Chapter Summaries

An Zhen sent Xu Tianzhen to Mingdu with the Sun Moon Scepter and faced Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao outside the city, with Electrolux taking control of his body. After Di Tian struck Long Xiaoyao, Electrolux confronted Ye Xishui and began purifying her Blood Soul resentful spirits.

• An Zhen teleported Xu Tianzhen and the Sun Moon Scepter to Kong Deming, ordering him to defend Mingdu and eliminate the Evil Soul Masters in the city.
• Long Xiaoyao attacked An Zhen, but An Zhen bound his dragon claw with undead chains and condemned him for his part in the Holy Spirit Cult's crimes.
• An Zhen sensed the countless tormented souls within Ye Xishui's Blood Soul Demon Puppet and asked Electrolux to ensure she suffered eternal torment.
• Electrolux took control of An Zhen's body and summoned Di Tian, whose powerful attack overwhelmed Long Xiaoyao's Dark Holy Dragon.
• Electrolux blocked Ye Xishui and used sacred soul chains to dissolve the twelve Blood Soul resentful spirits she unleashed.

Electrolux overwhelmed Ye Xishui, redirected her power, and trapped her in the Undead Subspace while An Zhen learned from his techniques. After Kong Deming’s forces continued their assault on the Holy Spirit Cult, Electrolux began transforming Ye Xishui into an undead being.

• Electrolux freed the Blood Soul Wraiths from Ye Xishui’s control, and their hatred turned them against her.
• Electrolux used Annihilation Art and redirected Ye Xishui’s attacks, then subdued her Boundless Sea of Blood and sent her to the Undead Subspace.
• A phoenix’s cry rang out from the sea of blood as the battle continued elsewhere in the darkness.
• Kong Deming’s Soul Engineers attacked the Holy Spirit Cult beneath Mingdu, where they found evidence of horrific atrocities, and the weakened Master-Servant Contracts briefly distracted them.
• Di Tian arrived with an unconscious figure as the Undead Subspace receded, and Electrolux began transforming Ye Xishui into an undead being.

An Zhen and Electrolux turned Ye Xishui into an undead and killed Long Xiaoyao, then An Zhen returned to Mingdu and ordered an all-out campaign against the Holy Spirit Cult. The chapter ended with Electrolux preparing to hunt more Evil Soul Masters while An Zhen headed back to rest.

• Electrolux transformed Ye Xishui into an undead Blood Soul Demon Puppet whose tortured soul left her unable to cast complex spells.
• An Zhen took Long Xiaoyao's ruined body and shattered soul, planning to use his remains and soul in future undead experiments.
• An Zhen arrived at the Evesky Alliance base, where Kong Deming reported that the Evesky Alliance and nine Holy Spirit Cult branches in Mingdu had been eliminated.
• An Zhen displayed Long Xiaoyao's corpse, revealed Ye Xishui's undead form, and ordered an all-out war against the Holy Spirit Cult.
• An Zhen gave Kong Deming the locations of the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters and branches, along with Soul Tool Cannonballs, and said Di Tian would handle the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord.
• An Zhen asked Electrolux to lead the next expedition for Evil Soul Masters, then prepared to return and rest.

An Zhen explained the campaign against the Holy Spirit Cult to Xu Tianzhen while she gave him a massage, then the Sun Moon Empire launched a coordinated assault that swiftly crushed the cult’s branches. News of the empire’s new emperor and an angel’s miraculous blessing spread across the continent, drawing the attention of rival powers and a gold-haired girl who wondered whether the angel had surviving clansmen.

• An Zhen returned to Mingde Hall, told Xu Tianzhen about the fighting and the undead, and let her massage his back by stepping on it.
• Xu Tianzhen thanked An Zhen after learning about her father’s and brother’s wrongdoing, and An Zhen said people had to pay for their choices.
• Electrolux and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces attacked the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters and branches, winning battles across the empire.
• Xu Jiawei considered the Sun Moon Empire’s coronation, Zhen Hongchen, and the possibility that the angel was connected to Spirit Hall, then decided to strengthen Star Luo instead.
• A gold-haired, blue-eyed girl read about the angel’s blessing in a newspaper and decided to investigate whether she had surviving clansmen.

