Chapter Summaries

Zi Yao forced Xuan Zi to submit and extracted a strand of his soul, then decided to kill Nether Lightning Douluo. Before dying, Nether Lightning Douluo revealed the Holy Spirit Cult secrets he knew, including the locations of its branch altars.

• Snow Empress threatened Xuan Zi, and he agreed to submit to Zi Yao.
• Zi Yao used the Holy Necromancer to take a strand of Xuan Zi's soul, claimed his Soul Bone, and ordered him to leave; Xuan Zi later suffered pain from the soul fragment and blamed Yan Shaozhe and Mu En.
• Zi Yao introduced Snow Empress as his sworn elder sister to Ye Guyi and declared that Nether Lightning Douluo would die.
• Nan Shui Shui and Nan Qiu Qiu arrived, and Nan Shui Shui recognized Nether Lightning Douluo as Lei Ming, a former suitor who had become an Evil Soul Master.
• Nether Lightning Douluo accepted his fate, revealed the Holy Spirit Cult secrets he knew, and died from Ye Xishui's restriction.

Zi Yao reached the Body Sect with the Snow Empress and asked Sect Master Du Busi for help resolving the conflict in his Martial Soul’s origins. Du Busi offered him the Sect Master’s successor position and access to the sect’s Secret Techniques, but the Snow Empress demanded the manuals outright, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Zi Yao arrived at the Body Sect with Nan Shui Shui and the Snow Empress after leaving Ye Guyi at an inn to refine Yin Fiend Energy.
• Huo Yuhao, Lang Ya, and Yu Tao met Zi Yao at the mountain’s foot, and Lang Ya thanked him for helping the Body Sect recover a family member.
• The Snow Empress threatened the mountain gate, prompting Du Busi to emerge and recognize her as the Heavenly Snow Woman.
• Du Busi offered Zi Yao the Sect Master’s successor position after praising his physique, and Zi Yao revealed that the Blue Silver Emperor was a disguise for his true Martial Soul.
• Du Busi offered Zi Yao access to the Body Sect’s Secret Techniques if he joined, but the Snow Empress demanded that he hand over the manuals or face them taking the manuals by force.

Zi Yao secured permission for Huo Yuhao to study the Body Sect’s secret records, while the Snow Empress stayed behind to explore human society. Du Busi brought Zi Yao and Huo Yuhao to the sect, where Huo Yuhao’s rare Martial Souls earned him an enthusiastic welcome.

• Du Busi allowed Zi Yao to study the Body Sect’s secret records under strict conditions and promised to protect Huo Yuhao.
• The Snow Empress postponed her return to the Earth Dragon Gate and decided to explore human amusements, while Du Busi discussed Soul Core methods with Zi Yao.
• After the Snow Empress and Nan Shui Shui left, Du Busi led the group toward the Body Sect and learned that Youyou was Huo Yuhao, a recruit from Shrek Academy with Spirit Eyes.
• Du Busi praised Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes and promised to help him obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast when he reached nine rings.
• When Huo Yuhao revealed his Titan Snow Demon King Martial Soul, Du Busi celebrated his potential and treated him as a treasured future member of the sect.
• Du Busi carried Zi Yao and Huo Yuhao to the mountaintop, where they arrived at the Body Sect’s secluded settlement.

After a year in the Body Sect, Zi Yao resolved the conflict between his Life and Destruction origins and reached Rank 47 Soul Power. He left seclusion to watch Huo Yuhao face Long Aotian, while Tian Meng spotted someone in the crowd.

• Zi Yao used the Body Sect’s manuals to settle both origins in his body and completed the Martial Soul Awakening Ceremony interrupted when he was six.
• Zi Yao left his stone chamber and heard that Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian were fighting in the Martial Arts Hall.
• Lang Ya worried that Huo Yuhao would be hurt, but Du Busi let the two youths fight.
• Long Aotian challenged Huo Yuhao over his growing closeness with Vina and warned him to keep a lower profile in the Body Sect.
• Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian revealed their Soul Rings before the gathered spectators.
• Tian Meng noticed someone and told Huo Yuhao to look.

