Chapter Summaries

After the warehouse raid exposed the Holy Spirit Cult’s human sacrifices, Yang Yu studied a strange cube and discovered that the Time Sand Fragment revealed coordinates in the Misty Marsh. He prepared to visit Qian Renxue and ordered changes to City Guard deployments near the northeastern passes.

• Zhu Zhuqing reported that Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo had seized the Blackwater Dock warehouse, where they found Yin Soul Grass, Blood Essence Stone, and nearly a hundred captive people intended for sacrifice.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Yang Yu a strange black metal cube recovered from a dead Holy Spirit Cult leader, and Yang Yu suspected it was an encrypted Soul Tool Key or spatial beacon.
• The Crown Prince's Mansion blamed unidentified merchants for the warehouse, while the Holy Spirit Cult went silent and Prince Xue Xing's faction attacked Qian Renxue over the scandal.
• Yang Yu found that bringing the Time Sand Fragment near the cube activated its patterns and revealed coordinates pointing to the Misty Marsh.
• Yang Yu ordered Zhu Zhuqing to prepare a visit to the Crown Prince's Mansion and told her to have Xue Beng adjust City Guard deployments at several northeastern passes.

Yang Yu visited Qian Renxue at the Crown Prince's Mansion and used clues about the Holy Spirit Cult's Holy Advent plan to test her involvement. Qian Renxue ordered the plan accelerated, while Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing returned to monitoring Heaven Dou City's links to Misty Marsh.

• Yang Yu openly visited Qian Renxue with Zhu Zhuqing and hinted that he knew about the black box, Misty Marsh, and the Holy Spirit Cult's Holy Advent plan.
• Qian Renxue lost her composure when Yang Yu mentioned Holy Advent, revealing her fear and confirming his suspicions about her knowledge of the cult.
• After Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing left, Qian Renxue concluded that he had the Soul Tool Key and secretly ordered a crucial stage of the plan activated ahead of schedule.
• On the road back to the State Guesthouse, Yang Yu told Zhu Zhuqing to keep watching for links between Heaven Dou City and Misty Marsh.

Yang Yu persuaded Bibi Dong to intensify the investigation into the Holy Spirit Cult and was ordered to pursue clues leading to its stronghold in Misty Marsh. As he prepared for the dangerous expedition, Qian Renxue ordered an early Blood Sacrifice there to gain Holy Power, leaving the city’s factions on the brink of further conflict.

• Yang Yu told Bibi Dong that Qian Renxue had reacted strongly to a Soul Tool clue, and Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to investigate Crown Prince-related businesses while Yang Yu pursued the stronghold.
• Yang Yu asked Zhu Zhuqing to find records, maps, and specialists who could help them enter Misty Marsh, while he used the Time Sand fragment to improve his time-based soul skills.
• After learning that Bibi Dong had ordered the investigation, Qian Renxue commanded the Holy Spirit Cult to conduct a small Blood Sacrifice at Misty Marsh within three days and infuse her with Holy Power.
• Political tensions grew in Heaven Dou Imperial City as Prince Xue Xing’s faction encroached on the Crown Prince’s faction, while Yang Yu continued preparing and extended Instant Acceleration by half a breath.

Yang Yu assembled a team and supplies to investigate the Misty Marsh, while Qian Renxue’s order prompted the Holy Spirit Cult to begin preparing a Blood Sacrifice there. Bibi Dong sensed the ritual and chose to continue refining her divine power, leaving Yang Yu to face the danger himself.

• Yang Yu selected Dugu Bo, Bach, and two trusted guards for the Misty Marsh expedition, and ordered Ning Rongrong to prepare antidotes and Soul Power-restoring pills.
• The Netherworld Bishop received Qian Renxue’s demand to complete the Blood Sacrifice within three days and ordered the cult to activate its preparations.
• The Holy Spirit Cult began driving captives to the altar and channeling stored energy into the ritual’s core.
• Bibi Dong sensed the Blood Sacrifice’s evil aura from the northeast and recognized it as the Holy Spirit Cult’s work.
• Bibi Dong chose to keep refining the Rakshasa Scythe phantom instead of intervening, hoping Yang Yu would return alive with what she wanted.