An Zhen investigated the growing voices of faith in his mind and discovered that fusing with An Qiu'er let his Authority of Destiny gather the Power of Faith. He ended the chapter with a vast crystal-like object in his Virtual World and began to suspect that An Qiu'er was the key to controlling it.

• An Zhen gave Xu Tianzhen reports on the campaign against the Holy Spirit Cult while An Qiu'er, Meng Hongchen, and Zi Ji remained with him.
• The Sun Moon Empire continued rooting out Holy Spirit Cult branches, and public revelations of the cult’s crimes fueled outrage and widespread praise for Regent King An Zhen.
• An Zhen told An Qiu'er that increasingly loud, reverent voices had been entering his mind and suspected they were connected to the Power of Faith.
• An Zhen fused with An Qiu'er and found that his third eye responded to the Power of Faith, silencing the voices.
• An Zhen entered the Virtual World and found a vast, crystal-like mass of polyhedra bearing the images of reverent believers.

An Zhen gathered faith power with An Qiu'er's help, then reunited with the Snow Empress in the Virtual World and deepened their relationship. The Snow Empress worried about harming her bond with Ice Empress, but Ice Empress appeared and welcomed her as family.

• An Zhen failed to understand or use the faith power, decided to collect it for later study, and thanked An Qiu'er for helping him discover the method.
• An Zhen met the Snow Empress in the Virtual World, where she admitted she had accepted him as her mate and wanted to keep her relationship with Ice Empress safe.
• An Zhen and the Snow Empress became intimate, and she later woke alone and wondered where he had gone.
• Ice Empress revealed that An Zhen had returned to study with Electrolux and emerged from beneath the blanket beside the Snow Empress.
• Ice Empress hugged the Snow Empress and declared that they were family, easing the Snow Empress's anxiety.

An Zhen consulted Electrolux about the Holy Spirit Cult’s surviving leaders and the power of faith. Electrolux explained how sincere belief shaped divine authority, leaving An Zhen considering faith a temporary path while he prioritized developing the Virtual World.

• An Zhen left the Ice Empress to rest when he sensed Electrolux’s return and went to meet his teacher in the Virtual World.
• Electrolux reported that seven Title Douluo undead had been made and that the purge had eliminated sixteen Title Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters, but Holy Spirit Cult leaders Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling remained missing.
• An Zhen told Electrolux that no Evil Soul Masters had taken the bait around Long Xiaoyao’s displayed remains, and they agreed to announce the war’s results and issue arrest warrants.
• An Zhen showed Electrolux a crystal of faith, and Electrolux demonstrated that its power purified evil because believers sincerely associated An Zhen with defeating Evil Soul Masters.
• Electrolux explained that sincere, informed wishes shaped faith’s attributes and that combined belief from powerful beings might support multiple divine authorities, while An Zhen decided the Virtual World remained his main priority.

An Zhen explored how Faith Power copied by the Virtual World could be controlled, then discussed the Empire’s future and Xu Tianzhen’s interest in state affairs. He left Xu Tianzhen with permission to handle minor memorials while maintaining his close protection of her.

• Electrolux explained that Faith Power could be drawn into the soul but warned An Zhen that its gathered emotions could overwhelm his will.
• An Zhen used Tuo Yin and Reflection to copy the Faith Power crystal, discovering that his blank copy could be infused with Soul Power and shaped into a controllable holy greatsword.
• An Zhen sensed the undead under his authority and learned that the transformed Holy Spirit Cult fighters included eight Title Douluo-level undead.
• Di Tian reported that he had driven off the Evil Eye, and An Zhen sent him back to watch over Star Dou Great Forest.
• An Zhen returned to his quarters and offered Xu Tianzhen minor memorials to handle because she wanted to understand the Sun Moon Empire’s affairs.
• An Zhen pulled Xu Tianzhen into his arms and told her that he would keep protecting her from the remaining Holy Spirit Cult fugitives.