Zi Yao showed Du Busi his Life and Destruction Martial Soul and warned him that the Holy Spirit Cult had two Limit Douluo stationed in the northern Sun Moon Empire. Du Busi agreed to help defend against the cult in exchange for Zi Yao's help reaching the Limit realm, while Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian escalated their fight.

• Zi Yao left the gathered Female Disciples and joined Du Busi upstairs, where he revealed his Life and Destruction Martial Soul markings.
• Zi Yao rejected Du Busi's offer to become the Body Sect's successor and said he planned to unify the continent.
• Zi Yao warned Du Busi that the Holy Spirit Cult had several Super Douluo and two Limit Douluo, including Long Xiaoyao, and asked him to hold off one of them.
• Du Busi agreed to help defend against the Holy Spirit Cult after Zi Yao promised to help him reach the Limit realm.
• Huo Yuhao activated Titan's Might while Long Aotian used Mad God Transformation as their fight neared its conclusion.

Huo Yuhao fought Long Aotian and conceded after proving how formidable his Titan Snow Demon King's Soul Bone was. Afterward, Zi Yao prepared to leave the Body Sect and agreed to meet Vina, while Huo Yuhao chose to enter seclusion and improve his Spirit Eyes.

• Huo Yuhao and Long Aotian fought, with Huo Yuhao using Titan's Might to withstand Long Aotian's attacks before conceding to avoid injuring himself.
• Long Aotian acknowledged Huo Yuhao as a worthy rival and explained that his challenge concerned Vina.
• Huo Yuhao told Zi Yao that Vina had repeatedly asked about his whereabouts and suggested that Zi Yao meet her.
• Zi Yao invited Huo Yuhao to travel with him, but Huo Yuhao chose to enter seclusion and raise his Spirit Eyes to the Silver level.
• Du Busi urged Zi Yao to see Vina, and Zi Yao agreed to meet her after leaving seclusion.

Zi Yao met Princess Vina and discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s victory over Star Luo and the opportunities created by its Soul Tool technology. He proposed supplying the Heaven Dou Empire and establishing the Holy Cult in the Sunset Forest, and Vina offered to seek her father’s approval.

• Vina told Zi Yao that refining the Hundred Thousand Year Snow Lotus had raised her cultivation by seven ranks and strengthened her Martial Souls.
• Vina described how the Sun Moon Empire defeated Star Luo’s border forces with two soul engineer corps and gained control of the Mingdou Mountain Range border line.
• Zi Yao explained that he could mass-produce advanced Soul Tools and offered to make the Heaven Dou Empire his first customer in exchange for permission to establish a base in the Sunset Forest.
• Zi Yao told Vina that his recently founded Holy Cult opposed Evil Soul Masters and possessed Mingde Hall’s first-generation Soul Tool technology.
• Vina said she would apply to her father for permission, noting that the Holy Cult already had a good reputation in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Zi Yao reached the Holy Cult’s base in Sunrise City and reunited with Ye Guyi after Nana mistook him for an intruder. He learned how Ye Guyi and the Snow Empress had expanded the cult, then was introduced to its members as the Holy Son.

• Zi Yao left the Body Sect after warning Du Busi that his Conflicting Origin could destroy the sect if it backfired.
• Zi Yao arrived at the Holy Cult’s base in Sunrise City, where he subdued Nana before she recognized him as her former junior.
• Nana brought Zi Yao into the hidden headquarters and told him the cult had expanded while Ye Guyi judged former Evil Soul Masters and offered some a chance to change.
• Ye Guyi appeared in the Judgment Hall, recognized Zi Yao, and welcomed him back.
• Ye Guyi introduced Zi Yao to Nana as the Holy Cult’s Holy Son and said he had ordered the rescue of Nana’s parents from a Branch Sub-altar.

Zi Yao accepted Nana as his personal guard and reviewed the Holy Cult’s strength before deciding to move its base to the Heaven Dou Empire. He then visited Snow Empress, discussed using Life Force to prepare her for the Co-resonance Soul Core method, and left after she angrily shut him out.