Yang Yu assembled a six-person squad and set out for Misty Marsh to locate the Holy Spirit Cult's stronghold. Bibi Dong secretly ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to follow without interfering, while Yang Yu and his team raced toward the marsh.

• Yang Yu recruited Dugu Bo and Bach, easing Dugu Bo's poison with his energy and promising a possible cure in return for his help.
• Yang Yu equipped the squad with supplies and led Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Bo, Bach, and two guards out of Heaven Dou City on a reconnaissance mission.
• Hu Liena reported Yang Yu's departure to Bibi Dong, who ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to follow the squad secretly and report without intervening.
• Yang Yu's squad traveled northeast at high speed, and Dugu Bo estimated they would reach Misty Marsh's outskirts within two days.

Yang Yu led his group into the Misty Marsh, where they survived ambushes from dangerous soul beasts and killed a Swamp Giant Crocodile. After sensing the Holy Spirit Cult’s large-scale Blood Sacrifice in the swamp’s depths, Yang Yu ordered everyone to hurry toward its source.

• Dugu Bo gave the group Poison Avoidance Pills and warned them about the miasma and soul beasts lurking in the Misty Marsh.
• Yang Yu killed a Corrosive Poison Leech that ambushed one of the guards, and the group continued deeper into the swamp.
• Bach blocked a charging Swamp Giant Crocodile while Zhu Zhuqing wounded it and Dugu Bo restrained it; Yang Yu killed it with a single punch.
• Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing sensed powerful bloodlust and evil Soul Power coming from deeper in the swamp, and Yang Yu identified it as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Blood Sacrifice.
• Yang Yu changed the plan and led the group at full speed toward the source of the Blood Sacrifice fluctuations.

Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing infiltrated a Holy Spirit Cult blood-sacrifice site and destroyed the ritual intended to send Holy Power to Heaven Dou City. The ritual’s remaining energy struck Yang Yu and invaded his Sea of Consciousness, leaving him fighting for control of his soul.

• Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing climbed into the cave through a fissure while Dugu Bo and Bach guarded the entrance.
• They discovered the Netherworld Bishop leading a ritual that drained hundreds of captives to open a passage for Holy Power bound for Heaven Dou City.
• Yang Yu disrupted the cultists with Time Distortion while Zhu Zhuqing killed several leaders and he attacked the altar’s energy core.
• The Netherworld Bishop struck at Yang Yu, but Yang Yu used Time Torrent to dissolve the ghost claw and urged Zhu Zhuqing to destroy the core.
• Zhu Zhuqing pierced the unstable energy mass, causing it to explode and devastate the altar, cultists, and stone pillars.
• A dark-red vortex sent the remaining Holy Power into Yang Yu, whose Sea of Consciousness was then assaulted by the corrupt energy.

Yang Yu purified the Holy Spirit Cult’s evil energy with his twin Martial Souls and survived the Netherworld Bishop’s attack. With Gui Mei and Yue Guan’s arrival, the bishop was defeated, while Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing grew closer after she risked her life to save him.

• The Holy Spirit Cult’s power invaded Yang Yu’s Sea of Consciousness, but the Dragon of Eternity and Time purified its resentment while the Chaos Creation Lotus broke down the energy and restored his Soul Power.
• The Netherworld Bishop attacked Yang Yu, but Gui Mei and Yue Guan arrived and forced him to stop his ninth spirit ability.
• Yang Yu, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Bo, and Bach rescued survivors as the Titled Douluo fought and the underground chamber collapsed.
• Zhu Zhuqing used Shadow Rend to push Yang Yu and an injured soul master clear of a falling boulder, and Yue Guan cut the boulder apart before it struck her.
• Yang Yu treated Zhu Zhuqing’s injuries and told her not to risk herself like that again.
• Gui Mei and Yue Guan unleashed their ninth spirit abilities and killed the Netherworld Bishop, ending the Holy Spirit Cult’s Misty Marsh outpost.

Yang Yu and the others treated the survivors, gathered what evidence they could, and left the ruined Holy Spirit Cult stronghold. Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to take the main evidence to Spirit City while Yang Yu returned to Heaven Dou City, where he expected a new conflict to begin.