An Zhen arranged protection for Xu Tianzhen while indulging in private time with Meng Hongchen, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress. After the Sun Moon Empire finished sweeping out the Holy Spirit Cult, An Zhen went to welcome the returning forces, as Ye Guyi arrived in Mingdu and heard of his victories.

• An Zhen explained why he needed to protect Xu Tianzhen and told her to address him as her loyal subject.
• An Zhen visited Meng Hongchen, then entered the Virtual World, where Snow Empress and Ice Empress revealed their surprise and dressed as maids.
• Jing Hongchen told An Zhen that the Holy Spirit Cult's branches had been wiped out and that Kong Deming's forces would return the next morning.
• An Zhen decided to go receive the returning forces and see the statues built in his honor.
• Ye Guyi arrived at Mingdu, registered at the east gate, and learned that An Zhen had killed two Ultimate Douluo.

Ye Guyi arrived in Mingdu hoping to meet Regent King Zhen Hongchen and help hunt Evil Soul Masters, and An Zhen recognized her Sacred Angel during the troops’ welcome. He brought Xu Tianzhen to a hotel to meet Ye Guyi, but she misunderstood his intentions and began undressing just as Ye Guyi entered the room.

• Ye Guyi revealed her Sacred Angel martial soul at Mingdu’s gate, learned that Zhen Hongchen would welcome returning troops, and entered the city.
• Ye Guyi saw Long Xiaoyao’s displayed corpse and a statue of Zhen Hongchen before joining the crowd at the south gate.
• An Zhen sensed Ye Guyi’s Sacred Angel, recognized her, and arranged for her to meet him after the welcoming ceremony.
• After the ceremony, An Zhen took Xu Tianzhen to a hotel suite, where she mistook the empty room for a private encounter with him.
• Ye Guyi entered carrying food and found Xu Tianzhen removing her coat while An Zhen stood nearby.

An Zhen reassured Xu Tianzhen that he would not force her and encouraged her to show her real personality in private. After Ye Guyi returned, An Zhen recognized her Holy Angel martial soul and asked whether she had come to Mingdu because of him.

• Ye Guyi entered the room, misread An Zhen and Xu Tianzhen’s situation, and hurried outside as An Zhen climbed onto the bed.
• An Zhen pulled Xu Tianzhen under the blanket, but stopped when he saw her crying and comforted her instead.
• An Zhen told Xu Tianzhen she could be herself around him, and she cautiously pinched his cheeks before rejecting his offer to step on him.
• An Zhen asked Xu Tianzhen to watch while he met Ye Guyi, who returned and introduced herself as a level-fifty prospective Soul King with a Holy Angel martial soul.
• An Zhen asked Ye Guyi whether she had come to Mingdu because of him.

Ye Guyi asked An Zhen to become his master, and he accepted her as a student after consulting Electrolux. She signed a confidentiality contract, learned An Zhen’s other identity, and agreed to follow his arrangements as he examined her condition.

• Ye Guyi asked An Zhen whether he knew about the Sacred Angel Clan, and he advised her to seek information from the former Douluo Continent nations.
• Ye Guyi asked to become An Zhen’s disciple, but he offered to take her as an academy-style student instead.
• An Zhen consulted Electrolux, who permitted him to teach Ye Guyi on the condition that he take responsibility for her and teach her what he had mastered himself.
• Ye Guyi signed An Zhen’s confidentiality contract and discovered that he had been using another appearance and identity.
• An Zhen invited Ye Guyi and Xu Tianzhen to eat, then told Ye Guyi to return with him and began examining her.

An Zhen examined Ye Guyi and gave her a Hundred-Thousand-Year light-attribute soul bone, teasing her until she accepted it. He brought her to Mingde Hall to stay and study, where she met Meng Hongchen and called her “Teacher’s Wife.”