• Nana knelt before Zi Yao, thanked him for saving her, and asked to serve him, so he appointed her his personal guard.
• Ye Guyi gave Zi Yao a report on the Holy Cult’s members and Soul Engineers, and he decided to relocate the organization to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ye Guyi led Zi Yao to Snow Empress’s room, where he told her that his Origin Power had stabilized.
• Zi Yao said he could eventually create an acupoint in Snow Empress’s body to store a Soul Core, but she angrily sent him out when he asked to study her body structure.
• After Zi Yao left, Snow Empress blushed beside the romance comics and novels hidden beneath her.

Zi Yao revealed his Holy Necromancer Martial Soul to reassure Wu Yun and Wu Yu that he could oppose the Holy Spirit Cult. Electrolux awakened and gave him access to the Undead Demi-Plane, leaving the hall stunned when Zi Yao summoned a Bone Dragon and declared himself ruler of the plane.

• Wu Yu questioned whether Zi Yao could protect the Holy Cult from the Holy Spirit Cult, while Wu Yun apologized for her sister’s bluntness.
• Zi Yao manifested the Holy Necromancer, shocking Wu Yun and Wu Yu with its power.
• Electrolux awakened in Zi Yao’s Sea of Souls and granted him an inheritance tied to the Undead Demi-Plane.
• Zi Yao opened the Gate of the Undead and summoned a massive Bone Dragon, then sent it back through the gate.
• Zi Yao told Wu Yu that the gate connected to a plane of undead creatures and declared himself its ruler, leaving everyone in the hall speechless.

Zi Yao showed Wu Yu and Wu Yun the Undead Plane, won their trust, and ordered the Holy Cult to prepare to relocate to his fief in the Heaven Dou Empire. He then returned to Ming Du with Ye Guyi and Ghost Nana, where he reunited with Jing Hóngchén and learned that Jing Hóngchén had risen to First-Class Grand Duke.

• Zi Yao took Wu Yun and Wu Yu into the Undead Plane and explained its size, incomplete laws, and undead forces.
• Wu Yu and Wu Yun apologized to Zi Yao and pledged to follow him, and he welcomed them into the Holy Cult and ordered its followers to prepare to move to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Zi Yao traveled to Ming Du with Ye Guyi and Ghost Nana, while Ye Guyi went to the Ordinary Alliance and Zi Yao returned to the Sun Moon Royal Academy.
• Zi Yao met Jing Hóngchén at the academy, and Jing Hóngchén told him that the Emperor had granted him a fief and raised his noble rank for his service in the Mingdou Mountain Range battle.

Zi Yao returned to the Sun Moon Empire, recruited Xuan Ziwén to help develop Soul Tools for the Soul Spirit System, and learned that Wang Dong'er had left for the Clear Sky Sect. He kept her letter and map, deciding to visit her after handling urgent affairs, then went to meet Jing Hóngchén.

• Zi Yao asked Jing Hóngchén to obtain a Level Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, and Jing Hóngchén went to seek the Crown Prince's approval.
• Zi Yao offered Xuan Ziwén a place in his force and explained the Soul Spirit System, persuading him to help create a Soul Tool for its contract ritual.
• Xuan Ziwén agreed to consult his teacher, a mysterious Level 9 Soul Master, about soul-type Soul Tools.
• Zi Yao visited Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, who told him that Wang Dong'er had gone home and left him a letter and a map to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Zi Yao read Wang Dong'er's letter and decided to delay visiting her while he dealt with the Holy Spirit Cult and other responsibilities.
• After receiving a message from Jing Hóngchén, Zi Yao left the academy to meet him.

Zi Yao collected a Level Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shell from Xu Tianran but refused his offer to serve the Sun Moon Empire, prompting Xu Tianran to send information about him to the Holy Spirit Cult. Zi Yao returned to the Underground World to support the Ordinary Alliance, while Zhong Liwu ordered Feng Ling to hunt down the Holy Cult’s followers.

• Xu Tianran gave Zi Yao the cannon shell and offered him a Sun Moon Empire title, but Zi Yao left after saying he would favor the path with fewer casualties.
• Xu Tianran suspected Zi Yao was connected to the Holy Cult and ordered Ju Zi to pass information about him to the Holy Spirit Cult instead of acting openly.
• Zi Yao met Ye Guyi and Shangguan Wei'er, learned the Ordinary Alliance was thriving, and calculated that his funds would barely cover the organization’s initial construction.
• Zi Yao warned Shangguan Wei'er to conceal his connection to the Holy Cult because the Holy Spirit Cult would attack the Ordinary Alliance if it learned the truth.
• Zhong Liwu dismissed the Holy Cult’s defectors as insignificant and ordered Feng Ling to deal with them.