• Gui Mei and Yue Guan finished searching the ruins while Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing treated the wounded survivors.
• Yue Guan recovered damaged scrolls and the Netherworld Bishop's sealed Storage Ring, and Yang Yu explained how he had destroyed the Blood Sacrifice ritual and absorbed part of the Holy Power.
• Gui Mei ordered the group to return, and Yang Yu spent the journey recovering as his Soul Power made progress.
• Bibi Dong's edict sent Yang Yu back to the Spirit Hall branch to report while Gui Mei and Yue Guan took the seized items to Spirit City.
• Yang Yu promised to cure Dugu Bo's poison, arranged a reward for Bach, and set out for Heaven Dou City with Zhu Zhuqing.

After returning from Misty Marsh, Yang Yu recovered while Zhu Zhuqing tended to him, then learned from Xue Beng that his faction had gained ground in Heaven Dou City. Bibi Dong uncovered evidence linking Qian Renxue and the Holy Spirit Cult, along with a cryptic Star Luo Empire message about a compatible “vessel,” leaving a wider conspiracy looming over the continent.

• Yang Yu returned to Heaven Dou City with over thirty survivors, handed them to Bishop Salas, and used the Power of Creation to heal Zhu Zhuqing before Xue Beng arrived.
• Xue Beng reported that Xue Xing’s allies had weakened the Crown Prince’s Faction and gained control of two City Guard companies, while his investigation pointed toward a disgraced Star Luo prince.
• Yang Yu warned Xue Beng not to push Qian Renxue too far and ordered him to continue investigating the Holy Spirit Cult’s Star Luo connections.
• Qian Renxue learned that the Misty Marsh stronghold and Netherworld Bishop had fallen, feared Spirit Hall had discovered her collusion, and began considering how to sever ties and conceal the evidence.
• Bibi Dong opened the Netherworld Bishop’s Storage Ring and found letters confirming Qian Renxue’s cooperation with the Holy Spirit Cult and part of the Holy Arrival Plan.
• Bibi Dong discovered a letter from the Star Luo Empire mentioning a compatible “vessel” and “the Weaver,” and began planning for the larger threat.

Yang Yu strengthened Ning Rongrong’s loyalty by giving her advanced knowledge and a path beyond poisoncraft, then assigned her intelligence and recruitment tasks. Hu Liena warned him that Heaven Dou City’s affairs ran deep, while Yang Yu sensed his level-sixty-three bottleneck nearing a breakthrough.

• Yang Yu visited Ning Rongrong and identified her newly developed poison, then addressed her doubts about her role and future.
• Yang Yu shared knowledge of Soul Power control, energy, and pharmacology, inspiring Ning Rongrong to pledge genuine loyalty to him.
• Yang Yu ordered Ning Rongrong to gather intelligence on the Star Luo Empire, build a trusted network within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and strengthen her own spirit.
• Hu Liena delivered Bibi Dong’s approval and warning about the Misty Marsh, then questioned Yang Yu’s motives and cautioned him about Heaven Dou City.
• Yang Yu took Hu Liena’s warning seriously and sensed that his level-sixty-three bottleneck was close to breaking.

Yang Yu broke through to Soul Power Level sixty-three, and the resonance between his Twin God-Tier Martial Souls and the Holy Power origin caused a phenomenon that alarmed powerful soul masters across Heaven Dou City. After consolidating his gains, he ordered a period of seclusion and prepared to use his new strength to influence the political game.

• Yang Yu shattered his level sixty-three bottleneck, and the Holy Power origin merged into his Soul Power as the Dragon of Eternity and Time and the Chaos Creation Lotus manifested.
• The Martial Souls resonated, sending overwhelming pressure across the State Guesthouse and alerting Zhu Zhuqing, Qian Renxue, Ning Rongrong, Hu Liena, and other powerful soul masters.
• Yang Yu gained deeper insights into Time Power, Chaos Power, Creation, and Return to Emptiness during the resonance.
• Yang Yu emerged with his cultivation stabilized at level sixty-three and judged that he could fight or possibly defeat the Netherworld Bishop without Gui Mei and Yue Guan's help.
• Yang Yu thanked Zhu Zhuqing for standing guard, then ordered her to announce that he would enter seclusion to consolidate his cultivation and plan his next moves.

