin in selecting noble offspring, sending those chosen into the Undead Demigod Plane, where Undead Creatures devoured them.
• Xu Jie left eleven Positioning Stones with the Body Sect, and Elder Jin led its Titled Douluo to carry out the plan and dispatch two teams toward the remaining Soul Engineer legions.
• Xu Jie took Dugu Lu to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian’s darkness transported them beside the Lake of Life.
• Xu Jie saw that the Lake of Life’s surroundings were packed with powerful Soul Beasts divided among Bi Ji, the Myriad Demon King, Bear Lord, and the Scarlet King, and noticed a dark-golden tiger and wolf.

Xu Jie discovered that Ning Tian’s Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda had changed after she formed seven soul contracts, allowing her contracted beasts to appear from within it. He brought Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Dugu Lu, and their contracted soul beasts back to Canghui Academy to investigate the change further.

• Di Tian complained that Xu Jie’s plan had overcrowded the Star Dou Great Forest, and Xu Jie suggested freezing low-level soul beasts with the Snow Maiden’s help.
• Xu Jie found Ning Tian with Bi Ji and learned she had formed seven soul contracts, six of them using Bi Ji’s life force.
• Ning Tian released a Treasured Glazed Fox and six soul-like beasts from her Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda, and Xu Jie suspected the change came from her martial soul and the Soul Contract System.
• Xu Jie asked Di Tian to find Treasured Glazed Foxes willing to contract with humans and said he would send two more soul masters with Ning Tian’s martial soul for research.
• Scarlet King brought Wu Feng and her contracted Blazing Dragon, and Xu Jie returned with them, Ning Tian, and Dugu Lu to Canghui Academy.

Xu Jie showed Ning Dairong and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect elders the Soul Contract System and revealed an ancient Bone Dragon inheritance mark. After Gu Feng accepted the mark, Ji Juechen faced Chen Xu in a sword duel, while distant observers watched the clash.

• Xu Jie brought Ning Tian and Wu Feng to meet Ning Dairong and agreed that Ning Tian would remain at Canghui Academy for another month after demonstrating her Soul Contract System.
• Xu Jie revealed the Bone Dragon inheritance mark, which Gu Feng accepted and absorbed.
• Xu Jie explained that Ji Juechen had absorbed the Seven Kill Sword mark and offered Chen Xu a sword art in compensation.
• Ji Juechen and Chen Xu met in the sky above Dou Mountain and began a sword battle that drew the attention of people in nearby cities.
• A man in a caravan and an elderly woman in a nearby forest watched the sword light above Dou Mountain.

Xu Jie gave Chen Xu the Demon-Subduing Sword manual and invited him to study martial arts at Canghui Academy. He then led Ning Dairong and the others to see the academy’s Basic Internal Cultivation classes, but Huo Yuhao detected two troublesome arrivals before they entered.

• After Ji Juechen demonstrated his swordsmanship, Xu Jie gave Chen Xu the Demon-Subduing Sword manual and asked him to study with Ji Juechen.
• Chen Xu agreed to remain at the academy, and Ning Dairong offered to exchange for combat techniques suited to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xu Jie invited Ning Dairong’s group to visit the Basic Internal Cultivation classes, prompting Ning Dairong to ask about rumors that the method let people without Innate Soul Power cultivate Soul Power.
• Ju Zi led the group to a guarded gate at the Soul Guidance Experiment Base, where Tang Hui opened a smaller entrance and Ning Dairong, Chen Xu, and Gu Feng went inside.
• Huo Yuhao detected two approaching figures and shared their identities with Xu Jie and Ju Zi, leaving both of them frozen.

Xu Jie learned that Xu Tianzhen and Blazing Phoenix Douluo Luan Feng had arrived in Shandou City and went to handle the situation himself. Meanwhile, Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao showed Ning Dairong and the others around the Soul Master Education Base, where they saw its residential district and a newly developed photography studio.

• Huo Yuhao left Xu Jie to deal with Xu Tianzhen, while he and Ju Zi continued guiding Ning Dairong and the others.
• Xu Jie decided not to involve Xiao Xiao and headed from the Soul Guidance Experiment Base toward Shandou City, where Xu Tianzhen and Luan Feng were staying.
• Ju Zi explained to Ning Dairong that the residents around the academy were parents of its students, and Huo Yuhao introduced Wang Dongdong as Xu Jie's teaching assistant.
• Ju Zi gave Wang Dongdong Incense Sticks for the Internal Cultivation class, then Huo Yuhao and Wang Dongdong went ahead to prepare for the visitors.
• Ju Zi showed Ning Dairong a photograph taken with the academy's new Soul Guidance Camera, featuring Huo Yuhao, Xu Jie, and Xiao Xiao.

Ju Zi demonstrated her Soul Guidance Camera to Ning Dairong and the others while Xu Jie met Xu Tianzhen in Shandou City. Xu Jie told her he intended to destroy the Sun Moon Empire and kill Xu Tianran, leaving Xu Tianzhen confused by his resolve.

• Ju Zi took a photograph of Ning Dairong, Chenxu Gufeng, and their companion, then explained how Soul Guidance Cameras worked.
• Xu Jie asked Du Busi for advice about Xu Tianzhen, and Du Busi suggested capturing her to threaten Xu Tianran.
• Xu Jie approached Xu Tianzhen at an inn while Du Busi kept watch on the Blazing Phoenix Douluo.
• Xu Tianzhen greeted Xu Jie as her man and offered to help him, but he told her he could not be with her.
• Xu Jie declared that he would destroy the Sun Moon Empire and kill Xu Tianran, and Xu Tianzhen asked why.

Xu Jie subdued Xu Tianzhen during a confrontation in Shandou City, then returned her to Blazing Phoenix Douluo with a warning for Xu Tianran. As Luan Feng carried the unconscious princess toward the Sun Moon Empire, a faint golden light appeared on Xu Tianzhen’s Sun Pattern.

• Xu Tianzhen threatened Xu Jie with a fireball, while Huo Yuhao guided the inn’s occupants and the street’s residents to safety.
• Blazing Phoenix Douluo Luan Feng tried to intervene, but Du Busi restrained her and warned that she would die if she moved.
• Xu Jie knocked Xu Tianzhen unconscious with Soul Shock, removed her disguise, and transferred a strange golden aura into the Sun Pattern on her brow.
• Xu Jie handed Xu Tianzhen to Luan Feng and warned her to tell Xu Tianran not to let the princess roam around again.
• Luan Feng flew out of Shandou City with Xu Tianzhen, then continued on foot toward the Sun Moon Empire without noticing the golden glow on the princess’s brow.