• An Zhen examined Ye Guyi and noted her decent foundation and lack of soul bones.
• An Zhen offered Ye Guyi a Hundred-Thousand-Year left arm bone, and she resisted accepting it because it was so precious.
• An Zhen teased Ye Guyi by rubbing her cheeks until she agreed to take the soul bone.
• An Zhen told Ye Guyi he was not yet thirty and brought her back to Mingde Hall to rest, study, and prepare for her fifth Soul Ring.
• An Zhen arranged an empty room for Ye Guyi and introduced her to Meng Hongchen as his lover.
• Ye Guyi bowed to Meng Hongchen and called her “Teacher’s Wife,” pleasing Meng Hongchen.

An Zhen entrusted Ye Guyi to Meng Hongchen, then spent time with Xu Tianzhen and offered her a rare treasure that could transform her Martial Soul into Extreme Fire. Xu Tianzhen accepted the Chijiao, while An Zhen left their relationship unresolved and planned to help her and Ye Guyi obtain their fifth soul rings.

• An Zhen asked Meng Hongchen to take Ye Guyi with her, then returned to his room and found Xu Tianzhen lounging casually.
• An Zhen pulled Xu Tianzhen into his arms, teased her, and stopped when she looked close to tears.
• An Zhen learned that Xu Tianzhen expected to reach level fifty in about half a month and offered to help her and Ye Guyi obtain their fifth soul rings.
• An Zhen showed Xu Tianzhen the Chijiao and explained that it could turn her Martial Soul into Extreme Fire.
• Xu Tianzhen refused An Zhen's suggestion that she marry him, then accepted the Chijiao and popped it into her mouth.

An Zhen helped Xu Tianzhen advance her Sun Martial Soul to Extreme Fire, but the power burned away her clothes and led to an awkward confrontation. Xu Tianzhen took revenge by stepping on him, then agreed to a further intimate bargain with An Zhen.

• An Zhen carried Xu Tianzhen into the meditation room as her Sun Martial Soul absorbed Chijiao and advanced to Extreme Fire.
• Xu Tianzhen's new flames incinerated her clothes, and An Zhen gave her a windbreaker after she angrily confronted him.
• Xu Tianzhen asked An Zhen to compensate her, and he kissed her before letting her take her promised half hour to step on him.
• An Zhen proposed that Xu Tianzhen kiss him willingly and sleep in his arms in exchange for more time to step on him the next day.
• Xu Tianzhen agreed to help An Zhen with a further intimate request after he persuaded her to consider their bargain.

An Zhen comforted Xu Tianzhen through the night, and she slept peacefully in his arms before waking embarrassed in the morning. At court, he revealed more Holy Spirit Cult casualties and urged the Sun Moon Empire to continue its campaign against Evil Soul Masters.

• An Zhen had Xu Tianzhen wear her yellow robe while she stepped on his feet, then insisted on sleeping while holding her; she agreed after he reminded her of their earlier bargain.
• An Zhen visited Ye Guyi, told her to rest and absorb her soul bone the next day, and promised to begin her lessons afterward.
• An Zhen spent the night comforting Meng Hongchen, then used a low-power Hypnotic Secret Curse to help Xu Tianzhen fall asleep in his arms.
• Xu Tianzhen woke sprawled across An Zhen, denied that she had clung to him, and An Zhen teased her about how soundly she had slept.
• At morning court, An Zhen presented Kong Deming with a list of captured Holy Spirit Cult Title Douluo and Soul Douluo and called for continued searches and measures against Evil Soul Masters.
• Xu Tianzhen, distracted at court, endorsed An Zhen's recommendations when he asked for her response.

An Zhen gathered the Empire’s elite Soul Engineers and brought their consciousness into an illusory world, where he demonstrated that it could convincingly reproduce real sensations and deadly consequences. The engineers realized they were unharmed, but the demonstration left them facing the disturbing reality of the world he had created.