Zi Yao and Ye Guyi evaded Feng Ling’s Evil Soul Masters by escaping into the Undead Plane, then prepared to relocate the Holy Cult’s members ahead of a major operation. After the headquarters was emptied, Feng Ling ordered her forces to keep pursuing them.

• Zi Yao sensed Feng Ling’s followers, pulled Ye Guyi through a Void Gate, and watched from the Undead Plane as Feng Ling killed a subordinate who had lost their trail.
• Zi Yao explained the Undead Plane’s limits to Ye Guyi, then left with her and took a detour toward Sunrise City after Feng Ling’s search party moved on.
• Zi Yao led more than three hundred Holy Cult members into the Undead Plane to relocate them, turning down Wu Yun and Wu Yu’s offer to stay behind and protect him.
• Snow Empress agreed to return to Earth Dragon Gate after the operation and carried Zi Yao toward the border on a bridge of Extreme Ice.
• Feng Ling’s forces found the Holy Cult headquarters empty, and she ordered them to continue pursuing Zi Yao’s group, dead or alive.

Zi Yao's group encountered Feng Ling on the road to Sunset Forest, where Snow Empress defeated the level 96 Evil Soul Master in one move. After the surviving enemies surrendered and some were accepted into the Holy Cult, the group reached Sunset Forest and faced the Poison Barrier.

• Zi Yao led the Holy Cult toward Sunset Forest, and Feng Ling intercepted them before they reached Heaven Dou City's core region.
• Wu Yu challenged Feng Ling's contempt for the Holy Cult, provoking Feng Ling to unleash her Evil Phoenix form.
• At Zi Yao's call, Snow Empress froze Feng Ling with Mystic Ice in a single attack, and Zi Yao sent her into the Undead space.
• Zi Yao ordered Wu Yun and Wu Yu to capture Feng Ling's followers, and Ye Guyi selected ten of them to join the Holy Cult while the rest became nourishment.
• The group reached Sunset Forest, where Ye Guyi asked Zi Yao whether they should camp beneath the Poison Barrier.

Zi Yao established the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well as the Holy Cult’s headquarters and dealt with the Jade Phosphorus Flowers guarding the area. After arranging a mutually beneficial pact with the surviving flowers, he prepared to travel to Heaven Dou City with Ye Guyi, Wu Yun, and Wu Yu.

• Zi Yao led Ye Guyi, Wu Yun, and Wu Yu through the Poison Barrier and claimed the valley near the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well as the Holy Cult’s headquarters.
• Youyou revealed herself as a hundred-thousand-year Aromatic Silk Beauty and tried unsuccessfully to persuade the Jade Phosphorus Nine Absolute Flowers to leave their home.
• A Jiao and Octagonal appeared in human forms after their sacrifices, and they joined Zi Yao in confronting the flowers.
• Zi Yao had A Jiao and Octagonal use ice and fire together to destroy several Jade Phosphorus Nine Absolute Flowers and make the rest submit.
• Zi Yao arranged for the surviving flowers to guard the sect in exchange for energy from the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well, then prepared to go to Heaven Dou City with Ye Guyi, Wu Yun, and Wu Yu.

Zi Yao and his companions entered Heaven Dou City to establish a Soul Engineer workshop, then followed signs of dark energy to the Iron Blood Sect, where Tang Ya was taking revenge for the massacre of the Tang Sect. After seeing her life-draining Martial Soul and learning she had been abandoned by Beibei and Shrek, Zi Yao chose to intervene before the Holy Spirit Cult could claim her.