Yang Yu studied his new Soul Power and Time Power during seclusion while Ning Rong investigated the Star Luo Empire and recruited potential allies. Qian Renxue plotted against Yang Yu, while Bibi Dong ordered an investigation into the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans and considered Yang Yu’s potential role in her Rakshasa God Trial.

• Yang Yu examined his transformed Soul Power and discovered he could strip and accelerate time around an individual object, though the technique consumed much of his spiritual power.
• Ning Rong used the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s network to gather information about the Star Luo Imperial Family and secretly began recruiting loyal disciples and collateral members.
• Qian Renxue searched Heaven Dou City for Holy Spirit Cult remnants and visited the ailing Xue Ye to shore up support among the nobles.
• Qian Renxue contacted Bibi Dong, who warned her to focus on governing and cut off her attempt to ask about Yang Yu.
• Bibi Dong assessed Yang Yu’s potential as possible nourishment for her Rakshasa God Trial and ordered her agents to investigate The Weaver and the vessels in the Star Luo Empire.

After emerging from seclusion stronger, Yang Yu received a warning and a reward from Bibi Dong, then entered Heaven Dou’s court assembly and forced the Crown Prince to accept Spirit Hall’s inspection of the northeastern border military supplies. He left the hall having demonstrated his power and inserted Spirit Hall into the Empire’s affairs.

• Yang Yu emerged from seclusion, learned of political maneuvering by Prince Xue Xing and the Fourth Prince, and went with Zhu Zhuqing to meet Salas.
• Salas delivered Bibi Dong’s reward of Ten Thousand Year Soul Marrow and her warning that Yang Yu should avoid Heaven Dou’s internal affairs, but Yang Yu decided to attend court.
• Yang Yu arrived at the Heaven Dou court assembly, where Prince Xue Xing and Crown Prince Qian Renxue were clashing over appointments and border defense.
• Yang Yu challenged Marshal Gelong over the northeastern border’s missing military supplies and used Time Severance to neutralize Gelong’s Soul Power pressure.
• Yang Yu announced that Spirit Hall would send an inspection team to the northeastern border, and Qian Renxue reluctantly granted permission before Yang Yu departed.

Yang Yu went to Black Mountain City to inspect the northeastern border forces and used his fifth spirit ability, Time Distortion, to restrain Zhao Hu and secure a military warehouse. The inspection uncovered missing equipment and a Spider Token linked to The Weaver, pointing to a deeper connection with the Star Luo Empire.

• Yang Yu led Zhu Zhuqing and a squad of Spirit Hall Soul Masters to Black Mountain City to inspect the border military affairs.
• Zhao Hu received Yang Yu coldly and refused to open the reserve warehouse without Marshal Gelong's order.
• When Zhao Hu threatened Yang Yu and his companions, Yang Yu used Time Distortion to slow everyone nearby and ordered Leige to seize the warehouse.
• Leige found that more than one-third of the five million worth of new military equipment was missing and discovered forged accounts.
• Yang Yu recognized the Spider Token found in the warehouse as connected to information about The Weaver from the Star Luo Empire.

Yang Yu uncovered evidence that the Weaver had stolen military equipment and carried out blood sacrifices near the Star Luo Empire’s Bloody Wilderness, while Bibi Dong ordered him back to Spirit City. He chose to delay his return and pursue the investigation.

• Yang Yu forced Zhao Hu to reveal that a mysterious Soul Douluo had used Marshal Gelong’s secret order to transport stolen military equipment north toward the Star Luo Empire.
• Yang Yu ordered Leige to arrest Zhao Hu and reform Black Mountain City’s defenses, while Zhuqing investigated the transport route.
• Yang Yu analyzed the Spider Token and found it could serve as a communication and positioning beacon; he also sensed Bibi Dong watching him.
• Zhuqing found a hidden transfer point, blood-drained corpses, and evidence leading toward the Bloody Wilderness, where Yang Yu suspected the Weaver was operating.
• After Bibi Dong ordered him to return to Spirit City, Yang Yu postponed obeying and told Zhuqing to prepare to investigate the Bloody Wilderness.

Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing uncovered a Spider Emperor cult’s sacrificial altar in the Bloody Wilderness and fought its Soul Douluo leader. When Zhu Zhuqing tried to shield Yang Yu from a lethal attack, Bibi Dong appeared and destroyed the incoming weapons.

• Yang Yu led Zhu Zhuqing and an elite squad into the Bloody Wilderness, following the Soul Tool Key’s response to a stone forest.
• Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing discovered cultists escorting captives to an altar, where they found stolen Heaven Dou Empire military equipment and supplies.
• Yang Yu and Zhu Zhuqing attacked the cult, but the Golden Masked Man and his followers countered them.
• Yang Yu used his Ice-Fire Polarity Domain to hold off the attackers while Zhu Zhuqing fought through the cultists.
• The Golden Masked Man launched his strongest attack at Yang Yu, and Zhu Zhuqing threw herself in front of the bone spikes.
• Bibi Dong appeared above the valley, destroyed the bone spikes with a golden pillar of light, and challenged the cultists.

Bibi Dong arrived in the valley, killed the Weaver’s forces, and heard Yang Yu’s account of the Blood Sacrifice and missing armaments. She ordered him to remain at her side as punishment, and the group left the wilderness with the larger conspiracy still unresolved.

• Bibi Dong’s arrival halted the battle, and Yang Yu explained that he had pursued The Weaver to investigate the missing armaments and its Blood Sacrifice.
• The Golden Masked Man tried to escape by attacking the black-clad men and bound Blood Food, but Bibi Dong used her Death Domain to kill him and the other attackers.
• Yang Yu showed Bibi Dong the Spider Token and bloodstained cloth, and she identified the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor’s clan as connected to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Bibi Dong ordered Leige to escort the surviving Blood Food out of the wilderness and told Yang Yu that his merits offset his disobedience, though he would remain by her side.
• Yang Yu accepted the order, and he and Zhu Zhuqing followed Bibi Dong out of the valley.

Bibi Dong taught Yang Yu how to better understand and control the powers of his martial souls, helping him refine stored energy and break through to level sixty-four. After growing closer to Zhu Zhuqing, Yang Yu felt the black Soul Tool Key grow hot again, pointing toward the depths of the Star Luo Empire.

• Bibi Dong led Yang Yu and the others to a hidden valley camp and summoned him to a cave for private instruction.
• Bibi Dong demonstrated the Chaos Creation Lotus's powers of creation and return to void and explained the deeper potential of Yang Yu's Time Power.
• Bibi Dong gave Yang Yu a method to refine the energy he had absorbed, and he cultivated until his Soul Power reached the middle stage of level sixty-four.
• Yang Yu thanked Bibi Dong, then reunited with Zhu Zhuqing and told her not to risk her life for him again.
• The black Soul Tool Key in Yang Yu's arms grew hot and pointed toward the depths of the Star Luo Empire.

After returning to Spirit City, Yang Yu learned that The Weaver served the hostile Soul Devouring Spider Emperor lineage and that his actions had drawn its attention. Bibi Dong confined him to the Papal Palace for supervised training toward Soul Sage, while a strange mirror revealed that she was preparing for a deeper conflict.

• Yang Yu returned to Spirit City with Bibi Dong and reported his findings about The Weaver, the Bloody Wilderness, and suspected ties to forces within the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Bibi Dong explained that The Weaver was linked to the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor lineage, her enemy, and warned Yang Yu that its people would seek revenge.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yang Yu to remain at the Papal Palace while she supervised his cultivation toward Soul Sage, leaving Heaven Dou City’s affairs to Salas, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan.
• Yang Yu told Zhu Zhuqing about his training, held her hand, and promised to tell her something after he reached Soul Sage.
• Hu Liena visited Yang Yu, questioned him about the Bloody Wilderness, and warned him about the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor lineage before leaving without learning much.
• Bibi Dong used Yang Yu’s Spider Token to strengthen the dark vision in her crystal mirror, then crushed the token as a sinister aura emerged.