• An Zhen summoned the Empire’s Level 9 Soul Engineers and promising Level 8 Soul Engineers to discuss the future of Soul Tools.
• An Zhen took Xu Tianzhen, An Qiu’er, and Zi Ji shopping in Mingdu, where they visited Sun Moon Square and saw his statue.
• An Zhen returned to Mingde Hall with Jing Hongchen and led nearly fifty Soul Engineers to a heavily guarded underground laboratory.
• An Zhen told the Soul Engineers to lie down and used his Third Soul Skill, All Living Beings, to bring their consciousness into another world.
• An Zhen transformed the laboratory into a beach beneath a starry sky and demonstrated the illusion by making a copy of a Level 8 Soul Engineer die painfully.
• The Level 8 Soul Engineer realized that his own body was unharmed, while the blood and gore experienced by the others seemed real.

An Zhen revealed a simulated world where the Soul Engineers could experiment with copied bodies and unlimited rare materials, then let them explore it. After a night of rapid research, Kong Deming and the others returned to reality with new knowledge and began arranging their outside duties so they could continue their work.

• An Zhen demonstrated that the Soul Engineers’ bodies and souls were replicas and introduced a platform that could copy people and objects for experimentation.
• Kong Deming and the other Soul Engineers tested the platform, copied rare metals and storage Soul Tools, and grew eager to produce research results that An Zhen might bring into reality.
• An Zhen spent the night with the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, An Qiu'er, and Zi Ji, while Xu Tianzhen struggled to sleep and Ye Guyi cultivated with her new Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• The Soul Engineers awoke in Mingde Hall after roughly ten hours in the simulated world, and Kong Deming reported major progress on his Tenth-Level Soul Tool design after experimenting to the point of death and being revived.
• Jing Hongchen told the Soul Engineers to settle their outside responsibilities and arrange deputies or successors before entering long-term seclusion to continue their research.

An Zhen began teaching Ye Guyi about light and purification while Ju Zi continued trying to secure a meeting with the Regent King, hoping to gain help for her revenge. As Xuan Ziwen prepared to enter seclusion, Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion debated the Regent King’s identity and possible connection to a god.

• Meng Hongchen arrived while An Zhen was in bed with Zi Ji and An Qiu'er, and An Zhen later sent Meng Hongchen and An Qiu'er into the Virtual World.
• An Zhen began Ye Guyi’s first lesson on light and purification, while Xu Tianzhen watched from her bedroom.
• Ju Zi returned after the academy’s higher-ups rejected her request to meet the Regent King, and Xuan Ziwen urged her to abandon her pursuit.
• Xuan Ziwen told Ju Zi and Keke that he was leaving to enter seclusion, while Keke teased Ju Zi about pursuing His Highness Zhen Hongchen.
• The Sun Moon Empire publicized its war against Evil Soul Masters, spreading news of the Regent King across the former Douluo nations.
• Mu En led a Sea God Pavilion discussion in which Yan Shaozhe suggested the Regent King might be connected to the Angel God and its relics.

Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion elders planned for the Mingde Hall exchange while preparing for the Holy Spirit Cult remnants and the Regent King's growing threat. In Mingde Hall, An Zhen gave Ye Guyi a large body of light-element knowledge to study, and she resolved to work hard.

• Mu En ordered the exchange program with Mingde Hall to continue and told Xuan Zi to accompany the students to Mingdu without spying or provoking trouble.
• Mu En warned that the Regent King might have reached the Demigod realm and that even he and Xuan Zi might not defeat him.
• Yan Shaozhe briefed the Sea God Pavilion on the surviving Holy Spirit Cult members, and Mu En ordered Shrek's high-ranking Soul Masters to search for and suppress them.
• An Zhen finished teaching Ye Guyi about light and transferred notes on light purification techniques and Self-Created Soul Skills into her mind.
• Ye Guyi felt overwhelmed by the material but resolved to study it diligently.