• Zi Yao explained that the Holy Cult needed to establish a Soul Engineer facility in Heaven Dou City, and Wu Yu and Wu Yun sensed blood and dark energy near the Iron Blood Sect.
• Zi Yao led Ye Guyi, Wu Yu, and Wu Yun through the shattered gate and into the Iron Blood Sect, where they found corpses and Tang Ya draining their life force with Dark Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang Ya confronted Tie Li over the slaughter of the Tang Sect and revealed that she had killed his son, Xiao Tang.
• Tie Li called Tang Ya an Evil Soul Master and attacked her, while Tang Ya accepted the label because revenge mattered more to her than others' judgment.
• Tang Ya recalled that Beibei and Shrek had refused to pursue justice for the Tang Sect, leaving her alone with the burden of its deaths.

Tang Ya killed Tie Li while Zi Yao’s group captured a Holy Spirit Cult altar master and helped stabilize her corrupted soul. Zi Yao exposed the Iron Blood Sect’s role in the Tang Sect’s destruction, leaving Mu Xue and the Royal Douluo stunned by his ability to question Tie Li’s soul.

• Tang Ya attacked Tie Li, but a white-robed Holy Spirit Cult Altar Master intervened and urged her to be taken to the cult’s headquarters.
• Zi Yao ordered his companions to capture the elder, and Wu Yun and Wu Yu’s Spiritual Power attacks overwhelmed him before Zi Yao sent him through the Void Gate.
• Tang Ya killed Tie Li and absorbed his life force, so Wu Yun knocked her unconscious and Ye Guyi purified her soul enough to stabilize her condition.
• After waking, Tang Ya recognized Zi Yao and explained that her fear of her Devour Attribute had given way to hatred and her decision to attack the Iron Blood Sect.
• When the Royal Douluo and guards arrived, Zi Yao showed his credentials, and Mu Xue came to the scene as Tang Ya accused the City Defense Army of helping destroy the Tang Sect.
• Zi Yao extracted Tie Li’s soul, which revealed that he had colluded with the officers, leaving Mu Xue and the Royal Douluo shocked.

After helping expose the truth behind the Tang Sect massacre, Zi Yao convinced Tang Ya that her dark Devour Attribute did not make her an Evil Soul Master and that she could keep cultivating. Tang Ya considered joining the Holy Cult but remained torn because she still felt responsible for rebuilding the Tang Sect.

• Mu Xue arrested and ordered the execution of corrupt City Defense Army officers, then agreed to help Zi Yao hunt nearby Holy Spirit Cult branches and arrange cheap construction for the Holy Cult.
• Mu Xue offered to suppress the consequences of Tang Ya's massacre of the Iron Blood Sect, and Tang Ya thanked Zi Yao for revealing the truth behind the Tang Sect's destruction.
• Zi Yao warned Tang Ya that her mutated Martial Soul might make her lose control, but challenged Shrek's definition of Evil Soul Masters and urged her not to abandon cultivation.
• Wu Yun and Wu Yu encouraged Tang Ya, and Zi Yao reassured her that cultivating dark and evil power did not make her an evil person.
• Ye Guyi invited Tang Ya to join the Holy Cult, but Tang Ya hesitated because she was still the Tang Sect's sect master and felt responsible for its revival.

Zi Yao revealed that Tang San had withheld parts of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and allowed the Tang Sect to be destroyed, shaking Tang Ya’s faith in the sect. Tang Ya agreed to follow Zi Yao, while he began organizing the Holy Cult and preparations for a campaign against Evil Soul Masters.

• Zi Yao showed Tang Ya the Poison Manual and Medicine Manual and claimed Tang San had watched the Tang Sect’s destruction without intervening.
• Tang Ya’s emotions triggered her dark Blue Silver Grass, but Ye Guyi used Angel’s Light to calm her.
• Tang Ya agreed to follow Zi Yao and vowed to prevent the Tang Sect’s name from returning if his claims proved true.
• A Lan asked Zi Yao to help it use Tang Ya’s talent and bloodline to elevate its status, and Zi Yao agreed to consider it after confirming her loyalty.
• At Sunset Forest, Tang Ya met Holy Cult followers and heard their claims that Shrek preserved its authority by failing to eradicate Evil Soul Masters.
• Zi Yao arranged construction of a Soul Master Experimental Base and assigned Wu Yun and Wu Yu to join the Heavenly Soul Royal Army’s operation while Ye Guyi maintained order and recruited members.